Tuesday, September 15, 2015

Response to Presidential Platform Survey Inquiry

This is a response from WarOnGuns Correspondent "Laocoön" to a "Cruz for President" followup inquiry regarding their Presidential Platform Survey.
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Dear Senator Cruz,

I've provided my concerns repeatedly, but they've been ignored. The only way to regain my support is to reverse your direction on legal immigration, 180 degrees. For the USA to have a hope of survival and of assimilating the flood of immigrants that has been accelerating since 1965, legal immigration must be slashed to zero for several decades, or at least back to the non-suicidal average levels (and criteria) that prevailed from the 1920s under President Coolidge through the 1950s under President Eisenhower.

Immigration is already an order of magnitude too high and too fast, but the policies you support would overwhelm us even more rapidly.

Well over 100 million Americans are unemployed, underemployed, or on some kind of welfare. 100% of the net jobs created in the USA since the year 2000 went to immigrants. We're underwater and drowning, yet you propose to open the flood gates wider, in some cases by a factor of 500% annually.

We're being culturally terraformed. Legal Hispanics, for example, are over 5 times as likely to identify with the Democrat party than the Republican party. Over-immigration is overwhelming the relatively conservative native born citizenry's voting control of the USA. The last 50 years since Kennedy's 1965 Immigration Act -- a Democrat Trojan Horse -- clearly show that we can't assimilate that many people that fast. Even if it were true that the second generations will vote like the average American -- which it isn't at these excessive, balkanizing levels -- and it's contrary to massive empirical evidence -- we would still lose the USA to the first generations, and the damage will be irreversible. It is our culture being assimilated and destroyed, along with our liberty, sovereignty, security, dignity, quality of life, freedom of movement, real per capita income, per capita national wealth, cost of living, standard of living, and our human and natural environments.

Please, see California. Do the Democrats have to gain an irreversible supermajority of a supermajority of the states before our side considers the overwhelming empirical evidence and realizes that open-immigration theory -- of the neo-Left-"Libertarians", of Julian Simon, of the Wall St Journal, of Rupert Murdoch, and of closet-Democrat Michael Bloomberg -- is fatally flawed? One cannot claim to be a conservative or a Republican while supporting immigration policies that will give Social Democrats and RINOs permanent control of the USA, the states, the courts, the police, the "security state", and the military.

America's history of immigration is not a morally binding suicide pact against future generations. Over-immigration is wrecking the USA, permanently. Trump, Santorum, Walker, and Carson have called for cutting legal immigration in the interest of American citizens first. Walker stepped up before Trump did. Santorum over a year ago. Carson just flipped, though he's still hedging. What are you waiting for?

Sincerely,
[Name Redacted]

P.S. By "legal Hispanics", I mean legal foreign born citizens and permanent residents. Illegals are of course more left leaning, whereas native born Hispanics are only 4.4 times as likely to identify with D over R. ... Based on Pew Research results.

BREAKING: LAX AZ GUN LAWS RESPONSIBLE FOR FREEWAY SHOOTINGS!

Phoenix Freeway Shootings: Amid Manhunt, Arizona Gun Laws Are Among The Country's Most Lenient [More]
You know, that's been bugging me ever since this story broke -- what the hell is wrong with Arizona that it has no laws against shooting random people driving cars on freeways? Obviously, the blood-on-its-hands "gun lobby" is running interference for manufacturer profits again!

Don't let the gun-humping ammosexuals make you feel unsafe! Write YOUR congressman and demand that we Close the Freeway Sniper Loophole!  Do it for the children.

Nice catch there, "reporter" Adam Lidgett! Keep this up and you're gonna go far.

Gun-Grabber Proposals, Including O’Malley’s, Getting More Outlandish and Laughable

In this case, though, O’Malley is throwing a “Hail Mary.” With Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton using up all the electoral oxygen in the room, and even undeclared Joe Biden drawing four time his numbers, O’Malley is currently coming in at three percent. That’s no small coincidence when you consider the number of estimated gun owners who will not go quietly into that good night.[More
How scared should we really be of a guy who's grand citizen disarmament plan gets fewer "retweets" and "favorites" -- by an order of magnitude -- than a Kim Kardashian selfie?

CA Gun-Free School Bill Separates Oath Keepers from ‘Only Ones’

Equally unsurprisingly, politically-motivated discrimination was a transparently unconstitutional pot-sweetener built into SB 707, in order to gain support from the retired police officer lobby: They will be exempt from the new law. It will only apply to us mundanes, and that includes retired military — sorry guys, thank you for your service, but you’re just not considered “qualified.” The ex-cops are good with that as long as they get theirs, and the hell with any pretense of equal protection. [More]
I see George Orwell is alive and well and living in Sacramento...

Decisions, Decisions


Let's see, I could spend money on a "fax blast," or I could simply send a tweet to my senators.

This:

Or this:

I'm paralyzed with indecision...

Social media: It's not just for kitten pictures any more.

The Devil in Miss Sloane

Jessica Chastain’s gun control thriller “Miss Sloane” has been picked up by EuropaCorp and production is set to begin in March 2016. [More]
Because nothing says "packed house" on date night like a movie about lobbyists.  Just ask Harvey.

I guess EuropaCorp had to do something with the profits from the gun-heavy "Taken" and "Transporter" series.

Oh, look, a sneak preview of Jessica's lobbying skills...

We're the Only Ones Reasonably Camera Shy Enough

California Deputies Shoot Man Recording Them with Phone After Fearing for Their Lives [More]
Hey, at least they had the decency to apologize, which, according to Sgt. Jason Ramos, they didn't need to do, because their actions were "reasonable."

[Via William T]

Florida Alert: Campus Carry

Tomorrow both the Florida House or Representatives and the Florida Senate will consider legislation to recognize the right to bear arms for self-defense on university campuses. [More]
If you're from Florida, or know someone who is, you know what to do.

So Much for the Content of Their Character

Sorry, Dr. King, Opposite Day "progressives" say it's the color of their skin that matters. And if you disagree, you're a racist. [More

I mean, if a Professor of Sociology like Adia Harvey Wingfield "teaches" that, who am I to argue?

[Via Michael G]

Adventures in Technology

I just responded to an email from one of the sites I write for, telling me they'd noticed I changed my password and wanting to make sure it was me and not a hacker.  My reply:
Yes-- I screwed up and thought I was logging into a different WordPress site and didn't realize my mistake until I had done the change.
Me and technology. I'd say I was made for simpler times, but truth be known, put me back in time a century and I'd starve there, too.
I finally got a "smart phone" over the weekend, replacing my old pull-start clamshell model. Me trying to learn how to use the damn thing is a clown show in itself, as is trying to text, where I am literally all thumbs.

And Now for Something Important

I sometimes forget the real reasons for the internet.

If We Knew You Were Coming, We'd Have Baked a Cake

Well, it was his wedding... [More]

I wonder who baked it, and what would have happened if a Christian baker had refused the order...

Welcome to the New LA

Nice building murals! [More]

Everybody remembers what happened when an artist tried to put this one up...?

Blast from the Past

I was researching something completely different this morning and came across this photo of Sarah Brady at my neighborhood park from when I was still living in SoCal. I realized this was where and when I was threatened by an "Only One" for presuming to ask a question without "legitimate credentials," giving eventual birth to the term "Authorized Journalists."

Nice unsecured guns by the "common sense gun safety" folks, eh? Oh well, I suppose if someone had been foolish enough to do a snatch and grab, there were plenty of legitimate credentials ready to open fire in the crowd.

Those who would disarm us demand to control everything, even a citizen asking a question of a public figure at a public event at a public place. And they'll use the force of the state to bend us to their will. It's the "progressive" way.

Things could have gone differently, had the man in the suit been a bit dumber and more kneejerk violence-prone, at which point, he'd have had a full continuum of force at his disposal. Naturally, when an indignant hive insect who witnessed the official intimidation attempt wrote a letter to the local paper, his beef was with gun activists "self-righteously cloaking themselves in the First Amendment," or some such language.

Want a quick example of what would happen if citizens didn't so "cloak themselves," and left everything to the "official" narrative spinners?

Realizing that the only job a guy like me could ever hope to get with a "real" newspaper would be delivering them, here's how my hometown paper imposed its ignorance on its readership over Operation Fast and Furious. Here's my response, which is confined to a niche readership, ensuring the record wouldn't be corrected for those exposed only to parroted talking points.