Stupid Party Says "Hillary in '08!"

John McCain is the most popular prospective presidential nominee for Republican Party supporters in the United States...Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani is second...

I guess the Republicans just got their sorry butts kicked because they're not liberal enough.

How About Some Straight Answers (For a Change)?

My friends in Santa Barbara got another reply from NRA in response to why the Association endorsed Bill Brown for sheriff:

Thank you for your response. When a candidate does not return a questionnaire, we do assume that it is because they are hostile to gun rights. There is always a possibility the candidate did not receive the questionnaire or forgot to return it. But in Sheriff Anderson's case, according to individuals who talked to him and know him, he was aware that he had not returned the questionnaire and he still never did return it.

Sincerely,

Erik Eckberg

NRA-ILA

Here's what I sent back:

I believe the correct question is not why Anderson was unrated. That’s a diversion from the real issue in this race. I would like someone from NRA HQ to go on record about what Bill Brown did, said and promised to receive an A rating. This nebulous “Bill Brown has worked with the NRA to defeat anti-gun legislation at the State Capitol” does not tell me why Brown deserves an A, AND AN ENDORSEMENT, which in anybody’s book ought to mean he’s a gun rights leader.

What bills did he help defeat? Specifically.

What work did he do for NRA to help defeat these bills? Give details.

What is Brown’s position on the Second Amendment and why won’t he state it for the record?

What is Brown’s position on “assault weapons”?

What is Brown’s position on concealed carry?

What is Brown’s position on .50 caliber rifles?

How does Brown define the militia?

Why did Brown endorse Gov. Moonbeam, who made gun control ads a centerpiece of his campaign?

What does Brown think “shall not be infringed” means?

People are catching on to NRA HQ duplicity. As a life member, I am sick of arrogant staffers equivocating, weasel-wording, avoiding giving direct answers to direct questions. I am sick of phony ratings. I am sick of slick talking.

How about a “for the record” reply to each of my specific concerns, Mr. Eckberg?

And when we’re done with Brown, we can move on to Shane Sklar and Judy Topinka.

I will, of course, post any response I get, unedited.

From the Birthplace of Liberty

A few doors down, her block captain, Lorraine Armstrong, thinks one answer to gun violence in her West Philadelphia neighborhood is for police to stop and frisk suspects.

What is it with these Cellblock Snitch types?

Always my favorite line that inevitably oozes bubbling and reeking to the surface in stories of this type:

"If you've got nothing to be guilty about, you should have no problem. I would put up with that level of inconvenience to make the neighborhood safer," he said.

Talk about someone with an appropriate name:

We've seen some of these tactics utilized in other places," said former City Councilman Michael A. Nutter, now a candidate for mayor and a proponent of stop-and-frisk.

Indeed we have, you nutter. And for you to suggest making it standard practice in the Birthplace of Liberty--and for the Heirs of Liberty to fall all over themselves demanding a freedom "buy back" in exchange for the fraudulent promise of safety, is one of the more sickening examples of how far increasingly large segments of our culture have allowed themselves to degenerate.

"I don't care whether you are black, white, purple or polka-dotted. If you have an illegal weapon, I expect a well-trained Philadelphia police officer to take that gun away."

At least Nutter's an equal opportunity tyrant wannabe. But I'm sure we were promised that Project Exile would end Philly's "gun problem."

"Guns are out there," said Carnegie-Mellon anticrime expert Alfred Blumstein, "but if you can reduce the carrying, you've made some important progress."

Professor, Carnegie Mellon just lost an ethical giant who championed gun rights. It's a shame that their voice on this issue now emanates from a stunted intellect like yours.

In Philadelphia, by contrast, an even larger share - 87 percent - of homicides are committed with guns, Johnson said, and more than 32,000 permits to carry concealed weapons have been issued to city residents since the state gun law made it easier in 1995.

Here we go with another predictable twist--it's the fault of all those law-abiding, nonviolent people who submit themselves to background checks to prove they're not criminals. If we can just disarm them...

This is the logic that has the inmates bleating for more. And they are the sheep who cancel out your vote, and impose their pathetic and disgusting dependence on collectivism and tyranny on the rest of us.


[Via Cousin G]

Wayne Fincher Update: 11/14

Militia Member Can Post Bond if He Agrees to Judge's Conditions

Don Bright on Wayne Fincher

Bond OK’d for Militia Leader

This Day in History: November 14

On this day in 1776, the St. James Chronicle of London carries an item announcing "The very identical Dr. Franklyn [Benjamin Franklin], whom Lord Chatham [former leading parliamentarian and colonial supporter William Pitt] so much caressed, and used to say he was proud in calling his friend, is now at the head of the rebellion in North America."

When "Only Ones" Collide II

As if all that’s happening on the streets where crime is concerned is not enough, senior officers in the police force are going at each other violently.

Naturally, nobody was arrested for assaulting a police officer. I guess their special "Only Ones" powers cancelled each other's out...

[When Only Ones Collide I]

Philly Criminals "Make NRA's Day"

A bloody crime rampage over the weekend left three men dead and nine others wounded.

The slayings, which raised the city's homicide rate to 354 for the year...

NRA's "Project Exile" is sure living up to its promise, wouldn't you say?

"If you're a felon out on the streets of Philadelphia today, I dare you to carry a gun," Heston warned. "Because if you do, you will go to prison. No plea bargain, no discussion. Just a cold, hard federal prison cell. So go ahead -- carry a gun on these streets. To quote my good friend Clint Eastwood, `Make My Day'."

They're running scared now...

We're the Only Ones on Trial Enough

Jackson Mayor Frank Melton begins the fight for his political future in Hinds County Circuit Court on Tuesday in the first of several trials.

The first-term mayor will be prosecuted on three gun charges - one felony and two misdemeanor [sic] in two separate trials - stemming from accusations he carried handguns onto a school campus, public park and church.

As we've observed before here at WarOnGuns, Hizzoner is one of the Bloomberg Burgermeisters intent on disarming everybody else, and he led the charge to ban gun shows in Jackson. Plus, he's already been let off the hook by TSA for carrying on planes, when the rest of us would be rotting in a federal pen.

Welcome to the world of the non-"Only Ones" that you helped create and impose on the rest of us, Herr Mayor.

Sucks, doesn't it?

[Via Cousin G]

WARNING: This Area Protected by Carmen Caldwell

[Use BugMeNot to bypass site registration]

I understand that everyone has the "right" to own a weapon but I have not yet seen, in the 26 years that I have been involved in crime prevention, anything "good" about having a gun in the home.

Carmen Caldwell doesn't tell us how many violent crimes she's prevented, or what she's personally prepared to do if she witnesses one in progress--aside from dialing 911, assuming the attacker doesn't get to her first. I wonder if the fact that there's a funeral director on the executive board has anything to do with her idiotic assertions, or if "Citizen's Crime Watch" will assume a financial liability if anyone follows her ignorant advice and gets hurt or killed?

[Via Cousin G, who adds "What a tool."]

This Day in History: November 13

On this day in 1775, Continental Army Brigadier General Richard Montgomery takes Montreal, Canada, without opposition.

We're the Only Ones Mentored Enough

A first-year Bay County judge was ordered to accept mentoring after bringing a loaded gun into his courtroom and announcing he was "locked and loaded."

County Judge Michael Hauversburk said he brought the handgun to court because he was frustrated that a defendant facing a felony parole violation was being tried for a separate misdemeanor charge in a courtroom with inadequate security...

I take this one personally. Many years back, I was summoned for jury "duty," that is, ordered to report as a hostage, to Compton, CA, a city with almost four times the violent crime rate as the national average.

They make you park in a lot several hundred feet from the building, and in order to get from your car to the court house, you need to run the gauntlet past friends, relatives and associates of the lovely people being detained inside. Because they make you go through metal detectors to get into the building's main entrance, taking appropriate measures to improve your own safety would assuredly result in detection and resultant violence from the "authorities".

Had I done this, do you think I would have been assigned to a "mentoring" program, or do you think I'd have been thrown in the hole with the "Mother rapers. Father stabbers. Father rapers!"?

But then again, I'm not an "Only One," am I?

We're the Only Ones Recovering Enough

There, in talking to 18-year-old Kevin Rodriguez, they recovered the automatic machine gun. Police called for the Sheriff's Office, and deputies interviewed Rodriguez and said they later recovered two other weapons used by the SWAT team from the Riverwoods Circle home of Gaston Delgado, 15.

This is a follow-up to an "Only Ones" episode posted yesterday.

[Via Cousin G, who notes: "They identified the perps, right down to the street where they lived, yet still won't release the name of the Deputy who carelessly lost the guns in the first place..."]

We're the Only Ones With Guns AND Drugs Enough

Documents showing that weapons once were reported stolen from Mississippi Board of Pharmacy employees are leading State Auditor Phil Bryant to take a closer look at the agency's inventory.

Board of Pharmacy employees with state-issued weapons? I guess if you work for any government agency, you just might be an "Only One."

I'm gonna spend the rest of the day pounding out a pilot script for a TV series this just inspired me to create.

You've heard of CSI Miami?

Well get ready for Rx Mississippi.

[Via Cousin G]

FreedomSight's New Home

Jed has moved in to his new place.

Don't mind the boxes, he's still settling in.

Still, the place doesn't seem quite like home yet. Maybe it's just me, but I think he needs to find a place to hang this:

Wayne Fincher Update: 11/12

Militia Leader Held Without Bail

ATF News Release Re: Fincher Arrest

Thank You, Claire...

...and Jr,
and E David,
and E David again,
and Bill,
and Hairy Hobbit,
and who did I miss?

Or more to the point, who didn't I?

Update: Thank you, Whose Paranoid.

This Day in History: November 12

Upon hearing of England's rejection of the so-called Olive Branch Petition on this day in 1775, Abigail Adams writes to her husband, "Let us separate, they are unworthy to be our Brethren. Let us renounce them and instead of supplications as formerly for their prosperity and happiness, Let us beseech the almighty to blast their councils and bring to Nought all their devices."

United States vs. Fincher

The title link goes to a new blog that will keep us updated on the persecution of Hollis "Wayne" Fincher, a lieutenant commander of the Militia of Washington County, who was arrested by BATFU on Wednesday.

This is an important development in the renewed wars on guns and on We the People by our government. As such, every gun rights activist should be informed as to the particulars of the case, and, importantly, to its history.

I'm sure there will be no shortage of forum chat room warriors pompously declaring that Fincher is getting what he asked for by flouting the law in the local media. They will be wrong, and as shallow in their opinions as they are in their commitment to liberty.

If you read the exhaustively detailed "Silver Bullet" report, it will be evident who the real lawbreakers are. Note it is a commitment to get through the entire document and understand it, but we need to ask ourselves if we would rather be informed than lazy.

The Militia of Washington County has duly kept the authorities informed for many years, exercising their right to petition for peaceful redress and pleading for recognition of Constitutionally-guaranteed rights. In response, they been completely ignored by public servants criminally derelict in their duty to honor their oaths of office, and by the media, who the Militia has pleaded with to take notice of their demands for justice (which it has predictably failed to do, just as it failed to exercise its watchdog role at Waco):


I ask you to take notice that Fincher took great pains--for years--to document--and inform "authorities"--of the lawful nature of his activities. I also ask you to take notice of some important points in The Morning News account:

Fincher was arrested without incident at his residence...Fincher has no criminal record...

And now consider:

The investigation was conducted under Project Safe Neighborhoods, the U.S. Department of Justice initiative that combines federal, state and local resources to combat violent gun crime.

We can see who has committed the "violent gun crime" here.

One last point about "Project Safe Neighborhoods":

"The NRA and our over four million members fully support the Justice Department's Project Safe Neighborhoods," said National Rifle Association spokeswoman Kelly Whitley.

I happen to have personally known a man for years, an honorable patriot, a fine human being, and a colleague of Mr. Fincher's in the Militia of Washington County, and have been following this group's novel activism in defense of their (and our) rights for years. I'd like for the slick talkers in Fairfax to explain to me and to other gun owners--who actually believe that "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed"--how the persecution and removal of Mr. Fincher from society will make anyone's neighborhood safer.

People, make no mistake--this is naked tyranny unfolding before us. Our deserved fate as gun owners will depend largely on whether or not we sound the alarm and unify in a demand for justice for Wayne Fincher--or if we just ignore this, or even worse, blame the victim.

I'll follow the US v Fincher blog and report updates as I learn of them, including if help is solicited in Mr. Fincher's defense. In the mean time, I ask my fellow gun owners not to ignore this, and my fellow bloggers to spread the word.

[Via Locking Lug]

Welcome Back, Captain...

...from your 4-month voyage.

We're the Only Ones Judicially Selective Enough, Eh?

Justice Minister Vic Toews is sticking to his guns that cops should play a role in helping select Canada's judges, despite public rebukes from Canada's top judge and a national lawyers group.

Nothing like checks and balances, eh?

And I'm sure Vic Toews finds nothing Orwellian in his title, eh?

[More from "The Only Ones" files, eh...?]

[Via Cousin G, eh?]