There's so much crap going on in both our nation and the world right now that it's hard for me to choose just which one I want to rant about. I mean, I could go totally apeshit on more than a half-dozen topics, so instead of doing that and getting my blood pressure up I'll just snipe at all of them, hitting each with my main points of thought. And guess where I'm gonna start? (If you know me and have been paying attention, you already know!)
Ready? Okay, then, heeeeeeeere we go!
So Connecticut has passed the most comprehensive and restrictive gun laws in the nation, supposedly to "protect" themselves and "prevent" another shooting. The last time I looked, Adam Lanza broke a whopping total of 41 laws the day of his rampage. Only a total idiot and a complete fool would think that passing yet another law that a criminal will ignore will "protect" them. As Wayne LaPierre said, "The only thing that will stop a bad guy with a gun, is a good guy with a gun."
Anyone who thinks that "universal background checks" isn't the first step towards registration and then confiscation is a total idiot and living in a dream world. I've always been a law-abiding citizen my entire life, but the day they pass a law requiring me to register my guns is the day I become an outlaw.
Mag Pull, a major manufacturer of high-capacity rifle magazines, has announced that it will close its manufacturing facility in Colorado in response to the new anti-gun legislation just enacted by that state. That will put about 400 people out of work, result in the reduced revenue for the state, and cause a rise in unemployment. Way to go, Colorado.
And soon to follow: Beretta USA will be moving out of Maryland since that state has followed Colorado's example and passed gun control legislation that further infringes on our Constitutional rights. Again, way to go, Maryland.
If anyone doesn't think that the treaty passed by the Useless Nations to allow them to "regulate and control the international arms trade" won't have an effect on our Constitutional rights, think again. To those people I suggest you read the treaty and then tell me I have nothing to worry about. The Useless Nations has NO say in what MY rights are, and I just hope that my government will stand up ad protect them. But with the Buffoon In Chief that we currently have in office, I can't count on that.
Who died and make Mike Bloomberg God? Since when does this self-styled "nanny" think he knows what's best for people, and better yet, what in hell gives him the idea that he has the authority to do some of the stupid shit he's doing? My only question is, why are New Yorkers letting him get away with it? Are they all that fuckin' stupid, or are they all just stupid liberals? Either way...
Carolyn Kennedy as Ambassador to Japan. I wonder what Japan did to fall out of favor with the United States? Or is that just NObama giving lip service to the Kennedy clan?
So now there's still more bad news about NObamacare, specifically that the costs associated with it are now TRIPLE what The Great Pretender said they were going to be, the benefits are less, and more companies will be driven out of business because they can't afford to provide health care and can't afford to pay the fines. In the prophetic words of Dianne Feinstein, "We'll find out what's in it once we pass it." Well, you stupid bitch, you passed it, and now you're finding out what's in it - and it ain't good. Then again, why should you care? You, your beloved Buffoon In Chief, and the other members of Congress are all exempt from NObamacare, so why should you give a rat's ass about all of the bad things that are going to happen to us little people because of this bill you and your liberal, Democratic cronies shoved down the throats of the American people? Oh, that's right, you DON'T care...silly me, I forgot! You're far too busy trying to pass more bullshit gun control legislation to take away our rights to protect ourselves from you and the government to worry about anything else. Bitch.
With all of the crap coming out of North Korea, you have to wonder if the fat little bastard in charge ever read the Korean translation of "The Mouse That Roared." Why else would he be making all of this noise about attacking the United States, knowing that we can turn his entire country into a sheet of glass with only one aircraft and two men? (For those of you who never read the book, it's about a very small European country on the verge of financial collapse whose king decides that the only way to save his country is to declare war on the United States, get his ass kicked, and then let the United States rebuild his country and its finances.) In any event, I'm sure glad I'm not stationed in South Korea right now, and I pray for the safety of our men and women in uniform that are.
The "sequester" is in full swing, government services that directly affect the people are being cut or discontinued, yet the President and Vice President both go on vacation - the THIRD vacation for Biden THIS YEAR. (That's one vacation each month, people.) The White House says it discontinued White House tours because of the lack of funding for the Secret Service required, yet NObama can send his daughters to Mexico for Spring Break - with Secret Service protection, of course.
Have you liberals and Democrats figured out just who you really elected yet? If not, let me spell it out for you: you elected a self-centered socialist, a self-styled elitist who will ensure that he and his family never do without while depriving the citizens of our nation of the things we both need and deserve, a man who will do anything he can to ensure that he and he alone is in charge - and that includes ignoring and shredding the Constitution of the United States. I respect - or at least I try to respect - the opinions of others, but I gotta say this: to all of you who voted for this charlatan, kiss my ass. You screwed our country over BIG TIME.
And lastly, it is my humble opinion that history will not be kind to NObama. He'll be remembered for a lot of things, none of them good, and he will guarantee that it will be a very long time before another black man is elected president. And that's a shame, because what he's done has nothing to do with race.
Molon Labe!
IHC
Friday, April 5, 2013
Monday, March 25, 2013
American History 101: The Second Amendment
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
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
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