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“Police Chief Mike Chitwood said he doesn’t encourage vigilante justice but said people have the right to protect themselves or their property. ’They’re fed up with everything,’ he said. ‘People have to do what they have to do.’”
That is the Chief’s take on this 64-year old, Daytona woman spotting a thief running through her yard, chasing him down, and holding him at gunpoint for arrest. ”Stop right there (expletive), or you’re going to be dead where you stand,” she is quoted as telling the thief.
The other story making the rounds is out of New York, the state of Bernard Goetz, where the gun owning, law-abiding, otherwise harmless citizen is not as respected as where Chief Chitwood lives. Bernadette Greenwald faces prosecution for confronting a young man outside her home, threatening him with her pistol, and firing a “warning shot” into the air.
I am not condoning the threat of deadly force to stop either a fleeing car thief, or a shady, harassing, maybe-up-to-worse ne’er-do-well. I am saying this. As the culture breaks down, law-abiding, peaceful people will—justifiably–be more fearful, and some will react out of that fear to protect themselves, and their loved ones. The scenario may not call for a gun, or for deadly force, and their tactics may be judged as poorly-thought-out or even unlawful. But, as Chief Chitwood put it: People are fed up, and they have to do what they have to do.
Better advise your kids that pranking the neighbors in an age of home invasion robbery, teen gang beatings, and drug-fogged violence may get you killed even if you are just ringing the doorbell and running.
Picture the old 1950s horror flick, brought back to the screen in more modern form. President Obama continues to grow the voracious Green Blob of Government. He, his party, and the monster he advocates for seem determined to devour us all.
Instead of apologizing to the nation for squandering taxpayer-earned money, and throwing those of us in the non-governing class into more debt, he wants more of our money for green crony capitalism—which is the antithesis of capitalism.
If you want a thorough run-down on global warming lies, click here for an excellent accounting at American Thinker.
The Democrat-controlled U.S. Senate willfully—intentionally—refuses to write a budget. Why?
A budget publishes the lurid photographs of America’s fornication with Marx. It shines the light on the American welfare state, with its roaches bursting from the top of the government’s cookie jar and pouring over, threatening to overrun our kitchens, workshops, and streets. Instead of scurrying away with them, the Democrat Senate and president pretend not to see. As long as the Democrats distract the public, then they may trick enough people at election time into thinking that our problems are racism, or the religious right, or big corporations.
A spreadsheet of welfare state failure: that is what a budget would be. In the past, such budgets raised little dust. Now, the Republicans would howl. The Democrats would challenge: “OK, then, where do you want to cut?” Of course, the Republicans are afraid to answer, and so they utter only muffled protests against the Democrat Senate’s dereliction of duty.
Thus the stalemate: The Republicans and Democrats alike perceive that the American public is not yet ready to cast off this manifestation of Marxist mindset known as the American welfare state. One party is wholly given over to the lust for power Marx promised, and the other party knows it’s wrong, but wants it anyway. The result is the same. The American public could force them out, or force them to change, but the American public has only the whisper of a memory of what it is like to wake up free every day. We define freedom only by comparison to the most autocratic police states: “Oh, but you should have grown up in ________, where government troops kicked down doors in the middle of the night and took you away.” We Americans have forgotten who we are.
A budget from the Democrat Senate would mark TEOTUWSAWKI: The end of the unsustainable welfare state as we know it. In the words of President Obama, the current state of governance is unsustainable. A budget would ring out its mocking parody of the Liberty Bell, echoing “Unsustainable!” across the UWSA: the Unsustainable Welfare States of America.
It would be the death-knell for big-government Republicans, too.
Easy. Spread the word among the Somali pirates that Iranian Navy ships are fair game. No need to commission the pirates as privateers; only US inaction would be necessary. We can continue to rescue the fishermen, but abandon the Navy to the pirates. I like it. Might even work.
President Obama had halted deportations to Haiti. Haitian Kesler Dufrene, a felon with a lengthy criminal history, and here in the United States illegally, spent five years in jail here and then was supposed to be deported, but, instead, was released. This story came out, and you’ll find it reported in some city papers, but you are not seeing it splashed across the ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN headlines. Here it is from the UK Daily Mail.
President Obama is at fault for these murders. The “Miami Herald” reports the Miami crime, but its headline points the finger at the “immigration authorities.” Further into the story, you will learn the truth: President Obama made a policy decision that deprived those authorities of the authority to deport Dufrene, or to continue to hold him. This is a policy failure of murderous consequences and the media conspiracy to snuff the story should not succeed.
Early in the primary season, I had checked candidates’ web sites, and been dismayed that the Second Amendment did not even rate as an Issue tab on most. Ron Paul made his stance plain; Perry and Romney were no-shows. (Though Rick Perry did shoot a coyote.) Even now, the Romney site is embarrassingly scant of substance: “Jobs, Healthcare, Foreign Policy” are the listed issue links. You will not find Mitt expressing his passion for the liberty to keep and bear arms, on his campaign site.
In stark contrast, here is the Santorum web statement recounting Senator Santorum’s record on Second Amendment issues, and here is his answer to the GOA survey (GOA notes the Romney campaign still won’t answer.)
And, click on “Read the rest of this entry” if you want to see MJM’s ideal, model candidate position statement on the Second Amendment (repeated here from an earlier post). This is what I would like to see the candidates stating they believe about the right to keep and bear arms.
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It’s humbling to a Second Amendment activist blogger: The death of gun control will be caused by normal, nice, traveling sisters, so comfortable with carrying a handgun that they overlook Big Brother’s jealous hatred of the right to keep and bear arms.
I’m being a little whimsical, here, but what are “the authorities” to do with all of these ladies showing up with a gun in the purse?
Also, to the chagrin of some of the women shooters, the 65-year old caught carrying at DFW (Dallas) was packing—you guessed it—a .38 caliber revolver.
Hey, maybe we should call for a day of mass civil resistance: On a given day, sugar-and-spice-and-everything-nice dresses in office casual, kisses her family good-bye at the airport (and has them stand by with their cameras) and confronts TSA with gun in purse. By the thousands. I like it. You can get away with it, while we crusty men would face the full force of the system.
ABC whines and breathlessly gushes that Romney tithed millions to his church. At least those tithes were voluntary; I bet he gave millions to the federal government as well, under compulsion of law and threat of criminal prosecution, but ABC is unconcerned about that.
So, in the minds of leftoids:
Capital confiscated by government: good.
Capital voluntarily given to church: horrifying.
This article out of the Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas area describes the transformation of a young, American, Muslim man—a citizen of our country, born here to a family of citizens—to a hater of our country and a killer. I comment here because the story of Moeed Abdul Salam exemplifies what we are all up against, for the foreseeable future. His family is heartbroken adn dismayed. It’s like invasion of the body-snatchers, only the snatching is done gradually, almost imperceptibly, for no specific causes that you can identify.
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