We're the Only Ones Striking with Force Enough

Metro Gang Strike Force members committed crimes by taking home property that had been seized during their police operations...The property included flat- and large-screen TVs, laptops and other computer equipment, electronics and recreational items such as water scooters. [More]

No doubt just a few bad apples. I mean, only a third of them were "implicated."

Do the folks prosecuting these guys have any idea how long it will take to train replacement "Only Ones" to become this accomplished at being lying, thieving, thugs?

[Via Buzz G]

The Mercenary

Part of my job as Founder is to extend invitations for people to speak at these events. Recently, I invited a famous Second Amendment activist. I asked him to spend five minutes on stage. He said he would be very happy and honored to attend the Second Amendment March ... but only if we paid him $40,000. [More]

Not that I consider myself to be in the exalted rank of important bigshot 2A luminaries, but I feel like I'm pushing things asking people to share GRE links...

I've got nothing against people making a living. It's why I encourage you to buy books from guys like Matthew Bracken and David E. Young, or purchase videos from JPFO...

But $40K, two first-class tickets, luxury hotel accommodations...I guess this cat figures his pearls of wisdom and ability to inspire us, the little people, are enough of a contribution.

I'm really curious as to who it is. I have a suspicion, based on a certain NRA director who has been reported as charging that precise amount to attend board meetings, but it would be unfair to consider that conclusive without facts. I'm going to email Grand Rapids GRE Skip Coryell and if he reveals it later, I'll be able to tell you if I was right.

I wonder how much Patrick Henry charged for his "Give Me Liberty" speech...?

Crisis Needed

Vanderboegh tells us why. [More]

Real Homeland Security is Being Maintained

A tip of the hat to those who have stirred the debate. [More]

Larry Pratt puts the armed protester brouhaha into proper perspective.

We're the Only Ones Clubbing Around Enough

A suspended Shafter police officer is facing felony assault charges after videotaping himself clubbing a prone suspect who didn't resist, officers said Wednesday. [More]

And then he falsified the police report? Why that's unheard of!

Y'know, when I see our fine "Only Ones" getting in trouble over little things like this, it makes me nostalgic for the good old days of street justice.

[Via Harvey]

We're the Only Ones "Is This Some Kind of Bust?" Enough

An embarrassed Sheriff Gary Painter fired one Midland County deputy and suspended three others without pay after a scantily dressed waitress holding a rifle posed for photographs on the hood of a patrol vehicle. [More]

Now hold the damn phone here a second--the "Only Ones" magical "patrol rifle" juju is so powerful that one given to a ("Twin Peaks"!) pseudo-Hooters gal by DUI-eligible boobs with badges is a mere "rifle", but if you or I have one while we're stone cold sober it would instantly become a "semiautomatic mass killing machine"...?

[Via Matt S]

We're the Only Ones Re-Employed Enough

West Palm Beach police officer who beat handcuffed suspect gets job back...

In June, Schwartz and Graham were arrested on misconduct charges after an investigation by state and federal authorities found they falsified police reports after the May 2008 beating. [More]

Hey, when you have this level of on-the-job experience, the "Only Ones" can't afford to lose you, especially when you consider how long it takes to train a rookie into becoming such an accomplished lying thug.

Thank goodness for the police unions who make sure those "few bad apples" stay in the barrel! Now that's diversity!

Bonnie Erbe Exemplifies Media Elites' Hatred for Gun Owners

Citizens are children, you see. And children need guardians.

The adults, that is, the government, must keep grown-up things away from them.

For their own good. [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner shows how a prominent "Authorized Journalist" relies exclusively on name-calling and lies.

Also learn about a pro-RKBA "filk" music album and get the latest from my fellow GREs.

Tell a friend?

This Day in History: August 21

The Conduct of Genl Howe is extremely embarrassing. He left the Capes of Delaware the 31st Ulto. and having never been heard of since the 7th Inst. off Sinapuxent. It was generally beleived here, that he had passed the Capes of Virginia, and that Charles Town in South Carolina was the object of his expedition. We were so fully persuaded of this, and convinced of the impracticability of affording it succour in time from this Army, that a Resolution was come into this Morning, to move to morrow towards Hudson's River, if approved by Congress, to avail ourselves of any advantages, circumstances might point out. The destination of the Fleet, if for Chesapeak Bay, must soon be known, and the Army will remain here, till further intelligence is obtained on the Subject. At present, I think it not unlikely, that their appearance off the Capes is to amuse and that their designs may yet be against Charles Town. [More]

Too Many Tips

I just can't cover them all. Please understand if I haven't gotten to yours--it doesn't mean it's not as deserving of being featured as anything else--it just means there's only one of me and I have other responsibilities to attend to.

We're the Only Ones Minty Fresh Enough

They wouldn't let May out of jail for three months until tests proved the so-called drugs were candy.

While May was behind bars, the Kissimmee Police Department towed his car and auctioned it off. He lost his job and was evicted. [More]

And the "Only Ones'" War on Everything continues...

What, your life was destroyed? Hey, they were just following department protocol.

Every damned "officer" involved in this outrage should be publicly identified, held personally criminally and civilly accountable, and humiliated and shunned by all decent people.

Oh, I forgot--they can kidnap and hold us hostage for that, too.

[Via "Bill Hicks"]

A Snuffyless Mantra

Hernando Zavala gets a letter published. [More]

He tells me via email:

Just one gripe. They edited my letter ... I called it the "Daley/Pfleger" mantra. They dropped the Pfleger.

Maybe they're afraid of being "snuffed out".

We're the Only Ones Unidentifiable Enough

A 34-YEAR-OLD woman, the mother of a 12-year-old girl, has been locked up in a Virginia jail for three weeks and could remain there for at least another month. Her crime? Blogging about the police. [More]

How dare a mere subject presume to monitor the exalted "Only One" drug warriors.

Look--I'm "identifying a police officer."

[Via JPR9]

Oh, My Achey Fordy Seven!

They've since corrected it, without admitting anything, of course.

Forget "write what you know." No one in power really wants "Authorized Journalists" to know what the hell they're talking about. They're too useful using their vast reach to spread exploitable ignorance.

[Via Daniel Barnett]

We're the Only Ones Getting Carried Away with Our Work Enough Update

We talked about this here.

It's over.

[Via Laurel]

Another Racist Obama Protestor

Correspondent ZGeorge points us to an MSNBC video and notes:

MSLSD crops the video of the guy in Arizona to obscure the fact that he is black and then Contessa Brewer and her crew of spit bubble blowers go on about how white people are carrying guns around presidents of "color."

A little background:

The guy carrying the gun is black - not white.

The event is no where near Obama.

The guy carrying the gun cleared this with the police department ahead of time.

Open carry of firearms in Arizona is legal.

Not surprising.

The socialists want us to believe using "socialist" to describe their socialism is a racist codeword.

This nitwit would have us believe the Obama /Joker poster originated with racists. I still haven't seen a retraction on that one.

Hey, it's not us intent on rendering "people of color" defenseless by force of the state--it's them.

And we all know how MSNBC feels about guns. The very thought sends a sensation down their legs, albeit a wet one, as opposed to a "furrowing".

We're the Only Ones Just Popping In Enough

“I instinctively slid [my gun] off my belt and placed it in the center console, and armed the alarm,” Brown said. “I didn’t want to take it in. I was only going in for a hot second.” [More]

Understandable attitude for an "Only One" with his eye trained to see potential crime scenes in his jurisdiction. We all know nothing bad ever happens in stores or their parking lots.

Besides, we also know how quickly you can get in and out of Home Depots. Who would have time to do anything in a span as brief as "a hot second"?

Oh, wait...

[Via Harvey]

Can Obama's Anti-Gun OSHA Pick Be Stopped?

As usual, the major players are all silent on voicing their position on the nominee. If past actions are any indication, they'll only enter into the controversy if dragged kicking and screaming by the grassroots, which generally means too late to change the outcome. Their apologists may point to the recent setback on Sonia Sotomayor's Supreme Court confirmation, and come up with all kinds of excuses why the realpolitik course is avoidance. [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column notes that ultimately, the answer to the title question rests with us.

Here's what it boils down to: If you and I do nothing, and accept confirmation as inevitable without lifting a finger to stop it, no, he can't be.

If you and I do something that requires very little time and effort, and then urge every gun owner we know to follow suit, there could be a chance.

If you're just coming into this discussion, it would help to read Part One and Part Two.

Also, Jennifer Freeman of Liberty Belles gives us a language lesson.

Tell a friend? And take five minutes to contact a few people?

Have you read the latest from all the Gun Rights Examiners?

• Atlanta: Ed Stone
• Austin: Howard Nemerov
• Boston: Ron Bokleman
• Charlotte: Paul Valone
• Chicago: Don Gwinn
• Cleveland: Daniel White
• DC: Mike Stollenwerk
• Denver: Dan Bidstrup
• Grand Rapids: Skip Coryel
• Los Angeles: John Longenecker
• Minneapolis: John Pierce
• National: David Codrea
• Seattle: Dave Workman
• St. Louis: Kurt Hofmann
• Wisconsin: Gene German

This Day in History: August 20

Would it not be much more for the honor and interest of America to turn such a part of our force, against our enemy to the northward as no longer to leave it in doubt who shall have the ascendency in that quarter? [More]

Shouldn't You Be in Bed?

If this doesn't work, we can extend hours even longer. [More]

And we'll just enforce that with our "manhunters" here...

[Via Tom Z]