Consider the following:
The DemocRATS claim that Algore won the 2000 election by approximately 500,000 votes (For the record George W Bush won more popular and electoral college votes then Clinton did in both of his elections). But we know that the Constitution only recognizes electoral college votes and gives States almost unlimited power on how to cast these votes. The whole thing in Florida was nothing but a media circus because the ultimate power of those 24 electoral college votes rested in the Florida Legislative.
What the 2000 election mostly did for me was to draw attention to the type of cheating that the DemocRATs have been doing for years. There it was in broad daylight and in the public eye, not the usual back room counting in the dead of night. In my old home town of Detroit it was found (not widely reported by the national press) that there were 100,000 questionable DemocRAT voter registrations in the 2000 election. Taking that at face value, that trims Algore's popular votes lead by 20%. How many large DemocRAT controlled cites also have such discrepancies?
In 2002 even more open cheating was seen and it did affect the outcome of some close elections. I also expect more and more open cheating in 2004 and 2006.
That bring us to the election of 2008 and a possible Hilary run for the presidency. We know that she is not that popular within the DemocRAT party, I think many voters will stay home rather than vote for a undesirable candidate but many more DemocRATs would cheat for her. I think that if Hillary wins many Americans will not accept her victory because of massive cheating. We will not have a president but an unelected tyrant. When a free people lose the right to change the government by an honest election, it may have to be changed by force of arms.
The founding fathers wrote the two most remarkable documents in human history; the Declaration of Independence, which states that the people have the right to change their government if that government becomes destructive, and the Constitution along with the Bill of Rights with it's limits on national power and protection of individual rights. The Second Amendment was added to fulfill their premise in the Declaration of Independence that self-government is the right of a free people and that right might have to be backed by a force of arms.
They never mentioned that private ownership of firearms be only for hunting or self protection because in their time it was a given that a man support and protect his family and property by any means possible up to and including deadly force. The real reason that the soco-fascists want to see weapons taken out of private hands so they can have their way with us.
Not, as they claim, for public safety.
Not for the children.
Not for reducing crime.
Not for the environment or protection of endangered species.
But for the oppression of the people and the looting of their personal wealth and land ownership rights.
Looking at the Bush Country map on the right reminds me of many successful popular revolutions in the twentieth century. Some examples are Cuba, Afghanistan (against the Russians), Communist China, and Vietnam where the tyrannical central government and their allies controlled only the major cities and the rebels the countryside and the lines of communications between the cities. Need I say more?
Some years ago, about 1980, an old trapper from Arkansas hitched up some horses to his Studebaker wagon, packed a few possessions -- especially his traps -- and drove south. Several weeks later he stopped in a small town just north of the Okefenokee Swamp in Georgia.
It was a Saturday morning -- a lazy day -- when he walked into the general store. Sitting around the pot-bellied stove were seven or eight of the town's local citizens.
The traveler spoke. "Gentlemen, could you direct me to the Okefenokee Swamp?"
Some of the oldtimers looked at him like he was crazy. "You must be a stranger in these parts," they said.
"I'm from Arkansas," said the stranger.
"In the Okefenokee Swamp are thousands of wild hogs" one old man explained. "A man who goes into the swamp by himself asks to die!" He lifted up his leg. "I lost half my leg here, to the pigs of the swamp."
Another old fellow said, "Look at the cuts on me; look at my arm bit off! Those pigs have been free since the Revolution, eating snakes and rooting out roots and fending for themselves for over a hundred years. They're wild and they're dangerous. You can't trap them. No man dare go into the swamp by himself." Every man nodded his head in agreement.
The old trapper said, "Thank you so much for the warning. Now could you direct me to the swamp?"
They said, "Well, yeah, it's due south -- straight down the road." But they begged the stranger not to go, because they knew he'd meet a terrible fate.
He said, "Sell me ten sacks of corn, and help me load it in the wagon." And they did. Then the old trapper bid them farewell and drove on down the road. The townsfolk thought they'd never see him again.
Two weeks later the man came back. He pulled up to the general store, got down off the wagon, walked in and bought ten more sacks of corn. After loading it up he went back down the road toward the swamp.
Two weeks later he returned and again bought ten sacks of corn. This went on for a month. And then two months, and three. Every week or two the old trapper would come into town on a Saturday morning, load up ten sacks of corn, and drive off south into the swamp.
The stranger soon became a legend in the little village and the subject of much speculation. People wondered what kind of devil had possessed this man, that he could go into the Okefenokee by himself and not be consumed by the wild and free hogs.
One morning the man came into town as usual. Everyone thought he wanted more corn. He got off the wagon and went into the store where the usual group of men were gathered around the stove. He took off his gloves.
"Gentlemen," he said, "I need to hire about ten or fifteen wagons. I need twenty or thirty men. I have six thousand hogs out in the swamp, penned up, and they're all hungry. I've got to get them to market right away."
"You've WHAT in the swamp?" asked the storekeeper, incredulously.
"I have six thousand hogs penned up. They haven't eaten for two or three days, and they'll starve if I don't get back there to feed and take care of them."
One of the old-timers said, "You mean you've captured the wild hogs of the Okefenokee?"
"That's right."
"How did you do that? What did you do?" the men urged, breathlessly.
One of them exclaimed, "But I lost my arm!"
"I lost my brother!" cried another.
"I lost my leg to those wild boars!" chimed a third.
The trapper said, "Well, the first week I went in there they were wild all right. They hid in the undergrowth and wouldn't come out. I dared not get off the wagon. So I spread corn along behind the wagon. Every day I'd spread a sack of corn. The old pigs would have nothing to do with it."
"But the younger pigs decided that it was easier to eat free corn than it was to root out roots and catch snakes. So the very young began to eat the corn first. I did this every day. Pretty soon, even the old pigs decided that it was easier to eat free corn. After all, they were all free; they were not penned up. They could run off in any direction they wanted at any time."
"The next thing was to get them used to eating in the same place all the time. So I selected a clearing, and I started putting the corn in the clearing. At first they wouldn't come to the clearing. It was too far. It was too open. It was a nuisance to them."
"But the very young decided that it was easier to take the corn in the clearing than it was to root out roots and catch their own snakes. And not long thereafter, the older pigs also decided that it was easier to come to the clearing every day."
"And so the pigs learned to come to the clearing every day to get their free corn. They could still subsidize their diet with roots and snakes and whatever else they wanted. After all, they were all free. They could run in any direction at any time. There were no bounds upon them."
"The next step was to get them used to fence posts. So I put fence posts all the way around the clearing. I put them in the underbrush so that they wouldn't get suspicious or upset. After all, they were just sticks sticking up out of the ground, like the trees and the brush. The corn was there every day. It was easy to walk in between the posts, get the corn, and walk back out."
"This went on for a week or two. Shortly they became very used to walking into the clearing, getting the free corn, and walking back out through the fence posts."
"The next step was to put one rail down at the bottom. I also left a few openings, so that the older, fatter pigs could walk through the openings and the younger pigs could easily jump over just one rail. After all, it was no real threat to their freedom or independence. They could always jump over the rail and flee in any direction at any time."
"Now I decided that I wouldn't feed them every day. I began to feed them every other day. On the days I didn't feed them the pigs still gathered in the clearing. They squealed, and they grunted, and they begged and pleaded with me to feed them. But I only fed them every other day. And I put a second rail around the posts."
"Now the pigs became more and more desperate for food. Because now they were no longer used to going out and digging their own roots and finding their own food.
They now needed me.
They needed my corn every other day. So I trained them that I would feed them every day if they came in through a gate. And I put up a third rail around the fence. But it was still no great threat to their freedom, because there were several gates and they could run in and out at will."
"Finally I put up the fourth rail. Then I closed all the gates but one, and I fed them very, very well. Yesterday I closed the last gate. And today I need you to help me take these pigs to market."
Many morals to this story, welfare being just one of them. The Second Amendment also applies here. Slowly but surely, the government is closing the gate around the law abiding firearm owner. Bullet bans here, assault weapon ban there, before you know it, not only are you fenced in, you're now a felon on top of it all. It's up to every single (and married) firearm owner to call their Representative and Senator and say NO MORE gun control laws. PERIOD.
Posted 15 April 2002
A few years ago I recall reading a cartoon that took place in a courtroom. The lawyer for the defense of a drunk driver was browbeating a farmer sitting in the witness stand. The caption read "So it was YOU who grew and sold the grain that the whiskey company manufactured and then sold to the bar my client visited and lead to his arrest for drink driving". I laughed at the absurdity of holding a farmer and manufactors responsible for the misuse of his legal product once it becomes available in the public market. I am not laughing anymore, that cartoon is starting to come true by the money grabbing anti-tobacco fanatics and their partners in State and Federal government. They say it is to protect the public health form primary and bogus second hand smoke health concerns and keep it out of the hands of children. Any thinking person knows that this is nothing but a shakedown of a legal industry to fund even more big government by lawmakers too cowardly to either cut government spending or raise taxes. Tell me how are the tobacco companies suppose to control their lawful product when it leaves their warehouses? Joe Camel is no more yet teen smoking is rising to all time high levels. Is the fault of the tobacco industry advertising?
Now some private and government groups are attempting to sue firearm manufactors for crimes committed with their products. The real reason why this is being done is not to prevent crimes; the Clinton/Reno Justice department does not prosecute criminals who commit federal firearms crimes, but to get around the Second Amendment by forcing firearm manufactors to pull out of the civilian market. Like any other commodity (like cattle futures), decreasing supplies will increase retail prices. So since denying citizens the right to keep and bear arms can not be done away with Constitutionally by amendment, it is going to done using the laws of economics by decreasing the supply of firearms and making them too expensive for the average citizen to buy. Of course firearms will still be widely available for criminals because smugglers will bring them into the country to fill the demand, just like they do for illegal drugs. Criminals understand very clearly better than liberals what supply and demand is all about, finding a need and filling it.
However the greatest danger to our society is not the loss of the Second Amendment (as bad as that by itself is), but the entire capitalist way of life this country is built on. I argue that if Colt can be sued because a criminal killed someone with one of their handguns legally sold into private hands, then why can we not sue the automobile manufactor who made the vehicle he drove during the crime? The gasoline company he filled up the tank at on his way to commit the crime? Maybe even the company who made the tires because if he did not have tires how could he drive to the crime scene? I guess he would have to take a bus or taxi, making those firms liable for damages. How can any public company protect themselves from numerous second hand bogus liability lawsuits and still survive? They cannot and we cannot maintain our standard of living and way of life if business firms either go under or move overseas and not do business in the United States anymore.
Call me extremist if you want. Even shake your head and write me off as a radical right wing gun-owning nut if you desire. Ignore me if you do not smoke or own firearms and think that this essay does not apply to you. Think about me what you want, all I ask you do is recall two items I wrote about: the cartoon that I mentioned and Americans who shrugged off the first, feeble attacks on tobacco 30 years ago. There are many such attacks in our free society today such as against fatty foods, private ownership of land and junk-science environmental concerns, and the internal combustion engine that Algore claims is the most evil invention ever invented by man. All this and other quality of life and freedom of choice issues are being worked right now using the tactics of the anti-tobacco Nazis. Little by little over years, winning small victories and compromises that by themselves do not mean much. But groups and individuals who track such things and look at the big picture can see that the sum is greater than the value of it parts and sees the methods behind what appears to be random and disorganized actions.
All free thinking Americans must take a constant and vigilant stand, never give up anything or dealing with these devils. If you do not use your freedoms, you will lose them. One day we may look around in the Peoples Democratic Republic of the United States and ask "What happened to our freedoms and Constitution? We never saw it coming."
Posted 15 April 2002
The criminals, who do not obey the laws anyway, will not give them up voluntary. Americans who keep guns for self protection will not give them up because the criminals did not. Persons who hunt for food will not. Other Americans who believe in the right to keep and bear arms and do not trust the government will not give up their guns either.
To enforce gun confiscation the government will have to go door to door and thoroughly search every house from the attic to the basement looking for hidden spaces. They would also have to search in and under every garage, barn, shed, pigsty, chicken coop, and dog house. Every cave, hollow tree, backyard garden, disturbed piles of dirt, and fresh holes (including recent graves) will have to be dug up and checked. The government will have to shake down every car, truck, motorcycle, camper, and trailer. The government will have to continually search out and raid underground gun factories.
Taxes would have to be increased to support a national gun confiscation police force. Many more courts and prisons would have to be built along with cemeteries to bury the gun grabbers and the gun owners killed in shootouts. Every other right in the Constitution will have to be trashed in order to enforce gun confiscation. Is that the America the Million Moron March and the Brady Bunch gun grabbers really want?
a. An armed man is a citizen. An unarmed man is a subject.
b. A gun in the hand is better than a cop on the phone.
c. Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface.
d. Gun control is not about guns; it's about control.
e. If guns are outlawed, can we use swords?
f. If guns cause crime, then pencils cause misspelled words.
g. Free men do not ask permission to bear arms.
h. If you don't know your rights you don't have any.
i. Those who trade liberty for security have neither.
j. The United States Constitution © 1791. All Rights Reserved.
k. What part of "shall not be infringed" do you not understand?
l. The Second Amendment is in place in case they ignore the others.
m. 64,999,987 firearms owners killed no one yesterday.
n. Guns only have two enemies: Rust and Politicians.
o. Know guns, know peace and safety. No guns, no peace nor safety.
p. You don't shoot to kill; you shoot to stay alive.
q. 911 - government sponsored Dial a Prayer.
r. Assault is a behavior, not a device.
s. Criminals love gun control - it makes their jobs safer.
t. If Guns cause Crime, then Matches cause Arson.
u. Only a government that is afraid of it's citizens try to control them.
v. You only have the rights you are willing to fight for.
w. Enforce the "gun control laws" in place, don't make more.
x. When you remove the people's right to bear arms, you create slaves.
y. The American Revolution would never have happened with Gun Control.
z. "...a government by the people, for the people..."
In 1929, the Soviet Union established gun control. From 1929 to 1953, approximately 20 million dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
In 1911, Turkey established gun control. From 1915 to 1917, 1.5 million Armenians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
In 1928, Germany established gun control. From 1939 to 1945, 13 million Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, the mentally ill, and others, who were unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
In 1935, China established gun control. From 1948 to 1952, 20 million political dissidents were unable to defend themselves and were rounded up and exterminated.
In 1964, Guatemala established gun control. From 1964 to 1981, 100,000 Mayan Indians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
In 1970, Uganda established gun control. From 1971 to 1979, 300,000 Christians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
In 1956, Cambodia established gun control. From 1975 to 1977, one million "educated" people, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
That places total victims who lost their lives -- because they were unable to defend their liberty -- at approximately 56 million in the 20th century.
There are millions of high school students in this country and there is a percentage of them who are outcasts, not accepted by their peers. Their fate is to always on the outside looking in. These outcasts to a lessor or greater degree like their popular classmates surf the Internet, play video games, watch violent movies, listen to violent music, have access to guns, and have the technical skills to make explosive devices. Yet almost all of these outcasts do not choose to blow away their classmates. I speak from experience, all of my school life I was an outcast, many of my tormenters were school athletes. It was very painful time in my life then and I am still fighting off the negative effects on my inter-personal skills.
While growing up, I had access to my father's guns. I also had tools and materials available to build pipe bombs. Looser gun laws in those days meant that I could openly buy bulk gunpowder and ammunition. My brother had hobby rocketry equipment that included fuses and rocket motors to act as detonators. Yet even in my worst times, I never considered taking out my high school classmates, the thought simply never crossed my mind.
You can blame the Internet, violent movies, access to guns, legal or illegal drugs, too much TV and suggestive music, sugar, junk food, sunspots, indifferent parents,lack of religion, moral bankruptcy of the president, etc. etc. etc. I strongly believe that there are simply evil (for lack of a better word) people in the world. There will always be Adolph Hitlers, Joseph Stalins, Jeffrey Donners, the men who blew up the Murrah building in Oklahoma City that also shook my house to it's foundations. Why some people are evil, who knows? Maybe an unidentified mental or personally flaw set off by certain external factors unique to the individual. Or perhaps there were born that way, as liberals claim that homosexuals are.
You can pass all the new laws you want and take away more of our rights as Americans. You can try to "profile" people but human nature is too complicated to identify potential aggressors, the innocent will suffer the sigma of being "identified" and an evil person can slip through the cracks and have their day in the sun. All we can do is be prepared to defend ourselves against them by legally carrying concealed firearms and demand that the authorities have well practiced operational plans to swiftly take the aggressors out.
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