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Putting My Markers Out

Thursday, May 16th, 2013

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First:
Barack Obama will not make it to the end of his second term. He’ll either resign, be impeached, or attempt a coup. (I regard the last as very unlikely, but with him, it’s possible. And if he succeeds, then, whatever he calls himself, he’s not the President of the United States anymore.)

I’m betting resignation. I doubt he has any clue how to operate when even the press is against him. I think he has no staying power, because I think he’s a whiny liberal pussy.

“But,” everyone says, “What about Biden?”

Well, what about him? I don’t think he’s near as outright toxic as Obama is, and I think the more or less metaphorical sight of his former boss rotting on a gibbet outside his office window will do wonders for his commitment to his oath of office.

Second:
Chicago IL will not make it to the end of the summer, unless the Illinois legislature fails to pass a concealed carry law, and the state goes to Constitutional Carry. Note SCC’s comment about the weather. The temperature hasn’t really started to ramp up yet, and the goblins are out of control.

SCC, if you want to save your city, give up on the damn pensions; they’re going to fuck you over anyway. Either you and your honest brothers need to quit outright, or you need to start telling the law abiding that you will no longer help enforce laws against citizen carry, or the petty, malum prohibitum crap like marijuana laws and parking violations.

You need to start telling victims to buy guns, learn to use them, and carry everywhere they go. And, of course, they need to shoot back.

You need to help train them. You need to make every honest citizen in town be your brother or sister in arms.

You love your city like you do your mother, I can tell. But it will again burn to the ground by autumn if you don’t stop propping up one of the most corrupt city halls in the nation.

And SCC? Lie down with dogs, get up with fleas and mange. You keep claiming you’re honest, but you are doing the bidding of thieves and scoundrels, and worse. They despise you, and will not back you up when you fall in their service, as you yourself have reported many times. To them, you are nothing but gullible, expendable fools.

You owe them nothing in return, sir, absolutely nothing.

The time for dialog has passed.

Time to choose sides.

[update]
SCC and his fellows do a job I am physically and mentally unfit to do; I’d be dead or catatonic in a week. I am, in a sense, unfit to criticize them.

I know that they do the job they do to protect the citizens, not their bosses.

CPD rank and file have everything, as in “lives, fortunes, and sacred honors”, invested in their city; so do the police and other local law enforcement around the nation.

It would be agonizing to let it all go, to move out and watch the city burn from the outside. To admit that everything you’ve done over your career was for…not nothing, no, too many stories of lives saved, order restored, hope dispensed freely and sincerely.

And yet…

SCC’s own reports show just how rotten his city is, and how little support the CPD gets from higher ups (“exempts”) in the force, and from elected officials.

All of the great good done in the past will be wasted, twisted, turned to great evil by those who think they are fit to rule, if things go on as they have.

Still, I’m not in their shoes, in their squad cars, behind their badges. I don’t know what it’s like first hand.

I just hope that being on the side of liberty and justice means I’m on their side.

But the reason they’ve lost the faith of the people they want to serve is because in the end, all they’re doing is propping up tyrants and thugs.

It’s not just CPD. It’s law enforcement all over the land.

First step to restoring trust and respect: trust and respect the people you serve.

Let the people take arms. Encourage them to take arms. Train them to take arms. Denounce, loudly and in uniform, any would be ruler who deprives them of arms.

Stop busting citizens for taking pictures of public buildings, or videos of you. Keep them back out of the way, sure. But ignore them as much as you can.

Refuse to execute civil forfeiture orders. That makes you armed robbers, I don’t care what the excuse is, or what the courts say.

Refuse to execute SWAT warrants except in hostage situations or the like. Who cares if a pound of this dried leaf or that white powder goes down the crapper? If that’s all you got, you should be shot back at.

(And right there, you are living the amendments 1, 2, 4, and 5, you’re putting them at the top of the priority list, even at the expense of making it harder to fight crime. The people have guns, remember? Trust them to do the crime fighting. It’s their job, too.)

Beyond that:

Be ruthless, absolutely ruthless, when one of your own steps over the line. Every cop needs to be a member of IAD. And when a bad cop is discovered, he needs to be stood up in public, in full dress uniform, and be stripped to tatters one shiny button at a time, and led off in cuffs.

In short, conduct yourselves as if every citizen is armed, and willing to fight back against tyranny. Assume you are being videoed. Treat the people as you wish to be treated, because after all, you are one of them.

And again: if you don’t like it–quit. Deprive Those Who Would Rule of the weapons you carry, of your own strength, and your own good judgement.

Reserve your good will only for the citizens you serve.

You’ve lost their respect, their good will. The burden is on you to win them back.

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QotD: Things We Think But Don’t Write

Friday, January 18th, 2013

Mike, writing as always in a Cold Fury, applauds the Missouri bill to make enforcement of any federal gun ban a felony, and stabs to the heart of the tyrants:

It’s no mystery why they hate [the Second Amendment] so much, and are so afraid of it; the fact is, they’re supposed to be. That’s, umm, the whole friggin’ point.

I should add that in this case, it’s not fear that keeps us from writing it, it’s that we have this in our hearts and bones; it’s one of our underlying assumptions. We forget that not everyone understands this.

And, of course, our servants, who should properly be trembling in fear of our lash, pray daily that not only do we withhold it, but that we forget it was ever in our hands.

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If It Saves Just One Child

Wednesday, January 16th, 2013

So, President God-Emperor has slipped the Constitutional leash completely, with the full support of The Children, and of course that of Responsible Gun Owners.

And not just, and how I love this, “The Usual Suspects”. Suspects, indeed.

It is, of course, a great temptation to nitpick the speech. Not worth it.

No, the argument now comes round to this:

“But, Rickety, why do you need high magazine assault rifles with hundred bullet full-auto clips? And grenade lugs? And shoulder things that go up? The Founders, evil slave mongers that they were, never imagined such child murdering horrors! So why, Rickety? Why?”

“So I can clean the shit out of the brain-pan of any liberal fascist who comes to take them.”

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I Will Stand

Monday, January 14th, 2013

NCRenegade LT declares “A Time To Kill“:

Therefore, as much as my soul laments against the harsh truth before me, I make this declaration to my enemies who press me into this battle, that none shall be able to afterwards say “I did not know, you did not warn me”;

I do not care why you took that job with the government, or why you continue to hold it. I only know that you have become Judas and sold yourself to an oppressive state – your government office buildings and vehicles are part of the battlefield, and as a soldier I shall act accordingly.

I do not care why, as a journalist, you choose to spin and corrupt the news, rather than report the plain truth and let the people judge for themselves. I only know that you have violated the public trust in the most vile and seditious manner, and thus your homes, offices, studios, vehicles, and any other place you may find yourself are part of the battlefield, and as a soldier I shall act accordingly.

I do not care why you signed that union card. I only know that you pay dues to a communist organization which conducts treasonous works against my Republic daily – and so your union hall and your work-sites are part of the battlefield, and as a soldier I shall act accordingly.

I do not care that you only voted for the traitor because you are elderly/disabled or otherwise dependent upon government largess. Are you so ignorant and/or disinterested that you could not see through their propaganda, to the fact that your sustenance was assured either way? What have you gained now that the public housing areas you live in, and the public facilities you depend on are part of the battlefield? Though I am a soldier, I can afford you little protection, for you have placed yourselves on the battlefield.

I know that all of these places and all of these people are part of the battlefield ,not just because I am a soldier, and have experienced a few battlefields in my day; but also because our President declares that even our own homes are on the battlefield, whether we wish them to be or not, and I have no choice but to believe him; it’s not just that the NDAA passed – a battlefield is not defined by law; it’s the profound build-up of martial power and resources across my once-great nation which tells me a battle is being prepared here. Over two billion rounds of ammunition procured by DHS and its sub-agencies in the past 18 months, plus machine guns in the tens of thousands, armored vehicles, combat aircraft, drones, and other implements of war being staged throughout our nation, our home – how do you explain that except as the preparation for battle?

I will fight not because I desire it, but because I cannot justify any other course of action – when the enemy attacks, you must fight – you must kill or you will die.

As I said in comments there:

I was denied enlistment for a bad foot.

Now I am too old, and fat, and out of breath and ill-equipped, having come late to an understanding of what my duty is.

But I will stand.

I will stand, though I expect to be among the first to fall.

From a comment there: Don’t take the bait too early. Or to put it another way, don’t fire till you see the whites of their eyes.

And this, which I should have posted long ago: “What I Saw at the Coup“:

The first real jolt indicating a serious problem with the plan came when television reporter Cathy Carlsen was killed in Norfolk, shot dead while covering the commissioning of the Harvey Milk, the Navy’s newest destroyer. That she was killed was bad enough. That it happened on a “secure” naval base—a federal installation—made it much worse. Her blood splattered across the Admirals’ white uniforms made quite a picture. The videos…

We were two women born in the same year, with similar academic backgrounds. We had known each other for decades, and her untimely death hit me hard. Cathy Carlsen had been a reliable voice on the progressive side of a supposedly impartial television news network. That a respected member of the media would be assassinated was big surprise, at least to me. Up to that point, only a few federal officials and high-ranking agents had been targeted.

Then a new photo was released on the internet. I had always thought the NSA could trace those things back to their origins, but apparently not. The photo was taken through the Norfolk sniper’s rifle scope just a few moments before the murder. It showed thin black crosshairs and other reference marks across Cathy’s smiling face. And it showed some text added just above her head:

If the media lies, the media dies.
You take a side, you’re along for the ride.
A traitor in front of a camera is still just a traitor.

This single act of domestic terrorism immediately dampened the enthusiasm of most of our formerly reliable reporters to continue to carry our water.

Thanks to Mike Soja at Kayak2U for the link.

A flood of payday spam has prompted me to hold all comments for moderation.

If you login and post one comment, I’ll never pester you again.

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Sniping

Friday, October 19th, 2012

Raise your hand, everybody who thinks Oleg Volk is a defeatist shill for the CSGV.

OK, kids, there’s a BD release of Red Dawn, the original, on the big screen in the media room. Road House is laying on top of the player, too. Swaze double feature. Doris will be serving popcorn with Jack & Coke. Have fun!
…
OK, Millicent, you may bring in the cigars and cognac, please…. Thank you. You may retire for the evening.

Time for grown up talk. Mr. Volk, you have the floor.

[Mr. Volk details the problems of insurgents fighting regulars, then concludes:]

I am a great fan of rifle marksmanship. But we shouldn’t overestimate its value in warfare. Unsupported by regular troops, most snipers die quickly. Most hunters may be marksmen, but they aren’t even snipers — that skill set goes far beyond the basics of fieldcraft and marksmanship required to bring down deer.

For that reason, the reliance on armed response indicates a loss for the side forced to fight as insurgents. The kind of expedients required for a successful guerrilla campaign tend to warp all participants out of recognition as the “forces of good”. So our best bet is political proselytizing and raising the next generation to love freedom, and to respect the freedoms of others. The opium pipe dreams of the “restoration of the Republic” through another revolution are best left for those who don’t much value a connection to reality.

[bold mine]

That was sobering, yes. Another round of cognac?

This is why I will be voting for Romney. I’ve even volunteered as a poll worker.

Not because I think Romney, or any of the current crop of politicians, or any politician ever, can remotely save us.

But because we can use him to buy a little time, in order to raise “the next generation to love freedom, and to respect the freedoms of others”

I’ve heard the argument that real Americans, real libertarians, would actually vote for Obama, in order to bring the abscess to a head.

The American people are not ready for a large scale, take-back-the-government revolution. I pray they never will be, because I don’t think you can predict the outcome of such a catastrophe. And see again Volk’s dire warning: “The kind of expedients required for a successful guerrilla campaign tend to warp all participants out of recognition as the ‘forces of good’.”

We cannot arm ourselves and train ourselves sufficiently to even attempt such a thing, not this late in the game. We do not have the time or resources to do that.

All we can do is fight the usurpers one bad police raid at a time, even if we die doing it. If you don’t die on the spot, you turn yourself in and take responsibility for your actions.

Build local militias for mutual self defense. See to it that the next generation of SWAT teams and soldiers know, by their raising, what they will face if they attack their fellow citizens.

Key word there: “defense.” We will lose a revolution. The First American Revolution succeeded in part because the British were dangling at the end of a very tenuous supply chain. The Second American Revolution, aka The Civil War, War Between the States, or The War of Northern Aggression, whatever, failed, horrifically, because it was fought on our own home soil. Anybody who thinks that the American military machine wouldn’t be able to squash a similar rebellion now, quickly and overwhelmingly, is fooling themselves, because the American military is all over the place, with multiple supply lines and instant communication via multiple channels.

We cannot win a revolution. The most we can hope to do is make tyranny too expensive.

The Romney election is but the merest, thinnest sapling to grab hold of as we slide down the cliff into tyranny. But at this point, I’ll take anything I can get, and it might be just what we need to get firmer footing.

There’s a lot of talk of preference cascades these days. We’re not just seeing the one building against Obama. It’s building against the whole Democrat/progressive/socialist/statist schema. I believe the American people are waking up, getting their bearings, hearing the lies for what they are. The columns of the State are but foam stage props; the bright lights bring out the flop sweat, the popcorn of hope is stale, and the soda pop of change has gone flat.

And the stink of rotting donkey and elephant dung pervades.

Change wind arisin’. But please that it doesn’t fan the flames of revolution.

I’m too old for that.

…And now I think we’re just in time to catch Road House.

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Only Ones Training Not So Only

Wednesday, September 26th, 2012

A couple of links so I can find them when I need them, about current sport shooting rules being actually tougher than LA Police Department qualification criteria.

Debunking the Police Qualification Myth

And
Myth – ‘Only Ones’ With Badges Possessing Jedi Like Gun Handling Skills

And

Forum discussion at AR15.com.

Civilian sport shooters tend to be better trained than police officers at using handguns.

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Blog About Brett Kimberlin Day

Friday, May 25th, 2012

I don’t have much to say about the thuggish convicted liar and killer Brett Kimberlin, mostly because everything that needs to be said has been said.

Patterico was subjected to a false SWAT raid.

Radley Balko commented:

What’s happening to him right now is terrifying. It’s an attempt to terrorize political opponents into silence.

A couple commenters here have suggested there’s some sort of lesson in all of this about SWAT teams or police or something or other.

No. There are no lessons here. The sociopaths who are harassing Patterico and the other bloggers involved need to be arrested and charged with about a dozen different crimes.

Patterico is an L.A. prosecutor. He has spoke out repeatedly in favor of SWAT raids and the drug war in general, and schadenfreud is a serious temptation here.

But this is indeed one of the situations where a SWAT raid might well be justified, if the call had been legitimate. I’m siding with Patterico here.

And Kimberlin is just a dangerous loon who shouldn’t be out on the streets or allowed to file suits in court. It’s too bad he doesn’t live in a nation filled with armed citizens willing and able to defend themselves.

Stacy McCain has blogged the most about “Speedway Bomber” Brett Kimberlin.

Aaron Worthing has been victimized as badly as anyone.

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Legislative Incompetence

Sunday, May 13th, 2012

Marooned in MA, aka Jay G, discusses this idiocy further here.

As I commented on the video, if we demanded the same level of regulation on lawmakers as they do on, say, hairdressers [see Code of Massachusetts Regulation 240-cmr-2.00] you’d be able to get their licenses pulled for malpractice.

Added to my daily feed.

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Death By Badge: “Relax. Relax. Relax.”

Sunday, May 13th, 2012

Cops videoed while protecting and serving:

The city surveillance video that shows a group of Fullerton police officers beating a homeless mentally ill man to death last year was finally released today, laying to rest any argument that Kelly Thomas was a threat to officers.

Another popular battle cry I’ve heard in other videos: “Stop resisting.”

The most terrifying thing is the calm, affectless voice these impossible commands are issued in. These thugs are not acting out of fear or even anger, just passionless professionalism.

Oh, look, the poor baby got his self hurted. Let’s all kiss his booboo and make it all better.
Cop has a skinned elbow

Here’s some additional information on the medical findings for the victim — no, no, not the murdering cops, but the dead man, Kelly Thomas.

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Passive Resistance is Futile

Thursday, May 3rd, 2012

Here’s a man standing against the socialist evil of the Nazis:
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Our man is in front, second from the left with no helmet. He is a Nazi soldier who is refusing to help execute 16 Yugoslav civilians.

Shortly after this picture was taken, he took his place amongst the victims, and was executed with them.

This is a classic example of passive, non-violent resistance.

Raise your hand, everybody who thinks it was effective.

Today we are facing a creeping rise of quasi-military tyranny. The war on drugs, the war on guns, and the war on (almost non-existent American patriot) terrorists, have created an increasingly arrogant police force. They have not yet fallen to the point of the Nazi army, willing to shoot civilians in rows like this, but they are willing to beat, shock, spray, and of course imprison those who resist in any way, even with words, even by merely taking pictures.

Of course, the form of “resistance” they most object to is any encroachment on their monopoly of force. Carrying and especially using any form of firearm by the unbadged is anathema to many.

How do we stop this?

Is it enough to vote Republican? How about simply withdrawing from society, stockpiling food and ammo in the name of disaster preparedness?

Is it enough to do what this man did, to passively resist violence hoping to shock the nation?

Or should we follow Solzhenitsyn’s advice, and make sure that when they come for us, we make it fatal for as many of them as we can?

The problem with the passive soldier in the photo is that we are only now, far too late, finding out what he did.

Every day people right now are finding themselves caught up in the state’s satanic mills.

Nobody hears about them because, like the German press in Nazi days, our press is on the wrong side. They are covering for a socialist government bent on tyranny.

Go ahead, campaign against Obama. Put clever bumper stickers on your car, Stay Puft Man versus Moving Torb signs in your yard, snarky teeshirts on your back. Hell, vote for Romney, or even the Libertarian candidate, whoever he is.

No, really, do that. Og explains why you should be active in the political scene, in a post that inspires me. If we don’t do at least this, the picture up there is inevitable.

Sure, you can go further. Hand out flyers on jury nullification in front of the courthouse. Give joints to the officers rolling out at the start of their shifts.

Attend Tea Party rallies.

No one will care. Reporters will not notice.

Or go the next step: Defend yourself against an mugger with darker skin than your own. Open carry without a license.

You will disappear.Oh, your arrest will show up on the police blotter page of your local paper. There might be a local newscast suggesting that you will be evaluated by a police psychologist. You’ll be allowed your phone call, if you survive your arrest, as is likely.

But mostly your brave resistance will go unnoticed. It will be as wasted as this soldier’s was. He could have gone down killing the agents of oppression and tyranny.

What are we supposed to do instead? I am lost here. I honestly don’t know the answer. I suspect that a civil war is inevitable, and I’m too old for that, far too unprepared. The damage it would do…I quail at the thought.

But what are we supposed to do?

[update to link to Og's post. And I'll add this: the liberal/progressive/socialist left wants us to despair, wants us to put ourselves out of the action either by disengaging or getting thrown into jail. They control the media, and acts of open defiance will not be reported.

[And what I'm coming around to is, Make noise. Vote. Don't sit down and shut up. Don't take the fight to the cops. Defend yourself, if need be. But no more than that. No first use of violence, remember? But maybe, just maybe, it's time to think about what you do when first violence has been offered. Crackheaded or jackbooted, thugs is thugs. Your home is your castle. Stand your ground.]

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