Official Three Percenter

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This time-wasting, click bait cookie-spreader I got suckered into really isn't all that hard for those of us cursed with trivia-saturated skulls. I just thought the "3%" acknowledgement was ironic.

Unclear on the Concept

For me the choice is clear – Ted Cruz. [More]

What's not clear is how you reconcile that assertion with this:

Is he eligible? I don’t know for sure, but I suspect not – at least not by my understanding of what the founders had in mind when they ratified the Constitution.

That's your criteria, and the appropriate one, Mr. Farah -- what the founders had in mind. If you have resolved your suspicion, it would be helpful if you explained it to the rest of us.

We're the Only Ones Connubial Enough

He was charged with assault with a firearm and criminal threats stemming from a domestic dispute with his husband that led to Friday’s standoff. [More]

Welcome to the party, pal.

Shock and Awe

...400 soldiers in the 67th Signal Battalion at Fort Gordon, Georgia, were subjected to a “white privilege” briefing, including a PowerPoint presentation instructing the attendees: “Our society attaches privilege to being white and male and heterosexual …” [More]

Forget "our enemies'"not being afraid of us -- what's happening here is the rulers are molding attitudes against those they consider their enemies. They're furthering the official demonization of those who challenge the legitimacy of their "fundamental transformation."

The Execution of LaVoy Finicum

An FBI agent is suspected of lying about firing twice at Robert "LaVoy" Finicum and may have gotten help from four other FBI agents in covering up afterward... [More]

Government not only failed in its duty to resolve matters without bloodshed, it contributed to the conditions making it all but inevitable when their demand for obedience was forced upon a man who would not kneel. They knew this man of unbending principle had never initiated violence and would only react if forced. They set things up so that would be the outcome.

He told them at the first roadblock he was going to go to turn himself in to Sheriff Palmer. Given the circumstances, he could have been escorted securely to do just that, to resolve things peaceably. The enforcers had waited all that time -- they could have called Palmer, assured Finicum he was on his way and no action would be taken, and waited another couple hours.

Lying FBI agents shooting into the truck with no identified threat target as Finicum was trying to exit with his hands up not only violates rules of engagement, it criminally endangered the occupants. As an aside, considering all the years its been in existence and all the money that's been poured into it, how many hostages has the Hostage Rescue Team actually rescued?

Finicum was shot in the back. As for the "justification" that he was going for his gun, not only would self-defense have been warranted, all we really have to go on to accept that, without better video and sound from on-scene recorders, is the word of people who were part of a kill team that is now being investigated for withholding critical information.

This whole thing did not have to happen. Finicum DID initially emerge with his hands up. Government actions prevented that scenario from unfolding. And now they're making noises about how justified they all were.

Another thing that's instructive about all this is in comments under another article about not releasing the names of the police shooters just yet. The hatred, the reveling and joy in the death of a man they revile, and the outright bigotry against Finicum's religion are all evident in those who think agents of the monopoly of violence ought to be able to kill with anonymity. If someone made similar slurs against Islam, these same Prozis would be screaming "Bigot!" and worse. And funny, how they'd take a polar opposite position had a person of a different set of circumstances been killed in a different place, like, say, Ferguson.

I said "Prozis," a term I use to combine "progressive" with Nazi, which is what they really are, as much as they try to project and pin that label onto advocates of Constitutionally-limited government. It's not just an example of Godwin's Law when they really do hate, and really do want the state to crush anyone who's not part of their cult.

As for what happens next, I won't be surprised to see push-back as more and more people have personal lines in the sand forcibly crossed. I don't see that as having a calming effect -- quite the opposite. I won't be surprised if some totally unforeseen wild card decides "it's time."

Whether the Rubicon has been finally crossed or not, and whether more are going to be dragged into this, is yet unknown. I guess we'll all find out.

Latest 4th Circuit Gun Ban Decision Highlights Legal Danger for Militia-Suitable Arms

What happens from here is, at best, uncertain. Pessimistically, I expect the court to look out for the interests of the state — they must realize what Branca observed about all “gun control” edicts being vulnerable. I also expect the “precedent” to be applied in other districts. [More]

Can you imagine telling a Minuteman his gun had to be turned in for "public safety," and that it was not "in common use at the time"? Modern day gun-grabbers are just as ludicrous, and some of them wear black robes.

Project Conwalker

Lymon, 35, was a convicted killer at the time he allegedly sold $6,500 worth of heroin and firearms to undercover ATF agents last fall. Since his release from prison in 2011, Lymon had been arrested on suspicion of two separate violent crimes. But he was allowed to remain on the streets after the alleged undercover sales to the ATF agents. [More]

Hey, how else do you expect them to "botch a sting"...?

[Via Mike M]

Zutritt Verbotten!

You are not welcome here. Arlingtonians will do their best to show you how unwelcome you are. [More]

You're the arbiter of who's welcome? Seems to me you're afraid to put that to the test and let Arlingtonians decide for themselves. If they don't want it, the marketplace will induce them to fold or to move.

Not that this guy has ever run a business to know about such things firsthand. And he sure seems overly concerned about comment posters not being from Arlington -- he's never had a problem forcing his brand of advocacy on other communities.

Hey, you know what would be unwelcome in my neighborhood? The guy Levine was a ... uh ... mouthpiece for running a gay prostitution ring out of his apartment.

He also claims he was "a Nazi hunter"?

Sure didn't learn much. Including about telling a people he is hostile toward that they're not welcome, that they have no fundamental right to their traditions and beliefs, or even to exist...

"Progressives." Opposite Day.

Go ahead-- do your "picket line"-- a dozen MILMs for a photo op and then they'll go home.  Do your strip mall boycott and punish people who didn't do anything-- which is what "gun control" is anyway.

Can you imagine what Virginians like George Mason and Patrick Henry would have thought of this kapo?

[Via Mack H]

A Simple Equation

“Slaves plus guns equaled freedom.” [More]

So naturally, Opposite Day "progressives" want to subtract instead of add.

[Via Florida Guy]   

We're the Only Ones Self-Inflicted Enough

Brooklyn cops took suspect’s phone and took goofy selfies [More]

They're evidently every bit as smart as they look.

[Via Mike M]

We're the Only Ones Slimmed Down Enough

Sheriffs Association introduces new, slimmed-down version of bill adding felonies that preclude future gun rights [More]

None of which negates an inconvenient truth that's apparently in no one's interest to acknowledge...

What Works

I dunno, guys -- have you factored in the massive non-compliance evident in places like Connecticut, California and New York, and the costs of implementation against, say, 3% of gun owners who will not comply...? [More]

Coming Soon, to a State Near You

If we lose this critical battle in Nevada, the same fight will land on your doorstep in the years to come. [More]

Would you rather the battle be where they are or where you are? And if you won't help them, why should they help you?

Full-Auto Cultural Terraforming

Automatic voter registration takes hold on West Coast [More]

You don't say.

Good thing none of this has anything to do with that "single issue"!

[Via Mack H]

For Science. For Action. For Health.

For manipulation. For propaganda. For totalitarianism. [More]

Their deputy director's name is "Mighty Fine"...? Well alrighty then.

Opposite Day "Progressives" Against Egalitartian Power Sharing got some money from someone to scam the emotional and the uninformed into surrendering their rights and to attack those who see through their BS. These are the Leni Riefenstahlers behind the hogwash.

This is one of those times I wish I could dig deeper on tracing things back to the elitists behind the scenes. Other priorities call...

The Walking Red

“The bills are dead, they just don’t know it,” said Eileen McCarron, president of Colorado Ceasefire, who referred to the gun measures as “zombie bills” at a news conference prior to the bills being heard in committee.

“The people who are here today are on the front lines against the zombie apocalypse,” McCarron quipped. [More]

If there's one thing a collectivist monopoly of violence zealot knows about, it's the dead.

She does realize the survivors are armed and fighting for their lives with grim determination, right? And what it takes to stop a zombie?

[Via cydl]

Hiking Up Her Robes and Crapping on the Constitution -- Again

U.S. District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly has ruled that the plaintiffs in a suit seeking to bar the District from enforcing its concealed-carry regulations "have not met their burden of showing a likelihood of success on the merits" in a motion for a preliminary injunction. The ruling in effect upholds—for now—D.C.'s "good reasoning" licensing scheme. [More]

This is the same Nazgûlette who "ruled" We the People couldn't carry in national parks without first doing an environmental impact study.

Unsurprisingly, she's all for non-Fourth Amendment-protected spying.

Catch and Release

A gunman who led Denver Police on a high speed chase and shootout that would result in the gunman’s death and leave one officer with a bullet wound to the leg had been recently arrested and released three times under new “Sure and Swift” policies adopted by the Colorado Department of Corrections (DOC). [More]

Well that was certainly sure and swift, all right.

What more reason could be needed to conclude that disarming you and me is the only answer?

That and what kind of intolerant racists would have a wall to prevent Gonzales and Padilla from going wherever they want to?

[Via cydl]

The Missing Word in Police Killings

Disabled individuals make up a third to half of all people killed by law enforcement officers. Disabled individuals make up the majority of those killed in use-of-force cases that attract widespread attention. This is true both for cases deemed illegal or against policy and for those in which officers are ultimately fully exonerated. The media is ignoring the disability component of these stories, or, worse, is telling them in ways that intensify stigma and ableism. [More]

Interesting.

I wonder if their advocacy for the disabled would extend to the Palm Pistol...

Fatwā and Furious

Obama Sent Weapons to Muslim Terrorists in Benghazi [More]

What? No background checks?