"Not Obliged"

John McClelland, a fiction writer who blogs about liberty issues from Northern Ireland as “Cryptic Subterranean,” also tried to get this information. Being a British citizen (and one who understands principles of American Constitutionalism better than the vast majority of US citizens), he is in a better position to approach his public servants than some foreign interloper from “across the pond.”

“Your request for information has now been considered,” the Orwellian-titled “Freedom of Information Officer” informed him, “and I am not obliged to supply the information you have requested.”

"Not Obliged," my Rights Watch column for the December 2007 issue of GUNS Magazine, is now online.

It All Depends on the Meaning of the Word "Strict"

In yet another example of a politician advocating one position while running for state or local office and a completely different one upon running for president, Rudy Giuliani has decided that he now supports a very strict interpretation of the Second Amendment.

Strictly speaking, the pompous little fascist is a shameless liar. What I said about Jeannemarie goes double for Rudy.

Gewehre = Gefängnis

As we've already established, you don't actually need to be doing anything evil to qualify for being hauled off--keeping and bearing arms has been deemed a sufficient offense against das Vaterland. Hey, what's a Konzentrationslager without barbed wire? They have towers with machine guns and scary guys in uniforms, too.

Do you believe this scheiße, issued by the state as a warning to citizens against exercising what is supposed to be an unalienable right? Are we now the Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika?

Anybody think the Oberherren who proclaim and enforce these edicts are moved by entreaties for reasonableness and incrementalism, or do you think maybe the only thing that might give them pause would be the likelihood of being brought to justice--where, as in the past, "only following orders" is not deemed a valid defense?

They're actually threatening us with barbed wire if we don't obey them and disarm. They couldn't state it any clearer: They want us to fear them.

We're the Only Ones "In the Navy" Enough

A senior Navy officer has been charged with conspiring to sell two military style semi-automatic rifles to undercover police...

Two Glock handguns, four Ruger rifles and a Smith & Wesson revolver belonging to the navy were among the items confiscated.

Well blow me down. And here I've been believing the military and police were "The Only Ones" who could be trusted with firearms.

We're the Only Ones Linked Enough

A Wisconsin mayor has ordered a businesswoman who helped lead an unsuccessful recall against him last year to remove a link to the local police department from her business website.

I've seen "Only Ones" claim all kinds of special privileges for themselves over the years, but this one reaches new depths in terms of arrogance and sheer ridiculousness.

I'd like to see some sourpuss mouthpiece for a bobble-head statist try ordering me to take his stupid city police link down. That sounds like a job for a WarOnGuns Bitemegram.

What the hell is wrong with creatures who attain positions of "authority"?

A "Gun Crime" in Albany

“Yet again, another young man is going to jail for the next five years for carrying a gun on the streets of Albany County. I hope every young man realizes that you don’t have to use, or even show off the gun, just having that weapon can land you in prison for a long time,” said Soares.

"Shall not be infringed..."

"Enforce existing gun laws..."

"Shall not be infringed..."

"Enforce existing gun laws..."

Gee, I don't know what to make of this, especially with all the respect the Albany PD showed for the Fourth Amendment, too...

I don't know the character of the "young man" in question. He could have been a very bad hombre indeed. On the other hand, the presumption during a traffic stop is supposed to be that he is one of us--a gun owner keeping and bearing arms for defense of self or community, or for whatever damn reason he pleases--as is his unalienable right.

NOTE: As of post time, the Empire State News site where this story is posted will not open from the title link.

This Day in History: November 5

November 5, General Orders, Washington reprimands the troops in Cambridge for celebrating the anti-Catholic holiday, Guy Fawkes Day, while Congress and the army are attempting to win the friendship of French Canadian Catholics. He also writes commander of the northern army, Philip Schuyler, on the importance of the acquisition of Canada to the American cause. George Washington, General Orders, November 5, 1775 George Washington to Philip Schuyler, November 5, 1775

Burma Shave VI

Today's billboard campaign alongside the information superhighway is dedicated to gun owners in Virginia who are sick and tired of being abused by a Republican establishment that is not only non-supportive, but actively hostile to their rights.

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[For those not familiar with the Burma Shave roadside billboard campaign or the CCRA RKBA campaign]

Dee-dee-deescrimination?

The U.S. Surgeon General has reported that the likelihood of violence by people with mental illness is low. In fact, "the overall contribution of mental disorders to the total level of violence in society is exceptionally small." More often, people living with mental illness are the victims of violence. Acts of violence are exceptional.

So what's all the brouhaha about, and why is it right or fair?

I think it'd be a fitting unintended consequence if this law passes and then gets challenged under the Americans With Disabilities Act.

The Devolites is in the Details

We've talked about anti-gun Jeannemarie Devolites Davis before, including how her daughter was convicted of armed robbery. In the interest of helping to deny power to a wretched tyrant wannabe, here are some more accounts.

First, I want to head off any criticism that bringing her family into things is off-limits. First, it shows how well she who would control us controls that which she is immediately responsible for. (How does that line in "Sunshine" go? "He can't even run his own life, I'll be damned if he'll run mine...")

Second, she's not above dragging her opponent's family into the race:

The Fairfax County Commonwealth's Attorney is looking into whether a recent campaign flyer from state Sen. Jeanemarie Devolites Davis (R-Fairfax) went too far.

The flyer contains the home address and phone number for her opponent, Democrat Chap Peterson [sic], and his kids' names.

And she's not above exploiting her own brood for political advantage. Besides, any chair in a bar fight, sez I, and this deserves to be a broken bottle brawl.

Here's the link to the Fox News report "Virginia State Lawmaker's Daughter Goes on Crime Spree." In it we find:

The daughter of a leading northern Virginia state legislator pleaded guilty in federal court to armed robbery and faces up to 27 years in prison for a five-week crime spree that stretched from New York to Virginia.

Not only had young Ashley "served as the trio's driver or lookout, but she was responsible for selecting targets," and furthermore, she "knowingly and intentionally provided misleading information which hindered and delayed the investigation of this case."

So how did it work out?

As per The Washington Post:

The daughter of a leader in the Virginia House of Delegates was sentenced today to more than nine years in federal prison for her role in a gas-station robbery in Fairfax City that authorities said was one of a string of armed holdups in Virginia and New York last summer.

Not bad. I wonder if someone not so connected, who "knowingly and intentionally provided misleading information," and "intentionally persuade[d suspect Christopher Martin] to withhold information from law enforcement," would have received only a third of the sentence--and would serve their time in a "minimum security federal prison" at that?

The thing that really shows the Imperial Devolites arrogance more than anything is her condemnation of media coverage of the trial--God forbid a free press act as watchdogs of government activities, and report public record legal proceedings to her constituents:

"I think it's a shame that all the members of the press that are here today do not have the common decency to show a family some privacy during a difficult time."

You own the courts now, Jeannemarie? By what stretch of the imagination do you claim a right to privacy when the feral felon you raised faces the music for her predation on the people you supposedly represent? Although perhaps it helps explain why you want those folks unable to resist, and maybe return lethal force to those so debased as to threaten their lives over a cash drawer-full of bills.

Countertop is going so far as to work for Jeannemarie's opponent, Petersen. I can't go that far, since the guy went out of his way to explain to the voters how he's just as big a gungrabber as she is (Good Lord, what's with the stupid bow tie? He looks like freakin' Jimmy Olsen), including bragging about his NRA "F" rating, but I do understand and support gun owners sitting on their hands here, and letting the Republican establishment know in no uncertain terms that ambitious fascists with an "R" after their names are wholly unacceptable.

We're the Only Ones Billy Goat Gruff Enough

Accused corrupt cop Jerome Finnigan is cooperating with federal authorities in an attempt to “get someone bigger than himself,” law enforcement sources said Monday.

"Oh, you don't want to eat me," said Little Billy Goat Gruff to the Troll.

"My older brother will be coming over the bridge in just a moment, and he'll make a much bigger meal than I will."

What I don't get about this is, it suggests--if you can believe it--that corruption among Chicago "Only Ones" is not isolated, and that it goes up the ladder to God knows how high. Talk about the stuff of fairy tales!

My bet is they'll only nail Middle Billy Goat Gruff, and Big Billy Goat Gruff will continue gorging himself in the green pasture.

[Via Vaughn Croteau]

This Day in History: November 4

Peter Buise, under sentence of death for desertion, is further reprieved 'till Wednesday.

Intrigued by this solitary entry, I did some checking around. From the scant information available, I found the hapless Buise ultimately met a deserter's fate, reconfirming Washington's opinion about relying on the militia and "The few, therefore, who act upon Principles of disinterestedness."

I gotta say, with the rampant apathy I see while things are easy, I don't have a lot of confidence in either the involvement or the staying power of most gun owners should more serious and demanding commitments be required. And if I don't see it, I doubt those arrogantly rubbing mandates in our faces see it, either.

The Peace Lover

Spanish movie star JAVIER BARDEM almost turned down his acclaimed new role in NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN - because he hates guns.

The peace-loving actor admits he was left scarred after holding a gun in the film Perdita Durango at the beginning of his acting career, and never wanted to do it again. [More]

Are you sure it was scarring? It sounds more like a bad case of diaper rash...

He's also apparently afraid of cars, is a self-centered hypochondriac whose phobias prevent him from helping those in need, is obsessed with AIDS movies, is incompetent at life in general, and fantasizes that if he were gay, he would "get married tomorrow, just to f*** with the church."

Sounds like a pretty wholesome, well-rounded guy, don't you think? Why our culture rewards these universe-revolves-around-my-navel exhibitionists and neurotics with wealth and fame is beyond my ken, but it does give us a pretty good profile of a classic hoplophobe male.

What such as he are prepared to do if they ever encounter someone who does not love peace is another story. I suspect giving his attacker what he wants--be it a wallet, a posterior or a target--would be the probable outcome. You know, something that really will scar him for life, provided he is allowed to live.

Eliot's Mess

Once they got driver's licenses under Gov. Spitzer's plan, illegal immigrants could arm themselves to the teeth simply by lying about their status, gun experts said Thursday...

Spitzer aides called such a scenario highly unlikely. If illegal immigrants wanted a gun, they'd more likely buy them on the streets, they reasoned.

If we go with the first paragraph, it means this avowed enemy of armed Americans is facilitating the arming of criminal aliens. If we accept the second, why it means that Eliot's political lifetime of subverting the right of the people to keep and bear arms has been in vain, and that [GASP!] "gun control" doesn't work...

I keep coming back to one grim reality though: anyone stupid enough to vote for this Marxist fraud probably is too stupid to own a gun.

[Via Russ Howard]

Magnificent Obsession

He asked the jury to consider whether Couchman was a collector or had an "unhealthy obsession with guns and was interested in their use".

There ya go, you gun lovers are just a bunch of sicko hoplophiliacs.

Maybe we can get that added to the list of qualifying mental disorders that will be reported as disqualifiers on the McCarthy/LaPierre NICS Funding Expansion bill...

Gonzo Guys Demonstrate Ignorance (Again)

David Hardy shows us they're telling people black powder rifles were designed to shoot down airliners.

Why anyone pays attention to these shrieking boobs is beyond me, and that's one of the reasons I won't directly link to them. Hardy does if you really feel a compelling need to read some stupid lies.

Bradys Fail to Kill in Two Florida Incidents--Will Try Again

For the second time in two days in South Florida, victims have opened fire on armed robbers. And both gunmen ended up dead.

In the latest incident overnight, a man sitting in a car alongside a woman was confronted by a man dressed all in black, wearing a ski mask and carrying a gun. He demanded money -- and to see the woman strip naked, Miami police said.

So just give him what he wants, right?

But here's the real outrage that this story represents: The Brady Campaign did it's best to derail Florida's "Stand Your Ground" law--misrepresenting it as a "Shoot First Law" that would allow nervous gun owners to get away with murder, and producing fliers, newspaper ads, billboards--even trying to scare tourists at airports with warnings they were in danger of being killed because of the new law. And leading the charge was Peter Hamm, someone who evidently feels being threatened is not sufficient grounds to shoot someone, but being called "Petey" is.

Make no mistake: Petey and his fellow subversives would rather the survivors in the above two incidents had been victims--as they most certainly would have been if the Bradys had their way. It would actually work out to their advantage, because there'd be fresh blood to dance in, fresh victims to jack up their donation request amount. And if a violent predator demanded Petey's money, and that he strip naked, he'd be helpless to do anything about it but snivel, whimper, plead and cry (assuming he objected) and, of course, give him what he wants.

[Via Sam]

'Nuff Said

Any questions?

[Via "MACpistol" at KABA Newslinks]

This Day in History: November 3

Washington is informed that a conspiracy is afoot to discredit him with Congress and have him replaced by General Gates.

A Real Terror

A man in Sweden who was angry with his daughter's husband has been charged with libel for telling the FBI that the son-in-law had links to al-Qaeda, Swedish media reported on Friday.

The man, who admitted sending the email, said he did not think the US authorities would [be] stupid enough to believe him.

You'd be amazed at how stupid US authorities can be, Bucko.

So much for those 3/4 million names on the Terror Watch List being reliable national security indicators.

So much for people being classified as terror risks.

And who would ever think that encouraging snitches might be perverted by motives of personal ambition or revenge?

Yet the "common sense gun control" folks at the Brady Center--you know, the "Don't call me Petey or I'll shoot you" people--think that's good enough to shriek hysterically to anyone who'll listen--basically vacuous women and inadequate men-- about "Terror Gap!!!" (talk about a manufactured emotional manipulation term) suspects buying guns.

Frickin' insanity.