Lots of good sense here !
by GunRights4USAugust 31, 2010
Here's an excerpt to whet your literary appetite:
Everybody’s afraid of the people in the blue helmets coming someday to take their guns and rape their wives. It’s a rational fear. But what they don’t realize is that something far more powerful than the U.N. has taken hold of their native land. What was once meant to be a treaty between sovereign states is now in charge of every aspect of your life. If it walks like a blue helmet, talks like a blue helmet, and smells like a blue helmet, but instead wears the insignia of the local police, it’s a blue helmet. It’s just covered in black cloth and it’s here to shoot your dog.
The solution to the current problems will not be found at the ‘national’ level. We aren’t all going to rise up at once and take it down. Not going to happen. Rome will just keep playing the barbarians off each other. Yi yi zhi yi. 2010 will be remembered as a year in which the republicans ran the democrats out of the senate and house. If they’re lucky, they’ll retake the White House in 2012. The NRA and their prags will rejoice.
But nothing will change.
Go read it all. It's very insightful and may challenge some of your beliefs.
Lessons best learned
by GunRights4USAugust 4, 2010
Mike over at Sipsey Street Irregulars uses this report to expound on the lessons we should all have learned when we look back over the 20th century and examine the actions of Hiter, Stalin, Pol Pot, and various tyrants that butchered so many of their own people.
Mike's Lesson Number 1 should be etched into our hearts and minds:
If a bureaucrat, or a soldier sent by a bureaucrat, comes to knock down your door and take you someplace you do not want to go because of who you are or what you think -- kill him. If you can, kill the politician who sent him. You will likely die anyway, and you will be saving someone else the same fate. For it is a universal truth that the intended victims always far outnumber the tyrant's executioners.If you read absolutely nothing today, please go read these two blog posts, and then give some thought to those whom you love and what their future is likely to be in this new America.
By the way, you DO know that War is not the 20th century's biggest killer don't you?
I leave you with the words of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn:
"And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward."
Introducing another blog to the daily fare…
by GunRights4USJuly 30, 2010
My sincere apologies to MikeH for having missed his excellent blog. One look and I knew it was a new addition to my list of places I must regularly peruse.
Go have a look at BEHIND THE PARAPET and get motivated!
Quotes of the Day!
by GunRights4USJuly 29, 2010
"It is the privilege of all immature creatures to be protected by their parents, to the extent possible. It is the absolute right of all mature creatures to be protected by themselves."
And again...
"Look, I don't care about the Constitution. This predates and supersedes the Constitution, or any other writing of man."
Joel over at The Ultimate Answer to Kings (who goes on to say a whole lot of other cool stuff about guns and rights that I wholeheartedly agree with!)
On flags, and patriotism
by GunRights4USJuly 22, 2010
By these comments I am about to make, I am NOT saying I favor banning the US flag. But I do want to share some views of mine that are beginning to form in my mind regarding notions of patriotism, nationalism, and how these concepts relate to the current US regime in power.
First of all let me establish clearly that I love America and all that it used to stand for. America used to stand for liberty, individualism, opportunity for all, and justice applied equally under the law. Only the most seriously blind among us would think that America stands for these things today. Today we stand for group identity politics, equality of outcome (everyone equally poor!), class envy, diversity, and justice only if you’re a member of a favored group. We also stand for murdering the unborn, and the glorification of rank immorality and perversion.
The nation that raised the flag over Iwo Jima is NOT the nation flying that same flag today! I fear my government more by far than I fear Islamic terrorists. I do fear them both, but my government seems to have confused me with Islamic terrorists and seeks to steal all my liberty - in the name of security that they can’t really provide. Not only do they seek to steal my liberty, but they actively steal my hard earned substance through taxes and debauchment of the currency via inflation.
Patriotism should not mean blind devotion to national governments, but too often among too many Americans that’s exactly what’s demanded: Blind devotion. (I am speaking directly to conservatives here) The dot.gov tells us that terrorism requires that we surrender our rights and submit to gross injustices never previously allowed under the constitution. And followers of the dot.gov seem to demand that everyone march in lockstep. Well… I don’t lockstep (goosestep) with anyone any more!
How does one separate the nation from the government? How does one love the country – and yet hate the government? My solution to that conundrum is to reassess my priorities of allegiance. They are simply God, family, Constitution – in that order. I know that the men who waded through a storm of bullets to plant the flag on Mt Suribachi were NOT there for Mom, the flag, and apple pie. They were NOT fighting for “The American Way” either. They were fighting for their’s and their buddy’s survival – nothing more. I intend to look to what God’s plan is for this nation, as stated in the Bible, and what his plan is for me and mine – and be faithful to that. And where the Imperial Federal Leviathan has trampled God underfoot, and where it has trampled the Republic underfoot, I intend to resist it with every ounce of my being.
In short, my fervent devotion to “The American Way” now depends entirely on the definition of that “way”. If you use Obama’s definition of it, I am opposed to it down to my very bones! If you speak of the concepts espoused by Jefferson – then I am equally bone-deep dedicated. But there is no way to determine which concepts are being espoused by a simple rag on a stick. I see that flag in the background behind our Marxist president every time he gives a speech! Has it been irredeemably soiled by the likes of O and his cabal of heathens. I do not pretend to have the answer. But I do expect that someday, when my resistance switches from the mere utterances of my mouth to the acts of my hands, I will see that same flag flown by those who intend to kill me.
Now why couldn’t THIS guy be our first black president?
by GunRights4USJuly 18, 2010
Or even THIS guy!
Now keep in mind dear reader, that I am a red-neck Southern white man. I'm so far to the right that I make Rush Limbaugh look like a leftist. I am SUPPOSED to be a bigot and a racist right?
At least that's what the democrat and MSM template says.
BUT I WOULD VOTE FOR EITHER OF THESE BLACK MEN IN A HEARTBEAT!!
We used to be Free – before Nanny Government
by GunRights4USJuly 15, 2010
Last year the government banned the sale of all books printed before 1985. There was a chance some lead in the print might come in contact with people's skin. Of course, this means I am doomed. Hundreds upon hundreds of volumes have surrounded me for most of my adult life. I have only lived a portion of those years of what could have been a century long run if it were not for poison books.
One reason for my short lifespan could be all the lead based paint on the houses and in the rooms where I resided growing to manhood. Before nanny government stepped in I had this lead based death threat forced upon my person by evil business operators. While on this topic I can't forget the lead in the gasoline, the dozens of lead soldiers I played with as a boy, the lead paint on my bicycles, and all of the lead sinkers I used when I went fishing. No wonder I can never become a centurion.
The government banned religious groups from displaying Christian crosses in the Obama inauguration parade. Christian symbols were also banned from the White House Christmas tree. Nativity Scenes and the Ten Commandments have been banned from the public square. Children in schools have even been forbidden to sing religious hymns at Christmas events.
As previously noted, we all know about the government banning oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska and the ban on fishing, shrimping and shellfish harvesting. There has even been a ban of foreign boats helping to clean up the oil slick and a ban on chemical dispersants. Burning off the oil has been severely restricted.
For some, government mandates are almost as troublesome as those things it bans. For most of my adult years I could use or not use a seat belt. It was my choice until nanny government stepped in. Now I must use one under force of law. My son grew up riding in the back of a station wagon with no seat belt and no child safety seat. He made it with no government assistance. Now all children must be restrained in a government approved seat.
As a boy I enjoyed some great cheeses from around the world. My father was a cheese lover and often brought them home for us to sample. Now, some of the world's finest cheeses cannot be imported, because the milk used is not pasteurized. In truth, the danger of getting sick from raw milk is about on par with getting sick from eating raw oysters.
We all know about the bans on smoking, drinking, drugs and other sinful or harmful practices. Our government has decided it is the overseer of all things that are suitable for its citizens. While it stops the use of these harmful ingestible habits, it has also decided that the word God, prayer in school, wearing American patriotic clothing, pictures of guns and anything shaped like a pill are equally bad for people in need to be banned from public sites.
The point of this silly rant is quite simple... as Americans we do not need our every action, like or dislike decided by a government that has an unbelievably poor track record of getting anything done right. Parents should decide what is good, right or fair for their children. Adults should be able to make their own choices, free of government instruction or guidance.
Remember, freedom does not vanish in one harsh moment. It is lost one step, one inch, one act, one day at a time.
Semper Fidelis
Thomas D. Segel
tomsegel@sbcglobal.net
An excellent audio book I’m listening to
by GunRights4USJuly 9, 2010
Thus far I am approximately halfway through the 13 disc set and I have been continually amazed at the things I am learning about the great man. For example I had always imagined that he had greatness thrust upon him, and that his roles as general and president were not offices he sought after. I come now to learn that George was an extremely ambitious man all his life.
Even his marriage to Martha Custis was done for political and economic reasons, even though they later grew to be very fond of each another. Had Martha not burned all their personal letters to one another after his death in 1799, we would undoubtedly know much more about their relationship.
It is also an indisputable fact that Washington was passionately in love with Sally Fairfax, the wife of his best friend! What a shocker eh? It would seem the Founders were human after all.
Irrefutable commentary on what America has become
by GunRights4USJune 25, 2010
Now on to the story:
THE CONSTITUTION - WITH A DISCLAIMER
Wilder Publications has published a book entitled "The Constitution, The Declaration of Independence and The Articles of Confederation." For some reason Wilder Publications saw fit to put a disclaimer in the book .. a disclaimer for our Constitution and Declaration of Independence. Here's the disclaimer:
"This book is a product of its time and does not reflect the same values as it would if it were written today. Parents might wish to discuss with their children how views on race, gender, sexuality, ethnicity and interpersonal relations have changed since this book was written before allowing them to read this classic work."
"This book?" They're talking about our Constitution and Declaration of Independence here. This is Obama's America. Now we're being urged to discuss concepts of sexuality and ethnicity with our children before we allow them to read our Constitution. Wilder Publications doesn't seem to want to discuss the matter with the media. They do have an address though ... and just in case ....
A&D Publishing
P.O. Box 3005
Radford VA 24143
http://www.wilderpublications.com/
UPDATE: That is one weird company website. No point of contact there - and not one easily located elsewhere either! Hmmmm
What have we learned in 2,065 years?
by GunRights4USJune 17, 2010
Cicero - 55 BC
So, evidently we've learned nothing !
