His Imperious Majesty

imperious: adj. domineering in a haughty manner; dictatorial; overbearing

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When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth 

rule, the people mourn. (Proverbs 29:2 KJV)

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The heavy-handed Mayor of All He Surveys is hinting heavily that his response to the rising number of positive Covid test results* will be to reactivate large segments of his original "hunker down" order, sometime in the coming week.

Just like everywhere else, the bulk of new positive test results are in the 20-to-30 year old population, and nearly all of them remain asymptomatic. But that's the part that the local press would sooner die, themselves, than report to the sheeple who bother to pay any attention.

We were all excited when the original shut-down expired. But many restaurants remain closed to dining-in, and buying take-out from the same 5 or 8 choices has gotten really old.

The local Wal-Mart in our little town now has a very large Samoan fella standing out in front of an 8-foot banner. Said banner displays the message that masks are now required by "federal, state and local laws" (a whole series of falsehoods, there). He confronts everyone who who approaches the entrance without a mask visible, demanding that they put one on.

For the record, there is no federal, state, or local law requiring a mask. There is only a municipal edict from Lord Ozymandias requiring that masks be worn inside all public places. 

And I'm astonished by the numbers of people I see driving alone on the highway with a mask on inside their cars. But I digress.

The whole farce has left me increasingly angry at the governmental hoax being perpetrated on people who used to know better. 

However, I'm quite happy to report that the vast majority of people have stopped pretending to go along with the draconian edicts, and are doing their best to resume a semi-normal life. 

* Never mind that Anchorage has quintupled the number of tests performed; that's apparently irrelevant. So is the fact that only 32 persons remain hospitalized. Nothing to see, here: move along!

What Were They Thinking?

And do we think the same way, now?


We all suspect that the Founding Fathers were better-educated and/or wiser than ourselves, when it came to the history of governments, and the theories about how better to govern these Colonies. I want to reexamine the things they knew, leading up to the Declaration (and later, the Constitution).

For if it [the unlawful act of government] reach no farther than some private men's cases, though they have a right to defend themselves ... yet the right to do so will not easily engage them in a contest ... it being as impossible for one or a few oppressed men to disturb the government where the body of the people do not think themselves concerned in it...

But if either these illegal acts have extended to the majority of the people, or if the mischief and oppression has light [struck] only on some few, but in such cases as the precedent and consequences seem to threaten all, and they are persuaded in their consciences that their laws, and with them, their estates, liberties, and lives are in danger, and perhaps their religion, too, how will they be hindered from resisting illegal force used against them, I cannot tell. (John Locke, Second Essay Concerning Civil Government)

What he's saying is that a majority of the people are likely to revolt, just as our forebears did, when they perceive - as a majority - that they are threatened by government's action(s). The Founders certainly believed that the colonists, as a whole, were in jeopardy from British actions.

Now go read the headlines again; look at the Manhattan Declaration; see the list of complaints forwarded by Tea Partiers and others in the last decade or so, and think again. Have we approached such a time? Have we actually reached it? At what point is a consensus of "the majority" achieved? And who decides?

Discuss.

It's Upon Us Now

The Time Is Now

A decade or so ago, I wrote a piece entitled “Righting the Wrongs”, publishing it here and on another blog. The response was ... well, underwhelming. The lack of comments at the time made me think that it did not inspire many folks.

I republished it a couple of years later, and received a much greater response.

Regarding the elections in 2008, 2012, and 2016, I preached, cajoled, and practically begged folks to think – think! – about who (and what) they were voting for – and then about what they had received.

But none of that matters now. 

I’ve said all that to say this: ladies and gentlemen, we are being raped. Viciously, maliciously, and with great pleasure by those in the government whose goal is the pure-and-simple gathering of power and control. They don’t care what they have to say, what lies they must tell, what lands they must grab, or what new (and usually unconstitutional) laws and regulations they pass.

It’s all about gaining power and control – and then keeping it. And it’s obvious now that the progressive crew in D.C. is willing to do whatever it takes to achieve that goal.

If you think not, remember that Bobby Francis O'Rourke literally just said, "Hell yes, we're going to take away your AR-15" to thunderous applause.

In the last few years, the vast silent majority has awakened, and risen up like some colossus of old. We have carried signs, written letters, sent e-mails, run ads, and made phone calls until the very switchboards in the Nation’s capital have overheated and shut down.

Did it do any good? Any number of radical, "Progressive" gun registration/confiscation bills have been silently pulled and put away for a later date.

The bad news is, now appears to be that later date.

So, my blogger friends, we have battled, persuaded, cajoled, argued, and typed our fingers sore, and have we convinced any? Sure we have … but not enough. Not enough.

So what more can we do?

If you’re of a Christian persuasion, I’m sure you’ve been praying, right? Right? Even if you’re not, I’ll bet some of you have been praying anyway.

But it comes down to trusting in God – however you approach Him – and not in ourselves. With His help, we are MIGHTY. Even if we can’t see what He’s doing, we have the assurance that He is involved, and will not let His people down.

What, then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us? (Romans 8:31)

“But Reverend Paul," (you may ask), "isn’t there something else we can do?”

I’m glad you asked. Alan Caruba wrote a piece for “Insight on Freedom” (sadly, no longer available) which compared our times with those of the mid-1770s, leading up to Lexington and Concord.

Are we at the point of civil disobedience? Some think so, and there have been sporadic outbreaks of that. And didn’t the progressive crowd huddle together and bleat for a cessation? Yes, just those few incidents got their attention. But then they gathered themselves and carried on, harder and faster than before.

So what, then? Armed rebellion? Please, God, no; that time is not yet (and I hope it does NOT come) although I dare say it’s a darn sight closer than any of us thought it would ever be, in our times. In fact, I will predict right now that if gun confiscation begins in earnest, there WILL be a civil war. And the gun owners (civilians, not paid thugs) will win.

Let me repeat that: we will win. But it will be messy, bloody, and too horrible to contemplate here.

Stand your ground, my friends. Refuse to back up another inch. As is stated in the header over at Western Rifle Shooters, “Do not give in to Evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.”

They can only take that which you allow them to take. They know we outnumber them, but for decades they have managed to lull most of us to sleep. And today, we're told, they will probably pass a bill in the House to more-or-less trick the Puerto Ricans into voting for Statehood, which those folks have always opposed in the past. This will garner some 4 million voters who will be eligible for welfare and other forms of Big Government largesse, as well as putting two more Senators and six Representatives on Capitol Hill.

And don't you just know which party those will belong to?

Well, no more.

Get active, stay involved, and DO NOT BACK DOWN. They are trying to steal your freedom, folks, and have managed to get most of the way there.

No more.

It’s time to take this Nation back from those who have unlawfully usurped authority. It is they who are "clinging bitterly" to the reins of power, defying all who rise up in opposition.

Take it back; it’s yours to win or lose. But now; get involved now, because we're running out of time. Get involved at your level, city, county or state, but make it count. Let your voices be heard; insist on changes that are Constitutionally-sound and aimed at making things right.

Remember that power flows upward, from the people to their representatives in government. In fact, insist on it. Remind your local officials, who tend to be more responsive, that there's an election soon. Make sure they hear that message, loud and clear.

We've been asleep - and that's our fault. But we won't be, anymore. We know what America is supposed to be, and we insist that it be restored. No more nanny-statist, power-grabbing politics.

NO MORE.

The American Character: An Important Question

The American who emerges from these pages is already - as St. John de Crevecoeur wrote at the time - a new man. He is independent; he is impatient of discipline; he hopelessly mixes up military, economic and social activities. He is equalitarian, and has little patience with those who claim to be his superiors. He is ambitious and avaricious, and much given to speculation and to getting ahead. He is literate, takes an active part in the business of politics, and carries into camp the habits of self-government. He does not like fighting for its own sake, but fights well when he has to; he has little use for the military hierarchy, and bucks like a colt against taking orders.

He is ingenious and practical; prefers a stone wall to an open field, and a timely retreat to a foolhardy advance. He is young and tough, survives hardships and diseases that would wipe out his more vulnerable descendants; he lives simply and unaffectedly. He is on the whole cheerful and good-humored, decent and honest; commits few crimes against person (unless they are Indians [native Americans in this context - Ed.]) and, unless our sources deceive us by prudish silence, has a relatively high standard of sexual morality. He is vaguely religious, and already certain that there is a benign Providence whose chief concern is with him and his country.

~ Introduction, The Spirit of 'Seventy-Six, Commager and Morris, referring to writings, letters and pamphlets of the pre-Revolutionary War period.

Remarkably similar, in many respects, to contemporary conservative Americans, although an unbiased observer might also note that they were ahead of us in a couple of areas. Certainly they endured hardship that most of us would not like to face.

They were also familiar with the classic writings, popular during the Age of Enlightenment, about
life, liberty (the real thing, not the cliche' that it has become in modern parlance), and self-governance. Those who were paying attention weren't about to endure any further depredation from a distant king.

They resolved that the interference from an uncaring, nearly-foreign government was insufferable, and that they would do whatever it took, to remove the shackles (as they perceived them) and govern themselves.

Meanwhile, in 21st Century America, many of the sheeple don't even realize they're carrying a ponderous chain of restrictions, with links forged little by little, over a long period of time (and with apologies to Charles Dickens for the inevitable comparison).

We have a chance, perhaps just this one last chance, to cast some of the weight off, and turn some things around. As with any great undertaking, it will take resolve, and strength of character. And it won't happen all at once. There will likely be push-back from the entitlement class, as well as government workers who feel their high-paying jobs are threatened.

What say you?

Vets told they can 'buy back' 2nd Amendment rights

'This is illegal and is called extortion'

Bob Unruh, WND

A legal team investigating the Obama administration’s order that certain American military veterans deemed “incompetent” give up their weapons says the problem is worse than expected.

People who live with veterans now are being ordered not to possess a gun, and some veterans are told they can “buy back” their Second Amendment rights by giving up their veterans’ benefits.

“This is simply unbelievable, On the one hand the [Veterans Administration] and the FBI have found veterans to be mentally ill and too dangerous to be allowed to own firearms, while on the other hand allowing these allegedly dangerous people to buy their firearms rights back,” wrote Michael Connelly, executive director of the United States Justice Foundation in a report.

“This is illegal and is called extortion.”

The organization has been looking into claims by a number of veterans and their family members.

The veterans were sent a letter telling them they were being classified as incompetent and the government was assigning someone to help them handle their benefits and payments.

Read the rest here.

What Were They Thinking?

We all suspect that the Founding Fathers were better-educated and/or wiser than ourselves, when it came to the history of governments, and the theories about how better to govern these Colonies. In examining the things they knew, leading up to the Declaration - and later, the Constitution - I came across this:

For if it [the unlawful act of government] reach no farther than some private men's cases, though they have a right to defend themselves ... yet the right to do so will not easily engage them in a contest ... it being as impossible for one or a few oppressed men to disturb the government where the body of the people do not think themselves concerned in it...

But if either these illegal acts have extended to the majority of the people, or if the mischief and oppression has light [struck] only on some few, but in such cases as the precedent and consequences seem to threaten all, and they are persuaded in their consciences that their laws, and with them, their estates, liberties, and lives are in danger, and perhaps their religion, too, how will they be hindered from resisting illegal force used against them, I cannot tell.

(John Locke, Second Essay Concerning Civil Government)

What he's saying is that a majority of the people are likely to revolt, just as our forebears did, when they perceive - as a majority - that they are threatened by government's action(s). The Founders certainly believed that the colonists, as a whole, were in jeopardy from British actions.

Now go read the headlines again; look at the Manhattan Declaration; see the list of complaints forwarded by Tea Partiers, and think again. Are we approaching such a time? Have we reached it? At what point is a consensus of "the majority" achieved? And who decides?

Discuss.

There's No Temperature This Morning

which would explain the 0° display on my dashboard while driving in. :)

Falling temps and dense fog; that's been our weather for the last 72 hours. The frost continues to build on unheated surfaces, and bare pavement provides all the traction of axle grease.

If it weren't for studded tires, three-quarters of Anchorage cars would be in roadside ditches by now.

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I have occasionally um, okay, regularly expressed frustration with federal over-regulation and overreach in Alaska, with the Fed controlling 60 percent of the state. Clearly, this is at odds with the concept of State sovereignty and self-determination.

There's a decent commentary in today's paper, on that topic. It's worth a look, and here's an excerpt to whet your interest:

So here we are. We are facing multiple issues of federal overreach and with the perfect governor for the job – the one mentored by the late, great Gov. Hickel. So far, we have seen no bold moves. There have been no bulldozers in the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge, nor have we sent teams up to ANWR to start exploring for oil.

Clearly the governor can’t really do what he claimed he would in that debate. He spoke boldly in order to garner support for the shock value of the statement. However, this is exactly what we elected Walker to do. If there is one thing we gave the governor a mandate to do, it was to stand up to the federal government. So now, Gov. Walker, all eyes are on you – what’s your move?

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Speaking of federal overreach, it seems railroads have been ordered to install "a federal mandate that would make improvements to train safety. It's called PTC or Positive Train Control. The National Transportation Safety Board says every rail line in the country must implement it by the end of the year."

There's one problem with this technology for commuter rail: Alaska doesn't have any. While the Alaska Railroad (owned/operated by the State, not Amtrak. They went broke trying to run it, and sold it to us) provides passenger service, it's not a commuter service, and doesn't plan to provide it.

Quote of the Season:

In 1913, President Woodrow Wilson approved the Federal Reserve Act. A few years later, he reflected:

"I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men.

"We have come to be one of the worst-ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated governments in the civilized world -- no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men."

Alan Caruba: "More Climate Lies"

Mr. Caruba hit one out of the park today. Excerpt:

What a different nation America could be were it not for Obama’s deliberate attack on the coal industry in particular and other fossil fuels, oil and natural gas. In the name of reducing emissions, Obama deliberately ignores the increasing use of coal in Europe and nations that include China, Japan, and India.

The emissions limits the White House wants and continues to impose would constitute less than a fraction of a single degree Fahrenheit over the course of a decade or more. In short, nothing.

You really need to read the whole article. 

Still No Answers on Benghazi

South Carolina Rep Trey Gowdy speaks to the press corps.

This is most certainly the most embarrassing event that has occurred in the last 16 months. The
burden falls on the media who haven’t done anything to investigate Benghazi. If I were to measure BIG events the media touted in the last 40 years, I would rank this as number one. So, why has this gone for over a year without a peep from the media?




h/t Craig

Friday in the A.M.

We had light rain all night, with temps hovering around 34° F. This morning, we were greeted by what looks like snow cone ice (shave ice, if you're from one of those parts of the country). At least it's wet, rather than frozen solid.

Our daughters are celebrating two weeks on their own today; it's a big deal, moving into your first place and setting up housekeeping for the first time.
The local news has been purely of local interest lately, and it's been difficult coming up with anything that interests me, much less folks living elsewhere. But let's see what I can find, today...


* Y'all remember that incident last year where armed EPA officers stormed mining camps east of Fairbanks? This morning, there's this:

The special counsel hired by the state to look into mining investigations conducted last year by federal and state authorities in eastern Alaska found no evidence that investigators broke any laws.

In the report, attorney Brent Cole said task force members — including nine federal agents or investigators and one officer with the state Department of Environmental Conservation — acted appropriately while carrying out their investigation. In reviewing on-site conversations with placer miners taped by the state officer, none of the miners appeared to have been intimidated, though some indicated surprise at how the matter was handled, Cole said. The conversations reviewed were "cordial and friendly," he said.

But Cole questioned the need for a criminal investigation rather than a civil or administrative inquiry, calling it "ill-conceived" and saying it introduced "an unnecessary element of risk" into the process.

"Little if any" civil enforcement by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency or state Department of Environmental Conservation had occurred in the so-called Fortymile area between Eagle and Tok in years past, he said.

"There was no evidence that civil enforcement measures would not have brought about compliance. Nor was there evidence of 'serious and knowing' violations ongoing in the Fortymile area," the report says. "Under the facts provided to us, we were unable to conclude that a criminal compliance inspection was necessary here."

~ snip~ The EPA also disputed the characterization of the action as a raid, saying investigators involved wore "civilian rough-duty field clothing," including jeans and hip waders, and wore bullet-proof vests identifying them as law enforcement. Investigators carried side arms and were either assigned a shotgun or semi-automatic rifle, which EPA said was broken down and carried in a backpack until the last day, when it was carried on a sling.

So the EPA got it's "storm trooper" on, and tried to intimidate miners for no particular reason ... and those of us here remember that there were vague allegations of "we did it because of human trafficking, blah blah" and the like. Now they say it was because of suspicion of improper dredging discharges? Uh-huh.

There seems to be entirely too many incidents where things like this happen, across the country. Others have written far more about this, but let's face it: sooner or later, somebody's going to fire a shot and start a far bigger conflict, over what they now admit was not much of anything.


* And then there's this:

Texas-based paleontologists say they've excavated the fragmented bones of a new pygmy tyrannosaur, a Tyrannosaurus rex relative and the fiercest Arctic predator in northern Alaska.

The 25-foot-long animal was named Nanuqsaurus hoglundi, and its shrunken body, scientists say, suggests adaptation at the top of the world where profound swings in light and plant growth made life a challenge. Its first name means "polar bear lizard," nanuq being the Inupiaq word for polar bear, the modern arctic predator.

I can feel a longer post percolating, but I can't really articulate it yet. Hmm. For whatever reason, I find that I can't put coherent words together unless everything is at peace around me. I have lots of little things (nothing bad) going on, and ... well, if you're a blogger, you know the feeling.

Retired Justice Laments "Alarming Degree of Public Ignorance"

Two-thirds of Americans cannot name a single Supreme Court justice, former Justice Sandra Day O'Connor told the crowd that packed into a Boise State ballroom to hear her Thursday. 

About one-third can name the three branches of government. Fewer than one-fifth of high school seniors can explain how citizen participation benefits democracy.

"Less than one-third of eighth-graders can identify the historical purpose of the Declaration of Independence, and it's right there in the name," she said.

O'Connor touted civics education during her keynote address at the "Transforming America: Women and Leadership in the 21st Century" conference, put on by the Andrus Center for Public Policy. She also described being a female lawyer in the 1950s, and challenged her listeners to help the next generation of leaders reach their goals.

"The more I read and the more I listen, the more apparent it is that our society suffers from an alarming degree of public ignorance," O'Connor said.

That ignorance starts in the earliest years of a child's schooling, she said, but often continues all the way through college and graduate school.

O'Connor argued that learning about citizenship is just as important for American children as learning multiplication or how to write their names.

"We have to ensure that our citizens are well informed and prepared to face tough challenges," she said. "If there is a single child not learning about civics or not being exposed to what they must do as citizens, then all our lives are poorer for that."

Can't say I disagree with her on any point. It's the fault of the Progressive / NEA / Dept of Education / Goals 2000 / No Child Left Behind / Common Core "make 'em dumber" movement which dates back to Woodrow Wilson (Glenn Beck hates that guy!).

Read the rest here.

Full Moon Over Kodiak (updated)

A guy from northern California was allegedly drunk & disorderly in the Kodiak airport. When State troopers tried to arrest him, he dropped his trousers - flashing what Jay Leno refers to as his "buttockal area" - and then "challenged them to fight."

The copyright AP story is here.

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Regarding the SWAT team-style EPA raid on the small scale mining camps in the Fortymile Park area:  the comments I hear at work and on the street are running about 50 to 1 against the EPA's version of events.

The EPA's original story from the Drudge Report (which I can't find, this morning) alleged drug deals and human trafficking allegations.

UPDATE: Not Drudge. Here's the link - http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/20130903/gold-miners-near-chicken-cry-foul-over-heavy-handed-epa-raids

This allegation against some dozen or so one- or two-man mining operations, scattered along several miles of the large creek, in the middle of the wilderness ... yeah, right.

It doesn't pass the sniff test.

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I keep expecting to see snow on the nearby peaks to the east, any day now. It's probably just a bit too soon: our temps remain somewhat above average, but with lows in the mid-40s overnight, that won't last much longer.

Thanks for stopping by, friends. Have a great Friday!

Alaska Governor Orders Investigation of Federal Raid

FAIRBANKS, Alaska — Gov. Sean Parnell said Thursday he has ordered an investigation of recent raids by federal and state officials at mines in the Fortymile River area, saying he will not tolerate a state agency's participation in the sort of conduct displayed.

Enforcement officers with the federal Environmental Protection Agency and Bureau of Land Management were armed and wore body armor, according to Parnell.

He said an investigator with the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation joined the agents, who said they were looking for violations of the Clean Water Act. Parnell said no one was arrested and no one was cited.

"This level of intrusion and intimidation of Alaskans is absolutely unacceptable," he said in a statement Thursday.

Go to the linked story for the rest.

Early reports of this SWAT team raid on a small-scale mining camps pointed out that, 140 miles from Fairbanks (the nearest big city), these folks have more encounters with Federal officials than with other Alaskans.

That's just wrong.

Quote of the Day

"It's horrible! It's immoral! It's selfish, heartless, ruthless! It's the most vicious speech ever made! It ... it will make people demand to be happy!"

~ Eugene Lawson, Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand), after a radio address by John Galt

Can't have that. Keep 'em pacified with free food, free clothes, EBT cards, free phones, welfare, WIC, free medical clinics ... anything but allow them to think for themselves, or ever figure out that things aren't right.

Let 'em spend their formative years in a government-mandated institution of public education (if you can call it that), and make SURE they don't know enough to figure out that somebody has to pay for all the "free" stuff.

Control the media outlets, and make sure the talking heads only mouth the platitudes approved for public consumption. Discourage free thought, and free speech. Tell them that anyone who remembers why (and upon what) this country was founded is an "enemy."

Whatever you do, DON'T let them think for themselves.

They might not like what's been done to them.



Wait - you thought I was talking about a book?

Justice Dept to Challenge States on Voting Rights

The Associated Press reports:

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration said Thursday it will open a new front in the battle for voter protections, a response to last month's Supreme Court ruling that dealt a major setback to the Voting Rights Act.

In a speech to the National Urban League in Philadelphia, Attorney General Holder said that as its first move, the Justice Department is asking a federal court in San Antonio to require the state of Texas to obtain advance approval before putting in place future political redistricting or other voting changes.

Holder called the Voting Rights Act "the cornerstone of modern civil rights law" and said that "we cannot allow the slow unraveling of the progress that so many, throughout history, have sacrificed so much to achieve." 

... The move in Texas is the department's first action to further safeguard voting rights following the Supreme Court June 25 decision, said Holder, "but it will not be our last."

So the Supreme Court said that the Fed can't make the States get pre-approval based on 40-year-old data, and the Progressive think-tank that is our Justice Department (these days) says they're going to ask a lower court to reinstate it because RACISM.

Our tax dollars at work.

Obamacare Quote of the Day

"In his speech yesterday, Obama said, "There are folks out there who are actively working to make this law fail." Nope, the law is failing just fine on its own."

~ Amy Payne, The Foundry

Quotes of the Day

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson 


There once was a man from Nantucket,
Who wanted to sell me a bucket,
But he could not, because,
There were too many laws,
So he threw up his hands and said, "Vote Libertarian!" 

~Anonymous

S. 3525, the Federal Land Seizure Act of 2012, is Back

We thought we'd defeated this bill, just a month ago. But like any good zombie, it's back again.

From the GOA:

Federal Land Seizure Act
Resuscitating Itself from the Dead

 

“Looks like GOA defeated Goliath. Nice work.”

 

GOA warned you earlier this month about S. 3525, the Federal Land Seizure Act of 2012.

 

As you will remember, Senator Jon Tester (D-MT) -- who is “F” rated by Gun Owners of America -- is pushing this “hunting” bill which authorizes the Obama administration almost unlimited power to seize private lands for “environmental” purposes.

 

While it purports to the contrary, the bill would allow these seizures without the permission of the landowners for virtually any reason.

 

You guys delivered a crushing blow to this bill when you pressed your Senators to oppose it.  We won, and it appeared the bill was dead for the year.

 

As one highly placed office in the Senate told GOA:  “Looks like GOA defeated Goliath. Nice work.”

 

Sadly, in politics it’s often the case that a dead “Goliath,” like a Zombie, can come back to life -- which is why we need now to cut off its head.  S. 3525 could come up for a vote as early as Today.

 

Please go here to read the details about the details of this nefarious bill in our previous alert.

 

And contact your two U.S. Senators and urge them to OPPOSE S. 3525, the Federal Land Seizure Act of 2012.

Then, in a closely-related story:

In a new poll by Gallup on how do you view Socialism only 36% of Americans viewed Socialism as favorable.

However the real (not) shocker was when you looked at ideology.
53% of Democrats viewed Socialism favorably.. [emphasis added - Ed.]
17% of Republicans viewed Socialism favorably...

Let's review just what it is Democrats favor..

Socialism Defined by: Merriam Webster
1: any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership
and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods
2a : a system of society or group living in which there is no private property
b : a system or condition of society in which the means of production are owned and controlled by the state

Quote of the Day

The pattern is as old as human life. The new rulers use more and more force, more police, more soldiers, trying to enforce more efficient control, trying to make the planned economy work by piling regulations on regulations, decree on decree. The people are hungry and hungrier. And how does a man on this earth get butter? Doesn't the government give butter? But government does not produce food from the earth; Government is guns. It is one common distinction of all civilized peoples, that they give their guns to the Government. Men in Government monopolize the necessary use of force; they are not using their energies productively; they are not milking cows. To get butter, they must use guns; they have nothing else to use. 

~ Rose Wilder Lane