“The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference – they deserve a place of honor with all that’s good”
~George Washington
“The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.”
~Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers at 184-188
“Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest.”
~Mahatma Gandhi
“The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.”
~ Thomas Jefferson
Attorney General Eric Holder
Eric Holder (Obama’s Attorney General): Make Assault Weapons Ban Permanent
CNN- Obama To BAN Guns SPREAD THIS FOLKS, PLZ!
Gun Store Owner – They Can’t Make Guns Fast Enough
Looks like the professional criminal class, politicians, including President Obama and Congressman Rush, two Chicago radical socialists, are coming after your guns.
Go out now and legally buy some before they pass this new law.
Load up on ammunition while you are at it.
President Obama will again take both sides of the issue, but gun owners know he wants to take their guns.
The Radical Socialist are going after your money, property, guns and free speech.
I no longer believe anything President Obama says.
He is reading from script bought and paid for by his political masters.
Follow the money.
HR45 Gun Control Holder Wants Medical Record Photo Fingerprints
Obama on Gun Control
Barack Obama Flip Flops on D.C. Gun Ban
BARACK OBAMA BUSTED FOR LYING ABOUT SUPPORTING HAND GUN BAN
A message to Obama and the liberals… respect firearms rights, and the rule of law.
Obama testing the ak47
LOL
Gun Control
“Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as the basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom.”
~John F. Kennedy
FILL YOUR HANDS !!! (True Grit)
Background Articles and Videos
The Mexican Excuse: Stealing Freedom
“…
Attorney General Eric Holder and President Obama wish to reinstate the assault weapons ban, a ban of specific types of semi-automatic weapons imposed on Americans during the Clinton Administration. Oddly, the types of weapons that were forbidden were seldom used in the commission of crimes. Despite President Obama’s campaign assertion that he is a supporter of the Second Amendment, the new administration is predictably going after the freedoms law abiding citizens are guaranteed in the constitution, using the excuse of preventing violence. This time the violence is in Mexico, and the excuse is that drug cartels are smuggling weapons from the US.
As President Obama indicated during the campaign, there are just a few gun-related changes that we would like to make, and among them would be to reinstitute the ban on the sale of assault weapons.
I think that will have a positive impact in Mexico, at a minimum.
Attorney General Eric Holder, to reporters on 25 Feb 2009
Holder’s words are revealing. You can be sure that “just a few gun-related changes” will morph into a very convoluted and restricting ban that will go as far as it dare to take as much freedom as it can from law abiding citizens. There is little evidence to support a ban. What they cannot steal openly they will take piecemeal. Excuses are easily found.
The State Department issued an official travel warning on Feb. 20, 2009:
Some recent Mexican army and police confrontations with drug cartels have resembled small-unit combat, with cartels employing automatic weapons and grenades. Large firefights have taken place in many towns and cities across Mexico, but most recently in northern Mexico, including Tijuana, Chihuahua City and Ciudad Juarez.
Previous Ban Expired in 2004 During the Bush Administration
By JASON RYAN WASHINGTON, Feb. 25, 2009
Previous Ban Expired in 2004 During the Bush Administration
“…The Obama administration will seek to reinstate the assault weapons ban that expired in 2004 during the Bush administration, Attorney General Eric Holder said today.
As President Obama indicated during the campaign, there are just a few gun-related changes that we would like to make, and among them would be to reinstitute the ban on the sale of assault weapons,” Holder told reporters.
Holder said that putting the ban back in place would not only be a positive move by the United States, it would help cut down on the flow of guns going across the border into Mexico, which is struggling with heavy violence among drug cartels along the border.
“I think that will have a positive impact in Mexico, at a minimum.” Holder said at a news conference on the arrest of more than 700 people in a drug enforcement crackdown on Mexican drug cartels operating in the U.S. …”
“…During his confirmation hearing, Holder told the Senate Judiciary Committee about other gun control measures the Obama administration may consider.
“I think closing the gun show loophole, the banning of cop-killer bullets and I also think that making the assault weapons ban permanent, would be something that would be permitted under Heller,” Holder said, referring to the Supreme Court ruling in Washington, D.C. v. Heller, which asserted the Second Amendment as an individual’s right to own a weapon. …”
“…Even before the inauguration, the new 111th Congress has fired the opening salvo in Obama’s widely anticipated “War on Guns.” Representative Bobby Rush (D-IL), with no cosponsors yet to sign on, introduced HR 45, the “Blair Holt’s Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act of 2009” on January 6, 2009. Once again, Congress has seen fit to play the “for-the-children” card to get traction from a tragedy, in this next proposed step towards victim disarmament. In its “Findings,” Congress proposes that “interstate commerce” (the commerce clause) is the basis for the “authority” to launch this bill and that the tragic end to Blair Holt’s life is somehow related:
“Congress finds that: (1) the manufacture, distribution, and importation of firearms is inherently commercial in nature; (2) firearms regularly move in interstate commerce; (3) to the extent that firearms trafficking is intrastate in nature, it arises out of and is substantially connected with a commercial transaction, which, when viewed in the aggregate, substantially affects interstate commerce; (4) because the intrastate and interstate trafficking of firearms are so commingled, full regulation of interstate commerce requires the incidental regulation of intrastate commerce; (5) gun violence in the United States is associated with the majority of homicides, over half the suicides, and two-thirds of non-fatal violent injuries; and (6) on the afternoon of May 10, 2007, Blair Holt, a junior at Julian High School in Chicago, was killed on a public bus riding home from school when he used his body to shield a girl who was in the line of fire after a young man boarded the bus and started shooting.”
HR 45 follows with, “It is the sense of the Congress that: (1) firearms trafficking is prevalent and widespread in and among the States, and it is usually impossible to distinguish between intrastate trafficking and interstate trafficking; and (2) it is in the national interest and within the role of the Federal Government to ensure that the regulation of firearms is uniform among the States, that law enforcement can quickly and effectively trace firearms used in crime, and that firearms owners know how to use and safely store their firearms.”
Note here the use of the word “trafficking,” as if guns were already an illegal, contraband substance and the attempt to commingle “interstate” with “intrastate.” The Supreme Court has already ruled that the “commerce clause” relates only interstate matters—where articles in commerce actually cross state lines. Commerce within a state, i.e., “intrastate” has been declared off limits for congressional intervention. …”
“…The presidential primary season is finally over, and it is now time for gun owners to take a careful look at just where nominee Barack Obama stands on issues related to the Second Amendment. During the primaries, Obama tried to hide behind vague statements of support for “sportsmen” or unfounded claims of general support for the right to keep and bear arms.
But his real record, based on votes taken, political associations, and long standing positions, shows that Barack Obama is a serious threat to Second Amendment liberties.Don’t listen to his campaign rhetoric!Look instead to what he has said and done during his entire political career.
FACT:Barack Obama opposes four of the five Supreme Court justices who affirmed an individual right to keep and bear arms. He voted against the confirmation of Alito and Roberts and he has stated he would not have appointed Thomas or Scalia.17
FACT: Barack Obama voted for an Illinois State Senate bill to ban and confiscate “assault weapons,” but the bill was so poorly crafted, it would have also banned most semi-auto and single and double barrel shotguns commonly used by sportsmen.18
FACT:Barack Obama voted to allow reckless lawsuits designed to bankrupt the firearms industry.1
FACT:Barack Obama wants to re-impose the failed and discredited Clinton Gun Ban.15
FACT:Barack Obama voted to ban almost all rifle ammunition commonly used for hunting and sport shooting.3
FACT:Barack Obama has endorsed a 500% increase in the federal excise tax on firearms and ammunition.9
FACT:Barack Obama has endorsed a complete ban on handgun ownership.2
FACT:Barack Obama supports local gun bans in Chicago, Washington, D.C., and other cities.4
FACT:Barack Obama voted to uphold local gun bans and the criminal prosecution of people who use firearms in self-defense.5
FACT:Barack Obama supports gun owner licensing and gun registration.6
FACT:Barack Obama refused to sign a friend-of-the-court Brief in support of individual Second Amendment rights in the Heller case.
FACT:Barack Obama opposes Right to Carry laws.7
FACT:Barack Obama was a member of the Board of Directors of the Joyce Foundation, the leading source of funds for anti-gun organizations and “research.”8
FACT:Barack Obama supported a proposal to ban gun stores within 5 miles of a school or park, which would eliminate almost every gun store in America.9
FACT:Barack Obama voted not to notify gun owners when the state of Illinois did records searches on them.10 …”
(US) A military command to put a weapon’s safety catch on, and load it with ammunition.
1949 — John Wayne in the film Sands of Iwo Jima
Lock and load, boy, lock and load.
(slang) To prepare for an imminent event.
Chuck Norris: An Outlaw’s Worst Nightmare?
Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) Tramples on Second Amendment with HR-45
Killer of American Dreams: Barack Obama Radical Socialist
Federal Budget Deficit Will Reach Levels Never Seen Before in U.S.
The budget deficit is projected to grow to 18 percent of GDP by 2082 even if the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts are allowed to expire and the AMT is not fixed. This will be driven by entitlement spending for Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, with deficits well above the 30-year historical average of 2.5 percent. Deficits of this size have never been seen in the U.S. and illustrate the need to reform these programs.
Federal Budget Deficit as a Percentage of GDP, 1962–2082
Source: Deficit Data from CBO Long-Term Budget Outlook, December 2007 (Extended Baseline Scenario).
The Flim-Flam Man (1967) George C. Scott & Slim Pickens
Washington News – Fiscal Responsibility Summit – Bloomberg
Obama: Cut deficit we inherited ($1.3T) by half 1st term, US Budget – Exercise in deception!
Obama Tries To Reconcile The Recovery Package w/ His Call For Fiscal Responsibility
Hillary Begs China to Buy Debt/Gold Almost Hits $1000- Glenn Beck
Dirty Little Secret – Universal Healthcare? Social Security?
I.O.U.S.A. Bonus Reel: Deficits and Social Security
I.O.U.S.A. Bonus Reel: A $53 Trillion Federal Financial Hole
Who does the political class in Washington D.C. think they are kidding talking about fiscal responsibility.
The political elites of both political parties in Washington D.C. are the most fiscally irresponsible in the entire history of the United States.
The professional politicians are lying and misleading the American people.
They have zero credibility. They are joke gone terrible bad.
You got to be kidding. They are all con men.
I for one am not buying into this play acting.
In early 2011 President Obama will rescind much of the 2011 and 2012 spending in the stimulus bill as not being needed as the economy recovers.
Why?
To be able to say that he has cut the deficits by 50% and stop the threat of increasing inflation.
To get to the 50% mark President Obama will drastically cut military spending just like President Clinton did.
When he runs again for President in 2012 Obama could then claim he is a fiscal responsible President.
In other words much of the stimulus spending now getting a lot the attention will be sacrificed for the greater good of an Obama second term.
Without having a line item veto, saying you will examine every item in a budget or bill is an exercise in reading not cutting spending.
Presidents submit budgets and Congress passes spending bills.
Presidents sign or veto bills not items in a bill.
Also, Social Security surpluses have been spent every year and are considered to be off budget and in eight years will be in deficit.
Background Articles and Videos
The perfect metaphor for Obama’s suck-up summit
By Michelle Malkin • February 23, 2009 05:18 PM
“…If you missed the media coverage of President Obama’s suck-up fiscal responsibility summit today, you are lucky.
It was nauseating.
Republicans including John McCain and Eric Cantor joined Democrat tax cheat Charlie Rangel and spendocrat Henry Waxman, along with Obama corrupto-cronies such as the SEIU’s Andy Stern in a boot-licking session with Dear Leader.
He gathered them all in a press conference setting and called on them as if they were journalistic stenographers.
Obama paid lip service to bipartisanship. They paid lip service to bipartisanship. Obama declared the need to fix health care. They declared the need to fix health care. Obama said we had budget problems. They nodded their heads and bemoaned our budget problems.
“…Social Security in the United States currently refers to the federal Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI) program.
The original Social Security Act[1] and the current version of the Act, as amended[2] encompass several social welfare or social insurance programs. The larger and better known initiatives of the program are:
Federal Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance
Unemployment benefits
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families
Health Insurance for Aged and Disabled (Medicare)
Grants to States for Medical Assistance Programs (Medicaid)
State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP)
Supplemental Security Income (SSI)
U.S. Social Security is a social insurance program funded through dedicated payroll taxes called Federal Insurance Contributions Act (FICA). Tax deposits are formally entrusted to[3] Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund, or Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund, Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund or the Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Fund. The main part of the program is sometimes abbreviated OASDI (Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance) or RSDI (Retirement, Survivors, and Disability Insurance). When initially signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 as part of his New Deal, the term Social Security covered unemployment insurance as well. The term, in everyday speech, is used to refer only to the benefits for retirement, disability, survivorship, and death, which are the four main benefits provided by traditional private-sector pension plans. In 2004 the U.S. Social Security system paid out almost $500 billion in benefits.[4] By dollars paid, the U.S. Social Security program is the largest government program in the world and the single greatest expenditure in the federal budget, with 20.9% for social security and 20.4% for Medicare/Medicaid, compared to 20.1% for military expenditure. [5] Social Security is currently the largest social insurance program in the U.S., constituting 37% of government expenditure and 7% of the gross domestic product[6] and is currently estimated to keep roughly 40% of all Americans age 65 or older out of poverty.[7] The Social Security Administration is headquartered in Woodlawn, Maryland, just to the west of Baltimore.
Largely because of the rise of neoliberalism, Social Security privatization became a major political issue for more than three decades during the presidencies of Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush. …”
“…The process of creating the budget for the United States Government is known as the budget process. The framework used by Congress to formulating the budget was established by the Budget and Accounting Act of 1921[1], the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974[2], and by other budget legislation.
Congressional consideration of the federal budget begins once the President of the United States submits a budget request, which is formulated over a period of months with the assistance of the Office of Management and Budget, the largest office within the Executive Office of the President. The budget request includes funding requests for all federal executive departments and independent agencies.
The President submits the budget request each year to Congress for the following fiscal year, as required by the Budget and Accounting Act of 1921. Current law (31 U.S.C. 1105(a))[3] requires the President to submit a budget no earlier than the first Monday in January, and no later than the first Monday in February. Typically, Presidents submit budgets on the first Monday in February.
The President’s budget request constitutes an extensive proposal of the administration’s intended spending and revenue plans for the following fiscal year. The budget proposal includes volumes of supporting information intended to persuade Congress of the necessity and value of the budget provisions. In addition, each federal executive department and independent agency provides additional detail and supporting documentation to Congress on its own funding requests.
The next step is the drafting of a budget resolution. The United States House Committee on the Budget and the United States Senate Committee on the Budget are responsible for drafting budget resolutions. Following the traditional calendar, by early April both committees finalize their drafts and submit it to their respective floors for consideration and adoption.
A budget resolution, which is one form of a concurrent resolution, binds Congress, but is not a law, and so does not require the President’s signature. The budget resolution serves as a blueprint for the actual appropriation process, and provides Congress with some control over the appropriations process. No new spending authority, however, is provided until appropriation bills are enacted.
Once both houses pass the resolution, selected Representatives and Senators negotiate a conference report to reconcile differences between the House and the Senate versions. The conference report, in order to become binding, must be approved by both the House and Senate.
The federal government’s fiscal year currently begins on October 1st and ends on September 30th of the next calendar year. The federal fiscal year’s starting date was shifted from July 1 to October 1 in 1976. The period between the end of FY1976 and the start of FY1977 was called the Transition Quarter. An earlier shift in the U.S. government’s fiscal year was made in the 1850s. …”
“…
In general, funds for Federal Government programs must be authorized by an “authorizing committee” through enactment of legislation. Then, through subsequent acts by Congress, budget authority is then appropriated by the Appropriations Committees of the House and Senate. In principle, committees with jurisdiction to authorize programs make policy decisions, while the Appropriations Committees decide on funding levels, limited to a program’s authorized funding level, though the amount may be any amount less than the limit.
In practice, the separation between policy making and funding, and the division between appropriations and authorization activities are imperfect. Authorizations for many programs have long lapsed, yet still receive appropriated amounts. Other programs that are authorized receive no funds at all.[citation needed] In addition, policy language — that is legislative text changing permanent law — is included in appropriation measures. …”
“…But Madoff’s scam was small compared to Ponzi schemes the government itself runs: Social Security and Medicare.
By now we all know the government does not invest our payroll taxes and pay our benefits with the profits our money earns. In the beginning, writes economic historian Charlotte Twight in “Dependent on D.C.”, Americans were told Social Security was an insurance program. But the government was unable to sustain that bald lie.
In reality, our money, rather than being invested and kept in an actual “trust fund,” is immediately given to current retirees in Social Security benefits or to their healthcare providers in Medicare benefits. The government’s promise to pay for your retirement pension and medical care is just a promise. And a lie.
In theory, the promise could be kept by raising taxes on future workers, but there won’t be enough of them. Changing demographics are destroying the programs. A large working class can support a relatively small retired class, especially when life expectancy is 61 years and benefits don’t begin until 65. That’s how things were in the early years of Social Security. But when life expectancy grows to 80 and a large generational group — the baby boomers — retires expecting to be supported by a far smaller working class, that’s trouble. …”
Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.
~Miguel de Cervantes
Do not say you were not forewarned about Barack Obama and his radical socialism.
Many including me have blogged and discussed on talk radio the issues mentioned by Michael Savage, Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Bill Bennett, Alan Keyes, and many many more.
The pump and dump drive-by mainstream media shut-up and said nothing about the radical socialism roots of Barack Obama.
The American people did not knowingly vote for a radical socialist.
Had the American people been informed about Obama’s roots and views they would never had voted for him.
Big media failed the American people and are no longer trusted.
OBAMA FABIAN SOCIALIST STORM
Michael Savage – Compares Obama and The History of Fascism
Michael Savage says President Obama Will Destroy the Middle Class
Jonah Goldberg on Glenn Beck Explaining the Socialist Agenda Behind the Stimulus Bill
Glenn Beck, “Road to Socialism: Should we nationalize U.S. banks?”
Glenn Beck on Obama’s ‘Change’: Socialism
Glenn Beck’s Comrade Update
Sean Hannity showing how history repeats itself
Rush Limbaugh on Hannity – I hope Obama Fails with His Socialist Agenda – Part 2
CNN: Barack Obama’s opposition to Born Alive Act
Values Voters Summit – Bill Bennett – Part 4 of 4
Obama Citizenship: I Invented The Internet (Ep. 6: October Surprise)
Dr. Alan Keyes – “Obama is a Radical Communist – Will Destroy America!”
EMERGENCY; Warning to All U.S.A. Citizens – Obama and Ayers
Join the counter-revolution while you still have a chance.
Only a grassroot movement of individuals will result in 100 times this picture occupying Washington D.C. on April 15, 2009 at The Rally for the American Plan of A Tax Holiday and The FairTax.
Background Articles and Videos
Obama’s Radical Revolution:Its Alinsky Root and Global Vision
By Kyle-Anne Shiver
“…Saul Alinsky was the father of community organizing. Before Alinsky devised his diabolical plan to bring the international socialist revolution to America — working within the very liberal and free system upon which the U.S. was founded — he was an older fellow traveler and advisor to student radicals of the 1960s.
Alinsky was a sort of father figure, to whom many radicals turned in the aftermath of the infamous DNC Convention of 1968 in Chicago. His advice?
“Do one of three things. One, go find a wailing wall and feel sorry for yourselves. Two, go psycho and start bombing — but this will only swing people to the right. Three, learn a lesson. Go home, organize, build power and at the next convention, you be the delegates.” (emphasis in original)
– Saul Alinsky; Rules for Radicals; p. xxiii
Calm down. Forget “burning the system down.” Organize. Organize. Organize. Work within the system. Become the delegates. …”
“…Obama did everything Alinsky prescribed. He went to Chicago, home of Alinsky and the place where Davis had worked for the communist revolution. Obama trained at the Industrial Areas Foundation, an Alinsky training institute. He organized in Chicago and did voter registration and training for ACORN. He went to law school. He built political alliances. He kept a tight lock on his records and his past.
As for Judeo/Christian morals. Forget it. Alinsky trained his radicals in the spirit of no-holds-barred methods. In Alinsky’s mind, the American power structure was evil to its core and justified any means necessary to change the “world as it is” into the “world as it should be.” Both Barack and Michelle Obama include these Alinsky code words in their speeches, and we should not mistake their meaning. No means are out of bounds.
Many of these radical revolutionaries have already bombed and burned. Lying, cheating and stealing are just more par for their revolutionary course.
Alinsky’s tenth rule of the ethics of means: “You do what you can with what you have and clothe it with moral garments.”
“…Obama’s one piece of signature legislation in the Senate is the Global Poverty Act, aimed at curing what socialists deem as the root cause of all violence and war — poverty.
Barack Obama and the Strategy of Manufactured Crisis
By James Simpson
“…America waits with bated breath while Washington struggles to bring the U.S. economy back from the brink of disaster. But many of those same politicians caused the crisis, and if left to their own devices will do so again.
Despite the mass media news blackout, a series of books, talk radio and the blogosphere have managed to expose Barack Obama’s connections to his radical mentors — Weather Underground bombers William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, Communist Party member Frank Marshall Davis and others. David Horowitz and his Discover the Networks.org have also contributed a wealth of information and have noted Obama’s radical connections since the beginning.
Yet, no one to my knowledge has yet connected all the dots between Barack Obama and the Radical Left. When seen together, the influences on Obama’s life comprise a who’s who of the radical leftist movement, and it becomes painfully apparent that not only is Obama a willing participant in that movement, he has spent most of his adult life deeply immersed in it.
But even this doesn’t fully describe the extreme nature of this candidate. He can be tied directly to a malevolent overarching strategy that has motivated many, if not all, of the most destructive radical leftist organizations in the United States since the 1960s. …”
“…In this belief, Obama has high-powered company. He is joined by a cabal of international socialists, especially his biggest-moneyed backer, George Soros. Soros himself backs a global tax on wealthy countries, especially the United States. And Soros, like Obama, believes that the Global War on Terror is ill-intentioned and based on the desire of conservatives to build lasting American hegemony.
The current economic meltdown, coupled with the well-laid foundation of socialist radicals throughout this Country, now threaten to bring America closer than we’ve ever been to joining the international collective. And Barack Obama has demonstrated that he will do anything — anything — it takes to be The One to close their long-envisioned revolutionary deal. …”
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