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Why Is it a ‘Crime’ To Disarm a Uniformed Aggressor? | Lew Rockwell by William Norman Grigg
“…Like every elected official in the state, I took an oath to support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of Colorado,” wrote Maketa in an open letter to El Paso County residents. “This means all rights.”
That promise apparently doesn’t apply to the right of an unarmed citizen to defend himself against acts of criminal violence committed by one of Maketa’s deputies. If it did, Maketa – who, like every other sheriff, has some discretion regarding prosecutions – would have urged the local prosecutor to drop all charges against Calhan, Colorado resident David Goss, a sod farmer who is now serving an unjustified four-year prison sentence for the supposed crime of trying to avoid being shot in the stomach by Deputy Jeff Schulz.
via William Norman Grigg at Lew Rockwell
The Rise Of America’s Lunatic Fringe | Zero Hedge
…The government can no longer afford to ignore the Lunatic Fringe, because it is becoming less loon and more understandably and righteously indignant every day. The government did not create the Fringe, but through callous disregard, incompetence, blatant self-interest, cronyism, selective enforcement, and pandering to its financial support base, the government has fertilized the fringe until it has grown to redwood-like size. The nation’s leadership is viewed not with admiration, but with distrust. It is no longer the solution, but the problem. It has reversed from friend to enemy, at least for a not insignificant portion of the citizenry.
The fringe is not going to go away, and it will continue to hammer away at an already fragile society. It very well could lead to significant social unrest, even random violence. New records in the Dow will not alter the focus, nor ameliorate the bubbling rage, even if the financial media or the Federal Reserve thinks it will. This growing demographic of citizens must have their concerns addressed before it is too late. Woe to those who ignore it…” go here The Rise Of America’s Lunatic Fringe | Zero Hedge.
Journalist Jason Mattera Accosted by Security over Mayor Bloomberg Gun Control Question | Breitbart
Jason Mattera, bless his soul, offers Bloomie some soda and asks whether he would consider gun control for his own staff of armed guards. Hilarious and sickening at the same time.
One can only wonder if the Bloomberg School of Gun Fear at Johns Hopkins University will be doing a study on the psycho-social trauma of dealing with that narcissistic, lilliputian pukes armed henchmen. Just makes one wanna barf…
EXCLUSIVE: Journalist Accosted by Security over Mayor Bloomberg Gun Control Question
via Breitbart
The U.S. military’s real-time Google Street View: Airborne spy camera can track an entire city in 1,800MP | Mail Online
The incredible U.S. military spy drone that’s so powerful it can see what type of phone you’re carrying from 17,500ft. The ARGUS-IS can view an area of 15 sq/miles in a single image…
- Its zoom capability can detect an object as small as 6in on the ground
- Developed by BAE as part of a $18million DARPA project
- System works by stringing together 368 digital camera chips
via The Mail Online.
NYPD Commissioner says department will begin testing a new high-tech device that scans for concealed weapons
Reblogged from END TIME HEADLINES:
Get ready for scan-and-frisk. The NYPD will soon deploy new technology allowing police to detect guns carried by criminals without using the typical pat-down procedure, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said Wednesday. The department just received a machine that reads terahertz — the natural energy emitted by people and inanimate objects — and allows police to view concealed weapons from a distance. MORE
Thoughts Following the Inauguration of Septimius Severus: We’re Screwed | Fred Reed
January 22, 2013 [h/t Gunny G]
I’ve been thinking about fault lines, and fractures, and diversity, and when it’s all going to implode. I hope I’m still around because it is going to be one gorgeous show. Few things are as entertaining as a truly good disaster.
What is going to kill us is diversity. It isn’t working well. By diversity I mean here the intermixing of large groups of people holding utterly differing and opposed values. There is too damned much diversity in America. It isn’t getting better.
The current donnybrook over guns is not a political question, like whether to raise or lower taxes. It is a clash of civilizations, a confrontation between two groups who seriously don’t like each other and hold irreconcilably different views of life. The two would be happier in separate countries, an idea that has occurred to them. It is that bad.
The Constitution no longer being in effect, the gun-controllers may be able to outlaw guns, chiefly because the federal government also wants to do this, though for different reasons. The gun-controllers think that they are going to stop murder, whereas the feds just want a supine and helpless population. Should they succeed in banning firearms, the result will be a very large element of the population actually hating the rest, and hating the government. Diversity. Read more…
State of Fear by Chris Hedges
Reblogged from USA PSYOP VICTIM OF POG CIA DOJ DOD PATRIOT & SPACE PRESERVATION ACTS:
State of Fear
by Chris Hedges
Shannon McLeish of Florida is a 45-year-old married mother of two young children. She is a homeowner, a taxpayer and a safe driver. She votes in every election. She attends a Unitarian Universalist church on Sundays. She is also, like nearly all who have a relationship with the Occupy movement in the United States, being monitored by the federal government.
A Maxim, The Law, And The State Of The Nation | Francis Poretto
by Francis Porretto at Liberty’s Torch (via Ol’ Remus & The Woodpile Report). An excerpt. Read the entire article.
…The great majority of the “rules” that are imposed on Americans with the force of law are not “laws” in the proper sense. They’re “regulations.” Rules composed by unelected bureaucrats. Bureaucrats whose names we’re forbidden to learn. Many of whom are issued firearms and wear them daily. Whose jobs are protected by Civil Service rules any union would envy.
I’ve searched the Constitution of the United States from end to end and back again, and in only two places does it use the word “regulate:” the Coinage Clause and the Interstate Commerce Clause. That word has given birth to millions of “regulations” with the force of law, by the imposition of which nameless, faceless persons—persons against whom private citizens have no recourse—can enforce draconian penalties on defenseless Americans for conduct that harms no man even in its most extended implications.
Either this is absolutely indefensible or I woke up in the wrong universe this morning.
But wait: there’s more! The luxuriance of these unlegislated laws “passed” by unelected un-legislators is compounded to an infinite degree by a circumstance for which few of us spare even an occasional thought: It doesn’t matter whether we know anything at all about those “laws.” At neither the state nor the federal level is any effort is made to inform the private citizenry about their issuance. Even so, we’re considered bound by them, subject to their force, and exposed to punishment for violating them.
Oftentimes, we only learn about some such “law” at the moment we violate it. A fortunate few discover their vulnerability “just in the nick of time:” by asking permission to develop a recently purchased plot of land, for example. Never mind that the notion that an American must obsequiously ask permission, like a serf in a feudal realm, to do something that harms no one with an item of his own, honorably acquired property is itself execrable, a clear violation of the natural law of property and the rights pertaining to it. That’s merely insult added to injury: a deadly insult atop the mortal injury to the concept of individuals’ rights…
No Matter What: The Real Reasons For Gun Ownership
Reblogged from Western Rifle Shooters Association:
For new readers or tribe members who haven't thought the current controversy all the way through, here's an excellent resource.
Cribsheet:
Bad People, Regardless Of Costume (BPROC): Give us your stuff, or we'll do Bad Things to you and your family.
Good People: No. {followed by repeated well-aimed gunshots}
BPROC: Gurgle...uhh...gurgle...
FIN
Is the time for discourse ending? | Grey Enigma
Writing on blogs, letters to Senators, calls to Congressmen, letters to editors, getting the vote out, donating money, responding to idiots, talking the talk and walking the walk…
Somehow these seem neither effective nor rational to me these days. Wondering if this is just the a Conservative’s version of Liberal’s ‘candlelight vigil’ - makes you feel like your doing something, but nothing actually changes.
I think we are approaching the Rubicon. Next stop Rome? GE.
Quote of the Day
Reblogged from My Constructed Reality:
From Say Uncle: I don’t “need” my AR any more than Rosa Parks “needed” to sit in the front of that bus
Sandy Hook, Newtown CT shootings: An accumulated collection of facts, assertions and posts
Photo Credit: DesMoines Register
Updated 18 Jan 2013, 7:15PM EDT. Grey Enigma.
Well the more I dig into all these conspiracy assertions, the less convinced I am that there is any ‘there’ there. Most of the assertions that the shooting was embellished, staged, had factual errors etc. are not reasonable/ I.e. see here for an excellent synopsis-repsonse to all of that. I find no compelling evidence that the shooting was any more than it was reported to be: A murder spree, perpetrated by a nutjob. If new evidence is published I might change my mind. GE. ———
Previously I had stated: The Sandy Hook / Newtown CT crimes puzzle me. Having done a fair amount of forensic investigation in another life, there are so many things about this event that are too vague or coincidental to rule out some of what appear at first blush to be just kooky conspiracy theories.
In cases like this – i.e. where there is a lot of evidence, much of it testimonial and based on interviews of 1st hand witnesses and 2nd hand investigators – there will be few simple questions definitively answerable. Instead, the best a reviewer will be able to determine is simply the most reasonable inferences and explanations based upon the facts and evidence. Read more…
Drill Characterizes “Disgruntled” Second Amendment Advocates as Terrorists
You know, given the co-occurrence of Government ‘drills’ with actual ‘tragedies’ on the same type (9/11, Sandy Hook, etc.), perhaps the biggest thing Big Brother could do to stem civilian fatalities would be to cancel any further drills!
That aside, here is another wake up call for us all. Have you any doubt that the scary Muslim terrorist meme has lost it’s false flag voltage? They are doing away with all pretense now: The police state is not for the security OF you… it’s for their security FROM you.
Molon labe bitches. GE.
…A safety exercise involving police, national guard and emergency management officials in Portsmouth, Ohio was centered around the premise that individuals “disgruntled over the government’s interpretation of the Second Amendment” plotted to use weapons of mass destruction to terrorize the local community.
Drill Characterizes Disgruntled Second Amendment Advocates as Terrorists 180113drill
The exercise, which took place yesterday, was run by the Ohio Army National Guard 52nd Civil Support Unit, Scioto County first responders as well as local law enforcement.
“The make-believe scenario is timely,” reports WSAZ News Channel 3, “Two school employees who are disgruntled over the government’s interpretation of the Second Amendment, plot to use chemical, biological and radiological agents against members of the local community….
via Prison Planet.com » Drill Characterizes “Disgruntled” Second Amendment Advocates as Terrorists.
Democrat: Please Don't Release That Document Showing We Actually Do Want to Confiscate Guns
Reblogged from NOW BLOG THIS! ~ GUNNY.G: AMERICAN !:
Late last night, New York Assemblyman Steve McLaughlin, one of the few Republicans with a strong enough spine to stand up to the new gun legislation, released the following statement on his Facebook page.
"Here it is. This is the video where I was asked to keep the Democrat proposals for the NY SAFE Act away from the public.
West Point center cites dangers of ‘far right’ in U.S. | WaTimes
How much more indication do we need that the elites in our country are starting to worry about slaves leaving the plantation?
It is time to wake up folks: help is not coming, and neither is permission. GE.
…its latest study turns inward and paints a broad brush of people it considers “far right.”
It says anti-federalists “espouse strong convictions regarding the federal government, believing it to be corrupt and tyrannical, with a natural tendency to intrude on individuals’ civil and constitutional rights. Finally, they support civil activism, individual freedoms, and self government. Extremists in the anti-federalist movement direct most their violence against the federal government and its proxies in law enforcement.”
The report also draws a link between the mainstream conservative movement and the violent “far right,” and describes liberals as “future oriented” and conservatives as living in the past…
go here —> West Point center cites dangers of ‘far right’ in U.S. – Washington Times.
The Predictable Conservative Conundrum of Gun Rights
Reblogged from The Cynical Dispatch:
As the never ceasing gun control debate rages on, there appears to be a fracture forming between gun owners themselves. This seems due to an evolving idea of the very basis for the 2nd Amendment. Some gun enthusiasts have voiced a concern over assault weapons even though they themselves are avid hunters and/or target shooters. While the right to bear arms is never in question, the necessity of assault rifles escapes them.
Vermont's Gun Laws VS Connecticut's
Connecticut’s gun laws are among the strictest in the country, but they couldn’t prevent the Sandy Hook atrocity.
Meanwhile, just up the road, ultraliberal Vermont has basically no restrictions on gun ownership, no waiting periods and no permits necessary to carry a gun, openly or concealed. And who’s afraid of Vermont?
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/photo_op_president_shooting_blanks_TUPtyhpV1TVwHvifKkasIO
Jim's Take: Open a Vermont gun store on the border with MA and NY and get rich, entrepeneurs.
Abusive Government Out Of Control
Reblogged from Mike Cane’s xBlog:
The Interior Secretary’s $222,000 Bathroom
Maybe the Pentagon’s legendary $600 toilet seat was a bargain.
The personal bathroom used by the secretary of the Interior is so swanky that its renovation cost $222,000. No detail was overlooked: It has a $3,500 sub-zero refrigerator (hey, if you’re going to have a fridge in the bathroom, it might as well be a good one) and a $689 faucet.
50 Shocking Questions That You Should Ask To Anyone That Is Not A Prepper Yet
Reblogged from END TIME HEADLINES:
Share this list of shocking questions with everyone you know that needs to wake up. Sometimes asking good questions is the best way to get someone that you care about to understand something. When I attended law school, I became very familiar with something called "the Socratic method". It is a method that has been traditionally used in law schools all over the United States.
Institutional Indoctrination
Reblogged from MisBehaved Woman:
Schools have not necessarily much to do with education... they are mainly institutions of control, where basic habits must be inculcated in the young. Education is quite different and has little place in school.
Winston Churchill
There's a line right at the beginning of the first video below about schools teaching multi-cultural lessons that strikes an *off* chord with me but overall, the video is well worth watching and the truth of it all is undeniable...
Stop the bull rant
Reblogged from Just Cruisin 2:
Once again our president put a band-aid
on a broken leg. This group of career
elitists proclaimed that legislating the
legal gun owners will somehow stop the
killings.
And once again we will state this will
do nothing except look good on camera.
So many things are more important in this
issue than gun control.
Obama and his followers should just man…
‘Gun Culture’ – What About the ‘Fatherless Culture’? | TownHall
A good read …
The face of gun violence is not Sandy Hook.
It is Chicago.In 2012, President Barack Obama’s adopted hometown had 506 murders, including more than 60 children. Philadelphia, a city that local television newscasters frequently call ‘Killadelphia,” saw 331 killed last year. In Detroit, 386 people were murdered.Since 1966, there have been 90 school shootings in the U.S., with 231 fatalities.
Yes, Sandy Hook shocked us. But the odds of a child being killed at a school shooting are longer than the odds of being struck by lightning.Of the 11,000 to 12,000 gun murders each year, more than half involve both black killers and black victims, mostly in urban areas and mostly gang-related.
The No. 1 cause of preventable death for young black men is not auto accidents or accidental drowning, but homicide….
5 chilling new ways police violate your rights
Reblogged from END TIME HEADLINES:
One of the most disturbing trends in law enforcement in recent years is the hyper-paramilitarization of local police forces. Much of the funding for tanks for Fargo’s hometown cop shop comes from the Department of Homeland Security. The feds have a lot of money to throw around in the name of preventing terrorism, and municipalities want to get that money. As anyone who has done budgeting knows, the best way to ensure your funding stays high is to request a lot of money and spend it all.
23 Executive Orders on Guns, Barack Obama, Jan. 16, 2013 | excerpted from Zero Hedge
Dear God save us from the vile, collectivist shitbag who happens to be President at the moment. Seriously, who does this man and his minions think we are? I.e.
…16. Clarify that the Affordable Care Act does not prohibit doctors asking their patients about guns in their homes…
Oh really? Perhaps I will ask my doctor if he likes anal sex in his home as that might be unhealthful. Too livid to type, I point you to SilverRhino responding to another on ZeroHedge who summed this up:
List of the 23 Executive Orders is as follows:
1. Issue a Presidential Memorandum to require federal agencies to make relevant data available to the federal background check system. Read more…
Invasion of the Body Searchers: The Loss of Bodily Integrity in an Emerging Police State | John W. Whitehead
And they seriously expect you to give up your gun rights under this social contract? I.e.:
If you want a recipe for disaster, take police officers hyped up on their own authority and the power of the badge, throw in a few court rulings suggesting that security takes precedence over individual rights, set it against a backdrop of endless wars and militarized law enforcement, and then add to the mix a populace distracted by entertainment, out of touch with the workings of their government, and more inclined to let a few sorry souls suffer injustice than to challenge the status quo… Read more…
“A Time to Kill by L.T.”, with Comments | Grey Enigma
Posted 15 Jan. 2013.
Quite a few years ago I swore an Oath – one not too dissimilar from the one the titular leaders of our Republic swore as well. In my case, here is what I promised:
I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God.
I and many other patriotic Americans are at or nearing a breaking point regarding the actions of our leaders and the direction of this country. To those who would say that we are disaffected, unemployed stressed out rednecks, bitterly clinging to our God and guns, I assure that you’re kidding yourself. We are your neighbors, friends, uncles, coaches, pastors, scoutmasters, store clerks and mailmen. We are, by most measures, most of the people in this nation. Read more…
Gun Control? Over My Dead Body! | The Mountain Jackpot News
“…Let’s examine our laws and make the changes needed to keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people,” Hickenlooper said, suggesting that state legislators overhaul and expand Colorado’s mental health care system. “We have to do a better job of identifying and helping people who are a threat to themselves and others...” via The Mountain Jackpot News
Project Veritas, John Fund, Others: 'Guns for Me but Not for Thee'
Reblogged from Enjoyment and Contemplation:
James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas has a new video out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt1Zy_ASNyA
Project Veritas explains that idea was to show the irony (not to say hypocrisy) of anti-gun journalists and politicians who bully ordinary citizens and want to make it more difficult for us to arm ourselves and defend ourselves against criminals, while those same journalists and politicians rely heavily on guns to protect themselves.
Response To Obama’s 2013 Gun Control Policy | Anonymous
Anonymous — Response To Obama’s 2013 Gun Control Policy – YouTube.
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Senator Asks CIA Nominee When Drones Can Kill Americans | Wired.com
… Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) sent a letter on Monday to John Brennan, the White House’s counterterrorism adviser and nominee to be head of the CIA, asking for an outline of the legal and practical rules that underpin the U.S. government’s targeted killing of American citizens …
via Senator Asks CIA Nominee When Drones Can Kill Americans | Danger Room | Wired.com.
When Neutered Men Speak to Boys | The Thinking Housewife
…The men of today, both young and old, have been poisoned, it seems. Poisoned by the feminist doctrine that has been mixed into every social expression, event, and philosophy. Poisoned by the erasing of distinctions between the sexes. Poisoned by the need to be nonthreatening and never, ever overtly masculine. Poisoned by the need to be liked by their own children and grandchildren – liked like schoolyard chums, I mean.
The males of today have a horror of many things; the horror of not being a man does not seem to be listed in the catalog of fears….
via The Thinking Housewife › When Neutered Men Speak to Boys. (h/t to Western Rifle Shooters Blog for the find)
Obama's Supreme, Tyrannical Power Grab
The petition below will be submitted to the "powers that be."
Petition To The United States Congress and
The President of the United States and
The United States Supreme Court
Whereas, the Bill of Rights added further declaratory and restrictive clauses to the U.S. Constitution in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers; and
Whereas
BREAKING NEWS: ATTEMPTED GUN BURGLARY TIED TO JOURNAL NEWS GUN MAPS | New York State Senate
Brewster, N.Y. – 1/13/2013 – Today Senator Greg Ball (Patterson – R, C, I) announced that a burglary has been reported on Davis Ave. in White Plains, New York that evidently ties into The Journal News gun maps. It is reported that the burglar used The Journal News’ interactive gun map to target a home included on the map. Luckily the gun was locked up and no one was hurt.
via BREAKING NEWS: ATTEMPTED GUN BURGLARY TIED TO JOURNAL NEWS GUN MAPS | New York State Senate.
We have met the 1%, and he is us
Reblogged from Watts Up With That?:
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach
In explanation of my title, I fear I'll have to go on a bit of a digression. Let me tell three stories, about people in three different parts of our amazing planet.
STORY THE FIRST: In my early thirties, through a series of misunderstandings and coincidences I spent some time as the first mate on a sailboat in the Philippines.
What is a "Militia" ?
Reblogged from Mountain Republic:
What is a "Militia" ?
The "unorganized" or reserve militia is a legal and lawful part of the armed forces of this nation. It is a military organization recognized by the Second Amendment of the Constitution; Title 10 Section 311 USC; The Dick Act of 1903; The National Defense Act of 1916; and affirmed by numerous court decisions. There is no ambiguity, the "unorganized" citizens militia is not the National Guard or the state "select" militia under the governor, or part of the "organized" armed forces of the federal government.
Study of elementary school children finds entrenched discrimination against boys
Reblogged from Wintery Knight:
The study is here (PDF), and Susan Walsh writes about the study on her blog. (H/T Stuart Schneiderman)
Excerpt:
A new study of nearly 6,000 elementary school children has found that boys are discriminated against beginning in kindergarten. Christopher Cornwell, an economics professor at the University of Georgia, says that ”gender disparities in teacher grades start early and uniformly favor girls.”
Obama Should See this Gun Control Poster
Reblogged from International Liberty:
The quote in the last gun control poster apparently was an urban legend, but it did reflect an essential truth that armed societies are harder to enslave. I don't know if the specific numbers in this poster are accurate, but it does emphasize another fundamental truth. Many leftist politicians are insulated from the dangers of ordinary life and this may be one of the reasons that they have little regard for Second Amendment rights.
