My apologies for keeping everyone waiting, Real Life and some technical difficulties got in the way.
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What is says is that I'm willing to let them prove their words wrong by their actions.
I own a Liberty Safe. I also bought an analog combination safe instead of a digital one. I have a direct relation to this company, and they have already heard from me.
It's ok to screw up, on the individual level and on the business level. What you do when that mistake is noticed matters a lot.
They have acknowledged their mistake, and have moved forward in a manner that addresses the issues raised by their customers.
So what does Liberty need to do in order to satisfy you?
It s going to take a lot of time and effort on their part to do so. A cheap excuse in corporate-speak isn't going to cut it. I say this not just because of what they’ve done; but from who it comes from. Talk is cheap from corporations.
There is also the fact that Liberty Safe was under no legal rules to do so. The warrant that FBI had only covered that guy; it didn’t cover the safe or getting the company to give them the code. This is all something even
Apple has refused to do.
APPLE. Who is a company well know for their scummy-ness.
Furthermore, I’ve seen some speculation online that the code Liberty gave the FBI could in fact have been the Master Code; meaning that not only can the FBI open any Liberty safe it wants to, but that Liberty won’t be able to change the case to stop them. I however don’t know enough about safes to verify this.
There’s also something else that makes me deeply, deeply suspicious that this wasn’t just an ‘oppsie’ moment.
However, the implicit trust that customers place in the company should not be taken for granted. It should not expose them to potential breaches of privacy by Big Brother.
www.gunsamerica.com
In 2021, Liberty Safe underwent an ownership change when it was acquired by Monomoy Capital Partners. Monomoy, an East Coast investment firm, has shown a consistent pattern of donating to Democratic candidates.
An analysis of FEC reports obtained by
Charlie Kirk reveals that the company has made contributions amounting to roughly $400,000 over the past ten election cycles. Some notable recipients of these donations include Democrats like:
- Raphael Warnock (GA)
- John Fetterman (PA)
- Mandela Barnes (WI)
- Mark Kelly (AZ)
It's significant to mention that Liberty Safe's current CEO, Justin Hillenbrand, isn't just any executive. He was a founding partner of Monomoy and made a $4,600 donation to Obama for America.
For added context, especially relevant for those unfamiliar, Sen. Mark Kelly, one of the aforementioned donation recipients, is married to Gabbie Giffords.
The couple co-founded '
Giffords,' an anti-gun nonprofit with a mission to roll back the 2A rights of law-abiding gun owners.
Given these revelations, some consumers are expressing concerns and skepticism about the company's recent decisions, particularly regarding its cooperation with the FBI.
Seems kind of suspicious, doesn't it?
It's not about satisfying him, it's about making Liberty an enemy of the Right in perpetuity and trying to get others onboard with that feeling, it seems.
One fuck-up in not supporting the 'Right' means no mercy or remorse in labelling former friends/neutrals as enemies now, because the other side is doing damn near the same and has the power to ruin lives with lies enforced by Federal agents, or at least that seems to be the thought process.
Darth doesn't tend to look to deep into things if the surface impression meets his favored biases/narratives, and has been called out for post shit that was either openly inaccurate, or openly being pushed by grifters, on multiple occasions.
He just wants to see people angry at the the things he is angry about, facts be damned.
I scarcely need to make Liberty an ‘enemy of the Right’ when they seem to have done such a spectacular job of doing that themselves. Any safe company knows that when they put their product out there that there are certain expectations for them.
Giving the access codes away to the Feds when they don’t legally have to us one of them. If it wasn’t for that, and the fact that the guy being targeted had the sole crime of being vaguely connected to the January 6th Incident, which had been used as political circus by the Establishment, none of this would have happened.
So it’s not a matter of ‘they aren’t blindly supporting my side’. Though I would argue that:
other side is doing damn near the same and has the power to ruin lives with lies enforced by Federal agents
Is very, very true. Again, look at what’s happened to other January 6th ‘Insurrectionists’ under this increasingly authoritarian United States. And that’s just one instance.
I don’t deny that I’ve been wrong and made mistakes in the past. There have been times when I certainly should have looked more into things then I should have. I am hardly unique in that sometimes my biases blind me.
But at the same time, I would be remiss in not pointing out that we live in an era where the vast majority of the mainstream media and ‘fact checkers’ are run by the same group of ideologues. At some point, and some times, one has to make a decision based on personal judgement of what’s being reported.
On a final note, I would like to say thank you in particular to
@The Whispering Monk and
@Zachowon for being willing to wait and hear me out. Especially Zachowon, despite our various disagreements.