Archive for January 14th, 2013

Invasion of the Body Searchers: The Loss of Bodily Integrity in an Emerging Police State

Invasion of the Body Searchers: The Loss of Bodily Integrity in an Emerging Police State

If you want a recipe for disaster, take police officers hyped up on their own authority and the power of the badge, throw in a few court rulings suggesting that security takes precedence over individual rights, set it against a backdrop of endless wars and militarized law enforcement, and then add to the mix a populace distracted by entertainment, out of touch with the workings of their government, and more inclined to let a few sorry souls suffer injustice than to challenge the status quo.

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Wait a Minute…THEY Don’t Trust US?!?

Wait a Minute…THEY Don’t Trust US?!?

Will Rogers said, “No man’s liberty or property is safe as long as Congress is in session.” The only way I’ll ever feel “safe” again is if YOU, American citizen, wake up to this travesty and help throw every single career politician out of office, regardless of party affiliation. The problem isn’t guns, or even their exorbitant spending or other destructive acts…it’s THEM! How do you like how your Masters have been running the country these past decades?

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Shooting a Glock 23 at Indoor Shooting Range at Sarasota, Florida (Photo credit: Ratha Grimes)

Gun Control, the Dick Act of 1902, Bills of Attainder & Ex Post Facto Laws

The latest round of rubbish flooding our in boxes is an ignorant rant claiming that the Dick Act of 1902 (which respects our Right to be armed) can’t be repealed because to do so would “violate bills of attainder and ex post facto laws”. Who dreams up this stuff? Does anyone check it out before they spread it around? Of course we have the God-given right to keep and bear arms, to self-defense, etc., etc.

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EPA: Green Gone Wild

EPA: Green Gone Wild

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) wants to vastly expand its power. Last year, the agency paid nearly $700,000 to the National Academy of Sciences to draft the document “Sustainability and the U.S. EPA.” This manifesto rationalizes why the EPA has the right to regulate every business, community and ecosystem in the country.

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Questionable Voting Numbers vs Reality of Public Opinion

Questionable Voting Numbers vs Reality of Public Opinion

It’s both funny and sad to read comments from Obama people, who are upset because their paychecks are less. No tax increase was meant for them, right? Maybe they should have read the fine print or listened when people tried to warn them of possibilities. But, oh no — the “warners” were just fear mongers that didn’t like Obama and were “just” saying all that stuff to make him look bad, it was claimed.

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Union support for Occupy Wall Street (Photo credit: David Shankbone)

It Can’t happen Here

The sons of the pioneers wouldn’t sit still for any attempt to curtail limited government, personal freedom, or economic opportunity. No way! No how! Others might accept censorship, surveillance, and rigged elections, but not us, not Americans. We had fought wars to defend our independence, wars to defeat totalitarianism; we had even fought wars to spread freedom. No, we wouldn’t quietly allow homegrown tyrants to grasp the levers of power.

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