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Thursday, May 1, 2014

Gee whiz. I wonder if soap dishes count?

Police investigating Cliven Bundy-related threats to Harry Reid.

Federal law enforcement officials are investigating threats made against Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in the aftermath of his sharp-edged attacks against Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, sources said Monday.

Reid has not minced words about Bundy’s battle with the Bureau of Land Management, referring to Bundy’s supporters as “domestic terrorists” and the rancher himself as a “hateful racist.” As he’s stepped up his criticism, Reid has been the subject of threats himself, prompting an increase in his own security detail in recent days, people familiar with the matter said Monday.

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Anonymous said...: In America, there is (I believe) no difference in social status of individuals. Reid is just another dickhead. In his case, no better but much worse than our average citizen. He should have already been taken off of our streets as a menace to our society by enciting and encouraging hostile acts against peace loving people.; May 1, 2014 at 3:50 AM
Anonymous said...: Harry forgets all about the day, Labor Day 2009, when he and Nancy cowered in their offices while 0berry was whisked out of town. If "those few" (according to the sheeple media) scare harry that bad, the thought of coming back ARMED would make him piss his pants.; May 1, 2014 at 5:35 AM
Anonymous said...: Contrary to what Hollywood put in a recent movie, there are no magic words written in invisible ink on the back of The Constitution of the United States of America. The magic words are proudly written right on the front in extra large script for all to read: "We The People".

That document sets out the format of the most powerful government on the planet. Ours is not the most powerful because it controls a vast destructive potential, but because it has (or had) the support of the people who enacted it through their state governments. As such, the people are the rightful masters of that powerful government because the founders set in place controls on the government that protect the people from government excess.

What Reid and others fail to grasp is the nature of their position and the source of their power. The position and power come from the people. Those controls which protect the people from Reid and others like him also protect Reid from us.

Keep on shredding those controls, Harry!; May 1, 2014 at 9:15 AM
Anonymous said...: they need to be investigating Harry Reid..not C. Bundy; May 1, 2014 at 10:24 AM
Paul X said...: "In America, there is (I believe) no difference in social status of individuals."

That's the propaganda. The reality is that "some are more equal than others". Better to see the world as it really is.; May 2, 2014 at 8:37 AM

"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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