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Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Gee, like we should be so grateful as to genuflect and kiss their rosy red collectivist asses.

Charges Dropped Against NJ Teacher Caught with Flintlock

The Press of Atlantic City reports that gun charges brought against a retired NJ school teacher in possession of a flintlock rifle have been dropped. Cumberland County prosecutor Jennifer Webb-McRae announced that she will use prosecutorial discretion to decline to prosecute Gordon Van Gilder. She offered no further comment on the matter. The charge carried a potential 10-year jail sentence for the 72-year-old collector.

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Militia of One said...: Good. I wonder, did they return his property to him or destroy it?; February 25, 2015 at 9:47 PM
Anonymous said...: We should not cheer this.
I deplore prosecutorial discretion as it is the number one tool that keeps bad law in place. In FACT, that term is a concocted contrivance used to disguise what it is - disparate application of law based on arbitrary decision. Indeed, it is the opposite of equal protection!

Forced to charge and HAVE to see those charges through or not charge - the JBTs would not even arrest for fear of being NAILED. and that's how it's supposed to be!

I'm glad this person isn't facing jail but the point is they never should have been arrested much less charged IN THE FIRST PLACE!

Taken to court and run through the mill, this PERSECUTION would have been exposed for what it is - and that IS where we find resolution absent revolution.

Oppose prosecutorial discretion on its lack of merit. Do not champion it. It's WRONG!; February 25, 2015 at 9:50 PM
Paul X said...: "Oppose prosecutorial discretion on its lack of merit. Do not champion it. It's WRONG!"

Eh, I don't think the NJ ruling class escaped looking stupid and evil because they invoked prosecutorial discretion in this case.; February 26, 2015 at 10:24 AM
Anonymous said...: Jersey is so bad that one must have a permit for a genuine artillery piece from the 1860s War, as we were told many years ago by a NJ local cop, who politely ignored the van we were in, headed to a reenactment, as he directed us to the nearest bridge to Pennsylvania.

Needing a permit for a firearm from the age of the Founders, ridiculous.

The five signers of the Declaration from New Jersey weep.; February 26, 2015 at 9:23 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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Gee, like we should be so grateful as to genuflect and kiss their rosy red collectivist asses.

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