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Remove Gov. Kenneth E. Mapp of the US Virgin Islands from office for attempting to disarm citizens during Hurricane Irma

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I'll leave it to the residents who actually reside there to sign this petition or not.


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Did you happen to read the order and its references?

My understanding is, though poorly worded, the national guard there was being authorised to bypass typical government red tape to PURCHASE weapons, ammo, etc from businesses. They were given authorization to seize privately owned assets.







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The total population of the VI is only a couple of thousand over 100k. The petition requires 100k signatures.
 
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Originally posted by LS1 GTO:
Did you happen to read the order and its references?

My understanding is, though poorly worded, the national guard there was being authorised to bypass typical government red tape to PURCHASE weapons, ammo, etc from businesses. They were given authorization to seize privately owned assets.


This^^^ We can unwad our panties.


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Posts: 20303 | Location: L.A. - Lower Alabama | Registered: April 06, 2008Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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the gov was on Tucker the other evening clarifying the position

he categorically stated they are not after private firearms or ammo - what they wanted to be able to do was IF they needed to, walk into a sporting goods store and buy guns and ammo for the guard and write a check on the spot without having to go through a procurement process

according to the gov, there was nothing in the order about seizure of any privately owned firearms or ammo - his explanation was pretty convoluted and even Tucker seemed moderately unsatisfied

we shall see



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according to the gov, there was nothing in the order about seizure of any privately owned firearms or ammo - his explanation was pretty convoluted and even Tucker seemed moderately unsatisfied


Tucker may have known about this.

Having read that, I'd be somewhat skeptical of anything he said as well given what was actually in writing.
 
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Posts: 53086 | Location: Tucson Arizona | Registered: January 16, 2002Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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They were given authorization to seize privately owned assets.


So, they buy the weapons from business and STEAL them from private owners!

Sounds like an "anti" with way too much power to me.

Such assholes will use any excuse to advance their commie agenda.

Having said that, is the governor elected there?

If so, it seems that the only way to deal with him is to vote his ass out of office. Maybe they have a recall tool. Kind of reminds me of some of that shit in Australia.


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Posts: 25640 | Location: Virginia | Registered: December 16, 2001Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Seems that the Governor shouldn't be the only to resign or be prosecuted:

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U.S. Virgin Islands spent money intended to help after hurricanes


(Reuters) - The U.S. Virgin Islands for years redirected money intended to help pay insurance claims after large disasters for other needs, raising the vulnerability of residents as Hurricane Irma ravishes the territory.

During years of yawning budget deficits, the U.S. protectorate tapped the V.I. Insurance Guaranty Fund to pay for other public services, according to government financial records reviewed by Reuters. Since 2007, nearly $200 million was transferred from the fund, including $45 million in fiscal 2011.

Insurance guaranty funds, present in every state and some territories, pay outstanding claims to residents and property owners if an insurance company becomes insolvent.

The island chain of St. Thomas, St. Croix, and St. John relied on its insurance guaranty fund to pay claims after Hurricanes Hugo in 1989 and Marilyn in 1995, according to a 2007 government news release.

In 2012, government leaders reduced the minimum balance of its insurance guaranty fund to $10 million from $50 million. The fund earns about $16 million annually in revenue.

Territory officials could not be reached for comment on Wednesday. In response to questions from Reuters about the fund in late July, government officials responded that it had “borrowed money from time to time, but this has not been an issue.”

Hurricane Irma, a category 5 hurricane that the U.S. National Hurricane Center has called “the strongest hurricane in the Atlantic (Ocean) outside the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico in NHC records,” struck the Virgin Islands on Wednesday.

President Donald Trump declared on Monday a state of emergency in the U.S. Virgin Islands, which authorizes the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to coordinate disaster relief efforts and possibly pay for disaster recovery.

The insurance guaranty fund ended the last fiscal year in September 2016 with $10.4 million. The government budgeted $12 million to be pulled from the fund this fiscal year and has proposed transferring another $15 million to the general fund for the new fiscal year that starts Oct. 1.

In 2013, the territory authorized up to $40 million of debt issuance in case it needed to pay claims, but early this year, the Virgin Islands government was essentially frozen out of the municipal bond market by investors spooked by trouble in neighboring, bankrupt Puerto Rico.

S&P Global Ratings warned on Tuesday that it plans to withdraw its credit rating for the U.S. Virgin Islands within the next 30 days, after the territory’s government said it would stop providing information to the rating agency.

For years the Virgin Islands sold debt to help fund essential public services and budget gaps. With just over 100,000 inhabitants, the protectorate now owes $2 billion to bondholders and creditors.

As of August, the Virgin Islands government had about three days’ cash to pay for operations, according to rating agencies.

In response to the downgrades, the Virgin Islands government said it was “aggressively and proactively” cutting spending and increasing revenues through more stringent tax collections and new so-called “sin taxes” on liquor, cigarettes and sugary drinks.

U.S. Virgin Islands government still owes money for damages and services racked up during previous storms, according to financial statements published in June.


https://www.reuters.com/articl...icanes-idUSKCN1BH38I




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Originally posted by LS1 GTO:
Did you happen to read the order and its references?

My understanding is, though poorly worded, the national guard there was being authorised to bypass typical government red tape to PURCHASE weapons, ammo, etc from businesses. They were given authorization to seize privately owned assets.


Don't you mean they were NOT given authorization to seize privately owned assets?


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Originally posted by LS1 GTO:
Did you happen to read the order and its references?

My understanding is, though poorly worded, the national guard there was being authorised to bypass typical government red tape to PURCHASE weapons, ammo, etc from businesses. They were given authorization to seize privately owned assets.


Don't you mean they were NOT given authorization to seize privately owned assets?


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