Given other historical precedent, there’s nothing wrong with our current government leaders that wouldn’t be solved far more rapidly, by simply chopping 342 of them open with tomahawks and hurling them into the Potomac river-since Boston Harbor is kinda far to toss the bodies
“…and the sad truth is that 95% of the problems we have in this country could be solved tomorrow, by noon… simply by dragging 100 people out in the street and shooting them in the fucking head.” – An anonymous US Marine.
“The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government – lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.” ― Patrick Henry
“Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.” — Albert Einstein
“The U.S. government now poses the greatest threat to our freedoms.
More than terrorism, more than domestic extremism, more than gun violence and organized crime, even more than the perceived threat posed by any single politician, the U.S. government remains a greater menace to the life, liberty and property of its citizens than any of the so-called dangers from which the government claims to protect us.” – John W. Whitehead
Pennsylvania just passed an awful new law that bars convicts from publicly discussing their crimes if doing so could cause victims “a temporary or permanent state of mental anguish.” Journalist Christopher Moraff is part of a group that’s suing to have the law overturned. At the Daily Beast, he explains why striking down the law, which he calls the “Silencing Act,” is so important.
We need to dispense with this anti-liberal notion that there is some right to not be offended. Whether it’s speech codes on college campuses, anti-blasphemy and anti-hate speech laws in Europe, or so-called victims’ rights laws like this one, you can’t enforce these laws without crushing free expression and stifling speech.
You can have a free, open society that protects speech, or you can have an enforceable right to not be offended. You can’t have both.
These guys need to get every gun owner in the state to stand with them,because Bloomberg and his moms and minions are already trying the same shit in Nevada and Vermont. They plan to keep going state by state,they know they can’t get this kind of bullshit passed at the fed level,so their plan is one state at a time-starting with the states that already have either strict gun laws-or a high population of “progressives”.
Bloomberg and co will be coming to your state at some point-unless they get stopped now.
One way the terrorists try to win is by using the institutions of the Western State to suppress information critical of, or likely to reveal, their operational methods. That’s happening right now in New York City. Ongoing suits by “Muslim and civil liberties groups” — basically, pro-terrorist mosques, terrorist-support networks like CAIR (Hamas) and the MAS (MB), and the usual suspects of the well-funded terror bar — is seeking to suppress an NYPD report on the sort of radicalization that produces the so-called lone wolf Mohammedan murderers.
Mayor De Blasio, who likes the terrorists more than the cops to begin with, is eager to settle the suit, and the terror supporters, pressing this advantage, want to see the report erased forever.
If you have a website, host it there. Put it on BitTorrent. Put it on Scribd and DocStoc; stick a copy on public DropBox and Archive.Org. They can’t murder us all, much as they’d like to, and they can’t sue us all, even though, lawyers being lawyers, there’s always one available to do any evil, for a price.
Here’s the report-in case Deblasio and the musloids succeed in getting it removed from NYPD’s website.
We knew this day was coming. After dumping millions of dollars into the ballot initiative in Washington State, national anti-gun interests have now set their sights on Vermont. Leading up to the 2014 elections, Gun Sense Vermont wrote checks to dozens of lawmakers’ campaigns. In fact, many of these incumbents didn’t even solicit the campaign contributions and refused to cash them. This anti-gun group has also been sending postcards to lawmakers for months urging them to adopt so-called “universal” background checks. Official state disclosure forms show that the group ranked in the top five for the amount of money they spent on lobbyists last year. This group and its wealthy benefactor will spare no expense to strip you of your constitutional rights!
Now is the time for NRA members and Vermont gun owners to make a stand. It’s imperative that gun owners make their voices heard loud and clear. On Wednesday, Senate Bill 31 was introduced by Senate President Pro Tem John Campbell (D-Windsor) and his leadership team. S.31 seeks to impose restrictions on the private transfer of firearms and will do nothing to keep guns out of the hands of criminals. However, it will create undue burdens for law-abiding Vermonters.
Please contact your Senator today, and respectfully ask him or her to oppose Senate Bill 31. Remind him or her that Vermont was recently named one of the safest states in the country. This legislation is nothing more than a solution in search of a problem.
To leave a message for your state Senator, please contact the Statehouse Sergeant of Arms at (802) 828-2228.
New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has been arrested on a five-count federal complaint charging him with accepting millions of dollars in exchange for using his political influence, New York Daily News reported Thursday. The charges are described as “stunning” for “the Manhattan Democrat [who has been] a state political fixture for decades.”
As such, Silver has been a leading proponent of “gun control” throughout his terms of office, including being a driving force behind passing Governor Andrew Cuomo’s “SAFE” Act. In 2012, Silver pushed through a package of bills after the Sandy Hook killings, using that as the springboard to enact legislation that had failed to be enacted in prior years, including microstamping, gun locks and “closing loopholes.” He stated his post-Newtown goal flatly, to impose “a complete ban on assault weapons.”
Silver’s arrest is reminiscent of other arrests for criminal acts that prominent citizen disarmament-demanding politicians have made headlines with in recent years, including numerous members of Michael Bloomberg’s “Mayors Against Illegal Guns.” Other anti-gun pols charged with serious criminal activity include California State Senator Leland Yee, including racketeering and gun trafficking.
Silver’s arrest is expected to spark conversation among pro-gun activists discussing the case. As is typically the case when someone demanding to criminalize a right is himself found to be under suspicion of self-serving real crime, the environment that allows corruption to flourish also comes under scrutiny.
Such dynasties invariably back “gun control.” And it can’t escape notice that the New York political machine is where Michael Bloomberg first exercised political power, and from where current “Everytown” money and moves against gun owners in Western states is coordinated and controlled.
As the debate over police-related violence persists across the country, some critics have taken it upon themselves to monitor law enforcement across America, increasingly turning to a controversial tactic known as cop-watching.
“Going out, filming police officers, basically in acts of self-defense. … Cop-watching is a direct action tactic,” said Antonio Beuhler, co-founder of the Peaceful Streets Project, a grassroots advocacy group based in Austin, Texas, dedicated to increasing police accountability.
Beuhler, a veteran of the Iraq war and a graduate of West Point and Stanford University, said he took up cop-watching after his first run in with the police three years ago. An officer was caught on camera assaulting him at a gas station in Austin, after Beuhler had verbally intervened in what he thought was an act of police brutality against a woman the officer had pulled over.
“I’ve been arrested now five times cop-watching, and I’ve had 10 different charges filed in the courts against me,” said Beuhler. “Its expensive, time-consuming, and every night in jail is misery.”
The practice is especially relevant given the current scrutiny police are under following the Michael Brown shooting in Ferguson, Missouri and the Eric Garner chokehold death in New York City, both of which generated large-scale protests after grand juries declined to indict the officers involved.
While the protests attracted nationwide attention, many in the law enforcement community have voiced grievances over how they have been portrayed, notably in New York City.
Cop-watching involves observing, filming and sometimes confronting police officers if they’re believed to be overstepping their authority. The Black Panther Party is credited with launching this kind of “policing of the police” activity back in the late 1960s. However, unlike the Black Panthers, none of the members of Beuhler’s organization carry guns when they cop-watch.
“We don’t want to give the cops a really convenient excuse to kill one of us,” said Beuhler, holding his arms up. “We don’t want them to say, well he was armed so … ”
This concern does not define all cop-watching movements. In a town just outside of Dallas, there is a group of activists who cop-watch while openly carrying firearms.
This concern does not define all cop-watching movements. In a town just outside of Dallas, there is a group of activists who cop-watch while openly carrying firearms.
Kory Watkins stands in front of Arlington City Hall before heading to a protest in front of Arlington police headquarters
CBS News/Ines Novacic
On a recent Saturday, Kory Watkins stood in front of Arlington City Hall before heading to a protest in front of Arlington police headquarters.
“On our open-carry walks we were seeing the overreach and the police brutality firsthand – on our open carriers and other people as well – so, we transformed into a cop watch group,” said Watkins, an Arlington resident and father of two who leads this group of activists.
This group of open-carry cop-watchers comprises dozens of members loosely associated with North Texas Cop Block and Open Carry Tarrant County — two groups dedicated to monitoring law enforcement while also campaigning for changes to the state’s open-carry gun laws.
“I do it for educational purposes,” said Rene Frias, an open-carry cop-watcher and friend of Watkins. “All these laws, they strip away our rights.”
He pointed to the AK-47 slung across his chest.
“It’s ridiculous that I can carry around this hunk of metal, and I can’t carry a handgun.”
A member of Watkins’ open carry cop watch movement,
CBS News/Ines Novacic
Texas is one of six states where the open carry of handguns is not permitted. Current legislation states that handguns must be concealed and each handgun requires a permit. However, the open carry of long guns such as rifles and shotguns is permitted, provided it’s not done in a manner meant to cause alarm.
New Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has supported a new bill that would allow the open carry of smaller firearms. Watkins’ group also supports this bill. Members told CBS News that they cop-watch at least once a week, and they also carry long guns on display almost every day, around Arlington streets, restaurants, cafes, and surrounding towns.
Asked about how the group feels about the police, Watkins said: “I think they’ve just lost their way and they’re being trained wrong.”
“I pay them to do their job,” he added. “So why can’t I show up to where they’re at with a gun? I’m their boss.”
According to Lt. Christopher Cook, a spokesman for Arlington Police Department, cop-watching has been going on there for about a year, and five arrests have been made since September, when open carry began to feature as part of most cop watches.
Lt. Cook says that there have been five arrests of open carry cop watchers in recent months.
CBS News/Ines Novacic
“In majority of the circumstances the openly carrying of a weapon as long as it’s not displayed in a manner calculated to cause alarm, can be lawful — not in every — but in most,” said Cook. “It’s not just one thing, it’s not just showing up on a traffic stop with a rifle; it’s coupled with the fact that they’re in close proximity, that they’re distracting the officer, yelling at the officer to the point that they have to divert and focus their attention on this individual who’s armed,” he added, saying how this was occurring with more frequency in recent weeks.
“As police officers, we can’t become desensitized to people or a group of people carrying firearms.”
According to Watkins, it’s the police who aggravate and intimidate.
“We stand plenty enough room for the officer to do their duty and the officer to do their work – it’s very simple, you just sit there film and record,” he said. “We’re peaceful when we do it.”
A standoff between police and Watkins’ group last week.
CBS News/Ines Novacic
The dynamics between police and activists didn’t seem that straightforward when officers tried to detain Frias, who was standing at a busy intersection in Arlington carrying a megaphone and his rifle.
“I was merely exercising my First and Second Amendment rights,” he said.
For about half an hour, a handful of activists and about five police officers stood on a street corner filming each other using smartphones and compact cameras, trading terse words about who was encroaching on what rights, before police drove off without making any arrests.
A few days after the incident, Watkins’ group joined hundreds of activists in Austin, Texas, at a rally in support of new open carry legislation, which could potentially add more guns into confrontations with police.
HBO host Bryant Gumbel didn’t hold back regarding the National Rifle Association in a recent Rolling Stone interview.
“There are a few things I hate more than the NRA,” said Gumbel. “I mean truly. I think they’re pigs. I think they don’t care about human life. I think they are a curse upon the American landscape.”
He was talking about a segment he did on the HBO show, Real Sports, on the “Eat What you Kill” movement.
“That said, I’m willing to separate that this story had nothing to do with that. It’s not a gun story,” he said. “So I would like to think that I would have done it, but I don’t know. Obviously, that was my first experience around killing and guns and hunting.”
Mr. Gumbel runs his mouth far too often on a subject he knows little to nothing about.
This ain’t the first time he ran his mouth blathering about his hatred of guns, the NRA,and the second amendment.
If Mr. Gumbel doesn’t like it here because we are allowed to own firearms,and ownership of firearms is a Constitutionally protected right,then he needs to move to one of the socialist European countries,or maybe somewhere like Iran,or China,hell,Mexico has some of the strictest gun laws of any country-along with one of the highest rates of gun crimes.
Let this moron go live in a country that is a police state, or has a corrupt government,or maybe he could check out Somalia or Nigeria so he could see exactly what happens when the religion of peace is running things-he would even get to see what it’s like to live under sharia law-or he could go live in North Korea with lil’ Kim,or maybe China-where he would see what it’s like when the government has complete control over the citizens.
He would be so much better off in another country-one where the citizens are not allowed to own guns-maybe then he would get it-maybe.
Then again,maybe not,maybe he thinks the government should have total control-if that’s the case-then he needs to stay in one of the countries where the government is in complete control.
He can take Piers Morgan and Michael Moore with him-they can have Feinstein and Schumer go with them as well.
We would be much better off if they all left the USA.