A Wisconsin man convicted in federal court of transferring a machine gun has been denied a request to stay out of prison while he fights the conviction.
There is a phrase that is often misused by any number of collectivist hustlers-for-a-cause, but it does seem appropriate here: "No justice, no peace." I present it here as more of a sad prediction than a threat, for what the Feds have done in this case by their unchecked misconduct is to take away any incentive for a citizen to submit to their orders -- any orders, even heretofore "reasonable" ones. If you cannot count on a fair trial, you might as well shoot it out with the bastards the moment you see them coming for you. We have moved out of the light of the rule of law and into something far more deadly and dangerous, the darkness of the rule of the jungle. The unintended consequences of the Olofson frame-up are going to get a great many people killed.
Everyone knows this case and what went on. The government people involved don't care if this matter clearly shows criminal conduct on their part. The people in government (elected folks) won't even touch this issue and run at any questions about it. This situation is clearly a billboard lighting up flashing, "Your government is broken and can't fit itself". When they came for the Second Amendment and the gun owners. I didn't care because I was a reporter in the media who only cared about the First Amendment.
Mr. Olofson has proven himself an independent thinker who believes in freedom. Armed freedom. He walks the talk. What better example to scare us with? Except we aren't scared, we're angry. How angry? Angry enough, I'm thinking. I won't go to jail unless I've hurt someone who wasn't begging for it by presenting a clear physical threat. Not for a paper "violation," not for a malfunction, not because where I now stand gets legislated or regulated into forbidden territory. Olofson is in the military Reserve. They ISSUE those people full-autos. Two-shots-JAM is a felony? Well, I don't think there will be a drastic reaction specific to the Olofson case, BUT many people have decided they won't be the next example. Mr. Olofson was taken by surprise, by ambush. We've been warned, yet again.
I am not an agent, but I believe the "time" has come for Mr. Olofson. He is completely innocent of all wrong doing. He has done nothing morally wrong. And it is farcical that he broke the letter of the law. I know he has a family, but at the very least, I would not spend one day in prison. It would kill me to give "them" the satisfaction.
Walter Williams, libertarian and economist, points out in his column today that we're all 1/4 slaves already, with tax freedom day coming sometime in April. Until then, our labor benefits the government and those to whom it redistributes our earnings. 1/4 enslaved. And that's just ECONOMICALLY.
That would be preferable to hiding in the woods or homeless in a city and eating out of dumpsters. I would not hesitate to provide a safehouse for someone prosecuted for a victimless violation of ATF regulations or actual unconstitutional laws. People with no education and fewer resources than us made the Underground Railroad for escaped slaves work. Olofson could be any of us, now more than ever. Heck, the way the police and the justice system work these days, I wouldn't turn in Jack the Ripper.
There is a phrase that is often misused by any number of collectivist hustlers-for-a-cause, but it does seem appropriate here: "No justice, no peace." I present it here as more of a sad prediction than a threat, for what the Feds have done in this case by their unchecked misconduct is to take away any incentive for a citizen to submit to their orders -- any orders, even heretofore "reasonable" ones. If you cannot count on a fair trial, you might as well shoot it out with the bastards the moment you see them coming for you. We have moved out of the light of the rule of law and into something far more deadly and dangerous, the darkness of the rule of the jungle. The unintended consequences of the Olofson frame-up are going to get a great many people killed.
ReplyDeleteEveryone knows this case and what went on. The government people involved don't care if this matter clearly shows criminal conduct on their part. The people in government (elected folks) won't even touch this issue and run at any questions about it.
ReplyDeleteThis situation is clearly a billboard lighting up flashing, "Your government is broken and can't fit itself".
When they came for the Second Amendment and the gun owners. I didn't care because I was a reporter in the media who only cared about the First Amendment.
Either someone really has it in for Mr. Olofson, or a studied provocation has just been offered, or both.
ReplyDeleteMr. Olofson has proven himself an independent thinker who believes in freedom. Armed freedom. He walks the talk. What better example to scare us with?
ReplyDeleteExcept we aren't scared, we're angry.
How angry?
Angry enough, I'm thinking.
I won't go to jail unless I've hurt someone who wasn't begging for it by presenting a clear physical threat. Not for a paper "violation," not for a malfunction, not because where I now stand gets legislated or regulated into forbidden territory.
Olofson is in the military Reserve. They ISSUE those people full-autos. Two-shots-JAM is a felony?
Well, I don't think there will be a drastic reaction specific to the Olofson case, BUT many people have decided they won't be the next example. Mr. Olofson was taken by surprise, by ambush. We've been warned, yet again.
I am not an agent, but I believe the "time" has come for Mr. Olofson. He is completely innocent of all wrong doing. He has done nothing morally wrong. And it is farcical that he broke the letter of the law. I know he has a family, but at the very least, I would not spend one day in prison. It would kill me to give "them" the satisfaction.
ReplyDeleteWalter Williams, libertarian and economist, points out in his column today that we're all 1/4 slaves already, with tax freedom day coming sometime in April. Until then, our labor benefits the government and those to whom it redistributes our earnings.
ReplyDelete1/4 enslaved. And that's just ECONOMICALLY.
I certainly hope Mr. Olofson has friends. Friends that have as much solid sense of brotherhood as the "brothers of the shield"(LEOS).
ReplyDeleteCould there be a "gun owner underground" that can offer safe, country-side harboring ?
C.H.
That would be preferable to hiding in the woods or homeless in a city and eating out of dumpsters. I would not hesitate to provide a safehouse for someone prosecuted for a victimless violation of ATF regulations or actual unconstitutional laws. People with no education and fewer resources than us made the Underground Railroad for escaped slaves work.
ReplyDeleteOlofson could be any of us, now more than ever.
Heck, the way the police and the justice system work these days, I wouldn't turn in Jack the Ripper.