Leave It To The Brits

Demorats' Great Hope

Multiple Law Enforcement Agencies Teamed Up To Murder Rancher While Trying To Steal His Land

On October 2, 1992, Malibu California millionaire Donald Scott was shot to death inside his own home, during a raid by Los Angeles Sheriff's Department and agents from five federal law enforcement agencies. The Scotts were awakened by the sound of the police breaking down their door. Scott's wife, Frances, ran downstairs to find her house swarming with men with guns aimed at her. She screamed "don't shoot me, don't kill me." Donald Scott, recovering from recent cataract surgery, got his gun and ran to the defense of his wife. When he emerged at the top of the stairs, holding his gun over his head, the officers told him to lower the gun. As he did, they shot him to death. The warrant was for evidence of the cultivation of marijuana, but extensive searches turned up no illegal activity  at the Scott ranch. The report of the Ventura County District Attorney, Michael Bradbury, concluded that the police lied to obtain the search warrant, that there had never been any marijuana cultivation on the property, and that the raid was motivated by a desire to forfeit the multi-million dollar ranch. Despite the DA's dramatic conclusions, no officer was ever indicted, or even lightly disciplined for the lies or the killing.

For a more complete accounts of the travesty, see this report, this Wikipedia wrap-up, and, especially, the following comprehensive video (after allowing sufficient time for it to load).

Clues Keep Dropping

Reports emerging in ever increasing numbers indicate our ruling elite and the nation's increasingly politicized military leadership are prepared to use the armed forces, and are training troops for use against any Americans who seek to restore government to the size and scope specified by the Constitution. 

This report appears credible as does this one.

One noteworthy and incontrovertible fact in the first of the two linked reports is that efforts are in progress to water down the  nation's longstanding prohibition against the use of its military against its own citizens . . . something that historically has been done only by despotic regimes like the one in Syria.  

Has our government really degenerated to the point that it needs to be free to act in the same way?  Is our military ready to obey orders to act against America's civilian population? Perhaps the intolerance of the founders for a  large standing army was as well founded  as their other ideas.

Officialdom's efforts to make light of, and to shrug off the latter report, which is based on a work of fiction, only add to its credibility.

It is well to keep in mind the old adage that even paranoids have real enemies.

Nothing But the Taxpayer-Funded Best for Frolicking Jurists

. . . and a big screw you to taxpaying Americans from the black robed tyrants, who currently are off enjoying themselves at a posh Hawaiian resort -- an extravagant junket that this report mistakenly refers to as being government funded.  The government doesn't fund anything except with tax money extorted from hard working citizens so anything it pays for should be referred to properly as being taxpayer funded.

Let Obama Prove This Wrong

The word, as the senate's Demorat majority leader Harry Reid would put it, is out from credible sources that Barack  Obama attended and received financial aid as a foreign student at Occidental College, Columbia University, and Harvard Law School, and that as a young man he traveled to Pakistan on a foreign passport.

And, again as Harry Reid so scintillatingly demands in connection with his unsubstantiated tax charges against Mitt Romney, if those reports are not true, let Mr. Obama prove it by releasing his academic and passport records.
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P.S.  Ever since passing along the reports on Senator Harry's necrophiliac tendencies involving the corpses of prepubescent boys, word has been coming in that he also has enjoyed relationship with a variety of livestock, both living and dead.  No evidence to contradict any of those reports have been forthcoming from the senator.

The Police: Then and Now

It's hard to believe the contrast between how law enforcement officers behaved and were viewed in the long ago days of my youth and the situation that prevails today.

Back then parents routinely advised their offspring that if they saw anything bad taking place to report the occurrence to, and seek the help of a police officer.

Yesteryear's friendly  blue-coated neighborly police officer has been transformed into a remote, threatening, and militarized figure --  a heavily-armed, armor-wearing enforcer, hidden and impersonalized behind black coveralls, and visored and face- shielded helmet. Any bad actions, and especially the worst ones that kids are likely to witness today are more often than not things being done by the cops.

Anyone who has any illusions about the foregoing should take a look at this account of another law enforcement  raid on the wrong house -- a not at all uncommon occurrence.  In the course of the raid the cops handcuffed the home's occupants, including the children, who for an extended period were kept in handcuffs and forced to lie face down by the torn and bloody body of the family dog that the raiders had shot and killed.

So, What Ever Did Happen to the Land of the Free?

It is possible (if you are not a citizen or a resident of the U.S.A.) to deposit currency into a bank that will convert it into real money -- money that isn't guaranteed to lose its value before you withdraw it.

No Americans need apply.  The bank, opened by a recognized and reputable financier, will not do business with people from what has become the land of the servile and the home of the fearful.

Read the story here.

Notch Up Another Travesty for the Government Gropers

Janet Incompetano of course will shrug off the horrific results of the outrageous conduct of her TSA minions by explaining that her goons acted within the bounds of prescribed and accepted protocols.  But see this account of how their ministrations traumatized a fragile rape victim and sent her to an emergency room.

On Our Central Bank, the Federal Reserve, and What It Has Done and Is Doing to Us and Our Country

I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground that “all powers not delegated to the United States, by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states or to the people.”  To take a single step beyond the boundaries thus specially drawn around the powers of Congress, is to take possession of a boundless field of power, not longer susceptible of any definition.

. . . Thomas Jefferson

Opinion on the Constitutionality

of a National Bank

1791

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.

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The issuing power [of money] should be taken away from the banks and restored to the people to whom it propery belongs.

. . . Thomas Jefferson

1802

If Congress has the right to issue paper money, it was given to them to be used by [the government] and not to be delegated to individuals or corporations.

. . . President Andrew Jackson

On his 1836 veto of continued authorization  of

the Second Bank of the United States

(central bank forerunner of the Federal Reserve)

History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling money and its issuance.

. . . James Madison

The few who understand the system will either be so interested in its profits or so dependent on its favors that there will be no opposition from that class . .  . .

Rothschild Brothers of London

1863

Give me control of a nation’s money and I care not who makes its laws.

. . . Mayer Amschel Bauer Rothschild

For more on this subject click here and/or try to get and read a copy of G. Edward Griffin's book, The Creature from Jekyll Island - a Second Look at the Federal Reserve.

No Matter What Your Job Is, You Should Always Try To Make It Interesting

Our Nation's Inescapable Budget Hole

Texas Billboard For the Masochists Among Us

Lightening Up Today

First, with an eternal truth:

. . . and then with a timely tale:

I was visiting one of my daughters last night when I asked if I could borrow a newspaper.

 

“This is the 21st century,” she said. “We don't waste money on newspapers.

“Here, you can use my I-Pad.”

 

I can tell you this:

 that damn fly never knew what hit it . . . .

Honor for No. 44

Øbama's policies have put more people on welfare 

than any president before him, 

so this placement is most appropriate.

Unlike the Nobel Peace Prize, for which he did nothing,

this is an "honor" he deserves.

Nonsense and Evil Both Require Resistance

The following is contributed by John S. Farnam, an internationally renowned expert on individual safety and security and personal defense tactics, and a leading defensive shooting instructor:

I recently viewed a TV news program, emanating from the Chicago area, purporting to provide home owners with sound advice with regard to home-invasions by violent criminals.

The "expert" they consulted mouthed perfectly the party-line.  The "principles" promoted by nanny-state liberals never change:

1.  You're too stupid to own a gun.  Daring, initiative, and courage and have no place in your pathetic life.  You're just a helpless pawn, unable to do anything for yourself.  Get used to it!

2.  Violent criminals are absolutely invincible.  They cannot be vanquished.  Resistance, in any form, therefore is  futile.  "Fighting back is the worst thing you can do."

3.  Your only viable option is to hide in a blind place, like a closet, where you can observe nothing, call 911, and wait helplessly for police to arrive.

4.  When you are discovered, give the criminals whatever they want.  When they "want to murder you, I guess you're supposed to resist the temptation to do anything in your own defense.  That, of course, would be "vigilantism" and "taking the law into your own hands."  Unthinkable!

In short, only criminals and police are authorized to use force in any form.  When you don't fall into either category, you have no legitimate option but to submit hopelessly to criminal violence.

It makes me sick to think the descendants of pioneers, frontier fighters, and cowboys would ever take such ridiculous "advice" seriously!

Fighting, courageously, resisting evil with righteous force, is what our nation is all about!

Programs promoting the foregoing contrary advice should be laughed off the air!

Mr. Farnam and his equally eminent wife, Vicki, own and operate Defense Training International. Their website, which contains links to their many writings and descriptions of their training programs as well as to references to some of the numerous awards with which their work has been recognized, can be reached by clicking here.
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Disclosure and Personal Note:

Your not-at-all=humble blogger is particularly proud to have passed the test to qualify,  and to occasionally be able to participate as an (unpaid) instructor with Mr. and Mrs. Farnam in some of the classes that they give.

Our country is blessed with many capable firearms instructors.  What distinguishes the Farnams and makes them unique in the ranks of such trainers is their ability to imbue their students with the philosophical and theoretical underpinnings, as well as the manual skills of the self defense arts.  Consequently, those who successfully complete one of DTI's training programs are inculcated not only with greatly enhanced physical skills enabling them to survive and prevail in any potentially deadly encounter but also with the almost Zen-like warrior's ethics and mindset required to do so effectively and responsibly. In addition, they acquire constant situational awareness, prepared always ready to recognize, anticipate, and, to the extent possible, avoid situations requiring resort to the use of force.  

Public Schools' Grand Success

The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same level, to breed a standard citizenry to put down dissent and originality.

. . . H. L Mencken 

A Report on Light Weight Harry Reid

It has been reported to me by a credible source that Harry Reid is a practicing necrophile with a notable preference for the corpses of prepubescent boys.

If the report is inaccurate in any respect, let the dishonorable Mr. Reid release his mental health records for the past decade to prove it.

Second Amendment Not For Killing Bambi

For a clear-eyed exposition of the rationale behind the the determination of the nation's founders to protect the firearms rights of individual citizens, see this analytical essay.  The essay also spells out:

*  Why the rationale continues to be relevant today, 

*  How the right has been diminished, and 

*  Why the right of freedom loving American to keep and bear arms currently is as important as, and perhaps of even greater importance than it has been in the past.

Narrowing Choices and Freedoms

For a quick look at just a few of the many choices and freedoms individual Americans already have surrendered or lost to government, click here.

Comparing Their Records

What Mass Shootings Have In Common

Opportunistic politicians who want to deprive citizens of their right to keep and bear arms and the general public draw diametrically different conclusions from every occasion on which some criminal or lunatic murders numerous innocent individuals.

The former ignore what such tragic incidents have in common and try to use them to engender fearful support to further their gun grabbing efforts. However, as is evidenced by the spike in firearms sales that follows every such travesty, ordinary citizens view them realistically and respond appropriately.

The key fact is that the recent Colorado theater slaughter, like virtually every similar massacre that preceded it, occurred in a "gun free zone," a venue in which private citizens are prohibited from carrying firearms.  Such locations should be required to post warnings to those going there that they are entering a free fire zone -- one in which anyone intent on mayhem can carry out his murderous plans with little fear of being stopped by a law abiding armed citizen.


Respect for private property requires respect for the right of owners to set the rules for those entering their premises. However, we should require proprietors of criminal empowerment sites to warn unsuspecting members of the public of the risks to which they expose themselves by entering the potential killing fields.

The contrast between the gun-free killing venues and locations replete with firearms is startling.  Note the contrast between campuses, shopping malls, and theaters on the one hand and places in which no mass murders ever have occurred -- shooting ranges, firearms shops, and gun clubs to mention just a few. The latter safe areas also include that town in Georgia that has enjoyed an unusually low crime rate since it mandated gun possession a few years ago and the entire peaceful and law abiding country of Switzerland, where arms are required to be, and are in almost every home.

The public is aware of, and draws appropriate conclusions from the foregoing. It's sad that the lesson is beyond the learning capability of much of our ruling elites and their servile media journalice.

Bloomberg's Bogus Blather

As is usually the case when he speaks, New York City's major got it completely wrong in his bombastic comments about how police officers view private citizens owning firearms.  The facts are set forth in this analytical essay.

In addition to pointing out Mr. Bloomberg's factual errors, lack of understanding, and ignorance, as well as his despicable efforts to incite fearful emotions in anyone listening to him, the essay makes these salient points:

*  When victims face a criminal by themselves, guns are critical for self-defense.

*  [W]e have the evidence of multiple occasions when mass shootings were prevented by civilians, and

*  [T]here is no case on record of a [concealed carry] permit holder accidentally shooting a bystander.

From Maryland's Eastern Shore

What Looting Tyrants Know

[W]hen the resolution of enslaving America was formed in Great Britain, the British Parliament was advised by an artful man, - who was governor of Pennsylvania, to disarm the people; that it was the best and most effectual way to enslave them; but that they should not do it openly, but weaken them, and let them sink gradually . . . .

. . . George Mason

Speech in the Virginia Ratifying Convention

1788