The Great Anniversary Festival

 

"[Independence Day] will be the most important [period of time] in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated, by succeeding generations, as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated, as the Day of Deliverance by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized by pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other from this forward forever more.

You will think me transported with enthusiasm but I am not. I am well aware of the toil and blood and treasure that it will cost us to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these states. Yet through all the gloom I can see the rays of ravishing light and glory. I can se that the End is more than worth all the Means. And that posterity will triumph in that day's transaction, even though we should rue it, which I trust in God we shall not." - John Adams, July 1776, in a letter to his wife, Abigail

As SiG noted today, you can always go back to bitching and moaning about the problems tomorrow; they'll all still be here on the 5th.

Enjoy the holiday. And perhaps give at least a passing nod to "solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty". It surely couldn't hurt.

Independence Day

h/t Cold Fury

Read Mike's post. He, like many of us, is of two minds today. That's as it should be, we suppose.

Our birthright is monumental. Where we are shows how much has been lost. And much of that loss, simply surrendered.

But whatever happens to the United States, Liberty and Freedom have never gone out of style.

It's just that once in awhile, when they've been pushed around by bullies and thugs, they need someone to twist a few arms, crack a few heads, or even slit a few throats and stack some bodies on their behalf.

Back in the day - and yesterday - people chose not to pay attention to the fact that they were going to have to fight and earn their independence every single day, and year after year.

This isn't a new fight.

It's the same old one.

The people who will win, find that an animating struggle, not a perpetual slog. Be of good cheer.

And whenever opportunity presents, kill a commie for mommie.

Boland v. Bonta: Freedom Strikes Again!

"Californians have the constitutional right to acquire and use state-of-the-art handguns to protect themselves. They should not be forced to settle for decade-old models of handguns to ensure that they remain safe inside or outside the home. But unfortunately, the UHA’s CLI, MDM, and microstamping requirements do exactly that. Because enforcing those requirements implicates the plain text of the Second Amendment, and the government fails to point to any well-established historical analogues that are consistent with them, those requirements are unconstitutional and their enforcement must be preliminarily enjoined. Accordingly, Plaintiffs’ motion for a preliminary injunction is GRANTED."

Preliminary Injunction: full text 

Eat shit and die, Commie legislature!

The state has 14 days for appeals, after which this injunction is in full force.

If they go to the 9th Circus en banc, they'll lose again. If they do, SCOTUS won't even listen to further appeal.

The jackassical Califrutopia Handgun Roster is deader than canned tuna.

If you live elsewhere, and are contemplating a handgun purchase, you'd best move smartly.

The giant sucking sound is going to be the re-opening of 10% of the U.S. handgun market, and the avalanche of product returning to store shelves in the Land of the Banned. Expect firearms manufacturers' stocks to tick upward.

 

There's a New (Old) Outlaw In Town

You just can't keep a good criminal down:

Big Country Expat has broken out of Goolag Prison!

Ssssssshhhhhh! Don't tell anyone. Bookmark the site.

You're welcome.

Have you seen this man?

Canadian Truckers Call For General Nationwide Strike, Effective ASAP

 See for yourself. 

h/t WRSA

Truckers Declare Victory And Leave, Turdooligans Claim They Cleaned Up Streets

 

Starts at 6:20ff

After three weeks, having ripped the happymask off the brutally repressive communist regime of Turdoo, having broken no laws except parking infractions, the truckers protest has dissipated. Their organizers were arrested, their bank accounts frozen, and even as they announced the end of the protest, more ordinary Canadians kept showing up, even in the face of being repeatedly tear-gassed, pepper-sprayed, and shot with rubber bullets by the Turdooligan pigs.

Stick a fork in Turdoo. Politically, he's a dead man walking.

And possibly, in more ways than just metaphorical, in the days to come.

The government of Canada, in the person of dictator Turdoo, showed up with armored vehicles and battle rattle, to defend themselves against peaceful grandmothers and middle-aged men dancing, singing their own national anthem, with their children playing in bouncy castles, and waving the Canadian flag.

The Turdooligans think they won.

But they couldn't hear the death-knell of a free Canada over the sound of their own awesomeness.

Maybe when they're choking on their own blood someday (soon, please!), their hearing will improve. Just before the entire world goes black.

It was years, in our own history, between the Boston Tea Party and Concord Bridge.

But life moves a good deal faster now.

Maple Leaf Rag

 

The Canadian truckers are holding a Deadman Switch: "take them out", and you also take out all deliveries to and throughout Canada of anything: fuel, food, Everything.

In chess, when all the opponent has is a king, he cannot attack.

Turdoo is now checkmated, and has nothing left for offense that doesn't cut his own throat, politically and permanently. And it galls both him, and all TPTB, that mere truckers have pointed the knife so accurately.

Now we find out how accurate the "nine meals away" model of societal distress is, don't we?

And Coming Soon: The American version of "Truck Fudeau" is in the offing, with the promise of the exact same scenario.

Squeeze off the ballot box, and the jello will squeeze out between your fingers in new ways.

While the American elites could helicopter out of the District of Criminals under duress, if they do so, the capitol goes up in flames. Which would likely open the ball nationwide, everywhere you have a blue hive idiot in charge.

The peasants are learning how to wage 4G war.

And now, an appropriate air:

[For one small historical reference, AFAIK, there was only one strike by the Teamsters against the motion picture industry anytime since the middle of the 20th century. Hollywood studios held out for about, oh, fifteen minutes, quickly being informed that no food deliveries, trash pickup, or pretty much anyone in the industry would cross the picket lines, before they wisely knuckled under, and quickly called and asked the truckers "What do we need to do to make this problem go away?" Turdoo would be wise to learn that historical lesson. The only question left for him to answer is how humiliating a defeat he wishes to suffer, and for how long, before he reaches a similar conclusion.]

Good On Ya, Mates!

 h/t WRSA

Despite the naysayers, we warned people not to count Australia down for the count.

Apparently, the working people of Oz have had enough bullshit from their socialist would-be overlords, as of today:

Take your vaxx and shove it!

We have only one thing to say to the freedom-loving people of Australia:

Resist

 

Dear 'Strines:

We understand TPTB thereabouts require a picture of your face and your home, to confirm your obedience to their tyrannical demands and controls in this most egregious vaxxholian idiocy. We would be remiss if we had not offered you something to send in to them, whenever requested.

Feel free to use it with our compliments, and highest regards, as often as you choose. Exactly like 99.9999% of the memes you see here, which subsequently appear everywhere, we made it in Shop Class, ourselves, just for you.

https://i.imgur.com/G4MxfaX.png

We can't be sure, but we suspect if they get this pic 20,000,000 times an hour - or more - for a few days, the phone lines they've set up will cease to function. Just spitballing there.

(Now, imagine if some of you lot forwarded or posted those call-in phone numbers online, so that another billion or so folks outside your gentle land were able to join in on the fun. Doubleplusungood, right there. Your choice. Operators are standing by...)

Feel free to imagine what might ensue were posters of this, or anything similar, were to start popping up, on power and light poles, walls, and the windows of police cars and official vehicles thereabouts.

What's that? They'll send John Law after you for non-compliance?

Really?

All 17,000,000 of you who remain unvaxxed?

Allow my colleague, and Professor Of Liberty Studies, Dr. Solzhenitsyn, to inform your further decisions at that point:

One can but wonder, at that point, how long until they run out of enforcers, and with common citizens now happily armed with something better than hammers and pokers in many cases?

Verily, the mind doth boggle.

And now, back to our radio program...

Wait For The "FOOM!"

 

I haven't seen it in comments here, (though some elsewhere), but for any Slow Learners out there, kindly note that our ire and commentary regarding OzCom is directed entirely and solely at the government there at every level, and not at the average 'strine citizen of that Commonwealth.

I know a couple personally, including some PGP back-channel comments, so a few pointers, as shared elsewhere.

1) Anyone who thinks they all turned in everything they own which goes "Bang!" should contact this blog to make me a cracking good offer on purchase of a bridge I own, for sale cheap.

2) The ones I know, and the ones I've met, in the day and recently, are all "G'Day, mate; have another beer, and we'll put another shrimp on the barbie for ya" types. Until they're not.

3) Much like natives of Vancouver, they're polite to a fault, making even LDS folks and Japanese look rude, and when the time comes, as they twist necks over until they crack, they'll tell the crumpling corpse "Apologies, mate", as they let it fall to the ground.

4) The few words I've had from the ones I know included the info that they were "working out which throats to cut". They were not speaking metaphorically nor figuratively.

5) They have their douchebags, and their fair share of Karens, as does any land nowadays. And every Animal Farm has its Pigs. But they have not all gone full Proggy West L.A./Frisco/Central Park West retarded, and anyone who believes that is the case doesn't know Jack or Shit about the breed. If they get on boxcars, it'll be to take everything of use off, and then burn it to the wheels, after staking the engineer to an anthill, and running the engine into the next train, on a bridge, which they'll then blow up. They will call this sort of thing "Good fun!"

6) They are not a folk to be messed about, as they have been, and rest assured, there will be dire and permanent consequences for the current recent assclownery perpetuated by the OzCom government Down Under.

7) For the impatient, note the actual timeline between the date the Argies seized the Falklands, and the date that became a historically Bad Idea, when the Empire struck back, courtesy of Her Majesty's Forces.

Nota bene that those actions were undertaken by the Poms that Australians consider too civilized.

8) The problem OzCom's government has, is that their OzSAS types can think for themselves (indeed, as a requirement), and such types tend to become a double-edged sword in times like these. And the average 'strine-on-the-street, not to mention the average prior service military type from Oz, isn't half a step behind them either.

9) This will not end happily nor prettily for the OzCom government, in any sense. If they are very, very lucky, they'll be allowed to back down, and resign quietly, and probably depart into exile for life.

10) If not, they'll be bait for crocodiles and wild pigs, their fate spoken of seldom, save in a tone reserved for fairtytales meant to frighten wayward children, and chill the bones of hardened criminals lipping off on Death Row.

A PM and a few more MPs and provincial officials hanging neckwards from Sydney Harbour Bridge might go a looooong way towards nipping that sort of silly communist shit in the bud, in places far removed from the point of origin, and we expressly commend same, pour encourager les autres.

Anyone who thinks this will end otherwise, or downplays the likelihood of severe and dire outcomes to those pushing this retarded agenda, should rethink their premises accordingly.

We therefore unreservedly commend any actions in furtherance of liberty there, and wish the people of Australia nothing but the best in the ongoing animating contest for their own freedom, including Good Luck, and Good Hunting.

The OzCom government, and any minions supporting or defending it, at any level, should either desert and switch sides, with all arms, ammo, and intel, in haste, or prepare to conversely Rot In Hell, you execrable sons-of-bitches.

So for those thinking this would be over by the commercial break, kindly cool your jets, and wait patiently for the upcoming and inevitable "FOOM!"

It will be along presently. As always.

GMTA

This, Right Here.

h/t WRSA

This.

Or this.

Dealer's choice.

Some people just have to Fuck Around and Find Out.

Fair enough. Satisfy their curiosity.

And to drive the point well home, these can be made as a craft project in about 10 minutes. Ask me how I know.

And if asked to leave, be polite. But be sure to give the proper Vaxx Nazi salute, loudly and continuously, on your way out.

Holding your left index finger under your nose in a fake moustache, right arm held extended, and goose-stepping out optional, but highly recommended. Bonus points if you and your party hum a suitable Teutonic air on the way to the door.

And then, always, show them what to do with their jab:

You're not out to make friends, you're making a point.

They want their noses rubbed in what they're doing? Oblige them.

It's possible you may shame some of the more pliable sheep, if this becomes more common than traffic lights from sea to shining sea:

First guy to sell that as a stencil
in 8"x10", I'll take a dozen.

It would be a real shame if those started showing up, not just on walls and flat spots everywhere, but on store windows of the offending parties, wouldn't it? The Kristallnacht othering of people can cut both ways. And it should. It's probably time the Vaxxholes found that out, personally. And I'm totally not responsible if someone spray paints a swastika over the word "Vaxxhole!" on anyone's ride. The "Just following orders..." crowd needs to feel the pain as much as the ones pulling the strings at the top, and their staff cars should be properly marked. Tyranny gets a lot less fun that way, don'cha think? By all means, make them own it.

Screw Godwin's Law: The Vaxxholes want to go there.

The hardcore Nazis will require something a bit more kinetic to get their attention. But every little bit helps.

If not you, Who? If not now, When?
Just do it.

And let no one alive ever say again, "I can't understand how Nazi Germany happened."

Now you know.

That, Right There

 h/t Wes

Period.

Vaxx PSA

Anecdotally, I am on the outer border, agewise, of concern for getting Kung Flu.

I am one of the oldest nurses working in my ER (multiple doctors are older than I am), but by no means a senior citizen. But I've worked in sealed iso rooms for a year with dozens to hundreds of severely sick COVID+ patients, and bagged and tagged more than I'd care to number.

Which, praise a merciful Deity, tapered off rather precipitously just about exactly 3 weeks after the last of the jackassical New Year's Eve parties among the Gilligans hereabouts, amidst peak COVID locally: from Halloween to New Year's. Coinciding almost perfectly with incubation, maturity, and death/recovery observed all year long from this. We've probably only seen a handful of cases since February started. Remember that when someplace re-opens: it's what happens 3 weeks after that, that matters. I'm crossing my fingers no one's home turf anywhere finds that out the hard way from here on out, but some people have to grab the hot stove with both hands before the cluebat drops right between their eyebrows.

Throughout that time, gloves, some seriously deficient splatter gowns, and an N95, plus handwashing, have been my only protection.

On forays to the local bazaars, a snotcatcher mask, hand sanitizer - and washing my hands before any contact with my face, food, etc. - and appropriate distancing has been it.

I've gone through three waves of this without so much as a sniffle, in the state with the highest population, highest number of cases (though in the middle third of cases per 100K), and greatest number of deaths from Kung Flu. All of those are purely functions of population, since the #2 state in those categories is also the #2 state in terms of population: Texas, (despite lacking anything like the Chinatowns present in SF, LA, NYFC, Bahstun, Hongcouver, etc., to jumpstart the initial outbreaks).

Take that FWIW.

I haven't exhaustively researched the vaxx types available, but based purely on reported problems, I'm not getting the Pfizer vaxx, ever. Too much bad juju, IMHO, despite a fairly low incidence of problems after 90M or so recipients. Unless you're one of those who's dead from a "poor outcome". Moderna has been less problematic, but still doesn't fill me with warm fuzzies. I'm considering the J and J version, not least of which because just one shot.

However, you might want to note the following link, and think carefully on your choices:

Voxday: Unlikely to end well

TL;DR: An experimental injection similar to the vaxxes available now produced diminished symptomology to COVID. But also hypersensitivity, leading to a possible hyper-immune response, for future exposures to SARS-Covid mutations and other variants.

I have said all along that unless you're at high risk, due to occupational exposure or other variables, that if you're under 40, you probably ought to think about skipping the vaxx for Kung Flu, for now. 10-20 years down the road, when the current iterations have been refined and improved, let alone made safe in the same protocols we formerly followed outside a pandemic emergency, definitely re-think your earlier choices. If you're older than that, realities are a bit different.

I'm not a fan of mandatory vaccination with experimental vaccines, which are altogether different than things like polio or mumps vaccines. But the minions of Covidiocy with their booger hooks on the levers of power may not take "I'm good; BFYTW" for an answer indefinitely.

For that reason, exactly as I observed on Big Country's blog comments, I mention the following:

The state of Wyoming (one of several such, btw) has a site where you can access a pdf and print out a certified official Kung Flu blank vaxx card. Or, come to it, any number of them.

Right here.

Bright lights on their keyboards might notice that a diligent search of Gulag Images will produce no end of pictures, of startling clarity, of filled out cards, all with official stamps, stickers, lot numbers, and whatnot, for the Pfizer, Moderna, and J and J vaccines.

Just saying.

By midsummer, the current vaccines will be available to anyone who wants one.

How many don't want one, as an exercise of freedom, seems to be pissing off the same people that did all the wrong things on purpose last year, because commies gonna commie. That doesn't undo the fact that this is a real pandemic, that really killed between 1-3% of those in the 10% of the country that contracted it. If it spreads to the other 90%, you can expect 9X more dead bodies. That's gravity, working, exactly as you were warned, in a worst case.

TANSTAAFL. You pays your nickel, and you takes your chances.

PAY ATTENTION (especially the low comprehension readers who drop in occasionally):

What you do is your choice, and no one here is telling anyone to get the shots, or not to get them, nor fake a vaxx card. Just to think before you jump. Those are your own choices, which should be made by you, in your own best interest, after careful consideration of all possible outcomes. On your own head be it. Klar?

We're merely informing you of what's possible, should you decide to undertake certain paths.

Like all choices, liberty requires one be appropriately informed beforehand.

That is all.

Happy Death Of America Day

 No, really.

Whatever happens after today won't be American.

Call it whatever you want, but not that.

Outright and obvious electoral fraud has been gaslighted, pro forma appeals to authority for redress of legitimate and documented grievances rejected, and civil disobedience has been criminalized to the point of terrorism, by those would-be overlords who seized power because they could, and got away with it, with the mantra of "By Any Mean Necessary". Liberty, black-letter law, and any pretense of political freedom be damned, and Devil take the hindmost.

Your postulant political pretenders have paid only lip service to legitimacy, pretending that having someone in the score booth dial up the points on the scoreboard is the same thing as having won the game on the field. All the rulebooks, referees, and officials, have been too weak, wobbling, and quisling to step in and do their jobs, to undo such slithering duplicity and obvious theft, of an election, and an entire nation, in plain sight.

They have, rather, joined hands with it, welcomed it, and done everything in their power to usher it in, at every level of the process, and at every turn in the road.

There are and must be irrevocable consequences to those acts and deeds.

There is therefore, and imminently, no more rule of law in this country, and no more social contract between governed and the current sham of a government. It is one thing to ask for, and receive a majority, or even a plurality, of consent of the governed, and proceed to rule.

It is another thing entirely to fill out the ballots of imaginary people, by the million, and manufacture imaginary consent on a nationwide scale, and then act as though that consent was ever given. It has not been any such thing.

You woke up this morning covered by the tattered shreds of liberty once secured by your forefathers.

You will go to sleep under a blanket of unrestrained lies, unreconstructed fraud, and boundless illegitimacy, for every act and deed, public and private, from every corner of every government you know, from sea to shining sea.

The incoming fraudulency is a sham, a scam, a con, and a violent swindle, for every minute of its existence, going forward.

All the acts, orders, and demands it makes are null and void a priori, every sentence that it utters a lie, and all claims of obedience, even feigned,  are entirely and necessarily moot.

The only end of that must be chaos, disorder, and eventually, violent revolution to remove the usurpers, punish the guilty, and remove the injustice of rule by illegitimacy, theft, and armed robbery.

There can be no claim, by such an illegitimate government, of any of the customary rights: no self-defense is justified in pursuit of it, nor in enforcement of its edicts and sanctions. Every act of disobedience, of any degree, to such blatant, undisguised, and relentless tyranny cannot be other than sheer unadulterated patriotism. They cast the die, now they must pay the wager.

Words mean things.

You are about to be governed by a tyranny more monstrous than anything conceived of or delivered by any king of England ever was upon this land.

The only answer to such will not be stern letters, sharp protests, snowball fights on sentries, or panty raids on the Halls Of Fraud.

You are about to enter Spicy Time, in full earnest, where nothing less than gunfire, the sword of justice rightfully wielded, and the rope on a gibbet - or any handy tree or post - will avail.

Half-witted, half-hearted, and half-assed attempts will fail, with harsh consequences.

But everyone must decide, now and henceforth, whether to be free, with all the duties, privileges and rights appertaining to that choice; or to knuckle under and be a slave, in the yellowest of banana republics upon which what's left of our former homeland is about to embark.

Will you have liberty? Or mewling, craven, cowardly servitude?

There is the choice the day presents to you, wanted or no, and make it you will.

It's time to take the rifles down from the wall, and put them to the uses Nature, Nature's God, and the Founding Fathers intended should be possible. Wisely, and well, but in any event, without any other recourse, whenever and wherever used. You're not going to talk, vote, march, nor bitch, moan, and whine, your freedom and liberty back into being. It's slipping under the tide, and you've got to grab it with both hands if you ever want it back. Such a fateful moment comes to few in their lifetimes, but it has come down to us, here, now, and those who come after will either bless or curse you for eternity based on how you respond now. You have no more choices in the matter than how you will act.

You're going to have to fight for it, really, truly, and literally, and by killing people - your former fellow countrymen, in fact - if ye would possess it, ever again. But any that fights you to support or defend an illegitimate regime is no longer kin to you.

Or else, you may crawl under the porch, and die. Figuratively, and literally. Because if you won't fight now, after your entire republic, and your birthright of freedom and independence has been stolen from you, where and when would you ever? 

The controlled opposition, the RINO quislings, the blathering rice-bowl pundits, cannot do you any good. Their mincing words and tippie-toeing around the elephant in the room has no place in public anymore. This is not their fight, like it never was. This contest will not be taken up by the sick, lame and lazy, the blind, crippled, nor crazy. If you've got arms, legs, and a backbone that allows you to stand erect, it's up to you. Yapping won't get it done. Deeds, not words.

The unrestrained idiocy and unintended irony of people standing in the nation's capitol, and opining, "Violence has no place in the politics of our country", in a capitol named after the nation's first president, first commander-in-chief, and leader of the bloody revolution that successfully killed the British empire right off this chunk of the continent, is breathtaking stupidity on a scale too great to measure with existing instrumentation. That such words were uttered within earshot of Arlington National Cemetery, and countless hundreds of monuments to far better men, who killed and died to hand their descendants the exact liberty so blatantly stolen from us, is brazen idiocy beyond human accounting.

They are not to decide this issue. This is where it's either you, or no one.

Time to choose.

"And I was a-trembling, because I'd got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it." - Huckleberry Finn

We Don't Burn Down the Republic To Save It

h/t Peter

This, folks. And the source material from Hot Air. (If you can't find Hot Air without a link, you fail the Internetz.)

Some recent examples:

Dumbasses, at county and state levels, attempted use the current emergency to shut down gun stores.

The correct response to that is a sentence that ends "...sideways, with a rusty chainsaw; and the horse you rode into town on."

And POTUS (an absolute commie anti-gunner to the people who wear their AR-15s and a bandoleer of ammo to go to the bathroom inside their own houses - NTTAWWT), and the DHS, helpfully sent exactly that message, by declaring any and all 2A related business "essential", even - if not "especially" - amidst a pandemic.
Game, set, match, Jackie Jackboots. F**k off with that noise.

Some idiots tried to restrict abortions as non-essential procedures during this.
They're jack-booted thugs, full of the exact same amount of sh*t as Nancy Alzheimers and Chuck U Schumer.

Some other monumental jackholes have held mass church services during lockdowns.

I'm pro-free exercise of religion, and anti-abortion, but both of those moves are fucktarded beyond belief.

The state - any state, under any form of government - has a compelling interest in preserving the health and well-being of its citizenry. In fact,  protecting their lives, liberty, and pursuit of happiness is the exact sine qua non without which they descend into replaceable tyranny, deserving of a rope or a guillotine, in short order, by that citizenry.

This is why "religions" claiming adherence to their holy tenets of temple prostitution or child sacrifice get short shrift in cases before SCOTUS, or any lesser court.

What should have happened is, whatever dimbulb fuckwit running that church should have shown the sense God gave a jackass, and not held that meeting. Nota bene I did not say "not hold any meetings, ever". Nor is decertifying them as a church in perpetuity allowable. That's jackbooted thuggery of the same stripe.

But what the state should do when Pastor Shitforbrains (and he is, and has them) held that meeting during a quarantine, is simply fined him, personally, and all present, at the rate of $1000 per attendee per occurence, and the church for $100,000 per occurrence. (E.g.: If 500 people show up, the pastor owes $500K, the 500 owe $1K@, and the church owes another $100K. Lather, rinse, repeat.) If God loves such stupidity, maybe the heavens will rain money on them. If not, best re-think putting the Lord to such a foolish test, dumbasses.

It's also wrong to try and back-door ban abortion under color of crisis. There is a freshness date on terminating a pregnancy, which, sadly, continues to be legal in this republic.

If one wishes to change that, either:
- have someone COVID-positive cough on Ruth Vader Ginsburg, or wait for the actuarial tables to solve that problem;
- have Congress remove the issue from the purview of the courts (which they can do at a pen stroke, and even SCOTUS can't say boo to it), and then outlaw the practice;
- wait until a suitable majority overturns the idiotic Roe v. Wade/Dred Scot for babies decision, and let federalism solve that problem. NFY, CA, and IL will probably keep it, but it will become mighty scarce from about Pennsylvania to AZ in about a minute and a half.

All of those are smarter, and to put a fine point on it, legal and just ways to solve that tangle under the Constitution.

Trying to bootstrap your prejudice or predilection for that, or any other sillyass position, and slip it in under the sheeps' clothing of Kung Flu Response, is the sort of thing that should get you a nice scalding hot tar and chicken feathers spa treatment, and a ride out of the city limits sitting on a rail carried by the torch-and-pitchfork mob, never to be allowed to return.

We once told the mightiest empire in the world to get f**ked, and made them our bitch by making it stick. Doing the same to any would-be local Napoleons now should it become necessary, ought to be small work. Many of us are willing, able, and a wee bit more than enthusiastic about the prospect of that undertaking.

You want to get another revolution? This sort of happy horseshit is how you get another revolution.

Zero fucks will be given.

And if we have to chop heads off and string some bastards up while wearing gloves and N95 masks, or in MOPP Level IV, or just lobster bibs and carnations in our lapels, we'll manage, I assure you.

Dear Mr. Red Flag Enforcer/Gun Grabber

I don't talk a lot about guns, or gun control, here (97/2602 posts = 3.7%), because there are a lot of other blogs that do that , and do it better, with more expertise and precision, and have done so for longer than we've been blogging. That's fine with me. I've only got enough interests to keep me busy for three or four lifetimes as it is, most days. It comes up sometimes, and I'll get into it for a bit, but it's not all I'm interested in. But apparently, because I'm not in the tank for every bit of raging jackassery vaguely related to the 2A that comes down the pike, I have defaulted and fallen short of the mark in my 2A-loving credentials.

This, even though, IMHO, given that Lexington and Concord were over cannon as much as muskets and powder, I think at a minimum, the 2A protects us to own crew-served weaponry without any reservation whatsoever, and probably, if we're intellectually honest about it, anything in the DoD inventory, 1775-five seconds ago. Yes, anything. "If I can't be trusted with it, neither can you. And vice versa." The "letters of marque and reprisal" clause in Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution took it for granted that anyone with a ship should be able to purchase, mount, and use naval weaponry. (Tell me, by the by, what Somalian piracy would amount to - besides shark chum - if Carnival Cruise Lines and Maersk Shipping had CIWS aboard, mounted four-to-a-ship? Or a couple of 5-inch DP guns? Beuller? Ferris Beuller...?)

But specifically, I'm apparently too soft on 2A rights for some jackholes, because I refuse to brook the stupidity and futility that was Gun Woodstock in Richmond last January. So be it.
You want to do stupid things, be prepared to win stupid prizes. But don't expect me to join your parade, nor cheer it from the sidelines. It is a modern-day Children's Crusade, except not as well thought out as the original, and you deserve all of what comes afterwards. Enjoy your new anti-gun laws in response. Maybe you should hold another rally...?

I point it out for the historically inclined to elucidate all the marches and sit-ins the colonists did at the MA governor's mansion in 1775 to secure their right to be armed, by way of counter-example.

I'll be over here, waiting for that forthcoming report.

And I remind you that in many places, as I've already long since told you, there are much smarter and more effective things to be doing than futile Gun Woodstocks.

In the meantime, there remains the question of what to do when the Minions of Evil decide that "just following orders" has trumped "preserve and defend the Constitution of the United States", because having their daily bread and butter made that second bit optional.

I repeat, for the record, my answer is

Shoot the motherfuckers in the face.

 

I wanted that enlarged and bolded, lest there be any confusion.

That's my default answer, so long as I retain the physical and mental capability to do so.

 

And then, go after those who sent them. Continue until you run out of targets, or ammo.

Or life's breath.

 

Should they go about their mission with more wit than with Randy Weaver or David Koresh, and get the drop on me a la John Dillinger, if given the option to fight it out in court, I'll do what I must in that venue.

 

But unless I see 47 muzzles already in my face, and I have no other options in resisting an unconstitutional assault on my person, I'll do what I can.

 

Because I know, from history itself, and 100,000,000 corpses last century alone, that when the government disarms its people, what follows is never very good for them, and I prefer to take my chances with my boots on.

 

Because I'd rather do that than face Solzhenitsyn's Lament, every day in some prison sh*thole or Amerikan gulag.

 

It will be a Last Resort. I'll hate that it's necessary. I won't like it.

But I'll do it. No fear. No hesitation. No regrets.

 

It cuts against the grain. Because when they're enforcing just laws in a just manner, the police are doing Good. I am neither a copsucker nor a knee-jerk cop-hater, and my record in calling out the douchebadges when they royally screw the pooch is beyond reproach. But there's still quite a lot of them doing God's work all the time. (In Chicongo, not so much. But I digress.) If I were a bank robber, a rapist, or a murderer, caught red-handed, that would include shooting me in the face.

 

But when the only alleged "crime" is that some shrieking nancypants got the hebejeebees because I own a gun (or ten, or fifty, or whatever I'm up to these days), and anyone - president, congress weasels, governor, district attorney, hysterical mother, or some black-robed fuckwit too stupid to get into a STEM program - thinks that gives them the a priori right to circumvent Natural Law, the Constitution, and due process in one fell swoop, and send Officer Jackboots And His Merry Men to come take them, without any bill of indictment, witnesses, defense, or any other shred of due process in common law going back to Magna Carta, you'd better send your minions in their serious Kevlar underpants, with their insurance paid up and their wills up to date, and leave the married men at home. Because at that point, the range is now hot in both directions, I shoot Expert, and that red range flag means "No quarter given, nor expected."

 

Maestro, cue up the Deguello.

 

 

You won't be swooping in and taking my guns today, and then getting donuts afterwards. But I'll play that music for you before we die. On an endless loop.

 

You may get to take the property of my estate after you kill me, but I'll do my damnedest to take a lot of you and your fellow jackbooted motherfuckers with me. Because at that point, that's all you are.

 

Don't worry about talking me out. Ain't gonna happen.

 

If I only manage to wound a couple in the first attempt, don't worry about falling back, and asking me for a minute or three to collect your wounded. I'll shoot the sumbitches in the head, to save you the trouble. Then we can pick up where you left off.

 

And if I manage to get away afterwards, I'll hunt you down, to the last man. I'll consider your families and homes fair game. If I catch you eating a sandwich or taking a crap, same-same. And everybody you work with. Ditto for your boss, your boss's boss, and his boss's boss. And their families, and their homes. There will be no such thing as collateral damage, and no innocent bystanders. Because when you come to my door, that's how you decided to call the tune.

 

Sauce for this goose is good for you ganders as well. Until I run out of ammo, targets, or life's breath. Hand to God on that.

 

Once you break the social contract, the divorce is permanent as far as it concerns me. There will be no reconciliation possible, nor wanted. You'll be dead to me, until I can make you so.

 

But I'm not going there lightly. You can back off anytime. (Before you ever start would be advisable.) I'm among the most law-abiding persons you'll ever meet. I try to avoiding being guilty of even parking tickets or overdue library books. And will continue to do so all the days of my life.

 

Unless you set the law aside.

 

Which is what red flag laws and gun bans are. You can follow procedure in passing them, but they're still moot, illegal, and unenforcable. As you'll find out at the threshold.

At that point, the new "No Law" rule is the only one I'll be observing, from here on out.

 

I may get one of you. Or two. Or ten. Or maybe none.

But it won't be for lack of diligent application.

And if, somehow, against your own interests, you can kill me, but hesitate, you'd better.

If I live, I won't go out crying like a bitch because you caught me, but because I didn't kill all of you. That will continue until the day I'm executed, and Hannibal Lechter has nothing on how I'll feel and act while incarcerated. Unless I'm a quadraplegic like Hasan after Ft. Hood. Depend on that. And if that, my last breath will be to spit in your face.

 

Now, go home and think about your wife and kids. Your friends, family, and hobbies. Everything you hold dear.

 

That's what you're risking for me, and for you, when you decide a paycheck trumps the Constitution.

 

Your guns are loaded, and you face that every day, when going after actual criminals.

I get that.

My guns are loaded for them, for the same reason.

 

So think long and hard about whether today is a good day to die, for treating me like a criminal, when we both know I'm not.

 

Doing that is the day you decide to become a criminal.

And you'll answer for it, both here, and hereafter.

 

The war may well end, someday, and either my side or yours will win.

 

But you won't live to see it, if I have anything to say about it.

So, do you really want to make all kinds of enemies out of the last people in the country who think what you do is something worth having?

 

Or do you want to sign up with the Sheriff of Nottingham against the people of Sherwood, for keeps, and for real?

 

This exam will be graded pass-fail, and you only get to take it one time.

 

Choose wisely.
 

Don't die like a bitch, enforcing unjust laws for corrupt elected crooks, for a paycheck.

Gun owners nationwide, with 600,000,000-1,000,000,000 weapons and 2,000,000,000,000-plus rounds of ammunition for them, and 95% of them better shooters than your best people are on their best day, are hanging on to see your decision, every day.
 

Here I stand; I can do no other.

 

That doesn't make me any kind of badass, nor is it intended to, in any way.

But I won't be a serf for so much as a second.

And I favor my odds to think there are quite a few other hardy souls out there who feel exactly the same way.

 

No better friends, no worse enemies.

 

"I'm pleading with you with tears in my eyes: if you fuck with me, I'll kill you all."

 

Bet on it. Yuuuugely.

And remember, you can't spend that paltry paycheck when you're dead.

To Ofcr. Jackboots' Bosses: You aren't the only ones who can make lists.

This isn't a rant.
It's a holy promise.

{And To Whomever It May Concern:
I hope we've answered where I fall on the Second Amendment once and for all.
Pound the too-soft-on-the-2A bilgewater right back up your tailpipe with a flat shovel.
Or if you'd like, I'll help you out with that.}


Oh, look: An "Amen!" echo at Freedom Is Just Another Word.
We're adding it.

Thumbs up, MaddMedic.

THIS is How You DO It

I read every comment posted here. (Yes Trolls, even your screeds that I sh*t-can.) Some mornings and some comments make everything worthwhile. This is one of them.

From Comments:

@aesop

Thank you for recognizing our work to create the muster here in Bedford County. Yes, there are many of us that read your blog. Like you said, it didn't take much to be honest. Just a close knit group of guys that have had enough. We have been lobbying at Lobby day for years now, went to the rally, sent our emails, made our phone calls and we have been training with a more quiet and smaller group for years now.

We decided it was time to make this happen. We put out the flyer which was a copy of the Floyd County muster flyer (which happened back in Jan), and then started posting it in every convenience store, fire station, YMCA, etc we could post it. Called the news media and sent them the flyer, told them what was going on, etc. Some of our team met with the Sheriff and his team and he was very supportive and glad to see we were organized, had thought through everything and he saw no reason for him nor any of his deputies to attend after he learned of our intentions and why we were calling it.

With that, we borrowed a PA system, had some signs made to place in the roads to direct people, found more volunteers, created our muster cards, had hats made for sale, and made it happen. Again, the work of a dozen focused men to create this and then about 25 of us (men and ladies) on the day.

Now what? Now, we go to the Board of Supervisors and make this an official militia so there is legal weight to it. We have training scheduled for the next two months already, we have emails and info regarding next steps ready to go, we are looking for more trainers and land to train on. We are meeting with the Sheriff again and keeping a dialogue open.

We are also organizing the Campbell County Muster as well (adjacent to Bedford County) and hoping for the same turn out.

#wewillnotcomply 

But wait, there's more:

Wes Gardner (Yes the one in Va) said...

Thank you for covering our event in Bedford.

We are currently involved with groups putting together militia efforts in the following counties as well:

Bland
Campbell
Botetourt
Dinwiddie
Amherst
Pittsylvania

And a few others in the early startup stages.

We are sending a very clear message to Richmond and the rest of the country that we will not stand by idly as our God given rights are trampled on.

Also, you hit the nail on the head! We are going to be a mobilized force that can work diligently to put forth strong candidates that will truly represent the commonwealth.

These forts will help to ensure that Virginia remains a great place to raise a family, start a business, feel safe from crime, experience the birthright of freedom that was born here.

We will continue forth and carryon the fight.

God bless you
And
God bless America

That's an embarrassment of riches.

Like we've been telling you, small groups of committed individuals change the world: they're the only thing that ever has.

22,000 people once is a mob photo op.
500 guys in one county, who have guns, won't comply, and train together month after month is a battalion.

Learn the difference.

And in 90 counties? That's an army of freedom.
Before whom tyrants (even elected ones, like Gov. Blackface Babykiller) tremble.

Best Wishes to the fine folks in Bedford County doing this, and kudos to them for doing the same thing in the counties next door. And so on. And so on.

You go, patriots.

LOCAL, LOCAL, LOCAL.

Close, But No. Sorry.

h/t It Ain't Holy Water

Incorrect, sir.

Patriots ARE the sound of the shit hitting the fan.
They play the part of the fan in that illustration.
Leaving Leftards to play the other part.

QED

I had thought this was common knowledge.

Don't fear the storm.
Be the storm.

Say WHAT?

"Let's drop our rifles here, go back home, and write a nice letter politely
asking the British military governor of Massachusetts to pretty please
stop treating us like serfs." - said not one single swinging Richard
one cold April morning.

This comment on yesterday's post, and my reply, are too germane and vital to relegate to ten grafs below the comment bar.


The comment:

"My two cents: 

1 Don't shoot or in any way attack LEO or National guard troops; it is a sure fire way to turn people away from your cause. Refuse to obey unconstitutional laws but don't refuse to obey the police, your fight is in court not with the police. 

2. If you did choose to take someone's life, a politician or other anti-American activist, which I would advise against, do not use a gun. The opposition would use the fact that you used a gun against you. Don't forget they are painting you as rabid killers who are armed. 

3, The fight is political, form groups to bring your cause to the public and fight this at the ballot box. Win the hearts and minds of your fellow citizens. 

4. Tell your people, your followers and supporters that you are a law abiding supporter of the constitution and anyone who breaks the law does not represent you and your beliefs.   

-Anonymous 

Dear Anonymous,

You clearly haven't put two seconds' considered thought into this.

I have one deadly serious question for you:

At what point do you draw the line, and stop cucking?

The Colonial Militia opened fire in 1775 when TPTB came for their guns, and their leaders.
Maybe I'm sentimental about the principal, but that sounds like a pretty good historical precedent to me.

You want to try fighting that battle after you're disarmed, before the same courts that refused to throw such prima facie unconstitutional laws out, for decades, and you may as well just drive yourself down to the railroad yard and self-load onto a boxcar now.

If not your guns, then over what?
If not right then, when?
If you won't fight when you're armed, how will you do it when you're disarmed?

"THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman." - Thomas Paine

 “If you love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”  - Sam Adams

It's as if you couldn't wait to run out and say "Any suggestion that someone might actually stand up for their rights in any meaningful way was unintentional" and "Hey, we don't want to, you know, piss off TPTB or make things hard for their dutiful minions, right?"

In short, I cannot see any point of agreement with one word you wrote.
You're twenty years and more behind the times.

For you, the catch-up is going to be a cast-iron bitch.

In the meantime, when the penny drops, and you realize the people "who break the law and do not represent you" are the very government and its organs you won't lift a finger to oppose, will your head explode? Or will you just sit there in stunned shock while smoke exits your ears?

Or in your theory of government, do unjust laws enforced by unjust thugs for unjust ends nonetheless constitute a binding power over you until serendipity and happy accident grant you a magical do-over, and restore your surrendered weapon(s) to you?

8,518,000 Virginians were kind of wondering, just for openers.

 

And, based on the tenor of the original commentor, Anonymous responds:

 

My two cents:

I think the difference between your position and mine is I want to win and you want to posture.

"Do not fight the LEOs and national guard" What could [possibly be wrong with that idea??? If the politicians are the ones you want to take out then take them out. A guillotine perhaps or draw and quarter them. I don't recommend that kind of violence but if you must, then direct it at the actual enemy of our constitutional republic and not on the working class.

"The fight is political" It absolutely is. Serious violence will only work against you in the political fight making you look like Dylan Roof.

"Tell your people, your followers and supporters that you are a law abiding supporter of the constitution". Absolutely!!! Make no mistake, over zealous supporters or carpet baggers planted into your movement by the opposition will doom your agenda.


Your choice is simple: To work hard and be effective in getting back our 2nd amendment gun rights or be loud mouthed posers intent on out macho-ing the other loud mouth posers and in the process doom your movement.

No. You don't want to win. You want to virtue-signal, but without putting anything at risk, least of all the hide so precious to no one but you.

You won't win by supplicating from a position of servitude.
You have nothing - NOTHING - you'd fight for.
War is the continuation of politics, by other means.

Politics without war is the United Nations. Name for the class all the victories they've won.
Show your work.

Abide by the constitution all you want.
So tell us, smart guy, when you have your Constitution, but the other side ignores it, and won't play by those rules, what you'll win...?

Here's a hint or two: