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Monday, June 23, 2014

Playing catch-up.

From Kurt Hofmann: St. Louis police chief, others sue to make Missourians' gun rights 'alieanable'

From David Codrea at JPFO: Minority Gun Owners Share No "Stigma of Violence"

From David at the Shooter's Log at CTD: To Prevent Another ‘Abramski,’ Get in the Fight

From Herschel Smith: The Presbyterians on Guns.

Herschel on Evil Judges.

Another from David Codrea: Cleveland Mayor Jackson’s gun diversion shows desperation to appear effective

Another from Herschel: We’re The Only Ones Pimping Enough

3 comments:

Anonymous said...: To prevent another abramski, turn away from the NRA and it's nefarious backstabbing. With Ezell, it ensured that 1983 suits won't succeed in punishing the controllers with huge money damages. Example after example shows that the NRA is on the side of government control. One can look at McDonald to see it too. The NRA does everything it can to ensure due process dogma remains. Heck, look to its own position of state preemption. What do you folks think is BEING preempted??? Umm the Second Amendment IS!!!

You bet - get into the fight!! But do realize who the enemy is. ALL those who seek to violate- most especially by accepting infringing "deals"- the INDIVIDUAL right to keep and bear arms.

For decades I've witnessed people talk about "fixing" the NRA. Well, there comes a time when you gotta call a spade a spade. You gotta quit cutting bait and go fishing. But guns. Carry guns. Quit the thinking that you can have another defend your right FOR you and instead EXERCISE your right yourself. For exercising a right IS the best defense of it.; June 23, 2014 at 2:20 PM
Anonymous said...: Presbyterian Church USA is very liberal. The Presbyterian Church of America (or American PC) is more conservative. The opne to watch out for is the latter.

- Old Greybeard; June 23, 2014 at 5:52 PM
Anonymous said...: I meant the one to watch out for is the former, not the latter (PC USA - the liberal PC).

- Old Greybeard; June 23, 2014 at 9:57 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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