Tuesday, December 25, 2012
Rand Paul slams NDAA as bill passes US Senate
The libertarian Republican voiced his concerns to a conference committee following the decision to give the present version of National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) the go-ahead. Paul cited the committee’s decision to scrap an amendment that would have prohibited the indefinite detention of US citizens suspected of terrorist activities.
“It’s [the amendment] been removed because they want the ability to hold American citizens without trial in our country. This is so fundamentally wrong and goes against everything we stand for as a country that it can’t go unnoticed,” Paul told the committee. He went on to condemn the bill as an “abomination” that deprives US citizens of the right to a fair trial.
“When you’re accused of a crime in our country you get a trial, you get a trial by a jury of your peers, no matter how heinous your crime is, no matter how awful you are, we give you a trial,” he said.
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CA Homeowner Shoots and Kills Armed Home Invader, Wounds 2 Others as Children Have Sleepover
Via Cousin John
A homeowner in Sacramento is being treated for non life threatening
wounds after successfully fighting off 3 armed home invaders who tried
to attack his home last night.
The homeowner grabbed a weapon after 3 armed men tried to break into the home, and opened fire.
The homeowner was shot by one of the suspects, but he managed to shoot all 3 suspects. One of the shot suspects died at the scene and the other 2 are being detained by police as they try to figure out exactly what happened.
Residents say there were children in the home at the time of the attempted home invasion. There may have been a children’s slumber party going on at the time of the attack.
Editor’s note: We are thankful that the homeowner was fast acting and armed or we could be talking about a mass murder of children at a slumber party today.
The homeowner grabbed a weapon after 3 armed men tried to break into the home, and opened fire.
The homeowner was shot by one of the suspects, but he managed to shoot all 3 suspects. One of the shot suspects died at the scene and the other 2 are being detained by police as they try to figure out exactly what happened.
Residents say there were children in the home at the time of the attempted home invasion. There may have been a children’s slumber party going on at the time of the attack.
Editor’s note: We are thankful that the homeowner was fast acting and armed or we could be talking about a mass murder of children at a slumber party today.
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Christmas Vandals in Georgia
Mrs. Mary S. Mallard in Her Journal [1864, Liberty County, Georgia]
“Monday, December 19th.
Squads of Yankees came all day, so that the servants scarcely had a
moment to do anything for us out of the house. The women, finding it
unsafe for them to be out of the house at all, would run in and conceal
themselves in our dwelling. The few remaining chickens and some sheep
were killed. These men were so outrageous at the Negro houses that the
Negro men were obliged to stay at their houses for the protection of
their wives; and in some instances, they rescued them from the hands of
these infamous creatures.
Tuesday, December 20th.
A squad of Yankees came soon after breakfast. Hearing there was one
yoke of oxen left, they rode into the pasture and drove them up…needing a
chain…they went to the well and took it from the well bucket. Mother
went out and entreated them not to take it from the well, as it was our
means of getting water. They replied: “You have no right to have even
wood or water,” and immediately took it away.
Wednesday, December 21st.
10 A.M. Six of Kilpatrick’s cavalry rode up, one of them mounted on
Mrs. Mallard’s valuable gray named Jim. They looked into the dairy and
empty smokehouse, every lock having been broken and doors wide open day
and night. They searched the servants’ houses; then the thundered at the
door of the dwelling. Mother opened it, when one of them presented a
pistol to her breast and demanded why she dared keep her house closed,
and that “he be damned if he would not come into it.”
She
replied, “I prefer to keep my house closed because we are a helpless
and defenseless family of women and children.” He replied, “I’ll be
damned if I don’t just take what I want. Some of the men got wine here,
and we must have some.” She told them her house had been four times
searched in every part, and everything taken from it. And recognizing
one who had been of the party that had robbed us, she said: “You know my
meal and everything has been taken.”
He said, “We left you a sack of meal and that rice.”
Mother
said, “You left us some rice; but out of twelve bushels of meal you
poured out a quart or so upon the floor---as you said, to keep us from
starving.”
Upon
one occasion one of the men as he sat on the bench in the piazza had
his coat buttoned top and bottom, and inside we could plainly see a long
row of stolen breast jewelry---gallant trophies, won from defenseless
women and children at the South to adorn the persons of their mothers,
wives, sisters, and friends in Yankeeland!”
(The War the Women Lived, Walter Sullivan, J.S. Sanders & Company, 1995, pp. 238-239)
The North Carolina War Between the States Sesquicentennial Commission
“Christmas in Wartime -- 1861-1865”
The Verbal Black Flag
VERBATIM
Advocates of citizen disarmament really DO NOT like being referred to as emasculated cowards who are projecting their own cowardice onto others.
They also do not like being referred to as yellow, infantile, effeminate, or hysterical. Liberals cannot handle these things (words), hence their never-ending efforts at PC censorship.
It also throws them for a loop when they call you an "NRA person" (or something similar) and you respond with indignation, saying something like "I'd never support such a soft, compromising organization."
They also do not like being asked if they would pick up a gun themselves to kill you if you refused to disarm.
This is not the time to take the traditional conservative position of "calm rationality", or retreating in the face of name calling, ad hominem, or emotional hysteria.
Will our individual efforts count in this?
I don't know.
I do know that this is, as a friend said, the high water mark of citizen disarmament extremists.
They have never been in a better position to push their extremism.
If they can't win here, they will never succeed. However, if they successfully push home their agenda now, it will be irreversible.
Refuse to play nice.
Not one inch.
Raise the black flag in your verbal dealings with these people.
Use the principles outlined in this piece.
The flag we raise in our interactions now will dictate the ones that will inevitably be raised later.
No quarter to the violators of our homes and firesides.
No quarter to the blood dancers who would use the recent deaths of children to ensure the deaths of more.
Resist.
They also do not like being referred to as yellow, infantile, effeminate, or hysterical. Liberals cannot handle these things (words), hence their never-ending efforts at PC censorship.
It also throws them for a loop when they call you an "NRA person" (or something similar) and you respond with indignation, saying something like "I'd never support such a soft, compromising organization."
They also do not like being asked if they would pick up a gun themselves to kill you if you refused to disarm.
This is not the time to take the traditional conservative position of "calm rationality", or retreating in the face of name calling, ad hominem, or emotional hysteria.
Will our individual efforts count in this?
I don't know.
I do know that this is, as a friend said, the high water mark of citizen disarmament extremists.
They have never been in a better position to push their extremism.
If they can't win here, they will never succeed. However, if they successfully push home their agenda now, it will be irreversible.
Refuse to play nice.
Not one inch.
Raise the black flag in your verbal dealings with these people.
Use the principles outlined in this piece.
The flag we raise in our interactions now will dictate the ones that will inevitably be raised later.
No quarter to the violators of our homes and firesides.
No quarter to the blood dancers who would use the recent deaths of children to ensure the deaths of more.
Resist.
Police: NY gunman set 'trap' for firefighters
An ex-con gunned down two firefighters after luring them to his neighborhood by setting a car and a house ablaze early Monday, then took shots at police and committed suicide while several homes burned.
Authorities used an armored vehicle to help residents flee dozens of homes on the shore of Lake Ontario a day before Christmas. Police restricted access to the neighborhood, and officials said it was unclear whether there were other bodies in the seven houses left to burn.
The gunman's sister, who lived with him, was unaccounted for. The gunman's motive was unknown.
William Spengler fired at the four firefighters when they arrived shortly after 5:30 a.m. at the blaze in Webster, a suburb of Rochester, town police Chief Gerald Pickering said. The first police officer who arrived chased the gunman and exchanged shots.
Spengler lay in wait outdoors for the firefighters' arrival, then opened fire probably with a rifle and from atop an earthen berm, Pickering said.
"It does appear it was a trap," he said.
Spengler had served more than 17 years in prison for beating his 92-year-old paternal grandmother to death with a hammer in 1980 at the house next to where Monday's attack happened, Pickering said. Spengler, 62, was paroled in 1998 and had led a quiet life since, authorities said. Convicted felons are not allowed to possess weapons.
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