Freedom Cat

[Freedom Cat @FreedomCat14]

This is the best argument we have for people left willing to listen.

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

An inconvenient truth for some people.

Sweden 🇸🇪 is now 54th in the country ranking for overall Covid deaths per capita. And unlike most of the 53 countries with more deaths per capita, Sweden didn’t lockdown, had light restrictions, no mask mandates and no vaccine passports.

[Fred the Great @Fred_On_X]

In 2004, Michael Chricton wrote a book about an environmental policy and lobbying organization generating an ecological disaster to promote its cause and support for treaties, plus generate funding for environmental organizations.

This is a tweet about the @splcenter.

[Freedom Cat @FreedomCat14]

Fair.

[tag 🇬🇧 @tag4UK]

I do not trust the British police.

If I thought I was in danger, I would call a member of my family before I called the police.

If something of mine was stolen or damaged, I wouldn't waste my time calling the police.

If they came to my door, I would video the entire interaction.

That's a problem, and it requires immediate attention.

[Jeremy Munson @jeremymunson]

22 years ago today, Marvin John Heemeyer, a small business owner, was financially ruined by local government officials who overregulated and fined his business. The government's actions and ignoring the concerns of its constituents pushed him over the limit.

Marvin owned an automobile muffler repair shop and, after losing his grip, demolished 13 buildings with a modified bulldozer in Granby, Colorado, on June 4, 2004. Heemeyer had feuded with Granby town officials, particularly over fines for violating city health ordinances after local officials made it financially impossible for Heemeyer to connect to the city sewage system. He was subsequently fined for improperly dumping sewage from his business instead of connecting to the city sewer system.

His feud came to a head on June 4, 2004. Over about eighteen months, Heemeyer had secretly modified a Komatsu D355A bulldozer by adding layers of steel and concrete, intended to serve as armor. He used this to demolish the Granby town hall, the former mayor's house, and many other buildings. Heemeyer's rampage concluded with his suicide after his bulldozer became trapped in the basement of a hardware store he had been in the process of destroying.

This post serves as recognition that Government is not always a solution, and sometimes a problem, and frequently triggers unfortunate events in the lives of the people it serves. Whether you are in Congress, the state legislature, a county commissioner, or a city council member, your actions, for better or worse, impact the people you serve. Listen to your constituents. Do better.

[Official Layoff @LayoffAI]

WALMART:

>Controlled by richest family on earth
>Hires Suresh Kumar as head of tech
>Lays off 1,000 of his workers in May
>One of the largest H-1B employers is the nation

Now, today:

VOTES DOWN PROPOSAL ASKING THE COMPANY TO REPORT HOW AI AND AUTOMATION AFFECT WORKERS' JOBS

[Pacific Legal 🗡⚖️ @PacificLegal]

UPDATE: Napa is moving to collect millions from the Hoopes family before litigation concludes. The County knows we have a strong argument, but they are rushing to destroy Lindsay’s business before the courts can rule whether these fines are constitutional.

[Freedom Cat @FreedomCat14]

A day that will live forever.

[Sal the Agorist @SallyMayweather]

22 yrs ago today, after a long zoning dispute with local officials that ruined his business, welder Marvin Heemeyer had enough & created the Killdozer.

He destroyed the mayor’s house, the judge’s house, town hall, the police station, & the bank - while avoiding hurting civilians or their property.

Happy Killdozer Day to those who celebrate 🎊

[Freedom Cat @FreedomCat14]

Never forget.

[Oliver Jia (オリバー・ジア) @OliverJia1014]

Long post, but please share. Today marks the 35th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square student protests and the bloody massacre carried out by the Chinese Communist Party.

There were some truly horrific images taken on June 4, 1989, but it's actually quite difficult to find them using a conventional Google search.

This could be due to CCP pressure, but more likely it's probably because Google algorithms in the last few years have intentionally tried to suppress graphic images and provide a sanitized internet experience for its users. You will face similar problems when looking up images related to events like 9/11 or the 2014 shoot-down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17.

An unknown number of people were killed and wounded at Tiananmen, but it was assuredly in the thousands. I believe it to be an insult to their memories for what they went through to be censored or hidden.

The link at the end of this tweet is an archived Imgur page containing many rare photographs hardly ever run by Western news outlets because of their graphic nature.

I have chosen less graphic images to include in this tweet out of concern for my more sensitive followers, so please click the link for more photographs. Be warned that the externally linked ones are very explicit images of bashed skulls, dead bodies, and people burned alive, among other terrible things.

It is not content that I enjoy sharing, but it must be seen by the world and younger generations. Countless journalists risked their lives in taking these photographs and smuggling them out of China. Yet their work is not seen nearly widely enough. This is history and it must be preserved.

The CCP do not want you to see these photographs nor do they want you to know what the Tiananmen protests were. Young Chinese are raised to be intentionally ignorant to what they were. As Hong Kong has been taken over by the CCP, in due time young people in what was once a free, vibrant, pluralistic, and democratic society will not know what Tiananmen was either.

As people living on the outside though, we owe it to all those who were killed, imprisoned, and crippled for life during these protests for freedom to remember what these brave souls fought for, even if it was ultimately in vain.

Those who follow me know that my Chinese relatives survived Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution. I've been a staunch anti-communist and long-time opponent of the CCP. But you do not need my background to acknowledge that modern China is one of the least free and most authoritarian countries on earth.

Thanks to the Emergency Chinese Immigration Relief Act of 1989 in response to the Tiananmen massacre, the U.S. government allowed my Chinese aunt and uncle to stay in the United States, expediting the process which eventually allowed them to become American citizens.

In the last years of his life before he passed away in 2021, my father, who also became an American, was always critical of the CCP and angry at how much China had regressed since the Cultural Revolution instead of the promising post-Cold War direction most in the West hoped it would go in.

Today, I am profoundly grateful for living a life of freedom and happiness in Japan. I would not be here if weren't for how hard my father worked to leave China and have a successful life as a professional violinist in the West.

On this day, I remember my father and all the protestors of Tiananmen. Thank you for reading.
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[John Simpson @JohnSimpsonNews]

37 years ago the Chinese army killed large numbers of people in Beijing and elsewhere when it cracked down on student protests. I was there and saw it happen myself. Nowadays China tries to claim the Tiananmen massacre was invented by the international media. That’s a total lie.

[Aelfred The Great @aelfred_D]

I love this

[Freedom Cat @FreedomCat14]

Capybaracat

[The Reformed Media @ReformedMedia_]

BREAKING🚨: Remember the man who was arrested by MULTIPLE police officers and SMASHED with a riot shield in Southampton? 🇬🇧

Well he is a MILITARY VETERAN who suffers from Complex PTSD and has 13 metal pins in his ankle - the police BEAT HIM because he didn’t get out of their way fast enough

Read his lawyer’s has given a statement read below 👇

[WarrenVsCCP | 🇺🇸🇹🇼🇺🇸 @WarrenVsCCP]

1989.6.4

A Chinese couple tried to escape the carnage caused by tanks.

[Kellie-Jay Keen @ThePosieParker]

How is “you’re not acting so tough now, are ya?” The right thing for a police officer to say?

[Yaqiu Wang 王亚秋 @Yaqiu]

Your annual reminder of what the Chinese people aspire to and what the Chinese Communist Party is capable of. 勿忘六四.

[Freedom Cat @FreedomCat14]

Very cool.

[Dave Deaner @DDK9100]

@kershaw_alex @WWIIMemorial My Dad landed in Ste Mere Eglise with the 82nd. He brought a parachute back so his girlfriend could make a wedding dress. My mother’s dress is now on display in the 82nd Airborne Museum at Ft. Bragg. AATW!

[Dr Helen Fry | WWII Historian @DrHelenFry]

Alex Kershaw’s D-Day coverage has begun.

Every year it is utterly exceptional.

Do ‘Follow’ him and keep up-to-date with his posts:

[Freedom Cat @FreedomCat14]

🤣

[Lady Rebecca 💃🏻 🇬🇧 #RestoreBritain 🇬🇧 @LadyRebecca_1]

💥I've made a close up edit of the police beating up a protester💥

It very much looks as if the police had planned to charge at the protesters & had planned to pick on someone to make an example of.

As they executed their charge, there was man who was sitting on the wall. Then due to the speed of the charge he was left at the wrong side of the police line.

He was innocently sitting on the wall, & is clearly heard saying: 👇

For what? For what? I'm just sat here, what?😲

Then they all pull him out onto the road for a huge pile on and beat him up.

The absolute brutality of the attack was completely uncalled for as I see it, and the fact that it looked to be pre planned, suggests that it was done purposely to turn a peaceful protest into tomorrows headings of far right thugs, is unreal.

They were smashing him repeated with the sharp edge of their shields, they were punching him repeatedly in the face, & kicking him repeatedly in the head.

This could have easily turned into a second police murder in the same area.

At the end of it he was covered in blood & blood was all over the road.

A quite horrific scene 😢

Once again it looks like more two tier policing with another injustice against an innocent person 😱

[Freedom Cat @FreedomCat14]

@elonmusk I know you are busy, but this sort of thing should have a more effective, streamlined response.