Notes from the Resistance
Of course, it can happen again to someone else. And the probability of that happening again – and again – will increase depending on who in Washington is running the show. [More]
You’ve no doubt already heard the news– this was posted after I’d left and I’m just now catching up on links to share.
BREAKING: TATE ADAMIAK PARDONED – President Trump pardoned Patrick “Tate” Adamiak and several others Friday. [More]
That’s great news and it would not have happened if 2A groups did not have influence with the president, something we need to make sure continues into the next administration and beyond. Lee Williams deserves special recognition for keeping this story at the forefront of gun owner concerns.
I hope everybody gives him his space now so he can reintegrate with his family and his life.
Anybody know if this means he can buy a gun again?
That last paragraph doesn’t apply in Adamiak’s case, but unless I’m reading it wrong, it looks like it should say “seek STATE firearms relief.”
Firearm ‘Expert’ Who Testified a Toy was a Machinegun Still Working for ATF [More]
At first glance I thought Lee Williams was talking about ol’ Kelvin “Insert-Magazine-Backwards” Crenshaw (Note now-discontinued Examiner links go to Internet Archive, so expect slow loading).
It also reminds me of the artifical contortions the JBTs go through to entrap Americans out of their unalienable rights on invented technicalities, like we’re gong to use duct tape, ties, and chains to workaround unconstitutional infringements.
And it reminds me of what the evil bastards did to David Olofson.
“Reforms” and gushing from some “gun rights leaders” notwithstanding, never forget, the Framers would have considered ATF and everything it stands for an abomination. Less aggressive cancer is still cancer.
Tate Adamiak has been in prison longer under President Trump than under Biden [More]
In fairness, how many of the thousands I have shared Lee’s work with here and on social media have added their voices to those asking for a pardon? The only comment I got to this was an excuse for not helping.
If a wheel squeaks and no one hears it does it make a difference?
Yet another reason why I’ve been calling for Task Force consulting participation. Why I appear to be the only one is another story.
I figure that’s how long it will take to read all this and then seconds to do what it asks.
While he appreciates all the support his son’s case has drawn—there are hundreds of videos and stories chronicled on his “Freedom for Tate” website—Tate remains is prison. To date, there has been no formal move to secure his release—despite the kind words of more than a few elected officials. [More]
Look at what just happened with NFA as a result of massive numbers of gun owners making noise that could not be ignored with midterms coming up.
Advocacy media played a huge part in that.
As just a cursory look shows us:
If a million gun owners simply reposted a “tweet” (or whatever the hell you call them these days) saying “FREEDOM FOR TATE” that shared this link and copied Todd Blanche, Harmeet Dhillon and Donald Trump, I guarantee you it would get their attention.
The Office of the Pardon Attorney, part of the U.S. Department of Justice, announced Tuesday that President Donald Trump had denied hundreds of pardon requests this week. Patrick “Tate” Adamiak was not among the denials. [More]
Not that they want to tell us what standardized and reproducible criteria they use…
ATF Director: Adamiak’s sentence “excessive” [More]
As previously noted, he’s missing the point.
But what I want to focus on is this business of ATF Firearm Enforcement Officer Jeffrey Bodell spreading falsehoods under oath to affect trial outcomes, and how is that anything but prejudicial perjury? Everybody realizes ATF has been getting away with that for years right?
But don’t take my word for it:
“Cekada promised neither he nor the ATF will be ‘offended by the outcome of the courts,’ because he wants to make sure that Adamiak was ‘appropriately sentenced’,” Williams recounted. That’s mighty big of him. However, Second Amendment advocates should be offended by such a presumptuous response. [More]
Focusing on the punishment being too harsh ignores the intolerable injustice of there being any punishment at all.
TELL PRESIDENT TRUMP: PARDON TATE ADAMIAK! [More]
You can call or do what I do to ask others to join in.
And point of order, I think an acknowledgment link for the work most responsible for bringing this to our attention would have been appropriate.
Cekada promised neither he nor the ATF will be “offended by the outcome of the courts,” because he wants to make sure that Adamiak was “appropriately sentenced.” [More]
That’s mighty big of him. Told ya the guy was our BFF!
Tate Adamiak’s letter to the new ATF director – Adamiak explains his case better than anyone else could. [More]
Should work.
After all, he’s one of us.
Tate Adamiak’s upcoming ‘Diesel Therapy’ cancelled—he won
Adamiak will not spend the next 50 days in the back of a prison van. [More]
Hopefully, some administration higher-ups are starting to realize this isn’t a good look for them or the man they represent.
Tate Adamiak to receive 50 days of ‘Diesel Therapy’ punishment – He will be kept completely out of touch in the back of a DOC van. [More]
As long as we’re in a new paradigm of text, history, and tradition, what’s the Founding Era parallel where they would have kept an inmate captive in a wagon for a month-and-a-half because he claimed a right the government was mandated not to infringe?
Harmeet knows the Constitution– maybe she can tell us:
We need letters—tons of letters—that explain why President Donald J. Trump should pardon Adamiak. [More]
I never ask readers to do that which I don’t do myself. These are going out in tomorrow’s mail:
A complete list of our stories about Patrick “Tate” Adamiak [More]
Here’s to the day when the list stops growing.
It’s been four long years since ATF arrested Patrick ‘Tate’ Adamiak [More]
So, what’s it take to get the “pro-gun” administration’s attention?
Maybe if Thomas Massie or Rand Paul set the wheels and political pressure in motion to apply for a furlough so he could be their guest at the next State of the Union speech…? Even having it denied, which it probably would be, would attract wider media attention outside of the contained 2A echo chamber, making his plight a lot more difficult to just ignore.
It is definitely time for ATF new leadership to take responsibility for Adamiak’s false arrest, fictitious prosecution and undeserved incarceration. [More]
After all, Cekada IS “the first ever truly pro-Second Amendment nominee to head the agency.” Our “gun rights leaders have told us so!
Adamiak remains behind bars, guiltless but ignored by the Trump Administration [More]
No worries. The DOW is over 50,000 right now.
Expert firearm witness criticizes ATF’s treatment of Patrick “Tate” Adamiak [More]
Longtime advisor, earlier “Shockwave” developer, “small cadre” co-conspirator and all-around pal Len Savage weighs in.
The much-vaunted “Second Amendment Task Force” ought to consult with this guy on all ATF technology/rules-related matters.
Bodell’s lengthy report details how he took parts off of a live RPG in order to make Adamiak’s inert RPGs, which he labeled as Exhibit 30, fire an AK round. [More]
All that’s missing were chains, zip ties and duct tape!
Where the hell is Harmeet Dhillon?