We're the Only Ones Paying Off Enough

The city of Los Angeles would pay nearly $13 million to immigration protesters and bystanders injured by Los Angeles police officers during a melee at MacArthur Park last year, according to sources familiar with a tentative settlement reached by both sides.

Meanwhile, not only are LA's "Only Ones" worse than useless at preventing violent crime (they encourage it by enforcing citizen disarmament), they say they don't have enough money to investigate ones that already happened.

We're the Only Ones All Fired Up Enough

A newly elected constable was questioned by sheriff's deputies after allowing a friend to fire his county-issued handgun into the air at a party...

The constable and the homeowner appeared to be drunk...Neither man was charged.

Naturally. And it's nice to see the "Authorized Journalists" at the AP continue to run interference for the police state by not disclosing the offending "Only One's" name.

No matter, KDBC 4 News is on it:
...Jose Maldonado...

And get this--he's a Republican...

Who replaced a corrupt Democrat:

Cameron County Precinct 1 Constable Saul P. Ochoa will spend the next 57 months in federal prison. The convicted constable was sentenced this morning in U.S. Federal Court for selling marijuana confiscated in drug seizures.

Which apparently is the type of law enforcement they want down there, because Maldonado beat the known thief by less than 400 votes. Is it safe to assume that if you're dealing with a "lawman" in that part of the country, you're dealing with a criminal, and your safest course might just be to repel them?

Here's the responding deputy's report. How nice to see such professional courtesy. He records "bloodshot eyes, slurred figure of speech [sic], unsteady balance and a very strong odor of alcohol emitting from his breath," and then says "I was not going to relinquish [sic] his weapon because he was a peace officer with the county and needed his weapon for work."

Perhaps I'm being unfair, and am just jaded by too much exposure to stories about police corruption. Perhaps Cameron County Sheriff Omar Lucio can restore my faith in justice for all, with no special privileges and immunities for those entrusted with a badge.

Why don't we see?

As soon as I post this, I'm going to add its url to this email and send it off (click to enlarge):



Naturally, I'll post any response if I get one.

BATFE Loses in Court Again

It was a tough fight, but the Elliot family's American spirit and a true grit won the day. We encourage you to listen to our latest Talkin' to America interview with Leonard Elliot and learn more about protecting yourself against the "GovCrims".

JPFO gets a first-hand account of the Bacon Creek Gun Shop outrage.

I'm listening to the interview as I post.

[Via Ron W]

From the Department of Pre-Crime

Fewer than 1% of airline passengers singled out at airports for suspicious behavior are arrested, Transportation Security Administration figures show, raising complaints that too many innocent people are stopped.

True, but you have to admit authoritarian fear tactics are pretty successful at achieving obedience and compliance--at least from the "law-abiding" segment of the population...

And I wonder how many of that "fewer than 1%...arrested" are detained and fined for expressing outrage at arrogance and bullying by authoritarian punks on a power trip?

This Day in History: November 20

The Continental Congress regularly received quantities of intercepted British and Tory mail. On November 20, 1775, it received some intercepted letters from Cork, Ireland, and appointed a committee made up of John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Johnson, Robert Livingston, Edward Rutledge, James Wilson and George Wythe "to select such parts of them as may be proper to publish." The Congress later ordered a thousand copies of the portions selected by the Committee to be printed and distributed. A month later, when another batch of intercepted mail was received, a second committee was appointed to examine it. Based on its report, the Congress resolved that "the contents of the intercepted letters this day read, and the steps which Congress may take in consequence of said intelligence thereby given, be kept secret until further orders." By early 1776, abuses were noted in the practice, and Congress resolved that only the councils or committees of safety of each colony, and their designees, could henceforth open the mail or detain any letters from the post.

String Theory

Not to be outdone by the foolishness of their upstart neighbor to the south, Cleveland is holding a gun "buyback."

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column has a few observations about that.

We're the Only Ones Plenty to Go Around Enough

Mayor Daley said Tuesday he is honored and “excited” that Barack Obama has chosen Chicago as his transition headquarters and denied that providing security for the president-elect is straining already depleted police resources.

Only for The One...?

[Via The Bitter Clinger]

Communist Goals and Christians

One of the most distressing things about modern America is the total lack of understanding about how an individual’s thinking (and hence behavior) affect society and contribute to the destruction of the United States. Today, it is not just communists that think like communists, but fundamental and evangelical Christians as well. Why? Because they have accepted communist ideas, without understanding those ideas and movements in society were and are utilized by communists to achieve certain goals.

Paul W. Davis charts "progress."

A Penny Saved...

...can ultimately end up with armed goons forcing you out of your home if you don't pay up.

Just so you recognize and accept your ultimate place in the grand scheme of things.

What's most disturbing about this is not the bovine stupidity of the bureaucrat (who prudently does not list an edress on the city website)--but some of the comments from the statist Massholes should leave no doubt why the voters keeps returning Ted Kennedy to power.

For some reason a title just came to me: The Penny Rebellion. Don't tell Mike Vanderboegh or he's liable to crank out Chapter One: "The Battle of Glenn Street," and we need him staying focused on Absolved...:)

[Via Avg Joe]

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Coronation

President-elect Barack Obama’s inauguration has officials in the nation’s capital bracing for an unprecedented turnout of possibly 3 million people or more, District of Columbia Mayor Adrian M. Fenty said Tuesday.

What could possibly go wrong with all that hope and change concentrated in one place?

[Via The Bitter Clinger]

Resolved?

That VA range dispute we've posted on a couple times in the last few days...

[Via Jeffersonian]

We're the Only Ones Watching Children Grow* Enough

A former police officer, wanted on 20 counts of "encouraging child sexual abuse," has turned himself in. Investigators say the charges stem from images of child pornography found on computers he owned.

Hey, you know how some "Only Ones" like to kid around...

[Via Jeffersonian]

* And yet again...gosh, am I sorry.

We're the Only Ones Working Hard* Enough

As the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office investigates allegations that three jail deputies separately used a work computer to view online pornography, Sheriff Bob Skipper has decided to disconnect the Internet in most parts of the county jails.

Hey, at least these "Only Ones" weren't using the computers to access databases...

[Via Jeffersonian]

*And I do apologize.

Readying for Battle

Sheriff, supervisors ready for battle over gun permits...

If you don't do what we say, why...why, we're going to disagree with you!

So there!

Yeah, this'll get our rights recognized.

Liberty in our epoch!

What Some Say

Arm Students With Guns? Some Say Yes

And others say no.

"I don't know. That kind of scares me," Texas State freshman Rachel Yon said. "I wouldn't go for that."

..."I believe it would be a bad idea," Texas State senior Adam Cervantez said.

Well, then, with qualified opinions like these, it's settled.

At least it will be if they prevail politically, and those who disagree obey.

Funny thing about campus shooters--none of them apply for permission to carry and abide by the decision, do they? They don't really care about what some say.

[Via Plug Nickel Times]

We're the Only Ones Keeping Abreast of the Situation Enough

Cop arrests teen, orders her to flash breasts
'It was just a stupid mistake by a young kid'

What, we're the Only Ones seeing double enough?

That's just great--give young stupid kids armed authority over their fellow human beings. What could go wrong?

[Via BHN]

This is the Guy

Pending passage through the vetting process, our next Attorney General will be Eric Holder.

Armed and Safe tells us of a nominee who wants to impose the centerpiece of the McCain small arms control agenda on us, closing the dreaded "gun show loophole," that is, ending all private off-the-books sales.

It gets worse.

For instance, he's also a big fan of waiting periods, and pre-crime, and the Brady Act, and one-gun-a-month, increasing the disarmament enforcement bureaucracy, mandating lock-up-your-safety, and disarming the age demographic that put his prospective boss over the top.

Holder statement-May 1999

When the AMA analyzed the success of Virginia's one-gun-a-month law, it found that the number of guns connected to crime traveling Northeast from Virginia fell 20%.

Holder statement-June 1999

Even worse -- for the events that it does cover, the bill weakens the current law by cutting down the amount of time law enforcement has to complete pre-sale background checks, from 3 working days to 72 hours.

Holder briefing-October 1999

[W]e need Congress to pass the common- sense gun safety legislation that is in the Senate and that has been passed in the Senate by a bipartisan vote. We need to extend the Brady law protection to gun shows and flea markets and deny guns to those who committed violent offenses as juveniles, require child- safety locks on handguns and give law enforcement the tools that it needs to further reduce gun crime. We also need to have the COPS Program fully funded.

Statement as Deputy AG

Of course, our strategy does not rely merely on punishing offenders after crimes have been committed. We are also working to implement measures to prevent gun crimes before they occur.

Gun control debate

ERIC HOLDER: A mandatory 72-hour waiting period for all happen-gun purchases will help stop heat-of-the moment killings and a proposed increase in the minimum age for handgun possession from 18 to 21 will get hand guns out of the hands of the most crime-prone age group.

This is the guy.

[Via Jay Keller, Russ S]

This Day in History: November 19

November 19, 1775 at Sorel, Quebec - On November 19, the Patriot forces blocking the St. Lawrence River near Sorel captured 3 armed British ships and 8 smaller crafts with their crews and cargoes, and the British garrison from Montreal. Conclusion: American Victory

A Thousand Fathers

Forget results. A compliant media presenting them as "successful" is all that's needed. As long as the general perception is that "Crimestoppers" stops crime, the incentive is to be a part of it all. What's that JFK quote? "Victory has a thousand fathers..."

Here's today's Gun Rights Examiner column. Hopefully, some will want to distance themselves from paternity claims...

Stupid's Up

We learn all we need to know about Ben Cole from this comment he added to his obnoxious little rant:

I’ve got more damn guns than I can count...Guns really suck.

When it comes to sucking, who are we to argue with an expert? Ditto for stupid.

[Via Stephen S]