Tom Gear: Out Of Line… And Apparently Off His Rocker

As everyone in Virginia politics knows, this weekend is the Republican Party of Virginia state convention. In the last week, a gnarled up, washed up crank of a former Delegate, Tom Gear (R-Hampton) has been pushing out emails about the Republican candidates for Lieutenant Governor. He apparently sent out his own questionnaire to all of them, and the questions were…not worded favorably. That is, except to Gear’s old friend from the General Assembly, Scott Lingamfelter. He made that one quite a bit easier.

Only three candidates responded. Those were Scott Lingamfelter, Jeannemarie Davis, and Susan Stimpson. His emails have had the title of “Taking (candidate name) To The Woodshed” in the case of those who didn’t respond to his questionnaire. He first attacked E.W. Jackson for his lack of experience… And his personal financial troubles. That’s rich, considering Del. Gear’s own sketchy financial problems. I bet he didn’t count on anyone doing a little research of their own, did he? He went on to attack Susan Stimpson, who in my judgment, fared pretty well in answering his survey and setting him straight about some pretty obvious distortions. He responded by attacking her:

she comes across as a “angry soccer mom”, in showng her disdain for the Transportation plan passed Susan turned on those that helped gain her seat in public office and that alone troubles me greatly. Susan Stimpson greatest problem is she has fallen in with the extreme Libertarian fringe of the Republican Party and these are the folks that have proven to be the downfall for our nominees.

This tells me where Gear is coming from. He wants the Republican Party of Virginia to keep doing what it’s been doing. How has that worked out for us?
He also attacked Davis for her answers, granted, she’s an easy target. And he attacked Pete Snyder for not answering, and as readers of this blog know, that’s no big trick either. He’s clearly out to boost Lingamfelter, and I have no doubt that’s how he got the email contact list he’s been pushing out this nonsense to.

The Republican Liberty Caucus of Virginia sent out a survey to every Republican candidate for statewide office. We didn’t attack anyone for their answers or failure to respond. This is politics at its worst. In sum, Gear is just trying to draw attention to himself and help Lingamfelter by trashing everyone else. He needs to shut his yap. Hard.

On Kokesh’s Carry March

I hate giving Adam Kokesh any time or publicity. Frankly, Kokesh is all about Kokesh and the publicity for his stunts. Kokesh is not about freedom; he’s just an attention whore – a self aggrandizing assclown, who got booted out of the Marines for engaging in political activity in uniform, something that is verboten in the armed forces, and so easily understood, that a retarded chihuahua could get it.  But whatever… We have the freedom to be opportunistic, self-promoters in this country.

When I heard about this planned march in Washington DC the other day, I had to kind of wonder what the point of it is.  The plan is to get 1,000 people to march in Washington DC with rifles on Independence Day.

On the morning of July 4, 2013, Independence Day, we will muster at the National Cemetery & at noon we will step off to march across the Memorial Bridge, down Independence Avenue, around the Capitol, the Supreme Court, & the White House, then peacefully return to Virginia across the Memorial Bridge. This is an act of civil disobedience, not a permitted event. We will march with rifles loaded & slung across our backs to put the government on notice that we will not be intimidated & cower in submission to tyranny. We are marching to mark the high water mark of government & to turn the tide.

Now, I’m all about civil disobedience. I think that sometimes, it’s the only way to draw attention to unconstitutional laws and government abuses. I support the idea in spirit, but I can see some problems in this poorly-planned attempt to garner attention.  Especially the following line in the protest’s Facebook page: This will be a non-violent event, unless the government chooses to make it violent.

Goodness! This only sounds vaguely threatening, doesn’t it?

Kokesh claims that if met with physical force, they will peacefully turn back and go back to Virginia. Like anyone wants him and his retarded posse here in the Old Dominion.

Arlington National Cemetery prohibits firearms unless you’re part of an official funeral and the firearm is part of your full dress uniform or you’re a LEO.

Firearms are prohibited on federal property, unless it’s part of your job.

I don’t agree with these policies, and I don’t like them. I would choose to work to change them through legal channels.

Kokesh is trying to gather together a bunch of goobers to intentionally violate the law – to somehow show that peaceable armed citizens aren’t welcome in DC. Well NO SHIT SHERLOCK! We didn’t know this before?

It’s not like Kokesh thinks his little tard march is going to change federal policies! His specific purpose is to show “that free people are not welcome in Washington, & returning with the resolve that the politicians, bureaucrats, & enforcers of the federal government will not be welcome in the land of the free.” Um, yeah. OK. You going to stop them? Doubt it.

Acts of civil disobedience are non-violent resistance to tyranny. They don’t include threats of violence if the government turns violent on the protest. They are many times intended to provoke arrests and physical violence against the protesters. This is an act to show what we already know. Stupid and pretty much pointless. And it could turn ugly.

But whatever…

I have a real problem with the current Dominatrix-in-Chief of the DC Police. This is the same woman whose police force didn’t even bother investigating media maggot David Gregory for intentionally and with full knowledge committing a firearms violation in DC, while studiously destroying the life of a military veteran for inadvertently doing the same.

This is the same woman whose department allowed the filthy, foul, criminal Occutards to smell up and soil our capital city with not so much as a slap on the wrist.

But now she’s promising that her posse will meet Kokesh’s protesters should they choose to violate DC’s firearms laws and march into the city.

What’s even more amusing is that this petty, tyrannical bureaucrat really doesn’t understand the whole point of civil disobedience.

[Cathy] Lanier said there’s a difference between civil disobedience and violation of the law. It is legal for D.C. residents to have registered firearms in their homes, but they may not carry them in public.

“Passing into the district with loaded firearms is a violation of the law and it will be treated as such,” Lanier said during an interview with NewsChannel 8.

Ummm…. what?

The very definition of civil disobedience is the active, professed refusal to obey certain laws. That is the whole point! But apparently, in Lanier’s eyes, it only applies to Occutards, whom she actively refused to eject even when their protest permits expired and they basically squatted in McPherson Square, along with their garbage, excrement and other trash.

Apparently, that’s OK. But a bunch of ostensibly peaceful protesters – no matter how misguided – will be arrested.

Yeah, Kokesh is nothing more than an agent provocateur, intent on escaping his own irrelevance.

But Lanier and crew… they’re petty, authoritarian swine, who obviously don’t think the law should apply equally to those with whose political agenda they disagree. And that makes them a lot more foul in my book.

New Strategery: go after the gun store

So apparently, the store that sold the Bushmaster and the Sig handgun to Nancy Lanza in March 2011 and 2012, has had more than 500 violations of federal laws and regulations.

This would be news if the store had sold guns to Nancy Lanza illegally, which apparently it did not, according to the article.

Among the “willful violations” found from January 2010 to July 2011 at Riverview Gun Sales in East Windsor, Conn.: A senior store employee “sold ammunition on at least two occasions” to a man “he had reason to believe was a felon.”

It’s the same employee who sold the Bushmaster XM15 rifle to Nancy Lanza on March 29, 2010, that her son, Adam Lanza, used at Sandy Hook Elementary School to kill 26 people on Dec. 14, ATF records show.

Records of the violations obtained by The Journal News give no indication any of the violations involved sales to Nancy Lanza or the Newtown massacre.

So…

A store which had some incorrectly filled out information on its 4473 forms, and had nothing to do with the Newtown massacre is now being highlighted in the media and closed down by ATF.

More interestingly, the ATF didn’t go after said store, even though it was aware of these violations, as they date all the way back to 2007. But apparently it wasn’t a big deal until Sandy Hook.

And it had nothing to do with Sandy Hook.

So why is this news?

Bloomberg to Spend Immeasurable Wealth to Deprive Americans of Their Rights (UPDATED)

I wonder how many Democrats will cry about the influence of money in politics when one of their own (yes, I know he claims to be a Republican, but he is, in fact, a former Democrat who ran on the GOP ticket to make it easier for himself to get elected, and left the Republican Party five years ago – and y’all can’t tell me Michael Bloomberg is in any way not a nanny state Democrat!) spends millions to push his political, nanny-state, authoritarian swinery!

The $12 million ad blitz targeting senators wavering on gun control will be just the beginning, Mayor Bloomberg warned Sunday.

“I have a responsibility … to try to make this country safer,” Bloomberg said on “Meet the Press” when asked if he’d spend big-time in next year’s elections to target the National Rifle Association and members of Congress for opposing gun restrictions.

“If I can do that by spending some money, and taking the NRA from being the only voice to being one of the voices, so the public can really understand the issues, then I think my money will be well spent and I think I have an obligation to do that,” he said.

“If 90% of the public wants something, and their representatives vote against that, common sense says they are going to have a price to pay for that,” Bloomberg said, referring to the proportion of people polls show support universal background checks.

Notice this…

Daddy has a responsibility to make all of you “safer,” according to his definition.

He knows better than you do.

He understands safety better than you do.

And he will be your nanny, making you “safe,” fit and happy… whether you like it or not.

He alone is the savior. He alone has the means and the will to fix us all.

Arrogant, repulsive, presumptuous, self-important, totalitarian dicksore!

Notice also…

Bloomberg has the resources to push his odious agenda.  Politicians (both Republican and Democrat) have been complaining for decades about the influence of money in politics and authoritarian asswads like McCain and Feingold pushed through their First-Amendment stifling campaign reform act with broad bipartisan support.

And now that Bloomberg is trying to push his statist agenda using millions of dollars, there’s silence from the gun ban crowd (mostly Democrat, by the way) about the use of evil money to push a political agenda. Gee… now that it benefits them, I guess it’s not a problem.

Notice also the lie…

The claim that 90 percent of Americans support universal background checks? Really? I wonder where he gets that particular statistic from!

Oh, I see! From the “unbiased” polling of Mayors Against Illegal Guns – a survey Uncle Joe Biden recently cited in an effort to shore up support for essentially banning private firearms sales between individuals.

Biden cited a survey by Mayors Against Illegal Guns that found 89 percent support for the background checks in 41 Congressional districts across the country, and 86 percent in 21 statewide polls.

But OK – let’s say for argument’s sake that 90 percent of those surveyed want background checks.  I’d like to see the methodology and demographics. Where do those surveyed live? That matters. Do they realize that the background bill proposed by Schumer would outlaw private gun sales? Are they aware that most firearms used in crimes (80 percent, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics) are obtained illegally anyway? Are they aware that the whole “40 percent of guns are purchased without background checks” meme is a lie? And would they still support universal background checks if it meant that they had to be registered like criminals to make a constitutionally-protected purchase?

And by the way… more than 95 percent of Federally Licensed Firearms dealers say that a) the law will result in huge regulatory burdens, increased risk of license revocation for record-keeping errors related to private party sales of firearms, additional delays in processing of NICS requests b) it will result in increased costs, which will certainly be passed on to Joe Citizen, who wants nothing more than to purchase a tool to defend his family, and c) will make said purchase prohibitively expensive, given the cost of the firearm, the cost of paperwork, the cost of training and registration in some states.

But like a good little hypocritical tyrant, Bloomberg doesn’t care about the poor people. He has armed security. He has millions of dollars. And he knows better than you what’s good for you, dammit! Screw the poor folks who may not be able to afford his and the gun grabbers’ latest folly! They don’t matter.

Bloomberg has the money, and he’ll use it to do what’s right for you – whether you like it or not.

Typical.

OK, Mikey. You’d better be ready for a fight. I doubt the good people in this country bear any resemblance to the drooling ignorami who keep electing your tyrannical ass and love to be mommied by you (Except for maybe the fruits and nuts in California). I doubt the rest of this country will allow you to destroy our rights and shred our Constitution, merely because you feel like it.

Bring it, bitch!

We’ll be ready!

UPDATE: When I saw this today, I nearly choked on my pistachios!

On Morning Joe today, the Reverend Al Sharpton agreed with Mike Barnicle  that anti-Semitism explains the opposition to Mike Bloomberg in his gun control campaign.

It couldn’t possibly be that Americans simply don’t want to be told what to do, and how to exercise their constitutional rights by supercilious fuckwads, who think they know better than we do how we need to live our lives?

No, it’s because he happens to be Jewish!

And accusations of anti-Semitism coming from the likes of Al Sharpton are pretty amusing.

Well, guess what, you lying, racist assnugget!

I’m Jewish! My family escaped from the hell that was the Soviet Union, where no one was allowed to assert their rights against an all-powerful government, and where Jews were treated slightly better than rabid dogs. My family didn’t have millions of dollars. My family didn’t have the privilege of growing up in the United States where we have laws to protect our rights from government intrusion. And yes, I lost family in the Holocaust.

I attended the same college as Bloomberg – the Johns Hopkins university. But I didn’t use mommy’s and daddy’s money to get in. I worked full time and was on an academic scholarship!

And as a Jew, I find Bloomberg to be the kind of useful asshole authoritarians in the former Soviet Union would have LOVED! An ass-kissing, government boot-licking tool, who would betray his own people and render them helpless against tyrants – the kind of Jew who would betray his own people in exchange for political power, even as the tyrants used him to promote further tyranny.

I’m a Jew, and I despise Michael Bloomberg and everything that fetid bag of bovine excrement stands for.

Go ahead, accuse me of anti-Semitism, shitbags. You’ll just make yourselves look even more stupid, if that’s even possible.

Oh, no! They don’t want your guns! They just want some reasonable, common-sense gun control! They don’t want a ban!

Please. Spare us the lies, Demonrats. You want it all. You want Americans disarmed. You want our rights dismantled. You have no respect for the people who elected you. You are scum. You are the enemy.

Schakowsky: We’re on a roll now, and I think we’ve got to take the–you know, we’re gonna push as hard as we can and as far as we can.

Mattera: So the assault weapons ban is just the beginning?

Schakowsky: Oh absolutely. I mean, I’m against handguns. We have, in Illinois, the Council Against Handgun… something [Violence]. Yeah, I’m a member of that. So, absolutely.

In another exchange, Schakowsky proposed allowances for states and municipalities to ban guns–though such laws have been repeatedly rejected by the Supreme Court:

Mattera: We’ll never get a handgun ban with the Second Amendment as stated.

Schakowsky: I don’t know. I don’t know that we can’t. And there may be an allowance, once again, for communities–I have communities in my district that prohibited handguns within their borders. The rights of municipalities and states to view that as a sensible way to keep people safe–I don’t think it’s precluded.

Now do you understand, people? These aren’t lawful representatives of the people. They are tyrannical scum. They are lying, cowardly hemorrhoids, and they are not to be reasoned with. They need to be booted out of office. Now. For violating their oaths to uphold the Law of the Land. For trying to destroy the fundamental rights of the people whom they’re supposed to represent. For lying to the people who put them in power.

h/t: Breitbart