We're the Only Ones Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art Thou Romeo! Enough

Lockney Justice of the Peace Michelle Araujo, 33, was arrested Saturday, March 10, for allegedly shooting her husband, Romeo Araujo, 39.

And as if she didn't have enough troubles:

Legal problems are mounting for Lockney J.P. Michelle Araujo after Texas Alcohol Beverage Commission filed a complaint, March 16, against Araujo in Briscoe County for selling alcohol to a minor.

Then there's this:

Witnesses say they saw Michelle Araujo following her husband Romeo through Plainview Saturday.

And this new development:

While in Briscoe County Thursday, we also found out a complaint was filed in the Floyd County Attorney's Office last week. It alleges that Araujo misused her power as an elected official.

We're told at this time Araujo still holds her titles and office.

I have other information, but it's unsubstantiated at this time, so it wouldn't be fair to post. Naturally, further developments will be reported.

UPDATE:(There's no individual story link yet--scroll down main page)

The complainant said, "She (Michelle Araujo) told me she had the authority to do whatever she wanted to do with me... and that she could make my life miserable."

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NYC Court Recognizes "Stand Your Ground"

An off-duty police lieutenant who shot and killed his unarmed tenant during an argument was found not guilty of criminal charges yesterday evening.

Well, at least they recognize it for "The Only Ones."

I hate to say "I told you so..."

[Via Declan]

More Airport Security in Action

A uniformed flight attendant was arrested at Dulles International Airport after she turned herself in for allegedly carrying a concealed handgun aboard a flight from Atlanta, authorities said Saturday.

I swear to you, I did not see this story until immediately after I created the preceding one. Good Lord, right down to the same airport...

Brady President Detained on Airport Gun Charge

Former Fort Wayne mayor and current Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence President Paul Helmke was detained briefly this morning at Dulles International Airport when an undeclared semiautomatic pistol was found in his purse by TSA inspectors.

Unbelievable. Click on title link for further details.

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This Day in History: April 1

1789 - In New York City, the United States House of Representatives holds its first quorum and elects Frederick Muhlenberg of Pennsylvania as its first House Speaker.

I Think, Therefore I Am?

It looks like Fits has evidently mistaken me for someone with a brain. He ought to talk to my cubs, who are certain they know better than me every time I tell them "No."

I tracked "The Thinking Blogger Award" back to it's source and exploring around the site found this post, with an Indian Superman/Spiderwoman song and dance video, quite possibly the most profoundly absurd sensory input one can experience without being on drugs. The Turkish Superman clip is pretty bizarre, too, from the 3rd-grade opening graphics, right down to the fact that the guy just seems to show up scowling at people and then starts hitting them--really hard. I don't think it occurred to the Turks that Kryptonian is an Armenian name. It's hard to believe filmmaking can be this bad.

But I digress. Thanks, Fits, I appreciate the compliment. As for naming others, if you're in my primary blogroll, consider yourself tagged.

We're the Only Ones Pleading Enough

A former Milwaukee police officer already convicted of calling in a bomb threat to his former district station pleads guilty to federal gun charges...

Bartlett also has been charged with seven other people with federal civil rights charges in connection with the beating of Frank Jude Junior.

Jude has said a group of white men who identified themselves as off-duty Milwaukee police officers kicked and punched him, put a knife to his throat and jammed a pen in his ears as he begged for mercy in 2004.

Sounds like this pleading "Only One" deserves the same kind of mercy he gives out.

If I Was Saxon

NWOBHM legends Saxon have been busy boys...they are releasing new single "If I Was You" from their latest album "The Inner Sanctum". The single, which is to be released on April 16, has a an anti-gun crime theme, with profits from the single to be split between the The Non Violence Foundation and the Gun Control Network charities.

I found the lyrics and a link to an audio sampling to the track in question here.

Stoke The Fire Feel The Heat
Your Chance To Burn Out On The Streets
Smash And Grab On The Run
Play The Game With A Loaded Gun
The Litle Bird Has Left His Nest
He Feeds No More On Mothers Breast
On Your Own You Take The Choice
Listen To Your Inner Voice

Maybe I'm just too much of a Philistine to appreciate the artistry and profound philosophical maturity these guys think they possess, but for some reason, all I can think about is a scene from the original Star Trek, where the landing party is confronted in the opening scene by witches chanting a warning.

"Spock? Comment?" Kirk asks.

"Very bad poetry, Captain."

And for the record, guys, birds aren't mammals.

English metal bands. Is there anything they don't know?

[Via 45superman]

State Security

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The House Executive Committee debated a series of gun control bills last week. A gentleman asked to testify about one of them. As he came up to the witness table, he dumped a bunch of gun parts on it, startling several lawmakers and spectators in the hearing room. The state spent millions of dollars to beef up security details and install metal detectors in the Capitol after a security guard was shot to death ... and then a guy walks into a hearing room with a satchel full of gun parts?

Good for him. The chambers may not have been evacuated, but I'll bet a few bladders were.

Don'tcha just love the arrogant assumption on the part of spokesthing Dave Druker?

There was nothing there that was a threat to the public.

Why would you automatically assume a functional firearm to be a threat, Dave?

First-person details are posted at ICarry.

[Via HZ]

This Day in History: March 31

The Boston Port Act is an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain (citation 14 Geo. III. c. 19) which became law on March 31, 1774, is one of the measures (variously called the Intolerable Acts, the Punitive Acts or the Coercive Acts) that were designed to secure Great Britain's jurisdictions over her American dominions.

We're the Only Ones Not Reckless Enough

The judge overseeing the case, Gustin L. Reichbach, displays portraits of the civil rights figures Paul Robeson and Nelson Mandela on his courtroom walls.

Pointing to those portraits and speaking in passionate tones, Mr. Ricco compared Lieutenant Walton Tuesday to the heroes of the civil rights struggle. Invoking his client’s public service, he said, “This is not a reckless person you’re talking about here.”

Yeah, you shoot an unarmed man multiple times because he stood up to your thug bullying and you're some kind of damned civil rights hero. And woe unto any New Yorker who dares lift a finger against an anointed "Only One."

Don't worry overmuch, Shamik. Your esteemed judge has pointedly displayed portraits of black communists on his walls (and leave it to the "authorized journalists" at The New York Times to refer to these subversive apologists for totalitarianism as "heroes of the civil rights struggle"). You couldn't ask for a better set up than that.

[Via Declan]

Red's Trading Post Videos

They've posted two new video ads defending themselves against BATFU harassment.

Ryan Horsley's got guts and he's articulate. He's defending a way of life and a fixture in his community from destructive invading parasites, and he shouldn't have to stand alone.

We gun owners are quick to pass judgment on dealers who don't stand up to intimidation, like those who caved in to Bloomberg's lawsuits. We need to be equally as quick to support those who refuse to roll over. This guy goes one step further and swings back defiantly.

WarOnGuns will definitely keep an eye on further developments.

[Via chareltonhest]

We're the Only Ones Gaming Enough

Police who have raided vice-ridden Mexico City neighborhoods in a push against drug violence hope to take guns off the streets by offering to swap them for computers and Xbox video game consoles.

Tell you what, Chief Ortega: Turn your Los Unicos into virtual first-person shooters and then we'll talk.

[Via 45superman]

We're the Only Ones Tipped Enough

The program, a partnership between Crime Stoppers and law enforcement agencies, will offer a $500 reward when an anonymous tip leads to the arrest of a person in possession of an illegal firearm...

Initial rewards in the fund will be paid through the sale of candies, confections and other items bought by prisoners in the Marion County Jail.

So if I want to get rid of a rival gang member, all I need to do is phone in an anonymous tip and let "The Only Ones" do my dirty work for me? Or if I'm a cop and I don't really have enough probable cause to stop and search someone, I can do the same? Nice end run around the Constitution, that one!

How fitting that this criminal activity will be financed by criminals--oh, and also prisoners...

[Via Armed and Christian]

Destroy All Monsters!

If Godzilla were a sportsman, the .50-caliber sniper rifle would be his instrument.

This is a weapon that can shoot down airplanes or helicopters from more than a mile away.

I'd settle for him just stepping on your lying punk newspaper. Liberty was supposed to be safeguarded by a free press dedicated to exposing government abuses that threatened it. Instead, the "authorized journalists" have partnered with tyranny, becoming propagandists and co-conspirators in the enslavement of their countrymen.

That's a much more fearsome monster than a mere 300-foot lizard.

[Via HZ]

This Day in History: March 30

Hoping to keep the New England colonies dependent on the British, King George III formally endorses the New England Restraining Act on this day in 1775. The New England Restraining Act required New England colonies to trade exclusively with Great Britain as of July 1. An additional rule would come into effect on July 20, banning colonists from fishing in the North Atlantic.

Mexico AG: US Must Do More to Stop Guns

[I]t's one of the demands we have put on the table.

Come and take them.

If Ye Love Wealth...

Republican ex-mayor of New York City Rudolph Giuliani won backing for his 2008 presidential bid from billionaire publisher Steve Forbes, who will also help lead his campaign, Giuliani's team said.

Forbes, editor-in-chief of Forbes Magazine which publishes an annual list of the world's richest people, will act as co-chair on the national campaign and as senior policy advisor to Giuliani, who is favorite to win his party's nomination for the presidency early next year.

Sorry, Steve. Back when you were campaigning, you touted yourself as a friend of gun owners.

You've just shown us you consider us unimportant and expendable if abandoning us will help advance your true priorities.

It's a false alternative, people. We don't need to choose between between guns or the economy. Prosperity comes from freedom. It always has.

An Idea Worth Exploring

The local market should bury the paper by boycotting any advertiser.

E David Quammen articulates an idea I agree with, although I would suggest a nuance to the strategy: If you try to boycott all advertisers, the amount of supporters will be so diffused that most businesses won't be affected--if even aware of it. Face it, we've seen how most gun owners are unwilling to lift a finger and get involved, generally the same ones who bluster about "cold dead hands."

Pick ONE advertiser, a major one like a local car dealer, and first ask them to contact the paper and let it know they don't appreciate its editorial positions dragging them into the middle of a controversy with their customers--that's not why they advertise. For leverage to encourage them to do the right thing, you might want to tell them you are also asking their main competitor to do the same thing. And you never know--the owner might be a gun owner who is just as PO'd as you, so give them a chance to partner with you first by keeping things polite.

I would think a campaign involving a targeted local business getting a hundred or so letters and phone calls might actually produce some results. And if the business is unwilling to contact the paper and threaten to pull its advertising, then would be the time to escalate to the boycott stage.

What this needs to work is for one local gun rights activist to become the leader and coordinator. Start a blog. Hold a meeting with local gun owners. Recruit support from local gun shops, ranges, clubs--and if any advertise in the paper, perhaps they should become the first business approached, especially if they don't wish to involve themselves. As for membership, it would seem the paper has provided us with a great starter list...

Wayne Fincher Update: March 29

From Wayne Fincher's daughter:

Dad saw the Probation Officer today. Don't know the results yet. The probation officer said that dad would be getting some time. She doesn't know how much as of yet. The lawyer is wanting everyone that wants to, to write letters about dad about his character. All the good things about dad. Please send them to the lawyer so she can review them and present them to the judge during the sentencing. Her address is Shannon L. Blatt 19 Court Street PO BOX 1825 Fort Smith, Ark 72902-1825 If you have already sent please send another one so the lawyer can present it to the judge. Only nice ones please. We thank you for all the help that everyone has done, all the radio programs, phone calls, letters, money,all the internet sites and all the prayers.etc. Everyone keep praying that somehow the judge will give him a light sentence or time served or no time at all. Thanks for everything. Please pass this message on to everyone you know or that knows dad. His sentencing will be 6 to 8 weeks.