How the I-594 Gun Control Initiative Passed in Washington State

The NRA dropped the ball on this. They should have started back in early summer. Not focused solely on the Puget sound, and dropped at least $1 million on TV spots the last three weeks running up to the election.

“Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage." Obamacare economist reveals ‘progressive’ contempt for duped supporters

Despite Barack Obama’s crystal-clear lie that his is “the most transparent administration in history,” a newly-surfaced video shows MIT Economics Professor Jonathan Gruber, one of the “architects” of Obamacare, admitting just the reverse was used to manipulate public support for the usurpation of delegated federal powers. Gruber’s statement also shows a quite natural and expected conman’s contempt the elites and controllers hold for those they dupe.

Not good. Malloy REALLY DOES live in a la-la land of his own imagination.

Dan Malloy Says Gun Restrictions Passed After Newtown Shooting Earned Him Support

“YOU WANT TO (EXPLETIVE) RESIST?” More blue-clad gang thuggery from New York.

NY Deputy Attacks Man For Refusing Search Over Legal Gun

Domestic Enemies. Connecticut and Chess. Malloy and Lawlor, are you paying attention?

Faulty execution of a winning combination has lost many a game on the very brink of victory. In cases a player sees the winning idea, plays the winning sacrifice and then inverts the order of his follow-up moves or misses the really clinching point point of his combination. -- Fred Reinfeld, The Complete Chess Course.

"An unconstitutional law is void." So says the standard legal text American Jurisprudence. That is certainly true. The tricky part is how we are to make that point when the local, state and federal executive and legislative branches as well as the courts are in the hands of the domestic enemies of the Constitution. -- Mike Vanderboegh, speech at Hartford, CT, 20 April 2013.

Things are still up in the air about exactly when and how I'm getting to CT this week, In any case, however it works out, I will be there for the gun show.. With the bastards at PAYPAL still non-responsive and tying up my account, if you want to support the trip today and tomorrow are probably your last chances to drop subscriptions in the mail to the PO Box. I prefer to drive a rental but am having difficulty finding a co-driver. We'll see how that works out.

Overconfidence breeds error when we take for granted that the game will continue on its normal course; when we fail to provide for an unusually powerful resource -- a check, a sacrifice, a stalemate. Afterwards the victim may wail, "But who could have dreamt of such an idiotic-looking move?" -- Fred Reinfeld, The Complete Chess Course.

The plan, such as it is, wis to find a venue in or near Hartford to deliver a short speech on the eve of the gun show on Friday, then to work a table at the show Saturday and sunday, returning to Alabama on Monday or perhaps Tuesday. I'll also try to talk to any folks who want to chat at dinners Saturday and Sunday nights.

The first step toward becoming a skillful defensive player, then, is to handle the defense in an aggressive spirit. If you do that, you can find subtle defensive resources that other players would not dream of. By seeking active counterplay, you will often upset attacking lines. Better yet, you will upset your opponent. -- Fred Reinfeld, The Complete Chess Course.

The whole point of the trip, of course, is to demonstrate that the Malloy-Lawlor regime is essentially impotent in the face of principled resistance. For over a year and a half I have encouraged resistance by word as well as deed through smuggling forbidden magazines and ammunition into that state. I have tweaked Malloy's nose with my Toys For Totalitarians gifts, warned the Connecticut State Police about the dangers to them of obeying tyrannical, unconstitutional orders, published a list of the home addresses of the state legislators who voted for this abomination of an Intolerable Act, and, my worst sin in Lawlor's eyes, outed him as a likely unAmerican agent of Soviet influence who once was under active notice of the counterintelligence units of both the FBI and CIA.

Lawlor has been quoted in police rumor circles as saying that he wouldn't mind me dead, and the CSP certainly has an open investigation of me. The problem from their point of view is that, unless they catch me with forbidden items within their borders (and they won't) they cannot make a case. As much as they hate my guts there is certainly nothing they can do while I remain out of state and outside the reach of planted evidence and lying snitches.

Yet the firearm owners who live in this incipient tyranny do not have that luxury. And as long as I stay out of state, I can be accused of urging folks to do something that I am unwilling to do -- to confront the tyrants on the ground, where they live and seek to rule by diktat. So I will be going to CT, by hook or crook, on shank's mare if I have to, whether or not I can get a table at the gun show, whether or not the restaurants refuse me service to eat and speak. I will be there and the Malloys and Lawlors and Pinciaros and all their toadies can make of that what they will. The question is, will they try to ignore me, or will they do something really stupid? The choice is theirs.

In almost every game of chess there comes a crisis that must be recognized. In one way or another a player risks something -- if he knows what he's doing we call it a "calculated risk."

If you understand the nature of this crisis; if you perceive how you've committed yourself to a certain line of play; if you can foresee you've committed yourself to a certain line of play; if you can foresee the nature of your coming task and its accompanying difficulties, all's well. But if this awareness is absent, then the game will be lost for you, and fighting back will be no good. -- Fred Reinfeld, The Complete Chess Course.

So, we will see if Malloy and Lawlor are chess players, when the pieces on the board are real people, including themselves. This is not a game, I think, at which they have much experience, so they may make a bloody blunder. As for myself, after sparring with the proto-tyrants of the armed federal bureaucracies for two decades from a position of weakness, the the gambit is something I understand.

Watch this blog for updates on the physical preparations and plans as they come together. In any case, I'll see you in Connecticut.

And as for Lawlor, he can eat me if his appetite runs riot. He should be prepared for a bad case of indigestion if he does.

Blue-clad gang thugs confiscate firearms from widows in Buffalo.

Buffalo Police Department Confiscates Guns From Widows

Which hardly matters if the civil war kicks off in Connecticut.

GOP gains slam door on gun control push'

Gun store owner prevents mass shooting and gets his property confiscated after the fact by the useless pukes of the ATF for his trouble.

Link.

Jewish gun group remembers Kristallnacht on 76th anniversary

The night of November 9 – 10 will mark the anniversary of Kristallnacht, the infamous Night of Broken Glass, Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership reminds its supporters by resurrecting an essay from the 60th anniversary of the obscene precursor to genocide. Written by Rabbi R. Mermelstein in 1998, the recounting of the night of official hatred and horror gives a graphic reminder of what happens when disarmed people are powerless to protect themselves from evil.

Hypothetical discussions on a 4GW theme. Mike Lawlor as Reinhard Heydrich? I guess that's up to him. Hypothetically speaking, of course.

In a comment on "Let every single step taken in this most intricate affair be upon the defensive." Malloy & Lawlor answer the question "Where to draw the line?" for us in bloody crayon, an anonymous respondent said:

Agree with the poster who said that the line will be crossed with 50 plus LEOs for one house. It will be overkill when they decide to strike.

Once that occurs, I don't think there is a rule that says fighting is limited to a raid setting. Have to fight against overwhelming odds. Cops go to the movies. Cops go to barbecues with their kids. Cops go to Walmart. Cops get drunk while watching football. Cops let their guard down, put the gun under the bed and screw thier wives. I 100% agree with no targeting of family members or other innocents. I don't think there is a rule though (Mike V. can correct me if I am wrong) that says you can't take out the trash when it is convenient for you. Once the fine gentlemen sworn to the Conn constitution become stinky garbage.

My reply, with edits and additions:

Anon 12:19AM:

You are thinking linearly, which is a violation of the precepts of 4GW and represents a diminution rather than a concentration of effort. Screw the pawns, a 4GW chess player scorns, go after the rooks and bishops. This is three- even four-dimensional chess. Evade the pawns and work your way through to the power players. Shear the Kings and Queens of their main supports. Better yet, make the brain that manipulates ALL the players understand that the game is not confined to the board but has deadly consequences for the chess master. Make them understand that the rules by which they've played all their lives DO NOT APPLY.

We're working with hypotheticals here, right? What does 4GW take as its primary target? The will and ability of the enemy LEADERSHIP to wage the war. Not the cops, not the foot soldiers, the leadership. As with all tyrannies, the leadership doesn't much care how many, say, Gestapo agents and Wehrmacht you kill. They DO care about how many gauleiters and mid-to-high-ranking little fuhrers you kill. 4GW rather targets what the enemy leadership cares about -- themselves, their future, their power. 4GW wins when it convinces the enemy leadership that prosecuting the war against the people is suicidal FOR THEM, not for cops and soldiers.

In any context, when the regime attacks folks in their homes, cops and soldiers will die along with their chosen victims. But after the first raids, there will be nobody home for the intended victims will be out and about targeting the war makers and decision takers. 4GW understands that if you kill them, the raids stop getting ordered because the men and women giving the orders have had their own personal education in the concept of assured destruction. It takes a very keen appetite for blood on the part of the tyrant to overcome that risk.

The other aspect of this is that 4GW takes the instincts of the bureaucrat and uses them against him. When the middle and high level bureaucrats, who are not particularly true believers but just "doing their jobs" and "working toward retirement" understand the personal consequences, they will refuse to do things that will make drawing that pension much less likely.

For the Czech resistance, for one example, to kill ten Gestapomen hardly counted. Killing ten Reinhard Heydrichs, however, plus twenty Adolf Eichmanns and a couple of Gauleiters and forty members of the German Reichstag who passed the enabling legislation ALL AT THE SAME TIME would have worked much better.

That's what 4GW posits anyway. I pray we never have to find out in an American context. But I fear that if the anti-Americans in CT state government now toying with sending raids into the homes of their own people get their way, it will certainly happen. And they will be utterly astonished at what happens when it does.

Does Mike Lawlor have the appetite for power (coupled with the lack of good sense) to act like Reinhard Heydrich? I guess that's up to him. Hypothetically speaking, of course. Certainly he doesn't give a rat's ass for the lives of his intended victims, or their families, or, for that matter, for the lives of the Connecticut State Police that he will order into harm's way to enforce his unconstitutional diktat. In that disdain he certainly shares with Heydrich the totalitarian impulse.

Greenspan's Stunning Admission: "Gold Is Currency; No Fiat Currency, Including the Dollar, Can Match It"

For some reason, the Council of Foreign Relations, where ex-Fed-Chief Alan Greenspan spoke last week, decided the following discussion should be left out of the official transcript. We can perhaps understand why... as Gillian Tett concludes, "comments like that will be turning you into a rock star amongst the gold bug community."

Curious doings in Florida,

Within minutes of his departure, the fourth vehicle appeared. This one was a SUV. It was a Florida State Trooper. Gator and I took a stroll down the street and walked around the cul-de-sac and passed by the trooper. I went back to the office and took a photo of the police vehicle. With so much traffic coming into a vacant cul-de-sac, I’m seriously thinking about opening a hotdog stand on Monday. I could make some extra money selling hotdogs and lemonade to all of these folks sitting in their cars for hours every day.

Beans and Baby Dicks, Ham and MoFos

A brief history of the C-ration

Bloomberg-listed mayor’s ‘gang sign’ story raises controversial ‘points’

A gesture of like mind from one criminal class to another.

Adding herself to a long list of problematic Mayors Against (Your) Guns, Betsy Hodges of Minneapolis posed for a photograph, reportedly “with a convicted felon while flashing a known gang sign,” Jay Kolls of 5 Eyewitness News claimed Thursday.

Ferguson “Activists” Deliver Pre-Riot Demands To Police

Bob Owens calls this list "insane." It is not. It is perfectly understandable given the way that Eric Holder and his racist band have crafted the battlefield.

LATER: See also Rumors swirl about when grand jury announcement will take place.

"Let every single step taken in this most intricate affair be upon the defensive." Malloy & Lawlor answer the question "Where to draw the line?" for us in bloody crayon. Part Three.

"Nothing concentrates the mind so wonderfully as the prospect of being hung in the morning." -- Benjamin Franklin, paraphrasing Dr. Samuel Johnson.

(NOTE: Parts One and Two of "Where to draw the line?" can be found here and here. As you will read, we are about to have that question answered for us.

Yes to tell you the truth, if I thought you could possibly be innocent and stand unconvicted in the eye of Heaven, if you dropped your weapons and submitted to the late Bill for the alteration of the (English) Constitution, I would immediately change my voice and preach to you the long exploded doctrine of Non-resistance. But as an honest man and as a minister of Jesus Christ, as a servant of Heaven, I dare not do it. As a friend to righteousness, as a priest of the Lord who is under the Gospel Dispensation, I must say – The Priests blow the trumpets in Zion – stand fast – take the Helmet, Shield and Buckler and put on the Brigandine!

Arise! my injured countrymen! and plead even with the sword, the firelock and the bayonet, plead with your arms the birthrights of Englishmen, the dearly purchased legacy left you by your never - to - be - forgotten Ancestors. And, if God does not help, it will be because your Sins testify against you: otherwise you may be assured. But. . . let every single step taken in this most intricate affair be upon the defensive. God forbid that we should give our enemies the opportunity of saying justly that we have brought a civil war upon ourselves by the smallest offensive action. -- Rev. William Emerson, 1775, speaking as pastor of the First Parish in Concord. He was also chaplain to the Provincial Congress when it met at Concord in October 1774, and is quoted in The Minutemen and Their World by Robert A. Gross.

Regular readers may recall that it has been my intention to write this part three of "Where to draw the line" since September. Each time I started, Churchill's black dog came to rest on my keyboard once again and words failed me. Now, thanks to the threatened actions of state authorities in Connecticut and the trenchant observation of a good friend, that black dog has been chased howling from the room.

"Snick, snick."

“If you haven’t declared it or registered it and you get caught ... you’ll be a felon,” Mike Lawlor, Malloy’s so-called “gun czar,” said last year. “People who disregard the law are, among other things, jeopardizing their right to own firearms. If you’re not a law-abiding citizen, you’re not a law-abiding citizen.” -- Three midterm votes point to potential shift in gun-rights battle

The CSM correspondent also writes in the same article:

The affirmation of the Malloy administration in Connecticut, especially, says Mr. Vanderboegh, raises new questions about what the returning governor is planning to do about gun owners who fail to register their semiautomatic rifles and large magazines under a new law signed by Governor Malloy last year. With Malloy back in office, “the noise that you’re hearing that’s drowning out GOP triumphalism is the ‘snick-snick’ of cleaning rods going through rifles,” Vanderboegh says.

After sharing that article with an old friend yesterday, he smiled this slow, bitter, rueful smile and said, "Well, Mike, you always are quoting Franklin about the prospect of being hung in morning. I guess this is it."

That observation came back to me in the wee, insomniac hours of this morning. It struck me almost like a physical blow, this realization. Malloy and his anti-American toady Lawlor have just made things utterly simple for us. They have announced that they will be answering the question for us, this "Where to draw the line," with their own tyrannical actions. Like heedless children playing a game they scarcely understand, they have declared their solution in bloody crayon upon the wall. They will draw the line for us. All we have to do is get ready and be prepared to respond to their offensive tyrannical violence with our own defensive measures. As I have written before, "Gentlemen, prepare to defend yourselves!"

The line has already been drawn. Malloy, Lawlor and Ron Pinciaro and all their sycophants in the collectivist media in CT who have demanded OUR liberty, OUR property and OUR blood on their editorial pages have drawn it and they are ready for their willing bully boys of the Connecticut State Police to cross over. THEY will be the ones to fire the first shots of the next civil war. THEY have demanded it. It didn't, still doesn't, have to be this way. As I all but begged Malloy previously, all he has to do is suspend enforcement of the Intolerable Act until the Supreme Court rules on its constitutionality. And as I have pointed out many times, an unconstitutional law is void. Yet their appetites for our liberty, our property even at the cost of our lives, drives them on insatiably. Indeed, as I watched Malloy last night in his interview by Chris Matthews on MSNBC, visions of presidential sugarplums are dancing in his head. He should ask himself, what are the chances of being elected president AFTER he starts the next civil war with his policies. However, as Reverend Emerson ("a very bad subject of his majesty," according to one British spy at the time) told his congregants: "But. . . let every single step taken in this most intricate affair be upon the defensive. God forbid that we should give our enemies the opportunity of saying justly that we have brought a civil war upon ourselves by the smallest offensive action."

The British are marching out of Boston once again, although this time the road wends it way, by the choice of our would-be masters, through Connecticut. Get ready. A new Lexington and a new Concord Bridge beckon. By THEIR choice, not ours. The line has been drawn. By them. And they are preparing to cross it. Be ready. The choice, and the beginning, is theirs. The finishing, well, that will be up to us.

You know, the Reverend Emerson died in the service of his young country at the age of 33 on 20 October 1776. He gave everything for liberty. Some of us, if Malloy, Lawlor and Pinciaro get their way, will have to do so as well, never knowing the outcome. It is a trade that some of us had better be prepared to make. For they are coming. The line is drawn, by them. And they are fixing to cross it. What will you do when they do?

Three important posts from David Codrea.

From his Cheaper Than Dirt column: The greatest enemy we all face is not Obama, or the Democrats, or Bloomberg and his minions, or squishy Republicans, or idiot “real reporters.” The greatest enemy we face is apathy.

Plus, meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

Also, at JPFO, Holder's 'idiot' comment shows another progressive contradiction

New type of homemade ammo could make 3-D printed guns more practical, accessible

People like him and Goddard want us disarmed--want their beloved "government monopoly on force" protected even in the face of technology that promises home gun manufacture for the masses--and would be perfectly happy to see us maimed or killed for their sick agenda. Crumling's innovation brings some more bad news to those pursuing that agenda, and that's very good news for those of us who believe liberty is worth fighting for.

Ferguson. Again.

‘Peaceful’ #Ferguson Protesters Beat College Student & Chase Him Down Street Screaming

CT trip. Problems and opportunities. DO NOT USE PAYPAL FOR VOLUNTARY SUBSCRIPTIONS UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.

Okay, I'm trying to flesh out a trip to CT for the YCGG Windsor Gun Show next weekend. I'll need a venue for a speech/meet-n-greet Thursday or Friday night somewhere in the Hartford area, and then I'll work a table (assuming they'll sell me one) on Saturday and Sunday. I could use some suggestions from local Threepers about how and where. Email me at GeorgeMason1776ATaolDOTcom if you have any ideas.

For those of you who would like to support such a venture, DO NOT USE PAYPAL FOR VOLUNTARY SUBSCRIPTIONS UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE. Paypal has frozen my account to donations without giving me any explanation why beyond "suspicious activity detected." I'm darned if I know what that is, because the summary doesn't reflect anything of the sort. If you would like to contribute for the moment you'll have to send it to PO Box 926, Pinson, AL 35126.