Sipsey Street Irregulars: New Jersey now disarms political 'undesirables'

Tuesday, August 13, 2013

New Jersey now disarms political 'undesirables'

Perhaps the most alarming aspect of this is that the anti-gun bills Christie has not signed (yet) are being described as the "controversial" ones -- meaning, presumably, that the 10 he has signed, including the "suspected terrorist" gun ban, are apparently perceived to be unquestionably appropriate infringements upon that which shall not be infringed. Then again, the Persians probably didn't expect the capture of Thermopylae to be as "controversial" as it turned out to be, either. Molon labe.

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Anonymous said...: Christie himself is a political undesirable. Don't believe the polls that say he is in the lead for the Republican nomination! That's the democrat-supporting media talking because they think he is the easiest candidate for Hillary to beat. But, if Christie does indeed get the nomination, I'll have to hold my nose and vote for him in the general election anyway, because it will take a vote away from the democrat. (I despise democrats so much I won't capitalize the word.) The Congress we will have then will likely not vote for any gun control, so we won't have to worry about Christie. I don't think the fat boy's heart can stand the rigors of a national campaign anyway unless he loses a ton of weight. Presently, Ted Cruz is my favorite.

- Old Greybeard; August 13, 2013 at 7:25 AM
Ed said...: Practically everyone owns and wears shoes, yet very few use them to kick anybody, injuring them seriously or killing them. That would be assault with a deadly weapon, a shod foot. We do not regulate the sales and normal usage or usage as a defensive weapon, even by convicted felons, but we do prohibit usage of the shoes as an offensive weapon.

We have sufficient laws regulating the offensive use of weapons whether they be shod feet, sports equipment, kitchen tools, construction tools, firearms, or any other item that can be used as a weapon. Regulating the keeping and bearing of any of these items is a waste of law enforcement and judicial system resources (but do not expect to hear that from AG Eric Holder). Improper usage of these items is what is of concern to society. anything else is an unnecessary distraction.; August 13, 2013 at 3:50 PM

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I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

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"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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New Jersey now disarms political 'undesirables'

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