This is How They Handle Dissent in Jersey

On April 30, 2013, Second Amendment activist James Kaleda was forcibly ejected by armed guards from a hearing in Trenton, NJ. He was making decent points. He wasn’t belligerent or violent. But he was tossed out by armed government agents – and he only got heated when he was interrupted in the middle of his testimony. Deprived of First Amendment rights to petition government for a redress of grievances by armed guards, while being deprived of his Second Amendment rights.

Welcome to Jersey, where respect for the Constitution is tossed out in favor of power-hungry politicians’ power hungry power grabs.

h/t: Guns Save Lives

Media Maggot Still Off the Hook

The indefatigable Emily Miller tells us that Media Maggot David Gregory is still getting away with committing a criminal act in Washington DC – knowingly and willingly, in fact. As you may remember, Gregory asked DC officials permission to use the high capacity magazine on his show as a prop to push his odious gun control agenda, and losing any pretense of objectivity in the process.

DC officials refuse to prosecute Gregory, even as they ruined the life of a young military veteran. And the saga continues today. Emily says her requests to the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) and the Office of Attorney General (OAG) to turn over the documents in the Media Maggot’s™ case were ignored, so she used a Freedom of Information Act request, which yielded nothing but public documents.

So I wrote separate extensively-detailed FOIA request to the attorney general, MPD and Mayor Vincent Gray. The police and prosecutor responded with a large amount of documents — 75 percent of them were useless to me (every public email and news story) and seemed to be an effort to bury me in paper. The rest was heavily redacted with big black marks.

On Monday, I got a press release from Judicial Watch announced it has filed a FOIA lawsuit against MPD and OAG on behalf of the Legal Insurrection blog. In reading through the documents that were not turned over, I noticed there was one that I had gotten — the Jan. 9 letter from the NBC’s lawyer Lee Levine to D.C. Attorney General Irvin Nathan.

I called William A. Jacobson, the lead author of the legal blog, to tell him I had that letter. “I am shocked that the D.C. attorney general would withhold from us the letter from David Gregory’s attorney using a claim of FOIA exemption, and force us to go to court, when they already gave the letter to another person,” Mr. Jacobson, a clinical professor at Cornell Law School, told me.

I emailed him the Levine letter. He sent back a Feb. 20 email from Victor Bonett in the attorney general’s office that said, “OAG is withholding the Jan. 9, 2013 letter from Lee Levine and certain responsive emails between OAG and MPD, pursuant to D.C. Official Code Section 2-534(a)(3)(A)(i), (a)(4) and (e).”

So new information revealed that the Media Maggot™ “borrowed a magazine from a private citizen who lives outside DC, and that he supposedly returned the item to its owner.

It’s interesting to me that a private citizen who owns such a magazine would let the Media Maggot™ borrow it to promote its ban.

But what’s even more interesting is that the claim that the magazine was returned to its owner immediately following the show is a blatant lie.  A January 9 a police “property record” document says “a Kay Industries 30-round magazine was recovered from Mr. Gregory (at a redacted address) as part of an active investigation.”  January 9, 2013 is two days after the magazine supposedly had been returned to its owner.

Other lies are also cropping up in this case, and still the Media Maggot™ goes free, with not a single stain to his pristine record, while regular citizens get slammed by the law for exercising their rights.

Reports of Its Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

For those of you who thought you were safe from the politicians trying to relieve you of your Second Amendment rights, I have one thing to say:  not so fast, Sparky!

First, according to Uncle Joe, they have to tongue bathe the collective anuses of the illegal aliens prior to the 2014 Congressional elections, so they will force “immigration reform” (read: amnesty and a road to citizenship for millions of illegals whose first act in a country they claim to love and respect was to violate said country’s immigration laws) down our collective throats first, then regroup, and then continue their assault on the Bill of Rights.

The vice president’s words mark the first time the White House has revealed a timeline that has been widely discussed among gun control advocates and senior aides to senators who are pushing background checks.

“He doesn’t think it will come back before they’ve made some pretty good steps on immigration,” said Sister Marjorie Clark, a lobbyist for Network, the Catholic social justice organization. “He said, ‘I don’t think it will happen before immigration but it will come back.’”

The timeline adds to Biden’s Thursday revelation that he plans to travel the country to push the White House gun control agenda. Then, in a meeting with representatives of law enforcement organizations, Biden said he planned extensive travel to states where senators voted against background checks and said he would take an active role in tweaking the legislation to win more votes.

Here’s the problem I have with this immigration reform. Several, actually.

1. Amnesty has been tried before and was a miserable fail.
2. I have a problem with rewarding lawbreakers.
3. It’s not fair to the folks who have been waiting patiently to enter this nation legally.
4. We need highly educated, skilled workers. That’s not who is going to be given amnesty, for the most part.
5. Security. Security. Security.
6. And also… imagine this scenario:  We allow anyone who wants to stay to remain here and legalize them.  These are generally people who work for low wages, but whose salaries are way higher than what they would have ever gotten back home, which is part of the reason why they all came here to begin with. All of a sudden, they’re legally here, and the politicians now have more ammo to raise the minimum wage, increase benefits, etc. “Why just look at these poor people! They’re working for practically nothing! Their salaries are soooooooo low! We must raise their standards of living! Vote for us, recently legalized immigrants, and we’ll make sure you get even higher salaries! There are way too many impoverished immigrants in this country. We need to do something to raise their pay.”   Sorry, but that’s a no-go for me.  Libertarians will get exactly what they ask for when they advocate just allowing these people to stay – a whole new voting base to vote themselves benefits out of the public coffers. No thanks!

But anyway – back to my original point…

Gun control isn’t dead. Not even close.

Expect the “90 percent of Americans support background checks” lie to get resurrected. Expect more pressure brought on by Bloomberg money on legislators who actually respect the Constitution. Expect more assaults on your rights. Are you ready?

Shots Fired!

The first 3D-printed gun has fired its first shots.

All 16 parts of the controversial gun, called the Liberator, are made from a tough, heat-resistant plastic used in products such as musical instruments, kitchen appliances and vehicle bumper bars.

Fifteen of those are made with a 3D printer while one is a non-functional metal part which can be picked up by metal detectors, making it legal under U.S. law. The firing pin is also not made of plastic, though it is easily crafted from a metal nail.

This thing is phenomenally goofy looking.  It reminds me of the nozzle of a garden hose. Nothing I’d ever actually buy except as a goofy novelty.

Plus, according to the Guardian, it’s inaccurate and jams, and appears to be a general pain in the ass.

And yes, it’s detectable by a metal detector, owing mostly to the fact that IT HAS METAL IN IT, so stop panicking!

Screeching, hysterical efforts to ban coming down from DC in 3…2…1…

Zero Tolerance Ruins the Life of a Good Kid… Again (UPDATED)

How many of these inane Zero Tolerance Sense stories have we heard about? Kids being suspended for bringing a butter knife to school to eat their lunch, punished for mocking a gun with their fingers, disciplined for wielding chicken tenders in a menacing manner, etc., etc., etc., ad nauseam.

Well, John Pierce tells us about yet another example of a good kid – an honors student – a boy scout – whose life is being ruined by his school system’s ignorant, hypocritical, imbecilic, zero tolerance sense policy.

I would like for you to meet Cole Withrow. In addition to being an Eagle Scout, Cole is an honors student and high school senior in Johnson County North Carolina … at least he was until recently.

Now, he is charged with a felony, expelled from school weeks before graduation, and sees his college plans crumbling since he will not be allowed to graduate.

What heinous act could possibly see a child being expelled and charged with a felony? Did he accidentally eat his corn muffin into the shape of a firearm?

No. This kid went skeet shooting over the weekend, unintentionally left his shotgun in his car, realized what he did while on school property, secured his firearm and called his mom to come pick it up. He threatened no one, and he told no one about it. Simply called his mom and discretely asked her to come remove the object.

Unfortunately, in this post-Newtown era, any act of possessing an evil firearm will be punished most rigorously – no threat or actual display of a firearm required. Apparently someone overheard Cole on the phone with his mom and reported him.

And now, this kid’s future is threatened by a bunch of overzealous, panty-soiling, ignorant publik skool administrators.

But wait… they’re not just pusillanimous and capricious. They’re also hypocritical. Much like the DC police who punished a veteran for inadvertently leaving some ammunition rounds in his bag, while tongue-bathing media maggot David Gregory’s anus after he knowingly displayed an outlawed high-capacity magazine on his show in DC, the duplicitous, traitorous school administrators are protecting one of their own from repercussions of an even more “egregious” act.

To illustrate the hypocrisy even further, it has been noted that two years ago, Cole’s assistant Principal Catherine Bennett brought a gun in her car onto school campus. To make matters worse, her car was being worked on by the auto mechanics class and the gun was found by students who handed it around before hiding it under the fender of the car.

So Cole will be joining Bennett in prison? Nope. Bennett did not face criminal charges because she said that she did not know the gun was in the car.

School officials claim that this is because the law is different for students and for teachers – kind of like the law is different for media maggots and for regular folks in DC, I guess. That’s a pretty specious argument. Since when are laws different when it comes to exercise of basic rights for different classes of citizens? Isn’t there, like, a constitutional thingy… some kind of equal protection under the law thingy?

Look, folks. I fully understand the need to keep schools safe. I fully understand the need to report suspicious activity within reason.

But this snitchery smacks of the USSR in all its former glory!

If you want to help Cole, I would suggest polite, strongly-worded letters to the contacts below, as well as petitions and shares of this post.

1. Contact the Johnson County School Board and let them know what you think of their actions.
2. Contact the Johnston County DA Susan Doyle via email Susan.I.Doyle@nccourts.org or telephone (919) 209-5521 and ask her to immediately drop the charges against Cole.
3. Sign this petition that is going to the School Board.
4. Sign this petition to the Governor.
5. Keep up with the #FreeCole campaign at their Facebook page.

And thank you to John Pierce for bringing this to my attention!

UPDATE: WDBJ reports that Liberty University has offered Cole a full scholarship. At least his life won’t be destroyed by the actions of the shitguzzling cowards that are his school administrators! Kudos to Liberty U!

Liberty University Chancellor Jerry Falwell Jr. heard about Withrow’s situation while watching the evening news. Withrow was wearing a Liberty University shirt during the story, so Falwell decided to look into the situation more, according to the news release. Falwell then learned that Withrow’s sister is a Liberty University graduate.

“When I reached out to encourage this responsible and impressive young man, I learned that he wanted to go to Liberty University, but couldn’t afford it. I told him that we would do whatever he needed so that he can attend Liberty,” Falwell wrote in the news release. “Anti-gun zealots tried to vilify him for doing the right thing, so Liberty has decided to award him the help he needs to attend a private Christian college. I was really impressed with Cole. He is a humble and meek Christian kid who only wants to do the right thing! We want students like Cole Withrow.” graduate.