Patches, I'm Dependin' on You, Son...*

"Fortune favors the bold," and you'll look both bold and fortunate if you're bold enough to wear this and fortunate enough to get one.

Not quite the advertising spiel that'll sell millions of these?

S'OK--if , say, 3% of you reading this post order one, they'll be doing fine.

Show your proud affiliation and get what's sure to be a post-SHTF collectible. And I think I'll use this opportunity to coin a new term:

Threeperwear.

Go to WRSA to find out how you can show your membership in the Merry Band--sure to make you stand out in any surveillance. I intend to wear mine.

Oh, and what's this all for? Well, Random House isn't exactly beating down doors to publish "Absolved," and a book tour is something that needs to happen. Those of you who want to see this effort succeed--and who want to look smart in the field while it does--should need no further motivation.

Here's how to order.

* And I do apologize, but c'mon--it takes place in Alabama.

"Principles" Essential but Insufficient

The following is an email from "WD," a contributor to a small group I correspond with. He has given me permission to post it here. It is a constructive critique of the "Oath Keepers principles" we linked to the other day.

One of the aspects of our national and cultural institutions that troubles me is the shallowness of our shared social compact. The DOI principles elicited are not adequate to define the unique nature of our political and governing institutions which combine a multi-tiered republican social compact, the principles of British constitutionalism and the underpinnings of Natural Law (“Ordained by their Creator…”).

The fundamental problem in our country today is that no-one has a common [shared] sense of what undergirds the DOI principles, therefore, everyone is free to ‘interpret’ them as they see fit – including justification for the tyranny of simple majority rule (direct or representative). County counsel shut down your business - it is legal. State seize your property for failure to pay ever-increasing property taxes – it is legal. Federal BLM administrative rules change such that you cannot ranch on land you’ve held for three generations – times have changed. Your property needed for a World Biosphere or new city greenway or that big supporter property developer’s new project – oh well, should have thought of that when you voted for the losers last election.

There are limits; limits prescribed by natural law.

This idea is missing…

Else, our adherence to the tired shibboleths of the 2^nd Amendment, in the face of massive public opposition and “reasonable restrictions and compromises” becomes nothing but outworn obstinacy in the face of manifest, majority “consent of the governed”…

Mike Vanderboegh has more thought-provoking commentary springing from these correspondences.

"No Guns for Negroes"

Aaron Zelman, Executive Director of Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership, has been at the leading edge of creative gun rights advocacy since he first became prominent in the movement in the mid-Eighties. He's working on a new project that takes the gloves off. [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column shows us a guy who knows how to play hardball. Please share this with your friends, because he could use some teammates, and this tells them how to sign up.

This Day in History: March 7

How may possibly attempt this Town, and a Pack of sordid Scoundrels male and female, seem to have prepared their Minds and Bodies, Houses and Cellars for his Reception: but these are few, and more despicable in Character than Number. America will loose nothing, by Hows gaining this Town. No such Panick will be spread by it, now as was spread by the Expectation of it in December. [More]