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It is now the eleventh hour in the struggle to stop the Democrat drive to socialize medicine. There are two versions of Obamacare,  a house bill and a senate bill, both about 2,000 pages. In my opinion, there is no reason to write a 2,000-page bill unless you want to hide a lot of objectionable provisions. This multiple-headed, monstrous undertaking is not obviously about gun control, but it has anti-Second Amendment implications. First the broader problems with Obamacare!

A restaurateur on the Hugh Hewitt show said that mandating health insurance for food service employees would drive many restaurants out of business and drive up the cost of eating at those restaurants that were able to survive. Another food service manager said that, in the event Obamacare passes, he was considering laying off his wait staff and having customers order at computer terminals at each table.

08-03-09 Liberal Columnist Paul Krugman appeared in a video clip shown on Bill O’Reilly’s Fox TV Show. Krugman, sitting on a discussion panel, asked “How many Canadians in the audience?” Several hands went up. “How many of you Canadians believe that you have a terrible health care system?” About the same number of hands went up. Krugman responded with a strained grin, “Well, now! I shouldn’t have done that, should I?”

In the United States Political Arena, the Democrats have effectively shut the Republicans out of the health care debate. One result of this one-party approach is that there appears to be no effective tort reform in either bill. Insurance companies, until they are driven out of business by the “public option,” will still not be able to offer coverage across state lines. There appear to be no effective provisions to increase the number of doctors and other medical staff to handle the increased patient load. One survey of doctors reported that as many as 45% of them would consider retiring, if Obamacare were passed.

Stories from the occupied territories:

A young Canadian man was on a two-year waiting list for an operation. Unfortunately, the doctors only gave him 18 months to live. He came to the US for his operation. He survived.

A Young Canadian woman needed a hospital that could handle multiple births. There were no openings in Canada. She had her babies in the US.

A Canadian woman reported that her dog has better health care than she does. Her dog can get same day treatment in an unregulated veterinary clinic, while she must wait for three weeks to get an appointment with a government-regulated physician.

A doctor called Hugh Hewitt from Texas on 08-02-09 and reported that he overheard the payoff on a gruesome bet between residents (apprentice doctors), while he was working in England. One of their patients had been on a waiting list for two years for an operation to correct a life-threatening aneurysm in the wall of his aorta. One of the budding doctors had wagered that the man would die, before he got the operation. The other one bet that the man would get the operation and survive. Unfortunately for the patient, the death-betting resident physician won the wager.

The same caller reported that, following rounds one day, the doctor and the residents were enjoying tea. A nurse came in and told the doctor that a patient was having severe chest pains. The doctor looked up and said, “Tell the patient that we are at tea, and that when we are finished, we will come and have a look at him.”

A survey of British Subjects revealed that many of them were dissatisfied with their health care, but that they didn’t complain, because they felt that no one in government would listen to their pleas.

A story out of Great Britain reported that only 40% of cancer patients in that country are able to see an oncologist (cancer specialist).

The main reasons to oppose Obamacare-probable results:

• The destruction of Medicare Advantage to “save tax dollars” will mean that millions of seniors will be driven to buy more expensive Medicare supplemental coverage from the anti-gun American Association of Retired Persons, otherwise known as AARP. (AARP is now on board as a supporter of Obamacare.)

• Obamacare will be terribly expensive in terms of tax dollars and probably require raising taxes on all Americans.
• It will drive up the costs of all goods and services.

• It will destroy an American Health Insurance Industry unable to compete with a government-subsidized “public option.”

• It will result in health care rationing, especially for the elderly, who will not be ” good investments” as candidates for heart surgery, knee and hip replacements, or expensive medication. Not only will overweight people, elderly people and others who are not considered “worthy” not be able to get government health care, they will not be able to get government approval for certain procedures or drugs anywhere in the country.
• Gun Owners of America has published information indicating that government health care may result in de facto registration of gun owners. The intrusive health care bureaucracy may view gun owners as a “high risk” group, comparable to smokers or obese persons. Will criminal penalties for failure to buy insurance create more “prohibited persons” who are forever banned from legal gun ownership?
• Obamacare will vastly increase the national debt and may very well wreck the economy.

If Obamacare passes, Congress will keep its own “special” heath insurance. Many government bureaucrats will have special plans. “Common” citizens will be locked into a health plan that has had marginal results at best in most of the rest of the world.

The end result of Obamacare will likely be a system where the rich, including wealthy Democrats, go to other countries for treatment for serious conditions, knee and hip replacements, and expensive medication. Substantial numbers of US doctors will leave to practice in these countries, where they will be able to make much more money than they can under a socialized system in the US. Elderly Americans will die on waiting lists, or along with overweight citizens, be unable to get treatment anywhere. Illegal aliens and people on welfare will continue to receive care at low or no cost, unless of course, they are elderly or obese.

If the US socializes health care, where will seriously ill British and Canadians go for treatment? (The rich ones will probably join the rich Americans in clinics in South America and the Caribbean.) The rest will suffer on their own waiting lists like the silly American “common citizens” who voted for “Hope and Change.”

Go to DickMorris.com for more information

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Major Nidal Hasan, who evidently perpetrated the shooting at Fort Hood, was not killed in the attack, nor was the female MP or security officer who stopped him.  Initial reports that two others were involved in the incident seem to be incorrect at this time.

According to news sources, Hasan is a Muslim who disagreed with U.S. foreign policy and was resisting deployment to the Middle East.  The politically correct spin is that Hasan had been harassed about being a Muslim and was at the end of his rope with regard to legal methods of avoiding deployment.  The report that Hasan yelled “God is good!” before he began murdering his fellow soldiers would tend to indicate that the killings were a Jihadist act of terrorism.  “Alu Akbar” is the venerable battle cry of a Muslim warrior.

The shocking killings by a U.S. Army field grade officer raise disturbing issues about the role of Muslims in the military.  All service members take an oath to protect and defend the Constitution against all enemies.  Christianity urges that its followers “render unto Caesar.”  Islam teaches that devotion to Allah supercedes all national loyalties.

The U.S. is committed to religious freedom.  How do you reconcile that value with a religious doctrine that prescribes the death penalty for leaving the faith?  Islam may, depending on interpretation, legitimize the killing of “infidels” during Jihad as a way to obtain blissful eternal life. 

Unfortunate fallout from this incident will probably include more calls for gun control and more discrimination and harassment against Muslims.  There are no easy answers on this massacre.  There are not even any easy questions.  For our part, we must not let Left-wing politicians parlay a shooting in a government-mandated “criminal-safe free fire zone” (gun-free zone) into more restrictions on our fundamental natural right to armed self-defense from crime, tyranny and genocide recognized by the Second Amendment.

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Early news reports on the shooting at Fort Hood indicate that the alleged perpetrator was a U.S. Army major armed with two handguns.  In what seems to be some sort of “reverse fragging” incident, the major apparently “executed” 11 or 12 soldiers and wounded over 30 others, before being killed himself by a civilian security guard or police official.  The law enforcement officer evidently gave his own life in the firefight.

As least two other individuals have been detained in conjunction with this event.  Their roles appear to be uncertain at this time.

News sources seem reluctant to call the shootings a terrorist attack, but the officer involved seems to have a name associated with Middle Eastern origins.  As a major in the U.S. Army, the shooter would have to have undergone some sort of background checks to obtain security clearances.

The shootings undoubtedly occurred in a nominal “gun free zone” on the sprawling Fort Hood Military Installation.  It is beyond imagination that one man with two handguns could have killed about a dozen armed soldiers.

The families and comrades of the fallen deserve our somber thoughts and heartfelt prayers.  My initial reaction leans toward a terrorist explanation.  Only time will tell, if this plays out.

Under any sort of gun control scheme imaginable, the army major would have had access to firearms.  We will see if the Left tries to use this tragedy as a springboard for more gun control.

Def Mech

As if we needed another reminder that third party candidates are the real third rail of American politics, the results of the GOP debacle in NY’s 23^rd Congressional District should serve as a stinging lesson in Street Smarts 101.  You don’t split the vote by endorsing a third party candidate!

“Mistakes were made,” as the North Vietnamese general said after the war, when referring to the communist massacre of almost 3,000 civilians in Hue, South Vietnam during the 1968 Tet Offensive.  The Republicans in the 23^rd District nominated a RINO who was, of all things, in favor of the card check option that would kill the secret ballot in company elections on unionization.  The GOP candidate in question had other left-wing positions that rankled many conservatives.

That said, the split in the Republican vote between the Conservative Party candidate and the turncoat RINO, who dropped out of the race and threw her support behind the Democrat, gave the left-wing party of big government and restricted individual freedom the win in the congressional election.  The lesson could not be clearer. If you want the party that you oppose to gain election victories, you vote for a third party candidate.  It happened with Ross Perot.  Clinton won.  It happened with Ralph Nadar. Bush won.  It happened with Ron Paul.  Obama won.

Vote for ELECTABLE pro-Second Amendment candidates from major parties that most closely adhere to your views.  If possible, vote GOP.  The party in power controls the political process.  Voting third party throws your vote away.  As if we needed another reminder!

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Dennis Prager has posted an outstanding article on the Front Page Magazine Website concerning the fanatical devotion of the Left to the secular humanistic dogma of what can only be called their “religion” of  state control of virtually everything.  Although not mentioned in Prager’s post, we have seen this kind of quasi-religious zeal expressed again and again in the debate on gun control.

Dennis Prager is one of my favorite Conservative thinkers.  He is a talk radio host.  (Oh!  My goodness!)  This vocation makes him a target of the Progressive Left that is driving this country into what I believe to be a web of Marxist Socialism.  Dennis Prager is also a Rabbi, which gives the lie to the Leftist canard that all Conservatives and Second Amendment supporters are anti-Semites.  In fact, a considerable number of important Conservative thinkers are Jews.  David Horowitz, Alan Gottlieb, Dick Morris, Mark Levin, Aaron Zelman, and Michael Savage come to mind.

For the record, I am not Jewish.  I was raised a Methodist, but stopped attending the church over its support of the World Council of Churches and the Religious Left’s fascination with gun control.

David Horowitz was a Red Diaper Baby, a founder of the 1960’s New Left, and a pioneer of the anti-Vietnam War Movement.  He initially split with the American Communists over their failure to break ties with a Black Panther group in California.  The Panthers murdered a friend that Horowitz had placed with the group as a bookkeeper.  Horowitz knows the machinations of the Left as well as anyone.  While he does not typically deal with Second Amendment issues, his books, Left Illusions and The Shadow Party should be required reading in every high school in America.  (They won’t be read as long as young people are required to sing songs in schools praising Barack Obama.)

Alan Gottlieb is a guiding light in the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms and the Second Amendment Foundation.  These groups put on a national gun rights conference every year that should be attended, if at all possible, by everyone interested in the fundamental, natural right to armed self-defense against crime, tyranny, and genocide enjoyed by American Citizens and recognized by the Second Amendment.  Gottlieb has written numerous books, including Politically Correct Guns, and The Gunrights Fact Book.

Dick Morris was the brains of the Clinton White House, before philosophical differences and personality rifts deprived Bill and Hillary of his considerable talents.  He knows more about the Clintons than anyone else who is alive and willing to talk.  His latest book is entitled, Catastrophe.

Mark Levin is another radio talk show host.  Ooh!  Scary, if you are a Liberal.  He has written several books, including Liberty and Tyranny, a Conservative Manifesto, and Men in Black: How the Supreme Court is destroying America.

Aaron Zelman founded Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership.  (JPFO)  Their cartoon comic book series, Grandpa Jack, should be required reading in every grade school in this country.  (This will not happen as long as the teachers’ unions control the classrooms.)  The JPFO Website is rightly famous for its “Genocide List” which chronicles the relationship between gun control and genocide throughout world history.

Michael Savage is the stage name of another radio talk show host.  Oooh!  He has written a book entitled Liberalism is Mental Disorder, which pretty much sums up his take on the situation.

In terms of talk show style, Prager is a gentle listener who believably says that “He prefers clarity to agreement.”  Levin and Savage do not suffer fools lightly. 

Horowitz is a tireless campaigner for intellectual liberty on college campuses.  His Websites, Frontpage Magazine, and DiscovertheNetworks.com, track the interlocking web of billionaire-funded organizations that fuel the Democrat Political Machine.  Gottlieb works with the National Rifle Association in filing lawsuits against repressive anti-gun regulations.  Zelman’s JPFO often criticizes the NRA for compromises regarding gun rights issues.  Savage frequently proclaims a pox on both the GOP and the Democrat Party and has threatened to start a third party movement.  Morris is a regular on Fox News.  (Oh!  No!  Not Fox News!)  He also has his own website and an online newsletter.

The above individuals are Conservative Jews.  I believe their contributions to the cause of American freedom are invaluable.  The Liberal stereotype of Conservatives as angry, skinhead, mean-spirited. knuckle-dragging, racist bigots clearly does not hold water.  This  divide between Liberal dogma and reality must be a troubling intellectual thorn in the side for honest thinkers on the Left.  Actually, I’m a bit puzzled myself.  Given the painful memory of the Nazi Holocaust’s campaign of death against unarmed Jews and the current administration’s apparent inability to deal with Iran’s nuclear threat to Israel, it is somewhat surprising to me that more American Jews do not embrace the Second Amendment, other conservative values, and the Republican Party.  (JPFO has a section on the Website that deals with this issue.)

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A number of years ago, a religious leader in Denver, Colorado coined the phrase “Demon Guns.” I wrote a poem at the time about the irony of blaming an inanimate object for the violence perpetrated by a few human beings. At this time, as the jails and prisons spew forth their inmates in response to budget cuts, and the Liberal anti-Second Amendment organizations continue their campaigns to disarm “ordinary citizens,” it seems somehow appropriate to dust off these lines. For what it’s worth:

Seven Years for Murder, or the Demon Gun

I’m sitting here in prison.
I’m not worried.
No, not me!
I know that my parole board is about to set me free.

I’ve killed a dozen women.
Damn near two dozen men.
And several little children, but
I don’t number them.

You’d think I’d have to pay for
All the wrong I’ve done.
Liberals just don’t fault me.
They blame my Demon Gun!

I might kill with a crowbar.
I can always use a knife.
If you ever cross me,
You know I’ll take your life.

You’ve all seen the studies.
They prove I’m not to blame.
I was mistreated as a child.
That’s my claim to fame.

You see, it’s really your fault
For the course my life has run.
If you had been more caring,
I wouldn’t need a Demon Gun.

The Liberals want to take the guns
From the average Joe.
You want to know what I think?
I say, “Go, Man Go!”

I’ve mugged and robbed my way around.
I’ve surely had my fun.
It really isn’t my fault.
It’s all my Demon Gun!

And if another Hitler
Should give tyranny a go,
You know about my friends and me.
We’ll join the Gestapo.

So take away the Demon Guns
From sea to shining sea.
When the people are disarmed,
The Ruler will be me!

Feel free to pass along the poem for non-commercial use with attribution to this site. All other rights reserved. Let me be clear! If the Liberals succeed in turning this country into a prison, who will guard the guards?

Def Mech

Last year, about 11,000 U.S. Citizens were incorrectly denied the right to buy a gun by various government agencies in charge of background checks.  Colorado, just 1 of 50 states, had over 14% of the total number of wrongful denials, which were later reversed on appeal.

Of the 5 states with the highest denial rates, Colorado led the country in the percentage of wrongful denials.  71% of Colorado denials were reversed on appeal.

In the Centennial State, the Colorado Bureau of Investigation (CBI) conducts background checks for individuals who buy firearms from licensed dealers and at gun shows.  The U.S. Government also runs a background check system through the FBI.

The FBI National Instant Check System (NICS) had only a 4% denial reversal rate for 2008. According to my calculations, the NICS check was almost 18 times more accurate in protecting honest citizens than the CBI background check.

Colorado Residents, please contact the Governor of Colorado, your State Senator, and your State Representative. Ask that the state move the CBI check to the NICS.

*Source: Workman, Dave, “Nearly 11,000 wrongly denied by background checks in 2008,” The new Gun Week, Second Amendment Foundation, Bellevue, WA, 09-15-09, Page 2.

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To me, the most troubling aspect of the home-grown Colorado video, Recognizing the 8 signs of Terrorism, narrated by John Elway and Kim Christiansen, is what the video doesn’t say.  It’s useful to alert citizens to suspicious behaviors regard high-value terrorist targets.  People photographing or taking detailed notes regarding dams or power stations could raise legitimate questions about their motives.

People asking detailed questions about security measures at government buildings or deliberately going into restricted areas would cause me concern.  Timing the arrival of emergency responders would set off numerous alarms in the intelligence officer part of my brain case.  Rehearsing a terrorist attack is a definite “no-no.”

A large donation to a “charity that you have never heard of” is more troubling, when regarded as an indicator of terrorism.  Using guns in a garage as a symptom of terrorist intentions strikes me as downright scary in an Orwellian, Stalinist, Nazi kind of way.  (I would be suspicious of C-4 explosive charges, grenades, rocket propelled grenade launchers, Molotov cocktails etc.)

We need to keep in mind and this video should have mentioned that American Citizens have a right to own binoculars, cameras, and watches.  American Citizens, unlike disarmed British and Japanese subjects, have a constitutional right to the possession of and use of firearms.

This video was funded by the Obama Administration’s Department of Homeland Security and unveiled at a convention of the International Association of Chiefs of Police, which tells you a lot about what I perceive to be bias in the piece.  Homeland Security put out the infamous document warning about Second Amendment supporters, veterans, and abortion opponents as potential terrorists.  The International Association of Chiefs of Police is featured on the anti-gun Joyce Foundation Website in conjunction with their efforts to implement draconian gun control measures in the United States.

BTW, Barack Hussein Obama sat on the board of the Joyce Foundation for years.  He also appointed Janet Napolitano to the Homeland Security post.  Draw your own conclusions about his stand on guns.

You will note in the video that citizens are asked to report “any suspicious activity” and “gut feelings” that something may be amiss.  ”Suspicious looking vehicles” should be reported.  “Suspicious persons” should be phoned in to the Colorado Information Analysis Center.  God help you, if you happen to be a white male wearing a boonie hat driving a pickup truck with a gun rack in the back window and an NRA sticker on the bumper.

BTW, unless I missed something, most of the “terrorists” in the video were white men with short haircuts.  There were a few anglo women and one black man portrayed as dangerous enemies of America.  Other people of color would never be involved in terrorist activities, so don’t narc on them.  It could be that government agencies that helped with the video just don’t have any other people of color on staff to play terrorists.  Hmmm! Maybe we should investigate those agencies for affirmative action problems.

Thanks to Peter Boyles of KHOW Radio for bringing this story to my attention.  (I have received no quid pro quo for this mention of the radio host or his station.)  If you write a blog, you want to get used to saying things like this, because “Big Brother loves you” and is getting into the business of regulating speech on the Internet.

Stay alert!  Stay alive!  Be suspicious of your neighbors!  (They might turn you in.)  (Is this kind of video a good way to build American Unity in a post-partisan, post racially conscious nation, or what?)

Def Mech

　

Today, Denver Post Columnist Joanne Ostrow, in an article entitled “Programs set sights on gun culture,” advertises two upcoming anti-gun rights television programs.  The article appears on Page 1D of the paper.  The first show, tonight at 7PM on HDNet World Report, Channel 664 on Comcast, is entitled “Resurgence of the American Militia.”  This piece, as the title implies, focuses on the “true believers” in the Militia Movement.

The second program, “Lock and Load,” will air at 7 PM on October 21^st on Showtime.  This one takes viewers to The Shootist gun store and indoor shooting range in Englewood, Colorado.  ”Lock and Load” is a six-part attempt at “reality TV.”  Each episode will last one-half hour and portray patrons and transactions at the Englewood shop.

Both pieces will undoubtedly be condescending and dismissive with regard to gun owners and fear mongering with regard to all normal Americans who aren’t part of the “Gun Culture.”  The militia show “…may make you more than a tad nervous.”  The Shootist series is promoted as “scary in a different way…”  One of the patrons of the gun shop featured in the series is an “over-weight and put-upon husband” who plays well into the Left-wing stereotype of gun owners as fat white men seeking manhood in the ownership of firearms.

Stay alert!  Given the Obama Administration’s appointment of numerous anti-gun Czars and Cabinet Members, these programs could be more than just entertainment.  Mainstream Media documentaries have an odd way of correlating themselves with government attacks on the rights of American Citizens to armed self-defense against crime, tyranny, and genocide.

Of course, I could just be paranoid.  After all, I’m a veteran who supports the Second Amendment.  Oh Gosh! I’d better watch myself!  I could be one of those people.

Def Mech

　

Once again, Professor Eugene Volokh offers incisive comment in the continuing debate about the efficacy of guns for self-defense.  In remarks about a new “study” regarding shootings in Philadelphia, Dr. Volokh points out the lack of controls regarding critical variables, such as gang membership.

The Philly  sample size of 675 isn’t as small as some other studies, but it pales in comparison to Dr. John Lott’s research, which looked at every single county in the United States.  Dr. Lott concluded that “shall issue” concealed carry permit regulations save lives.  See Dr. Lott’s Book, More Guns, Less Crime.

Unfortunately, the ScienceDaily.com press release trumpeting this research was echoed in the Philadelphia Daily News.  We can expect to see this “study” touted on all the usual anti-gun rights websites and raised to the level of holy writ by Left wing politicians.

See my Categories, “Media Bias,” and “Junk Science” for other examples of the Mainstream Media’s ready acceptance of any “study” that purports to bolster attacks against the fundamental rights of American Citizens to armed self-defense against crime, tyranny, and genocide.

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