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Rock climber plotted to kill people at popular mountaineering event in Oregon, police say
Oct 22, 2023, 7:38 AM PDT
A rock climber plotted to kill several people at a popular mountaineering event in Oregon this weekend, Deschutes County Sheriff's deputies alleged.
Samson Zebturiah Garner, 39, was arrested on attempted murder and other charges on Thursday, police said, according to local media.
He was planning on shooting attendees of the annual Craggin' Classic event in Smith Rock, located in central Oregon's High Desert.
The Deschutes County Sheriff's Office said they were tipped off by two people who had heard Garner speaking about his plan to attack the climbers during another climbing event earlier in the week.
They said they found several weapons in his vehicle, including a Beretta and Sig Sauer 9mm handguns and an AR-15 rifle.
Police recovered journal entries that indicate Garner was "planning a violent attack," Sergeant Jason Wall told reporters on Friday. Garner was not planning to target specific people, but had a "generalized anger," Wall added.
Garber's exact motives are not known, Wall said.
The Deschutes County Sheriff's Office did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.
Garner was charged with attempted murder of multiple victims, attempted first-degree assault, attempted second-degree assault, and unlawful use of a weapon and is scheduled to appear in court on October 27.
The 39-year-old is a Portland resident who has worked in IT and is an avid climber.
He has a membership with the Mazamas, a mountaineering education nonprofit, according to its executive director, Rebekah Phillips. She said while Garner's membership was current, his involvement with the group had been "limited since 2018," according to Gripped Magazine.
The Craggin' Classic event in Smith Rock is organized by The American Alpine Club and held annually. It includes films, presentations, and vendor villages and people climb in the area, according to its website.
Smith Rock is considered the birthplace of American sport climbing.
https://www.businessinsider.com/rock-climber-charged-with-plot-kill-other-mountaineers-oregon-police-2023-10
The Truth About Industrial Agriculture:
A Fragile System Propped up by Myths and Hidden Costs
Large, concentrated supply chains once yielded short-term production benefits, but now that industrial corporations have a stranglehold on our food system, we are seeing vulnerable supply chains, unfairly compensated farmers and unprecedented farm debt, poorly-paid and badly-treated workers, environmental degradation, poor public health outcomes, and unequal access to affordable, healthy food.
The truth is, industrial agriculture is an economically flawed system that only survives due to two factors:
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EXTERNALIZED COSTS
Industrial agriculture interests intentionally evade the true costs of production, foisting the bill onto other entities. If they accounted for these costs and liabilities, their businesses would no longer be economically viable and they would not be competitive with independent farmers and ranchers.
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MYTH-BASED MARKETING CAMPAIGNS
Industrial agriculture interests would rather spend billions of dollars on lobbyists and myth-based marketing campaigns than alter their wealth-extracting supply chains. The falsehoods they perpetuate persuade consumers and policymakers alike that there is no other option.
https://truthsocial.com/@laralogan/posts/111280163769986917
https://farmaction.us/truthreport/
America First Legal Whitepaper: The President of the United States Has Absolute Authority Over His Presidential Papers, Undermining An Essential Element of the Biden DOJ’s Mar-a-Lago Prosecution
October 10, 2023
Today, America First Legal (AFL) released a whitepaper detailing why–as a matter of constitutional law, the Presidential Records Act (PRA), and historical practice–the President of the United States has absolute authority over presidential papers. Neither Congress nor the federal courts may lawfully abrogate or limit this authority.
This constitutional fact has significant implications for Special Counsel Jack Smith’s prosecution against Donald J. Trump in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. The Department of Justice has charged Donald Trump with violating 18 U.S.C. § 793(e), which provides:
(e) Whoever having unauthorized possession of, access to, or control over any document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blueprint, plan, map, model, instrument, appliance, or note relating to the national defense, or information relating to the national defense which information the possessor has reason to believe could be used to the injury of the United States or to the advantage of any foreign nation, willfully communicates, delivers, transmits or causes to be communicated, delivered, or transmitted, or attempts to communicate, deliver, transmit or cause to be communicated, delivered, or transmitted the same to any person not entitled to receive it, or willfully retains the same and fails to deliver it to the officer or employee of the United States entitled to receive it; or
(emphasis added). In obtaining the search warrant to raid Mar-a-Lago in 2022, the Biden DOJ relied upon the definition of a “Presidential Record” in 42 U.S.C. § 2201 to support its position that Donald Trump retained documents he did not have the authority to retain at the conclusion of his presidency, and that somehow, the National Archives and Records Administration possessed the authority to require them to be returned.
The fatal flaw in Jack Smith’s political prosecution under section 793(e) is the fact that Donald Trump—as a matter of law—had authorized possession of, access to, and control over his presidential records. AFL’s whitepaper articulates precisely how and why.
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As the whitepaper concludes:
Text, precedent, and executive practice reinforce the historical tradition. The records a President creates or receives while performing the duties of his office are his presidential records. That test does not depend on the content of the records, or whether the records are classified. The test does not change when a President leaves office. If, for example, a former President acquires new records after leaving office, those new records would not enjoy the same constitutional status as his presidential records acquired while in office. But the Presidential records a President takes with him upon vacating the presidency are his, to do with as he pleases. The President can keep them, sell them, destroy them, or donate them, as all Presidents have done.
Other commentators and analysts have asserted that the president has the absolute right under the PRA to determine which records are his, but they have not acknowledged the broader constitutional issues at the heart of the matter. Congress does not have the authority under the Constitution to tell the president which records are his and which are not.
Since the founding of our republic, presidents leaving office have taken custody of their presidential records—the president’s records are his personal property because they were prepared by him, or for him, in furtherance of his official duties. The records also belong to him because the Constitution requires it.
The documents that a president prepares or receives during his term in office belong to him. A reading of the Presidential Records Act that fails to account for a former president’s right to possess and control his records is inconsistent with the text, history, and precedent of presidential records. Thus, the politically-motivated Florida prosecution of President Trump is impossible under the law.
Statement from Gene Hamilton, America First Legal Vice President and General Counsel:
“The weaponized Department of Justice has taken a position that flips the Executive Branch on its head. The records a President creates or receives while performing the duties of his office are his presidential records. Neither Congress nor the President’s subordinate cabinet members nor the federal courts can change that. The principal charge in the Biden DOJ’s prosecution in the Southern District of Florida is unconstitutional, and it should be dismissed as such,” said Gene Hamilton.
https://truthsocial.com/@StephenM/posts/111279903835926917
https://aflegal.org/america-first-legal-whitepaper-the-president-of-the-united-states-has-absolute-authority-over-his-presidential-papers-undermining-an-essential-element-of-the-biden-dojs-mar-a-lago-prosecuti/
https://media.aflegal.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/10195042/AFL-PRA-Whitepaper-10.10.23.pdf
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