Your Daley Dose of Treason

Mayor Richard Daley and other elected officials announced their annual push for new gun-control legislation Tuesday, this time using the fatal shootings at Northern Illinois University and the Lane Bryant store in Tinley Park as stark illustrations of the need for action.

I guess these evil punks just aren't getting enough people killed fast enough to suit their purposes.

Besides, why settle for a "push" when your goal is a putsch?

The Return of the Archons

With the first anniversary of Virginia Tech's mass shootings just two months away and the campus rattled by the recent rampage at another college, school administrators want answers from the federal government about funding to help their community cope with the aftermath...

"It's a sense of powerlessness and a sense of reliving what occurred," Plummer said Monday. "It's a dramatic reminder of this horrific, unbelievable mass homicide that occurred on our campus. It's unfathomable sometimes."

Ah the throw-federal-money-at-it Katrina solution--that always helps, plus, as we all know, the clause authorizing that is right here in the Constitution, section...uhhh...article...ahhh...

Look at this: "the assistant provost...the deputy director of the university's office of recovery and support," the leader, if you will, admits she doesn't have a clue and is overwhelmed and paralyzed, that is, useless. But just mention the real and only solution--the one that annhilates, rather than overturns predominant superstitous assumptions, and watch her all of a sudden act like she's a rational and informed authority who knows what she's talking about.

These aren't educators, this is the priesthood of the flat earth cult, determined to seal their eyes and ears, and burn out all heresy against the established order.

Blind fools. That it's self-imposed and rooted in arrogance makes it all the more inexcusable.

The official helplessness would be kind of funny if it wasn't so pathetic and so dangerous in terms of guaranteeing future horrors, future grieving, future loss.

They remind me of nothing so much as the hooded "lawgivers" of Beta III from the original Star Trek series.

"Landru, guide us!" they plead, absolutely incapable of making a rational decision based on observation, cause and effect.

Introduce something new, something alien to their worldview, and the fixation directs outward, pointing in horror and loathing to reject it:

You're NOT of the body!

And not to beat the analogy to death, but a couple other relevant comparisons come to mind:

Kirk's admonishment: ""You said you wanted freedom; it's time you learned that freedom is never a gift – it has to be earned."

And unless and until that's learned, the next time "the Red hour" strikes, all anyone will be able to do is react mindlessly until the madness runs its course.

[Via SameNoKami]

And Now, A Word from Karl

Hillary says Obama's wordjacking Deval Patrick.

Obama says Hillary's stealing slogans from him.

I don't know what the big deal is. They're both ripping me off, and you don't hear me complaining.

We're the Only Ones "Sorry, Wrong Number" Enough

A Central Florida woman whose 17-year-old daughter was killed in a murder-suicide apparently committed by her ex-boyfriend said the teen was told by police to stop calling for help or she'd be arrested.

Stop bothering us! It's not like we're getting pai...uh...well stop calling anyway, we're busy with important "Only Ones" stuff...

[Via MacEntyre]

We're the Only Ones Forgetful Enough

Hammond said he suffered a head injury in the accident that night and does not remember who was driving.

Yeah, that and the arguments and car crashes happen to me every time I mix alcohol and prescription medication, too.

That's why I leave that kind of stuff to the professionals: "The Only Ones."

I'll bet that kid in the picture is imprinting some interesting perceptions on how to make choices and behave.

[Via Mark G]

This Day in History: February 20

The loyalists' plan was to advance along the southwest side of the Cape Fear to the coast, provision the British troops arriving by sea, and then join them in conquering the colony. On February 20, 1776 MacDonald began his movement toward the coast.

Unacceptable

"It would have allowed concealed weapons, loaded weapons, on the University of Idaho campus, and all the campuses in the state of Idaho," said White. "We just found that to be unacceptable."
...
"This is a balance between the rights of the second amendment, which is the right to bear arms, versus safety and security," he said.

Yeah, that must be why the Founders thought keeping and bearing arms was "necessary to the security of a free State."

And that must be why we should let ignorant "authorities" like this define which regions they find acceptable for us to exercise our rights.

So, Tim, just what exactly would you personally be prepared to do should someone ignore you and your regents by doing the "unacceptable" and bringing a gun on campus?

Aside from maybe having this pop out?

No Haven in the Storm: It's the Law

The measure, when it takes effect, will require health professionals to inform state authorities about patients who display violent, suicidal or threatening behavior. Right now, such information is reported to state officials only on people who have been institutionalized, not on those who receive only outpatient treatment.

So much for doctor/patient confidentiality. The state has inserted itself into your most private affairs, thanks to our wonderful representatives and those who aid and abet them.

What this means, of course, is those who have suffered an extreme loss and don't know how to cope with it are on their own. Lose a beloved spouse or a parent? Feeling depressed, maybe violently angry at a drunk driver who ran over your child? Been brought down to your knees and grasping for something, anything to help you go on, make sense of things, stop the unendurable heartache?

Well congratulations. If you sought professional help, you just went in and confessed to a deputized agent of the state, and forfeited your right to keep and bear arms not only now, during your time of greatest pain and confusion, but probably forever after. And since there doesn't appear to be a limitation on access to only that information specifically related to the new law's criteria, all kinds of other deepest darkest most private secrets may now be subject to state scrutiny and probing.

I'm waiting for the first person victimized by this to file a test case against self-incrimination. At the very least, with this new edict should come a requirement for mental health professionals to read all patients a Miranda warning before begining treatment.

We are all slammed into the ground at times in life. When the bell tolls for you, seek out a trusted friend, family member, minister. Unfortunately, when that is not enough, your choices will be to forego treatment or lie to your therapist--that is, if you wish to keep your guns after the storm has done its worst.

Speaking of Boston...

Ryan Horsley sent me two links where The Boston Globe is stumping for "Maximim Mike" Sullivan that are instructive.

"Held Up by Gun Lobby Radicals" and "Gunning for a Fight" tell us much about the mindset that evidently prefers police state secrecy over a right their city's founders deemed worthy of going to war to protect.

Rather than tell their readers why it is informed gun owners fear a Sullivan confirmation will officially sanction current abuses, the editor drops things immediately into name-calling, off-handedly dismisses concerns as "groundless" without addressing what they are, and even drags the NRA--the major "gun lobby" group that has conspicuously not called for ousting Sullivan into their tirade.

The second hit piece is a classic leftist, worthy perhaps of comments at Democratic Underground or The Huffington Post, but still somehow surprising (and I know it shouldn't be) to see in a "mainstream" paper (but I guess it's indicative of how far the profession has degenerated).

"Anti-gun male" Kevin Cullen makes his sophisticated, worldly and urbane contempt clear for "cow chip kickin' senator[s]" and the constituents they represent. It gets worse from there, as he drops all pretence of legitimate argument and goes right into attack dive/character assasination mode, while masking the real issues with generalized manipulation.

That's basically all the other side's got: Lies, omissions and name-calling. Along with the basest of betrayers to propagate them--"Authorized Journalists," the supposed watchdogs of government, who instead and bizarrely, have become its biggest apologists.

We're the Only Ones Secret Enough

Boston’s year-old police-civilian review board - touted as the people’s watchdog on cop abuses - is so shrouded from public view it stands out nationally as among the most secretive panels of its kind, a Herald review shows.

Not only is the public not invited to the board’s rare meetings, but its activities cannot be monitored because there are no minutes.

What better reason to trust Mayor Against Guns Tom Menino and his secretive enforcers as "The Only Ones"?

Yeah, that's the vision of government the Founders had, all right...

[Via Mad Rocket Scientist]

Wayne Fincher Update

Update: 2/19/2008
An appeal for funds

Oral arguments are set for March 10th in St. Louis. Quentin Rhoades will be presenting the argument for Wayne Fincher before the Appellate Court.

Currently, we are short funds to provide for all the necessary expenses for the presentation of the case at the Appellate level. It is necessary that we cover all of Quentin's expenses for his work on this case. We ask that you please support Wayne and your Second Amendment right by sending a donation to the address given [below].

We would greatly appreciate your assistance.

To support Wayne and your Second Amendment rights please send checks to:

The Wayne Fincher Defense Fund
P.O. Box 215
Elkins Arkansas 72727

[Via Paul W. Davis]

We're the Only Ones "Three Strikes and You're Out" Enough

A Winsted police officer has been arrested three times in the past three months for separate incidents.

Let's see, aside from sounding like a real soap opera, he's accused of threatening his wife, harassing his girlfriend's husband, dragging his girlfriend with his car...yeah, just the kind of "Only One" I want out there making sure I'm being even-tempered and peaceable...but then again, maybe everybody's just "blowing things way out of proportion" and all of us ought to be able to act that way.

[Via MH]

XVI

Free Constitution hosts its 16th Second Amendment Carnival.

Then as Now

Chris Horton shares some "mindful musings" centered on John Adams.

For those of you who get HBO, they're having a miniseries in a few weeks.

This Day in History: February 19

I am grieved to find, that instead of Six or eight thousand weight of Powder, which I fondly expected to receive from Providence (agreeable to your Letter), that I am likely to get only 4217 lb, Including the 3000 Weight belonging to this Province (If to be had). My situation in respect to this Article, is really distressing, and while common prudence obliges me to keep my want of it concealed, to avoid a discovery thereof to the Enemy; I feel the bad effect of that concealment from our friends, For not believing our distress equal to what it really is they withhold such small supplies as are in their power to give; I am so restrained in all my Military movements, for want of these necessary supplies, that it is impossible to undertake anything effectual; and whilst I am fretting, at my own disagreeable situation, the World I suppose is not behind hand in censuring my inactivity. A Golden Opportunity has been lost, perhaps not to be acquired again, this year.

We're the Only Ones Dsylex...Dyslxe...Who Can't Read Enough

"I was amazed that they managed to read the same plate wrong three times in a row," he said...The DMV told Eyewitness News they are considering dropping Q and zero from license plates because of the mix-ups.

When in doubt, dumb down and inconvenience everybody else.

Did you hear the one about the atheist Sunpass employee who didn't believe in "Dog"? Or how about "Look, up in the sky! It's a bird. It's a plane. It's 2perman!"

[More from "The Only Ones" Files]

BATFU's Glass House

I have written in the past about the BATFE's own record keeping: here and here. Since the ATF demands 100% compliance out of dealers, it is only natural to look at how their own record keeping compares.

Ryan examines the BATFU double standard.

PSH Miami

That's how he described the president's decision not to renew the ban on assault rifles.

Talk about no understanding, not only of what actually happened, but of the concept of enumerated powers. Both on the part of this boob and on the part of the "Authorized Journalist" whose head it went right over.

And its these voices that reach the masses.

Return of The Mad Hatter

He's back after a hiatus of many moons, and he's continuing with the important task of keeping an eye on what the young skulls full of academic mush are saying about RKBA:

I couldn't stay away for too long, you know. This weekend, I've added three new posts, all covering campus discussion on RKBA issues:

From Yale:
http://madhatter907.blogspot.com/2008/02/warming-back-up-on-campus-editorials.html

A few from UW-Madison:
http://madhatter907.blogspot.com/2008/02/rkba-campus-round-up-12.html

And a few from my alma mater, UT-Knoxville:
http://madhatter907.blogspot.com/2008/02/rkba-campus-watch-121.html

Welcome back, JH. Keep this up and we'll need to replace the top hat with a tassled mortarboard.

"Retooling" in Idaho

I received the following from correspondent ChareltonHest:

There is a bill in Idaho that has been suggested, Senate Bill 1381, that

(1) "Repeals and adds to existing law to provide for preemption of all regulation of firearms by a county, city, constitutional corporation,agency, board or any other political subdivision of this state withexceptions."

And there have been the usual articles online regarding the bill's provisions for Universities and Colleges and firearms. With one side always ignorantly saying guns make things worse and that they are "uncomfortable". The other side always saying that it's only people with special government permission(CC Permits)that will be carrying, and that those that do have proven themselves worthy to the state in order to exercise their KABA rights.

2)The latest news is that the bill has been pulled for "re-tooling". The one outraged thing is this:.."Even before taking public testimony, McKenzie told the committee he was dropping colleges and universities from the bill. He agreed to the change at the urging of Gov. Butch Otter and university and college presidents."

(3)I have e-mailed our Governor to ask his reasoning behind this "urging", if it is in fact true. I will post online about it when I get a response.

1.) http://www3.state.id.us/oasis/S1381.html
2.) http://media.www.arbiteronline.com/media/storage/paper890/news/2008/02/14/Opinion/Will-We.Have.Guns.On.Campus-3209691.shtml
3.) http://www.idahopress.com/news/?id=3818