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Saturday, January 10, 2015

Just in case you didn't notice at the time. . .

PBS: Gun Owners of America Exposed Sen Manchin’s Gun Control Plans

Pratt saw Manchin as an opportunist who was stepping in while the hearts of the American people were aching, offering them salve that wouldn’t heal, but which would take away even more of their liberty. Consequently, the GOA began pushing other gun rights groups–notably the NRA–by asking GOA members to call the NRA and “urge [them] to oppose [Manchin’s] bill.” When all was said and done, GOA, the NRA, and other gun rights groups stood shoulder to shoulder against Manchin’s gun control bill and defeated it.

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Anonymous said...: GOA is the only gun rights group that gets my hard earned money every year. I encourage other threepers to do the same. If ten million gun owners would just send them twenty five bucks, they could turn up the heat on the gun grabbers like Bloomberg.; January 10, 2015 at 8:02 AM
Anonymous said...: I sent my dues the other day. Doubled my last contribution. I hope everyone can do the same.; January 10, 2015 at 9:53 AM
Anonymous said...: I want to support GOA. I hope they break the mold - as they certainly look like they are cracking it now.

But personally, I am done giving money and time in the traditional sense to ANY "organized community". Those endlessly have "community organizers" and the organized peons always end up getting the shaft. George Washington warned us about political factions - we should listen.

I'll contribute as I always have in another way. I'll call a spade a spade - which it certainly seems GOA is doing- I'll defend my right by exercising it in spite of permit commands and I will teach everyone I can the things that I have learned(hoping others reciprocate).

I'll comment on webpages about Slaugterhouse cases and the fact the "privilege" is a synonym for positive right - rather than government issued permission. I'll talk about the circle jerk that is fabricated Doctrine of selective incorporation. I'll argue with idiots on the net, even trolls, with the hope it makes readers THINK enough to seek out knowledge themselves. I'll talk about milk and poultry and beef and pork - making people hammer me - saying what the heck does that have to do with guns? Then I'll answer that snobbish foolishness with how those things DO matter.

I'll continue to explain that guns, arms, is the OBJECT while Liberty itself is the SUBJECT. And then explain the difference. The fight over arms is waaay deeper than guns and bullets. It's not about being armed with guns. It is about being empowered with inalienable created RIGHTS.

Until a "gun rights" organization enters that arena - leaving the community organizing arena- I won't join or send contributions. To be honest - id rather send money to Mike David and a few others. At least they offer real value that's not rhetoric for political cycle campaign consumption. They actually share true knowledge. The reloading article today and praxis in general being perfect examples. To me, that's more valuable than a Appleseed event. But hey, that's just me.
Could GOA be what it's billed to be and will it continue on the road it appears to be on? It might. But then the NRA "might" actually be a gun rights group someday too....; January 10, 2015 at 11:19 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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