Sipsey Street Irregulars: Three from David Codrea.

Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Three from David Codrea.

'Assaulted: Civil Rights Under Fire' a powerful way to share gun truths

One choice I think was inspired was the selection of rapper and actor Ice T to narrate the documentary. I thought the guy not only did a great job, providing an especially credible and sincere presence, but it’s inarguable that he broadens the film’s appeal and totally nullifies the stereotyping that opponents of the right to keep and bear arms routinely use to dismiss and disparage “average” gun owners.

I think “Assaulted: Civil Rights Under Fire” is powerful. I think it’s enlightening. I think it’s persuasive. I think everyone, not just gun owners, should see it, and I think it’s up to us to help make that happen.

EEOC's claim that background checks are racist must also apply to guns

If criminal background checks and requiring photo IDs really do produce unlawfully discriminatory rights-denying results, the inescapable conclusion is agents of the government are willfully, with premeditation, engaged in a criminal conspiracy to disenfranchise minorities from their right to keep and bear arms.

FISA head judge doesn’t understand gun rights, either

“In his opinion, Judge Walton … wrote: ‘[T]he Court must conclude that the Second Amendment does not confer an individual right to possess firearms. Rather, the Amendment's objective is to ensure the vitality of state militias,’" the VPC release continued.

That such a man is wielding such power, heading a secret court, invoking secret “laws” and issuing secret rulings ought to scare more than just gun owners, and perhaps may even persuade some fence-sitters that the Founders may have just been on to something when they made sure an ultimate last resort freedom fail-safe would exist, just in case the need for one ever does happen here.

3 comments:

disgusted said...: This should be required reading for everyone.
Just another example of the sorry state of affairs in this country.; July 9, 2013 at 5:29 PM
Anonymous said...: The militias vitality is ensured by the inalienable, individual, enumerated, natural, civil, fundamental, imcorporatef right to keep and bear arms.

It is not a right to serve in the militia whence a state calls it forth. It is a right to exercise so proficiency exists when it is called. Heller was crystal clear about that point.

How many more ways does it have to be stated?; July 9, 2013 at 5:34 PM
Anonymous said...: Hey Judge,
Amendment II doesn't convey a right, it protects the right to keep and bear (possess and carry) firearms. All amendments in the Bill of Rights don't convey rights. They all require government to protect rights that we as human beings already have. The ninth and tenth amendments also help broadly limit the power of the Federal Government.

Who appointed that dumbass judge to the bench?

- Old Greybeard; July 10, 2013 at 1:11 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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