4 more years, two more SCOTUS seats, 100-150 more seats in the lower courts where of course 95% of federal cases are decided.
Patience, Perseverance, and Persistence.
We are winning the war, let’s not lose it with a tantrum.
You have nowhere near the votes necessary to do so.
And these guys cannot see we’re winning the fight… . Sad.
Well blk, welcome to the forum just the same. Not real clear on your point. Would you care to come back and elaborate?
Sure. My point is to be more pro active in trying to keep our rights. Where is thiS meeting on the 20th?
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The VA Dems are looking scared…
Virginia lawmakers voted Friday to ban firearms at the state Capitol, the first in what’s expected to be many contentious gun votes in coming weeks.
Newly empowered Democrats who made up a majority of a special rules committee voted to ban guns at the Capitol and a legislative office building despite bitter protests from Republicans, saying the move was needed to protect public safety.
“Our focus here is to keep everybody safe,” said House Speaker Eileen Filler-Corn. “These are policies and rules that should have passed a long, long time ago.”
Public officials have expressed concerns about planned Jan. 20 rallies that are set to draw huge crowds of pro-gun and gun-control advocates. Gun advocates from around Virginia and even out of state have pledged to turn out in force to highlight their resistance to proposed gun-control measures.
Democrats initially indicated that the new ban had been recommended by law enforcement.
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The 2nd amendment sanctuaries will not work, the governor can pass a degree to cancel the bank accounts of all the sheriffs who disobeys their state laws.
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This legislation is reflective of absolute panic by legislators who are now, due to their overreaching, in a state of utter fear.
They are trying to set up a force field of a demilitarized zone around them to at least make it illegal to have guns at the capital because we all know that once you ban guns they magically disappear and or are uttered useless.
Lefty’s literally believe two things about guns:
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They wander around free range and magically shoot people.
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If you ban them they simply dont exist, they disappear like a Harry Potter spell.
They know they overreached and went too hard too fast upon turning blue and they are scared of the angry mob of “toothless rednecks” (that is exactly how they perceive gun owners) storming the capital.
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It is funny how Democrats always use the power they are given whereas Republicans do nothing.
If VA Dems do pass this gun ban, I suspect it will be challenged in the fed court system, some judge will uphold the ban, it will be appealed, the next judge upholds it and so on till the supreme court gets it. All these "take my guns bullet first " guys will curl up their tail, not one is going to pull the trigger or take a crow bar hotel vacation, in short all talk no action. All these protests, ya ta, ya ta, ya ta, are as always useless. Today’s badge cucks, and other assorted enforcers of the state do what they’re told (up to shooting citizens). And the National Guard? They’ll fall in line too… for the most part we’re a nation of compliant cattle. Action talks bull shit walks. Just being real.
No he can’t. No such power is delegated to the States.
“For your own good we must disarm you, Gov’t knows what is best for you”.
In reality this just shows that the gov’t still fears and respects the people. If ever they are disarmed that will no longer be the case and there will be nothing left to hold them back.
I think it’s a distinction without a difference. The badge uses the Confederate flag. Now …imagine a German/■■■■■■ reconciliation committee, which chose to use a swastika flag as a background on its posters… you can’t even imagine that, because the swastika (now) is absolutely identified with Nazism, not with Germany.
But until the Hard Left began to make the connection between the Confederate Flag and slavery, it was not popularly considered that way, certainly not in the South. It was, at a stretch, the ‘flag of the South’ … more accurately, the flag of the white tribe of the South. That SNCC badge was reclaiming it for the former meaning, which proved to be too much of a stretch. But at the time, not one person objected to it … unless it was the KKK. We were pleased to wear that badge.
No Southerner thought of the Confederate flag as the flag of slavery. It was the flag of their ancestors in their bid for independence. Now … for sure, that bid was motivated, on the part of the men who led the South then, by the desire to retain slavery. There are those who try to claim the revolt was about tarrifs, but that’s ridiculous. Of course it was about slavery.
But modern day white Southerners did not and do not think of it that way, any more than Americans as a whole think of the American flag as the flag of Indian genocide and removal … although the Hard Left will get there, before long. (The American history textbook by the late Howard Zinn, a Marxist, argues that hte American Revolution was motivated by the desire, on the part of the wealthy landowners who led it, to have a free hand in expropriating the Indians of their land. And this is not completely wrong. In every conflict, you will find a whole pot pourri of motivations.) But, yes, the American flag does have that association, along with some other bad associations, but also with many good ones. Like all symbols, it has no inherent meaning – we invest it with meaning.
To white Southerners, it’s a kind of symbol of defiance. of self-assertion in the face of respectable society – sort of the same motivation that makes some Blacks take Arabic names. It’s also a class symbol: the educated middle classes of the South are not likely to have Confederate flag decals on their cars. So it’s doubly incomprehensible to middle-class privileged Lefties, who literally cannot imagine honoring men who fought against the odds and endured terrible suffering for their homeland.
I should say this as well: it’s the flag of white Southerners, not of Black and Hispanic Southerners, so it should not be part of any official state flag … unless other ethnic symbols are on the flag as well, but we don’t want to go down that route. We need to unite the ethnic groups, not emphasize their division.
And the Left have now succeeded in making the Confederate flag, in the public eye, a symbol of white supremacy. So – unless you are a white supremacist, or a Lefty provocateur trying to discredit the Right – it should not be carried at patriotic assemblies. To do so would be like bringing a swastika sign, and claming – rightly – that its origins were among the Hindus and Jains, and that, until the Nazis took it over, it was a symbol of auspiciousness and good luck, a variant on the Christian cross. Technically true, but irrelevant now.
And there you have it sir. You have successfully summed up the prudence of keeping the flag in a box in the attic or at most tacked to the eve of your frame house.
Here we agree on something.
If you can get it cheaply … a used copy on Amazon … you should read FH Buckley’s A Republican Workers Party.
Actually, everyone on the Right should do this, because I believe he shows us the way forward. But thoughtful leftists might find it of interest, just to see what the Right is thinking about.
Back in the 70’s and 80’s it wasn’t the least bit uncommon to see blacks flying it on their cars, or wearing “Southern Price” Tee Shirts with the battle flag on them.
The whole SJW movement started getting itself promoted by declaring it "the flag of slavery early in this century.
Ok, just ordered on amazon. Seventeen bucks free delivery.
I believe you are mistaken. There are many good people working for the Federal Government … starting with those government employees who are Marines and Sailors and Soldiers.
But also including men like these:
However, every large body of people has some bad eggs, including in leadership positions. They have to obey their bosses, whether they like the instructions or not. The bosses, in turn, are subject to pressure from politicians and the mainstream media as well as having the usual bureaucratic motivations, such as jealousy of competing agencies and the desire to expand the bureaucratic empire.
What happened to Randy Weaver and his wife at Ruby Ridge was a modern atrocity.
Everyone should learn about it in detail, and here is the place to start: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_Ridge
Pay particular attention to: the number of informants involved, and also how they sometimes work against each other. And note the errors made by the government, which made the Weavers look more dangerous than they were. (They were essentially harmless eccentrics with repellent views who just wanted to be left alone.)
Note particularly the outcome in the courts, after Weaver’s wife and son were murdered. So long as we have a jury system in the US, we can reasonably expect justice.
I believe the key lessons of the Ruby Ridge atrocity are:
(1) Any group with views which appear ‘extreme’ will attract informants, sometimes from more than one agency. If you are in a miliita group, for example, take it for granted that at least one of your members is reporting to some government agency. if that’s not true, it’s because you are seen as, and probably are, ineffective – just a group of good old boys getting together occasionally to have fun playing soldier.
Once you start growing and having a serious public presence, you will get an informant. Background checks can weed out most of the authentic crazies but a government informant is guaranteed to pass them.
(2) Anything you say that is crazy, or which can be interpreted that way, will be recorded, and maybe transmitted ‘sexed up’. So if you mutter “traitors should be hung” it may end up as you having said that you are planning to go out and hang someone. So … WATCH WHAT YOU SAY AND WRITE!!!
(3) They will take advantage of even technical violations of the law: a shotgun barrel that is too short by an inch, for example, which is what did for Randy Weaver’s wife and child.
(4) Sometimes government agencies act from motives that are completely obscure to the outside world: I have read that the BATF (now ATF), was jealous of the FBI, and wanted to get a more heroic, militaristic public image. The Weavers may have been the victims of this.
Note also that the militarization of these police agencies, and their increased powers of surveillance, are not only of concern to the Right. Many liberals are unhappy about these developments as well, especially if they are used against potential jihadis. So we have the basis for a tactical alliance.
Here’s the wrong lesson to draw from all of this: that the government is all-powerful, knows everything, is watching and listening to you even at this very moment, and can, if it wants, make every patriot drop dead on the spot. This is utterly wrong, and is a counsel for defeat before the fight begins.
It’s an excuse to stay home and watch television, instead of being involved in groups that are organizing the fight-back, and planning for the future. So if you’re not in one already, come to MyMilitia.com and find a group near you. Or if you are, check out our free resources.
I think you will find him interesting. As I read his book, I found myself agreeing with his
insights about the Right. I had felt this way for a long time, but it took a genuine intellectual
to articulate these views for me.
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