North Carolina inn reopens after challenging government shutdown closure

 

A North Carolina mountain inn on public land has reopened for business after its owner took legal action to protest its closure by the National Park Service last week as part of the partial federal government shutdown.

Bruce O'Connell, whose family has run the Pisgah Inn along the Blue Ridge Parkway since the late 1970s, fought back after being forced to close his 51-room inn at the height of the fall tourism season.

More @ Townhall

HSLDA Files Romeike v. Holder with U.S. Supreme Court

 

Today the Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) filed a petition with the United States Supreme Court to hear Romeike v. Holder, the German homeschooling asylum case.

In April 2013, a three-judge panel of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals sustained the Obama administration’s revocation of asylum granted to the family in 2010.

The original immigration judge, Lawrence O. Burman, granted the Romeike family asylum on January 26, 2010, under the Federal Immigration and Naturalization Act (INA) because Germany’s national policy of suppressing homeschooling violated their religious faith and because German authorities were improperly motivated to suppress homeschoolers as a social group.

In its ruling against the Romeikes, the Sixth Circuit rejected the judge’s findings, stating that Germany’s harsh treatment of homeschoolers did not amount to persecution, and that the German authorities were not motivated by an improper purpose.

HSLDA Chairman and principal author of the petition, Michael Farris, said that the Court should intervene for the sake of justice.

“The United States should be a place of asylum for those who are persecuted because of their decision to follow their core religious beliefs,” he said. “Parents, not the government, decide first how children are educated. Germany’s notorious persecution of families who homeschool violates their own obligations to uphold human rights standards and must end.”

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John Ainsworth – The Face of A Freedom Fighter. Fall 2013 NC PATCON

Senator Moran Circulates Letter to Repudiate the UN Small Arms Treaty

 

“[GOA’s Larry] Pratt also contends that the U.N. has a terrible track record in protecting human life. He said the horrors in Rwanda are a perfect example of why the U.N. has no business deciding who should and should not have access to guns.” -- WorldNetDaily, June 2013

When you’re dealing with an adversary who hates the 2^nd Amendment as much as Barack Obama, you have to fight attacks coming from several different directions.

We know we’ve thrown a lot at you lately. But there’s one other issue we’d like to bring to your attention.
As you know, the Obama administration recently signed the virulently anti-gun UN Arms Trade Treaty (ATT).

Although purporting to regulate international trade in arms, the treaty empowers anti-gun administrations (such as Barack Obama’s) to institute internal gun control, including gun bans, gun registration, and more.  In fact, the drafters of the treaty made no secret of their goal of imposing measures such as microstamping on countries like the United States. 

GOA’s legislative counsel has done a word-by-word analysis of the treaty, which can be seen here.  If left unchecked, the treaty language will give rise a wide ranging series of gun control restrictions, as mentioned above.

Plus, it is entirely possible that, under the Supreme Court cases of Missouri v. Holland and Reid v. Covert, Obama could implement these restrictions without further legislation.  After all, we’ve already seen the President do an end-around Congress by issuing over 20 executive actions this year.

Gun owners will rightfully counter that the UN -- or the Congress or President for that matter -- has NO AUTHORITY to impose any of these gun restrictions upon us.  And those gun owners would be absolutely correct!

But if the President begins illegally implementing the UN treaty “by executive fiat” -- just as he has done through other executive actions -- then good people will go to jail for resisting these efforts and will have to defend their rights in court for simply exercising rights that were given to them by God.

This is why we have to raise a holy fuss right now, and thankfully, there are efforts underway in the Senate to do just that.

Earlier this year, with our support, an amendment offered by Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) to defund the ATT passed the Senate by a vote of 53-46. But that vote never became law.

Now, Senator Moran (R-KS) is circulating a letter calling upon the administration to withdraw its support of the treaty. A copy of that letter can be seen here.

The Moran letter raises six problems with the treaty that should be alarming, even to Senators who are not strongly pro-gun. These include the fact that the ATT was slammed through without consensus … it’s ambiguous … and it can be amended (and made even more restrictive) by the other nations which are parties to the treaty.

ACTION:  Click here to contact your Senators. Ask them to sign the Moran letter in opposition to the UN Arms Trade Treaty.

John Ainsworth at the Fall 2013 NC PATCON – Part 1

Security Cameras – Fall 2013 NC PATCON

Historic Flooding Across Colorado

Via Cousin Colby

 

Over the past few days, a 4,500-square-mile area across Colorado's Front Range has been hit by devastating floods, leaving at least six dead, forcing thousands to evacuate, and destroying thousands of homes and farms. Record amounts of rainfall generated flash floods that tore up roads and lines of communication, leaving many stranded, and hundreds still listed as missing. Evacuations are still underway as weather conditions have improved slightly. Forecasters predict drier weather by mid-week. Gathered here are recent images of the devastation in Colorado.  

More @ The Atlantic

You are the Southerner in 1861. You are marked for death. Right now.

NamSouth

"Well, Govan, if we must die, let us die like men."
Gen. Patrick R. Cleburne

Pat Buchanan writes this week about the visceral disgust of those on either side of our current ideological divide regarding Rightful Liberty and the moral authority to take the fruits of one's labors for the benefit of another, by force if necessary.

It has been recently noted that the last time America was this divided and angry, 700,000 or so of our Countrymen died, at the hands of other Americans.  The population in 1860 was about 31 million people.  The 700,000 dead represent about 2.25% of the population.  Today, 2.25% would be roughly seven million dead.

America was a far more "civilized" people in 1860 than today, and far less-dependent upon technology to feed the country and keep disease and famine at bay.  It was far more "religious".  Many Patriots believe that a return to the core tenets of Christianity will be required for any attempts at Restoration to be effective.

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NC Fall PATCON 2013: III CQB

III CQB Grass Mat

 
10/04/2013 - NC PATCON III CQB Class
0900 - Instructors: Sam & Holly
Class:  Mix of Ages and Gender, 12 participants (this later grew to a larger number by the theory of osmosis and kid curiosity)

Course Requirements:  To teach general knowledge of how to utilize what God has given you to quite effectively achieve an upper hand quickly and survive.  That person may be DHS, .gov, TSA, LEO, Neighbor, Bar Drunk or whatever.  Essentially you control their ass whoopin' or as put in class, "you can begin to go to work".

More @ The Steel Ibeam

The Steel Ibeam: NC PATCON - Fall 2013

                                                           III Spider with morning dew :)

First and foremost, the thank you's.

Thank you Brock once again for your hospitality to the Patriot community and allowing us to come together as brothers and sisters to share the fellowship with one another on your beautiful property.  

My gift from Michael Downing

Thank you Michael Downing for the gift as pictured above.  I will proudly use these knives with honor up here in Pennsyltucky.  Truth be told, we still have more pickups in our area with Confederate battle flag stickers, etc than NC does when driving down the highway. ;)

Thank you Sam & Holly for the III CQB class, as well as every sore muscle and bruise.  It was worth it!

Thank you Dan and Anita for taking the time to document the III CQB class.  This will eventually help us short term memory, Honda Odyssey hating, brandy drinking Patriots remember what we just learned.  :)

Thank you to all the speakers, the donators, and of course every single one of you Patriots that made it that day or that camped there.

 

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