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Thursday, December 25, 2008
BANKRUPTED STATES = CON-CON & NEWSTATE CONSTITUTION
ALERT! ALERT! ALERT!
Three shots - Singal Emergency - Need for Help
We must be ready to Help Ourselves!
By Nancy Levant
December 24, 2008
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The strategically planned and forthcoming Constitutional Convention, which will address “a balanced budget,” is quite a cover story. Therefore, let us consider the truth behind this elaborate usurpation scheme.
As the country is failing in every direction – from the former individual in America to each and every individual state in the country, the total economic crash of EVERYTHING – and all converging at the very same time and as we speak – is, let us say, extraordinarily convenient.
Add this convenience to the fact that on March 27, 1969, President Richard Nixon divided the country into 10 regions via the Government Reorganization Act. Then with Nixon’s Executive Order 11647, the nation was divided up into 10 administrative regions on February 14, 1972 (Federal Register February 12, 1972, Vol. 37, No. 30), which also established the Federal Regional Council for the newly designed 10 regions. Now, why did former President Richard Nixon redefine the United States? He did so because the United Nations passed a resolution that the United States must reorganize into 10 regions.
Can you name your regional directors? Who are these councils, and where are their office buildings? Actually, you don’t know because they were not “elected,” nor are they mentioned on your tell-a-visions. Your regional councilmen are “appointees.” Can you tell me who appointed them to regional power? Bet you can’t. And the reorganizing of our former nation, achieved more than 25 years ago, and of which you know nothing, certainly suggests that “government” as we knew it changed a long time ago. With all this information now in hands, ask yourselves what would happen in the event of a really big, national “crisis?” What powers do your states hold, or for that matter, your counties or local governments hold – especially since they are all bankrupt AND have regional managers.
Add this to your plate: now that you know your nation has been redrawn and redistributed, what if I told you that a new constitution was written at the same time the country was divided into 10 regions? Ever heard of the Proposed Constitution for the Newstates of America?
In 1964, the Ford Foundation funded an outfit called the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions to write a new constitution for our nation. After 40 drafts, a staff of 100+ people, and at a cost of 2.5 million dollars a year, a decade later (1974) the Proposed Constitution for the Newstates of America was finished. Mind you – a ten year, $25,000,000.00 project…let us therefore assume that the funding foundation(s) were very serious about this investment. And two years later in 1976, Mr. Nelson Rockefeller, who at that time was the president of the Senate, introduced HCR 28, which called for an unlimited Constitutional Convention – the perfect tool whereby to dissolve our current constitution and implant the handily written new constitution – and all without congressional oversight or public knowledge.
Didn’t go well for Nelson in 1976, but guess what? A new Constitutional Convention is right around our corners again – with 32 states requesting the Con-Con, and with only 34 required for it’s convening – and with most American states now totally, conveniently, bankrupt. Look at it this way: the Feds can not possibly bail out 50 states because they’ve already given all our money away – right? And we can’t pay taxes anyway because we have no jobs. Gosh…what can the Feds possibly do to rectify this horrible situation?
Dialectically speaking, they’ve had their answer of choice in the wings for decades. It’s called dissolving state, county, and local powers for centralized power. Gosh…it’s the United Nations mandate for one world government and regionalization of the United States – as commanded in the 1960’s. Do tell, folks…do tell.
The current economic “crisis” is the tool, the highly planned and patient tool, to set up the global governing bureaucracy for real and for certain with the second convening of the Constitutional Convention in the wings. The big wigs tried it before in 1976, and they are trying again, but this time having manufactured national bankruptcy as public fear-based appeasement.
I suggest you read your forthcoming constitution, which is also your forthcoming nightmare. Here is just a taste of your global privileges from your Constitution for the Newstates of America:
Article 1-A Sec.1 - "Freedom of expression shall not be abridged except in declared emergency."
Article 1A Sec.8 - "The practice of religion shall be privileged."
Article 1B Sec. 8 - "Bearing of arms shall be confined to the police, members of the armed forces, and those licensed under law."
Research:
GovernAmerica.com
SweetLiberty.org
Etext.org/Constitution
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No matter how tought thinks become we can rely on Jehovah God
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Take time to read Luke Chapter 2
No matter how tought thinks become we can rely on Jehovah God
He will see us through
Merry Christmas
Friday, December 12, 2008
LISTEN AND LEARN: YOUR SURVIVAL DEPENDS ON IT
By: Devvy
December 12, 2008
© 2008 - NewsWithViews.com
Before I get into the meat of this column, I know Americans are hungry for information on the Obama citizenship crisis. This is my last update which contains the web sites for the various lawsuits so you can stay updated.
Since that update, Phil Berg's injunction to stay the electoral college votes was denied by the U.S. Supreme Court. The column is here and part of Phil's argument is contained in Dr. Edwin Vieira's last column here. Today is the day Cort Wrotnowski's case is being heard in private by all nine U.S. Supreme Court Justices.
There are many columnists out there who support Comrade Obama and are going to extraordinary lengths to discredit and excoriate anyone who still believes in the U. S. Constitution. I know, as I am named by a media air head in her ridiculous column. Ms. Salter knows nothing about the process of the Supreme Court and twists the truth like a contortionist, i.e., her use of 'rape of the American people' in reference to my column, November 13, 2008. Salter refers to me as a blogger. I've never had a 'blog.' That label was an obvious cut to diminish my writing; see here. Salter and her comrades in the "mainstream media" are useful fools; tools of the global elite who are too stupid to understand how they're being used. It is exactly the type of biased spin in Ms. Salter's column that has people fleeing from the big newspapers nationwide.
There is a court case that you might wish to read regarding citizenship: United States v. Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. 649 (1898), as it is germane to the Obama controversy. Many have emailed me with a common question: If Obama were to be found ineligible to be president, would Biden then become president by default? Before I answer that, let's go back to a column, December 3, 2008, that caused a big stir:
'Natural-born' requirement called 'stupidest provision' "An associate lawyer in a Chicago-based firm whose partner served on a finance committee for then-Sen. Barack Obama has advocated for the elimination of the U.S. Constitution's requirement that a president be a "natural-born" citizen, calling the requirement "stupid" and asserting it discriminates, is outdated and undemocratic. The paper was written in 2006 by Sarah Herlihy, just two years after Obama had won a landslide election in Illinois to the U.S. Senate. Herlihy is listed as an associate at the Chicago firm of Kirkland & Ellis. A partner in the same firm, Bruce I. Ettelson, cites his membership on the finance committees for both Obama and Sen. Richard Durbin on the corporate web site."
Why would an Obama supporter and most likely legal adviser begin advocating for the elimination of the citizenship requirement less than a year before Obama decides to "throw his hat in the ring"? Herlihy is not only a lawyer, but a confidante of Obama. I believe one could make the case that certain people close to Obama were privy to his big lie and were trying to lay the ground work to eliminate the natural born at birth requirement or at the very least garner public support for their crusade.
If Obama is ineligible, which I believe he is and he certainly knew when he ran, then his entire campaign was a fraud. Because it was fraud perpetrated upon the American people, Obama's selection of a VP candidate would be meaningless as it was an element of the fraud. This is all new territory for our nation and has to be taken one step at a time.
As for the arrest of Illinois Gov. Blago as he's so "fondly" called, it's an extraordinary event, although not surprising. Chicago politics, sadly, has been a stinky joke for decades. Perhaps what we're seeing now will be the path to cleaning out the nest of corrupt, rotten individuals who violate the public trust. Do I think Comrade Obama is going to be impacted by Blago's arrest and what's to come? I do.
Everyone should go read pages 62-66 of the Complaint issued by the Federal Department of Justice. On those pages you will read about a ménage à trois, and if anyone thinks Blago was smart enough to come up with this on his own, I don't think so. This guy redefines buffoon. Slick, corrupt to the core, but a buffoon none the less. However, on those pages are some gems.
When this broke yesterday, Alexrod, Obama's main whore to do his bidding, suddenly "misspoke" about any prior discussion or contact between Obama and Blago. Since all this is on tape from those wire taps, this sudden back step of what Alexrod said becomes spin that is going to fizzle. We shall see over the next few weeks what continues to leak out of the investigation. There is much speculation about Rezko singing and now whether or not Blago will turn canary in order to shave off potential years in a federal prison.
I realize that this is the Christmas season and most people would rather not continue hearing nothing but bad news. However, time is so short for this republic and it's important that all Americans understand the "big picture" and that requires time. A man remarked in an email to me that there is so much information in my columns, he can't read all the links and follow up on recommended reading. Time is in short supply for all of us and I have had the advantage over the past 19 years of being able to work at home and do all this research.
In an effort to make it easier to get vital information, I put up an audio section on my web site. There are dozens of columns that you can listen to on your computer, download to a CD and listen in commute traffic, on the train or plane or down load to your IPod.
I just finished another section which deals with the war on the American people; it's broken down into several segments so you can listen to each part instead of just one gigantic file. We have to get Americans factual information so they understand how they're being manipulated into giving up their independence to become subservient to the state.
While you're listening to this information, you will be reminded of Obama's call for a national civilian security force: “We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well funded.” You will be shocked at the continuation from Clinton to Bush to Obama regarding the redistribution of wealth. History is repeating itself and we don't want to be a part of it.
I hope you will take the time to listen to these new audio segments and share them with friends, family and anyone who is finally realizing we are in deep trouble; click here.
Links:
1 - Made in America for Christmas
2 - If YOU don't support American jobs, when you lose yours, will anyone care?
3 - Jews for the Preservation and Ownership of Firearms have a free DVD
1 - Make money and history - building a real nationwide newspaper
2 - Why A Newspaper?
1 - If Blag Blabs
2 - Jefferson Would NOT Ignore Constitutionally Prescribed Presidential Qualifications
3 - Blagojevich's convicted fixer helped broker sweetheart real estate deal for Obama
4 - What did Obama know ... and when did he know it?
5 - Chicago PD - No Arrest In Donald Young Murder (Young was a homosexual; many believe he was murdered to keep him from talking about Obama)
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E-mail is: devvyk@earthlink.netAMERIKA EMERGES FROM THE ASHES OF THE FORMER REPUBLIC
By Greg Evensen
December 12, 2008
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To understand how my country of birth could now be leading the list of nations (like England, Canada, Australia, old Rhodesia, South Africa, and New Zealand) whose legacy of personal freedom and individual firearm ownership is becoming but a distant historical footnote, is to understand how light is forever swallowed into a gal axial “black hole.”
The light of freedom has been extinguished by the rogue elements of a national conspiracy so deep and pervasive that it seems it has always been with us. In a way, it always has. The conspirators began their quest centuries ago in Europe as the enlightened ones or the “Illuminati.”
They were bankrolled by the Rothschild money dynasty and emerged as our present day “ruling families” including generations of Rockefellers, Kennedys, the Bush family, and lynchpin “wise men” like Kissinger, Scowcroft, Rumsfeld, Cheney, and the change-gang crew on Premier Obama’s cabinet secretary short list. The much anticipated Hussein change is simply “changing” one CFR regular appointee for another.
We are now looking forward with great anticipation for the Democratic Party, everything to everyone and positioned everywhere dream team, that will usher us into the latest incarnation of failure and socialistic blathering. This will insure generations of slavery for those “lucky” enough to keep their jobs so that the working class can continue to provide perpetual unearned entitlements to the “disadvantaged” morons, all of which is coming from Washington. The idiots who voted in this nightmare will say or do anything to turn on their patriotic hard working neighbors to get a bonus in their checks, especially if you own a firearm or have some stored food. The police state generals and their Gestapo agents will be more than happy to see to it that your efforts to remain free and provide honestly for your families will be a thing of the distant past. Make no mistake; this is your new United Socialist Amerika.
It is as if the Mafia (no insult intended) had nominated every cabinet level post available with its worst enforcers to “lead” us for the next four years. Considering that the mob had already captured the leadership on Capital Hill and at Treasury, the Pentagon, the FBI, within the IRS, the Federal Courts and of course our role model boys at the Federal Reserve Bank, what more could we hope for? Hillary at the State Department? Mr. Eric Hold-up as the “pro-second amendment” Attorney General? It just doesn’t get any worse. It is as though every child molester in the nation just got all available teaching and day care center jobs within three thousand miles of Washington. Are you feeling better yet?
I know you don’t want to hear this again, but many of us have been warning of this day for years. It has arrived just as we said it would and in just the configuration we described. All of our paranoia has been absolutely correct. All of the wild-eyed predictions have come true. So,……….now what?
Being prepared will save your life. Waiting and denying the truth will get you dead. Dead from someone’s desperate act or dead from not having what you needed when the lights went out. Either way you are dead.
The newly established North American Command of our armed forces had insured that the final days of old America were numbered. When the nation of our past finally slipped into oblivion, we barely noticed that as Jesse Jackson wept in Grant Park (either from the “vindication” he felt as a black man observing a newly elected Pope, or perhaps it was the sorrow he felt for having said those nasty things about the Anointed One into a live microphone). Now that the final plans for the implementation of Amerika’s new dynasty are being unveiled, the same ignorant dolts that created this mess through the “electoral” process, are defending their choice and ignoring the placement of howitzers aimed at the suburbs in our cities. Entire armories have been emptied in western states and the ordinance moved to underground storage sites in Arkansas and elsewhere. It is circulating (I am waiting for my copy of the “call-up”) that retired or inactive yet highly trained army personnel are being recalled and special forces units beefed up to several times their normal strength. They are now ready to keep Amerika safe from internal strife once the markets and banks complete their rape of the people. I have received numerous affirmations of these events, yet I cannot state emphatically or conclusively that I have the “evidence” in hand. I LIKE evidence, since it leaves little room for argument. Until then, I will refrain from suggesting it as fact, but I do not believe it will be long before that it is fully revealed.
Fortunately for us, as I have stated many times, I believe that significant numbers of police officers and troops will NOT obey clearly criminal and unconstitutional orders that require them to illegally enter your home, arrest you without cause, incarcerate you in inhumane conditions or summarily execute you. However, WHEN martial law comes, there will be many who ARE taken, and that is where you must be adequately prepared. That time is approaching and it is the new world order elite’s last chance to eradicate the final patriotic front in Americka.
Although criticism may come my way for again putting many on the spot, I am willing to accept that, if it will cause you to re-think your views. Please take the time, and make the investment to protect yourselves from the coming onslaught.
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Have you assessed what a martial law situation would do to you and your family? Have you also considered what a “false flag” (pirates would run up a friendly or neutral flag to gain the trust of a vessel or shoreline community it was about to assault—thus flying a false flag) event perpetrated by home grown illegals or black ops details would do to your city, home, job and family? What would you do in the event of an actual nuclear attack by a rogue state? Can you escape the devastation? Where would you go? As I have asked many times, do you have the defensive firearms and supplies to withstand lawless gangs or body count captains checking identity papers door to door? I suspect many do not. After January 20, 2009, you may find the simple act of purchasing a firearm and ammunition VERY costly if it is possible at all.
The “grim” factor has gone up several points since the election. It is the inevitable result of merciless propaganda from the democrats and equally merciless stupidity by the republicans and it has gift wrapped the nation like a pathetic package of molded fruitcake. As corrupted scandal after scandal in the banking industry, the automobile sector, bankrupted state governments and the national debt now totaling well in excess of a very conservative fifty trillion dollars, the damage assessment is unthinkable. Meanwhile, Amerika is still waiting to see the indisputable, valid, actual, public, U.S., state birth certificate of its King Obama I.
Holiday gifts and parties will pretty much end this year, as in the years to follow, just providing food and keeping the lights on will prove to be more than many will be able to achieve. I believe unemployment will reach 15% by next fall. The North American Union will be looked at as inevitable and even desirable. We will all be reduced to second or third world status and savings, 401’s, IRA’s, state, local and private retirement plans, and social security will all be thrown into one giant pot split up by the government as it sees fit. Health care will be rationed and medications will go to those who must work to try and pay for all of this socialized CHANGE!! If you think I am just reaching for the most absurd possibilities, then hang around the good old USA. for another year.
We are witnessing the emergence of a regime so vile and destructive in Washington as to defy description. The social, political and economic agenda of this new illegitimate administration and its Creep Show cast will sow the seeds of insurrection in this nation without a doubt. The final act of the murder of our personal and national sovereignty is being achieved on a scale never seen before and at a pace that is truly breathtaking. The robbery of our wealth is on the level of a war crime. It should be treated as such and dealt with by an armed citizenry with a mission to avenge the death of all of our family’s earned wealth, land, and prosperity.
This may very well be your absolute last opportunity to prepare and face this situation with the tools to see you through some very difficult days. Only you can judge your level of preparedness for what is coming. Police officers sense its approach. Troops abhor the thought of patrolling Amerikan streets.
Employers are preparing pink slips by the hundreds. Strained city and state budgets are gearing up for legions of dispossessed and emotionally unstable people wandering their neighborhoods. Doctrinally lost churches are closing their doors when they are needed the most. Older generational households are strained to the breaking point to take in displaced adult children and their families. Banks are foreclosing, food stores will run short with bare shelves, and it was mostly all avoidable.
America burned under the weight of its own trash. Out of the ashes has come the mutated Phoenix Amerika. It now sweeps the skies as a predator and not the great honorable eagle of protection and moral strength our Founders dreamed about. Our national flag now represents the scars and stripes of its beleaguered enslaved masses. God help us.
For many, Christmas this year will carry a new and almost forgotten meaning. We are painfully reminded that in the end, the only thing that really matters is the memory of that tiny child born unto Mary so that we who have sinned and fallen short of the Glory of God, may seek His forgiveness, and have a perpetual place in his unending, unscarred Kingdom. Thank you, Lord, for sending your Son Jesus, to save us from this wicked, fallen world. We are rich indeed this December after all. In spite of the situation we find ourselves in, help one another, do the right things in the right way for the right reasons, and remember……….you can still make a positive difference that alone is worthy and honorable. Blended together with millions of others who believe in and will strive to achieve the same goal of the rebirth of a Godly America, is a gift unmatched except for the gift of God’s love…..Amen.
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Friday, November 14, 2008
A Draft by any name is a Draft! Just so NO, Hell NO!
I will Not, my wife or my children will not serve a Fascist, Communist or Marxist Government. It is time to say, what the said in the 1960's
"Draft, Hell NO!"
WorldNetDaily
Emanuel volunteers Americans to do 'a lot'
'If you're worried about having to do 50 jumping jacks the answer is yes'
Posted: November 13, 2008
1:00 am Eastern
By Bob Unruh
WorldNetDaily
A video of a 2006 interview with now-Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel for president-elect Barack Obama reveals plans for mandatory induction for all young adults into a civilian "force."
"If you're worried about, are you going to have to do 50 jumping jacks, the answer is yes," Emanuel told the interviewer, a reporter who was podcasting for the New York Daily News at the time.
WND reported last weekend when the official website for Obama, Change.gov, announced he would "require" all middle school through college students to participate in community service programs.
However, after a flurry of blogs protested children being drafted into Obama's proposed youth corps, officials softened the website's wording.
Originally, under the tab "America Serves," Change.gov read, "President-Elect Obama will expand national service programs like AmeriCorps and Peace Corps and will create a new Classroom Corps to help teachers in under served schools, as well as a new Health Corps, Clean Energy Corps, and Veterans Corps.
(Story continues below)
"Obama will call on citizens of all ages to serve America, by developing a plan to require 50 hours of community service in middle school and high school and 100 hours of community service in college every year," the site announced.
WND previously reported on a video of a marching squad of Obama youth and Obama's "civilian national security force," which he said in July would be just as powerful and well-funded as the U.S. military.
Now comes the Emanuel video, which has been embedded here:
In the interview, Emanuel was questioned whether participants in the proposed force would live in barracks.
"Somewhere between the age of 18 to 25 you will do three months of training. You can do it at some point in your college time," he said. "There can be nothing wrong with all Americans having a joint, similar experience of what we call civil defense training or civil service."
Emanuel said the planned requiring service "will give people a sense of what it means to be an American."
He said, of course, the plan at that point was flexible.
"We propose three months [but] at the end of the day [if] someone says it should be four … I'm not going sit here and hold up [plans]," Emanuel said.
When the reporter questioned the commitment, Emanuel responded, "Guess what. We have a lot more challenges. We are going to need a lot to do it. If you're worried about are you going to have to do 50 jumping jacks the answer is yes."
He chuckled at the reporters concerns.
"Rather than figure out if whether you take a train ride or a barrack. … Think of it this way, it will be a common experience.
"There will be a body of citizens who are ready, capable and trained," he said.
But the plan, especially its demand that Americans participate in a domestic "force," has been raising questions.
The blogger Gateway Pundit called Obama's plan the "creation of his Marxist youth corps," and DBKP commented, "'Choosing' to serve should be approved by parents – not required by the government. No amount of good intentions can sugar-coat words like 'mandatory,' 'compulsory' or 'required.'"
Emanuel uses his book, "The Plan: Big Ideas for America," to specify that he would propose, for all Americans ages 18 to 25, that they "serve their country by going through three months of basic training, civil defense preparation and community service."
Obama, meanwhile, also has yet to clarify what he meant during his July "Call to Service" speech in Colorado Springs in which he insisted the U.S. "cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we've set" and needs a "civilian national security force."
A video of his comments is here:
Joseph Farah, founder and editor of WND, used his daily column first to raise the issue and then to elevate it with a call to all reporters to start asking questions about it.
"If we're going to create some kind of national police force as big, powerful and well-funded as our combined U.S. military forces, isn't this rather a big deal?" Farah wrote. "I thought Democrats generally believed the U.S. spent too much on the military. How is it possible their candidate is seeking to create some kind of massive but secret national police force that will be even bigger than the Army, Navy, Marines and Air Force put together?
"Is Obama serious about creating some kind of domestic security force bigger and more expensive than that? If not, why did he say it? What did he mean?" Farah wrote.
The Obama campaign has declined to respond to WND questions on the issue.
But Farah's call generated intense Internet discussions.
"You've got us surrounded, you poor bastards."
Memo for the Record to the Next Congress
To: The Victors of the Recent National Elections
From: Your gun-owning constituents
Subject: The so-called "Gun Show Loophole"
Congratulations. You have just been swept into power. Enjoy the feeling.
But come January, the special interests who put you there are going to be banging on your door asking for various favors. Some of them are going to be demanding more gun control legislation, among them a law to close the so-called "gun show loophole."
Heretofore, the bumbling GOP has at least been able to fend off these attempts at our liberties, but those corrupt incompetents have now been justifiably swept from power for their other numerous political sins. Neither Presidential candidate mentioned the subject much during the campaign (for good reasons), but both are on record as supporting previous bills aimed at exerting complete federal control over the private sale of arms.
You call this "reasonable regulation."
We call it tyranny, for not even King George III was so grasping. But since you won the election, it will be your candidate who takes the oath and signs the bill. It may be assumed that the new president will sign such a bill if you place it before him. However, we do not address this memo to him. It is the darker angels of YOUR nature we are seeking to save you from, as I will explain below.
The hubris derived from your own smashing electoral victory may incline you to listen to those voices demanding that you seize the moment for more gun control. If I may, let me explain the possible personal, unintended consequences of such an act to you.
There are in your district, in your state and indeed all over the country, a great number of gun owners just like me. I suppose if you added us all up there at least a million or two of us.
Maybe more, maybe less, but once you get into numbers like that, what's a million more or less?
We are the 'cold, dead hands" types, the men and women who have sworn, as the old bumper sticker said, "When guns are outlawed, I'll be an outlaw." We have fought a political delaying action against the enemies of our traditional 2nd Amendment rights for decades now. Indeed, we have been shoved back from the free exercise of our historic firearms liberty for 70 plus years.
Now it is plain that we have lost the argument at the polls.
No matter.
You feel a natural pride at having swept the GOP from the field. But you should know that in doing so you have removed any hope we ever had of successfully defending our right to armed self-defense in the political arena. You will also take up, and I'm certain you will pass, the Fairness Doctrine to shut up the talk radio hosts who have so bedeviled you these past twenty years. As well, you will pass an Amnesty Bill for illegal aliens, which you believe will make any further conservative success in national elections impossible. You are right on both counts. And, because you now have the votes, you will be successful. You will think you have a mandate for whatever you do. And yet . . .
Consider where this puts us. We will no longer have the possibility of stopping further attacks on our God-given liberties politically. We will not even be able to vent our frustration on talk radio. I'm sure you will also get around to "hate speech regulation" of the Internet. And in the middle of this you will try to disarm us by means of a "gun show loophole" bill, or a new tougher "assault weapons ban" or a ban on "assault weapons ammunition" and "armor piercing bullets" which will include simple hunting ammunition, or probably a combination of all three. Perhaps you will stealthily try to do these things by quietly having the ATF manipulate the regulatory process.
Quiet or not, we will notice.
You will do this because you think you can do it without political or personal retribution. I write you today to tell you that if you do so, you will be as wrong as you could possibly be.
You believe that if you pass a law backed by the threat of federal violence for non-compliance, that we will do what you order without resistance. You believe this because you are extrapolating our anticipated behavior from your own cowardice, You know that YOU would never do such a thing, so we won't either. This is a dangerous assumption on your part, perhaps fatally so. For if the discredited Republicans no longer protect us from you, then they no longer protect you from us, either.
You've got us surrounded, you poor bastards.
Remember that we consider our rights merely codified by the Constitution. They are, we sincerely believe, God-given and inalienable. Remember too that we are willing to die for our liberties rather than surrender them up meekly. Remember as well that men and women who are willing to die for their principles are most often willing to kill for them too.
What can this possibly have to do with you?
Well, it's like this. We have been doing a lot of thinking about what we would do if we ever found ourselves in this situation, and after considerable thought we have decided we agree with Bill Clinton. Back in 1999, when he was trying to pressure the Serbians into giving up Kosovo, then President Clinton expanded American rules of war to include -- as legitimate targets of deadly force -- the politicians and the news media that shaped and supported his enemy's war policy.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but if you force us into resistance by further circumscribing our rights -- by sending federal police to our doors to enforce your will -- can't those same Clintonian rules of engagement be applied to you?
Oh, we could certainly defend ourselves by shooting back at the hapless instruments of your tyranny -- the sons and daughters of other Americans who happen to be in federal service.
But wouldn't it be wiser for us -- after the first, second or third time this happens -- to adopt Clinton's policy and go after the people who sent them? That is, to seek out the bureaucrats and politicians who decided to start the war? And, like Clinton, should we target the media talking heads and newspaper editors who clamored for it in the first place?
The advocates of citizen disarmament are probably willing to fight a war down to the last dead ATF agent, but are YOU willing to fight one past the first dead politician? And how many dead editors will it take to change an editorial board policy?
If you pass new gun control laws we will find out.
The president of course will be the safest personage in the country under this awful scenario. Killing a president, even if he signed such an unconstitutional law, would be tantamount to firing on Fort Sumter, a discrediting move no matter what the provocation.
But, one wonders, who would cry over a dead congressman or senator who voted to take people's liberty, property and lives? Especially after innocent victims of his predatory law-making were already littering the streets. You may recall the already lower-than-a-snake's-belly position in the polls that Congress currently holds.
Who indeed would mourn you, beyond your family, your mistress and a few lobbyists?
Also, it may be cold comfort, but we will make sure that your family remains behind to mourn you. We will do a far better job of protecting innocents than the federal government, perhaps because we don't own any Predator drones or F18s or Hellfire missiles or cluster bombs. You will get no terrorist outrages like Oklahoma City to easily discredit us - just remorseless and deadly accurate rifle bullets, one at a time. Those are OUR precision guided munitions.
Do you really think that in the long run that yours will be more effective than ours?
These are the uncomfortable questions that must be asked now rather than later. Unless, of course, you decide that discretion is the better part of valor and -- out of enlightened self-interest -- you refuse to meander down the bloody garden path toward civil war at the urging of the honey-tongued Sirens of "reasonable regulation" gun control.
It's always important for any card player to know the rules of the game before the deck is cut. By sweeping away the sorry GOP, and stacking the deck with the Fairness Doctrine and enfranchised illegals to toil on your political plantation, you will have changed the political rules fundamentally and, perhaps, forever.
Please understand that just because you can disenfranchise us, swamp us at the polls, silence us on the radio and Internet, despise us and ridicule us in the media, you still cannot take any more of our liberties without our acquiescence. And we do not, cannot and will not agree. We still get to vote with our rifles. You are welcome to believe that we are insane for adopting such a position, but even if you are right, we're still armed -- doesn't that just complicate your problem?
We are resigned to being a despised minority within our own country, as long as we are a despised and FEARED minority whose rights and property are respected.
You may kill us, but you cannot change our minds.
Kindly, for all our sakes, remember Bill Clinton's rules of engagement. A civil war is a two-way shooting gallery. Don't sign your own target.
Just so we're clear, the way you sign your own target is by voting for any bill which commands the government's seizure of power of the private, intrastate transfer of arms or for one banning the sales or possession of any kinds of heretofore legal weapons or ammunition, or for taxing them to death, or for any other combination of measures, official or unofficial which lead to the same things. Put your "Yea" on any of those, and when innocent Americans get killed by federal forces as a result, you will have placed the crosshairs over your own heart.
You have been warned.
If you want to curse anybody, curse Bill Clinton.
It was his idea.
Signed,
Henry Bowman
To: The Victors of the Recent National Elections
From: Your gun-owning constituents
Subject: The so-called "Gun Show Loophole"
Congratulations. You have just been swept into power. Enjoy the feeling.
But come January, the special interests who put you there are going to be banging on your door asking for various favors. Some of them are going to be demanding more gun control legislation, among them a law to close the so-called "gun show loophole."
Heretofore, the bumbling GOP has at least been able to fend off these attempts at our liberties, but those corrupt incompetents have now been justifiably swept from power for their other numerous political sins. Neither Presidential candidate mentioned the subject much during the campaign (for good reasons), but both are on record as supporting previous bills aimed at exerting complete federal control over the private sale of arms.
You call this "reasonable regulation."
We call it tyranny, for not even King George III was so grasping. But since you won the election, it will be your candidate who takes the oath and signs the bill. It may be assumed that the new president will sign such a bill if you place it before him. However, we do not address this memo to him. It is the darker angels of YOUR nature we are seeking to save you from, as I will explain below.
The hubris derived from your own smashing electoral victory may incline you to listen to those voices demanding that you seize the moment for more gun control. If I may, let me explain the possible personal, unintended consequences of such an act to you.
There are in your district, in your state and indeed all over the country, a great number of gun owners just like me. I suppose if you added us all up there at least a million or two of us.
Maybe more, maybe less, but once you get into numbers like that, what's a million more or less?
We are the 'cold, dead hands" types, the men and women who have sworn, as the old bumper sticker said, "When guns are outlawed, I'll be an outlaw." We have fought a political delaying action against the enemies of our traditional 2nd Amendment rights for decades now. Indeed, we have been shoved back from the free exercise of our historic firearms liberty for 70 plus years.
Now it is plain that we have lost the argument at the polls.
No matter.
You feel a natural pride at having swept the GOP from the field. But you should know that in doing so you have removed any hope we ever had of successfully defending our right to armed self-defense in the political arena. You will also take up, and I'm certain you will pass, the Fairness Doctrine to shut up the talk radio hosts who have so bedeviled you these past twenty years. As well, you will pass an Amnesty Bill for illegal aliens, which you believe will make any further conservative success in national elections impossible. You are right on both counts. And, because you now have the votes, you will be successful. You will think you have a mandate for whatever you do. And yet . . .
Consider where this puts us. We will no longer have the possibility of stopping further attacks on our God-given liberties politically. We will not even be able to vent our frustration on talk radio. I'm sure you will also get around to "hate speech regulation" of the Internet. And in the middle of this you will try to disarm us by means of a "gun show loophole" bill, or a new tougher "assault weapons ban" or a ban on "assault weapons ammunition" and "armor piercing bullets" which will include simple hunting ammunition, or probably a combination of all three. Perhaps you will stealthily try to do these things by quietly having the ATF manipulate the regulatory process.
Quiet or not, we will notice.
You will do this because you think you can do it without political or personal retribution. I write you today to tell you that if you do so, you will be as wrong as you could possibly be.
You believe that if you pass a law backed by the threat of federal violence for non-compliance, that we will do what you order without resistance. You believe this because you are extrapolating our anticipated behavior from your own cowardice, You know that YOU would never do such a thing, so we won't either. This is a dangerous assumption on your part, perhaps fatally so. For if the discredited Republicans no longer protect us from you, then they no longer protect you from us, either.
You've got us surrounded, you poor bastards.
Remember that we consider our rights merely codified by the Constitution. They are, we sincerely believe, God-given and inalienable. Remember too that we are willing to die for our liberties rather than surrender them up meekly. Remember as well that men and women who are willing to die for their principles are most often willing to kill for them too.
What can this possibly have to do with you?
Well, it's like this. We have been doing a lot of thinking about what we would do if we ever found ourselves in this situation, and after considerable thought we have decided we agree with Bill Clinton. Back in 1999, when he was trying to pressure the Serbians into giving up Kosovo, then President Clinton expanded American rules of war to include -- as legitimate targets of deadly force -- the politicians and the news media that shaped and supported his enemy's war policy.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but if you force us into resistance by further circumscribing our rights -- by sending federal police to our doors to enforce your will -- can't those same Clintonian rules of engagement be applied to you?
Oh, we could certainly defend ourselves by shooting back at the hapless instruments of your tyranny -- the sons and daughters of other Americans who happen to be in federal service.
But wouldn't it be wiser for us -- after the first, second or third time this happens -- to adopt Clinton's policy and go after the people who sent them? That is, to seek out the bureaucrats and politicians who decided to start the war? And, like Clinton, should we target the media talking heads and newspaper editors who clamored for it in the first place?
The advocates of citizen disarmament are probably willing to fight a war down to the last dead ATF agent, but are YOU willing to fight one past the first dead politician? And how many dead editors will it take to change an editorial board policy?
If you pass new gun control laws we will find out.
The president of course will be the safest personage in the country under this awful scenario. Killing a president, even if he signed such an unconstitutional law, would be tantamount to firing on Fort Sumter, a discrediting move no matter what the provocation.
But, one wonders, who would cry over a dead congressman or senator who voted to take people's liberty, property and lives? Especially after innocent victims of his predatory law-making were already littering the streets. You may recall the already lower-than-a-snake's-belly position in the polls that Congress currently holds.
Who indeed would mourn you, beyond your family, your mistress and a few lobbyists?
Also, it may be cold comfort, but we will make sure that your family remains behind to mourn you. We will do a far better job of protecting innocents than the federal government, perhaps because we don't own any Predator drones or F18s or Hellfire missiles or cluster bombs. You will get no terrorist outrages like Oklahoma City to easily discredit us - just remorseless and deadly accurate rifle bullets, one at a time. Those are OUR precision guided munitions.
Do you really think that in the long run that yours will be more effective than ours?
These are the uncomfortable questions that must be asked now rather than later. Unless, of course, you decide that discretion is the better part of valor and -- out of enlightened self-interest -- you refuse to meander down the bloody garden path toward civil war at the urging of the honey-tongued Sirens of "reasonable regulation" gun control.
It's always important for any card player to know the rules of the game before the deck is cut. By sweeping away the sorry GOP, and stacking the deck with the Fairness Doctrine and enfranchised illegals to toil on your political plantation, you will have changed the political rules fundamentally and, perhaps, forever.
Please understand that just because you can disenfranchise us, swamp us at the polls, silence us on the radio and Internet, despise us and ridicule us in the media, you still cannot take any more of our liberties without our acquiescence. And we do not, cannot and will not agree. We still get to vote with our rifles. You are welcome to believe that we are insane for adopting such a position, but even if you are right, we're still armed -- doesn't that just complicate your problem?
We are resigned to being a despised minority within our own country, as long as we are a despised and FEARED minority whose rights and property are respected.
You may kill us, but you cannot change our minds.
Kindly, for all our sakes, remember Bill Clinton's rules of engagement. A civil war is a two-way shooting gallery. Don't sign your own target.
Just so we're clear, the way you sign your own target is by voting for any bill which commands the government's seizure of power of the private, intrastate transfer of arms or for one banning the sales or possession of any kinds of heretofore legal weapons or ammunition, or for taxing them to death, or for any other combination of measures, official or unofficial which lead to the same things. Put your "Yea" on any of those, and when innocent Americans get killed by federal forces as a result, you will have placed the crosshairs over your own heart.
You have been warned.
If you want to curse anybody, curse Bill Clinton.
It was his idea.
Signed,
Henry Bowman
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