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Ending the Long War

Ending the Long War 

By R.J. Godlewski

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“This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.”

“War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.”

“If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.”“Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.”  Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman

Whether one calls it the “Long War”, the “Global War on Terrorism”, or “Contingency planning for manmade disasters”, the conflict against radical Islam is a full-fledged, shooting war between those who ultimately seek peace, democracy, and individual liberty and those who seek to force their perverted will and desires upon us. Only one side can prevail.

It is quite amazing that we should accept the likes of a General William Tecumseh Sherman – a man who worked tirelessly for peace (after the fact) – when we fight amongst ourselves, but prefer to employ a modern-day Mahatma Gandhi when we are fighting an enemy that believes it is Divine Will that we should perish in the most horrendous way imaginable. We simply try to reconcile “turn the other cheek” with “there is no greater love than to lay one’s life down for his fellow man” – but only from our perspective.

We continuously seek diplomacy, as if failure to achieve peace with a people bred on belligerence somehow reflects upon our failures. Yet, peace is neither a gift nor an entitlement. It is an investment; an investment that demands much and promises very little in return. Some will grow wealthy. Others will perish in poverty. Only those with a sound strategy, however, can aspire to the ranks of the former.

For decades, our political leadership in Washington has failed to safeguard our portfolio. They have speculated too freely. Chose strategies unwisely. Mismanaged our resources criminally. Among global empires, America is not yet ready for retirement. There is still one job left for us to do before we can rock upon the front porch of freedom: defeat radical Islam.

While we continue to thrust our skulls against the brickwork wondering what we did to deserve the pain Islam has inflicted upon the United States, those who espouse such devastation merely go about their trade. They do not need to justify their brutality, their murderous destruction of innocent men, women, and children. We have given them an excuse freely through our ignorance and quickness of guilt. We are simply the motorist who apologizes after a traffic accident when blame has yet to be established. America has come to represent nothing more than a society that seeks to accommodate out of fear for inconvenience.

Gone is the nation that punched back in response to a slap. Gone is the nation that absolutely humiliated both Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan as this “degenerate democracy” obliterated the Master Race (from both the Aryan and Asian gene pool). Gone is the nation that conquered the air, the Atlantic from the air, and interplanetary space. The only thing “Super” about us now is the size of our fries and thighs.

Politicians have transformed our nation from a beacon of majesty and individualism into a cesspool of institutionalized corruption and greed. No longer do our leaders lead. No longer do our citizens strive for success. Everyone wants a steady paycheck without the requirements of steady effort. We want liberty without equity; a “no down payment” mortgage on freedom. No wonder the Islamists can strike with impunity.

Washington has come to represent the complete antithesis of the original Washington who led our nation against tyranny under unimaginable odds. He was not expected to win, but did – often by defenestration of the rules. Washington of today is expected to win, but cannot for they are more adept at bankrupting our future instead of ensuring that the terrorists do not possess one.

Instead of shoring the nation “of the people, by the people, and for the people” our elected leadership is hell-bent on “fundamentally transforming” the United States into a country “of the terrorists, by the terrorists, and for the terrorists”. Our Attorney General, Eric Holder, has transformed himself into General of the Army Holder by suggesting that he knows better how to wage war than those who have spent a lifetime waging it. Our “Organizer in Chief” believes that serving as president merely means presiding over diplomatic overtures designed to “fundamentally transform” the United States into the United Nations likes, er, Lite.

Our Washington, the inflated, senseless bureaucracy that needs Jenny Craig more than any “czar”, is incapable of fighting off the flu much less the abominable threat of a “religion” that mandates lying over tolerance; the wanton murder of innocent women and children over acknowledging free will; and the impotence of one billion  adherents who claim to express a faith of peace but fail to prove it. Left in the hands of Washington politics, our species – let alone our nation – teeters on the chasm of oblivion. Humanity is the great-undiscovered endangered species.

Fortunately, man’s latest long duration conflict need not be another Hundred Years War or even a repeat of the extremely religious – and infamously brutal – Thirty Years War. Our present conflict, whatever you wish to call it, can be ended quickly and with overwhelming victory if but a few lessons and actions are applied. Because you will not hear these thoughts from Washington, I will address them for you now. Applied effectively, they will ensure both peace and victory in our struggle against radical Islam.

* Define Islam as simply a political entity. Best intentions aside, Islam is no more a religion than ACORN is a charity. It shares more in common with the progressive wing of the Democratic Party than it does with the Roman Catholic Church (which has, at its head, a legitimate nation-state) or the Quakers. It mandates global dominance through both doctrine and culture. Every other established religion preaches conversion from within, not externally from force. Therefore, Islam and those who support it (whether Muslims or not) must be consolidated into a single cult;

* Treat captured Islamic terrorists as thugs, not as honorable prisoners. It is an affront to American taxpayers that captured terrorists are treated better than either honorable veterans or dishonorable thieves. If actionable intelligence can be obtained from the enemy – through whatever means is most effective – then they should be kept alive until they are no longer valuable towards our victory. However, pampering terrorists down at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba merely serves as media fodder for those who wish to write fiction. Instead, let’s shave off their beards, feed them whatever is on the menu (pork comes to mind), and stop pointing their ass towards Mecca (solitary confinement means that they are not supposed to have contact with anyone else);

* Learn the lessons from the Great Plains Indian Wars. Ever wonder why we expanded westward so efficiently? Because we did everything humanly possible to vanquish the Native Americans. We were not afraid to call them barbarians and treated them as such. Those who chose to aid us were treated well. Those that fought against us were either killed or rounded up and sent off to distant reservations. Today, we try too much to avoid encroaching upon Muslim soil while we let them shed blood upon ours. We need to divide and conquer;  

* Citizens are now at war. Those who steadfastly believe in Big Government refuse to admit that even “small” governments fail to deliver. The police, fire departments, and even federal investigative labs, are all relatively new developments of the human condition. For centuries, it has been the private sector that served man and we need to expand upon this reality – not restrict it. We need to enforce the Second Amendment and permit law-abiding citizens to carry personal arms of choice wherever they travel. Furthermore, we need to enforce transparency between the government (which serves) and its population (who is served). For example, withholding pertinent information on terrorist tactics and technologies from the general public under the guise of national security only reduces the concept of national defense (after all, the terrorists already know what they use and how they use it);

* Eliminate boundaries of war. Globalization has eliminated national boundaries as far as criminality goes. Not chasing terrorists across borders merely reflects upon our idiocy. If a nation does not like American special operatives chasing terrorists through their territory, then they can capture them for us. Otherwise, they should be considered as hostile nations and the gloves taken off;

* Reduce the size of government. Let’s not provide our enemies with too large of a head to cut off. We need to begin to shrink the size of government down to the bare necessities – i.e., the military, etc. When people start to quip that the problem with libertarians, for example, is that they wish to “shrink government down to unrecognizable levels”, we have a problem indeed. Government has become so large now that it is impossible to recognize what is a government function and what is not. Remember, people survived for hundreds of thousands of years before governments came into existence. We can survive just fine without Big Brother doing everything for us;

* Recognize the difference between peace and war. Peace is an eternal concept – we have never truly observed it for it is the complete absence of hostility. Conflict is, contrarily, the natural inclination of the human condition and serves our traits of competition, survival, and success. Until we can eliminate all of our enemies, there can be no cessation of hostility. Without ceasing hostility, there can be no hope for peace. Without hope, there can be no success in any endeavor. Remember, the Biblical tale of a thousand-year reign of peace came only after Heaven vanquished evil not before the war of Armageddon. Peace cannot exist until we defeat the “faith” that teaches – and was born from within – the concept of spreading ideologies through the sword.

Cover design: R.J. Godlewski

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R.J. Godlewski is an independent counterterrorism consultant, the director of the private International Nuclear Emergency Response Team [INERT], and the author of several novels, commentaries, and professional articles. He is also the author and architect of the Independent Counterterrorist training program. His analytical specialties are Middle East terrorism and improvised explosive devices. He is a member of the National Military Intelligence Association, the Golden Key International Honour Society, and the National Rifle Association as well as a veteran of both the United States Navy and Navy Reserve.

Imam - DEAD

In Dearborn, Michigan, Imam and prayer leader Luqman Ameen Abdullah, 53, formerly Christopher Thomas, was shot dead after refusing to surrender and firing on FBI agents.  Abdullah, according to Fox News, was leader of 'a radical group named Ummah whose primary mission is to establish an Islamic state within the United States and was "advocating and encouraging his followers to commit violent acts against the United States,... it was their "duty to oppose the FBI and the government and it does not matter if they die,"  FBI agent Gary Leone said in an affidavit.' 

As I've said before, mosques need to be investigated and infiltrated.  As I have also said, prisons are breeding grounds for Islamic radicals.  Something needs to be done about this also.

Abdullah regularly preached anti-government rhetoric and was trained, along with his followers, in the use of firearms, martial arts and swords, the agent said.

Leone said members of the national group mostly are black and some converted to Islam while in prisons across the United States.

"Abdullah preaches that every Muslim should have a weapon, and should not be scared to use their weapon when needed," Leone wrote.

Former prisoners -- with guns -- isn't this against the law???

Seven of the 10 people charged with Abdullah were in custody, including a state prison inmate, the U.S. attorney's office said. Three were still at large. Another man not named in the complaint also was arrested.

The group believes that a separate Islamic state in the U.S. would be controlled by Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, formerly known as H. Rap Brown, who is serving a life sentence in a federal prison in Colorado for shooting two police officers in Georgia in 2000, Leone said. Al-Amin, a veteran of the black power movement, started the group after he converted to Islam in prison.

"They're not taking their cues from overseas," said Jimmy Jones, a professor of world religions at Manhattanville College and a longtime Muslim prison chaplain. "This group is very much American born and bred."

  Of course CAIR was available to praise Abdullah:

Dawud Walid, executive director of the Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said the federal authorities' description of Abdullah's extremist links didn't match what he knew of Abdullah.

"I knew him to be charitable," Walid said. "He would open up the mosque to homeless people. He used to run a soup kitchen and feed indigent people. ... I knew nothing of him that was related to any nefarious or criminal behavior."  (read it all at Fox, hat tip R.J. Godlewski)

Dearbornistan Michigan -- Capital of the Islamic Caliphate of America.

Why our soldiers died in Afghanistan last week.

Exclusive: The Mortal Crisis of the U.S. Military’s Individual Personal Weapons Today

C. Austin Burrell, Family Security Matters.

This week, I reviewed a forward of a definitive report on the immoral crisis confronting our serving military soldiers and officers in the U.S. Army, the Marine Corps and the SEALS coming from the appalling performance of their personal side arms, rifles, and crew served automatic weapons in Iraq and Afghanistan. The PowerPoint was absolutely the most comprehensive of its kind I have ever seen, with 175 pages of snapshots of specific performance and non-performance of virtually every weapon in our national inventory. This report came on the heels of a battle last week in Afghanistan in which a strong point was overrun by Taliban terrorists, resulting in the deaths of nine U.S. soldiers and 27 wounded. 

 

How did this happen? Their weapons jammed with moderate use, they fouled, they overheated, and they just plain didn’t perform to the levels for which they were reportedly tested. In the name of a tainted bureaucracy, our men and women exposed to close combat are being given second-rate, inadequate weapons that may save chump change, but only at the price of unnecessary deaths of our most valuable assets – our people.

 

Weapons failures in the M9 (Beretta) Pistol, the M4 assault rifle, the Squad Automatic Weapon (known as the SAW), and the M249 30 Caliber Machine Gun, along with four other key weapons in the U.S. arsenal, are happening with far too much frequency, bordering on consistency. A weapons specialist named Jim Schatz has produced this absolutely comprehensive report from what has to be an intimate knowledge of the needs of individual soldiers and combat teams. What he presents is a pattern of abuse of process that dates all way back to the founding of this nation.  (continue reading)

Gun News and Idiot of the Day

MSNBC's Rachel Maddow opposes armed self defense:

"I like making liberals shoot guns -- I just don't think we should be allowed to bring them home," Maddow said. "It's like I mean you go to the carnival you know, like the roller coasters -- it's fun. But that doesn't mean you get one to come home with. Doesn't mean you get to do your own home roller coaster -- just leave it there, it's a game."   (more and video)

What an idiot.  These homeowners might argue with Ms. Maddow.  Four armed teenagers attempted a home invasion, two are now dead, one is seriously injured, and the fourth is in jail.  The three citizens inside the home are all unharmed, thanks to their personal weapons, ability to defend themselves, and quick reaction.  (more)

Sorry Ms. Maddow, it is NOT a game, it is self-defense.

Hunters are planning to stock up on bullets, shells, shotguns, rifles and handguns which will be sold without the 6 percent state sales tax or local sales taxes Friday through Sunday  thanks to Louisiana's new "sales tax holiday".  What a great idea.  (more)

In California, a bill that would ban gun shows at the Cow Palace in Daly City is expected to go before the state Assembly by Sept. 11.  On September 11.  I wonder if this was intentional or by accident.  (more)

Have a great Labor Day weekend.  Get out there and enjoy yourself, take advantage of  your freedoms while you still can.  Talk to your friends, family, neighbors and help them understand that these freedoms are under attack by an administration that hires people who hate this country.

The Executive Orders (first of a three part series)

I believe it is imperative to make the American public aware that Obama has the authority to suspend the constitution, confiscate our guns, round us up and move us to FEMA camps, forcibly inoculate, seize all communications media, etc.   "The Executive Orders" is the first in a series of three.  Number two will be "The Marxist President" and number three will be "Steps to Socialism." --Nancy Matthis

 

The Executive Orders

By Nancy Matthis at American Daughter

Barack Hussein Obama already has the legal authority to enslave the United States citizenry. That power was allocated to the office of President of the United States in a series of executive orders signed into law one by one throughout the last several administrations.

The persuasion for enacting these orders was to

• postulate some imaginary crisis that MIGHT occur — devastating hurricane, massive terrorist attack, virulent pandemic, and
• define draconian authority for the president to deal with the hypothetical emergency.

The tools for a Marxist takeover of the United States are already in place. All that remains is to manufacture a crisis to trigger the implementation of these executive powers. Hurricanes are still random events of nature, so the socialist revolutionaries in the executive branch must look at the other two options.

The sudden attack on the Central Intelligence Agency that we are currently witnessing will weaken our ability to forestall a terrorist attack. The vaccine for the H1N1 virus being forced on the citizens without adequate testing has the lethal ability to CAUSE a pandemic. So the flashpoint for implementing the “new order” may be one of these two catastrophes.

Most citizens are blissfully ignorant of the state defined by the executive orders, one in which the government can forcibly take control of every aspect of their lives. They are preoccupied with the activities of everyday life — working, raising their children, going to church, enjoying their vacation days. Those of us who have become aware of the “clear and present danger” must alert everyone to the scope of these executive orders — before it is too late.

And this must be done immediately, in light of the power grab currently being undertaken by the Obama administration. In a bill currently before the Senate, Obama is seeking authority to shut down the Internet. Note that he already has the power to suspend the Constitution and to nullify habeas corpus and all other personal liberties and rights, which would include the power to confiscate our guns.

The Executive Orders

Here’s a partial list of executive orders that already have the force of law — The FEMA list of Presidential Executive Orders. All of these were in place before Barack Hussein Obama took the oath of office:

• #10995 by John Kennedy, 1962: ASSIGNING TELECOMMUNICATIONS MANAGEMENT FUNCTIONS — Seizure of all communications media in the United States.
• #10997 by John Kennedy, 1962: ASSIGNING EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS FUNCTIONS TO THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR — Seizure of all electric power, fuels, and minerals, both public and private.
• #10998 by John Kennedy, 1962: ASSIGNING EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS FUNCTIONS TO THE SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE — Seizure of all food supplies and resources, public, and private, all farms and farm equipment.
• #10999 by John Kennedy, 1962: ASSIGNING EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS FUNCTIONS TO THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE — Seizure of all means of transportation, including personal cars, trucks or vehicles of any kind and total control over all highways, seaports and waterways.
• #11000 by John Kennedy, 1962: ASSIGNING EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS FUNCTIONS TO THE SECRETARY OF LABOR — Seizure of all American population for work forces under federal supervision, including dividing families as necessary according to governmental plans.
• #11001 by John Kennedy, 1962: ASSIGNING EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS FUNCTIONS TO THE SECRETARY OF HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE — Seizure of all health, education and welfare facilities, both public and private.
• #11002by John Kennedy, 1962: ASSIGNING EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS FUNCTIONS TO THE POSTMASTER GENERAL — Empowers the Postmaster General to register all men, women and children in the U.S.
• #11003 by John Kennedy, 1962: ASSIGNING EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS FUNCTIONS TO THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE FEDERAL AVIATION AGENCY — Seizure of all airports and aircraft.
• #11004 by John Kennedy, 1962: ASSIGNING CERTAIN EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS FUNCTIONS TO THE HOUSING AND HOME FINANCE ADMINISTRATOR — Seizure of all housing and finance authorities, to establish Forced Relocation. Designates areas to be abandoned as “unsafe,” establishes new locations for populations, relocates communications, builds new housing with public (’tax-payers’) funds.
• #11005 by John Kennedy, 1962: ASSIGNING EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS FUNCTIONS TO THE INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION — Seizure of all railroads, inland waterways and storage facilities, public and private.
• #11051 by John Kennedy, 1962: PRESCRIBING RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE OFFICE OF EMERGENCY PLANNING IN THE EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT — Provides the Office of Emergency Planning complete authorization to put the above orders into effect in times of increased international tension or economic or financial crisis.
• #11490 by Richard Nixon, 1969: Assigning emergency preparedness functions to Federal departments and agencies — Combines Executive Orders #11001 to #11005 and #11051 into a single Executive Order.
• #11921 by Gerald Ford, 1976: Adjusting Emergency Preparedness Assignments to Organizational and Functional Changes in Federal Departments and Agencies — F.E.M.A. is authorized to develop plans control energy, prices and wages, credit and the money supply to U.S. banks in the event of a ‘National Emergency.’ Congress may not review a President’s decision to enforce a ‘National Emergency’ for six months. (emphasis mine)
• #12656 by Ronald Reagan, 1988: Assignment of Emergency Preparedness Responsibilities — The National Security Council given authority to determine requisite emergency powers (increased domestic surveillance, isolation of communities, restriction of movement for groups and individuals in the USA, control of airspace, use of the national guard to enforce laws and seal borders).
• #12919 by Bill Clinton, 1994: NATIONAL DEFENSE INDUSTRIAL RESOURCES PREPAREDNESS — “National Defense Industrial Resources Preparedness” delegates authorities, responsibilities and allocations of F.E.M.A.’s Executive Orders for the confiscation of ALL PROPERTY from the American people, and their re-location and assignment to ‘labor’ camps. This Executive Order also supersedes or revokes eleven (11) previous Executive Orders [from 1939 through 1991] and amends Executive Order #10789 and #11790. The declaration of a ‘National Emergency’ by the President may immediately lead to the implementation of all or part of these provisions and if he so desires he may implement martial law, suspend the Constitution, nullify habeas corpus and all other personal liberties and rights.

PERFECT ENEMY: The Law Enforcement Manual of Islamist Terrorism (Available in October)

PERFECT ENEMY: The Law Enforcement Manual of Islamist Terrorism

(Available in October)
By Dean T. Olson

On September 11, 2001, America’s 700,000 law enforcement officers were forcefully introduced to a new era in policing after Islamist terrorists perpetrated the most savage and horrific terrorist violence ever on American soil. In spite of the post 9/11 proliferation of information about Islamist terrorism, many law enforcement officers remain uninformed about the nature, scope, and reality of this threat.

Even the FBI (America’s lead law enforcement agency in the struggle against Islamist terrorism) fails to arm its agents with accurate and comprehensive information to understand this patient, merciless, and fanatical foe. This manual was prepared to address this knowledge void by explaining the underlying politico-religious motivations that drives Islamist terrorism.

It contains chapters that explain Islamist terrorism and describe the history of Islam and the Prophet Muhammad. The tenets of Islam and the ideology used to justify terrorist atrocities ranging from suicide/homicide bombings in Israel to the slaughter of school children in Beslan, Russia are documented. The history of Jihad, the oldest and most successful international Islamist group in the world, and how this group has established an effective subversive apparatus in America that works tirelessly to dismantle our democratic freedoms is described.

The text explains that by using a “soft” form of Jihad, this group seeks to destroy Western ideals and democracy with the goal of replacing them with a fascist totalitarian ideology to obtain world domination and the forced imposition of a seventh century politico-religious system of law. The radicalization process that can lead apparently well-integrated Muslim citizens to terrorism is discussed, including the Taliban and al-Qaeda terrorist groups.

A summary of comprehensive information detailing the Islamist groups active within America and the dangers they pose to Homeland Security is provided. In addition, the Appendices contain an Arabic Name Analysis, Ritual Prayer-Salat, Jihad Holy War Verse in the Koran, Jihad campaigns in history, “The Last Night” letter by Muhammad Atta who was the leader in the 9/11 attacks, and an explanatory memorandum on the general strategic goal for the Muslim Brotherhood in North America.

Perfect Enemy provides unbiased and accurate information to acquaint our law enforcement officers and Homeland Security officials with the Islamist mindset and threat. Knowing our adversaries is a fundamental first step in defeating their violent intentions and ensuring our survival, peace, and safety.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface
Transliteration of Arabic Names
Islamic Source Materials
Use of Pseudonyms and Noms de Guerres

Introduction — Deserving Victory

Chapter One — Islamist Terrorism: Back to the Future
Chapter Two — A Brief History of Muhammad and Islam
Chapter Three — Islam: A Critical Examination
Chapter Four — Perfect Enemy: Islam’s Dark Side
Chapter Five — Islamic Ideology: Deploying the Undead
Chapter Six — Jihad: Islam’s Trojan Horse
Chapter Seven — The Muslim Brotherhood: Progenitor of Islamist Terrorism
Chapter Eight — The Islamist Fifth Column
Chapter Nine — Radicalization: Producing Homegrown Terrorists
Chapter Ten — Islamist Terrorist Organization in the Homeland
Chapter Eleven — Conclusion and Final Comments

Appendices
Appendix A — Arab Naming Conventions (LAPD)
Appendix B – Prayer Ritual
Appendix C — Ablution Ritual
Appendix D — Violent Surahs in the Qur’an
Appendix E — The “Last Night Letter” of Muhammad Atta
Appendix F — The Muslim Brotherhood Europe Project
Appendix G — The Muslim Brotherhood American Project
Appendix H — Jihad in History

Purchase at Amazon.com or Charles C. Thomas Publisher LTD

Not a conspiracy any more

I'm not a regular watcher of Glenn Beck on Fox News, but I did tune in today. If I didn't understand what he was talking about and if I was not an informed Conservative, I might think he was a conspiracy nut.  My friends, we have reached a time in American history where what would normally seem like crazy conspiracy is actually fact.   He's doing a special one week series on our current situation that is just amazing. 

Apparently American television viewers agree, because the ratings put other shows, even Fox shows, and other networks to shame.  Check the numbers for yourself.  You can listen to audio/video at his web site.  He poses questions, shines the light of day on the Obama administration and it's shadow government.  On Friday, August 28, 2009, he will be presenting solutions, actions that you as an average American can take to halt this disastrous takeover of America by Barack Obama and his thugs.

How we ever got in the situation we are presently in is beyond me.  But here we are nevertheless.  We cannot depend on our politicians to protect us, so we must take actions ourselves. 

Beck is going behind the scenes of the Obama administration.  He discussed with Michelle Malkin, the massive national security force Obama plans to build, the funding provided for it, and WHY does Obama need this security force???  Who will be the target of this security force???  The "angry mobs" at tea parties or town halls???  Those who cling to their religion and guns?

Beck's 912 project has captured the hearts of Americans.  Politicians should take notice.  If Glenn Beck or Rush Limbaugh were to run for political office against ANYBODY else, they would win by a landslide.  This should tell both wimpy Republicans and Democrats something.

Glenn Beck's book Common Sense has been on the top of the best seller list of all categories of books for ten weeks now.  That should tell politicians and the MSM something too. 

Certain networks are in the tank for Obama, always have been.  They choose their news, what fits the Obama agenda, they choose what ads they will run, whether they suit the Obama agenda... I thought it was the responsibility of a "news" organization to report facts and events, not to carry the water of the Democrat party.  Silly me.  There are reports that some sponsors of the Glenn Beck show have withdrawn their support, but it hasn't hurt his viewing numbers one bit.  My gut is a little worried about Fox keeping Beck on board... time will tell.

Other reading:

Afghan released from Gitmo Sues, Islam in Action

Jordan's King Abdullah purges regime and army of Palestinians, DEBKA

Files prove Pentagon is profiling reporters, Stripes

Libya, A Heroes Welcome, StratFor

Barack Obama on brink of deal for Middle East peace talks, Guardian

States vs Federal Government on Guns

Must read from the Tenth Amendment Center (emphasis mine)

Will Michigan Nullify Federal Gun Laws?

by Michael Boldin

Introduced in the Michigan House on August 11, 2009, the “Firearms Freedom Act” (HB-5232) seeks “to make certain findings regarding intrastate commerce; to prohibit federal regulation of firearms, firearms accessories, and ammunition involved purely in intrastate commerce in [the State of Michigan]; to provide for certain exceptions to federal regulation; and to establish certain manufacturing requirements.”

The bill was authored by Rep. Phillip Pavlov and currently has 44 co-sponsors.

While the HB5232’s title focuses on federal gun regulations, it has far more to do with the 10th Amendment’s limit on the power of the federal government.  It specifically states:

The regulation of intrastate commerce is vested in the states under amendments IX and X of the constitution of the United States, particularly if not expressly preempted by federal law. Congress has not expressly preempted state regulation of intrastate commerce pertaining to the manufacture on an intrastate basis of firearms, firearms accessories, and ammunition.

Some supporters of the legislation say that a successful application of such a state-law would set a strong precedent and open the door for states to take their own positions on a wide range of activities that they see as not being authorized to the Federal Government by the Constitution.

Firearms Freedom Acts have already passed in both Montana and Tennessee, and have been introduced in a number of other states around the country. There’s been no lack of controversy surrounding them, either.  The Tenth Amendment Center recently reported on the ATF’s position that such laws don’t matter:

The Federal Government, by way of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms expressed its own view of the Tenth Amendment this week when it issued an open letter to ‘all Tennessee Federal Firearms Licensees’ in which it denounced the opinion of Beavers and the Tennessee legislature.  ATF assistant director Carson W. Carroll wrote that ‘Federal law supersedes the Act’, and thus the ATF considers it meaningless.

Constitutional historian Kevin R.C. Gutzman sees this as something far removed from the founders’ vision of constitutional government:

“Their view is that the states exist for the administrative convenience of the Federal Government, and so of course any conflict between state and federal policy must be resolved in favor of the latter.”

“This is another way of saying that the Tenth Amendment is not binding on the Federal Government. Of course, that amounts to saying that federal officials have decided to ignore the Constitution when it doesn’t suit them.”

Advocates of these efforts say it doesn’t matter if the federal government disagrees, or even threatens states over funding, as they did recently with Oklahoma.  Gary Marbut, author of the Montana Firearms Freedom Act, and founder of http://www.firearmsfreedomact.com/ took this position in a recent interview with the Tenth Amendment Center:

“We’re not depending on permission from federal judges to be able to effectuate our state-made guns bills.  And, we’re working on other strategies to wrest essential and effective power from the federal government and put it where it belongs.“

The principle behind such legislation is nullification, which has a long history in the American tradition. When a state ‘nullifies’ a federal law, it is proclaiming that the law in question is void and inoperative, or ‘non-effective,’ within the boundaries of that state; or, in other words, not a law as far as the state is concerned.

All across the country, activists and state-legislators are pressing for similar legislation, to nullify specific federal laws within their states.

A proposed Constitutional Amendment to effectively ban national health care will go to a vote in Arizona in 2010.  Thirteen states now have some form of medical marijuana laws - in direct contravention to federal laws which state that the plant is illegal in all circumstances.  And, massive state nullification of the 2005 Real ID Act has rendered the law void.

While many advocates concede that a federal court battle has a slim chance of success, they point to the successful nullification of the Real ID Act as a blueprint to resist various federal laws that they see as outside the scope of the Constitution.

Some say that each successful state-level resistance to federal programs will only embolden others to try the same – resulting in an eventual shift of power from the federal government to the States and the People themselves.

Copyright © 2009 by TenthAmendmentCenter.com. Permission to reprint in whole or in part is gladly granted, provided full credit is given.

It's a Saturday Night Special... on Friday

You lucky ducks, you're getting a Saturday Night Special post here at Right Truth a day early.  The phrase Saturday night special is pejorative slang used in the United States and Canada for any inexpensive handgun.  Considering self-defense is more important than ever, and also considering that the Obama administration would love to take away our legal guns, I think it's appropriate to this post.  Saturday Night Special is also a song by the group Lynard Skynyrd (see video below).  Now it is also the name of a post where you get the news you may have missed during the week and it's the name of the drink of the day-- The Saturday Night Special.

The song, followed by the news, then the drink... enjoy:
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Offshore drilling now, create jobs, increase our energy supplies:

Today 97 House Republicans joined Rep. Hastings in sending this letter to Department of the Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, encouraging him to stop delaying offshore drilling and finally move forward with an “all of the above” energy plan that includes renewable energy and American-made oil and natural gas.  With 14.7 million Americans out of work, it is more important than ever that we take steps to create jobs in some states that are struggling the most.  In fact, 7 of the states that border the OCS have double digit unemployment:

Tea Party Patriots have actually read the health care bill(s), see what they have found.


Child Barbarians in Phoenix: Obama Extends Their Stay. by Dr. Phyllis Chesler

Israel wipped off the face of the ....website?

Today on National Review Online's The Corner, FDD President Clifford May calls attention to the complete omission of Israel from the wesbite of the Consulate General of the United States in Jerusalem.  His post is below.  His weekly syndicated column is on a related theme: the tendency of the Obama administration to "curry favor with our adversaries at the expense of our friends."    (Consulate General)

Homeland Security Network is giving away free stuff (I want the Smith & Wesson Homeland Security Knife, or maybe a Swiss Army knife of my own that does everything.

Next week we'll be giving away over $250.00 worth of prizes. The prizes include a A Smith & Wesson Tactical Flashlight,  2 Smith & Wesson Homeland Security Knives, a pair of Tasco 12x32 Binoculars & an autographed Brad Thor Book, "The Apostle".  There's no cost to enter, but you'll need to check the site each day for info on how to win the daily prize. Details will be posted Monday on our website. You will need to be a Facebook Fan to enter.
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Drink of the night is a Right Truth Saturday Night Special:

Right Truth Saturday Night Special

2 ounces Kahlua
2 ounces Baileys Irish Cream
2 ounces Cream de Cacao
2% milk

Add Kahlua, Baileys Irish Cream and Cream de Cacao to a glass filled with ice, finish filling glass with 2% milk (or heavy cream, or regular milk, or skim milk.)

Stir gently.  Enjoy. 

Just think, you are getting your calcium and protein while enjoying a refreshing chocolate coffee drink.

It does not have very much alcohol either, just enough to keep your arteries pumping at a healthy pace (in spite of Barack Obama) and your cardiologist happy.

100% Pure Palin - She's Back! UPDATED

Sarah Palin was authentic, positive, bright, funny, upbeat, and 100% pure Palin in her official resignation speech today, July 26, 2009, as Governor of Alaska transferring the power of her office to Lt. Governor Sean Parnell.  She praised the country, the state of Alaska, the military and our precious freedom of speech. The audience cheered.

She took on the media, noting their power, influence and the importance of their job to report the facts.  Palin said to the media, "... in honor of our military, quit making things up. ... Don't underestimate the American people."  Her final piece of advice for the media was to leave the children of politicians alone.   The audience cheered even louder. 

She addressed the people of Alaska, reminding them of promises made and promises kept.  She emphasized the partnership between Alaskan politicians and the people.  They slowed the rate of government growth;  resisted stimulus package;  slashed earmark requests over 80%; just to mention a few of the many accomplishments of Alaskans.   She remembers as a child people talking about, wishing for, and dreaming of a gas pipeline.  Palin said, "We made it come true."

She assured the people that patriots will defend the right to own guns.  "As Alaskans we eat, therefore we hunt.'"  The audience went wild.

Sarah Palin encouraged people to be self-sufficient, self-sustaining.  "Let's not believe government is the answer -- people are the answer."

With energy a hot topic, Palin linked "energy and America's security, energy and America's independence."  Her inference was obvious, drill drill drill.  Use our own natural resources. Use our own technology, and not be caught up in the "actresses" in Hollywood who try to make Alaska [oil, gas, etc.] the enemy.

She told listeners that "it should be obvious to you" why I'm stepping down as Governor of Alaska.  "I love Alaska.  How does a lame duck session help Alaska?"

"I will be on the front lines to serve you.  God bless Alaska.  God bless America."

Please note the above is live-blogging and quotes may not be complete.  Video and full written text will be available shortly.

There's no doubt that the Sara Palin we fell in political love with last year is back stronger than ever and on a mission.  Barack Obama, Liberals and RINOs, -- look out!   She's hunting weasels and you're in her cross-hairs!

Here's the video:

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The Marriage of Terrorism and Weapons of Mass Destruction: A Relationship Built Entirely Upon Chemistry

The Marriage of Terrorism and Weapons of Mass Destruction:
A Relationship Built Entirely Upon Chemistry

R. J. Godlewski
Originally submitted to American Military University

July 13, 2009

“O people, know that you have committed great sins, and that the great ones among you have committed these sins. If you ask me what proof I have for these words, I say it is because I am the punishment of God. If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you.” Chinggis Khan standing before the Muslims in the Mosque of Bukhara, 1220 (May 2007, 1)

    The business of terror has always been an extremely nasty sort of enterprise, regardless of how one truly defines the term. From the ancient Romans who turned terror into “political theatre, designed to humiliate” (Goodman 2007, 7) to al-Qaeda’s 2001 attack upon the United States proper using commercial airliners packed with screaming passengers, there were proponents of “Shock and Awe” long before the Americans invented the term to describe their 2003 onslaught against Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. Even God seems to have gotten into the act: “The Lord wiped out every living thing on earth: man and cattle, the creeping things and the birds of the air; all were wiped out from the earth” [Genesis 7:23 NAB]. Apparently, there seems to be some profit potential from this particular line of business.

The Business Plan of Terrorism.

    Like any other pursuit, the concept of terrorism resides upon three basic elements: its ambitions, its personnel, and its tools of the trade. To understand its presence within our society, we must first consider each of these fragments separately:

1. Ambitions.

    Any function of the human mind serves a particular objective, without which there probably would not have been the necessary thought in the first place. Terrorism, within this context, is a highly complex endeavor for it necessitates raw human emotion to service its cause and effect. Compounding this situation is the human mind itself, a vessel that serves no noticeable function but to limit our abilities to that as governed by the thoughts and actions we’ve acquired since birth  (Godlewski 2008, 85).

    The primary ambition of terror, therefore, is simply to disrupt these lifelong thoughts and actions and short-circuit the human mind into considering viewpoints which are largely foreign to the individual’s consciousness. Terrorism, as a vehicle, is effective solely for the purpose of instilling a sense of  survival within its victim, a primal sense that they may not be adequately conditioned to handle. However, panic without direction is simply chaos. Ambition thus needs a progenitor.

2. Personnel

    The practitioners of terrorism are often identified by a host of names – freedom fighters, guerrillas, partisans, savages, etc. – depending upon the particular perspective of the one actually classifying the group. For the purposes of this discussion, we shall 

“categorize terrorists as private or state-sponsored groups operating largely outside the control of the national military whose fundamental goal is to intimidate people and their governments into recognizing the group’s ideologies and/or religious beliefs through the coordinated use of indiscriminate murder, torture, and the destruction of private and public properties, especially that which will achieve a great deal of attention by local and international  media organizations”  (Godlewski, Integrated Technical Warfare: An Organizational Guide to Creating a Corporate Counterterrorism Force 2006, 92).

This somewhat arbitary definition will permit us to briefly consider the evolution of the terrorist individual.

    Although terror itself is an unavoidable aspect of conflict, its focused use as a force-multiplier is restricted largely to those who wish to challenge the status quo in war. That is, for example, Chinggis Khan used the concept of divine retribution to assail the sensibilities of the Muslims in Bukhara while President Harry S. Truman unleashed nuclear war upon Imperial Japan to prevent the need for a full-scale invasion of the islands against which the Emperor’s army was prepared to fight. Each of these cases illustrates how shattering the preconception of human thought served the victor.

    The privatization of terror, similarly, permits radical groups and individuals an opportunity to sidestep their deficiencies vis a vis modern territorial armies and level the playing field in terms more acceptible to the lesser aggressor. They can use their meager resources to to great effect through precision targeting  (Balor 1988, 221). They can further assure themselves of the clandestine nature necessitated by modern warfare  (Balor 1988, 2003).

    While there are several variations for the definition of terror, all its practitioners hail from a solitary group – those willing to apply maximum force upon a specific target for the sole purpose of shattering the thought processes of those being attacked. Add to this the notion of unauthorized, illegitimate, or non-state aggression upon innocent civilians, and you have defined the modern terrorist.

3. Tools of the trade.

    As terrorists are largely independent of any state or nation, their tools of war are necessarily limited. They can achieve notoriety through only two methods. First, they can assassinate a leader; someone who solitary death can affect many. The removal of a prominent prime minister, for example, may affect the direction of a national leaderhip  (Laqueur 1987, 137). Alternatively, they can hasten the deaths of many ordinary citizens that would accomplish the duality of hamstringing a leader and terrifying a population. Such actions require tools that are not necessarily interchangeable.

    From the beginning, terrorists had been content with utilizing the pistol or, earlier, the dagger to practice their craft (Laqueur 1987, 101). These devices were sufficient for the elimination of an individual, but as the world progressed into better developed democracies and republics, the killing of a single individual did little to affect the future of the modern nation. Therefore, the prudent purveyor of mayhem shifted to using explosive devices to kill.

    The use of bombs, first  brought about by the likes of Narodnaya Volya and company ushered in a new era of destruction en masse.  (Laqueur 1987, 104). Unfortunately for the terrorist mind, black powder explosives and even dynamite were considered insufficiently powerful to advance their cause. These needed to be replaced by more efficient military explosives  (Akhavan 2006,7). These chemicals of war accelerated the cause of terrorism.

The Balance Sheet of Terrorism.

    Like a biological parasite, a terrorist organization needed to feed off its host in order to survive. Too much destruction brought upon it a quick and early death as the masses revolted in favor of the state. Too little destruction reduced the aspiring terrorist group to nothing more than criminal felons. Because of this, terrorist attacks during the 20th and 21st centuries tended to appear in gradual improvements of lethality (Ellis 2007, 118-173).

    As Western nations – the overwhelming adversary of late 2oth century/early 21st century terrorism – improved both their militaries and their intelligence agencies, Islamic terrorism, in particular, found itself needing to proportionately increase its attacks for effect. This left the door open for Osama Bin Laden’s al-Qaeda to perpetrate their four-fold attack on September 11th, 2001. Although the West, led predominately by the United States, responded vehemently, this action simply forced the terrorists to forge ahead with their own evolution by way of necessity.

    At this point, it would be prudent to draw some parallels between labor unionism and terrorism. Each loses value and prestige through silence. Recruitment for either demands effectiveness in the eyes of their constituents. Neither can appear either weak or overbearing. Both excel at playing the “common man against Big Brother” card. Therefore, inasmuch as labor unions must strike periodically – even if no strike is fully warranted – to be seen as relevant, terrorist organizations must also attack from time to time to remain noticeable.

    The fundamental difference between the two groups, however, mandates that terrorists operate clandestinely whereas labor unions are freer to pursue their incorporated cause. This necessitates that practitioners of terrorism apply both their resources and personnel in the most effective way possible. Taking a step further, terrorist groups must achieve the most spectacular attack obtainable given their dual needs for mayhem and survival.

    Sadly, for all parties concerned, the civilized world has readily absorbed the economic and psychological impact of the terrorist attacks orchestrated on 9/11. Al-Qaeda has been thwarted in numerous attempts since and their agents are on the run throughout the world. This is sad for these are definitely not the kind of people who can simply “retire” from their field and turn to more amiable pursuits. Like a weakened labor union confronting a prosperous and unyielding corporation, they will need to launch a strike at all cost if they are to survive as a threat against the West.

The Expansion of Terrorism.

    To remain competitive and in business, terrorist organizations have had to develop new methods of carrying out their ambitions. When the pistol and the dagger proved inefficient, they moved into explosives. When early explosives proved inadequate, they moved into military compositions. When these military explosives proved too complicated, expensive, or hard to acquire for general use, the terrorists altered their methods and herein is where their competitive model truly excels.

    In April 1983 Beirut, a driver with a 2,000 pound bomb tucked into his pickup truck evaded local security personnel and U.S. Marines to detonate his vehicle in front of the American embassy (Ellis 2007, 118-119). Later that year, in October, a much larger vehicular-based bomb was detonated after it tore through security parameters and into the interior of the Marine barracks in Beirut (Ellis 2007, 121-129). These two attacks killed hundreds of Americans and ushered in a profitable niche for the Islamic terrorist business model – that of using vehicular-borne improvised explosive devices (VBIED) against a better-trained, better-equipped, but more civilized adversary.

    When America reacted with stronger security measures, the Islamists adapted further, altering not only their design of explosives but their targets as well.  In February 1993, a Ryder rental truck filled with 1,200 pounds of high explosives surrounded by three bottles of compressed and flammable hydrogen gas was detonated within the parking garage of the World Trade Center, Tower One located in the heart of New York City (Ellis 2007, 129). By October 2000, they shifted from a series of similar attacks throughout the Middle East to launch a water-borne attack upon the U.S.S. Cole moored in Aden Harbor, Yemen using 100 pounds of explosives carried by a small boat and the ubiquitous suicide attendants (Ellis 2007, 152).

    Caught largely comatose during a successively bolder war against radical Islam hailing from 1983, the United States of America was completely ill-prepared for the next evolution of the terrorists’ diversification program. The simultaneous attacks upon the World Trade Center and Pentagon in September 2001 utilizing what could only be considered as Improvised Commercial Transport Devices, signaled an enormous shift in how the Islamist business model was to be marketed: no longer would they rely upon conventional explosives and no longer would they be content with mere hundreds of dead.

The Greed of Terrorism.

    Unconventional warfare has always embraced the use of chemical explosives. The availability of TNT (trinitrotoluene) , dynamite, and RDX has provided the limited conflict warrior with a host of potent options in which to carry out their diabolical schemes (Gander 1990, 24-30). Polymer bonded explosives (PBXs), developed since 1952, increased the lethality and adaptability of military-style ordnances (Akhavan 2006, 11-14). Yet, even with these new arrivals, modern terrorists felt impotent if they could not adequately challenge even their largest competitors for the world’s attention.

    In March 1995 the Aum Shinrikyo cult in Japan unleashed a nerve gas attack upon the unsuspecting patrons of the Tokyo subway system that killed twelve and terrorized over three thousand (Tucker 2006, 342-349). Despite the thousands of people killed in twentieth century terrorist attacks, the barrier between conventional and unconventional weapons of mass destruction (WMD) had now been breached. There no longer remained any scruples on the part of secular or religious terrorism.

    WMDs were never a new phenomenon; the concept had existed since ancient times (Bernstein 2006, 3). Nevertheless, Osama Bin Laden’s al-Qaeda group has emerged as “the most serious and immediate threat with respect to WMD terrorism” (Bernstein 2006, 19). What makes al-Qaeda so dangerous, is that they are the group that most single-handedly went global in their area of operation and combined that feat with setting a new standard in barbarism – 9/11.

    Like Aum Shinrikyo, al-Qaeda possessed a robust biochemical weapons program (Bernstein 2006, 18). This alone would suggest that the Islamic terror group has considered other elements of the WMD triad. Its nuclear agenda has been characterized as “ambitious” though it is thought to possess more capabilities for using a radiological dispersal device (RDD) as its primary threat against civilization (Bernstein 2006, 19). Regardless, this is still a significant threat with which to deal.

    Simply put, an RDD is “any method used to deliberately disperse radioactive material to create terror or harm…It is made by packaging explosives (like dynamite) with radioactive material to be dispersed when the bomb goes off”  (Argonne National Laboratory 2005, 1). As we have already seen, al-Qaeda has a decade of experience in “packaging explosives”. Unlike within nuclear fission or fusion weapons, a host of sources can provide RDDs with their radioactivity.

    Chief amongst these are Americium-241, Californium-252, Cesium-137, Cobolt-60, Iridium-192, Plutonium-238, Polonium-210, Radium-226, and Strontium-90  (Argonne National Laboratory 2005, 2). All that any would-be terrorist needs to do is pilfer a reasonable amount of the material from the hundreds of thousands of sources available within the United States and coat it onto a cheap explosive device.

    Any detonation of such a device would not only impart fire and blast damage upon the immediate vacinity, but spread the psychological and health terrors associated with an unseen, unnerving radiating “force” as well. Hospitals would be packed to capacity with patients, both real and imaginary, and the national media would heighten the hysteria even further. Next, we would have to consider an even deadlier scenario.

Capital Terrorism.

    The apex of terroristic enterprise is the destruction of an entire Western city and this could only involve the use of an actual nuclear weapon – not merely an RDD wannabe. This progression into legitimate nuclear criticality, however, demands financial, technical, and logistical expertise (Ferguson and Potter 2004, 7). At the present, only al-Qaeda seems to meet these requirements (Ferguson and Potter 2004,7).

    In order to achieve nuclear detonation, a fissile material has to be compressed sufficiently to impart self-sustaining criticality within its mass (Yang and Hamilton 1996, 589). This requirement remains somewhat at the opposite end of the terrorist spectrum, away from large VBIEDs, for example. This does not preclude terrorists from achieving the technical know-how to compress fissile material through their existing explosives expertise, particularly within a world saturated by the Internet and high-speed personal computers.

    Al-Qaeda, again, remains the only global terrorist organization with the logistics, the finances, the notoriety, and the resolve to perhaps, someday, unleash the very power of the universe against the West. They certainly have expressed their hatred and desire to do so. Their use of engineering and chemistry has shown that the only obstacle which prevents them from totally destroying New York City, or Los Angeles, or maybe Chicago is the assumed lack of fissile material. Once Osama Bin Laden’s widespread network acquires this material, then today’s Chinggis Khan may also stand before Muslims seated within a mosque and declare “I am the punishment of God”.

References

Akhavan, Jacqueline. The Chemistry of Explosives. Second Edition. Cambridge: Royal Society of Chemistry, 2006.

Argonne National Laboratory. Radiological Disperal Device (RDD). Human Health Fact Sheet, Chicago: Argonne National Laboratory, 2005.

Balor, Paul. Manual of the Mercenary Soldier. Boulder: Paladin Press, 1988.

Bernstein, Paul I. Weapons of Mass Destruction: A Primer. Technical Instruction, Advanced Systems and Concepts Office, Washington: Defense Threat Reduction Agency, 2006.

Ellis, John W. Police Analysis and Planning for Homicide Bombings: Prevention, Defense, and Response. Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas Publisher, Ltd., 2007.

Ferguson, Charles D., and William C. Potter. Improvised Nuclear Devices and Nuclear Terrorism. Research Paper, Stockholm: The Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission, 2004.

Gander, Terry. Guerrilla Warfare Weapons: The Modern Underground Fighter's Armoury. New York: Sterling Publishing Co., Inc., 1990.

Godlewski, R.J. "Cultivating Creativity within Intelligence Analysis." American Intelligence Journal, 2008: 85-87.

—. Integrated Technical Warfare: An Organizational Guide to Creating a Corporate Counterterrorism Force. Michigan: Road Sailor Books, 2006.

Goodman, Martin. Rome and Jerusalem: The Clash of Ancient Civilizations. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007.

Laqueur, Walter. The Age of Terrorism. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1987.

May, Timothy. THE MONGOL ART OF WAR: Chinggis Khan and the Mongol Military System. Book Club. Yardley, PA: Westholme Publishing, 2007.

Tucker, Johathan B. War of Nerves: Chemical Warfare from World War I to Al-Qaeda. New York: Pantheon, 2006.

Yang, Fujia, and Joseph H. Hamilton. Modern Atomic and Nuclear Physics. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1996.

Sotomayer Overlooks All 14 Supreme Court Self-Defense Cases

Via email.  Disclaimer, I haven't verified any of this so you're on your own  (hat tip Marcus Wilder):

PAGE NINE -- No. 68 - SPECIAL
by Alan Korwin, Co-Author
Supreme Court Gun Cases

 

 

Sotomayer Overlooks All 14
Supreme Court Self-Defense Cases

High Court has examined every aspect of self defense

Entire nation falsely believes the issue has never come up

For Immediate Release:
Sotomayer Misses All 14 Self Defense Cases

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 21, 2009
Full contact info at end

 

by Alan Korwin, Co-Author
Supreme Court Gun Cases

 

In Congressional testimony, Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayer claimed she couldn't think of a self-defense case having come before the Supreme Court, adding, "I could be wrong, but I can't think of one." Independent research shows that fourteen separate Supreme Court cases, from 1895 to 1985, addressed every basic aspect of personal self defense. All of them held that self defense is a valid, justifiable and long-standing tenet of American law.

The Bloomfield Press book "Supreme Court Gun Cases" (Kopel, Halbrook, Korwin), released in 2003 and in the Supreme Court's library, covers the 92 High Court gun cases in existence at that time. Four additional gun cases (plus the original 92) are included in the followup, "The Heller Case: Gun Rights Affirmed," released in 2008. The fourteen cases that directly address self defense are summarized below in Q&A format. Full summaries of the cases are found in "The Heller Case" book, http://www.gunlaws.com/hc.htm, and the cases themselves can be linked to from the Scottsdale, Ariz.-based company's website, http://www.gunlaws.com, using the National Directory button.

The brief index below is a convenient research and navigation tool, and a way to set the record straight on what the Court has already done. Read the entire case for a thorough understanding of each one.

The news media, pundits, Congress and Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayer have unfortunately exhibited complete ignorance of these cases, and public policy is harmed by that lack of knowledge.

The Supreme Court has recognized, addressed and answered all the most fundamental questions about self defense. The idea that they have never addressed this core American issue is completely false, as the numerous cases clearly demonstrate. The news media is encouraged to correct any misconceptions that may exist on this subject and in Ms. Sotomayer's sworn testimony.

 

IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER:

KEY:     Name      Date       Citation       Page

Acers v. United States       1896       164 U.S. 388       238
Is fear of a deadly attack, without reasonable demonstrated grounds for the fear, sufficient to support a claim of self defense [NO]; Must the danger be immediate [YES]; Can any object be considered as a deadly weapon depending on how it was used [YES].

Alberty v. United States       1896       162 U.S. 499       231
If a husband sees another man trying to get into his wife’s room window at night is it natural for him to investigate further [YES]; Is the husband under a duty to retreat when attacked with a knife under such circumstances [NO]; May the husband use only as much force as is necessary to repel the assault [YES]; If in an ensuing confrontation the husband shoots and kills the other man, then flees, must his flight in and of itself be seen as evidence of his guilt [NO].

Allen v. United States       1896       164 U.S. 492       241
Are words alone sufficient provocation to justify an assault [NO]; Are words alone sufficient to reduce murder to manslaughter [NO]; Can premeditation and intent to kill be determined from your actions [YES]; Although flight after a possibly criminal event may suggest guilt, does it prove it conclusively [NO].

Allison v. United States       1895       160 U.S. 203       216
Is it reasonable to believe that you’re in immediate deadly danger if a person, known to be abusive, known to carry a pistol, and who has made public threats against your life, makes a motion as if to draw down on you, even if it turns out he wasn’t armed at the time [YES]; If there is no corroborating evidence besides your testimony, may the jury decide to take your word for it and acquit based on your credibility [YES]; If you have your deer rifle with you while visiting a friend’s house and your adversary shows up, and in an ensuing confrontation you shoot him, can the judge instruct the jury that you’re guilty of murder if you armed yourself to go hunt down your adversary, when there is no evidence to support this claim [NO].

Andersen v. United States       1898       170 U.S. 481       255
If an indictment is brought charging that a defendant shot and then threw a victim’s body into the sea, so the exact cause of death cannot be known, is the indictment flawed and invalid [NO]; Do the elements of self defense have to be present for an accused person to successfully claim self defense [YES].

Beard v. United States       1895       158 U.S. 550       208
Can you stand your ground with a shotgun against an unprovoked armed attack on your property near your home [YES]; Is there a greater duty to retreat on your own property than in your house [NO].

Brown v. United States       1921       256 U.S. 335       285
Is there a duty to retreat when attacked by a man with a knife [NO]; Believing you’re in a mortal conflict, if you fire a shot in the heat of combat, which in cool reflection later may be seen as unnecessary, may you still be acquitted on grounds of self defense [YES]; Is your right of self defense roughly similar in your home, on your land, and at your work [YES]; Can detached reflection be demanded in the presence of an uplifted knife [NO].

Gourko v. United States       1894       153 U.S. 183       189
If you shoot someone who has repeatedly threatened you, and the circumstances of the shooting are not found to be justifiable as self defense, does the fact that you armed yourself in response to the threat automatically make the shooting murder (as opposed to manslaughter) [NO].

Logan v. United States       1892       144 U.S. 263       180
Does the 2nd Amendment guarantee a preexisting right recognized by the Constitution, and not a right created by the Constitution [YES]; Is a prisoner in legal custody entitled to protection “while he is deprived of the ordinary means of defending and protecting himself” [YES].

Rowe v. United States       1896       164 U.S. 546       247
If a man is provoked into making a minor assault on someone, and then backs off in good faith, is his right to self defense restored if the person he assaulted attacks him with a deadly weapon? [YES]; Is he required to retreat under such circumstances [NO]; Is he under an obligation to try to only wound an attacker when fighting for his life [NO]; Can either party in a mutual combat claim self defense [NO].

Starr v. United States       1894       153 U.S. 614       196
If a law officer legally serving a warrant shoots at a suspect without identifying himself, is the suspect justified in shooting back and killing the officer in self defense [YES].

Tennessee v. Garner       1985       471 U.S. 1       428
Is the use of deadly force by police to prevent the escape of all felony suspects constitutionally unreasonable [YES]; Is the use of deadly force by a police officer permissible under the 4th Amendment, if necessary to prevent the escape of a felony suspect who threatens the officer with a weapon, or if there is probable cause to believe that the suspect has committed a crime involving the infliction or threatened infliction of serious physical harm, if, where feasible, some warning has been given [YES].

Thompson v. United States       1894       155 U.S. 271       203
Does arming yourself after being threatened, and then traveling the only road in the area where you know your adversary may be, turn a subsequent shooting of the adversary during a confrontation into murder? [NO]; Is arming yourself for legitimate self defense premeditation [NO].

Wallace v. United States       1896       162 U.S. 466       224
Is it up to the jury to decide whether a homicide is murder, manslaughter or justifiable [YES]; Does a perfect right of self defense require blamelessness in the confrontation and an act of necessity only [YES]; Can you claim self defense if you had intentionally brought about a lethal conflict [NO]; Is it up to the jury to decide whether you armed yourself defensively or otherwise [YES]; Is it murder if you enter a quarrel without felonious or malicious intent, and then, under reasonable belief of imminent mortal danger, you kill the assailant [NO]; Does the fact that you deliberately go and arm yourself, for self defense or other innocent purpose, turn a subsequent shooting necessarily from manslaughter to murder [NO].

 

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Sarah Palin Writes ....

In the Washington Post today Sarah Palin writes in her op-ed "The 'Cap And Tax' Dead End":

  ...  nation's debt is unsustainable, and the federal government's reach into the private sector is unprecedented. 

Unfortunately, many in the national media would rather focus on the personality-driven political gossip of the day than on the gravity of these challenges. So, at risk of disappointing the chattering class, let me make clear what is foremost on my mind and where my focus will be:

And Palin does just that:

Job losses are so certain under this new cap-and-tax plan that it includes a provision accommodating newly unemployed workers from the resulting dried-up energy sector, to the tune of $4.2 billion over eight years. So much for creating jobs.

In addition to immediately increasing unemployment in the energy sector, even more American jobs will be threatened by the rising cost of doing business under the cap-and-tax plan. For example, the cost of farming will certainly increase, driving down farm incomes while driving up grocery prices. The costs of manufacturing, warehousing and transportation will also increase.

The ironic beauty in this plan? Soon, even the most ardent liberal will understand supply-side economics.[snip]

We must move in a new direction. We are ripe for economic growth and energy independence if we responsibly tap the resources that God created right underfoot on American soil. Just as important, we have more desire and ability to protect the environment than any foreign nation from which we purchase energy today. [snip]

We have an important choice to make. Do we want to control our energy supply and its environmental impact? Or, do we want to outsource it to China, Russia and Saudi Arabia? Make no mistake: President Obama's plan will result in the latter.   (read it all)

Of course the typical responses are out there.   I give the Huffington Post credit, they posted a couple of paragraphs with a link back to the original article and did not use the image of Palin winking, as some sites did ...

It has that 9th grade, five paragraph essay style along with random bits of right-wing jargon sprinkled throughout in appropriate contexts.   (The Plank)

And:

And then you have Sarah Palin show up, blathering about how we're "destroying America's economy" while we're "literally" sitting on mountains of oil and drill baby drill and blah blah blah. Sickening.  (Andrew Sullivan)

And:

 ...   Today, the world rakes you over hot coals while cackling wildly as it gives the dimmest American her own op-ed piece in The Washington Post. It’s the universe’s biggest bird-flip to those who make some vague attempt at being decent, intelligent, compassionate, hard-working people.  (Black Book Mag) 

In the meantime...   Carpet bomb American citizens with every possible program under the sun, that seems to be the Obama plan.  Drop bills in committee and congress, hoping to get them passed.  The media won't have enough pages or minutes of air time to cover them all,  seems that's the policy behind the Obama administration -- just ram it all down their throats at the same time, choke them if necessary, and push legislation through. 

Health Care bill  

We all hear the hoopla about how national health care would be the greatest thing since bandages for sliced fingers, but little has been discussed about what the industry groups will be getting in return for their cooperation in turn for their promised savings that may or may not ever materialize...  Health Deals Could Harbor Hidden Costs  

 
Day two of the Sonia Sotomayor hearing continues:

“Judge Sotomayor’s record on the Second Amendment causes us grave concern over her treatment of this enumerated right [to keep and bear arms] . . . As Second Amendment leaders deeply concerned about preserving all fundamental rights for current and future generations of Americans, we strongly oppose this nominee, and urge the Senate not to confirm Judge Sotomayor.”  --Sandy Froman former president of the National Rifle Association (NRA, Special Guest)

America’s Tripwire: the Coming Revolution in Rational Politics

America’s Tripwire: the Coming Revolution in Rational Politics

By R.J. Godlewski
© June 30, 2009, All Rights Reserved.
(Right Truth Exclusive)

    Every revolution has, at its heart, a tripwire that might seem inconsequential to the events that will ultimately transpire on its merits. No one could adequately understand, for instance, the death and destruction that resulted from the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand. Nor would anyone believe that the protests currently expressed in Iran have anything to do with the failure of a single political candidate. Yet, each of the above events will forever be linked to the initiator regardless of the underlying stress on the respective culture that ultimately caused the crisis.

    America, in the midst of 2009, is riding atop another bubble of societal dissatisfaction, aided in no small part to the grandiose promises of an anointed opportunist. President Barack Obama’s ascendance from political obscurity had less to do with his promises of extraordinary change than the growing resentment of a society on the verge of chucking out its national leadership en masse. President Obama did not win, the ruling class merely lost.

    The United States has always been a boiling stew led by the froth of turmoil. The more that our national leadership becomes corrupt, the more the underlying recipe becomes putrid and indigestible. Like a hardening crust on an otherwise magnificent soufflé, our nation has unwittingly elected the worst possible government during a period of great economic expectation. With the likes of Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and now, apparently, Al Franken at the helm, the pot is primed to boil over. Perhaps even detonated.

    As our culture of death, entitlement, government control, and rampant spending festers, the final spark for revolution may be quite unobservable to the untrained eye but it exists nevertheless. For the past one hundred years, Americans have quietly endured the erosion of personal liberties and economic success. We have endured these transgressions because natural evolution of our economy always kept pace with the overindulgence of our national leadership. Unfortunately, however, our present government has exceeded this equilibrium to unsustainable levels.

    With the ‘Guerrilla Government’ takeover of the banking, auto, energy, and, soon, heath industries, the average American will come to realize what large segments of the global population had already learned long ago: government programs invariably fail. It is the private individual who inspires evolution, not bureaucracy.

    What has kept America safe and secure for two hundred and thirty-odd years has been that we remain – and will continue to remain – an armed population. This silent undertow has propelled the United States as the world’s vanguard against tyranny and it is this reality that will keep the country safe and secure from those who have repeatedly overstepped their Constitutional boundaries. With the election of Barack Obama, this safeguard has been accelerating at a phenomenal rate as thousands of men and women assail their local gun shops to purchase firearms and ammunition in historical quantities.

    With 300+ million firearms already in America before President Obama’s election, it would not have taken a large change to drastically tip the balance beyond even Hitler-esque confiscation. The fear on the street is that President Obama understands that messing with firearm ownership would be political suicide so he will have to resort to taxing ammunition to effect his progressive anti-gun legislation. This too, however, can be considered political suicide for many of his votes came from otherwise gun-toting Democrats.

    Every significant culture has gone through both a civil war and suffered under the prospects of a tyranny. America had endured a bloody Civil War, but it had never experienced allegiance to a tyrant since its founding. We have fought them and most of us know to prefer freedom to government, but a direct tyranny is something that we have never witnessed while under our flag. Until now…

    With each takeover of a capital enterprise, those presently infesting our government take an oath of treason. With each new tax raised upon us citizens, their allegiance to George III of old is reaffirmed. Their desire is for absolute government control of our lives without due representation and their insistence upon taxing us into oblivion is merely the energy source for the coming revolution. It is not the blasting cap for change, however. That comes when President Obama and his dominant progressive legislation acts on imposing further gun laws upon a skeptical populace.

    Progressives understand this. They want this. They want to tip America into full-scale revolt. This is what treason is – destroying the very fabric of a society for personal gain. Nowhere is this more evident than through a brief rummage of history’s refuse pile. The progressives in Washington have convinced you that they need to spend trillions to jumpstart an otherwise cyclic economy. They have convinced you that businesses, corrupt as they are, are simply “too big to fail”. The more that the progressives find excuses for their extravagances, the more they will try to convince you that the “crisis” in question mandates another trillion or, at a minimum, another czar. Leave it to our government to equate itself with a failed monarchy.

    The Great Progressive Spin Machine, riding on the current of post-Clinton gun control defeats, is now salivating over the neighboring crisis in Mexico as their prime opportunity to enact restrictive measures on law-abiding patriots. Our Constitution guarantees that each of us is permitted to keep and bear firearms (including ammunition) for self-protection, subsistence, and entertainment, yet over the past one hundred years we have allowed them to subjugate these very rights under the guise of “reasonable” gun laws. The problem is, there is NO reasonable interpretation of the Constitution that sacrifices an inalienable right in the process.

    We the people of the United States remain more powerful than the President, the Congress, and the Supreme Court combined. They are our limbs, not our brains. They represent our servants, not we their slaves. Police and federal agencies are bound by the Constitution. We are empowered by it. The stresses underlying our society are sufficiently powerful enough to topple one or more political parties and, quite possibly, the very nature of our Washington leadership. We are resilient and permissive, but the cracks enforced by the Obama Administration’s unconstitutional threats upon our culture have laid the foundation for serious change beyond even that envisioned by his campaign promises. Gun ownership may very well represent the tripwire that detonates society’s “claymore” of wholesale activism. It may represent that final line in the sand that distinguishes citizens from inhabitants. 
   

Iran does not allow assault rifles.

Iran does not allow assault rifles.

By R.J. Godlewski
© June 16, 2009, All Rights Reserved.
(Right Truth Exclusive)

  
Iran photos received by email from Dr. Paul Williams www.thelastcrusade.org.

“It’s nuts for ordinary citizens to go out and buy assault weapons. Assault weapons are difficult to operate, they jam easily. If you want a gun to protect your home, it’s the last thing you should have…If you have an assault weapon to protect your house, you’re crazy..they’re not very effective.” --Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell quoted in America’s Freedom, July, 2009.

    Governor Rendell is an idiot. Plain and simple. If “assault weapons” are sufficient to protect nuclear plants, Army barracks, and convoys, then they are most assuredly capable of defending our homes. What makes Governor Rendell equal to the mullahs in Iran, in my opinion, is not that he apparently knows very little about weaponology, but that he knows even less about American history and our Constitutional rights.

    We do not need the premise of “home protection” to qualify our purchases of assault rifles. We can purchase them for whatever reason we so choose. My AKMS (a folding stock AK-47 – considered a “pistol” here in Michigan) can and does protect my domicile. But that’s not the only reason that I purchased it. I purchased it because it consists largely of Polish parts and therefore represents something of a proud family heritage. I also purchased it because it aids me in studying Middle East firearms and, well, fully auto AKs are just too damn expensive to acquire. Mostly, however, I purchased my AK because they are just so much damn fun to shoot. Need I any further excuse?

    Governor Rendell’s idiotic statement that they “are difficult to operate” and “jam easily” completely ignores recent global history. Millions of child soldiers around the planet use them every day. Many of these weapons can be buried into the sand, mud, snow – what have you – for months and come out fighting. Apparently, Governor Rendell’s mind fluctuates too rapidly back to the early days of the Vietnam War when the then new M-16 was rushed into service. He is obviously an opponent to American industrial capability and innovation.

    However, I suspect that his reaction to “assault rifles” stems from the progressive

liberal hatred of ALL guns and they try to push semi-automatic weapons across as some form of demonic “killing machine”. Fortunately, you have yours truly here to set you straight.

    In the image above, you will see a .45 ACP pistol cartridge pulled from my Taurus 24/7 OSS, my personal “concealed carry” weapon of choice. Next to that is a 7.62x39mm round from my AKMS. Next to that, is a .270 rifle cartridge, a .300 Winchester Magnum, and everyone’s favorite deer cartridge, the .30-06.  Notice how “tiny” the AK-47 round appears?

    Naturally, everyone says that an AK-47 with a thirty round magazine can unleash a “hail of bullets” but so could I with any of the above options. The .45 is good out to about 25 yards, the 7.62 to about 400 yards, and with the .300 and .30-06 rounds I can take down a man-sized object out to 1,200 yards. For those of you fairly new to the realm of firearms and ammunition, the 7.62 (which is an intermediate round and slightly shorter than the NATO 7.62x51mm cartridge), the .300 Winchester Magnum, and the ubiquitous .30-06 all possess the same basic bullet diameter. There is just more oomph with the full rifle cartridges whose bullets are also a bit longer.

    Well, there you have it. The mystique of the infamous “assault weapon” round demystified as nothing more than a military’s decision to fabricate something between a pistol cartridge and one belonging to a rifle. Its entry into the world of firearms technology brought about simply because soldiers after World War II got tired – literally – of lugging around twenty-pound rifles all day. Everything else that makes “assault rifles” so scary to most citizens is simply their use of modern materials and designs. You know, the same thing that makes your Buick Rendezvous so “scary” when compared to a 1928 Model A Ford.

    Bans on assault rifles are nothing more than a prelude to bans on all types of firearms. Subsequently, bans on all firearms lead directly – and inevitably – to the kind of chaos that we are witnessing in Iran today. A nation in flames because ruling despots have decided to fabricate an election to appease the world and to highlight the mastery of their self-appointed messiah.

    A pathetic wimp like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad would probably last a day or two at the most in charge of a free nation such as the United States and do not believe for an instant that it is not our country’s 300+ million guns that keep us free from tyranny. This is the primary reason that our founding fathers gave us the “right to keep and bear arms” – to keep fanatics such as the mullahs from ever taking control of our rights.

    Our freedoms and liberties hailed from a “shot heard around the world” not some weak “round of diplomacy heard around the block”. The one thing that Hitler, Mussolini, and every other tyrant wannabe had in common is that the first action they took was to remove guns from the hands of their citizens. Thus disarmed, anyone could come into power.

    When Governor Rendell spoke his stupidity, he immediately acknowledged two key points. First, he does not want a nation free enough in which the likes of him could be removed from power should they overstep their legislative boundaries. Secondly, Governor Rendell announced his opinion that all of you are just too damn stupid to know better.

    The power of the vote is useless without the backing of an armed and free population.  Take a look at those photographs from Iran again. How much do you believe that the Iranian people would have loved to own firearms to keep the mullahs and Ahmadinejad at bay? When you go to bed tonight, say a prayer of thanks to God that your safety and survival are in the hands of your neighbors who know that our right to own firearms – any firearm – upholds your freedoms more than tyrannical politicians such as Governor Rendell. They are the ones “crazy” enough to be a threat upon your life…

Tennessee Gun Laws and State Rights

Tennessee  passed a new law that permits handgun carry permit holders to take their weapons into all eating and drinking establishments in the state, although they will not be allowed to drink if armed.    (The Tennessean)  Way to go Tennessee, my lovely State.  State legislators voted to override the governor who vetoed the bill. 

Tennessee also has a new law under consideration that would say if firearms are manufactured and sold inside the state of Tennessee, federal gun law would not apply -- Tennessee Firearms Freedom Act .  (WZTV.com)  Montana passed a similar bill earlier this year.  It's a matter of State rights.

The legislation that takes effect July 14 retains an existing ban on consuming alcohol while carrying a handgun, and restaurant owners can still opt to ban weapons from their establishments.

Thirty-seven other states have similar laws.  [snip]

Read HB0962 at: http://www.capitol.tn.gov   (AP)

The federal government isn't going to like states passing laws to by-pass them on guns.  I see a battle brewing and I also see more states passing similar laws.

Gun buyers are stocking up on weapons, and ammunition is in short supply.

"It is a very significant fear for a lot of Tennesseans," says John Harris, Executive Director of the Tennessee Firearms Association

Harris says gun owners are worried. They believe the Federal government may soon restrict certain weapons.  [snip]

But if the law passes, it will put the state at odds with the federal government, and set the stage for a showdown over guns.

Both the House and Senate versions of this bill will be up for a committee vote tomorrow.

Many believe this issue may ultimately be settled by the United State Supreme Court.

Political "S"elections

I received an email on the Iranian elections where the author referred to them as selections rather than elections, since candidates are screened and must meet all the requirements:  "Only criminals who have moved up the Islamic Republics ranks by murder, rape and torture of the innocent Iranians and have proven themselves loyal to Islamic republic are allowed to run for office."  Closer to home here in the United States I think the same title applies -- we have selections rather than elections.  We the people really don't get to decide who will represent us, because long before we think about going to the voting booth those working behind the curtain have already selected the candidates for us.

One of Rush Limbaugh's listeners called in wondering when a true Conservative candidate would come to light, suggesting that we the people raise such a candidate up.  How do we, Conservatives, do that?    Does anyone think Barack Obama could have risen to President of the United States on his own?  We could ask that question about many previous leaders.  From the time Obama entered college he was supported, tutored, directed toward the office he now holds.  Look back, as we did during the campaign, at those in Obama's life who surrounded him, who had influence on him both physical, emotional, political and most importantly financially.

So, can Conservatives take a lesson from the rise of Obama?  I think we can.  In the last election we had John McCain pushed down our throats.  The many Republicans who ran in the primary elections really did not give Conservatives a true choice, divided the votes, and gave us McCain.  We do not want to be in that position again.  Stuck with a RINO (Republican In Name Only), who is more like a Democrat than Republican, and certainly not a Conservative.

It's never too early to start thinking about the next election.  If we had to vote today, who would our choice be for our Senators, Congressmen, and new President?  Have any ideas?  We need to seriously think about this and start working, supporting, financing, those people who truly believe the way we do.  Getting in true Conservatives on the ground level of politics, supporting them through each office they hold no matter how many years it takes.

Depressed yet?  But wait!  There is serious talk about another party, a third party, but we already have third, forth, fifth, ... parties.  Where has that gotten them or us?  Nowhere.  The Left and Democrats like to point out that the Republicans are divided, yes and the Conservatives are not exactly together either.  We have The Constitution Party, The American Conservative Party,  The Conservative Party US, Libertarian Party , Constitution Party , Green Party , America's Independent Party .  A quick visit to Wikipdeia (which may or may not be complete or accurate) provides a full page of smaller less-known US political parties and groups.  Then there are many sub-groups, just look on FaceBook or other networking sites and see the hundreds of supposedly Conservative groups.  We are organized into so many sub-groups it's both pathetic and encouraging at the same time.

What's the answer?  It takes work, money, notoriety, publicity, and a platform that people agree with to get elected.   We live in a media era when a political career can be ruined with one misstatement;   where a candidate comes from, what kind of accent they have, the type of family life they lead, and how easily they can be smeared seem more important than what they stand for.  Think Sarah Palin...

Honestly I do not have an answer to US selections.  If we had to vote for the next President, and we could vote for anyone qualified, .. I do not know who I would vote for.  I do know that my Iranian friend's statement about selections in that country could be applied to the US.  I know it was true for the 2009 election:  Only criminals those who have moved up the Islamic Republics  party ranks by murder, rape and torture of the innocent Iranians towing the party line or towing the opposition's line, and have proven themselves loyal to Islamic republic the party or useful to the party, and are propped up by the MSM, are allowed to run for be elected to office.  Make that selected to office.  Heaven help us.

How Free is Your State?

 

Mercatus Center of George Mason University has released a study:  Freedom in the 50 States: An Index of Personal and Economic Freedom, which shows some very interesting, but not surprising, results.    You will notice that Tennessee, my lovely state, is ranked number 8 of the most free states.  You can download the full document in pdf here.

Below are listed the States from most to least free according to your current weights. Shown above is a map representing the ranking by color: States change from blue to green to yellow as their ranking increases (they become "more free").

New! Link to this ranking (or create a tinyurl link)

New Hampshire 0.361 Colorado 0.352 South Dakota 0.322 Idaho 0.297 Texas 0.294 Missouri 0.269 Tennessee 0.238 Virginia 0.235 Arizona 0.227 North Dakota 0.220 Utah 0.209 Kansas 0.183 Indiana 0.174 Michigan 0.171 Wyoming 0.152 Iowa 0.148 Georgia 0.128

Oklahoma 0.126 Montana 0.094 Pennsylvania 0.084 Alabama 0.078 Florida 0.051 North Carolina 0.016 Delaware -0.004 Nevada -0.004 Mississippi -0.005 Oregon -0.007 Nebraska -0.015 Arkansas -0.021 South Carolina -0.033 Alaska -0.052 Kentucky -0.068 West Virginia -0.080 Louisiana -0.088

Minnesota -0.089 New Mexico -0.122 Wisconsin -0.167 Ohio -0.172 Connecticut -0.180 Maine -0.180 Vermont -0.181 Illinois -0.197 Massachusetts -0.198 Washington -0.226 Hawaii -0.261 Maryland -0.341 California -0.343 Rhode Island -0.377 New Jersey -0.380 New York -0.639

This paper presents the first-ever comprehensive ranking of the American states on their public policies affecting individual freedoms in the economic, social, and personal spheres. We develop and justify our ratings and aggregation procedure on explicitly normative criteria, defining individual freedom as the ability to dispose of one’s own life, liberty, and justly acquired property however one sees fit, so long as one does not coercively infringe on another individual’s ability to do the same.

This study improves on prior attempts to score economic freedom for American states in three primary ways: (1) it includes measures of social and personal freedoms such as peaceable citizens’ rights to educate their own children, own and carry firearms, and be free from unreasonable search and seizure; (2) it includes far more variables, even on economic policies alone, than prior studies, and there are no missing data on any variable; and (3) it uses new, more accurate measurements of key variables, particularly state fiscal policies.

We find that the freest states in the country are New Hampshire, Colorado, and South Dakota, which together achieve a virtual tie for first place. All three states feature low taxes and government spending and middling levels of regulation and paternalism. New York is the least free by a considerable margin, followed by New Jersey, Rhode Island, California, and Maryland. On personal freedom alone, Alaska is the clear winner, while Maryland brings up the rear. As for freedom in the different regions of the country, the Mountain and West North Central regions are the freest overall while the Middle Atlantic lags far behind on both economic and personal freedom. Regression analysis demonstrates that states enjoying more economic and personal freedom tend to attract substantially higher rates of internal net migration.

The data used to create the rankings are publicly available online at www.statepolicyindex.com, and we invite others to adopt their own weights to see how the overall state freedom rankings change.

Be sure to check out the independent site that allows you to create personalized freedom rankings from their data by moving sliders to weight the policies differently.

Note the locations on the map above of free vs not free states, which should remind us all that should states want to break away from this new socialist administration, it would be very difficult to form a new union with like-minded states and have any continuity of borders.  Just a thought.

Take your guns everywhere!!!

I carry my personal weapon everywhere I go.  Everywhere.  Better to be alive, tried by 12 than carried by six.  Having said that, I got into a discussion with a friend about a Tennessee bill that would allow gun owners to take their personal weapons into a "bar".  Actually the bill would allow gun owners to take their weapons into any establishment that serves alcoholic beverages, including restaurants like Applebees, The Olive Garden, or The Outback.  When people read about this bill, as my friend did,  they immediately think about some sleazy, dark bar with drunken degenerates hanging over the bar inebriated to the point of almost unconsciousness, waving a loaded gun around at others.  What's wrong with this image?  Plenty.

I tried to explain to my friend that an American's right to own and carry firearms is a constitutional right, also an individual's right provided by the concealed carry permit issued by the State in which they live.  To forbid these honest Americans from carrying their personal protection is to favor the bad guys over the law-abiding citizens.  The bad guys will have illegal guns wherever they want to take them, don't have any doubt about this.

Here's another instance, Senate Bill 730 would allow employees to bring guns onto their employers' property, as long as they are kept in their cars, even if the business prohibits doing so.  

Allowing employees to carry firearms onto their employers' property invites someone to assume the responsibility of law enforcement. No matter how dire the situation, the last thing the brave men and women of the law enforcement community need is having to determine the perpetrator from the Lone Ranger.

Guns have a place in our society, but the workplace is not one of them. (Statesman.com)

No. NO NO NO NO.... Wrong!  The workplace, and school and the grocery store, and church, and everywhere the average American citizen goes ... is the VERY place you need a gun.  What good is a personal weapon if you have to leave it in your car?  A bad guy doesn't care where he attacks and no matter where the threat is, you need to be able to defend, not only yourself, but those who are not armed and who cannot defend themselves.

Remember the Virginia State shooting?  If these students had been allowed to carry their own personal, legal, firearms to school, this shooter would have been taken down immediately and many lives would have been saved.

I think it is stupid that Americans can be approved for a concealed carry permit, and at the same time be told "you have permission to carry, but you can't carry at a school, at your employment, at a place that serves any alcoholic beverages, ..."  That's just wrong folks. 

It's your life, the life of your family, friends, co-workers, fellow students, and yes ... fellow restaurant patrons.

No one will ever know you have a weapon on you, ... unless you have to draw it to protect yourself!

Victory for gun owners

Gun rights advocates are poised to win an unexpected victory under Obama and an overwhelmingly liberal Democrat Congress that they were unable win under President Bush --  a provision allowing visitors to national parks and refuges to carry loaded and concealed weapons.

How can this be?  Simple: In a similar way that those pesky hoards of advertisements seem to get slipped into the envelope with your credit card bill, some clever underdog Republicans slipped in a pro-gun measure to the Credit Card reform Bill before Congress.

From the New York Times:  Advocates of Gun Rights Are Poised for a Victory

To the frustration and discouragement of many Democrats, House and Senate lawmakers and aides say it now appears likely that President Obama will this week sign into law a provision allowing visitors to national parks and refuges to carry loaded and concealed weapons.

The White House is lukewarm at best on the gun provision, which was added to a popular measure imposing new rules on credit card companies. But the Democrats who now control both Congress and the White House appear ready to allow it to survive rather than derail a consumer-friendly credit card measure that Mr. Obama is eager to sign as Congress heads off for a Memorial Day recess.

“Timing is everything in politics,” said Senator TomTypePad - Compose New Post Coburn, Republican of Oklahoma and the champion of the gun proposal.

I say kudos to Senator Coburn and "sauce for the goose" to the Democrats.

Conservatives Under Attack

"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
     --Voltaire

In the past, the above quote seemed to be one of the foundations of American life -- but that is quickly changing.  Many groups inside the US want to control the speech of Conservative Americans.  In the case sited below, the individuals investigated were 'outraged that the policy could be used to launch long-term investigations of conservatives simply for articulating conservative principles. And they knew the policy could be used to create a chilling effect on constitutionally protected expression. '

In April of 2007, two groups at Michigan State University (MSU) decided to host a speech on illegal immigration. The speech was disrupted by radicals. Some arrests were made. As a result, some protesters decided to retaliate by going to the MSU Office for Inclusion. They claimed to have been harassed in violation of the MSU anti-discrimination policy.

The Office for Inclusion then decided to launch a six-month investigation of all members of the two groups who invited the speaker. They also decided to investigate the two faculty advisers. This was despite the school’s claim that its anti-discrimination policy was not meant to trump free speech.  (Mike Adams, Family Security Matters)

"I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left."
     -- Margaret Thatcher

"The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases."
     --Thomas Jefferson

From attacks on freedom of speech we move to attacks on the second amendment and our right to own weapons.

"If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is then no recourse left but in the exertion of the original right of self-defense which is paramount to all positive forms of government."
     --Alexander Hamilton

"The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed."   --Alexander Hamilton

"Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe and preserve order in the world as well as property. Horrid mischief would ensue when the law-abiding(are) deprived the use of them."
     --Thomas Paine

2A For the USA (Second Amendment for the USA) is a movie in several parts posted below, by Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership.  Watch the videos, forward them or this link to your friends, family, enemies, Democrats, Republicans, whatever.

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More quotes at TOTUS Blog.

Montana vs Federal Government on Guns -- Wins

Montana Defies Feds on Guns, Ammo, Silencers and Other Accessories

Now the Democratic governor of Montana has signed into law an incredible attempt to erode the power of the Federal Government as it applies to gun laws. Let me just lay it out from the bill:

A personal firearm, a firearm accessory, or ammunition that is manufactured commercially or privately in Montana and that remains within the borders of Montana is not subject to federal law or federal regulation, including registration, under the authority of congress to regulate interstate commerce... 

What this functionally means is that items that the federal government loves to regulate and prohibit: handguns, silencers, ammunition, scopes and so on - would be perfectly legal in Montana and exempt from requirements to engage the Federal framework of registration.

Montana’s argument is sound - those items which are made in Montana for use in Montana are not being involved in “interstate commerce.” That small clause of the constitution which lies at the heart of many federal laws, including drug laws, alcohol laws, transportation laws and firearms laws among other things is being directly challenged by this legislation.  (continue at Zeal For Truth)

I love it.  Other states should follow Montana's lead.  A commenter at Zeal For Truth, Glen California, provides this:

I did some research and found  that Utah, Texas, Arkansas, and several others are pondering the same thing. This is amazing. If successful, it could reverse all the BS that has been happening for years. Imagine that States Rights …

How will the federal government react?

Can this type action be used for things other than guns?  What about California marijuana, grown and smoked inside California???

Read the full Bill at ATV, where I found this:

Discussion – Let us see what Obama does. If he hits Montana hard they will probably vote to secede from the USA. The governor of Texas has already been refusing Federal money because he does not want to agree to the conditions that go with it and he has been saying secession is a right they have as sort of a threat. Things are no longer the same with the USA. Do not be deceived by Obama acting as if all is the same, it is not.

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• Fifth place with 1/3 point - (T*) - The Provocateur - From President to King While the Media Yawns
• Fifth place with 1/3 point - (T*) - Joshuapundit - Can The GOP Get It;s Groove Back?
• Fifth place with 1/3 point - (T*) - The Glittering Eye - Never Let a Good Crisis Go To Waste

Winning Non-Council Submissions

• First place with 2 2/3 points! - The Augean Stables - What Do I Think of the Arab-Israeli Conflict? Answers to a Questionnaire
• Second place with 1 1/3 points - Kevin Mooney at The Washington Examiner - ACORN got $53 million in federal funds since 94, now eligible for up to $8 billion more
• Third place with 1 points - (T*) - National Journal - Twelve Points to Consider in Replacing Souter
• Third place with 1 points - (T*) - Will Wilkinson - Libertarian Democraphobia
• Third place with 1 points - (T*) - Weapons of Mass Discussion - On Specter, The GOP Big Tent, & Reagan
• Fourth place with 2/3 points - (T*) - The Anchoress Online - Why “the recession is over.”
• Fourth place with 2/3 points - (T*) - The Times Online - 9/11 conspiracy theories: The truth is out there…just not on the internet
• Fourth place with 2/3 points - (T*) - Gone Mild - How to Influence a Legislator (Free Version)
• Fifth place with 1/3 point - (T*) - The Hill - Obama’s Economic Policy: Washington Knows Best
• Fifth place with 1/3 point - (T*) - Vinny’s Rants - Of Swine, Birds and Humans
• Fifth place with 1/3 point - (T*) - Chesler Chronicles at Pajamas Media - Let Us Praise Extraordinary Activists Who Stood Against Radical Islam in Times Square.

I, Militia - An individual's guide to protecting our nation from Tyranny

I, Militia

An individual's guide to protecting our nation from Tyranny

PART TWO

Does Patriotism require defense of the state or of the nation?

“Warfare is the greatest affair of the state, the basis of life and death, the Way [Tao] to survival or extinction. It must be thoroughly pondered and analyzed” Sun-tzu (Sawyer 1993, 157).

There is only one law recognized in warfare: winning at all costs. Nothing else matters. When engaged within battle, the gloves come off and you fight like hell until the enemy no longer exists. Strangely, however, for a nation that has been at war far longer than it
has remained in peace, the United States seems to prefer dwelling upon civilized approaches to international disputes as if Western sportsmanship transcends to the field of battle. 

Modern asymmetrical warfare requires the complete integration of intelligence, command, and tactical application into a singular operation (Balor 1988, 244). While our military is first-rate and the best the world has ever witnessed, our national leadership is often last in decisiveness and our intelligence gathering mediocre because of this.

Let us focus, for a moment, on our intelligence operations – specifically that involving the Central Intelligence Agency.

Agency leadership, historically, has always centered upon liberal activists that viewed Republicans as “dull, earnest, and Midwestern” (Thomas 2006, 101). In other words, those who gave birth to the Agency and structured its foundation tended to look down upon those who did not fit the Georgetown social cache of “well-to-do liberal Democrats” who formed “a kind of elite within the elite” and who “took care of their own” (Thomas 2006, 99). Perhaps this is why today’s CIA could not fight the Taliban in Afghanistan without employing one hundred pounds of Starbucks coffee in the process (Schroen 2007, 220).

When Sun-tzu wrote that warfare “must be thoroughly pondered and analyzed”, I doubt very much that he meant sitting around Langley or perhaps the ultrasecret Moscow Hall of the Defense Intelligence Agency passing out jove while Muslim fanatics dreamt of beheading innocent women and children. To the contrary, he wrote “Thus the army values being victorious; it does not value prolonged warfare”(Sawyer 1993, 160) hinting at the decisiveness and expediency of the effective battlefield commander.

With the Obama Administration’s recent decision to close Gitmo and its on again/off again stance regarding prosecuting those who waterboarded terrorists, the vast American divide between intelligence collection and tactical action will only intensify.

Washington versus America

If we have spent untold billions developing a logistics capability able to send Starbucks coffee to one of the remotest plots of real estate on the planet but restrain ourselves from spending a buck (what I pay through Cabelas) on a single bullet that could
alleviate the world from having to send yet another terrorist down to that “dreadful Gitmo”, then we have a serious problem in national leadership.

If we could focus just one-tenth the energy that Progressive Liberals spend on demonizing law-abiding gun owners against the terrorists, the Islamists would quickly discover that
seventy-seven virgins just ain’t worth the effort. Instead, we allow ourselves to become distracted from the need to win the war against terrorists.

At this point, I would like to make three basic assumptions: 

(1) The average American citizen trusts their elected officials too damn much;

(2) The average American citizen believes that the federal government’s primary purpose is to protect the country and its citizens;

(3) The average elected official in Washington sees their job as basically one of protecting their status quo.

Taken together – as they invariably come – these three assumptions of mine explain why we’re in such a mess today. So how do we change this situation? Glad that you
asked.

(continue reading below the fold)

The Left Is Making a Mistake in Ridiculing the Tea Parties

The Left Is Making a Mistake in Ridiculing the Tea Parties

By Frank Salvato

(posted at the author's request)

 

The political Left in the United States is making a grave mistake in diminishing and dismissing the anger of the American people. Where it may be common place for liberals, Leftists, neo-Marxists and Progressive-Leftists to take to the streets over anything and everything, including a change of wind direction, it is entirely a different story with conservatives and Republicans. Conservatives and Republicans don’t march in the streets for anything. The fact that they have now taken to the streets in protest of massive government spending and government’s encroachment into our liberties speaks volumes to those who would listen.

 

“Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death!”

An amazing thing happened on the way to America’s socialistic demise...a revolution has fomented. Born of a righteous anger centered on wasteful and special interest government spending, lack of honest representation in government, a move toward transforming the United States Constitutional Republic into a Socialist Democracy, excessive taxation and many more constitutionally based grievances, conservatives, traditionalists and Republicans, as well as centrists, independents and Democrats, took to the streets of just about every congressional district to protest a behemoth runaway government run by an elitist and opportunistic political class. From Chicago to New York, St. Louis to San Francisco, St. Paul to Austin and Miami to Portland, hard-working, taxpaying Americans, who aren’t too often moved to taking to the streets in protest, took to the streets to redress their government.

 

What makes this “protest” more important and more potent than any petition drive, any email, letter writing or phone campaign, is that it moved conservatives, traditionalists and Republicans to take to the streets, something that in most every instance and in every circumstance they are not wont to do. The question that is being asked now is this: Will this movement grow and gather strength enough to affect real, meaningful and constitutionally friendly “change” or will conservatives, traditionalists and Republicans fall prey to their traditional boogey-man, factionalism?

 

The Conservative Challenge

For decades– both in my political life and for as long as I have been writing and publishing – I have contended that conservatives and Republicans – the Right – aren’t cohesive. Since entering into the new media publishing and non-profit educational venues I have come to understand that they don’t financially support the organizations and publications that carry the water for them; who defend the traditionalist ideology from mainstream media and Leftist attacks. They employ ideological litmus tests for their prospective candidates instead of selecting candidates that would dedicate their public service to preserving their individual rights to pursue their special interests. And it is obvious to anyone but those walking around with eyes wide shut that it takes an act outrageous and egregious to motivate conservatives and Republicans to the streets in protest.

 

While this analysis may sound harsh (and with regard to the lack of financial support for those who carry the water for conservatism it is meant to be), for the most part there is an underlying philosophical reason for the differences between the pack mentality of the Left and the individualism of the Right. Where the Left leans more toward identifying our populace in the collective (what’s good for the country is good for the individual), the Right identifies our populace as individuals who, together, make up the whole (what is good for the individual is good for the country). This individualist philosophy lends itself to self-sufficiency and individual responsibility which leads to a community of people who believe that solutions come from individuals and not government. This, of course, leads to a civically responsible community.

 

A vulnerability that exists in extreme individualism is that it leads to a community of individuals who always want to be the leader. We’ve all heard the phrase, “Too many chiefs and not enough Indians.” When everyone believes that their way of achieving things is the best, factions develop that impede the whole of the community from being effective in achieving common goals.

 

A prime example of this can be found in the ideological litmus test for political candidates. Instead of supporting candidates that would fight to protect an individual’s right to pursue matters important to the individual, factions within the conservative community threaten to withhold support if their individual special interests, the subjects and issues most important to them, are not embraced by candidates. Using the individualist philosophy in political pursuits instead of measuring candidates on their dedication to preserving and defending the individuals’ rights to pursue their individual interests makes it next to impossible to not only come to a consensus on a candidate, but slate a candidate that can beat the Left’s cohesive, pack-mentality voting style.

 

Extreme individualism is also the main reason that the Right continually falls to the Left in establishing and funding political action and advocacy groups. It is the primary reason why, even though there are people on the right side of the ideological aisle who have even more money than neo-Marxist financier George Soros, there are no groups like MoveOn.org, America Coming Together, Media Matters, etc. Those ideological groups that do exist on the right side of the ideological aisle are almost always extremely limited in what they can do to combat the Leftists because they are so underfunded.

 

This is why the events of April 15th, 2009, are so incredible and important in and of themselves. It would seem that the acts outrageous and egregious have occurred at the hand of our government, so much so and for so long that – to borrow a line from a Bob Dylan song, “...the times, they are a changin’.”

 

The Beneficiaries of American Political Apathy

The American Fifth Column – an association of one-worlders, neo-Marxists, Progressive-Leftists, Communists, Socialists and anarchists, to name some of the more notable groups – has successfully intruded into our daily lives by implementing a shadow set of societal laws in “political correctness”; a shadow set of rules antithetical to the United States Constitution. This is true to such an extent that elected officials are basing the creation of legislation on these tenets, tenets directly taken from the Marxist-Leninist philosophy. From hate crime laws whose definitions are open to ideological interpretation to the mass redistribution of wealth currently being perpetrated upon the American people by the Obama Administration to the government funded indoctrination of our children into special interest ideology via the public schools system, the elements of our society that believe government is the answer have infiltrated every avenue of our lives and they have placed the importance of their ideology above even the proper execution of representative government.

 

But most disturbing is that the American Fifth Column has so successfully employed the tactics of Marxist “community organizer” Saul Alinsky  to achieve their goal – the radical transformation of America's social and economic structure – that they have taken control of the US government. Nancy Pelosi’s oligarchy in the US House of Representatives, combined with the almost filibuster-proof Democrat majority in the US Senate, place the Legislative Branch firmly in control of the neo-Marxist wing of the Democrat Party. President Obama – who has talked unabashedly about “economic justice” and the “arrogance” of the United States and who is a self-declared “community organizer” in the mold of the Alinsky model – has populated his administration with far-Left ideologues – many from the Clinton Administration – including many members of the biased and agendized mainstream media.

 

It can be successfully argued that the neo-Marxist Progressive-Left has become “the establishment” and traditionalist Americans – those who believe in the sanctity of the US Constitution, in freedom, liberty and personal and civic responsibility – have become the “counter-culture.”

 

Enter the tea parties...

 

Goebbels Would Be Proud
As real, hard-working Americans from all walks of life – rich, poor, religious, non-religious, Republican, Democrat, Libertarian, Independent, white, black, yellow, brown, male and female – took to the streets to send a message to their elected officials; those elected to office to represent the best interests of their constituencies, not their political parties, perhaps the most organized and vicious threat to our Constitutional Republic took to the airwaves to discredit, diminish and otherwise smear We the People: the mainstream media.

 

Make no mistake, while the neo-Marxists elected to office are a threat to our liberty and freedom, to our Constitutional Republic, they wouldn’t be able to come close to the success they have seen so far if it weren’t for the propagandists in the mainstream media. The mainstream media disingenuously and blatantly violated their constitutionally mandated responsibility to act as citizen’s advocate by championing the Obama campaign in the 2008 elections. By refusing to ask the tough questions and selectively airing favorable coverage of the Obama campaign, while criticizing the McCain campaign for even the most benign faux pas, they ensured a victory for Barack Obama thus violating the public trust. True journalism is dead in the mainstream media. It has been replaced by a propaganda dissemination mechanism that would have made Nazi propaganda chief Josef Goebbels envious. With regard to the tea parties two examples stand out...

 

Radio talk show host, Bill Press, on FOX News, April 14th, tried to float the idea that nefarious conservative organizations were behind the organizing of the nationwide tea party assemblage, saying he ”didn’t see anything genuine or see anything real” about the protests. He advanced a ridiculous theory that because advocate organizations and politicians decided to get on board with the public outrage that they somehow were pulling the strings of the total of protesters from coast-to-coast. Press may understand protests on the Left to be funded by nefarious political and ideological forces – George Soros, MoveOn.org, America Coming Together, Media Matters, the Communist and Socialist Parties, etc. – but conservatives and Republicans aren’t that adept at organizing “march-in-the-street” protests.

 

Another came from CNN’s Susan Roesgen who displayed a level of elitism in her interviewing of tea party protesters in Chicago heretofore unseen throughout the history of journalism. Roesgen questioned one protester whose frustration with Barack Obama’s totalitarian governmental style led him to equate it to the political stylings of a young, pre-holocaust Adolf Hitler. Forgetting that fascism exists on the left side of an accurate political spectrum, Roesgen chastised the protester for being “offensive.” One must question how offended she was when the same thing was happening to President George W. Bush. Then Roesgen, under the guise of asking a question, lectured and entered into debate with another protester before cutting him off and declaring that the entire protest was orchestrated by FOX News and was, in fact, “anti-government,” “anti-CNN” and “not family viewing.”

 

This blatant disregard for the public’s genuine anger lends credence to the argument that the mainstream media is not only in the tank for the Obama Administration, but that they have reached such a level of elitism, possessing such an agenda-driven arrogance, that they have literally become not only an enemy of the Charters of Freedom but an enemy of the people.

 

Overthrowing Men Who Pervert the Constitution

According to the recently released DHS threat assessment titled, Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic & Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization & Recruitment, my proclivity to actively defend the US Constitution, to actively question a reckless government that has strayed from the principles set forth by our Founders and Framers – principles born of Natural Law and Judeo-Christian values, principles that forged a Constitutional Republic, defines me as a threat to our nation. According to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano (please tell me again what her qualifications for this post are?) because I am angry about the government’s abdication of effective representative government I am a threat to the nation, along with US soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan and each and every American who turned out for the tea parties across the nation. Both Napolitano and President Obama – for his silence on the matter – consider We the People “the enemy.”

 

As of this writing, there are 564 days until the 2010 midterm elections. The questions that remains are these:

 

▪ Will this truly patriotic movement continue to grow?

▪ Will those who took to the streets on April 15th, 2009, continue to do so until the totalitarian forces of the neo-Marxist Progressive-Left are vanquished once and for all?

 

▪ Or will conservative, traditionalists, Republicans, concerned centrists and honest Democrats look at their singular achievement and say job well-done as they retreat to the status quo?

 

To be sure, if the mid-term elections had been held on the day of the tea parties I truly believe most incumbents would have been ousted from office. The anger is that concentrated. But the past holds the truth of the future and it shows that – traditionally – conservatives are hard pressed to maintain cohesiveness over a prolonged period of time. Truthfully, I hope I am proven wrong on this point. The fact is, our nation’s future depends on me being wrong.

 

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is credited with having said, "I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve." If the Left is smart – and that is truly being questioned by many Americans – they will form a new-found respect for the admiral’s words with regard to the events of April 15th, 2009.

 

If the Right is smart, and in their awakening it appears they are, they will realize this needs to be an ongoing effort, that there is hard work ahead, that everyone must act cohesively and that...

 ...the revolution starts now!

 “We, the people, are the rightful masters of both congress and the courts - not to overthrow the constitution, but to overthrow men who pervert the constitution.” -– Abraham Lincoln

 

Frank Salvato is the Executive Director and Director of Terrorism Research for BasicsProject.org a non-profit, non-partisan, 501(c)(3) research and education initiative. His writing has been recognized by the US House International Relations Committee and the Japan Center for Conflict Prevention. His organization, BasicsProject.org, partnered in producing the original national symposium series addressing the root causes of radical Islamist terrorism. He is a member of theInternational Analyst Network  He also serves as the managing editor for The New Media Journal. Mr. Salvato has appeared on The O'Reilly Factor on FOX News Channel, and is a regular guest on talk radio including on The Captain's America Radio Show airing on AM1220 WSRQ and on the Internet catering to the US Armed Forces around the world and on The Right Balance with Greg Allen syndicated nationally. His opinion-editorials have been published by The American Enterprise Institute, The Washington Times & Human Events and are syndicated nationally. He is occasionally quoted in The Federalist. Mr. Salvato is available for public speaking engagements.

He can be contacted at

newmediajournal@comcast.net.

 

I AM and I WILL

I AM and I WILL

By R.J. Godlewski
<© April 15, 2009, All Rights Reserved

    I am a citizen who simply loves America. Make no bones about it. There is no greater country on the planet in my opinion and I will carry this thought with me to the grave. This great nation of ours gives me the strength, courage, and blessings that I need to not only survive within this world but to actually succeed as well. More importantly, however, I am allowed to fail and fail I have. More times than I care to remember, in fact. For every failure there has been as instrumental lesson learned which I shall also carry with me unto the grave.  That is part of being an American – to rise up from our failures and conquer when all else have given up hope. If you try to stop me from achieving this success, even after many years of failure, I will stop you. And you know that I will.

    I am an American, and a damn proud one at that. I uphold my country’s motto as expressed by the recent pirate incident off Somalia – “you kidnap one of ours, we will kill three of yours”. I will not – ever – apologize for placing great care upon my fellow Americans and desiring that we be protected above all else. I will not cower to the world for fear that I may offend others. I will not permit terrorists, pirates, and other tyrannical thugs to go scot-free just because they complain about injustices or curry favor with liberals. If you try to harm America or any of her citizens and I have the opportunity, I will hurt you instead. And you know that I will.

    I am a veteran who spent four years on active duty in the United States Navy and nearly another four and a half in various aspects of the Reserves. I am damn proud of my two honorable discharges. My current President does not even hold one. When he was barely a year into college, I enlisted within the military. He studied law; I protected the law. He graduated with honors; I served with honor. Therefore, I have no qualms about protecting our country even if I fully disagree with who presently serves within the White House. I have defended America before under a president that I did not vote for (President Reagan) and I will continue to protect American under another president that I did not vote for. And you know that I will.

    I am also a proud Roman Catholic. God so loved the world that He came down amongst us so that we might have eternal life with Him. I am but a miserable sample of His human creatures but I take hope in knowing that His Church is infallible. Part of being Christian is knowing that all other faiths are second-rate at best. The rest of being Christian is knowing that all other human beings are first-rate at worst. What this means is that I scrutinize humanity on an individual basis – I do not arbitrarily lump people into any category for judgment. I do not believe in Judaism or Islam or Buddhism, but I will defend innocent Jews, Muslims, and Buddhists to the best of my ability. And you know that I will.

    I am a fervent capitalist. Economies soar best when left in the hands of the individual. The American businessperson alone creates American jobs and opportunities. Little was given to me but I expect to give much back to this nation in return. I come from humble beginnings and I will always humble myself before other Americans. My talents are on loan from God to serve His purpose. Eventually, these talents will provide my fellow Americans with jobs, contributions, and even education. If those in Washington, D.C. ever try to tell me how to aid my country, what to do with my money or whether I am qualified to embark upon any pursuit, I will gladly correct their thoughts. And you know that I will.

    I am a proud Independent. I hate weak Republicans as much as I do “enlightened” Democrats. I vote for whomever I feel will uphold traditional values and the U.S. Constitution the best. Nobody – repeat nobody—tells me how to vote. I learn, I discover, and I challenge. I vote for the best person available who carries my core values at heart. I will continue to do so. And you know that I will.

    I am a law-abiding citizen. Changes come about within our nation through rational thought and due process. I judge by actions alone and will raise just as much hell over someone who misuses firearms as I would regarding any illegal immigrant. I do not believe that our Constitution is evolving or outdated. It represents the very bedrock of the Republic and I will not permit anyone to chisel away at this foundation. I twice took an oath to uphold our Constitution and I will always do so. And you know that I will.

    I am an educated person – contrary to popular opinion. Education does not, however, suggest having been taught. It means having learned and I have learned quite a bit in my relatively short life. I am a knowledge sponge and absorb as much information as one man can possibly learn. Whether the subject is related to astrophysics, aerodynamics, business, computer technology, literature, music, military history, or sports – I consume until I am full and then embark upon another subject matter to quench my insatiable curiosity. I never argue a point unless I know. And you know that I will.

     I am outspoken – to say the least. I am not afraid, for instance, to call Spaniards miserable crybabies whose glory is long since passed. Want to try Americans as war criminals? It is because of you that Islam has taken root within Europe. Therefore, there can be no greater insult in the world than to call someone a Spaniard in my book. The nation that once settled an entire hemisphere no longer has the backbone necessary to confront radical Islamists who threaten everyone. I have not challenged you on this issue before but as I have said, what greater insult could I unleash than by knowing that you are Spaniards? Alas, I will therefore refrain from aggravating your condition. And you know that I will.

    As I have said, I am an American.  I will not accept anything without challenge. Nor will I allow my country and its people to be harassed by others. You want a piece of me? Well, then, come and get it. I will defend my country, my neighbors, my government, and my ideas to the greatest extent possible. If you harm Americans, if you vote in over-bearing tax and spend policies, if you so much as spit on a photograph of our flag, I will be on your ass like smoke on the water. I do not care if you are Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Hugo Chavez, or Nancy Pelosi. If you desire for harm to come onto America, I will do everything within my legal power to stop you. And you know that I will. But what about the rest of you?

The right of self-defense

Whether we are talking about personal self-defense, or self-defense of air-line pilots and passengers, or personal defense of merchant sailors on open seas -- it is our individual right to protect ourselves.

On the Somali terrorist pirates, "  ...  it remains a scandal that Somali pirates continue to routinely defeat the world's naval powers says  Fred C. Iklé :

So why do we keep rewarding Somali pirates? How is this march of folly possible?

Start by blaming the timorous lawyers who advise the governments attempting to cope with the pirates such as those who had been engaged in a standoff with U.S. hostage negotiators in recent days. These lawyers misinterpret the Law of the Sea Treaty and the Geneva Conventions and fail to apply the powerful international laws that exist against piracy. The right of self-defense -- a principle of international law -- justifies killing pirates as they try to board a ship.  [snip]

The international right of self-defense would also justify an inspection and quarantine regime off the coast of Somalia to seize and destroy all vessels that are found to be engaged in piracy. These inspections could reduce the likelihood that any government will find itself engaged in a hostage situation such as the one that played out in recent days. Furthermore, the U.N. Security Council should prohibit all ransom payments. If the crew of an attacked ship were held hostage, the Security Council could authorize a military blockade of Somalia until the hostages were released.

Cowardice will not defeat terrorism, nor will it stop the Somali pirates. If anything, continuing to meet the pirates' demands only acts as an incentive for more piracy.(continue reading)

America is been active inside Somalia

The U.S. has rained down at least five air strikes on Al Qaeda and its allies in Somalia in the past two years and has unmanned drones spying on targets, said David Shinn, former U.S. ambassador to Ethiopia and State Department coordinator for Somalia.

Counterterror operations in Somalia remain "very covert" as analysts increasingly fret that Al Qaeda will gain a foothold there in a potential safe haven, Shinn said.

While intelligence officials downplay any hard links between Al Qaeda and the pirates, the crisis has increased pressure on President Obama's Pentagon to draw up plans for nailing the brigands in their home bases in six Somali ports, sources said.  [snip]

The CIA stepped up its collection of intelligence over the past year as pirate raids quadrupled alarmingly and an Al Qaeda-affiliated jihadi group, al-Shabaab, rose in potency, sources said.

"Al-Shabaab is operating numerous training camps in southern Somalia attended by some Americans," said the U.S. counterterror official. "We believe that al-Shabaab and Al Qaeda have their sights set on hitting U.S. and Western targets elsewhere in Africa."  (-- James Gordon Meek, NewYorkDailyNews) 

News around the world:

David Kilcullen — a former Australian army lieutenant colonel who helped devise the US troop surge that revitalized the American campaign in Iraq — fears Pakistan is at risk of falling under al-Qaeda control, posing a nuclear threat to her neighbors and the West.

Egyptian forces in the Sinai Peninsula have been put on high alert in recent days following the arrest of a Hezbollah spy network operating on Egyptian soil.

Police search for a second al-Qaeda terror cell believed to be planning carnage in the UK.

More on guns:

Some people do not really understand the implications of things, like special guests who reports, "The U.S. Senate passed an amendment by Senator Roger Wicker (R-MS) to force the federally subsidized Amtrak to allow passengers to carry firearms in checked bags! And it passed with a whopping 64 favorable votes to boot. Talk about a story under radar! How did this one slip by? Now thugs will think twice before they attempt to mug a little old lady—packing heat!"  Wrong.  The little old lady would not be packing heat, the gun would be in checked baggage, just like the airlines.  Passengers would not have access to the gun.  A gun packed away in the bowls of an airplane or train baggage compartment isn't helping anyone.  [snip]

Two years, two people, none too soon.

Two years, two people, none too soon.

By R.J. Godlewski
© April 4, 2009, All Rights Reserved

    Throughout the day yesterday, I, like most Americans I suppose, remained glued to the television as the horrendous shooting in Binghamton, New York unfolded. I have covered a great deal of U.S. territory within my life, but few places that crop up on Fox News Channel hit home for me. Binghamton is one. Besides a handful of fans who occasional visit my Website from that particular location, I have myself been to Binghamton several times. The first being when Sara and I worked within the household goods industry and we relocated a customer from Binghamton to Aurora, Illinois.

    Although I had spent most of my trucking career in the refrigerated goods industry, delivering people’s personal possessions provide you with a chance to get to know “someone” other than a sanitized and impersonal cold storage facility. You come to know their personalities through where they had lived and where they are relocating. You understand their hobbies and chores by the nature of their possessions and the care in which they provide for them. You just cannot move an entire three-bedroom home with the same level of indifference as you would 40 tons of Grade A frozen beef. It is through this effort – of spending perhaps ten hours loading a person’s prized possessions into a fraction of a 45-foot trailer – that I came to know the city of Binghamton some fifteen years ago.

    Today, my heart and prayers go out to the residents of that beautiful town and to the families of those killed and injured within that barbaric attack. I also pray that those who were injured and the families of those killed will not incorporate the actions of a maniac into hatred of America as a whole. America is still the best country on the planet – bar none – as evidenced by so many people desiring to come over here for a chance at a brighter future. If it were within my power, those killed and maimed by yesterday’s actions would become instant citizens in the same manner that those killed down at Virginia Tech were granted their degrees posthumously.

    There is a connection beyond the obvious between Virginia Tech and Binghamton, though nobody probably cares to consider it, for it is relatively insignificant and mostly involves your humble author. Two years ago this month, Debbie Hamilton of Right Truth posted an announcement that my book, Integrated Technical Warfare: An Organizational Guide to Creating a Corporate Counterterrorism Force , would be her Blog’s “book of the month” for that May. Since the terrible shooting at Virginia Tech, I have released the PDF version of ITW as a public courtesy. I felt that if someone could take away a bit of practical knowledge from the book that might just increase their personal safety, then it was far more important than whether I received a paltry two-buck profit.

    Since that decision, hundreds if not thousands of people have downloaded ITW throughout the world and it is impossible to know whether those copies were distributed to even more readers. A few have written to me that they have enjoyed the text. Others have posted that it was a complete “piece of fiction”. I guess that goes with the territory, but I rather have ten thousand enemies if I could just benefit one single individual. I think that Debbie would agree, which is why I suspect that she keeps Right Truth Blog going even when it becomes a drain on her and her personal life. That one person benefitted means much more than the hundreds that ridicule the effort.

    During the course of the past two years, I have lost track of how many articles and features I have written for Right Truth Blog and its readers. She had posted an article of mine regarding leadership and I replied with a courtesy copy of ITW in gratitude. Our friendship took off from that moment onwards and, as I said, I have lost track of how many postings on Right Truth bear my name. I have a good idea, though. Google my name and you will see almost 7,000 pages ascribed to R.J. Godlewski. Most of those come from my association with Debbie Hamilton.

    I believe that our friendship is based upon our united effort to show our love for this great country of ours by doing whatever we can to defeat her enemies, both foreign and domestic. We collaborate, each in our individual way, in the Independent Counterterrorist training program, which is an extension of the goal behind ITW. We simply want our citizenry to assume a larger role in their own safety and survival. I suspect that I am the more unbridled of the two of us – I believe that captured terrorists should be hung from their scrotum on public television for the entire planet to partake of our desire to bring harm to those who wish to kill or maim our friends and neighbors. Call me radical; just do not call me weak.

    That our ICT training program has, perhaps, reached an even greater audience – through its various “modules” – than even ITW proves that we are not alone in this ambition to rid the world of tyrants and terrorists. The range of nations represented by ICT readers is far too broad to list here and includes many Muslim nations such as Saudi Arabia, Sudan, and Iran – not exactly locations friendly to the United States from a leadership perspective. In one of those strange coincidences of fate too peculiar to mention, I have more fans today in Vietnam than from any other nation outside the United States. It is a nationality represented on both sides of the massacre in Binghamton. The world is thus simply too small to ignore troubles anywhere.

    There is no one cause for why some people decide to terrify and murder others. Our more “enlightened” culture can lay blame to whichever group and grievance they deem appropriate but the truth remains that we live within a comparatively civilized era just the same. There have been those who desire to kill and maim others ever since there were neighbors upon this planet. This did not begin with America’s involvement within the Middle East. It did not begin with Israel’s occupation of the disputed territories. It will not end with a global “Green” movement either. For all of our billions, there are only three types of people upon this tiny planet of ours – those who wish to destroy, those who care less about being destroyed, and those who want to do something about the first two groups. Debbie and I fall into this latter classification.

    We will not allow our nation to go down without a fight. We will not permit our citizenry to become inept and fodder for terrorists and impotent leaders. America represents the people and it is “We the people” that need to rise up and challenge both our politicians and those hell-bent on our destruction. Care to join us?  Or are you permanently anchored to the sidelines? The time for Americans (and others) to fight back has come none too soon…

   

Anti-jihad group helps fill U.S. ammo shortage

Via email:  Worldnetdaily Supports, ATF'S Counter-Jihad Fundraiser - .223 ammunition sale

An ammunition manufacturer and a non-profit group are teaming up in a unique venture to help address both the short supply of commercial ammo and the need to alert Americans about the threat of radical Islam.

America's Truth Forum announced it is making available through its website .223 Remington (5.56) rounds suitable for all sporting and military-style rifles, including the AR-15 and Ruger Mini-14.

"Like gold and silver, ammunition is coming into vogue as an affordable security investment - a multi-purpose asset that not only protects homes from violent attacks and citizens from tyrannical oppression but a tangible one that could be bartered as collateral during the most troubling economic times," says the president of America's Truth Forum, Jeff Epstein.

Purchasers of the ammunition will have an opportunity to donate to America's Truth Forum, Epstein said, and help "awaken our citizenry to the radical Islamic-Jihadist threat."

"If we fail to take the appropriate actions now, our children will be left to carry on the battle against an even stronger and more determined foe, an evil whose flame we failed to extinguish," he said. "Our legacy should be one of bravely confronting our adversaries and of diligently defending what is rightfully ours. Our actions need to serve as motivating examples for future generations, instilling in them the proclivity to stand resolute in the face of evil."

Learn here why it's your right -- and duty -- to be armed.
As WND reported, firearm sales have spiked since the election of a perceived anti-gun president, and the stockpiling of bullets has stressed the ammunition market.
The Orlando Sentinel reported months of steady, heavy buying have left gun dealers facing shortages of ammunition.

"The survivalist in all of us comes out," John Ritz, manager of a Florida shooting range, told the Sentinel. "It's more about protecting what you have."

"People are just stockpiling," said a spokeswoman for Georgia Arms, which has seen bullet sales jump 100 percent since the election. "A gun is just like a car. If you can't get gas, you can't use it."

WND reported earlier this month that amid outrage from private gun owners, the Department of Defense scrapped a new policy that would deplete the supply of ammunition by requiring destruction of fired military cartridge brass.

The policy already had taken a bite out of the nation's ammunition supply, leaving arms dealers scrambling to find ammo for private gun owners.

The Department of Defense explained it had placed small arms cartridge cases on its list of sensitive munitions items as part of an overall effort to ensure national security is not jeopardized in the sale of any Defense property.

Montana's two Democratic senators, Jon Tester and Max Baucus, pressed the issue with Defense officials, arguing that "prohibiting the sale of fired military brass would reduce the supply of ammunition - preventing individual gun owners from fully exercising their Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms."

.223 REM. (5.56) AMMO

 
 As widely reported, commercial ammunition is in short supply - in particular, .223 Remington (5.56) rounds suitable for all sporting and military-style rifles including the AR-15 and Ruger Mini-14.  America's Truth Forum (ATF) is pleased to announce that a patriotic American corporation has agreed to fill this void by manufacturing and distributing small-arms ammunition, to qualified purchasers, in support of our educational initiative.  

  
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Joshua, Joshua, Where Art Thou Joshua?

Joshua, Joshua, Where Art Thou Joshua?

By R.J. Godlewski
© March 28, 2009, All Rights Reserved
(Right Truth Exclusive)

    I do not know about you, but I believe that it is high time we go Biblical on the Islamist terrorists seeking to destroy our country and our world. Ever since I have been studying terrorism – since the early 1970’s, to be certain – our nation seems to function in spurts regarding its counterterrorism functions. We remain peaceful. We are attacked. We hit back. We grow bored. We go back to being peaceful. We are attacked again. A never-ending cycle that will only cease when our adversaries are pushing up daisies.  Or whatever the hell sprouts up in the desert.

    Our nation was never inclined to worry about civility in conquering anything. We came to exist through the exploits of such legendary souls as Captain Jedediah Strong Smith who, after having an enraged grizzly nearly swallow his head whole, calmly instructed  companion James Clyman in the proper technique of sewing his face – and dangling ear – back together again  (Goetzmann 2006, 113-115). It was not only the mauling bears that our ancestors battled either. The weather could be just as dangerous, yet herein lay tales of even more extraordinary Americans – Crow Indians “naked to the waist and almost contemptuous of the sub-zero weather” were joined by Clyman and others in massive buffalo hunts (Goetzmann 2006, 115).

    Somewhere between those literally snatching defeat out from the mouths of grizzly bears in the early nineteenth century and our modern, convenience-driven culture of today, our national leadership simply lost the will to devour our enemies. Apparently, it did not take very long for during the later years of the nineteenth century General Nelson A. “Bear Coat” Miles charged his contemporaries with treating vanquished Apaches as “conquerors than prisoners”, arguing that “They have been petted and, if that policy is continued, they will furnish warriors for the next twenty years”  (Utley 1989, 89). One can just imagine General Miles’ spirit lambasting the current Obama Administration over its “petting” of our Muslim adversaries today.

    Human evolution, being what it is, has ensured us of the ability to do unto others before, during, and after they have dealt unto us. In short, peace is “the aberration of the human condition”  (Godlewski 2008, 25). We are genetically and psychologically geared towards beating the hell out of our competition in order to survive. Regardless, we now find it “offensive” to wage war. We do not seem to have any inhibitions towards finding ourselves involved within wars, it is just that we never find the courage to obliterate our enemies once we find ourselves engaged within them. At least not since the end of the Second World War.

    Long gone is the time when we feared God and challenged man. Today, we are far more likely to challenge God and fear man. This imbalance of nature has shortchanged our  national security, giving rise to a Washington leadership and Mainstreet population without the confidence necessary to lay waste to radical Islam. Oh, if only we could find a modern Joshua today. Someone who could accept God’s law and “not swerve from it either to the right or to the left” (Jos 1:7 NAB). Sadly, our left is criminal and our right is incompetent. Our Congress is staffed with people whose ideals of heroism parallel that of ancient Eleazar, also called Avaran, who was killed stabbing a drunken elephant in the belly (1 Mc 6:44-46 NAB).  Today, it will not just be the jackasses who are crushed underneath the weight of an inebriated pachyderm.  We, the American people, are being smothered under the bloated belly of “change” and the GOP is the one dishing out the vodka to spike the Democrats' Kool-Aid.

    Where is our Joshua? Our military commander who is not afraid to put to death all those who subvert our security and purpose (Jos 1:18 NAB)? Who amongst us can “go out to war against [our] enemies and…[will] not be afraid of them, for the Lord [our] God” is with them (Dt 20:1 NAB]? Who amongst us today is quite capable of waging war by “putting to the sword all living creatures…men and women, young and old, as well as oxen, sheep, and asses” (Jos 6:21).

    Our culture today largely consists of sheep and asses that watch Jericho but cannot understand the tactics, psychological warfare, and intelligence witnessed by the actual town bearing the name. We do not want to fight; we want to debate and herein we find our future resting solely in the hands of the “Great Community Organizer”. Whereas the Great Communicator  once warned us about the “Evil Empire” and proceeded to pound it into bankruptcy his contemporary warns us about the evil of empire and proceeds to pound us into bankruptcy.

    Where enemies of a state were once hung, drawn, and quartered; modern adversaries are fed with hind quarters. Where General Douglas MacArthur once spoke boldly that “It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it”  (Godlewski, Surgical Warfare: An Impediment to Conflict Resolution? 2003-2006), we now enter all our wars with the meter running for the whole world to observe. Our national surrender begins as soon as a conflict commences.

    Our economy has cycled down, and our Treasury Secretary wants to abandon two hundred  and thirty-three years of heritage.  The drug cartels in Mexico are battling their own country but our leaders want to restrict our right to arm and protect ourselves. Our entrepreneurs invented the aerospace industry but because the rest of the world is “Green” with envy, the ruling class in Washington wants to tamper with our innovative spirit. That white flag of surrender that our Legislature and Presidency is waving in front of the Islamists, Cartels, and Tyrannies is none other than the Constitution of the United States of America and we need to restore it back to its rightful place of honor within our society.

    Like Joshua of old, we need to circle Washington with our “army”, trumpeting our voices loudly until the walls of bureaucracy come tumbling down. Only then can we safely inhabit the land that God has laid out before us and welcome all people back into our fold. Only when we pave over our enemies can we hope to build the towering structure of civility that carries the torch of freedom and liberty atop its apex. Only when we remain America can we become the United States.

    R.J. Godlewski is a member of the National Military Intelligence Association, the National Rifle Association, Golden Key International Honour Society, a veteran of the United States Navy, and a student of Middle East Terrorism and Explosive Ordnance Disposal operations. He is the author of the Independent Counterterrorist training modules.

References

Godlewski, R.J. Mini-Manual of the Independent Counterterrorist. Houghton Lake: Road Sailor Books, 2008.

—. Surgical Warfare: An Impediment to Conflict Resolution? 2003-2006. http://www.rjgodlewski.com/SurgicalWarfare.html (accessed March 28, 2009).

Goetzmann, William H. Exploration and Empire: The Explorer and the Scientist in the Winning of the American West. New York: History Book Club, 2006.

Utley, Robert L. "Crook and Miles, Fighting and Feuding on the Indian Frontier." MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History, Autumn 1989: 81-91.

   

Defending America against Obama’s Franken-Geithner Monster: The recurrent need for an American National Militia.

Defending America against Obama’s Franken-Geithner Monster:
The recurrent need for an American National Militia.

By R.J. Godlewski

© March 25, 2009, All Rights Reserved

(Right Truth Exclusive)

    Okay, we have all had our laugh. We have elected our first partially-black, partially-American, partially-Christian, partially-Senator, partially-transparent, partially-hopeful, partially-sympathetic-to-the-handicapped, and partially-able-to-speak-without-a-teleprompter-present president in U.S. history. It has been the gag to surpass all humor and, in true American form, we have even learned some valuable lessons from our jovial spontaneity. Conservatives have learned that to moderate is to surrender and Liberals have learned that simply wishing for “anybody but Bush” might lead them into desires best left unwished for.

    We get it by now. That to vote in an inexperienced, Ivy-league indoctrinated community organizer comes with a hefty price tag – namely $10 trillion. Even the rest of the world is laughing along with us. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is simply hysterical over our gift of nuclear weapons purchased via the hideaway plan.   Hugo Chavez is happy because he can now boast that our new president knows absolutely squat about Latin America – never even having visited there. Ol’ Vlad Putin would be laughing too, but he is just a bit too serious for true comedy. I doubt that he would be friends with Obama anyway; Russians were never too polite towards blacks – partial or otherwise.

    Under normal circumstances, I would be laughing now too. After all, I possess more business experience (successful or not, take your pick), more military experience (four years’ U.S. Navy, ~ four and a half years’ U.S. Navy Reserve), more Latin American experience (I’ve at least been down to Brazil),  more “Green” experience (my carbon footprint barely registers)  and more American experience (I’ve lived here my whole life except for brief Navy deployments overseas) than my new President! There are even several legitimate copies of my Michigan birth certificate floating around the institutions of Hawaii. For someone my age, all this is pretty damn hilarious. Officially speaking, I even have more experience combating terrorism – in my own unique little way – with my formal efforts beginning in 1994 and my semi-formal intentions dating back to 1979. Actually, you know, I kept up on that whole Patty Hearst affair pretty well so I think that my interest in fighting terrorists goes back fairly far into my life. Regardless, I know there is a global war on terror out there and that it entails combating Islam. Our president doesn’t know that despite his Ivy-league credentials.

    Still, I have been faulted for being too strict, too judgmental. Creature of habit, I suppose. Who am I to criticize someone that sixty-five million others think of as the next messiah? I just wonder where all of this “hope” is leading us. I have done, as illustrated above, my share in protecting this great nation of ours. Our president no longer – nor ever did, apparently – have the stomach to fight our enemies. I can complain about that because it is his DUTY to battle our enemies. So, I guess, I can judge him about being a piss poor military commander.

    Secondly, I see Mr. Obama alienating a large portion of our economic base – particularly the capitalists who are its very foundation. The entire colonization of the New World came about because of – dare I say? –  human greed, so there’s nothing inherently “unproven” in that. The Pilgrims even paid seven years’ wages just to come over here for a shot at the Big Time. Therefore, if you do not mind too terribly much, I will judge our president here too because America is a capitalistic society specifically designed against government interference. Mr. Obama’s policies are against American tradition, ergo Mr. Obama is anti-American, if in action only.

    It is bad enough that Mr. Obama wants to subjugate our nation to the likes of illegal aliens, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the Islamists, thereby shirking his duties as our Commander-in-Chief, but his administration also wants to deny the rest of us our God-given, Constitutionally-protected right to bear arms and protect ourselves. Sorry, but anyone who intentionally flies in the face of God and the U.S. Constitution simply has to be judged. It does not bother me that I could probably outshoot our president in competition and that he holds no interest in owning firearms, but why should he work so diligently to deny the sixty-five million of us who do own guns? If he abandons our interests, then I am free to abandon the interests of those who placed him into office. Yet, I cannot.

    Everyone makes major mistakes within their lives and usually we do so by the time that we are thirty years old.  Strangely, this is pretty much the same age group that had placed Mr. Obama into office. Could they now be regretting their decision to toss our nation’s future into someone’s hands that has no verifiable experience whatsoever for the position? Possibly.

    Myself, I am a survivor. I have been through economic crises before. I know enough of the “natural world” to survive should the “material world” disappear and, well, that is how things look now. The question is what we do with the likes of President Obama, Congresswoman Pelosi, and Senator Reid – a new “Axis of Evil” if you will. A new tripartite leadership of liberal tyranny. Sadly, we cannot physically remove them from office though I bet nearly everyone has toyed with the idea at least once.

    Our legal options are therefore very limited indeed. Our ethical solutions are even more challenging. However, we can undertake two quite pronounced actions. One admittedly more practical than the other. We can vote them out of office at the earliest opportunity. On the other hand, we can simply complain loudly enough to make them resign and then we can start working on getting bumbling Veep Joe Biden to follow suit. The choice is yours and you need to start acting fast.

    As I read about a $4 Trillion dollar budget deficit and an eroding economic base, I am losing things to laugh about at both the national and local levels. In Minnesota, comedian à l'effet contraire Al Franken is still suing to become a bona fide politician. In Missouri, the state police are salivating over how many people they can include within the ranks of militias. And in Washington, D.C. , confessed tax cheat Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner now wants the ChiComs to create a new world currency. As if we do not have enough garbage manufactured in China already!

    About the only bright spot on the evening news is that many European leaders are now openly criticizing President Obama’s orgasmic spending rituals. So much for George W. Bush destroying our credibility in the Old World – President Obama took less than two months to get all the former adversaries of the Second World War to agree on his idiocy. I knew the honeymoon would not last.

    However, we can now shed two fundamental discrepancies in our national psyche. First, “White America” no longer needs to fear being labeled as racist if we do not vote for the first black that buys his party’s nomination. We can now simply show that Europe has also realized that political assholes can come from any race – that we no longer need to jump on anyone’s bandwagon solely out of fear of disagreement. It is quite sad, though, to realize just how many properly qualified and honest black Americans may never be able to run for president because “The One” destroyed what little credibility “Change” had.  It used to be the Dope from Hope. Now, it is just Hope from dope and the liberals keep on smoking.

    America’s future has been tossed from the track. Forget the previous forty-three presidents; Barack Obama has done more to destroy America than every fascist and communist adversary from the past century. His administration clearly wants tyrannical powers to commandeer businesses which they feel might harm America’s economy (such as proving to be far too successful);  to confiscate firearms from Americans who might need to defend themselves against Mexican drug cartels (who are probably paying those in the BOH Administration to silence our Constitutional rights);  and now they want American greenbacks sacrificed in exchange for Red notes.

    What I cannot understand, is why we are not seeing masses pouring into the streets and demanding that our government shed itself of despotic ambitions and restore our beloved Constitution. Our government is experiencing the same kind of psychotic personality disorder that leads führender Liberaler Phil Donahue to suggest that if the Roman Catholic Church were to abandon its complete doctrinal history then more “young people” would be willing to join its ranks. In other words, if the Roman Catholic Church would just cease to exist then maybe there would be more people willing to call themselves Roman Catholics. Well, Mr. Donahue will undoubtedly fry in hell but we cannot wait as long to make our politicians pay for their transgressions. Not while our future is at stake.

    Listen, I love America. I think that it is by far the best nation on the planet. Our proud citizens hail from every race, every ethnicity, every religion, and every country on the planet. What makes us equal, ironically, is our individuality. Our founding fathers created a nation “of the people” – not just another country subjugated by royal decree. First amongst the amendments to the Constitution was the provision that:

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

    What this means is, of course, that Congress cannot mandate, among other things, that the Roman Catholic Church support abortions, gay rights, and such other ridiculous beliefs that subvert its infallibility. The first amendment also guarantees the right to free speech, to peaceably assemble, and to petition the Government for redress of grievances.  In America, I have a Constitutionally-guaranteed right to stand outside the White House, pray my rosary, and call Mr. Obama the infamous “N” word should I chose to do so.  And, friends, as long as I did not do so with the sole intent of creating a riot, I could petition the legal system to uphold my rights thereof and, under the Constitution, the courts would have no viable alternative but to uphold my actions. If – and herein is a very large word – they bound themselves to the Constitution in the first place.

    America’s problem today rests not with our economic situation, but with the growing numbers of leaders and other authoritative figures who are abandoning the Constitution in favor of personal agendas. Forgot George W. Bush’s alleged abandoning of personal privacy – one “right” fully ignored by the Constitution – today’s politicians are intentionally trying to subvert our laws in order to force us to surrender to their will.

    This is wrong. This is why we possess a Constitution in the first place – to prevent tyrants from gaining foothold within our beloved country. The first amendment makes us free. The second amendment – the right to keep and bear arms – keeps us free. It is the American person – not the police, not the government, not even the military – that bears fundamental responsibility for protecting our Constitution. By remaining armed – and trained – we can have the ability to toss out those who tried to enslave us. That’s heavy.

    Adolf Hitler could not have come to power if the “ordinary Germans” had marched against his own march on Berlin. Instead, he took away their guns and they gladly handed their freedoms over to him. Saddam Hussein could not have come to power if the Iraqis had shot him instead of his shooting the opposition and leading to such future atrocities as the gassing of Halabja.

    The only people in the United States who are not equal are our politicians for they are our servants. We are not theirs. We might cry foul over the bonuses paid to AIG executives, but what Congress and the President have done to us is far greater a tragedy than all of the bonuses and golden parachutes on the planet. The AIG executives might have done a poor job of running their company, but the bonuses were part of their agreed upon salary. Those in Washington have been charged with upholding our Constitution, a job that they have done far worse than those bastards over at AIG.

    I call upon America – blacks, whites, Democrats, Republicans, Christians, atheists, everyone – to take back this great nation of ours. Let our votes and telephone calls descend upon Washington like Biblical plagues of justice. Let us form an American National Militia to safeguard our Constitution and hold those charged with its protection accountable for their actions. We do not need an armed revolt in Washington – at least I hope we do not need one – but need to be just as militaristic in our intentions.

    Thousands upon thousands of brave Americans have died to keep our flag flying and our Constitution revered. We owe them the respect that comes from sacrificing our “free time” to ensure that our politicians and national leaders do not permit personal agenda to stand in the way of national security and liberty. Let them not have died in vain. Let us fight Capitol Hill and fire everyone who picks away at the Constitution. What are you waiting for? A new leader to emerge? Look in the damn mirror!