Let’s compare and contrast the following two people, what they did, and the reactions by the American Media.
For those who don’t recognize the pictures, on the left we have former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, on the right we have Attorney General Eric Holder.
The significant similarities necessary for this discussion:
Both are tied to the highest position within the Department of Justice.
Both committed questionable acts while in that position.
Both were disliked by large parts of the American people for their actions.
Both acted in a manner with the express intent of undermining and destroying enumerated rights.
Differences:
Eric Holder’s decisions resulted in the deaths of both American and Mexican civilians.
Eric Holder refused to process cases where the American public was intimidated from exercising their rights.
Alberto Gonzales was forced to resign while Holder continues to retain his position.
Eric Holder was found in contempt of congress. Eric Holder has not been arrested despite the ability for congress to do so.
The Congressional “no-confidence” vote against Gonzales did not succeed.
Alberto Gonzales was appointed by President George Bush.
Eric Holder was appointed by President Barack Obama.
For those who may not remember the details. Here is the quick rundown of the two big scandals under Holder.
So while the comments and behavior of Gonzales was despicable and worthy of question, why has AG Holder been allowed to remain? There is a man responsible for creating programs with the express purpose of illegally undermining a constitutional right. Programs that resulted in the deaths of members of the public. A man who has been found in contempt of congress, yet no one seems to have the balls to actually fire him.
Ultimately the biggest difference between these two is the men who were responsible for appointing them. Because honestly that’s the only reason Eric Holder has been able to continue in his position. Remember that the next time some tells you about how the media isn’t biased.
TMM is the owner, editor, and principal author at The Minuteman, a competitive shooter, and staff member for Boomershoot. Even in his free time he’s merging his love and knowledge of computers and technology with his love of firearms.
Many know his private name and information however due to the current political climate, many are distancing themselves due to the abandonment of Due Process.
Now I laughed and chuckled, I would have still laughed if someone had done it to a Republican headquarters. What got me thinking though was the following statement from the County Democratic Chair.
Respectful disagreements, lets talk about this word respectful. Those on your side of the debate have been nothing but rude, bigoted, and down right evil. How evil?
Now supposedly the union isn’t supporting the teacher but I think that’s mainly because it’s obvious how bad the teacher stepped in it in this instance. Moving forward though we have the bus driver who informed a young man that his mother should have aborted him.
Yup, that’s a real civilized respectful disagreement right there. Especially since this man felt he needed to attack a 12 year old child for his families political views. Bummer the bigot couldn’t pick on someone his own size.
But wait, there’s more! This call for respectful disagreement is also coming from the same party who is so tied into the unions they conscript their support from union membership.
How is that for a respectful disagreement? Force support for your party by holding a person hostage by keeping them from feeding themselves or their family by tacking on a fine. Now some may claim that you don’t have to join the union. That only holds true if you’re in a right to work state. You could always go find a job elsewhere that doesn’t have a union, but often the union will do everything to get a monopoly on the industry to force membership.
Moving even further forward, lets do a quick look back into history shall we?
So they did this to themselves, which works well when you can control the narrative and say it was the other side. It fails when you’re minions get caught. Now there was a window that recently broke in Alabama and again the Dems ran off claiming people were shooting at them, mainly the Republicans and independents that can’t have a respectful disagreement. Lets look at what really happened.
However, now there are reports that not only is the robocalling giving out false dates to votes, but an Obama door-to-door campaign targeting seniors in a county that went Republican is also giving out the false dates, I’m not so sure this is an accident.
Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three or more times is enemy action. Well bad news for the opposition, I don’t believe in coincidence. Even then the robocalls and door to door mistakes are truly two separate incidents for a count of three. It is well known and common knowledge the date of the election and informing people in mass of a incorrect date, especially in a county likely to vote against you is just wrong, deceitful, and again not an example of someone engaging in a “respectful disagreement”. Yeah, with regards to her use of the word respectful…
Then again, a party whose membership consists of people using the power of the state to rob from others to give to themselves wouldn’t really understand respect if it walked up and slapped them in the face. Respectful would be letting people keep what they had earned.
Now why would I bring this up, while I am currently doing my best to be respectful to those of differing opinions? Their right to have me remain respectful ends when they’re no longer respectful to me. Even more than that, they have no right to my respect when they are taking my property and work for their own because honestly, where’s the respect in that?
TMM is the owner, editor, and principal author at The Minuteman, a competitive shooter, and staff member for Boomershoot. Even in his free time he’s merging his love and knowledge of computers and technology with his love of firearms.
Many know his private name and information however due to the current political climate, many are distancing themselves due to the abandonment of Due Process.
Comments Off on You Too Can Have Your Own Desolate Wasteland
In the Fallout game series the premise was nuclear war has rendered most urban zones a total wasteland. Well, there’s another simpler method to create those urban wastelands. There’s already one wasteland that exists right here in the US in fact.
Don’t believe me that Detroit is like a waste land, lets look at a picture from Detroit and Chernobyl:
And now for another picture:
Now which one is which folks? Which picture was taken where? One was taken in a disaster zone caused by failed socialist policies, the other was taken in a nuclear disaster zone.
Ready? The first is from Detroit the second is from Chernobyl.
This is what socialism brings to the people, a wasteland devoid of prosperity and growth. Remember it the next time someone tells you government is the solution to the problem.
TMM is the owner, editor, and principal author at The Minuteman, a competitive shooter, and staff member for Boomershoot. Even in his free time he’s merging his love and knowledge of computers and technology with his love of firearms.
Many know his private name and information however due to the current political climate, many are distancing themselves due to the abandonment of Due Process.
Comments Off on Quote of the Day – Scott Greenfield(10/10/2012)
Because of this, all the other safeguards of the criminal justice system kicked in, from due process to double jeopardy. People at HuffPo and Boing Boing usually like these aspects of the law, except when they don’t. Then they become technicalities and produce injustice, because the outcome doesn’t comport with their sensibilities. Rape is one of the sacred cow crimes, and no law should get in the way of conviction.
It’s all about outcome? As Ken at Popehat points out, people across the political spectrum pick their positions based on outcomes, just different ones. It’s not about thinking, but feeling. The law, however,isn’t about feeling.
[I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. There is no correlation between the law and justice! Seriously folks, realize this right here and now. The point of the law is not just to convict the guilty but to protect the innocent from the power and wrath of the state.
In the end we hope that the law will give some form of justice. However it is also up to the players within the system to aid in that outcome. The prosecution in this case clearly screwed up and charged this person with the wrong crime.
Am I sad that this monster is getting away with the actual crime he did? You bet your ass. Am I angry at the legal system and think it failed? Yes and no. I am angry at the prosecutor for doing a piss poor job, I am not however upset that the rest of the system worked as it should to protect the defendant.
The thing to understand is you cannot have your cake and eat it. While one wants to both protect the innocent and convict the guilty, concessions must be made to protect the innocent. In doing so the possibility for error can allow the guilty to go free.
This isn’t a bug folks, it’s a feature. A feature that as Scott points out are more than happy to be cheered about by the same people who now condemn it when they feel it was wrong.
If we’re going to defend rights — if we’re not going to let them be chipped away, bit by bit, in cases involving rape or terrorism or anything else that engenders strong feelings — then we’re going to have to be ready to be called terrorist-sympathizers and un-American and even rape apologists by the likes of Antinous. But I can’t think of any earthly reason why we can’t inform these people that they’re full of shit.
Because folks, that’s how they do it. They invoke emotion and claim necessity. Some of us are patient, calm, and rational enough to think the whole problem through. Most however would prefer we just “do something” because doing something is better than nothing. Except sometimes doing nothing is actually the best thing to do because someone just screwed the pooch.
More power and depredation of rights is never a solution. -B]
TMM is the owner, editor, and principal author at The Minuteman, a competitive shooter, and staff member for Boomershoot. Even in his free time he’s merging his love and knowledge of computers and technology with his love of firearms.
Many know his private name and information however due to the current political climate, many are distancing themselves due to the abandonment of Due Process.
[It’s a worthy dream and important for the children of the future. Remember every time we create a smile like this:
Sarah Brady cries and they continue their decent into political irrelevancy. Wont you think of the children and help throw a group of bigots into the dust bin of history.
Think about it, a generation who’s only knowledge of the Brady Campaign and CSGV will be that there is evil in the world that must be watched for and even if it’s found, it can be destroyed.
Donate, become active, continue the push. Honestly I want to be able to buy a suppressor in the next 5 years and not have to wait for a year for a “stamp” so I can merely own a piece of safety equipment. I think that is certainly within the realm of possibility.
Again, do it for the children. Sarah Brady’s tears are just a bonus, a sweet, sweet bonus. -B]
TMM is the owner, editor, and principal author at The Minuteman, a competitive shooter, and staff member for Boomershoot. Even in his free time he’s merging his love and knowledge of computers and technology with his love of firearms.
Many know his private name and information however due to the current political climate, many are distancing themselves due to the abandonment of Due Process.
Fearless leader came out yesterday and said that unemployment drastically dropped. Except that also included some new ways of calculating the numbers. Except every way I’ve heard of them calculating the numbers is cooking the books. My wife was "unemployed” for a year and a half, though she didn’t qualify to be counted amongst the unemployed even while trying to find a job. It’s all done to provide political leverage. But if we use the same method they’ve been using it provides us a decent window to see what the trend is like.
Shamelessly stolen from Joe, who took it from Tyler Durden, tell me, can you spot the statistical outlier?
Or how about seasonally adjusted:
If you can’t make sense of the Seasonally Adjusted chart, let me give you a clue. Which one of these has a swing month to month well beyond any other? Can you spot it? I knew you could! The fact is, employment sucks and here’s a big clue for everyone, government cannot make it better. Despite the smoke politicians blow up your ass about creating jobs, they can’t create jobs. There are only two things that government regulations can do, make it more difficult to hire someone or remove money from the pocket of someone who would give you a job. If anything when they throw money at something it actually tends to have the opposite effect since people want the free money. More on that bit later.
Everyone keeps looking at the state as being the solution to their problem. They keep asking what can my government do for me!? Well if government had its way, it would make you their slave by making you dependent upon them. From the looks of this lady, they’re succeeding.
TMM is the owner, editor, and principal author at The Minuteman, a competitive shooter, and staff member for Boomershoot. Even in his free time he’s merging his love and knowledge of computers and technology with his love of firearms.
Many know his private name and information however due to the current political climate, many are distancing themselves due to the abandonment of Due Process.
Not to mention the August incidents that they didn’t bother reporting. Remember these are the “best and brightest” that we send to college. No, I don’t think so anymore. A good majority of those who go to college I think go because they’re too dumb to do anything else.
They go to college racking up debt to get degrees in things that will never earn them enough money to pay it back. Again, remember what I was saying about them not really being the best and brightest. Then you have other incidents where someone claims that College is a right and that everyone should go.
Everyone has the right to attempt to obtain a college education. However just because you can attempt it, doesn’t mean you can afford it or that you will be admitted. It is up to the person to perform well enough to be admitted as well as find a way to finance their schooling. You do not have a right to force someone else to pay for your education. You do nothave a right to be automatically admitted. You merely have a right to seek education, you do not have a right to have it handed to you.
Besides, you know what’s great about the internet, which you can use at your local library, and it’s also cheaper than going to college, you can self educate. There are piles upon piles of information out there if you’re willing to go find it and read it. The MIT Open Courseware is the best example of available information. I have gone through many of the courses trying to improve my knowledge on different subjects as well as supplementing what I already know.
The point of college at this point is to provide a little sheet of paper and certification that you are educated about “X”. The thing is, that certification is an investment and you had better invest wisely. My wife got two degrees, both in the sciences, however it was an actual certification that finally got her a job. All you get out of college now days is a piece of paper, most of them are worthless, a few are gold. If you’re paying for that piece of paper, I suggest making sure it’s gold and not pyrite.
TMM is the owner, editor, and principal author at The Minuteman, a competitive shooter, and staff member for Boomershoot. Even in his free time he’s merging his love and knowledge of computers and technology with his love of firearms.
Many know his private name and information however due to the current political climate, many are distancing themselves due to the abandonment of Due Process.
Your guess of what would be considered a “sudden move” is as good as mine. Thankfully the victim in this case was smart enough to refuse, less they decided to ventilate him for fun using a ready-made excuse.
Guess officers no longer in the business of protecting and serving now are they? You would rather threaten lethal force against a law-abiding citizen and commit assault with a deadly weapon than do your job. Yes there are risks for law enforcement, but that is the price of freedom and liberty and if you don’t like it, no one is forcing you to be a police officer.
There is nothing scarier than a guy with a badge and gun and thus has “qualified immunity” and having him so willing to deprive people of their liberty as well as use lethal force. If you live in that county, contact the sheriff and voice your displeasure.
State Sponsored Criminal #415: Corry Bassett
State Sponsored Criminal #416: Rob Andazola
Because protecting and serving means you plug the law-abiding citizen who serves his country more fervently than yourself in the back because you feel like it, you just need to get his permission first.
TMM is the owner, editor, and principal author at The Minuteman, a competitive shooter, and staff member for Boomershoot. Even in his free time he’s merging his love and knowledge of computers and technology with his love of firearms.
Many know his private name and information however due to the current political climate, many are distancing themselves due to the abandonment of Due Process.
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