Burma Shave VI

Today's billboard campaign alongside the information superhighway is dedicated to gun owners in Virginia who are sick and tired of being abused by a Republican establishment that is not only non-supportive, but actively hostile to their rights.

Previous "Burma Shave" Signs:
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[For those not familiar with the Burma Shave roadside billboard campaign or the CCRA RKBA campaign]

Dee-dee-deescrimination?

The U.S. Surgeon General has reported that the likelihood of violence by people with mental illness is low. In fact, "the overall contribution of mental disorders to the total level of violence in society is exceptionally small." More often, people living with mental illness are the victims of violence. Acts of violence are exceptional.

So what's all the brouhaha about, and why is it right or fair?

I think it'd be a fitting unintended consequence if this law passes and then gets challenged under the Americans With Disabilities Act.

The Devolites is in the Details

We've talked about anti-gun Jeannemarie Devolites Davis before, including how her daughter was convicted of armed robbery. In the interest of helping to deny power to a wretched tyrant wannabe, here are some more accounts.

First, I want to head off any criticism that bringing her family into things is off-limits. First, it shows how well she who would control us controls that which she is immediately responsible for. (How does that line in "Sunshine" go? "He can't even run his own life, I'll be damned if he'll run mine...")

Second, she's not above dragging her opponent's family into the race:

The Fairfax County Commonwealth's Attorney is looking into whether a recent campaign flyer from state Sen. Jeanemarie Devolites Davis (R-Fairfax) went too far.

The flyer contains the home address and phone number for her opponent, Democrat Chap Peterson [sic], and his kids' names.

And she's not above exploiting her own brood for political advantage. Besides, any chair in a bar fight, sez I, and this deserves to be a broken bottle brawl.

Here's the link to the Fox News report "Virginia State Lawmaker's Daughter Goes on Crime Spree." In it we find:

The daughter of a leading northern Virginia state legislator pleaded guilty in federal court to armed robbery and faces up to 27 years in prison for a five-week crime spree that stretched from New York to Virginia.

Not only had young Ashley "served as the trio's driver or lookout, but she was responsible for selecting targets," and furthermore, she "knowingly and intentionally provided misleading information which hindered and delayed the investigation of this case."

So how did it work out?

As per The Washington Post:

The daughter of a leader in the Virginia House of Delegates was sentenced today to more than nine years in federal prison for her role in a gas-station robbery in Fairfax City that authorities said was one of a string of armed holdups in Virginia and New York last summer.

Not bad. I wonder if someone not so connected, who "knowingly and intentionally provided misleading information," and "intentionally persuade[d suspect Christopher Martin] to withhold information from law enforcement," would have received only a third of the sentence--and would serve their time in a "minimum security federal prison" at that?

The thing that really shows the Imperial Devolites arrogance more than anything is her condemnation of media coverage of the trial--God forbid a free press act as watchdogs of government activities, and report public record legal proceedings to her constituents:

"I think it's a shame that all the members of the press that are here today do not have the common decency to show a family some privacy during a difficult time."

You own the courts now, Jeannemarie? By what stretch of the imagination do you claim a right to privacy when the feral felon you raised faces the music for her predation on the people you supposedly represent? Although perhaps it helps explain why you want those folks unable to resist, and maybe return lethal force to those so debased as to threaten their lives over a cash drawer-full of bills.

Countertop is going so far as to work for Jeannemarie's opponent, Petersen. I can't go that far, since the guy went out of his way to explain to the voters how he's just as big a gungrabber as she is (Good Lord, what's with the stupid bow tie? He looks like freakin' Jimmy Olsen), including bragging about his NRA "F" rating, but I do understand and support gun owners sitting on their hands here, and letting the Republican establishment know in no uncertain terms that ambitious fascists with an "R" after their names are wholly unacceptable.

We're the Only Ones Billy Goat Gruff Enough

Accused corrupt cop Jerome Finnigan is cooperating with federal authorities in an attempt to “get someone bigger than himself,” law enforcement sources said Monday.

"Oh, you don't want to eat me," said Little Billy Goat Gruff to the Troll.

"My older brother will be coming over the bridge in just a moment, and he'll make a much bigger meal than I will."

What I don't get about this is, it suggests--if you can believe it--that corruption among Chicago "Only Ones" is not isolated, and that it goes up the ladder to God knows how high. Talk about the stuff of fairy tales!

My bet is they'll only nail Middle Billy Goat Gruff, and Big Billy Goat Gruff will continue gorging himself in the green pasture.

[Via Vaughn Croteau]

This Day in History: November 4

Peter Buise, under sentence of death for desertion, is further reprieved 'till Wednesday.

Intrigued by this solitary entry, I did some checking around. From the scant information available, I found the hapless Buise ultimately met a deserter's fate, reconfirming Washington's opinion about relying on the militia and "The few, therefore, who act upon Principles of disinterestedness."

I gotta say, with the rampant apathy I see while things are easy, I don't have a lot of confidence in either the involvement or the staying power of most gun owners should more serious and demanding commitments be required. And if I don't see it, I doubt those arrogantly rubbing mandates in our faces see it, either.