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Thursday, February 6, 2014

Live Free….Or In Massachusetts

Thanks to Bob Owens for this. He comments:

I lived above the Mason-Dixon line for a few short years, but I never attempted to purchase a firearm while I was there. If this short video from Reality Always Wins is correct, how on Earth does the government of Massachusetts or any of the other non-free states (California, Connecticut, Maryland, New York, etc) get away with claiming their citizens have “rights?” I’ll never live in a state like that again, and can’t fathom why anyone would.

7 comments:

Old Coach said...: Gives new meaning to the old term "Slave States".; February 6, 2014 at 8:57 AM
Sean said...: Them ole' boys up thar LIKE it that way, cause it's SAFE, don'tchaknow?; February 6, 2014 at 9:04 AM
Longbow said...: Ain't it so. And those people sheepishly submit to it. May History forget they were once our countrymen.; February 6, 2014 at 9:47 AM
Anonymous said...: Ok, a litany if the things Mass has in place were directly struck down in Heller (safe storage as example) and while Citizens ability to claim financial damage has been seriously limited here in the Midwest (gee thanks NRA) that still remains open in other federal arenas it's also "decided" that lawyers fees must be paid ( ask Rahm Emanuel).

Question - with SO MANY of the prohibitions directly struck down (collective right as another example) how is it possible that the NRA hasn't supported a landslide of suits all across this nation? It has collected hundreds of millions, right?

To me, the toughest one is going to be magazine limits. We have the NRA and it's "hunting" canard to thank for that though most people don't realize it. Can you say plugs in shotguns limiting them to three for "fairness"? Interesting isn't it that when one digs into it that MANY restrictions and prohibitions lead DIRECTLY back to NRA "deals"?!

And you know, as we still witness lower courts (CT) as example) ignoring the heller precedent, and even see May issue still standing in spite of the CLEAR individual right admission. One really had to question how so many years have passed and there isn't a case in each federal circuit with matching circumstances.

The answers rest, IMHO, in why Mikes smuggling and defiance strategy is the correct one. That path taken openly scares the loyalist bastards because if they go jack booted thug on people who KNOW their rights, the one puppet string they have left breaks under its own foisted weight.

If they charge a informed citizen, then we can gain a public defender, using them for process only - providing substance ourselves. We seek title 42 section 1983 relief as a defense against the charges against us and it doesn't cost us the hundreds of thousands that private attorneys charge.

I loved the lackeys "privilege" comment. The batstardization of that word MUST be addressed head on. For in the constitutional context AT LEAST, rights and privileges are SYNONYMS. Rights=privileges. Rights=immunities. And that is the ONLY possible way that the 14 th amendment can be interpreted without making each Citizen the owned property of the ultimate slavemaster called government.

Any reading of the 14 th that portends that a privilege is a government allowance produces pure nonsense.
No state shall make or enforce any law abridging the allowances or permissions of the Cirizens????? Really? Seriously?

Privileges and immunities is a phrase that describes RIGHTS in both the positive AND the negative. What Citizens can do by right and what government of republican form cannot do to us because we exercise them.

IMHO, all liberty minded groups, from guns to well anything else , should unite around that word. - privileges- because that's where the violations of our rights rest. This cartoon does a good job, though in passing, of demonstrating that.; February 6, 2014 at 11:16 AM
Harry_the_Horrible said...: So, what if a guy moves there and brings firearms he already owns?

And what if he sells arms he already owns to other folks in this hellish state?; February 6, 2014 at 12:20 PM
Anonymous said...: Most gun owners there moved to New Hampshire a long time ago.; February 6, 2014 at 6:55 PM
Ed said...: Unfortunately, that video is both concise and accurate.

http://smartgunlaws.org/concealed-weapons-permitting-in-massachusetts/

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/2013/03/10/want-gun-license-massachusetts-much-depends-where-you-live/04SFWtTEpGdtEHm5mTQuSO/story.html

Amazingly, some want even more restrictions:

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/2014/02/03/report-mass-needs-tighten-its-gun-laws/ohtAAHAaOuP5rNGBDKUJsK/story.html

But some in Massachusetts want restoration of their infringed civil rights:

http://www.comm2a.org/

http://www.goal.org/; February 6, 2014 at 9:44 PM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

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.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"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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