Video released of King County sheriff beating a 15 year old detainee

Via Injustice In Seattle:



"King County Sheriff's Deputy Paul Schene plead not guilty to fourth degree assault over what took place in the video shown above. If convicted he only faces a maximum of one year in jail.

The video was taken on November 29th in a SeaTac, Washington holding cell, south of Seattle, Washington. The video shows deputy Schene, another deputy, and a 15-year-old girl he arrested on suspicion of auto theft for driving her parents' car."

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Quote of the day....

From Trevor Bothwell @ Who's Your Nanny?:


"I cannot predict when this empire will end. It's quite possible that our rulers could keep this game going for the rest of my lifetime. The media and schools continue to brainwash the public so the empire may continue on faith alone. But this empire must end eventually. And we should prepare ourselves just in case it does happen while we are still living."

Keith Olbermann: Democrat Fluff Boy

Party Like It's 1773

Tax Evasion vs. Tax Revolt

This op-ed from JB Williams at The Canada Free Press is a must read:

America is certainly headed for very difficult times and from investors to employers to employees and retirees, people of all political stripes are beginning to react to an overbearing federal government that is behaving more like a heavy handed left-wing dictatorship than a representative republic.

The US Constitution is being shredded, replaced by progressive democratic socialism. The DOW lost 27% of its value during the last six months of 2008. But it has already lost another 12% in the first thirty days of unbridled Democrat rule.

Washington DC leftists strong armed a so-called “stimulus bill” through congress without any real bi-partisan support. The people are now figuring out that it was not an “economic stimulus” effort, but rather a forty year wish list of leftist government run asset redistribution.

Talk of a second Civil War, another revolution, a Tea Party, are growing by the day as the new fed moves to confiscate private property and power in the name of a “greater communal good” and the “general welfare” of the people at large."

READ THE WHOLE THING.....

Alan Keyes: "how does a bankrupt government bailout a bankrupt banking system?"

Orwell was an optimist

“A productive, free, and peaceful society cannot be held together by violence, surveillance, torture, SWAT teams, lies, and prisons. Neither can it countenance governmental policies of plundering the fruits of the labors of an entire population, and redistributing it to the institutional friends of those in power.”
-- Butler Shaffer

Santelli's Chicago Tea Party

Check it out. Seriously.

(Thanks to Johnny for the heads up.)

'Nuff Said.

What Is A "Three Percenter"?

via the sipseystreetirregulars:

During the American Revolution, the active forces in the field against the King's tyranny never amounted to more than 3% of the colonists. They were in turn actively supported by perhaps 10% of the population. In addition to these revolutionaries were perhaps another 20% who favored their cause but did little or nothing to support it. Another one-third of the population sided with the King (by the end of the war there were actually more Americans fighting FOR the King than there were in the field against him) and the final third took no side, blew with the wind and took what came.

Three Percenters today do not claim that we represent 3% of the American people, although we might. That theory has not yet been tested. We DO claim that we represent at least 3% of American gun owners, which is still a healthy number somewhere in the neighborhood of 3 million people. History, for good or ill, is made by determined minorities. We are one such minority. So too are the current enemies of the Founders' Republic. What remains, then, is the test of will and skill to determine who shall shape the future of our nation.

The Three Percent today are gun owners who will not disarm, will not compromise and will no longer back up at the passage of the next gun control act. Three Percenters say quite explicitly that we will not obey any further circumscription of our traditional liberties and will defend ourselves if attacked. We intend to maintain our God-given natural rights to liberty and property, and that means most especially the right to keep and bear arms. Thus, we are committed to the restoration of the Founders' Republic, and are willing to fight, die and, if forced by any would-be oppressor, to kill in the defense of ourselves and the Constitution that we all took an oath to uphold against enemies foreign and domestic.

We are the people that the collectivists who now control the government should leave alone if they wish to continue unfettered oxygen consumption. We are the Three Percent. Attempt to further oppress us at your peril.

To put it bluntly, leave us the hell alone.

Or, if you feel froggy, go ahead AND WATCH WHAT HAPPENS.

Stimulus Today, Disaster Tomorrow....

Liberty 01: A look at the near future?

Damn You !

Nicki Fellenzer at The Liberty Zone tells it like it is.

Australian Bush Fires

The Boston Globe has posted some incredible pictures of the Victorian fires and their aftermath.

Just a timely reminder...

That most of the shitbags who "hate your freedom" aren't a bunch of semi-literate Muslim desert dwellers eeking out a pitiful living as best they can in some third world hellhole.
No........ not even close.
The most dangerous threats to your freedom are snooping around right in your own backyard.
Shooting your pets.
Trashing your house.
Stealing your stuff.
Slaughtering women and children.
Persecuting those who dare to exercise their right to defend themselves against the insane actions of a tyrannical police state.
Ignoring the Constitution and prohibiting the free exercise of your rights.

Etc., etc., etc......

No.
The most dangerous threats to your freedom and liberty are currently infesting the Whitehouse, the Legislature, and the incredibly vast bureaucracy of this once-great nation.

Soooo..... what do you intend to do about it?

Stand up and defend your rights, your property, and your freedom?

Or get down on your knees and lick the boots of your tyrannical masters?

The choice is yours.

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"The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government -- lest it come to dominate our lives and interests." --Patrick Henry

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The names of both the oppressed and the oppressors may change, but history does, indeed, have a nasty habit of repeating itself.

Red State Update: Obama's Tax Cheat Cabinet

Stimulus: Because all economies have performance issues.

More Zero-Tolerence shenanigans

Ladies and gentlemen: we are surrounded by idiots- and some of the dumbest happen to be running our public youth indoctrination facilities.

"A local school district has suspended a member of the Young Marines youth leadership group after students saw drill props in her vehicle.

Marie Morrow, a 17-year-old senior at Cherokee Trail High School in Aurora, is serving a 10-day suspension. Her punishment could be extended at an expulsion hearing later this month."

More Puppycide in Vegas

Sooooo.......
The JBT tried to avoid shooting the family dog..... which was inside a shed in the fenced backyard of a private residence..... which they entered without a search warrant.....after searching a nearby neighborhood with a helicopter equipped with a heat detecting device and spotted a 'large mass' in a shed behind a home...again, no search warrant...... in pursuit of a DUI suspect who had fled the scene of a traffic stop on foot.

Fuckwits.

Full story here via The Las Vegas Review Journal:

BACKYARD INCIDENT: Family's pet 'Coco' killed by police

Department says officer tried to avoid shooting dog

Rahm Emanuel: If you are on No Fly List, no gun for you.

Major douchebag and all-around fuckwit Rahm Emmanuel fellating the Brady Brunch with visions of insanity:



Lots of people have been talking about stocking up on guns, gold, food, etc. over the past few months. Good advice- but there are a couple of items that may be very useful in the not too distant future that I have yet to see show up on anyone's prep list.

Anybody know where I can get a good deal on a tar pot and a few gunny sacks full of dirty chicken feathers?

SCHIP - Do Your Part

Blogosphere post of the day

From Phred at Americanly Yours:

Trust?

“Mother should I trust the government?”

NO!

Americanly Yours,

Phred Barnet

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'Nuff said.

What It feels Like To Be A Libertarian

by John Hasnas
Associate Professor, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University:

Political analysts frequently consider what it means to be a libertarian. In fact, in 1997, Charles Murray published a short book entitled "What It Means to Be a Libertarian" that does an excellent job of presenting the core principles of libertarian political philosophy. But almost no one ever discusses what it feels like to be a libertarian. How does it actually feel to be someone who holds the principles described in Murray’s book?

I’ll tell you. It feels bad. Being a libertarian means living with a level of frustration that is nearly beyond human endurance. It means being subject to unending scorn and derision despite being inevitably proven correct by events. How does it feel to be a libertarian? Imagine what the internal life of Cassandra must have been and you will have a pretty good idea.

Imagine spending two decades warning that government policy is leading to a major economic collapse, and then, when the collapse comes, watching the world conclude that markets do not work.

Imagine continually explaining that markets function because they have a built in corrective mechanism; that periodic contractions are necessary to weed out unproductive ventures; that continually loosening credit to avoid such corrections just puts off the day of reckoning and inevitably leads to a larger recession; that this is precisely what the government did during the 1920's that led to the great depression; and then, when the recession hits, seeing it offered as proof of the failure of laissez-faire capitalism.

Imagine spending years decrying federal intervention in the home mortgage market; pointing out the dangers associated with legislation such as the Community Reinvestment Act that forces lenders to make more risky loans that they otherwise would; testifying before Congress on the lack of oversight and inevitable insolvency of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to legislators who angrily respond either that one is "exaggerat[ing] a threat of safety and soundness . . . which I do not see" (Barney Frank) or "[I[f it ain’t broke, why do you want to fix it? Have the GSEs [government-sponsored enterprises] ever missed their housing goals" (Maxine Waters) or "[T[he problem that we have and that we are faced with is maybe some individuals who wanted to do away with GSEs in the first place" (Gregory Meeks) or that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are "one of the great success stories of all time" (Christopher Dodd); and arguing that the moral hazard created by the implicit federal backing of such privately-owned government-sponsored enterprises is likely to set off a wave of unjustifiably risky investments, and then, when the housing market implodes under the weight of bad loans, watching the collapse get blamed on the greed and rapaciousness of "Wall Street."

I remember attending a lecture at Georgetown in the mid-1990s given by a member of the libertarian Cato Institute in which he predicted that, unless changed, government policy would trigger an economic crisis by 2006. That prediction was obviously ideologically-motivated alarmism. After all, the crisis did not occur until 2008.

Libertarians spend their lives accurately predicting the future effects of government policy. Their predictions are accurate because they are derived from Hayek’s insights into the limitations of human knowledge, from the recognition that the people who comprise the government respond to incentives just like anyone else and are not magically transformed to selfless agents of the good merely by accepting government employment, from the awareness that for government to provide a benefit to some, it must first take it from others, and from the knowledge that politicians cannot repeal the laws of economics. For the same reason, their predictions are usually negative and utterly inconsistent with the utopian wishful-thinking that lies at the heart of virtually all contemporary political advocacy. And because no one likes to hear that he cannot have his cake and eat it too or be told that his good intentions cannot be translated into reality either by waving a magic wand or by passing legislation, these predictions are greeted not merely with disbelief, but with derision.

It is human nature to want to shoot the messenger bearing unwelcome tidings. And so, for the sin of continually pointing out that the emperor has no clothes, libertarians are attacked as heartless bastards devoid of compassion for the less fortunate, despicable flacks for the rich or for business interests, unthinking dogmatists who place blind faith in the free market, or, at best, members of the lunatic fringe.

Cassandra’s curse was to always tell the truth about the future, but never be believed. If you add to that curse that she would be ridiculed, derided, and shunned for making her predictions, you have a pretty fair approximation of what it feels like to be a libertarian.

If you’d like a taste of what it feels like to be a libertarian, try telling people that the incoming Obama Administration is advocating precisely those aspects of FDR’s New Deal that prolonged the great depression for a decade; that propping up failed and failing ventures with government money in order to save jobs in the present merely shifts resources from relatively more to relatively less productive uses, impedes the corrective process, undermines the economic growth necessary for recovery, and increases unemployment in the long term; and that any "economic" stimulus package will inexorably be made to serve political rather than economic ends, and see what kind of reaction you get. And trust me, it won’t feel any better five or ten years from now when everything you have just said has been proven true and Obama, like FDR, is nonetheless revered as the savior of the country.

Freedom & Liberty from the viewpoint of an 11 year old

This young lady has more sense in her little finger than all of the collective wit (or lack thereof) in our entire legislature. (RP excepted of course):