Gun Control, Hate Groups, and War Strategy

Amendment II

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

The United States Bill of Rights, offered in response to criticisms that the US Constitution alone would allow for a strong, centralized government like the one they had just won independence from in England (a King).

It would seem that the big topics of conversation today are gun control, hate groups, and from my own perspective (what should be discussed) – war strategy (for in light of all this “static” on domestic issues, we are still at war as evidenced by the extraction of the good Captain over the Easter weekend).

The interesting thing about gun control is who actually benefits from it in our country?

Now, I am a HUGE supporter of gun rights.

I believe that the constitution has been perverted by a bunch of weak-sister ninnies who see a problem, but do recognize the obvious solution.

Consider a one, Judge Roy Bean.

He dispensed justice with a firm hand in a wild, and otherwise, law-less, West.

Did he take away guns.  Hell no.  Did he prosecute to the fullest extent of the law those using their guns in an unlawful fashion.  You betcha!

Do we do that in D.C. today.  Ahem.  Well…do we?

The answer is obvious.

Our courts favor criminals.

So on C-SPAN this morning they are debating this article concerning a claim that 90% of the guns in Mexico are of American (U.S.) origin.

Well, that’s not exactly true.  The study ONLY focused on those guns in Mexico (thank you, C-SPAN) that came from the U.S. (and completely ignored the FULLY-AUTOMATIC weaponry that came from say, Russia, or from Daniel Ortega).

Basically, it was nothing more than propaganda “brandished” by the left to try and institute stronger gun control laws in the U.S.

At what point do we begin to ask ourselves “why believe ANYTHING that the left states” ?  It would seem that all they know how to do is mischaracterize and blatantly, out-and-out, lie.

Case in point.

An article this morning in the Washington Times illustrates this assertion by pointing out that our department of Homeland Security is now more interested in “right-wing hate groups” than the Al Quaida sleeper cells, the home-grown jihadist terrorists that are making and distributing videos slamming us, or the damned pirates that are holding somewhere between 268 and 600 hostages (the reports are all over the place).

So let’s consider our own, domestic “right-wing” hate groups.

Since the first gulf war…ah, to hell with that…since we first began seeing American flags burning on our T.V. sets…and this is EXTREMELY important here…how many people of Muslim extraction have we seen targeted and persecuted in America by this tremendous threat of “right-wing hate groups”?

OK.

Maybe you can’t remember that far back.

How many Somali-Americans have been dragged behind a vehicle since the whole piracy business has cropped up?  How many since the good Captain, Richard Phillips was taken hostage (now that’s as recent as this past Sunday)?

How many?

And we are going to focus hard-earned tax dollars on eradicating this tremendous problem of right-wing hate groups?

Give me a break.

Rather than hearing what are our policies toward (seemingly) benign groups, why do we not focus more money and attention on, I don’t know, let’s say the damned pirates holding all those hostages.

Or here’s one.  How about Iran’s nukes?

Or even better, how about the war we are currently fighting in Afghanistan?

Let’s look at what happens when we spend so much time debating gun control in the U.S.

M-13, that RABID terrorist outfit (I define the gangs that roam the streets of America as terrorists – anyone who instills terror in the hearts of law-abiding Americans, is a terrorist) are smuggling drugs (and fully-automatic weapons from the Sandinistas, Cubans, Russians and Chinese) across our borders to do harm to average Americans.

We are debating taking away guns, or restricting their use (in complete contradiction to our Constitution) and they are winning the war.

In essence, everything in this matter works together.

A stong, centralized Federal government begins to control the individual American by stripping him (or her) of their rights.

They take away the guns, and we can’t defend our homes.

They let the gangs come in, and the gangs get our children hooked on drugs.

They take over the banks and issue loans to the very people who are running the whores, guns and drugs and they buy multi-million-dollar homes (that they never pay mortgages on) and listen to rap music all day.

Evil is in collusion across the board.

There is a strategy that is taking place, but the strategy is doing nothing…NOTHING to curb terror.  It is providing a petri dish that will allow the virus to flourish.

It is the worst form of biological weapon.  Growing the terrorist while REGULATING the U.S. populus.

They take away our rights, our guns and our money and (try) and leave us penniless and powerless.

Oh yes.  There is a strategy, but it just ain’t helping you and me.

So what could be their thinking?

Goats on a stake

Could it be that what they are really after is sacrificing we law-abiding Americans?

After all, we do not seem to be as “worthy” as all those Europeans that B.O. is now kowtowing to.

God knows any number of them do not have gun control laws, as they’ve all confiscated all the guns.  No need for the laws.  Problem solved.  (And their people all march in lock-step bowing to Kings and dictators).

Do the men who forged the American West, (the men who Judge Bean sometimes had to “regulate” through an application of order (note “order” rather than law – sometimes we focus far too much on the law rather than the intended result – order); do they, those free men who forged the West, do they bow to Kings and Sheiks?

I think not.

They were tough, and they were independent.

They sometimes forgot how important order can be (wholly left to their own devices, total anarchy reigns – shooting up saloons and whores and all) – but with a gentle application of the law (such as Judge Bean’s), they became more choir boys (choirboys with pistolis).

At any rate, I believe that all these issues converge on this day.

We control the guns, we control freedom.

We control freedom, and we are totalitarian statists.

Is it any wonder B.O. is so cozey with Fidel, Ortega and Chavez or that Putin and Medvedev are now calling him “comrade”.

Shall we break into chorus of “Bye, bye Miss American Pie”?  We may have lost our innocence during Viet Nam, but we now are in danger of losing our soul.

Who spiked the dems punch with downers, man?

Watching General Petraeus at the hearings yesterday caused me to wonder how it is the demonrats can win any elections with their attitude.

I tell you, this bunch would have found something to complain about on VE day.

What is more disturbing to me is that somebody must be listening to it. They do and say everything in accord with the latest polling data, right? So somebody is gobbling up these Sultans of Doom.

Sultans of Doom…hmmm. Appropriate, given their cozy friendship with Syria (1, 2, 3, 4,) [how 'bout something positive...] .

I’m just wondering when supporters of Democrats will wake up and realize that their candidates are not simply the proverbial “turd in the punchbowl”, but in fact have turned the whole “party” into an open sewer.

Nothing pleasant about any of that.

But then, they are not pleasant people.

Patraeus gives compelling reasons why we should move with extreme caution in Iraq.

And what is Senator Clinton’s response?

“It’s time to begin an orderly process of withdrawing our troops,” she said.

Wow.

Don’t drink the punch.

And what of Obama? The following is from his website:

“To set a new course for U.S. policy that can bring a responsible end to the war, Senator Obama introduced the Iraq War De-escalation Act in January 2007.”

Thanks, Barack.

You know, it’s not enough to avoid the punch…better avoid the party.

In his statement to the floor, he says:

“Moreover, I share the frustration with an Administration whose policies with respect to Iraq seem to simply repeat the simple-minded refrains of “we know best” and “stay the course.” It’s not acceptable to conduct a war where our goals and strategies drift aimlessly regardless of the cost in lives or dollars spent, and where we end up with arbitrary, poll-driven troop reductions by the Administration – the worst of all possible outcomes.”

Worst of all possible, huh? Well, from what Petraeus was telling us yesterday, it sounds like the outcome has been fairly positive.

Just like a demonrat to pee on a parade.

Let’s take a journey down a path where one of the demonrat contenders wins the Presidency. What do you suppose their policy will actually be?

Well, from his same floor statement, Obama says:

“We must exit Iraq, but not in a way that leaves behind a security vacuum filled with terrorism, chaos, ethnic cleansing and genocide that could engulf large swaths of the Middle East and endanger America. We have both moral and national security reasons to manage our exit in a responsible way.”

Funny, this sounds like exactly what we are doing under President Bush.

So, on the one hand they call Bush’s policies “wandering aimlessly“, and yet the hints we get of what they would do look just like what we are doing now.

I tell you, I’m real concerned about what form this so-called change is going to take. I know that Obama runs in some questionable circles (1, 2, 3); does this mean that we are in for some radical weather? Given his anti-war stance and the hate-speech of his minister, I can’t see any other possibility. Where there is smoke, there is fire.

One last thing before I sign off today…would you Union boys (and girls), please get a clue.

All the while you look at these guys as if they are somehow saving your jobs, and all the while they are playing Brutus, twisting a knife in your back.

They are not against NAFTA, boys…there is too much money at stake.

Oh well.

Here’s hoping that the barbs and downers the dems have been taking will soon wear off. It is time for a little happiness, don’t you think?

We are less safe, Mr. Obama

We are “less safe“, to quote Mr. Obama.

We are “less safe” thanks to the Democratic party.

We are “less safe” thanks to Nancy Pelosi taking trips to Syria.

We are “less safe” thanks to Hillary Clinton’s camp meeting with Assad (بشار الأسد‎, Baššār al-Asad).

And frankly, Mr. Obama, we are “less safe” due to internal threats coming from radical bands of revolutionaries who have bombed our Capitol Building, our Pentagon, not to mention blasphemed against both God and our own Nation.

Yes, Mr. Obama, we are most assuredly “less safe” thanks to you and those of your ilk (including Weathermen and the madams Clinton and Pelosi).

My question now that we know what is “less safe” – what exactly could be more dangerous?

On Right, and Righteous

With today’s events, I can’t help but reflect on righteousness.

I spent the morning going through the motions with certain provider of operating systems (who will go un-named) trying to find a utility to help my church. This little piece of software basically checks your system against available updates and let’s you decide what to download and install.

Think it as an opportunity to ‘bolster’ your defenses.

Kind of like the fence that Congress is supposed to be building for us along our Southern border.

I must say, after an hour on the phone and then being transferred to this particular company’s division in Canada, I began to feel as though they were not that interested in helping me better use their product.

Kind of how I feel about Congress when it comes to whether they are really interested in defending our Nation (not to mention its allies).

It seems that all you get is shuck and jive anymore.

I know I said I’d stay away from the 60’s, but didn’t they teach us that we are doomed if we forget the past? So here I am again, revisiting a decade I am so happy to have in my rear-view mirror (or at least, I thought it was).

It is hard to stay out of that decade when the libs are talking about a mantra for their convention that I’ve heard will go something like this “recreate 68, recreate 68″.

Oh my. I just wish the hippies would come down from the drugs for just a moment…too bad they don’t make a syringe that can extract this drug-induced lunacy.

In the 60’s we had hawks and doves in Congress.

The hawks wanted to win the war.

The doves, well, they wanted to get stoned and ignore that there is a great, big world out there (groovy, man).

The world is not always full of people interested in a group hug.

There is so much talk right now that leads me to believe the demonrats are all about kissing and making up with our enemies.

You see it in the news. Some are saying that Iran does not pose the threat that has been suggested.

I don’t know if you caught it, but someone needs to ask Israel what they think about that.

You see, they just got a surprise attack over the past weekend, and it would seem the missiles had an Iranian connection (by manufacture, ownership or launch – what’s the diff when they are falling on YOUR head).

Try and keep in mind that from this writer’s perspective, Israel is a perfect example for us; they have been living under a constant state of attack since their nation was formed. We are only now tasting what that is like, post- Trade Center terror.

I don’t think I’m buying into this whole “kinder, gentler Iran” that seems to be afoot in the media (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6). They still seem pretty dangerous to me (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9).

Let’s not pretend that things are just rosy with our former Cold War ‘buds’ – China and Russia (1, 2, 3 ) either.

So, how does all this tie in to a phone call for customer support?

Well, in a word, as a tax-paying citizen of a country I care something about (it is my home, you know)…I’d like to see a little support from our elected officials and not have to deal with the kind of business Israel endures.

I’m tired of hearing about them on their junkets to Syria. Tired of them going on vacation rather than voting on a bill that helps protect us from the kind of bombardment Israel is now under; tired as hell of getting shifty treatment from a Congress that acts like a certain sluffware icon when it comes to customer service – just shifting me around all over the place.

I feel as though all I’m seeing of late is shifty characters. I have had enough shiftiness (beggin’ your pardon, “Mr. Slick” – “they call him ‘meller yeller’ “).

Give me someone with some stability and backbone who understands that our enemies really do want to see us brought down like a computer operating system that just can’t seem to stay up and running. The OPEC President just said this morning that he wants to CUT production of oil (now at whom do you think that strategy is aimed? Venezuela ? Give me a break!).

It is time that Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton begin standing up letting us know what they are doing besides kissing the ass of the enemy – what are they doing, in earnest, to protect this Nation they all claim they are so adept at commanding.

They need to get their “communal” heads out of their hippie asses and start talking about drilling for oil right here at home; they need to tell us what they will do to send a signal to the world that we are strong and that we are not going to lay down and be steam-rolled.

From my perspective, all they are doing is transferring us to somebody else who doesn’t know what they are talking about either. When the hell is all this “change” they are talking about going to yield something that takes on real leadership quality (of the kind, by the way, George Bush has shown by sticking to our guns and our commitments in this current war and to our current friends and allies)!

Y’all can keep on keepin’ on where “change” in the global weather is concerned (radical change in weather is a typhoon, isn’t it? I believe that is just another name for “blow-hard”).

As for this ol’ boy, I’m going to keep looking for a day when we no longer have to face the threat of tyrants…and until that day, I’ll take advice from the bible and as a strong man, arm myself.

Peace Out! Righteous Victory IN.

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