Nemo Me Impune Lacessit

Today in history

COMMENTS I’VE POSTED

1. Posted to Facebook here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here —

   Nor should these collectivist “ideologies” (anti-semitism also included here) have any place in the libertarian community.

   Armed Equality
   Friday, January 17, 2020 at 3:30 PM

   Racism, homophobia, transphobia, and sexism have NO place in the American 2nd Amendment Community.

   This is the way.

LISTENING / READING / WATCHING

1. Target Books — Doctor Who: The Faceless Ones by Terrance Dicks
2. Vickers Tactical by Larry Vickers — PP-19 Bizon [YouTube]
3. What If — What If We Terraformed the Moon? [YouTube] 
4. Mastodon — Remission
5. The Commonwealth: The Chronicle of the Fallers, Book 1 — The Abyss Beyond Dreams by Peter F. Hamilton
6. SIG Sauer — SIG SAUER MG 338 Machine Gun [YouTube]
7. Metal Church — Masterpeace

Today in history

COMMENTS I’VE POSTED

1. Posted to Facebook —

   If you want to run as an independent, you should probably change your voter registration to DTS (“Decline To State”) ASAP (as in this morning, 5 minutes after your county clerk’s office opens, and make sure you get paperwork from them documenting the change), as you have to run with whatever affiliation you have when the Governor’s Proclamation comes out (usually the last week of January).

2. Posted to Facebook —

   You might have to be part of a Lincoln Chafee presidential campaign, for one. Even if you’re not planning on running until 2022, some of the Tapeworm’s patsies might insist that you “make your bones” in 2020 before being considered for anything in 2022.

   I saw how the LNC refused to even censure Mr Bill the Original Weldist after

   1. his 3 August 2016 interview on Revolt TV (“take a pin out of an AR-15 and it becomes full auto”),

      https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Revolt+TV+Weld

      https://revolt.tv/2016/8/3/20816846/watch-our-interview-with-libertarian-vice-presidential-nominee-william-weld

      https://bearingarms.com/bob-o/2016/08/12/bill-weld-just-compared-ar-15s-weapons-mass-destruction-said-pistols-even-worse/

      https://nraila.org/articles/20160826/libertarian-vp-candidate-william-f-weld-continues-to-be-anti-gun

   2. his 29 August 2016 interview with Yahoo! News (where he said “I’ve always supported the individual mandate” of Obamacare),

      https://youtu.be/MqcoF9oqW-w?t=420

   3. then he went on the Rachel Maddow show where he was “vouching” for Hillary Clinton (“because somebody besides the DNC should speak up for her”),

      https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Weld+Maddow+Clinton+2016

   4. how in September 2016, he donated 400 bucks to New Hampshire Republican gubernatorial candidate Chris Sununu, while not donating a penny to Max Abramson, the Libertarian running against Sununu.

      https://bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2016/09/22/libertarian-for-life-donates-gop-candidate/24GPl5Aaa0AOXWpQeFeKgI/story.html

      https://independentpoliticalreport.com/2016/10/libertarian-party-of-new-hampshire-censured-governor-bill-weld/

   I hereby predict that a Chafee presidential campaign on the LP ticket will be more of the above.

3. Posted to Facebook —

   I recommend reading “Down By Law,” by the late, great Victor Milan —

   https://ncc-1776.org/tle1997/le970301-07.html

4. Posted to Facebook —

   How about the Democrats take a four-year break from making government more intrusive and expensive?

5. Posted to Facebook —

   If they absolutely have to have bus service along Central, simply shut down the DingleBerry Express and bring back the Rapid Ride?

   Except that the Rapid Ride never went away at all, did it?

   The DingleBerry Express is nothing more than a gentrified Route 66.

6. Posted to Facebook —

   They pull out all the stops to shut down the petrochemical industry, but sure are happy to use the taxes they get from it to fund their legalized vote buying schemes public schools and welfare state “social safety net”.

7. Posted to Facebook —

   What part of Article XX, Section I allows Lujan-Grisham or her buddies in the Legislature willfully disregard parts of the State or federal Constitutions that they don’t like, such as Article II, Section 6 or the Second Amendment, respectively?

LISTENING / READING / WATCHING

1. military.com — Former Navy SEAL, Harvard Doctor to Be First Korean-American in Space by Blake Stilwell
2. Task & Purpose — SEAL, Doctor, Astronaut – Navy Lt. Jonny Kim achieves your childhood dreams so you don’t have to by David Roza
3. AmmoLand Shooting Sports News —
   1. Conspiracy to Commit Theft of Your Legal Arms? File a Police Report by Jim Pope (Retired Captain, Columbus Police Department, Columbus, GA)
   2. Why Journalists and Politicians are Frightened by Armed Defense by Rob Morse
   3. First Gun Bills Hit Virginia’s Senate Judiciary Monday by John Crump
   4. Virginia Democrats Break Precedent, Ban Guns and Knives in State Capitol by Dean Weingarten
4. Cable News Network [CNN] — Potential super-Earth found orbiting the nearest star from our sun by Ashley Strickland, CNN
5. Virginia Public Media [VPM] — Democrats Ban Guns Inside Virginia Capitol Building by Ben Paviour
6. Reason — Justin Amash’s Biggest Fiscally Conservative National Donors Are Abandoning His Re-election Bid by Matt Welch
7. The Commonwealth: The Chronicle of the Fallers, Book 1 — The Abyss Beyond Dreams by Peter F. Hamilton
8. Manowar —
   1. Louder Than Hell
   2. Warriors of the World

Today in history

COMMENTS I’VE POSTED

1. Posted to Facebook here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here —

   A. Blair Dunn
   Wednesday, January 15, 2020 at 8:35 AM

   SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS – Many that follow me on Social Media will have seen my posts that lament what I see to be a despotic judicial branch promoted and protected by my profession that tramples our civil liberties with absolute immunity for their actions. One need look no further than the propaganda from Mr. Frost submitted to the Albuquerque Journal linked below. Unfortunately, we must look further and we must be aware how deep seated this problem is, last night at a function that I attended, when asked what his expectations were for dealing with County Sheriffs (Tony Mace) that refused to enforce his red-flag law, State Representative Damon Ely stated that he expected for the Attorney General to have those Sheriffs removed from office. Think about that for a minute, the response of the hard left progressives to the citizens pushing back against an unconstitutional infringement of their fundamental liberties is to say that they will remove the person elected by the people to protect those rights. I was shocked last night when he said this, but as I looked around the room filled with lawyers and state and federal judges I saw only a few faces in the room that shared my look of horror at this statement. We the people of New Mexico stand at the precipice the same revolution that we are witnessing in Virginia. The tyranny of the government in this state is every bit as real as what our countrymen face in Virginia and what our Founders faced.

   The Ninth Amendment to the United States Constitution states that “The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.” One of those rights retained by the people is the right to confront and abolish a despotic government. Why do I say it is a right retained by the people, I would ask you to consider what our Declaration of Independence, which is the truly foundational document for our Republic, says:

   “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”

   Twice the in that paragraph our Founders recognized a RIGHT to dispose of a despotic government. The first states plainly that “it is the RIGHT of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government.” The second time go even further stating that not only is it our RIGHT as people, but it is our DUTY to throw off such Government. Thus, the idea that a tyrannical Attorney General with aid of the judiciary can override the RIGHTS of the people to have a Sheriff, who is doing his DUTY, removed is patently offensive to the very principles upon which our Republic was established.

   So I must therefore urge my fellow New Mexicans and Americans to be wary and gird yourself for the coming battles, tyranny comparable to what lead to our first revolution is upon us, even if it is not already here.

   https://abqjournal.com/1409007/letters-212.html

2. Posted to Facebook —

   Don’t forget Dumpster Fire.

   https://facebook.com/Vote.Dumpster.Fire

3. Posted to Facebook —

   Art. XX section 1 of the New Mexico Constitution requires that all elected officials in New Mexico take an oath to “support the constitution of the United States and the constitution and laws of this state, and that he will faithfully and impartially discharge the duties of his office to the best of his ability.” It does not say that elected officials can pick and choose which parts of the Constitution to follow (or willfully ignore, such as Article II, Section 6) based on their own interpretation of the Constitution. Pretty god damned simple and easy to understand.

4. Posted to Facebook —

   “The Ninth Amendment blah blah — “One of those rights retained by the people is the right to confront and abolish a despotic government.” Really ? Delusional thinking and You tread too close to advocating the violent overthrow of the government – – etc etc. The idea that elected officials could choose and pick with parts of the constitution to uphold and which to ignore is pure anarchist bull shit.”

   Except that elected officials not only DO pick and choose what parts of the State and federal Constitutions to follow — specifically Article II, Section 6 and the Second Amendment, respectively — but they do so almost with a particular glee about it.

5. Posted to Facebook —

   As a Libertarian or as a libertarian?

   If the latter, I recommend either the county clerk’s office or the Secretary of State’s office, depending on the office. And I wish you every success.

LISTENING / READING / WATCHING

1. If At First . . . by Peter F. Hamilton
2. KUPT 29 TV [Heroes & Icons (H&I) affiliate for Albuquerque, New Mexico] —
   1. Star Trek
   2. Star Trek: The Next Generation
   3. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
   4. Star Trek: Voyager
   5. Star Trek: Enterprise

Today in history

COMMENTS I’VE POSTED

1. Posted to Facebook —

   Yep. Already covered that on Mr Bill the Original Weldist.

   https://facebook.com/Mr.Bill.the.Original.Weldist

2. Posted to Facebook here and here —

   https://imgflip.com/i/3llgkk

   

3. Posted to Facebook —

   Waiting to see if my rebuttal to Frost gets printed.

4. Posted to Facebook —

   It might have started off as a Vor’cha class, but has since become a whole ‘nother class in its own right.

5. Posted to Facebook and Spreely —

   My personal page on Spreely

   https://spreely.com/page/mikewb1971

6. Posted to Facebook —

   I’m waiting to see if the Journal prints it before posting it elsewhere. After they do, or it’s clear that they won’t, I’ll put it up on my personal blog and on The Weekly Sedition blog.

7. Posted to Facebook —

   With the Journal, you basically have to wait and see. At least, that’s been my experience.

8. Posted to Spreely —

   Maybe they’re hoping for sales from pedophiles?

LISTENING / READING / WATCHING

1. The Commonwealth: The Void Trilogy, Book 3 — The Evolutionary Void by Peter F. Hamilton
2. KUPT 29 TV [Heroes & Icons (H&I) affiliate for Albuquerque, New Mexico] —
   1. Star Trek
   2. Star Trek: The Next Generation
   3. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
   4. Star Trek: Voyager
   5. Star Trek: Enterprise
3. The Church of Euthanasia, a reflection. by Vermin Supreme
4. The Washington Free Beacon — Bloomberg: Xi Jinping Is ‘Not a Dictator’ by Graham Piro
5. KRQE News — Local News: APD launches gun sale background check sting operation by Chris McKee
6. Cable News Network [CNN] — Australia’s indigenous people have a solution for the country’s bushfires. And it’s been around for 50,000 years by Leah Asmelash, CNN