Twelfth of 13: The superior court of Pima County (Federal enclave of) Arizona decides state v. Phillips: the jury finds Derrick S. Phillips, of Tucson not guilty of attempted murder in the self-defense shootings of two illegal drug dealers, who city statute enforcement officers refused to arrest.

       [added 2/24/2024] Thanks to Chuck McGlawn for this entry.

       Thirteenth of 13: Michael Craig, of Grand Junction, Colorado, in self-defense, shoots Michael Ball, who was burglarizing Craig’s home,

       NOTE: These 13 events are from the 68 that were posted by the Civilian Gun Self-Defense Blog in the month of July 2006.  Each month CGSDB posts reports of at least 50 incidents where U.s. subject/enemy/citizens have successfully defended their lives and property using guns.

       [added 2/24/2024] Thanks to Chuck McGlawn for this entry.

       While the United states Armed Forces (private mercenaries) are in Afghanistan, Djibouti, Iraq, the Philippines and west Africa defending “all freedom-loving people everywhere in the world,” Republican (fascist/socialist) President George W. Bush, at the ending of the annual G-8 economic summit, in St. Petersburg, Russia, is caught using profanity, in front of an open microphone:

See, the irony is what they need to do is get Hiz`bAllah to stop doing this s___, and its over (to Prime Minister Tony Blair, of the United Kingdom); No, I’m gonna just make it up. I’m not gonna talk too d___ long like the rest of them (to a reporter over his closing remarks).

       Question: Are theo-conservatives (dominionists) who supported Bush, any more concerned over his lack of decency, in private conversation, than they are by his lack of adherence to the Golden Rule, in public action?

       [added 2/24/2024]

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