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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Gopher: When Adversarial Interoperability Burrowed Under the Gatekeepers’ Fortresses
Monday, February 24, 2020When Apple’s App Store launched in 2008, it was widely hailed as a breakthrough in computing, a “curated experience” that would transform the chaos of locating and assessing software and replace it with a reliable one-stop-shop where every app would come pre-tested and with a trusted seal of approval.
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Legislation to stem the tide of Big Tech companies’ abuses, and laws—such as a national consumer privacy bill, an interoperability bill, or a bill making firms liable for data-breaches—would go a long way toward improving the lives of the Internet users held hostage inside the companies’ walled gardens.
But far more important than fixing Big Tech is fixing the Internet: restoring the kind of dynamism that made tech firms responsive to their users for fear of losing them, restoring the dynamic that let tinkerers, co-ops, and nonprofits give every person the power of technological self-determination.
Source: Gopher: When Adversarial Interoperability Burrowed Under the Gatekeepers’ Fortresses
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Since the Gooferment has stuck its “camel like” nose into the tent, it screwed up the emerging internet with invisible legal lines.
Until the politicians and bureaucrats fix their “mistake”, innovation will be controlled by Big Tech.
Argh!
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HEALTH: How Aluminum Damages Your Brain – LewRockwell
Sunday, February 23, 2020Exley’s conclusion deserves repeating: “No aluminum, no AD.” Without aluminum, Alzheimer’s doesn’t develop. That’s not fake news. This research provides conclusive evidence for concern, which means it would be foolish in the extreme to pretend that injecting infants and young children with aluminum-containing vaccines is harmless.
Source: How Aluminum Damages Your Brain – LewRockwell
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I always seem to be drawn into the vax / anti-vax controversy.
I understand that there is a non-scientific debate about vaccines. Some “celebrities” take a position and I scoff at them. (How does being the modern equivalent of the “Court Jester” entitle you to make pseudo scientific pronouncements?)
That being said the very existence of the Federal National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program puts the “vaccines are harmless” pronouncements in doubt. (Remember Christie Todd Witman’s pronouncement that 9/11 air was safe?)
I have seen the ravages of polio that turned a happy healthy child into a virtual helpless babbling idiot who struggled to make himself understood. (I remember his post-illness goal of someday being a milkman. Yes, they still had such things. And it makes me sad to remember him so many years after his death.) That being said, my family liked up all the children for shots as soon as the vaccine was available. I understand that.
So today, when parents have good-faith concerns, I am sympathetic to their plight. I’d still vaccinate, but I would not have to pick up the “collateral damage” that could result. It may well be playing the odds, but as I always say, “someone wins the Lotto!”. In this case, it’s no prize to win.
I’m blogging about this again in hopes that “we” “We, The Sheeple” can have a reasonable discussion about the “safety issue”. I’d like to see the Gooferment reveal its dikw (i.e., data, information, knowledge, wisdom) about vaccines in a very public manner. Then we’d know once and for all what the true odds of harm are. Is it 1/100, 1/10,000, or 1/1,000,000? Remember with 350M people in the USA, that means somewhere between 3½ million and 350 cases of harm. That’s too wide a variance for my comfort. Then, one has to drill down into some of the differentiating factors (i.e., sex, race, age, region, diet, left-handed versus right-handed). OK, maybe not the “handed-ness that I inserted to lighten up the rant.
I hope that this generates some light; not heat.
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POLITICAL: Eric Holder tells Paul Sperry to ‘shut the hell up’ about prosecutor in Andrew McCabe probe
Sunday, February 23, 2020Former Attorney General Eric Holder lashed out at journalist and author Paul Sperry on Twitter Wednesday, telling Sperry that he should “shut the hell up” about federal prosecutor Molly Gaston’s donations to former President Barack Obama.
Source: Eric Holder tells Paul Sperry to ‘shut the hell up’ about prosecutor in Andrew McCabe probe
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Yeah, we wouldn’t want “We, The Sheeple” to know how corrupt and deeply embedded the Deep State agents are!
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TINFOILHAT: Murdered JFK lover Mary Pinchot Meyer is revived in two new books
Saturday, February 22, 2020Pinchot Meyer was killed on October 12, 1964, a few weeks after the release of the Warren Commission report on the JFK assassination. The man accused of her murder was acquitted in 1965; the murder remains unsolved. Her diary was found and allegedly burned.
Source: Murdered JFK lover Mary Pinchot Meyer is revived in two new books
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When it happened, I wondered if there was a connection.
We KNOW now that the Warren Commission was <pick your favorite adjective> wrong, biases, cover up, the final act in the coup by LBJ, an adjunct of the deep state?
I am still hopeful that the truth will still come out.
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INSPIRATIONAL: Inside Japan’s Highly Effective Lost and Found System | Mental Floss
Saturday, February 22, 2020What prompts the Japanese to be so diligent in handing over items? Respect. Children are taught in school that returning belongings to police is part of their civic duty. It’s also law. The Amended Lost Property Act of 2007 mandates that lost items be turned over to authorities if the owner can’t be located. The same law also enforces a reward that’s a percentage of the value of the item if it’s reunited with its owner.
Source: Inside Japan’s Highly Effective Lost and Found System | Mental Floss
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WOW! This is something that “we” should import to the USA.
“Finders keepers; losers weepers” is the paradigm for the USA.
(Wonder why this was never addressed in Catholic grammar school that I attended? I remember other moral lessons.)
“Catholic school taught them that it was their obligation, and could even be a mortal sin, if you didn’t use all your talents to the greater glory of God.” — “Chapter Fifty — Samaritans going to Jericho / Monday November 5, 1962 – Church Day + 17 (continues)” CHURCH 10●19●62 Volume 1 Page 296
Perhaps it’s not to late to change that to Finders returners; losers grateful”?
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‘Bureaucrats were in charge’: Japanese doctor blasts ship …
Friday, February 21, 2020A Japanese infectious disease specialist has castigated his government’s handling of quarantine on a coronavirus-stricken cruise ship, saying it was run by “bureaucrats” who stoked the crisis by failing to follow basic protocols.
Source: ‘Bureaucrats were in charge’: Japanese doctor blasts ship …
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When I read the original pointer on Against Crony Capitalism, I had to laugh at their comment: “When the system takes over, things tend to go badly.”
As readers of this blog know, I am firmly convinced that their is no bad situation that can not be made EXPONENTIALLY worse by the involvement of of Gooferment politicians and bureaucrats!
The “(pseudo) War on (some) Drugs” is the best example of this. Followed by Gooferment Skrules.
Just example after example, yet we still allow them to do it over and over.
Argh!
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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Did coronavirus originate in Chinese government laboratory? | Daily Mail Online
Thursday, February 20, 2020The report says: ‘Genome sequences from patients were 96% or 89% identical to the Bat CoV ZC45 coronavirus originally found in Rhinolophus affinis (intermediate horseshoe bat).’
Source: Did coronavirus originate in Chinese government laboratory? | Daily Mail Online
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Certainly seems plausible. One wonders what their Gooferment politicians and bureaucrats were thinking. And, where are our politicians and bureaucrats in all of this?
Seems like the CDC is demonstrating its uselessness!
Argh!
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Shot from the Sky, by Jim Davidson
Thursday, February 20, 2020“To stand on the firing parapet and expose yourself to danger; to stand and fight a thousand miles from home when you’re all alone and outnumbered and probably beaten; to spit on your hands and lower the pike; to stand fast over the body of Leonidas the King; to be rear guard at Kunu-Ri; to stand and be still to the Birkenhead Drill; these are not rational acts. They are often merely necessary.”― Dr. Jerry Pournelle
Source: Shot from the Sky, by Jim Davidson
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It’s sad to think of the losses due to wars though out the ages.
One would think that humans would have learned from their mistakes.
Let’s bring all the girls, boys, women, and men home now! We have so many politicians and bureaucrats to send in their place if it’s really needed!
“…if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.” -Churchill, The Second World War, vol. 1, The Gathering Storm (London: Cassell, 1948, 272, on the British guarantee to Poland in Spring 1939.
Requiescat In Pacem
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POLITICAL: On Making Plowshares, by Sarah A. Hoyt
Wednesday, February 19, 2020And while on this, if it hits hard here, will we got stupid enough to vote a communist in? (I don’t like to even think about it. I wake up screaming.)
Source: On Making Plowshares, by Sarah A. Hoyt
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This election is shaping up to let snowflake young “know it alls” socialists pouring out of Gooferment Skrules to vote us into socialism — the path to the tyranny of despotism and communism.
Wonder if “We, The Sheeple” will wakw up and turn the Titanic to sail between the twin disasters of Crony Capitalism and Socialism.
I’m not optimistic.
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Oregon border petitioners try joining Idaho, leaving liberals
Tuesday, February 18, 2020The proposal to join Idaho isn’t the first effort Oregonians have made to leave the state. In 1941, residents of southwestern Oregon tried to secede by creating a state of Jefferson with northern Californians.
Source: Oregon border petitioners try joining Idaho, leaving liberals
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Sounds good to me.
Rather than joining “yet another state”, I’d prefer that they spin off into a new state.
Same for Pepuls Republik of Kaliforkneeah, Pepuls Republik of Nu Jerzee , and Floriduh!
Like it seems just so easy.
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SAD: Jose Altuve tattoo conspiracy should heighten MLB’s hunt
Monday, February 17, 2020Really, in light of the high emotions surrounding this matter, shouldn’t Altuve proactively display his alleged tattoo, which Correa first mentioned to The Athletic? The shortstop said that his double-play partner wanted to hide the ugly, unfinished artwork on his collarbone, which on the surface sounds just as ludicrous as the other given explanation, that Altuve’s wife didn’t like it when he disrobed up top. Adding to the intrigue, social-media detective Jomboy pointed out that Altuve put on an undershirt late in the notorious American League Championship Series Game 6, then removed it prior to stepping to the plate in the bottom of the ninth.
Source: Jose Altuve tattoo conspiracy should heighten MLB’s hunt
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Sorry, but “We, The Sheeple” shouldn’t let this go!
It’s a sign of “immorality” in public life. “We wuz robbed!”
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Well that didn’t take long.
https://nypost.com/2020/02/17/jose-altuve-exposes-terrible-tattoo-to-fight-alcs-buzzer-controversy/
Still don’t believe it, but he responded to the question.
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Short Hills Man Passes Away In Lift Accident At Vail Ski Resort | Patch
Monday, February 17, 2020The accident occurred on the ski lifts, according to a follow up report in Vail Daily.The cause of death was positional asphyxiation, which apparently occurred after Varnish started to fall through the chair.
Source: Short Hills Man Passes Away In Lift Accident At Vail Ski Resort | Patch
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Wow. Sad end.
“Accident” might not be the correct word?
One never knows the day, nor the hour.
Requiescat In Pacem
Nice lawsuit coming!
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FINANCIAL: Dealerships Give Car Buyers Some Advice: Just Stop Paying Your Loan – WSJ
Monday, February 17, 2020The trade-in, where a buyer hands a car back to a dealership and uses it as credit toward another one, is often a crucial step in car buying. But some dealerships are instead telling buyers to give their old cars back to their lenders—and selling them new ones—in a practice known as “kicking the trade.”
Source: Dealerships Give Car Buyers Some Advice: Just Stop Paying Your Loan – WSJ
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This seems dishonest by both the dealer and the borrower.
Like the sub-prime mortgage fiasco, the banks are letting the “originator” off the hook.
The fix is easy. Make the originator responsible — both jointly and severally — for the loan when and if it defaults.
Problem solved.
Be it any kind of loan, everyone needs to have skin in the game!
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A Hunt for Clues in Hawaii After a Tourist Couple Falls Ill With Coronavirus – Internewscast
Sunday, February 16, 2020Aubree Gordon, an associate professor of epidemiology at the University of Michigan, said she agreed with Hawaiian health officials that people who had traveled with the man were at greatest risk, though anyone who touched surfaces shortly after he did — such as a faucet or toilet handle — could also be at risk.
Source: A Hunt for Clues in Hawaii After a Tourist Couple Falls Ill With Coronavirus – Internewscast
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Sounds like avoid people and don’t touch anything.
Maybe germaphobes like Howie Mandel are the smart ones?
Us introverts have an advantage in we don’t like people.
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INTERESTING: Is Political Change Coming To China?
Saturday, February 15, 2020Authored by Yuen Yuen Ang via Project Syndicate, In contemporary China, profound political transformation can – and has – taken place in the absence of regime change or Western-style democratization. The starkest example is the period of “reform and opening” that began in 1978 under Deng Xiaoping’s charge.
Source: Is Political Change Coming To China?
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Can China survive? The USSR was too big. Probably the USA is too.
I don’t know enough to predict, but it certainly seems possible.
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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Government agents seized $181,500 in cash at airport and won’t give it back | FOX 5 New York
Friday, February 14, 2020The lawsuit says an agent gave Nulman a receipt to document the $181,500, but the federal agencies now say only $159,950 was confiscated. That’s $21,550 less than what the company says was seized.
Source: Government agents seized $181,500 in cash at airport and won’t give it back | FOX 5 New York
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Isn’t this nonsensical?
I don’t understand how that this type activity is allowed to continue.
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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: The next progressive threat from Albany: Universal rent control
Thursday, February 13, 2020This new legislation is guaranteed to prompt rapid deterioration in buildings that are now high-quality, by forcing landlords to cut their spending on maintenance and repairs.
Source: The next progressive threat from Albany: Universal rent control
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“In many cases rent control appears to be the most efficient technique presently known to destroy a city—except for bombing.” — Assar Lindbeck
It’s hard to underestimate the arrogance and stupidity of politicians and bureaucrats. BUT, then they go and “exceed expectations” to the downside.
I can’t image the logic that ignores the history of “rent control” and it’s impact on the housing market.
Maybe it’s time for a NY-Exit, like BREXIT, but for the states that are unsalvageable.
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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Photojournalist taken into NYPD custody while filming Manhattan arrest – New York Daily News
Wednesday, February 12, 2020A news photographer filming an arrest in Chinatown was busted himself Tuesday night after police alleged he refused to step back.
Source: Photojournalist taken into NYPD custody while filming Manhattan arrest – New York Daily News
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No secret that the police don’t like to be filmed. “He said; he said” is much easier when there is no video. “We, The Sheeple” need video to be convinced.
It’s a shame that the politicians and bureaucrats can’t be trusted. EVER!
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TECHNOLOGY: Bring Drug Dispensing Into the Modern Age With Vending Machines | Cato @ Liberty
Tuesday, February 11, 2020The technology has been around for a while. Vending machines have dispensed Plan B emergency oral contraceptive—the so‐called “morning after pill”—on college campuses since at least 2017. Arizona State University and Florida State University installed pharmaceutical vending machines to dispense a wide range of drugs in their Student Health Services buildings back in 2014.
Source: Bring Drug Dispensing Into the Modern Age With Vending Machines | Cato @ Liberty
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I LOVE the idea of the drug vending machine. I hope we see more of these.
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POLITICAL: Progressive Hell, by Sean Gangol
Monday, February 10, 2020The local governments in both LA and San Francisco have experienced an increase in homeless people using their sidewalks as their campgrounds. This has led to an increase of sidewalks and streets being contaminated with human feces and used syringes. So, what is the solution offered by their noble leaders? To do nothing. Absolutely nothing.
Source: Progressive Hell, by Sean Gangol
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If the D’s “run” the country like they do “their” cities, then why would anyone EVER vote for a D?
Not that the R’s are that much better, but in the dimension of “city management” they have credentials.
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SECURITY: Don’t Get ‘Juice Jacked’ While Recharging In Public
Sunday, February 9, 2020Do you plug your phone into free public charging stations? Be careful! According to NBC News , you may get ‘juice jacked’ by hackers who have installed malware that can tunnel and copy your sensitive personal information! Cybersecurity expert Jim Stickley demonstrates how a hacker could access a person’s phone through a public charging station.NBC News “Depending on the vulnerability they exploit, they would have access to everything you would have access to on your phone,” according to cybersecurity expert Jim Stickley.
Source: Don’t Get ‘Juice Jacked’ While Recharging In Public, Cybersecurity Expert Warns
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Personally, I don’t use “public charging stations”. I have several cheap battery blocks for the purpose. In the rare instance that I have to, I “juice” the block and then connect the device to the block.
Can’t be too careful in “security”
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Colorado boy dies of flu after mom took Facebook anti-vax group tips
Saturday, February 8, 2020Najee’s mother, meanwhile, told the station she feels as if she “failed” her son.“I’m hurting so bad right now and so is his dad and brothers,” she told KKTV. “Our whole family is hurting and it feels like we failed him because we did what we had to do.”
Source: Colorado boy dies of flu after mom took Facebook anti-vax group tips
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I think it’s reasonable to be afraid and concerned about the safety of vaccines. If they were “perfectly safe”, then there would be no need for a Federal Gooferment program — National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program! https://www.hrsa.gov/vaccine-compensation/index.html
That being said, I think it’s unreasonable to rely on a facebook group for medical advice. Argh! At least, “Doctor Google” provides lots of dikw (i.e., data, information, knowledge, wisdom) that you can study and form your “own” opinions.
Personally, I rely on doctors to give me their “best guess” on health issues. It’s still an art; not a science. And, their “best guess” is much better than mine.
I think I have to be an “intelligent consumer” of medical services. That means, don’t follow blindly. But ask questions and observe results and evidence. That’s why I try you follow the advice of Michael Greger at https://nutritionfacts.org/. He features evidence for his advice.
As with all my ravings and rantings in life and this blog, YMMV!
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Ohio man lives in underground house he built 40 years ago
Friday, February 7, 2020The underground home is also naturally protected from extreme weather and temperature variations — and it cost less to insure. Residences like this can, however, be more expensive to build and more difficult to get a mortgage for. That’s why Scherbauer opted to design and build the home himself: to keep construction costs low.
Source: Ohio man lives in underground house he built 40 years ago
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It would seem that “hobbit houses” like this would be a “green trend”?
Like the tiny house movement, plastic bottle houses, and straw bale houses, humanity needs to reimagine “housing”. The need for suburban “ticky tacky (stick) houses all in a row” is waning with the graying of the population. McMansions, in my area, are for multigenerational immigrant families who have grandparents, parents, and children under one roof, just like their “old country”.
The current “home inventory” looks like a massive malinvestment now!
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Bad Law – The Burning Platform
Thursday, February 6, 2020Guest Post by John Stossel
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A law in South Carolina bans playing pinball if you’re under 18. That’s just one of America’s many ridiculous laws restricting freedom.
“There is a role for the government in keeping people safe from actual criminals, people who commit murder, robbery,” says Rafael Mangual, a “tough-on-crime” guy at the Manhattan Institute.
“But a lot of laws don’t keep people safe,” he says. “There’s a federal prohibition on walking a dog on a leash longer than six feet on federal property. It is a jailable offense.”
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Source: Bad Law – The Burning Platform
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The stupidity of the Gooferment always amazes me.
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GUNS: The palladium right that will lead to secession
Thursday, February 6, 2020Gun Seizures Could Lead to Civil War
Gun Seizures Could Lead to Civil War
by James Bovard
February 3, 2020
“Hell yes, we’re going to take your AR-15,” declared “Beto” O’Rourke at a Democratic party presidential candidate debate in September. Compelling Americans to surrender their so-called assault weapons is “the newest purity test” for Democratic presidential candidates, according to the Washington Post. O’Rourke and other Democratic presidential candidates, including Cory Booker, Kristin Gillibrand, and Bill de Blasio (now withdrawn from the race, as are Gillibrand and O’Rourke) have all endorsed mandatory buy-backs of assault weapons. Though such proposals are momentarily politically profitable, they could start a cascade of public-policy dominoes that ends in civil war.
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As much as I deplore violence and, as a pro-lifer, the deaths that will come from another “civil war”, certain rights are worth fighting for.
The RIGHT to keep and bear arms, enshrined in the Constitution, is all that keeps the Gooferment in check.
Classic example is the trains loaded for the Nazi death camps were preceded by the disarming the sheep by the Weimar “republic”. “And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? . . .” — Alexander Solzhenitsyn
For all those, who say “We, The Sheeple” can not stand up to the Gooferment in an armed rebellion, I point to Afghanistan where the locals armed with 1900’s vintage rifles defeated the English, Russians, and the USA. When you’re fighting for the “homeland” and you can blend in with the local population, that represents a new generation of asymmetrical warfare. Conventional generals fighting the last war can’t possibly win.
While I pray for the peaceful separation of the USA, just like the USSR, I KNOW that any attempt to disarm “We, The Sheeple” will result in bloodshed.
“From my cold dead hands” is more than a bumpersticker. But it does summarize how gun owners and patriots feel. “Give me liberty or give me death.”
Remember Churchill’s quote: “…if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.” -Churchill, The Second World War, vol. 1, The Gathering Storm (London: Cassell, 1948, 272, on the British guarantee to Poland in Spring 1939.
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