GUNS: Wishing that laws could make skoolz safe; stupidity in action

Wednesday, October 17, 2007

http://www.buckeyefirearms.org/article-3990.html

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In 1974, for instance, during Passover, the PLO launched a series of attacks specifically targeting schools, buses, kindergartens and other child-oriented targets. I have read (I have enough trouble keeping track of Ohio gun laws, much less Israel’s gun laws) that Israel, at that time, had fairly strict gun control, dating back to British rule of the territory 50+ years before that. After a brief gnashing of teeth (“This isn’t the wild west!”) Israel took the novel approach of handing out guns and permits to any capable adult. Teachers, nannies, bus drivers, cafeteria workers, what have you, all started carrying guns. Parents (armed) volunteered to work security shifts, grandparents (armed) became fixtures in schools. Older children received compulsory gun safety training and a sort of high school militia was organized. Soon enough, the Islamic terrorists realized that attacking schools in Israel was a sucker’s bet. Despite the heavy concentration of guns in schools in Israel for 3+ decades, their school shooting rate is non-existent compared to gun-free American schools.

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Well sooner or later, we’ll wake up that the world is a dangerous place. And, no amount of wishing will make it less so.

You either believe that most people are good or most people are evil.

If good, then what is the hard of letting folks defend themselves?

If evil, then why would you want to be defenseless?

Readers here know that I am NOT a fan of gooferment education. It’s nothing more than a baby sitting service that I am forced to pay for that wastes decades of children’s time while filling their heads full of socialist crap.

BUT

Why create target rich zones with no armed opposition?

It’s just asking for killing.

Why can’t teachers, administrators, and custodians — or for that matter even students — be armed?

Don’t you trust them?

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If not, why are you sending children there? If you do, then what’s the problem?

Can’t have it both ways.

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LIBERTY: Big Brother gets a step closer.

Friday, October 12, 2007

Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 12:05:41 -0700
From: Lauren Weinstein
Subject: Stalling Cars Via OnStar: A Hacker’s Dream Come True?

http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/000313.html

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Ready to turn over the keys of your vehicle to the cops, or that clever hacker in the next lane? How about that creepy guy following you on a lonely country road?

GM apparently plans to perhaps make this all possible. It’s been announced that they’ll be equipping nearly two million of their 2009 model vehicles (that have OnStar installed), with the capability to be remotely shut down to idle via OnStar commands at the request of law enforcement (http://abcnews.go.com/Business/Autos/story?id=3706113).

The claim is that owners will have to give permission first for this capability to be enabled. Bull. I don’t care what OnStar’s privacy policy says, if the technical capability for this function is present, OnStar will have no practical choice but to comply when faced with a law enforcement demand or court order, whether or not owner “permission” was ever granted.

This new capability will also create an irresistible challenge to the hacker community — and perhaps criminal organizations — to try find ways into the OnStar system for triggering this fun — one way or another. It’s impossible to hack OnStar? Would you bet your life on that?

Unfortunately, this is yet another laudable idea that’s being “driven” into the marketplace before all of the negative ramifications have been thought through or fully understood. And how long will it be before such systems are mandated, one might wonder?

OnStar has long been the subject of various privacy concerns. This new capability appears to be the most serious privacy-related issue for OnStar
to date.

Lauren Weinstein
Lauren’s Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com
PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com

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Guess it will be a tough decision to buy another GM product?

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LIBERTY: FDR deserves a special place in hell!

Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Day Of Deceit: The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harbor
by Robert Stinnett

This book refutes the official story that the ’41 Pearl Harbor attack was a surprise. The author does an impressive job of absolutely blowing the topic wide open.

Starting from the “Arthur McCollum memo” of 10/07/40, he tracks thru record after record that squarely places the blame on the duplicitous politician that has become an America icon. Like some of other icon, we are finding that they have worse than clay feet.

Like Wilson, FDR was elected on a platform of keeping us out of war. Like Wilson, he shoved us into it.

From the book, it is clearly proved that FDR was personally reading all significant Japanese radio traffic. He was receiving all sorts of analysis that was unmistakable. As a crypto type, I found that the wealth of material was overwhelming as evidence.

It’s apparent from the book, that FDR did everything except send them the plans how to do it. From keeping the FBI in check when they wanted to take down the spy mapping the harbor (page 97) to the “clear sea” order (page 150), his “fingerprints” are all over everything.

The author also point out how the American Congress was deceived by the Executive Branch as late as 1995 about the true nature of Pearl Harbor. We need some criminal trials of the people who testified in those hearings.

I remember in history classes hearing the idea that FDR knew about Pearl Harbor before it happened and it was debunked as conspiracy nonsense. This book just demolishes that whole discussion. I was taught by Christian Brothers who fought in the Pacific. I know they would be stunned to read this book. They were tough men and might have even led a revolution if the truth got out.

At the very least, the history taught in the gooferment skoolz needs some serious revision.

And, like Lincoln and Wilson, their iconic status needs to be changed from “heroic” to “criminal”. Hopefully the Intelligent Designer has a special place in the after life for them.

And, when I hear “conspiracy theories”, I am NOT going to dismiss them out of hand.

And, I am some much less likely to believe anything that the gooferment tells me. Even less than before I read this book. I urge you to read this fellow’s opus Magnus. It’s impressive.

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GUNS: A policeman shooting 6 innocents; followed by police shooting a policeman

Monday, October 8, 2007

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20071008/D8S4OC8G0.html

Off-Duty Wis. Deputy Sheriff Kills 6
Oct 7, 9:19 PM (ET)
By ROBERT IMRIE

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CRANDON, Wis. (AP) – An off-duty sheriff’s deputy went on a shooting rampage early Sunday at a home where seven young people had gathered for pizza and movies, killing six and critically injuring the other before authorities fatally shot him, officials said.

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Guess we’ll now have “gun control” for the police?

Now if there was an armed citizen around, things might have been different.

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LIBERTY: So which are u?

Sunday, October 7, 2007

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WalterEWilliams/2007/09/19/stupid,_ignorant_or_biased

Stupid, Ignorant or Biased?
By Walter E. Williams
Wednesday, September 19, 2007

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President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s closest adviser and architect of the New Deal, Harry Hopkins, advised, “Tax and tax, spend and spend, elect and elect, because the people are too damn dumb to know the difference.”

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There’s a principle that says don’t attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity.

So, stupidity it is.

And, we can blame it on the voters in 1860 and 1930!

I often point to the linkage between giving women the vote and organized crime.

In this case, I’ll like the publik skoolz accomplishing exactly what the socialist Horace Mann wanted — cannon fodder factory workers that could be led by the elite. Bingo, that’s what we’ve got.

My answer? Easy.

1. End the dole; 2. Dismiss gooferment public education; 3. Stop the various wars — foreign and domestic; 4. Repatriate the troops home; 5. Downsize ALL gooferments.

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GUNS: Malaysia write rants about crime

Sunday, October 7, 2007

FROM A JEFFERY YONG EMAIL

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Violent crimes are rising faster than the Share Market. Malaysians used to watch TV and comment about how bad the crime rate is in USA while quietly thankful that “our Malaysia” is relatively peaceful. No longer! In my neighborhood alone, there is a snatch theft case every single week! If you’re lucky, you lose your money. Or else, you may be slashed mercilessly. The only saving grace is that “gun crimes” are still not as rampant as in the US. But for how long?

I’m not going to go into an emotional account of how the whole nation was in uproar and how even the “imam” (Muslim priest) who conducted the funeral cried openly. I’m also not going to go into a seething rant on how the police and government should be DOING MORE to prevent such crimes. These, you can read in the various blogs all over the net just by searching for “Nurin Jazlin”

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Well, aside from the snide reference to gun crime, it would appear that people can’t defend themselves. John Lott has done numerous studies that show when the good folks are armed, crime plummets.

I’d opine that there are a few reasons for it: (1) Criminals are cowards for good reason. Messing with an armed citizen, or in the vicinity of one, can get you killed. (2) Someone who his armed has assumed the mantle of John Wayne “What are you doing, pilgrim?”. And, is more likely to become the “police” when a neighbor cries out for help. It’s down right dumb to interfere unarmed. (3) Women, the elderly, and children are no longer “weak” and can’t assert their own rights.

As regular readers here know, I like the “sprinkle a few sheepdogs in among the flock and let the wolves guess” strategy.

The police are little more than sanitation men. They come along long after the fact, put up some tape, take pics to memorialize the event, write reports, and then go for doughnuts. Only an armed citizen has a chance to defend themselves and their neighbors from crime.

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GUNS: so little effort to stop him

Sunday, October 7, 2007

http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/10/next_time_scream_librescu.html

October 02, 2007
Next Time, Scream ‘LIBRESCU!’
By William R. Hartman

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Ever since hearing of the tragic deaths at Virginia Tech last April, I have been deeply troubled by the number of people killed by a lone gunman wielding two hand guns in the midst of dozens of people.

Why was Seing-Hui Cho able to methodically move from classroom to classroom – four in total – killing 29 people and wounding at least 26 more, with so little effort to stop or to disarm him?

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Absolutely correct. Don’t sit back and take it. Rush the shooter. (Your only other option would be to zig zag away.) Most of these bozos can’t hit from a distance. So, like the recent cases on airplanes, don’t sit back acceptingly. Charge!

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LIBERTY: When does the average joe or jane

Saturday, October 6, 2007

http://www.spokesmanreview.com/breaking/story.asp?ID=11803

Bra check upsets court visitor
Taryn Hecker Staff writer
October 4, 2007

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A Bonners Ferry woman says she was humiliated when security guards at the federal courthouse in Coeur d’Alene told her she’d have to remove her underwire bra to get inside.

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Well at least they didn’t tell her she had to take a shower before being admitted to the “work camp”.

When does the average joe or jane tell them to take their security and stuff it?

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LIBERTY: Marshals Arrest N.H. Tax Resistors

Saturday, October 6, 2007

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8S363QO0&show_article=1

Marshals Arrest N.H. Tax Evaders
Oct 5 12:08 PM US/Eastern
By HOLLY RAMER Associated Press Writer

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CONCORD, N.H. (AP) – U.S. marshals posing as supporters arrested convicted tax-evaders Ed and Elaine Brown at their rural, fortress-like home, the head marshal said Friday.

“They invited us in, and we escorted them out,” U.S. Marshal Stephen Monier said, releasing the first details of Thursday night’s arrests.

A small team of marshals pulled off the ruse, arresting the Browns without incident on the front porch of their Plainfield home in west- central New Hampshire, Monier said.

The arrests ended a months-long standoff that began in January, when Brown, 65, a retired exterminator, and his dentist wife, 67, walked out of their federal trial in Concord. She returned to the trial but soon joined her husband at home, where they vowed to resist violently if authorities tried to arrest them.

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Imagine the gaul of these two people — a 67 year old dentist and a 65 year old retired exterminator — having the hubris to resist the Washington gang from stealing their earnings! Hope those “law enforcement” people are proud of themselves. Ask for hospitality and then enslave them. Nice guests! But that’s gooferment for you: force and fraud! It defines them.

Just step back for a second and ask yourself, how is it MORAL for the mob to use force on the individual. Where does that gang get the right to steal from the Browns. You could not walk into their house and take from them. I could not. SO how does it work that it is moral for the GOOFERMENT to do it in our place?

If I don’t agree to something, then you have no MORAL right to force me to obey your diktat!

How was the obligation for them to pay taxes created?

Now, I don’t think that it’s smart to go head to head with any gang. Regardless if it the Mafia, a street gang, the one in Washington, the one in Trenton, or the one down the road locally. But, that doesn’t make what they do moral. I may not be able to take them on directly but that doesn’t make me any less aware that we are their slaves. Their sheep! That they can sheer anyway the fell like. And, they can {expletive deleted; related to the reproductive act} anytime they want.

I remember the 1957 Hungry Rebellion. There will come a time when the American people will awake from their slumber and set the house back in order. I’ll be on the barricades. As the Soviet Communists realized you can only hold the people down for so long. And, just as the French Resistance went house to house executing the collaborators in certain parts of France after the Germans withdrew, so to their will come a day of retribution for the thugs, the bureaucrats, and the politicians.

A bloody day. It will be a sad day for them and a joyous day for liberty when the people rediscover their heritage.

One has to just bide one’s time.

“I know not course others will take … …”

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LIBERTY: School trains children to be employees and consumers

Friday, October 5, 2007

http://www.masternewmedia.org/news/2007/09/29/education_do_we_really_need.htm

September 29, 2007
Education: Do We Really Need Schools Or Do We Need To Better Understand What Education Should Really Be?
Robin Good
Be Smart, Be Independent, Be Good?
Edited by: Luigi Canali De Rossi

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How do we educate our children to be active, critical thinkers and not dumb passive consumers serving someone else interests? For however strange this may sound to you, it may have been “marketing” itself to bring us the terrible education system most civilized countries have adopted in the last century or so.

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School trains children to be employees and consumers; teach your own to be leaders and adventurers. School trains children to obey reflexively; teach your own to think critically and independently.

Well-schooled kids have a low threshold for boredom; help your own to develop an inner life so that they’ll never be bored.

Urge them to take on the serious material, the grown-up material, in history, literature, philosophy, music, art, economics, theology – all the stuff schoolteachers know well enough to avoid.

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Robin discovers that education makes big children. I’ve been reading Gatto for a while and that’s why I think we have to end gooferment “public” eddycation by running skoolz!

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