#ferguson rifle

[bantarleton]

A brilliant portrayal of British Captain Patrick Ferguson's experimental rifle corps, an ad hoc company raised in 1777 and equipped with Ferguson's famed breech-loading rifles.

[iphigeniarising]

[anachrosims]

[TS4CC] 18TH CENTURY MILITARY CAMPAIGN SET

Wow! Wowowow!! It's finally DONE!

This set was inspired by 18th century military campaign equipment. This set is really for storytelling, since pretty much all items (aside from the bed and surfaces) are decorative. I'd like to do more add-ons for this in the future, but for now I think we're good as-is.

Some items were converted from the Werewolves pack but are now BGC.

WHAT'S INCLUDED:

43 packages! Nearly all are new meshes! Everything is BGC unless otherwise noted.

Cutlasses - Laying, Wall Mounted, Leaning

Pistol, Laying/Leaning Rifle

Laying, Mounted Tricorn Hat, Dragoon Helmet

Soldier's Wall-Mounted Coat

6 Tents, Large & Small - Each size has open, half open, and closed variants

Short Boots, Tall Boots Laying & Upright

Field Cannon & Powder Keg

Trio of Bottles, Inkwell with Quill, Books with Wax Stamp, Knitting Box (Nifty Knitting Required), Pile of Journal Inkwell & Letters

Printed Posters & Broadsides, Hanging Military Maps, Desk Map with Compass

Large Steamer Trunk, Officer's Dressing Table (Cottage Living may be required), Soldier's Laundry Pile

Soldier's Single Bed, Campaign Chair with Cushion, 2x3 Floor Cloths

Deco Teapot, Knitted Blankets, Box of Matches, Soldier's Rations, Deco Fire Spit (fits OVER and works with most fire pits)

Functional Telescope

I'd also like to thank these people:

historicalsimslife for the pistol which you can get as an accessory here! @historicalsimslife

Viktor Violetta Enterprise for the Ferguson rifle accessory which you can get here! @viktorviolettaenterprises

Steve Henderson at Archive3D for the cannon model, which is here!

revolutionsims for the dragoon helmet hat & British tricorn, which you can get here & here! @revolution-sims

Also, some recommended CC-makers to make your 18th century experience a little more authentic outside the palaces:

@historicalsimslife / @300yearschallenge / @revolution-sims / @edorenelredirect / @simulatedstyles / @peebsplays / @simsfromthepast / @thejim07 / @strangestorytellersims / @historicalfictionsims / @linzlu / @javitrulovesims / @buzzardly28 / @sunlittides / @sifix / @llazyneiph (stays & wigs & mods) / @gilded-ghosts / @joliebean / @lilis-palace / @stereo-91 / @simverses / @bruxel-reign

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[whencyclopedia]

Battle of Kings Mountain

The Battle of Kings Mountain (7 October 1780) was a significant battle of the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783), fought in the backcountry of South Carolina between large parties of Patriot and Loyalist militias. The battle exemplified how the American Revolution could often take on the characteristics of civil war, as most participants on either side were Americans.

The Subjugation of the South

On 12 May 1780, the city of Charleston, South Carolina, fell to the British army after a grueling six-week siege. It was one of the greatest British triumphs of the war so far. Charleston was the largest and most important city in the American South, and its capture provided the British with an excellent base from which to invade the rest of the region. Sir Henry Clinton, commander-in-chief of the British army, did not believe that the subjugation of the South would be a difficult feat. It had long been rumored that the South was replete with Tories (or Loyalists) who felt oppressed by their new revolutionary governments and yearned for the return of royal authority. Clinton believed that the mere presence of British soldiers in the region would trigger a massive revolt of thousands of southern Tories, who would help the soldiers reconquer the South in the name of the king.

Once Charleston fell, Clinton immediately turned his attention to prodding South Carolina's Loyalist population into action. To achieve this, he appointed Major Patrick Ferguson as Inspector of Militia for the Southern Provinces, tasking him with the recruitment and organization of Tory militias. The Scottish-born Major Ferguson seemed to be an excellent candidate for such a task. A career soldier, Ferguson had entered the British army in his teens and had fought in the European theater of the Seven Years' War (1756-1763). He had patented a new kind of breechloading rifle that allowed for a higher rate of fire than the standard flintlock musket, even in wet weather; his British comrades, however, preferred the familiarity of their 'Brown Bess' muskets, and only 200 of Ferguson's Rifles were ever manufactured. Major Ferguson also had a sense of military honor. He claimed that during the Battle of Brandywine (11 September 1777), he had had an opportunity to shoot an American officer that he believed to be George Washington but had declined to do so, believing that it was dishonorable to target officers.

Ferguson was still only a major after his decades of military experience and was eager to prove himself worthy of his new command. Shortly after his appointment as Inspector of Militia on 22 May 1780, he rode to Tryon County, which was heavily populated by Loyalists, and spent the following months recruiting Tory militias. By August, he had raised around 4,000 Tory militiamen from across the South Carolina backcountry; while these numbers were impressive, they fell far short of the total number of Tories that Clinton had expected would rally to the British cause. But Ferguson made good use of what he had. During the summer of 1780, his Tories performed well in a series of skirmishes with Patriot militia that took place in the territory between the fortress of Ninety-Six and the North Carolina border. By the end of August, Ferguson had successfully driven most Patriot partisans from the northwestern part of South Carolina.

Ferguson's success against the Patriot militias was soon bolstered by an even more significant British victory. On 16 August 1780, the main British army under Lord Charles Cornwallis decisively defeated an American army at the Battle of Camden. The battle not only secured British control of South Carolina but also cleared a path for Cornwallis to launch an invasion of North Carolina (Cornwallis had taken over command from Clinton, who had returned to New York to keep an eye on Washington's army in the north). In early September, as Cornwallis prepared to march his army to Charlotte, North Carolina, he ordered Ferguson to enter the state first and begin recruiting and organizing militias of North Carolina Tories. Ferguson was then expected to defend the left flank of Cornwallis' army as it commenced its invasion. The Scottish major quickly rode into North Carolina to fulfill this new mission, eager to help play a role in Britain's subjugation of the South.

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[noodlegirl-draws]

"The earliest bullpup firearm known is a heavy bench-rest target rifle made circa 1860 for a Professor Richard Potter by Riviere of London. It weighs more than 6 kg (13 lb 4 oz) and features an octagonal barrel of approximately 20 bore (0.60 in) in calibre, with two-groove Brunswick rifling. It is held in the collection of the British National Rifle Association. [11]" bullpup wikipedia article. with the cited source being Ferguson, Jonathan (2020). Thorneycroft to SA80: British Bullpup Firearms, 1901–2020. Nashville, Tennessee: Headstamp Publishing. pp. 48–49. ISBN9781733424622.

Anon gave a whole MLA citiation, damn

Anyways Richard Potters is my enemy for life

[holmesillustrations]

Vote for your favourite, the top 9 will proceed in the bracket. Since theyre all different shapes and sizes, make sure to click into the full views!

Paget Eliminations / Other Artist Eliminations

Full captions and details for each illustration below the cut:

"He was crouching over a fire, and the room was like an oven." W.H. Hyde, Crooked Man (Harper’s Weekly) Characters: Henry Wood

"A mass of documents, which we went over together." FD Steele, Norwood Builder (Collier’s) Characters: John Hector McFarlane, Jonas Oldacre

"Daulat Ras." FD Steele, Three Students (Collier’s) Characters: Daulat Ras

[no caption, and i cant figure out what scene this is meant to be] FD Steele, Wisteria Lodge (Collier’s) Characters: ???

"He sprang forward with clenched hands towards my companion." Gilbert Holiday, Devil's Foot (The Strand) Characters: Holmes, Leon Sterndale

"The inspector was staring with a look of absolute amazement at a paper upon the table. It was the sheet upom which i had scrawled the enigmatic message." Frank Wiles, Valley of Fear (The Strand) Characters: Watson, Insp. MacDonald, Holmes

"Then, with a sudden shivering of glass, a bristle of glistening rifle-barrels broke through each window, whilst the curtains were torn from their hangings." Frank Wiles, Valley of Fear (The Strand) Characters: Scowrers, Douglas/McMurdo

"It took some violence to do that," said Holmes, gazing at the chip on the ledge. With his cane he struck." Alfred Gilbert, Thor Bridge (The Strand) Characters: Sgt Coventry, Watson, Holmes

"Holmes, with that quick curiosity which sprang from his eager mind, examined the collection of South American utensils. When he turned away his eyes were full of thoughts." WT Benda, Sussex Vampire (Hearst’s International) Characters: Robert Ferguson, Holmes

"His air of romance and mystery put the whole sex at his mercy." JR Flanagan, Illustrious Client (Collier’s) Characters: Baron Gruner

"Holmes flung open the door and dragged in a gaunt woman, whom he had seized by the shoulder." FD Steele, Three Gables (Liberty) Characters: Susan Stockdale, Holmes

"He tore up one of his wife's photographs in my presence. 'I never wish to see her damned face again!' he shrieked." FD Steele, Retired Colourman (Liberty) Characters: Josiah Amberley, Watson

[kilowogcore]

It Ain't About Gun Control

So let's talk guns an' the US Supreme Court, poozers!

On paper, the Supreme Court is a decent idea. Cuz the justices are appointed fer life, they don't gotta campaign, which oughta incentivize them to care only about justice. Cuz they're appointed by Congress, though, they're still tied to a democratic institution. Best of both worlds, right?

This week, the SCOTUS (Supreme Court of the United States fer ya' poozers that ain't political wonks) struck down the ban on bump stocks fer rifles. Now I ain't gonna talk about whether bump stocks should be banned, cuz the news is doin' that ad nauseam already, an' it entirely misses the point.

The point is there ain't no constitutional reason for it. They didn't argue about the Second Amendment. Essentially, they struck down the law just cuz they didn't like it.

That ain't what the SCOTUS is s'posed ta' do. The SCOTUS is s'posed ta' be a check on the power a' Congress an' the President, not a power unto itself. Justices are unelected an' serve life terms, so if they take legislative power unto themselves, democracy goes right out the window.

It's temptin' ta' think this is some kinda new low, an' I do think we oughta be worried, especially with Alito havin' come out an' flat-out said he's a political operative who don't think compromise with liberals is possible. The SCOTUS is key ta' fascist plans to destroy what shreds a' democracy we've got left in this country.

But make no mistake, the SCOTUS has been abusin' its authority fer over 150 years.

Ya' probably know about the infamous Dred Scott decision of 1857, but among leftists, this decision's often part a' the larger narrative about how the US wuz built on slavery. That's true, but I wanna zoom in an' point out that the Dred Scott decision was a clear case a' the court ignorin' existin' law, the constitution, an' the Founding Fathers (racist as they were), an' overturnin' a law just cuz they didn't like it. The two dissenters, Curtis an' McLean, both pointed this out.

There weren't no precedent anywhere ta' strip citizenship based on race. In fact, there wuz the opposite, as black people had been citizens in at least five a' the original states.

There's also a rule in the Supreme Court ta' make rulings as narrow as possible. The majority decided they had no jurisdiction, an' by the Court's rules, the decision shoulda ended there. Instead, the Court violated its rules and issued a sweepin' judgment strippin' citizenship an' the protection a law.

Ya' see this in almost all the Supreme Court's worst decisions. Plessy v Ferguson ignored the 14th amendment, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. pointed out that Lochner v New York was based on economic ideology and not legal principle, Buck v. Bell ignored the 14th amendment, the three dissenting justices in Korematsu v United States tore apart any legal basis for that horrific decision, and toward the modern era Bush v Gore and Citizens United v FEC both showed that the Court would ignore the law ta' push a political agenda.

I ain't defendin' the US Constitution. I'm sayin' that even the flawed checks 'n balances of the constitution are ignored by the Supreme Court, an' have been since the beginnin'.

This is yet another reason why we can't fix nothin' within the system. The SCOTUS won't let victories stand. So organize locally, outside the system, an' we can fix things!

[mademoiselle-red]

Paperwork

“Who the hell is running that place?”

Halliburton muttered to herself, shaking her head and rubbing her eyes in tired irritation as she watched her patient limp slowly down the hallway. Had Fairfax not suggested physical therapy to Ferguson when he made his visit to the EMS with the teaching group, the poor man would have lost all mobility in that leg of his, given the way they were prescribing APC like candy instead of actually treating him. And to think that had Ferguson not referred him to her —already weeks too late, the imbeciles — they’d have just discharged a good young man like that, with untreated muscular pain and a boot that doesn’t even fit! And now it was her responsibility to patch up the mess they’ve made of him. That’s the army for you.

She liked how he was with the dogs. And he did need better care: with more intensive physical therapy and a new boot, she reckoned he could recover a decent amount of mobility in that leg, and live an almost normal life. The gears of decision, churning in her head since she bent down on the floor and examined that atrocious boot of his, fell into place.

More paperwork for me, she thought with resignation, opening the patient’s file and sifting through her drawer for the transfer forms.

This was how Mr. Deacon found her when he poked his head into her half-open office door and knocked on it politely: head bent, brows furrowed, rifling through her paperwork to find the forms she’d only seen this morning but of course eluded discovery right when she needed them. And so she couldn’t quite believe her luck when he said that the patient —Odell —was a friend of his, and wondered whether he could be transferred over.

Of course she could arrange the transfer, if Mr. Deacon found and pre-filled the paperwork. ���Just bring it to my desk when it’s ready for me to sign.”

[loving-n0t-heyting]

The paucity of historical support for the Court's position becomes far more profound when one examines it against the background of two developments in the more recent history of criminal procedure. First, until the middle of the 19th century, the defendant in a criminal proceeding in this country was almost always disqualified *851 from testifying as a witness because of his "interest" in the outcome. See generally Ferguson v. Georgia, 365 U. S. 570 (1961). Thus, the ability to defend "in person" was frequently the defendant's only chance to present his side of the case to the judge or jury. See, e. g., Wilson v. State, 50 Tenn. 232 (1871). Such Draconian rules of evidence, of course, are now a relic of the past because virtually every State has passed a statute abrogating the common-law rule of disqualification. See Ferguson v. Georgia, 365 U. S., at 575-577, 596. With the abolition of the common-law disqualification, the right to appear "in person" as well as by counsel lost most, if not all, of its original importance.

An even more remarkable passage from the blackmun dissent in faretta. The need to allow a defendant to appear in court is mostly an antiquated relic bc the defendant can choose to waive their rights against self incrimination. Amazing! Perhaps the defendants right to present exhibits of evidence in their defence at trial should also be regarded as outmoded, given that they could have ignored their 4th amendment rights and allowed the cops to rifle thru their shit to sort out what happened

[fantastictyphoonpeanut]

British Ferguson breach loading rifle. First breach loader introduced into military service. If adopted more widely it would have been a game-changer. But at double the cost of a 'Brown-Bess' musket and expensive powder it was down to cost and the 100 rifles issued were returned to store.

Isaac de la Chaumette invented this form of breech-loading action in 1700 and patented it in England 1721. Helped by M. Bidet a French Huguenot living in the England. The design was improved by him in adopting a quick thread that allowed the plug to be withdrawn by a single turn of the trigger-guard, as also did John Warsop and Captain Patrick Ferguson was granted Patent No. 1139 for his improved version in 1776.  Breech loading firearms are nothing new one of the earliest examples of a screw thread in Britain dates back to 1667 by Jonabed Holloway. (FTP)

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

Internal Secret Service emails obtained by CREW show special agents in close communication with Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes, while failing to acknowledge the group’s ties to white nationalists and clashes with law enforcement.

In September 2020, a Secret Service agent sent an email to others within the agency, informing them that he had just spoken to Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes about an upcoming visit by then-President Trump to Fayetteville, NC. The agent, who referred to himself as “the unofficial liaison to the Oath Keepers (inching towards official),” described the group as “primarily retired law enforcement/former military members who are very pro-LEO [law enforcement officer] and Pro Trump. Their stated purpose is to provide protection and medical attention to Trump supporters if they come under attack by leftist groups.” He went on to say that Rhodes, “had specific questions and wanted to liaison [sic] with our personnel” and shared Rhodes’s cell phone number.

The emails obtained by CREW as part of an ongoing public records request offer only a snapshot of the communication between the Oath Keepers and the Secret Service. As they focus solely on the time period around the Fayetteville event, the extent of the contact Stewart Rhodes had with the agency remains unknown. The agent “inching towards” being the “official” liaison for Oath Keepers suggests a more longstanding relationship with Rhodes.

Another Secret Service agent spoke to Rhodes and informed the other agents that “their desire is to assist those attending the event make it to and from their cars safely. They are NOT there to demonstrate or push a political agenda.” In October 2022, a former member of the Oath Keepers testified that Rhodes had spoken to the Secret Service to coordinate around the rally, but an agency spokesman told CNN that, “The US Secret Service doesn’t have enough information to say whether or not this call actually took place.” These emails show that it did.

When one agent requested intelligence about the Oath Keepers another responded: “General searches revealed news articles that touched on the background of the founder Stewart Rhodes and the group. Rhodes has denounced White Nationalists ideals while sharing his dislike for ANTIFA…The group claims it is a local community response team for natural or civil disorders.” Agents also noted that a Facebook account associated with the group “contained pro-gun content, commentary on racism in the US, and news articles about politics,” but failed to find anything else.

There was plenty of other publicly available information about Rhodes and the Oath Keepers at the time that should have easily raised alarm.

In 2014, Oath Keepers traveled to Ferguson, Missouri with assault rifles claiming they were providing security for businesses in the area after the grand jury decision not to indict the white police officer who killed Michael Brown. The St. Louis County Police Department had to demand that the Oath Keepers stop patrolling the city, explaining in a statement that members were walking on rooftops of businesses holding semi-automatic rifles, breaking the county’s ordinance regulating security officers and guards. The police reportedly threatened arrest, and the Oath Keepers began protesting the authorities.

On the one-year anniversary of Michael Brown’s shooting, Oath Keepers again arrived in Ferguson with assault rifles and flak jackets, apparently intending to “protect” businesses and right-wing journalists, including an employee from InfoWars. St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar called their presence “both unnecessary and inflammatory.” This was also covered extensively by national media.

The group has also compared Hillary Clinton to Hitler on its website, and on May 5, 2015, Rhodes was recorded saying that then-Sen. John McCain should be tried for treason, convicted and “hung by the neck until dead.” A long list of former Oath Keepers allegedly cut ties with the group by 2017, citing concerns with Rhodes’s leadership.

Rhodes’s conduct outside of the Oath Keepers had also repeatedly come into question. In October 2015, the Montana Supreme Court’s Office of Disciplinary Counsel recommended that Rhodes be disbarred for violating his attorney oath following a number of ethics and conduct complaints against him, joining Arizona, which admonished Rhodes in 2012 for practicing without a license.

While the nearly all-white Oath Keepers themselves are purportedly not a white nationalist organization, and Rhodes may have “denounced” white nationalist ideals, Oath Keepers have repeatedly worked alongside white supremacist and white nationalist groups. In 2016, as neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups such as the National Socialist Movement, factions of the Ku Klux Klan and the American Freedom Party deployed members at polling sites, the Oath Keepers advised its members to do the same undercover. The Washington Post reported in 2017 that white supremacists in the alt-right scene “seem to have a lot in common with the Oath Keepers,” but that the Oath Keepers were not as racist or radical as certain far-right white nationalists would “prefer.” The Oath Keepers have repeatedly been highlighted in national articles as part of the landscape of white supremacist militias, and are often tied to their public ally the Proud Boys, a group that has been categorized as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. The Proud Boys similarly are allied with the American Guard, a white nationalist group according to SPLC.

Rhodes is now best known for his role in organizing significant turnout of insurrectionists at the Capitol on January 6, 2021, just a few months after he was in contact with the Secret Service. Rhodes and other Oath Keepers planned to participate in violence at the Capitol—against Secret Service protectees, no less—and he gave followers instructions like “stay fully armed” and “get ready to fight” leading up to the attack.

In November 2022, Rhodes was convicted of seditious conspiracy by a jury for his role in the attempt to keep Donald Trump in power, and was sentenced to 18 years in prison in May—the longest of any convicted January 6th defendant so far. U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta found that Rhodes’s role in January 6th amounted to terrorism and said that he presents “an ongoing threat and peril to this country.”

[beardedmrbean]

A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that a state law requiring Marylanders to obtain a handgun qualification license before purchasing or receiving a firearm is unconstitutional.

“This is a significant ruling for the Second Amendment and every American who cherishes our constitutional freedoms,” said Randy Kozuch, the executive director of the National Rifle Association Institute for Legislative Action, in a statement.

In a split 2-1 decision, a three-judge panel of the U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals found a portion of the state’s Firearm Safety Act of 2013 to be unconstitutional. That part of the law prohibits Marylanders from purchasing, renting or receiving a handgun unless they have received a valid handgun qualification license.

It is also illegal to sell, rent, gift or transfer a firearm to a person without a license under that law.

To receive a handgun qualification license, applicants must be Maryland residents aged 21 or older. They are required to pass a firearm safety course and undergo a background check to ensure they aren’t prohibited from owning a gun under state or federal law. The licenses are issued by the Maryland State Police. The application review process can take up to 30 days.

The case, brought on behalf of the firearms rights organization Maryland Shall Issue, two individual plaintiffs and a gun store, was filed initially against former Gov. Larry Hogan, a Republican. Hogan met his term limit earlier this year and was replaced by Democratic Gov. Wes Moore, who is now considered the defendant in the case.

Moore said he is “disappointed” by Tuesday’s decision.

“This law is not about stripping away rights from responsible gun owners — it’s about every Marylander having the right to live free from fear,” the governor said. “I am determined to do more than just give thoughts and prayers and attend funerals — and that’s why this law is vital to our administration’s commitment to keeping guns out of the wrong hands and saving lives.”

Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott, a Democrat, said he is “incredibly frustrated,” and that Tuesday’s ruling “threatens the safety of our communities.”

State Senate President Bill Ferguson, a Baltimore Democrat, called the ruling “crazy.”

���Every responsible gun owner supports basic firearm training and keeping guns out of criminals’ hands,” Ferguson said. “This decision will unequivocally lead to more gun violence and firearm-related deaths.”

The law was upheld when it was initially challenged in 2016.

Tuesday’s opinion, written by U.S. Circuit Judge Julius Richardson, reversed that ruling. Richardson, an appointee of former President Donald Trump who clerked for former Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist, cited the U.S. Supreme Court decision in the New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen, which overturned New York state’s gun licensing policy and disrupted the licensing process in Maryland, California, Hawaii, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Rhode Island.

The state has two weeks to ask for a review of the decision by the entire 14-judge 4th Circuit. It also may ask the Supreme Court to review the decision.

The New York law that the Supreme Court deemed unconstitutional in 2022 required people applying for permits to carry guns in public to demonstrate “proper cause” to successfully receive a concealed carry permit.

In his opinion, Richardson wrote that the Bruen decision “effected a sea change in Second Amendment law” and that, in order for the law to be constitutional, the state must demonstrate that the challenged law is similar enough to “a historically recognized exception to the right to keep and bear arms.”

U.S. Sen. Chris Van Hollen, a Maryland Democrat, said that the ruling is “yet another disastrous consequence of the absurd new Supreme Court standard that today’s gun laws need to match those from centuries ago.”

In a statement issued after the release of the opinion, William Taylor, the deputy director of Second Amendment litigation at Everytown Law, a group that advocates for gun safety, said that the now-stricken licensing process is “not only common sense, it is entirely consistent with the Second Amendment and the new test established by the Bruen decision.”

“While today’s decision is a setback to public safety, we fully expect that the full 4th Circuit, or if necessary, the Supreme Court, will reverse this dangerous decision and uphold Maryland’s critical gun safety law,” he said.

The three-judge panel ruled Tuesday that the state’s argument for upholding the law did not meet the Bruen case’s historical standard.

“The 4th Circuit Court’s decision to overturn Maryland’s restrictive gun license law sends a clear message: Law-abiding Marylanders’ fundamental right to self-defense must not be infringed,” Kozuch said.

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"CHARGES GIRL SLEW FATHER," The Province (Vancouver). June 21, 1934. Page 4. --- Man On Trial for Murder Says She Fired Shot After He Wounded Him. ==== "LET ME FINISH HIM" ---- PEACE RIVER, Alta., June 21. - (CP) - John Ferguson, charged with the slaying of Louis Jobin, Big Prairie farmer, testified he did not kill the man, but that it was Jobin's daughter, Marcella, who calmly aimed a rifle at her father's back, turned her head, and pulled the trigger.

Ferguson admitted he planned to kill "either the old lady or the old man" because they would not give their daughter, Marcella, consent to marry him. He declared a rifle he was carrying fell and discharged, the bullet entering Jobin's chin.

Then, Ferguson said, he went into the Jobin home and called Marcella out. She asked, according to his story. "Why didn't you finish him?" The father, lying wounded, heard the remarks and turned toward them. Then announced continued. "No, let me finish him." grasped the rifle, loaded it and walked toward her father.

When three feet away, he declared, the girl stopped, aimed at him from the front, then walked around to his back, aimed the weapon, turned her head and fired.

Three other witnesses testified during the day that Marcella told them she had fired the second shot.

It was the second shot, according to medical evidence, which caused the man's death. The case is continuing.

[thelenazavaroniarchive]

24th March 2024.

𝐒𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝟐𝟒𝐭𝐡 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝟏𝟗𝟕𝟒. Lena slipped down to No 17 on the Radios 1 & 2 Top Twenty show. She appears at about 9 mins 40 secs in.

𝐓𝐡𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝟐𝟒𝐭𝐡 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝟏𝟗𝟕𝟕. The Harborough Mail gave Air Love a good review.

𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝟐𝟒𝐭𝐡 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝟏𝟗𝟕𝟖. The Fulham Chronicle had a cartoon of Lena & Bonnie on it's television page.

𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝟐𝟒𝐭𝐡 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝟏𝟗𝟕𝟖. Most newspapers listed Lena & Bonnie on their television pages. Southern newspapers also listed Our Show on Saturday where they were guests. Luckily for the north we hat TISWAS rather than Our Show.

𝐒𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝟐𝟒𝐭𝐡 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝟏𝟗𝟖𝟓. The Sunday Mirror reported that Lena would be doing a summer season in Blackpool with Cannon & Ball, and also that she would be on TV the following Sunday, ( A Royal Night Of 100 Stars).

𝐓𝐡𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝟐𝟒𝐭𝐡 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟏.The Campaign For Truth published Death in a white coat. In the section called ‘It continues today’ there is a paragraph about Lena.

Death in a White Coat

Published by The Campaign For Truth, 24th March 2011.

The quackery of psychiatry has been the target of many human rights groups over the years. Here, The Mind Game author Phillip Day highlights how psychiatry has devastated not just ordinary lives, but finished the careers of some of our best loved stars.

Psychiatry’s unproven philosophies and treatments have wrought far-reaching effects, not just in the lives of ordinary citizens, but in the high-profile world of pop-culture, mass entertainment and the media. It is perhaps in Hollywood more than anywhere else where we can get a picture of the devastation psychiatry has wrought on the gullible - Heath Ledger’s death just another in a long line of tragic, real-life scripts.

During the first half of the 20th century, Hollywood and the arts industry became seduced with the new 'mental health’ ethos pushed by Freud and others. By the 1960s, language itself became peppered with 'getting my head together’, 'doing my head in’, 'love and peace, dude’, 'freaking out’, 'far out, man’ and 'chill’. Even by 1940, the psychiatrist’s many portrayals in movies had elevated the 'shrink’ to a god-like status in the eyes of the public. Always the pipe-smoking benevolent 'father’, bestowing wisdom and chemicals into the ears and mouths of his 'children’, the psychiatrist was in his element. The Hollywood strategy was wildly successful. US National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants for psychiatric research alone in America rocketed from under $10 million in 1957 to around $50 million by 1963 - an increase of 580% in just six years. Between 1963 and 1995, the funding exploded almost 900% from $60 million to just under $1 billion.

Lifestyles of the rich and famous

Many stars have owned up to needing drugs to get by. Singer Del Shannon (Charles Westover) thought the Prozac prescribed to him by his psychiatrist would “…help me over the hump I’m in.” His wife Leanne “…watched him turn into somebody who was agitated, pacing, had trembling hands, insomnia and couldn’t function.” On 8th February 1990, after taking Prozac for just 15 days, Charles Westover shot himself in the head with a .22 calibre rifle.

Princess Diana and Sarah Ferguson both admitted using the 'liquid sunshine’ drug, Prozac, Diana becoming the subject of huge media speculation over her drug use. Royal author Andrew Morton’s controversial book, Diana: Her New Life, detailed her catastrophic mood-swings and alleged suicide attempt on board a royal flight, where she had attempted to slash her arms, smearing blood over the walls and seats before being restrained.

Lady Brocket, Libby Purves, Al Pacino, Roseanne Barr and Mariella Frostrup are among many who have been some-time users of Prozac. INXS pop-frontman Michael Hutchence died in November 1997 in an apparent hanging suicide. His song-writing partner, Andrew Farriss, attributed the death to Prozac and alcohol. The actor and comedian Chris Farley died aged 33 after a four-day alcohol and drug binge. Prozac was present in his blood. Don Simpson, co-producer of Hollywood blockbusters such as Beverly Hills Cop, Top Gun and Crimson Tide, died in 1996 aged 52. Police searching Simpson’s Bel Air estate in Los Angeles discovered thousands of tablets and pills lined up neatly in alphabetical order in his bedroom closet. They later discovered that Simpson had obtained over 15,000 psychiatric amphetamines, tranquillisers and sedatives from 15 doctors and 8 pharmacies.

Have you noticed how, in the movies, the psychiatrist always wins against the 'disease’? The reality, however, especially for the rich and famous seduced by the psychiatrist’s pharmacopoeia, is often tragically different.

Marilyn Monroe: A young Norma Jean, caught up in the web of drugs and film industry pressures, turned to psychiatry to alleviate her problems. One of Marilyn’s psychiatrists was Dr Marianne Kris, who received Monroe five days a week for therapy. After a particularly nasty session, Kris committed Marilyn Monroe to a mental institution where she was locked in a padded cell for two days. Monroe pounded the door hysterically until her hands bled. After her release,

she fired Kris.

Dr Ralph Greenson was Monroe’s psychiatrist in the final years. Still ensuring the actress remained on her barbiturates, on 4th August 1962, after a six-hour therapy session with Greenson, Marilyn Monroe was found by her housekeeper Eunice Murray, naked and sprawled across her silk sheets. Death had been delivered from Greenson’s barbiturate bottle on her nightstand at the age of 36.

Vivien Leigh: Hollywood actress Vivienne Leigh’s hysterical outbursts were well known in the industry. After filming of Elephant Walk in Ceylon was constantly interrupted by Leigh’s frequent losses of control, wanderings in the night and hallucinations, now widely believed to be caused by a combination of her TB medication and heavy drinking, her husband, film legend Laurence Olivier, became concerned for her mental well-being and repeatedly pleaded with the actress to 'seek help’.

Vivien was persuaded to be flown to England for 'treatment’ at the Netheren psychiatric hospital. Her treatments included being packed in ice, a diet of raw eggs and repeated electroshocks. While being treated on location as an outpatient in Warsaw, she performed with a splitting headache. Burn marks from the electroshock were visible on her head.

Olivier finally divorced her in despair in 1960. Even though it was widely recognised that physical illnesses often produce psychiatric-like symptoms, Vivien Leigh’s long-running tuberculosis was relegated in favour of her psychiatrists continuing to diagnose the Hollywood star with various mental disorders. On 7th July 1967, after her TB had spread untreated to both lungs, Leigh was found lying dead on the floor. Choking on her own liquid, she had drowned.

Ernest Hemingway: Believed to be another 'mentally tortured’ genius, Pulitzer and Nobel Prize-winning author Ernest Hemingway was given over 20 electroshocks by his psychiatrists to cure him of his 'mental illness’. In July 1961, just two days after leaving the famous Mayo psychiatric clinic, Papa Hemingway put a shotgun barrel to his head and pulled the trigger.

Frances Farmer: Hollywood starlet Frances Farmer was typical of many rebellious stars of her era who lived life in the fast lane. After starring in the prophetically named No Escape in 1943, she was involved in a drunken brawl and arrested. Frances was placed into the custody of psychiatrist Thomas H Leonard, who diagnosed her as “suffering from manic-depressive psychosis - probably the forerunner of a definite dementia praecox” - a diagnosis later described by doctors as 'pure gibberish’.

Farmer was transferred to the screen actor’s sanitarium at La Crescenta, California, where she was given at least 90 insulin shocks, finally escaping from the institution in terror. Her mother later signed a complaint against her and she was re-committed into custodial care in March 1944. At West Washington State hospital in Steilacoom, her psychiatrists gave her repeated ice baths and electroshock sessions in an effort to break her will. Mental health watchdog The Citizen’s Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) reports:

“Conditions [in Steilacoom] were barbaric. Both criminals and the mentally retarded were crowded together, their meals thrown on the floor to be fought over. Farmer was subjected to regular and continuous electroshock. In addition, she was prostituted to soldiers from the local military base and raped and abused by the orderlies. One of the most vivid recollections of some veterans of the institution would be the sight of Frances Farmer being held down by the orderlies and raped by drunken gangs of soldiers. She was also used as an experimental subject for drugs such as Thorazine, Stelazine, Mellaril and Proxilin.”

Frances Farmer died at the age of 57, broken, tortured and destitute. The movie Frances was made of her life in 1982, starring another leading Hollywood actress, Jessica Lange.

It continues today….

How have things changed since Frances’ time? Lena Zavaroni, the famous British child star, had been struggling with anorexia for 22 years. In September 1999, after years of psychotherapy,

anti-depressants and electroshock treatment had failed, she was admitted to the University Hospital of Wales at Cardiff for a lobotomy. In spite of warnings that the discredited operation could destroy her intellect, erase parts of her memory and change her character, she gave her consent for the operation. She died of a chest infection two weeks later, weighing just 49 lbs.

Almost all of the street-drugs with which society is cursed today had their origins in the psychiatric cabinet. Indeed psychiatry, as I show in The Mind Game, justifiably stands accused of starting the modern drug culture. Jimmy Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Elvis Presley, Keith Moon and Brian Jones were all heavily under the influence of street drugs, formerly psychiatric medications. Nirvana frontman, Kurt Cobain, originally diagnosed as a Ritalin kid and put on drugs, later committed suicide in his attic after being discharged from a mental health clinic.

Actor Robert Walker, Peter Green of Fleetwood Mac… the list goes on. Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys was bedridden for four years because of 'voices in my head’ after taking undiluted LSD, formerly an experimental medication before it was discovered to bring on 'psychiatric-induced insanity’. Over the years, Brian Wilson employed over 40 psychiatrists to rid him of his demons.

The Mind Game Mission

My award-winning book The Mind Game is an important part of the overall health puzzle. In it, I trace the origins of psychiatry - this 'science of the mind’ - and uncover the unsettling history of the Trojan Horse wheeled into our midst. Part 1 of the book deals with the unbelievable development of psychiatry itself, from its barbaric beginnings in medieval times, through Wundt, Pavlov and Freud, to CIA mind control programs and the effects today’s manipulative information age is having on everyone. Part 2 examines the major 'mental disorders’ from their true and vital standpoint. And it is here that the good news about the mental predicament is truly seen.

No-one denies that behavioural problems exist though the root causes are always disputed. When it comes to depression, ADD and other 'mental diseases’, however, is the reality more straightforward and, most importantly, manageable? How can we manage disturbed brain function without the use of drugs? Can clear-headedness and sanity be achieved without psychiatry?

RESOURCES

The Mind Game by Phillip Day

Psychiatry - an Industry of Death, DVD documentary.

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The Case of the California Judge

By Juan Cruz, California State University Dominguez Hills Class of 2024

August 15, 2023

It’s common to hear criminal cases of murder that involve spouses, friends, coworkers, and groups of people. It’s rare, however, to hear a criminal case of murder that involves a sitting judge and his spouse. This is the case in Orange County, California as OC Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Ferguson is alleged to have killed his wife on August 3, 2023, in their residence. The 65-year-old woman was found with a gunshot wound that day and was pronounced deceased at the residence when officers responded to the shooting that day after 8 p.m. 1

The incident was alleged to have been related to a argument that occurred at a restaurant on August 3rd and continued onwards into their home in Anaheim. Judge Ferguson was alleged to have pointed his fingers towards his wife mimicking shooting at her. The victim told Ferguson when they got home and iterated to him, “why don’t you point a real gun at me?”, to which Ferguson shot at her chest with a pistol from his ankle holster. The son of both parents went on to call 911 and state that his father (Judge Ferguson) was drinking excessively and shot his mother. That same time, Judge Ferguson also called 911 but feint answering questions to the operator if he had shot his wife and requested an ambulance. He texted his court bailiff and clerk that, “I just lost it. I just shot my wife. I won’t be in tomorrow. I will be in custody. I’m so sorry.” 2 When officer arrived to the scene, they noticed that Ferguson smelled of alcohol and still had his ankle holster on him. The prosecutors alleged that on police body cameras that Ferguson was cussing and slurring his speech and saying statements such as “What the f—k did I … Well, I guess I’m done for a while” and “My son … My son… F—k me. What an a–hole I am, Jesus Christ” 3 Prosecutors in the case also state that when law enforcement searched the home, they found about 47 weapons, which included the murder weapon, and about 26,000 rounds of ammunition. All but one weapon were legally owned with the one in question being a rifle that was unaccounted for. 4 The judge spend one night in jail and was released on a $1 million bail with conditions stating that he must stay within Orange, Riverside and Los Angeles counties pending his trial along with wearing a GPS ankle monitor.

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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jeffrey-ferguson-arrested-anaheim-judge-sheryl-ferguson/

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/11/us/california-judge-wife-murder.html

https://nypost.com/2023/08/14/california-judge-said-he-shot-his-wife-in-chilling-texts-court-docs/amp/

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/11/us/california-judge-wife-murder.html