“Then they came for the reporters, and someone noticed!”

SO…

It took the Federal Government taking Associated Press telephone records to FINALLY get the attention of the Fifth Estate that THIS Administration is up to no good.  Guess they know where their bread is buttered.

• Not Benghazi or the ensuing cover up.
• Not selling radical Islamic fundamentalist government folks in Egypt our fighter jets, and giving them the monies to overthrow the previous dictator in the first place.  While ignoring government-sponsored wholesale murder of Christians there!  And abuse of women (Sorry, not supposed to mention that, because they’re allowed to have their own culture, you know.)
• Not Fast & Furious aka Gunwalker and deaths of their own agents directly attributed to government-sponsored ‘walked’ guns.
• Not the continuing and ongoing assault on The Bill of Rights, especially the First, Second and Fourth Amendments.
• Not labeling the Fort Hood mass-murderer as ‘workplace violence’.  After all, witnesses have testified he was yelling Allahu Akhbar while killing his fellow soldiers.  Must be an OSHA violation.
• Not giving tacit approval to the OWS movement and the New Black Panthers to do as they wish, including mayhem, destruction of property and voter intimidation, while branding the Tea Party folks racist, on scant evidence.
• Not the IRS targeting conservative groups for ‘special attention’, whilst ignoring ‘community organizations’  and unions friendly to the President, like ACORN and SEIU.
• Not demanding we citizens have a National I.D. Card and health insurance, while claiming illegal aliens undocumented workers being asked to produce voter identification is racist. 

I could go on, but, I would overdose on my antacids.  And that would probably bring me to the attention of the FDA…

And I wouldn’t want THAT.

So much for Amendment the Third…

(not really – but I had you going there, didn’t I?)

No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.

Sadly, there does seem to be an escape clause in the Amendment.  (but in a manner prescribed by law)

And there was even one relevant case -  Engblom v. Carey, 677 F.2d 957 (2d. Cir. 1982)

In 1979, prison officials in New York organized a strike; they were evicted from their prison facility residences, which were reassigned to members of the National Guard who had temporarily taken their place as prison guards. The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled: (1) that the termowner in the Third Amendment includes tenants (paralleling similar cases regarding the Fourth Amendment, governing search and seizure), (2) National Guard troops count as soldiers for the purposes of the Third Amendment, and (3) that the Third Amendment is incorporated (that is, that it applies to the states) by virtue of the Fourteenth Amendment.^[4]

In an earlier case, United States v. Valenzuela, 95 F. Supp. 363 (S.D. Cal. 1951), the defendant asked that a federal rent-control law be struck down because it was “the incubator and hatchery of swarms of bureaucrats to be quartered as storm troopers upon the people in violation of Amendment III of the United States Constitution.” The court declined his request. Later, in Jones v. United States Secretary of Defense, 346 F. Supp. 97 (D. Minn. 1972), Army reservists cited the Third Amendment as justification for sitting out a parade. Similarly far-fetched arguments in a variety of contexts have also been denied in a number of court cases.^[4] Thus, Engblom v. Carey remains the only significant Third Amendment case law.  (Wikipedia)

You should go and visit the Wikipedia page, and perhaps do some other research on your own.  Every Amendment in The Bill of Rights has been, and continues to be under constant attack by those who think they ‘know better’.

We need to stand firm not just on the Second, but the entire Bill of Rights.  Tyranny is insidious.

“A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.” - Thomas Jefferson

We need to maintain vigilance.

Well, Call Me A RACIST, Yet Again!

The NAACP.  The Vanguard of the Rights of the Negro, colored, , African-American, Black since when?  1909?  Over 100 years of service.  And thank you for much of it!

EXCEPT, in recent years, they’ve been compromised by a progressive political agenda.  No longer is it about the right to vote, or work, or use the same soda fountain, water fountain or restroom.  It’s about how much can we get from the government, and how much can we distort history toward this aim?  And further a progressive agenda.

To wit.  Weasel Zippers shares THIS with us.  (Hang on to your butts!)

Cop-Killer Mumia Abu-Jamal Nominated For NAACP’s “Unsung Hero” Award…

Veggie Farmers Home Breached in Drug Sweep

My Daily Kona shares with us the tale of a couple retired CIA employees (not agents), whose home was raided in a two State drug sweep, because they had the audacity to purchase hydroponic gardening equipment to raise an indoor veggie garden.

Is this EVER going to stop?

Obviously going after real criminal marijuana farmers (who are growing an illegal drug for profit) could be dangerous.  Let’s go after a retired couple; they’re less likely to shoot back!

Kinda like going after an uber-conservative religious type after brow beating him into cutting 1/2″ off a couple of shotgun barrels (Randy Weaver).  Or going after a major guitar company for using hardwood illegal in some foreign country (Gibson Guitars).  Or making folks sign their life away to buy a decongestant in personal use quantities (most folks in most States).

Or…

That’s enough, rant over.

Personally, I think marijuana should be legalized.  Just think, then the jack-booted-thugs would have to go after real criminals.  Assuming they could find any.

An Observation…

Didja ever notice…

The same folks who either want to severely restrict our rights, or eliminate them all together, are the same folks who insist they have their rights, and we shant infringe on them?

They demand the right to to force you to eat what they demand appropriate (or not eat things they deem inappropriate), worship (or not);  their right to ‘free’ health care, welfare, food stamps, citizenship, protection both from and by the State (can you say paradox?), ad infinitum, ad nauseum.

And demand you give up your natural (and Second Amendment enumerated) Right to Keep and Bear Arms.

Just an observation.

Call your Senators and Congressman, repeatedly to stop the continued erosion of our rights.  Yes, my request is ironic.

Drone On, Part Deux

Senator Rand Paul reportedly received a self-described short answer to his question of the United States Attorney General regarding whether or not ANY President could order a drone attack on a U.S. citizen within the geographic confines of the U.S.

The short answer – NO.

Of course, if there is to be a long legal interpretation of this response it remains to be seen.  After all, it might depend on what the meaning of IS NO is. 

And, our esteemed A.G. obviously arrived at the top law enforcement post by understanding the law and keeping to the straight and narrow. (sarcasm font)

The Daily Caller recounts that as a student at Columbia, Eric Holder took part in “a five-day occupation of an abandoned Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) headquarters,” which Holder and his fellow radicals demanded be redesignated the “Malcolm X Lounge.” Columbia, consistent with its usual practices at the time, went along with the radicals’ demands.

The Black Student Organization’s web site said that “in 1970, a group of armed black students [the SAAS] seized the abandoned ROTC office.” The “armed” part might have been wishful thinking, but Holder’s radicalism is not in doubt. On another occasion, he participated in the occupation of a dean’s office.

In March 1970 the SAAS released a statement supporting twenty-one Black Panthers charged with plotting to blow up department stores, railroad tracks, a police station and the New York Botanical Gardens.

And then there’s the pardoning of the two Weathermen terrorists.

And Fast and Furious leading to a Citation for Contempt of Congress…and ignoring New Black Panther voter intimidation.

His racism (anti-White bias).

His supporters state he’s only been ‘leveling the playing field’ for his race; the same argument The President uses.  So all this is okay, right?

Answer me this:  How does a man get to the level of chief law enforcement officer of the United States after hanging with unrepentant radicals and domestic terrorists in his college years?  How is such a person vetted?

Some would suggest these questions also apply to his boss.  I’m told that’s nothing more than guilt by association, though.

h/t Powerline, Fire Andrea Mitchell site

Boy, It Just Doesn’t Stop!

I receive some diverse emails from varied sources.  Last night, not so much…

First from the National Association for Gun Rights:

Dear Guffaw,

“You bet!”

That’s what Republican U.S. Senator Jeff Flake said when asked if he supports President Obama’s nationalized gun-control agenda. ¹

To make matters worse, he’s now touting President Obama’s rhetoric when it comes to expanded background checks.

“All of us Republicans and Democrats recognize that we need more effective and broader background checks,” he recently told Politico. ¹

This sort of Washington beltway blabber is what we’ve come to expect out of Arizona’s Senior U.S. Senator, John McCain…

But watching Junior Jeff fold like a house of cards after spending months paying gun owners lip-service is disappointing. ~

This, after many of us wrote our Senators pleading with them NOT to buckle to Senator Feinstein and the state socialists!  I heard back from Senator Flake’s office just a few weeks ago stating he supported us!  Is he lying?  (I know, his mouth is moving – he’s a politician!)

THEN,

Dear Guffaw,
TODAY, the Senate Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing on Senator Dianne Feinstein’s anti-gun bill…which would BAN millions of commonly owned semi-automatic firearms and BAN ammunition magazines that hold more than ten rounds.

YOUR SENATORS NEED TO HEAR FROM YOU RIGHT NOW!!!

Please call both of your Senators today at (202) 224-3121 and tell them to OPPOSE the Feinstein Gun Grab bill.

Tell your Senators that President Barack Obama’s own Justice Department recently reported that any ban on semi-automatic firearms WILL NOT WORK…unless it includes mandatory gun buy backs, which is federal GUN CONFISCATION!

Senator Feinstein herself told CBS’s 60 Minutes that if she could get the votes “for an outright ban, picking up every one of them — Mr. and Mrs. America turn ‘em all in” she would do it!!!

If you live in Arizona, please call Senators Flake and McCain, TODAY!  Hell if you live in Flotsam’s Mistake, NJ! call them.  And call your own Senators, too.

I’ve called and sent emails, more than once.  They need to hear us…RIGHT NOW!

Don’t count on someone else to do it.  Take action!  Call the number above an let your voice be heard!

I LOVE the L.A.P.D. !

Or more correctly, all police.

I was raised in a police-loving,respecting family.  My Dad’s Dad had been a railroad cop, as was my Dad for a short time.  He went to the Rhode Island State Police Academy, but washed-out due to health reasons.

And I went to community college majoring in Administration of Justice.  That’s what they changed to from Police Science.  And I ate it up.  Graduated with high distinction.

BUT, I was disabled, and in the mid-70s environment of inflation and job problems, there were many more physically-capable folks in the line at police personnel.  No cop job for Guffaw.

I was taught the purpose of the police was not only to enforce the law, but to make certain the individual’s rights were protected.  THIS is what separated us from banana republics.  And made their job much more difficult.

But, according to the media, it appears there is police incompetence and corruption everywhere.  Websites and news stories abound with tales of bribery, malfeasance and crime by sworn officers.

And then we have the L.A.P.D.  Lauded in song and story.  Well, story, anyway.   (In)famous Chief Parker decided after the war that there was simply too much graft, corruption and mob influence in his department.  He established ‘The Hat Squad’ to get the mobsters out of town, and worked with film and TV producers to make the image of the department better.  TV shows like Dragnet and Adam-12 were the result.

I grew up on this stuff.  They further reinforced my already sainted image of police, and did so in other major cities as well.  Naked City, The Detectives, and M-Squad were among the other shows.  Federal law enforcement was not left out.  The Untouchables and The FBI come to mind.

But the twenty-four hour news cycle has evolved into the instant Internet news cycle.  And now we hear about this recently-fired L.A.P.D. officer killing other officers and firing on them.

And the panicked police were firing willy-nilly on anyone who might be a suspect.  And other folks.

These folks were injured, and were promised a new truck for their trouble.  I sense a lawsuit in their future.  Rightfully so.

The latest news stories indicate this maroon has died in a fire, saving the taxpayers the cost of a trial.  And a professor on CNN praised the cop-killer!

I truly believe most police departments consist of good folks trying to do an ever-more-difficult job.  But, that doesn’t excuse this kind of behavior.  We have a sheriff here locally who has done some remarkably positive things, like having inmates staff county animal shelters, saving many tax dollars.  Of course, the many costly lawsuits against the county for prisoner abuse and ‘accidental’ or ‘negligent’ death of inmates cost many tax dollars, also.  I’d like to see comparison spreadsheets, just for fun.

We need to support the police.  They are the blue line between the criminal and the citizen.  But we need to make certain they are properly trained and policed themselves, to keep aberrant behavior to an absolute minimum.  They are, after all, the in-your-face, on-the-street representatives of government and it’s power.  Let’s hope it’s not gone to their head.

And that government needs to recognize we have the right to also defend ourselves.  That sometimes, the best they can do is to draw the chalk line and write the report.

h/t Weasel Zippers

Gun Appreciation Day

Today has been designated the first national Gun Appreciation Day!

On 01.19.13 got to your local gun store, gun range or gun show with your Constitution, American Flags and ‘Hands Off My Guns’ sign to send a loud and clear message to Congress and President Obama.

Most of the media coverage I’ve seen on the Internet of this event has been negative, e.g. why the coincidental day with MLK Day, after all, he was shot?

Maybe MADD should have a similar day recognizing when Senator Ted Kennedy drove off a bridge with Mary Jo Kopechne?  Isn’t that the same logic?  Perhaps we should ban booze?  Oh wait, that was done, and ended poorly.

Regardless, go to the website and sign the petition, in an effort to reach 50 million Americans.  Please.  Then go celebrate your rights.

And be careful out there!

Guffaw

Mr. President…

We’ve secretly replaced the verbiage of the unconstitutional executive orders you’ve issued against the Second Amendment as though they were for the First Amendment.  Because all of the Bill of Rights amendments have equal status, per Supreme Court decree…(as corrected)

List of executive actions Obama plans to take as part of gun hate speech violence censorship plan