Notes from the Resistance...
FBI Confirm They Investigated Contract Hit on Federline
More and more, local officials are turning to the police to handle problems rather than working to resolve the problems themselves. These moves appear based on the notion that quality of life can best or most easily be enhanced at the point of a gun. Police forces in our country were never intended to serve as society's enforcers of "quality of life."
This is a good article by Bob Barr that introduces a new way of looking at increased government intervention in our lives, that is, as "quality control," or more accurately, "Total Quality Management." With the totalitarian process standards, of course, being defined by "upper management"...
Hey, don't think of us as "Only Ones," think of us as a cross-functional corrective action team!
Zero defects, anyone?
Suggesting that she might consider joining a ground-breaking lawsuit to stem the flow of illegal weapons, Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon met yesterday with New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg - the architect of that litigation - to talk about ways both cities can improve education and fight crime...It's like watching witch doctors preparing to sacrifice a goat.
Her meetings here also took place after Baltimore's deadliest weekend of the year, in which six people were killed - including three who were shot on the street in broad daylight.
"All of these incidents that are happening - all of these victims that are being killed - are from illegal guns," Dixon said as she stood outside New York's City Hall.
I strongly support the Second Amendment of the Constitution, which protects an individual’s right to keep and bear arms. Gun control is touted as a major crime-control measure. But some of the places with the strictest gun-control laws also have high violent-crime rates. Disarming law-abiding citizens does not prevent crime. The answer to violent crime is smart, effective, and aggressive law enforcement. The real effect of these gun-control measures is to place onerous restrictions on law-abiding citizens who use firearms for such legal activities as self-defense, sport-shooting, hunting, and collecting. I am committed to:
Strictly enforcing existing laws and severely punishing violent criminals.
Protecting the rights individual Americans enjoy under the Second Amendment.
So you're "committed to strictly enforcing" this?
And this?
And this?
And this?
And...
You wouldn't care to square any of that with this, would you?
Tell me something, Fred, you wouldn't be interested in responding to this, would you?
I know, I know: "Ron Paul can't win and this'll just help Hillary. The perfect is the enemy of the good. Politics is the art of compromise."
How's that working out for us?
I just posted about our latest audit yesterday:
http://redstradingpost.blogspot.com/2007/09/and-yet-another-atf-auditenough-is.html
I am prompting people to contact the Office of Inspector General for the Department of Justice. As I reported the other day the National Ombudsman is calling for a High Level Review of the ATF's treatment in our case:
http://redstradingpost.blogspot.com/2007/09/spotlighting-atf-abuse.html
I want to thank you for your continued support.
Thanks again,
Ryan
When General Washington heard that the British General Clinton had landed in New York September 19, 1776, he sent a hurried order to General Putnam to evacuate the city and join him on Harlem Heights. Putnam was ignorant of the route leading from the city, and his aide, Aaron Burr, offered to guide the troops. He got lost, and Captain Mead's Company suffered losses in a
skirmish with the pursuing British Light Calvary.
