WND Makes Straightarrow a Star

"Using the agency's own standards, this agent should be headed to the slam," wrote straightarrow on the blog managed by Ryan Horsley at Red's Trading Post in Idaho.

"Because it was left in a TSA secured area for anyone to pick up, anyone who found it was a prohibited person due to location," he said...

Continued straightarrow, "No matter whether the firearm gets sent to the FTB, this officer made a 'willful' illegal transfer of a firearm to a prohibited person or persons. … She willfully went to the restroom, she willfully removed her firearm from her person and she willfully departed sans firearm. When should we expect the indictment and the expert government witnesses to tell a judge to trust them, she is guilty and he doesn't need to know anymore?"

I guess now that he's hit the big time, he won't have time for us, the little people, any more...

Are there like, famous blog commentator groupies or anything...?

[Via Ryan Horsley]

And Now from the Candidate the VC* Love to Hate

Congressman Ron Paul has signed on to a letter to the President asking that an amicus curiae brief filed by U.S Solicitor General Paul D. Clement on DC v. Heller, otherwise known as the DC Gun Ban Case, be withdrawn...

Congressman Paul, as a strict constitutionalist and in keeping with his strong record on gun rights, has signed on to another brief submitted by several members of Congress which asks the Supreme Court to uphold the lower courts decision and allow the precedent of applying a stricter standard of review for gun control cases to stand.

Funny. I wonder why no headlines or announcements from Fairfax...?

The Paul campaign apparently has to pay for a press release on this, even though Paul is a presidential candidate and Cheney is not, and even though Paul signed onto two Heller-related documents and Cheney only signed one--and not the one directly challenging the "Vote Freedom First" President. Now that would be news.

It's a good thing I'm not suspicious or cynical, or I'd start to wonder if maybe the information I was getting had some sort of agenda behind it. I hate it when that happens, because then I just can't devote full attention to enjoying my Kool-Aid.

* Vichy "Conservatives"

They're Ba..ack...

Regular visitors know this has been going on for some time, both here and at Red's Blog. I literally had a dozen visits yesterday from various federal agencies, so I decided to see what would happen when I pinged back--this goes to BATFU's Freedom of Information Act edress:




And I wrote the following to Ryan:

I wonder, Ryan--should we be saving these and giving them to your attorney--having him ask BATFU about what they're doing, under oath and in front of the judge...? Because really, this is irrelevant to any alleged infractions they find in your shop--totally outside the scope of what they have even the pretence of a rationale to be investigating. This definitely shows a motive to go after you by investigating your First Amendment activities...and the fact that they don't mask it, while they will say shows they're not hiding anything--has the second edge of being chilling, with citizens knowing people who bust down doors and haul people off (the ones they don't shoot) are scrutinizing them.

A lesser man would have clammed up the first time this happened.

I mean seriously--what does this have to do with any "violation" they could possibly find at Red's Trading Post, with either your paperwork or your inventory? If there is no direct correlation, why the hell are they expending government time and resources looking at websites? Who authorized what is now demonstrably an ongoing investigation, and why? If it's not a form of harassment, what is it?

I'd like to see those *s have to answer those questions in front of a judge.

*-Sanitized for your protection

Huge Dick News!

Cheney Joins Congress In Opposing D.C. Gun Ban
Vice President Breaks With Administration

I mean, it must be huge. It's front page stuff with all the right "Authorized Journalists"--you know, like the ones we've learned to trust over at We Black Out--You Swallow:

Even Wayne 'n Chris have jumped on the bandwagon, so it's gotta be something big! I mean, Lord knows they don't select what they want to emphasize (or ignore) for just anything...

What?
Oldest trick in the book...?
Haven't I ever heard of "Good Cop/Bad Cop"?

What do you mean the administration is hedging its bets, playing both sides against the middle? You say if they were really serious, the "Vote Freedom First" President would have ordered his Solicitor General to take it back...? That we're being played like a cheap violin, and we're so desperate to deny it we'll actually fall for this being significant? That it's design, not accident that so much emphasis is being placed on this story?

See, that kind of tinfoil hat conspiracy kook cycnicism just divides us, which is what our enemies want. Plus it makes us dribble Kool-Aid all over our nice new McCain for President T-shirts.

Now if only we could figure out who are enemies are, we'd know in which direction we should unite...

Little Lies

McCain Signs Heller Brief!!!

Wonderful! Now we can convince ourselves he's our pal!

I mean, it's not like he's already broken any oaths or anything...

Ms. McVie, you're up...

Tell me lies
Tell me sweet little lies
(tell me lies, tell me, tell me lies)
Oh, no, no you cant disguise
(you cant disguise, no you cant disguise)
Tell me lies
Tell me sweet little lies

There. Don't we all feel better now?

The Jackboot on the Other Foot

A handgun found unattended inside a TSA Secure Zone at an International Airport one might even consider that a crime. If it were a crime, then according to the "ATF Evidence Collection Handbook", the firearm should be sent to ATF Firearms Technology Branch [FTB] for proper classification.

Why is this relevant? There are only (2) female special agents at the Milwaukee ATF Field Office, [according to my sources, not yet confirmed]. I am told both female agents were involved in US v. Olofson. So that amounts to a 100% chance of this agent being involved in Olofson's prosecution, and a 50% chance of being the same agent from ATF who prosecuted Mr. Olofson, [as the lead agent in Olofson's case was Jody Keeku].

Len Savage weighs in on the great BATFU Bathroom Brouhaha.

The institutionalized hypocrisy and elitist arrogance shouldn't surprise us at all any more.

We're the Only Ones Friendly Enough

As Boston police prepare to go into some of the city's most dangerous neighborhoods, knock on doors of private houses, and ask if they can search for illegal guns without a warrant, officials are trying to pitch the idea of the plan as friendly cooperation to residents who still see it as a threatening intrusion.

A friendly looking logo - a drawing of a house surrounded by the sun - adorns the brochure police have drafted to explain and promote the initiative, "Safe Homes." Photos of officers playing baseball with children and chatting with teenagers dot the pamphlet.

Well there's a rose in the fisted glove...

Oh, but it's "voluntary"...

The very concept ought to be offensive to a free people. As it is, the offensive concept for most is freedom.

Massachusetts again, I see...where "The Only Ones" intend to make sure they are the only ones.
What did Mr. Franklin say about exchanging Liberty for Safety...?

These people are starting to sound like Vichy "conservatives", or as I'm going to start to call them, The VC...

This Day in History: February 9

On February 9, 1775, Parliament declared Massachusetts to be "in a state of rebellion," and events began to move ever quicker. The colonists' local Committee of Public Safety, which included a number of prominent Dorchester men, responded with a vote to procure arms and supplies for an army of up to 15,000 and to organize local contingents of Minutemen into companies of 50 volunteers each.

And now these heirs of Liberty give us Teddy Kennedy.