Thursday, January 13, 2011

Re: Stupidity In Action: Rep. Peter King, GOP Fear Monger Moron, To Introduce Inadequate Gun-Control Legislation

And how do you plan to take the guns from the criminals. Check out
Boston. They tried to get rid of the guns and ended up with more gun
crimes than ever. Same with Chicago. Your ideas just do not work.
Take away the guns and only the criminals will have guns. Simple. Even
you should be able to see that if you tried.

On 01/13/2011 01:12 PM, Tommy News wrote:
> Without any guns, there can be no guns to fire.
>
> Get rid of all guns gradually, over time. Start NOW!
>
> On 1/13/11, MJ<michaelj@america.net> wrote:
>> At 01:05 PM 1/13/2011, you wrote:
>>> Hooray for them!
>>>
>>> Repeal the Second Amendment and end the gun violence!
>>
>> How do you figure?
>>
>> Regard$,
>> --MJ
>>
>> Laws that forbid the carrying of arms ... disarm only those who are
>> neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Such laws make
>> things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they
>> serve rather to encourage than prevent homicides, for an unarmed man
>> may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed one. -- Thomas
>> Jefferson quoting Cesare Beccaria, Criminologist 1764 (1743-1826)
>>
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Re: President Obama calls gay intern Daniel Hernandez, who helped save Giffords' life a hero

It's a shame a member of the gay community is calling him a second
class citizen. I've not heard anyone from the heterosexual community
say anything like that... they all seem to be quite content treating
him as a genuine hero and overall good guy. In fact, if not for the
gay community calling him out, I'm not sure anyone would have even
known he was gay. Go figure.

On Jan 13, 1:28 pm, dick thompson <rhomp2...@earthlink.net> wrote:
> Did he congratulate him on being gay and actually being a hero or did he
> just call him a hero without reference to his being gay.  If the latter
> then obviously Obama is a homophobe.
>
> On 01/13/2011 11:45 AM, Tommy News wrote:
>
> > President Obama calls gay intern who helped save Giffords' life a hero
>
> > by GoPride.com News Staff
>
> > Tucson, Ariz. During a memorial for the Tucson shooting victims on
> > Wednesday, President Obama singled out the heroes from that day,
> > including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' gay intern, Daniel Hernandez.
>
> > Hernandez had only been working for Giffords for five days when the
> > shooting started on Saturday.
>
> > 20-year-old Hernandez was volunteering at the community event and was
> > standing just feet away from Giffords when Jared Loughner opened fire
> > on the congresswoman. Hernandez immediately rushed to her side and
> > tried to comfort her.
>
> > "We are grateful to Daniel Hernandez," President Obama said. "Daniel,
> > I am sorry, you may deny it, but you are a hero, but we have decided
> > you are a hero. Because you ran through the chaos to minister to your
> > boss, and helped keep her alive."
>
> > Hernandez, who was seated in the front row next to the President,
> > stood awkwardly as the President showered praise on him. Hernandez
> > smiled shyly, and then sat back down.
>
> > During the memorial for the victims, Obama also recognized the other
> > heroes from the day, including the woman who grabbed the magazine clip
> > before Loughner could jam it back into the gun, and the men who
> > tackled him until police arrived.
>
> > "When I heard gunshots, my first instinct was to head towards the
> > congresswoman to make sure that she was OK," Daniel Hernandez
> > Hernandez told ABC's "This Week" on Sunday.
>
> > "I had to lift up the congresswoman, because she was severely injured,
> > and I wanted to make sure that she was able to breathe OK because
> > there was so much blood," he said. "We had to grab whatever we could.
> > And because we were outside of a grocery store, the employees from the
> > grocery store brought out smocks that are used by the meat department
> > that were clean, so that we may use them as bandages, because that was
> > really the only clean cloth that we had."
>
> > "The congresswoman was alert. She was able to hold my hand when I
> > asked her if she could hear me," said Hernendez.
>
> > Hernandez, a junior at the University of Arizona, is gay and is a
> > member of the City of Tucson Commission on Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and
> > Transgender Issues. "She's been a great ally to the LGBT community,"
> > Hernandez said of Giffords during an interview with the Dallas Voice.
>
> > Giffords is a member of the House LGBT Equality Caucus and is a strong
> > supporter of gay rights, including gay marriage.
>
> > Six people, including a 9-year-old girl, were killed on Saturday.
>
> > More:
> >http://chicago.gopride.com/news/article.cfm/articleid/15827089/presid...

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H. Res. 1

RE: Resolved, That Daniel J. Strodel of the District of Columbia be, and is hereby, chosen Chief Administrative Officer of the House of Representatives.
 
Sir,

   I must ask where the District of Columbia has been authorized a Seat in the House of Representatives.  According to my reading of the Constitution, where the Republic Union known as the United States of America gets it's authority, Article 1 Section 2 discusses the qualifications of a Representative and each Representative must represent a State.  As we all know, the District of Columbia is NOT a State.  It is just a DISTRICT, therefore has no representation. 
 
   Now, my question is what is your intent to rectify the situation?  Removal of the unauthorized human would be a start, and Removal of the Seat would seem to be in order.





sign me
daniel karl seigler, born in Fort Benning, Cussetta County, Georgia, son of
Clarance Roland O'Neil Seigler, born in Ozark, Dale County, Alabama, son of
Thomas Malcolm Seigler, born somewhere in Alabama



Re: President Obama calls gay intern Daniel Hernandez, who helped save Giffords' life a hero

The man who saved President Ford's life in that assassination attempt
was also gay. Sadly, he drank himself to death after his homophobic
family in Detroit found out he was gay and dis-owned him.

On 1/13/11, Tommy News <tommysnews@gmail.com> wrote:
> Wrong twisted pretzel glue logic yet again, Tricky Dickie
>
> On 1/13/11, dick thompson <rhomp2002@earthlink.net> wrote:
>> Did he congratulate him on being gay and actually being a hero or did he
>> just call him a hero without reference to his being gay. If the latter
>> then obviously Obama is a homophobe.
>>
>> On 01/13/2011 11:45 AM, Tommy News wrote:
>>> President Obama calls gay intern who helped save Giffords' life a hero
>>>
>>> by GoPride.com News Staff
>>>
>>> Tucson, Ariz. — During a memorial for the Tucson shooting victims on
>>> Wednesday, President Obama singled out the heroes from that day,
>>> including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' gay intern, Daniel Hernandez.
>>>
>>> Hernandez had only been working for Giffords for five days when the
>>> shooting started on Saturday.
>>>
>>> 20-year-old Hernandez was volunteering at the community event and was
>>> standing just feet away from Giffords when Jared Loughner opened fire
>>> on the congresswoman. Hernandez immediately rushed to her side and
>>> tried to comfort her.
>>>
>>> "We are grateful to Daniel Hernandez," President Obama said. "Daniel,
>>> I am sorry, you may deny it, but you are a hero, but we have decided
>>> you are a hero. Because you ran through the chaos to minister to your
>>> boss, and helped keep her alive."
>>>
>>> Hernandez, who was seated in the front row next to the President,
>>> stood awkwardly as the President showered praise on him. Hernandez
>>> smiled shyly, and then sat back down.
>>>
>>> During the memorial for the victims, Obama also recognized the other
>>> heroes from the day, including the woman who grabbed the magazine clip
>>> before Loughner could jam it back into the gun, and the men who
>>> tackled him until police arrived.
>>>
>>> "When I heard gunshots, my first instinct was to head towards the
>>> congresswoman to make sure that she was OK," Daniel Hernandez
>>> Hernandez told ABC's "This Week" on Sunday.
>>>
>>> "I had to lift up the congresswoman, because she was severely injured,
>>> and I wanted to make sure that she was able to breathe OK because
>>> there was so much blood," he said. "We had to grab whatever we could.
>>> And because we were outside of a grocery store, the employees from the
>>> grocery store brought out smocks that are used by the meat department
>>> that were clean, so that we may use them as bandages, because that was
>>> really the only clean cloth that we had."
>>>
>>> "The congresswoman was alert. She was able to hold my hand when I
>>> asked her if she could hear me," said Hernendez.
>>>
>>> Hernandez, a junior at the University of Arizona, is gay and is a
>>> member of the City of Tucson Commission on Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and
>>> Transgender Issues. "She's been a great ally to the LGBT community,"
>>> Hernandez said of Giffords during an interview with the Dallas Voice.
>>>
>>> Giffords is a member of the House LGBT Equality Caucus and is a strong
>>> supporter of gay rights, including gay marriage.
>>>
>>> Six people, including a 9-year-old girl, were killed on Saturday.
>>>
>>>
>>> More:
>>> http://chicago.gopride.com/news/article.cfm/articleid/15827089/president-obama-calls-gay-intern-who-helped-save-giffords-life-a-hero
>>>
>>
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Supreme Court: If Police are outside your home and beleive you are flushing drugs, they can enter your home without a search warrant




Supreme Court: If Police are outside your home and beleive you are flushing drugs, they can enter your home without a search warrant

Our freedoms are slowly being usurped. The Supreme Court is claiming that law enforcement officers may enter your home if they suspect you are flushing evidence down the toilet.

Mark Sherman reports, via Macon.com:

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court isn't given to offering advice to people who are breaking the law, even in a minor way. But some justices on Wednesday effectively told those who might be sitting at home smoking pot when the police come knocking: Do not flush the toilet.

Because if officers smell the pot from the outside, think the occupants are trying to get rid of it and burst in without a search warrant to prevent evidence from being destroyed, some justices indicated they would approve.

The discussion arose during the court's consideration of a case about when the police can enter a home without a search warrant, which the Constitution normally requires.

It's just the 4th Amendment. Why should the Supreme Court hold up our rights given to us under the 4th Amendment? The courts are giving law enforcement officers powers that were never intended.

There are exceptions, and the state of Kentucky argued that its treatment of Hollis King should be one such exception.

The issue for the justices is whether police action - in this case, a knock on a door - that triggers a reaction on the other side - like noise that suggests destruction of evidence - should justify the warrantless entry.

New Justice Elena Kagan said she worries the court could make it too easy for police to avoid the time and effort of getting warrant "in a very wide variety of cases." She said that view would require only that officers said they smelled "pot, we heard noise."

Yet several justices suggested that as long as the police reasonably suspect something illegal is going on and do not use deception or illegal means to gain entry, the search probably doesn't violate the Constitution.

Continue reading>>>

Entering someone's home without a warrant is illegal, according to the 4th Amendment. I would like to point out that if anyone can hear your toilet flush while outside your home, you must have a huge toilet. Hearing this noise will allow a Police officer to violate your 4th amendment right and enter your home without a search warrant.

I wonder why the Founding Fathers put this in the U.S. Constitution?

'The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.'

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Re: President Obama calls gay intern Daniel Hernandez, who helped save Giffords' life a hero

Wrong twisted pretzel glue logic yet again, Tricky Dickie

On 1/13/11, dick thompson <rhomp2002@earthlink.net> wrote:
> Did he congratulate him on being gay and actually being a hero or did he
> just call him a hero without reference to his being gay. If the latter
> then obviously Obama is a homophobe.
>
> On 01/13/2011 11:45 AM, Tommy News wrote:
>> President Obama calls gay intern who helped save Giffords' life a hero
>>
>> by GoPride.com News Staff
>>
>> Tucson, Ariz. — During a memorial for the Tucson shooting victims on
>> Wednesday, President Obama singled out the heroes from that day,
>> including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' gay intern, Daniel Hernandez.
>>
>> Hernandez had only been working for Giffords for five days when the
>> shooting started on Saturday.
>>
>> 20-year-old Hernandez was volunteering at the community event and was
>> standing just feet away from Giffords when Jared Loughner opened fire
>> on the congresswoman. Hernandez immediately rushed to her side and
>> tried to comfort her.
>>
>> "We are grateful to Daniel Hernandez," President Obama said. "Daniel,
>> I am sorry, you may deny it, but you are a hero, but we have decided
>> you are a hero. Because you ran through the chaos to minister to your
>> boss, and helped keep her alive."
>>
>> Hernandez, who was seated in the front row next to the President,
>> stood awkwardly as the President showered praise on him. Hernandez
>> smiled shyly, and then sat back down.
>>
>> During the memorial for the victims, Obama also recognized the other
>> heroes from the day, including the woman who grabbed the magazine clip
>> before Loughner could jam it back into the gun, and the men who
>> tackled him until police arrived.
>>
>> "When I heard gunshots, my first instinct was to head towards the
>> congresswoman to make sure that she was OK," Daniel Hernandez
>> Hernandez told ABC's "This Week" on Sunday.
>>
>> "I had to lift up the congresswoman, because she was severely injured,
>> and I wanted to make sure that she was able to breathe OK because
>> there was so much blood," he said. "We had to grab whatever we could.
>> And because we were outside of a grocery store, the employees from the
>> grocery store brought out smocks that are used by the meat department
>> that were clean, so that we may use them as bandages, because that was
>> really the only clean cloth that we had."
>>
>> "The congresswoman was alert. She was able to hold my hand when I
>> asked her if she could hear me," said Hernendez.
>>
>> Hernandez, a junior at the University of Arizona, is gay and is a
>> member of the City of Tucson Commission on Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and
>> Transgender Issues. "She's been a great ally to the LGBT community,"
>> Hernandez said of Giffords during an interview with the Dallas Voice.
>>
>> Giffords is a member of the House LGBT Equality Caucus and is a strong
>> supporter of gay rights, including gay marriage.
>>
>> Six people, including a 9-year-old girl, were killed on Saturday.
>>
>>
>> More:
>> http://chicago.gopride.com/news/article.cfm/articleid/15827089/president-obama-calls-gay-intern-who-helped-save-giffords-life-a-hero
>>
>
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The Right of Resistance



The good folks at the Foundation for Economic Education reposted an article this week that I wrote for The Freeman back in 2000.

Here's my hat tip to moderation…..

The Freeman | Ideas On Liberty // http://www.thefreemanonline.org

The Right of Resistance
by James Bovard • August 2000 • Vol. 50/Issue 8

James Bovard is the author of Freedom in Chains: The Rise of the State and the Demise of the Citizen (St. Martin's Press).

Many politicians talk as if citizens were obliged both to revere and obey their government. But there are few things more dangerous than swallowing the notion that government is entitled to boundless obedience from the people under its power. Throughout history, governments have occasionally overstepped the bounds of their legitimate power. What should be done when government betrays its promises?

John Locke's work Two Treatises of Government was written in the 1680s, when Englishmen were chafing under the growing tyranny of the Stuart kings. Locke wrote, "That subjects, or foreigners attempting by force on the properties of any people, may be resisted with force, is agreed on all hands. But that magistrates doing the same thing, may be resisted, hath of late been denied: as if those who had the greatest privileges and advantages by the law, had thereby a power to break those laws, by which alone they were set in a better place than their brethren."

Locke showed how the power of a ruler must not be placed on a higher moral plateau than that of any other potential criminal: "Should a Robber break into my House, and with a Dagger at my Throat, make me seal Deeds to convey my Estate to him, would this give him any title? Just such a title by his Sword, has an unjust Conqueror, who force some into Submission. The injury and the Crime is equal, whether committed by the wearer of a Crown, or some petty villain. The title of the offender, and the number of his Followers make no difference in the Offence, unless it be to aggravate it."

No concept of sovereignty can justify extending government power beyond the bounds of political right. It is absurd to expect governments to descend into barbarism gradually, step by step­as if there were a train schedule to political hell and people could get off at any stop along the way. People forget how quickly the forms of political power can turn civilized behavior into unrestrained pillage and mass violence. Most people strolling the streets of German towns in the late 1920s would never have suspected that, within a few years, the government would launch a policy of genocide. Similarly, someone visiting Moscow in 1913 or Phnom Penh in 1969 would likely not have seen the barbarity just around the bend. Politicians rarely give formal warnings of how they intend to abuse the power they acquire.

Once ideas and principles consecrating unlimited power are accepted, it is only a matter of time until that power is used in ways that shock those who acquiesced to its expansion. As Senator John Taylor observed in 1821, "Tyranny in form is the first step towards tyranny in substance."


Mere Parlor Talk

Discussions of political right are mere parlor talk unless citizens have a right to resist tyranny. The New Hampshire Bill of Rights, written in 1784, declared: "The doctrine of nonresistance against arbitrary power, and oppression, is absurd, slavish, and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind." Yet much of the political and academic establishment shudders at even considering the right to resist.*

Any discussion about the right of resistance must begin by recognizing the extent to which government is already the aggressor. As Locke wrote, "There is only one thing which gathers people for sedition, and that is oppression."

History is replete with tyrannical governments that deserved to be destroyed by their victims. At what point can we say that a government has placed itself in a state of war with the citizenry? By what standard or measure can people know when they have a right to forcibly resist illegitimate power? In Bosnia, in Rwanda, or in other areas where mass murders have recently occurred, the citizen obviously may use as much deadly force as necessary to prevent himself and his family from being slaughtered by rampaging government forces or by murderous private mobs acting with government sanction. And in the United States, blacks clearly had a right to peacefully resist segregationist laws in the 1950s and 1960s and had a right to violently resist attacks on them by sheriffs and private citizens.

Unfortunately, there is no lucid standard by which a citizen can know precisely when he must cease obeying. And, regrettably, much of the political establishment, like the Anglican Church in the 1680s, will preach the duty of passive resistance all the way to the entrance of the political slaughterhouse.


Effective Nonviolent Action

Nonviolent action is, in most cases, a far more effective means to curb power than is violent resistance. Killing an oppressive politician usually only generates more sympathy and sanctity for the engine of coercion that he commanded. Many attempted or successful assassinations became pretexts to redouble oppression. The first necessity for peaceful reform is for people to realize how much power they have to bring government to its knees. At the height of the Vietnam War protests, fewer than 5 percent of the American public were actively protesting the war, yet those protests psychologically paralyzed the Johnson administration and played a role in the Nixon administration's paranoia of dissent that led to Watergate.

Intelligent, targeted, decisive protests can puncture the sense of legitimacy that cossets both Leviathan's commanders and employees. And once the government's aura of legitimacy is shattered, the "transaction costs" of tyranny skyrocket. Each person who understands his rights and liberties is another barrier against the wrongful expansion of government power. As sixteenth-century French philosopher Etienne de la Boétie observed, "It is the inhabitants themselves who permit, or, rather, bring about their own subjection, since by ceasing to submit they would put an end to their servitude."

In the final analysis, the government's sovereignty is limited by the character strength of its subjects. If the citizens have self-respect and courage­and the means to defend their rights­government abuses will be curbed. Historian Thomas Babington Macaulay, writing in 1832, asserted that the English in the 1500s were "beyond all doubt, a free people. They had not, indeed, the outward show of freedom; but they had the reality. They had not a good constitution­but they had that . . . which, without any constitution, keeps rulers in awe­force, and the spirit to use it."

There may come a time when peaceful resistance becomes futile. As Locke wrote, "Men can never be secure from tyranny, if there be no means to escape it, till they are perfectly under it." In the same way that any citizen has a right to defend himself against a mugger or a murderer, so citizens in general have a right to defend themselves against violent political predators.

As Joyce Lee Malcolm showed in her 1994 book, To Keep and Bear Arms: The Origins of an Anglo-American Right, the Second Amendment was based on recognition that people had the right to possess the means to resist government tyranny. Discussions on federal gun control measures often focus on whether specific guns serve "sporting purposes." However, if the Founding Fathers had added a clause to the Second Amendment specifying that people will be "permitted to own guns for hunting rabbits," the Constitution would have been overwhelmingly rejected because Americans would have been alerted to how far politicians intended to stretch their power.

The citizen's right to resist government is directly proportionate to the amount of force government uses against the citizen. If the government generally respects the rights of the citizen, then the citizen should give the government the benefit of the doubt when it occasionally errs or exceeds its legitimate power. When abuses do occur, citizens are obliged to seek every peaceful remedy before forcibly resisting.


Respecting the Innocent

Regardless of whether Americans consider the federal government illegitimate, attacks that kill innocent people are never justified. The 1995 bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building was inexcusable, and the people who carried out the bombing deserve death sentences. Citizens have as little right to kill innocent government agents as government agents have to kill peaceful private citizens.

If statists fear popular resistance, perhaps government should violate fewer rights. The militia movement in this country became highly active only after the federal killings at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, and Waco, Texas. The fact that no federal officials have been held legally responsible for the deaths made many people presume, not surprisingly, that the government is out of control and a dire threat to their rights and safety.

Government does not have rights in itself, but only possesses such powers as are necessary to safeguard and uphold the rights of the citizens. The more power that sovereignty supposedly confers on government, the more the doctrine of sovereignty defeats the entire purpose for which government was created. When politicians stretch their power beyond reasonable bounds, it is they, not the citizens resisting political oppression, who destroy the legitimacy of the state.

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Article printed from The Freeman | Ideas On Liberty: http://www.thefreemanonline.org

URL to article: http://www.thefreemanonline.org/featured/the-right-of-resistance/

Re: President Obama calls gay intern Daniel Hernandez, who helped save Giffords' life a hero

Did he congratulate him on being gay and actually being a hero or did he
just call him a hero without reference to his being gay. If the latter
then obviously Obama is a homophobe.

On 01/13/2011 11:45 AM, Tommy News wrote:
> President Obama calls gay intern who helped save Giffords' life a hero
>
> by GoPride.com News Staff
>
> Tucson, Ariz. — During a memorial for the Tucson shooting victims on
> Wednesday, President Obama singled out the heroes from that day,
> including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' gay intern, Daniel Hernandez.
>
> Hernandez had only been working for Giffords for five days when the
> shooting started on Saturday.
>
> 20-year-old Hernandez was volunteering at the community event and was
> standing just feet away from Giffords when Jared Loughner opened fire
> on the congresswoman. Hernandez immediately rushed to her side and
> tried to comfort her.
>
> "We are grateful to Daniel Hernandez," President Obama said. "Daniel,
> I am sorry, you may deny it, but you are a hero, but we have decided
> you are a hero. Because you ran through the chaos to minister to your
> boss, and helped keep her alive."
>
> Hernandez, who was seated in the front row next to the President,
> stood awkwardly as the President showered praise on him. Hernandez
> smiled shyly, and then sat back down.
>
> During the memorial for the victims, Obama also recognized the other
> heroes from the day, including the woman who grabbed the magazine clip
> before Loughner could jam it back into the gun, and the men who
> tackled him until police arrived.
>
> "When I heard gunshots, my first instinct was to head towards the
> congresswoman to make sure that she was OK," Daniel Hernandez
> Hernandez told ABC's "This Week" on Sunday.
>
> "I had to lift up the congresswoman, because she was severely injured,
> and I wanted to make sure that she was able to breathe OK because
> there was so much blood," he said. "We had to grab whatever we could.
> And because we were outside of a grocery store, the employees from the
> grocery store brought out smocks that are used by the meat department
> that were clean, so that we may use them as bandages, because that was
> really the only clean cloth that we had."
>
> "The congresswoman was alert. She was able to hold my hand when I
> asked her if she could hear me," said Hernendez.
>
> Hernandez, a junior at the University of Arizona, is gay and is a
> member of the City of Tucson Commission on Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and
> Transgender Issues. "She's been a great ally to the LGBT community,"
> Hernandez said of Giffords during an interview with the Dallas Voice.
>
> Giffords is a member of the House LGBT Equality Caucus and is a strong
> supporter of gay rights, including gay marriage.
>
> Six people, including a 9-year-old girl, were killed on Saturday.
>
>
> More:
> http://chicago.gopride.com/news/article.cfm/articleid/15827089/president-obama-calls-gay-intern-who-helped-save-giffords-life-a-hero
>

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Re: Stupidity In Action: Rep. Peter King, GOP Fear Monger Moron, To Introduce Inadequate Gun-Control Legislation

At 01:12 PM 1/13/2011, you wrote:
>Without any guns, there can be no guns to fire.
>
>Get rid of all guns gradually, over time. Start NOW!

How will legislating a ban on guns .... get rid of technology?

Currently, for instance, the Government has BANNED (some) drugs.
As is readily evident, that BAN has not eliminated (in fact quite the
opposite) those drugs.

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a civilized nation has full gun registration! Our streets
will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world
will follow our lead into the future! -- Adolph Hitler, 1935

>On 1/13/11, MJ <michaelj@america.net> wrote:
> > At 01:05 PM 1/13/2011, you wrote:
> >>Hooray for them!
> >>
> >>Repeal the Second Amendment and end the gun violence!
> >
> >
> > How do you figure?
> >
> > Regard$,
> > --MJ
> >
> > Laws that forbid the carrying of arms ... disarm only those who are
> > neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Such laws make
> > things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they
> > serve rather to encourage than prevent homicides, for an unarmed man
> > may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed one. -- Thomas
> > Jefferson quoting Cesare Beccaria, Criminologist 1764 (1743-1826)
> >
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Re: Stupidity In Action: Rep. Peter King, GOP Fear Monger Moron, To Introduce Inadequate Gun-Control Legislation

Without any guns, there can be no guns to fire.

Get rid of all guns gradually, over time. Start NOW!

On 1/13/11, MJ <michaelj@america.net> wrote:
> At 01:05 PM 1/13/2011, you wrote:
>>Hooray for them!
>>
>>Repeal the Second Amendment and end the gun violence!
>
>
> How do you figure?
>
> Regard$,
> --MJ
>
> Laws that forbid the carrying of arms ... disarm only those who are
> neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Such laws make
> things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they
> serve rather to encourage than prevent homicides, for an unarmed man
> may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed one. -- Thomas
> Jefferson quoting Cesare Beccaria, Criminologist 1764 (1743-1826)
>
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CIA Asset Susan Lindauer Blows The Whistle On 9/11, Iraq

CIA Asset Susan Lindauer Blows The Whistle On 9/11, Iraq
http://beforeitsnews.com/story/350/199/CIA_Asset_Susan_Lindauer_blows_the_whistle_on_9_11,_Iraq.html

Is Lindauer a legitimate whistle blower? Or, is she a disinformation agent?
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Re: Stupidity In Action: Rep. Peter King, GOP Fear Monger Moron, To Introduce Inadequate Gun-Control Legislation

At 01:05 PM 1/13/2011, you wrote:
>Hooray for them!
>
>Repeal the Second Amendment and end the gun violence!


How do you figure?

Regard$,
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Laws that forbid the carrying of arms ... disarm only those who are
neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Such laws make
things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they
serve rather to encourage than prevent homicides, for an unarmed man
may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed one. -- Thomas
Jefferson quoting Cesare Beccaria, Criminologist 1764 (1743-1826)

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Re: Stupidity In Action: Rep. Peter King, GOP Fear Monger Moron, To Introduce Inadequate Gun-Control Legislation

Hooray for them!

Repeal the Second Amendment and end the gun violence!

On 1/13/11, Keith In Köln <keithintampa@gmail.com> wrote:
> Like Tom, here are a group of entites that support the repeal of the 2nd
> Amendment:
>
> The Communist Party USA:
>
> http://www.politicalaffairs.net/
>
>
> the Institute For Policy Studies:
>
> http://www.ips-dc.org/
>
>
> The Chicago Democratic Socialists of America:
>
> http://www.chicagodsa.org/
>
>
> Democratic Socialists of America:
>
> http://www.dsausa.org/dsa.html
>
>
> Code Pink:
>
> http://www.codepink4peace.org/article.php?list=type&type=5
>
>
> Alliance For Democracy:
>
> http://www.thealliancefordemocracy.org/
>
> International Socialists Organization:
>
> http://www.internationalsocialist.org/
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 9:44 PM, studio <tlack@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Jan 12, 1:07 pm, Tommy News <tommysn...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Stupidity In Action: Rep. Peter King, GOP Fear Mongering Moron, To
>> > Introduce Inadequate Gun-Control Legislation.
>> >
>> > "Rep. Peter King, a Republican from New York, is planning to introduce
>> > legislation that would make it illegal to bring a gun within 1,000 feet
>> > of a government official, according to a person familiar with the
>> > congressman's intentions."
>>
>> I agree that's about the stupidest thing I've heard any law-maker say
>> yet.
>>
>> "You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities
>> they can think of, and some that are beyond imagination". -Charles
>> Degaulle
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The Lone Gunman Theory of Legislation

The Lone Gunman Theory of Legislation
http://reason.com/archives/2011/01/12/the-lone-gunman-theory-of-legi

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"Tea Party War Hawk" Sarah Palin's effort to defuse controversy backfires with 'blood libel' comment

Sarah Palin's effort to defuse controversy backfires with 'blood libel' comment

("Tea Party Hawk" seems like a hypocritical misnomer to me, as the
majority of the defecit was caused by Bush's illegal wars and
astronomical outrageous "defense" spending. -T)

By Karen Tumulty and Peter Wallsten

The presidential-quality stagecraft was there: an American flag over
Sarah Palin's left shoulder and another over her heart. So was the
rhetorical polish, with its invocations of the Founding Fathers and
the Constitution, God and Ronald Reagan.

And after four days of near silence, the timing guaranteed that Palin
would be written into the story line of President Obama's visit to
comfort grief-stricken Tucson after a massacre there.

But if the statement that Palin put out Wednesday was designed to tamp
down the criticism of her incendiary style of politics, it turned out
to have the opposite effect.

Within minutes of the video and its accompanying Facebook post going
viral on the Internet, all of that was subsumed by a new furor over
Palin's choice of two words to describe her critics in the media:
"blood libel."

Her choice of that provocative phrase underscored the challenge and
the contradiction that confront the Republican former Alaska governor
as she undertakes a new strategy to retool her image and elevate her
stature in preparation for a possible presidential run in 2012.

A presidential campaign would pit Palin's ambition against her
impulses and test her ability to expand her reach beyond the narrow
slice of the population that rallies behind her.

Palin has often invited controversy and helped to shape the national
debate by using words as blunt instruments - such as her memorable
accusation that Obama has made a practice of "palling around with
terrorists" and her contention that his health-care law would include
"death panels. " It has been a hallmark of her rise and source of her
political star power.

Her statement Wednesday brought yet another visceral response, though
this time, it was one Palin did not necessarily intend or expect.

"Journalists and pundits should not manufacture a blood libel that
serves only to incite the very hatred and violence they purport to
condemn," Palin said in the video. "That is reprehensible."

Blood libel - a phrase that other conservatives have also used in
recent days - was her way of decrying liberal critics who had tried to
draw a connection between Palin's campaign rhetoric and the Tucson
shootings.

But it also has a specific, ugly historical context. Blood libel is
the centuries-old anti-Semitic myth that Jews use the blood of
Christian children for rituals such as baking unleavened bread during
Passover. It was used to justify persecution of Jews.

Her choice of words immediately overshadowed the point she was trying to make.

"Her blessing is also her problem: When the spotlight comes easily,
you don't get to make unforced errors," said Noam Neusner, who was a
speechwriter and Jewish community outreach adviser to former president
George W. Bush.

Palin drew swift, fierce condemnation from liberals and some Jewish groups.

"A particularly heinous term," said David A. Harris, president of the
National Jewish Democratic Council. It had additional resonance
because the apparent target of the Tucson attacks was a Jewish
congresswoman.

But the defense of her was also vehement, and from some unexpected sources.

Liberal Harvard University law professor Alan Dershowitz told the blog
biggovernment.com that blood libel has taken on "broad metaphorical
meaning" and said there was "nothing improper and certainly nothing
anti-Semitic in Sarah Palin using the term to characterize what she
reasonably believes are false accusations."

Although Palin has often been at the center of political storms over
the two-and-a-half years since she emerged on the national scene, her
allies say the onslaught she has faced since the Tucson shootings has
shaken her like none before.

Palin officials confirmed a report by ABC News that Palin has received
an unprecedented number of death threats since Saturday's shootings
and has been in conversations with security officials about the
matter. They declined to provide further details.

Much of the criticism has centered on a map that Palin put on her Web
site during the 2010 elections, which used cross-hair symbols to
depict the districts of 20 congressional Democrats she had targeted
for defeat. One of those was a Tucson shooting victim, Rep. Gabrielle
Giffords (Ariz.), who had said at the time that Palin's map was an
invitation to violence.

However, as more facts emerged about the shooting suspect, Jared
Loughner, it grew increasingly apparent that the demons that drove him
had little, if any, connection to partisan politics.

On the video, Palin appeared more subdued than usual - drawn and
older-looking, her eyes noticeably red.

"I've spent the past few days reflecting on what happened and praying
for guidance," she said.

The tragedy in Tucson occurred as the former governor was diving into
domestic and foreign policy issues in an effort to build a more
substantive political identity. The strategy, in which Palin intends
to step up her involvement in public policy debates and embark on
overseas trips to nations such as Israel, is in its early stages.

Last month, she toured earthquake-ravaged Haiti with Franklin Graham,
who runs a charity there, and whose father, evangelist Billy Graham,
has been the counselor of presidents since Harry Truman.

Aides framed her new approach as a direct response to critics,
particularly some Republicans, who in recent months have dismissed her
as a celebrity and questioned her intellectual heft.

Palin's team, a small and discreet circle of advisers who have gained
her trust, knows that she has a long way to go. They say she has been
speaking out for months on substantive issues but has received little
credit from Washington-based journalists and the Republican
establishment.

Palin has been working to brand herself a "tea party hawk," meaning
she supports shrinking government but argues against cuts at the
Pentagon. In a time of economic turmoil and anger at Wall Street, she
set out to promote free markets but criticizes big corporations that
sought political power to tilt the playing field in their favor.

As an early experiment, when Palin delivered an address in Phoenix
late last year on monetary policy, her team leaked excerpts to the
conservative National Review. Her comments - criticizing a Federal
Reserve bond-buying program intended to stimulate the economy - drew
widespread attention, putting her in the middle of a complex policy
debate. It also prompted some GOP strategists to recognize that even
the lofty Fed could be a populist political issue.

Her Wednesday statement was another opportunity to demonstrate her
seriousness and speak to those beyond her enthusiastic base. Instead,
with two words, she wound up back in a familiar place.

"Whatever explanation she could give to use such a loaded term, the
truth is she shouldn't have," Neusner said. "She doesn't have to turn
the other cheek; she was, in fact, maligned in a gross and unfair way.
But she could have said everything she said without that phrase.

"When people are trying to be leaders," he added, "they need to
attract supporters, not repel them."

Staff writers William Wan and Dan Balz contributed to this report.


More:
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The Soros propaganda machine and shale gas




The Soros propaganda machine and shale gas

Ed Lasky, American Thinker 1/11/2011 America's huge reserves of natural gas-bearing shale offer lower energy prices, and the hope of increasing our energy independence. George Soros is determined to use his wiles and network of grant recipients to hobble development of America's energy ace in the hole. The movie Gasland came out of nowhere to [...]

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Liberal Death Wishes Against Conservatives




Liberal Death Wishes Against Conservatives

The liberals and left-wing media have been proven hypocrites and all-out liars once again. Their narrative was exposed when these political hacks attempted to blame conservatives, talk show hosts, radio hosts and anyone else to the right of them for the assassination attempt on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.

They wax poetic about the violence, hate speech, threatening rhetoric and vitriol as if only those on the right are guilty. As a blogger, I generally stay away from violent threat and so forth. However, I do enjoy exposing the lies perpetrated by the left-wing and their media cohorts.

The Media Research Center has put together a few examples of Liberal Death Wishes against Conservatives.

■ "I'm waiting for the day when I pick it up, pick up a newspaper or click on the Internet and find out he's choked to death on his own throat fat or a great big wad of saliva or something, you know, whatever. Go away, Rush, you make me sick!" — Left-wing radio host Mike Malloy on the January 4, 2010 Mike Malloy Show, talking about Rush Limbaugh going to the hospital after suffering chest pains.

■ "Rush Limbaugh is beginning to look more and more like Mr. Big, and at some point somebody's going to jam a CO2 pellet into his head and he's going to explode like a giant blimp. That day may come. Not yet, but we'll be there to watch." — Chris Matthews on MSNBC's Morning Meeting, October 13, 2009.

■ "So, Michele, slit your wrist! Go ahead! [chuckles] I mean, you know, why not? I mean, if you want to — or, you know, do us all a better thing. Move that knife up about two feet. I mean, start right at the collarbone." — Montel Williams talking about Representative Michele Bachmann on Air America's Montel Across America, September 2, 2009.

■ "He is an enemy of the country, in my opinion, Dick Cheney is, he is an enemy of the country.... You know, Lord, take him to the Promised Land, will you? See, I don't even wish the guy goes to Hell, I just want to get him the hell out of here." — Ed Schultz, The Ed Schultz Show, May 11, 2009.

■ Author/humorist P.J. O'Rourke: "It's the twilight of the radio loud-mouth, you know? I knew it from the moment the fat guy-"
Host Bill Maher: "You mean Rush Limbaugh and Sean-"
O'Rourke: "-from the moment the fat guy refused to share his drugs...."
Maher: "You mean the OxyContin that he was on?...Why couldn't he have croaked from it instead of Heath Ledger?" — HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher, February 8, 2008.

■ "I hear about Tony Snow and say to myself, well, stand up every day, lie to the American people at the behest of your dictator-esque boss and well, how could a cancer NOT grow in you. Work for Fox News, spinning the truth in to a billion knots and how can your gut not rot?" — San Francisco radio talk show host Charles Karel Bouley in a March 27, 2007 article at The Huffington Post that was later pulled "at the request of the author."

■ "I'm just saying if he did die, other people, more people would live. That's a fact." — Host Bill Maher on his HBO show Real Time, March 2, 2007, discussing how a few commenters at a left-wing blog were upset that an attempt to kill Vice President Cheney in Afghanistan had failed.

■ "Earlier today, a rental truck carried a half a million ballots from Palm Beach to the Florida Supreme Court there in Tallahassee. CNN had live helicopter coverage from the truck making its way up the Florida highway, and for a few brief moments, America held the hope that O.J. Simpson had murdered Katherine Harris." — Bill Maher on ABC's Politically Incorrect, November 30, 2000.

■ Host Tina Gulland: "I don't think I have any Jesse Helms defenders here. Nina?"
NPR's Nina Totenberg: "Not me. I think he ought to be worried about what's going on in the Good Lord's mind, because if there is retributive justice, he'll get AIDS from a transfusion, or one of his grandchildren will get it." — Exchange on the July 8, 1995 Inside Washington, after Helms said the government spends too much on AIDS.

■ "I hope his wife feeds him lots of eggs and butter and he dies early like many black men do, of heart disease....He is an absolutely reprehensible person." — USA Today columnist and Pacifica Radio talk show host Julianne Malveaux on Justice Clarence Thomas, November 4, 1994 PBS To the Contrary.

If you want more examples of how the media hides the hate speech from the left, while attempting to assign blame only to those on the right, check this out!

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GOP Leaders Hail Gun OK In N.H. Capitol

GOP Leaders Hail Gun OK In N.H. Capitol
http://www.boston.com/news/local/new_hampshire/articles/2011/01/12/gop_leaders_hail_gun_ok_in_nh_capitol/

CONCORD, N.H. — As a state representative, Al Baldasaro says he has been physically threatened multiple times. But he has always felt a measure of safety because New Hampshire’s laws permit him to carry a concealed weapon.

"This is why we are the safest state in the country,’’ said the former Marine, whose grandfather was mayor of Cambridge.

Now, the Republican says he feels even safer after legislators voted last week to overturn a ban on weapons in the State House and permit concealed weapons on the House floor and in the visitors’ gallery.

The moves were bold symbolic statements on gun rights driven by a slate of new pro-gun Republicans in the New Hampshire House. In the aftermath of a shooting rampage in Arizona over the weekend that left a congresswoman in critical condition and six others dead, they have taken on a grim practicality for some lawmakers who say threats of violence have become a fact of elected office.

Republicans said the shootings underscored the need for self-protection.

"It hasn’t changed my view at all,’’ said Baldasaro, who added that the tragedy in Arizona might have been averted. "The shame is that not one person had a gun."

New Hampshire is now one of seven states that allow weapons in a capitol, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

The vote to permit guns in the State House follows a sweep of office in November that left Republicans holding majorities in both houses of the Legislature. Only the governorship remains in Democratic control.

Governor John Lynch has no authority to override the decision, said his spokesman, Colin Manning. In Massachusetts, only law enforcement officials may carry guns in the State House.

New Hampshire Republican leaders said the push to permit weapons in the State House reflects a deeply entrenched belief in gun rights.

"It goes along with our tradition of supporting our constitutional right to keep and bear arms," said Shawn Jasper, deputy majority leader in the House.

Jasper said lifting the ban merely codified the practice of many legislators who have long carried concealed weapons into the State House and onto the floor, in violation of the rules. Moreover, he said, the move would not encourage violence.

"People with bad intent will still be able to get into the State House, which is a very open place," he said, noting that several doors are not covered by security officials and none are monitored by surveillance cameras. New Hampshire’s capitol is one of 23 in the country that have no metal detectors, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

But Democrats, who opposed the move, say restricting guns in the State House made sense.

"I don’t think it’s unreasonable in a chamber like the House, in this day and age, when rhetoric gets very heated," said Terie Norelli, the Democratic minority leader.

Democrats also said they are concerned about the impact that gun sightings will have on the 27,000 fourth-graders who visit the State House annually as part of the New Hampshire history curriculum. "I don’t think the [guns] are appropriate for a learning environment," said Stephen Shurtleff, a Democratic representative and former US marshal.

Weapons prohibitions in the gold-domed New Hampshire State House have been debated for years. Since 1971, weapons had been barred from the House chambers, Norelli said. In 1996, a Republican majority banned weapons from the capitol complex, including its legislative office building, and then lifted the ban in 2006, Norelli said. In 2009, the Democratic majority banned weapons from the complex after a group of gun-holding protesters shouted from the gallery after the defeat of a resolution promoting states’ rights.

Representative Henry A.L. Parkhurst, a Democrat, said at the rowdy hearing a man carrying a rifle had pointed his finger at him and mimed squeezing the trigger of a gun.

"So of course I am cautious," he said. "I make sure I know how to duck and run." But permitting weapons into the State House, he said, was not the answer.

"It’s not the place for them," said Parkhurst, who was wearing a bolo tie, a common fashion in Arizona, yesterday in honor of Representative Gabrielle Giffords and those who lost their lives.

Around the State House and legislative offices, the lift of the weapons prohibition remained the subject of talk yesterday — with some legislators ribbing one another about whether they were "packing." Others debated the finer points of the rule, such as what counts as a "weapon."

"Does this mean I can carry my machete?’’ Parkhurst said, prodding Baldasaro.

Sarah Schweitzer can be reached at schweitzer@globe.com.

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COMMIES PLANNING MASSIVE, MILITANT, EUROPEAN-STYLE ATTACKS




COMMIES PLANNING MASSIVE, MILITANT, EUROPEAN-STYLE ATTACKS

twg2a PitBull | January 13, 2011 at 09:34 | Categories: Communism/Marxism/Racism, hatriot speech, Unions | URL: http://wp.me/pMJTI-Ib

Commies are planning for massive militant attacks all over the United States.  We can thank the leaders of these terrorist organizations for ramping up the hateful violence.   Obama, Piven, Jones, White, and all the rest of you hateful criminals...... I hope you rot somewhere for what you're doing. AMERICAN PATRIOTS........PREPARE YOURSELVES. ************************************** Radicals who fantasize [...]

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