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Later on, Man it’s hot down here!
The clip, filmed at Sanctuary of Praise Church in Florida on January 16, shows Hall standing under stage lights in front of a massive digital screen displaying a QR code labeled Sow Your Seed.
Sorry but I still think that Hell ain’t hot enough for folks like him! Grumpy
We’re all familiar with the North Hollywood shootout. We’ve explored those details here before. That one had everything. The two bad guys wore body armor and carried genuine automatic weapons. In a shockingly brief period of time, the bank robbers and cops collectively expended roughly 2,000 rounds. Amazingly, despite there being a dozen police officers and eight civilian bystanders injured, the two miscreants were the only KIA. That shocking bit of carnage was quite likely inspired by Michael Mann’s 1995 seminal cop film Heat. Heat sported what is arguably the most compelling gunfight ever put to film.
Seventeen years before Larry Phillips Jr. and Emil Mătăsăreanu shot up North Hollywood, however, there was another bank robbery gone wrong that had an even more sordid outcome. On 9 May 1980, five heavily armed religious fanatics stormed the Norco branch of the Security Pacific Bank. They were motivated by some weird apocalyptic theology and planned to use the proceeds to build a survival enclave out in the desert. The subsequent firefight spread over 25 miles and resulted in the death of a deputy sheriff. They even shot down a police helicopter. North Hollywood and Norco transformed Law Enforcement in America.
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The Bad Guys
The bank robbery crew consisted of Belisario Delgado, Manuel Delgado, Christopher Gregory Harven, Russell Harven, and George Wayne Smith. I can only assume the Harvens and the Delgados were brothers. Among the five of them, they were packing an HK 91, an HK 93, an AR15, more than one shotgun, assorted handguns, a sack full of homemade explosive devices, and, incongruously, a katana Ninja sword.
These guys had clearly done their homework. In 1980, the federal assault weapons ban was but a gleam in the eye of then-Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton. Back then, semiautomatic modern sporting rifles, both foreign and domestic, were readily available–even in California. It was such stuff as Norco and North Hollywood that precipitated California’s current crop of draconian gun control measures. These Norco guys would have made a fairly decent infantry fire team.
Gun Control Fiction
Ours is a nation of 328 million people. We already have more than 400 million guns. That number climbs by the hundreds if not thousands every single day. It is estimated that there are more than 20 million AR-15 rifles in circulation already. That doesn’t count the AKs, Mini-14s, FN SCARs, Springfield Armory M1As, and dozens of other comparable high-speed smoke poles. Nobody knows the actual number. Suffice it to say, we are some exceptionally well-armed rednecks.
To put that in perspective, there are currently 27.4 million soldiers serving in all of the world’s militaries combined. Somewhere between one-third and half of American households contain at least one firearm. That means armed Americans outnumber all the soldiers on Planet Earth by a ratio of about five-to-one.
Additionally, nowadays, you really can make guns, sound suppressors, and full auto conversion devices in the privacy of your own home using a 3D printer. That unibrow dude, Luigi Mangione, who famously gunned down the insurance executive in New York, apparently built his pistol frame and sound suppressor at home. We will likely tackle that tragic tale at some point in the future.
Despite having some of the strictest gun control laws in the country, California still experiences astronomical homicide rates. They average a bit more than 3,000 dead Californians each year due to homicide. It’s well-intentioned, I suppose, but gun control just doesn’t work. In the sordid pantheon of murder rates per unit population by state, California remains right about in the middle despite its rather myopic view of the US Constitution.
The Job
At around 3:40 in the afternoon, four of the five criminals burst into the Security Pacific Bank and violently announced their intentions. One thug remained outside in the getaway van as a lookout. Folks in another bank located across the street saw these four guys charge into the Security Pacific like it was Omaha Beach and called the cops. Riverside County Sheriff Deputy Glyn Bolasky happened to be stopped at a nearby red light when the call went out. His response time was a whopping 28 seconds.
The thugs were all connected via radio. The lookout guy transmitted, “We’ve been spotted! Let’s go! Let’s go!” and it was game on. The four robbers left the bank with $20,000 in cash. That would be about $76,000 in today’s money.
This was 1980, so street cops typically packed .38-caliber revolvers and 12-gauge pump shotguns. It’s tough to imagine nowadays, but police officers back then went to great lengths to avoid projecting an unduly militarized ambience. There was a very real and pervasive stigma against patrol officers carrying scary long guns or even autoloading pistols in many cases. This left Deputy Bolasky lyrically outgunned. The Bad Guys exited the bank shooting.
The Gunfight
By all accounts, Deputy Bolasky responded magnificently. The bank robbers immediately blew the windshield out of his cruiser. In response, Bolasky backed his cop car up as far as he was able and exited before taking up a firing position behind his scattergun. Once all five shooters were in their van, the driver, Belisario Delgado, took off. As they screamed away, Bolasky fired a charge of buckshot into the driver’s position. One of his pellets caught Delgado behind the left ear, killing him instantly. The out-of-control van then swerved into a telephone pole guy wire. The remaining four criminals poured out of the steaming hulk, guns a-blazing.
By now, the criminals were fairly desperate. They poured fire into Bolasky’s cruiser. Out of more than 200 rounds fired, they hit the car 47 times. Bolasky himself was struck in the left shoulder, both forearms, the left elbow, and the face.
Just at this moment, backup arrived in the form of Deputies Andy Delgado (no relation) and Charles Hille. Delgado opened up on the criminals, allowing Hille the opportunity to get Bolasky to safety. By now, the entire planet was activated. The surviving four bank robbers knew that they were running out of time.
The Getaway
While doing a pretty decent job of coordinated fire and maneuver, these four criminals commandeered a handy truck and beat a hasty retreat. One of the robbers opened fire on an orbiting police helicopter piloted by LT Jon Gibson. The aircraft was badly damaged, but Gibson was able to safely execute an emergency landing.
The criminals now had a brief head start as the responding officers tried to make sense of the chaos. As they fled the immediate area, they deployed either homemade pipe bombs or reactivated practice grenades to cover their escape. These improvised weapons were noisy but relatively ineffective.
A Brief Treatise on Pipe Bombs
It’s a fairly easy thing to obtain the makings of a pipe bomb in America, so long as you fuel it with gunpowder. Post-911, however, actual high explosives (HE) such as Kinepak, dynamite, det cord, and blasting caps are actually fairly tough to source. Gunpowder is a propellant, not an explosive. That makes a huge difference in the effectiveness of an IED (Improvised Explosive Device).
Actual HE explodes. C4 has a detonation velocity of 26,400 feet per second. This causes any steel casing in which this stuff is contained to shatter into zillions of high-velocity fragments.
By contrast, black powder burns at a rate of around 3,300 feet per second. If conflagrated within an enclosed steel pipe, such a container will burst rather than shatter. The resulting boom is impressive but not nearly as dangerous as the same contrivance using real-deal HE.
The Ambush
The criminals used their brief lead time to find a remote road and set an ambush. The first officer on-site, Deputy James Evans, rolled into the kill zone unawares. He dismounted his patrol car and returned fire. However, one of the criminals shot him in the head, killing him outright.
The next squad car contained two officers, also armed solely with a 12-gauge shotgun and a pair of .38s The Bad Guys immediately established fire superiority. However, the following cruiser contained San Bernardino County Deputy DJ McClarty. McClarty was packing an M-16 rifle, and he knew how to use it. Once he unlimbered his ArmaLite, the four murderers fled into the underbrush on foot.
The Hunt
As you might imagine, local Law Enforcement took a dim view of these four guys shooting up the countryside and killing one of their own. The following day, three of the four were tracked down and arrested without further drama. The fourth, Manuel Delgado, decided he’d sooner not go to jail. The LA County Sheriff’s SWAT team thought that was a great idea.
Sixty-five heavily armed SWAT officers surrounded Delgado’s position and gave him a chance to pack it in. When he refused to do so, they cut him down. Delgado was hit four times and succumbed on-site.
The Aftermath
The carnage among friendlies was prodigious. Glyn Bolaski recovered from his extensive wounds and went on to become an officer in the US Air Force. He retired as a Lieutenant Colonel after a career serving as an electronic warfare officer.
A further seven sheriff’s deputies were hit, but they all recovered. 12-year-old Robert Oglesby happened to be riding by on his bicycle and caught a round to the finger. He did fine.
In addition to the helicopter, thirty police vehicles were damaged by gunfire, as were numerous civilian homes, cars, and businesses. The three surviving thugs were convicted of 46 separate felonies and all sentenced to life without parole. They will never breathe free air again.
In the aftermath of the shootout, the San Bernardino Sheriff’s Department armed their deputies with Mini-14s, AR-15s, and M-16s. This trend eventually gained popularity nationwide.
Nowadays, most patrol officers maintain a black rifle in their squad car. Given the sordid nature of the threat, this is eminently wise. Despite the loss of one brave peace officer, the lessons learned from the 1980 Norco shootout ultimately improved officer training and tactics across the country.
Your most powerful weapon doesn’t need batteries and never runs out of ammunition. What are the secrets of the professionals when it comes to recognition and rapid assessment of a developing threat? Even more effective, how can you see it, hear it and sense it coming?
Our society is divided into two groups: those who don’t care about or are unaware of the possibility something bad can happen to them and are unprepared to handle it, versus those who are aware and prepared if something bad does happen. Learning how to use your most powerful weapon places you in the latter group and prepares you by increasing your knowledge and decreasing your vulnerability.
Protection professionals will tell you that your mind is your most effective weapon. Knowing what to look for, how to look for it and what to do if you see a threat is paramount. In most situations, you can remain proactive and take preventative measures against a potential threat.
A threat refers to any range of behaviors that can result in both physical and psychological harm to oneself in the environment. This type of environmental interaction centers on harming another person, either physically or mentally.
Threat Identification
The most immediate tool we have on board for threat identification is our situational awareness. Environmentally speaking, situational awareness is knowing what goes on around you. Whether at home, in your car or on foot, applying good situational awareness eliminates such potential threats as being taken by surprise or placing yourself behind the action-reaction power curve of an undesired event occurring around you. As such, it can be used to control your environment.
Protection experts use situational awareness as a deterrent. When a predator knows that you are on to them, the element of surprise has been eliminated. This awareness deflates their motivation.
Situational awareness also keeps you informed of what your environment is telling you and a step ahead of events that are emerging around you. It keeps you connected to your surroundings and prepared. When effectively applied, situational awareness can be used to take control of your environment, act as a deterrent and make you a harder target.
Threat Indicators
If you are not aware of something, then that something is invisible to you.
What goes unseen can sometimes be the one thing that causes the biggest problem. Being able to identify a threat by using your situational awareness is what affords you the most time and opportunity to control that threat and formulate an immediate response to your environment that could save lives. Once a threat has been identified, this information can then be used to determine your best course of action. How can you do this?
The key to preventing a potential threat from developing into an active threat is to first identify threat indicators. Such indicators are often your only visible clues or observable pre-attack behaviors that something bad is about to happen. Some examples of threat indicators include body posture, eye contact and an intercept course.
Body Posture
How people carry themselves can be an indicator of their intentions. To a trained observer, how and where a person positions their body may indicate a potential threat.
In typical non-threatening situations, most people carry themselves calmly and without tension. They are usually standing “squarely” in front of you with both feet even with their shoulders, commonly referred to as a neutral position.
If you find their feet in a bladed position — with one of their feet set back or braced and with the other in front — this affords the attacker a tactical advantage in preparation for a physical strike or rapid aggressive movement.
Eye Contact
Eye contact is one of the earliest detectable indicators of a potential or developing threat. Normal people make normal eye contact. They look you in the eye — but not too intently.
Someone who intends you harm may look intently at you or start sizing you up. Known as giving you the “hairy eyeball”, this will look and feel different than normal eye contact.
Intercept Course
Normal people walk about with self-determination and specific purpose. They generally tend to their own business and are focused on shopping, running errands, or their movement to and from their car.
Should their attention shift to you and your movements, such as what you are doing or where you may be going, then this is a pre-attack indicator that should not be ignored.
If you accelerate your pace and they match or exceed your pace, then these are red flags that may very well indicate an intercept course to initiate an attack.
Conclusion
Although, they may sometimes be subtle, threat indicators can provide enough information for you to orient yourself to your surroundings, spot a potential threat, make your tactical decision based on updated information and then act on that decision. Threat indicators should be considered red flags and treated as such.
Paris canceled the iconic New Year’s Eve concert on the Champs-Élysées due to security threats by migrants. They won’t say it’s because of migrants, and they will never address the problem. They are at the point of no return.
The Champs-Élysées has been Paris’s symbolic place for celebrations since the Liberation parade in 1944. This is the year it ends.
Now the French have to watch the fireworks on their televisions.
According to the Telegraph, one million people were expected to attend. The cancellation of the New Year’s Eve event comes after France bolstered security at Christmas markets over ‘a “very high” terror threat.
French Interior Minister Laurent Nunez ordered state officials to treat festive gatherings as high-risk targets and mobilize intelligence agencies accordingly.
Don’t think it hasn’t happened here. In four years, we had millions of people who came in unvetted and who wish us harm.
Some in law enforcement say we will face crimes and terror for generations to come because of what went on under the Democrats in the Biden administration.
The Spectator writes:
The New Year’s Eve concert on the Champs Élysées has been cancelled for security reasons. Paris was supposed to host its usual spectacle. A free open-air concert at the Arc de Triomphe, video projections on the monument and the midnight festivities that once drew close to a million people.
Instead, the concert has been scrapped. It will be replaced on national television with a prerecorded concert filmed weeks ago with a handpicked crowd to mimic a celebration Paris no longer believes it can safely host. A capital once famed for its public life now performs it under studio conditions.
It marks the collapse of what used to be one of the simplest pleasures of Parisian life. For decades, families and friends would spill out onto the streets on New Year’s Eve.
Families, couples carrying a bottle of champagne, tourists wrapped in scarves, all drifting towards the Champs Élysées to count down the final seconds of the year. It was spontaneous and cheerful, and open to everyone. That Paris no longer exists.
They brought in the monsters, and now they are a country of monsters. The French are conquered. They won’t even mention where the security threats are coming from when we all know it’s from migrants.