Oath Keepers Founder on Lou Dobbs Radio Program

I just received word from Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes that he is scheduled to appear later today on Lou Dobbs radio program at 11:35 am pacific (2:35 Eastern). [More]

I put out a second Gun Rights Examiner column with links so you can listen.

We're the Only Ones Resigned Enough

Both officers had been decommissioned and put on paid administrative leave for more than a year and a half while they were under investigation internally, and as part of a federal probe, to determine if they were part of a steroid ring in Middle Tennessee...

Neither actually returned to work, instead using leftover vacation time for the duration of their employment... [More]

Why resign from an "Only Ones" gig that gives you so much paid time off and vacation? It's not like you could find anything that...uh...competitive in the private sector...

We're the Only Ones Facing New Allegations Enough

Martin has once again been put on paid administrative leave after Kristopher Douglas accused the trooper of throwing him to the ground and beating him with a nightstick without any explanation. [More]

I can't think of a single reason why anyone would suspect this "Only One" of having an authoritah complex, or being too quick to resort to violence, can you? Haven't we already established that he he operates within accepted protocols?

[Via Texas Shooter]

An Order of Protection

Court records show Padilla granted Axsom a protective order against Schwartz four days before the Oct. 6 hearing where he ordered her to attend parental counseling with him and denied her request to relocate to Maryland with the pair's son. [More]

Well then I just don't get how this happened.

I mean, if we can't trust judges to rule in our best interests, who can we trust...?

[Via M. Terry]

Lucky in Canada

A gunman toting a high-powered rifle who took a number of people hostage in a downtown Edmonton building Wednesday has surrendered peacefully, Edmonton police say. [More]

Just so we're clear: Every single hostage was required by law to be unarmed.

Nice weapons the "Only Ones" have, by the way...

Had it gone down differently, not a single person would have been able to do anything about it but be slaughtered.

But they weren't that worried as they hid and did their horoscopes and passed around cell phones to assure their families they were safe.

It's enough to make one regurgitate their cud.

[Via Jeet]

FBI Contractor Free on Bail

Turner worked as an FBI informant and spied on right-wing organizations from 2002 to 2007. [More]

That way, they can trick the uninformed who depend on establishment media into believing that people like these and these share the views of people like these.

[Via TheNewsGuy]

We're the Only Ones Invading Your Privacy Enough

A Richmond police officer has been arrested on charges of inappropriately accessing the state’s Virginia Criminal Information Network database. [More]

"Only Ones" stories like this puzzle me. Why is it they would even try, unless experience told them there was a good chance they'd never be detected?

[Via Mack H]

I Used to Rule the World

Qi Ji Guang calls our attention to some lyrics.

This song from Coldplay is called "Viva La Vida", and it tells the story about the fall of the French monarch Louis XVI during the Revolution of 1789. A great lesson about the destiny of empires when they become corrupt and oppressive. One of the lyrics sing about how the king used to "roll the dice and watch the fear in his enemies' eyes", but now, his kingdom is collapsing all around him, and revolution has exploded, advancing closer and closer every day. Indeed, even the album art depicts the storming of the Bastille by French revolutionaries.

Every JBT, wannabe JBT, and those who want to forcibly disarm the citizenry should listen to this song and realize that a ruler's power are given to them by the people. When a ruler turns into a despot and begins to threaten the lives and liberties of the citizens they are supposed to defend, the consequences are serious.

As an old Chinese saying goes: "The poor masses would never stand a chance against the provincial kings and the provincial kings would never stand a chance against the court mandarins, however, the provincial kings and the court mandarins should take care not to invoke the poor masses to rise to arms either".

In this short but surreally beautiful song, valuable lessons of history are summarized, from Sun Tzu's "Art of War," to Machiavelli's "The Prince," to the works by John Locke to the Declaration of Independance.

And every ruler should consider this.

Who Really Matters

Visible crawls over half a million web 2.0 sites a day, scraping more than a million posts and conversations taking place on blogs, online forums, Flickr, YouTube, Twitter and Amazon. (It doesn’t touch closed social networks, like Facebook, at the moment.) Customers get customized, real-time feeds of what’s being said on these sites, based on a series of keywords.

“That’s kind of the basic step — get in and monitor,” says company senior vice president Blake Cahill.

Then Visible “scores” each post, labeling it as positive or negative, mixed or neutral. It examines how influential a conversation or an author is. (”Trying to determine who really matters,” as Cahill puts it.) [More]

And the capitalists will sell us the rope!

[Via Carl S]

BATFU Forms Multi-Agency Toilet Task Force

Restroom Vandalism at ATF Headquarters
October 13, 2009

Numerous incidents of restroom vandalism are occurring throughout the ATF Headquarters building and are being reported to the ATF Physical Security. ATF is now partnering with the General Services Administration and Federal Protective Service to increase surveillance and reporting of suspicious behavior and damage in an effort to stop this activity. Employees are encouraged to immediately report vandalism or suspicious activity to the ATF Physical Security office at 202-648-7540 or the ATF Building Manager, Ray Spicer at (202) 306-9617 or Raymond.Spicer@atf.gov. All information will remain confidential. Theft, defacement, damage or littering of federal property is considered vandalism and is grounds for disciplinary action. Please help us protect our building and everyone’s health by being aware of activities in your immediate area. [More]

BATFU can't even use a toilet without destroying something. Or leaving something unflushable behind.

I talked about the group reporting this here.

Have you written the Oversight Committee yet? Why not?

[Via Len Savage]

Post Office Gun Case Judges Say Total Ban is Not Infringement

Shall not be infringed...loading and staging mail trucks... [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column lets you know where judges think your unalienable right to keep and bear arms rates in the scheme of things.

Also get the latest from my fellow GREs.

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This Day in History: October 22

this moring are informed that a party of the Enemy crossed Cooper fery last Evening and was on their way thro Haddonfield for this Fort / Came a crost this morn from Fort Mifflin / had scarce an opportunity to git into the Fort, before a Flag came to Colo. Green, who commanded the Fort threatning to put the Garrison to [death ?] if he did not surrender it immediately, Colo. Green answered with disdain, that he would defend it 'till the last drop of his Blood [More]