Well, that wasn’t too hard, now, was it?
The man accused of supplying Los Angeles rioters with “bionic” face shields has been identified and arrested, the FBI said. If convicted, he could face up to five years in prison.
Now find out who paid for the face shields and go after them, and their funding, all the way up the chain to George Soros, and arrest all of them.
If ever there was a clear case of “aiding and abetting a felony”, this would be it.
Root and branch, folks.
I’ve never been that interested in my origins to have done the 23andMe thing, so I’m personally not affected by this activity. Nevertheless:
Twenty-seven states and the District of Columbia have sued the genetic-testing company 23andMe to oppose the sale of DNA data from its customers without their direct consent.
The suit, filed on Monday in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the Eastern District of Missouri, argues that 23andMe needs to have permission from each and every customer before their data is potentially sold. The company had entered an agreement to sell itself and its assets in bankruptcy court.
The information for sale “comprises an unprecedented compilation of highly sensitive and immutable personal data of consumers,” according to the lawsuit.
The genetic data at stake is especially sensitive and should be protected, because if it is stolen or compromised, it cannot be replaced. The data can be used to track not only the individuals who sent the kits, but also people related to customers, including yet unborn generations.
Why, and who is the prospective purchaser of all this “highly sensitive and immutable personal data”, you ask?
[23andMe] is poised to be acquired by Regeneron Pharmaceuticals for $256 million, according to the lawsuit. Regeneron is a biotechnology company that uses genetic data to develop new drugs.
So there’s no chance that the data will be abused in any way, then. [eyecross]
I think that my position on this kind of thing should be fairly obvious by now.
Your personal data — all of it — belongs to you, and to nobody else. Only you can authorize its use or dissemination, for whatever reason.
So if some asshole organization — let’s just call them Regeneron, for brevity’s sake — wants to use personal (i.e. unaggregated) data, they should have to ask you personally for your permission, each and every time. (Once data is aggregated, of course, your anonymity is no longer an issue.)
By the way, the same should apply to US Census data, but that particular bullet has gone through the church countless times already, and it’s a terrible precedent. (Which is why I always urge people not to fill out the “long form” census questionnaire every time this bit of government snoopery comes around.)
Finally a little bit of FAFO justice for one of these little assholes in their detestable doxxing glory:
The second paragraph is the one that gives me the full monty:
“Oh no, please leave my family out of it!”
Fuck you, you little shit. I hope you and your whole family get completely fucked up because of your poxy reindeer games.
And the same goes for all the “doxxers”out there.
Read the whole story to enjoy the full flavor of justice.
By the way: should anyone try this shit with me, and “someone comes to my home, pounding on my door and demanding to confront me”…
I leave it to your imagination to guess my response.
I remember that as a boy who was hooked on “cowboys ‘n crooks” movies, the infallible way of identifying the crook was to see how he wore the bandana tied around his neck. Knot to the front: good guy; knot to the back: crook.
This was done by crooks so that they could more easily raise their bandanas to cover their faces while pulling off a bank- or stagecoach robbery — the rule of thumb being that anyone wanting to conceal their identity was up to no good.
So it is with great delight that I note the following:
Donald Trump declared ‘bring in the troops’ and called for the arrest of anyone wearing face masks as violent clashes between law enforcement and protesters rocked Los Angeles overnight.
Arrest, then rip off the face mask and take a pic of the scrote’s face before loading the arrestee into the back of the cop car or -van.
Severe beating optional.
Earlier, I referred to this account of the mostly-peaceful reindeer games taking place in L.A. et al., there’s an additional twist to the tale:
Some of the most horrifying images to emerge from the carnage on Sunday came from Downtown LA, where at least five Waymo self-driving cars were set alight and vandalized, prompting an indefinite shutdown of Los Angeles St north of Arcadia, and south of Alameda amid safety concerns about the lithium batteries.
Oops.
I also liked pics of this mostly-peaceful activity:
Good question, sweetie.
Mr. President?
I see that CitiBank may have seen the light:
We will update our employee Code of Conduct and our customer-facing Global Financial Access Policy to clearly state that we do not discriminate on the basis of political affiliation in the same way we are clear that we do not discriminate on the basis of other traits such as race and religion. This will codify what we’ve long practiced, and we will continue to conduct trainings to ensure compliance.
We also will no longer have a specific policy as it relates to firearms. Our U.S. Commercial Firearms Policy was implemented in 2018 and pertained to sale of firearms by our retail clients and partners. The policy was intended to promote the adoption of best sales practices as prudent risk management and didn’t address the manufacturing of firearms. Many retailers have been following these best practices, and we hope communities and lawmakers will continue to seek out ways to prevent the tragic consequences of gun violence.
Yeah, whatever. Just to make myself clear:
I have absolutely no problem with “gun violence”, provided it’s of the kind where potential victims ventilate the goblins who are trying to harm them and/or take away their possessions violently and unlawfully.
And it was people like me who by extension would have run afoul of Citi’s so-called “Commercial Firearms Policy”.
So I’m glad they’ve had a change of heart — no doubt brought on by the Trump Administration’s overt hostility towards corporate fuckery of this nature — but even so, fuck ’em, the chiseling Shylocks.
I finally managed to pay off my credit card balance from Bank of America — the first and most public of the anti-gun banks — and closed the account. My CitiAA card is next on the chopping list. It may take some time because the balance is still quite high — air tickets for New Wife’s various family visits to Australia and Seffrica, hello — but pay it down I will, make no mistake. and then it’s bye bye, too.