Young v. Hawaii

The infringers certainly do contort.

[Via George Pace]

So Much for Inviting Public Comment

Testimony for Hawaii's "bump stock" ban proposal [More]

Commentary from George Pace:

Tabulation:
FOR    5 (five)
OPPOSED 104 (one hundred and four)
I haven't read all the comments (and even my quick tabulation looking through over 100 pages could be off by a couple), but the support is from HPD, Maui Prosecutor, Big Island Mayor Harry Kim, Americans for Democratic Action and one individual.
Now let's see how the committee "translates" that public input into action.
I appreciate everyone who took the time to submit testimony to attempt to defensively defeat legislation to further restrict our rights.
Now, can we please take the same energy and attempt to use it to go on the offense and get the committee chairs to hear the bills to restore our rights (CCW shall issue, handgun mag limit change to 17, and end stun gun ban)?  :shaka:
* * * * *What a waste of time. I don't get it. This is "representative government"? Representing who or what?
Chairman starts off the committee meeting by saying that there are too many people who want to testify on SB2046, so (even though you took time off work and came all the way down here and maybe paid for parking, etc.) you won't be able to testify. Why have "in person" testimony if there is a "time limit" that is interpreted to mean the vast majority of people there to testify can't testify? So much for "public input".  :crazy:  :wtf:
Then there's the fact that only two of the five committee members are present, so there is no "quorum" and they can't do anything after they sit there for 90 minutes listening to all the people they did allow to testify on other bills, and postpone action until at least the next meeting on Feb 6. Why even have the meeting and hear all the "public input" (such as is allowed given the "time constraints") when the majority of the members aren't even there? It's almost like they all have their minds made up before any procedural events (testimony, meetings, votes, etc.) take place, so they haven't really missed anything by missing the meeting and the in person testimony (such as was "allowed").  >:(

As the Story Changes

Hawaii worker who sent missile alert thought threat was real [More]

So this business about selecting the wrong option from a drop down menu was a  state government-issued lie to cover up the even wider-reaching incompetence that goes hand-in-hand with"progressives" being "in charge"?

And more importantly -- do you think Ige got his suitcase opened yet?

[Via George Pace]

You Can't Make This Stuff Up

Hawaii gov slow to retract false missile alert because he forgot Twitter password [More]

1-2-3-4-5?

[Via George Pace]

Captain's Log Supplemental

• More bullet points
• The root cause?
• "Blue" Hawaii

Hawaii Missile Alert Screw-Up Highlights Dangerous Anti-Gun Culture Planning Flaws

The Hawaiian state government’s emergency preparedness guidelines are equally deficient. Note the total lack of any discussion on having the means of defense, that is, on having adequate firearms, ammunition and training to deal with catastrophic disasters that will leave people on their own for untold lengths of time. [More]

At least there'll be plenty of long pig for the luau.

Aloha Oe

HAWAII OPPOSES FORCED CONCEALED CARRY RECIPROCITY [More]

Of course they do. Based on results, they don't want to allow it at all.

[Via George P]

No Limits

On the off chance that some particularly risible amnesty application is denied by a stodgy rules-follower in our immigration bureaucracy, that denial will be litigated before a federal judge in Hawaii, then appealed to the 9th Circuit. [More]

#CantorRyan !

Picking the Low-Hanging Fruit

Hawaii soldier remains in federal custody, accused of trying to help ISIS [More]

Gosh, and after all those "background checks"...

The operative word is "trying, because it appears he did his plotting with an "undercover agent."

Who would have guessed?

When something really big and bad does happen, odds are it will involve plenty of unfollowed leads beginning after a process that can best be described as "rigorous."

In the mean time, let's all focus on what scary, evil bastards those right wing extremists are.

[Via George Pace]

Trouble in Paradise

Hawaii News -  Growing homeless encampments prompt proposal for armed park rangers [More]

"Progressive" problems call for "progressive" solutions. And who better for Opposite Day social justice warriors to take out than the least protected and most "underserved" among us?

It's the national socialist thing to do!

God, they have screwed that state.

A Rigged System

Let me point out a few other ambiguities that are completely arbitrary, capricious and undefined and thus allow for essentially random "discretion" to (clearly unconstitutionally) keep Hawaii citizens from exercising their right to bear arms. [More]

You can't get there from here. As intended.

The One that Got Away

A convicted Palestinian terrorist and a key figure of the recent Women’s March will be deported from the United States after accepting a plea bargain that allows her to escape a prison sentence. Rasmea Odeh will be stripped of her U.S citizenship and forced to leave the country and return to Jordan after failing to disclose to immigration authorities that she had been imprisoned in Israel for committing two terror attacks. [More]

Wait just a dang minute -- what happened to that "rigorous security screening" we're assured they all go through?  You know, the precautions embedded traitors like U.S. District Judge Derrick Watson (appointed by Obama and unanimously approved by all Senate Republicans) has ordered to stop?

I guess Hawaii's not in much danger of a refugee dump.

You Tell Me

And don't call me "Shirley." [More]

The date corresponds with an earlier effort, albeit that one is a different page:

I emailed the guy:

In regards to the “official” birth certificate released by the White House that many are saying is not the actual document, if the state government of Hawaii cannot by law release a copy to anyone but the former president or a relative, why not use your status as his brother to obtain what is in their records?  ... I’m sure there are interested parties here who could assist with legal and funding issues to ensure this is done in the manner prescribed by law.

I freely admit I don't "know," but that's the point: Who but someone with an agenda would object to finding out for sure?

A "bonus" takeaway I get from all this: If we can't definitively resolve this controversy, how in the world can government claim to be able to thoroughly vet all those foreign nationals it's bringing in by the boatload?

Rigorous!

Due Process-Denying Gun Ban Clears Hawaii Senate, Passage Expected

Section (2)(C) would allow a police officer, based solely upon a second-hand report of an individual he “believes…is credible and reliable” to initiate the confiscation of firearms and ammunition of the individual who was observed by the third party. [More]

So much for innocent until proven guilty.

Paradise Lost

Hawaii Did Not Issue Any Gun-Carry Permits to Private Citizens in 2016 [More]

No surprises there. Anybody think their relatively low violent crime rate is due to "gun control" as opposed to ... oh, I don't know...?

Do you know when you get off a plane from the mainland there they require you to fill out a (punishable) affidavit attesting you are not bringing in any "illegal" (undocumented?) "plants and animals"?  This from a place with signs warning drivers of deer, and all kinds of imported animal and plant life?

I know "Sanctuary State" California asks if you have any produce when you drive across their border from Arizona. What I don't know is if they'll still laugh if you reply "No, but I can make you a sandwich."

The Hawaiians realize their statist infringement on the right of free travel is so offensive they actually warn you that.. well here, let me show you:

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Yep, merely defacing their punk form can carry a fine of up to $25,000 and a year in the slammer.  I wonder what would happen if I mailed them one with a swastika, or a two-word message beginning with "F"?

Look, we all get that ecosystems can be damaged. There are ways to persuade against that without making your first outreach an unfunded mandate demand for uncompensated administrative work that violates the rights of those who wish to exercise their right of free association -- backed by a threat. I guess if we've already let TSA cop a feel, the assumption is we're easy.

And as long as we're tangentially on the subject of endangered species, note native Republicans have been driven to extinction. The predilection for statist coercion being the first resort makes that pretty evident.

Funny thing about those tolerant "progressives" -- there's another foreign transplant they've managed to keep out. Anybody see any Syrian or Nigerian communities in the land of inclusive Democrat control?

Aloha 'Oe.

Fake Newsman

Once again, a flustered Tapper interrupted: “Because the president was born in Hawaii.”

“I don’t care where he was born,” Arpaio replied. “I’m talking about a fraudulent government document, a birth certificate. That’s all I’m concerned with. That’s a violation of the law.” [More]

See how Jake Tapper tried to reframe, derail and discredit the whole subject though, by introducing an unmade claim and then trying to make that the focus?

Lügenpresse psychopath...

F**k 'em, Danno

‘Hawaii Five-0’ Blames ‘Gun Nuts’ for Mass Shootings [More]

They're just carrying on a tradition from the original.

Jack Lord would have approved:

A dedicated liberal activist, he was a vocal advocate of gun control in the United States.

[Via Michael G]

Hawaii’s Gun Owner Registration Reporting Edict Fundamental to Enabling Confiscation

Gun owners basically have two options when confronted with such edicts: Capitulate and surrender, or become part of the “I will not comply” paradigm and be destroyed if caught (raising a third option for those who will not accept that outcome). [More]

Can't you just see this spreading to Everytown?

Rapping Back

Hawaii could be first to put gun owners in federal database ... The cost to enter names in the database will be covered by a fee paid by gun owners, which wasn't defined in the bill. [More]

You not only get to dig your own grave, we even charge your family for the bullet!

It's part of the "Next Generation," so you know it's "progressive"!

[Via several of you]

We're the Only Ones Undocumented Enough

Sources tell us an investigator with the prosecutor’s office was cleaning his weapon during office hours when it accidentally went off. The incident was never reported to Honolulu police or the state sheriff’s office. [More]

From the same fine folks who would destroy your life if they caught you carrying in "May Not Issue" Hawaii:

What is it about prosecutors and office NDs?

[I can't find who sent me this]