Wednesday, October 2, 2013
The Rise of JSOC.
US Special Ops Have Become Much, Much Scarier Since 9/11.
LATER:Guys, guys. . .I'm cutting off the comments on this one because the responses got ugly, obscene and personal as fast as a prairie fire in a drought.The author is a collectivist, but the point is -- as I see it -- is not that Bush, Cheney, et. al, are more or less righteous than the Obamanoids, but rather that when you set up a secret, unconstitutional army it is subject to abuse from the get. The Founders understood that you should never pass a law that you weren't willing to see enforced upon yourself by your own worst enemy. (See Weimar gun laws and the use Hitler's goons put them to.)To argue one side or the other intended more righteous use of a bad law/policy is to miss the point.
CT Law Requiring ‘Certificate’ to Purchase Ammunition & Magazines Now in Effect
I will be up north within the next month to break this law. And I won't be filling out one of these.
John Ransom: On Obamacare (and Guns), We Won't Comply
Obamacare, like the tax on tea that saw a load of it dumped into Boston Harbor in 1773, or Colorado's recent Obama-inspired gun grab, is just plain dumb. And they also go against natural law, no matter what a majority of fools on both the left and the right in Washington say. I won't comply. Nor should you.
LATER: And from the American Thinker, Matthew May writes "I will not comply."
I will not comply because I am a free citizen of the United States, not a subject of its government. I consider non-compliance with this monstrosity and the tens of thousands of pages of regulations that are to be enforced by an unelected bureaucracy, and that have left a gigantic carbon footprint on our environment and the United States Constitution, a duty.Non-compliance is my executive order, and that order reads in part that I do not recognize any government's claim on my action or inaction in the marketplace, nor upon any personal information I am unwilling to divulge.I will not submit to a cabal who read George Orwell's 1984 not as a terrifying warning, but as an instruction manual. Nor will I submit to the dictates of those who attempt to trample the right of free speech of others in the halls of government who are warning us about the looming tyranny. I refer to those sons of liberty who, as Camus wrote, "are not all legitimate or to be admired. Those who applaud it only when it justifies their privileges and shout nothing but censorship when it threatens them are not on our side."If (when) the IRS or HHS or any other such entity attempts to extort a tax or fee of any kind for not participating in mandated commerce, they will be met with resistance. I will not pay any such tax or fee.I live in Massachusetts, where, once upon a time, a spirit of resistance and independence animated much of the citizenry. But many here have devolved from the shot heard round the world to sheltering in place. Not I -- nor many of my fellow Bay Staters, who are outnumbered but undaunted.Refusing to comply with the dictates of an illegitimate law that is selectively enforced, and from which the privileged few are exempted, is not, in the annals of American history, brave or difficult. Those who refuse to comply are not barefoot in the snows of Valley Forge, crying out in agony at Gettysburg, or rushing the cockpit of Flight 93. While there will be consequences to civil disobedience in defiance of oppression, any difficulties can be and will be overcome.We are, however, drawing a line that the forces of repression, socialism, and tyranny must not cross. Some might even color the line red. Yet unlike a certain other, this red line is immovable. I yield nothing on the plane of freedom. I will not take any small step that is, in actuality, one giant leap backward to the darkness we thought we had vanquished.
Licking the master's hand that feeds him. NFATCA Bigwig and ATF Snitch John Brown at it again.
John Brown visits Martinsburg, West Virginia. "Master feed Larry. Master love Larry."
Long-time readers will recall the appearance of NFATCA bigwig and ATF snitch John Brown in The True Story of the Life of "R.A. Bear". They may also recall the trial transcript last month where ATF's Richard Vasquez characterized Brown as He's not a snitch, he's just my special NFATCA friend. They may also recall my observation on the latest Obama attack by "executive action": "NFATCA Follies. All that groveling and snitching and they got exactly dick to show for it. They can't blame this one on Ramsey A. Bear."
Now Brown, shamelessly slavish in his ATF bootlicking, comments on that self-same regulation here.
This link was forwarded to me under the header "John Brown at it again...." with the comment from an attorney:
"He now not only KNOWS that CONVICTED FELONS (plural) not only attempted to, but PROCURED NFA firearms using a Trust. Even ATF doesn't state this in ATF 41P. If they had actual instances of such occurring, you damn well bet it would be reflected in ATF 41P."
The wonder of it all is that this shameless grovelling snitch still appears in public. I'm sure he'll be at the Knob Creek shoot coming up. So, likely, will Dan Shea. If anybody runs into them, try to see if you can get an answer to the question: "Hey, have you seen Ramsey Bear lately?"
Tuesday, October 1, 2013
Sipsey Street Exclusive: Some unvarnished comments on the current USMC command scandal
Retired Marine "Disgusted Devil Dog" comments on my earlier post on "Marine Corps whistleblower faces vengeance from superiors." This is the unvarnished truth.
Today's headlines on the Gen. Amos' firing two Marine generals have pushed from the front pages the media spotlight on his own serious problems involving his personal, blatantly illegal command influence in the case of a few Marines urinating on some Taliban corpses.(Why Amos did not allow this case to be handled by non-judicial punishment at the battalion level is a question that we can only hope future historians of the Corps' time in Afghanistan will answer. Perhaps Amos' action was effected by the fact that his only experience with ground combat is what he's read in the Corps' required-reading history books, or heard around the bar at happy hour.)Feeling full of his self-induced hubris, Amos then compounded his egregious misconduct in the peeing case with especially flagrant (and also illegal) retaliation against a stand-up Marine lawyer who blew the whistle on Amos' felonious intervention in the stinky battlefield incident.A very reliable source with a demonstrated record in many years of previous reporting, told this writer that based on his own direct observation, Amos had pulled similar stunts in legal cases as a major general.It must have worked, since Amos has been promoted twice since these previous illegal actions.And, since Amos is both a well-known butt boy to the Secretary of the Navy, and an especially obsequious sycophant to key White House staffers, don't expect any accountability for his latest round of illegal manipulation of the Marine Corps' justice system.Facing outcries over the government shut down, Obamacare, the debt limit, etc., the Potomac elite will be far too busy dodging their own accountability. They won't have time, interest or energy for something as mundane as illegally influencing the military justice system.Those few who are paying attention to military matters are focused on finding some magic -- and utopian -- solution to sexual misconduct in the ranks (as they plot to greatly expand the numbers of hormone-driven 18-year olds placed into intimate proximity... go figure).According to another reliable source, Amos has not even deigned to accept any conversation with, much less guidance from, the community of retired Commandants. Indeed, he has set new standards for his imperious isolation from these wily veterans of Pentagon intrigue who know a few things about how this town operates, and who has their hands on the key levers of power.But in his defense, I have to admit that Amos knows Washington well enough by now to know that as long as he plays the complete toady to his political-hack masters, the Teflon shield they have loaned him will continue to be 100% effective.(It's worth noting that neither the Commandant, nor the Assistant Commandant, wear the Combat Action Ribbon. After nearly 12 years of active ground combat operations, the two senior generals at HQMC have not met even the minimal qualifications for the CAR. Any wonder that the level of "generalship" is at historically mediocre levels?)
Disgusted Devil DogRoger G. CharlesLtCol, USMC (Ret.)
A must-read article: "Explaining Global Communism Today"
In discussions with former KGB and GRU officers you will run across two apparently contradictory statements. Sometimes you will hear them say that the former USSR is still run by Communists, suggesting that the rulers there believe in Communism. On the other hand, they will tell you to forget about the Communist label; that the rulers of the USSR never really believed in Communist ideology, which was a deception used to manipulate large numbers of unintelligent people. Former KGB Lt. Col. Victor Kalashnikov recently wrote several paragraphs on this subject, and it is worth presenting. Kalashnikov’s key point is that Communism is strategy, not ideology. Useful idiots believe in Communist dogma, while Communist strategists do not.
PRECISELY! Thus has it ever been about harnessing the power of the collective to the wishes of the elites.
Ideology as such has not ever been the real driving force guiding Russia’s rulers, from the Bolsheviks until the present. Ideological explanations are irrelevant. Consider the deeds of the Bolsheviks rather than the explanations or justifications given by them. Don’t forget that criminals may be very eloquent and even well educated, and are capable of offering convincing-sounding rhetoric. The real problem is located elsewhere. A lot of people, those ‘useful’ ones, will take that rhetoric … seriously, giving it attention and respect, and even protection. Yet if we rely on ‘Occam’s razor,’ we may remove the superficial misunderstandings caused by taking rhetoric seriously.The Bolsheviks were basically nothing but professional gangsters and terrorists, killers and robbers, and that is unquestionably more relevant than all the ideological explanations provided by them. They were part of a broader terrorist spectrum which spread across Russia since the late 19th century and grabbed power and national wealth UNDER COVER of Marxist and Leftist-sounding slogans. They did so to mislead the Russians themselves and the foreign public – the latter often longing for ‘real’ socialism or communism.The slogans of the gangsters have varied substantially over time, according to the changing needs up until our day. Compare the types of Marxism preached and practiced under various general secretaries, even during different parts of their respective tenures. Marxism-Leninism was used in the USSR rather as a DECEPTION TOOL; whereas, in reality, the regime was a gangster-run state with all the unmistakable features of organized criminal activity.
Sort of like today's "Justice" Department and the Digital Stasi state. The difference is only one of degree, which will lessen as time goes on.
I am tempted to say "May God Himself urinate on them all."
Marine Corps whistleblower faces vengeance from superiors.
The Marine Corps officer who filed a complaint against the commandant for intervening in the Taliban urination cases against eight Marines is now the target of reprisals from superiors, his attorney says.Retired Marine Col. Jane Siegel, who is representing Maj. James Weirick, said superiors have subjected the major to retaliations since it became known that he filed a whistleblower complaint against Gen. James Amos, the commandant and Joint Chiefs of Staff member.“Headquarters Marine Corps is undercutting a hero,” Col. Siegel said. “He did the right thing, and they are trying to bury it and him.”Maj. Weirick, a staff judge advocate at the Combat Development Command at Quantico, Va., accuses Gen. Amos of violating the military edict against unlawful command influence by urging guilty verdicts to the general overseeing the cases.The major also told the Pentagon’s inspector general that Gen. Amos’ legal advisers unlawfully classified most of the evidence, including potentially embarrassing emails at headquarters, to keep the material away from defense attorneys.
Judge refuses to dismiss F&F case against Holder.
Here is Darrell Issa's statement on Judge Berman’s refusal to dismiss the Fast and Furious lawsuit:
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) today released the following statement regarding the decision of U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson to deny the Justice Department's motion to dismiss the House of Representatives’ lawsuit concerning administration documents related to the Operation Fast and Furious scandal.The President asserted executive privilege over these subpoenaed documents on June 20th 2012."This ruling is a repudiation of the Obama Justice Department and Congressional Democrats who argued the courts should have no role in the dispute over President Obama's improper assertion of executive privilege to protect an attempted Justice Department cover-up of Operation Fast and Furious,” said Chairman Issa. “I remain confident in the merits of the House's decision to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt; this ruling is an important step toward the transparency and accountability the Obama Administration has refused to provide."
Court order here.
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