The Second Amendment Foundation issued a press release yesterday reflecting the nomination of the Clinton Administration official.  You remember Janet Reno:  “Assault Weapons” Ban, Waco, Ruby Ridge.  Her lieutenant’s appointment as Attorney General is a pretty clear indication of the real intentions of “The Chosen One.”

An Obamanista caller today on Peter Boyle’s Denver radio talk show, voiced a willingness to bet Conservatives that he, the caller, would still have his shotgun and his pistol at the end of a four-year Obama Administration.  It could happen.  In 2012, he could be paying a five-hundred percent tax on ammunition.  The caller could be keeping his registered weapons unloaded, locked up, and disassembled, so that they are useless to him for self-defense.  He could be driving two hundred miles to buy ammunition, since there may be no gun stores within five miles of a park or a school.  He probably won’t be attending gun shows, because there probably won’t be any gun shows.  He may not need ammunition, because PETA may have banned hunting.  Rifle, pistol, and shotgun ranges may all be closed, because of “environmental concerns” over lead contamination or noise issues.  Don’t even think about concealed carry!  If our intrepid caller seals the handgun barrel with lead, he may be able to use his pistol as a paperweight.

The crowning irony regarding this morning’s caller to the Peter Boyles’ Show, is that the caller may not be able to report on the air about the results of his gamble with his Second Amendment rights.  If Democrats succeed in killing talk radio with the “Fairness Doctrine,” we may never hear from our bold Obama supporter again.

On the other hand, if over 80 million gun owners rise as one and say, not “No,” but “Hell No!” we may be able to save at least some of the legacy of freedom passed down to us by the many brave American men and women who fought and died for liberty.  An assault upon the rights of any gun owner is an attack upon us all.  A “Fairness Doctrine” raid against the First Amendment strikes at the very heart of our constitutional republic.

If you don’t speak out now, you will lose your First and Second Amendment rights.  Ask yourself this question every day.  What is the Left planning that is so terrible that they fear free speech and armed resistance?

The friend of the tyrant is merely his last victim.

Def Mech

I tell the would-be “under the radar” folks that “They” know who you are.  If you have ever purchased a gun from a dealer, that yellow sheet is almost undoubtedly still on file somewhere.

If you have ever attended a gun show and parked in the parking lot, I believe there is a strong possibility that a federal agent or a police intelligence officer has recorded your license number as a gun show patron.  There was an incident a few years ago in Colorado where vendors at a show noticed an officer taking an exceptional interest in the license plates in a gun show parking lot.

Ever send an E-Mail or talk to someone on the phone about guns?  Ever hear of Echelon and Carnivore?  These are code names for massive electronic surveillance operations that target electronic communications.  Sophisticated computers scan messages and conversations for key words and phrases.  “Guns,” “ammunition,” “hunting,” “shooting,” and “bullets,” would be good guesses on targeted words.

Go to a shooting range or gun club?  Park in the parking lot?  Patronize one of the big box stores that sell guns, ammunition and hunting supplies?  Do you know the background of everyone in your gun club or collectors’ association?  Ever subscribe to a hunting or shooting magazine?

I’m not trying to make you paranoid.  I’m telling you that the chances of you flying “under the radar” are not good, unless you never used a credit card to buy ammunition, never bought cammo through a catalog, or never associated with anyone in “the Gun Culture.”

How do you know that your visit to this Blog hasn’t triggered a trace on your browser?  Are you accessing the net from a library, or from your very own computer in your very own home?  Privacy?  No such thing in the electronic age!

Did you EVER belong to the NRA, GOA, JPFO, RMGO, FCC, or other pro-Second Amendment Organization?  Ever attend a CCRKBA/SAF gun rights conference?  (If those initials don’t mean anything to you, I strongly recommend that you find out about gun rights groups, before “They” pay you an unfriendly visit or send you a letter “requesting” your immediate presence at “Headquarters.”)

OK!  So “They” know who you are.  How do you keep “Them” from coming after you?

You join one or more of the above organizations and support them with your money and your time.  You write letters to newspapers.  You E-mail, write, and call your elected officials and inform them of your opinions on your individual right to armed self-defense against crime and tyranny.  You keep visiting Blogs and Websites that deal with Second Amendment issues.  You talk to your friends about the need for armed citizens and the beneficial effects of guns in a free society.

You save Conservative Talk Radio from the “Fairness Doctrine” and resist any attempt at additional “Campaign Finance Reform.”  You protect the First Amendment with all the zeal that you bring to protect the Second.  Work to keep the UN out of US affairs.

You read the studies from the CDC, the NAS, the Small Arms Survey, and Kates and Mauser, so you can talk intelligently about the scientific basis for the desirability of civilian gun ownership.  You get out and campaign, or campaign more, and give money, or give more money to candidates who will support your natural, fundamental right to self-defense.  You vote for electable candidates who will support your rights better than their opponents.  You will not throw away your vote on a third party candidate with no chance to win.

You go to the range and practice to increase your skill and gain enjoyment from a worthwhile sport.  You live your life one day at a time, realizing that freedom isn’t free and that history hasn’t stopped.  If you hunt, you enjoy the outdoors and the other benefits of being with friends.  You realize that no human being lives forever, but that you can make a positive difference by supporting individual rights.

You never EVER give up on America and its promise of freedom.  If even ten percent of 80 million gun owners in America stand up as one and say not “NO,” but “HELL NO!” to gun control, we will keep our legacy as a sovereign people and will regain some of the rights that we have already lost.

If you try to hide in a hole, or plan to head to the mountains, or move to another state, in the face of nanny state oppression, believe me, “They” will find you.  “They” have ways of dealing mit people like you.  If you don’t work harder than ever to retain your fundamental, natural right to armed self-defense, you will lose it.  You will also contribute to the demise of the greatest experiment in self-government ever attempted on this tiny, spinning ball of mud and water.

The friend of the tyrant is merely his last victim.  Hiding is not an option.  Speak up or lose out!

Def Mech

Now, “The Chosen One’s” Administration is asking job applicants about firearms ownership. The question about the exercise of an American Citizen’s fundamental right to armed self-defense against crime and tyranny comes in a section of their employment questionnaire that also includes questions about “unethical activities, or embarrassing Internet chats.”

We shouldn’t be surprised, given Obama’s otherwise dismal record on the Second Amendment. See my recent post about Obama’s slipping mask. (Category: “Elections.”)

Def Mech

You’ve seen the story in the New York Times, you’ve seen it on Fox News, if you watch that “mean-spirited, racist, Right-wing, reactionary, oppressive” channel.  You may have read the story in the Denver Post.  Gun stores are sold out of firearms and ammunition.

A Denver gun show this weekend will be a maelstrom of gun buyers.  The BATFE agents alone will fill up the parking lot.  I have some suggestions, if you are buying a gun for the first time.  “Understand!” (Don’t you just love that command from “The Chosen One?”  I find myself quoting him more and more.  I may have his picture tattooed on my…  Never mind.  I’m not quite that infatuated with him yet.  My leg hasn’t tingled for some time.)  “Understand!”  I am not an attorney.  This is not legal advice, merely a helpful hint or seven.

1.  If you want to buy a gun from a dealer in Colorado, be prepared for a three to four-hour wait for the background check.

2.  If you want to buy a gun, be prepared to pay premium prices.  Supply and demand really do have an effect on cost.

3.  If you buy a gun, learn how to use it safely and effectively.

4.  If you buy a gun, be prepared to defend your right to keep it.  Read the Bill of Rights.  Read the Heller Decision.  Go to a gun show and buy books by Kopel, Halbrook, Gottlieb, or other knowledgeable writer on Second Amendment issues.

5.  Speak out, write, and E-Mail against any gun control proposals at any level of government.  Additional compromise is a stumble down the slippery slope to complete civilian disarmament.  We have around 22,000 gun laws in the United States.  We don’t need more regulations.

6.  Get politically active with a major political party.  Become a precinct leader or a block worker.  (You’ll get a much warmer reception in the GOP.)  There will be virtually no pro-Second Amendment legislation in Colorado or Congress for the next two years.  The anti-individual rights people are running the shows.  We have to effectively organize to frustrate their agenda and prepare to take back both the political offices and the rights that we have already lost.

7.  “Understand!”  “The friend of the tyrant is merely his last victim.”  (Disclaimer: this is a general statement regarding tyranny that does not imply or suggest in any way that a particular individual, party, movement, or other organization might have any inclination at all toward totalitarianism, despotism, nanny state socialism, communism, fascism, oligarchy, or other form of government outside of American Republican Democracy.) 

Def Mech   

Thanks to all the vets who served and lived to make this country a better place. I’m more sad and thoughtful than usual this year, because I’m afraid history is about to repeat itself. Santayana said, “Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it.” Either Einstein or Rita Mae Brown said, “The definition of insanity is to do the same thing over and over and expect different results.”

The incoming Obama Administration seems poised to pull out of Iraq on an arbitrary timetable without regard for the situation on the ground. At least that’s what I think Barack Obama said. He may have changed his mind five or six times since I thought I heard him say that. Didn’t he run on an anti-war platform? That seemed like his only position, “accomplishment,” and about his only qualification. Oh well. Far be it from me to question “The Chosen One.” As he is fond of saying, “Understand!”

The last time the U.S. Leftists snatched defeat from the jaws of victory, about 2.5 million Asians died and the U.S. Military suffered a decades-long crisis of confidence. If we abandon the Iraqi People, who will ever again trust the word of America?

What do we say to the families of those who gave their lives to protect our freedom, indeed, our very existence, from those who would impose their fanatical religion on the world, regardless of the cost? What will we say to the families of future military personnel? Will we even be able to recruit soldiers after another Vietnam-like sell-out in Iraq?

Compare the current situation in America to the last days of ancient Rome. If the parallels don’t make you lose sleep, it’s time for another pulse check.

(See my Post “Will Iraq become another Vietnam?” under the Category “War on Terror.”

Def Mech

It also came out in the Fox News report that Newsweek Magazine reporters with the Obama Campaign were embargoed from telling anything about the Campaign’s operations until after the election. You see, they made a deal. We won’t mention the tingling feeling in the leg that some female TV personalities seem to get in the presence of “The Chosen One.”

It’s typical of the Left-wing media to slant their coverage. It’s also typical of the Left to shaft you, then tell you how stupid you were to fall for their lies and omissions after it is too late to do anything about them.

The press covered up FDR’s paralysis. The Left-wing press covered up Joe Stalin’s political murders. The Left-wing press covered up John Kennedy’s bad back and his philandering. The Left-wing press covered up Saddam Hussein’s murderous tyranny. They made a deal!

The Left-wing press sat on Clinton’s affair with Lewinski. Now the Left-wing press has covered up for Barack Hussein Obama, “The Chosen One,” the Leader “We have been waiting for,” or shall we just call him Il Duce or Der Fuhrer? Don’t forget who “made the deal” with the press!

Those of us concerned with the fundamental individual right to armed self-defense against crime and tyranny have been all too aware of the Marxist Mainstream Media bias for several decades. We have seen the same anti-American, Left-wing slant in coverage of the Vietnam War and the War against Islamofascist Terror. Some other people are just finding out.

Before ChucK Schumer and his “inclusive, tolerant of diversity” comrades drive a stake through the heart of Conservative talk radio with “The Fairness Doctrine,” Here’s the Defense Mechanism version of a real Fairness Doctrine.

For every story that you read in the Mainstream Media on guns, you have to visit the NRA Website to get the other side of the story. For every hour that you watch MSM news programs, you must watch one hour of Fox News or listen to an hour of Conservative talk radio. (While you still can.) Every time you read a book by a liberal author, you have to read a book from the last two decades by David Horowitz, or a book by Sean Hannity, Hugh Hewitt, David Kopel, Ann Coulter, Bernie Goldberg, Dick Morris, Bill O’Reilly, or other Conservative writer. This is a “Fairness Doctrine” that just might save the country.

Def Mech

The problem with the Democrats, is that they misrepresent the truth so much that it’s hard to tell whether they are ever going to do what they say they will.  (Hopefully, Obama is going to renege on his tax increases, or the economy of this country is in deep trouble.)

As always, the Devil will be in the details.  Will the bill before Congress really be the expired “Assault Weapons” Ban that was simply a silly inconvenience to gun owners, because it banned guns based on cosmetic features, such as pistol grips, flash hiders, and bayonet lugs?  Will the Obama bill be the new version of the “Ban” on steroids that will allow an Attorney General to ban any semi-auto firearm based on the fact that the weapon was ever used by the military for anything?  Will the Obama ban cover virtually anything with a magazine well, because in theory such a weapon could accept a “high-capacity” magazine?

The repeal of the Tiahrt Amendment is simply a ploy to facilitate predatory lawsuits against gun makers and to allow anti-gun fellow travelers in the Mainstream Media to misuse trace data as evidence that certain types of firearms are more often used in crimes.  The fact that a particular gun has been traced by law enforcement agencies does not mean that the firearm was ever involved in a criminal act.

Obama wants to “close the ‘Gun Show Loophole.’  That is Liberal code for requiring background checks for firearms’ transactions between private individuals at gun shows.  This is a two-pronged attack on the Second Amendment by expanding the registration of of firearms’ transfers.  The next step is the requirement that all private transactions be registered.  Once this has been accomplished, the stage is set for government confiscation of all registered firearms in civilian hands.

The other reason that the Left wants to “regulate” gun shows is to “regulate” them out of business, so that they can no longer be used as public forums for gun owners and organizations that support the fundamental individual right of American Citizens to armed self-defense against crime and tyranny.  Obama’s hostility to both the First and Second Amendments is evident in this proposed legislation.

“Childproof guns” are the next item on “The Chosen One’s” agenda.  How do we “childproof” a gun?  We could take the Washington, D.C. approach and require that the gun be disassembled and unloaded.  We could take the Chicago approach and simply ban a type of firearm, all together.  (Obama has long supported both bans.)  We could require cipher lock/”smart gun” technology on all guns and ban any firearms lacking this unproven capability.  The goals of this stalking horse approach to gun control are to make guns prohibitively expensive, impossible to use for self-defense, and to eventually ban any gun that is not “safe.”

We can be sure that the Obama Administration will be competently assisted by their minions in the Mainstream Media in demonizing guns and the gun owners who were assured by Obama that he would “earn their trust.”

I have to say that ”The Chosen One,” the Leader of “The People We Have Been Waiting For” is off to a very bad start with regard to the Bill of Rights and the people who support it.  To those gun owners who supported Obama and those gun owners who voted third party or failed to vote, I have to say that I’m afraid that you have sown the wind and that we will all reap the whirlwind.

Def Mech 

If a Republican had been elected, you can bet your Obama T-shirt that there would have been charges of “voter suppression” and lawsuits and investigations lasting until the next election.  The campaign to impeach McCain would have already started.  Let’s look for a moment at the issues surrounding “coming together” with the Democrats.

They have a plank in their party platform that calls for a draconian ban on semi-automatic firearms in direct contravention of the Second Amendment and the Heller Supreme Court Decision.  There are about 15 Democrat anti-gun rights bills in Congress.  Will Obama attack your individual right to armed self-defense against crime and tyranny as payback for his endorsement by the Brady Campaign? 

The Obama Campaign-supported group ACORN registered the same voter over forty times.  They registered at least one seven year-old girl.  ACORN blamed the people with the clip boards.  Good help is so hard to find!

The Democrats slandered Senator John McCain as being too old and out of touch to be President.  They slandered Governor Sarah Palin as being a simple idiot and unqualified to be Vice President, even though she has more executive experience than “The Chosen One.”  The assault on Palin continues, even though the election is over.

The Democrats used the Mainstream Media to protect Obama’s highly suspect Socialist background and associations.  (Davis, Ayers, Alinsky, etc.)  The Dems used that same media to viciously attack anyone, such as Joe the Plumber, who dared to question the anointed “Saviour of the Middle Class.”

The Democrats continue to talk about the restoration of “The Fairness Doctrine” to talk radio, killing one of the few media venues outside their control.  The elimination of talk radio would leave only the Internet and Fox News to counter the Pravda-like hegemony of the Left-wing Mainstream Media Press and TV.

The Left blocked reform of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac that might have lessened the impact of the housing market debacle.  They supported ACORN and other “community organizations” in their efforts to force lenders to make loans to people who couldn’t and/or didn’t pay them back.  Then the “Party of Diversity and Inclusion” blamed the Republicans for the economic problems that the Democrats used as a springboard to vault “The Chosen One” into the highest office in the land.

(I doubt that Obama could work in the White House in any capacity other than President.  Like Bill Clinton before him, Barack Obama probably could not have passed a background check to get even a Secret Security Clearance.)

The Democrats, who now want unity, called President Bush a liar and an idiot.  The Left ran on a platform of abandoning the Iraqi People to the “mercy” of radical Islam.  ”Prominent” Democrats slandered the soldiers who deposed Saddam Hussein and who are working to rebuild and stabilize Iraq and Afghanistan.

The Obama Campaign refused to provide documentation on their vaunted list of small donors who supposedly contributed less than $200 per person.  What about the contributions from Gaza and Kenya, or the money they took in from donors who obviously made multiple donations in excess of legal limits?

I’ve got an idea!  Before we unite, let’s see if the Democrats attack the Second Amendment, like they promised they would.  Let’s see if the Democrats try to degrade the First Amendment in the same way that they have traditionally denigrated the Second.  Let’s have an honest investigation of Fannie and Freddie.  Let’s investigate ACORN for voter registration fraud and find out how many of those extra registrations actually resulted in fraudulent ballots.  Let’s have an honest investigation of the Obama Campaign for donation fraud.

If the Democrats come out clean, then we can unite.  Do I think there is a chance of fair investigations and Democrat support of the First and Second Amendments?  I’m skeptical.  I suspect we will just Move On.

(See my posts under the categories “Elections” or “Culture War” for links related to the above assertions.)

Def Mech

When you say that you are going to rob Peter to pay Paul, you can always count on the support of Paul.

Some people, even intelligent gun owners, can be deluded into voting against their own self-interests.

Nominalizations, such as “Hope,” “Change,” and “Economic Justice,” are very useful in making people imagine that they know what you are talking about, even when they have no idea what you mean.

The next election started yesterday.  Don’t get mad, get even.

Horowitz, David, Left Illusions, Spence Publishing Company, Dallas, TX, 2003.  Outlines the art of political war as practiced by the Left.

Horowitz, David and Poe, Richard, The Shadow Party, Nelson Current, Nashville, TN, 2006.  Substitute Barack Obama for Hillary Clinton and you will understand exactly what happened in this election.

Mayer, Milton, They Thought They Were Free, the Germans 1933-45, Phoenix Books-The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, 1967.  This book describes how ordinary German Citizens became part of the machinery of the Holocaust.  Don’t be put off by the cover design.  If this book and the other books don’t scare you, you need to check your pulse.

Def Mech

The other day, I caught a Liberal Brownshirt on a bicycle who was about to steal a Bob Schaffer sign across the street from my house.  After a short discussion, he decided to leave the sign alone.  (Bob Schaffer is a U.S. Senate Candidate running against a Boulder, CO Liberal.)

That Schaffer sign was pulled up and dropped in the grass today with about 12 other GOP yard signs along the same stretch of road.  The “Party of Diversity” seems to have issues with diverse opinions.

(For those of you who went to Democrat-controlled public schools, Brownshirts were the men of Adolph Hitler’s paramilitary organization, the SA.  They beat up Jews and provided muscle for Nazi demonstrations.  They were pretty well wiped out in an internecine struggle with the better known Nazi SS.) 

Resist the Democrat Brownshirts!  If you have not yet voted, go to the polls and vote a straight GOP ticket!  If they are this brazen now, imagine how thugish the Left-wing Democrats will be, if “The Chosen One” gets elected.

Defend the Bill of Rights!  Vote Republican!

Def Mech