Subject: Best Pro-Gun Argument Ever…
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“The Gun Is Civilization” by Maj. L. Caudill USMC (Ret)
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Made in the U. S. A. & DAMN PROUD OF IT!!!!!
9 02 2011
Subject: Fwd: Fw: This guy thought this one out, it’s a little lengthy but worth the read….
I Am the Democratic, Republican Liberal-Progressive’s Worst Nightmare.
I am a White, Conservative, Tax-Paying, American Veteran, Gun Owning Biker.
I am a Master leatherworker. I work hard and long hours with my hands to earn a living.
I believe in God and the freedom of religion, but I don’t push it on others.
I ride Harley Davidson Motorcycles, and drive American-made cars, and I believe in American products and buy them whenever I can.
I believe the money I make belongs to me and not some liberal governmental functionary, Democratic or Republican, that wants to share it with others who don’t work!
I’m in touch with my feelings and I like it that way!
I think owning a gun doesn’t make you a killer; it makes you a smart American.
I think being a minority does not make you noble or victimized, and does not entitle you to anything. Get over it!
I believe that if you are selling me a Big Mac or any other item, you should do it in English.
I believe there should be no other language option.
I believe everyone has a right to pray to his or her God when and where they want to.
My heroes are Malcolm Forbes, Bill Gates, John Wayne, Babe Ruth, Roy Rogers, and Willie G. Davidson, who makes the awesome Harley Davidson Motorcycles.
I don’t hate the rich. I don’t pity the poor.
I know wrestling is fake and I don’t waste my time watching or arguing about it.
I’ve never owned a slave, nor was I a slave. I haven’t burned any witches or been persecuted by the Turks, and neither have you!
I believe if you don’t like the way things are here, go back to where you came from and change your own country!
This is AMERICA …We like it the way it is and more so the way it was …so stop trying to change it to look like Russia or China, or some other socialist country!
If you were born here and don’t like it… you are free to move to any Socialist country that will have you. I believe it is time to really clean house, starting with the White House, the seat of our biggest problems.
I want to know which church is it, exactly, where the Reverend Jesse Jackson preaches, where he gets his money, and why he is always part of the problem and not the solution?
Can I get an AMEN on that one?
I also think the cops have the right to pull you over if you’re breaking the law, regardless of what color you are, but not just because you happen to ride a bike.
And, no, I don’t mind having my face shown on my driver’s license. I think it’s good…. And I’m proud that ‘God’ is written on my money..
I think if you are too stupid to know how a ballot works, I don’t want you deciding who should be running the most powerful nation in the world for the next four years.
I dislike those people standing in the intersections trying to sell me stuff or trying to guilt me into making ‘donations’ to their cause…. Get a job and do your part to support yourself and your family!
I believe that it doesn’t take a village to raise a child, it takes two parents….
I believe ‘illegal’ is illegal no matter what the lawyers think!
I believe the American flag should be the only one allowed in AMERICA !
If this makes me a BAD American, then yes, I’m a BAD American.
If you are a BAD American too, please forward this to everyone you know….
We want our country back!
My Country…..
I hope this offends all illegal aliens.
My great, great, great, great grandfather watched and bled as his friends died in the Revolution & the War of 1812. My great, great, great grandfather watched as his friends died in the Mexican American War. My great, great grandfather watched as his friends & brothers died in the Civil War. My great grandfather watched as his friends died in the Spanish-American War. My grandfather watched as his friends died in WW I. My father watched as his friends died in WW II.
I watched as my friends died in Vietnam, Panama & Desert Storm. My son watched & bled as his friends died in Afghanistan and Iraq. None of them died for the Mexican Flag. Everyone died for the American flag.
Texas high school students raised a Mexican flag on a school flag pole, other students took it down. Guess who was expelled…the students who took it down.
California high school students were sent home on Cinco de Mayo, because they wore T-shirts with the American flag printed on them.
Enough is enough
This message needs to be viewed by every American; and every American needs to stand up for America ..
We’ve bent over to appease the America-haters long enough. I’m taking a stand.
I’m standing up because the hundreds of thousands who died fighting in wars for this country, and for the American flag.
If you agree, stand up with me. If you disagree, please let me know. I will gladly remove you from my e-mail list.
And shame on anyone who tries to make this a racist message.
AMERICANS, stop giving away Your RIGHTS !
Let me make this clear! THIS IS MY COUNTRY !
This statement DOES NOT mean I’m against immigration !
YOU ARE WELCOME HERE, IN MY COUNTRY, welcome to come legally:
1. Get a sponsor !
2. Learn the English LANGUAGE, as immigrants have in the past !
3. Live by OUR rules !
4. Get a job !
5. Pay YOUR Taxes !
6. No Social Security until you have earned it and Paid for it !
7. NOW find a place to lay your head !
If you don’t want to forward this for fear of offending someone, then YOU’RE PART OF THE PROBLEM !
We’ve gone so far the other way . . . bent over backwards not to offend anyone.
Only AMERICANS seems to care when American Citizens are being offended !
WAKE UP America ! ! !
If you do not pass this on, may your fingers cramp !
Made in the U. S. A. & DAMN PROUD OF IT!!!!!
Written by RON GRELL ……….and forwarded by all of us who agree …..
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Are You Taxed enough.
8 02 2011Sent: Monday, February 7, 2011 9:37:56 AM
Subject: Charley Reese, his last column from the Orlando Sentinel
WHAT DO YOU THINK?
Charley Reese, his last column from the Orlando Sentinel
The article below was written by Charlie Reese, a columnist for the Orlando Sentinel
newspaper. Resse is retiring after a long journalism career. The article below is alleged
to be his last writing but it shows he has his head screwed on correctly.
555 PEOPLE –By Charlie Reese
Politicians are the only people in the world who
create problems and then campaign against them.
Have you ever wondered, if both the Democrats
and the Republicans are against deficits, WHY
do we have deficits?
Have you ever wondered, if all the politicians are
against inflation and high taxes, WHY do we have
inflation and high taxes?
You and I don’t propose a federal budget. The
President does.
You and I don’t have the Constitutional authority
to vote on appropriations. The House of
Representatives does.
You and I don’t write the tax code, Congress does.
You and I don’t set fiscal policy, Congress does.
You and I don’t control monetary policy, the
Federal Reserve Bank does.
One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one
President, and nine Supreme Court justices
equates to 555 human beings out of the 300
million are directly, legally, morally, and
individually responsible for the domestic
problems that plague this country.
I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve
Board because that problem was created by the
Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated its
Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency
to a federally chartered, but PRIVATE, central
bank.
I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists
for a sound reason. They have no legal authority.
They have no ability to coerce a senator, a
congressman, or a President to do one cotton-
picking thing. I don’t care if they offer a politician
$1 million dollars in cash. The politician has the
power to accept or reject it. No matter what the
lobbyist promises, it is the legislator’s responsibility
to determine how he votes.
Those 555 human beings spend much of their energy
convincing you that what they did is not their fault.
They cooperate in this common con regardless of
party.
What separates a politician from a normal human
being is an excessive amount of gall. No normal
human being would have the gall of a Speaker,
who stood up and criticized the President for
creating deficits….. The President can only
propose a budget. He cannot force the Congress
to accept it.
The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the
land, gives sole responsibility to the House of
Representatives for originating and approving
appropriations and taxes. House members,
not the President, can approve any budget they
want. If the President vetoes it, they can pass it
over his veto if they agree to.
It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300
million cannot replace 555 people who stand
convicted — by present facts — of incompetence
and irresponsibility. I can’t think of a single
domestic problem that is not traceable directly to
those 555 people. When you fully grasp the plain
truth that 555 people exercise the power of the
federal government, then it must follow that
what exists is what they want to exist.
If the tax code is unfair, it’s because they want it
unfair.
If the budget is in the red, it’s because they want
it in the red ..
If the Army & Marines are in Iraq and Afghanistan
it’s because they want them in Iraq and Afghanistan …
If they do not receive social security but are on
an elite retirement plan not available to the people,
it’s because they want it that way.
There are no insoluble government problems.
Do not let these 555 people shift the blame to
bureaucrats, whom they hire and whose jobs they
can abolish; to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice
they can reject; to regulators, to whom they give
the power to regulate and from whom they can
take this power. Above all, do not let them con
you into the belief that there exists disembodied
mystical forces like “the economy,” “inflation,” or
“politics” that prevent them from doing what
they take an oath to do.
Those 555 people, and they alone, are responsible.
They, and they alone, have the power..
They, and they alone, should be held accountable
by the people who are their bosses.
Provided the voters have the gumption to manage
their own employees…
We should vote all of them out of office and
clean up their mess!
Charlie Reese is a former columnist of the
Orlando Sentinel Newspaper.
What you do with this article now that you have
read it………. Is up to you.
This might be funny if it weren’t so true.
Be sure to read all the way to the end:
Tax his land,
Tax his bed,
Tax the table,
At which he’s fed.
Tax his tractor,
Tax his mule,
Teach him taxes
Are the rule.
Tax his work,
Tax his pay,
He works for peanuts anyway!
Tax his cow,
Tax his goat,
Tax his pants,
Tax his coat.
Tax his ties,
Tax his shirt,
Tax his work,
Tax his dirt.
Tax his tobacco,
Tax his drink,
Tax him if he
Tries to think.
Tax his cigars,
Tax his beers,
If he cries
Tax his tears.
Tax his car,
Tax his gas,
Find other ways
To tax his ass.
Tax all he has
Then let him know
That you won’t be done
Till he has no dough.
When he screams and hollers;
Then tax him some more,
Tax him till
He’s good and sore.
Then tax his coffin,
Tax his grave,
Tax the sod in
Which he’s laid….
Put these words
Upon his tomb,
Taxes drove me
to my doom…’
When he’s gone,
Do not relax,
Its time to apply
The inheritance tax..
Accounts Receivable Tax
Building Permit Tax
CDL license Tax
Cigarette Tax
Corporate Income Tax
Dog License Tax
Excise Taxes
Federal Income Tax
Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA)
Fishing License Tax
Food License Tax
Fuel Permit Tax
Gasoline Tax (currently 44.75 cents per gallon)
Gross Receipts Tax
Hunting License Tax
Inheritance Tax
Inventory Tax
IRS Interest Charges IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax)
Liquor Tax
Luxury Taxes
Marriage License Tax
Medicare Tax
Personal Property Tax
Property Tax
Real Estate Tax
Service Charge Tax
Social Security Tax
Road Usage Tax
Recreational Vehicle Tax
Sales Tax
School Tax
State Income Tax
State Unemployment Tax (SUTA)
Telephone Federal Excise Tax
Telephone Federal Universal Service Fee Tax
Telephone Federal, State and Local Surcharge Taxes
Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge Tax
Telephone Recurring and Nonrecurring Charges Tax
Telephone State and Local Tax
Telephone Usage Charge Tax
Utility Taxes
Vehicle License Registration Tax
Vehicle Sales Tax
Watercraft Registration Tax
Well Permit Tax
Workers Compensation Tax
STILL THINK THIS IS FUNNY? Not one of these
taxes existed 100 years ago, & our nation was
the most prosperous in the world. We had
absolutely no national debt, had the largest
middle class in the world, and Mom stayed home
to raise the kids.
What in the h___ happened?
Can you spell ‘politicians?’
I hope this goes around THE USA at least
555 times!!! YOU can help it get there!!!
GO AHEAD – - – BE AN AMERICAN!!!
P.S. If you do the right thing and pass this on
– which is entirely up to you – please do the
right thing and highlight and delete any
addresses you receive with it. Thanks..
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9 12 2010
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Heroes of the Vietnam Generation
By James Webb
The rapidly disappearing cohort of Americans that endured the Great Depression and then fought World War II is receiving quite a send-off from the leading lights of the so-called 60′s generation. Tom Brokaw has published two oral histories of “The Greatest Generation” that feature ordinary people doing their duty and suggest that such conduct was historically unique. Nine million men served in the military during Vietnam War, three million of whom went to the Vietnam Theater. Contrary to popular mythology, two-thirds of these were volunteers, and 73 percent of those who died were volunteers. While some attention has been paid recently to the plight of our prisoners of war, most of whom were pilots; there has been little recognition of how brutal the war was for those who fought it on the ground. Hanoi’s recent admission that 1.4 million of its soldiers died on the battlefield, compared to 58,000 total U.S. dead. *** Those who believe that it was a “dirty little war” where the bombs did all the work might contemplate that is was the most costly war the U.S. Marine Corps has ever fought - five times as many dead as World War I, three times as many dead as in Korea, and more total killed and wounded than in all of World War II. ***Harvard College , which had lost 691 alumni in World War II, lost a total of 12 men in Vietnam from the classes of 1962 through 1972 combined. Those classes at Princeton lost six, at MIT two. The media turned ever more hostile. And frequently the reward for a young man’s having gone through the trauma of combat was to be greeted by his peers with studied indifference of outright hostility.
Chris Matthews of “Hardball” is fond of writing columns praising the Navy service of his father while castigating his own baby boomer generation for its alleged softness and lack of struggle. William Bennett gave a startling condescending speech at the Naval Academy a few years ago comparing the heroism of the “D-Day Generation” to the drugs-and-sex nihilism of the “Woodstock Generation.” And Steven Spielberg, in promoting his film “Saving Private Ryan,” was careful to justify his portrayals of soldiers in action based on the supposedly unique nature of World War II.
An irony is at work here. Lest we forget, the World War II generation now being lionized also brought us the Vietnam War, a conflict which today’s most conspicuous voices by and large opposed, and in which few of them served. The “best and brightest” of the Vietnam age group once made headlines by castigating their parents for bringing about the war in which they would not fight, which has become the war they refuse to remember.
Pundits back then invented a term for this animus: the “generation gap.” Long, plaintive articles and even books were written examining its manifestations. Campus leaders, who claimed precocious wisdom through the magical process of reading a few controversial books, urged fellow baby boomers not to trust anyone over 30. Their elders who had survived the Depression and fought the largest war in history were looked down upon as shallow, materialistic, and out of touch.
Those of us who grew up, on the other side of the picket line from that era’s counter-culture can’t help but feel a little leery of this sudden gush of appreciation for our elders from the leading lights of the old counter-culture. Then and now, the national conversation has proceeded from the dubious assumption that those who came of age during Vietnam are a unified generation in the same sense as their parents were, and thus are capable of being spoken for through these fickle elites.
In truth, the “Vietnam generation” is a misnomer. Those who came of age during that war are permanently divided by different reactions to a whole range of counter-cultural agendas, and nothing divides them more deeply than the personal ramifications of the war itself. The sizable portion of the Vietnam age group who declined to support the counter-cultural agenda, and especially the men and women who opted to serve in the military during the Vietnam War, are quite different from their peers who for decades have claimed to speak for them. In fact, they are much like the World War II generation itself. For them, Woodstock was a side show, college protestors were spoiled brats who would have benefited from having to work a few jobs in order to pay their tuition, and Vietnam represented not an intellectual exercise in draft avoidance, or protest marches but a battlefield that was just as brutal as those their fathers faced in World War II and Korea.
Few who served during Vietnam ever complained of a generation gap. The men who fought World War II were their heroes and role models. They honored their father’s service by emulating it, and largely agreed with their father’s wisdom in attempting to stop Communism’s reach in Southeast Asia.
The most accurate poll of their attitudes (Harris, 1980) showed that 91 percent were glad they’d served their country, 74 percent enjoyed their time in the service, and 89 percent agreed with the statement that “our troops were asked to fight in a war which our political leaders in Washington would not let them win.” And most importantly, the castigation they received upon returning home was not from the World War II generation, but from the very elites in their age group who supposedly spoke for them.
Dropped onto the enemy’s terrain 12,000 miles away from home, America’s citizen-soldiers performed with a tenacity and quality that may never be truly understood. Those who believe the war was fought incompletely on a tactical level should consider
Significantly, these sacrifices were being made at a time the United States was deeply divided over our effort in Vietnam. The baby-boom generation had cracked apart along class lines as America’s young men were making difficult, life-or-death choices about serving. The better academic institutions became focal points for vitriolic protest against the war, with few of their graduates going into the military.
What is a hero? My heroes are the young men who faced the issues of war and possible death, and then weighed those concerns against obligations to their country. Citizen-soldiers who interrupted their personal and professional lives at their most formative stage, in the timeless phrase of the Confederate Memorial in Arlington National Cemetery, “not for fame of reward, not for place or for rank, but in simple obedience to duty, as they understood it.” Who suffered loneliness, disease, and wounds with an often-contagious elan. And who deserve a far better place in history than that now offered them by the so-called spokesman of our so-called generation.
Mr. Brokaw, Mr. Matthews, Mr. Bennett, Mr. Spielberg, meet my Marines. 1969 was an odd year to be in Vietnam. Second only to 1968 in terms of American casualties, it was the year made famous by Hamburger Hill, as well as the gut-wrenching Life cover story showing pictures of 242 Americans who had been killed in one average week of fighting. Back home, it was the year of Woodstock, and of numerous anti-war rallies that culminated in the Moratorium March on Washington. The My Lai massacre hit the papers and was seized upon by the anti-war movement as the emblematic moment of the war. Lyndon Johnson left Washington in utter humiliation. Former Secretary of the Navy James Webb was awarded the Navy Cross, Silver Star, and Bronze Star medals for heroism as a Marine in Vietnam.
Richard Nixon entered the scene, destined for an even worse fate. In the An Hoa Basin southwest of Danang, the Fifth Marine Regiment was in its third year of continuous combat operations. Combat is an unpredictable and inexact environment, but we were well led. As a rifle platoon and company commander, I served under a succession of three regimental commanders who had cut their teeth in World War II, and four different battalion commanders, three of whom had seen combat in Korea. The company commanders were typically captains on their second combat tour in Vietnam, or young first lieutenants like myself who were given companies after many months of “bush time” as platoon commanders in the Basin’s tough and unforgiving environs.
The Basin was one of the most heavily contested areas in Vietnam, its torn, cratered earth offering every sort of wartime possibility. In the mountains just to the west, not far from the Ho Chi Minh Trail, the North Vietnamese Army operated an infantry division from an area called Base Area 112. In the valleys of the Basin, main-force Viet Cong battalions whose ranks were 80 percent North Vietnamese Army regulars moved against the Americans every day. Local Viet Cong units sniped and harassed. Ridgelines and paddy dikes were laced with sophisticated booby traps of every size, from a hand grenade to a 250-pound bomb. The villages sat in the rice paddies and tree lines like individual fortresses, crisscrossed with the trenches and spider holes, their homes sporting bunkers capable of surviving direct hits from large-caliber artillery shells. The Viet Cong infrastructure was intricate and permeating. Except for the old and the very young, villagers who did not side with the Communists had either been killed or driven out to the government controlled enclaves near Danang.
In the rifle companies, we spent the endless months patrolling ridgelines and villages and mountains, far away from any notion of tents, barbed wire, hot food, or electricity. Luxuries were limited to what would fit inside one’s pack, which after a few “humps” usually boiled down to letter -writing material, towel, soap, toothbrush, poncho liner, and a small transistor radio.
We moved through the boiling heat with 60 pounds of weapons and gear, causing a typical Marine to drop 20 percent of his body weight while in the bush. When we stopped we dug chest-deep fighting holes and slit trenches for toilets. We slept on the ground under makeshift poncho hootches, and when it rained we usually took our hootches down because wet ponchos shined under illumination flares, making great targets. Sleep itself was fitful, never more than an hour or two at a stretch for months at a time as we mixed daytime patrolling with night-time ambushes, listening posts, foxhole duty, and radio watches. Ringworm, hookworm, malaria, and dysentery were common, as was trench foot when the monsoons came. Respite was rotating back to the mud-filled regimental combat base at An Hoa for four or five days, where rocket and mortar attacks were frequent and our troops manned defensive bunkers at night. Which makes it kind of hard to get excited about tales of Woodstock, or camping at the Vineyard during summer break.
We had been told while training that Marine officers in the rifle companies had an 85 percent probability of being killed or wounded, and the experience of “Dying Delta,” as our company was known, bore that out. Of the officers in the bush when I arrived, our company commander was wounded, the weapons platoon commander wounded, the first platoon commander was killed, the second platoon commander was wounded twice, and I, commanding the third platoons fared no better. Two of my original three-squad leaders were killed, and the third shot in the stomach. My platoon sergeant was severely wounded, as was my right guide. By the time I left, my platoon I had gone through six radio operators, five of them casualties.
These figures were hardly unique; in fact, they were typical. Many other units; for instance, those who fought the hill battles around Khe Sanh, or were with the famed Walking Dead of the Ninth Marine Regiment, or were in the battle of Hue City or at Dai Do, had it far worse.
When I remember those days and the very young men who spent them with me, I am continually amazed, for these were mostly recent civilians barely out of high school, called up from the cities and the farms to do their year in hell and then return. Visions haunt me every day, not of the nightmares of war but of the steady consistency with which my Marines faced their responsibilities, and of how uncomplaining most of them were in the face of constant danger. The salty, battle-hardened 20-year-olds teaching green 19-year-olds the intricate lessons of the hostile battlefield. The unerring skill of the young squad leaders as we moved through unfamiliar villages and weed-choked trails in the black of night. The quick certainty when a fellow Marine was wounded and needed help. Their willingness to risk their lives to save other Marines in peril. To this day it stuns me that their own countrymen have so completely missed the story of their service, lost in the bitter confusion of the war itself.
Like every military unit throughout history we had occasional laggards, cowards, and complainers. But in the aggregate, these Marines were the finest people I have ever been around. It has been my privilege to keep up with many of them over the years since we all came home. One finds in them very little bitterness about the war in which they fought. The most common regret, almost to a man, is that they were not able to do more for each other and for the people they came to help.
It would be redundant to say that I would trust my life to these men. Because I already have, in more ways than I can ever recount. I am alive today because of their quiet, unaffected heroism. Such valor epitomizes the conduct of Americans at war from the first days of our existence. That the boomer elites can canonize this sort of conduct in our fathers’ generation while ignoring it in our own is more than simple oversight. It is a conscious, continuing travesty.
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Visit to the Oval Office
12 10 2010
From: Floyd Subject: Visit to the Oval Office
Story by: Bruce Vincent
Stepping into the Oval Office, each of us was introduced to the
President and Mrs. Bush. We shook hands and participated in small talk.
When the President was told that we were from Libby , Montana , I
reminded him that Marc Racicot is our native son and the President
offered his warm thoughts about Governor Racicot. I have to tell you, I
was blown away by two things upon entering the office. First, the Oval
Office sense of ‘place’ is unreal. The President later shared a story
of Russian President Putin entering the room prepared to tackle the
President in a tough negotiation and upon entering, the atheist muttered
his first words to the President and they were “Oh, my God.”
I concurred. I could feel the history in my bones. Second, the man that
inhabits the office engaged me with a firm handshake and a look that can
only be described as penetrating. Warm, alive, fully engaged,
disarmingly penetrating. I was admittedly concerned about meeting the
man. I think all of us have an inner hope that the most powerful man in
our country is worthy of the responsibility and authority that we bestow
upon them through our vote. I admit that part of me was afraid that I
would be let down by the moment — that the person and the place could
not meet the lofty expectations of my fantasy world. This says nothing
about my esteem for President Bush but just my practical realization
that reality may not match my ‘dream.’
Once inside the office, President Bush got right down to business and,
standing in front of his desk, handed out the awards one at a time while
posing for photos with the winners and Mrs. Bush. With the mission
accomplished, the President and Mrs. Bush relaxed and initiated a
lengthy, informal conversation about a number of things with our entire
small group. He and the First Lady talked about such things as the rug
in the office. It is traditionally designed by the First Lady to make a
statement about the President, and Mrs.Bush chose a brilliant yellow
sunburst pattern to reflect ‘hope.’ President Bush talked about the
absolute need to believe that with hard work and faith in God there is
every reason to start each day in the Oval Office with hope. He and the
First Lady were asked about the impact of the Presidency on their
marriage and, with an arm casually wrapped around Laura, he said that he
thought the place may be hard on weak marriages but that it had the
ability to make strong marriages even stronger and that he was blessed
with a strong one.
After about 30 or 35 minutes, it was time to go. By then we were all
relaxed and I felt as if I had just had an excellent visit with a
friend. The President and First Lady made one more pass down the line of
awardees, shaking hands and offering congratulations. When the President
shook my hand I said, “Thank you Mr. President and God bless you and
your family.” He was already in motion to the next person in line, but
he stopped abruptly turned fully back to me, gave me a piercing look,
renewed the vigor of his handshake and said, “Thank you — and God bless
you and yours as well.”
On our way out of the office we were to leave by the glass doors on the
west side of the office. I was the last person in the exit line. As I
shook his hand one final time, President Bush said, “I’ll be sure to
tell Marc hello and give him your regards.”
I then did something that surprised even me. I said to him, “Mr.
President, I know you are a busy man and your time is precious. I also
know you to be a man of strong faith and I have a favor to ask of you.”
As he shook my hand he looked me in the eye and said, “Just name it.” I
told him that my step-Mom was at that moment in a hospital in Kalispell
, Montana , having a tumor removed from her skull and it would mean a
great deal to me if he would consider adding her to his prayers that
day. He grabbed me by the arm and took me back toward his desk as he
said, “So that’s it. I could tell that something is weighing heavy on
your heart today. I could see it in your eyes.This explains it.”
>From the top drawer of his desk he retrieved a pen and a note card with
his seal on it and asked, “How do you spell her name?” He then jotted a
note to her while discussing the importance of family and the strength
of prayer. When he handed me the card, he asked about the surgery and
the prognosis. I told him we were hoping that it is not a recurrence of
an earlier cancer and that, if it is, they can get it all with this
surgery.
He said, “If it’s okay with you, we’ll take care of the prayer right
now. Would you pray with me?” I told him yes and he turned to the staff
that remained in the office and hand motioned the folks to step back or
leave. He said, “Bruce and I would like some private time for a prayer.”
As they left he turned back to me and took my hands in his. I was
prepared to do a traditional prayer stance — standing with each other
with heads bowed. Instead, he reached for my head with his right hand
and pulling gently forward, he placed my head on his shoulder. With his
left arm on my mid-back, he pulled me to him in a prayerful embrace.
He started to pray softly. I started to cry. He continued his prayer for
Loretta and for God’s perfect will to be done. I cried some more. My
body shook a bit as I cried and he just held tighter. He closed by
asking God’s blessing on Loretta and the family during the coming
months. I stepped away from our embrace, wiped my eyes, swiped at the
tears I’d left on his shoulder, and looked into the eyes of our
president. I thanked him as best I could and told him that me and my
family would continue praying for him and his.
As I write this account down and reflect upon what it means, I have to
tell you that all I really know is that his simple act left me humbled
and believing. I so hoped that the man I thought him to be was the man
that he is. I know that our nation needs a man such as this in the Oval
Office. George W. Bush is the real deal. I’ve read Internet stories
about the President praying with troops in hospitals and other such
uplifting accounts. Each time I read them I hoped them to be true and
not an Internet perpetuated myth. This one, I know to be true. I was
there. He is real. He has a pile of incredible stuff on his plate each
day — and yet he is tuned in so well to the here and now that he
‘sensed’ something heavy on my heart. He took time out of his life to
care, to share, and to seek God’s blessing for my family in a simple
man-to-man, father-to-father, son-to-son, husband-to-husband, Christian-
to-Christian prayerful embrace. He’s not what I had hoped he would be.
He is, in fact, so very, very much more.
NOTE: If you decide to forward this story… please do not add to it.
Let Mr. Vincent’s encounter stand as he wrote it.
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Red States and Blue States
29 11 2008
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Half boy Half Man
6 12 2008
1/2 boy 1/2 man
If you read this, you WILL forward it on. You just won’t be able to
stop yourself.
The average age of the military man is 19 years. He is a short haired,
tight-muscled kid who, under normal circumstances is considered by
society as half man, half boy. Not yet dry behind the ears, not old
enough to buy a beer, but old enough to die for his country. He never
really cared much for work and he would rather wax his own car than wash
his father’s, but he has never collected unemployment either.
He’s a recent High School graduate; he was probably an average student,
pursued some form of sport activities, drives a ten year old jalopy, and
has a steady girlfriend that either broke up with him when he left, or
swears to be waiting when he returns from half a world away. He listens
to rock and roll or hip-hop or rap or jazz or swing and a 155mm
howitzer.
He is 10 or 15 pounds lighter now than when he was at home because he is
working or fighting from before dawn to well after dusk. He has trouble
spelling, thus letter writing is a pain for him, but he can field strip
a rifle in 30 seconds and reassemble it in less time in the dark. He can
recite to you the nomenclature of a machine gun or grenade launcher and
use either one effectively if he must.
He digs foxholes and latrines and can apply first aid like a
professional.
He can march until he is told to stop, or stop until he is told to
march.
He obeys orders instantly and without hesitation, but he is not without
spirit or individual dignity. He is self-sufficient.
He has two sets of fatigues: he washes one and wears the other. He keeps
his canteens full and his feet dry.
He sometimes forgets to brush his teeth, but never to clean his rifle.
He can cook his own meals, mend his own clothes, and fix his own hurts.
If you’re thirsty, he’ll share his water with you; if you are hungry,
his food. He’ll even split his ammunition with you in the midst of
battle when you run low.
He has learned to use his hands like weapons and weapons like they were
his hands.
He can save your life – or take it, because that is his job.
He will often do twice the work of a civilian, draw half the pay, and
still find ironic humor in it all.
He has seen more suffering and death than he should have in his short
lifetime.
He has wept in public and in private, for friends who have fallen in
combat and is unashamed.
He feels every note of the National Anthem vibrate through his body
while at rigid attention, while tempering the burning desire to
‘square-away ‘ those around him who haven’t bothered to stand, remove
their hat, or even stop talking.
In an odd twist, day in and day out, far from home, he defends their
right to be disrespectful.
Just as did his Father, Grandfather, and Great-grandfather, he is paying
the price for our freedom. Beardless or not, he is not a boy. He is the
American Fighting Man that has kept this country free for over 200
years.
He has asked nothing in return, except our friendship and understanding.
Remember him, always, for he has earned our respect and admiration with
his blood.
And now we even have women over there in danger, doing their part in
this tradition of going to War when our nation calls us to do so.
As you go to bed tonight, remember this shot. . .
A short lull, a little shade and a picture of loved ones in their
helmets.
Prayer wheel for our military… please don’t break it Please send this
on after a short prayer.
Prayer Wheel
‘Lord, hold our troops in your loving hands. Protect them as they
protect us. Bless them and their families for the selfless acts they
perform for us in our time of need. Amen.’
When you receive this, please stop for a moment and say a prayer for our
ground troops in Afghanistan , sailors on ships, and airmen in the air,
and for those in Iraq , Afghanistan and all foreign countries.
There is nothing attached… This can be very powerful…
Of all the gifts you could give a US Soldier, Sailor, Coastguardsman,
Marine, or Airman, prayer is the very best one.
I can’t break this one, sorry. Pass it on to everyone and pray.
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“Pistol Free Zones”
15 12 2008Monday, Dec 15, 2008
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Happy Holidays from MCRGO! Our newsletter will return January 5th, 2009.
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To wrap up the 2008 season …
Instead of a Q and A this week, I’m attempting a short review of logic as applied to gun law and policy. As some of you know, I, along with others in my company Advantage Education, have written approximately a dozen books on standardized exam preparation that were published by Pearson Education and McGraw-Hill. (The McGraw-Hill books on ACT and GRE prep are still in print and have new editions out now.) Each one of the books includes a chapter on logic. It is an important subject that is largely neglected by high schools and colleges. It is an old discipline. In fact, it is even mentioned by Xerxes to King Leonidas in the recent movie, 300. The science of logic simplifies and clarifies. However, it is under-utilized in public policy. As Voltaire pointed out: “Common sense isn’t.”
File this one under: “Good ideas bear repeating.”
One dictionary definition of logic is: “The system or principles of reasoning applicable to any branch of knowledge or study.” In this instance, the branch of study is gun law. I am the professor of firearms law at the largest law school in the United States, Thomas M. Cooley. In that capacity, I am regularly confronted with otherwise intelligent, logical people who simply cannot make sense of this area of public policy. The basic rules of logic are that there are two basic parts to an argument: evidence and conclusion. An argument is sound when the conclusion follows necessarily from the evidence that is put forth to support it. The cardinal sin of logic is to make an unwarranted assumption. We all know the colloquial definition of assumption as “making as ass out of u and me.” But, the truth is that some assumptions are okay. For instance, I assume that you speak English as I write this. We all make assumptions every day that are safe and useful.
Logicians define assumptions as “unstated premises,” because premises are pieces of evidence. Often when I ask students to define “assumption” they say, incorrectly, “Something that we conclude without evidence.” That actually defines an unsupported conclusion. As assumption is something that we leave out of the argument, a missing link between stated evidence and stated conclusion. The classic example is: “Socrates is a man, therefore Socrates is mortal.” The evidence is (or was) true, and so is the conclusion. But, there is a missing link, a suppressed premise, an assumption. That being: “Men are mortal.” In this example, the assumption is safe. Men actually are mortal.
The problems begin when we reach conclusions based on assumptions that aren’t necessarily so. Such as: “Everyone obeys gun laws,” which is the central assumption of almost all gun law. Logicians know that categorical statements are inherently unreliable. It only takes one counter example to disprove a categorical statement. We teach this to kids by saying, “Never say never.”
If it were true that everyone obeys gun laws, then laws such as our so-called “Pistol Free Zones” would make at least some sense. When we go to an airport, and everyone has to go through a screening process, we feel fairly secure in the fact that no one in the area has a gun. So, differences in physical strength and training aside, we feel that everyone is on the same footing in terms of self-defense. However, all it takes is one counter example to disprove a categorical statement. So, all it takes is one person with a gun in a “Pistol Free Zone” to put lie to the term.
Who is most likely to obey gun laws? The law-abiding, we good guys. Is it likely that a criminal bent on violence, and having already made the decision to break at least a few other laws will decide to leave his gun home because of one more law?
Let’s look at the evidence. Where do mass murders tend to occur? Not very surprisingly, in places where guns are prohibited. Prior to the recent Virginia Tech massacre, the deadliest criminal mass shooting by a single gunman in United States history was the incident at Luby’s Cafeteria in Killeen Texas on October 16, 1991. A woman named Suzanna Gratia Hupp was there eating with her two parents. Ms. Hupp, was, and is, a law-abiding citizen. And, she had a pistol with her. However, she left it in her truck when she went in to the restaurant (because the law at the time required her to) While they, and the other 80-plus patrons were eating, a madman drove his truck through the plate-glass front of the restaurant, jumped out, and began killing with two pistols. At one point, Suzanna’s father rushed the shooter but was killed in the attempt. Her mother was also murdered right before her eyes. As so many of these incidents do, this one ended with the killer’s suicide on the scene. The killer reloaded his guns several times. In other words, he would have been vulnerable to return fire if any had been available. None was. All of those folks in Luby’s that day were following the rules. Ms. Hupp’s gun was less than 100 feet away from her and completely useless to her.
That, boys and girls, is what we call evidence. Evidence that criminals do not obey the law, and evidence that some laws are dangerous to the law-abiding.
There are many more. I need only recite some place names by way of illustration: Columbine, Virginia Tech, the McDonald’s in San Ysidro, California, Dunblane, Scotland, the Amish school at Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania, etc. etc, the list goes on. There have been at least six fatal school shootings in the United States in 2008 alone. These murders all occurred in places where there weren’t supposed to be any guns. So, I feel confident in stating that the assumption that underlies the “Pistol Free Zone” law is, if you’ll pardon the expression, fatally flawed. Faulty evidence, stated or not, leads to flawed conclusions. Gun prohibitions do not save lives, they take lives.
Some of our laws are flat-out, indefensibly illogical. We must continue to work to change them; to bring them into line with common sense and reality. In the meantime, we obey them because that is what citizens in a democracy do. We only hope that no more innocent lives are sacrificed before logic finally prevails.
Steve Dulan (www.StevenWDulan.com) is a member of the Board of Directors of the MCRGO and the MCRGO Foundation, and a member of the Board of Trustees of the MCRGO Foundation. He is an attorney in private practice in East Lansing and Adjunct Professor of firearms law at The Thomas M. Cooley Law School. as well as an NRA Life Member.
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Things I’ve learned
1 01 2009
I’ve learned …. That the best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person.
I’ve learned …. That when you’re in love, it shows.
I’ve learned …. That just one person saying to me, ‘You’ve made my day!’ makes my day.
I’ve learned …. That having a child fall asleep in your arms is one of the most peaceful feelings in the world.
I’ve learned …. That being kind is more important than being right.
I’ve learned . … That you should never say no to a gift from a child.
I’ve learned …. That I can always pray for someone when I don’t have the strength to help him in some other way.
I’ve learned …. That no matter how serious your life requires you to be, everyone needs a friend to act goofy with.
I’ve learned …. That sometimes all a person needs is a hand to hold and a heart to understand.
I’ve learned …. That simple walks with my father around the block on summer nights when I was a child did wonders for me as an adult.
I’ve learned …. That life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer it gets to the end, the faster it goes.
I’ve learned …. That we should be glad God doesn’t give us everything we ask for.
I’ve learned …. That money doesn’t buy class.
I’ve learned …. That it’s those small daily happenings that make life so spectacular.
I’ve learned … That under everyone’s hard shell is someone who wants to be appreciated and loved.
I’ve learned …. That to ign ore the facts does not change the facts.
I ‘ve learned …. That when you plan to get even with someone, you are only letting that person continue to hurt you.
I’ve learned …. That love, not time, heals all wounds.
I’ve learned …. That the easiest way for me to grow as a person is to surround myself with people smarter than I am.
I’ve learned …. That everyone you meet deserves to be greeted with a smile.
I’ve learned …. That no one is perfect until you fall in love with them.
I’ve learned … That life is tough, but I’m tougher.
I’ve learned …. That opportunities are never lost; someone will take the ones you miss.
I’ve learned …. That when you harbor bitterness, happiness will dock elsewhere.
I’ve learned …. That I wish I could have told my Mom that I love her one more time before she passed away.
I’ve learned …. That one should keep his words both soft and tender, because tomorrow he may have to eat them.
I’ve learned …. That a smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.
I’ve learned …. That when your newly born grandchild holds your little finger in his little fist, that you’re hooked for life.
I’ve learned …. That everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it.
I’ve learned …. That the less time I have to work with, the more things I get done.
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THIS IS A MUST READ A true story
2 01 2009Two Stories BOTH TRUE – and worth reading!!!!
STORY NUMBER ONE
Many years ago, Al Capone virtually owned Chicago . Capone wasn’t famous for anything heroic. He was notorious for enmeshing the windy city in everything from bootlegged booze and prostitution to murder.
Capone had a lawyer nicknamed “Easy Eddie.” He was Capone’s lawyer for a good reason. Eddie was very good! In fact, Eddie’s skill at legal maneuvering kept Big Al out of jail for a long time.
To show his appreciation, Capone paid him very well. Not only was the money big, but Eddie got special dividends, as well. For instance, he and his family occupied a fenced-in mansion with live-in help and all of the conveniences of the day. The estate was so large that it
filled an entire Chicago City block.
Eddie lived the high life of the Chicago mob and gave little consideration to the atrocity that went on around him.
Eddie did have one soft spot, however. He had a son that he loved dearly. Eddie saw to it that his young son had clothes, cars, and a good education. Nothing was withheld. Price was no object.
And, despite his involvement with organized crime, Eddie even tried to teach him right from wrong. Eddie wanted his son to be a better man than he was.
Yet, with all his wealth and influence, there were two things he couldn’t give his son; he couldn’t pass on a good name or a good example.
One day, Easy Eddie reached a difficult decision. Easy Eddie wanted to rectify wrongs he had done.
He decided he would go to the authori ties and tell the truth about Al “Scarface” Capone, clean up his tarnished name, and offer his
son some semblance of integrity. To do this, he would have to testify
against The Mob, and he knew that the cost would be great. So, he testified.
Within the year, Easy Eddie’s life ended in a blaze of gunfire on a lonely Chicago Street . But in his eyes, he had given his son the greatest gift he had to offer, at the greatest price he could ever pay.
Police removed from his pockets a rosary, a crucifix, a religious medallion,
and a poem clipped from a magazine.
The poem read:
“The clock of life is wound but once, and no man has the power to tell just when the hands will stop, at late or early hour. Now is the only time you own. Live, love, toil with a will. Place no faith in time. For the clock may soon be still.”
STORY NUMBER TWO
World War II produced many heroes. One such man was Lieutenant Commander Butch O’Hare.
He was a fighter pilot assigned to the aircraft carrier Lexington in the South Pacific.
One day his entire squadron was sent on a mission. After he was airborne, he looked at his fuel gauge and realized that someone had forgotten to top off his fuel tank.
He would not have enough fuel to complete his mission and get back to his ship.
His flight leader told him to return to the carrier. Reluctantly, he dropped out of formation and headed back to the fleet.
As he was returning to the mother ship, he saw something that turned his blood cold; a squadron of Japanese aircraft was speeding its way toward the American fleet.
The American fighters were gone on a sortie, and the fleet was all but defenseless. He couldn’t reach his squadron and bring them back in time to save the fleet. Nor could he warn the fleet of the approaching danger. There was only one thing to do. He must somehow divert them from the fleet.
Laying aside all thoughts of personal safety, he dove into the formation of Japanese planes. Wing-mounted 50 caliber’s blazed as he charged in, attacking one surprised enemy plane and then another. Butch wove in and out of the now broken formation and fired at as many planes as possible until all his ammunition was finally spent.
Undaunted, he continued the assault. He dove at the planes, trying to clip a wing or tail in hopes of damaging as many enemy planes as possible, rendering them unfit to fly.
Finally, the exasperated Japanese squadron took off in another direction.
Deeply relieved, Butch O’Hare and his tattered fighter limped back to the carrier.
Upon arrival, he reported in and related the event surrounding his return. The film from the gun-camera mounted on his plane told the tale. It showed the extent of Butch’s daring attempt to protect hi s fleet. He had, in fact, destroyed five enemy aircraft.
This took place on February 20, 1942 , and for that action Butch became the Navy’s first Ace of W.W.II, and the first Naval Aviator to win the Congressional Medal of Honor.
A year later Butch was killed in aerial combat at the age of 29. His home town would not allow the memory of this WW II hero to fade, and today, O’Hare Airport in Chicago is named in tribute to the courage of this great man.
So, the next time you find yourself at O’Hare International, give some thought to visiting Butch’s memorial displaying his statue and his Medal of Honor. It’s located between Terminals 1 and 2.
SO WHAT DO THESE TWO STORIES HAVE TO DO WITH EACH OTHER?
Butch O’Hare was “Easy Eddie’s” son.
(Pretty cool, eh!)
For the total story click below
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When seconds count, police are only minutes away.
5 01 2009
2009-01-05_170848.jpg, originally uploaded by glavere.
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The Military Man
8 01 2009The average age of the military man is 19 years. He is a short haired,
tight-muscled kid who, under normal circumstances is considered by
society as half man, half boy. Not yet dry behind the ears, not old
enough to buy a beer, but old enough to die for his country. He never
really cared much for work and he would rather wax his own car than wash
his father’s, but he has never collected unemployment either.
He’s a recent High School graduate; he was probably an average student,
pursued some form of sport activities, drives a ten year old jalopy, and
has a steady girlfriend that either broke up with him when he left, or
swears to be waiting when he returns from half a world away. He listens
to rock and roll or hip-hop or rap or jazz or swing and a 155mm
howitzer.
He is 10 or 15 pounds lighter now than when he was at home because he is
working or fighting from before dawn to well after dusk. He has trouble
spelling, thus letter writing is a pain for him, but he can field strip
a rifle in 30 seconds and reassemble it in less time in the dark. He can
recite to you the nomenclature of a machine gun or grenade launcher and
use either one effectively if he must.
He digs foxholes and latrines and can apply first aid like a
professional.
He can march until he is told to stop, or stop until he is told to
march.
He obeys orders instantly and without hesitation, but he is not without
spirit or individual dignity. He is self-sufficient.
He has two sets of fatigues: he washes one and wears the other. He keeps
his canteens full and his feet dry.
He sometimes forgets to brush his teeth, but never to clean his rifle.
He can cook his own meals, mend his own clothes, and fix his own hurts.
If you’re thirsty, he’ll share his water with you; if you are hungry,
his food. He’ll even split his ammunition with you in the midst of
battle when you run low.
He has learned to use his hands like weapons and weapons like they were
his hands.
He can save your life – or take it, because that is his job.
He will often do twice the work of a civilian, draw half the pay, and
still find ironic humor in it all.
He has seen more suffering and death than he should have in his short
lifetime.
He has wept in public and in private, for friends who have fallen in
combat and is unashamed.
He feels every note of the National Anthem vibrate through his body
while at rigid attention, while tempering the burning desire to
‘square-away ‘ those around him who haven’t bothered to stand, remove
their hat, or even stop talking.
In an odd twist, day in and day out, far from home, he defends their
right to be disrespectful.
Just as did his Father, Grandfather, and Great-grandfather, he is paying
the price for our freedom. Beardless or not, he is not a boy. He is the
American Fighting Man that has kept this country free for over 200
years.
He has asked nothing in return, except our friendship and understanding.
Remember him, always, for he has earned our respect and admiration with
his blood.
And now we even have women over there in danger, doing their part in
this tradition of going to War when our nation calls us to do so.
As you go to bed tonight, remember this shot. . .
A short lull, a little shade and a picture of loved ones in their
helmets.
Prayer wheel for our military… please don’t break it Please send this
on after a short prayer.
Prayer Wheel
‘Lord, hold our troops in your loving hands. Protect them as they
protect us. Bless them and their families for the selfless acts they
perform for us in our time of need. Amen.’
When you receive this, please stop for a moment and say a prayer for our
ground troops in Afghanistan , sailors on ships, and airmen in the air,
and for those in Iraq , Afghanistan and all foreign countries.
There is nothing attached… This can be very powerful…
Of all the gifts you could give a US Soldier, Sailor, Coastguardsman,
Marine, or Airman, prayer is the very best one.
I can’t break this one, sorry. Pass it on to everyone and pray.
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Why I Carry a Gun.
11 01 2009
Why I Carry a Gun
My old grandpa said to me son,’ there comes a time in every mans life
when he stops bustin’ knuckles and starts bustin’ caps and usually it’s
When he becomes too old to take an ass whoopin’.
I don’t carry a gun to kill people.
I carry a gun to keep from being killed.
I don’t carry a gun to scare people.
I carry a gun because sometimes this world can be a scary place.
I don’t carry a gun because I’m paranoid.
I carry a gun because there are real threats in the world.
I don’t carry a gun because I’m evil.
I carry a gun because I have lived long enough to see the evil in the
world.
I don’t carry a gun because I hate the government.
I carry a gun because I understand the limitations of government.
I don’t carry a gun because I’m angry.
I carry a gun so that I don’t have to spend the rest of my life hating
myself for failing to be prepared.
I don’t carry a gun because I want to shoot someone.
I carry a gun because I want to die at a ripe old age in my bed, and
not on a sidewalk somewhere tomorrow afternoon.
I don’t carry a gun to make me feel like a man.
I carry a gun because men know how to take care of themselves and the
ones they love.
I don’t carry a gun because I feel inadequate.
I carry a gun because unarmed and facing three armed thugs, I am
inadequate.
I don’t carry a gun because I love it.
I carry a gun because I love life and the people who make it meaningful
to me.
Police Protection is an oxymoron. Free citizens must protect themselves.
Police do not protect you from crime, they usually just investigate the
crime after it happens and then call someone in to clean up the mess.
(so true!)
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Michigan Open Carry
14 01 2009
YOU CAN OPENLY CARRY A HANDGUN IN MICHIGAN
Any 18-yr. old or older, law-abiding citizen of the State of Michigan who owns a legally registered handgun may openly carry (in a holster) said firearm in all places not explicitly exempt by law with or without a CPL. Private property rules over-ride state law in regards to firearm possession.
WHY OPENLY CARRY A FIREARM? To protect yourself.
To protect your family.
To protect your rights.
It’s a faster draw.
It’s more comfortable in warm weather.
It’s a crime deterrent.
WON’T I BE A TARGET IF I OPEN CARRY?
There is no documented evidence that this has happened to a citizen while open carrying a handgun. Data shows that criminals avoid victims they know are armed.
WON’T THIS BEHAVIOR SCARE PEOPLE?
Of the thousands of hours people have open carried in Michigan we have found that no one reacts in a hysterical manner. Our data suggest most times a 911 call is made is by an off- duty police officer. Most police encounters are instigated by officers themselves and complaints were not by the public.
The lawful open carry of a firearm is not cause for a charge of brandishing or disturbing the peace.
ADVISORY NOTE: Though this section on disturbing the peace does not deal with firearms, due to the nature of this code, this law has been cited by officers to suppress or discourage lawful open carry. Since a person who is not licensed to carry concealed MUST open carry their firearms on foot in order to avoid criminal charge, nor is there any duty for anyone licensed to conceal their handgun, open carry is not disorderly conduct. The open carrying of firearms is not by it self threatening, nor does it cause a hazardous or physically offensive condition.
BRANDISHING A.G.Opinion No. 7101 February 6, 2002: …In the absence of any reported Michigan appellate court decisions defining “brandishing,” it is appropriate to rely upon dictionary definitions. The term brandishing is defined as: “1. To wave or flourish menacingly, as a weapon. 2. To display ostentatiously. A menacing or defiant wave or flourish.” This definition comports with the meaning ascribed to this term by courts of other jurisdictions…the court recognized that in federal sentencing guidelines, “brandishing” a weapon is defined to mean “that the weapon was pointed or waved about, or displayed in a threatening manner.” Applying these definitions to your question, it is clear that a reserve police officer, regardless whether he or she qualifies as a “peace officer,” when carrying a handgun in a holster in plain view, is not waving or displaying the firearm in a threatening manner. Thus, such conduct does not constitute brandishing a firearm in violation of section 234e of the Michigan Penal Code. It is my opinion, therefore, that…by carrying a handgun in a holster that is in plain view, does not violate section 234e of the Michigan Penal Code, which prohibits brandishing a firearm in public. JENNIFER M. GRANHOLM, Attorney General
PLACES off limits to firearms without a CPL: Sec. 234d (1) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (2), a person shall not possess a firearm on the premises of any of the following: a) A Bank. b) A church. c) A court. d) A theatre. e) A sports arena. f) A day care center. g) A hospital. h) An establishment licensed under the Michigan liquor control act (BAR).
(2) This section does not apply to any of the following:
a) A person who owns, or is employed by or contracted by, an entity described in subsection (1) if the possession of that firearm is to provide security services for that entity.
b) A peace officer.
c) A person licensed by this state or another state to carry a concealed weapon.
d) A person who possesses a firearm on the premises of an entity described in subsection (1) if that possession is with the permission of the owner or an agent of the owner of that entity.
A person openly carrying a firearm on foot in a legal manner when approached by a police officer and questioned where the only reason for the questioning is because of the openly carried firearm need not give that officer their name and address. No license or ID is required to openly carry a firearm. It is your option to provide ID/CPL.
ADVISORY NOTE: Each situation is different. We recommend you cooperate with all lawful questions and requests. Ask the officer if the reason you are being detained is for the legal open carry of a firearm. After giving your name and address, ask if you are free to go, ask if you are being detained. If they continue to ask questions about ID and why you are carrying a gun, repeat the question, am I free to go? Am I being detained? If the situation escalates ask for a supervisor. Remember the officer can arrest you for anything, don’t resist the arrest. After an illegal arrest you may have legal options you can employ.
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Tips for a Happier Life
19 01 20092. Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day.
3. Sleep for 7 hours.
4. Live with the 3 E’s — Energy, Enthusiasm, and Empathy.
5. Play more games.
6. Read more books than you did the previous year.
7. Make time to practice meditation, yoga, and prayer. They provide us with daily fuel for our busy lives.
8. Spend time with people over the age of 70 & under the age of 6.
9. Dream more while you are awake.
10. Eat more foods that grow on trees and plants and eat less food that is manufactured in plants.
11. Drink plenty of water.
12. Try to make at least three people smile each day.
13. Don’t waste your precious energy on gossip.
14. Forget issues of the past. Don’t remind your partner with his/her mistakes of the past. That will ruin your present happiness.
15. Don’t have negative thoughts or things you cannot control. Instead invest your energy in the positive present moment.
16. Realize that life is a school and you are here to learn. Problems are simply part of the curriculum that appear and fade away like algebra class but the lessons you learn will last a lifetime.
17. Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a beggar.
18. Smile and laugh more.
19. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone. Don’t hate others.
20. Don’t take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
21. You don’t have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.
22. Make peace with your past so it won’t spoil the present.
23. Don’t compare your life to others’. You have no idea what their journey is all about. Don’t compare your partner with others.
24. No one is in charge of your happiness except you.
25. Forgive everyone for everything.
26. What other people think of you is none of your business.
27. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.
28. Your job won’t take care of you when you are sick. Your friends will. Stay in touch.
29. Get rid of anything that isn’t useful, beautiful or joyful.
30. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.
31. The best is yet to come.
32. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
33. Do the right thing!
34. Call your family often.
35. Your inner most is always happy. So be happy.
36. Each day give something good to others.
37. Don’t over do. Keep your limits.
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PJB: A Brief for Whitey
23 01 2009
March 21, 2008
By Patrick J. Buchanan
How would he pull it off? I wondered.
How would Barack explain to his press groupies why he sat silent in a pew for 20 years as the Rev. Jeremiah Wright delivered racist rants against white America for our maligning of Fidel and Gadhafi, and inventing AIDS to infect and kill black people?
How would he justify not walking out as Wright spewed his venom about “the U.S. of K.K.K. America,” and howled, “God damn America!”
My hunch was right. Barack would turn the tables.
Yes, Barack agreed, Wright’s statements were “controversial,” and “divisive,” and “racially charged,” reflecting a “distorted view of America.”
But we must understand the man in full and the black experience out of which the Rev. Wright came: 350 years of slavery and segregation.
Barack then listed black grievances and informed us what white America must do to close the racial divide and heal the country.
The “white community,” said Barack, must start “acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination — and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past — are real and must be addressed. Not just with words, but with deeds … .”
And what deeds must we perform to heal ourselves and our country?
The “white community” must invest more money in black schools and communities, enforce civil rights laws, ensure fairness in the criminal justice system and provide this generation of blacks with “ladders of opportunity” that were “unavailable” to Barack’s and the Rev. Wright’s generations.
What is wrong with Barack’s prognosis and Barack’s cure?
Only this. It is the same old con, the same old shakedown that black hustlers have been running since the Kerner Commission blamed the riots in Harlem, Watts, Newark, Detroit and a hundred other cities on, as Nixon put it, “everybody but the rioters themselves.”
Was “white racism” really responsible for those black men looting auto dealerships and liquor stories, and burning down their own communities, as Otto Kerner said — that liberal icon until the feds put him away for bribery.
Barack says we need to have a conversation about race in America.
Fair enough. But this time, it has to be a two-way conversation. White America needs to be heard from, not just lectured to.
This time, the Silent Majority needs to have its convictions, grievances and demands heard. And among them are these:
First, America has been the best country on earth for black folks. It was here that 600,000 black people, brought from Africa in slave ships, grew into a community of 40 million, were introduced to Christian salvation, and reached the greatest levels of freedom and prosperity blacks have ever known.
Wright ought to go down on his knees and thank God he is an American.
Second, no people anywhere has done more to lift up blacks than white Americans. Untold trillions have been spent since the ’60s on welfare, food stamps, rent supplements, Section 8 housing, Pell grants, student loans, legal services, Medicaid, Earned Income Tax Credits and poverty programs designed to bring the African-American community into the mainstream.
Governments, businesses and colleges have engaged in discrimination against white folks — with affirmative action, contract set-asides and quotas — to advance black applicants over white applicants.
Churches, foundations, civic groups, schools and individuals all over America have donated time and money to support soup kitchens, adult education, day care, retirement and nursing homes for blacks.
We hear the grievances. Where is the gratitude?
Barack talks about new “ladders of opportunity” for blacks.
Let him go to Altoona and Johnstown, and ask the white kids in Catholic schools how many were visited lately by Ivy League recruiters handing out scholarships for “deserving” white kids.
Is white America really responsible for the fact that the crime and incarceration rates for African-Americans are seven times those of white America? Is it really white America’s fault that illegitimacy in the African-American community has hit 70 percent and the black dropout rate from high schools in some cities has reached 50 percent?
Is that the fault of white America or, first and foremost, a failure of the black community itself?
As for racism, its ugliest manifestation is in interracial crime, and especially interracial crimes of violence. Is Barack Obama aware that while white criminals choose black victims 3 percent of the time, black criminals choose white victims 45 percent of the time?
Is Barack aware that black-on-white rapes are 100 times more common than the reverse, that black-on-white robberies were 139 times as common in the first three years of this decade as the reverse?
We have all heard ad nauseam from the Rev. Al about Tawana Brawley, the Duke rape case and Jena. And all turned out to be hoaxes. But about the epidemic of black assaults on whites that are real, we hear nothing.
Sorry, Barack, some of us have heard it all before, about 40 years and 40 trillion tax dollars ago.
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Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence and third President of the United States,
26 01 2009
http://etext.virginia.edu/jefferson/quotations/
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Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence and third President of the United States, was this nation’s greatest champion of representative democracy and the rights of man. He was our most eloquent spokesman on the founding principles of American self-government. As he himself said, “I know my own principles to be pure and therefore am not ashamed of them. On the contrary, I wish them known and therefore willingly express them to everyone. They are the same I have acted on from the year 1775 to this day, and are the same, I am sure, with those of the great body of the American people.” (letter to Samuel Smith, 1798 )
Now with over 2,700 excerpts from Jefferson’s writings, this site contains much more than just a collection of quotations arranged by topic. It provides a fair statement of the complete political philosophy of Thomas Jefferson. The excerpts were chosen, not for their historical significance, but as an expression of Jefferson’s PRINCIPLES of government that have relevance for us today. Much of Jefferson’s thought is highly quotable, and a special download section is made available for those selections most useful for writing and speaking. Jefferson as much as any of the Founding Fathers expressed with eloquence the basic principles of our democracy, and the following description applies well to those principles as found in his own writings:
“The essential principles of our Government… form the bright constellation which has gone before us and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation. The wisdom of our sages and blood of our heroes have been devoted to their attainment. They should be the creed of our political faith, the text of civic instruction, the touchstone by which to try the services of those we trust; and should we wander from them in moments of error or of alarm, let us hasten to retrace our steps and to regain the road which alone leads to peace, liberty and safety.” –1st Inaugural Address, 1801.
Visitors are invited to download the selection of quotations, to use them in speaking and writing, and to list this source on their own Web Site.
Compiled and Edited by Eyler Robert Coates, Sr.
Metairie, Jefferson Parish, Louisiana
*The famous quotation at the top of this page is from a letter to Dr. Benjamin Rush of September 23, 1800. ME 10:173
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The Wild Wild West. (NOT)
19 02 2009
John Pierce is a life-long gun rights advocate, an NRA certified instructor and co-founder of the nationwide gun rights group OpenCarry.org. John has an MBA from George Mason University and is a first-year law student at Hamline University.
Dispelling the myth of ‘The Wild West’
February 17, 8:48 AM
by John Pierce, Minneapolis Gun Rights Examiner
The dime store novel image of the West
These are interesting times in the fight to protect and enhance our rights as gun owners. In Wisconsin, we stand on the eve of an historic court ruling regarding open carry. In Texas, South Carolina, Oklahoma and Arkansas, local activists have succeeded in making their voices heard regarding restoring open carry to these otherwise gun-friendly states. With all of this pro-gun activity, it should come as little surprise that the anti-gun forces are out in-force repeating their aged mantra … “This isn’t the wild west.”
And this rhetoric is not limited to anti-gunners. Recently, I was quoted in a USA Today article about the open carry initiatives around the country and in that article, Texas Senator Jeff Wentworth (R), a supposedly pro-gun legislator denounced open carry saying “I think that’s harkening too far back to the Wild West.”
With all this talk of “The Wild West”, I thought it might be informative to look at the reality of crime in the “wild west” cattle towns and compare them to the peaceful streets of such eastern, gun-control paradises as DC, New York, Baltimore and Newark.
In his book, Frontier Violence: Another Look, author W. Eugene Hollon, provides us with these astonishing facts:
* In Abilene, Ellsworth, Wichita, Dodge City, and Caldwell, for the years from 1870 to 1885, there were only 45 total homicides. This equates to a rate of approximately 1 murder per 100,000 residents per year.
* In Abilene, supposedly one of the wildest of the cow towns, not a single person was killed in 1869 or 1870.
Zooming forward over a century to 2007, a quick look at Uniform Crime Report statistics shows us the following regarding the aforementioned gun control “paradise” cities of the east:
* DC – 183 Murders (31 per 100,000 residents)
* New York – 494 Murders (6 per 100,000 residents)
* Baltimore – 281 Murders (45 per 100,000 residents)
* Newark – 104 Murders (37 per 100,000 residents)
It doesn’t take an advanced degree in statistics to see that a return to “wild west” levels of violent crime would be a huge improvement for the residents of these cities.
The truth of the matter is that the “wild west” wasn’t wild at all … not compared to a Saturday night in Newark.
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Act to survive gunman on a spree
16 03 2009deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,705290314,00.html?pg=1
By Jacob Hancock
Deseret News
Published: Thursday, March 12, 2009 10:27 a.m. MDTNews of a 17-year-old student storming his Germany high school and killing 15 serves as a solemn reminder of the peril students everywhere still face in the classroom.
Experts say the danger from the increasing number of shooting attacks is so chaotic, that even before the first responding officer arrives, a person can take several actions to increase their odds of survival.
If you’re ever found in such a situation, law enforcement officials say there are steps you can take to help you live through an event such as the one Derek O’Dell almost didn’t survive.
Moments after O’Dell heard popping sounds down the hall, a gunman stepped inside his college German class at Virginia Tech, shot him and fired a barrage of 9mm slugs through most of his classmates.
In the 10 years leading up to the Virginia Tech massacre, 42 gunmen across the United States gunned down 210 students and faculty during school, killing 78, according to data compiled by the Deseret News.
And since the 2007 VT massacre, seven gunmen have shot 79 students and faculty at school, killing 43.
Obvious gang-related shootings were not included in the data, which is specifically intended to follow active-gunmen-type shooters.
Dave Grossman, a West Point professor and founder of Killology science, coined the “active” shooter neologism in the late 90s to distinguish modern killers, who actively and indiscriminately aim for the most possible bloodshed without concern for themselves, from the deal-striking, hostage-taking oriented type in the past who typically killed for gain.
“These killers are on a spree, out to kill as many people as possible, and ‘take no prisoners’ could well be their motto,” Grossman said.
The chances of meeting a gunman may be low but a student is 17.6 times more likely to die from a bullet at school than by a fire, according to a comparison of U.S Fire Administration statistics.
In perspective, school shooters kill more students each year than 93,500 school fires do in 17 years.
International codes, U.S. and state laws closely regulate fire safety; Utah elementary schools are supposed to drill monthly, high schools bimonthly.
But because laws do not mandate school officials to practice gunmen scenarios, besides perhaps a broad statement saying they must “drill for other emergencies” once a year, faculty and students are largely left to voluntarily or self-prepare for such a circumstance.
Law enforcement interviews, analysis from past gunmen behavior, and a ballistics test conducted by the Deseret News, BYU police and the Utah County Sheriffs Office, all reveal advice for someone in danger at each level of a an “active” threat: from hearing the ominous pops, to escaping, to barricading and finally to a face-to-face melee.
First, believe it
Before you can take a physical step from danger, though, authorities say you should make a mental one: Come to terms with the reality that a shooting is entirely possible today — right now.
Those who haven’t already ingested that bitter pill will likely psychologically “mis-frame the event as something more familiar — such as firecrackers, a prank, or the backfire of a car,” noted Dallas Drake, principal researcher at Homicide Prevention Research. It is this unprepared group of initial unbelievers who will surely break the next rule of survival: Do not investigate.
Dying to know
Curiosity has repeatedly proven to draw people toward abnormal sounds. Unsuspecting folks often saunter closer to danger, peering around corners, probing for answers.
Don’t.
Virginia Tech professor Kevin Granata saved 20 students by heroically funneling them into his locked office from their more-vulnerable classroom after he heard popping sounds.
But he just “couldn’t wait around,” students later told the Washington Post. He left the office, ventured toward the shots and was killed.
Distance, then cover
It may seem commonsensical for experts to suggest bolting to an exit, but too many in their panic automatically spring for close corners, nooks and crannies. Officials overwhelmingly stress distance as your No. 1 concern.
“You can’t get far enough,” said Richard Morman, Ohio State University police chief.
“Make an exit, break a window. Just go.”
Fifty-two Columbine High students didn’t. They had nine minutes to escape the second-floor library after initially hearing “popping sounds” outside, according to Jefferson County, Colo., sheriff’s reports, but they obeyed a teacher’s order to “get down” and to “stay on the floor,” as recorded in a 911 call. Students crouched defenselessly under wide-open tables in the school’s library and remained there for seven and a half minutes while two active gunmen blasted beneath their shoddy shields, killing 10 and injuring 12 before moving on.
In most cases, there’s an available exit — even if you have to make one and it’s framed by freshly broken glass, 12 feet above ground.
Doors: lock or block
Authorities know, however, that gaining distance or reaching outside can be out of reach no matter your Rambo-strength or MacGyver-mind, especially for students on higher floors. So, without an exit, find one of two types of doors: either one you can lock or one you can barricade.
Since students rarely have the means to lock doors, they’ll likely need to barricade, which is only practically possible by retreating to a room with an inward swinging door. Only inward opening doors have effectively been barricaded in past incidents with stacked furniture, body weight or wedged shoe soles. All have been reported to have saved lives during U.S. shootings.
Your chances of landing behind one of these more-protective doors are greater if you lunge into offices, lounges or smaller classrooms at the sound of gunshots.
That’s because, according to international building fire codes adopted by every U.S. school, large rooms — 50-person-capacity or more — are fitted with outward swinging doors, according to Warren Jones a longtime university architect in Utah. The task of keeping an outward swinging door shut with a tough, white-knuckle grip on a smooth knob is awkward and ineffective.
A 76-year-old Virginia Tech instructor understood the importance of barricading. He kept the gunman out by bravely propping himself against his inward swinging door. He eventually died from a few door-penetrating slugs, but his actions kept the gunman at bay and saved every one of his students, except for one.
Just down the hall, however, students left their door unchallenged. The gunman, 23, entered the classroom two times shooting 21 of his 25 frightened targets. By the time the gunman wandered back to the classroom to fire a third volley of shots at the few still surviving, he was stopped. O’Dell shut and wedged his shoes against the door and saved his peers. Door-penetrating bullets missed.
Take charge, not cover
When you can’t run, escape or take shelter behind an inward swinging door, you must be ready for when the doorknob rolls and clanks the mechanical sound of entry.
“At that very moment, that’s when you have little choice but to take action,” said BYU Police Lt. Arnold Lemmon, who has spent 28 years protecting students. “I wouldn’t have suggested that years ago, but it’s no longer hostage situations where you can just comply with their demands and live.”
Lemmon and other officials know that contrary to many students’ and teachers’ first instinct, just passively dodging bullets behind desks when a gunman enters is unwise — and has proven deadly. In fact, using desks hardly helps, according to several field ballistic tests conducted by police officials and the Deseret News.
One of the very weakest bullets, a regular .22 long-rifle caliber, tore through two different kinds of new BYU-donated school desks at 42 feet away — a shuddering fact when considering the average classroom depth is only between 26 and 30 feet. What may be more alarming, gunmen don’t commonly use the weakest bullets. Deseret News data shows they overwhelmingly wield 9mm or similar caliber ammunition during their shooting sprees that are packed with 320 percent more lead and hit with 270 percent more energy than the average .22 caliber bullet.
The next most common weapon of choice is the powerful, easy-to-aim 12-gauge shotgun, which again, when tested, gave further evidence for students not to depend on a ¾-inch-thick, composite-wood desk top for much protection. A common 12-gauge round fired at 40 feet blasted through the desk’s surface leaving a jagged 3-inch hole in the laminate-covered desktop.
Unsettling facts like these, coupled with such malicious and indiscriminate shooters as have been witnessed, are reasons why most officials say they have moved them from suggestions of passivity to more a modern and assertive view: “You’ll need to become more aggressive than you ever thought possible,” states the Center for Personal Protection & Safety, a Washington-based violence research think tank, in a survival training video. The center, staffed with former U.S. Department of Defense and FBI officials, added: “Throwing things, yelling, using improvised weapons can all be effective in this situation.”
Attack
The center instructs students and faculty to take charge against an active gunman by turning off the lights, spreading out (because shooters frequently aim at groups) and to quietly discuss a synchronized attack — queued at the gunman’s entrance. Then, solemnly, the center suggests, “Do the best you can.”
“But,” the center then warns, “total commitment and absolute resolve are critical.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson succinctly penned this same notion about challenging a much stronger foe when he wrote, “If you strike at a king, you must kill him.”
Active shooters won’t stop to negotiate, forgive your charge or give second chances. So, if he does enter, security professionals agree: strike with several and strike with strength.
Indecision or hesitation during your attack adds to your danger.
“At the least, (students) should remember the ‘three outs,’ ” Lemmon said in finality.
“Get out, hide out or take out.“
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Proud to be White
23 03 2009Proud to be White – Michael Richards makes his point…
Michael Richards better known as Kramer from TVs Seinfeld does make a good
point.
This was his defense speech in court after making racial comments in his
comedy act. He makes some very interesting points…
Someone finally said it… How many are actually paying attention to this?
There are African Americans, Mexican Americans, Asian Americans, Arab
Americans, etc. And then there are just Ameri- cans. You pass me on the
street and sneer in my direction. You call me ‘White boy,’ ‘Cracker,’
‘Honkey,’ ‘Whitey,’ ‘Caveman’ … and that’s OK.
But when I call you, Nigger, Kike, Towel head, Sand-nigger, Camel Jockey,
Beaner, Gook, or Chink … You call me a racist. You say that whites
commit a lot of violence against you… so why are the ghettos the most
dangerous places to live?
You have the United Negro College Fund. You have Martin Luther King Day.
You have Black History Month. You have Cesar Chavez Day. You have Yom
Hashoah. You have Ma’uled Al-Nabi. You have the NAACP. You have BET…
If we had WET (White Entertainment Television), we’d be racists. If we had
a White Pride Day, you would call us racists. If we had White History
Month, we’d be racists.
If we had any organization for only whites to ‘advance’ OUR, lives we’d be
racists.
We have a Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, a Black Chamber of Commerce, and
then we just have the plain Chamber of Commerce.
Wonder who pays for that??
A white woman could not be in the Miss Black American pageant, but any
color can be in the Miss America pageant .
If we had a college fund that only gave white students scholarships ….You
know we’d be racists.
There are over 60 openly proclaimed Black Colleges in the US .
Yet if there were ‘White colleges’ That would be a racist college.
In the Million Man March, you believed that you were marching for your race
and rights.
If we marched for our race and rights, you would call us racists.
You are proud to be black, brown, yellow and orange, and you’re not afraid
to announce it.
But when we announce our white pride, you call us racists.
You rob us, carjack us, and shoot at us. But, when a white police officer
shoots a black gang member or beats up a black drug- dealer running from
the law and posing a threat to society, you call him a racist.
I am proud… But you call me a racist.
Why is it that only whites can be racists??
There is nothing improper about this e-mail. Let’s see which of you are
proud enough to send it on. I sadly don’t think many will. That’s why we
have lost most of OUR RIGHTS in this country. We won’t stand up for
ourselves!
BE PROUD TO BE WHITE!
It’s not a crime yet … but getting real close!
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Terrorism is only one expression of jihad — there are others as dangerous.
25 03 2009
CAIR’s Well-Deserved Expulsion
Terrorism is only one expression of jihad — there are others as dangerous.
By Andrew C. McCarthy
A week ago, the FBI officially announced that it has cut ties with the Council on American-Islamic Relations. The self-styled civil-rights organization is characteristically squawking, but the FBI’s move was patently overdue — so much so that we ought to be asking: Why on earth did the FBI have ties with CAIR in the first place?
While we should applaud the government for finally doing the right thing, we also must seize this moment to consider why this action was necessary, and what it says about the threat we are up against.
That threat is not, essentially, about terrorism. Given the life-and-death stakes involved, it is understandable that government is preoccupied by terrorism (or what Obama’s homeland-security secretary, Janet Napolitano, absurdly calls “man-caused disasters”). But jihadist terror is merely the means to a specific end: the installation of sharia, the Islamic legal code, which Muslim fundamentalists regard as the necessary precondition for the achievement of Islam’s universalist ambitions.
Sharia should be of grave concern to us because it is antithetical to the U.S. Constitution and to our way of life. It rejects several core American propositions: that liberty cannot co-exist with an established state religion, that free people have a right to govern themselves irrespective of any religious code’s dictates, that there should be freedom of conscience (sharia holds that apostasy from Islam is not merely a crime but a capital offense), sexual liberty (homosexuality is also a death-penalty offense), and equal protection under the law (sharia privileges Muslims over non-Muslims and men over women). Sharia, furthermore, is the rationale commonly trotted out by militants to justify the use of force (whether we call it “terrorism” or employ such sophistries as “resistance” or “man-caused disasters”) for resolving policy disputes — under the rationale that policies that do not privilege Islam constitute an attack on Islam and therefore justify jihadist violence.
Incrementally establishing sharia is the central imperative of CAIR and several other organizations to which our government has recklessly been reaching out for years, since long before the 9/11 attacks. In sum, administrations of both parties, and executive branch agencies including the FBI, have taken the position that government’s only legitimate concern is the comparatively tiny cohort of terrorists who construe Islamic scriptures to command mass-murder attacks.
Not only have we averted our eyes from the ideology that motivates jihadism. We have affirmatively anointed as Muslim “moderates” the purveyors of this ideology, who are anything but moderate. Worse, the effect has been to empower anti-American elements at the expense of authentic Muslim moderates and reformers who crave liberty.
CAIR is an outgrowth of the Muslim Brotherhood, an Egyptian organization founded in 1928 that today boasts divisions throughout the world. The Brotherhood has been operating in the United States since the 1960s in a manner fully consistent with its motto: “Allah is our objective. The Prophet is our leader. The Quran is our law. Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope.” Its website makes no bones about the fact that it seeks “the introduction of the Islamic Shariah as the basis for controlling the affairs of state and society.”
Last year, the government won convictions in a terrorism-financing trial that targeted an ostensible Islamic charity, the Holy Land Foundation, along with several of its top operatives. CAIR has complained long and loud because prosecutors identified it as an unindicted co-conspirator in the case. Its argument that this was a smear is specious. The issue is not whether the government named CAIR on a list disseminated pretrial; what’s germane is the basis for that listing. The government richly supported its assertion with evidence, and no citizen or organization has a right to expunge that which is proved in the public’s courts.
At trial, the jury was treated to a 1991 Brotherhood memorandum that described the organization’s “work in America” as “a kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and ‘sabotaging’ its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers, so that it is eliminated and God’s religion is made victorious over all other religions.” CAIR has been the linchpin of that strategy.
Some history is in order. In 1987, the Brotherhood had established Hamas (or “the Islamic Resistance Movement,” as it describes itself). As its charter professes, Hamas
is one of the wings of Muslim Brotherhood in Palestine. Muslim Brotherhood Movement is a universal organization which constitutes the largest Islamic movement in modern times. It is characterised by its deep understanding, accurate comprehension and its complete embrace of all Islamic concepts of all aspects of life, culture, creed, politics, economics, education, society, justice and judgment, the spreading of Islam, education, art, information, science of the occult and conversion to Islam.
In a memorandum filed in a Texas federal court, prosecutors further elaborated that, through the early 1990s, “the Muslim Brotherhood was controlled by Palestinian Muslim Brotherhood members, and the leader of the U.S.-Muslim Brotherhood was Mousa Abu Marzook, who in 1989 was selected to be the leader of HAMAS, a position that he held while residing in the United States and controlling the U.S.-Muslim Brotherhood.” To support Hamas, the Brotherhood established a “Palestine Committee” in the United States.
Marzook (deported in 1995, he is currently wanted on a U.S. terrorism indictment in Chicago) led the Palestine Committee. One of its most important members was Omar Ahmad, who became president of the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP), which Marzook had formed years earlier. In 1993, the Palestine Committee convened a meeting in Philadelphia to plot a strategy for destroying the Oslo Accords’ vision of a two-state solution — Palestine peacefully co-existing with Israel, which Hamas is pledged to destroy. The meeting was secretly surveilled by the FBI, which caught Ahmad conversing with Nihad Awad, the IAP’s public-relations director, about strategies for deceiving Americans about their true intentions.
Less than a year later, Ahmad and Awad formed CAIR. The Holy Land Foundation, which was ultimately shuttered by the government and finally convicted for providing millions of dollars to Hamas, contributed part of the seed money. To serve as CAIR’s communications director, Ahmad and Awad tapped Ibrahim Hooper, another IAP veteran who has publicly acknowledged that his purpose is to establish sharia as the law of the United States.
Since its founding, several CAIR officials have been convicted or deported for terrorism-related activities and for other criminal offenses. CAIR, meanwhile, has sought to undermine national security — and the FBI specifically — at every turn: frequently mounting public-relations campaigns for indicted terror suspects, vigorously opposing the Patriot Act and the surveillance of suspected al-Qaeda communications, and even distributing a “Muslim community safety kit” that discourages cooperation with the FBI.
Despite that sordid record, government officials regarded CAIR as a representative and leader of American Muslims. Our law-enforcement and national-security agencies consulted with it closely and even permitted it to indoctrinate our agents during compulsory “sensitivity training” lectures. Doing so, they raised its profile, facilitated its radical, anti-American agenda, and dispirited our allies in the Muslim community, many of whom are in the United States precisely because they don’t want to live in the totalitarian misery the Muslim Brotherhood and its satellites would impose.
The major threat we face today is not what al-Qaeda may do to the grand structures that house our government and our institutions. It is what radical Islam is accomplishing inside those structures. Thankfully, the FBI has shown CAIR the door. But that only begins to address the problem.
— National Review’s Andrew C. McCarthy is a senior fellow at the National Review Institute and the author of Willful Blindness: A Memoir of the Jihad (Encounter Books, 2008).
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Benjamin Franklin.
1 04 2009
Yevgeny Vuchetich Sculpture: Let
Us Beat Swords into Plowshares,
United Nations Headquarters,
New York, NY, USA
“Those who beat their swords into plowshares usually end up plowing for those who didn’t !” – Benjamin Franklin.
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Empty holsters on Campus
7 04 2009
Should you have less freedom and safety than anyone else simply because you go to college?
Should society trust you less than your brothers and sisters of equal age simply because you attend college and they don’t?
If you’re mature enough and responsible enough to cast a vote, fight a war, own a gun, carry a gun and exercise every other right of citizenship that every other adult citizen enjoys, then why should you be disarmed and defenseless at institutions of higher learning?
In the aftermath of last April’s massacre at Virginia Tech, in which an armed maniac killed 27 students and five faculty members before killing himself, more and more students are asking life-and-death questions like these of their politicians and professors.
It’s a new national movement that’s gathering momentum on college campuses across the country.
In late October, that movement took to the streets in the form of so-called “empty holster protests” at over 110 college campuses in 38 states and the District of Columbia.
Led by a group called “Students for Concealed Carry on Campus,” students wore empty holsters to protest state laws and student codes of conduct that prohibit them from exercising the Right to Carry on campus–even if they have Right-to-Carry permits.
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While lawmakers delay, debate and defend the status quo–in which college students basically are accorded the status of second-class citizenship–too many of those students are becoming victims of crime.
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“As a college student and a concealed handgun license holder, when I step onto campus I am left unable to defend myself,” group founder Chris Brown, a political science major at North Texas University, says on the organization’s website. “My state allows me to carry a handgun in public, but there is some imaginary line drawn around college campuses for silly reasons. And those silly reasons are getting people killed, raped and robbed.”
Or, as one of the group’s leaders notes in an e-mail signature evoking the tragedy at Virginia Tech, “Campus policies left students shooting back with camera phones. Life’s worth more than pictures.”
Yet many state legislatures and college administrators don’t seem to think that students’ lives–or the lives of faculty, staff and visitors–are worth as much as their own.
When Good Intentions Empower Bad Men
Even though 40 states have fair Right-to-Carry laws, 36 states ban carrying firearms at schools, while 20 of those specifically outlaw firearms on college campuses.
So far, only one state–Utah–specifically and expressly allows the Right to Carry on public college campuses, thanks to a 2004 law allowing the Right to Carry on all state property. Although the University of Utah challenged the law, the state Supreme Court upheld it last year.
Even before the shootings at Virginia Tech, many were calling for the Right to Carry to be restored on college campuses. Ironically, a bill that would have required colleges in Virginia to allow Right-to-Carry permit holders to exercise that right on campuses failed in committee not long before the Virginia Tech tragedy.
After that crime, four states proposed bills to allow concealed firearm license holders to carry on college campuses. Such bills failed in Alabama and South Carolina, but at this writing a bill is still pending in Michigan and Ohio.
Additionally, Louisiana’s legislature defeated a proposed ban on firearms in college dorms and Maine rejected legislation that would have allowed colleges to prohibit firearms.
While lawmakers delay, debate and defend the status quo–in which college students basically are accorded the status of second-class citizenship–too many of those students are becoming victims of crime.
In a one-week period in late September alone:
- A Delaware State University freshman was arrested for shooting two fellow students;
- An armed man on the University of Wisconsin campus “said he wished to commit suicide or be killed by police”;
- A St. John’s University freshman was arrested while wearing a George Bush mask and carrying a rifle at the New York college;
- An Ole Miss junior was shot to death;
- A junior at Tufts University in Massachusetts was robbed at gunpoint;
- And a University of Memphis junior was murdered.
Yet despite proclaiming their intention to stop “gun violence,” the gun-ban lobby doesn’t seem to have much sympathy for the victims of college campus disarmament. In response to a question regarding the empty holster protest, Peter Hamm, spokesman for the Brady Campaign, mocked, “You don’t like the fact that you can’t have a gun on your college campus? Drop out of school.”
Silent Protest Opens Debate
Not to be thwarted, however, some college students aren’t giving up the fight as easily as the gun-ban lobby would hope.
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… a bill that would have required colleges in Virginia to allow Right-to-Carry permit holders to exercise that right on campuses died in committee not long before the Virginia Tech tragedy.
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When a friend proposed the idea of carrying empty holsters to show how lawful students had been disarmed, Michael Flitcraft, a 23-year-old sophomore at the University of Cincinnati, says he took the idea and ran with it.
Soon dozens of students, and ultimately over 100 colleges, joined in the empty holster protest.
While drawing attention to the injustice of denying college students their constitutional rights, the protest also helped educate the public and open a constructive dialog on many campuses.
“People are under the impression that this is going to suddenly put guns in the hands of college students,” said Scott Lewis, a media coordinator for Students for Concealed Carry on Campus. “We have to explain that, ‘No, this isn’t going to change the laws on who can get a gun, and it’s not going to make it legal to carry a gun while under the influence. It’s just going to give people on college campuses the same rights that they already have anywhere else.’”
“I had somebody tell me, ‘I’d just be terrified if I knew somebody was carrying a gun.’ So I asked them, ‘Why?’” said Jay Adkins, a senior at East Tennessee State University who helped organize the empty holster protest at his school.
“They had this idea that guns would just randomly go off, or that people would break out into gunfights all the time,” Adkins said. “But when you confront them with the facts that people do this in regular society every day, all the time, and nothing happens, they realize that college students can be just as responsible as any other adults.
“We’re all adults. We just want people to realize that we don’t suddenly become less responsible when we walk onto a campus.”
Even if the media are biased in their coverage–the protest did draw some very negative press comments–many involved believe the publicity helps their cause more than the bias hurts it.
“If it’s big enough to get the media’s attention and warrant a story,” said Flitcraft, “then it’s going to get the word out. And that can only help.”
The Siren Song of Security Schemes
In the wake of the mass murders at Virginia Tech, colleges have adopted various official responses while basically steering away from any serious, open-minded discussion of the firearms option.
Several schools now hold exercises akin to fire drills simulating a killer on campus. Some have fitted locks to classroom doors to keep killers at bay. New Jersey state Senator Barbara Buono plans legislation requiring a lock on every college and school classroom door in the state.
Virginia Tech installed sirens last spring that, ironically, got their first use on the day of the April 16 tragedy.
Technology companies are now selling schools mass notification systems based on e-mail, text-messaging, phone calls, RSS computer feeds, PA systems and digital billboards. One such company, Omnilert LLC, reported that the number of schools using its systems jumped from 25 to over 200 after the Virginia Tech tragedy.
For its part, the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators–whose members bank on being the only armed presence on campus–has warned that allowing students who have Right-to-Carry permits to carry on college grounds “has the potential to dramatically increase violence on our college and university campuses.”
Indeed, despite assurances from some university authorities that everything is on the table when it comes to campus security, the options offered almost never include the only option that can even the odds by meeting force with equal force–good people carrying firearms to protect themselves against violent criminals.
Freedom Saves Lives on Campus
Though the gun-ban lobby will never admit it, and the anti-gun media are loath to report it, even though guns are banned at schools throughout most of the United States, firearms in the hands of peaceful, ordinary citizens have proven decisive in stopping some school shootings.
- In January 2002 at the Appalachian School of Law in Grundy, Va., a 43-year-old former student walked into the offices of two faculty members and shot them to death. Hearing the gunfire, two students immediately and independently ran to their separate cars, retrieved their firearms and returned to confront the killer and hold him at gunpoint for police, preventing any further murders.
- In Pearl, Miss., after stabbing his mother to death, a 16-year-old took a rifle to his high school, killed his former girlfriend and another girl, then began firing into the crowd. The killer was leaving to continue his rampage at a nearby school when the vice principal of his high school ran off campus to his parked vehicle, retrieved his Colt .45, stopped the rampage and held the murderer for police.
- In Edinboro, Pa., after a 14-year-old shot a science teacher to death and wounded three others at a school dance in April 1998, a restaurant owner pointed a shotgun at the shooter, forced him to surrender and held the killer for 11 minutes until police arrived.
Of course, the gun-ban lobby loves to raise the specter of minor disagreements escalating into free-for-all shootouts among Right-to-Carry permit holders. But after crying “Wolf!” for so many years as state after state adopted Right to Carry–and seeing their dire predictions fall flat each and every time–the gun-ban lobby lost its credibility.
Consequently, gun haters shifted their story line from tragedy to comedy, ridiculing Right-to-Carry permit holders as juvenile would-be John Waynes or James Bonds, before suggesting, with infinite parental patience, that things don’t work like they do in the movies, and that armed good guys would never be able to shoot as well as armed bad guys.
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… the options offered almost never include the only option that can even the odds by meeting force with equal force–good people carrying firearms to protect themselves against violent criminals.
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What’s worse, though, is what such mockery and derision represent: an attempt to stifle the exchange of ideas and debate about a serious issue. In other words, hardly the kinds of things one would hope to “learn” at today’s “institutes for higher learning.”
As Scott Lewis pointed out in The Washington Times, “Whenever proponents of concealed carry point to its success throughout the nation, as well as studies showing that concealed handgun license holders are significantly less likely than non-license holders to commit violent crimes, they are answered with mockery, rather than intelligent discourse. In the world of academia and intellectual free expression, some issues are apparently not open for discussion.”
In the end, the issue isn’t so much whether the good guys prevail, or whether free speech is upheld. What really matters is whether the God-given right of self-defense is acknowledged and respected by the powers that be.
As Andrew Dysart, a senior at Virginia’s George Mason University who organized that school’s chapter of Students for Concealed Carry on Campus, argued, “There’s no guarantee to know either way whether the Right to Carry could have changed anything at Virginia Tech. But I believe those students should have been allowed at least the choice to have a chance of saving themselves. That’s what’s at issue here: whether or not students should have that option.”
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Let’s all surrender our weapons – you first!
9 04 2009
Let’s all surrender our weapons – you first!
Posted: April 08, 2009
6:28 pm Eastern
© 2009 WorldNetDaily
The rash of recent shooting incidents has led people who wouldn’t know an AK-47 from a paintball gun to issue demands for more restrictions on guns. To be sure, it’s hard to find any factor in these shootings that could be responsible – other than the gun.
So far, this year’s public multiple shootings were committed by:
- Richard Poplawski, 23, product of a broken family, expelled from high school and dishonorably discharged from the Marines, who killed three policemen in Pittsburgh.
- Former crack addict Jiverly Wong, 41, who told co-workers “America sucks” yet somehow was not offered a job as a speechwriter for Barack Obama, who blockaded his victims in a civic center in Binghamton, N.Y., and shot as many people as he could, before killing himself.
- Robert Stewart, 45, a three-time divorcee and high-school dropout with “violent tendencies” – according to one of his ex-wives – who shot up the nursing home in Carthage, N.C., where his newly estranged wife worked.
- Lovelle Mixon, 26, a paroled felon, struggling to get his life back on track by pimping, who shot four cops in Oakland, Calif. – before eventually being shot himself.
- Twenty-eight-year-old Michael McLendon, child of divorce, living with his mother and boycotting family funerals because he hated his relatives, who killed 10 of those relatives and their neighbors in Samson, Ala.
It might make more sense to outlaw men than guns. Or divorce. Or crack. Or to prohibit felons from having guns. Except we already outlaw crack and felons owning guns and yet still, somehow, Wong got crack and Mixon got a gun.
After being pulled over for a routine traffic violation, Lovelle Mixon did exactly what they teach in driver’s ed by immediately shooting four cops. Mixon’s supporters held a posthumous rally in his honor, claiming he shot the cops only in “self-defense,” which I take includes the cop Mixon shot while the officer was lying on the ground.
I guess Mixon also raped that 12-year-old girl in “self-defense.” Clearly, the pimping industry has lost a good man. I wish I’d known him. I tip my green velvet fedora with the dollar signs all over it to him. Why do the good ones always die young? Pimps, I mean.
Liberals tolerate rallies on behalf of cop-killers, but they prohibit law-abiding citizens working at community centers in Binghamton, N.Y., from being armed to defend themselves from disturbed, crack-addicted America-haters like Jiverly Wong.
It’s something in liberals’ DNA: They think they can pass a law eliminating guns and nuclear weapons, but teenagers having sex is completely beyond our control.
The demand for more gun control in response to any crime involving a gun is exactly like Obama’s response to North Korea’s openly belligerent act of launching a long-range missile this week: Obama leapt to action by calling for worldwide nuclear disarmament.
If the SAT test were used to determine how stupid a liberal is, one question would be: “The best defense against lawless rogues who possess _______ is for law-abiding individuals to surrender their own _______________.”
Correct answer: Guns. We would also have accepted nuclear weapons.
Obama explained that “the United States has a moral responsibility” to lead disarmament efforts because America is “the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon.”
So don’t go feeling all morally superior to a country whose business model consists of exporting heroin, nuclear bombs and counterfeit U.S. dollars, and of importing Swedish prostitutes, you yahoo Americans with your little flag lapel pins.
On the other hand, the Japanese haven’t acted up much in the last, say, 64 years …
Fortunately, our sailors didn’t wait around for Obama to save them when Somali pirates boarded their ship this week. Stop right now or I’ll ask the U.N. to remind the “international community” that “the U.S. is not at war with Somali pirates.”
Gun-toting Americans are clearly more self-sufficient than the sissy Europeans. This is great news for everyone except Barney Frank, who’s always secretly wondered what it would be like to be taken by a Somali pirate.
Police – whom I gather liberals intend to continue having guns – and intrepid U.N. resolution drafters can’t be everywhere, all the time.
If a single civilian in that Binghamton community center had been armed, instead of 14 dead, there might have only been one or two – including the shooter. In the end, the cops didn’t stop Wong. His killing spree ended only when he decided to stop, and he killed himself.
“The shooter will eventually run out of ammo” strategy may not be the best one for stopping deranged multiple murderers.
But it’s highly unlikely that any community center in the entire state would be safe from a disturbed former crack-addict like Wong because New York’s restrictive gun laws require a citizen to prove he has a need for a gun to obtain a concealed carry permit.
Instead of having Planned Parenthood distribute condoms in schools, they ought get the NRA to pass out revolvers. It would save more lives.
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Do not blame Caesar, blame the people of Rome
28 04 2009
” Do not blame Caesar, blame the people of Rome who have so enthusiastically acclaimed and adored him and rejoiced in their loss of freedom and danced in his path and gave him triumphal processions and laughed delightedly at his licentiousness and thought it very superior of him to acquire vast amounts of gold illicitly. Blame the people who hail him when he speaks in the Forum of the ‘new, wonderful good society’ which shall now be Rome’s, interpreted to mean ‘more money, more ease, more security, more living fatly at the expense of the industrious.’ Julius was always an ambitious villain, but he is only one man.” “we are taxed in our bread and our wine, in our incomes and our investments, on our land and on our property, not only for base creatures who do not deserve the name of man, but for foreign nations, for complacent nations who will bow to us and accept our largesse and promise us to assist in the keeping of the peace – these mendicant nations who will destroy us when we show a moment of weakness or our treasury is bare. We are taxed to maintain legions on their soil, in the name of law and order and the Pax Romana, a document which will fall into dust when it pleases our allies and our vassals. We keep them in precarious balance only with our gold. Is the heart-blood of our nation worth these? Shall one Italian be sacrificed for Britain, for Gaul, for Egypt, for India, even for Greece, and a score of other nations? Were they bound to us with ties of love, they would not ask our gold. They would ask only our laws. They take our very flesh, and they hate and despise us. And who shall say we are worthy of more?”
Cicero
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Armed Women by Oleg Volk
18 05 2009
Copy right Oleg Volk
http://volkstudio.com/
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Drunk Drivers Kill !
19 05 2009
http://volkstudio.com/
Copy right Oleg Volk
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Wall-Mart
13 06 2009
Original article from
http://www.naturalnews.com/019381.html
Have you ever wondered if you’re a mind slave of the police-state
society we have in the United States these days? There’s a very simple
test you can do to find out. Here’s the test: Go shopping at Wal-Mart
repeatedly until you eventually end up walking out with an object that
has an embedded RFID anti-theft chip that hasn’t been deactivated.
Wal-Mart’s inventory control system will sound a tone and some retired,
elderly person will get after you, or even tap you on the shoulder, in
an effort to “control Wal-Mart’s inventory.”
Of course, to do this test properly, you should not be shoplifting. I do
not condone shoplifting. Always pay for what you purchase and then walk
out the door with the merchandise that you’ve already paid for.
From a legal perspective, whether or not Wal-Mart has deactivated the
anti-theft tag on the merchandise you’ve paid for is really none of your
business, nor is it your concern. You have every right to walk out of
that store with the merchandise you’ve purchased without being
interrupted by Wal-Mart employees. You have no legal obligation
whatsoever to submit to a search of your stuff, nor to produce paperwork
(such as a receipt) to prove your innocence.
So, walk out of Wal-Mart with merchandise you’ve paid for, let the
inventory control tone sound, and then refuse to return back to Wal-Mart
to have your merchandise “deactivated.” Just continue walking.
As you do so, you’ll notice that a number of people will start calling
after you. First, the Wal-Mart employee will say, “Sir, sir … ” in an
increasingly perturbed tone, and if you refuse to turn around and submit
to the police state search, usually other volunteer civilians will start
chiming in, “Sir, sir … ” Before long, you’ll have an entire chorus of
Wal-Mart employees and volunteer civilians calling after you. It’s like
a herd of brainwashed sheeple baa-ing at the top of their lungs.
As you keep walking into the parking lot, eventually someone might tap
you on the shoulder. That’s when you turn around and say, “May I help
you?” Someone says, “Your merchandise was beeping.” Now you simply say,
“Oh, I didn’t know that was mine, I paid for all of my merchandise. I
thought that beeping was only for things that were stolen.”
At that point, the Wal-Mart employee, who has probably caught up to you
by now, will say you need to return and have your merchandise
deactivated. Now here’s the point at which you get to decide whether
you’re a mind slave or a free citizen. If you’re a free citizen you’ll
do what I do, which is to say, “I don’t mind my products not being
deactivated, thank you.” And you simply walk away.
If you are a mind slave, then you will submit to this ridiculous request
for an illegal search, and you’ll return to have Wal-Mart employees
rifle through the items you just paid for, trying to figure out which
one needs to be zapped by their inventory control system. If you’ve ever
experienced this, they’ll say, “Okay, try it now.” And you’ll get to
walk through their security system again, and then look back compliantly
at the Wal-Mart employees to find out if they want you to come back and
jump through their security hoops one more time. Truly, only a mind
slave would submit to this waste of time and violation of privacy. It’s
an idiotic Wal-Mart game that I choose not to participate in.
The “don’t pursue” policy As you continue calmly walking away, you’ll
notice something very interesting. That is, specifically, nothing. The
police don’t show up. The FBI doesn’t come knocking at your door. Even
the Wal-Mart employee who wants to detain you with an illegal search
doesn’t even come after you, and you know why? The whole system is a
ruse. Wal-Mart tells their door guardians to not pursue those who choose
to walk away. You heard me right: Wal-Mart has a “don’t pursue” policy
for shoplifters! This means, of course, that this inventory control
technology has no real prevention purpose whatsoever. It does nothing to
stop a real shoplifter who buys one item, pockets another without paying
for it, then calmly walks out of the store. The anti-theft system does
have another purpose, however: To remind everyone that they are being
watched. It also serves to annoy non-shoplifting citizens who are stupid
enough to turn around and submit to a Wal-Mart search of their stuff.
The true purpose of inventory control systems at Wal-Mart is not to
actually reduce shoplifting or apprehend shoplifting criminals, it
seems. The real purpose is making sure that law-abiding citizens shop at
Wal-Mart in a state of constant fear. Because you never know if your bag
is going to beep on the way out. It’s a game of Wal-Mart Russian
Roulette, where even if you’ve paid for all your merchandise, you still
might get beeped, stopped and searched. “Show us your papers, please!”
means hand over your receipt and prove that you bought the merchandise
you’re carrying. It’s an outlandish request that only a servile shopper
would submit to.
In reality, you have to prove nothing. If Wal-Mart wants to accuse you
of shoplifting, the burden of proof is on them to prove your guilt, not
you to prove your innocence. And if they do anything whatsoever to
physically stop you from walking out of the store, that’s kidnapping,
and you should be calling the police on them, not the other way around.
Hence the Wal-Mart “don’t pursue” policy. Their lawyers have already
figured out that they have no legal basis for stopping and searching
shoppers. Thus, your compliance is entirely voluntary.
Don’t be a mind slave to Wal-Mart. Follow the Wal-Mart Freedom Action
Plan described below:
If you are not a shoplifter, and you’ve paid for your merchandise, and
you still get beeped by the anti-theft system on your way out of the
store, take these actions:
IGNORE the beep. It doesn’t apply to you anyway, since you’re not
shoplifting. IGNORE the Wal-Mart employees calling after you: “Sir!” or
“Ma’am!” They must not be talking to you anyway, since you paid for all
your stuff. KEEP WALKING towards your car. Wal-Mart has a “no pursue”
policy, so they cannot legally stop you from calmly walking to your car
and driving away. Most of the time, this will be the conclusion of your
Wal-Mart walkout event. REPLY to any direct verbal challenge (like if
they tap you on the shoulder or run around to get in front of you) with:
“No thanks. I don’t mind my merchandise not being deactivated.”
THREATEN TO CALL THE POLICE if a Wal-Mart employee grabs your arm or
otherwise physically assaults you. Tell the employee you are going to
press assault charges against them. The entire thing will be recorded on
Wal-Mart’s parking lot security cameras. REFUSE to play their mind game
by producing a receipt or otherwise submitting to their illegal search.
Once you pay for the merchandise, it is now yours, not theirs, and
Wal-Mart has no right to search through your private property without a
search warrant. As a last resort, if they continue to hound you,
demand, “Are you accusing me of a crime?” When they answer no, reply,
“Then I will be on my way.” Keep on walking. Use these action steps at
your own risk. I am not a lawyer, and this is not intended to serve as
legal advice. If you’re stupid enough to start running or to get into a
fight with a Wal-Mart employee, you will probably end up being arrested.
Stay completely calm and matter-of-fact like. You are in the right.
Don’t blow it by acting suspicious. And, of course, if an actual member
of legitimate law enforcement happens to get involved, it’s a good idea
to do what they ask, even if it means showing your receipt to “prove
your innocence.” Police officers do, in fact, have the right to pursue
you, even if they only suspect you’re a shoplifter. Also, it’s
important to note that if you get into your car, and the Wal-Mart
vigilante is obnoxious enough to stand behind your car, blocking you in,
you will be charged with a serious vehicular assault crime if you merely
tap that person with your vehicle. The best thing to do if this happens
is get a picture of the Wal-Mart vigilante standing behind your car and
send it to us. It will be viewed by millions and will probably get that
employee justifiably fired. If you don’t have a digital camera, just
remember that Wal-Mart sells them. Stash your goods in your car, return
to Wal-Mart, purchase a digital camera with batteries, and start
snapping away as a citizen journalist. It’s a classic tactic of every
freedom-loving citizen: Use their own stuff against them. Then use the
power of the Internet to share your photographic evidence with the
world.
Another handy tip to remember is that if you exit the store through the
RFID detectors at the exact same moment as somebody else, and the
inventory control system sounds off, usually the Wal-Mart staff will
focus on whichever person is stupid enough to turn around first. In my
experience, if you just keep walking, the shopper next to you will
always stop and submit to a search, thereby occupying the Wal-Mart
vigilantes long enough for you to exit the area. So always try to pass
through the RFID detectors (those are the large vertical stands that now
have movie posters concealing their identity) at the same instant as
somebody else. And try not to laugh out loud when they stop and submit
to an illegal search. (Because laughing attracts attention.)
Remember, stay calm. Never raise your voice. Don’t act like a criminal.
Just go about your business of leaving the store with the stuff you own.
And for goodness sake, stop being a mind slave of Wal-Mart’s inventory
control system. It’s just a retailer, after all. This isn’t the TSA
strip-searching you at the airport. (Don’t mess with the TSA. They will
lock you up or otherwise ruin your travel plans.)
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David Letterman is the Joke.
15 06 2009
Michelle Malkin takes him to task.
quote:Will you teach your son to talk about women and girls the way you talk about Sarah Palin and her daughters?
You called the married 45-year-old mother, grandmother and Alaska governor a “slutty flight attendant” on your national TV talk show because she happens to be a tall, beautiful and dynamic public figure who doesn’t look, walk or talk the way you think she should.
You joked on national television about Palin’s teenage daughter “getting knocked up” by professional baseball player Alex Rodriguez or solicited by the prostitute-addicted former New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer because it’s acceptable in your social and professional circles to sneer at the children of politicians you despise.
You admitted that your attacks on Palin’s family were in “poor taste,” but cackled while acknowledging your sophomoric judgment.
You expressed moral indignation at being misconstrued, yet you purposely omitted the name of the daughter you were mocking.
Fourteen-year-old Willow Palin was the daughter who accompanied Gov. Palin on her trip this week, not 18-year-old Bristol Palin, whom you now claim was the target of your feckless smear — a smear you still insist is perfectly defensible. Look at yourself, Dave. Look at how lame your excuse-making was on your Wednesday night show:
“These are not jokes made about her 14-year-old daughter. I would never, never make jokes about raping or having sex of any description with a 14-year-old girl. I mean, look at my record. It has never happened. I don’t think it’s funny. I would never think it was funny. I wouldn’t put it in a joke…”
Tell us, great comic genius, how tacking on four years to the target daughter makes it funny? We unenlightened dim bulbs who live outside of Manhattan’s boundaries don’t get the joke.
Will you be able to explain it to your son?
Face it: David Letterman, late-night entertainer turned partisan hack and hit man, has a deranged obsession with Palin and her family that has crossed into rank bigotry and hatred. If the CBS network cares about basic standards of decency on public airwaves and if it cares at all about bolstering its shrinking audience, the network honchos will get Letterman a therapist pronto.
Over the past year, Letterman has displayed his sexist, elitist stripes in jibe after jibe aimed at Palin. Taken cumulatively, Letterman’s mockery is about much more than expressing contempt for the popular GOP governor. It’s a handy device to deride a broad class of working-class and middle-class women he holds in contempt:
“You know, she reminds me, she looks like the flight attendant who won’t give you a second can of Pepsi. No, you’ve had enough. We’re landing. Looks like the waitress at the coffee shop who draws a little smiley face on your check. Have a nice day.”
“She looks like the dip sample lady at Safeway. She looks like the nurse who weighs you and then makes you sit alone in your underwear for 20 minutes. She looks like the Olive Garden hostess who says, ‘I’m sorry, your table isn’t ready yet.’ She looks like the infomercial lady who says she made $64,000 a month flipping condos.”
“She looks like the lady at the bakery who yells out ’44! 45!’ She looks like a real estate agent whose picture you see on the bus stop bench. That’s who she looks like. She looks like the lady who has a chain of cupcake stores.”
In November 2008, Letterman told tanking CBS News anchor Katie Couric that he was “aroused” by Palin. In March 2009, Letterman attacked Bristol and snickered about her being “knocked up” again.
Letterman reminds me of the lecher at the school bus stop. Or the aging creep lurking in the dirty magazine section at the 7-Eleven. Attention, CBS: Get him help now.
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Guns sayings copied from internet.
19 06 2009
1. Banning guns works, which is why New York, DC, & Chicago cops need
guns.
2. Washington DC’s low murder rate of 69 per 100,000 is due to strict
gun control, and Indianapolis’ high murder rate of 9 per 100,000 is due
to the lack of gun control.
3. Statistics showing high murder rates justify gun control but
statistics showing increasing murder rates after gun control are “just
statistics.”
4. The Brady Bill and the Assault Weapons Ban, both of which went into
effect in 1994 are responsible for the decrease in violent crime rates,
which have been declining since 1991.
5. We must get rid of guns because a deranged lunatic may go on a
shooting spree at any time and anyone who would own a gun out of fear of such a lunatic is paranoid.
6. The more helpless you are the safer you are from criminals.
7. An intruder will be incapacitated by tear gas or oven spray, but if
shot with a .357 Magnum will get angry and kill you.
8. A woman raped and strangled is morally superior to a woman with a
smoking gun and a dead rapist at her feet.
9. When confronted by violent criminals, you should “put up no defense -
give them what they want, or run” (Handgun Control Inc. Chairman Pete
Shields, Guns Don’t Die – People Do, 1981, p. 125).
10. The New England Journal of Medicine is filled with expert advice
about guns; just like Guns & Ammo has some excellent treatises on heart
surgery.
11. One should consult an automotive engineer for safer seatbelts, a
civil engineer for a better bridge, a surgeon for internal medicine, a
computer programmer for hard drive problems, and Sarah Brady for
firearms expertise.
12. The 2nd Amendment, ratified in 1787, refers to the National Guard,
which was created 130 years later, in 1917.
13. The National Guard, federally funded, with bases on federal land,
using federally-owned weapons, vehicles, buildings and uniforms,
punishing trespassers under federal law, is a “state” militia.
14. These phrases: “right of the people peaceably to assemble,” “right
of the people to be secure in their homes,” “enumerations herein of
certain rights shall not be construed to disparage others retained by
the people,” and “The powers not delegated herein are reserved to the
states respectively, and to the people” all refer to individuals, but
“the right of the people to keep and bear arms” refers to the state.
15. “The Constitution is strong and will never change.” But we should
ban and seize all guns thereby violating the 2nd, 4th, and 5th
Amendments to that Constitution.
16. Rifles and handguns aren’t necessary to national defense! Of course,
the army has hundreds of thousands of them.
17. Private citizens shouldn’t have handguns, because they aren’t
“military weapons”, but private citizens shouldn’t have “assault
rifles”, because they are military weapons.
18. In spite of waiting periods, background checks, fingerprinting,
government forms, etc., guns today are too readily available, which is
responsible for recent school shootings. In the 1940’s, 1950’s and
1960’s, anyone could buy guns at hardware stores, army surplus stores,
gas stations, variety stores, Sears mail order, no waiting, no
background check, no fingerprints, no government forms and there were no
school shootings.
19. The NRA’s attempt to run a “don’t touch” campaign about kids
handling guns is propaganda, but the anti-gun lobby’s attempt to run a
“don’t touch” campaign is responsible social activity.
20. Guns are so complex that special training is necessary to use them
properly, and so simple to use that they make murder easy.
21. A handgun, with up to 4 controls, is far too complex for the typical
adult to learn to use, as opposed to an automobile that only has 20.
22. Women are just as intelligent and capable as men but a woman with a
gun is “an accident waiting to happen” and gun makers’ advertisements
aimed at women are “preying on their fears.”
23. Ordinary people in the presence of guns turn into slaughtering
butchers but revert to normal when the weapon is removed.
24. Guns cause violence, which is why there are so many mass killings at
gun shows.
25. A majority of the population supports gun control, just like a
majority of the population supported owning slaves.
26. Any self-loading small arm can legitimately be considered to be a
“weapon of mass destruction” or an “assault weapon.”
27. Most people can’t be trusted, so we should have laws against guns,
which most people will abide by because they can be trusted.
28. The right of Internet pornographers to exist cannot be questioned
because it is constitutionally protected by the Bill of Rights, but the
use of handguns for self defense is not really protected by the Bill of
Rights.
29. Free speech entitles one to own newspapers, transmitters, computers,
and typewriters, but self- defense only justifies bare hands. My
favorite is when someone says, “My CPL instructor said…”
OC is like wearing your underwear outside your pants.
You are at a tactical disadvantage.
I love it that they can not come up with anything on their own, but
their CPL instructor said such and such, so that MUST be true.
“Officer, is it legal to carry gun in the open like that guy is doing
over there?”
30. The ACLU is good because it uncompromisingly defends certain parts
of the Constitution, and the NRA is bad, because it defends other parts
of the Constitution.
31. Charlton Heston, a movie actor as president of the NRA is a cheap
lunatic who should be ignored, but Michael Douglas, a movie actor as a
representative of Handgun Control, Inc. is an ambassador for peace who
is entitled to an audience at the UN arms control summit.
32. Police operate with backup within groups, which is why they need
larger capacity pistol magazines than do “civilians” who must face
criminals alone and therefore need less ammunition.
33. We should ban “Saturday Night Specials” and other inexpensive guns
because it’s not fair that poor people have access to guns too.
34. Police officers have some special Jedi-like mastery over hand guns
that private citizens can never hope to obtain.
35. Private citizens don’t need a gun for self-protection because the
police are there to protect them even though the Supreme Court says the
police are not responsible for their protection.
36. Citizens don’t need to carry a gun for personal protection but
police chiefs, who are desk-bound administrators who work in a building
filled with cops, need a gun.
37. “Assault weapons” have no purpose other than to kill large numbers
of people. The police need assault weapons. You do not.
38. When Microsoft pressures its distributors to give Microsoft
preferential promotion, that’s bad; but when the Federal government
pressures cities to buy guns only from Smith & Wesson, that’s good.
39. Trigger locks do not interfere with the ability to use a gun for
defensive purposes, which is why you see police officers with one on
their duty weapon.
40. Handgun Control, Inc. says they want to “keep guns out of the wrong
hands.” Guess what? You have the wrong hands.
Why does he carry a gun? you know people could hit him in the head
and take it”,
Don’t you know that it makes you a target??? You had better watch your
back when you go home and see who is following you!!!
That one makes me laugh The bad guy had better watch his front if he is
following an armed person to their home, to attack them. Lest his front
get several extra holes!!
”Only police should carry guns, they have training, regular people cant
shoot like police can”
“..if you are in a bank open carrying and a bad guy sees you, you will
be the first one shot….”
You will Scare the CHILDREN !!!!!!!!!!!!! OMG think of the CHIDREN
You could shoot someone !
Why do you need a gun ?
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YES, I’M A BAD AMERICAN [Not]
29 06 2009
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Monday, January 12, 2009 One Man Got Involved. The Perry Stephens/George Temple Incident
2 07 2009One Man Got Involved. The Perry Stephens/George Temple Incident
A dramatic (and controversial) defensive shooting occurred in Baton Rouge on February 17, 2006.
A citizen shot and killed a man who had overpowered and was viciously beating a police officer. The results of that incident have scarred the lives of several people and families.
As with many shootings of this type, the basic facts of the event were covered, but finite details were left out of the reports. Print media will carry the gist of the story, but the nuts and bolts, the details that cover the precise nature of the incident are rarely discussed. Broadcast media reports do little more than cover the high spots, adding drama, but little depth.
Perry Stephens saved a man’s life that day. No witness who watched the event contradicts that statement. George Temple was beating Brian Harrison viciously, slamming his head into the pavement, and trying to take his duty handgun from him when Stephens shot him.
This story has been reported, written about, dissected, and generally beaten into a shapeless mass—and still there were many questions I had as a defensive handgun and concealed carry instructor that were not answered in any of the stories I reviewed in the media. For instance, in no newspaper report or broadcast script I could locate, was it ever stated exactly what happened to Brian Harrison’s gun during this incident.
This is a critical element—if Harrison was sustaining a beating, and a struggle was ensuing for control of the gun, the case for the use of deadly force would be even stronger. One could even wonder if this almost vital fact was purposefully overlooked to lessen the argument that intervention by a bystander was really necessary.
Since we used the incident in our classes, I had a number of questions about what really occurred that day. I wanted a lot of small details that had never been covered in news articles. Since I once taught a class with him as a student, and knew him, I went to the source—Perry Stephens.
Reviewing his collection of news stories and incidence reports, I was able to piece together a much more definitive story of what occurred that afternoon when the stars all crossed, and Perry Stephens used deadly force to save another human being…
Stephens was rear-ended by a tractor-trailer rig on the interstate in the early 90’s. Since that time he has undergone almost continuous cycles of surgeries, recuperation, physical therapy, and more surgeries. He wears a neck brace constantly, and when it is removed, you see the beginnings of a horrendous scar that travels from the base of his hairline down his spine. He currently is recuperating from surgery that placed steel rods in his spine. He has been unable to work full time since the accident, and generally walks with the aid of a cane. He lives with constant, debilitating pain.
On the afternoon of February 17, 2006, Stephens stopped by an Auto Zone store located at the corner of Joor Road and Greenwell Springs Road–a major East-West thoroughfare that goes from blue collar North Baton Rouge through areas of industrial parks and older shopping centers, to a satellite community of Baton Rouge named Central.
Perry Stephens resided in Central, an upper-middle class enclave that has grown up around a sleepy semi-rural community outside the city limits.
Someone had backed into Stephen’s wife’s truck, and he was picking up body repair materials and paint to try to cosmetically fix the damage to the truck.
When he pulled into the lot of the Auto Zone and parked in a handicapped parking place, he noticed a large number of cars in the lot, but it seemed as if most of the occupants were outside, talking and visiting—the store had few customers inside.
As he paid for his purchase and walked out, he noticed a motorcycle cop had pulled a black 2006 Mercedes SL550 into the parking lot, and was apparently writing its occupant a ticket.
As Stephens entered his truck, placing his cane and purchases on the passenger’s side, a fight broke out between the white motorcycle cop and the African/American male who was driving the Mercedes. He saw the driver of the Mercedes turn and strike the cop with his fists.
Stephens was wearing a neck brace, a body brace, and a leg brace, and walking with the aid of a cane. As the driver of the car slugged the cop and drove him backwards with multiple blows to the head and body, Stephens reached into his glove box and pulled out his Sig Sauer P-220 semi-automatic pistol. The gun was loaded with 230 grain Hydra-Shock hollowpoints.
Stephens heard the officer, Brian Harrison, scream for help as George Temple, a six-foot body builder and boxer, pounded Harrison’s face and torso, forcing him backwards and driving him to the ground, dropping on top of him. Stephens heard two gunshots, and Harrison screaming “Somebody help me! Anybody, help me!”
Brian Harrison had been a cop for over 10 years. He had started his career as a reserve deputy with the East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office, and as often happens, fell in love with the job, and joined the office as a full-time deputy. He was assigned to the Parish Prison in 1995 when he was involved in a shooting incident during an armed robbery of a convenience store, and was given a three-day suspension for his actions in that incident.
By the time of the fateful shooting on February 17, 2006, he had been a Baton Rouge City Police Officer for a number of years and was assigned to the Motorcycle Division. He was respected by his fellow cops as a professional officer.
On that day, he had gone on duty at 0545 in the morning, and was off duty at 1345 hours. He was working an off-duty detail with another motorcycle officer escorting a funeral that afternoon after getting off work.
While escorting the funeral, and changing positions constantly with his partner as they blocked intersections to allow the funeral cortege unhindered progress, Harrison observed a black 2006 Mercedes SL550 enter the procession by coming up from behind the procession and cutting in front of a family car. The SL550 is an expensive, low-slung, two-door sport model.
This “funeral-jumping” is a common practice of motorists in a hurry. They will cut into a procession, frequently turn on their lights, and turn out of the procession when they reach their destination or turning point. The Baton Rouge Chief of Police, Jeff LeDuff, spent a great deal of his time professionally as a motor officer. After the incident, he said he had written “hundreds” of such citations.
Harrison was blocking the intersection, and as the Mercedes passed him, he motioned to the driver to pull over, out of the procession. The driver ignored him.
Harrison then caught up with the Mercedes, and riding beside it, ordered it to pull over. The driver rolled down the window and looked at Harrison, then looked straight ahead, refusing to acknowledge the motorcycle officer.
The driver ignored Harrison’s continued motions and verbal commands to pull over for some distance, but finally turned right into the parking lot of the Auto Zone, pulling into a parking spot.
Harrison later stated the subject yelled out of the window as he was pulling in the lot, “I don’t know why you are doing this!”
Harrison dismounted his motorcycle, approached the vehicle, and informed the driver he was being ticketed for interfering with a funeral procession.
Upon being told this, Temple became aggressive and abusive, telling Harrison, “This is not going anywhere. This is just a waste of time. Call your boss. Look what kind of car I’m driving, man. This will all be taken care of.”
Harrison continued to write the ticket, then asked Temple to sign it, informing him it was not an admission of guilt, simply a statement he would appear in court to answer the charge.
When Harrison tore off the ticket and handed it to him, Temple reached into his pocket and pulled a roll of money from it, asking “What’s it going to cost to make this go away?” The roll of money was later determined to contain over $3500.00.
At this attempt at bribery, Harrison informed Temple he was under arrest. He placed the ticket book on the top of the car and ordered Temple to exit the vehicle and to turn and place his hands on the car. Harrison opened the door for Temple who stepped from the car. The car began to roll backwards, and Temple reached back in to put it in park. Temple then grabbed his cell phone and jammed it to his ear, attempting to make a phone call, jamming himself into the wedge of the open door.
Harrison ordered Temple to step away from the car and put his hands behind his back. Temple refused to submit when Harrison attempted to pull his arm behind him for handcuffing, and began fighting. Harrison sprayed Temple with pepper spray, which had no discernible effect on Temple.
Temple was at this time on probation for simple battery and criminal damage to property according to clerk of court records obtained by The Advocate, the Baton Rouge daily newspaper.
Six months earlier he had forced his way into the home of the mother of his son. An accomplice held a gun on her roommate while Temple assaulted his ex-girlfriend in an argument over the child. He was later arrested and charged with simple battery and other misdemeanor charges for the assault. He had so terrified the two women, they had made several complaints to the city police about the beating and threats by Temple, and both had purchased handguns to protect themselves from him.
As Harrison reached again for Temple’s arm to bring it around and handcuff him, Temple swung around and struck Harrison in the face with his fist, staggering Harrison.
As Harrison fell backwards, Temple attacked him, striking him rapidly in the face and torso with his fists. Harrison fell backwards with Temple coming down on top of him. As they fell, Harrison pulled his .40 S&W Glock 22 and fired one shot into the ribs of Temple. Temple was heard to cry out “I’m hit! I’m hit!”
The round was later found to have ricocheted off Temple’s rib, doing little damage.
An eyewitness came forward after the incident stating to a local TV station he heard exactly what was said between the officer and Temple. He stated he was parked a couple of spaces away, and didn’t pay much attention to the incident until the officer and the subject began yelling at one another. He said Temple called the officer a “punk…” and said “you’re just jealous of my car” after they began to struggle.
The witness said the officer took quite a beating. “You could hear them muffled…’Mother’ this and that. ‘I told you not to mess with me. I told you—I’m a beast, I told you not to mess with me. I told you. I told you.’”
He stated: “I mean, Mr. Temple was a big man…the man probably saved the officer’s life…But if this would have been on a dark road, we would probably be looking for a cop killer, to be honest with you.”
Harrison, who was taking a tremendous beating, was desperately trying to keep his weapon from falling into the hands of Temple. Temple was slugging him, and grasping his gun hand. He pushed the slide of the gun into the pavement, and fired it twice. He later told Stephens he was trying to empty it, or cause it to jam to keep Temple from getting it from him and killing him with his own gun. He succeeded. The gun malfunctioned, and was later found to have a spent casing still in the chamber.
Stephens said he counted over 15 people witnessing this incident from the front of the building and around the parking lot. Harrison was screaming for help as Temple beat him, “Somebody help me! Anybody help me! Stop! Stop! Stop!”
An off-duty sheriff’s deputy saw the incident occurring and heard the shots fired as Harrison desperately tried to keep his duty weapon from being taken by his assailant. The deputy tried to fight his way around traffic, making the corner, but by the time he pulled into the lot, the incident was over, and Temple was dead.
As he got into his truck, and saw the fight begin, Stephens reached into his glove box and pulled out his Sig Sauer P-220 semi-automatic pistol. He exited the truck and stood beside the rear of it, not intending to get involved unless the cop couldn’t contain the incident. Then he heard the shots and realized Harrison was in serious trouble.
Hobbling over within 6-8 feet of the two men, he hollered several times at Temple to stop, leave Harrison alone, and get off him.
Stephens could not see that Harrison had jammed his duty pistol under his body, trying to keep it from Temple who was continuing to rain powerful blows on his face, and slamming Harrison’s head into the pavement.
Stephen’s statement: “The driver dominated the officer through the entire incident. The driver stayed on top of the officer, pinning him to the pavement. The officer’s body was positioned with his legs and buttocks on the pavement—his upper body wrenched to the left with his left shoulder and left side against the pavement.”
“The driver was straddled across the officer pinning the officer’s legs with his legs, holding the officer with his left hand and beating the officer with his right fist.”
“Not heeding my commands to stop, I fired my pistol rapidly several times…The driver didn’t appear phased (sic) by the shots and continued beating the officer. I quickly gave another command for the driver to ‘Get off.’”
“Instantly the driver grabbed the officer behind the neck and head and slammed his face into the pavement. At the same instant, the driver thrust his right hand/arm under the officer’s upper body…”
With Harrison continuing to scream for help, and Temple continuing to beat him, Stephens placed his walking cane under his left arm, and took aim with both hands to get a better angle of shot and avoid hitting Harrison. The first shot hit Temple in the left breast, under the nipple. Stephens did not shoot at Temple from the rear as has been frequently stated, but rather from a side position. The bullet entered Temple’s chest, and came out through his scapula (shoulder blade.) His next three shots struck Temple in the left shoulder and upper back area.
After the four shots, with Temple showing no effect from the four bullets, Stephens again ordered Temple off Harrison. Temple ignored the orders and continued to beat Harrison.
Stephens then took one step forward, reaching within approximately three feet of the men, Temple still viciously beating Harrison. Temple was still on top of Harrison, his left arm on Harrison’s neck, and his right hand and arm under Harrison. As Temple slammed Harrison’s head forward to the pavement and lunged forward with his hand and arm under Harrison, Stephens fired his final shot into Temple’s head behind his ear. The bullet exited the rear of Temple’s head. Stephens said while he did not actually see the gun, other witnesses told him Temple had finally wrested control of the duty Glock from Harrison and was pulling it from under Harrison’s body when Stephens shot him in the side of the head.
At that shot, Temple ceased beating Harrison, and turned, reaching towards Stephens with a look on his face Stephens described as “rage.”
Temple then fell over, off Harrison, and made two attempts to sit back up, looking at Stephens before he collapsed and expired.
Harrison struggled to stand up. According to Stephens his face was covered with blood and he would have been “unrecognizable.” Various reports later stated Harrison suffered a fractured jaw. Harrison himself thought his jaw had been broken. Later reports are unclear as to whether bones were broken, but his contusions and cuts were treated at a local hospital. Stephens handed his handgun to Harrison, who removed the magazine, unloaded it, and placed it on the trunk of a car until it could be secured by evidence officers.
Numerous calls to 911 had been placed by Auto Zone customers and motorists who had witnessed the incident, and units were on the scene from both the city police and the Sheriff’s Office within minutes. It was determined the incident had taken place just outside of the city limits, and the Sheriff’s Office would be the investigative agency with responsibility. Several detectives and uniforms from that office quickly took control of the scene, began gathering evidence, and interviewing what would turn out to be numerous witnesses to the incident.
Stephens was transported to the East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office where his statement was taken. A lieutenant with the office, an African-American, transported him back to his truck later, only to find a crowd still gathered on the scene, and several deputies engaged in crowd control, as the group exhibited angry tendencies.
The lieutenant ordered one of the deputies on the scene to get Stephen’s truck and bring it to the substation. It was deemed too dangerous for Stephens to be allowed to get out of the EBRSO unit and drive his own truck off the lot. This was done, and Stephens was transported to the substation where he was reunited his truck.
Aftermath:
Numerous articles were written and broadcasts were made about this incident, which inflamed a large portion of the African-American community. The NAACP called for a Justice Department investigation, as well as a citizens’ review board of police shootings. The Justice Department investigation was initiated, but later dropped with no criticism of the investigation of the incident by all participating agencies.
The Mayor of Baton Rouge, and the Police Chief, both African-American, steadfastly refused to consider any sort of citizen review board, standing up to intense pressure from the African-American community.
The investigations by the sheriff’s office and city police, containing reams of evidence and interviews with multiple witnesses were turned over to the East Baton Rouge District Attorney’s office for final determination in the case.
The actions of both Brian Harrison and Perry Stephens were found to have fallen in the parameters of the justifiable homicide statutes under Louisiana law. No charges were filed against either of them.
A lawsuit was filed by the mother of George Temple’s son, accusing Brian Harrison of excessive force in his attempt to effect an illegal arrest, and Stephens of “vigilante” action in coming to the aid of Harrison.
Among the claims listed as a reason for the lawsuit was a “loss of consortium” with Temple.
The lawsuit, the only one filed in this case, is still pending.
Addendum:
Louisiana Revised Statute 14:20 (2) of the Louisiana Criminal Code
20. Justifiable Homicide
A homicide is justifiable:
(2) When committed for the purpose of preventing a violent or forcible felony involving danger to life or of great bodily harm, by one who reasonably believes that such an offense is about to be committed and that such action is necessary for its prevention. The circumstances must be sufficient to excite the fear of a reasonable person that there would be serious danger to his own life or person if he attempted to prevent the felony without the killing.
22. Defense of others
It is justifiable to use force or violence or to kill in the defense of another person when it is reasonably apparent that the person attacked could have justifiably used such means himself, and when it is reasonably believed that such intervention is necessary to protect the life of the other person.
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High-speed chase ends in my back yard.
3 07 2009High-speed chase through streets of Flint ends with arrest
by David Harris | The Flint Journal
Thursday July 02, 2009, 9:01 PM
FLINT, Michigan — A frantic police chase winding through the streets of Flint ended around 8 p.m. today with a male suspect being arrested near the Pierce Park Golf Course.
The chase lasted nearly 10 minutes and spanned 10 miles.
Police were pulling over a suspect at Hamilton and Oren avenues near Hurley Regional Medical Center when he put the car in reverse, nearly hitting a police vehicle.
A male and a female jumped out of the suspect’s vehicle as it was driving away.
The suspect worked his way to Saginaw Street, where he went northbound. He then went eastbound on Stewart and then southbound onto Dort Highway.
He took Dort south to the I-69 entrance where he entered the westbound ramp.
Shortly after entering the expressway, he exited the vehicle on foot and went into the woods near the golf course.
After a few minutes searching, police found the male hiding in the woods, and arrested him.
There were no known injuries or accidents caused as a result of the chase, police said.
Witnesses said the suspect was going about 70 mph.
“He was flying down Dort,” said Charles Jenkins, a witness who was at Supercash at Davison and Dort. “There was a trooper right on his butt. You read about it and hear about it, but you don’t see that kind of stuff.”
Several police agencies assisted on the chase including the state police, Flint police, Burton police and the Genesee County Sheriff’s Department
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Jerome Hudson
8 07 2009| July 8, 2009
Last week Glenn got a call from a very impressive young man named Jerome Hudson, who told Glenn he had written an op-ed during the 2008 election on being a black conservative. He sent it in and it’s fantastic. Enjoy! While attending a black fraternity party, I recently learned it’s a bad idea to profess one’s affinity for Glenn Beck, Bill O’Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, and Sean Hannity. Worse, according to current polls, it appears I may be the only black 22 year old in America who will be voting for Sen. John McCain. It’s not that I was unaware that being a black conservative Republican puts me in the ultimate “minority.” After all, Shelby Steele’s classic article “ The Loneliness of the Black Conservative” has become an article of faith that I’ve all but committed to memory.But I guess I had made the mistake of buying into all that liberal yammering about being “open minded” and supporting “diversity” that I’d deluded myself into believing that a civil, discussion about the herd-like ideological mentality of so many of my contemporaries suffer from was possible. Boy, was I wrong. Big time! My official “Negro” card got stripped away. I instantly lost my “blackness.” And now, consequently, I now am greeted with this: “Hey, y’all, here comes The Black Republican.” And that’s when I think to myself, Hmmm…so this is how it feels to be an “Uncle Tom.” Still, being labeled “The Black Republican” is undoubtedly a promotion from: “Hey, why are you dressed so nice? You got a job interview or something?” Or, worse, “Man, why are you talking like that? You sound white? Who do you think you are? A conservative Kanye West?” |
| But my path to ideological emancipation began where all the most important things always begin—with my father and mother. Growing up, my Army drill sergeant father was a firm believer in tough love. My parents instilled in us Christian values. But I believe that first part—having an involved mother and father—was critical. With 70% of all black babies being born out-of-wedlock, it’s no wonder black poverty remains entrenched, welfare has become a way of life, and that many of my fellow young black male counterparts choose gangsta life over college.
But it wasn’t until college that I realized I had been ensnared in what John McWhorter calls the “Cult of Victimology.” One of my professor’s pointed me toward a world of literature I’d never been introduced to: Thomas Sowell, John McWhorter, Shelby Steele, Star Parker, Angela McGlowan, Larry Elder, Walter Williams—they obliterated the Leftist foolishness that floods my community. It was then that my eyes were opened to the truth, a truth that my father was willing to give his life for, a truth that hundreds of thousands of American soldiers have paid the ultimate price to pass on to future generations. And that truth is this: America remains the greatest country that God gave to man. So imagine me, a member of various organizations that largely consist of young black Americans, most of whom are womb to the tomb Democrats and liberals, speaking openly about the many opportunities and blessings we enjoy in our great nation and refuting Michelle Obama’s supposition that America is a “downright mean place..” Can you say…..social suicide? “So Jerome,” the partygoers asked, “you’re REALLY a Republican?!” Duh! Of course I’m a Republican! And your great grandparents were too! |
| Yes, I’m a member of the Anti-Slavery Party, the party responsible for: the 13th (abolished slavery), 14th (gave former slaves full citizenship rights), the 15th Amendment (gave slaves voting rights), the Civil Rights Act of 1871(protecting southern blacks from the Ku Klux Klan), the Reconstruction Acts, and the 1866, 1875, 1957, 1960, and 1964 Civil Rights Acts.
And no, my brothers and sisters, yesterday’s southern Democrats are NOT today’s Republicans! If so, former Klansman, Sen. Robert Byrd—the highest ranking senate Democrat and President Pro-Tempore of the Senate—apparently didn’t get the memo and forgot to switch parties. But it’s more than just the history. I’m proud to stand for self-empowerment, personal responsibility, strong family values, small government, low taxes, free markets, a strong military, and individual achievement etc. And don’t even get me started on which side stands up for the precious 1.4 million unborn children (32% of whom are black), who will be casualties in the war inside the womb. When I see these so-called “black leaders” bashing conservatives for “racist policies,” I wonder how they justify cheering on the political team who proudly defends the annihilation of 13 million black children since 1973.And conservatives don’t care about black people? I don’t think so! No, I think I’ll ride with the team who says enough with the welfare cancer that has destroyed people’s innate desire to achieve. Yes, I’ll ride with the folks who respect me enough to consider me their equal and not insult me with Affirmative Action racism. Yeah, I’ll ride with the gang who would rather create effective policies than emotional “feel good” symbolism that robs individuals of their desire to aspire. So while it may take a little getting used to walking into college parties where I’m known as “The Black Republican,” I now realize I am a newly inducted member of a rich tradition of ideologically emancipated black conservatives. And guess what? I’m more than cool with that. I’m proud, actually. “The conservative Kanye West”? Hmmm…. Has a nice ring to it, doesn’t it? Jerome Hudson is a sophomore at Tallahassee Community College with plans to transfer to Florida A&M University in the fall. |
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The big Oil lies
10 07 2009
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Do you think Obama will say a thing!!!
Do you think a Democrat will say a thing!!!
Do you think a Republican will say a thing!!!
check the date: did anyone hear this during primaries or Presidential
> campaign???
The U. S.. Geological Service issued a report in April (’08) that
only scientists and oil men knew was coming, but man was it big. It
was a revised report
(hadn’t been updated since ’95) on how much oil
was in this area of the western 2/3 of North Dakota; western South
Dakota ; and extreme eastern Montana ….. check THIS out:
The Bakken is the largest domestic oil discovery since Alaska’s
Prudhoe Bay, and has the potential to eliminate all American
dependence on foreign oil. The Energy In
formation Administration
(EIA) estimates it at 503
billion barrels.. Even if just 10% of the oil is recoverable… at
$107 a barrel, we’re looking at a resource base worth more than $5.3
trillion.
‘When I first briefed legislators on this, you could practically see
their jaws hit
the floor. They had no idea.’ says Terry Johnson, the
Montana Legislature’s financial analyst.
‘This sizable find is now the highest-producing onshore oil field
found in the past 56 years.’ reports, The Pittsburgh Post Gazette.
It’s a formation known as the Williston Basin , but is more commonly
referred to as the ‘Bakken.’ And it stretches from Northern Montana,
through North Dakota and into Canada . For years, U. S.oil
exploration has been considered a dead end. Even the ‘Big Oil’
companies gave up searching for major oil wells decades ago.
However, a recent technological breakthrough has opened up the
Bakken’s
massive reserves…. and we now have access of up to 500 billion
barrels. And because this is light, sweet oil, those billi
ons of
barrels will cost Americans just $16 PER BARREL!
That’s enough crude to fully fuel the American economy for 41 years
straight.
2. And if THAT didn’t throw you on the floor, then this next one
should because it’s from Three YEARS AGO!
U. S. Oil Discovery- Largest Reserve in the World! Stansberry
Report Online – 4/20/2006
Hidden 1,000 feet beneath the surface of the Rocky Mountains lies the
largest untapped oil reserve in the world. It is more than 2 TRILLION
barrels. On
August 8, 2005, President Bush mandated its extraction.
In three and a half years of high oil prices none has been extracted
With this mother load of oil why are we still fighting over off-shore
drilling?
They reported this stunning
news: We have more oil inside our borders, than all the other proven
reserves on earth. Here are the official estimates:
- 8-times as much oil as Saudi Arabia
- 18-times as much oil as
Iraq
- 21-times as much oil as Kuwait
- 22-times as much oil as Iran
- 500-times as much oil as Yemen
- and it’s all right here in the Western United
States .
HOW can this BE? HOW can we NOT BE extracting this? Because the
environmentalists and others have blocked all efforts to help
America become independent of foreign oil! Again, we are letting a
small group of people dictate our lives and our economy……WHY?
James Bartis, lead researcher with the study says we’ve got more oil
in this very compact area than the entire Middle East -more than 2
TRILLION barrels untapped.
That’s more than all the proven oil
reserves of crude oil in the world today, reports The Denver Post.
Don’t think ‘OPEC’ will drop its price – even with this find? Think
again! It’s all about the competitive marketplace, – it has to.
Think OPEC just might be funding the environment
alists?
Got your attention/ire up yet? Hope so! Now, while you’re thinking
about it ….. and hopefully P.O’d, do this:
3. Pass this along. If you don’t take a little time to do this,
then you should stifle yourself the next time you want to complain
about gas prices .. because by doing NOTHING, you’ve forfeited your
right to
complain.
Now I just wonder what would happen in this country if every one of
you sent this to every one in your address book.
By the way…this is all true.. Check it out at the l ink below!!!
GOOGLE it or follow this link. It will blow your mind.
http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=1911
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THE DAY WE LOSE OUR WILL TO FIGHT
IS THE DAY WE LOOSE OUR FREEDOM
Read the report yourself http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=1911
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Ed Freeman Medal of Honor Winner
11 07 2009| Michael Jackson dies and it’s 24/7 news coverage while hookedto his IV machines, one in each arm pumping drugs into hispasty white looking ass to ensure that he is happy and feeling
good. A real American hero dies and not a mention of it in the news. The media has no honor and God is watching Ed Freeman You’re a 19-year-old kid. You’re critically wounded and dying in the jungle in the Ia Drang Valley , 11-14-1965, LZ X-ray, Vietnam . Your infantry unit is outnumbered 8-1 and the enemy fire is so intense, from 100 or 200 yards away, that your own Infantry Commander has ordered the MediVac helicopters to stop coming in.
You’re lying there, listening to the enemy machine guns, and you know you’re not getting out. Your family is half way around the world, 12,000 miles away and you’ll never see them again. As the world starts to fade in and out, you know this is the day.
Then, over the machine gun noise, you faintly hear that sound of a helicopter and you look up to see an unarmed Huey, but it doesn’t seem real because no Medi-Vac markings are on it.
Ed Freeman is coming for you. He’s not Medi-Vac, so it’s not his job, but he’s flying his Huey down into the machine gun fire, after the Medi-Vacs were ordered not to come.
He’s coming anyway.
And he drops it in and sits there in the machine gun fire as they load 2 or 3 of you on board.
Then he flies you up and out, through the gunfire to the doctors and nurses.
And he kept coming back, 13 more times, and took about 30 of you and your buddies out, who would never have gotten out.
Medal of Honor Recipient Ed Freeman died on Wednesday, June 25th, 2009, at the age of 80, in Boise , ID. May God rest his soul.
Medal of Honor Winner Ed Freeman! Since the media didn’t give him the coverage he deserves, send this to every red-blooded American you know.
THANKS AGAIN, ED, FOR WHAT YOU DID FOR OUR COUNTRY. RIP
Now the rest of the story http://www.snopes.com/politics/military/freeman.asp
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Anti-Obama Protest-downtown Chicago and NYC
22 07 2009
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Obama’s White House is Falling Down
23 07 2009
This is Extremely interesting !! What the Canucks can see and we Can’t !!!
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Patriotic Resistance
29 07 2009
Subject: Patriotic Resistance
I am forwarding this email on to you because I think it is one of the best descriptions of our current situation I have read and I subscribe to it entirely. It states my position accurately with regard to patriotic rights and duties. If you agree with it as I do, pass it on.
A Patriotic Resistance, Here
I have noted many elected officials, both Democrats and Republicans, called upon America to unite behind Obama.
Well, I want to make it clear to all who will listen that I “AM NOT” uniting behind Obama. However, I promise to give our country the devoted loyalty of a patriot.
I will respect the Office which he holds, and I will acknowledge his abilities as an orator and wordsmith BUT that is it.
I have begun today to see what I can do to make sure He is a one-term President!
Why am I doing this? It is because I do not share Obama’s vision or value system;
I do not share his radical Marxist’s concept of re-distributing wealth;
I do not share his stated views on raising taxes on those who make $150,000+ (the ceiling has been changed three times since August);
I do not share his view that America is arrogrant;
I do not share his view that America is not a Christian Nation;
I do not share his view that the military should be reduced by
25%;
I do not share his Abortion beliefs;
I do not share his view of amnesty and giving more to illegals than American Citizens who need help;
I do not share his views on homosexuality and his definition of marriage;
I do not share his views that Radical Islam is our friend and Israel is our enemy;
I do not share his spiritual beliefs (at least the ones he has made public);
I do not share his beliefs on how to re-work the healthcare system in America ;
I do not share his belief a bureauocrat should decide when a person dies or that the old should be taught to”embrace death.”
I do not share his Strategic views of the Middle East, and certainly do not share his plan to sit down with terrorist regimes such as Iran .
Bottom line, my America is vastly different from Obama’s, and I have a higher obligation to my Country and my God to do what is right!
For eight (8) years, the Liberals in our Society, led by numerous entertainers who would have no platform and no real credibility, but for their celebrity status, have attacked President Bush, his family, and his spiritual beliefs!
They have not moved toward the center in their beliefs and their philosophies, and they never came together nor compromised their personal beliefs for the betterment of our Country! They have portrayed my America as a land where everything is tolerated except being intolerant!
They have been a vocal and irreverent minority for years;
They have mocked and attacked the very core values so important to the founding and growth of our Country;
They have made every effort to remove the name of God or Jesus Christ from our Society;
They have challenged capital punishment, the right to bear firearms, and the most basic principles of our criminal code;
They have attacked one of the most fundamental of all Freedoms, the right of free speech!
Unite behind Obama? Never!
I am sure many of you who read this think that I am going overboard, but I refuse to retreat one more inch in favor of those whom I believe are the absolute embodiment of Evil!
PRESIDENT BUSH made many mistakes during his Presidency, and I am not sure how history will judge him. However, I believe he weighed his decisions in light of the long established Judeo-Christian principles of our Founding Fathers!!!
Majority rules in America , and I will honor the concept; however, I will fight with all of my power to be a voice in opposition to Obama and “his goals for America .”
I am going to be a thorn in the side of those who, if left unchecked, will destroy our country!! Any more compromise is more defeat!
I pray the results of this election will wake up many who have sat on the sidelines and allowed the Socialist-Marxist anti-God crowd to slowly change so much of what has been good in America !
“Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.” (Thomas Jefferson)
God bless you and God bless our the United States of America!!!
(Pass this on if you agree!)
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Obama’s revealing body language
3 08 2009Story by Thomas Lifson of the American Thinker
Obama’s revealing body language
I am stunned that the official White House Blog published this picture and that it is in the public domain. The body language is most revealing. Sergeant Crowley, the sole class act in this trio, helps the handicapped Professor Gates down the stairs, while Barack Obama, heedless of the infirmities of his friend and fellow victim of self-defined racial profiling, strides ahead on his own. So who is compassionate? And who is so self-involved and arrogant that he is oblivious?
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“You’ll Never Walk Alone” Tiger Wood
10 08 2009
Doug Benc/Getty Images, 2004 copyright
HERE’S A COPY OF HIS SPEECH AT THE 2009 INAUGURATION:
Tiger Woods received a special invitation to speak at the Obama
inauguration. His inviters were stunned, shocked when he did not
deliver the message they expected. A brief read and you will
understand why the media swept Woods’ remarks under the rug with no
further ado and why the liberal left of our American society was again
displeased with Tiger.
His speech was entitled:
”You’ll Never Walk Alone”
[text is word-for-word as posted on Tiger's web site]
”I grew up in a military family – and my role models in life were my
Mom and Dad, Lt. Colonel Earl Woods. My dad was a Special Forces
operator and many nights friends would visit our home. They
represented every branch of the service, and every rank.
In my Dad, and in those guests, I saw first hand the dedication and
commitment of those who serve. They come from every walk of life; from
every part of our country. Time and again, across generations, they
have defended our safety in the dark of night and far from home.
Each day — and particularly on this historic day — we honor the men
and women in uniform who serve our country and protect our freedom.
They travel to the dangerous corners of the world, and we must
remember that for every person who is in uniform, there are families
who wait for them to come home safely.
I am honored that the military is such an important part, not just of
my personal life, but of my professional one as well.. The golf
tournament we do each year here in Washington is a testament to those
unsung heroes.
I am the son of a man who dedicated his life to his country, family
and the military, and I am a better person for it.
In the summer of 1864, Abraham Lincoln, the man at whose memorial
we stand, spoke to the 164th Ohio Regiment and said: ‘I am greatly
obliged to you, and to all who have come forward at the call of their
country.’
Just as they have stood tall for our country – we must always stand by
and support the men and women in uniform and their families.
Thank you, and it is now my pleasure to introduce the US Naval Glee Club …”
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Tiger Woods’ 2-minute, 5-second tribute to the our nation’s military
was delivered January 18th at the Inaugural Celebration in Washington ,
DC! He had been subjected to intense pressure to attend and offer
remarks. Especially so by liberals who have demeaned and
criticized him for a decade for not joining their ranks. Yet, at
the Lincoln Memorial, instead of paying homage to barrack Obama, Tiger
paid tribute to our soldiers. Not once did Tiger mention Obama,
the inauguration or the new administration. He had to understand
expressing his love for America and appreciation for our military men
and women would disappoint the national news media and the liberal
left. But Tiger is his own man; his father taught him to be his
own man.
Somewhere over that cold, gray Washington sky, Colonel Earl Woods was
smiling down on his beloved son. And there will be one more crying
hug waiting for Tiger when the time comes he passes through heaven’s
gates into God’s arms.
******
What’s that you say?
You did not previously know what Tiger said? You did not see a
video clip of him speaking on any national television network?
you did not see a photo of Tiger at the Lincoln Memorial offering his
remarks honoring our military. You did not read a story in the NY Times?
His appearance at the Inaugural Celebration had been widely hailed and
promoted in advance by the Obama inaugural organizers …. yet
January 18 when he came and spoke … afterwards, a black out.
Oh, well.
If you are as tired of the biased, hypocritical, liberal media as I am,
pass this on
Dom Furore/Woods Family copyright
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U.S.A., Canada , all Europe ….. Needs a President like this.
12 08 2009
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16 08 2009
Drafting Guys over 60—-this is funny & obviously written by a
Former Soldier-
New Direction for any war: Send Service Vets over 60!
I am over 60 and the Armed Forces thinks I’m too old to track down
terrorists. You can’t be older than 42 to join the military. They’ve got the
whole thing backwards. Instead of sending 18-year olds off to fight, they
ought to take us old guys. You shouldn’t be able to join a military unit until
you’re at least 35.
For starters: Researchers say 18-year-olds think about sex every 10
seconds. Old guys only think about sex a couple of times a day, leaving us more
than 28,000 additional seconds per day to concentrate on the enemy.
Young guys haven’t lived long enough to be cranky, and a cranky
soldier is a dangerous soldier. ‘My back hurts! I can’t sleep, I’m tired and
hungry’ We are impatient and maybe letting us kill some asshole that desperately
deserves it will make us feel better and shut us up for a while.
An 18-year-old doesn’t even like to get up before 10 a.m. Old guys
always get up early to pee so what the hell. Besides, like I said, ‘I’m tired
and can’t sleep and since I’m already up, I may as well be up killing some
fanatical S-of-a-B….
If captured we couldn’t spill the beans because we’d forget where
we put them. In fact, name, rank, and serial number would be a real brainteaser.
Boot camp would be easier for old guys. We’re used to getting
screamed and yelled at and we’re used to soft food. We’ve also developed an
appreciation for guns. We’ve been using them for years as an excuse to get out
of the house, away from the screaming and yelling.
They could lighten up on the obstacle course however. I’ve been in
combat and didn’t see a single 20-foot wall with rope hanging over the side, nor
did I ever do any pushups after completing basic training.
Actually, the running part is kind of a waste of energy, too. I’ve
never seen anyone outrun a bullet.
An 18-year-old has the whole world ahead of him. He’s still learning
to shave, to start up a conversation with a pretty girl. He still hasn’t
figured out that a baseball cap has a brim to shade his eyes, not the back of
his head.
These are all great reasons to keep our kids at home to learn a
little more about life before sending them off into harm’s way.
Let us old guys track down those dirty rotten coward terrorists. The
last thing an enemy would want to see is a couple of million pissed off old
farts with attitudes and automatic weapons who know that their best years are
already behind them.
***How about recruiting Women over 50 ….with PMS !!! You think Men
have attitudes !!! Ohhhhhhhhhhhh my God!!!
If nothing else, put them on border patrol….we will have it
secured the first night!
Share this with your senior friends..and younger ones with a sense
of humor!
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Millions face shrinking Social Security payments By STEPHEN OHLEMACHER,
23 08 2009Millions face shrinking Social Security payments By STEPHEN OHLEMACHER,
WASHINGTON — Millions of older people face shrinking Social Security
checks next year, the first time in a generation that payments would not
rise. The trustees who oversee Social Security are projecting there
won’t be a cost of living adjustment (COLA) for the next two years. That
hasn’t happened since automatic increases were adopted in 1975.
By law, Social Security benefits cannot go down. Nevertheless, monthly
payments would drop for millions of people in the Medicare prescription
drug program because the premiums, which often are deducted from Social
Security payments, are scheduled to go up slightly.
“I will promise you, they count on that COLA,” said Barbara Kennelly, a
former Democratic congresswoman from Connecticut who now heads the
National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare. “To some
people, it might not be a big deal. But to seniors, especially with
their health care costs, it is a big deal.”
Cost of living adjustments are pegged to inflation, which has been
negative this year, largely because energy prices are below 2008 levels.
Advocates say older people still face higher prices because they spend a
disproportionate amount of their income on health care, where costs rise
faster than inflation. Many also have suffered from declining home
values and shrinking stock portfolios just as they are relying on those
assets for income.
“For many elderly, they don’t feel that inflation is low because their
expenses are still going up,” said David Certner, legislative policy
director for AARP. “Anyone who has savings and investments has seen some
serious losses.”
About 50 million retired and disabled Americans receive Social Security
benefits. The average monthly benefit for retirees is $1,153 this year.
All beneficiaries received a 5.8 percent increase in January, the
largest since 1982.
More than 32 million people are in the Medicare prescription drug
program. Average monthly premiums are set to go from $28 this year to
$30 next year, though they vary by plan. About 6 million people in the
program have premiums deducted from their monthly Social Security
payments, according to the Social Security Administration.
Millions of people with Medicare Part B coverage for doctors’ visits
also have their premiums deducted from Social Security payments. Part B
premiums are expected to rise as well. But under the law, the increase
cannot be larger than the increase in Social Security benefits for most
recipients.
There is no such hold-harmless provision for drug premiums.
Kennelly’s group wants Congress to increase Social Security benefits
next year, even though the formula doesn’t call for it. She would like
to see either a 1 percent increase in monthly payments or a one-time
payment of $150.
The cost of a one-time payment, a little less than $8 billion, could be
covered by increasing the amount of income subjected to Social Security
taxes, Kennelly said. Workers only pay Social Security taxes on the
first $106,800 of income, a limit that rises each year with the average
national wage.
But the limit only increases if monthly benefits increase.
Critics argue that Social Security recipients shouldn’t get an increase
when inflation is negative. They note that recipients got a big increase
in January — after energy prices had started to fall. They also note
that Social Security recipients received one-time $250 payments in the
spring as part of the government’s economic stimulus package.
Consumer prices are down from 2008 levels, giving Social Security
recipients more purchasing power, even if their benefits stay the same,
said Andrew G. Biggs, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise
Institute, a Washington think tank.
“Seniors may perceive that they are being hurt because there is no COLA,
but they are in fact not getting hurt,” Biggs said. “Congress has to be
able to tell people they are not getting everything they want.”
Social Security is also facing long-term financial problems. The
retirement program is projected to start paying out more money than it
receives in 2016. Without changes, the retirement fund will be depleted
in 2037, according to the Social Security trustees’ annual report this
year.
President Barack Obama has said he would like tackle Social Security
next year, after Congress finishes work on health care, climate change
and new financial regulations.
Lawmakers are preoccupied by health care, making it difficult to address
other tough issues. Advocates for older people hope their efforts will
get a boost in October, when the Social Security Administration
officially announces that there will not be an increase in benefits next
year.
“I think a lot of seniors do not know what’s coming down the pike, and I
believe that when they hear that, they’re going to be upset,” said Sen.
Bernie Sanders, an independent from Vermont who is working on a proposal
for one-time payments for Social Security recipients.
“It is my view that seniors are going to need help this year, and it
would not be acceptable for Congress to simply turn its back,” he said.
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On Sheep, Wolves, and Sheepdogs – Dave Grossman
26 08 2009
By LTC (RET) Dave Grossman, author of “On Killing.”
Honor never grows old, and honor rejoices the heart of age. It does so because honor is, finally, about defending those noble and worthy things that deserve defending, even if it comes at a high cost. In our time, that may mean social disapproval, public scorn, hardship, persecution, or as always,even death itself. The question remains: What is worth defending? What is worth dying for? What is worth living for? – William J. Bennett – in a lecture to the United States Naval Academy November 24, 1997
One Vietnam veteran, an old retired colonel, once said this to me:
“Most of the people in our society are sheep. They are kind, gentle, productive creatures who can only hurt one another by accident.” This is true. Remember, the murder rate is six per 100,000 per year, and the aggravated assault rate is four per 1,000 per year. What this means is that the vast majority of Americans are not inclined to hurt one another. Some estimates say that two million Americans are victims of violent crimes every year, a tragic, staggering number, perhaps an all-time record rate of violent crime. But there are almost 300 million Americans, which means that the odds of being a victim of violent crime is considerably less than one in a hundred on any given year. Furthermore, since many violent crimes are committed by repeat offenders, the actual number of violent citizens is considerably less than two million.
Thus there is a paradox, and we must grasp both ends of the situation: We may well be in the most violent times in history, but violence is still remarkably rare. This is because most citizens are kind, decent people who are not capable of hurting each other, except by accident or under extreme provocation. They are sheep.
I mean nothing negative by calling them sheep. To me it is like the pretty, blue robin’s egg. Inside it is soft and gooey but someday it will grow into something wonderful. But the egg cannot survive without its hard blue shell. Police officers, soldiers, and other warriors are like that shell, and someday the civilization they protect will grow into something wonderful.? For now, though, they need warriors to protect them from the predators.
“Then there are the wolves,” the old war veteran said, “and the wolves feed on the sheep without mercy.” Do you believe there are wolves out there who will feed on the flock without mercy? You better believe it. There are evil men in this world and they are capable of evil deeds. The moment you forget that or pretend it is not so, you become a sheep. There is no safety in denial.
“Then there are sheepdogs,” he went on, “and I’m a sheepdog. I live to protect the flock and confront the wolf.”
If you have no capacity for violence then you are a healthy productive citizen, a sheep. If you have a capacity for violence and no empathy for your fellow citizens, then you have defined an aggressive sociopath, a wolf. But what if you have a capacity for violence, and a deep love for your fellow citizens? What do you have then? A sheepdog, a warrior, someone who is walking the hero’s path. Someone who can walk into the heart of darkness, into the universal human phobia, and walk out unscathed
Let me expand on this old soldier’s excellent model of the sheep, wolves, and sheepdogs. We know that the sheep live in denial, that is what makes them sheep. They do not want to believe that there is evil in the world. They can accept the fact that fires can happen, which is why they want fire extinguishers, fire sprinklers, fire alarms and fire exits throughout their kids’ schools.
But many of them are outraged at the idea of putting an armed police officer in their kid’s school. Our children are thousands of times more likely to be killed or seriously injured by school violence than fire, but the sheep’s only response to the possibility of violence is denial. The idea of someone coming to kill or harm their child is just too hard, and so they chose the path of denial.
The sheep generally do not like the sheepdog. He looks a lot like the wolf. He has fangs and the capacity for violence. The difference, though, is that the sheepdog must not, can not and will not ever harm the sheep. Any sheep dog who intentionally harms the lowliest little lamb will be punished and removed. The world cannot work any other way, at least not in a representative democracy or a republic such as ours.
Still, the sheepdog disturbs the sheep. He is a constant reminder that there are wolves in the land. They would prefer that he didn’t tell them where to go, or give them traffic tickets, or stand at the ready in our airports in camouflage fatigues holding an M-16. The sheep would much rather have the sheepdog cash in his fangs, spray paint himself white, and go, “Baa.”
Until the wolf shows up. Then the entire flock tries desperately to hide behind one lonely sheepdog.
The students, the victims, at Columbine High School were big, tough high school students, and under ordinary circumstances they would not have had the time of day for a police officer. They were not bad kids; they just had nothing to say to a cop. When the school was under attack, however, and SWAT teams were clearing the rooms and hallways, the officers had to physically peel those clinging, sobbing kids off of them. This is how the little lambs feel about their sheepdog when the wolf is at the door.
Look at what happened after September 11, 2001 when the wolf pounded hard on the door. Remember how America, more than ever before, felt differently about their law enforcement officers and military personnel? Remember how many times you heard the word hero?
Understand that there is nothing morally superior about being a sheepdog; it is just what you choose to be. Also understand that a sheepdog is a funny critter: He is always sniffing around out on the perimeter, checking the breeze, barking at things that go bump in the night, and yearning for a righteous battle. That is, the young sheepdogs yearn for a righteous battle. The old sheepdogs are a little older and wiser, but they move to the sound of the guns when needed right along with the young ones.
Here is how the sheep and the sheepdog think differently. The sheep pretend the wolf will never come, but the sheepdog lives for that day. After the attacks on September 11, 2001, most of the sheep, that is, most citizens in America said, “Thank God I wasn’t on one of those planes.” The sheepdogs, the warriors, said, “Dear God, I wish I could have been on one of those planes. Maybe I could have made a difference.” When you are truly transformed into a warrior and have truly invested yourself into warriorhood, you want to be there. You want to be able to make a difference.
There is nothing morally superior about the sheepdog, the warrior, but he does have one real advantage. Only one. And that is that he is able to survive and thrive in an environment that destroys 98 percent of the population. There was research conducted a few years ago with individuals convicted of violent crimes. These cons were in prison for serious, predatory crimes of violence: assaults, murders and killing law enforcement officers. The vast majority said that they specifically targeted victims by body language: slumped walk, passive behavior and lack of awareness. They chose their victims like big cats do in Africa, when they select one out of the herd that is least able to protect itself.
Some people may be destined to be sheep and others might be genetically primed to be wolves or sheepdogs. But I believe that most people can choose which one they want to be, and I’m proud to say that more and more Americans are choosing to become sheepdogs.
Seven months after the attack on September 11, 2001, Todd Beamer was honored in his hometown of Cranbury, New Jersey. Todd, as you recall, was the man on Flight 93 over Pennsylvania who called on his cell phone to alert an operator from United Airlines about the hijacking. When he learned of the other three passenger planes that had been used as weapons, Todd dropped his phone and uttered the words, “Let’s roll,” which authorities believe was a signal to the other passengers to confront the terrorist hijackers. In one hour, a transformation occurred among the passengers – athletes, business people and parents. — from sheep to sheepdogs and together they fought the wolves, ultimately saving an unknown number of lives on the ground.
There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men. – Edmund Burke
Here is the point I like to emphasize, especially to the thousands of police officers and soldiers I speak to each year. In nature the sheep, real sheep, are born as sheep. Sheepdogs are born that way, and so are wolves. They didn’t have a choice. But you are not a critter. As a human being, you can be whatever you want to be. It is a conscious, moral decision.
If you want to be a sheep, then you can be a sheep and that is okay, but you must understand the price you pay. When the wolf comes, you and your loved ones are going to die if there is not a sheepdog there to protect you. If you want to be a wolf, you can be one, but the sheepdogs are going to hunt you down and you will never have rest, safety, trust or love. But if you want to be a sheepdog and walk the warrior’s path, then you must make a conscious and moral decision every day to dedicate, equip and prepare yourself to thrive in that toxic, corrosive moment when the wolf comes knocking at the door.
For example, many officers carry their weapons in church.? They are well concealed in ankle holsters, shoulder holsters or inside-the-belt holsters tucked into the small of their backs.? Anytime you go to some form of religious service, there is a very good chance that a police officer in your congregation is carrying. You will never know if there is such an individual in your place of worship, until the wolf appears to massacre you and your loved ones.
I was training a group of police officers in Texas, and during the break, one officer asked his friend if he carried his weapon in church. The other cop replied, “I will never be caught without my gun in church.” I asked why he felt so strongly about this, and he told me about a cop he knew who was at a church massacre in Ft. Worth, Texas in 1999. In that incident, a mentally deranged individual came into the church and opened fire, gunning down fourteen people. He said that officer believed he could have saved every life that day if he had been carrying his gun. His own son was shot, and all he could do was throw himself on the boy’s body and wait to die. That cop looked me in the eye and said, “Do you have any idea how hard it would be to live with yourself after that?”
Some individuals would be horrified if they knew this police officer was carrying a weapon in church. They might call him paranoid and would probably scorn him. Yet these same individuals would be enraged and would call for “heads to roll” if they found out that the airbags in their cars were defective, or that the fire extinguisher and fire sprinklers in their kids’ school did not work. They can accept the fact that fires and traffic accidents can happen and that there must be safeguards against them.
Their only response to the wolf, though, is denial, and all too often their response to the sheepdog is scorn and disdain. But the sheepdog quietly asks himself, “Do you have and idea how hard it would be to live with yourself if your loved ones attacked and killed, and you had to stand there helplessly because you were unprepared for that day?”
It is denial that turns people into sheep. Sheep are psychologically destroyed by combat because their only defense is denial, which is counterproductive and destructive, resulting in fear, helplessness and horror when the wolf shows up.
Denial kills you twice. It kills you once, at your moment of truth when you are not physically prepared: you didn’t bring your gun, you didn’t train. Your only defense was wishful thinking. Hope is not a strategy. Denial kills you a second time because even if you do physically survive, you are psychologically shattered by your fear helplessness and horror at your moment of truth.
Gavin de Becker puts it like this in Fear Less, his superb post-9/11 book, which should be required reading for anyone trying to come to terms with our current world situation: “…denial can be seductive, but it has an insidious side effect. For all the peace of mind deniers think they get by saying it isn’t so, the fall they take when faced with new violence is all the more unsettling.”
Denial is a save-now-pay-later scheme, a contract written entirely in small print, for in the long run, the denying person knows the truth on some level.
And so the warrior must strive to confront denial in all aspects of his life, and prepare himself for the day when evil comes. If you are warrior who is legally authorized to carry a weapon and you step outside without that weapon, then you become a sheep, pretending that the bad man will not come today. No one can be “on” 24/7, for a lifetime. Everyone needs down time. But if you are authorized to carry a weapon, and you walk outside without it, just take a deep breath, and say this to yourself…
“Baa.”
This business of being a sheep or a sheep dog is not a yes-no dichotomy. It is not an all-or-nothing, either-or choice. It is a matter of degrees, a continuum. On one end is an abject, head-in-the-sand-sheep and on the other end is the ultimate warrior. Few people exist completely on one end or the other. Most of us live somewhere in between. Since 9-11 almost everyone in America took a step up that continuum, away from denial. The sheep took a few steps toward accepting and appreciating their warriors, and the warriors started taking their job more seriously. The degree to which you move up that continuum, away from sheephood and denial, is the degree to which you and your loved ones will survive, physically and psychologically at your moment of truth.
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Congressman Mike Rogers’ opening statement on Health Care reform in Washington D.C.
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2 09 2009
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same. Or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.
-Ronald Reagan
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Lt. Col Dave Grossman’s Bullet-Proofing the Mind
9 09 2009Book review
http://killology.com/art_buckeye.htm
Lt. Col Dave Grossman’s Bullet-Proofing the Mind – A MUST for every
concealed-carrier Chad D. Baus Buckeye Firearms Association February 15,
2008
EDITOR’S NOTE: The events of the past two weeks, including the latest
multiple-victim public shooting on the “no-guns” Northern Illinois
University campus Thursday afternoon, make the following information all
the more critical to our nation. Please share it far and wide. It is far
past time to allow students their right to bear arms for self-defense on
campus.
“Amateurs talk hardware. Professionals talk software. It doesn’t matter
what’s in your hand or between your legs. It matters what’s in your
heart and in your head.” – Lt. Col. Dave Grossman The story of concealed
handgun license-holder Jeanne Assam’s brave actions to stop a murderous
rampage killer in Colorado Springs, Colorado’s New Life Church won’t
soon be forgotten.
From CNSNews.com: “She probably saved over 100 lives,” the Brady Boyd,
the pastor of the New Life Church in Colorado Springs, said on Monday.
The female guard, a church member dressed in plain clothes, killed the
gunman after he opened fire at the mega-church. Boyd said she “rushed
toward the attacker and took him down in the hallway” as he entered the
building.
But most Americans are totally unaware of what happened with the two
other concealed handgun license-holders who confronted the killer that
day.
From the Denver Post: Larry Bourbonnais, a combat-tested Vietnam
veteran, said it was the bravest thing he’s ever seen.
Bourbonnais, who was among those shot by a gunman Sunday at New Life
Church, watched as a [fellow- church member], a woman later identified
as Jeanne Assam, calmly returned fire and killed the shooter.
“She just started walking toward the gunman firing the whole way,” said
Bourbonnais, who was shot in the arm. “She was just yelling ‘Surrender,’
walking and shooting the whole time.”
Bourbonnais, 59, had just finished up a hamburger in the cafeteria on
the sprawling church campus when he heard gunfire, he recalled.
He headed in the direction of the shots as frightened people ran past
him looking to escape to safety.
“Where’s the shooter? Where’s the shooter?” Bourbonnais kept yelling, he
recalled.
Near an entryway in the church, Bourbonnais came upon the gunman and an
armed male church [member] who was there with his gun drawn but not
firing, he said.
Bourbonnais said he pleaded with the armed [man] to give him his weapon.
“Give me your handgun. I’ve been in combat, and I’m going to take this
guy out,” Bourbonnais recalled telling the guard. “He kept yelling, ‘Get
behind me! Get behind me!’ He wouldn’t hand me his weapon, but he
wouldn’t do anything.”
There was an additional armed [churchgoer] there, another man, who also
didn’t fire, Bourbonnais said. All of the details about the their
failure to engage the attacker are not given, and we shouldn’t presume
to second-guess anyone in this type of situation. But the incident
brings to mind something that I believe every concealed handgun
license-holder needs to consider:
It is every bit as important to spend time and money getting training
for the mental aspects of defending oneself in a deadly force encounter
as it is to spend time and money on preparing for the physical aspects
(i.e. obtaining the right equipment and learning how to use it).
Enter Lt. Col Dave Grossman’s powerful mindset-oriented seminar,
“Bullet-Proofing the Mind.”
Speaking from Experience Lt. Col. Dave Grossman is a West Point
psychology professor, Professor of Military Science, and an Army Ranger
who has combined his experiences to become the founder of a new field of
scientific endeavor, which has been termed “killology.” In this new
field Col. Grossman has made revolutionary new contributions to our
understanding of killing in war, the psychological costs of war, the
root causes of the current “virus” of violent crime that is raging
around the world, and the process of healing the victims of violence, in
war and peace.
He is the author of On Killing, which was nominated for a Pulitzer
Prize; is on the US Marine Corps’ recommended reading list; and is
required reading at the FBI academy and numerous other academies and
colleges.
He has testified before U.S. Senate and Congressional committees and
numerous state legislatures, and he and his research have been cited in
a national address by the President of the United States.
Col. Grossman is an Airborne Ranger infantry officer, and a
prior-service sergeant and paratrooper, with a total of over 23 years
experience in leading U.S. soldiers worldwide. Today he is the director
of the Warrior Science Group, and in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist
attacks he is on the road almost 300 days a year, training elite
military and law enforcement organizations worldwide about the reality
of combat.
Buckeye Firearms Association Leader Linda Walker and I attended Col.
Grossman’s course on February 5, along with about 100 other men and
women – what I estimate to have been about a 60/40 mix of Fulton County
(Ohio) Fraternal Order of Police Lodge #135 Members and fellow Buckeye
Firearms Association supporters from all over the state.
Four Steps to a Bullet-Proof Mind Grossman spent the day walking us
through the four steps to a Bullet Proof Mind:
Understanding the magnitude of the threat. Grossman struck hard on this
theme from the minute the all-day seminar began, setting the stage with
two powerful questions:
“Can we take the lessons learned in blood and lives at Columbine and the
World Trade Center and apply them so we’ll never take this [path] again,
or do we have to wait until our kids die?”
and
“Could we agree our responsibility is to keep our kids and grandkids
safe?”
To set up his next theme, Grossman delivered the first of what became
throughout the day a host of riveting real-life case-studies, recounting
the story of a Secret Service agent who took a .22 round in a non-vital
area during the attempted assination of President Ronald Reagan, yet
collapsed, not because he was incapacitated but because Hollywood had
taught him that he was supposed to fall down when he got shot. Thus his
second step to a Bullet-Proof Mind:
Don’t focus on the minority who were hurt. Grossman advised that “stuff
you think you know about combat can destroy you. …Basing what you
think you know about combat on Hollywood is like basing what you know
about eloquence on Disney’s ‘Dumbo’.”
“Hollywood loves the pity party,” Grossman observed. “Don’t fall for it.
Chew it up, and spit it out.”
Grossman’s next complaint about Hollywood leads to the third step toward
Bullet-Proofing the Mind:
“Hollywood creates the macho man myth.”
Don’t be a macho man This third step toward a Bullet Proof Mind takes on
a bit of a dual meaning. “Every good cop knows there is no shame in
calling for backup,” Grossman noted. He used that truth to encourage
people who have survived a deadly-force encounter to call for back-up in
dealing with any level of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
Grossman spent 75% of the all-day seminar on the fourth and final step
toward a Bullet-Proof Mind:
Hunt down and eliminate every bit of denial in our lives “Denial is the
enemy,” Grossman repeatedly warned. Citing examples ranging from the
9-11 terror attacks to a litany of school shootings, including one in
his hometown of Jonesboro, AR. Grossman’s own son was attending the
school at Jonesboro that day.
“The worst thing that can happen is someone coming to kill our kids.
Folks, someone is coming to kill our kids.”
In effort to shake his students from their denial, Grossman noted that
we are facing both Internal and External Threats The Internal Threat is
that “kids and perverts are coming to kill our kids.” The External
Threat is that “terrorists are coming to kill our kids.”
Citing the horrific attack by Islamic terrorists on the Russian school
in Beslan, Russia, where after more than three days of rape and murder,
more than 350 people died – half of them children.
(To get over a little more of your own denial, watch the following
footage from the 2004 massacre)
To illustrate the level of denial in this country, Grossman noted that
when HBO did a special on the Beslan terrorist attack, they completely
omitted any mention of rape.
Grossman posed the question of how many kids have been killed by school
fires in the past 25 years in all of North America. The answer, ZERO.
He then noted that in 1998 alone, school violence has resulted in 35
dead, 250,000 injured. And lest you think 1998 was an anomaly, Grossman
noted 48 died from school violence in 2004.
The reason fire doesn’t kill school kids, Grossman explained, is that
“fire guys have set up multiple redundant, overlapping layers of
protection.” No one calls such extravagant fire prevention efforts into
question, “yet we try to prevent violence,” Grossman observed, “and
people think we’re crazy. DENIAL!”
“Denial has no survival value” became a repeatedly used phrase
throughout the day, usually to punctuate another case study example of a
place where the lack of preparation for a potential deadly force
encounter (no one prepared because they were in denial) got people
killed. Thanks to denial, “teachers aren’t prepared for violence. …If
they had done a fraction of preparation for violence [at Columbine] as
they had done for fire…”
“Why did we have to wait until after Columbine to change our training
and coin the word “active shooter?” Denial!
Observing that the Virginia Tech mass-murderer chose the building he
attacked because it had no ground-floor windows and only three
double-doors that could be chained from the inside, Grossman asked “how
many kids have to die before every class has two exits and a securable
door?”
“If teachers can be fired for failure to do fire drills, how much more
mean and ugly should we be to those who refuse to prepare for violence?”
The NEW Factor Grossman noted that every one of the actions the
Columbine kids committed was a felony. Yet many of their actions had
been illegal for 100 years before that, with no problems. “Something is
going on, and it ain’t the guns,” he warned.
Whatever is going on, it is world-wide phenomenon. We medicate
ourselves, police ourselves, secure ourselves and imprison ourselves at
rates unprecedented in history, and yet aggravated assaults and other
violent attacks are at their highest. What the hell is going on?
“It is a myth that most school killers are on Ritalin,” Grossman noted.
“It is a lie. Only two were prescribed, and we’re pretty sure they were
off their meds [when they attacked].”
UPDATE: Indeed, consider this quote about the Northern Illinois
University Saint Valentine’s Day massacre: “Apparently he had been
taking medication,” [NIU police chief Don] Grady said. “He had stopped
taking this medication and he had become somewhat erratic in the last
couple weeks.”
“They’ve all trained on the video games,” Grossman observed. Citing
research conducted for his book Stop Teaching Our Kids to Kill: A Call
to Action Against TV, Movie and Video Game Violence, Grossman advised
that “the average kid has practiced over 1,000,000 kills in a
simulator”. Video games these days are “total virtual reality
simulators”, “simulating rob, kill, steal for hundreds of hours on end.
Grossman displayed a series of brain scans showing that kids of violence
have underdeveloped forebrains and overdeveloped midbrains. In other
words, there is scientific evidence proving that video games shut down
the portion of the brain that is logical and predictable. “The safety
catch is turned off.”
Not willing to allow anyone to think violent media is the only factor,
Grossman warned students not to “get caught in a single-cause model”. He
stressed that while the violent media is definitely not the only factor,
it is most definitely the NEW factor. “take existing factors, add one
new factor, and you double or triple the risk. Take the factor away, you
reduce the risk by two or three times.”
Adopting the Warrior Mindset
“As the fire-firefighter knows fire, so you must know violence.”
Grossman noted that in Normandy, after 60 days of consecutive combat,
98% of soldiers were temporarily insane due to combat. Citing an analogy
that he would use throughout the discussion on the warrior mindset,
Grossman explained the Normandy statistics. “1% of people are wolves.
98% are sheep in denial. 1% are sheepdogs. …Only a predator can face a
predator.”
“Sheep have only two speeds – graze and stampede. They quickly sink back
into denial. …At Virginia Tech nobody put up a fight,” said Grossman.
“They waited to die. The only survival trick they knew was ‘Freeze’.
We’re raising a nation of sheep. …Once upon a time, America was full
of sheep dogs.”
It is important to note that “sheep are leery of predators. …Sheep
can’t comprehend the mindset of a warrior sheepdog. Sheep wake up every
day like it’s 9-11.”
Grossman said that the great destroyer in combat is stress, and the way
to defeat stress is mental readiness. ” The most complex fine motor
skill you’ll ever need is to shoot a human being who is trying to shoot
you,” the veteran advised. “If we train so much for sports games, how
much more should we for our lives in combat?”
“In World War II,” Grossman continued, “20% admitted to losing control
of their bowels in combat, 50% to losing control of their bladder. How
many more lied?” Grossman said the healthy response to extreme fear
response is not to be embarrassed or humiliated. “Just change your
drawers and move on.”
So how does Grossman recommend we avoid the symptoms of extreme fear
response?
“Inoculate. Expose yourself to the ‘disease’ in a controlled manner.
Firefighters face fire to train, we must face stress and fear. Through
force on force training. The first time you go through a force on force
scenario, your heart rate can jump to over 200 bpm. The more times you
do it, your heart rate comes down. Inoculation.”
When under stress, Grossman explained, the human voice shows stress.
There is a loss of blood flow to the vocal cords, to the hands, etc.
“You need to get to a place where we call for help after combat and
sound like a pilot [during an emergency landing].”
To insulate the point of how simulating stressful or fearful encounters
can inoculate against the destroyer of extreme fear response in combat,
Grossman told the story of deputy sheriff Jennifer Fulford. When she
surprised three home invaders in a garage, she took incoming fire from
all three, and was shot ten times (the bad guys were hitting her with
about one in ever four shots). All the time, however, she was returning
fire, and hitting with every shot. She killed one, lost use of her
strong hand, did a left-handed, one-handed reload, killed a second one,
and the third ran away. Today she has recovered and back on the beat.
Fulford said “I am the product of my training,” and went on to say that
the whole incident was less stressful than her simulation training.
Having this kind of “steely determination is about having made the
decision ahead of time” to kill or be killed, Grossman explained.
Grossman went on to expand on his earlier advice to seek help in dealing
with the emotional aftermath of a deadly force encounter, and then
examined four things held in common by people who don’t get PTSD:
1) previously stress inoculated 2) internal locus of control (predator
vs. rabbit)
- predator feels no combat stress, predator IS combat stress – predator
on his own turf has enormous advantage – optimistic/ confident
Grossman advised that “one of the best things you can do to prepare for
combat is to hunt”, calling it “the ultimate predator neuron training
for combat.”
3) Faith 4) Controlled emotions
- courage is grace under pressure
Grossman noted that the goal of stress-inducing training is to avoid
PTSD. “If there is no extreme fear response [feelings of intense fear,
helplessness, or horror], there is no PTSD”
Surviving Gunshot Wounds
All things are ready if our minds be so”
Grossman taught the following tips for surviving gunshot wounds:
- If the threat is no longer viable, and if you’ve been shot, get
yourself out of the line of fire. “Don’t make your friends expose
themselves to get to you.”
- If the threat remains, stop the threat. “You can take a bullet to the
heart and have 5 to 7 seconds before you will be out of combat. You’re
not dead! Keep going!”
Grossman’s 5 D’s [for Securing our Kids]
Denial “Denial kills you physical, mentally, and financially. It has no
survival value. Chew it up, spit it out, get rid of it. Moment of truth
today – no more denial. Rid yourself of every ounce.”
Deter “We don’t want to kill anybody. Deterrence is the goal.”
As an example of a failure to use Deterrence, Grossman citing the
example of the school massacre at Red Lake, MN, where a young school
murderer shot his grandparents with the police-issued weapons he had
stolen from his grandfather (a police officer), went to his high school
and shot one of two unarmed guards who was manning the front door. “If
[that guard] had been armed, odds are 10 to 1 he’d never have tried,”
Grossman said. “DETER. Those guards were given a responsibility for
human lives without the tools to do the job! Never call an unarmed man
‘security’. Call them ‘run-like-hell-when-the-shooting-starts’.”
Detect “Every time he bounces off a hard target, it’s a chance to
Detect.
Delay The goal is as many hard targets as possible. Once he is in the
school, the only question is how many kids die.”
Destroy (DEFEAT) “We are at war. Our armed citizens and cops are the
front line.”
Grossman preempted any police bureaucrats who were already starting to
add up the cost of the security they were imagining Grossman would
recommend:
“The most important things we can do cost nothing. Our problem isn’t the
money, it’s Denial.”
The First Finger Pointed Back at You: CARRY OFF DUTY
” Every cop should carry off-duty. To the officer who scoffs at this,
Grossman had these words: “There ain’t nothing wrong with a cop who
carries off-duty. It’s you. You’re a sheep. Say ‘baaa!’ Cops who carry
off-duty aren’t psychologically off – you might be! If every cop in
American carries, we quadruple our coverage at $0 cost. Be there with
the life-saving tools of your profession. Plan A is be a good witness
when nobody is dying. Plan B is shoot him dead. But if you have no gun,
you have no Plan B. If you’re legally authorized to carry and you go out
without your gun…everytime you see a fire-fighting sign, sprinkler
system, etc., tell yourself the fire-fighter is more professional than I
am.”
The Second Finger Pointed Back at You: HAVE THE PROPER EQUIPMENT
Get rifles. Cops can be authorized to purchase and carry their own
rifles. Pistols are just pissing at body armor.” Good mindset – “if the
bastards come to my town, our response time is measured in feet per
second.” Bad mindset – “it’ll never happen here.”
- Prepare a ‘go- bag’. “One armed person behind cover with effective
fire can make all the difference. The Long Ranger needs lots of silver
bullets. The average cop will have 3 mags and be empty in a minute. Keep
a loaded bag with mags ready.”
- “Cops could use medevac and media choppers as assault entry vehicles.
If it flies over your schools, it belongs to you. We are at war.
Integrate them into the plan from the beginning.”
- Fire hoses can break windows and not kill hostages, set off
booby-traps, etc. Firefighters have tools to punch through walls, create
climbing stairs in walls, etc. Integrate them into your plan from the
beginning. Use your firefighters as your combat engineers.”
- “Armed Citizens are the militia. Integrate concealed-handgun
license-holders (CHLs) into your plan. We are at war. The idea that cops
can do it all themselves is wrong. Use what is available to you.
Integrate them into your plan from the beginning. One or two people in
the first few minutes are worth 1000 people hours later.”
UPDATE: Indeed, consider this quote about the Northern Illinois
University Saint Valentine’s Day massacre: Police said he reloaded the
shotgun in a shooting that lasted less than five minutes, before he took
his own life. Police arrived on the scene within two minutes of the
first reports, but it was too late to stop the gunman.
Five minutes and at least six innocent lives. If only college students
were allowed their right to bear arms for self-defense on campus.
The Third Finger Pointed Back at You: GET YOUR HEART AND MIND READY -
“Stay in shape. Piss on golf. Real Americans go to the range. Choose a
sport with cardio or survival skill benefit. If you see a cop carrying
golf clubs, do one thing for me. Look him in the eye and say ‘baaa!’”
Plan A is the British Model. Disarm everyone. It’s not working. Plan B
is the Israeli Model. Train/ arm everyone. Israel has few golf courses
and a lot of rifle ranges!”
“Three fingers pointed back at you,” Grossman concluded, “say before you
go ask for Federal money, do the things that can be done for free. Our
problem isn’t money, it’s denial.”
Grossman summarized the goal of his training as being better able to
deter, less likely to panic, and more likely to live. A sheepdog says “I
will lead the way. I will set the highest standards. …Your mission is
to man the ramparts in this dark and desperate hour with honor and
courage.”
This sheepdog hopes for a day when we once again are a nation full of
them. With Lt. Col. Grossman as our Instructor, we are headed in the
right direction.
Chad Baus is a Member of the Fulton County, OH Republican Central
Committee and the Buckeye Firearms Association Vice Chairman and
Northwest Ohio Chair.
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BUCHANAN TO OBAMA
10 09 2009
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WHEN WE CLEAN UP WASHINGTON WE WILL THEN AGAIN HAVE A PRESIDENT THAT WE CAN RESPECT.
17 09 2009
Woodrow Wilson
WHEN WE CLEAN UP WASHINGTON WE WILL THEN AGAIN HAVE A PRESIDENT THAT WE CAN RESPECT.
August 31, 2009 | Geoffrey P. Hunt
Barack Obama is on track to have the most spectacularly
failed presidency since Woodrow Wilson.
In the modern era, we’ve seen several failed
presidencies–led by Jimmy Carter and LBJ. Failed presidents
have one strong common trait– they are repudiated, in the
vernacular, spat out. Of course, LBJ wisely took the exit
ramp early, avoiding a shove into oncoming traffic by his
own party. Richard Nixon indeed resigned in disgrace, yet
his reputation as a statesman has been partially restored by
his triumphant overture to China .
George Bush Jr didn’t fail so much as he was perceived
to have been too much of a patrician while being
uncomfortable with his more conservative allies. Yet George
Bush Sr is still perceived as a man of uncommon decency,
loyal to the enduring American
character of rugged self-determination, free markets, and
generosity. George W will eventually be treated more kindly
by historians as one whose potential was squashed by his own
compromise of conservative principles, in some ways
repeating the mistakes of his father, while ignoring many
lessons in executive leadership he should have learned at
Harvard Business School . Of course George W could never
quite overcome being dogged from the outset by half of the
nation convinced he was electorally illegitimate — thus
aiding the resurgence of the liberal wing of the Democratic
Party.
But, Barack Obama is failing. Failing big. Failing fast.
And failing everywhere: foreign policy, domestic
initiatives, and most importantly, in forging connections
with the American people. The incomparable Dorothy
Rabinowitz in the Wall Street Journal put her finger on it:
He is failing because he has no understanding of the
American people, and may indeed loath
them. Fred Barnes of the Weekly Standard says he is
failing because he has lost control of his message, and is
overexposed. Clarice Feldman of American Thinker produced a
dispositive commentary showing that Obama is failing because
fundamentally he is neither smart nor articulate; his
intellectual dishonesty is conspicuous by its audacity and
lack of shame.
But, there is something more seriously wrong: How could a
new president riding in on a wave of unprecedented promise
and goodwill have forfeited his tenure and become a lame
duck in six months? His poll ratings are in free fall. In
generic balloting, the Republicans have now seized a five
point advantage. This truly is unbelievable. What’s
going on?
No narrative. Obama doesn’t have a narrative. No, not a
narrative about himself. He has a self-narrative, much of it
fabricated, cleverly disguised or written by someone else.
But this self-narrative is isolated and doesn’t connect
with us.
He doesn’t have an American narrative that draws upon
the rest of us. All successful presidents have a narrative
about the American character that intersects with their own
where they display a command of history and reveal an
authenticity at the core of their personality that resonates
in a positive endearing way with the majority of Americans.
We admire those presidents whose narratives not only touch
our own, but who seem stronger, wiser, and smarter than we
are. Presidents we admire are aspirational peers, even those
whose politics don’t align exactly with our own: Teddy
Roosevelt, FDR, Harry Truman, Ike, Reagan.
But not this president. It’s not so much that he’s
a phony, knows nothing about economics, is historically
illiterate, and woefully small minded for the size of the
task– all contributory of course. It’s that he’s
not one of us. And whatever he is, his profile is fuzzy and
devoid of content, like a cardboard cutout made from
delaminated corrugated paper. Moreover, he doesn’t
command our respect and is unable to appeal to our own
common sense. His notions of right and wrong are repugnant
and how things work just don’t add up. They are not
existential. His descriptions of the world we live in
don’t make sense and don’t correspond with our
experience.
In the meantime, while we’ve been struggling to take a
measurement of this man, he’s dissed just about every
one of us–financiers, energy producers, banks, insurance
executives, police officers, doctors, nurses, hospital
administrators, post office workers, and anybody else who
has a non-green job. Expect Obama to lament at his last
press conference in 2012: “For those of you I offended,
I apologize. For those of you who were not offended, you
just didn’t give me enough time; if only I’d had a
second term, I could have offended you too.”
Mercifully, the Founders at the Constitutional Convention
in 1787 devised a
useful remedy for such a desperate state–staggered terms
for both houses of the legislature and the executive. An
equally abominable Congress can get voted out next year.
With a new Congress, there’s always hope of legislative
gridlock until we vote for president again two short years
after that.
Yes, small presidents do fail, Barack Obama among them.
The coyotes howl but the wagon train keeps rolling along.
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Health Care
17 09 2009US Senior Citizen Speaks Out on Healthcare Bill – Part 1
US Senior Citizen Speaks Out on Healthcare Bill – Part 2
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Because it is the one right that protects all others
28 09 2009
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There were only a few people at the 9/12 party as it was reported.
30 09 2009
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Rules for Gunfighting
3 10 2009
Rules for Gunfighting
1. Bring a gun. Preferably, bring at least two guns. Bring all of your
friends who have guns.
2. Anything worth shooting is worth shooting twice. Ammo is cheap. Your
life is expensive.
3. Only hits count. The only thing worse than a miss is a slow miss.
4. If your shooting stance is good, you’re probably not moving fast
enough nor using cover correctly.
5. Move away from your attacker. Distance is your friend. (Lateral and
diagonal movement are preferred.)
6. If you can choose what to bring to a gunfight, bring a long gun and a
friend with a long gun.
7. In ten years nobody will remember the details of caliber, stance, or
tactics. They will only remember who lived.
8. If you are not shooting, you should be communicating, reloading, and
running.
9. Accuracy is relative: most combat shooting standards will be more
dependent on “pucker factor” than the inherent accuracy of the gun.
9.5 Use a gun that works EVERY TIME.
10. Someday someone may kill you with your own gun, but they should have
to beat you to death with it because it is empty.
11. Always cheat; always win. The only unfair fight is the one you lose.
12. Have a plan.
13. Have a back-up plan, because the first one won’t work.
14. Use cover or concealment as much as possible.
15. Flank your adversary when possible. Protect yours.
16. Don’t drop your guard.
17. Always tactical load and threat scan 360 degrees.
18. Watch their hands. Hands kill. (In God we trust. Everyone else, keep
your hands where I can see them).
19. Decide to be aggressive ENOUGH, quickly ENOUGH.
20. The faster you finish the fight, the less shot you will get.
21. Be polite. Be professional. But, have a plan to kill everyone you
meet.
22. Be courteous to everyone, friendly to no one.
23. Your number one Option for Personal Security is a lifelong
commitment to avoidance, deterrence, and de-escalation.
24. Do not attend a gunfight with a handgun, the caliber of which does
not start with a “.4″
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You want change? Try these ideas
16 10 2009
Column – Norma White: You want change? Try these ideas
Each presidential candidate is giving his rendition of the changes he wants for America.
Here are a few that I believe all Americans want.
Limit Congress from serving more than two terms. That is all that presidents are allowed.
Stop Congress from voting for their own raises. How did that ever get started?
Stop paying for lawmakers’ high-priced insurance premiums. After all, they are only part-time employees. They might pass some law changes on the insurance companies, if they had to find one.
Stop paying lawmakers their full salary after serving just one term, or at retirement. We need to get rid of that pension plan; they’ve let other companies get rid of theirs. You were lucky to get 40 to 50 percent of your salary after working somewhere for 35 years, but they get 100 percent.
Make Congress pay into the Social Security system. They make laws for it. If they spent some of their own money, they might be interested in making it solvent.
Stop handing out aid to illegal aliens. If we did, then Medicaid and the food stamp program would have enough money to aid the aged and the poor.
Secure our borders.
Stop allowing babies born to illegal aliens in the United States automatic U.S. citizenship.
Stop the abuse of our benevolent welfare system. We feed children free meals three times a day until they are 17. Churches give away good, clean clothes. Companies buy and donate school supplies. Emergency rooms provide health care at taxpayer expense and the food stamp program is buying food at home. What are parents doing for their children?
Have a computer program that cross checks Social Security numbers with fingerprints to stop fraud on many fronts. Use it on voter registration, too.
Stop bailing out mortgage companies and banks that give loans to people who cannot afford them.
Stop companies from paying CEOs and other executives outrageous salaries and bonuses while doing away with workers’ pensions.
Stop all unnecessary spending so we will have the money for our nation’s security, and to help needy and elderly Americans.
Stop permitting anyone to have a photo with their face covered on driver’s licenses.
Whoever wins the presidency will not be able to make these changes.
Only members of Congress can do this, as they are the lawmakers.
I don’t believe Congress is interested in changing anything, do you?
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Refutations of Popular Gun Myths
25 10 2009
Please reproduce and distribute. Use this information in Letters to the Editor, conversations with anti-gun friends, and anywhere else you can. You are one election away from having your right of self-defense seen as a threat to society. It is on you to get the voters to see the truth, because the press is supporting the other side.
MYTH: “The police can protect you.”
Police write great reports, but an officer can only protect you if he/she happens to be there when the crime starts. Remember when the Christmas-tree lot worker was beaten with a bat? This happened on TV Highway, the major road between Beaverton and Hillsboro. The victims phoned 911 twice while being assaulted by eighteen youths, but the operator didn’t believe them and refused to send the police. Ten minutes later, the young man was struck with the bat and permanently disabled. His uncle had to beg a passerby to phone 911, this time for an ambulance.
Are you a baby-boomer? When you are 70 years old, will you be able to fight off a mugger with your fists? What if it isn’t just your money he wants? If you do not stop the anti-gun trend, guns will be registered, then confiscated, by the time you and your generation need them the most. The only gun-owners will be people who disobey the law.
MYTH: “A handgun in a home is 43 times more likely to kill one of the residents than a criminal.”
This is a bogus statistic from an MD named Arthur Kellerman. If you remove the suicides from his sampling, his statistic is now “6 times more likely”. Most of his remaining “victims” were multiple criminals living together, where one shot the other in a fight. He lets you assume they were families just like yours, by counting gun-death statistics for criminal households together with those of traditional families. (Polsby and Brennen, “Taking Aim At Gun Control” 1995). He has repeatedly refused the opportunity to debate speakers on the other side of the issue.
MYTH: “More children die of gunfire in America that the next 25 industrial nations combined”
Former President Clinton made those claims because he knew the press wouldn’t investigate them. He counted Hong Kong and China separately, although they had been together for years. He counted Kuwait as a top industrial nation, but left Russia and Brazil off the list. Russia and Brazil banned guns long ago, but have murder rates four times higher than what we have in the US. If you look at murders involving juveniles they’re off the scales. Both of those countries have significantly smaller populations than the U. S., yet either one of them by itself has a juvenile death total much higher than ours. (Prof J. Lott, Nat. Review.)
MYTH: “Countries with strict gun laws have less crime”
Russia, Mexico, South Africa and Brazil have very strict gun laws and much higher crime than we do. Switzerland has almost 100% handgun ownership. They even have shooting competitions for teenagers. Their murder rate is lower than England, where handgun ownership is banned. Violent crime in England has risen since the ban. If guns caused crime, Switzerland would be the most dangerous nation on earth, rather than one of the safest. Finland has higher per-capita gun ownership than America, and they also have lower crime rates. Israel has 40% higher gun ownership, and near zero murder, except for terrorists. New York, California, Chicago, and Washington DC have the strictest gun laws in America, and the highest crime rates. Virginia borders Washington DC, yet it has few gun laws and far fewer violent crimes. Vermont has the least restrictive gun laws in America, and their gun crime rate is 48th out of 50 states. Every state that started allowing average citizens to carry concealed weapons saw a decrease in violent crime over the ensuing years. Gun laws have been proven to make things worse, not better. (Prof. J. Lott, More Guns, Less Crime, 1998)
Think about it – if you were going to go on a shooting rampage or robbery spree, would you do it where the people are armed, or where the laws forbid your intended victims from having guns? If you doubt this, you can do your own experiment: Post a sign in front of your residence:
THIS HOME IS PROUD TO BE GUN FREE
Let me know how it went for you.
MYTH: “Incidents like Columbine demand gun control”
Deaths from incidents like Columbine are extremely rare, even now. For the first 190 years of American history, guns could be bought by mail, or in any gun store with no questions asked. No school shootings. The perversity that brought Columbine and similar incidents has nothing to do with gun laws, and will not change because of them. In two of those incidents, the shooting stopped when armed civilians intervened with their own guns, but those people weren’t invited to the White House for photo-ops, so you didn’t hear about them. (More on this below)
MYTH: “Guns should be registered like cars”
Compliance only comes from law-abiding citizens. Confiscation then becomes easy, and the “logical next step” after the next gun crime is in the news. The most recent examples of this are Australia and Britain. All it took was one person in each place to do something stupid, and the both countries paid with their rights to own firearms. Politicians made themselves look tough on crime, by punishing the gun owners who obeyed the law and registered. The law-abiding gun owners lost their ability to defend themselves against violence. But did confiscation improve things? British gun crimes rose 40% since their 1996 handgun ban. Australian armed robberies rose by 51%, unarmed robberies by 37%, assaults by 24% and kidnappings by 43%. The only people who lost their weapons were those who registered them. The criminals and the IRA still have theirs. In Germany, registration preceded confiscation of weapons from Jews, homosexuals, opponents of Hitler, and any other “undesirables”. Once disarmed, they were easy prey. The same happened in Rwanda, Uganda, Yugoslavia, Cambodia, Turkey, and the Soviet Union.
It is too easy a step from registration to confiscation. Since criminals won’t register their guns, they won’t be turning them in if the government decides to ban them. The Supreme Court (Haynes v. US, 390 US 85, 1968) has ruled that criminals cannot be prosecuted for failing to register guns (self incrimination). So gun registration will affect you, but not them.
MYTH: “Guns are already registered, I see that on the television cop shows”
Other than a few extremely repressive states, gun registration does not exist. But on the TV cop shows, we see the hero cop say, “The murder weapon is registered to you, how do you explain that?” Perhaps some Hollywood screenwriters would like to condition you to believe that gun registration is a fact, so you won’t complain when their favorite politicians try to push it through. Don’t believe it, and don’t accept it. Gun registration is the only way confiscation can happen, short of house to house searches.
MYTH: “Thirteen children a day die of gun violence.”
You really have to work the numbers around to get to this. The Clinton administration announced this using a backdrop of elementary school children. They didn’t say that 84% of the “13 children” are gangsters between the ages of 15 and 20, killing each other over drugs and turf (Prof. J. Lott, LA Times article). Clinton promised that this would be fixed by his 1994 gun laws, remember? Of the remaining 16% of non-adult gunshot victims, there are accidents, suicides, murders, and justifiable self-defense. Only 2.9% of all deaths under the age of 14 are from accidental shootings, an all time low (Johns Hopkins University). More children are killed by each of poisoning, drowning, fires, and bicycles.
MYTH: “More gun control will help stop hate crimes”
How will disarming likely victims protect them? People who are willing to violate murder laws are willing to violate gun laws, but they are not willing to risk being killed if their victim is armed. If 50% of all gay men in an area were known to carry handguns, people who now assault them would look elsewhere for entertainment.
MYTH: “What if only one life is saved by more gun laws, isn’t is worth it?”
How many lives will be lost because of gun laws? 2.5 Million crimes per year are stopped by armed citizens. What are their lives worth? (G. Kleck, Point Blank: Guns and Violence in America). In the case of the school shooting in Mississippi, the vice-principal (who stopped the shooter) had to run 1000 feet each way to get his gun from his car, because it was illegal for him to have it any closer to the school. How many children were shot during those minutes? What if it had been legal for New Yorkers to carry guns when Colin Ferguson shot up the subway car? Did strict New York gun laws stop his racist rampage? No, but they did guarantee him unarmed victims. What about the hundreds of women who had to wait the Brady period when they took notice of a stalker and were subsequently raped or worse before they could pick up their weapon. Don’t these people count for anything?
MYTH: “The Second Amendment was written when muskets were the primary military arms. The Founding Fathers never would have considered allowing citizens to own assault rifles.”
The First Amendment was written when the hand-operated printing press was the primary publishing tool. Shall we also ban free speech on television, radio, and the Internet because they weren’t invented in 1791? Technology may have changed, but human nature has not. Honest people still need means of defense against dishonest ones.
Is the Second Amendment a Personal or Group Right?
MYTH: “The Second Amendment was about state militias like the National Guard”
If that were true, we would see it in the writings of the Founding Fathers. Instead, we see dozens of statements that the right to keep and bear arms is a personal right and none that say otherwise. I have attached a few for your reference.
Words of the framers of the Constitution, expressing their views on gun rights:
“No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.” Thomas Jefferson, proposed Virginia constitution, June 1776. Thomas Jefferson Papers, 334 (C. J. Boyd, Ed., 1950)
“Laws that forbid the carrying of arms disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.” Thomas Jefferson, quoting 18th century criminologist Cesare Beccaria in “On Crimes and Punishment”, 1764, pp 87-88.
When the government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny, Thomas Jefferson
“The Constitution of most of our states, and the United States, assert that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves: that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed; that they are entitled to freedom of person, freedom of religion, freedom of property, and freedom of the press.” Thomas Jefferson, Proposed Virginia Constitution, 1776
“Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: first, a right to life, secondly to liberty, thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.” Samuel Adams
“The Constitution shall never be construed to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.” Samuel Adams, During the Massachusetts U.S. Constitution ratification convention, 1788
“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), reply of the Pennsylvania Assembly to the governor, November 11, 1755
“Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom of Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any bands of regular troops that can be, on any pretense, raised in the United States.” Noah Webster, An Examination into the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution (1787) in Pamphlets to the Constitution of the United States (P. Ford, 1888).
“Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at the individual discretion, in private self-defense.” John Adams, A Defense of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America, 1787-88
“The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.” Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers at 184-8
“A militia when properly formed are in fact the people themselves and include all men capable of bearing arms. To preserve liberty it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them.” Richard Henry Lee, Initiator of the Declaration of Independence, and member of the first Senate, which passed the Bill of Rights. Additional Letters From the Federal Farmer 53, 1788
“Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined. The great object is that every man be armed. Every man who is able may have a gun.” Patrick Henry, During Virginia’s ratification convention, 1788
“The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.” James Madison, The Federalist No. 46
“The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. A well regulated militia, composed of the body of people, trained in arms, is the best and most natural defense of a free country.” James Madison, I Annuals of Congress 434 (June 8, 1789)
“I ask sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.” George Mason, during Virginia’s ratification convention, June 4, 1788 (From J. Elliott, Debates in the General State Conventions 425 (3rd ed. 1937).
“Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property. Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived the use of them.” …Thomas Paine, Thoughts on Defensive War, 1775
“A free people ought to be armed. When firearms go, all goes, we need them by the hour. Firearms stand next to importance to the Constitution itself. They are the American people’s liberty teeth and keystone under independence.” George Washington, Boston Independence Chronicle, January 14, 1790
“To ensure peace, security, and happiness, the rifle and pistol are equally indispensable. The very atmosphere of firearms everywhere restrains evil interference – they deserve a place of honor with all that is good.” George Washington
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Why do I carry a gun?
25 10 2009Why do I carry a gun?
“In case I need to employ it in a worst-case scenario to prevent the
imminent and otherwise unavoidable danger of death or great bodily
harm to innocent people, my family or even me.”
“It is my most important job to keep myself and my family safe, and
this is the best tool that I have to do so.”
I don’t carry a gun to kill people.
I carry a gun to keep from being killed.
I don’t carry a gun to scare people.
I carry a gun because sometimes this world can be a scary place.
I don’t carry a gun because I’m paranoid.
I carry a gun because there are real threats in the world.
I don’t carry a gun because I’m evil.
I carry a gun because I have lived long enough to see the evil in the world.
I don’t carry a gun because I hate the government.
I carry a gun because I understand the limitations of government.
I don’t carry a gun because I’m angry.
I carry a gun so that I don’t have to spend the rest of my life hating
myself for failing to be prepared.
I don’t carry a gun because I want to shoot someone.
I carry a gun because I want to die at a ripe old age in my bed, and
not on a sidewalk somewhere tomorrow afternoon.
I don’t carry a gun because I’m a cowboy.
I carry a gun because, when I die and go to heaven, I want to be a cowboy.
I don’t carry a gun to make me feel like a man.
I carry a gun because men know how to take care of themselves and the
ones they love.
I don’t carry a gun because I feel inadequate.
I carry a gun because unarmed and facing three armed thugs, I am inadequate.
I don’t carry a gun because I love it.
I carry a gun because I love life and the people who make it meaningful to me.
Police Protection is an oxymoron. Free citizens must protect themselves.
Police do not protect you from crime, they usually just investigate
the crime after it happens and then call someone in to clean up the
mess.
Personally, I carry a gun because I’m too young to die and too old to
take an ass kickin’.
Funny ones:
• Because I can’t carry a COP!!
• I carry a gun because I’m too old to fight. A young guy will kick
your ass, but an old man will just shoot you.
• Because I can’t throw a rock 1000 fps.
• For the same reasons I have fire extinguishers and wear my seatbelt.
• I would rather have a gun and not need it than need a gun and not have it.
• Don’t let your dying words be “Damn, I wish I had my gun.
• Because a cop is too heavy to carry?
• OK, so a cop can walk, but then you have to carry donuts, to keep
him close by.
• When did Noah build the Ark? That’s right, before it rained.
• Doesn’t everyone carry a gun?
• In case I need to shoot something… or someone.
• Because when seconds count the cops are only minutes away.
• Cuz a gun ain’t got no legs…
• Because you never know when one of us is going to come up lame and
need to be put down!
• You know…because of the killer clowns.
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Burnett: Campus gun legislation merely clarifies gun rights
2 11 2009There’s been quite a stir recently over a bill in the Michigan Legislature that would prevent colleges from making up their own rules about guns on campus. As with any contentious legislation, there’s information and misinformation flying back and forth until it’s hard to know what’s right and wrong.
Here’s what it boils down to.
Concealed carry on college campuses is legal, except in dormitories, stadiums and classrooms. In fact, Michigan State University modified its rules of conduct about weapons back in the summer of 2009 because they recognized a conflict between their rules and state law.
Police told citizens (whether students or just people driving by) that they were breaking the law and couldn’t have weapons on campus. However, officials refused to prosecute because no laws had been broken. MSU voted almost unanimously to eliminate this conflict and comply with the law. (Like other schools in the nation that allow lawful possession of firearms, MSU has not seen a spike in violence.)
The same conflict still exists with other colleges who want citizens arrested for breaking their rules. In fact, the Michigan State Police support the current bill because it removes confusion about what’s legal on campus. (Perhaps law enforcement is tired of having colleges telling state officers to enforce nonexistent laws?)
Critics like the Brady Campaign falsely claim the law would allow loaded weapons into classrooms and dormitories, creating greater problems for colleges who should focus on banning guns. But the current bill doesn’t change who can carry, or when, or where. It only tells colleges that the Legislature, not college boards, creates laws you can be arrested for breaking. Concealed carry in dorms and classrooms would still be illegal under a separate law.
Colleges argue that they have the right to regulate their own campus. But is it really “their” campus, and do they really have that right?
If public colleges suddenly outlawed certain kinds of speech, would they have the right to arrest people who speak their minds? How much autonomous authority can a public institution presume to have, issuing rules that supersede present laws and suspend a right as fundamental as self-defense – and then insisting that police arrest those who don’t comply? Private colleges may have this luxury. Public institutions supported by taxpayer dollars don’t.
Other arguments against the bill are based on fear about what an individual would do if allowed to carry a gun on campus.
These fears assume Michigan residents in compliance with current firearms laws are actually latent criminals, restrained only by the knowledge that if they commit a crime on campus, the college will suspend them. Or that citizens who have safely carried their guns everywhere else the law allows will suddenly go ballistic upon reaching campus.
Ultimately, it’s about who you trust. Would you rather trust a criminal to abide by a written code and not carry a gun, or trust a peaceful and state-authorized citizen to carry a gun?
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It’s better to be paralyzed from the neck down, than to be paralyzed from the neck up… “
13 11 2009
It’s better to be paralyzed from the neck down, than to be paralyzed from the neck up… “
Dr. Charles Krauthammer
Last Monday was a profound evening, Dr. Charles Krauthammer spoke to the Center for the American Experiment. He is a brilliant intellectual, seasoned &articulate. He is forthright and careful in his analysis, and never resorts to emotions or personal insults. He is NOT a fear monger nor an extremist in his comments and views. He is a fiscal conservative, and has received a Pulitzer Prize for writing. He is a frequent contributor to Fox News and writes weekly for the Washington Post.
The entire room was held spellbound during his talk. I have summarized his comments, as we are living in uncharted waters economically and internationally.
Summary of his comments:
2. Obama has political skills comparable to Reagan and Clinton. He has a way of making you think he’s on your side, agreeing with your position, while doing the opposite. Pay no attention to what he SAYS; rather, watch what he DOES!
3. Obama has a ruthless quest for power. He did not come to Washington to make something out of himself, but rather to change everything, including dismantling capitalism. He can’t be straightforward on his ambitions, as the public would not go along.
He has a heavy hand, and wants to level the playing field with income redistribution and punishment to the achievers of society. He would like to model the USA to Great Britain or Canada .
4. His three main goals are to control ENERGY, PUBLIC EDUCATION, and NATIONAL HEALTHCARE by the Federal government. He doesn’t care about the auto or financial services industries, but got them as an early bonus. The cap and trade will add costs to everything and stifle growth. Paying for FREE college education is his goal. Most scary is his healthcare program, because if you make it FREE and add 46,000,000 people to a Medicare-type single-payer system, the costs will go through the roof. The only way to control costs is with massive RATIONING of services, like in Canada .
5. He has surrounded himself with mostly far-left academic types. No one around him has ever even run a candy store. But they are going to try and run the auto, financial, banking and other industries. This obviously can’t work in the long run. Obama is not a socialist; rather he’s a far-left secular progressive bent on nothing short of revolution. He ran as a moderate, but will govern from the hard left. Again, watch what he does, not what he says.
6. Obama doesn’t really see himself as President of the United States , but more as a ruler over the world. He sees himself above it all, trying to orchestrate &coordinate various countries and their
agendas. He sees moral equivalency in all cultures. His apology tour in Germany and England was a prime example of how he sees America , as an imperialist nation that has been arrogant, rather than a great noble nation that has at times made errors. This is the first President ever who has chastised our allies and appeased our enemies!
7. He is now handing out goodies. He hopes that the bill (and pain) will not come due until after he is reelected in 2012. He would like to blame all problems on Bush from the past, and hopefully his successor in the future. He has a huge ego, and Dr. Krauthammer believes he is a narcissist.
8. Republicans are in the wilderness for a while, but will emerge strong. Republicans are pining for another Reagan, but there will never be another like him. Krauthammer believes Mitt Romney, Tim Pawlenty &Bobby Jindahl (except for his terrible speech in February) are the future of the party. Newt Gingrich is brilliant, but has baggage. Sarah Palin is sincere and intelligent, but needs to really be seriously boning up on facts and info if she is to be a serious candidate in the future. We need to return to the party of lower taxes, smaller government, personal responsibility, strong national defense, and state’s rights.
9. The current level of spending is irresponsible and outrageous. We are spending trillions that we don’t have. This could lead to hyperinflation, depression or worse. No country has ever spent themselves into prosperity. The media is giving Obama, Reid and Pelosi a pass because they love their agenda. But eventually the bill will come due and people will realize the huge bailouts didn’t work, nor will the stimulus package. These were trillion-dollar payoffs to Obama’s allies, unions and the Congress to placate the left, so he can get support for #4 above.
10. The election was over in mid-September when Lehman brothers failed, fear and panic swept in, we had an unpopular President, and the war was grinding on indefinitely without a clear outcome. The people are in pain, and the mantra of change caused people to act emotionally. Any Dem would have won this election; it was surprising it was as close as it was.
11. In 2012, if the unemployment rate is over 10%, Republicans will be swept back into power. If it’s under 8%, the Dems continue to roll. If it’s between 8-10%, it will be a dogfight. It will all be about the economy. I hope this gets you really thinking about what’s
happening in Washington and Congress. There is a left-wing revolution going on, according to Krauthammer, and he encourages us to keep the faith and join the loyal resistance. The work will be hard, but we’re right on most issues and can reclaim our country, before it’s far too late.
Do yourself a long term favor, send this to all who will listen to an intelligent assessment of the big picture. All our futures and children’s futures depend on our good understanding of what is really going on in DC, and our action pursuant to that understanding!! It really IS up to each of us to take individual action!! Start with educating your friends and neighbors!!!
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Thomas Paine Quotes
29 12 2009A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial
appearance of being right. Thomas Paine
A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in
temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
Thomas Paine
All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or
Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify
and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit. Thomas Paine
An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.
Thomas Paine
Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a
child, cannot be true. Thomas Paine
Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve
order in the world as well as property… Horrid mischief would ensue
were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them. Thomas Paine
Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man. Thomas Paine
But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all
it wants is the liberty of appearing. Thomas Paine
Character is much easier kept than recovered. Thomas Paine
Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none
that instructs him to be bad. Thomas Paine
Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and
unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed.
Man cannot make principles; he can only discover them. Thomas Paine
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its
worst state, an intolerable one. Thomas Paine
He that rebels against reason is a real rebel, but he that in defence of
reason rebels against tyranny has a better title to Defender of the
Faith, than George the Third. Thomas Paine
He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy
from opposition; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent
that will reach himself. Thomas Paine
He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and
opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death. Thomas Paine
Human nature is not of itself vicious. Thomas Paine
I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties
consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our
fellow-creatures happy. Thomas Paine
I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from
distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little
minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience
approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death. Thomas
Paine
If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have
peace. Thomas Paine
If we do not hang together, we shall surely hang separately. Thomas
Paine
Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed
religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities. Thomas
Paine
It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance. Thomas Paine
It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry. Thomas
Paine
It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to
himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving,
it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe. Thomas
Paine
It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are
defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees,
the consequences will be the same. Thomas Paine
It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that
the Bible describes. Thomas Paine
It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into
consideration. Thomas Paine
Lead, follow, or get out of the way. Thomas Paine
Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is
always a vice. Thomas Paine
My country is the world, and my religion is to do good. Thomas Paine
My mind is my own church. Thomas Paine
Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the
worst. Thomas Paine
One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests. Thomas
Paine
Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always
the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law. Thomas
Paine
Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to
it. Thomas Paine
Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and
angels know of us. Thomas Paine
Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best
stage, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.
Thomas Paine
Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good
society. Thomas Paine
That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no
proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not. Thomas Paine
That government is best which governs least. Thomas Paine
That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly. Thomas Paine
The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too
scanty a blanket when you are abed. If you pull it upon your shoulders,
your feet are left bare; if you thrust it down to your feet, your
shoulders are uncovered. Thomas Paine
The greatest remedy for anger is delay. Thomas Paine
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. Thomas Paine
The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A
general association takes place, and common interest produces common
security. Thomas Paine
The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason.
Thomas Paine
The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and
grows brave by reflection. Thomas Paine
The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of
resistance. Thomas Paine
The Vatican is a dagger in the heart of Italy. Thomas Paine
The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence
from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum. Thomas Paine
The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is
my religion. Thomas Paine
There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express
commandment of God, that are shocking to humanity and to every idea we
have of moral justice. Thomas Paine
There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that
we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those
that bolt into the mind of their own accord. Thomas Paine
These are the times that try men’s souls. Thomas Paine
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men,
undergo the fatigue of supporting it. Thomas Paine
Time makes more converts than reason. Thomas Paine
‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm,
and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles
unto death. Thomas Paine
Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title. Thomas Paine
To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be
to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of
its branches. Thomas Paine
To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their
choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.
Thomas Paine
Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself.
So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one’s own
efforts. Thomas Paine
War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances
that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing
certain, and that is to increase taxes. Thomas Paine
We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not
on possibilities. Thomas Paine
We have it in our power to begin the world over again. Thomas Paine
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only
that gives everything its value. Thomas Paine
When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty
quits the horizon. Thomas Paine
When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is
not hereditary. Thomas Paine
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Anne Wortham is Associate Professor of Sociology
12 04 2010Anne Wortham is Associate Professor of Sociology at Illinois State University and continuing Visiting Scholar at Stanford University’s
Hoover Institution. She is a member of the American Sociological Association and the American Philosophical Association.
She has been a John M. Olin Foundation Faculty Fellow, and honored as a Distinguished Alumni of the Year by the National Association for
Equal Opportunity in Higher Education.
In fall 1988 she was one of a select group of intellectuals who were featured in Bill Moyers’ television series, “A World of Ideas.” The
transcript of her conversation with Moyers has been published in his book, A World of Ideas.
Dr. Wortham is author of “The Other Side of Racism: A Philosophical Study of Black Race Consciousness” which analyzes how race
consciousness is transformed into political strategies and policy issues.
She has published numerous articles on the implications of individual rights for civil rights policy, and is currently writing a book on
theories of social and cultural marginality.
Recently, she has published articles on the significance of multiculturalism and Afrocentricism in education, the politics of
victimization and the social and political impact of political correctness. Shortly after an interview in 2004, she was awarded tenure.
This article by her is something.
Fellow Americans,
Please know: I am Black; I grew up in the segregated South. I did not vote for Barack Obama; I wrote in Ron Paul’s name as my choice for
president. Most importantly, I am not race conscious. I do not require a Black president to know that I am a person of worth, and that
life is worth living. I do not require a Black president to love the ideal of America ..
I cannot join you in your celebration. I feel no elation. There is no smile on my face. I am not jumping with joy. There are no tears of
triumph in my eyes. For such emotions and behavior to come from me, I would have to deny all that I know about the requirements of human
flourishing and survival – all that I know about the history of the United States of America , all that I know about American race
relations, and all that I know about Barack Obama as a politician. I would have to deny the nature of the “change” that Obama asserts
has come to America .
Most importantly, I would have to abnegate my certain understanding that you have chosen to sprint down the road to serfdom that we have
been on for over a century. I would have to pretend that individual liberty has no value for the success of a human life. I would have
to evade your rejection of the slender reed of capitalism on which your success and mine depend. I would have to think it somehow
rational that 94 percent of the 12 million Blacks in this country voted for a man because he looks like them (that Blacks are permitted
to play the race card), and that they were joined by self-declared “progressive” whites who voted for him because he doesn’t look like
them.
I would have to wipe my mind clean of all that I know about the kind of people who have advised and taught Barack Obama and will fill
posts in his administration – political intellectuals like my former colleagues at the Harvard University’s Kennedy School of
Government.
I would have to believe that “fairness” is equivalent of justice. I would have to believe that a man who asks me to “go forward in a new
spirit of service, in a new service of sacrifice” is speaking in my interest.. I would have to accept the premise of a man that economic
prosperity comes from the “bottom up,” and who arrogantly believes that he can will it into existence by the use of government force. I
would have to admire a man who thinks the standard of living of the masses can be improved by destroying the most productive and the
generators of wealth.
Finally, Americans, I would have to erase from my consciousness the scene of 125,000 screaming, crying, cheering people in Grant Park,
Chicago irrationally chanting “Yes We Can!” Finally, I would have to wipe all memory of all the times I have heard politicians, pundits,
journalists, editorialists, bloggers and intellectuals declare that capitalism is dead – and no one, including especially Alan
Greenspan, objected to their assumption that the particular version of the anti-capitalistic mentality that they want to replace with
their own version of anti-capitalism is anything remotely equivalent to capitalism.
So you have made history, Americans. You and your children have elected a Black man to the office of the president of the United States,
the wounded giant of the world. The battle between John Wayne and Jane Fonda is over – and that Fonda won. Eugene McCarthy and George
McGovern must be very happy men. Jimmie Carter, too. And the Kennedys have at last gotten their Kennedy look-a-like. The self-righteous
welfare statists in the suburbs can feel warm moments of satisfaction for having elected a Black person.
So, toast yourselves: 60s counter cultural radicals, 80s yuppies and 90s bourgeois bohemians. Toast yourselves, Black America. Shout
your glee Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Duke, Stanford, and Berkeley. You have elected not an individual who is qualified to be president,
but a Black man who, like the pragmatist Franklin Roosevelt, promises to – Do Something! You now have someone who has picked up the
baton of Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society. But you have also foolishly traded your freedom and mine – what little there is left – for the
chance to feel good.
There is nothing in me that can share your happy obliviousness. God Help Us all…
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Gun rights activists gather for the Second Amendment March at the Michigan State Capitol
14 04 2010
http://www.examiner.com/detroit photo by Gordon LaVere
If yesterday’s Second Amendment March at the Michigan State Capitol is
any indication, grass roots gun rights activism is alive and well in
Michigan.
Hundreds of activists from across the state turned out to listen to a
mix of speakers including politicians, law enforcement, and political
and gun rights activists.
“When I started the Second Amendment March I didn’t expect anyone to
follow me, “ Skip Coryell, founder of the Second Amendment March, told
the crowd. “Maybe I should have.”
Tuesday’s march was one of dozens of state level marches leading up to
the national –level Second Amendment March on Washington, D.C. next
Monday, April 19.
While many of the Michigan activists were openly (and legally) carrying
firearms, both handguns and long guns, Coryell reinforced the message
that next week’s march in Washington, D.C. will not include firearms due
to the District’s strict gun-control laws.
“This will not be an armed march,” Coryell said. “This is not the time
for that. Now is the time for activism. If you don’t get involved now,
10 years from now your kids will be leading an armed march on D.C. with
ax handles and pitchforks, because that will be all they have left.”
The political contingent at yesterday’s event included Michigan Attorney
General Mike Cox, State Representatives Joel Sheltrown (D – 103rd
District), Rick Jones (R – 71st District), Paul Opsommer (R – 93rd
District) and Brian Calley (R – 87th District).
Other speakers included Barry County Sheriff Dar Leaf, Linda Garcia of
the National Precinct Alliance, Rick Buckner, President of Michigan Gun
Owners and Jeff Sayers, President of Michigan Open Carry.
There was no official headcount for the event and the crowd estimates
varied according to the source: A Detroit Free Press article put the
crowd at 250 people and a Detroit News article estimated 300 attendees.
Many activists present estimated the turnout at 400 or more.
Although there was some initial confusion by the Michigan State Police
as to whether activists with long guns would be allowed inside the
capitol building, the State Police later reversed themselves and
activists with long guns were also able to tour the building.
To someone in the gun culture the guns carried among the crowd were an
interesting part of the event. While most people openly carrying pistols
had modern pistols suitable for self-defense, one older gentleman
sported an antique Colt black-powder revolver in an antique leather
holster. When asked he said he believed the gun had been in his family
since it was manufactured and that he’d inherited it from his Great
Uncle years earlier. This was a physical manifestation of how the
tradition of gun ownership spans generations.
While most activists carrying long guns carried AR-15 style semi-auto
rifles or semi-auto clones of the AK-47, a few activists could be seen
with rifles that some refer to as “Michigan Pistols.” Since Michigan
state law requires any long gun between 26” and 30” to be registered as
a pistol, this means that those long arms can be carried concealed, in a
vehicle for example, as long as the owner has a valid Michigan Concealed
Pistol License.
Another activist carried a rifle that showed the ultimate futility of
gun control laws. He had an AR-15 style rifle whose bright silver
colored aluminum receiver he’d machined and finished himself. “If they
ban guns, are they going to ban machine tools as well?” he asked.
by Rob Reed
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I don’t know if Michael Richard really made this speech or not.
25 04 2010
Proud to be White
Michael Richards makes his point……………… Michael Richards
better known as Kramer from TVs Seinfeld does make a good point.
This was his defense speech in court after making racial comments in his
comedy act. He makes some very interesting points….
Someone finally said it. How many are actually paying attention to
this? There are African Americans, Mexican Americans, Asian Americans,
Arab Americans, etc.
And then there are just Americans. You pass me on the street and sneer
in my direction. You call me ‘White boy,’ ‘Cracker,’ ‘Honkey,’
‘Whitey,’ ‘Caveman’… And that’s OK.
But when I call you, Nigger, Towel head, Sand-nigger, Camel Jockey,
Beaner, Gook, or Chink .. You call me a racist.
You say that whites commit a lot of violence against you… So why are
the ghettos the most dangerous places to live?
You have the United Negro College Fund. You have Martin Luther King Day.
You have Black History Month.. You have Cesar Chavez Day.
You have Ma’uled Al-Nabi.
You have the NAACP. You have BET… If we had WET (White Entertainment
Television), we’d be racists. If we had a White Pride Day, you would
call us racists.
If we had White History Month, we’d be racists..
If we had any organization for only whites to ‘advance’ OUR lives, we’d
be racists.
We have a Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, a Black Chamber of Commerce, and
then we just have the plain Chamber of Commerce. Wonder who pays for
that??
A white woman could not be in the Miss Black American pageant, but any
color can be in the Miss America pageant.
If we had a college fund that only gave white students scholarships…
You know we’d be racists.
There are over 60 openly proclaimed Black Colleges in the US . Yet if
there were ‘White colleges’, that would be a racist college..
In the Million Man March, you believed that you were marching for your
race and rights. If we marched for our race and rights, you would call
us racists.
You are proud to be black, brown, yellow and orange, and you’re not
afraid to announce it. But when we announce our white pride, you call
us racists.
You rob us, carjack us, and shoot at us. But, when a white police
officer shoots a black gang member or beats up a black drug dealer
running from the law and posing a threat to society, you call him a
racist.
I am proud …. But you call me a racist.
Why is it that only whites can be racists??
There is nothing improper about this e-mail.. Let’s see which of you
are proud enough to send it on. I sadly don’t think many will. That’s
why we have LOST most of OUR RIGHTS in this country. We won’t stand up
for ourselves!
BE PROUD TO BE WHITE!
It’s not a crime YET…… But getting very close!
It is estimated that ONLY 5% of those reaching this point in this
e-mail, will pass it on. Proud to be White
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The Gun is Civilization
3 05 2010
by Maj. L. Caudill USMC (Ret)
Human beings only have two ways to deal with one another: reason and force. If you want me
In a truly moral and civilized society, people exclusively interact through persuasion. Force has no
When I carry a gun, you cannot deal with me by force. You have to use reason and try to persuade
The gun is the only personal weapon that puts a 100-pound woman on equal footing with a 220-pound
There are plenty of people who consider the gun as the source of bad force equations. These are the
mugger’s potential marks are armed.
People who argue for the banning of arms ask for automatic rule by the young, the strong, and the many,
successful living in a society where the state has granted him a force monopoly.
Then there’s the argument that the gun makes confrontations lethal that otherwise would only result in
physically superior party inflicting overwhelming injury on the loser. People who think that fists, bats,
The gun is the only weapon that’s as lethal in the hands of an octogenarian as it is in the hands of a weight
When I carry a gun, I don’t do so because I am looking for a fight, but because I’m looking to be left alone.
Maj. L. Caudill USMC (Ret)
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“I’m 63 and I’m Tired”
6 05 2010
Posted on May 5, 2010 10:33:46 PM GMT-04:00 by cycle of discernment
“I’m 63 and I’m Tired”
by Robert A. Hall
I’m 63. Except for one semester in college when jobs were scarce and a six-month period when I was between jobs, but job-hunting every day, I’ve worked, hard, since I was 18. Despite some health challenges, I still put in 50-hour weeks, and haven’t called in sick in seven or eight years. I make a good salary, but I didn’t inherit my job or my income, and I worked to get where I am. Given the economy, there’s no retirement in sight, and I’m tired. Very tired.
I’m tired of being told that I have to “spread the wealth” to people who don’t have my work ethic. I’m tired of being told the government will take the money I earned, by force if necessary, and give it to people too lazy to earn it.
I’m tired of being told that I have to pay more taxes to “keep people in their homes.” Sure, if they lost their jobs or got sick, I’m willing to help. But if they bought McMansions at three times the price of our paid-off, $250,000 condo, on one-third of my salary, then let the left-wing Congress-critters who passed Fannie and Freddie and the Community Reinvestment Act that created the bubble help them with their own money.
I’m tired of being told how bad America is by left-wing millionaires like Michael Moore, George Soros and Hollywood Entertainers who live in luxury because of the opportunities America offers. In thirty years, if they get their way, the United States will have the economy of Zimbabwe , the freedom of the press of China , the crime and violence of Mexico , the tolerance for Christian people of Iran , and the freedom of speech of Venezuela .
I’m tired of being told that Islam is a “Religion of Peace,” when every day I can read dozens of stories of Muslim men killing their sisters, wives and daughters for their family “honor”; of Muslims rioting over some slight offense; of Muslims murdering Christian and Jews because they aren’t “believers”; of Muslims burning schools for girls; of Muslims stoning teenage rape victims to death for “adultery”; of Muslims mutilating the genitals of little girls; all in the name of Allah, because the Qur’an and Shari’a law tells them to.
I’m tired of being told that “race doesn’t matter” in the post-racial world of Obama, when it’s all that matters in affirmative action jobs, lower college admission and graduation standards for minorities (harming them the most), government contract set-asides, tolerance for the ghetto culture of violence and fatherless children that hurts minorities more than anyone, and in the appointment of U.S. Senators from Illinois.
I think it’s very cool that we have a black president and that a black child is doing her homework at the desk where Lincoln wrote the Emancipation Proclamation. I just wish the black president was Condi Rice, or someone who believes more in freedom and the individual and less arrogantly of an all-knowing government.
I’m tired of a news media that thinks Bush’s fundraising and inaugural expenses were obscene, but that think Obama’s, at triple the cost, were wonderful; that thinks Bush exercising daily was a waste of presidential time, but Obama exercising is a great example for the public to control weight and stress; that picked over every line of Bush’s military records, but never demanded that Kerry release his; that slammed Palin, with two years as governor, for being too inexperienced for VP, but touted Obama with three years as senator as potentially the best president ever. Wonder why people are dropping their subscriptions or switching to Fox News? Get a clue. I didn’t vote for Bush in 2000, but the media and Kerry drove me to his camp in 2004.
I’m tired of being told that out of “tolerance for other cultures” we must let Saudi Arabia use our oil money to fund mosques and madrassa Islamic schools to preach hate in America , while no American group is allowed to fund a church, synagogue or religious school in Saudi Arabia to teach love and tolerance.
I’m tired of being told I must lower my living standard to fight global warming, which no one is allowed to debate. My wife and I live in a two-bedroom apartment and carpool together five miles to our jobs. We also own a three-bedroom condo where our daughter and granddaughter live. Our carbon footprint is about 5% of Al Gore’s, and if you’re greener than Gore, you’re green enough.
I’m tired of being told that drug addicts have a disease, and I must help support and treat them, and pay for the damage they do. Did a giant germ rush out of a dark alley, grab them, and stuff white powder up their noses while they tried to fight it off? I don’t think Gay people choose to be Gay, but I damn sure think druggies chose to take drugs. And I’m tired of harassment from cool people treating me like a freak when I tell them I never tried marijuana.
I’m tired of illegal aliens being called “undocumented workers,” especially the ones who aren’t working, but are living on welfare or crime. What’s next? Calling drug dealers, “Undocumented Pharmacists”? And, no, I’m not against Hispanics. Most of them are Catholic, and it’s been a few hundred years since Catholics wanted to kill me for my religion. I’m willing to fast track for citizenship any Hispanic person, who can speak English, doesn’t have a criminal record and who is self-supporting without family on welfare, or who serves honorably for three years in our military…. Those are the citizens we need.
I’m tired of latte liberals and journalists, who would never wear the uniform of the Republic themselves, or let their entitlement-handicapped kids near a recruiting station, trashing our military. They and their kids can sit at home, never having to make split-second decisions under life and death circumstances, and bad mouth better people than themselves. Do bad things happen in war? You bet. Do our troops sometimes misbehave? Sure. Does this compare with the atrocities that were the policy of our enemies for the last fifty years and still are? Not even close. So here’s the deal. I’ll let myself be subjected to all the humiliation and abuse that was heaped on terrorists at Abu Ghraib or Gitmo, and the critics can let themselves be subject to captivity by the Muslims, who tortured and beheaded Daniel Pearl in Pakistan, or the Muslims who tortured and murdered Marine Lt. Col. William Higgins in Lebanon, or the Muslims who ran the blood-spattered Al Qaeda torture rooms our troops found in Iraq, or the Muslims who cut off the heads of schoolgirls in Indonesia, because the girls were Christian. Then we’ll compare notes. British and American soldiers are the only troops in history that civilians came to for help and handouts, instead of hiding from in fear.
I’m tired of people telling me that their party has a corner on virtue and the other party has a corner on corruption. Read the papers; bums are bipartisan. And I’m tired of people telling me we need bipartisanship. I live in Illinois , where the “Illinois Combine” of Democrats has worked to loot the public for years. Not to mention the tax cheats in Obama’s cabinet.
I’m tired of hearing wealthy athletes, entertainers and politicians of both parties talking about innocent mistakes, stupid mistakes or youthful mistakes, when we all know they think their only mistake was getting caught. I’m tired of people with a sense of entitlement, rich or poor.
Speaking of poor, I’m tired of hearing people with air-conditioned homes, color TVs and two cars called poor. The majority of Americans didn’t have that in 1970, but we didn’t know we were “poor.” The poverty pimps have to keep changing the definition of poor to keep the dollars flowing.
I’m real tired of people who don’t take responsibility for their lives and actions. I’m tired of hearing them blame the government, or discrimination or big-whatever for their problems.
Yes, I’m damn tired. But I’m also glad to be 63. Because, mostly, I’m not going to have to see the world these people are making. I’m just sorry for my granddaughter.
Robert A. Hall is a Marine Vietnam veteran who served five terms in the Massachusetts State Senate.
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Orange County Paper although it should have been………………..
6 05 2010ORANGE COUNTY ( CALIFORNIA ) NEWSPAPER-
New Immigrants
This is a very good letter to the editor. This woman made some good points.
For some reason, people have difficulty structuring their arguments when arguing against supporting the currently proposed immigration revisions. This lady made the argument pretty simple.
This was NOT printed in the Orange County Paper although it should have been………………..
Newspapers simply won’t publish letters to the editor which they either deem politically incorrect (read below) or which does not agree with the philosophy they’re pushing on the public. This woman wrote a great letter to the editor that should have been published; but, with your help it will get published via cyberspace!
From: ”David LaBonte”
My wife, Rosemary, wrote a wonderful letter to the editor of the OC Register which, of course, was not printed. So, I decided to “print” it myself by sending it out on the Internet. Pass it along if you feel so inclined. Written in response to a series of letters to the editor in the Orange County Register. Here is Rosemary?s letter.
Dear Editor:
So many letter writers have based their arguments on how this land is made up of immigrants. Ernie Lujan for one, suggests we should tear down the Statue of Liberty because the people now in question aren’t being treated the same as those who passed through Ellis Island and other ports of entry.
Maybe we should turn to our history books and point out to people like Mr. Lujan why today’s American is not willing to accept
this new kind of immigrant any longer. Back in 1900 when there was a rush from all areas of Europe to come to the United States, people had to get off a ship and stand in a long line in New York and be documented. Some would even get down on their hands and knees and kiss the ground. They made a pledge to uphold the laws and support their new country in
good and bad times. They made learning English a primary rule in their new American households and some even changed their names to blend in with their new home.
They had waved good bye to their birth place to give their children a new life and did everything in their power to help their children assimilate into one culture. Nothing was handed to them. No free lunches, no welfare, no labor laws to protect them. All they had were the skills and craftsmanship they had brought with them to trade for a future of prosperity.
Most of their children came of age when World War II broke out.
My father fought along side men whose parents had come straight over from Germany , Italy , France and Japan . None of these 1st generation Americans ever gave any thought about what country their parents had come from. They were Americans fighting Hitler, Mussolini and the Emperor of
Japan . They were defending the United States of America as one people.
When we liberated France , no one in those villages were looking for the French-American or the German American or the Irish
American. The people of France saw only Americans. And we carried one flag that represented one country. Not one of
those immigrant sons would have thought about picking up another country’s flag and waving it to represent who they
were. It would have been a disgrace to their parents who had sacrificed so much to be here. These immigrants truly knew what it meant to be an American. They stirred the melting
pot into one red, white and blue bowl.
And here we are with a new kind of immigrant who wants the same
rights and privileges. Only they want to achieve it by playing with a different set of rules, one that includes the entitlement card and a guarantee of being faithful to their
mother country. I’m sorry, that’s not what being an American is all about. I believe that the immigrants who landed on
Ellis Island in the early 1900′s deserve better than that for all the toil, hard work and sacrifice in raising future generations to create a land that has become a beacon for
those legally searching for a better life. I think they would be appalled that they are being used as an example by those waving foreign country flags.
And for that suggestion about taking down the Statue of Liberty , it happens to mean a lot to the citizens who are voting on the immigration bill. I wouldn’t start talking about dismantling the United States just yet.
(signed)
Rosemary LaBonte
KEEP THIS LETTER MOVING.
FOR THE WRONG THINGS TO PREVAIL THE RIGHTFUL MAJORITY NEEDS TO REMAIN COMPLACENT AND QUIET!!
LET THIS NEVER HAPPEN!!
I sincerely hope this letter gets read by millions of people all across the nation!!
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Dewey Whetsell a longtime commercial fisherman on Sara Palin
7 05 2010 
Dewey Whetsell a longtime commercial fisherman, veteran fire fighter and fire chief, jazz musician, and poet from Alaska penned a very nice retort to all of those who would say Sarah Palin isn’t the real deal, a true leader.
Those who follow Alaska politics know these stories well, but the rest of America should understand this as well.
You can check out Dewey Whetsell’s website here, the man has a very interesting life’s story.
Here is Dewey’s letter:
“The last 45 of my 66 years I’ve spent in a commercial fishing town in Alaska. I understand Alaska politics but never understood national politics well until this last year. Here’s the breaking point: Neither side of the Palin controversy gets It’s not about persona, style, rhetoric, its about doing things. Even Palin supporters never mention the things that I’m about to mention here.
1- Democrats forget when Palin was the Darling of the Democrats, because as soon as Palin took the Governors office away from a fellow Republican and tough SOB, Frank Murkowski, she tore into the Republicans Corrupt Bastards Club (CBC) and sent them packing. Many of them are now residing in State housing and wearing orange jump suits. The Democrats reacted by skipping around the yard, throwing confetti and singing la la la la (well, you know how they are). Name another governor in this country that has ever done anything similar. But while you’re thinking, I’ll continue.
2- Now with the CBC gone, there were fewer Alaskan politicians to protect the huge, giant oil companies here. So, she constructed and enacted a new system of splitting the oil profits called ACES. Exxon (the biggest corporation in the world) protested and Sarah told them don’t let the door hit you in the stern on your way out. They stayed, and Alaska residents went from being merely wealthy to being filthy rich. Of course the other huge international oil companies meekly fell in line. Again, give me the name of any other governor in the country that has done anything similar.
3- The other thing she did when she walked into the governors office is she got the list of State requests for federal funding for projects, known as pork. She went through the list, took 85% of them and placed them in the when-hell-freezes-over stack. She let locals know that if we need something built, well pay for it ourselves. Maybe she figured she could use the money she got from selling the previous governors jet because it was extravagant. Maybe she could use the money she saved by dismissing the governor’s cook (remarking that she could cook for her own family), giving back the State vehicle issued to her, maintaining that she already had a car, and dismissing her State provided security force (never mentioning, I imagine, that she’s packing heat herself). I’m still waiting to hear the names of those other governors.
4- Now, even with her much-ridiculed gosh and golly mannerism, she also managed to put together a totally new approach to getting a natural gas pipeline built which will be the biggest private construction project in the history of North America. No one else could do it although they tried. If that doesn’t impress you, then you’re trying too hard to be unimpressed while watching her do things like this while baking up a batch of brownies with her other hand.
5- For 30 years, Exxon held a lease to do exploratory drilling at a place called Point Thompson. They made excuses the entire time why they couldn’t start drilling. In truth they were holding it like an investment. No governor for 30 years could make them get started. This summer, she told them she was revoking their lease and kicking them out. They protested and threatened court action. She shrugged and reminded them that she knew the way to the court house. Alaska won again.6- President Obama wants the nation to be on 25% renewable resources for electricity by 2025. Sarah went to the legislature and submitted her plan for Alaska to be at 50% renewables by 2025. We are already at 25%. I can give you more specifics about things done, as opposed to style and persona . Everybody wants to be cool, sound cool, look cool. But that’s just a cover-up. I’m still waiting to hear from liberals the names of other governors who can match what mine has done in two and a half years. I wont be holding my breath.
By the way, she was content to to return to AK after the national election and go to work, but the haters wouldn’t let her. Now these adolescent screechers are obviously not scuba divers. And no one ever told them what happens when you continually jab and pester a barracuda. Without warning, it will spin around and tear your face off. Shoulda known better.
As we have been saying for a long time, Sarah Palin was an incredibly effective Governor, and a true servant of the people. The kind of woman who isn’t afraid of whatever challenge that faces her. As she has shown in the past few weeks, she is more than ready to take on big government, like she has big oil. And if Sarah Palin could tame Exxon-Mobil, I’m sure she will make quick work of D.C.!
BTW, even though she has given Exxon-Mobil absolute fits, they were more than happy to sign on as a partner in the Trans-Canada natural gas pipeline, her crowning achievement as Governor, that Dewey mentions in his letter.
People, like myself, who have followed Sarah for some time, understand the greatness of this woman. Sarah Palin is an American leader who has what is sorely needed today: The ability to get things done, good things for the people.
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Immigrants
13 05 2010 
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For some reason, people have difficulty structuring their arguments when arguing against supporting the currently proposed immigration revisions. This lady made the argument pretty simple. NOT printed in the Orange County Paper.
Newspapers simply won’t publish letters to the editor which they either deem politically incorrect (read below) or which does not agree with the philosophy they’re pushing on the public. This woman wrote a great letter to the editor that should have been published; but, with your help it will get published via cyberspace!
From:
“David LaBonte”
My wife, Rosemary, wrote a wonderful letter to the editor of the OC Register which, of course, was not printed. So, I decided to “print” it myself by sending it out on the Internet. Pass it along if you feel so inclined. Written in response to a series of letters to the editor in the Orange County Register:
Dear Editor:
So many letter writers have based their arguments on how this land is made up of immigrants. Ernie Lujan for one, suggests we should tear down the Statue of Liberty because the people now in question aren’t being treated the same as those who passed through Ellis Island and other ports of entry.
Maybe we should turn to our history books and point out to people like Mr. Lujan why today’s American is not willing to accept this new kind of immigrant any longer. Back in 1900 when there was a rush from all areas of Europe to come to the United States, people had to get off a ship and stand in a long line in New York and be documented. Some would even get
down on their hands and knees and kiss the ground. They made a pledge to uphold the laws and support their new country in good and bad times. They made learning English a primary rule in their new American households and some even changed their names to blend in with their new home.
They had waved goodbye to their birth place to give their children a new life and did everything in their power to help their children assimilate into one culture. Nothing was handed to them. No free lunches, no welfare, no labor laws to protect them. All they had were the skills and craftsmanship they had brought with them to trade for a future of prosperity.
Most of their children came of age when World War II broke out. My father fought along side men whose parents had come straight over from Germany, Italy, France and Japan. None of these 1st generation Americans ever gave any thought about what country their parents had come from. They were Americans fighting Hitler, Mussolini and the Emperor of Japan. They were defending the United States of America as one people.
When we liberated France, no one in those villages were looking for the French-American or the German-American or the Irish-American. The people of France saw only Americans. And we carried one flag that represented one country. Not one of those immigrant sons would have thought about picking up another country’s flag and waving it to represent who they were. It would have been a disgrace to their parents who had sacrificed so much to be here. These immigrants truly knew what it meant to be an American. They stirred the melting pot into one red, white and blue bowl.
And here we are with a new kind of immigrant who wants the same rights and privileges. Only they want to achieve it by playing with a different set of rules, one that includes the entitlement card and a guarantee of being faithful to their mother country. I’m sorry, that’s not what being an American is all about. I believe that the immigrants who landed on
Ellis Island in the early 1900s deserve better than that for all the toil, hard work and sacrifice in raising future generations to create a land that has become a beacon for those legally searching for a better life. I think they would be appalled that they are being used as an example by those waving foreign country flags.
And for that suggestion about taking down the Statue of Liberty, it happens to mean a lot to the citizens who are voting on the immigration bill. I wouldn’t start talking about dismantling the United States just yet.
(signed)
Rosemary LaBonte
Ellis Island
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AN OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT OBAMA
17 05 2010By Lou Pritchett, Procter & Gamble
A LETTER FROM A PROCTER AND GAMBLE EXECUTIVE TO THE PRESIDENT*
THE LAST SENTENCE IS THE MOST CHILLING
Lou Pritchett is one of corporate America ‘s true living legends- an acclaimed author, dynamic teacher and one of the world’s highest rated speakers. Successful corporate executives everywhere recognize him as the foremost leader in change management.. Lou changed the way America does business by creating an audacious concept that came to be known as “partnering.” Pritchett rose from soap salesman to Vice-President, Sales and Customer Development for Procter and Gamble and over the course of 36 years, made corporate history.
AN OPEN LETTER TO
PRESIDENT OBAMA
Dear President Obama:
You are the thirteenth President under whom I have lived and unlike
any of the others, you truly scare me.
You scare me because after months of exposure, I know nothing about you.
You scare me because I do not know how you paid for your expensive
Ivy League education and your upscale lifestyle and housing with no
visible signs of support.
You scare me because you did not spend the formative years of youth
growing up in America and culturally you are not an American.
You scare me because you have never run a company or met a payroll.
You scare me because you have never had military experience, thus
don’t understand it at its core.
You scare me because you lack humility and ‘class’, always blaming others.
You scare me because for over half your life you have aligned
yourself with radical extremists who hate America and you refuse to
publicly denounce these radicals who wish to see America fail..
You scare me because you are a cheerleader for the ’blame America ‘
crowd and deliver this message abroad.
You scare me because you want to change America to a European style
country where the government sector dominates instead of the private sector.
You scare me because you want to replace our health care system
with a government controlled one.
You scare me because you prefer ‘wind mills’ to responsibly
capitalizing on our own vast oil, coal and shale reserves.
You scare me because you want to kill the American capitalist goose
that lays the golden egg which provides the highest standard of
living in the world.
You scare me because you have begun to use ’extortion’ tactics
against certain banks and corporations.
You scare me because your own political party shrinks from
challenging you on your wild and irresponsible spending proposals.
You scare me because you will not openly listen to or even consider
opposing points of view from intelligent people.
You scare me because you falsely believe that you are both
omnipotent and omniscient.
You scare me because the media gives you a free pass on everything
you do.
You scare me because you demonize and want to silence the
Limbaugh’s, Hannity’s, O’Reillys and Becks who offer opposing,
conservative points of view.
You scare me because you prefer controlling over governing.
Finally, you scare me because if you serve a second term I will
probably not feel safe in writing a similar letter in 8 years.
Lou Pritchett
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This letter was sent to the NY Times but they never acknowledged it.
Big surprise. Since it hit the internet, however, it has had over
500,000 hits. Keep it going. All that is necessary for evil to succeed
is that good men do nothing. It’s happening right now.*
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It is the Veteran…
25 05 2010
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It is the
VETERAN ,
not the preacher,
who has given us freedom of religion.
It is
the VETERAN ,
not the reporter,
who has given us freedom of the press.
It is
the VETERAN ,
not the poet,
who has given us freedom of speech.
It is
the VETERAN ,
not the campus organizer,
who has given us freedom to assemble.
It is
the VETERAN ,
not the lawyer,
who has given us the right to a fair trial.
It is
the VETERAN ,
not the politician,
Who has given us the right to vote.
It is the
VETERAN who
salutes the Flag,
It is
the
VETERAN
who serves
under the Flag,
ETERNAL REST GRANT THEM O LORD,
AND LET PERPETUAL LIGHT SHINE UPON THEM
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THANK GOD FOR THE PRESIDENT
25 05 2010
THANK GOD FOR THE PRESIDENT
Written by an 82-year-old very wise lady. She gives us a whole new slant on
the amazing job Obama is doing:
1. He destroyed the Clinton Political Machine – Driving a stake thru the
heart of Hillary’s Presidential aspirations – something no Republican was
ever able to do. Remember when a Hillary Presidency scared the daylights out
of you!
2. He killed off the Kennedy Dynasty – No more Kennedy’s trolling Washington
looking for booze and women wanting rides home. American women and Freedom
are safer tonight!
3. He is destroying the Democratic Party before our eyes!
Dennis Moore had never lost a race – quit Evan Bayh had never lost a race -
quit Byron Dorgan – had never lost a race – quit Harry Reid – Soon to be
GONE
These are just a handful of the Democrats whose political careers Obama has
destroyed! By the end of 2010 dozens more will be gone!
In December of 2008 the Democrats were on the rise. In the last two election
cycles they had picked up 14 senate seats and 52 house seats.
The press was touting the death of the Conservative Movement and the
Republican Party In just one year, Obama put a stop to all of this and will
probably give the house, if not the senate back to the Republicans.
4. He has completely exposed liberals and progressives for what they are.
Every Generation seems to need to relearn the lesson on why they should
never actually put liberals in charge. He is bringing home the lesson very
well!
Liberals tax, borrow and spend – check
Liberals won’t bring themselves to protect America – check Liberals want to
take over the economy – check Liberals think they know what is best for
everyone – check Liberals aren’t happy till they are running YOUR life -
check
5. He has brought more Americans back to conservatism than anyone since
Reagan. In One year he rejuvenated the Conservative movement and brought out
to the streets millions of Freedom Loving Americans. Name me one other time
in your life that you saw your friends and neighbors this interested in
taking back America !
6. His amazing leadership has sparked the greatest period of sales of
firearms and ammunition this country has seen. Law abiding citizens have
rallied and have provided a “stimulus” to the sporting goods field while
other industries have failed, faded or moved off-shore!
7. In all honesty one year ago I was more afraid than I had ever been in my
life. Not of the economy but of the direction our country was going. I
thought Americans had forgotten what this country was all about. My
neighbors, friends, strangers proved to me that my lack of confidence of the
Greatness and Wisdom of the American people was flat out wrong.
8. When the American People wake up no smooth talking teleprompter reader
can fool them!
Barak Obama woke up these Great Americans! Again I want to say Thank you
Barak Obama! This is exactly the kind of hope and change we desperately
needed.
Now, if only God be with us…!
AMEN
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Why I Carry a Gun
27 05 2010 
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Obama is a Victim of Bush’s failed promises.
29 05 2010
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1/2 Boy 1/2 Man
4 06 2010
1/2 boy 1/2 man
If you read this, you WILL forward it on.
You just won’t be able to stop yourself.
The average age of the military man is 19 years.
He is a short haired, tight-muscled kid who,
under normal circumstances is considered by society as half man, half boy. Not yet dry behind the ears, not old enough to buy a beer, but old enough to die for his country.
He never really cared much for work and he would rather wax his own car than wash his father’s, but he has never collected unemployment either.
He’s a recent High School graduate; he was probably an average student, pursued some form of sports activities, drives a ten year old jalopy, and has a steady girlfriend that either broke up with him when he left, or swears to be waiting when he returns from half a world away.
He listens to rock and roll or hip-hop or rap or jazz or swing and a 155mm howitzer.
He is 10 or 15 pounds lighter now than when he was at home because he is working or fighting from before dawn to well after dusk.
He has trouble spelling, thus letter writing is a pain for him, but he can field strip a rifle in 30 seconds and reassemble it in less time in the dark.
He can recite to you the nomenclature of a machine gun or grenade launcher and use either one effectively if he must.
He digs foxholes and latrines and can apply first aid like a professional.
He can march until he is told to stop,
or stop until he is told to march.
He obeys orders instantly and without hesitation, but he is not without spirit or individual dignity.
He is self-sufficient.
He has two sets of fatigues: he washes one and wears the other. He keeps his canteens full and his feet dry.
He sometimes forgets to brush his teeth, but never to clean his rifle.
He can cook his own meals, mend his own clothes, and fix his own hurts.
If you’re thirsty, he’ll share his water with you; if you are hungry, his food. He’ll even split his ammunition with you in the midst of battle when you run low..
He has learned to use his hands like weapons and weapons like they were his hands.
He can save your life – or take it, because that is his job.
He will often do twice the work of a civilian, draw half the pay, and still find ironic humor in it all.
He has seen more suffering and death than he should have in his short lifetime.
He has wept in public and in private, for friends who have fallen in combat and is unashamed..
He feels every note of the National Anthem vibrate through his body while at rigid attention, while tempering the burning desire to ‘square-away’ those around him who haven’t bothered to stand, remove their hat, or even stop talking.
In an odd twist, day in and day out, far from home, he defends their right to be disrespectful.
Just as did his Father, Grandfather, and Great-grandfather, he is paying the price for our freedom. Regardless or not, he is not a boy. He is the American Fighting Man that has kept this country free for over 200 years.
He has asked nothing in return, except
our friendship and understanding.
Remember him, always, for he has earned our respect and admiration with his blood.
And now we even have women over there in danger, doing their part in this tradition of going to War when our nation calls us to do so.
As you go to bed tonight, remember this shot. . …
A short lull, a little shade and a picture of
loved ones in their helmets.
Prayer wheel for our military… please don’t
break it Please send this on after a short prayer.
Prayer Wheel
‘Lord, hold our troops in your loving hands.
Protect them as they protect us. Bless them and their families for the selfless acts they perform for us in our time of need. In Jesus’ name. Amen.’
When you receive this, please stop for a moment and say a prayer for our ground troops in Afghanistan , sailors on ships, and airmen in the air, and for those in Iraq , and all foreign countries.
There is nothing attached….
This can be very powerful..
Of all the gifts you could give a US Soldier, Sailor, Coastguardsman, Marine, or Airman, prayer is the very best one.
I can’t break this one, sorry.
Pass it on to everyone and pray.
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The Iowa Rock
9 06 2010There is a huge rock near a gravel pit on Hwy.25 in rural Iowa. For generations, kids have painted slogans, names, and obscenities on this rock, changing its character many times. A few months back, the rock received its latest paint job, and since then it has been left completely undisturbed.
It’s quite an impressive sight. Be sure to scroll down and check out the multiple photos. (all angles) of the rock.
I thought the flag was draped over the rock, but it’s not. It’s actually painted on the rock too..
AWESOME Work, RAY ….
Thank you!
Pass it on.
You may be only one person in the world,
but you may also be the world to one person.
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HOW DID JEFFERSON KNOW?
17 06 2010One of the most brilliant men ever!
Obviously, he was a man ahead of his time.
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Just Stay
23 06 2010
Just Stay
A nurse took the tired, anxious serviceman to the bedside.
“Your son is here,” she said to the old man.
She had to repeat the words several times before the patient’s eyes opened.
Heavily sedated because of the pain of his heart attack, he dimly saw
the young uniformed Marine standing outside the oxygen tent. He reached
out his hand. The Marine wrapped his toughened fingers around the old
man’s limp ones, squeezing a message of love and encouragement.
The nurse brought a chair so that the Marine could sit beside the
bed.All through the night the young Marine sat there in the poorly
lightedward, holding the old man’s hand and offering him words of love
and strength. Occasionally, the nurse suggested that the Marine move
away and rest awhile.
He refused. Whenever the nurse came into the ward, the Marine was
oblivious of her and of the night noises of the hospital – the clanking
of the oxygen tank, the laughter of the night staff members exchanging
greetings, the cries and moans of the other patients.
Now and then she heard him say a few gentle words. The dying man said
nothing, only held tightly to his son all through the night.
Along towards dawn, the old man died. The Marine released the now
lifeless hand he had been holding and went to tell the nurse. While she
did what she had to do, he waited.
Finally, she returned. She started to offer words of sympathy, but the Marine interrupted her.
“Who was that man?” he asked.
The nurse was startled, “He was your father,” she answered.
“No, he wasn’t,” the Marine replied. “I never saw him before in my life.”
“Then why didn’t you say something when I took you to him?”
“I knew right away there had been a mistake, but I also knew he needed his son, and his
son just wasn’t here.
When I realized that he was too sick to tell whether or not I was his son, knowing how much
he needed me, I stayed.”
I came here tonight to find a Mr. William Grey. His Son was Killed in
Iraq today, and I was sent to inform him. What was this Gentleman’s
Name?
The Nurse with Tears in Her Eyes Answered, Mr. William Grey………….
The next time someone needs you … just be there. Stay.
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WE ARE NOT HUMAN BEINGS GOING THROUGH A TEMPORARY SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE.
WE ARE SPIRITUAL BEINGS GOING THROUGH A TEMPORARY HUMAN EXPERIENCE.
(love this line)
PLEASE PASS THIS ONE ON AND GOD WILL BLESS YOU!
THIS IS WHAT WE ARE PUT ON THIS EARTH TO DO ANYWAY. RIGHT ?
HAVE A GREAT DAY AND BLESS SOMEONE ELSE IN SOME LITTLE WAY TODAY!
GOD IS SO GOOD.
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Reid: ‘I am at war with your country’
23 06 2010
Reid: ‘I am at war with your country’
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(CNN) – The following is a partial transcript of Thursday’s court hearing in which Richard Reid was sentenced to life in prison for his confessed plan to try and blow up a jetliner with explosives he had hidden in his shoes. The exchange is between Reid and Judge William Young.
RICHARD REID: I start by praising Allah because life today is no good. I bear witness to this and he alone is right to be worshiped. And I bear witness that Muhammad Sa’laat Alayhi as-Salaam is his last prophet and messenger who is sent to all of mankind for guidance, with the sound guidance for everyone.
Concerning what the Court said? I admit, I admit my actions and I further, I further state that I done them.
JUDGE WILLIAM YOUNG: I didn’t hear the last. I admit my actions and then what did you say?
REID: I further admit my allegiance to Osama bin Laden, to Islam, and to the religion of Allah. With regards to what you said about killing innocent people, I will say one thing. Your government has killed 2 million children in Iraq. If you want to think about something, against 2 million, I don’t see no comparison.
Your government has sponsored the rape and torture of Muslims in the prisons of Egypt and Turkey and Syria and Jordan with their money and with their weapons. I don’t know, see what I done as being equal to rape and to torture, or to the deaths of the two million children in Iraq.
So, for this reason, I think I ought not apologize for my actions. I am at war with your country. I’m at war with them not for personal reasons but because they have murdered more than, so many children and they have oppressed my religion and they have oppressed people for no reason except that they say we believe in Allah.
This is the only reason that America sponsors Egypt. It’s the only reason they sponsor Turkey. It’s the only reason they back Israel.
As far as the sentence is concerned, it’s in your hand. Only really it is not even in your hand. It’s in Allah’s hand. I put my trust in Allah totally and I know that he will give victory to his religion. And he will give victory to those who believe and he will destroy those who wish to oppress the people because they believe in Allah.
So you can judge and I leave you to judge. And I don’t mind. This is all I have to say. And I bear witness to Muhammad this is Allah’s message.
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… we all know that the way we treat you, Mr. Reid, is the measure of our own liberties.
On counts 1, 5 and 6 the Court sentences you to life in prison in the custody of the United States Attorney General. On counts 2, 3, 4 and 7, the Court sentences you to 20 years in prison on each count, the sentence on each count to run consecutive one with the other. That’s 80 years.
On Count 8 the Court sentences you to the mandatory 30 years consecutive to the 80 years just imposed. The Court imposes upon you on each of the eight counts a fine of $250,000 for the aggregate fine of $2 million.
The Court accepts the government’s recommendation with respect to restitution and orders restitution in the amount of $298.17 to Andre Bousquet and $5,784 to American Airlines.
The Court imposes upon you the $800 special assessment.
The Court imposes upon you five years supervised release simply because the law requires it. But the life sentences are real life sentences so I need not go any further.
This is the sentence that is provided for by our statutes. It is a fair and a just sentence. It is a righteous sentence. Let me explain this to you.
We are not afraid of any of your terrorist co-conspirators, Mr. Reid. We are Americans. We have been through the fire before. There is all too much war talk here. And I say that to everyone with the utmost respect.
Here in this court where we deal with individuals as individuals, and care for individuals as individuals, as human beings we reach out for justice.
You are not an enemy combatant. You are a terrorist. You are not a soldier in any war. You are a terrorist. To give you that reference, to call you a soldier gives you far too much stature. Whether it is the officers of government who do it or your attorney who does it, or that happens to be your view, you are a terrorist.
And we do not negotiate with terrorists. We do not treat with terrorists. We do not sign documents with terrorists.
We hunt them down one by one and bring them to justice.
So war talk is way out of line in this court. You’re a big fellow. But you’re not that big. You’re no warrior. I know warriors. You are a terrorist. A species of criminal guilty of multiple attempted murders.
In a very real sense Trooper Santiago had it right when first you were taken off that plane and into custody and you wondered where the press and where the TV crews were and you said you’re no big deal. You’re no big deal.
What your counsel, what your able counsel and what the equally able United States attorneys have grappled with and what I have as honestly as I know how tried to grapple with, is why you did something so horrific. What was it that led you here to this courtroom today? I have listened respectfully to what you have to say. And I ask you to search your heart and ask yourself what sort of unfathomable hate led you to do what you are guilty and admit you are guilty of doing.
And I have an answer for you. It may not satisfy you. But as I search this entire record it comes as close to understanding as I know.
It seems to me you hate the one thing that to us is most precious. You hate our freedom. Our individual freedom. Our individual freedom to live as we choose, to come and go as we choose, to believe or not believe as we individually choose.
Here, in this society, the very winds carry freedom. They carry it everywhere from sea to shining sea. It is because we prize individual freedom so much that you are here in this beautiful courtroom. So that everyone can see, truly see that justice is administered fairly, individually, and discretely.
It is for freedom’s seek that your lawyers are striving so vigorously on your behalf and have filed appeals, will go on in their, their representation of you before other judges. We care about it. Because we all know that the way we treat you, Mr. Reid, is the measure of our own liberties.
Make no mistake though. It is yet true that we will bear any burden; pay any price, to preserve our freedoms.
Look around this courtroom. Mark it well. The world is not going to long remember what you or I say here. Day after tomorrow it will be forgotten. But this, however, will long endure. Here, in this courtroom, and courtrooms all across America, the American people will gather to see that justice, individual justice, justice, not war, individual justice is in fact being done.
The very President of the United States through his officers will have to come into courtrooms and lay out evidence on which specific matters can be judged, and juries of citizens will gather to sit and judge that evidence democratically, to mold and shape and refine our sense of justice.
See that flag, Mr. Reid? That’s the flag of the United States of America. That flag will fly there long after this is all forgotten. That flag still stands for freedom. You know it always will. Custody, Mr. Officer. Stand him down.
REID: That flag will be brought down on the Day of Judgment and you will see in front of your Lord and my Lord and then we will know. (Whereupon the defendant was removed from the courtroom.)
YOUNG: We’ll recess. All rise.
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Categories : Political
Gun Control: The Ultimate Human Rights Violation
25 06 2010
Gun Control: The Ultimate Human Rights Violation
by A.W.R. Hawkins
Human Events. com
June 3rd, 2010
Lucid students of the political sphere have certainly noticed that liberals are now using the phrase “human rights” even more than they once used their old standby, “civil liberties.” Of course they rarely define human rights, and even when they try, the definition varies depending on the goal of the person that’s using the phrase.
But this doesn’t stop them from having international conferences on human rights, dumping money into organizations like Human Rights Watch, and allowing surviving members of the Woodstock crowd to charge America’s military with violating human rights while simultaneously giving Iran a seat on the U.N.’s Women’s Rights Commission.
Perhaps the two clearest threads in all the human rights jargon are the focus on international law coupled with a potent strain of anti-Americanism. This is a combination that can be deadly when accurately aimed at national sovereignty or individual rights.
The most telling aspect of the left’s obsession with human rights is not so much what its proponents claim to defend but what they would be happy to sacrifice. And one thing all human rights activists are perpetually ready to jettison is the right Americans enjoy in keeping and bearing arms.
Ironically, this right, summarily stated in the 2nd Amendment, should be the lynchpin of any honest pursuit of human rights. Thomas Jefferson made this clear when he equated a government-backed prohibition against defending one’s self with a government-backed denial of “the most basic of nature’s rights.”
When one reads Jefferson’s statement in light of his many writings on nature’s laws and the benefits of private gun ownership, it’s clear he was implying that the denial of the right to self-defense with a firearm is essentially a denial of one of the core aspects of what it means to be human.
In other words, gun control actually steals part of our humanity.
How much worse of a human rights violation can exist than one that actually separates the “human” from the “rights”?
None of this is hard to understand if we just imagine a woman who lives alone, and is being stalked by a dangerous man. She goes to a gun store to buy a handgun with which to protect herself, but because she lives in Chicago, Mayor Daley will not allow her to purchase a gun.
Thus she goes home, and hopes the lock on her door will hold.
When he’s ready, the stalker becomes an intruder who breaks the door open, assaults the woman, and then leaves with a smile on his face. After reflecting on the matter he realizes the woman has no means with which to defend herself, so he goes back for more, and in time, as his callousness increases, he goes back more frequently. He knows the woman is helpless to stop him because she has been denied that “most basic of nature’s rights.”
In this scenario, how long would it be before the woman felt less and less like a woman and more and more like a dog?
How long would it be before she had a thorough understanding of what Jefferson meant when he coupled gun control with the denial of a core aspect of what it means to be human?
America remains a shining city on a hill in this dark world, partly because we still have the right to keep and bear arms for the defense of our lives and property. In light of Jefferson’s writings, I don’t think I go too far in saying that this one freedom goes a long way in keeping our humanity intact.
If you ever doubt the degree to which private gun ownership and the freedom to use those guns for self-defense upholds our humanness, just head on down to El Paso, Tex., where the murder rate is around 23 victims annually.
Then lock up your gun in the United States and cross the border into Juarez, Mexico, where the natural right to keep and bear arms has long been suppressed and where the murder rate, at 2,500 to 3,000 annually, is startling.
Once you get to Juarez, it won’t be long till you feel like the woman who sat in her apartment staring at the door, hoping the lock would hold up under pressure because it was the only line of defense she had against her assailant.
Gun control could just be the ultimate human rights violation.
And if we ever give up our guns in this great nation, we will ultimately give up our humanity.
HUMAN EVENTS columnist A.W.R. Hawkins holds a Ph.D. in U.S. Military History from Texas Tech University. He will be a Visiting Fellow at the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal during the summer of 2010.
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“The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.” — Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers
“You know why there’s a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one.” — Rush Limbaugh
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Categories : 2nd Admendment Right, Political
Social Tips for Rednecks (and just plain good advice)
25 06 2010
Social Tips for Rednecks (and just plain good advice)
In General…
1. Never take a beer to an interview.
2. Always identify people in your yard before shooting them.
3. It’s considered tacky to take a cooler to church.
4. If you have to vacuum the bed, it’s time to change the sheets.
5. Even if you’re certain that you’re included in the will, it’s rude to drive a U-haul to the funeral.
Dining Out
1. When decanting the wine from the box, make sure you tilt the paper cup and pour slowly so as not to ‘bruise’ the fruit of the wine.
2. If drinking directly from the bottle, always hold it with your hands.
Entertaining in Your Home
1. A centerpiece for the table should never be anything prepared by a taxidermist.
2. Do not allow the dog to eat at the table, no matter how good his manners are.
Personal Hygiene
1. While ears need to be cleaned regularly, this job should be done in private using one’s own truck keys.
2. Even if you live alone, deodorant is not a waste of money.
3. Use of proper toiletries can only delay bathing for a few days.
4. Dirt and grease under the fingernails is a social no-no, as they tend to distract from a woman’s jewelry, and alter the taste of finger foods.
Dating ( Outside the Family)
1. Always offer to bait your date’s hook, especially on the first date.
2. Be assertive, Let her know you’re interested: “I’ve been wanting to go out with you ever since I read that stuff on the bathroom walls two years ago.”
3. Establish with her parents what time she is expected back. Some will say 10:00 PM. Others might say “Monday.” If the latter is the answer, it is the man’s responsibility to get her to school on time.
Theater Etiquette
1. Crying babies should be taken to the lobby and picked up immediately after the movie has ended.
2. Refrain from talking to the characters on the screen.. Tests have proven that they can’t hear you.
Weddings
1. Livestock is usually a poor choice for a wedding gift.
2. Kissing the bride for more than 5 seconds in the reception line might get you shot.
3. For the groom, at least, rent a tux. A leisure suit with a cummerbund and a clean bowling shirt can create a tacky appearance.
4. Though uncomfortable, say ‘yes’ to socks and shoes for this special occasion.
Driving Etiquette
1. Dim your headlights for approaching vehicles, even if the gun is loaded and the deer is in sight.
2. When approaching a four way stop, the vehicle with the largest tires does not always have the right of way.
3. Never tow another car using panty hose and duct tape.
4. When sending your wife down the road with a gas can, it is impolite to ask her to bring back beer too.
5. Do not lay rubber while traveling in a funeral procession.
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Categories : Humor
To Kill an American
7 07 2010
Written by an Australian Dentist
To Kill an American
You probably missed this in the rush of news, but there was actually a report that someone in Pakistan had published in a newspaper, an offer of a reward to anyone who killed an American, any American.
So an Australian dentist wrote an editorial the following day to let everyone know what an American is . So they would know when they found one. (Good one, mate!!!!)
‘An American is English, or French, or Italian, Irish, German, Spanish , Polish, Russian or Greek. An American may also be Canadian, Mexican, African, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Australian, Iranian, Asian, or Arab, or Pakistani or Afghan.
An American may also be a Comanche, Cherokee, Osage, Blackfoot, Navaho, Apache, Seminole or one of the many other tribes known as native Americans.
An American is Christian , or he could be Jewish, or Buddhist, or Muslim. In fact, there are more Muslims in America than in Afghanistan The only difference is that in America they are free to worship as each of them chooses.
An American is also free to believe in no religion…. For that he will answer only to God, not to the government, or to armed thugs claiming to speak for the government and for God.
An American lives in the most prosperous land in the history of the world.
The root of that prosperity can be found in the Declaration of Independence , which recognizes the God given right of each person to the pursuit of happiness.
An American is generous. Americans have helped out just about every other nation in the world in their time of need, never asking a thing in return………
When Afghanistan was overrun by the Soviet army 20 years ago, Americans came with arms and supplies to enable the people to win back their country!
As of the morning of September 11, Americans had given more than any other nation to the poor in Afghanistan ……
The national symbol of America , The Statue of Liberty , welcomes your tired and your poor, the wretched refuse of your teeming shores, the homeless, tempest tossed. These in fact are the people who built America
Some of them were working in the Twin Towers the morning of September 11 , 2001 earning a better life for their families. It’s been told that the World Trade Center victims were from at least 30 different countries, cultures, and first languages, including those that aided and abetted the terrorists.
So you can try to kill an American if you must. Hitler did. So did General Tojo , and Stalin , and Mao Tse-tung, and other bloodthirsty tyrants in the world. But, in doing so you would just be killing yourself . Because Americans are not a particular people from a particular place. They are the embodiment of the human spirit of freedom. Everyone who holds to that spirit, everywhere, is an American.
Please keep this going!
Pass this around the World .
Then pass it around again.
It says it all, for all of us
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Categories : Uncategorized
3 08 2010
I do not like this Uncle Sam,
I do not like his health care scam.
I do not like these dirty crooks,
or how they lie and cook the books.
I do not like when Congress steals,
I do not like their secret deals.
I do not like this speaker Nan ,
I do not like this ‘YES, WE CAN’.
I do not like this spending spree—
I’m smart, I know that nothing’s free.
I do not like your smug replies,
when I complain about your lies.
I do not like this kind of hope.
I do not like it. nope, nope, nope!
Go green – recycle Congress in 2010!
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Obama promises and everyone a lie.
8 08 2010
“I promise 100% transparency in my administration.”
“I promise NO NEW TAXES on a family making less than $250K a year. “
“I will allow 5 days of public comment before I sign any bills.”
“I will remove earmarks for PORK projects before I sign any bill.”
“I will end Income Tax for seniors making less than $50K a year.”
“I’ll put the Health Care negotiations on CSPAN so everyone can see
who is at the table.”
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Categories : Political
AARP’s fall from Grace
8 08 2010You don’t have to be a Senior or an AARP member to appreciate and cheer for this letter:
Letter from owners of Miller Farms Equine Transport….validated by Snopes AARP’s fall from Grace
SNOPES : CORRECTLY ATTRIBUTED
I find this very interesting reading, so let’s keep it going if you agree. It only takes a few days on the Internet and this will have reached 75% of the public in the U.S.A. Seniors need to stand up for what is right, not what the politicians want or big Corporations want.
This letter was sent to Mr. Rand who is the Executive Director of AARP.
THIS LADY NOT ONLY HAS A GRASP OF ‘THE SITUATION’ BUT AN INCREDIBLE COMMAND OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE!
Dear Mr. Rand,
Recently you sent us a letter encouraging us to renew our lapsed membership in AARP by the requested date. I know it is not what you were looking for, but this is the most honest response I can give you. Our gap in coverage is merely a microscopic symptom of the real problem, a deepening lack of faith.
While we have proudly maintained our membership for several years and have long admired the AARP goals and principles, regrettably, we can no longer endorse it’s abdication of our values. Your letter specifically stated that we can count on AARP to speak up for our rights, yet the voice we hear is not ours. Your offer of being kept up to date on important issues through DIVIDED WE FAIL presents neither an impartial view nor the one we have come to embrace. We do believe that when two parties agree all the time on everything presented to them, one is probably not necessary. But, when the opinions and long term goals are diametrically opposed, the divorce is imminent. This is the philosophy which spawned our 200 years of government.
Once upon a time, we looked forward to being part of the senior demographic. We also looked to AARP to provide certain benefits and give our voice a power we could not possibly hope to achieve on our own. AARP gave us a sense of belonging which we no longer enjoy. The Socialist politics practiced by the Obama administration and empowered by AARP serves only to raise the blood pressure my medical insurance strives to contain. Clearly a conflict of interest there!
We do not understand the AARP posture, feel greatly betrayed by the guiding forces that we expected to map out our senior years and leave your ranks with a great sense of regret. We mitigate that disappointment with the relief of knowing that we are not contributing to the problem anymore by renewing our membership. There are numerous other organizations which offer discounts without threatening our way of life or offending our sensibilities.
This Presidential Administration scares the living daylights out of us. Not just for ourselves, but for our proud and bloodstained heritage. But even more importantly for our children and grandchildren. Washington has rendered Soylent Green a prophetic cautionary tale rather than a nonfiction scare tactic. I have never in my life endorsed any militant or radical groups, yet now I find myself listening to them. I don’t have to agree with them to appreciate the fear which birthed their existence. Their borderline insanity presents little more than a balance to the voice of the Socialist mindset in power. Perhaps I became American by a great stroke of luck in some cosmic uterine lottery, but in my adulthood I CHOOSE to embrace it and nurture the freedoms it represents as well as the responsibilities it requires.
Your website generously offers us the opportunity to receive all communication in Spanish. ARE YOU KIDDING??? Someone has broken into our ‘house’, invaded our home without our invitation or consent. The President has insisted we keep the perpetrator in comfort and learn the perp language so we can communicate our reluctant welcome to them.
I DON’T choose to welcome them.
I DON’T choose to support them.
I DON’T choose to educate them.
I DON’T choose to medicate them, pay for their food or clothing.
American home invaders get arrested.
Please explain to me why foreign lawbreakers can enjoy privileges on American soil that Americans do not get?
Why do some immigrants have to play the game to be welcomed and others only have to break & enter to be welcomed?
We travel for a living. Walt hauls horses all over this great country, averaging over 10,000 miles a month when he is out there. He meets more people than a politician on caffeine overdose. Of all the many good folks he enjoyed on this last 10,000 miles, this trip yielded only ONE supporter of the current administration. One of us is out of touch with mainstream America . Since our poll is conducted without funding, I have more faith in it than one which is power driven.
We have decided to forward this to everyone on our mailing list, and will encourage them to do the same… With several hundred in my address book, I have every faith that the eventual exponential factor will make a credible statement to you.
I am disappointed as hell.
I am scared as hell.
I am MAD as hell, and I’m NOT gonna take it anymore!
Walt & Cyndy
Miller Farms Equine Transport
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Categories : Political, Save America
President Obama caught in another direct lie.
10 08 2010World War II n. ( Abbr. WWII ) A war fought from 1939 to 1945
Subject: President’s Father Served in WW II?
Does he even know the difference between truth and fabrication? Now President Obama’s father served in WW II???
It must be true as Barack said it in a speech! Is he a compulsive liar? Were there no reporters who double checked these statements and called the party on this?
They did for everyone else. Why not him?
Barack Hussein Obama Sr. (Obama’s father)
Born 4/4/36
Died 11/24/82 at the age of 46
He was 3 years old when WW 2 started, and less than 9.5 years old when it ended.
Lolo Soetoro (Obama’s step father)
Born 1935
Died 3/2/87 at the age of 52
He was 4 years old when WW 2 started, and 10 years old when it ended.
And the media doesn’t say anything
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An armed man is a citizen. An unarmed man is a subject.
Does he even know if and when he is lying? Pathological liar perhaps?
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Categories : Political, Save America
“Cops and Armed Citizens”
10 08 2010
I grew up around guns. My dad, a farmer by trade, was also an auxiliary deputy with the local sheriff’s department so he owned a pistol or two. My cousins were hunters, and we always had a shotgun in the house that my father could get to if he needed to eliminate an errant raccoon in the garden or a family of moles tearing up our front yard. I was neither fascinated nor frightened by firearms, they were just a part of our lives in the rural Midwest.
When I graduated from the police academy in 1981, I was pretty excited about my “right to bear arms” both on and off duty. Although I was a patrol officer, I invested in a couple of concealed holsters for my big Smith & Wesson model 59 (completely the wrong handgun for a girl with the hands of an 8 year old, but that’s another article). I pretty much carried my gun everywhere. Young, single, and new to the “big city,” I spent lots of time in and around the Chicago area, enjoying the museums, the sports teams, the shopping, and of course, the nightlife. I never gave my safety much thought because (a) I was armed, and (b) I was usually in the company of other (armed) off duty cops. Life was good.
I’ve always enjoyed lively political discussions so I was happy to enter into debates about the Second Amendment and whether or not ordinary citizens really had a “right to keep and bear arms” as I continued to gain some patrol experience. At the time, I really didn’t understand what the big deal was. I was fine with people who were hunters, or enjoyed shooting sports, and even wanted to keep a “home protection” gun in their bedroom, but as a young cop, I was pretty sure I didn’t want ordinary, untrained people walking around “my” streets carrying concealed handguns. I mean, if everyone had a gun, how could we tell the good guys from the bad? If everyone was armed, wouldn’t people be shooting each other over parking spaces and other petty issues? Besides, I secretly (and selfishly) enjoyed the feeling of superiority in knowing that I was one of the few people allowed by Illinois law to carry around a loaded gun. Boy, did I have a lot to learn.
In 1989 I was invited to travel with the University of Illinois’ “Fighting Illini” men’s basketball team to the Final Four in Seattle, Washington. My uncle was the head coach so my dad and I were going to fly on the team plane. What a blast! Unfortunately, this was about the same time that serial killer Ted Bundy was all over the news, the “Green River Killer” investigation was in full swing, and I was obsessed with reading Seattle-based author Ann Rule’s true crime books. Not exactly a great time for me to be heading for Washington State. But hey, I was cop! I got to take my gun to Seattle, carry it everywhere, and feel safe and secure. Great for me, but it got me thinking about all those young female murder victims; many of them close to my age. What if one of them had been armed? Could she have saved herself and ultimately, many others? And back in Illinois we had our own famous serial killer, John Wayne Gacy, still in the news. He killed 33 young men and boys before he was arrested. Hadn’t they deserved the legal right to able to try and protect themselves to the best of their ability?
Two and a half years later, on October 16, 1991, the infamous Luby’s Cafeteria shooting occurred in Killeen, Texas. In what we would now call an “active shooter” situation, George Hennard drove his pick up truck through the front of the restaurant and was able to stalk, shoot, and terrorize the 80 lunchtime patrons, killing 23 and wounding another 20 before police cornered him and he turned a gun on himself. He’d been able to reload several times before police could arrive, and there were no armed citizens to challenge him. I was now a patrol sergeant and really starting to really re-evaluate my stance on citizen carry, and frankly, the Luby’s incident scared the heck out of me. After all, just like my state, the law in Texas at the time forbade citizens from carrying handguns. The Texas “serious crime” rate was 38 % above the nation average. After the post-Luby’s passage of the CCW law, serious crime in Texas has dropped 50% faster than the United States as a whole. Illinois, however, continued to prohibit CCW.
The whole citizen carry issue, often mixed in with the broader debate over “gun control” in general, has been terribly politicized and the debate rages on to this day. Yes, the United States is the leader in “per capita gun deaths among industrial nations,” a statistic that gun control advocates love to throw around. However, as most cops will tell you, the issue is a whole lot more complicated. One of the best resources out there is John Lott’srecently updated book “More Guns, Less Crime.” Basically, Lott concluded in an 18 year study that states who allowed citizens to carry concealed weapons saw violent crime goes down. Pretty logical stuff; the more law abiding citizens who train and arm themselves, the less victims we have. He has continued to study this issue objectively but passionately; every crimefighter should read his work.
My adopted home town, the city of Chicago, is a perfect example of Lott’s conclusions. We’re averaging 20 – 40 shootings a weekend, three Chicago cops have been killed this year, off duty, since May, and yet Chicago has some of the strictest gun laws in the nation! Who’s got the guns? The cops and the bad guys; and frankly, the cops tend to be out-numbered and often out-gunned. All the gun laws in the world aren’t going to keep thugs from owning, carrying and using firearms, so all the City of Chicago is doing is keeping law abiding citizens from legally obtaining personal protection firearms.
I’m retired now, but as I travel throughout the United States, training with and filming law enforcement personnel, I take advantage of HR 218; I am always armed, and I’m grateful for the privilege. I am now a firm advocate of well-trained, well-armed civilians, and this is an issue that police officers must get more involved in. With layoffs, cutbacks, workplace violence and the raging “war on cops” in the United States, we may have to depend on our citizens to step up, jump in, and help out in an armed encounter. After all, you don’t have to have a badge to wear a white hat and be one of the good guys. Stay safe!
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NUGENT: It is us
11 08 2010 
July 30, 2010
NUGENT: It is us
By Ted Nugent
Barack Hussein Obama did not sneak into power. An army of clueless, disconnected, ignorant Americans
invited him to bring his Marxist, glaringly anti-American jihad into our lives. This president’s overtly
destructive, clear-and-present-danger agenda is surpassed in transparency only by his ultra-leftist public
voting record and overall lifetime conduct of consorting with the enemy as a child and student of Marxism,
socialist and racist community organizer, congregant of the blatant America-hating black-theology- and
social-justice-spewing Rev. Jeremiah Wright and close personal friend of convicted communist terrorists like
Bill Ayers, and by his unflinching appointment of an array of communist czars, including Van Jones, Cass
Sunstein, Anita Dunne, et al. So let me get this straight: You claim your intentions were noble because you
simply wanted to get your child a puppy but somehow didn’t notice that it was foaming at the mouth, and
now you’re shocked that your child has rabies? I think not. That is not a mistake. It is negligence -
dangerous, life threatening and, I am convinced, downright criminal negligence.
And the price for such negligence is catastrophic, don’t you know.
But it gets worse. For, you see, the blame doesn’t fall just on the obvious stupidity of our friends and families
who voted for this corrupt, death-wish government in whose stranglehold we find ourselves. Ultimately, it is
our fault. It is the failure of those of us who know better but have failed miserably to educate our own. Living
our lives with a captive audience of family, friends, co-workers, socialites, fellow worshippers at church and
other parents at school – everyone in our everyday walks of life – far too many of us have allowed
uneducated, history-devoid, denial-riddled, fantasy-driven, anti-gun and anti-hunting, anti-capitalism general
ignoramuses to remain so and run amok, when by all thoughtful considerations, it was our duty to educate
and upgrade everyone in our lives to truth, logic and the American way.
It is the terminal curse of apathy and disconnect that got us into this shameless mess we find America in
today, and in all honesty, we have no one to blame but ourselves.
We all saw it coming, but political correctness caused most of us to clam up in the ridiculous mindset that it
was more important to avoid hurting feelings than to stand up for what we knew in our hearts was being
trampled underfoot. Sadly, America has become a nation of ultra-thin-skinned, whining little girls, afraid of
our own shadows and so cowardly as to back away from the simple solution of speaking the truth when we
know we are supposed to do so.
I have been damned as being a radical extremist my entire adult life for simply standing up and relentlessly
promoting and celebrating self-evident truth, logic and common sense. The devil brigade acting upon the
Saul Alinsky deception playbook has made its mark by lying, cheating and attacking with the very hate that it
accuses everybody else of harboring. With an overall complicit media to bullhorn the brigade’s agenda, a
nation of sheep has taken the pill and swallowed it whole.
Welcome to the new fat, soft, cowardly nation of wimps with the perfectly corrupt president and pack of
soulless hounds in government that they deserve.
Look at Harry Reid. Charlie Rangel. Listen to Nancy Pelosi. What kind of idiots do they represent? A huge
army of idiots who wish to do nothing for their country, but whine for their government to do everything for
them. Welcome to France, ladies and gentlemen, only worse.
There always have been bad, ignorant people in the world. But in the United States of America, land of the
free and home of the brave, the epicenter of rugged individualism founded on the premise of live free or die,
where the powerful DNA of defiance got us where we are as the last, best place on Earth, the ultimate
violation is that so many hardworking, truly entrepreneurial, independent Americans backed down and failed
to stand up when we saw the wimps squawking about all the wrong stuff.
Everything from the New Deal and Great Society on has been a dismal and grossly counterproductive
failure, yet we continue to allow corrupt bureaucrats to keep jamming more of the same down our throats
with barely a whimper of resistance. How pathetic. How lame. How un-American.
The Tea Party is a better-late-than-never step in the right direction back to the glorious “we the people”
experiment in self-government, but as far as I’m concerned, we haven’t begun to turn up the heat nearly
enough quite yet.
Each and every conservative and liberal American who knows that we cannot spend and tax our way out of
debt, who knows that an exit strategy instead of a victory strategy is the same as surrender, who knows
Fedzilla is criminal in its refusal to be accountable with our hard-earned tax dollars being blowtorched with
unprecedented and insane wastefulness, that a federal government suing Arizona for simply implementing
constitutional law is treasonous, and who fails to communicate this with everyone we know is actually
complicit with this bizarre, fundamental transformation of the greatest country in the history of humankind.
What in God’s good name are we thinking? How much more of this can we possibly put up with? Will we
show true American fortitude to stop the beast at the voting booths in November and in every election in the
future to make sure no more communists, no more Marxists, no more anti-American redistributors of wealth
are allowed in positions of power ever again? Can we outvote the pimps, whores and welfare brats? Will we
be smart enough to put every politician to the Pelosi-Obama litmus test? We will be smart enough never to
let a Mao Zedong fan club in the White House ever again?
Will we have learned our lesson that we the people have a daily, moral responsibility to be suspicious of
everyone in government and the media and watchdog them properly from now on? Will we finally never
forget? Will we finally say never again and mean it?
Will we finally use the incredible freedoms as provided by the sacrifices of our amazing warrior heroes of the
U.S. military to be sure this insanity can never happen again? Can we show at least that basic respect for
the privilege of being American and how we got here?
It is not them, it is us. Pogo was right.
Ted Nugent is an unstoppable American rock ‘n’ roll, sporting and political activist icon. He is author of “Ted,
White & Blue: The Nugent Manifesto” and “God, Guns and Rock ‘N’ Roll” (Regnery Publishing).
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Obama self portrait
3 09 2010
These are possibly the 5 best sentences you’ll ever read:
- You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.
- What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.
- The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.
- When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is the beginning of the end of any nation.
- You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.
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Al Sharpton Suck-Up
9 09 2010 
Every year for the past few years, I’ve noted the annual Al Sharpton Suck-Up — the annual grievance-mongering convention held by the race hustler’s non-profit “National Action Network.” It’s a purported grass-roots activist network that only seems to surface in the news once a year when Democrat leaders — and at least one RNC chairman — show up to the convention to pay homage and kiss Sharpton’s ring.
Biggest non-shocker of the year: The “National Action Network” is a fiscal mess, delinquent on taxes, and has run afoul of campaign finance laws. The NY Post reports:
An accounting firm hired by Al Sharpton’s National Action Network found the civil-rights group in such financial disarray that it flunked its record-keeping — and may not even survive, The Post has learned.
The scathing critique was spelled out in a hard-hitting internal audit of NAN’s books, a copy of which was obtained by The Post.
“The organization has suffered recurring decreases in net assets — and has been dependent upon advances from related parties and the nonpayment of payroll tax obligations — to maintain continuity,” the firm KBL concluded in an April 2 audit of NAN’s 2008 financial records, the most recent available.
The audit, which was submitted to NAN’s board of directors, warned, “These circumstances create substantial doubt about the organization’s ability to continue.”
KBL said it was “unable to form an opinion” on the accuracy of NAN’s financial figures “because of inadequacies in the organization’s accounting records.”
In 2008, federal prosecutors decided to drop a criminal probe into the finances of Sharpton and NAN. But Sharpton — who also has a lucrative syndicated radio show and a speech-making and consulting business — agreed to pay back more than $2 million in overdue personal and NAN taxes.
The audit said NAN still owed $1.348 million in delinquent city, state and federal taxes and penalties at the end of 2008. The IRS has filed dozens of liens against NAN over the past decade, including one as recently as April of this year.
Last year, the Federal Elections Commission slapped Sharpton with $285,000 fine, in part for illegally using NAN funds to cover the costs of his 2004 presidential campaign.
Thanks to Sharpton’s race shield, NAN has engaged in financial monkey business for years with impunity.
Yes, monkey business. Sue me.
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Heh. JWF on Sharpton’s money troubles: “This ought to qualify him as a financial adviser to his pal Obama.”
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Our National anthem ” The Star Spangeled Banner”
29 09 2010 
O! say can you see by the dawn’s early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight,
O’er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming.
And the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there;
O! say does that star-spangled banner yet wave,
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe’s haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o’er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream:
‘Tis the star-spangled banner, O! long may it wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion,
A home and a country should leave us no more!
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps’ pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.O! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war’s desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav’n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: “In God is our trust.”
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
In indignation over the start of the Civil War, Oliver Wendell Holmes[13] added a fifth stanza to the song in 1861 which appeared in songbooks of the era.[14]
When our land is illumined with liberty’s smile,
If a foe from within strikes a blow at her glory,
Down, down with the traitor that tries to defile
The flag of the stars, and the page of her story!
By the millions unchained,
Who their birthright have gained
We will keep her bright blazon forever unstained;
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave,
While the land of the free is the home of the brave.
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