A very good Gun Rights group

I recommend The Gun Rights group Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership very highly. You do not need to be Jewish to join. They are working on a campaign to expose the BATFE's criminally abusive behavior against gun owners. JPFO also has many very good publications such as their "Gran'pa Jack" series of booklets, and the book Hope by Aaron Zelman and L. Neil Smith. Hope is almost a blueprint of what a good libertarian president would do. They also have documentaries such as Innocents Betrayed (which I appear in), and BATFE Fails the Test.

There are still others that also offer better choices than the NRA (which always seeks to compromise away our guns). Gun Owners of America and the Pink Pistols are two that come to mind.

...to Own and to Carry any Weapon...

Those of us who are interested in owning firearms and other defensive weapons put up with a lot of abuse at the hand of government. Do you realize that the Second Amendment does not give you the right to "keep and bear arms"? It recognizes a right that is yours simply because you were born Human. No part of the Bill of Rights even applies to you unless you work for government; then it tells you exactly what things you are absolutely prohibited to do. The rights existed before government; they will exist long after government is in the compost pile of history. Any politician or bureaucrat who violates any part of the Constitution or Bill of Rights has committed treason. Pass a gun law; go to prison. Kill a person while enforcing a gun law; die in prison. I will have more on counterfeit laws later. These are any law which prohibits or regulates something other than force or fraud. Almost all US laws are counterfeit. Real laws do not need to be "enforced". Counterfeit laws must NOT be enforced.

The "Time's Up" Flag

We have all seen the wonderful old Gadsden Flag with the coiled rattlesnake proclaiming "DONT TREAD ON ME". For hundreds of years it has warned enemies of freedom that we should not be provoked. For those same "hundreds of years" we have tolerated crimes by government without striking back, with a few notable exceptions. After all these years of being poked with the stick of government and stomped with jackboots, the snake has had enough. That is why I designed the "Time's Up" flag. It is the new flag of the resistance.

Blaming the Victim

I'm sure you have noticed, as have I, that frequently when we hear of a murder, rape, or other crime of violence, people say "if he hadn't been in the wrong part of town..." (whatever that means), or "if she wasn't wearing that_____...", or "you shouldn't flash money around that way", or some other drivel. This is called "blaming the victim". It is a psychological defense mechanism that allows us to delude ourselves that if only we behave a certain way, bad things will never happen to us, personally. I see a similar phenomenon in libertarian thought on occasion. Instead of blaming the heartless cop who is "only enforcing the law", or the soulless reavers of the IRS who steal the livelihood from our friends and neighbors, or the mindless bureaucrats who take up valuable space, we blame their victims. We insist that others fight back as WE believe they ought to, instead of seeing that they may have too much at stake to make a scene at this time. Or they may simply have other priorities. If you refuse to submit to a "driver's license", ignore income taxes, reject a Social Security Number, build without a permit, carry a gun without government permission, or any of the other nice ways we can fight back, then that is wonderful. I support your defiance 100%. Just do not despise your neighbor whose family would not survive if she went to jail for refusing to cooperate with the government criminals. She is not the problem; she is the victim. Blaming the victim is a mental defect that hides reality from your conscious mind.

Roads? Where we're going, we don't need ... roads!

Building onto the Eminent Domain theme has me thinking about roads. I am frequently asked how we will have roads if there is no government road program or fuel taxes. I think that all roads should be privatized. Everyone would own the road that runs through their property. Or if it runs along a boundary, they would own half of the road there. Now, If I owned half of the road in front of my property, would I want the bother of maintaining it, and the liability if someone was driving on it and was in an accident? No I wouldn't. Would I close off the road to travelers? I wouldn't, but I am sure some folks would. Would there be any profit in keeping the road open? Yes. No one, including me, wants a stupid toll-booth every hundred feet or so. So what would happen? I think that the market would soon find a workable solution. My hunch is that companies would form which would buy or lease roads from land-owners, taking on all costs and liabilities, but also most of the profits. These companies (not "corporations", which are a government creation)would probably sell a form of travel insurance or something of the sort that would permit travel upon their roadways and also guarantee against road hazards, and maybe even mechanical problems. They could also sell business locations along the shoulders. If you think this sounds unreasonable, go back to the title of this post. What would stop inventers from creating vehicles that don't use roads? The biggest stumbling block along this line has been (for over 50 years) the government regulations which cripple innovation. Does the FAA sound familiar? So you will have a choice: use the roads and pay a fee which would undoubtedly be less than the fuel taxes you pay now, or leave the surface entirely.

Eminent Domain

This is just a fancy way of describing theft by government. I realize this is a long-established practice, but it is still wrong. If you or I desperately want a certain piece of property, we must come up with the owner's asking price or find another piece of land. Disappointment stinks, but that is reality. Government should not own land, much less steal it. There is no such thing as "the common good" so using that excuse for theft is empty.

Reflections

I was reflecting today on the sad news of the death of the "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin. It is said he died "doing what he loved". That poses a question. Is it better to die doing what you love, or to live doing what you hate? I think every person finds that answer for themself. I know my answer.

On the "radio" with Gene Chapman

Give it a listen. Click Here Episode #25

OK. I think this blog is a "go".

As far as I can tell, I have gotten everything fixed now. I sure hope so. I am ready to start getting to the meat of the blog, and stop worrying over the technical details.

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Being new at this blogging thing, I am not sure what to say. I would ask that you go to my webpage and read my positions on the issues. Click on all the links, too. I am on a weekend vacation at the moment, with the family, so I will write more later.

I will let you know now, I am not a typical candidate. I do not "live and breathe" politics. Life is too important for that. There are things that get me worked up, though. Thanks for visiting!