1. | concern troll | |
In an argument (usually a political debate), a concern troll is someone who is on one side of the discussion, but pretends to be a supporter of the other side with "concerns". The idea behind this is that your opponents will take your arguments more seriously if they think you're an ally. Concern trolls who use fake identities are sometimes known as sockpuppets. In the 2006 election, an aide to Congressman Charlie Bass (R-NH) was caught concern trolling the opposition on local blogs. While pretending to support Bass's opponent, Paul Hodes, the aide argued that Hodes couldn't win because Bass was an unbeatable candidate. Hodes won the election. | ||
2. | concern troll | |
A person who lurks, then posts, on a site or blog, expressing concern for policies, comments, attitudes of others on the site. It is viewed as insincere, manipulative, condescending. A concern troll commented, "You should be careful about what you write because you might get in trouble with the government." Another concern troll wrote, "This debate makes our side look disorganized." | ||
3. | concern troll | |
January 27, 2011 Urban Word of the Day A person who posts on a blog thread, in the guise of "concern," to disrupt dialogue or undermine morale by pointing out that posters and/or the site may be getting themselves in trouble, usually with an authority or power. They point out problems that don't really exist. The intent is to derail, stifle, control, the dialogue. It is viewed as insincere and condescending. A concern troll on a progressive blog might write, "I don't think it's wise to say things like that because you might get in trouble with the government." Or, "This controversy is making your side look disorganized." | ||
4. | concern troll | |
In a situation where there exists mutually exclusive positions A and B, a concern troll is someone who supports A but professes to support B around genuine supporters of B. However, they express their "concerns" about aspects of position B in order to sow doubt and uncertainty amongst genuine supporters of B. Whilst this does genuinely happen, the term is used by some paranoid people to effectively mean "anyone who does not agree entirely with the standard dogma of position B, thus must actually covertly support position A", when said person does actually support B, just only 99%. Thus: disagreeing *at all* with the standard dogma of B will get you branded by such people as The Enemy, and you will get generally treated with hostility and suspicion and, at worst, forcibly ejected from the B-supporter group. Result: everyone stops thinking about the issues, and discussion descends into not arriving at logical and interesting places but who can most furiously support B. 1: "All Democrats should be hanged, drawn and quartered! Grrgrrrgrrrgr!" 2: "Uh.. that's a bit excessive. I mean, I don't agree with the Democrats, but maybe we shouldn't actually, like, KILL them.." 1: "CONCERN TROLL! CLEARLY YOU ARE 100% DEMOCRAT! BEGONE, SINNER!" (everyone flings rotten fruit at 2 until he leaves) | ||
5. | Concern troll | |
Someone who raises a false question as a means of injecting a totally unsupported allegation into the public discourse. When challenged on the barely-veiled insinuation, they claim that they were "only asking a question." A concern troll would say, "I'm not saying Congressman Smith engages in oral sex with farmyard animals, but isn't it awfully coincidental that he has a picture of a sheep in his office and always carries a handkerchief? The public has a right to know!" | ||
6. | Concern troll | |
A phrase of absolutely no meaning, used by bloggers to shut down debate on their sites. "Ignore the concern trolls." | ||
7. | Concern Troll | |
A phrase used by the progressive netroots whenever someone questions the effectiveness of their activism, or notices that they are acting like fools, and discrediting their causes by incredibly silly gestures. (Noting that facebook isn't a good vehicle for protest makes one a "concern troll.) |
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THE HANDWRITTING HAS APPEARED UPON THE WALL!
I agree with your actions, and furthermore, we may be required to do more. This nonsense of President Obama taking a little used administrative tool, which was provided the Excutive Branch of Government, to enable the smooth and orderly progression of affairs; and making his own interpetation of the Executive Order purpose, that it gives him the authority to sidestep Congress; and the Constitution, can only be judged as treasonable. It is time for Congress to reign in all controls.
Just yesterday, GOD HAS SHOWN THAT THINGS ARE AT A SERIOUS JUNCTURE! And in obedience, I must make this public......... “THE HANDWRITING HAS APPEARED UPON THE WALL” January 14, 2013 This is a Rhema Word, revealed from GOD, which is a strong admonishment for you: President Barrack Obama.......... The LORD says, “The handwriting has appeared upon the wall:
'MENE'
'MENE'
'TEKEL'
'UPHARSIN '…...........and to interpret into your spoken language, this is what is written: NUMBER, NUMBER, WEIGHT, DIVISION!”
“Which means: number- God has numbered the days of your service to this nation, the United States of America, and HE IS BRINGING IT TO AN END” “Weight- you (Barrack) have been weighed in MY SCALES, and found to be missing the qualities of character that 'I DEMAND'!”
“Division- your authority is removed, and your administration is divided up, and given back to the people, (GOD's People), and realigned with GOD's Government.” And the LORD says, “Because you have rebelled against ME, your GOD, the ONLY TRUE LIVING GOD, you shall roll in your own vomit, and the people shall cheer and laugh at you. I WILL BRING DISASTER UPON you, I WILL HUMBLE ALL THOSE who are Proud; and ALL who are Arrogant and Cruel.”
Applicable scripture from the WORD of GOD ~ “Stop all your loud boasting; silence all your proud words: 'For the LORD, HE IS GOD, WHO KNOWS; and HE JUDGES all that people do'.” [ 1 Sam. 2:3] {TEV} “To honor the LORD, GOD, is to hate all evil; for I AM, GOD, WHO PROCLAIMS LOVE: I HATE Pride and Arrogance; and their evil ways; all the lies and false words!” [ Prv. 8:13] {TEV} “I WILL BRING DISASTER upon all those who mock ME; PUNISH ALL the Wicked people, for their sins. I WILL HUMBLE everyone who is arrogant.” [Isa.13:11] {TEV} The LORD SAYS, “Because you have rebelled against ME; you Barrack Obama have been very proud, and I HAVE HEARD how proud, arrogant, and conceited that you are, and how much you think of yourself. Remember the disrespect that you showed to MY Chosen Children, Israel? How you chided them, made fun, treated them with so much disdain; as though, they had been caught with a gang of robbers and you(Barrack), shamed them publicly!” [Jer. 48:29] {TEV} With fear and tremling of Our AWESOME GOD, I make this Prophetic Notice Public! In doing so, I pray that every Word of GOD, BE FOUND TRUE, and THAT ALL OF GOD's WORD comes forth to fruitition; and I also pray that all words of man or any ungodly source, be made null and void; cast down into the dirt! I ask these things in Jesus Christ Name! ~ ALL IN WITH JESUS CHRIST ~ Rev. Jerry L. Robertson
If They Come For Your Guns, Do You Have A Responsibility To Fight? Read more: Posted by R.T. Hudgins on January 15, 2013 at 7:51am
If They Come For Your Guns, Do You Have A Responsibility To Fight?
Barack Obama is blocking conservatives on Twitter http://shar.es/48xDN
@CAAmyO @kesgardner It's kind of funny that the supposed leader of the free world is blocking people on Twitter.
As Twitchy first reported last summer, the official twitter account of President Barack Obama seems to have a penchant for blocking conservatives.
I consider it an honor to be blocked by such a thin-skinned twit as @BarackObama—
JammieWearingFool (@JammieWF) June 06, 2012
Wondering why @barackobama blocked me lol—
Nobama 2012 (@johnpaul530) June 08, 2012
I've been blocked by @Barackobama!!! AWESOME!! That just made my month!!!—
John Eger (@rawhide071) June 05, 2012
Just learned @BarackObama has blocked me on Twitter. How Presidential. #ThinSkin—
T.R. Talbert (@ctsa) June 01, 2012
It appears that Obama’s social media staffers have blocked at least one conservative’s account recently. Up to their old tricks again?
Yep. Still Blocked. http://t.co/JKsyfmdd—
Amy (@CAAmyO) January 15, 2013
In related news, Obama’s Twitter account is still following the pornography feed @ILikeTitsDaily.
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Barack Obama is blocking conservatives on Twitter http://shar.es/48xDN
@CAAmyO @kesgardner It's kind of funny that the supposed leader of the free world is blocking people on Twitter.
As Twitchy first reported last summer, the official twitter account of President Barack Obama seems to have a penchant for blocking conservatives.
I consider it an honor to be blocked by such a thin-skinned twit as @BarackObama—
JammieWearingFool (@JammieWF) June 06, 2012
Wondering why @barackobama blocked me lol—
Nobama 2012 (@johnpaul530) June 08, 2012
I've been blocked by @Barackobama!!! AWESOME!! That just made my month!!!—
John Eger (@rawhide071) June 05, 2012
Just learned @BarackObama has blocked me on Twitter. How Presidential. #ThinSkin—
T.R. Talbert (@ctsa) June 01, 2012
It appears that Obama’s social media staffers have blocked at least one conservative’s account recently. Up to their old tricks again?
Yep. Still Blocked. http://t.co/JKsyfmdd—
Amy (@CAAmyO) January 15, 2013
In related news, Obama’s Twitter account is still following the pornography feed @ILikeTitsDaily.
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OK as this board is quite well informed many of you may know this however, for those who are interested I wanted to give you this update.
1. Medicare tax: The amount withheld by your employer from your paycheck (often under the line item "FICA," which stands for Federal Insurance Contributions Act) helps cover the cost of running the Medicare program, the federal system of health insurance for people over the age of 65. Employers pay one half of the FICA tax and employees pay the other half. The employee contribution is 6.2 percent for Social Security and 1.45 percent for Medicare on wages up to $110,100. The temporary payroll tax cut for tax years 2011 and 2012 reduced the employee portion for Social Security by 2 percent but... Whoa its back on as last pay check.
2. Self-employment tax: A Social Security and Medicare tax for individuals who work for themselves. It is similar to the Social Security and Medicare taxes withheld from the pay of most wage earners. The self-employment tax consists of two parts: 12.4 percent for Social Security and 2.9 percent for Medicare (hospital insurance) on income up to $110,100. However, the temporary payroll tax cut for tax years 2011 and 2012 reduced self-employment tax by 2 percent. You can deduct the employer-equivalent portion of your self-employment tax in figuring your adjusted gross income. This deduction only affects your income tax. It does not affect either your net earnings from self-employment or your self-employment tax.
3. Alternative minimum tax (AMT): The alternative minimum tax was created in 1969 to ensure that wealthy taxpayers pay at least some minimum amount of federal income tax, regardless of deductions, credits or exemptions. In essence, it is a flat tax with two brackets, 26 percent and 28 percent. The problem with AMT is that it now ensnares not only the wealthiest Americans, but 4 million to 5 million taxpayers with annual incomes between $200,000 and $1 million. Congress has yet to approve a new inflation "patch" that would allow millions to escape AMT (the last patch expired in December). If a new one is not enacted, the AMT will hit 31 million taxpayers this year, reaching deeply into the middle class.
The utility taxes that Americans pay can add up quickly, as do the so-called "sin taxes" on alcohol and tobacco products.
4. Electricity or natural gas tax: A tax collected by energy suppliers based on consumption during the billing period.
5. Cable tax: Tax imposed on cable television subscribers.
6. Landline phone tax: Federal and state tax associated with use of a fixed phone line.
7. Cellphone tax: Federal and state tax imposed on mobile telephone users.
8. Federal and state gasoline tax: A tax on every gallon of gasoline sold, which account for 11 percent of the cost of a gallon of gas, according to the Energy Information Administration. Federal excise taxes are 18.4 cents per gallon and state excise taxes average 23.44 cents per gallon.
9. Cigarette tax: The tax on cigarette use varies from state to state. New York City has the highest rate, charging $4.35 per package of 20 cigarettes on the state level, plus an additional local excise tax of $1.50 per package of 20 cigarettes, bringing the combined tax rate in New York City to $5.85.
10. State alcohol tax: The tax imposed on the purchase of beer, wine and spirits varies state by state. The highest rate for spirits can be found in Washington and the highest for beer is Alaska. Wyoming has the lowest rate.
OBAMASTAN, email from sometime ago but what has changed?
Wow, is Illinois/Chicago great or what!!!???
CHICAGO !!!!
Perhaps the U.S. should pull out of Chicago?
Body count: In the last six months 292 killed (murdered) in Chicago .
221 killed in Iraq AND Chicago has one of the strictest gun laws in the
entire US.
Does THAT tell you anything ???
President:--Barack Hussein Obama
Senator: Dick Durbin
House Representative: Jesse Jackson Jr.
Governor: Pat Quinn
House leader: Mike Madigan
Atty. Gen.: Lisa Madigan (daughter of Mike)
Mayor: Rahm Emanuel
The leadership in Illinois - all Democrats.
Thank you for the combat zone in Chicago .
Of course, they're all blaming each other.
Can't blame Republicans; there aren't any!
Chicago school system rated one of the worst in the country.
State pension fund $78 Billion in debt, worst in country.
CookCounty ( Chicago ) sales tax 10.25% highest in country.
(Look 'em up if you want).
This is the political culture that Obama comes from in Illinois .
(and now wants to bring to your hometown)...
Newly elected Rep. Markwayne Mullin (R-Ok 2) was on KFAQ radio’s Pat Campbell Show on Tuesday Jan. 8 to “explain” his vote for John Boehner as Speaker of the House of Representatives (http://www.1170kfaq.com/podcasts/patcampbell/186021332.html). His explanation of why he voted for Boehner seems to be “business as usual” in Congress. I thought we sent him there to oppose the business as usual mindset. One explanation he gives is that he was told at the freshman orientation that he could only vote for someone who was nominated, and naturally Boehner was the only one nominated. His other position is that not voting for Boehner is the same as voting for Pelosi. That is the same lame crap we heard from the Republican establishment in the 2012 general election (not voting for Romney is voting for Obama). It didn’t take him long to cabbage onto the establishment lingo did it?
Read more:
http://www.conservativedailynews.com/2013/01/mullin-in-boehners-pocket-already/
01/14/13
Today I tried to buy 22 bullets for our farm rifle at Walmart. It was explained to me that they and no other Walmart had any to buy. It was also explained that no more would be coming.
Walmart the largest retailer in the world has decided not to allow the stores to order any new ammo. All orders have been put on hold. NO NEW AMMO is coming.
I called my Washington elected and asked what was going on, they knew nothing. Are you afraid yet?
By Oscar Y. Harward
America has become a nation absent of law-abiding Constitutional and US Code leadership with elected and appointed individuals as they choose to obey or disobey our Constitution and/or our US Code. It appears only a few to none in government authorities have the knowledge, ability, and courage to protect our law-abiding citizens from so many of these lawless criminal representatives and bureaucrats. These elected officials, and selected bureaucrats’ criminality must be stopped NOW; investigated, arrested, and prosecuted, and if found guilty, sentenced to prison. Otherwise, our nation will continue to fall even deeper.
What makes better to greater leaders, legislators, citizens, and/or legislation(s)? The most important subjects must refer to ‘Social, Fiscal, and National Security’ issues; in that order. When the ‘Social’ issues become the forerunner, the other issue concerns follow in the ‘right’ path; not necessarily so in any other order.
Godlike loving Constitutionalists would seek our President and other lawmakers to request SCOTUS to readdress the 1963 decision ABINGTON SCHOOL DIST. v. SCHEMPP, 374 U.S. 203 (1963); a ruling removing the Bible and its’ readings from (y)our public schools. As our Bible teachings were removed, more knives, guns, illegal drugs, and other criminality entered; all lowering our ‘public education’ results in the USA as compared around the world.
Based on newer proposed laws, regulations, and other rules of the last generation or so, it is becoming apparent that many of our elected officials and/or appointed bureaucrats are forgetting, never knew, reject, and/or do not care that our nation and our US Constitution was founded on Christian values by an overwhelming majority of Christians.
It would be ‘wise’ for Capitol Hill Republicans, Democrats, Independents, and others to proceed in being legally prepared to stop President Obama’s Executive Orders illegal and/or unconstitutional actions; be its unlawful overruling of the Second Amendment, exceeding the Fourteenth Amendment’s lawful national debt without Congressional authority or any other anarchy.
President Obama now seems to be declaring that he will not obey the Budget Control act of 2011. That is a law. At the same time, President Obama fails to mention that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and his majority Democrat Party have failed to pass a US Government budget since April 29, 2009; nearly four years ago, and again, against the law.
Additionally, States, Municipalities, other local governments’, and housing communities are creating unlawful local law(s), by-laws, and/or other rules that supersede their Constitutional ‘rights and privileges’, etc.
Law-abiding Republicans, Democrats, Independents, other individuals, and additional groups must become uncompromising in a battle(s) against all unlawful based felonious lawbreakers; President Obama and all others. We must exercise all effort(s) to protect our American flag, our US Constitution, our freedoms, and our nation.
When others ask, ‘Who should anyone want to own a weapon with a magazine that holds 40 cartridges?’ The answer is simple. Anyone who wishes to protect himself/herself, his/her family, our Constitutional freedoms, and wishes to maintain whatever is necessary for these protection(s), and/or when any of us foresee the potential(s) who may decide to overrule our Constitutional freedoms and when these powerful, lawless, and mutinous government official(s) have weapons with a magazine that holds 40 cartridges; then you and I must demand that we, too, be allowed to positively compete in this battle with weapons for the protection of our lives, our family, and our Constitutional freedoms.
"It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man who knows what the law is today can guess what it will be to-morrow." - James Madison, 4th US President, 1809–1817; Federalist No. 62, 1788
It is critical for all the ‘lawful’ to stop the criminal powerful, lawless, and mutinous individuals, groups, and governments of all unconstitutional actions as an effort to restore (y)our Constitutional ‘civility’ under the entrusted freedoms and laws of our great nation.
An Open Letter To The Elected Class Regarding Gun Control
January 14, 2013 by Bob Livingston
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Dear ______________:
I realize it is customary to begin missives to elected representatives with the words Honorable Senator ______________ or Honorable Representative ______________, but I believe that title must be earned. Frankly, you (I am referring to you individually and to Congress as a whole) have not done so and, therefore, do not deserve to be addressed that way. However, the purpose of this letter is not to criticize you, but to inform you about what is happening in the country you were elected to serve.
According to a recent poll, Congress’ favorability ranks below lice, cockroaches, colonoscopies and root canals. Have you for a moment stopped to wonder why? It’s because a vast majority of Americans believe that Congress no longer represents them, but instead represents big corporations and, mostly, themselves and their cronies. The recent “fiscal cliff” deal is a perfect example. It socked a tax increase on 80 percent of American workers while doling out $76 billion in government money (which means my money) through special tax favors to large corporations, such as General Electric, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and DIAGEO, and to Hollywood and green energy companies. According to a recent column in The Washington Examiner, Senator Max Baucus’ (Fascist-Mont.) former staffers who are now lobbyists all got their clients millions of dollars in special benefits from the fiscal cliff deal. In return, Baucus received thousands of dollars in political contributions from those companies’ political action committees. Americans, myself included, believe this is standard operating procedure in Washington, D.C. And there is talk that additional tax increases on the middle class are on the way.
Upon your inauguration, you swore an oath, with your hand on a Bible, to uphold and defend the Constitution. You have repeatedly violated that oath by passing unConstitutional laws like the USA Patriot Act (and subsequent extensions) and the National Defense Authorization Act, which grants the President the authority to indefinitely detain American citizens and suspends habeas corpus. If I’m not mistaken, these unConstitutional laws contain provisions that in some way violate Amendments 1, 4, 5, 6, 8 and 9. That’s quite a feat for two laws.
We live in a Nation that goes far beyond anything George Orwell imagined in 1984. Our emails are read, our conversations are listened to, our cars have tracking devices and there are cameras everywhere watching our every move. Law enforcement has devices that can look through our clothes and into our cars and homes, and surveillance drones are patrolling our skies. Travelers are treated as criminals who must be strip searched or patted down before being allowed to fly — and sometimes before being allowed to board trains or buses. Many of us feel this is tyranny.
Now, in the wake of the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, there is a great hue and cry among the elected class and the mainstream media about guns and gun violence. To hear them tell it, every gun owner in America is a potential mass murderer, especially those who happen to own a sporting rifle. You and I know that is balderdash.
The anti-gun lobby loves to pull out figures and statistics that it claims show that America is the most violent place on the planet, saying that if guns were simply banned, America would be a crime-free utopia. Let me give you some real statistics. Yes, the recent shootings at Sandy Hook and Aurora, Colo., were tragic and senseless. Do you know what their common denominators are? Both occurred in so-called “gun-free zones.” That means the shooters who made conscious choices to disregard our laws were able to freely attack a group of adults who were restricted by their desire to obey our laws from defending themselves and the children in their charge. Both shooters, as is the case with the vast majority of recent mass shooters, were on prescription psychotropic drugs prior to the attacks.
According to FBI crime data from 2011, rifles (of which the misnamed “assault rifle” is a subset) were used in only 323 of 8,583 firearms murders. This is a continuation of a long-established trend in which the rifle is the least-used of all firearm weapons involved in murders. Rifle use as a murder weapon even ranks below knives, blunt objects (clubs, hammers, etc.) and hands and feet.
In other words, rifles of all types kill less than one person per day. And fewer than 100 people are killed each year by rifles with magazines that hold more than 10 rounds. According toMotherJones.com, from 1982 through 2012 sporting rifles have been employed in mass shootings 35 times. They were used only three times in 2012. In those three attacks, 52 people died. Since the Sandy Hook shooting on Dec. 14, 40 juveniles (statistically speaking) have died in shootings using a weapon other than a sporting rifle. THAT’S JUST ONE MONTH.
Meanwhile, according to Childhelp, more than five children each day — or more than 1,825 per year — are killed by parental abuse. I realize that thinking about the 20 children gunned down by a drug-addled, mentally unstable man is gut-wrenching. But since the Sandy Hook shooting, about 10 times as many children have died at the hands of their parents, and almost twice as many have been killed in juvenile gang crimes. Why don’t these seem to concern you? Could it be because the media are not interested in talking about it and it won’t get you the “face time” you desire? Why aren’t you addressing the topic of the widespread administration of psychotropic drugs and their common link to mass shootings? Is it because you stand to lose political contributions from the medical-industrial complex?
Gun grabbers love to hold Great Britain up as a model of what happens when guns are banned. Well, let’s compare U.S. and U.K. crime statistics. Britain is the most violent country in the European Union. Since the imposition of the country’s gun ban following the Dunblane school massacre in 1996, recorded violent attacks have soared by 77 percent. The violent crime rate there is 2,034 per 100,000 residents.
Contrast that with the United States, which has a violent crime rate of only 386.3 per 100,000. That’s about one-fifth the rate of violent crime in the U.K. And this has trended down since the ban on “assault weapons” ended in 2004.
In the U.K., the weapon of choice to use in a violent crime is the knife. In 2006, there was one knife crime committed in Britain for every 374 people. In the U.S. in 2006, there was one gun crime for every 750 people. In other words, a person was twice as likely to be a victim of a knife crime in the U.K. as he was a gun crime in the United States.
What about guns? The media frenzy that followed the Dunblane massacre led the British government to pass the Firearms Act of 1998, which instituted a nearly complete ban on handguns. Handgun owners were required to turn their guns over to the government, and those who sought to follow the law did so. But the Act didn’t end mass shootings. Another one occurred in 2010. However, within 10 years after the gun ban was enacted, gun crimes had almost doubled. British police are now arming themselves in response to armed gangs. Meanwhile, British citizens are helpless against attacks by criminals wielding knives, clubs, rocks, ropes, chains, axes and anything else that can be used as a weapon.
It also did not have the effect of ending gun crimes. From April 2010 through March 2011, there were 60 shooting homicides in the U.K., despite an almost complete ban on guns. And the number of annual shootings continues to increase.
What the law has done is make criminals out of law-abiding citizens, as in the case of Paul Clarke, a taxi driver who found a shotgun in his yard and turned it into the police only to be arrested for possessing it, and Iraq War veteran Danny Nightingale, who was given a Glock pistol as a gift by Iraqi forces he had trained. That gun was packed in his bags by colleagues when he left Iraq to bury two friends who were killed in action. When the gun was located, Nightingale wasforced to plead guilty to possessing it in order to avoid a five-year sentence.
Since the “assault weapons” ban in the United States ended in 2004, gun crimes in the United States have decreased. Not only that, but according to statistics by the Department of Justice, as the number of guns per 1,000 U.S. citizens has increased, the number of serious violent crimes per 1 million population has dropped.
Now to the mood of the country. Americans have been pushed and pushed until they are near the brink. Much of the blame for their anger falls on a government that is out of touch with middle America and tone deaf to its pleas. Most Americans see Congresses past and present inserting fingers into every aspect of daily life: whether it’s the amount of water that can pass through a toilet or the type of light bulb can be used or how much ethanol has to be in gasoline or how one can use his own property or what type of health insurance he must pay for. Now comes the threat that law-abiding Americans will have to surrender their guns — which Senator Dianne Feinstein’s (Communist-Calif.) proposed bill will require — and be restricted from purchasing a gun simply because it looks frightening, carries a high-capacity magazine and a bunch of pointed-headed, intellectual, overeducated elitists have decided it is not “needed” for hunting. And banning large capacity magazines is attacking a problem that is statistically insigificant.
The 2nd Amendment was included in the Bill of Rights — as were all the first 10 Amendments — to restrict what government can do. It was designed to ensure that Americans could deter or, if necessary, overthrow a tyrannical government — you know, the type of government thatRepresentative Jerrold Nadler (Communist-N.Y.) would institute because he believes, as he told a reporter recently, “that the state should have a monopoly on legitimate violence.” When the state has “a monopoly on legitimate violence,” Americans are no longer citizens; they are subjects. Americans will not become subjects.
The 2nd Amendment was not included in the Bill of Rights to ensure Americans could hunt or defend themselves against criminals, so the argument that we “don’t need” guns with “large capacity clips (sic)” — by the way, the proper word is magazines — is a non sequitur. How do I know this? Here are the words of some of our Founding Fathers:
Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. They are the American people’s liberty teeth and keystone under independence … From the hour the Pilgrims landed, to the present day, events, occurrences, and tendencies prove that to insure peace, security and happiness, the rifle and pistol are equally indispensable . . . the very atmosphere of firearms everywhere restrains evil interference – they deserve a place of honor with all that is good — George Washington
[W]hen the resolution of enslaving America was formed in Great Britain, the British Parliament was advised by an artful man, –who was governor of Pennsylvania, to disarm the people; that it was the best and most effectual way to enslave them… —George Mason, The Virginia Ratifying Convention
Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? It is feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man against his own bosom. Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birthright of an American . . . . [T]he unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments, but, where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people.” — Tench Coxe
Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? Where is the difference between having our arms in possession and under our direction, and having them under the management of Congress? If our defense be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands? — Patrick Henry
Despite what you and those of your ilk seem to believe, it is not the job of Congress or the President to decide what Americans “need” or for what purpose. Americans are quite capable of deciding that for themselves. Nowhere does the Constitution give you the authority to legislate weapons in any way. Nor does the President have this authority, as all laws are to come from the legislative branch, per Article 1, Section 8.
Many, if not most, Americans feel there are already ample gun laws in place. In fact, an argument can be made that many if not all current gun laws violate the Constitution — not that unConstitutional laws seem to bother you people. But I can assure you that, should a bill be passed by Congress and signed by the President that in any way approaches the one being proposed by Feinstein, there will be blood in the streets once Federal agents begin knocking on doors of gun owners to fingerprint and register them. Feinstein’s proposed bill makes many weapons non-transferable, which is the equivalent of weapons confiscation. This will be resisted, as will registration and fingerprinting of gun owners.
And you can tell the President that any executive orders that infringes on the 2nd Amendment will also be ignored and resisted. You see, your passage of laws — or executive orders or whatever you want to call them — that are unConstitutional do not make them any less unConstitutional. Nor does consent to those unConstitutional laws by the Supreme Court give them validity.
Our rights come from our Creator, not government. Therefore, government cannot take them away.
In closing, I want to urge you to consider at great length what you will be starting if, in response to a senseless criminal act, you pass additional burdensome laws on people who have no desire nor inclination to commit criminal acts with the firearms they own — laws that would not reduce gun crime or prevent future Sandy Hook-style massacres but would only add burden and expense to lawful, legitimate gun owners. Gun crimes are committed by criminals. Criminals are criminals because they choose to ignore the laws. Writing additional laws will not serve as a deterrent.
The vast majority of gun crimes are committed by gang bangers and criminals, many of whom are prohibited from possessing a gun under current laws. For the most part, they obtain their guns illegally: either on the black market or by theft. Those committing gun crimes with legitimately purchased weapons are rare outliers.
As proven in Great Britain and Australia, additional gun control laws will neither end nor deter those with criminal intent from committing criminal acts. They will serve only to put the law-abiding public in further danger. That danger will come from two places: the criminal class that will see undefended citizens as easy targets and the Federal agents who will be tasked with enforcing unConstitutional laws.
But those Federal agents tasked to register and/or confiscate weapons will be putting themselves at risk as well, and any violence that results will be on your hands. The threat of arrest or death will cause some to give up their arms peaceably. But as was the case on April 19, 1775 at Lexington and Concord when the British came to confiscate arms and weapons, there will be many patriots who rise up to resist this usurpation. I have spoken to a number of current and former members of the U.S. military who say they will be a part of that resistance group. These are people who have already shown a willingness to die in order to defend the Constitution from all enemies foreign and domestic.
I pray to God that you enter into any gun control negotiations prayerfully and with a full understanding of the mood of the country. You have been warned.
Respectfully submitted,
CALL TO ACTION
PREPAREDNESS ALERT
The Liberty Guard Vow
I solemnly vow to support, protect and defend the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution, as our Forefathers INTENDED when writing it: (TO PROTECT OUR CITIZENS LIBERTY FROM CRIMINALS, DEVIOUS AND DECEITFUL GOVERNMENTS AND OTHER ENEMIES).
“The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down
With the chains of the Constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first.” Thomas Jefferson
Knowing that the Second Amendment is the LAST GUARD against slavery,
knowing that more murders occur with hand and fist than with rifle, knowing that more murders occur with a hammer and or baseball bat than with a rifle, and knowing that more assaults and rapes occur without a weapon or with a knife than with a gun, I do know that the governments assault on our second amendment is a mere precursor to reducing its citizens to total slavery,
“Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined
nor determined to commit crimes... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.” Thomas Jefferson
Our government has continuously and relentlessly pursued reducing our second amendment rights one piece at a time, from one administration to another, with the full intent of eliminating them completely. It can only lead one to believe that there is a cynister motive behind their action!
Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day. But a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period, and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers, too plainly proves a deliberate systematic plan of reducing us to slavery. – Thomas Jefferson
Since we know from history, AS OUR FOREFATHERS DID, that a standing army could be used against its citizens freedom as easily as it could be used to defend it, and since the Second Amendment is not about hunting ,but defending our liberty from internal and external enimies, we have every RIGHT to own the same armaments that our military has!
I vow to support my local Sheriff’s Department IN PROTECTING IT’S CITIZENS RIGHTS FROM UNLAWFUL ACTIONS AGAINST THEIR LIBERITIES (GUARANTEED INALIENABLY),
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
AND IF THE Sheriff will not fulfill his moral and contractual obligations I will stand fast in supporting, defending, and protecting my fellow citizen’s rights thru the full expression and protection of the Second Amendment. If this means that I must give up my life to ensure that the future generations of this great nation will have the ability to experience the liberties that our forefathers intended us to have, I WILL. NO UNCONSTITUTIONAL, UNLAWFUL ACTIONS AGAINST ANY OF OUR RIGHTS, BUT ESPECIALLY THE SECOND AMENDMENT WILL BE ACCEPTED ON MY WATCH!!
God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it. – Daniel Webster (1834)
Of course the “government’ may hold a Constitutional Convention in which 2/3 of our states or more can vote to rescind the second amendment and the constitution may be amended. At that point its citizens will determine whether to overthrow and replace that government, WITH ONE MORE FAVORABLE TO LIBERTY THAN THIS. Either way, WE WILL NOT GIVE UP OUR LAST GUARD AGAINST THE DEPRAVAITION OF LIBERTY and a free society.
"God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion.
The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is
wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts
they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions,
it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. ...
And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not
warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of
resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as
to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost
in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from
time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
It is its natural manure." Thomas Jefferson
Please, for the future of our posterity, never forget:
What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance” Thomas Jefferson
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death! -Patrick Henry to the Virginia House of Burgesses, 1775
In matters of style, swim with the current;
In matters of principle, stand like a rock. Thomas Jefferson
By Gregg Houlden
Every Investment Banking professional including myself look upon Lew's nomination with little less than despair. Not really for our personal wealth, as we can as easily operate from London and Singapore as NY or LA, but for the average working American. Already the effects of Obama's amateur and ideology led economic management is beginning to bite. (4th Quarter GDP Estimate Reduced to .8% from 1.5%).
What does the Lew appointment mean to the average American? In my professional opinion, two major problems. An almost certain further downgrade by S&P and Moody's probably in Q1 13 will deliver higher interest rates. That means every Credit Card, Mortgage or Loan will become more expensive. The second point is more direct and will hit the middle class with a double whammy, the long term effects on manufacturing and large scale employers of Obama Care and increased payroll tax will be felt. I expect certain initial indicators to flag deeper problems. Already, Amex has decided to shed 5,500 jobs. I expect other Finance Houses to follow suit as they outsource to London or other destinations with more corporate friendly administrations. Manufacturing already burdened by the Unions and Obama's leftist led FMCS will once again to look to globalization to reduce costs. Don't blame the company as will the Democrats and Obama, blame academic theory meeting objective reality.
Basic concept; If company A with US Costs can make and sell a widget for $3.30 and company B (in India or China) without Obamacare and unionized costs makes and sells the same widget for $0.50 even the most patriotic organization will go with B.
In November, Obama lied, cheated and enabled by a barely competent MSM deceived the electorate. I will only make the 2% pay more. Well we had already globalized our portfolios Mr President. Now we see the first hike on the middle class, a payroll tax increase of around $100-200 per pay check. As Obama ramps up his spending as he only sees ideological value rather than fiscal. Basic economics say, the revenue to fulfil his grand schemes cannot come from the 2% even at 100% tax. It has to come from the 47% of working Americans. Now with a sycophant like Lew as Treasury Secretary, Obama's stupidity, lack of empathy and downright narcissism will have no voice of reason. Spend, Spend, Spend will lead to a tank in the dollar. S&P analysts will have conniption fits over the worsening debt ratio and economic indicators. I project by Q1 2014, if Obama is not stopped by the GOP House, our S&P rating will be A+. (Good is AAA BTW, as we used to be) Our bonds and debt (TBonds) will have to yield anything up to the Spain and Portugalesque 6% which will knock on to a 6 -11% jump in your personal interest payments.
What really becomes a problem at that point is what economists call “Confidence”. When confidence fails in an economy buying ceases, investment halts and people don't trust anything. Banks fail, corporations saddled with debt and increasing labor costs close or relocate and USA Inc goes bankrupt.
Obama is a rank amateur that's too stupid and too arrogant to know his own limitations and seek competent help to mitigate the deficiency. We need our GOP leadership to change and replace Speaker Boehner with a competent and strong leader who will resist and slow the Obama disaster. In effect save America from Obama and his foolish and childlike policies.
CALL TO ACTION
PREPAREDNESS ALERT
The Liberty Guard Vow
I solemnly vow to support, protect and defend the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution, as our Forefathers INTENDED when writing it: (TO PROTECT OUR CITIZENS LIBERTY FROM CRIMINALS, DEVIOUS AND DECEITFUL GOVERNMENTS AND OTHER ENEMIES).
“The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down
With the chains of the Constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first.” Thomas Jefferson
Knowing that the Second Amendment is the LAST GUARD against slavery,
knowing that more murders occur with hand and fist than with rifle, knowing that more murders occur with a hammer and or baseball bat than with a rifle, and knowing that more assaults and rapes occur without a weapon or with a knife than with a gun, I do know that the governments assault on our second amendment is a mere precursor to reducing its citizens to total slavery,
“Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined
nor determined to commit crimes... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.” Thomas Jefferson
Our government has continuously and relentlessly pursued reducing our second amendment rights one piece at a time, from one administration to another, with the full intent of eliminating them completely. It can only lead one to believe that there is a cynister motive behind their action!
Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day. But a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period, and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers, too plainly proves a deliberate systematic plan of reducing us to slavery. – Thomas Jefferson
Since we know from history, AS OUR FOREFATHERS DID, that a standing army could be used against its citizens freedom as easily as it could be used to defend it, and since the Second Amendment is not about hunting ,but defending our liberty from internal and external enimies, we have every RIGHT to own the same armaments that our military has!
I vow to support my local Sheriff’s Department IN PROTECTING IT’S CITIZENS RIGHTS FROM UNLAWFUL ACTIONS AGAINST THEIR LIBERITIES (GUARANTEED INALIENABLY),
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
AND IF THE Sheriff will not fulfill his moral and contractual obligations I will stand fast in supporting, defending, and protecting my fellow citizen’s rights thru the full expression and protection of the Second Amendment. If this means that I must give up my life to ensure that the future generations of this great nation will have the ability to experience the liberties that our forefathers intended us to have, I WILL. NO UNCONSTITUTIONAL, UNLAWFUL ACTIONS AGAINST ANY OF OUR RIGHTS, BUT ESPECIALLY THE SECOND AMENDMENT WILL BE ACCEPTED ON MY WATCH!!
God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it. – Daniel Webster (1834)
Of course the “government’ may hold a Constitutional Convention in which 2/3 of our states or more can vote to rescind the second amendment and the constitution may be amended. At that point its citizens will determine whether to overthrow and replace that government, WITH ONE MORE FAVORABLE TO LIBERTY THAN THIS. Either way, WE WILL NOT GIVE UP OUR LAST GUARD AGAINST THE DEPRAVAITION OF LIBERTY and a free society.
"God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion.
The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is
wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts
they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions,
it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. ...
And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not
warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of
resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as
to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost
in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from
time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
It is its natural manure." Thomas Jefferson
Please, for the future of our posterity, never forget:
What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance” Thomas Jefferson
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death! -Patrick Henry to the Virginia House of Burgesses, 1775
In matters of style, swim with the current;
In matters of principle, stand like a rock. Thomas Jefferson
I know this is a wild thought, however as many Americans have realized, their efforts to save the ANCESTRAL HERITAGE AND TRADITIONAL VALUES OF THE AMERICA OF OUR ANCESTORS WHO FOUGHT TO ESTABLISH THE GREATEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD, ARE BEING IGNORED BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. INSTEAD THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ARE PROVIDING BENEFITS TO THE NON CITIZENS WHO ARE NOT PAYING TAXES.
FURTHERMORE THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS DESIRING TO PROVIDE NON CITIZENS WITH AMNESTY WITHOUT PROCESSING THEIR CITIZENSHIP REQUIRED BY THE SEVEN YEAR PROCESS, TO LEARN ENGLISH AND THE AMERICAN CULTURAL SOCIETY VALUES. NO PERSON SHOULD ACQUIRE CITIZENSHIP WITHOUT THE SEVEN YEAR PROCESS.
WE AS PATRIOTS WISH TO TAKE ACTION TO RESTORE THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO RETURN TO THE CONSTITUTIONAL VALUES , THAT MADE THE U.S.A, THE GREATEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD IN THE SHORTEST PERIOD OF HISTORICAL TIME. HOWEVER, THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS IGNORING THE CITIZENS WHO PAY THE TAXES, AND PROVIDING OUR TAXES TO BENEFIT THE NON CITIZENS, ALLOWING VOTING RIGHTS, FOOD STAMPS, EDUCATIONAL PRIVELEGES, UNNECESSARY SPENDING ETC.
AT THIS STAGE THE STATES SHOULD FORM A COALITION AND IGNORE THE MANDATES FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, IN THE SAME MANNER AS THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HAVE IGNORED THE CITIZENS IN FAVOR OF THE NON CITIZENS . I PROPOSE THAT THE PEOPLE WHO FILE TAX RETURNS AND PAY TAXES STOP PAYING TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND START PAYING TAXES TO THE STATE GOVERNMENTS FOR THE USE OF THESE FUNDS TO THE CITIZENS OF EACH STATE.THIS IS THE ONLY WAY, I KNOW TO OBTAIN THE ATTENTION OF THE FEDERAL COVERNMENT, WHICH MIGHT START A REVOLUTION TO CORRECT THE ABUSE OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT WHO, HAVE IGNORED BENGHAZI, FAST AND FURIOUS, GREEN ENERGY FAILURES, AND STATES RIGHTS, AND EDUCATION PROGRAMS.
THE STATE GOVERNMENTS AND THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ARE THE ONLY ENTITIES THAT I KNOW THAT CAN STAND UP WITH THE STATE CITIZENS SUPPORT TO OBTAIN THE ATTENTION OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. THE TEAPARTY, SHERIFF APARIO HAVE ALL MADE ATTEMPTS AND HAVE BEEN OUTLAWED AND IGNORED BY THE MAIN STREAM MEDIA FOR THE FEERAL GOVERNMENT.
Question of the Day
What are some small things each of can do easily in our daily lives to promote Conservatism?
Handouts? Boycotts?
What are your ideas?
Posted in January, after they said the AR-15 was used in shooting
http://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=2E10716E6FD870ADECD5461A6778F3AB