From Correia’s commentary on the fight below:
Here, let me break this down for you. Not just this thread, but any thread where you argue with liberals.
Liberal 1: Attack, ATTACK! Attack, attack, attack! ATTACK!
Liberal 2: ATTACK! ATTACK!
Conservative: Defend.
Liberal 1: So rude!
Liberal 2: Yes, very rude.
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.
Vox, on Ron Paul’s declaration that “We cannot get enough people in Congress in the next 5-10 years who will do wise things.”
Since the “drive toward the cliff slower” strategy has worked so well, perhaps Republicans will now consider attempting a “fall slower” approach.
See what happens when you run the Democrat nominee for the Republican candidacy?
Going against my previous post, I’m done. I will never vote again, unless I see radical changes in what’s being offered, which means I will never vote again.
My happiness is not dependent on the state.
Don’t let yours be.
Some of my favorites:
Whenever you hear people talking about “a living Constitution,” almost invariably they are people who are in the process of slowly killing it by “interpreting” its restrictions on government out of existence.
Do either Barack Obama or his followers have any idea how many countries during the 20th century set out to “spread the wealth” — and ended up spreading poverty instead? At some point, you have to turn from rhetoric, theories and ideologies to facts.
The question to be asked of people in the media, and that they should ask themselves, should be: “Is your first loyalty to your audience or to your ideology?” The same question should be asked of educators, especially those who see themselves as “agents of social change,” even though that is not the job description under which they have been hired and paid.
If there is ever a Hall of Fame for confidence men, Charles Ponzi and Bernie Madoff will have to take a back seat to Barack Obama. Obama is the gold standard — or, perhaps more appropriately, the brass standard. [Or perhaps the pyrite standard. AKA fools gold. -- ed]
I have never known a word to become absolute dogma, without a speck of evidence, the way “diversity” has.
“There’s gonna be blood, and fire, and the dead gonna dance in the streets…. But don’t ask what’s in it for you. It’s the ten of swords.”
I’ve been saying for awhile now: Change wind arising.
The change wind is upon us, very soon.
There are some things that simply must be posted far and wide, not to spread the news, necessarily, but as a show of support.
Amy Alkon, who writes the Advice Goddess blog, refused to go through the scanner. Good for her.
Because this annoyed Thedala Magee the Totally Stupid Agent working Alkon’s line, Magee groped Alkon, forcing the edge of her hand into Alkon’s labia four times.
Alkon accused Magee of rape, right there in line, loudly for the other passengers to hear.
Good for her.
Magee responded by suing Alkon for, basically, hurting her feelings.
Hey, Magee?
You are an oath breaker, a thug, a rapist. I look for the day when you and your fellow oath breaking thugs are hung at dawn as the traitors you are. “Domestic enemy,” you filth. That would be you. You are the reason we have a Second Amendment, and a Fourth, and a Fifth, and a first.
Here’s the legal response from Alkon’s lawyer, Marc Randazza, to Thugala Magee’s lawer, Vicki Roberts. It is a thing of vicious beauty, right down to the salutation: “Best regards”. I love that. “Best regards.”
We believe that Ms. Alkon was within her rights to act violently in self-defense. Instead, she defended herself with mere words. Her reaction to Ms. Magee’s crime is so tame on the scale of legally and morally justified responses that Ms. Magee should be thankful that words of protest are all she received. We must all “tolerate insulting, and even outrageous, speech in order to provide adequate ‘breathing space’ to the freedoms protected by the First Amendment.”
Snyder v. Phelps, ___ U.S. ___, 131 S. Ct. 1207, 1219 (2011), citing
Boos v. Barry, 485 U.S. 312, 322 (1988).There is no competing requirement that we tolerate being sexually abused as retaliation for believing in the Fourth Amendment.
[My bold.]
Beautiful.
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