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When you call 911, you expect help immediately. Lisa, a Memphis resident, got anything but...

The line goes silent. As Lisa continues to explain her situation, the dispatcher does not respond - not for just 15 or 30 seconds, but for one full minute.

Then, sounds of snoring can be heard on the line.

Because we're "The Only Ones" in this room professional enough to use this phone, y'see...

[Via MacEntyre]

Pampering Tyranny

You can help babies in need have a brighter tomorrow! With every specially marked pack of Pampers that you purchase, Pampers will donate the cost of one vaccine to help UNICEF protect a woman and her newborns against tetanus*...

Sounds like a humane program. Why the asterisk? How much of the nickel goes directly into vaccines, or does it go directly into a general fund for Unicef to use as it sees fit? And even if it all bought shots, would it free up resources for:

...financing terrorism?

...funding global gun control?

...partnering with our old friends at IANSA?

Ultimately, the only secular solutions to the world's woes will be provided by increasing Liberty, not by giving the globalist commissars more leverage for making people depend on them. Don't fall for the DSH*. As worthy as the goal may seem, the true objective smells worse than a landfill of disposed Pampers.

*Substitute "Diaper"

Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood

"The bottom line is that this protest is not going to change anything," said Jack Rogers, director of public safety at OSU. "The Oregon administrative rule overrides any provision for concealed weapons, and it is very unlikely that the Oregon University System will yield to any change on this subject."...

Rogers, however, doesn't believe that an average gun owner would know how to use deadly force properly in an extreme situation.

"We in law enforcement have gone through an extreme amount of firearms training," Rogers said. "We're the ones who are the professionals."

He also said that students who carry concealed weapons may not be knowledgeable enough to determine when to use deadly force and when to restrain. Rogers believes that firearms in a college environment have to be controlled.

"The bottom line is that we have well-trained and well-prepared staff here who know what the training is all about," Rogers said.

"[The use of deadly force] doesn't come lightly; it takes a tremendous amount of training to use deadly force."

Right.

This coming from the guy whose best advice is run or hide. If you can. He won't tell you to pray if you can't, because OSU is a public institution, and there's that "wall of separation" (that somehow doesn't keep the evil out)...

By your logic, Jack, all 48 states that have successfully implemented some form of concealed carry provisions must rescind them because--why is that again? Oh, yes, you're (and we knew this was coming) "The Only Ones."

Tell me something, Jack (your middle name wouldn't happen to be "Boot," would it?): If you're not an outright fraud, that is, if you truly believe that line of utter crap you just spouted to The Barometer, wouldn't such incompetence wielded by someone in authority amount to criminal negligence? Is not, in fact, calling someone who uses force to endanger other humans a "director of public safety" a perverse Orwellian oxymoron?

Where do we find the mentality that, with a straight face asserts evil little local edicts "override" unalienable natural rights? And where do we find the mentality that believes him?

[Via Cogito Ergo Geek]

Lux Lucre's Flash Page

Bill St. Clair added a comment to yesterday's "Flash to Freedom" post:

The Philosophy of Liberty flash animation is a creation of the late Lux Lucre. I snarfed his entire Flash animation directory right after he died to ensure that it wouldn't be lost. It includes The Philosophy of Liberty in English, Spanish, French, and Portuguese, L. Neil Smith's "The Atlanta Declaration" in English, Spanish, French, German, and Japanese, a rendition of the Zero Aggression Principle, and a few others.

Check it out at billstclair.com/luxlucre (the "Bill of Rights animation was missing at his site when I sampled it).

We're the Only Ones Cited Enough

A CITIZEN who watched a cop illegally park, then walk into a Chinese restaurant to wait for his food, has issued the officer a series of citizen-initiated parking violations.

Don't you just love the "Only One" rationale?

"If someone broke into your house, would you rather have the police be able to park in front of your house or have to park three blocks away and walk there?"

There was no crime emergency, just personal convenience, and if there had been a break-in, you would be parking at the scene. We all know that and it isn't even a rational argument. But isn't it interesting, how your immediate reaction is to use a deceptive ploy to cover your tracks?

It makes me wonder what other shortcuts you have conditioned yourself to employ to avoid accountability for willful abuses of power. And it makes me wonder if that corruption is isolated or institutionalized in your department.

What I don't wonder about is the character of someone who abuses the privileges of delegated authority and then tries to weasel out of the consequences.

Good for Mr. Bryan. And shame on you, Chad Stensgaard.

[Via Plug Nickel Times]

Compare and Contrast

Here are two stories out of Tennessee handled two different ways:

Defenseless

A 19-year-old clerk was killed Monday night after two men robbed the gas station where he worked, shot him and left him for dead in the middle of the street outside, Metro police said.

Armed

A would-be robber at an Inglewood liquor store was shot and killed Saturday night after a customer opened fire, Metro police said.

Not that it would do any good to show this to an anti-defense zealot--they'd just seize on what could have happened, as opposed to what did.

[Via Blackshirt]

Report from the Front Lines

[Because this involves certain disclosures, the Author chooses to remain anonymous.--DC]

I just returned from the gun store and boy was it depressing. This is my observation from the front lines;

I have been a gun BUYER / collector for +/- 33 years. I purchased my first (legal) gun at 10:05 am on the morning of my 18th birthday. I was lined up at the door before the store opened. Since that day, I buy guns like people try to max out their IRA's.

Since January 2000 when the kalifornia "one a month" law took effect I took that as a minimum requirement and I have purchased in excess of a gun a month, every month for the last 100 months.

What do I see after 30 + years? Eight out of the ten gun stores I have regularly shopped at are closed, gone, out of business. The two that are left are playing to a captive audience and they treat their customers as if they have come to the DMV.

There are no kids in the store(s). It is no wonder the gun business is dying.

I was in a gun store this afternoon to pick up a couple of guns and there must have been in excess of a dozen people in the store. One of the "clerks" called out "who's picking up a gun?" and I was the only person to raise my hand out of the throng - Everyone there was a tire kicker or time waster. No one (apparently) was there to spend money.

I have lamented before that most people that frequent gun stores are time wasters. Sitting at the counter shooting the breeze, handling stuff, friends of the owner hanging out, wanna be "men" who don't buy guns because their wives won't allow one in the house but they want to hold one. This is what a gun store has become.

I used to spend a lot of time in gun stores when I was younger. I don't hang out much in the gun stores anymore - although I do spend money. I come in before they open, do the insidious stack of paperwork and leave before they open or I come in, get business done and leave but if there is one thing I have never seen in any gun store FOREVER it is the majority of the crowd spending money.

When I was a kid, the gun store was the mens club. Now, the decline is painful to watch. With the coming micro stamping it is possible that the only companies selling guns in kalifornia will be S & W and Ruger and the gun business will be unsustainable. Add to that the proposed ammo licensing and what ever other crap becomes fashionable. In my view we are watching the last 10 years of the firearms business in kalifornia. (Unless the result of Heller is to tell the state to F*** OFF - but I don't think that is likely)

I would like to see S & W and Ruger and others take the principled stand that Ronnie Barrett took and refuse to sell guns, ammunition and replacement parts to any kalifornia agency or officer because barring that, the gun business in kalifornia will be LEO centered if not exclusive and there will be no private gun business. But I'm not holding my breath.

Combine this move toward restrictive legislation and dealers embracing (bending over for) the state with a lack of product diversity or availability and people not spending money in the stores and there is no gun business in kalifornia.

Therapeutic Thuggery

A new law being pushed in Canada by Big Pharma seeks to outlaw up to 60 percent of natural health products currently sold in Canada, even while
criminalizing parents who give herbs or supplements to their children.

I'm not a big proponent of herbs, supplements, vitamins, colloidal minerals, homeopathy, or anything that relies on anecdotes and testimonials over clinical studies, etc., but then again, my approval isn't necessary, is it?

Personally, I try to eat right and within reason, do some exertion activity each day, and then figure we're all gonna die of something...

I don't mean to conduct that debate here.

Bottom line: who owns your body?

This is the logical extension of the War on Drugs, which provides the template for the War on Guns, which is a targeted objective in the greater War on Freedom. As we see, it's happening in Canada, it's happening in Europe, and it's happening here.

And while the cover story is one of enlightenment, protection and health, we all know that somewhere at the end of the thread we'll find money and power and control trumping self determination.

[Via DONE! SEO]

This Day in History: April 30

...I assure myself that whilst you carefully avoid every alteration which might endanger the benefits of an united and effective government, or which ought to await the future lessons of experience, a reverence for the characteristic rights of freemen and a regard for the public harmony will sufficiently influence your deliberations on the question how far the former can be impregnably fortified or the latter be safely and advantageously promoted.