Wayne Fincher Update: January 18

From Paul W. Davis, the Wayne Fincher docket "is updated through the end of the trial."

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I missed this report from a few days back. The following immediately caught my attention:

Wendy Johnson, assistant U. S. attorney, said the investigation of the Militia of Washington County continues.

“[Fincher and his supporters ] are good people, and they believe very strongly,” Johnson said. “Those beliefs are just contrary to the laws of the land.”

No, Wendy, last time I checked, the Constitution was "the supreme law of the land," and my copy still says "shall not be infringed."

We know that's not the interpretation you and other members of the Bush administration argue in court and elsewhere, but there it is.

But continue persecuting "good people," Wendy. It's not like this country doesn't have real and evil domestic enemies, with whom you have apparently aligned.

Good Lord, Wendy, is this really what you wanted to do with your life?

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This Day in History: January 18

On the evening of January 18, 1776, the Council of Safety in Savannah, Georgia, issues an arrest warrant for the colony’s royal governor, James Wright. Patriots led by Major Joseph Habersham of the Provincial Congress then took Wright into custody and placed him under house arrest.

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A Compelling Reason

"I can't find a compelling reason for anybody to have a gun in this courthouse," Commissioner Scott Gillenwaters said.

You'd better pray a compelling reason never finds you, foolish man.

Off-duty law enforcement officers will be allowed to tote weapons in the courthouse, the panel decided in a separate vote.

Ah, yes. As we've demonstrated countless times here at WarOnGuns, only "The Only Ones" are competent and trustworthy enough to bear arms.

A "Startling Success"

Police Commissioner Ed Davis had barely been on the job two weeks when the gun violence that has ripped through Boston’s neighborhoods took another life - a 14-year-old middle school student.

Ten days later, another 14-year-old was shot to death. Less than two weeks later, a 13-year-old boy was gunned down.

That's funny. The eggheads at Harvard's Kennedy School of Subversion...I mean...Government, would have us believe that "Preliminary date" from Operation Ceasefire "suggest that this strategy has had a dramatic impact on reducing gang violence."

I hope this doesn't mean that Project Exile hasn't yielded "startling success" in Richmond or Philadelphia...

Ai Chihuahua!

Mexican drug gangs are armed with assault weapons bought at gun shows in the United States and smuggled across the border, a report says.

Nice. The corrupt Mexican government does its utmost to facilitate illegal border crossings, and then complains the permeable border facilitates Mexican corruption.

So obviously, the solution is to curtail more freedoms of American citizens.

My cabeza hurts.

Everybody's bought and read this, right?

A List Addition

Criticize the need for guns, the obsession with guns, and you're labeled unpatriotic, anti-Constitution or - horrors - a liberal.

You forgot "Nazi."

Goodfella

"Goodfellas" actor Paul Sorvino pulled a gun on his daughter's ex-boyfriend after the man pounded on her hotel door and made threats, the daughter testified Tuesday.

As I noted here, Sorvino was one of the few from the Hollywood set I recall who attended California Rifle and Pistol Association banquets back in the days when I was a "true believer" and went to such events myself.

Now if he could just get his idiot other daughter Mira to lay off the citizen disarmament support...

A Snowball's Chance

Rep. Bartlett, of Maryland, has introduced HR 73. I'll paste its text in extended remarks below. It doesn't have a snowball's chance of getting out of Judiciary Committee, but the effort is praiseworthy.

As usual, David Hardy's opinion is something we should heed.

Thing is, the bill ain't exactly new. Bartlett has been shopping a variation around for many years now--here's a link to a GOA article from Sept. 1999 (scroll to bottom).

I guess the real question ought to be what the hell good was it having a Republican-dominated congress all those years before the Pelosi regime if something as straightforward and righteous as this couldn't get enacted?

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This Day in History: January 17

Relying upon strategic creativity, Brigadier General Daniel Morgan and a mixed Patriot force rout British Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton and a group of Redcoats and Loyalists at the Battle of Cowpens on this day in 1781.

We're the Only Ones Oxymoronic Enough

The Rockport Police Department’s domestic violence officer has been charged with firing a weapon during a dispute with his wife.

You cannot make this stuff up. Only "The Only Ones" can.

We're the Only Ones Shocking Enough

A police officer was accidentally shocked by another officer's stun gun while they were trying to subdue a teenager suspected of being drunk, according to a police report.

Another electrifying moment for "The Only Ones."

A Fairfax Republican

A northern Virginia senator is taking aim at gun shows with legislation to require private sellers to run criminal background checks on their customers.

Sen. Jeanne-marie Devolites Davis, R-Fairfax, said Monday that the so-called gun show loophole makes it all too easy for criminals to get firearms.

Fairfax? That's some lobbying success.

Until the Republicans are shown that creatures like this will be repelled at the polls, they will continue to betray their duty to the Constitution.

I also like the quote from the little girl, which is an accurate measure of the mindset of so-called "adults" who bleat to be disarmed.

I don't suppose with all this renewed interest in background checks that our Fairfax gun lobby will show any interest in an alternative?

This Day in History: January 16

British Admiral Sir George Rodney, with 18 “ships-of-the-line,” engages an inferior Spanish squadron of 11 battleships commanded by Don Juan de Langara off the southwestern coast of Portugal at Cape St. Vincent, in what comes to be known as “The Moonlight Battle.” (“Ships-of-the-line” is the 18th century term for ships substantial enough to be used in a battle line, a tactic of war in which two lines of ships faced off against each other.)

Because "Bounty" Sounds so much Nicer than "Snitch"

The program is a gun bounty program modeled after one in Jacksonville. It lets people turn in others who are carrying guns illegally, all to get a reward...

"We’re actually going to offer through CrimeLine $1,000 reward to anyone that turns in somebody that has an illegal gun or a gun that has been used in a crime of some sort. And that's a pretty significant reward, $1,000, and you can do it anonymously."

Dyer says the program has been effective in Jacksonville, but it’s impossible to calculate the exact impact it had on crime there.

Great way to get rid of the competition if you're a drug dealer, or for an "Only One" to bypass that pesky Fourth Amendment and anonymously phone in his own "tips."

And don't you just love the way they claim it's "effective" but can't come up with any proof?

Somebody Fisk This Moron

I don't have time today.

We're the Only Ones Recovering Enough

Police investigating a report of shots fired early Saturday morning on the South Side arrested two men who allegedly had a gun stolen from a Schuylkill Haven, Pa., police officer.

Thank goodness--another gun "off the streets."

This seems to happen so often to "The Only Ones," maybe they should consider having a "buyback."

Alicia Off-Key on "Mommy" State

It seems like more and more Hollywood women are taking a trip to the gun shop.

Now, adding herself to the list, Alicia Keys says she is considering buying a gun for protection...

That's fine, Ms. Keys. Taking responsibility for your own protection is a requirement of being a free and responsible adult.

You'd think someone who realizes that would also realize America doesn't "need a mommy." And, incidentally, all the "mommys" currently viewed as in the running for president aren't exactly friendly to the idea of a woman having the right to choose keeping and bearing arms.

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This Day in History: January 15

Having recognized the need for their territory to assert its independence from both Britain and New York and remove themselves from the war they were waging against each other, a convention of future Vermonters assembles in Westminster and declares independence from the crown of Great Britain and the colony of New York on this day in 1777. The convention’s delegates included Vermont’s future governor, Thomas Chittenden, and Ira Allen, who would become known as the "father" of the University of Vermont.

I'm sure old Ira would have approved of this then...