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THREE More Suspects…

…have been taken into custody in the Boston Marathon Bombing case!

Wait a minute!  Didn’t the Mayor of Boston and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano assure us that after the initial arrest was made, no one else was involved?

BEFORE the investigation was concluded?  BEFORE the bodies were cold?

How could this be?  They secretly let a Saudi Arabian person-of-interest leave, decry conspiracies and violent Islamofascist involvement, and declare ‘all done.’

What’s up with THAT?

OH, the other suspects are probably Irish Catholic Bostonian White folks.  Nothing to see here, no terrorism.

Just workplace violence, like the Fort Hood shooter.

Yeah, right.

This just in – the three are friends of the surviving accused bomber, one an American citizen.  Shameful!

A Stalinist Version of The Onion!

(my apologies to The Onion)

As my regular readers know (as well as those suffering digestive distress) I surf the Internet looking for news, opinion, rights violations, and fellow libertarian travelers (to steal borrow from), especially when the guffaw well is dry.

Today is one of those posts.

I especially like finding stuff that mocks the control freaks – the Feinstein/Bloombergs of the World.  And, thankfully, we STILL have the right to do so! (as of this writing)

It occurred to me that I’d not shared a particular find with you – The People’s Cube!

They lampoon all that is Left with the World, and do it well.  Apparently, the main writer is a former commie who saw the liberty, free-market light.

But, there is a serious side, as well.  Go and peruse.  And also be amused.

NYPD Food Felonies Unit to Help Make Better Food Choices

Inspired by the dramatic improvements in New Yorkers’ health and well-being after he banned smoking and junk food, as well as large sodas, salt, trans fats, Styrofoam food containers, and loud earbuds, Mayor Michael Bloomberg has announced that the NYPD is organizing a Food Felonies Unit (FFU) to further combat the proliferation of food crimes.Nicknamed “Double-F-U,” the newly-formed unit is expected to be involved largely with restaurant menu supervision in its crime-prevention function…MORE >>

Dear Americans, these are some questions I have collected in 16 years of living in your country. Please see if you can answer them for me:

• If all cultures are equal, why doesn’t UNESCO organize International Cannibalism Week festivals?

• Why do those demanding “equal pay for equal work” never protest against “equal pay for little or no work”?

• Why has no politician ever run on men’s issues or promised to improve the lives of males?

• If all beliefs are equally valid, how come my belief in the absurdity of this maxim gets rejected by its proponents?

• Ever noticed that for the past thirty years, we’ve been hearing we have less than ten years to save the planet?

Much of it is reductio ad absurdum, but funny, and pointed, regardless…

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…

Polling our RIGHTS!

I don’t know about you, but with the now-ubiquitous attempts to deprive us of our natural rights to assemble, access the Internet (or tax it – a vote TODAY! Call D.C.!), speak freely, worship (or choose not to), keep the constabulary from our homes without benefit of warrant, eat unhealthy food and of course, deprive us of the right to keep and bear arms, there seems to be more and more of a movement on the part of the Fourth Estate to POLL US with these concerns:

• Should we ban (insert offensive machine here)?
• Should we prohibit (insert offensive content) from the Internet?
• Should the government monitor all our Internet accesses and emails?
• Should free enterprise and marketplace be disallowed with regard to commerce in firearms?

I’m sick of seeing such polls.  I don’t care if the entire population of New York votes en masse to prohibit me from having a soft drink larger than 16 oz., or a firearm magazine greater then 7 round capacity, or a poll in USA Today (the primary coloring book of newspapers) supports such a vote.

My rights are my individual rights.  Period.  Guaranteed.  And no attempt at ‘democracy’ (tyranny of the majority) will convince me otherwise.

Take your polls elsewhere, about other things.  Like a preference for apple or cherry pie.

Is There No One?

Knuckledraggin’ My Life Away reports about a D.C. Council member recommending legislation that would require gun owners to purchase liability insurance.

The Council Member is Mary M. Cheh, a constitutional law professor!

Is there no one out there, no constitutional law professor who actually has read and understands the U.S. Constitution?  All of them appear to be progressive folks pushing their dystopian agenda on us, under the guise of constitutional law?

Then there was that constitutional law professor a while back who proposed scrapping the Constitution.

Or are they all like this ‘professor’, cut from the same cloth as another ‘constitutional law professor’, the President?

Someone needs to look up the phrase shall not be infringed.

Where are you?  They’re giving constitutional law professors a bad name!

Tyranny of the Majority

The Liberty Sphere advises us as follows:

US tyranny to increase for foreseeable future

A close friend who is politically astute, a Tea Party activist and Christian conservative, stated Wednesday in a private conversation that America as we know it is already lost, gone, destroyed.

And not a single shot was fired. This was done entirely through the electoral process, the courts, and a clear majority of the electorate that does not share the philosophy, the mindset, or the world-view of the Founders, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, or our nation’s rich religious heritage.

An all-important threshold was crossed, quite imperceptibly and thus totally without notice, that brought the nation into what the Founders referred to as “the tyranny of the majority.”

I seem to remember the difference between a Republic and a Democracy was defined exactly by this.  That a democracy elicited ‘tyranny of the majority’, and a Republic protected the rights of all.

When I was growing up, the phrase was, “Majority rules – Minority rights!”

However the education of the youth has devolved as described above.  In our Civics classes of yore, we were taught to revere, honor and respect The Constitution.  Now, the meme seems to be something akin to ‘whatever the United States is or has done is WRONG and BAD.  This country needs to progress beyond the old, outdated document forged by rich White guys to a New World Order.  ‘Leveling the playing field’ by fiat or diktat is more efficient and certainly more FAIR!

Somewhere within Jeff Cooper’s Commentaries, he makes a statement to the effect that the cry of THAT’S NOT FAIR is the epithet of pre-schoolers who learn as they get older that the World is just that.  Not fair.  And they demand their due.  Just like the OWS criminals terrorists protestors did – whom I suspect are those same children, older, but not yet mature.

And now, many of those children have done as Van Jones suggested.  They’ve left the collegiate quadrangle protest groups for government service.  Just as Saul Alinsky wrote in Rules for Radicals.  A cancer inside the mechanism of the Nation.  To make it ‘better’.

But, it’s not.

h/t Jeff Cooper

Where Does The Hatred Of Constitutionalism Come From?

Real News Reporter shares with us an essay by Brandon Smith of Alt-Market

The Constitution of the United States is an undeniably powerful document.  So powerful in fact, that it took establishment elitists with aspirations of globalized governance over a century to diminish the American people’s connection to it.  It’s been a long time coming, but in the new millennium, there is now indeed a subsection of the masses that not only have no relationship to our founding roots, they actually despise those of us who do!

Including the following video,  wherein a New Hampshire politician voices his opposition to libertarians moving into his State:

The essay IS a worthy read!

David Mamet On Gun Control

The Burning Platform directs us to The Daily Beast (quoting from Newsweek magazine)…is that convoluted, or what?

However, we’re given an essay by David Mamet, award winning playwright and former liberal.

In commenting on it, Yojimbo states:

What a brilliantly written essay. Concise and powerful. Essay like this help me understand the mental illness of my fellow Massachusetts residents that we politely call “Liberalism”. First, Liberals actually have a profound TRUST of government, instead of a healthy distrust and skepticism. Second, Liberals fundamentally misunderstand human nature, and believe that, if only given more government intervention and power, the failings of human nature can be perfected. Mamet displays an excellent understanding of the nature of The State and why we must be deeply mistrustful of it.

Mr. Mamet, in part, says:

~All of us have had dealings with the State, and have found, to our chagrin, or, indeed, terror, that we were not dealing with well-meaning public servants or even with ideologues but with overworked, harried bureaucrats. These, as all bureaucrats, obtain and hold their jobs by complying with directions and suppressing the desire to employ initiative, compassion, or indeed, common sense. They are paid to follow orders.~

~What possible purpose in declaring schools “gun-free zones”? Who bringing a gun, with evil intent, into a school would be deterred by the sign?

Ah, but perhaps one, legally carrying a gun, might bring it into the school.

Good.

We need more armed citizens in the schools.~

Go and read the entire essay.  Mr. Mamet and I may disagree on minor points, but he speaks his truth with reason and passion.  It’s worth the five minutes.

Revisionist History

I’m tired of revisionist history!

The Fabian Socialists communists progressives (whatever they call themselves this week!) just keep pumping it out.  Slow and steady wins the race.

As with so many other movements, this one began in an effort to improve society.  Now, we all know with what the road to Hell is paved?

Pick up most modern public school textbooks and thumb through them.  An suggested title for them might be We Apologize For The Republic!

Washington, Jefferson and company were damn near terrorists.  (Of course, I guess they were).  All colonialists hated the Blacks and the Indians (oops, Native Americans).  And all supported slavery and having sex with their slaves.  These are the kinds of messages our children are getting.  (Jean Jacques Rousseau is being force-fed to our youth!  Noble Savage my a** – they were living in the Third Stone Age when we arrived, killing and enslaving each other.)

No wonder we are raising generations of Americans who think we’ve all descended from the White Devil slavemasters!

(Oh, I forgot, they’re all athiests or deists, too!  Besides, we don’t discuss religion in school.)

The Civil War (correction – War Between The States or the recent unpleasantness) was all about slavery.  Vast increase of Federal government power had nothing to do with it.  Lincoln was a great hero.  After all he saved the Union!  Didn’t you see the movie?  ‘Freeing the slaves’ in the States in rebellion was hardly an enforceable act.  And who needs habeus corpus, anyway?  (Is rendition a NEW concept?  Now NDAA, anyone?)  AND, he got shot!

And how many Indians did he order hanged?

We used to speak of these United States, not the United States.  The Seventeenth Amendment further consolidated Federal power, eliminating State government input in choosing Senators 68 years after the war. (1913)

Funny how the Sixteenth Amendment gets glossed over in text books.

The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.

This ‘power’ was deliberately left out of the Constitution – by those evil White guys!  But, it was sneaked* in later.

Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Wilson (yecch!), Franklin Roosevelt (FOUR terms!  are you kidding me?  We call it the GREAT Depression – the rest of the World, just the Depression), LBJ, Nixon, Carter, Clinton.  The current administration?  Jack Kennedy would be considered a fiscal Republican by today’s standards.  He’s considered great largely because he had charisma, and didn’t duck!

Ask most anyone, and they’ll tell you it was those evil Republicans who kept us from passing Civil Rights legislation in the 40s, 50s and 60s.  Of course, if they looked deeper, they’d find it was the Democrats.  The same President LBJ who signed The Civil Rights Act was the same Senator LBJ who blocked it eight years earlier!

And how about McCarthy?  Seeing communists under our bed are we?  Of course, that was silly.  YES, he was a grandstanding a**h***e who climbed on the backs, careers and lives of others to get ahead.  Look up character assassin in a dictionary.  There’s his picture.  HOWEVER, it’s finally coming to light that many of his accusations were TRUE!  Many of those folks who were so-dramatically accused were indeed commie spies (or outside agitators (community organizers?))!!  BUT, truth doesn’t matter, now that ‘they’ve’ established the McCarthyism meme as conservative paranoia.  And no, there are no communists in government (Van Jones, Valerie Jarrett, Cass Sunstein et al).

And Richard Nixon.  (subliminal messaging WATERGATE)  He opened dialog and trade with the largest country in the World – The People’s Republic of China  (WATERGATE)  Without whom we probably wouldn’t have survived this long.  (WATERGATE)  (Instituted WAGE AND PRICE CONTROLS)

They say the history books are written by the winners.  If that’s the case, we’ve already lost.

Where do we go from here?

A quick perusal of about 105 blogs (and news and opinion sites – most mornings) doesn’t bode well the answer to this question.

People who support individual, Constitutional liberties over collectivist ‘it’s for the children people sea birds, snail darters et al’ rubbish are scrambling for this very answer.

It’s obvious the Grand Old Party has no backbone, and hasn’t had for some time.  Nor does their platform have anything to do with preserving American Freedoms.  It’s our government control versus their government control.

And the Democrats Progressives have been completely assimilated by the progressive movement, in the forever-forward effort to ‘fundamentally change’ the nature of this Nation.  Brick by bloody brick.   Away from its founding documents and principles.

The Libertarians! (you answer.)  While they did best this year of any election year, ever, they are still a drop in the bucket.  And, as libertarians, they philosophically don’t lust for power and control.  It’s against their nature. And the Demopublicans are reluctant to give up any of their monopoly.

The Tea Party(s)?  And there’s is a two-fold problem.  1)  There are many of them, some with differing views, and 2)  The Left has successfully painted them as racists, even though there is scant evidence of that – largely promoted by the (largely Left) media.

Want proof of anti-Constitutional furor?  It’s all over the media…

The Second Amendment has Outlived It’s Relevance to America – The Staten Island Advance

Let’s Give Up On The Constitution – The New York Times

Haven’t 95% of all elected federal officials already done that, beginning with denying their Oaths of Office to said Constitution?

And bloggers and commenters abound on the Internet, blustering about how they’ll stand behind every blade of grass with a rifle, and the Three-Percenters will, and the Oath Keepers will refuse to take disarmament action against United States citizens…

All while the TSA, and the FBI and the NSA and a myriad-of-alphabet-soup-other-agencies quietly and consistent erode all of our civil liberties, with the tacit approval of Congress and multiple Presidents!

SO…where DO we go?

It’s for the children, you know…

THESE are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated.  -  Thomas Paine (1776)