Hat Tip: Infowars.com
One of my favorite people on the political right, Jason Mattera, asked NYC Mayor (and busy-body control freak) Michael Bloomberg a rather relevant question. Mattera was unable to get a followup answer from Bloomberg due to Hizzoner's phalanx of armed security. What was Mattera's question? I'll give you a hint: It had much to do with that phalanx of armed security. Oh, and Mattera's adventure didn't stop when his questioning of Bloomberg did. Bloomberg then sicced one of his armed pitbulls on Mattera. Sieg Heil, Herr Bloomberg!
You're the Man, Jason. You are THE MAN!
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free... it expects what never was, and never will be." -Thomas Jefferson
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free... it expects what never was, and never will be." --Thomas Jefferson
Monday, January 28, 2013
Friday, January 25, 2013
So I have a few things to say about the proposed Defensive Semi-Automatic Weapons Ban
Yesterday, Dianne "Fascist" Feinstein, the traitorous U.S. Senator from my home state of the late, great California, used a bit of dramatic theatrics to introduce her freedom-stealing, slave-making bill that would outlaw over 150 semi-automatic rifles, a step toward her ultimate goal, which is total disarmament of the American people. This is not hyperbole. She said once in a 60 Minutes interview that if she had the votes in the Senate, she would have required that she would have the American people, "turn 'em all in."
I had quite a bit to say about both Feinstein's evil efforts, and the ignorance-based efforts of the anti-self defense nuts out there who are engaging in an obsessive crusade to take away my God-given rights - and the rights of millions of fellow law-abiding gun owners/militia members in the United States.
Could I have been more eloquent in parts? Sure. Could I have shown more brevity? You bet. I know the two videos I made equal just over a half-hour. But I don't just yap at you... I brought props!
Time did not allow me to go into as much detail about crime figures in Britain and Australia, along with figures from other countries that have strict and not-so-strict gun control. I plan to remedy that in the near future.
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free... it expects what never was, and never will be." -Thomas Jefferson
I had quite a bit to say about both Feinstein's evil efforts, and the ignorance-based efforts of the anti-self defense nuts out there who are engaging in an obsessive crusade to take away my God-given rights - and the rights of millions of fellow law-abiding gun owners/militia members in the United States.
Could I have been more eloquent in parts? Sure. Could I have shown more brevity? You bet. I know the two videos I made equal just over a half-hour. But I don't just yap at you... I brought props!
Time did not allow me to go into as much detail about crime figures in Britain and Australia, along with figures from other countries that have strict and not-so-strict gun control. I plan to remedy that in the near future.
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free... it expects what never was, and never will be." -Thomas Jefferson
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Our Demagogue-in-Chief to put on a show today
Surrounding himself with children is a classic maneuver that dictators have used in the past, as you can see above.
I weep for my country.
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free... it expects what never was, and never will be." -Thomas Jefferson
Monday, January 14, 2013
The militia is....
"A militia when properly formed are in fact the people themselves... and include... all men capable of bearing arms. ... The mind that aims at a select militia, must be influenced by a truly anti-republican principal."
-Richard Henry Lee
Just a little reminder for those clueless wonders out there who keep trying to tell me that the Second Amendment doesn't apply to me because I am not part of a militia; that the Second Amendment only allows states to have a National Guard.
First off, until 2004, I was a member of the National Guard. Second, the National Guards of each state are the very "select militia" of which Richard Henry Lee was speaking.
Even federal law (if one chooses to go there) says that the militia is basically everyone. Title 10 United States Code section 311 states:
The book, which was published in 1953 by the California Department of Education and Harr Wagner Publishing is entitled Living in our Democracy. Referring to our country and system of government as a democracy instead of a republic is a whole other issue I will leave alone in this post!
On page 211, this textbook describes the Second Amendment as such (all spellings and emphases are the publisher's):
Next, this amendment is indeed just as important today as it ever was. We may not face British regulars or marauding Indians on the frontier anymore, but predators who would do us harm have not gone away. Instead, we must defend ourselves against feral urban youth, rural home invaders, and, especially, our increasingly meddlesome and power-hungry federal and state governments.
Next, the Second Amendment doesn't "give" us the right to "organize state militias". None of the Amendments in the Bill of Rights "give" us anything. God gave us those rights; the Bill of Rights simply declare to our government that those rights are sacrosanct, and shall not be violated.
And these militias we are supposed to have are not "state militias" that are "organized." They would be better described as militias that secure the freedom of a state. Again, the founders made clear that militias are composed of
"the people themselves," and most people are members of what 10USC311 calls the "unorganized militia."
Next, if the book posits that an army controlled by a King can harm your friends and relatives, what possesses the authors to smugly proclaim that an armed forces controlled by our Congress (and President) can't or won't do the same damn thing? It is the idea of that very standing army - controlled by our federal government - that concerned our founders so greatly that they recommended the guarantee of an armed populace to provide a check on the power of our federal government to use the military against the American people.
So essentially, every statement this book makes about the Second Amendment is incorrect. But yet, how many young minds were warped by what they read in this textbook? I would be interested to see what today's civics/political science textbooks say about the Second Amendment. My parting question is, how are we supposed to possibly reason with these gun-grabbing busybodies among us when they are so horribly misinformed about the Second Amendment, and firearms in general? If the time for reason is ever over, then God help us.
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free... it expects what never was, and never will be." -Thomas Jefferson
-Richard Henry Lee
Just a little reminder for those clueless wonders out there who keep trying to tell me that the Second Amendment doesn't apply to me because I am not part of a militia; that the Second Amendment only allows states to have a National Guard.
First off, until 2004, I was a member of the National Guard. Second, the National Guards of each state are the very "select militia" of which Richard Henry Lee was speaking.
Even federal law (if one chooses to go there) says that the militia is basically everyone. Title 10 United States Code section 311 states:
(a) The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and, except as provided in section 313 of title 32, under 45 years of age who are, or who have made a declaration of intention to become, citizens of the United States and of female citizens of the United States who are members of the National Guard. (b) The classes of the militia are - (1) the organized militia, which consists of the National Guard and the Naval Militia; and (2) the unorganized militia, which consists of the members of the militia who are not members of the National Guard or the Naval Militia.The money quote is subsection (b)(2), which ensures that even if you are not a member of the National Guard or Naval Militia, you are still a member of the militia. 10USC311 essentially says, "Here are the people who are required to be a part of the militia, otherwise, everyone else is free to join of their own accord." With the Bill of Rights guaranteeing the God-given rights of the People, I get so sick of being told that it's just the Second Amendment that grants a right to the government - whether it be state or federal. Of course, this poisonous notion has been drilled into young minds full of mush for decades now. Just one example of this comes from a discarded high school civics textbook that I ran across while substitute teaching ten years ago.
The book, which was published in 1953 by the California Department of Education and Harr Wagner Publishing is entitled Living in our Democracy. Referring to our country and system of government as a democracy instead of a republic is a whole other issue I will leave alone in this post!
On page 211, this textbook describes the Second Amendment as such (all spellings and emphases are the publisher's):
The second amendment is not so important as it was in the early days of the nation, but it is still a right of the people. This amendment states that a militia is necessary to the security of a free state. It gives the people the right to organize state militias. The colonists had seen the Kings's army harm their friends and relatives. They wanted a state militia as a possible protection against a federal army. This is not considered necessary today, since the armed forces of the nation are controlled by Congress. They protect all the people and not the powers of a king or a dictator.Good Lord, where do I begin? First, the Second Amendment should be capitalized, in my not-so-humble opinion; they did not do so.
Next, this amendment is indeed just as important today as it ever was. We may not face British regulars or marauding Indians on the frontier anymore, but predators who would do us harm have not gone away. Instead, we must defend ourselves against feral urban youth, rural home invaders, and, especially, our increasingly meddlesome and power-hungry federal and state governments.
Next, the Second Amendment doesn't "give" us the right to "organize state militias". None of the Amendments in the Bill of Rights "give" us anything. God gave us those rights; the Bill of Rights simply declare to our government that those rights are sacrosanct, and shall not be violated.
And these militias we are supposed to have are not "state militias" that are "organized." They would be better described as militias that secure the freedom of a state. Again, the founders made clear that militias are composed of
"the people themselves," and most people are members of what 10USC311 calls the "unorganized militia."
Next, if the book posits that an army controlled by a King can harm your friends and relatives, what possesses the authors to smugly proclaim that an armed forces controlled by our Congress (and President) can't or won't do the same damn thing? It is the idea of that very standing army - controlled by our federal government - that concerned our founders so greatly that they recommended the guarantee of an armed populace to provide a check on the power of our federal government to use the military against the American people.
So essentially, every statement this book makes about the Second Amendment is incorrect. But yet, how many young minds were warped by what they read in this textbook? I would be interested to see what today's civics/political science textbooks say about the Second Amendment. My parting question is, how are we supposed to possibly reason with these gun-grabbing busybodies among us when they are so horribly misinformed about the Second Amendment, and firearms in general? If the time for reason is ever over, then God help us.
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free... it expects what never was, and never will be." -Thomas Jefferson
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