About What I'd Expect

Quotes of the Day, 4/16/19

Americans have the mistaken viewpoint that Lady Liberty is only a peacetime luxury who is ill-equipped to fight the nasties. Therefore, they reason, we need an equally nasty Big Brother. Americans have forgotten that Lady Liberty is one ferocious mother when protecting her children. – Mary Ruwart


The prospect of a government that treats all its citizens as criminal suspects is more terrifying than any terrorist. And even more frightening is a citizenry that can accept the surrender of its freedoms as the price of "freedom". – Joe Sobran


… so long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men. – Voltairine de Cleyre

Send in the Clowns

As the song says, don't bother; they're here.

Regardless of what the leftist fake news media would have us believe, there are some real problems in the Democrat party at several levels that could very well damage it for a long time.

Not thinking is one of them; making false assumptions based on past successes is another.

Among the first things for conservatives to seriously consider, before over-reacting to the Left's antics, is to know that if what falls from their mouths is any evidence of their intellectual acumen, then what we are really witnessing now, under Pelosi and Schumer, is not a serious political party debating what's good for America, but a circus side show with Trump as the ring master.

Common sense appears to be totally lacking, overtaken by Marxist ideology. Crowing about the rule of law or constitutional restraints are simply erratic thought processes on our part if we do not understand the Left's real mission, a socialized one world government with them in charge. The consequences of an "out-of-date document" (the US Constitution) that limits government, not encourages it, is the key to how and why they behave as they do.

In defense of their objectives, they utter comments of absolute stupidity in the belief the masses will agree with them. How about this quote, supposedly from a Vermont State Democratic Senator: "We must be able to arrest people before they commit crimes. By registering guns and knowing who has them, we can do that, if they have guns they are pretty likely to commit a crime."

How about, "Homicide is the leading cause of murder." by Shelia Jackson Lee; or "May's jobs report shows that strong employment numbers means little…" That's from the Democrat House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi. And oh yes, she has more.

For example: "If we hadn't fought the war on terror, the VA wouldn't be having so many problems." And I like this one, also from the incredible Nancy Pelosi: "Building a wall will violate the rights of millions of illegals." She also said: "We should only deport illegal aliens if they do something illegal," and this gem, "Just because someone is here illegally doesn't mean they broke any of our laws."

We can't leave out Maxine Waters who said: "The next Supreme Court Justice should be an illegal immigrant." Did she really say that? Yes, she did. Don't forget Hank Johnson, the Rep. from Atlanta, Ga. who opined, at a finance sub-committee hearing, his fear that the island of Guam could be in danger of capsizing if the US Marine Corps landed a brigade of Marines there.

Chuckie Schumer can't be left out. He said: "Time and time again, we find "Progressive" laws getting struck down. And it's always, always the ones the Constitution is against. These right-wing judges don't think for themselves, they just do whatever the Constitution says, and it's time for that to end." Say what?

Indian princess and Presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren told us: "We need judges to be advocates of Progressive laws, not people who will bow to the whims of the Constitution, putting its extremist values of freedom of speech and freedom of religion against our agenda."

And not to be omitted, Sen. Cory Booker opined: "We're sick and tired of the Constitution sitting in the National Archives, manipulating everything we do."

These silly Progressive clowns, really believe that they want to run our government but without the constraints of law. They make up laws as they go along like children do in the school playground. To even consider that idea could quite possibly ignite another bloody civil war. Are we ready for that?

Remember, freedom is the goal; the Constitution is the way. Now, go get 'em!


h/t Tom S.

Quotes of the Day 3/7/17

In any free society, the conflict between social conformity and individual liberty is permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.

~ Kathleen Norris


There is no "slippery slope" toward loss of liberty, only a long staircase where each step down must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders.

~ Alan K. Simpson, U.S. Senator, New York Times, 9/26/82


You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.

~ John Morley (1838-1923), Critical Miscellanies

Wearing My Preacher Hat Again

"Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every country in Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops that can be, on any pretense, raised in the United States. A military force, at the command of Congress, can execute no laws, but such as the people perceive to be just and constitutional; for they will possess the power, and jealousy will instantly inspire the inclination, to resist the execution of a law which appears to them unjust and oppressive." 

~ Noah Webster, “An Examination of the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution,” October 10, 1787


Now ask yourselves again, why are there some 200,000 Federal bureaucrats with firearms?

“Open the Books, a taxpayer watchdog group, released a study Wednesday [June 22, 2016] that finds domestic government agencies continue to grow their stockpiles of military-style weapons, as Democrats sat on the House floor calling for more restrictions on what guns American citizens can buy.

“The ‘Militarization of America’ report found civilian agencies spent $1.48 billion on guns, ammunition, and military-style equipment between 2006 and 2014. Examples include IRS agents with AR-15s, and EPA bureaucrats wearing camouflage.

“‘Regulatory enforcement within administrative agencies now carries the might of military-style equipment and weapons,’ Open the Books said. ‘For example, the Food and Drug Administration includes 183 armed “special agents,” a 50 percent increase over the ten years from 1998-2008. At Health and Human Services (HHS), “Special Office of Inspector General Agents” are now trained with sophisticated weaponry by the same contractors who train our military special forces troops.’

“Open the Books found there are now over 200,000 non-military federal officers with arrest and firearm authority, surpassing the 182,100 personnel who are actively serving in the U.S. Marine Corps.

“The IRS spent nearly $11 million on guns, ammunition, and military-style equipment for its 2,316 special agents. The tax collecting agency has billed taxpayers for pump-action and semi-automatic shotguns, semi-automatic Smith & Wesson M&P15s, and Heckler & Koch H&K 416 rifles, which can be loaded with 30-round magazines.

“The EPA spent $3.1 million on guns, ammo, and equipment, including drones, night vision, ‘camouflage and other deceptive equipment,’ and body armor.”

The Argument is Invalid But the Answer is Obvious

Let's Talk About Politicizing Mass Murder

Okay, so we'll let pictures do the talking. 'Nuff said?

More UN-Style Gun Control?

From the Gun Owners of America:


Obama wants more UN-styled gun control

Right now White House officials are booking flights to Mexico...... and they’re not bringing back souvenirs.
They’re on their way to the UN Small Arms Conference, to be held in Mexico City on August 24.
And they’re planning to bring back the framework for a global gun control regime.

It’s important that you contact your Senators right now and tell them to vote NO on any agreement reached at the Mexico UN conference.
Obama has already signed the UN Small Arms Treaty and it is waiting ratification by the Senate.

Obama’s global gun grabbers are jetting down to Mexico to iron out the details of this tyrannical new regime.

It requires signing nations to "establish and maintain a national control system, including a national control list."

That means not just NATIONAL gun registration. You will be entered into a GLOBAL gun registration database.
Over the past century, we have seen registration lists used as a prelude to gun confiscation in countries like Rwanda, Cambodia and many more.

Gun confiscation, in turn, led to horrific genocides in many of these countries -- including Rwanda and Cambodia. 

Imagine dictators around the world -- who can control the UN blue helmets (aka, the UN military force) -- having your name on record as a gun owner.

It’s preposterous!  And this is why the Senate MUST kill this toxic agreement.
Please take action to defend your gun rights.

ACTION: Contact your senators right now.  Tell them to vote NO on any agreement reached at the Mexico UN conference.

He Saw It Coming

Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court (1902-1932)

"If a man neglects to enforce his rights, he cannot complain if, after a while, the law follows his example."

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

Quote of the Week

The saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanished liberty is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch forth a saving hand while yet there was time.

~ Justice George Sutherland (1938)

At It Again: "Senators Quietly Seek New Path on Gun Control"

By JEREMY W. PETERS WASHINGTON -- 

Talks to revive gun control legislation are quietly underway on Capitol Hill as a bipartisan group of senators seeks a way to bridge the differences that led to last week's collapse of the most serious effort to overhaul the country's gun laws in 20 years.

Drawing on the lessons from battles in the 1980s and '90s over the Brady Bill, which failed in Congress several times before ultimately passing, gun control supporters believe they can prevail by working on a two-pronged strategy. First, they are identifying senators who might be willing to change their votes and support a background check system with fewer loopholes.

Read the whole story here.

JPFO: System Failure as Disabled Vietnam Vet Denied Weapon Purchase In Background Check Debacle

How you can help support JPFO Join JPFO The JPFO Order Line (800) 869-1884 Office Hours CST. SYSTEM FAILURE April 22nd 2013 Disabled Vietnam Vet Denied Weapon Purchase In Background Check Debacle How you can help support JPFO Donate to JPFO The JPFO Order Line (800) 869-1884 Office Hours CST. About JPFO Site Links The BoR Page. JPFO 23 Years Alerts Archive Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser on JPFO. Leon Puissegur Disabled Vietnam Veteran and award winning author Leon Puissegur, was turned down for the purchase of a weapon after a NICS check result. This was despite a successful gun purchase just the year before, and during which time nothing had changed that should have affected a successful check. It turned out there was a totally fictional misdemeanor on record from 1972, proven eventually to have been false, and yet FBI records have not been amended and updated. So, read this man's account and stop to decide whether any enthusiasm you might have ever had for background checks is actually so wonderful after all. Extend this further -- imagine a national firearms registry database full of errors. Not only might your guns be up for confiscation but even worse, every chance you might be arrested for not surrendering what inaccurate records say you have, when you fail to comply! Yours in Freedom, The Liberty Crew at JPFO Protecting you by creating solutions to destroy "gun control" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Copyright © 2013 JPFO.ORG, All rights reserved. http://jpfo.org/ Our mailing address is:  jpfo@jpfo.org P.O. Box 270143, Hartford, WI 53027, USA

Meh

There's very little newsworthy goings-on at this end of North America, aside from the gun control vote coming up in the Senate.

Y'all know what to say to your Congressional folk ("Vote against Manchin-Toomey-Schumer!).

Meanwhile, it's to be another sunny, 40-degree day here, which is as good as it gets this time of year. The snow is melting, the roads are mostly dry, and AccuHunch is calling for some rain showers (rain, not snow!) on Sunday.

There's plenty to read on the sidebar, so please visit my friends there & help yourself to the free ice cream. Have a wonderful day, and thanks for stopping by.

The Liberty Sphere: 15 Seconds to Midnight

Y'all need to read this. Go, please, and do so.

JPFO: "Hell, NO!"

How you can help support JPFO Join JPFO The JPFO Order Line (800) 869-1884 Office Hours CST. ARTICLE January 10th, 2013 Hell No! How you can help support JPFO Donate to JPFO The JPFO Order Line (800) 869-1884 Office Hours CST. About JPFO Site Links The BoR Page. JPFO 23 Years Alerts Archive Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser on JPFO. By John Caile USCCA. December 27th, 2013 Article source Following the gruesome massacre of school children in Connecticut, news stories have shared a common theme -- that gun owners are now "ready to compromise" on guns. Unfortunately, too many of those on our side seem intimidated by the media, and unwilling to fight back. But they are making a huge mistake, both in terms of public safety, and our freedoms. Anyone who understands anything at all about violent crime knows that no assault weapons ban or restriction on high-capacity magazines is going to save a single life or reduce crime in any way. This is not a matter of opinion -- we now have decades of data, from the Federal ban and our "laboratories of gun control" (the States with extreme restrictions on lawful gun owners). And the results are clear and unmistakable -- gun control actually increases the probability that one will be the victim of a violent crime. (See: Chicago, Detroit, Washington D.C., or Los Angeles). Ditto the imaginary "gun show loophole" -- the bogus claim that felons and other prohibited people can just walk into a gun show and buy a gun from an unlicensed dealer. But research shows that felons DON'T GO TO GUN SHOWS, at least not in any measurable numbers. They buy their guns from the black market almost exclusively. The Force Science Research Institute at the University of Minnesota (Mankato State) reported on a 5-year nationwide study by the FBI of over 800 incidents involving the most dangerous armed street criminals, and concluded: "Contrary to media-generated myth, not a single weapon in the study was purchased at a gun show." But, hey, why listen to the FBI? In reality, the "gun show loophole" is a Trojan Horse, since an unlicensed dealer is ANY private citizen who sells a gun, including you and me. The real purpose behind this scheme is to mandate a background check on every private sale. Note that this will likely require going to a gun store and paying a fee. This latest bit of bureaucratic nonsense will not prevent a single felon or mentally disturbed whacko from getting a gun -- they will NOT subject themselves to any background check. It is simply a way to institute a back-door gun registration scheme. Besides, it is already a FELONY for anyone to sell a gun to a felon or a juvenile. Buying a gun on behalf of any prohibited person (the so-called "straw purchase") is also a felony. The other issue is the genuine threat to our liberty. The moment we give even the slightest concession to the gun control argument, we essentially agree with their position. But neither you nor I, nor any of the nation's 90 Million gun owners, had anything to do with the Sandy Hook School shooting. Giving in is always interpreted as guilt. Ironically, the gun issue could be a hanging curve ball to Republicans, just BEGGING to be knocked out of the park. All they would have to do is grow a pair and throw the entire issue back in the faces of Democrats: "Your ridiculous ‘gun free zones' have failed! It's time to do what's necessary to protect our kids -- not stripping lawful gun owners of their rights!" Americans would cheer. Because in case you haven't noticed, while the talking heads on TV are talking "reasonable restrictions" the American public is reacting by flocking to gun stores, buying up the very guns that the liberal Democrats are targeting -- those evil military style carbines, many of them driving cars with "Obama 2012? stickers on them! And these same people are going to vote in 2014 … The pressure to sound "reasonable" and "willing to compromise" is enormous. But instead of knuckling under to more gun control, we should all be taking the fight to the enemy. And that means every one of us MUST start by demanding that our legislators, whether Democrat or Republican, refuse to go along with ANY new gun laws. Then demand that they begin repealing many of the 20,000 largely ineffective gun laws that we already have on the books. Because, sometimes, giving in is just wrong, and the only honorable answer is "no." Better yet, "Hell, NO!" Yours in Freedom, The Liberty Crew at JPFO Protecting you by creating solutions to destroy "gun control" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

2013: Rights in Jeopardy

It seems we're facing the same enemies of freedom (legislators and their willing accomplices in the media) as always, and they're ramping up their attacks.

Let's not join the battle without proper preparation:

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And they want us to give up our personal property (firearms) without complaint?  Ain't gonna happen. As Carteach says,

"Anytime some schmuck tells you that you aren't allowed to be armed for any reason, you really need to ask yourself why does said schmuck want you unarmed and defenseless? What exactly is said schmuck planning to do to you that works better when you can't defend yourself?"

Still Wondering How to Vote?

Submitted for your consideration:
 

" For example, under what circumstances may the State justly place its welfare above that of a citizen?" .......

"...as I see,  are no circumstances under which State is justified in placing its welfare ahead of mine."

"Good. We have a starting point."

~ Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

In less than two weeks, you'll have a choice to make. Ask yourself which candidate is more likely to insist that the government is more important than you are - and then vote accordingly.

Quote of the Day: BEWARE

Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom of Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any body of regular troops that can be, on any pretense, raised in the United States. 

~ Noah Webster

CATO Institute: "FBI Free to Ambush our Bill of Rights"

Excerpt:

When I was a kid, beginning to learn what it is to be an American, I found a hero in George Mason, a leading Virginia delegate to the 1787 Constitutional Convention. Mason refused to sign on to the Constitution that was passed by the convention. Why?

“There is no Declaration of Rights,” he explained.

There was no section in the Constitution protecting citizens’ individual rights against an imperious government in this new America — similar to the charges Thomas Jefferson made against King George III’s government in our Declaration of Independence in 1776.

George Mason’s contagious objections became a major reason that the first 10 amendments, the Bill of Rights, were finally listed and ratified by enough states to be added to the Constitution in 1791.

And we still proudly have them! Or do we? As George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Barack Obama have eroded our guarantees of a self-governing republic, how many Americans are aware they are losing some of the liberties guaranteed in the Bill of Rights? How many Americans even know who George Mason was?

Go read the whole thing.