NC: DEMAND CONCURRENCE ON HB 937

 

In recent days, the North Carolina Sheriffs’ Association (NCSA) has flip flopped on its support for HB 937, a common sense bill that would modernize North Carolina’s gun laws, and allow law-abiding citizens to better defend themselves and their families from predators who do not pay attention to gun laws. The reason for the NCSA’s reversal on this bill clearly revolves around the money the sheriffs collect, and the power they maintain, through our State’s outdated pistol permit system.

Aside from the fees the sheriffs are currently charging in the current system, each county’s sheriff has unlimited power to decide who may or may not purchase a handgun. That means your county’s sheriff can arbitrarily deny anyone their Second Amendment rights, absent any due process. For these reasons: money and power, the NCSA does not want this shameful, Jim Crow-era leftover to be eliminated. But HB 937 would do just that. It would eliminate it, and replace it with the fair and reliable National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS). This is a dependable, computerized system that has been tried and tested, and in thirty-six states it is the sole background check system, eliminating old-fashioned pistol permits.   

The NCSA has had a lot to say about what it would mean to eliminate the current system, a system in which they hold all the power. Let’s examine their statements, and contrast them with the facts:

The NCSA Says: NICS obtains criminal records from North Carolina only regarding persons who are fingerprinted, which includes felons and some limited categories of misdemeanants. Many misdemeanants, punishable for up to two years in prison, are not fingerprinted and, therefore, are not reported to NICS.
The Fact Is: People convicted of state-level misdemeanors punishable by less than two years are not prohibited from owning firearms under federal law, meaning sheriffs want discretion to deny permits to people who are not prohibited.

The NCSA Says: North Carolina state law only requires the Clerks of Superior Court to report to NICS a limited category of those persons involved in an involuntary mental health commitment. 

The Fact Is: According to the FBI, the NICS database encompasses: A person adjudicated mental defective or involuntarily committed to a mental institution or incompetent to handle own affairs, including dispositions to criminal charges of found not guilty by reason of insanity or found incompetent to stand trial. 

The NCSA Says: Persons from North Carolina who are prohibited by federal law from possessing a firearm, but who are likely to not be discovered by a NICS check, are persons who: Are under indictment or information in any court for a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year; Have been convicted of a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year; are fugitives from justice; are unlawful users of or addicted to any controlled substance; have been adjudicated as mentally defective or have been committed to any mental institution; Who are subject to a court order restraining them from harassing, stalking, or threatening an intimate partner or child of the intimate partner; or Who have been convicted of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence. 

The Fact Is: The FBI says otherwise. Their description of the contents of NICS cover all of the situations that the NCSA mentions above.

The NCSA Says: The pistol purchase permitting process in North Carolina is currently far superior to the NICS check and provides increased public safety for our citizens. 

 
The Fact Is: For rifles and shotguns, the NICS is already used in North Carolina, and without objection from the NCSA. If NCSA considers NICS to be an inadequate means of background check, why has it not objected to its use as the sole background check system for long guns?

The NCSA Says: Sheriffs’ “local knowledge” gives them familiarity with local residents that goes above and beyond what the NICS can provide. 

The Fact Is:  NCSA's "local knowledge" argument is a stretch. Although sheriffs claim that familiarity with local residents gives them knowledge above and beyond that provided by NICS, the argument is rife with flaws. Just one example would be the fact that Mecklenburg County has processed 12,000 permits thus far for 2013. Is it the position of the NCSA that sheriffs in large counties routinely check tens of thousands of households? Unlikely.

The NCSA needs to get its facts straight, and the antiquated pistol permit system needs to be replaced with a proper, twenty-first century alternative.  It’s also a fact that the NCSA’s misguided opposition to this one provision in HB 937, threatens to derail the entire bill. That’s a real problem.

Action, please.

Voting Rights Act Provision Struck Down by U.S. Supreme Court

The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that a key provision of the landmark Voting Rights Act cannot be enforced unless Congress comes up with an up-to-date formula for deciding which states and localities still need federal monitoring.

The justices said in 5-4 vote that the law Congress most recently renewed in 2006 relies on 40-year-old data that does not reflect racial progress and changes in U.S. society.

The court did not strike down the advance approval requirement of the law that has been used, mainly in the South, to open up polling places to minority voters in the nearly half century since it was first enacted in 1965. But the justices did say lawmakers must update the formula for determining which parts of the country must seek Washington's approval, in advance, for election changes.

Chief Justice John Roberts said for the conservative majority that Congress "may draft another formula based on current conditions."

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Exposed: Syria's backroom deal with Russia

 

President Bashar al-Assad inked a secret deal that gives Russia the license to control natural gas resources in Syria, according to informed Middle Eastern security officials.

The officials said Assad last month agreed to sign the document, considered an understanding of principals on control of his country’s gas resources, including transiting pipelines, in exchange for continued Russian support in resisting the insurgency against his regime.

The officials further said Russia helped to broker a separate understanding with Assad that would allow public and private Chinese companies to rebuild damaged infrastructure in Syria if Assad defeats the insurgency.

The alleged deals underscore the economic benefits that may motivate Russia to back Assad while the West, including the Obama administration, aids the rebels seeking a post-Assad Syria.

Syria is a key energy transit route to Europe. A number of countries appear to be seeking dominance of the energy market that runs through Syria.

In 2011, Syria announced it had discovered a promising gas field in the city of Homs, which would later see some of the fiercest battles between Assad’s forces and the rebels.

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Nike shoe customers shoot, kill would-be robber

 

Customers in line at an Atlanta shoe store have made it clear they won’t tolerate anyone threatening their potential purchases of Lebron James shoes.

The evidence?

Police say members of the public lined up waiting to buy the $180 pieces of footwear shot and killed a suspect who apparently tried to rob them as they waited for the store’s opening.

Fox 5 in Atlanta reported the incident Saturday when about two or three dozen people camped out overnight at the Five Points store where the Nike shoes were to go on sale.

At around $180 a pair.

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Only 4 Votes Left to Stop Amnesty: Call your Senators NOW at 888-995-8349

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Your calling effort yesterday was phenomenal! The number of Senators who voted against the Schumer-Rubio Amnesty bill, S.744, has doubled since debate first started, and we're approaching the 41 NO votes needed to derail the bill. But with only four scheduled votes left, we need you to call your Senators NOW toll-free at 888-995-8349.

The fate of S.744 will be determined by the end of the week, so we need your continued urgent calls! Here's what's left:

1. final vote on Schumer-Corker-Hoeven amnesty amendment (50 votes needed),
2. motion to limit debate on Leahy manager's amendment (60 votes),
3. final vote on Leahy manager's amendment (50 votes), and
4. motion to end debate on the bill (60 votes).

Please help us keep the pressure on the Senate!

You can use these talking points when you call your Senators:

• The bill grants amnesty to 11 million illegal aliens with only promises of future enforcement
• According to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office, the bill will increase unemployment and decrease wages for American workers
• Leaves total discretion for future enforcement in the hands of the administration, repeating the mistakes of the 1986 amnesty

Also, take a look at these recent poll results from Pulse Opinion Research:

58% of likely voters support full enforcement first before even "considering" giving work permits to illegal aliens 

72% of Republicans support full enforcement first 

62% of Independents support full enforcement first 

74% of likely voters want legal immigration numbers reduced or to remain the same 

76% of Republicans want legal immigration numbers reduced or to remain the same 

70% of Democrats want legal immigration numbers reduced or to remain the same 

Call NOW at 888-995-8349

The Well Armed Woman

Holsters are a huge issue for women. With so many clothing styles and options, we can't always carry our firearms on our belt. There is such confusion over holsters for women. 

Many are men's holsters simply available in different colors and just don't fit a women's body or lifestyle well. Here will be posted a series of videos, demonstrating and discussing different types of holsters for women to assist you in finding those that will work best for you. If you have a holster brand or style you would like reviewed or discussed, send an email to info@thewellarmedwoman.com 

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Life in the American Occupied Territories.

 

NC Secession Flag

By: Safetalker

How we live in these united States under the occupation of the Corporate Federal Government is a subject that few care to recognize or understand. To accept the facts of our occupation by a Federal Corporation is to have to recognize our own shortcomings. To ultimately have to admit that we the American people are not free.

In my personal opinion; I do not believe we were ever intended to be free. From the earliest days of the Colonies the people were recruited with promises of freedom, but when they arrived on these shores they often found that they were in reality just indentured servants of the Crown granted land charter holders. These holders of the charters were selected by the King of England for their roles, and the people who were sold passage were made to understand that these land holders did so under the seal of the King. What the arrivals were asked to do was nothing short of serfdom.

When the revolution was over, and Washington had accepted the sword of Cornwallis the people were again promised freedom. However, to retain the land they lived upon was not a part of that freedom. To ensure the continuation of the possession of the land by the king there were a series of Versailles treaties signed by the king of england and the representative colony esquire officials to both make our ownership of the land and freedom from the control of the King impossible. We were again serfs to British nobles, but this time they were home grown.

When the white man arrived on this continent there was no ownership of land. The Indians (as we called them) did not possess land they used it, cared for it, and left without leaving any sign of their passing. They farmed where they lived. Hunted where they walked, and nurtured the land where ever they went. That was their creator determined role. It is a white man determined need to own that which is not ownable.

When the Federal Government was strapped to our backs by the Constitution for the united States in 1789 we became obligated to provide for that Government. The first president was George Washington. He began a procedure of issuing Orders, decrees, and proclaiming like a King. His first was to give the army off on St Patrick's day.

The first signs of the occupation of the Territories was the sending of the Militia into four Pennsylvania counties to put down a tax insurrection. This was know as the Whiskey Rebellion.

I personally was amazed in the 60's when I traveled to Berlin Germany as a member of the United States army. I was able to watch as civilians were asked to show identification to enter places, to purchase goods in some stores, and for random checks by the German police. I was told it was to prevent Russian Spies from infiltrating the area and stealing our secrets. In a grocery store? However I was a member of the Berlin Occupation forces and they gave me a ribbon to prove it.

When I first observed one of these civilian check points I smiled, and thought about the sand that would be thrown if they tried that in America. I saw one last week at a Walmart store and it passed as smoothly as it did back in 1965 in Occupied Berlin.

How did we become this pliable? How did we lose the guts to refuse to stand for this unconstitutional behavior of one american against another? Where did we slip into being an occupied land? Perhaps we always were!

In the 1860's we went to war against each other because we could not live together any longer under our yoke Federal Domination. There was no armed actions that started this. It was just our states recalling their representatives to the congress so they could not vote to give up the land our people lived upon as collateral for the debts of the Founding fathers and after. One of those Versailles treaties was a loan from the King of England to pay back the debt of our rebellion. These were signed for our people by Esquires sent by our founding fathers. When we couldn't pay them back we had to pledge more and more of our land for the accumulating interest. Interest to keep our Federal Government Sovereign. To prevent Foreclosure by our debtors. When the Federal Government demanded that the southern states provide their land to the pot the southerners went home.

The federal Government went to war to ensure that the South got no help. To keep the Federal Government afloat then President Lincoln issued a series of Presidential decrees and proclamations that lifted the freedoms of the people. These denial of freedoms were not just in the Southern States. This is where we became an occupied territory of the Federal Government it hasn't changed since then.

In these actions they divided our states into Military Districts with military commanders. Then each county had a Commission appointed to allow the military commander to concentrate on major problems while the Commission with the Elected Sheriff as the enforcement handled the rest. This exists today in your county, or Common wealth. How many states do you know that has a constitution which spell out the County Commission.

It is hard to consider yourself as an occupied person instead of a free american. However you have to face facts. When the constitution that governs this nation says that you will be secure in your person, and your effects, and yet any police officer, Sheriff/Deputy, Patrolman, agent of what ever agency can stop you anywhere you may be standing and demand you present your identification and then search your home, your vehicles, and your person: are you free? They must have that power since every claim against them is adjudicated as unfounded by the nation's legal system. If they have that power then you live in an occupied territory under the law of war, not the constitution of the united States of America.

When the constitution states plainly that to search you or your property, and the person carrying out the search must have a warrant issued by a Judge of the Court and the warrants used to allow Federal and State, and local agents and law enforcement personnel are signed by a magistrate with no affidavit and found to be legally accepted. Then you must be in an occupied military zone under the Lieber Code and not the Constitution for the united States of America. We the people of this great nation are in a mass denial of what is very evident to any who have eyes to see, and ears to hear.

We just do not want to admit that the American dream is just that. A dream!

Here is North Carolina there have been a series of demonstrations by the people at the North Carolina legislature. During these demonstrations the people have carried signs and sang songs. Is it because of the occupation of the territory that they have been arrested for petitioning their congressmen and women, or were they arrested for creating a disturbance? Isn't that their jobs as citizens and allowed by the First Amendment to the Constitution for the united States of America?

If the legislature votes to restrict the constitutional rights of the people that statute or act is unlawful, and is invalid no matter how many votes are received.

In the news lately was man named Snowden who went to the newspaper, and shared information that the National Security Agency, a federal corporation was violating the forth amendment to the Constitution. They were reading the internet mail of the people of the united States of America. This disclosure was made to the press and reported as such. The occupying Federal Government Corporation has called for his arrest for violating a contract he had with the NSA by sharing this disclosure of a felony they committed. However failure to report the commission of a crime that you know about or should know about is called Pre-treason to a felony and is punishable under I believe USC Title 15 of the Statutes of the Corporation for the United states of America.

We the people of the united States of America are not members of the United States of America which is a corporation. We are members of the states of the nation. In the 1936 amendment to the “Trading with the Enemy Act” they added under the definitions a change to the definition of Enemy Combatant to include US Person. This made us all enemies of the Federal Corporation called the United States. (Note: The Trading with the Enemy Act was passed during the First World War to allow the rich oligarchs like Prescott Bush to sell stuff to Germany after we entered the war without being charged with Treason. (You can read it at The Avalon Project online at Cornell University)

Recently Mr Obama the president of the Corporation told an interviewer that the NSA did not monitor or keep records on “US PERSONS”. Did he lie? Probably. He claimed in another interview that the Department of Justice had researched and found that he was within his power and rights to kill US CITIZENS who were suspected of being an ENEMY COMBATANT. These special words are all legal definitions of the people of the Occupied territories of the united States of America.

More important when you listen to a member of the Federal Government speak look at their surroundings. When he gave that interview Mr Obama was sitting in front of a Flag. That flag did not have a gold Trim. Thus he was not speaking as the President of the nation just as the President of the Corporation. Remember the eyes to see, and the ears to hear.

In the 1860's the 14th Amendment was shoved down the throats of the States, both with political power, and by actually having military soldiers standing by the desks of the legislators in state houses around the nation while they voted to ratify it. This document created what had never been envisioned by our founders.

It created a Federal Citizen called a US Citizen. It also gave the power that belonged to the people, and their states, to the Federal Government. These US Citizens no longer had constitutional rights. Instead they have Federal benefits. This is their prison without bars.

As long as the people deny they are in an occupied territory they can not raise a functional militia. They can only create a disturbance for the troops to put down. Where an American people have the right to the full power of the Constitution, and the bill of rights attached, US Citizens have only the benefits of a stable Federal society where they are protected from unruly undisciplined fellow US CITIZENS who create a disturbance. (See the lieber code at “The Avalon project at Cornel university”.)

When we the people finally realize that a US CITIZEN is a slave position in the Federal Corporation, and that they have the power under the constitution for the united States only as Americans, will we start to become free. In our present indentured condition when the Federal Corporation of United States of America is finally financially broke their assets which is this land, and all of the US CITIZENS who have been pledged as collateral to the Foreclosure, will become the property of the Corporation holding the lien. We will become chattel to the lien holder. Will we be as obedient to the new Corporation/s as we have been to the old one? I sincerely hope not.

It will be hard for Americans to begin to look through their own eyes, and hear through their own ears which is true and which is Psychological operations. To become free we will have to start asking for the printed version of all news, contracts, and stories so we can begin to check the facts. I was astounded when I discovered me and my children were described under USC Title VII as an animal under the definitions “as having an invertebrate like, but not limited to a human”. The nature of our problem is in the definitions.

Till every American can stand on their own two feet without a dole from the Federal Government we will continue to be tradeable, salable, and killable servants of the Federal Corporations without question. When our local people who we elected to do our will become more interested in our will than that job like their's at the Federal Level we will begin to separate the Federal Territories from our homes and lands.

When we begin to teach our children right from wrong, and not legal from illegal, we will begin to establish the future of a free American homeland. If our kids know all about technology, but nothing about honor and truth they will continue to be ignorant.

There will be repercussions for starting to think this way. You and I will soon find that most of what currently supports our lives is a benefit, and when we stop doing the bows and curtsey's they will stop sending the checks. The very water in the faucet is their water. The electricity that drives our 67” TV is their Electricity. The phone lines and the connections are their services. These are the benefits of being a slave US Citizen. We the people created, built, and delivered these, and more to our Corporate masters in return for a Disturbance free life with 200 channels of TV, and 7 bars of cellular service, and a new car with on board GPS. Will we live long enough to see them disappear? I sure hope so.

There are millions of men and women with minds full of much better things than what we have. We just have to break our bonds, run their JBTs out of our Counties, and set down across from our neighbors to get them started.

We can be free!

If we really want it!

Ted Cruz Links ‘Gang of 8′ Amnesty Bill to ObamaCare, Ridicules ‘Fig Leaf’ Border Amendment

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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), the last Republican to speak on the floor before today’s shameful vote to advance the ’Gang of 8′ amnesty bill, gave a brief but powerful presentation showing up the open-borders Senators as supporting  bill that is just like ObamaCare, and does nothing to secure the border.

Cruz comparing the rushed, unread amnesty bill being rushed through only 72 hours after being introduced, without a single hearing on it to the health care bill – a clear blast at the 15 turncoat Republicans who have all endlessly denounced the way the Nancy Pelosi insisted her colleagues has to “pass (ObamaCare) so you can find out what’s in it“.

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Sessions Issues Statement On Tonight’s Procedural Vote To Advance 1,200-Page Substitute Immigration Bill

Monday, June 24, 2013

“The Gang of Eight and their allies revealed their true tactics tonight. They shut down debate and blocked amendments to a 1,200-page immigration bill that no one has read… This legislation is a crushing blow to the working people of this country, a surrender to illegality, and a capitulation to special interests over the interests of the citizens we pledged to represent.”

 

WASHINGTON—U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), a senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, issued the following statement after tonight’s vote:

 

“The sponsors of the Corker-Hoeven substitute fell short of the votes they expected tonight to advance what they had erroneously billed to other Senators as a strong border security amendment. Failure to capture the votes they anticipated for this motion demonstrates the building unease this 1,200-page legislative monstrosity has created. I expect that unease will increase as Senators learn more about what’s really inside this proposal.

 

The Gang of Eight and their allies revealed their true tactics tonight. They shut down debate and blocked amendments to a 1,200-page immigration bill that no one has read. It was anything but the open and fair process that they had promised.

 

What we know for absolute certain is that this bill guarantees three things: instantaneous amnesty, permanent lawlessness, and a massive expansion in legal immigration that will reduce wages for working Americans. This legislation is a crushing blow to the working people of this country, a surrender to illegality, and a capitulation to special interests over the interests of the citizens we pledged to represent.”

 

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Tired of Waiting for Answers: Darrell Issa Subpoenas Four State Dept. Officials for Benghazi Info

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 The chairman of the House Oversight Committee has subpoenaed four State Department officials as part of the panel’s investigation of the deadly assault on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, last year.

Republican Rep. Darrell Issa said in a statement and letter to Secretary of State John Kerry on Monday that delays in scheduling interviews with the officials were taking too long and he had no choice.

“These persistent delays create the appearance that the Department is dragging its feet to slow down the Committee’s investigation,” Issa wrote in the letter to Kerry. “It does not require weeks of preparation to answer questions truthfully. These delays also take us further in time away from the dates of the events in question.”

Subpoenas have been issued for Eric Boswell, the former Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of Diplomatic Security, Scott Bultrowicz, the former Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary and Director of the Diplomatic Security Service, Elizabeth Dibble, the former Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs ad Elizabeth Jones, the acting Assistant Secretary, Bureau Near Eastern Affairs.

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Personal Independence

 

Obviously, providing for own safety is only one facet of independent living. Being able and willing to work, having interpersonal skills to navigate the social environment are other necessary components.  
Those skills, more than material inheritance, are what caring parents should impart to their kids. These are skills that are taught only slightly or not at all in public schools.
 
In fact, public schools are trying to eradicate not just the ability for self-defense but the mere thought of it.

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