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Thursday, July 2, 2020

Defend Your Castle Against Communist Intruders


John R. Houk
© July 2, 2020

On June 30 I posted the Justin Smith submission “A War for the American Way of Life”. In that post I added a large amount of embedded informational links on the rioters, looters and anarchists pretending to be protesters are actually highly organized and well financed Marxist groups trying to tear down the fabric of America itself through chaos, turmoil and violence.

As a part of that post I included a photo of Mark McCloskey and Patricia McCloskey, a husband and wife defending their lives and property in a gated community from a Communist mob committed to breaking the law by committing acts of vandalism (already ripping down the gated community barriers). Here is the photo I used:


I have learned – at least prior to the terrorist intimidation they faced – the McCloskeys were committed Dems supportive of the Black Lives Matter protests purportedly resulting from the police murder of George Floyd. Since they exercised their 2nd Amendment Right of self-preservation (a Right often condemned by Dems), I have to wonder where their politics is today.

I wonder especially since Dem Party Pols across the nation and in the McCloskey home-city of St. Louis including the Dem Party propaganda machine MSM roundly criticized them as White People who dared to protect themselves of a (cough) “peaceful” mob protesting through a gated community. The St. Louis AG even threatened to prosecute the McCloskeys.

Well thanks to 100percentfedup.com I discovered a CNN (is that Communist News Network?) video of Chris Cuomo interviewing Mark McCloskey trying to villainize self-defense. McCloskey sets Cuomo straight and even tells the names of the Communist mob threatening destruction. Here is Twitter video:


To this day the Dems & MSM are disputing the claim by the McCloskeys of a violent mob. The lead organizer for the mob was actually a recently elected Dem State Representative Rasheen Aldridge who won a special election for his District in November 2019. I am unclear of who actually leads the BLM St. Louis group calling itself “Expect US”, The Expect US mob organizer Aldridge claim the mob was peacefully protesting (The mob appeared quite agitated in the video). According to a 7/1/20 CBS story Aldridge expresses peace:

Rasheen Aldridge helped lead the protest, which was organized by a group called “Expect Us.” He said protesters were peaceful and no threats were ever made.

In the same CBS story McCloskey expressed his viewpoint:


"It was like the storming of the Bastille, the gate came down and a large crowd of angry, aggressive people poured through," Mark McCloskey said. "I was terrified that we'd be murdered within seconds. Our house would be burned down, our pets would be killed."

Mark said they called 911 and grabbed their guns as they heard the crowd approaching their private, gated community on Portland Place.

"A mob of at least 100 smashed through the historic wrought iron gates of Portland Place, destroying them, rushed towards my home where my family was having dinner outside and put us in fear for our lives," Mark McCloskey said.


The couple also claims they received death threats from the crowd.

"One fellow standing right in front of me pulled out two pistol magazines, clicked them together and said, 'You're next.' That was the first death threat we got that night," Mark McCloskey said.

This is Expect US organizer Dem Representative Rasheen Aldridge concept of a peaceful protest from the same CBS story:

When asked why the group marched on private property, Aldridge said, "Just like in many disobedient protests, even in the '60s, you break laws, make people feel uncomfortable.

Mark McCloskey took a photo of the damaged wrought iron gate smashed by BLM/Expect US mob that MSM propaganda fails to show [photo caption from BizPacReview - Mark McCloskey: “A mob of at least 100 smashed through the historic wrought iron gates of Portland Place, destroying them, rushed towards my home where my family was having dinner outside and put us in fear for our lives.” (Photo: Mark McCloskey)]:

The Expect US Facebook Page definitely promotes a Black Live Matter ideology, but doesn’t notice the calls for rioting, vandalizing and looting calls typical of BLM actions. The Facebook page serves the purpose of announcing “peaceful” protests and rallies. HOWEVER, if your eyes look to the Facebook Page Menu and scroll down to “Community” then click, you will view the Communist social transformation ideology BLM is noted for. It is a Communism that uses race-baiting that obviously is a Black against White racism. THAT IS WHAT BLM truly represents. Here’s the photo you’ll see in case some Black propagandist removes it:


Rasheen Aldridge

Here’s a bit of rule of law Dems like Rasheen Aldridge and the propaganda MSM probably will not tell you while condemning the McCloskeys via Guns America Digest:

Missourians enjoy a broad castle doctrine that allows residents to use deadly force on anyone unlawfully on their property, according to Anders Walker, a constitutional law professor at St. Louis University.

It’s time to examine Missouri’ version of the Castle Doctrine. A pro-2nd Amendment website makes it simple at GunLaws101.com:

Missouri's Castle Doctrine

The use of force to defend one's self is justified when the person believes there is a certain risk of death, or great physical harm. This also applies when someone is trying to break into an occupied vehicle or home. There is no duty to treat inside one's home or vehicle.

What is Castle Doctrine?
Castle Laws are laws that address the use of force when defending one's self inside their home, or on their property. Some states expand this to vehicles, and the person's place of work. Castle Laws generally include: the places where this law applies, the requirements for use of deadly force, if there is a duty to retreat, the amount of force that maybe used in defending one's self or others. These vary widely from state to state.

Interestingly typically Left-Wing Yahoo Finance is even more specific on Missouri’s Castle Doctrine:


The doctrine is a self-defense law allows someone to use physical force when they believe it’s necessary to stop what they think is “stealing, property damage or tampering in any degree.” Missouri’s law gives individuals protecting their property more leeway compared to many states and permits the use of deadly force in cases where the person believes they or others are at risk of death, serious injury or other crime, according to Findlaw.com.

“This means that if someone illegally enters your front porch or backyard, you can use deadly force against them without retreating first,” according to the website.

The name of the castle doctrine comes from the old saying: “A man’s home is his castle.” But under Missouri law, that can also include any kind of residence, a vehicle, other private property or “any other location where they have the right to be,” according to Findlaw.com. … (What is Missouri's castle doctrine? By James Leggate via Fox Business; Yahoo Finance; 6/30/20)

Missouri just might have one of the best protect your property laws in the nation.

MY FELLOW AMERICAN PATRIOTS if you love the American way of life and are at least as wise as a couple of Dem supporters willing to arm to protect life and property – DO THE SAME and defend against Communists (red, yellow, black or white) assaulting your interests to make you change to their Communist interests.

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Wednesday, July 1, 2020

MUST READ… Report: Tulsa Arena Management Sabotaged Trump Rally Attendance

The Trump Rally in Tulsa on June 20 was vilified by the Dem Propaganda machine Mainstream Media for low attendance. WELL! Campaign interference is becoming evident and you will not read or hear that from the Dem Propaganda machine.

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MUST READ… Report: Tulsa Arena Management Sabotaged Trump Rally Attendance

Published June 28, 2020 at 3:40pm

An article published several days ago written by an anonymous attendee made the claim that the management for the BOK Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma sabotaged attendance for the campaign rally by President Trump held there last Saturday resulting in thousands of empty seats in the BOK Center and the cancellation of plans for Trump and Vice President Pence to speak to an expected overflow crowd of thousands on a stage set up just outside the arena before speaking at the rally inside.

The fire marshal and arena management put attendance at just over 6,000 while the Trump campaign claimed 12,000 had cleared metal detectors.



[Posted by Bushwack Jack
Jun 27, 2020]

A June 25 report by Armstrong Economics claimed that early in the day on Saturday BOK Center staff had placed stickers on every other seat in the arena barring use thereby cutting in half the attendance of the 19,199 seat arena. That report was not corroborated until Friday and Saturday when Billboard and the Washington Post respectively reported on the stickers and pushback by the Trump campaign that had campaign workers peeling the stickers off the seats right before the rally.

The other allegations of sabotage made by the attendee are that BOK Center temperature screeners were pulled off the job hours early, thereby making it impossible for rally attendees to get the green wristbands needed to advance to the Secret Service metal detectors for entry into the arena and the overflow stage area for the Trump and Pence speeches, and that cleared attendees were only allowed inside the arena in groups of one hundred at a time.

What makes the allegation of an effort to drive down attendance plausible is the celebratory tweet the night of the rally by Jay Marciano, head of the management company for the BOK Center, AEG–part of ASM Global, on the low recorded attendance, “Lying Don’s show in Tulsa is a big fat STIFF! There are only 6624 people in the arena. So much for “There were requests for 1 million.” Total lies. Are we surprised??


Screen image via Showbiz411


…5. The BOK center just before the doors opened had block off every other seat in the arena so the arena could only hold about 9500 people.

6. After continued back and forth with the trump campaign, something happened to allow more people in (in groups of just 100 at a time). We had to wait about 30 minutes each time for them to let just 100 of us trickle into the building. I am not talking about their security- we had already passed through metal detectors and everything. You could actually run into the building each time they would let just 100 of us in at a time, but that was just just wrong and corrupt on BOK management’s part. They removed the stickers/rule on every other seat – that is true, but only after they shut down all entry to the “event location”.

7. I looked over at the screening area and told my wife- something fishy is gong on- 2 hours before the rally – the screeners have left. I told her- no one can get to the stage/overflow area or the BOK center with the “temperature screeners” gone. It is like the people that collect tickets say- I am done we are leaving.

8. They left their posts and from what I am learning- thousands could not get in to the first checkpoint because the temperature screeners had to put green wrist band on you to gain access to the Secret Service security checkpoint. No green band— no entry to the security check point.

9. I think the BOK management told the screeners – we have reached the capacity for what we are letting into the BOK center, so shut down- do not allow the other Trump supporters to get a temperature check and no more green wrist bands. Do not issue green wrist bands so they can get into the holding area to see the stage for the outdoor Trump Rally.

10. It was all a setup to make it look like the crowds did not show up. The crowds DID show up and after 5pm,- 2 hours before the event- no one was there to let them get to security…

End excerpt. Please read the complete article at Armstrong Economics.


The Washington Post reported Saturday that the BOK Center purchased 12,000 stickers to block off seats which would have brought attendance to around 7,000 in the 19,199 seat venue–close to what the head of AEG gloat-tweeted the night of the rally.


In the hours before his rally in Tulsa, President Trump’s campaign directed the removal of thousands of “Do Not Sit Here, Please!” stickers from seats in the arena that were intended to establish social distance between rallygoers, according to video and photos obtained by The Washington Post and a person familiar with the event.

The removal contradicted instructions from the management of the BOK Center, the 19,000-seat arena in downtown Tulsa where Trump held his rally on June 20. At the time, coronavirus cases were rising sharply in Tulsa County, and Trump faced intense criticism for convening a large crowd for an indoor political rally, his first such event since the start of the pandemic.

As part of its safety plan, arena management had purchased 12,000 do-not-sit stickers for Trump’s rally, intended to keep people apart by leaving open seats between attendees. On the day of the rally, event staff had already affixed them on nearly every other seat in the arena when Trump’s campaign told event management to stop and then began removing the stickers, hours before the president’s arrival, according to a person familiar with the event who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal matters…

Billboard was first to report on the seat sticker controversy with an article published Friday (excerpt):

Hours before President Donald Trump took the stage last Saturday at the BOK Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, for his first rally in the COVID-19 era, arena workers were busy labeling thousands of seats with “Do Not Sit Here Please!” stickers to promote social distancing, part of a new safety protocol at the arena known as VenueShield.

Campaign staff quickly radioed over to an executive at ASM Global and asked the arena to stop labeling the seats. In fact, “they also told us that they didn’t want any signs posted saying we should social distance in the venue,” says Doug Thornton, executive vp for ASM Global, who oversees nearly 100 arenas across five continents for the venue management company created by the 2019 merger of AEG and SMG.

Thorton said ASM was simply following the company’s new VenueShield program, developed with doctors, industry experts and infectious disease specialists to prevent the spread of coronavirus at ASM’s 325 venues worldwide. The event was general admission-only meaning all seats were first come, first serve. The stickers were a mandatory component of VenueShield, ASM continued stickering every other seat when something unexpected happened: “The campaign went through and removed the stickers,” says Thornton.

A video created by a third party and reviewed by Billboard shows Trump staffers methodically walking the aisles of BOK Center and peeling the three-inch square stickers from thousands of chairs ahead of the “Make America Great Again” rally. (Trump’s campaign did not respond to Billboard’s request for comment.)…

…While organizers faced criticism for staging a rally during a pandemic, Thornton says ASM had no legal basis to stop the event. The state’s Republican governor, its nine state supreme court justices and Tulsa’s Republican mayor signed off on the event and said it had a legal right to move forward — although mayor G.T. Bynum later said he would have supported ASM Global if it had canceled the rally, prompting mayoral aide Jack Graham to resign in protest…

…But even if ASM Global had wanted to cancel the rally, Thornton didn’t think the company had the legal authority to block the President from using the publicly-owned arena. Oklahoma state law was clear, Thornton says?: Since the state had entered phase 3 of its reactivation plan, full capacity events like the Trump campaign rally were allowed, and the city’s public safety agencies had already signed off on the event.

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