Snitches Wanted: Inquire Within

An informant whose tip helps officers arrest a drug dealer could earn $50. A tip about a murder suspect could bring up to $700.

See, if I were an evil criminal, I'd put ads out on the street like that myself, along with a number that went to a pay-as-you-go phone. I'd answer it pretending to be a LEO, and arrange a "police meeting" under some pretext, counting on most of these lowlifes being dumb enough to fall for it. And then, when I determined who they were, I'd have them horribly killed and make it known throughout my turf.

If I were an evil criminal...

[Via Mama Liberty]

We're the Only Ones Packing Our Bags Enough

A state trooper has been charged with possession with intent to distribute cocaine after police said they saw him accept two suitcases full of the drug in a parking lot.

Sorry--I daydreamed off there for a second. I was imagining putting an "Only One" in the cage with a gorilla instead of an American Tourister...

[Via Lane]

Compulsory? For Who???

The selection of Rahm Emanuel, the Illinois congressman and Democratic apparatchik, as President-Elect Barack Obama's chief of staff, has raised a few eyebrows -- at least partially because of Emanuel's advocacy of a civilian draft. That plan for "universal civilian service" would press Americans aged 18 to 25 into government service for a minimum of three months...

I hope they actually try to do this. Can you imagine the reaction from the young Obamanoids when they realize change applies to them, personally? That it's not just taking from the greedy pig you hate to give to people you want cred as being in sympathy with...?

So much for a woman--or man--being able to choose what they do with their body, and it being none of the government's business. Well, that's not quite fair--they can choose from the mandatory options provided.

And who could conscientiously object to lightworki...uh...community organizing?

Will on Heller

So, regarding judging, too, conservatism is a house divided.

Only if you fall for the lie that is neo-conservatism.

We talked about J. Harvie here, including a considerably more qualified opinion from William Rawle.

Y'know, I've never really been all that impressed with George Will...he started out anti, then evolved to "unpersuaded," and now he's just squishy, and procedure, rather than principle-driven.

[Via Mark G]

The Sipsey Street Neighborhood Watch

"Panic?" Maybe, at the "Next Level"

I was moved to write about panic, because that is what the current crowd of folks jamming into gun stores and gun shows in the wake of Obama's election are being called by their supposed friends and certain enemies alike. They are said to be engaged in "panic buying."

"Goble-de-gook" on Guns in Ohio

Steve Goble, authorized journalist of the Mansfield, Ohio, News-Journal assures us that the "new congress will have higher priorities than guns."

All Eyes on Georgia

The Democrats currently control 58 seats in the Senate. If they get to 60 (the number needed to overcome a filibuster), it will be nearly impossible to stop the gun control agenda of incoming President Barack Obama.

Then things'll get really interesting.

As a side note, am I missing something, or is there no way to link to individual articles on GOA's PVF site?

[Via Zachary G]

We're the Only Ones Triangulating Enough

Harris officer charged in love triangle shooting
Sheriff's deputy injured jailer accused of having an affair with his wife...

We already know "Only Ones" like this are better than us, so I'm sure shooting an unarmed rival in the back is no reflection on their courage.

[Via Lane]

Another Dangerous Felon to Disarm

A Pasco County man is facing charges after trying to run into his burning home to save his pets.

Yep--sounds like just the type you want to lay a felony rap on and forever strip of his right to keep and bear arms. And he did all that resisting "without violence."

So how'd his face get all marked up?

At least we know our lives are not ours, because if they were, they'd be ours to risk.

[Via Zachary G]

Scratching the Surface

I believe this smells of conspiracy. Don't bestow a tin beanie on me please. As I said, this has been in the works for a long time.

Mike H has some thoughts on the surfacing of The Lightworker.

Exercised to the Limit

Government, as we must never forget, is force. And as Simone Weil so memorably observed, force is that mysterious influence "that turns anybody who is subjected to it into a thing. Exercised to the limit, it turns man into a thing in the most literal sense: it makes a corpse out of him."

William Norman Grigg tells us some stories that will make your blood boil.

I wouldn't want to be one of the mini-tyrants he describes when a victim finally snaps. I wouldn't even want to be associated with them.

[Via Ron W]

This Day in History: November 25

The South Carolina Congress resolves that "the colony is in a state of actual alarm" and sends additional militia into the interior to reinforce those fighting against the loyalists.

More than Expected

Leave it to the collectivists, literally in this case, to put a spin of not just success, but huge success, on a program that suffered a 20% drop in volume from last year and doesn't look like it can sustain itself as an annual event.

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column...

The Sipsey Street Neighborhood Watch

This is probably going to be a recurring feature, a way to bring updates. It'd be simpler if you just bookmarked the blog and went there every day, but I'll be an occasional nag just in case.

Refuse to Cooperate

A Liberal Gets It!

A Common Language of Resistance

Beyond the Internet and Talk Radio: A Call for Creating New Committees of Correspondence

Will Book Tour for Food

Have laptop and sleeping bag, will travel.

We're the Only Ones Nationwide Enough

[A]ll qualified off-duty and retired law enforcement are allowed, by federal law, to carry a concealed gun for personal self-defense irrespective of state law.

Because as we've proven time and again on this site, the "Only Ones" are just so damn much better than the rest of us.

[Via DJK and Andre]

The Few, the Proud...

...the San Jose "Only Ones."

Watch the video.

Good grief.

A Solution to Too Much Paperwork

Gun enthusiasts said it would deter crime. Gun-control advocates said the measure would increase it, spawning needless deaths.

But Minnesota's permit-to-carry handgun law appears to have done neither, according to an analysis of state crime statistics. Instead, it has accomplished something else entirely in the five years since it was enacted: It's kept clerks at sheriffs' offices hopping busy with paperwork.

So we can stop with the forms and fees and dispense with this permission nonsense, right?

Now that it's been proven (yet once again) the Dodge City scenario is a lie, we know peaceable armed citizens don't need supervising. And those who aren't peaceable don't get permits anyway.

As for crime not being deterred, I don't see where the data sets they're citing would show that one way or another. But here's what we do know: we don't need to demonstrate how many fires are deterred by equipping buildings with extinguishers and sprinkler systems to know that they'll be in a better position to remain standing should one break out.

It's Good to be the Prince

Prince Andrew spent four days in Tunisia with his friend Tarek Kaituni, who has a gun-smuggling conviction, a spokeswoman for the British royal confirms.

Eh. What do we expect?

His older brother is big on Algoreism, while his royal nephew took one RAF helicopter to visit the Royal Squeeze and another to go to a stag party.

Every time I hear Charles open his krovvy rot, I'm reminded of what Thomas Paine knew a couple hundred years back, and what anyone who worships "royalty" is too incompetent at self-determination to grasp:

[T]he idea of hereditary legislators is as inconsistent as that of hereditary judges, or hereditary juries; and as absurd as an hereditary mathematician, or an hereditary wise man; and as ridiculous as an hereditary poet laureate.

Besides, why settle for mere kings when you can use good old American know-how and vote yourself a Lightworker?

I Wholeheartedly Agree

I am proud that we have one of the few police services around the world that do not regularly carry firearms and I want to keep it that way.

Me too, Jacqui, me too. Now if we could just do the same for places like Chicago, New Yor...

If they Can't Shut Us Down as 'Unauthorized Journalists'...

...they'll shut us down as "Unauthorized Lobbyists."

Well, we were all hoping for change, weren't we...?

How Many Blogs Does the World Need?

Those ancient debates about whether the Internet lowers journalistic standards and drags the Mainstream Media into the slime have become irrelevant. For a large chunk of the electorate--the young chunk--the Internet has become the major source of information.

Obviously, it's not a question of need, but one might ask the same thing about "Authorized Journalists," particularly when the first blog leftist Time cites in its Top 25 is the fascist HuffPo.

Eric Holder willing, we'll continue occupying our little corner to bring to light what you won't see in the public/private partnership media. And Eric Holder not willing, I suspect we'll be getting...uh...creative at "guerilla marketing" by then...

[Via Joe G]