Entries from May 13, 2007 - May 19, 2007
Atta boys.
Virginia gun owners have told NY Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who is on a rabid anti-gun crusade throughout the nation, to take a flying leap. Caedmon joins them, quoting Shakespeare’s Henry V. When the Dauphin asks of the English knight Exeter, Henry’s messenger, what message the king has for him, he responds:
Scorn and defiance, slight regard, contempt and any thing that may not misbecome the mighty sender, doth he prize you at. Thus says my king.
And thus we say to the hoplophobe Bloomberg and his ilk.
Caedmon
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Gun giveaway thumbs nose at NYC mayor
By MATTHEW BARAKAT, Associated Press Writer ANNANDALE , Va. - Openly armed firearms enthusiasts packed a normally sedate government building, hoping to win a pistol or rifle and at the same time send a defiant message to gun-control advocates, especially New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg. 
The Virginia Citizens Defense League, a gun-rights group, organized the "Bloomberg Gun Giveaway" in large part to thumb its nose at Bloomberg, who accuses some shops of allowing illegal purchases of firearms that later were used in crimes in his city.
The city has filed federal lawsuits against more than two dozen shops, including six in Virginia.
Two guns were awarded Thursday, a Para-Ordnance pistol and a Varmint Stalker rifle, each worth about $900. The winners did not immediately receive the weapons — they will still be required to undergo federal and state background checks.
The first winner, Jay Minsky, responded with an obscene hand gesture when asked what message he hoped to send to Bloomberg.
"If he doesn't like people in New York having guns, he should deal with New York," said Minsky, who grew up in Brooklyn. "Just keep out of Virginia."
(Read the full article here: http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/070517/world/gun_giveaway_1 )
Caedmon
in What is to be done? (Firearms)
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Is the United States headed for a coup? Civil war? Partition?
Larry Auster cites Thomas Sowell, who thinks it is the former:
When I see the worsening degeneracy in our politicians, our media, our educators, and our intelligentsia, I can't help wondering if the day may yet come when the only thing that can save this country is a military coup. -- Thomas Sowell, "Random Thoughts," May 1, 2007
Read this important discussion at Larry’s blog, as well as the linked Sowell article: http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/007794.html
Several people have contributed to the discussion, and other possibilities mentioned there are civil war and the breakup of our nation into several independent countries. Folks, this kind of cataclysmic event is precisely the working assumption underlying my web site. Read my page, “What Is Novae Militiae?”. Consider what I’ve said in essence in both my blogs: our leaders are unfit to lead (Sowell has that exactly right), our nation is suffering as a result, and one day it will all come to a head (as Sowell fears). And then something different will emerge from it all.
In my view, it’s a question of when, not if. Ergo: be prepared. I’ve been trying to make it clear in this particular blog what things being prepared entails. And this is as true for Europe, Canada and Australia as it is for the United States. We could take some lessons from the Israelis in this regard, though even they are arguably suffering the same syndrome that Sowell describes. It’s just that they likely have the wherewithal to recover more quickly from it all than we do.
A New Benedict, and a New Knighthood (Novae Militiae):
