One of the things that impresses me about today's American society - and not in a good way - is the lack of knowledge we as a group have of our own country, its beginnings and history, and why things were set up the way there are. We have become so far removed from the actual events due to the passage of time that we are now attempting as a nation to second-guess the decisions made by the people who actually lived through the events which led up to the creation of our country. We now seem to think, in our infinite wisdom, that we know more than those who actually experienced the tyranny of the Crown, the occupation of colonial cities and towns by the Redcoats, the taxation without representation, the lack of voice in government, and the seizing of powder, shot, and musket by the same troops occupying the towns when things started to get really intense.
All of these events, plus many more, were the foundations of the ideas that led to the drafting of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. You have to take into consideration that our Founding Fathers, the men who lived through the times and had the balls to stand up and do something about it, were all educated men, not simple farmers, and when they sat down and drafted the Bill of Rights they did it with a purpose. And it is my humble opinion that they listed the rights in a specific order, with the most important right - the one the Crown denied them the most - being listed first, the right to freedom of speech.
Right behind that, they listed the right to keep and bear arms because their experience had shown them that when the government chose to rescind that first right, the very next thing the government was going to do was take away your means to resist by seizing all of the populace's firearms.
And here's where we get into the part of American history that we Americans are sadly unaware of.
In colonial times there was no regular standing army or police force to protect the towns dotting the land, and until the unrest over the Crown's rule began there weren't very many British troops in the country to help protect the citizens. The countryside was still occupied by the folks that were here first as well, the American Indians, and some of them still weren't too happy about us being here at all. For those reasons the town relied upon the militia for protection, and many towns kept a common stock of gunpowder, lead shot, and muskets available for the militia's use. These items were kept in a building located in the center of town called an armory, and when the call went out for the militia to form all of the members would go to the armory and be issued a musket with enough powder and shot to put up a fight.
When the tensions really got high in the year prior to the start of the American Revolution and the people started to demonstrate against the British rule, the King issued two orders: arrest and lock away all of the ringleaders, and seize all muskets, powder, and shot from the armories.
In other words, silence the people and then take away the people's means to resist.
Therein lay the roots of the Second Amendment, the right of the people to keep and bear arms.
Before anyone starts using the tired old "militia" argument, I suggest that you look up the term for what it meant in 1787 when the Bill of Rights was drafted and then move on to something else because that's an argument you are going to lose.
So the simple, basic fact that the American people have forgotten and that our national leaders choose to ignore is this: the Second Amendment doesn't exist to protect our right to protect ourselves from muggers, thieves, and murderers, although this is how the Second Amendment is applied these days. Oh, no, it's much more than that, so much more!
The Second Amendment was written to protect our right to protect ourselves from our own government.
As much as I despise some of the liberals in our government, I will state that none of them are ignorant or stupid people. All of them are college graduates, a hell of a lot of them are lawyers, and you don't earn either of those titles by being the village idiot. So I must conclude that their interpretation of the Second Amendment and their drive to deprive us of the right to protect ourselves from them is driven by a much deeper, darker reason. Maybe they just like being in control and don't like being told 'no' by those they think they control; maybe they have this marvelous idea of a Utopian society where everything is rainbows and unicorns - hell, I don't know.
All I know is this: our Founding Fathers drafted the Bill of Rights not to "give" us our rights, but to list those that we already have simply by existing and to state that no one, no person or no government, can take them away from us. And the Second Amendment is there to protect our right to defend ourselves from our own government should it choose to try and do just that.
In my opinion, anyone who takes an oath to "protect and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic" and then mounts an offensive against my Constitutional rights is a traitor to that oath and an enemy of both my nation and the people.
I will fight that enemy with every fiber of my being, and I will fight until the day I die. I took that same oath for the first time in 1975 and repeated it every four years until 1998. I believed it then and I believe it now.
And I won't turn my back on my oath or my country. Ever.
MOLON LABE!
IHC
Monday, March 25, 2013
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Things I Don't Understand
The title of my blog today pretty much says it all, so all I can say now is that I'll try to keep it short. With all that's going on in our country and the world today, this could be a whale of an entry but I'll try to avoid that.
I don't understand why Saudi Arabia, the nation that produced 15 of the 19 9/11 hijackers, has been allowed access to a "preferred travelers" program that basically allows anyone on the list to bypass the normal Customs and Border Clearance procedures when arriving in our country. All anyone on this list needs to do is show a passport and bingo! They're allowed in with NO SCRUTINY AT ALL. So basically, the NObama Administration via the Department of Homeland Security is allowing Saudi Arabia to tell us who we're supposed to let into OUR country. I don't understand that.
I don't understand why the Feds are cutting government funding to schools located on Native American Indian Reservations, causing teaching positions to be unfilled, classes to be overcrowded, and school academic years to be shortened, at the same time as they're created a job with a SIX FIGURE SALARY for ONE MAN to study how black students can best be served. I wonder if the fact that the man who got the job works for Chuck Rangel from New York has anything to do with it? So it's basically take the money from the Indians - who were here first, by the way - who are totally dependent upon federal funding for their schools, and give it to black students who already have a myriad of special assistance agencies and special funding set up for just that purpose. I don't understand that.
I don't understand why the Federal government is stopping funding for active duty service members and veterans in the name of the "sequester," but are increasing the amount of money they're giving to Syria for the education of its people. I don't recall seeing any Syrian troops fighting under the Stars and Stripes or protecting our freedoms, do you? I don't understand that.
I don't understand why the Federal government is shutting down services at our National Parks in the name of the "sequester" while the First Lady still maintains a personal assistance staff of 40 people. I don't understand that.
I don't understand why the military budget is being cut yet again in the name of the "sequester," but the TSA can place an order for $50 million worth of uniforms. I don't understand that.
I don't understand why NObama makes the decision to cancel tours of the White House - which belongs to THE PEOPLE and not to HIM - in the name of the "sequester," but the White House still maintains a staff of three caligraphers who make an annual average salary of $60,000.00+ per year. I don't understand that.
I don't understand why the majority of stuff being cut in the name of the "sequester" are things that have the most direct impact on the PEOPLE and not on the GOVERNMENT, where the cuts should be - need to be - made. I don't understand that.
Well, yes I do, actually. I understand that last one perfectly. The cuts are being made intentionally to inflict the most amount of pain on the people as possible, to make life an uncomfortable on the people as possible, all because our Buffoon In Chief didn't get his way. He's punishing the people like a parent would punish a recalcitrant child, throwing his own little temper tantrum in trying to prove a point.
What he doesn't realize is that all he's doing is making himself look like the penny-ante dictator he truly is, and that instead of punishing the people he's just pissing us off. And that, friends and neighbors, absolutely will come back to bite him in his skinny ass.
It's only a matter of time.
And for all of you out there who voted this buffoon into ofice the first time and then made the same mistake again, let me ask you this: is THIS the "change" you "hoped" for?
Thanks for nothing.
IHC
I don't understand why Saudi Arabia, the nation that produced 15 of the 19 9/11 hijackers, has been allowed access to a "preferred travelers" program that basically allows anyone on the list to bypass the normal Customs and Border Clearance procedures when arriving in our country. All anyone on this list needs to do is show a passport and bingo! They're allowed in with NO SCRUTINY AT ALL. So basically, the NObama Administration via the Department of Homeland Security is allowing Saudi Arabia to tell us who we're supposed to let into OUR country. I don't understand that.
I don't understand why the Feds are cutting government funding to schools located on Native American Indian Reservations, causing teaching positions to be unfilled, classes to be overcrowded, and school academic years to be shortened, at the same time as they're created a job with a SIX FIGURE SALARY for ONE MAN to study how black students can best be served. I wonder if the fact that the man who got the job works for Chuck Rangel from New York has anything to do with it? So it's basically take the money from the Indians - who were here first, by the way - who are totally dependent upon federal funding for their schools, and give it to black students who already have a myriad of special assistance agencies and special funding set up for just that purpose. I don't understand that.
I don't understand why the Federal government is stopping funding for active duty service members and veterans in the name of the "sequester," but are increasing the amount of money they're giving to Syria for the education of its people. I don't recall seeing any Syrian troops fighting under the Stars and Stripes or protecting our freedoms, do you? I don't understand that.
I don't understand why the Federal government is shutting down services at our National Parks in the name of the "sequester" while the First Lady still maintains a personal assistance staff of 40 people. I don't understand that.
I don't understand why the military budget is being cut yet again in the name of the "sequester," but the TSA can place an order for $50 million worth of uniforms. I don't understand that.
I don't understand why NObama makes the decision to cancel tours of the White House - which belongs to THE PEOPLE and not to HIM - in the name of the "sequester," but the White House still maintains a staff of three caligraphers who make an annual average salary of $60,000.00+ per year. I don't understand that.
I don't understand why the majority of stuff being cut in the name of the "sequester" are things that have the most direct impact on the PEOPLE and not on the GOVERNMENT, where the cuts should be - need to be - made. I don't understand that.
Well, yes I do, actually. I understand that last one perfectly. The cuts are being made intentionally to inflict the most amount of pain on the people as possible, to make life an uncomfortable on the people as possible, all because our Buffoon In Chief didn't get his way. He's punishing the people like a parent would punish a recalcitrant child, throwing his own little temper tantrum in trying to prove a point.
What he doesn't realize is that all he's doing is making himself look like the penny-ante dictator he truly is, and that instead of punishing the people he's just pissing us off. And that, friends and neighbors, absolutely will come back to bite him in his skinny ass.
It's only a matter of time.
And for all of you out there who voted this buffoon into ofice the first time and then made the same mistake again, let me ask you this: is THIS the "change" you "hoped" for?
Thanks for nothing.
IHC
Friday, March 8, 2013
The Most Dangerous Period in Our Country's History
I'm sure that if you asked different people what they considered to be the most dangerous time in our country's history you'd get a wide range of answers, and all of them would be true for the simple reason that they're all opinions. And anyone who knows me will tell you that it is my belief that opinions are neither right or wrong, they're just different.
It is my humble opinion that we are entering the most dangerous time in our country's history right now. For the first time in my life, I'm genuinely concerned about the future of our great nation, and here's why:
Barack Obama is President. Plain and simple.
Of course, this is not a conclusion that I have come to overnight. No, this one has been forming for more than four years, those four years being the first half of the reign of what I'm sure history will later define as the first American dictator. Before you totally dismiss what I've just said, put your political, ideological, and racist (yes, racist) opinions aside for just a moment and look at it from my point of view.
NObama is a socialist. He's been a socialist all along, making statements while he was in college that he is proving by his actions today to still believe in. He is intent on taking from those who have, those who have worked hard all their lives, and giving it to those who don't have because they're too damned lazy to go out and work for it. He believes that you can multiply wealth by dividing it, which tells me he was asleep during math class. He believes himself to be a modern-day Robin Hood, taking from the rich and giving to the poor. One has to wonder just what he's going to do when the rich are no longer rich and there's no one left to rob except the poor.
NObama is intent on getting his way, and he's proven that he won't hesitate to bypass Congress to make it happen. NObama has proven that he intends to rule by Executive Order, and the proof is that fact that he's issued more Executive Orders in the past four years than the past three Presidents combined. (And just recently, by the way, a Federal court overturned one of those Executive Orders and declared it unconstitutional.)
NObama has proven by his actions and some of his Executive Orders that he has nothing but disdain for the United States Constitution, the document that he swore an oath to protect, and he intends to shred the Constitution at every turn to cement his reign over the American people. This began, as I predicted it would, with an all-out attack on the Second Amendment and our right to keep and bear arms that he initiated almost immediately after he was sworn in for his second term. I said all along that if he won re-election he would then start his attack on our Second Amendment rights because he would have nothing to lose since he cannot run for a third term, and I'm sad to say that I was right. Sandy Hook only served to give him the moment he needed to launch his attack, and it's in full swing.
More recently, he announced that he had the power and authority to kill American citizens without benefit of trial by the use of drones, a power that the director of the CIA has since stated that he does not have. Of course, we've heard nothing from Eric Holder since he's firmly controlled by NObama and wouldn't dare do or say anything to piss off the boss. But the point here is that NObama actually believes he has the legal right and the power to act as judge, jury, and executioner, ordering the killing of American citizens and denying them the rights they are guaranteed by the Bill of Rights. Never in our nation's history has any American President ever boasted of such power so blatantly.
NObama is the most divisive leader in our nation's history. The political parties in general and the people of America in particular have never been more far apart in their beliefs and degrees of compromise and compassion as they are now, and we have NObama to thank for this. It is my opinion that when someone is elected President, at the moment he takes the Oath of Office he stops being a Democrat or a Republican and starts being a President, putting aside his political party's views and doing what's best for the nation instead of his party. NObama has failed to do this, remaining a liberal Democrat the entire time and taking every opportunity to blast and blame the conservative Republicans for everything. His idea of compromise is the liberal idea of compromise, meaning it's HIS way or the highway. The current "sequester" is proof of this - NObama designed the sequester, NObama and the Democrats refused to compromise on anything to prevent it, demanding instead that the Republicans accept what they wanted unconditionally, and now that the sequester is taking place NObama and his band of merry idiots are blaming the Republicans for it. Words fail me when I try to describe how ludicrous this is and how much it disgusts me.
NObama and the Democrats in Congress have failed to approve a budget, choosing instead to just increase the debt ceiling and putting our nation further in debt and closer to bankruptcy. It is the inept leadership of this President and his cabinet that caused the first-ever downgrading of our country's credit rating, something for which he has of course blamed someone else. The only way to decrease the debt is to stop spending money, and it appears that the sequester that NObama shouted so long and hard about is going to have the unexpected side effect of proving this to the American people. I have a feeling the whole "sequester" thing is going to backfire on him, big time.
Now let's take a broader look at some facts, shall we?
Terrorist attacks on our nation's resources overseas are increasing. This is, I believe, a direct result of NObama's "apology tour" that he embarked upon during his first term. He spent all that time overseas kissing ass and apologizing to our enemies, and now they're repaying him by attacking our embassies and killing our citizens. And, of course, NObama has done nothing in the way of retaliation. When the 9/11 attacks took place, George Bush said that America would not rest until those responsible had been caught and brought to justice. After the attack on the embassy in Benghazi, NObama made no such statement - hell, his own Secretary of State couldn't even figure out who had staged the attack, so why should we expect any kind of statement from NObama?
Iran has made more overt and specific threats to Israel, brought on by the chilly relationship and shaky alliance with Israel that NObama has shown. Israel has long been the only steadfast, reliable ally that America has in the Middle East, and NObama's statements and actions have proven to the world that he doesn't care if the alliance continues or not.
North Korea made the statement yesterday - and reiterated it today - that they would have no problem with launching a pre-emptive nuclear strike on the United States, turning Washington DC into a "sea of fire." The last time a North Korean leader made any kind of claim anywhere similar to that was when Gerald Ford was President; Kim Il-Sung stated that he intended to invade South Korea and re-unite the countries, at which point Ford said that any invasion by the North would result in "full military retaliation by the United States which will involve every weapon in our arsenal." In other words, invade the South and Pyong Yang becomes a glowing sheet of white-hot glass. Needless to say, that was the last we heard from North Korea. Fast-forward thirty-odd years or so, and when the grandson of that leader threatens to drop a nuke on mainland America, what do we hear from The Great Pretender? Nothing. Not a peep, not a sound.
I could go on with more reasons as to why I think we're entering the most dangerous time in our country's history, but I think you get the idea by now. Our nation is on the brink of the largest, most dangerous time of civil unrest in our nation's history, and right behind that is the erosion of our relationships and alliances overseas and the threats popping up all over the world aimed at us and our way of life. And we're stuck with a President who is ignoring it all because HE wants to do things HIS way, no matter what.
Personally, I hope that he does something so onerous, so despicable, and so repulsive that even the staunchest of liberal Democrats won't defend him against the impeachment process - but with clowns and idiots like Diane Feinstein and Chuck Schumer in office, I'm not holding my breath.
In the mean time, I think I'm gonna start stocking up on ammunition and go buy a few more guns.
Molon Labe!
IHC
It is my humble opinion that we are entering the most dangerous time in our country's history right now. For the first time in my life, I'm genuinely concerned about the future of our great nation, and here's why:
Barack Obama is President. Plain and simple.
Of course, this is not a conclusion that I have come to overnight. No, this one has been forming for more than four years, those four years being the first half of the reign of what I'm sure history will later define as the first American dictator. Before you totally dismiss what I've just said, put your political, ideological, and racist (yes, racist) opinions aside for just a moment and look at it from my point of view.
NObama is a socialist. He's been a socialist all along, making statements while he was in college that he is proving by his actions today to still believe in. He is intent on taking from those who have, those who have worked hard all their lives, and giving it to those who don't have because they're too damned lazy to go out and work for it. He believes that you can multiply wealth by dividing it, which tells me he was asleep during math class. He believes himself to be a modern-day Robin Hood, taking from the rich and giving to the poor. One has to wonder just what he's going to do when the rich are no longer rich and there's no one left to rob except the poor.
NObama is intent on getting his way, and he's proven that he won't hesitate to bypass Congress to make it happen. NObama has proven that he intends to rule by Executive Order, and the proof is that fact that he's issued more Executive Orders in the past four years than the past three Presidents combined. (And just recently, by the way, a Federal court overturned one of those Executive Orders and declared it unconstitutional.)
NObama has proven by his actions and some of his Executive Orders that he has nothing but disdain for the United States Constitution, the document that he swore an oath to protect, and he intends to shred the Constitution at every turn to cement his reign over the American people. This began, as I predicted it would, with an all-out attack on the Second Amendment and our right to keep and bear arms that he initiated almost immediately after he was sworn in for his second term. I said all along that if he won re-election he would then start his attack on our Second Amendment rights because he would have nothing to lose since he cannot run for a third term, and I'm sad to say that I was right. Sandy Hook only served to give him the moment he needed to launch his attack, and it's in full swing.
More recently, he announced that he had the power and authority to kill American citizens without benefit of trial by the use of drones, a power that the director of the CIA has since stated that he does not have. Of course, we've heard nothing from Eric Holder since he's firmly controlled by NObama and wouldn't dare do or say anything to piss off the boss. But the point here is that NObama actually believes he has the legal right and the power to act as judge, jury, and executioner, ordering the killing of American citizens and denying them the rights they are guaranteed by the Bill of Rights. Never in our nation's history has any American President ever boasted of such power so blatantly.
NObama is the most divisive leader in our nation's history. The political parties in general and the people of America in particular have never been more far apart in their beliefs and degrees of compromise and compassion as they are now, and we have NObama to thank for this. It is my opinion that when someone is elected President, at the moment he takes the Oath of Office he stops being a Democrat or a Republican and starts being a President, putting aside his political party's views and doing what's best for the nation instead of his party. NObama has failed to do this, remaining a liberal Democrat the entire time and taking every opportunity to blast and blame the conservative Republicans for everything. His idea of compromise is the liberal idea of compromise, meaning it's HIS way or the highway. The current "sequester" is proof of this - NObama designed the sequester, NObama and the Democrats refused to compromise on anything to prevent it, demanding instead that the Republicans accept what they wanted unconditionally, and now that the sequester is taking place NObama and his band of merry idiots are blaming the Republicans for it. Words fail me when I try to describe how ludicrous this is and how much it disgusts me.
NObama and the Democrats in Congress have failed to approve a budget, choosing instead to just increase the debt ceiling and putting our nation further in debt and closer to bankruptcy. It is the inept leadership of this President and his cabinet that caused the first-ever downgrading of our country's credit rating, something for which he has of course blamed someone else. The only way to decrease the debt is to stop spending money, and it appears that the sequester that NObama shouted so long and hard about is going to have the unexpected side effect of proving this to the American people. I have a feeling the whole "sequester" thing is going to backfire on him, big time.
Now let's take a broader look at some facts, shall we?
Terrorist attacks on our nation's resources overseas are increasing. This is, I believe, a direct result of NObama's "apology tour" that he embarked upon during his first term. He spent all that time overseas kissing ass and apologizing to our enemies, and now they're repaying him by attacking our embassies and killing our citizens. And, of course, NObama has done nothing in the way of retaliation. When the 9/11 attacks took place, George Bush said that America would not rest until those responsible had been caught and brought to justice. After the attack on the embassy in Benghazi, NObama made no such statement - hell, his own Secretary of State couldn't even figure out who had staged the attack, so why should we expect any kind of statement from NObama?
Iran has made more overt and specific threats to Israel, brought on by the chilly relationship and shaky alliance with Israel that NObama has shown. Israel has long been the only steadfast, reliable ally that America has in the Middle East, and NObama's statements and actions have proven to the world that he doesn't care if the alliance continues or not.
North Korea made the statement yesterday - and reiterated it today - that they would have no problem with launching a pre-emptive nuclear strike on the United States, turning Washington DC into a "sea of fire." The last time a North Korean leader made any kind of claim anywhere similar to that was when Gerald Ford was President; Kim Il-Sung stated that he intended to invade South Korea and re-unite the countries, at which point Ford said that any invasion by the North would result in "full military retaliation by the United States which will involve every weapon in our arsenal." In other words, invade the South and Pyong Yang becomes a glowing sheet of white-hot glass. Needless to say, that was the last we heard from North Korea. Fast-forward thirty-odd years or so, and when the grandson of that leader threatens to drop a nuke on mainland America, what do we hear from The Great Pretender? Nothing. Not a peep, not a sound.
I could go on with more reasons as to why I think we're entering the most dangerous time in our country's history, but I think you get the idea by now. Our nation is on the brink of the largest, most dangerous time of civil unrest in our nation's history, and right behind that is the erosion of our relationships and alliances overseas and the threats popping up all over the world aimed at us and our way of life. And we're stuck with a President who is ignoring it all because HE wants to do things HIS way, no matter what.
Personally, I hope that he does something so onerous, so despicable, and so repulsive that even the staunchest of liberal Democrats won't defend him against the impeachment process - but with clowns and idiots like Diane Feinstein and Chuck Schumer in office, I'm not holding my breath.
In the mean time, I think I'm gonna start stocking up on ammunition and go buy a few more guns.
Molon Labe!
IHC
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