Stewart Rhodes speech in Grants Pass, Oregon - 27 Sep 2014.

Link.

The Big Lie & the most dangerous man in America. Mark Potok's armed DHS sock puppet parrots SPLC lines -- again.

In but the latest example of the secret political police of the federal government parroting the SPLC meme, comes this report dated 3 October 2014 and enttled “Domestic Violent Extremists Pose Increased Threat to Government Officials and Law Enforcement”

You will note that on the last page, DHS has this "Source Summary Statement":

This article is based on a body of law enforcement and open source reporting from DHS, SNCTC, FBI, and media ranging in reliability.

"Ranging in reliability"?!? Hell, I guess so. It looks to me like all these high-paid tax feeders did was regurgitate Potok's latest lies embodied in War In the West: The Bundy Ranch Standoff and the American Radical Right.

I've written about this dangerous stuff before -- how the Department of Homeland Security dances to SPLC's tune in "This shit is going to get innocent people killed."

Many view Mark Potok as simply a lying buffoon-for-money. When his lies get embraced and translated into "actionable intelligence" by the armed secret police minions of the most powerful government on the planet, however, he becomes the most dangerous man in America. And, I might add, the single most culpable war criminal if his lies get people killed in a civil war of his own advocacy.

The Saturday Morning Ammo Rush

But while one can keep supplied with ammo to feed the weapons of self-defense, war and insurgency, what has been infuriatingly scarce is the innocuous .22-caliber Rimfire, as politically correct a round as can be, if any cartridge is so in the minds of the most ardent gun-haters.

Media Matters reports on Gun Rights Policy Conference.

"They've Got Us Hogtied": Inside The Gun Lobby's Strategy Conference. Activists Brawl Over Background Checks

Piers Morgan’s anti-gun documentary ignores own weak audience appeal

Left unsaid is how someone who couldn't even attract basic cable television viewers expects to draw paying customers into theaters on date night, especially to hear some snotty Brit import disparage their freedom. Not that Morgan concerns himself with such mundane matters as reality...

It is impossible to have too much contempt for Eric Holder.

House seeks new contempt for Eric Holder

“Why hasn’t someone called 911 so the cops can gun him down?” More on how MDA members want open carriers to be killed.

Moms Demand SWATting: A disturbing trend on the fringes of the gun-control movement

Special Agent and Whistleblower Vince Cefalu's Trial Against ATF For Retaliation Starts Monday

After eight years of constant government stonewalling and mistreatment, including an unexplained firing in a Denny's parking lot, Special Agent and whistleblower Vince Cefalu's trial against the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives for retaliation and unlawful termination is set to start Monday.

Don't count your collectivist political carcasses before they're dead, Colorado.

Some folks say that the Colorado Democratic ticket is in trouble. Don't bet the farm on it. The latest Rasmussen poll shows Hickenlooper up by 4 points.

Fer cryin' out loud, won't this failed collectivist mook ever go away?

Bitter Piers Morgan Slams Anderson Cooper, Preps Gun Control Documentary

Most gun rights activists, groups remain silent on amnesty threat to gun rights

Many GOP politicians in the pockets of special business interests are pushing for consequences-be-damned “immigration reform,” and their establishment leadership has been doing its utmost to marginalize and destroy conservatives and Tea Party candidates. The "moderates" may at times, or even for the most part, vote the correct way on gun bills – but if they then turn around and encourage conditions that will relegate their “pro-gun” votes to a losing minority, the ones who ultimately lose will be gun owners who supported them because they were counting on them actually being sincere.

But of course only cops should be trusted with firearms.

Police ID state trooper killed in accidental shooting at Plymouth Twp. firing range

Sources say he was in a classroom for a demonstration of how to break down and clean his service weapon. They say an experienced state police firearms instructor was handling a gun that somehow misfired. The bullet hit trooper Kedra in the chest.

Antis want open carriers dead.

No. Really.

Why Are The Anti-Gunners Such Racists?

The only reason that someone would invoke the issue of race is because she is thinking about it. The only reason someone would think that gun owners and gun rights advocates would care about race is that they assume we are as racist and bigoted as they are.

Defense Distributed's 'Ghost Gunner' brings gun manufacturing to the masses

When millions of Americans, with neither the metalworking and gunsmithing skills to build firearms by hand, or the wealth to buy equipment sufficiently sophisticated (at the prices such equipment commanded until now) to do so through automation, can nevertheless produce effective fighting arms in the privacy of their homes, "universal background check" laws, "prohibited person" laws, "assault weapon" bans, etc. become meaningless. The gun ban zealots' worst nightmare--uncontrollable, utterly anonymous access to so-called "assault weapons" is upon us, spelling the death of the "government monopoly on force" so beloved of the gun ban jihadis. That's a victory for humanity.

"Government must act by law or terror or some combination of them." Clarence B. Carson on the inextricable links between property, liberty and the law.

Clarence B. Carson, historian. 1925 - 2003.

In my stroll through the thrift store last week, I encountered a remarkable book by Clarence B. Carson, entitled Basic Communism: Its Rise, Spread and Debacle in the 20th Century.

Carson is writing here about the Soviet system (the book was self-published in 1990) but his observations are universal to all systems, especially our own these days.

One of the major conclusions to be drawn from the Soviet experience in this regard is that law is not essential to the exercise of the power of the state. Since governments have commonly used law in the exercise of their power, it might be supposed that law is necessary to that end. On the contrary, law is frequently and in certain ways essentially an impediment to the exercise of governmental power. Government operates essentially by the use of force, and by its nature tends to monopolize the use of force in its jurisdiction. Law regularizes and LIMITS the use of force by government. It limits it by prescribing how force shall be used, to what extent, and under what conditions. In this sense, law is no more necessary to governments than handcuffs to a boxer.

There is an intricate connection between law and property. Probably, private property is essential to the existence of law. In the light of what has happened it does appear that when private property is largely abolished that law does indeed wither away. Certainly, much of it withers away, for law no longer has its main object to deal with. Most important, all rights and liberties wither away in the absence of private property. All rights tend to be more or less extensions of property rights, though they are often not thought of in that light. Freedom of speech, of press, and of religion, for example, are much more dependent upon property than we might casually conclude. Freedom of the press is most meaningful only when one has access to a press, by way either of ownership or consent to its use by some owner. If government owns all the presses, there might conceivably be a government privilege to use the press under certain conditions, but freedom of the press would have no content. Freedom of speech depends upon a place (property) from which to speak, and, for its defense, the means (property) by which to enter into an adversary relationship with those (including government) who might deny it. By extension, freedom of speech is a property right to one's utterances. As for religion, its public practice depends upon the ownership or control over houses of worship and all the physical paraphernalia (musical instruments, song books, prayer nooks, surplices, and so on). The Soviet Union has amply demonstrated the dependence of freedom of religion upon private property. Abolish private property and you undermine law as well. Law can no more survive without private rights in property than can a building be suspended from sky hooks. Neither has any foundation.

Government requires neither private property nor law in order to function. They are both inhibitors of its use of force. There is an alternative to law for government; it is terror. Government must act by law or terror or some combination of them. In the absence of private property and its corollary, law, government must act by terror, when the chips are down. The exercise of force without the restraint of law is terror. No better definition can be given, and none is needed. It does not become terror because of the especially horrible character of the acts. Rather it is terroristic because it is arbitrary, unpredictable, and has no certain cause or explanation. None may know when force will be applied or when it will be halted, for there are no enforceable restraints.

"Government must act by law or terror or some combination of them."

Stupid is as stupid does.

Stupid, an adjective meaning: 1. not intelligent; 2. having or showing a lack of ability to learn and understand things; 3. not sensible or logical.

I have been taken to task somewhat severely by folks over my comment at this post indicating that I thought the public banning of all Muslims from a gun range was "monumentally stupid."

It was a quick reaction, but I stand by it. This has nothing to do with property rights, potential lawsuits, or the First Amendment. It is stupid because the problem, if it exists, can be handled by a simple "We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone" sign. Making this about perceived Jihadi menaces and extending it to a religious ban is just that -- stupid. A suspicious observer might conclude that it was done for the publicity to boost business among local clientele who are overwhelmingly, I am sure, non-Muslim.

Could-a, would-a, should-a. Another teen mob strikes in Memphis

“Had I had been armed we would have had a lot of kids laying in the Bellevue street that night,” Sharon Mourning said.

They're only cartoons. Why am I not laughing?

Say what?!?

FBI Claims Stopping Power A “Myth”

Using the utter lack of training and failure rate of LEO’s is not the most reassuring basis for choosing a pistol caliber. In fact, .22′s hardly have ANY recoil and it is used in the OLYMPICS where shot placement is vital. In a world where stopping power is a myth and shot placement is paramount, the .22 would seem ideal for the FBI’s conclusions.