There is No Such Thing as “Regulating Rights”

By John Farnam

“Rights?”

When someone says, in so many words, “I have a ‘right’ to never have anything bad happen to me,” they are displaying a level of ignorance and self-delusion that ultimately makes for them a short, and unhappy, life.  And, they are unfit for citizenship in a free Republic!

Our Constitution provides no protection from, for example, bacteria.  Either way, bacteria don’t seem to care, one way or another!  Likewise, immunity from sadness, unfortunate circumstances, suffering, dying, and death is also conspicuous by its absence from the Constitutional text. 

Who read such rubbish into our Constitution are delusional and dishonorable.  They dishonor our courageous Founders and all our Constitution’s brave defenders ever since.

Our Constitution does not warrant bad things will never happen, but does confirm certain pre-existing rights (“endowed by our Creator”) of all citizens.  For example, our Constitutional does not guarantee innocent people a fair trail.  Here, everyone is guaranteed a fair trial!

When some leftist says this or that Constitutional right needs to be “regulated,” and fraudulently uses terms like “common sense” and “We’re doing it for you own good,” you can be sure that, in their minds, “regulation” translates to “prohibition,” and, whether in small steps, or in one big one, the result is always the same, and it was invariably their intention, their “hidden agenda,” from the beginning.  They love nothing better than to “regulate” our God-given and Constitutionally-confirmed individual rights as citizens out of existence, suffocating us with so many vaguely-written “rules,” no one can even know if he is “law-abiding” or not.  Thus, all citizens are continually terrorized, groping, weak, and fearful- exactly the way they want us!

And, what makes these weasels, these hypocrites, these Constitutional criminals, so blatantly evil is the fact that none of the restrictions they’re proposing for the rest of us, will ever apply to them, and they know it!

Who so self-righteously think, for example, military rifles are inherently wicked and thus need to be prohibited, will (when they have any personal honor) set the example and start with themselves!  We should say to them, “Okay, let’s start with your bodyguards”  And yet, none have volunteered, and no one in our corrupt media is making such a suggestion.  Imagine that!  Many more citizens are murdered ever year than are politicians.  Why is it that they “deserve” protection, but we don’t?

We can never allow ourselves to be deceived by these lying leftists.  They want for themselves all the power, all the revenue, all the privilege, but none of the accountability.  They feel far more of a kinship with Lenin, Marx, and Stalin than they ever will with Washington, Jefferson, and Adams.

They are a disgrace to our Republic, and it is a disgrace that they were ever elected.

For example, Chicago, a massive “gun-free zone,” apparently isn’t!  Attempts at a “gun-free utopia,” always by liberal Democrats, are an obvious and pathetic failure in Chicago, a fact ignored by the corrupt media. 

And, French “gun control” laws, and similar laws throughout Western Europe and the UK, have been pitifully ineffective in disarming/dissuading, even inconveniencing, terrorists.  

Mark that well!

Stay Alert, Stay Armed and Stay Dangerous!

 

NO! You can’t have my Civil Rights, I am Using Them Right Now!

“The ‘looters’ credo’ has brought you to regard your proudest achievements as a hallmark of shame, your prosperity as guilt, your greatest men, the industrialists, as blackguards, and your magnificent factories as the product and property of muscular labor, the labor of whip-driven slaves, like the pyramids of Egypt.

The rotter, who simpers that he sees no difference between the power of the dollar and the power of the whip, ought to learn the difference on his own hide!” ~ Ayn Rand

A persuasive case is made that BHO was elected mostly by guilt-ridden, white liberals who thought voting him would somehow absolve them of the sin of personally benefiting from free-market capitalism. Sadly, happiness ever-eludes white liberals, so they do their sincere best to punish themselves, and the rest of us too!

Their “progressive” agenda is really “regressive,” as it seeks to destroy free-market capitalism, the best anti-poverty program ever known (see video below), replacing it with Marxism, a thoroughly discredited political/economic system that, over the last hundred years, has failed everywhere it has been tried. Specifically, it has failed to better the lives of real people. However, it has simultaneously succeeded spectacularly in keeping career leftist criminals (most of whom have never earned an honest dime in their lives) in political power in perpetuity, as they viciously, brutally quash all opposition (after first disarming them).

Whether in the UK, Europe, South Africa, or the USA, liberal/leftist/progressive dogma invariably flunks, because it tirelessly, (but, oh so piously) advocates for old, bromidic, ever-miscarrying tenets.

There are three:

(1) Perpetual poverty

(2) Government-encouraged criminal violence

(3) Class envy and race hatred

I find it comical when HRC refers to millionaires at “they.” Gee Hillary, don’t you mean “we?” Comfortable liberals claim to “love the poor,” but only so long as they stay poor! Poor people, kept perpetually dependent on government handouts, can be easily intimidated, terrorized, and “managed. ” Helpless, hopeless, dependent, feeble, defenseless, and ever non-productive, that is the liberal definition of “citizen.” In liberal theology, there is no room for a “middle class.”

The poor are kept poor through a welfare system that pays unmarried women and girls to get pregnant, have children, but never get married and have a family in the traditional sense. Such children are typically unloved, neglected, and abused. To no one’s surprise, they become unloving, neglectful, and abusive adults, at least the ones who survive childhood.

This discredited system is philosophically maintained through continuously-articulated denigration of the concept of personal, individual responsibility. From the president on down, liberals always blame someone else for bad results, never stepping up to the plate themselves. And, where there is no personal responsibility, there can be no personal initiative, nor personal ambition, nor opportunity! Bad individual choices are never the personal responsibility of the individual, so nothing is ever learned, and nothing ever improves. Everyone is a perpetual “victim” of someone else, someone that liberals don’t like, such as doctors, gun-owners, employers, et al. With such a personal philosophy, life-long poverty and misery are virtually assured.

Our “land of opportunity” is now the “land of hopeless victims.”

Who advocate for an ever-growing, suffocating government, predictably want all privately-owned guns first “registered,” than confiscated, leaving their former owners defenseless in the presence of armed criminals. After all, “The more crime you have, the more government you need!” Once again, with no individual responsibility nor individual initiative allowed, all become completely dependent upon the government for personal protection, of course an impossible task.

Cynically, liberal politicians are only interested in protecting themselves. “Gun-control” never seems to apply to them!

Violent criminals are thus a valuable resource, used by liberals to keep everyone else perpetually frightened and dependent. Why else would BHO order the biggest jail-break in history, letting thousands of violent criminals out of federal prison? Most are already re-offending. In time, all of them will.

 

As noted above, comfortable liberals, in a display of nauseating hypocrisy, continually denigrate honest wealth, while hiding their own. The “wealthy” they claim, must be punished for not paying their “fair share.” In Ferguson, MO and Baltimore, MD, in modern-day versions of “Kristallnacht,” we see local business burned down by the block, and honest business people thus ruined. But, who feels sorry for all those evil capitalists, those evil private-sector employers? I notice no tears being shed by liberal politicians.

“There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack-down on ‘criminals.’ Well, when there aren’t enough real criminals, one manufactures them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What’s there in that for anyone? But, just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed, nor enforced, nor objectively interpreted, and you create a nation of law-breakers, and then you cash in on ‘guilt.’” ~ Ayn Rand, again.

/John

Read the Original Article at Ammo-Land

Take Heed! Stay Alert, Stay Armed and Stay Dangerous!

 

A Grunt’s Thoughts on the Loss of Kunduz

By Ryan Blum
Best Defense guest columnist

As I’m scrolling through my Facebook feed during my Monday morning commute I almost overlook a post from my old Company Commander:

“Taliban Fighters Overrun Kunduz City as Afghan Forces Retreat”

My mouth drops.

Back in March of 2010 my unit took responsibility for Kunduz Province in northern Afghanistan during the surge there. The capital, Kunduz city, is home to about 300,000 people and is the fifth-largest city in Afghanistan, strategically located for its trading routes to Kabul from the border of Tajikistan.

When my unit arrived, the Taliban controlled most of the countryside — only the major population centers were under government control. Our area was mostly non-Pashtun, which meant the population solidly favored the Afghan government. For 12 long months my unit endured IEDs, landmines, sniper attacks, ambushes, and suicide bombers in an attempt to bring peace, order, and commercial trade to Kunduz province. And we succeeded.

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Why Your Intelligence Section Must ID Gang Activity Now

“Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.”  – George Washington

By Samuel Culper

This past weekend, we had the great fortune to see some of the good, the bad, and the ugly in West Virginia.  First of all, the physical terrain is an invader’s nightmare.  That country, just like the rest of Appalachia, is unforgiving.  The human terrain – the people who comprise the populace and make or break insurgencies – are, for the most part, very hospitable and accommodating if you’re the right kind of people.  They have their clannishness and infighting, however, their ability to remain otherwise free in an unfree world puts them in the top five percent of the nation.

But there are lots of EBT card holders as well, which makes dependency a significant limitation.  One estimate put those on welfare into the 30% range in a nearby county.  That’s a problem that local security will have to figure out, and there are no easy answers.  Along those same lines, budgets are tight.  One town had to release five of their part time/reserve deputies, and are now down to two officers for the town (both of whom are very pro-Constitution and members of Oath Keepers, by the way).  That’s another significant limitation for security and stability in an SHTF environment, but it underscores the need for the good men and women to fill in the gaps.

And we heard stories of the corruption in government and law enforcement that peppers the region.  What’s most depressing, however, is the drug trade there and the addiction that goes with it.  Some politicians and law enforcement are complicit in that drug trade, and the good law enforcement officers who stand up are hammered back down.  It fuels addiction which increases associated crimes like theft and robbery.

Now imagine that you’re a member of one of these communities — maybe you already are or maybe this section of West Virginia adequately describes your own area.  The drug trade is certainly not unique to this area, and is geographically unrestrained.  What’s the plan to combat addiction and the drug gangs (among other factors, like lack of jobs) that fuel it?

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5 Battlefield Innovations that came from the Rank-and-File Troops

by Mike Denny

It’s not always the think tanks and military scientists who invent new military equipment.

 

Military personnel are a crafty bunch. They surprise their commanders and buddies with many good — and, let’s be honest, some bad — innovations. Some of these battlefield creations even surprise the teams of scientists and industry professionals designing military equipment. When faced with limited resources, the battlefield innovations of the rank-and-file troops have become a staple of military kits. Weapon systems and generals don’t win wars alone; it is the dog-tired foot soldier who eventually helps the victor cross the finish line.

Many of these innovations were strictly for improved comfort, like the battlefield home brew or the stills created by pioneering troops confined to trenches in World War I. Defeating scurvy with booze and citrus fruit was a major battlefield improvement asCrispin Burke wrote last year. The woobie, or poncho liner, is another example of relatively low-tech equipment being used to improve battlefield effectiveness.

Here are some inventions from the every-day soldiers and uniform-wearing MacGyvers who used all available resources to implement crafty solutions.

1. Hedgerow Plow, also known as the Rhino Tank

A Sherman ‘Rhino’ variant, modified to cut through the hedgerows of the bocage countryside, Normandy 1944.

The hedgerows of Normandy and northern France during the beachhead breakout in the summer of 1944 were natural barriers providing cover and concealment to Nazi forces defending the area. Utilizing the hedgerows, German teams of infantry and armor wreaked havoc on Allied forces attempting to break out of the precarious beachhead. A New Jersey National Guard tanker, Sgt. Curtis Grubb Culin III, a tank commander in the 102nd Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron, realized there had to be a better way. Seeing leftover scrap steel from German roadblocks, Culin and his fellow soldiers fabricated a plow attachment for their unit’s Sherman tanks to breach the hedgerow walls and regain mobility.

Referred to as a “Rhinoceros,” or “Rhino tank,” these M4 Shermans caught the eye of the division commander who wisely ordered the plow fabricated across the force. This battlefield adaption exists to this day: The M1 Abrams variant, called the Assault Breacher Vehicle, has a similar plow, which the Marine Corps recently used in Afghanistan. Culin later lost a leg in the Hurtgen Forest, but was awarded a Legion of Merit and recognized with a monument in his hometown of Cranford, New Jersey.

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