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Right to Self-Defense: So we are criminals - some of us every day, as we drive back and forth across land under the control of the National Park Service - for example, US Highway 160 between Cortez and Mancos, Colorado; US Highway 385 between Hot Springs and Custer City, South Dakota; SD Highway 40 between Scenic and Interior, South Dakota; the George Washington Memorial Parkway between Mount Vernon (US 1) and Alexandria, Virginia; any of the dozen or so crossings of US and State and Interstate Highways intersecting the Blue Ridge Parkway; driving across the Golden Gate Bridge on US Highway 101 between Sausalito and San Francisco; and tens of thousands of other places. And we must be unarmed against criminals who prey on beach-goers, tourists and campers in a thousand locations from Padre Island National Seashore to Glacier National Park, from Kitty Hawk National Historic Site to Redwoods National Park. Because a hoploclastic judge thinks that self-defense is a right which can be limited to "protect" the environment - that trees and birds are more important than humans. Because hoplophobes who are so afraid of their own anger and lack of self-control that they want everyone to be disarmed are more important to this administration than the freedoms its leaders swore to uphold. Mama's Note: Don't think for a moment that there is any environmental reason for this at all. None, zip, nada. It's not about safety, the environment or anything but control. They think they are in control, and they aim to stay there. To quote the anonymous paratrooper of the 101st Airborne Division at Bastogne in 1944, “They’ve got us surrounded . . . the poor bastards.” (Read the rest here)
Politically Incorrect Movie Reviews One interesting thing is the oddball alien leader looks a lot like Barack Obama. No kidding. That’s not an insult; it’s just a coincidence – I think. Then again there is that whole missing birth certificate issue … hmm. Another thing to consider is why the President is a white guy. The current President is black (okay, half-black – yes I know; whatever). Imagine the caterwauling from the left if the President was portrayed by a bumbling, incompetent black character. Say … a skinny black guy with big floppy ears, who cannot speak without a teleprompter. The liberals would have a snit-fit and howl for the film to be yanked off the shelves. After all, despite all their marches and protests, liberals do not believe in the First Amendment. (Read the rest here)
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Gun Rights Examiner "Exhibit shines light on gun violence," reads the JSOnline headline to a story about a traveling exhibit of 450 shirts donated by families and friends of victims. It's being represented as "A Journey for Justice, Preventing Gun Violence Across Wisconsin."
So what is it they hope to accomplish? (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.) Check out the latest from other Gun Rights Examiners *Atlanta Gun Rights Examiner: Restaurant with anti-gun policy saved by a gun * Austin Gun Rights Examiner: Kirsten Gillibrand: Gun control's new spokesperson * Boston Gun Rights Examiner: The Educated Patriot: Is a rightwing extremist! * Charlotte Gun Rights Examiner: Lautenberg gun show bill is greatest threat in Congress * Cleveland Gun Rights Examiner: Ohio State Parks volunteer coordinator says legal ccw may be considered 'threat or act of violence' *Denver Gun Rights Examiner: An insight about the liberal mind * Los Angeles Gun Rights Examiner: Liberal Anger, broken homes and gun control *Milwaukee Gun Rights Examiner: J.B. Vanhollen says open carry is legal in WI! *Minneapolis: Milwaukee Police Chief Flynn is bordering on irresponsible *Seattle Gun Rights Examiner: WI police chief setting stage for confrontation * St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner: Oath Keepers: Napolitano's 'right wing extremists'? *Washington DC Gun Rights Examiner: Milwaukee police chief Ed Flynn borrows a page from Bull Connors' playbook *Wisconsin
Gun Rights Examiner: JB
Van Hollen open carry opinions
Voices
from the Grave, Betrayed by a Restraining Order
Debi Olson had three restraining orders taken out against her. But that didn’t stop the woman from ambushing ex-husband Mauricio Droguett in an Iowa shopping mall last July, fatally stabbing him in front of shocked mall-goers. Toni Brown of Washington, DC was shot by former girlfriend Raina Johnson on August 12, 2008, leaving the woman paralyzed from her neck down. Johnson is currently serving a 28-year sentence for a crime the judge termed “extraordinarily brutal.” A restraining order had been previously issued against the assailant. Karen Allende of New York City was walking to work on a September day in 2006 when she was attacked suddenly by her husband. She died that morning on the sidewalk, a restraining order folded neatly in her purse. (Read the rest here)
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Articles How many people really believe in unalienable rights? How many people really believe in freedom? Not many. Even among those who call themselves pro-freedom, many still have some residue of the slave mentality. Let’s use the example of the right of self defense, which is the basis for the right to possess weapons, such as firearms (as acknowledged in the Second Amendment). Even among gun owners, how many people really consider self-defense a “right”? Almost all gun owners would say they believe it’s a right, but do they really? Here is a test: If owning a firearm was “illegal,” would you still have the right to do it? Suppose the Second Amendment was repealed, via the proper procedures for amending the Constitution. And suppose the feds, and all the states, then outlawed private gun ownership entirely. Would you still have the right to be armed? Yes, you would. And at this point, I expect most gun owners would say the same, although the discussion would be making some of them start to feel a bit nervous. You see, people have been so indoctrinated into viewing politician commands as some morally binding gospel, which they call “law,” that they feel uncomfortable even discussing the concept of violating such so-called “law” in order to protect individual rights. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.) The
left's fear of firearms Legendary firearms instructor and pundit Jeff Cooper put it best. "In my opinion," he said, "neither money nor greed ... is the root of all evil. The root of all evil is envy. The non-coper hates the coper, and thus the non-shooter hates the shooter. I see no other explanation for the pointless and irrational activism of the gun grabbers on the political scene. They know that their machinations can have no effect upon crime. Guns have no effect upon crime, but they do make all men equal, as the saying goes. This puts the coper on top, and infuriates the non-coper." This is the root of all liberal hatred for firearms. Liberals despise the idea that this technology enables the individual to stand up for and defend himself and his family. They loathe the notion that with a gun, a man is far stronger than a man without – and thus a much larger threat, a much louder dissenting voice, where their invasive, big-government, totalitarian, nanny-state power grabs are concerned. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.) TARP
Looking More Criminal by the Minute What originally prompted my friend Larry Kudlow to ask if TARP is a criminal enterprise was Wednesday’s report to Congress by TARP’s special inspector general, Neil M. Barofsky, in which it was disclosed that “nearly 20 preliminary and full criminal investigations” are underway, including “large corporate and securities fraud matters affecting TARP investments, tax matters, insider trading, public corruption, and mortgage-modification fraud.” When I first read that I rolled my eyes and said to myself, “Hey, what do you expect?” But then I started thinking a little more deeply and realized there’s something more here — even before the controversy about Bank of America became known. The more I thought about it, the more I realized how that enormous pot of TARP money has in fact corrupted both the private and public sector. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
Anchorage
Libertarian Examiner Okay, so it's a commemoration of the opening battles of the American Revolution. Again, what does that mean? This is that great big question you perpetually had in your head all throughout those dreary history classes: “Great, those details are swell and all, but why should I care?” Oh, I don't know. I mean, it's just the story of a gun battle between duly constituted state authoritah and a bunch of “domestic terrorists”, sparked off over the right to keep and bear arms, that kicked off a full-scale revolution. It seems that some uppity peasants had completely lost their proper sense of obeisance to the government, concocting all sort and manner of whack-job conspiracy theories about government excess, intrusion, and abuse (including, get this, criticisms to such perfectly normal concepts as “shut up and pay your taxes and nobody gets hurt”), and needed to be taught a very public lesson to put them back in their place. This rabble not only was hoarding unlicensed, unregistered, un-permitted, military-style weaponry and ammunition that was of equal or greater capacity than the duly constituted armed forces (including the truly fearsome “assault weapons” of the day, rifles capable of precision accuracy at extended ranges), but many actually carried such arms on their persons at all times, and openly spoke of a willingness to use them against the government, should such try to “lay down the law” and take the means of their resistance by force. And—possibly to the surprise of both sides—when the government crossed the rebels' line in the sand ("lay down your arms, you damned rebels!"), they did it. They opened fire on their own government, for no other reason than the self-ordained “need” to be free of it. (It's like a Hollywood movie plot, but with an incontheivably wrong ending.) (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
Albuquerque
Libertarian Examiner Your property rights end at the surface of my clothes, just as my property rights end at the surface of your clothes. Would I forbid you to come onto my property, assuming I sent out an open invitation otherwise, if you had a pacemaker or an artificial hip? Of course not! Those things are technological enhancements for imperfect human bodies. That is all a gun is. Humans don't have the fangs, claws, or a protective shell for self defense that many other animals have. Most of us do not have the opportunity to become experts at unarmed combat, either. Instead we have a brain that lets us devise tools to make up for that deficiency. To make a rule that a person coming onto your property must leave part of his body behind is crazy and wrong. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
Dallas
Libertarian Examiner Law enforcers in Dallas and Ft. Worth recently made the North Texas Metroplex proud with their high profile high idiocy high jinx in a span of 14 days. First came the report of the Dallas PD patrolman who caught up with a couple in front of a hospital after they ran a red light during a headlong rush to reach the woman’s dying mother. That traffic infraction, the bully-in-blue decided, was incredibly more important than someone’s mom meeting her Maker. The badge bum lectured the couple for thirteen minutes while scribbling out a moving violation citation. Midway through, the wife made a break for it and reached her mother just before she died. The husband didn’t. During the “I am God” grandstanding the public protector actually drew his gun, threatened the man with jail and told him, “I can screw you over.” (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
From The Ludwig von Mises Institute Hobbes famously argued that people in a state of nature could not trust one another to keep agreements to refrain from force. In a state of perpetual war (including both actual fighting and readiness to fight) life would be "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short." To escape this fate, it would be rational for everyone to surrender his arms to a sovereign, who would then have the power to assure that people kept their agreements. In this circumstance, people could benefit from society. Hobbes did not welcome the loss of liberty as a good in itself, but he argued that only by the drastic surrender of liberty he specified could the peace be preserved. Libertarians of course reject Hobbes's Leviathan. Nevertheless, Skoble thinks, minarchists in part embrace the Hobbesian Fear. They do not think that people, or the protection agencies that they designate to enforce their rights, would be able to come to peaceful agreement, in the absence of a monopoly state. Hence they think it necessary to allow more coercion than would be ideally desirable. No doubt it is bad that people cannot always be defended by the protection agency of their choice; but this sacrifice of freedom is necessary for the existence of society. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
The
Future of Freedom Foundation If President Obama doesn’t understand why the economy tanked, he surely won’t know what recovery requires. And if he doesn’t know that, he’s surely part of the problem, not the solution. In his speech on the economy at Georgetown University this week, Obama again showed that he hasn’t a clue what caused the economic calamity. He spent a few paragraphs of his speech “explaining” to the students what happened — but he got it wrong. Had this been a class, he should have gotten an F. According to Obama, instead of having to save to buy a house, “many Americans found they could take out loans that by traditional standards their incomes just could not support.” No explanation of why they were able to “find” this." (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
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