Links and News – January 13, 2013 part 2

I’ll be away from the Interwebz for the next few days, so I’m doubling up on todays feed!

From Jack Hunter

Great piece by Brian Doherty: “Important aspects of Paulism—a willingness to seriously cut government spending and functions, an unwillingness to be a good party member at all costs, a willingness to rethink our foreign military and aid commitments and respect civil liberties—still have a scattering of staunch defenders, one of them also named Paul. And if federal irresponsibility on spending and debt continues as it seems it will, these radical solutions may start seeming sensible and necessary to more than just the 11 percent of the GOP primary voters who made Ron Paul a legend.”

The Ron Paul Legacy – Reason.com


Pictures and Posters:


I say this is a great idea:  The second and tenth amendments are my favorites by the way!

Woodlands lawmaker wants to make federal weapons ban illegal in Texas

OK, that’s it!

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Billy – Amidst The Noise

A week ago, a video circulated of a man explaining and digging in to gun and crime data.  He seems to be well aware of the divisive, dishonest, fear-based ‘news’ we are immersed in.  He rails against mainstream media and politicians.  He is a voice of truth and reason:

Choose Your Own Crime Stats
 
His second video, every bit as good as the first: Words, Language, and Labels: The power they hold and how media and politicians use them against us
 

War of the Words
Judging from his nearly 1 million views in just a week of starting out and how great his messages are, I’m guessing he will soon rising to some sort of importance. I hope he does, I’ll be following his releases!
Here he explains a little about ‘who he is’:

It’s not me, it’s you

AdmidsTheNoise youtube channel

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SPLC and your Local Police

SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL POLICE AND KEEP THEM INDEPENDENT! – The Southern Poverty Law Center prides itself on “fighting hate, teaching tolerance and seeking justice.” Yet, explore their recent efforts in targeting law-abiding Americans, and that veneer of righteousness quickly peels away.

There is a tie to the actions of the SPLC (Southern Poverty Law Center) and the trend to federalize our local police.  SPLC calls out hate groups, which is a noble effort, except that most recently they actually use this as a weapon to combat groups that hold political values opposite their liberal agenda.  In other words they often target people and groups who are not actual hate groups at all, but just don’t fall in line with the SPLC’s political ideals.  [This is the true meaning of what it means to not be Politically Correct – going against the Narrative]

Examples of ‘hate groups’ as defined by SPLC that I’m familiar with include:  National Rifle Association, Gun Owners of America, Wall Builders Ministry, Family Research Council, Christian Action Network, and of course the John Birch Society.

The SPLC has the ear of DHS.  After a FOIA forced DHS to reveal why they considered liberty groups, conservative groups, and veterans as possible terrorist, it was revealed that much of that information came directly from the SPLC.  This information is pushed and shared with virtually all local police departments, spreading misinformation to all parts of the USA.

Please consider talking to your local police chief about this issue.  I’d like our local police to remain independent of federal influence.  It is important that local police departments understand the manipulative nature of the SPLC and how the information they push out becomes ‘intelligence’ then pushed to local police departments from federal departments.

JBS has a 16 minute DVD video on this subject, as well as Support Your Local Police information packets to help!

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Links and More – January 13, 2013

gEEk humor:  The White House responded to an online petition to build  a Death Star by 2016.  Their response was hilarious:

This Isn’t the Petition Response You’re Looking For | We the People: Your Voice in Our Government.

Gut-Laugh funny video:  “Legends in their own mind.” – Video Compilation from Carl.

I attempted to further ween myself off of facebook by installing friendica on my web hosting account.  The requirements to use SSL are going to cost me more than I want to spend, and it doesn’t completely work correctly yet because I don’t have the connectors functional, but this is the direction I think we need to go.  Facebook will fall out of favor soon enough, because they are beholden to shareholders to maximize profit.  (it is actually a legal responsibility called fiduciary)  As alternate platforms develop with features that focus on benefiting the user instead of the corporation, I think they will eventually replace the big centralized tools.  Friendica connects with all other platforms:  facebook, twitter, tumblr, and even diaspora.  The idea is that all these decentralized ‘nodes’ all talk the same language and interact with each other…. a convergence of content and functionality, so you aren’t beholden to any one system and you have complete control and ownership of your content.

My friendica profile: http://social.briangallimore.com/profile/b

My diaspora profile: https://joindiaspora.com/u/kb5won

Pictures / Posters / Political Propaganda: Continue reading

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Links and Bits – January 12, 2013

Stories like this are depressing.  Prominant folks working toward openness and freedom being bullied by the government, then dying.  (I still haven’t got over Breitbart’s death)  Be sure to watch the video in the second link below (also embedded in this post):

From Amber Lyon:

Tragedy. A family member reports Internet freedom of information activist and Reddit cofounder Aaron Swartz committed suicide yesterday.

The Feds have spent nearly two years going after Aaron Swartz to ‘make an example out him’. His crime? Mass downloading pricey, taxpayer-funded academic documents to give the public free access to the information. For that, Swartz was facing a potential 35 years in prison and $1,000,000 in fines.

When reporting on his suicide, I hope the mainstream media discusses how the U.S. Government bullied Aaron Swartz, possibly to death…

‘Feds Go Overboard in Prosecuting Information Activist:

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/09/feds-go-overboard-in-prosecuting-information-activist/

RIP, Aaron Swartz:

http://boingboing.net/2013/01/12/rip-aaron-swartz.html



F2C2012: Aaron Swartz keynote – “How we stopped SOPA”
Interesting to me to hear Aaron speaking about SOPA/PIPA and speaking highly of progressiveism but negatively of tyrannical government actions.  I see the two as interlocked in spit-swapping love-fest. Continue reading

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Links and Bits – January 11, 2013

Good / short article about situations during the LA Riots and Katrina:

The Need for Semi-Automatic “Assault” Weapons – Katie Pavlich – [page].

Piers Morgan is the next Jerry Springer: Ben Shapiro points out his bullying and lack of principle and then makes the Constitutional case for the true meaning behind the Second Amendment.  (Excellent representation of the gun-rights side of the story)

Ben Shapiro CUTS Piers Morgan DOWN

Pictures:

News tidbit from Ben Swann:

David Gregory will NOT be prosecuted for displaying what he said was a high-capacity ammunition magazine on “Meet the Press”.
D.C. gun laws generally restrict the possession of high-capacity magazines, regardless of whether the device is attached to a firearm. Police say they told NBC it would be illegal to possess the device.
Prosecutors: Criminal charges wouldn’t serve the public’s best interests.
Would prosecutors go as easy on anyone else in D.C. who simply “possessed” one of these magazines?

 

 

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Shoot FMJ at Gibson’s Outpost

As far as I know, the only gun range near DFW that lets people shoot FMJ ammo is Gibson’s Outpost in Mesquite.  It is pretty old and dusty, but only costs $12 to shoot all day.  You have to get a membership card, which costs $8 and is good for a year.  They have pistol range in 10 and 25 yds, and rifle ranges in 50, 100, and 200 yd.

It gets mixed reviews on google, and I can see why.  The man showed me two holes in their wall from ‘unloaded’ guns brought into the store.  One of the biggest pluses for me was that this place is likely a big turn off to yuppie-types.

There is old stuff stacked everywhere, with a thick layer of dust on most everything.  They let you bring in your own targets and let you borrow tools if you need them too.  The shooting booths at the rifle range are concrete tables, mostly right-hand layouts, and pretty close together.  They call a cease-fire every 20 minutes or so and check every gun to make sure they are all unloaded.  Overall, it was a good experience and I’ll definitely go back, especially since I have lots of cheap FMJ ammo to shoot!

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Phone Conversation with Jodie Laudenberg

My state rep Jodie Laubenberg called me tonight; we talked for 30 minutes.

1- She went in to detail why she is not supporting Simpson for speaker. I agree with her logic, which is (paraphrasing) he doesn’t have support from nearly enough reps, doesn’t have knowledge of the rules, inaccurately pins blame on Straus for his TSA bill failure, and that he is not running on a platform of policy, but a platform of changing house rules in hopes of ‘getting along with Democrats, which she believes will not happen.

2- She said she supports campus carry and school teachers w/ CHLs carrying guns at school. (I remember she said something a little different during the townhall –I’ll have to go back in history)

3- Gave me her cell phone number and said she would much rather talk to me before I say negative things. (makes me wonder if she has seen my facebook page!)

UPDATE: I went back and dug up my notes (which were in the form of facebook posts –have to stop doing that because you can’t even search for old facebook posts easily) Jodie never said she was against campus carry, but said she wasn’t sure if she wanted to support open carry. There were other issues I forgot about until just now, so I’m pasting them here to serve as a future reminder:

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Tin-Foil Hat News about DHS and Gun Confiscation

I don’t know what else to call it.  I was forwarded The latest from “DHS Insider” and the person sending it to me seems to genuinely believe it as the truth.

  • DHS planning for civil unrest coming from economic collapse (this spring)
  • DHS/TSA working with / influencing local police agencies (giving money w/ strings attached)
  • Plan is to let chaos go on for a while to create public outcry for help from government
  • Martial law will be enacted, travel restricted
  • Gun ban will be implemented, including gun confiscation
  • Big cities will be first to have restrictions implemented
  • Lists of political dissidents exist
  • Gun ownership list created from multiple sources, including questions answered at doctor’s office

Here are some of my comments (mixed with a smart guy’s comments I talked with) about this information:

  • Federalization of local police is a concern of mine also.  See:  Militarization of Police and War on Drugs and Police Consolidation: The End of Local Law Enforcement?
  • The current administration, and the last one have both had the attitude “Never let a good crisis go to waste”.  (Dick Chaney and Rahm Emanuel)  They will use pain, suffering, and fear to get something from their agenda pushed through.   (ref: Patriot Act)
  • Not sure a collapse of the dollar will happen as quickly as this guy expects.  Lots of powerful groups (Federal Reserve, US Government) will try to keep dollar strong, as their livelihood requires it.  The Euro and Yen would need to suffer also
  • Economic collapse is likely, and all these groups would be planning for it
  • DHS is in the business of creating ‘contingency plans’, so it is not unusual for them to be coming up with plans for dealing with all kinds of things
  • There does exist groups of people who lust for more power and global domination.  The ideal of liberty and the means of sharing truth are obstacles for these people.

 

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Points Against Gun Control

I’ve tried to create a short list of talking-points related to gun control.  The issue is pretty complicated, so the list wound up being not-so-short:

Basic Human Right

  • Humans have the basic right to defend themselves, their families, and other humans.
  • As long as evil exists, humans will have the need to defend themselves.
  • At a minimum, one would like to have tools for defense equal to those tools in use by those that are doing evil.
  • Taking away the ability of self-defense is taking away a basic human right.
  • Transferring the responsibility of self-protection is an individual choice;  It is not possible to transfer someone else’s rights without violating their rights unless it is the choice of the individual.

Constitutional

  • The second amendment was adopted to prevent the US government from violating the individual right to self-defense by using firearms.
  • The founders believed citizens should be armed equal to the best military.  They had just fought for independence by fighting the best military on earth.  Shot heard around the world:  The government was coming after their guns (cannons actually), resistance by citizens led to start of American revolutionary war.
  • Militia was the group of willing citizens interested in defending their country. (not military)
  • Well regulated means ‘well practiced’ or ‘well equipped’, not ‘regulated by the government’.
  • Any time you hear “I believe in the second amendment but…”, be aware you are listening to someone who does not believe the second amendment means what it really does.  The second amendment is about regular citizens being equipped and ready to defend themselves from all threats including their own tyrannical government.  If you believe this truth, you would not try to limit citizens ability to do that task.
  • About half of the US population believe the second amendment means what it says, and a large portion of that group are willing to shoot somebody in defense of it.

Practicability / Logistics arguments Continue reading

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