On Monday, California Attorney General Rob Bonta posted the names and addresses of concealed-carry permit holders on the California Department of Justice website.

In a press release, Bonta claimed the move was to “improve transparency and information sharing for firearms-related data and includes broad enhancements to the platform to help the public access data on firearms in California, including information about the issuance of Concealed Carry Weapons (CCW) permits and Gun Violence Restraining Orders (GVROs).”

He also claimed it will help promote “gun violence” research, and foster “trust between law enforcement and the communities we serve.”

Make No Mistake, This Was 100% BS.

Bonta’s move was clearly retaliation for the Supreme Court’s decision in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen, which affirmed the right to bear arms outside the home.

Bonta’s true intent was to put Californians on notice that if they want to exercise this right, they will pay a price, and the price will be their privacy, safety, and security.

You see, Bonta has created a handy reference guide for burglars, home invaders, and other criminals. Now, they’ve got a searchable database of firearm owners and homes where guns are kept. Guns have always been the third most sought-after item by burglars, after prescription meds and cash.

What’s not included in Bonta’s press release, tweets or media interviews is the chilling effect this will have on the Second Amendment in the Golden State. Anyone who wants to carry a defensive firearm must now risk a complete loss of their privacy and the increased likelihood they and their family will be targeted by criminals.

I’m sure California’s booming gun-ban industry, which likely played a significant role in developing this idea, has already made plans on how to use the database to its advantage. Look for massive doxing, which will include false red-flag complaints, cyber-crimes, and other online harassment.

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The New York Times is trying especially hard this week to play the victim after it discovered pro-Trump operatives have been digging through its employees’ public statements.

Fortunately, the Times’ peers in the press are not indulging the newspaper in its pity party.

“[O]f all the thin-skinned beasts prowling the journalistic forest, few have a thinner epidermis than the boys and girls who work at the New York Times,” said Politico’s Jack Shafer in an article titled, “Why Journalists’ Old Tweets Are Fair Game for Trump.”

Elsewhere, the Washington Post’s Eric Wemple penned an analysis, titled “Breitbart burned the New York Times. And the Times really doesn’t like it,” accusing the newspaper of wanting to “tar the motivations” of the operatives while also refusing to admit “they have brought actionable information to public attention.”

The thrust of the Shafer and Wemple’s analyses is this: It is not dirty pool for pro-Trump operatives to spelunk through newsroom employees’ public remarks. It is not unfair for political operatives to document carefully the past statement of journalists and editors in the employ of the nation’s largest and most powerful newsrooms. It most certainly is not an “assault” or an “attack” on the free press or democracy itself, as New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger claimed this weekend in a memo to staff.

The White House has paired with activists to embarrass hostile newsrooms, which Sulzberger claims is “an escalation of an ongoing campaign against the free press.”

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Additional sources:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/08/22/exclusive-crappy-jew-year-new-york-times-editors-antisemitism-racism-exposed/

On Tuesday, Democratic Texas Rep. Joaquin Castro, who chairs the
presidential campaign of his twin brother Julian, tweeted the names and
employers of more than 40 San Antonians who maxed out their donations to
President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign.

Mind you, the federal maximum is $2,800 per individual, so we’re not
talking about nefarious millionaires and billionaires or political
activists or public figures. The congressman doxed a bunch of regular
citizens whose only sin was displeasing Castro.

The congressman claims
he is targeting voters who “are fueling a campaign of hate that labels
Hispanic immigrants as ‘invaders.’” First of all, if Castro disagrees
with his fellow Texans on whether illegal immigrants are “invaders,” he
is free to try to change their minds. Instead he decided to sic every
unhinged progressive activist in Texas on these businesses, which, one
imagines, employ and serve plenty of people in his community.

Then again, Castro has no clue if these individuals support Trump’s
rhetoric on immigration or even if they support his position on the
borders. Maybe some of his victims maxed out because they’re happy with
the unemployment rate or like GOP’s tax policy. Or maybe they see the
election as a binary choice and prefer a demagogic president to a
leftist congressman who feels comfortable doxing his own
constituents? Who knows?

Not that it matters. I may believe that Castro is a lightweight
authoritarian, it still doesn’t mean I should post his family’s business
addresses on Twitter.

Many Democrats like Castro have adopted a political zealotry that
rationalizes basically any tactic they deem is necessary to fight Trump.
This, I guess, now includes intimidation. That’s because the purpose of
tweeting these names wasn’t merely to bully those who have already
donated to Trump, but to warn anyone in his district thinking about
contributing to Trump to consider the potential retaliatory public
attacks on their businesses (or worse.)

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In October 2018, during the senate hearings for Judge Brett Kavanaugh,  Capitol Police arrested 27-year-old Jackson Cosko of DC for “allegedly posting private, identifying information (doxxing) about one or more United States Senators.”

Accused ‘doxxer’ 27-year-old Jackson Cosko also threatened to leak Republican Senators’ children’s health information if any witnesses dared go to the authorities about his criminal activities.

Magistrate Judge Deborah Robinson ordered 27-year-old Jackson Cosko of D.C. to continue to be held without bond.

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• Democratic Pennsylvania state Rep. Brian Sims filmed himself yelling at people praying outside a Planned Parenthood.
• Ashley
  Garecht, the mother of two girls Sims filmed, said in an interview with
  The Daily Caller News Foundation that Sims’s behavior left her
  daughters and their friend shaken.
• The group was praying outside the Planned Parenthood during the Thursday before Easter.

The
mother of two girls Democratic Pennsylvania state Rep. Brian Sims
filmed said he targeted her daughters and their friend with anger,
leaving them shaken after he offered a reward for their information in a
video posted to social media.

Ashley Garecht said she had been
to the southeastern Pennsylvania Planned Parenthood about five times
before the incident took place. On Holy Thursday of Easter weekend, she
brought her 13- and 15-year-old daughters and their friend with her to
pray outside the abortion clinic.

Garecht told The Daily Caller News Foundation Sims
approached her and her children twice, the first time without a camera,
but “yelling pretty aggressively” and focusing mainly on the teenaged
girls. Garecht said she repeatedly stepped between him and the girls and
asked him not to speak to them. (RELATED: Pennsylvania Rep Offers Reward To Anyone Who Will Dox Pro-Life Teens In His Video)

“We
weren’t trying to talk to anyone coming in or out of the clinic,” she
told TheDCNF. “In candor, what concerned me was that he was yelling
mostly at the girls.”

She said Sims left for about 10 minutes and
returned with a camera as Garecht and the three girls were preparing to
leave. He then proceeded to film the girls and encourage viewers to
send him information on them.

“What we’ve got here is a bunch of …
pseudo-Christian protesters who’ve been out here shaming young girls
for being here,” Sims said in the video as he filmed Garecht and the
three girls, before offering a reward for anyone who could provide their
information.

“So,
here’s the deal, I’ve got $100 to anybody who will identify these
three, and I will donate to Planned Parenthood,” Sims said in the video.

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Additional source:

https://www.dailywire.com/news/46910/watch-democrat-state-rep-who-harassed-pro-life-amanda-prestigiacomo

Brett Kavanaugh was sworn in as the 114th Supreme Court Justice in US history Saturday evening.

The Democrats, led by Dianne Feinstein and Chuck Schumer launched the most evil smear campaign against Kavanaugh in modern times–and they still lost.

Republican lawmakers have been screamed at, assaulted and intimidated by unhinged leftists leading up to Kavanaugh’s confirmation–now the GOP lawmakers are receiving death threats on their personal cell phones.

The hysterical liberals aren’t taking the news well–tears flowed and they screamed at the sky.

Unhinged leftists also stormed the SCOTUS steps and pounded on the courtroom doors!

Now they’re threatening to kill Republican Senators.

An unnamed GOP Senator told FOX News that Senators have had death threats text messaged and called in to their personal phones.

The Senator also said this is “unusual.”

FOX News reported: Colleague Peter Doocy rpts a GOP senator says senators have had death threats texted to their person phones. Calls that “unusual.” Also says some senators who flew home after Kavanaugh vote were accompanied by police for protection

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Update: On Saturday afternoon, Maxine Waters said she is “utterly disgusted by the spread of the completely false, absurd, and dangerous lies and conspiracy theories that are being pedaled by ultra-right wing pundits, outlets, and websites who are promoting a fraudulent claim that a member of my staff was responsible for the release of the personal information of Members of the United States Senate on Wikipedia.”

Waters also claimed that “the United States Capitol Police and our internal IT specialist have determined that the IP address in question does not belong to my office or anyone on my staff. The member of my staff – whose identity, personal information, and safety have been compromised as a result of these fraudulent and false allegations – was in no way responsible for the leak of this information. My office has alerted the appropriate authorities and law enforcement entities of these fraudulent claims.”

So who did it then? Waters concludes by saying that she will “ensure that the perpetrators will be revealed, and that they will be held legally liable for all of their actions that are destructive and dangerous to any and all members of my staff.”

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The personal information of Republican Senators Lindsey Graham, Mike Lee and Orrin Hatch was posted to Wikipedia Thursday during the hearing of Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh.

The information, which included home addresses and phone numbers, was posted to the senators’ respective Wikipedia pages where users are allowed to make edits – all of which are logged by Wikipedia and include the editor’s IP address.

As a result of the information being made public, Sen. Hatch’s wife “has been receiving calls nonstop ON HER BIRTHDAY and their home address was made public,” according to Caleb Hull, director of content at the Republican technology firm Targeted Victory.

The IP address used to “doxx” the Senators was quickly traced back to the House of Representatives… 

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Additional Sources:

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/09/breaking-ip-address-of-person-who-doxxed-gop-senators-points-to-maxine-waters-office/

https://twitter.com/miketokes/status/1046116221782036481

An unknown person located in the House of Representatives on Thursday posted the personal information of Republican Sens. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, as well as Mike Lee and Orrin Hatch of Utah.

All three senators sit on the Senate Judiciary Committee, and their personal information was posted shortly after each questioned Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh during Thursday’s hearing.

“They appear to be targeting Republican members of the committee after they question Judge Kavanaugh,” a Hatch spokesman told The Daily Caller News Foundation.

The staffer noted the change revealed Hatch’s home address and that Thursday was the senator’s wife’s birthday.

The changes were immediately highlighted by a watchdog account that monitors Wikipedia changes made using IP addresses located in the House.

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