What Orwell Meant by "Pro Choice"

An Iowa grandmother has been banished to jail, including a night in isolation, after refusing to give in to a judge's demand that she submit to a psychiatric exam and take psychotropic drugs if prescribed to mitigate her opposition to abortion, her husband has confirmed.

So now all we need is a shrink who is pro-abortion and anti-gun, and we have a great alignment of opportunities to get granny adjudicated onto the prohibited persons list...all perfectly nice and legal-like.

No?

No Contest

A former Los Angeles gang member who founded an anti-violence group called No Guns has pleaded no contest to federal weapons charges. [More]

Big f****** weasel...

But it does explain why he's so strongly in favor of citizen disarmament, aided and abetted by his city government criminal co-conspirators. I wonder how much of that $1.5 million they got back, and if there's been an accounting for what he bought with it...? I couldn't find any tax status documentation on either GuideStar or Melissa Data, so I wonder if he's been keeping the old books in order...

Gun rights activists in Los Angeles could do worse than to find the resolution awarding the grant, including the names of all the politicos who authorized it, and publicizing it now and at election time.

Hey--now that No Guns has folded, maybe Big Weasel can get a directorship over at Ceasefire PA if they back off on Alex...?

Radio Free Red's

JPFO Director Aaron Zelman and I were on The G. Gordon Liddy Show

Ryan Horsley gets some national coverage for the David Olofson case. He includes a link to the interview. Go listen.

We're the Only Ones with Driving Ambition Enough

A federal agent has been charged with hitting a woman with his car in a parking garage then zooming off...

Smalley made "an abrupt intentional turn and accelerated, striking the victim and knocking down the female victim"...The woman ran down the garage stairs to the security station by the entrance -- only to see Smalley's car accelerate toward her, police said, "causing her to run to avoid behind struck again."

Sure sounds like he came back for more and tried to run her down again, doesn't it?

But no, "He claimed the woman jumped on his hood and fell off..."

BATFU's finest. I guess she should be grateful he was driving an Acura instead of a Panzer...

Maybe she put "Y" or "N" on a form instead of "Yes" or "No."

[Via Red's Trading Post]

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We're the Only Ones Heavily Disabled Enough

A retired 500-pound police officer cannot increase his pension check by blaming his disability on an accident, because a medical board had already found it was related to his obesity, a judge said.

The guy hasn't performed full duties for five years they still kept him on the payroll, and now half pay for doing nothing isn't good enough.

How many of us tax cows have a deal that sweet?

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Hillary "Believe[s] in the Second Amendment"!

You know, I believe in the Second Amendment. People have a right to bear arms.

Well then, you can count on my vote, senator.

What?

Those same words were good enough for gun owners to rally behind this guy, and he made no secret about supporting "the assault-weapons ban," too.

Y'all are familiar with Carroll Quigley, right?

"The chief problem of American political life for a long time has been how to make the two Congressional parties more national and more international. The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps of the Right, and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical so that the American people can 'throw the rascals out' at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy. The policies that are vital and necessary for America are no longer subjects of significant disagreement, but are disputable only in terms of procedure, priority and method..." ["Tragedy and Hope," Page 1248-1249]

But there I go getting all black helicopter tinfoil hat conspiratorial again. Better to just dismiss all kooky and paranoid intimations that we're being played for suckers.

Things are much more comfortable that way, aren't they?

South of the Border with the Bush-Brady DoJ

The US has said it will give Mexico access to an electronic database to trace weapons smuggled from the US to powerful drug gangs across the border.

Well if this doesn't solve the problem, nothing will.

At least nothing in the interest of either government to explore...

But it does reveal how AG Mukasey does indeed embrace the same views on the Second Amendment as the "Vote Freedom First President."

[Via Ahab]

George Bush-Brady v Second Amendment

So much for the old saw that Republican politicians, if only they could, would get rid of all of those unconstitutional federal gun laws, but we just need to be patient until they are in a position to do so.

Stewart Rhodes shares his observations on the latest betrayal by our "Vote Freedom First President."

CeaseFire PA Director's Watch: 01/18/08

Tomorrow will be a very special day, assuming Prof. Riley still hasn't been added to the list, and we'll have a little celebration to honor the non-occasion.

Can you guess what it is?

Hint: Woof!

Ron Paul on the DC Gun Ban

The DC gun ban is no joke, and the legal challenges to the ban are not simply academic exercises. People's lives and safety are at stake.

Some readers have sent me the above title link outlining Dr. Paul's position on the DC gun ban.

Yes, it's absolutely right on and what I would expect, but it's an old post and not what I'm talking about:

I think it's important that he address the "Vote Freedom First President's" DoJ brief, give his opinion of that, and tell what he would do if he were in charge.

Fred has. At least the first part.

That question should be put to all candidates representing themselves to gun owners as our pals, but that won't happen as long as such expectations are confined to lowly blogs...

This Day in History: January 18

On January 18, 1777, representatives of the New Hampshire Grants convened in Westminster and declared the independence of the Vermont. For the first six months of the state's existence, the state was called New Connecticut, after the name of an existing state.

And in case you're wondering, the constitution they adopted said:

That the people have a right to bear arms for the defence of the themselves and the State; and, as standing armies, in the time of peace, are dangerous to liberty, they ought not to be kept up; and that the military should be kept under strict subordination to, and governed by, the civil power.

You know, in other words, a collective right...