Aaron Zelman's Open Letter to Ted Nugent.

Outstanding.

"That was EASY!" But . . Michael Jackson is still dead.

No problems with the HBO treatment. Apparently the only part of my body that remains studly is my eustachian tubes. Already feeling better. Didn't see Michael Jackson there, so apparently he is still dead. One down and 29 to go.

Mike
III

Say a prayer.

The nurse looks happy. Not so sure about the guy in the tube.

I'm on my way to my first HBO treatment. Lord willing and the creek don't rise, I will be back on line sometime this evening.

Mike
III

Sipsey Street Irregulars now banned from Department of Defense computers.

This just in . . .

I just checked and Sipseystreet is blocked from DoD computers, its labeled as "Militancy and Extremist."

God bless

Nate
III

Ralph Peters on "Blaming the Citizen."

Here.

American Oligarchy

Interesting reading, but I'm unpersuaded by the attempt to avoid GOP complicity.

Does anyone suppose that either Bill Clinton or Rachel Maddow will wet their jockstraps over this?

Hmmm?

I would appreciate if any Threepers can give me some more info on the arrest of Darren Huff.

This smells like BS to me.

My thanks to bacsi for forwarding the link with this comment:

FYI: Things are escalating in the Tennessee, Fritzpatrick -vs- Monroe County case, with the Feds arresting Oath Keeper Darren Huff Sunday on charges of inciting to riot, etc. The FBI did this... Stewart Rhodes, that fine Yale educated lawyer, had said earlier he wanted no part of trouble makers Carl Swensson and Darren Huff's nonsense so I'm sure neither he nor his fine group of Simon pure Oath Keepers will get their lily white hands dirty even commenting on the goings on, less alone taking action.

If you are not aware of this case then maybe you need to be. It is as in your face as the Feds are going to get until they proceed to round you all up, line you up along the trenches, and put bullets in your heads.

Go check out: http://thejaghunter.wordpress.com/2010/05/01/police-state-amerika-fbi-arrests-darren-huff-last-night/

If this is too much trouble for you all then maybe you should make some cutesy videos to share with the prancing Eighty Deuce boys, maybe you can talk that fine Yale trained lawyer, Mr. Rhodes to star, it's his old alma mater after all and who knows, he might be very graceful all dressed up in drag.

Restore the Republic!

bacsi

Waco Jim gives us the benefit of his experience as a jack booted thug church burner.

My thanks to Kevin for forwarding this. Now we know what he's going to be doing in retirement -- talking head of the experienced arsonist sort.

"We Are Everywhere" in Washington D.C.

Ralph Peters on Mexico's "new and savage revolution."

Pancho Villa

It ain't Pancho's revolution any more.

Border disorder

By RALPH PETERS

Last Updated: 4:39 AM, April 29, 2010

Posted: 12:21 AM, April 29, 2010

South of the border, down Mexico way, a new and savage revolution rages just beyond our inspection lanes. After less than five years of fighting, estimates of the dead have reached 22,000.

The rate of killing accelerates each month. And Washington covers its eyes like a kid at a scary movie. Well, the Mexican narco-insurgency, in which well-armed guerrilla forces confront the authority and presence of the state, is our No. 1 security challenge.

The chaos in northern Mexico has far deeper implications for our country than Islamist terror or even an Iranian nuclear capability (as grim as those threats are).

The rule of law has collapsed from Tijuana on the Pacific's edge to Matamoros and the Gulf of Mexico. Major cities are now "ungoverned spaces," as our diplomats refer tidily to distant trouble spots.

More people now die violently on our southern border than in Somalia, Yemen or even Afghanistan. But Washington doesn't know what to do about Mexico. So Washington does nothing much.

Our ruling class simply doesn't feel the pain. So the DC elite demonizes Arizona's desperate effort to shove the narco-revolution's disorder back across the border. Murdered ranchers, overwhelmed emergency rooms and soaring crime rates in our border states mean less to the White House than a terrorist detainee's claims of abuse. Our governing elite pretends that illegal immigration, torrential crime where illegals cluster, overcrowded prisons, Mexico's narco-insurgency, legal cross-border commerce and the drug trade are separate issues, to be addressed discreetly.

But these issues are all interwoven with the Mexican government's existential crisis. Drug wealth fuels criminal empires. Those narco-empires are now so powerful that they've risen against the state. Human trafficking is a useful sideline for drug lords. And illegal immigration drives crime rates in bankruptcy-threatened US cities and states.

Cross-border trade's the next target. Narco-insurgents now feel sufficiently confident to attack Mexican army installations and US consulates. The maquiladoras, those thousands of assembly plants along the border, won't escape the mayhem. Given their enormous contribution to Mexico's fiscal stability and employment rates, those plants are obvious targets as the narco-challenge to the state intensifies.

Mexican journalists, too, have been killed by the hundreds. Their torture and execution doesn't generate much excitement north of the border, though. It's their bad luck to be butchered by Mexican narcos. Had they been killed accidentally by US forces in Iraq or Afghanistan, they'd be famous martyrs.

And Arizona's "discriminatory" new state law empowering police to pursue criminal aliens? Should Phoenix let the rule of law collapse because Washington prefers political correctness to public safety? In DC, it's about politics. In Arizona, it's about survival.

It bewilders me that my fellow citizens don't take the disintegration of government authority in northern Mexico seriously. As I've written repeatedly, no country is more important to us socially, economically and security-wise than Mexico. Afghanistan's fluff by comparison.

Precisely 100 years ago, in 1910, the Mexican Revolution erupted in northern Mexico -- already the most prosperous and industrially developed portion of the country. That revolution lasted a bloody, destructive decade.

It wasn't the bandido affair beloved of Hollywood knuckleheads, but a complex contest for power with large armies, strategic campaigns, major battles, trench warfare, barbed wire and machine guns. In 1915, the military vision of the self-taught Gen. Alvaro Obregon -- destined to become Mexico's president -- was more sophisticated than that of the US Army. Mexico pioneered the 20th century's revolutions.

Since then, northern Mexico -- from the border cities southward through the industrial powerhouse of Monterrey -- has continued to be the country's primary agent of change. Influenced by its proximity to America, the north long has been a different country from the impoverished states south of the capital.

Now a new Mexican revolution is underway in the vital north. In 1910, idealists struggled to change an autocratic regime. In 2010, criminal syndicates fight to wrest power from a democratic government and to grab market share from each other.

(In an eerie parallel, a bloody strike in the northern mining center of Cananea helped ignite the 1910 revolution; today, a three-year-long strike in Cananea by mining and metal workers signals a new generation's impatience with the status quo -- and we're just not paying attention.)

During that earlier revolution, the citizens of El Paso, Texas, and Douglas, Arizona, gathered to watch the battles just across the border as Pancho Villa's troops drove out the Federals, then as the Constitutionalists defeated Villa. Those spectators were confident in their immunity as American citizens.

We're no longer immune.

Ralph Peters' latest book is "Endless War."

Suggested Threeper Reading

Received this email:

Mike,

I just finished reading The Voyage of The Catalpa. A historical account and I would highly recommend it for you or any other Threeper who would appreciate dedication to a cause, true oath keepers, working inside the opposition's camp, opsec and the willingness to cross two oceans to complete a mission.

Brian F

The exploit is fascinating and instructive. I think I'll be getting this book.

Mike
III

My son always said that the folks in the 82nd Airborne were a little "funny" (and I don't think he meant humorous).

Proof positive.

More detail.

Of course Matt is a veteran of the 101st Airborne Division, so the suspicion comes naturally.

Praxis: Once again, old technology made new.

Shades of Absolved.

Threeper Grandma.

A deep bow with flourish of the boonie hat to Threeper Eric.

Another country heard from. . .

Pretty funny.

Mike Vanderboegh (.com)

Mike Vanderboegh, Pinson, Ala - Idiot

Interests:
Anarchy, Racism, Revisionist History, Hatred, Ignorance, Stupidity, Destroying America

Mike Vanderboegh is a TERRORIST? Hitler never personally planted a bomb.

Mike Vanderboegh is far more deleterious to liberty, freedom and the American way than say, Lou Ayres, or anybody like that ever was.

Why allow his TERRORISM to pollute America?

If you say "Geeez, man haven't you ever heard of free speech"? Yea, I have.

Have you ever heard "you can't yell fire in a crowded theatre"?

That is precisely what this P.O.S. does on a daily basis. Intentionally fueling, even creating ill-will and divisiveness with no regard. Infecting our society with cancerous abject hatred.

His life is nothing but a hate-inciting legacy, his contribution to society a negative. A human who deliberately and with intention demoralizes society, divides countrymen, and instigates malevolence in his own nation.

Democrats: "Rigging Elections Since God Made Dirt."

Another tip of the boonie to Stan.

High Tech Nazi Ausweiss or Mark of the Beast? "We report, you decide."

A tip of the boonie hat to Threeper Stan for the story below. I assure you, this will be resisted even more bitterly than "Health Care."

Mike
III

Dems spark alarm with call for national ID card

By Alexander Bolton - 04/30/10 06:00 AM ET

A plan by Senate Democratic leaders to reform the nation’s immigration laws ran into strong opposition from civil liberties defenders before lawmakers even unveiled it Thursday.

Democratic leaders have proposed requiring every worker in the nation to carry a national identification card with biometric information, such as a fingerprint, within the next six years, according to a draft of the measure.

The proposal is one of the biggest differences between the newest immigration reform proposal and legislation crafted by late Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) and Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.).

The national ID program would be titled the Believe System, an acronym for Biometric Enrollment, Locally stored Information and Electronic Verification of Employment.

It would require all workers across the nation to carry a card with a digital encryption key that would have to match work authorization databases.

“The cardholder’s identity will be verified by matching the biometric identifier stored within the microprocessing chip on the card to the identifier provided by the cardholder that shall be read by the scanner used by the employer,” states the Democratic legislative proposal.

The American Civil Liberties Union, a civil liberties defender often aligned with the Democratic Party, wasted no time in blasting the plan.

“Creating a biometric national ID will not only be astronomically expensive, it will usher government into the very center of our lives. Every worker in America will need a government permission slip in order to work. And all of this will come with a new federal bureaucracy — one that combines the worst elements of the DMV and the TSA,” said Christopher Calabrese, ACLU legislative counsel.

“America’s broken immigration system needs real, workable reform, but it cannot come at the expense of privacy and individual freedoms,” Calabrese added.

The ACLU said “if the biometric national ID card provision of the draft bill becomes law, every worker in America would have to be fingerprinted.”



A source at one pro-immigration reform group described the proposal as “Orwellian.”

But Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (Ill.), who has worked on the proposal and helped unveil it at a press conference Thursday, predicted the public has become more comfortable with the idea of a national identification card.

“The biometric identification card is a critical element here,” Durbin said. “For a long time it was resisted by many groups, but now we live in a world where we take off our shoes at the airport and pull out our identification.

“People understand that in this vulnerable world, we have to be able to present identification,” Durbin added. “We want it to be reliable, and I think that’s going to help us in this debate on immigration.”

Implementing a nationwide identification program for every worker will be a difficult task.

The Social Security Administration has estimated that 3.6 million Americans would have to visit SSA field offices to correct mistakes in records or else risk losing their jobs.

Angela Kelley, vice president of immigration policy at the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank, said the biometric identification provision “will give some people pause.”

But she applauded Democrats for not shying away from the toughest issues in the immigration reform debate.

“What I like about the outline is that Democrats are not trying to hide the ball or soft-pedal the tough decisions,” Kelley said. “It seems a very sincere effort to get the conversation started. This is a serious effort to get Republicans to the table.”

Reform Immigration for America, a pro-immigrant group, praised Democrats for getting the discussion started but said the framework fell short.

“The proposal revealed today [Thursday] is in part the result of more than a year of bipartisan negotiations and represents a possible path forward on immigration reform,” the group said in a statement. “This framework is not there yet.”

Democrats and pro-immigration groups will now begin to put pressure on Republicans to participate in serious talks to address the issue. The bipartisan effort in the Senate suffered a serious setback when Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) pulled back from talks with Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.).

“We call on Republican Senators to review this framework and sit down at the negotiating table in good faith,” Reform Immigration for America said in a statement. “This is a national problem that requires a federal solution and the input of leaders in both parties.”

Durbin said Democratic leaders are trying to recruit other Republican partners.

“We’re making a commitment to establishing a framework to work toward comprehensive immigration reform, and I think it’s a good framework and now we’re engaging our friends on the other side of the aisle to join us in this conversation,” Durbin said.

Need to re-barrel a Yugoslav M59/66

Suggestions on sources for a used barrel in excellent condition?

Dear Leader condemns "anti-government rhetoric."

The AP story here.

May 1, 2:14 PM EDT

Obama takes direct aim at anti-government rhetoric

By PETE YOST and MARK S. SMITH
Associated Press Writers

ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) -- In a blunt caution to political friend and foe, President Barack Obama said Saturday that partisan rants and name-calling under the guise of legitimate discourse pose a serious danger to America's democracy, and may incite "extreme elements" to violence.

The comments, in a graduation speech at the University of Michigan's huge football stadium, were Obama's most direct take about the angry politics that have engulfed his young presidency after long clashes over health care, taxes and the role of government.

Not 50 miles from where Obama spoke, the GOP's 2008 vice presidential nominee, Sarah Palin, denounced his policies as "big government" strategies being imposed on average Americans. "The fundamental transformation of America is not what we all bargained for," she told 2,000 activists at a forum in Clarkston, sponsored by the anti-tax Americans for Prosperity Foundation.

Obama drew repeated cheers in Michigan Stadium from a friendly crowd that aides called the biggest audience of his presidency since the inauguration. The venue has a capacity of 106,201, and university officials distributed 80,000 tickets - before they ran out.

In his 31-minute speech, Obama didn't mention either Palin or the tea party movement that's captured headlines with its fierce attacks on his policies. But he took direct aim at the anti-government language so prevalent today.

"What troubles me is when I hear people say that all of government is inherently bad," Obama said after receiving an honorary doctor of laws degree. "When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening foreign entity, it ignores the fact that in our democracy, government is us."

Government, he said, is the roads we drive on and the speed limits that keep us safe. It's the men and women in the military, the inspectors in our mines, the pioneering researchers in public universities.

The financial meltdown dramatically showed the dangers of too little government, he said, "when a lack of accountability on Wall Street nearly led to the collapse of our entire economy."

But Obama was direct in urging both sides in the political debate to tone it down. "Throwing around phrases like 'socialists' and 'Soviet-style takeover,' 'fascists' and 'right-wing nut' - that may grab headlines," he said. But it also "closes the door to the possibility of compromise. It undermines democratic deliberation," he said.

"At its worst, it can send signals to the most extreme elements of our society that perhaps violence is a justifiable response."

Passionate rhetoric isn't new, he acknowledged. Politics in America, he said, "has never been for the thin-skinned or the faint of heart. ... If you enter the arena, you should expect to get roughed up."

Obama hoped the graduates hearing his words can avoid cynicism and brush off the overheated noise of politics. In fact, he said, they should seek out opposing views.

His advice: If you're a regular Glenn Beck listener, then check out the Huffington Post sometimes. If you read The New York Times editorial page the morning, then glance every now and then at The Wall Street Journal.

"It may make your blood boil. Your mind may not be changed. But the practice of listening to opposing views is essential for effective citizenship," he said.

The entire transcript is here.