Politics

Quote of the Day–Terry Sanford (02/04/2012)
Submitted by Barron Barnett on Sat, 02/04/2012 - 10:35As one of the thirteen original colonies, North Carolina maintains the moral and legal concept that the right to keep and bear sporting arms is one of the fundamental privileges granted by our American Democracy.
This privilege should be infringed upon only when deemed necessary, through the will of the people in a democratic nation, to insure public safety or to prescribe the manner of taking game. We do not anticipate any legislation abrogating these premises.
Terry Sanford, Governor of North Carolina – Guns Magazine, February Issue 1962, Page 4
[Oh that whole statement is full of so many different individual falsehoods it’s not even funny. First this is “history” as this article is out of 1962, however it’s recent history. Doubly so since this statement was given just prior to the GCA of 1968. This whole statement remains relevant because this is how many of our opponents view the Second Amendment.
Lets start off with the fact he considers the right to arms a privilege. It isn’t a privilege, it’s a fundamental right that is specifically enumerated by the bill of rights for protection from the state. Second we don’t live in a Democracy, we live in a Constitutional Republic where the law serves to protect everyone equally, not just the mob.
If you’re confused by the difference, watch this, I’ll even embed it below just to make it even easier. Seriously, it is worth the 10 minutes.
Our constitution exists to protect the rights from the people. With the fact he considers the right a privilege his disrespect dissolves further into the classic claim used to infringe upon a right. That claim is necessity. He uses necessity as the validation for infringing on a right. Necessity however does not allow or expunge the fact that inalienable rights are not for the government to take or a mob of people to take. Even when the people are tricked into thinking that it is better for them to surrender that right for the greater good, that right cannot be surrendered.
These two complaints are also independent of the fact that his being elected governor of one of the original thirteen colonies makes him think that some how his argument carries further weight in establishing it as a privilege not a right.
Remember, even now there are those who believe that the enumerated right to “Keep and Bear Arms” as affirmed by Heller and McDonald is still just a privilege. Not only is it just a privilege, but one that could be revoked if they could just get rid of that pesky Second Amendment. -B
h/t David Codrea]

SOPA Shutdown
Submitted by Barron Barnett on Tue, 01/17/2012 - 20:53Considering our fearless leaders want to trash our liberties and freedoms yet again I am joining 7000+ other sites in shutting down.
The SOPA is a very dangerous piece of legislation that has the potential to prevent me from writing my blog. Not only that but given the events involving Righthaven the damage done by those types of individuals will be greatly multiplied.
PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo.
All day you will be redirected tomorrow.

Fast and Furious, Root Cause Analysis
Submitted by Barron Barnett on Sat, 10/22/2011 - 13:10Currently Eric Holder is screaming that the cause of guns going into Mexico was because of a "lack of gun control." There's one problem with that though, it is totally false. Not only is that statement blatantly false but given the evidence gun control is what allowed those guns to walk to Mexico. While it may seem humorous and a joke, the fact is it's true.
I have largely been silent on Fast and Furious for one major reason. There are a lot of other people covering it much better and more in depth than I possibly could.
To start off for those who may be familiar with the term, root cause analysis is something used in engineering to identify problems to come up with solutions that don’t just hide the problem. Ultimately proper root cause analysis should trace the problem to a point where you can turn the issue on and off like a light switch. Now we're going to trace back through the events and find the point where we can turn this issue that would turn this problem on and off.

Economics 101–See She Gets It
Submitted by Barron Barnett on Sun, 10/09/2011 - 10:25No one likes staring at my ugly mug while I’m preaching on my soap box. So instead I’ll let her do it.
Facts are stubborn things and that video does a wonderful job of laying out the facts. Including previous trends, how they compare historically, and what it means.
The bottom line is the War on Poverty actually creates a system that rewards people for being in poverty. It becomes a vicious circle since those in poverty remain there because their receive more from doing nothing than working to alter their situation.
Watch the video, it’s just shy of 7 minutes and well worth your time.
h/t Weer’d, Grouch Old Cripple

Speaking of Productive
Submitted by Barron Barnett on Sat, 10/08/2011 - 14:04So with all those fruit loops running around Wall Street nonproductive because they quit their jobs to be there. I decided that as usual today was going to be yet another productive day.
Got the house cleaned up, there’s still a few things I need to stash away but I decided to finally start putting some ideas into motion.
I created a Zazzle store. I’ve only posted up one design idea thus far. I put it on a coffee mug too. The wife and I are working on some other design ideas as well. I’m not the most “graphically gifted”. I am really good at under the hood type work, but making shiny things people like not so much.
If you’d like to see something a little bit different let me know. I’m going to continue working on some of my other ideas.
I don’t expect people to throw money towards me without giving something in return. So I spend my time coming up with goods and services I can exchange for money. Obviously these dolts are too stupid to figure out that’s how you make money.
There was an article arguing that the dolts were correct because the top one percent has been growing the amount of wealth controlled. I think the cause of that is there are less people working over all, thus shifting wealth. If you want to become rich, work your ass off and come up with something world changing.

About All Those Felonies
Submitted by Barron Barnett on Tue, 09/27/2011 - 17:35A basic principal to our criminal justice system centers around intent. The increase in felonies, victimless laws, and other crimes in which no intent is required is becoming increasingly disturbing. Thankfully someone else is noticing.
The article goes on to state how a man was arrested and served time in jail for much the same as selling a firearm. His mistake was he hadn’t fully vetted the person buying the product. He had no intent to break the law, he had a reasonable belief the transaction was legal, but that was not good enough.
The whole point of our legal system no longer centers around protecting the innocent but bringing in as many as possible. Convicted felons have numerous rights stripped, including some that cannot even be restored through the courts.
It gets better though because those creating the laws and enforcing them are also confiscating the property of those they charge. Then you have State Sponsored Criminals walking off with the confiscated materials. How bad could this over criminalization be though?
(Emphasis mine.) Do you really think that is by accident? It certainly isn’t a coincidence. What better way to control the public than by criminalizing all of them. The government is continually driving that wedge of us vs. them. Any law that is victimless, I.E. ownership and possession laws, do nothing other than criminalize many who would otherwise be law abiding.
Remember, the government is not your friend.

Disgraceful
Submitted by Janelle Barnett on Tue, 09/06/2011 - 13:20Mayor Bloomberg, the asshat, has decided that first responders are not invited to the 10th anniversary ceremony of ground zero.
Because you know, the people who ran into the buildings trying to save people should totally be left out. The people who spent weeks of their own time searching for survivors should not be there either. But we have more than enough room for three asshat's that actually had NOTHING to do with any of it. Obama, Bush, and Giuliani did absolutely nothing that day. Everyone else did what they were trained to do, those three are just using the deaths of others for political gain.
Those three individuals do nothing but masturbate thinking about the abuse created by the TSA and DHS knowing it has been created and furthered by their hand. They take no greater pleasure than that of destroying the rights of the law abiding, sexually abusing them, and intimidating them.
It should come as no surprise that given those three have such fine moral caliber, the first responders would not be invited to their private little circle jerk of tyranny. Frankly, if I was a first responder, I would keep my ass home because nothing good could possibly come from aiding in their political power plays.
Thank you Barron for the commentary.

SSCC #34, #35–Fullerton, California
Submitted by Barron Barnett on Mon, 08/22/2011 - 23:53Two separate incidents in the same town. The first involved a man who suffered from schizophrenia.
The incident was caught on cellphone camera, along with other surveillance cameras. Currently the city refuses to disclose the names of the individuals involved in the incident. Interesting that, considering if someone is over the age of 18, they’ll throw that name out no matter how thin the evidence. As usual they are protecting their own from the black eye they face for their actions.
The second involves a wrongful arrest.
The officers continued to lie until they were presented with the evidence proving them false. At which point they claim it was a mistake and ask for a free pass. This is by no means the first time an officer in the SSCC has attempted to frame an individual and have their life destroyed by the legal system.
There is a common saying, ”Once is happenstance, Twice is coincidence, Three or more is Enemy action.” Well I don’t believe in coincidence, and there appears to be a definite pattern beginning to emerge, since you have other officers who assisted the primary officers in same crimes.
State Sponsored Criminal Count: 35
Because the state has every right to beat someone to death for being in the wrong place at the wrong time, or arrest and charge someone on a lie to make them look better.

SSCC #23–Knox County Sheriff
Submitted by Barron Barnett on Mon, 08/15/2011 - 18:05The sheriff contends these weren’t buddies getting together but arranged games to turn a profit for the organizer. If that’s the case, why wasn’t the organizer arrested on the spot? Later in the article it becomes immediately clear what’s going on:
So what ever happened to due process? I guess the Knox County Sheriff threw it out with the garbage when they discovered the county debt is increasing without restraint. What better way to supplement it than through forfeitures that do not require a prosecution.
State Sponsored Criminal Count: 23
Because what better way to whittle your deficit down than to steal money from friends gambling in their garage. It’s 100% taxation without due process or legal recourse for the tax payer, how can the state loose?

Bunch of Hypocrites
Submitted by Barron Barnett on Sat, 08/13/2011 - 19:21So, a couple months ago while the Egyptian riots were going down, our government berated the Egyptian government for cutting off internet access and limiting communications. Well local legislators have yet again embraced the “let no crisis go wasted” mantra and are now exploiting the London riots to be able to restrict communication abilities.
Considering this is the “Republik of California” how does one now notify the police when in an emergency situation? You have not only disabled the ability of the enemy for communication, but for the law abiding as well. But that’s the point isn’t it, put the public in the dark and make them dependent upon the state for assistance.
That said, I know that all they did is disable the towers within the tunnels, but it’s only a matter of time before they request the ability to do it elsewhere. The wife and I have backup long distance communications abilities and procedures, do you?



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