Awaiting The Storm

"Flags. These are always a bad sign. Hardly a politician appears on television who doesn’t stand in front of an American flag, sometimes three American flags. A venomous nationalism now poisons the air, and grows. We are off and rolling.

The trappings of fascism spread. General David Petraeus, commander of the Eastern Front, poses with the President in the White House in combat fatigues. The country is now the Homeland, reminiscent of the Nazi Fatherland and the Soviet Motherland. We hear of American Exceptionalism, the ritual self-idolizaton beloved of pathological nationalism. Blood and Soil. The American Dream. Ubermenschen. All we need is a short Austrian."

Action Requested: Impending New Gun Regulation

Dear J&G Customer,

This is a special notice to warn you of impending new gun regulation. The ATF has proposed to require gun dealers to provide directly to the ATF the names, addresses, and serial numbers for every purchase of two or more semi auto, mag fed rifles within a five day period!! They are trying to force this in by January 5th, without any approval from Congress, calling it a needed "emergency" regulation. This is backdoor registration of guns and gunowners.

Here is a quote from the notice by the NSSF (National Shooting Sports Foundation) regarding this burdensome and illegal move:

"The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) is moving to require federally licensed firearms retailers to report multiple sales of modern sporting rifles beginning January 5, 2011. Specifically, the ATF requirement calls for firearms retailers to report multiple sales, or other dispositions, of two or more .22 caliber or larger semi-automatic rifles that are capable of accepting a detachable magazine and are purchased by the same individual within five consecutive business days."

We are encouraging everyone to contact the relevant officials to protest this move. The office that approves regulation changes like this that bypass Congress is the Office of Information and Regulation affairs of the DOJ and they can be reached at 202-395-6466. You can call your Senator and Representative at the US Capitol switchboard at 202-224-3121.

The NSSF offers the following points to make when calling

1. "Multiple sales reporting of long guns will actually make it more difficult for licensed retailers to help law enforcement as traffickers modify their illegal schemes to circumvent the reporting requirement. Traffickers will go further underground, hiring more people to buy their firearms. This will make it much harder for retailers to identify and report suspicious behavior to law enforcement."
2. "Long guns are rarely used in crime (Bureau of Justice Statistics)."
3. "Imposing multiple sales-reporting requirements for long guns would further add to the already extensive paperwork and record-keeping requirements burdening America’s retailers – where a single mistake could cost them their license and even land them in jail."
4. "Last year, ATF inspected 2,000 retailers in border states and only two licenses were revoked (0.1%). These revocations were for reasons unknown and could have had nothing to do with illicit trafficking of guns; furthermore, no dealers were charged with any criminal wrongdoing."
5. "According to ATF, the average age of a firearm recovered in the United States is 11 years old. In Mexico it’s more than 14 years old. This demonstrates that criminals are not using new guns bought from retailers in the states."
6. "Congress, when it enacted multiple sales reporting for handguns, could have required multiple sales of long guns – it specifically chose not to."

Read the full notice by the NSSF here:
http://www.nssfblog.com/atf-to-require-multiple-sales-reports-for-long-guns/

Read the full ATF document proposing this illegal move here: (PDF)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/documents/atf.pdf

Day By Day

Day By Day

Day By Day

Radical Leaders Prey On The Fearful And Naive

Via Daughter Dixie

Day By Day Sunday December 5, 2010

"We lost more guys this year with Obama than 2001-2008 combined."

It Can't Happen Here

.......at Babi-Yar, a ravine near Kiev in Ukraine, German security units assisted by local volunteers worked day and night until 33,771 captive Jews had been "processed" in this largest of such special actions. It took two days of nonstop killing. Eventually about 100,000 others — POWs and various civilian hostages—were also stripped, murdered and interred at Babi Yar.

Let's be clear, outrages like Babi-Yar are not happening here. And yes, invoking this event is farfetched and could be construed as diminishing that unspeakable tragedy. But consider Babi-Yar as a cautionary tale, that violating the innocent with impunity is a line that, once crossed, knows no other bounds. We as a people have stayed far away from that line for all of our history and rightly condemned peoples that didn't. Until now.

Lying Dogs Versus Useful Dogs: Real Airport Security

Via Billy

Lincoln Caplan, Intentional Idiot

"This is so obtuse as to be intentional idiocy, or outright lack of a quality education. Does the NYTimes just lift the rugs when they want some cockroach to write an Op-ed, or what?"

Fed To Name Recipients Of $3.3 Trillion In Aid During Crisis

The Fed would provide financing for such diverse borrowers as U.S. corporations who needed to sell commercial paper and to money managers who wanted to invest in consumer auto loans. Photographer: Joshua Roberts/Bloomberg

"The Federal Reserve, under orders from Congress, plans today to identify recipients of $3.3 trillion in emergency aid the central bank provided as it fought the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression."

The Fed Defends The Banksters

"........the Fed wants to change the law to force a borrower to pay off his mortgage even if the mortgage bank doesn't hold a legitimate interest in the house. This is sheer insanity. It should be clear from this that the Fed not only knows about the vast extent of the mortgage fraud, but is seeking to further victimize the victims of it. And it is no longer even pretending to be interested in the fate of the homeowning American public anymore."

"Despotism Made Easy"

Via Western Rifle Shooters Association

Japan Calls For Attack On North Korea

"Could this be a staged event used to further destroy the economy and create worldwide fear/tension?"

FBI Report: Remember That Predicted Wave Of Tea Party Hate Crimes?

It was just terrible........
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And will someone please show the $PLC the door. They now have the American Family Association and the Family Research Council as hate groups! No, I'm not being facetious.

Via Rebellion

Obama's Work Is Done

Via Robert McKinney

Will TSA Groping Destroy Tourism In The United States?

"The TSA is literally taking a sledgehammer to our tourism industry. They are going to cost us tens of billions of travel dollars. These are tourist dollars that our economy desperately needs.

But even more horrifying is what all of this says about how far America has fallen. We are rapidly becoming a Big Brother police state where average citizens are routinely treated like dehumanized prison inmates.

It is a national disgrace and the rest of the world is watching all of this. Barack Obama and many of our other top politicians continue to stand up and defend all of this abuse by TSA officials. They are making us look like scum to the rest of the globe."

Gird Your Loins

"Once I ran from Russia to freedom
To America of my dreams
Years later who came for a visit
If not the same damn regime

Sure differences abound
We are not yet USSR
But we better watch out now
Foes of freedom advanced too far

Not the worst but it comes to mind
Are strip searches at airports
We stand for such treatments, just grumble
Though time has come to do worse

Let's do what we can with letters,
With scorn, avoidance, boycotts
And plan to do something better
If lesser means don't work

For we live in a special country
It's our last, thin line of defense
The last ditch in war for dignity
And liberty for all men

Should we fail, we won't be able
To run to some other land
We must plan to prevail in battle
So liberty doesn't end

Where else can we run? Nowhere
The rest of the world isn't free
No help will come from without
This is up to you and me."

Oleg Volk

False Imprisonment

News reports on Saturday reporting that the TSA was announcing warnings to would-be travelers that any "would-be commercial airline passenger who enters an airport checkpoint but refuses to undergo the method of inspection as prescribed by the TSA workers on duty would not be allowed to fly, (but far more importantly)--would not be permitted to leave the airport."

Sounds like false imprisonment to me.

But that wasn't all. The TSA also included in it's announcement for the first time the new fine of $11,000 and possible arrest for anyone who refused.

TSA worker Sari Koshetz was quoted in one report, "Once a person submits to the screening process, they can not just decide to leave that process."

Like heck they can't.

HOPE

Via Dixie!