Notes from the Resistance...
Forgive me if I can't help but focus on these words:APD's stonewalling on an information request called for a second Gun Rights Examiner column today.
"[T]he department wishes to withhold some of the requested information and has asked for a decision from the Attorney General about whether the information is within an exception to public disclosure."
Why? [More]
In response, John Thomas, the lobbyist for the Arizona Association of Chiefs of Police, said, "SB 1102, if enacted into law, will take Arizona back to the Wild West carry, with no consideration of officer safety.''You can tell John to go **** himself here.
A former Shelby County narcotics detective has been sentenced to six months in federal prison for stealing money confiscated from drug dealers. [More]What, you mean that's not considered armed robbery?
Some four dozen area law enforcement officers from six agencies have been named in corruption cases in the past six years, often with cash-laden drug dealers as their targets.Gee, you'd think such draconian punishments would discourage this sort of thing.
Police were told Denny drove the woman to San Diego International Airport, where he flashed his fake badge to get through security. [More]See, have the amulet and you have the power to cloud men's minds--although in the case of TSA, the clouds are already pretty dark and fluffy.
This all goes to the heart of the gun controller's dream--prior restraint on your rights because of what you might be capable of doing. Take that line far enough and off go our hands, potential stranglers that we are. Next up, all you proto-rapists... [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner column notes dogs aren't the only offsprings of bitches.
On February 4, 1778, Pulaski proposed a plan for the formation of a training division of hussars. In a letter to Washington Pulaski wrote:
"There is an officer now in this Country whose name is Kovach. I know him to have served with reputation in the Prussian service and assure Your Excellency that he is in every way equal to his undertaking." [More]
Brooklyn's 81st Precinct probed by NYPD for fudging stats [More]That means "lying." Officially.
Just to let you know, i am working closely with THE AUSTRALIAN SHOOTERS PARTY who are and always will be fighting to repeal the tight gun laws we have here. I also give them $2 from every album i sell to help the fight. If i happen to be misrepresented again, even if i stuff up and say the wrong thing or get misquoted, feel free to email me again. Thanks again for your help in this matter.
A former NYPD sergeant who sold out to a crack dealer for a pair of sneakers and a warmup suit will be getting new duds - courtesy of the prison system. [More]Another one of Furious Mike and Liberty-Lynchin' Patrick's "Lift a finger and die" "Only Ones"...
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) intends to purchase sixty Remington Model 870 Police RAMAC #24587 12 gauge pump-action shotguns for the Criminal Investigation Division. The Remington parkerized shotguns, with fourteen inch barrel, modified choke, Wilson Combat Ghost Ring rear sight and XS4 Contour Bead front sight, Knoxx Reduced Recoil Adjustable Stock, and Speedfeed ribbed black forend, are designated as the only shotguns authorized for IRS duty based on compatibility with IRS existing shotgun inventory, certified armorer and combat training and protocol, maintenance, and parts. [More]Didn't the feds murder Randy Weaver's wife and son over a barrel that was substantially longer than that?
The hoplophobes in the UK have sunk to a new level of Monty Python-like ridiculousness. [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner column observes even further degradation over in Sarah Brady Paradise...
On February 3, 1778, Congress, having taken into consideration the report of the special committee appointed to devise effectual means to prevent persons disaffected to the interest of the United States from being employed in any of the important offices thereof, resolved, That every officer who held or should thereafter hold a commission or office from Congress, should subscribe the oath or affirmation of allegiance. [More]Gee, too bad Chris Matthews and Mark Potok weren't around to disparage the effort, eh?
Alfaross - Why does anyone need a gun? Get them out of every society. Anybody who thinks that you need a gun for protection should wake up to themselves and look at how many people are killed by guns. There is something seriously wrong with humanity.This was posted under today's GRE column.
I didn't cut his email off--that's how he ended it. Anyway, seeing I had his attention, I thought I'd at least put him in a position where he can't say he doesn't know about the racist implications of U.S. "gun control," borrowing heavily from a prior similar effort.From: David CodreaAnd he responded:
Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 3:03 PM
To: Vernon Smith
Subject: RE: You
I am kind with those who deserve it. I'm also an American who is sick and tired of petty tyrants messing with my rights and I'm not going to be polite about it with oppressors.
You ought to be ashamed of yourself. Did your oath to the Constitution mean nothing?
We both know that you are not interested in getting rid of all guns. You simply want to be on the side that is armed. And let the ultimate impact on your constituents' unalienable rights be damned.
I wonder what these constituents would say if they were provided the truth about the racist origins and continued discriminatory application of the gun control measures you promulgate? Have you told them about the Slave Codes, that would allow a black man to be whipped (or worse) for possession of any kind of weapon? Or the post-Civil War Black Codes, designed to keep the newly emancipated from obtaining the means of defense during the heyday of Klan terror?
Why don't you circulate the following Louisiana statute among a few of the churches that you get your precinct walkers from, and see what they have to say?
"No negro who is not in the military service shall be allowed to carry fire-arms, or any kind of weapons, within the parish, without the special written permission of his employers, approved and endorsed by the nearest and most convenient chief of patrol."
If that doesn't make an impression, why not try the following offering from Mississippi?
"No freedman, free Negro, or mulatto not in the military service of the United States government, and not licensed so to do by the board of police of his or her county, shall keep or carry firearms of any kind..."
Oh, hell, let's cut to the chase and clue them in to Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. (19 How.) 393 (1857):
"Protection of the ‘absolute rights of individuals' to personal security, liberty, and private property is secured in part by ‘the right of bearing arms'--which with us is...practically enjoyed by every citizen, and is among his most valuable privileges, since it furnishes the means of resisting as a freeman ought, the inroads of usurpation."
Tell them how racist Supreme Court Chief Justice Taney concluded that blacks, as legal scholar and civil rights attorney Professor Don B. Kates has recorded, "could not be ‘citizens,' because if they were, they would have the right to vote, to assemble, to speak on political subjects, to travel freely, and ‘to keep and carry arms wherever they went.'"
Now tell them how the government has neither the legal obligation nor the capability to protect them, and how your police will not arrive in most life-and-death situations in time to do anything but tape off the crime scene, cover the body and take a report. Then make sure you tell them that you don't credit them with having the judgment or maturity to be entrusted with the means of personal defense, in spite of landmark peer-reviewed studies from Florida State University and the University of Chicago that conclusively demonstrate the crime-deterring, life- saving value of guns in private, law-abiding hands.
I suspect you won't tell them any of this. And, because of the unique privileges and stature that you enjoy in your position, this is especially contemptible.
To have risen to such a prestigious and powerful position speaks of many positive and remarkable characteristics that you must be blessed with. But a true leader would use his authority to preserve, protect and champion the freedoms of those he serves. How sad, how telling, and how ultimately treasonous that you have chosen to misapply yours for your own gain.
And rather than being a leader in liberty, you have opted to become just another one of the plantation's overseers.
Foolish man.
David Codrea
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Talk about a substantive rebuttal.
Prompting another brilliant parry:
And that is the sound of a mind, such as it is, slamming shut.
