19 June 2025
S.H.I.T. - Leftists and crazies in SLC
A lot of things have happened this week, including Israel’s decision to try to end the risk of Iran wielding nukes once and for all. But I’ve only had half an eye on the news, because my best friend is visiting, and that’s much better for my mental health than trying to sort through the details of events that are still very much in flux. So my three selected stories this week focus more on craziness than seriousness.
Leftist kills Leftist because of open-carrying Leftist
During the ‘No Kings’ march in Salt Lake City last Saturday, a so-called “peacekeeper”—who was selected to fill that (theoretically) volunteer role by the march’s organizers—ended up shooting and killing a random protester when he tried to ‘stop’ another protester who was open-carrying an “AR-15 style rifle,” and who is alleged to have been brandishing it in such a way that the “peacekeeper” believed a mass shooting was about to start.
The protester who was open-carrying (Utah is a Constitutional-carry state), Arturo Gamboa (age 24), is apparently well-known in the area as an “activist and punk rocker” who routinely open-carries at protests, unless participants are explicitly asked by organizers not to do so. He identifies himself as “the child of a Venezuelan migrant who came to the United States in the 1990s,” uses he/him pronouns, and is the drummer for a band called RADE. He describes himself as “radicalized” by ‘anti-racist’ realizations about “the true horrors of living in America and the American system.” Those who know him believe that, rather than him being about to carry about a mass shooting against his fellow protesters, someone overreacted to him carrying openly.
According to witnesses, Gamboa—who was wearing black clothing and a black mask—opened up his backpack, removed his rifle from it, and started “to manipulate it.” Two men who were part of the “safety team” (so-called by the event organizers), who were wearing neon-green vests, observed his behavior, drew their own firearms (handguns), and ordered him to drop his weapon. Those men claim that, rather than obeying, “Gamboa ran, with the rifle in firing position, toward the protest crowd on State Street.” One of the men—as yet unnamed—fired three rounds at Gamboa, one of which hit him in the stomach. Another round hit protester Arthur Folasa Ah Loo (age 39; a fashion designer from Samoa), who died.
Gamboa has not yet been charged, although he is being held on suspicion of murder, despite the fact that he did not fire a single shot (which seems odd if he really was bent on a mass shooting). The “peacekeepers” were questioned and then released, even though one of them fired the shot that killed Ah Loo. It’s worth noting that the event’s permit mentioned nothing about “the presence of organized or armed security.” The only information that has leaked out about the actual shooter is he had previously been in the military.
Utah legal experts say the case is “really, really complicated.” In order to assert “defensive justification” for the use of lethal force, it is necessary to establish that the person asserting it could “reasonably” believe that there was an “imminent use of force” they were defending against. But asserting this would be necessary in order to shift the blame for Ah Loo’s death from the shooter to Gamboa. And it may be difficult to prove that Gamboa was doing anything wrong because “possessing [a rifle] is not illegal, and removing it from a backpack is not illegal.” Much will hinge on whether it can be proven that Gamboa was actually behaving in the threatening manner that the “peacekeepers” asserted.
SLC man claims robbery victim is werewolf
Jose Manuel Perez (age 24) was having lunch with another man at a Salt Lake City business when, for unknown reasons, he began assaulting that man. Although the victim attempted repeatedly to flee, Perez put him in a chokehold. Then it got weird.
Perez brandished “a wooden stake with a nail in it,” threatening to “pierce” his victim’s heart…because “he was a werewolf.” (He seems to have mixed up the lore about werewolves and vampires?)
The victim finally succeeded in escaping unstabbed. But Perez also took off…with the victim’s backpack (hence the charges against him for aggravated robbery). Police found him later with the backpack and with his pockets full of rocks. He claimed to be armed with the rocks “out of fear the victim was going to attack him.” He also claimed that his possession of the backpack wasn’t robbery because “police were going to return it to the victim.”
It is unknown whether drugs or mental illness were involved, but Perez is being held (at this point) without bail.
A sign war in Missouri
The fast food restaurants in Macon, Missouri appear to be engaging in a war of words on their signs. It appears to have started with the soon-to-open Wendy’s:
Then McDonald’s commented:
Dairy Queen fired back at both. Here’s one side of their sign:
And here’s the other:
Then Hardee’s got involved:
The star refers, of course, to the Hardee’s logo:
So far nothing more than words has been involved. Let’s hope these rural Missourians keep it that way.
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and then there's "Juneteenth" - perhaps the dumbest American holiday, emblematic of nothing, enacted to pander to the noisiest tenth of our population with not one, but two federal holidays. Sorry, not sorry. There, I said it.
Leftists AND crazies? Leftists ARE crazy. They worship a socio-economic system that has failed whenever and wherever tried and which has produced only mayhem, malaise and murder. They mutilate children to change their gender and call it "compassionate care." They pretend to be Americans yet open our borders to savages who burn our flag while parading with the flags of others, all in the service of our enemies. They pretend to stand for women's rights, while bowing to the tenets of the Satanic Verses. They would all be sent to lunatic asylums in a country that even maintained a semblance of sanity.