Nom de plume: Rivrdog

How many faces in our government?

A letter from about a week ago. The Boregonian only publishes about 6-8 letters per week, because they are a minimalist cage-liner these days. This letter likely will not make it into print.

Editors:

 

Our ruling elites have, in their infinite wisdom, accepted the public risks associated with granting legality to another intoxicating substance, cannabis, and they say they did this out of an abundance of concern for progress in individual liberty.

 

Why do these same ruling elites then turn around and force onerous restrictions on another public risk, that of keeping and bearing firearms, the risks of which are already accepted by being firmly enshrined in our Bill of Rights?

 

I must have skipped the section in our Constitution which permits our elites the use of illogic, hypocrisy AND the denial of civil rights.

 

George Schneider

The AME Church and the Second Amendment

Originally published in Facebook, on my timeline.

Every outlet of the press is eating up the emo radiating from the Bethel AME Church in Charleston, SC, where the horrific murders of nine people took place. WE should mourn, yes. We can even begin to think about political implications, too, now.

Political implications generally begin with historical review, so let's look at the AME Church and see what it's politics have been, over the years.

This particular Church started out in 1865. Some say it was organized in 1860, but given that SC was a Pro-Slave state at that time, It's unlikely. There were few SC black "freedmen" then, and those who were free, usually didn't make the sort of waves necessary to start a church.

In 1965, the South lost the Civil War, and was invaded by occupiers, some from the Union Army, but more were the opportunists known locally as "carpetbaggers", many of whom came to the South to cram the North's victory down Southern throats. You must realize that while there were more freedmen then (technically, all negroes were free then), nowhere had these freedmen actually been freed, even in the North, because segregation of the races was still the rule. A few blacks were used as political standard-bearers by the Re-Constructionists ("reconstruction" was an odd word for the occupation of the South, because these Northerners were there to finish General Sherman's job of pillaging the South, and they did NO reconstruction of any sort).

Part of "reconstruction" was directing the blacks into their own, segregated churches, and that's when the African Methodist-Episcopal Churches were formed. The leaders of these churches were given a pro-forma way to pray, a pro-forma education for their pastors, and even the vestments of the pastors were standardized. One moment, nothing, then BOOM! organized religion for the blacks. Who pulled all those puppet strings? Those same reconstructionists who were still pillaging the South.

The reconstructionists (carpetbaggers) found resentment wherever they went in the South, so for their own protection, they allied themselves with local politicians. Politicians are known for selling their souls, so selling their culture out was easy. When enough of these bonds had been formed, the birth of the Dixiecrats was underway. Along with the Dixiecrats came the KKK. Along with the KKK came terrorist methods of instilling fear, in the blacks, as a way to keep them from actually getting any value from their free status. The "sharecropping" system of agriculture was developed, and it was difficult to tell from slavery. The sharecroppers were paid pittance wages for their work, but they had to buy everything from the farmers, and saved nothing.

As citizens, blacks were entitled to own guns, but the Dixiecrats saw that as a bad thing, so various laws were passed barring blacks from bearing arms. This policy was preached as "good" from the AME Churches, which by the mid 1870's, had become models of the white-controlled behavior of blacks. In fact, pretty much everything the KKK wanted was sold to the blacks via their AME Churches. Whenever an AME Church defied the KKK/Dixiecrat alliance, the Church was usually burned. That happened to Charleston's Bethel AME twice. They got the "message".

Today's AME Churches are still beholden to/puppets of the successors to the Dixiecrats, which faded away in the 1960's due to the Civil Rights movement. Those successors are today's Democratic Party. It is ironic that even after today's blacks have achieved some level of parity with whites and other races in the USA, they still parrot the old political garbage, and foremost among those scraps of political offal is "No Guns for Negroes".

In Portland, the Emeritus Pastor of the AME Church is Rev. Leroy Haynes. Just listen to the Reverend trash the Second Amendment, even as his congregants are getting murdered in their dozens every year by black thugs, he still preaches "No Guns for Negroes". He has had to expand that a bit, so he's really preaching "No Guns for Anyone" today.

It's all History folks, look it up if you don't believe me. Download JPFO's fine book, "No Guns for Negroes", where everything I have just said is documented.

Christie FUBAR, again!

The 2A-stomping, Mafia-acting Governor of New Jersey, our favorite large bully, has done another stomping of the Constitution.

This hasn't made the MSM yet, and probably won't, considering said media are in bed with the homosexual lobby, but you can read it in World Net Daily, right here.

You have to RTWT, because this Christie turd is in the next-to-last paragraph.

To sum up, Chris Christie has now stomped on the First AND Second Amendments, his staff has adopted Mafia tactics to help their Godfather get re-elected, and the Godfather/Governor has yet to account for billions in Federal hurricane relief funds (not spent, not returned to the Treasury, and the moolah doesn't show on the Joisey books).

Is there ANYONE outside of NJ, who dares to call themselves an American, who would vote for this lump of a rumpkin?

I'll answer that: a lot of Democrats would. Maybe the real reason the Hildebeestie won't declare for POTUS is that the (D)onkeys are going to draft Christie...

"Medical" questions about guns

Sometimes, you make a passing note of something and don't dwell on it afterward.

Such was the case with your blogger in regard to the "gun questions" being asked by medical providers as a result of an Executive Order signed by the President. Until a good friend and 2A defender had such an issue yesterday at my local hospital, this was not a front-burner thing for me. Dince then, I decided to put some effort into resolving this issue. I'll start with the analysis provided by Fox News here.

Here is a TX CHL forum sticky with useful links, including the entire HCA.

This article, published subsequent to the rest of them including the Snopes article that got it wrong, seems to be the most definitive. It says:

1. That language DOES exist in the HCA forbiding health care providers from recording such information in any way, or releasing any such information to Federal authorities.

2. That after Sandy Hook, President Obama issued a statement in front of news cameras indicating that he WOULD issue an Executive Order telling medical providers that their "right" to ask such questions was not infringed by the HCA, BUT HE NEVER ISSUED OR SIGNED ANY SUCH ORDER.

3. This means that the provider-constraining language in the HCA is still in the HCA, and still in effect.

Now for the tricky part.

If an ER or clinic intake clerk with a paper form or computer keyboard asks those gun questions, a reasonable person should assume that a permanent record is being made, and if that record is being made, it WILL eventually get into a Federal database, or, a significant risk exists that it will get into a Federal data base, so you are well within your rights under HCA and HIPAA to not answer the question, and the provider is NOT within their right to deny you care because of your refusal. That said, the Obama Administration takes the view that it is okay for a DOCTOR to ask the gun questions. My take on that is that a DOCTOR may ask anything he/she wants, in aid of making a proper medical diagnosis of your health complaint. That DOCTOR is still constrained by the "second amendment language" in the HCA though, therefore, that DOCTOR may not record that information in your chart if that chart is subject to overview by the Government.

Okay then, that's my and others' opinions of the legal niceties involved.

What then, is the best way to effect standing on your rights here? Your choices are:

1. Maintain silence AND eye contact with the questioner. The questioner MAY get that message without further words exchanged. (If you are being interviewed by a clerk or provider who is not a DOCTOR)

2. Firmly state you are ending the interview, and ask to speak to the interviewer's supervisor. I would escalate from #1 to this tactic if #1 failed to work for you. (same caveat as in #1, above)

3. If no luck with either of the above, it's time to take the offensive. You need to firmly state that: the HCA does NOT allow providers to record that information if ANY chance exists that the Government could later view it (and that is guaranteed by the HCA) AND that by insisting on an answer, you (name the interviewer) are violating my rights under the HCA and possibly the Bill of Rights, AND "standards of care" are NOT being met because of the delays caused by this improper interview.

4. If, after you use of these tactics of resistance, the ER/Clinic has not moved on with your intake interview, you need to play your trump card. Ask for the senior management person available (this person's title will likely be "Hospital/Clinic Director"). When that person arrives, advise him/her that you have been refused treatment and explain why. Inform that person that you will take appropriate medical transport to the next closest treatment facility NOT run by this management, get treatment, and charge all those fees back to the current facility. Mention also that you hold Management responsible for the violations of your rights which have occurred up to now.

Of course, you will need witnesses, copious notes, etc. Your quest may be vastly facilitated by an Investigative Reporter from a local TV station, if any in your burg are interested.

That's my plan. Use it or not.

Resolutions, yes

They are on my Facebook page, but I will repeat them here.

Resolution: I resolve to be less negative in my outlook in 2014. I realize now that a negative outlook is a waste of perfectly good battle spirit, and we WILL all have one fierce battle to fight this year.

Resolution: (Political) I resolve to work with the best conservatives to build a new party (yes, a Third Party) which represents Patriots. In my work with them, I will do my best to end the political hegemony of the present Republican Party, which has strayed farther from it's roots than the Democrats. Yes, I know that campaigning a Third Party means that the Democrats will again control the country for a while, but to put true conservatives in charge again requires this step. It may just encourage our Nation to make that big decision, Conservatism or ruin, and then the (D)onkeys are finished anyway.

Resolution: Support the Constitution. I am already a fierce supporter of our Constitution, but I can and will do more. For example, I will make every link possible that support of the Constitution REQUIRES support of the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, and conversely, those who would deny the full political and military meaning of the Second Amendment ARE already working hard to destroy the Constitution, and must be removed from political influence of any sort, by any means required.

Gunwalker WTF

We on the Right like to use Eric Holder's failed Fast & Furious operation to beat him and his boss up with. Okay, but a dangerous splinter hangs off that cudgel.

The NRA correctly tells us that "guns don't kill people, people kill people". That is the ULTIMATE truth in the gun control "debate", isn't it? I think so.

We need to stop saying that "Eric Holder's gun killed Brian Terry". That statement just doesn't fit. If we want to keep on thumping Holder for Gunwalker, that's fine, there's plenty of fail in his op to thump him with. Personally, I'd bet serious money that the Justice Department DOES know exactly who killed Brian Terry, so why hasn't the USDOJ issued a warrant yet?

Bottom line: Holder, for all his faults, did not Kill Terry, so stow that sentiment please.

Editing Freedom's Works

I've been blogging here for close to ten years. One of my major quests on this blog has been to show the readers what Socialism is, what it does, and how it got that way. I think I've just found the best, most concise explanation of Socialism ever. I didn't write it, and it needs editing, but it IS readable, so I will present it here after only changing the font to better suit my blog (it was originally Verdanna Bold 14-pt).

Without further ado, from this URL:

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Most of us believe socialism is what the socialists want us to believe it is-a share-the-wealth program. That is the theory. But is that how it works? Let us examine the only Socialist countries-according to the Socialist definition of the word-extant in the world today. These are the Communist countries. The Communists themselves refer to these as Socialist countries, as in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Here in the reality of socialism you have a tiny oligarchial clique at the top, usually numbering no more than three percent of the total population, controlling the total wealth, total production and the very lives of the other ninety-seven percent cent...

If one understands that socialism is not a share-the-wealth program, but is in reality a method to consolidate and control the wealth, then the seeming paradox of superrich men promoting socialism becomes no paradox at all. Instead it becomes the logical, even the perfect tool of power-seeking megalomaniacs. Communism, or more accurately, socialism, is not a movement of the downtrodden masses, but of the economic elite.

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If you wanted to control the nation's manufacturing, commerce, finance, transportation and natural resources, you would need only to control the apex, the power pinnacle, of an all-powerful socialist government. Then you would have a monopoly and could squeeze out all your competitors. If you wanted a national monopoly, you must control a national socialist government. If you want - a worldwide monopoly, you must control a world socialist government. That is what the game is all about. "Communism" is not a movement of the downtrodden masses but is a movement created, manipulated and used by power-seeking billionaires in order to gain control over the world . . . first by establishing socialist governments in the various nations and then consolidating them all through a "Great Merger," into an all-powerful world, socialist super-state ..."

Note that his example is best considered in the light of history, and in the light of the two most recent failed Socialist attempts, the USSR and Nazi Germany I hope by now that you all understand that Hitler led a socialist state, not a right-wing fascist state as the Left would alter history and have you believe.

Now put it together. What did both of those States do to get started and how did they wind up failing?

Both States took over from weak governments. The USSR was formed out of the failed Czarist monarchy, and Hitler sprang up from the Weimar Republic which failed due to losing WW1, having to pay reparations, and the world's Great Depression. In both cases, the putative dictators paid lip service to the downtrodden masses, with Hitler doing the better job of that. Hitler, between his release from imprisonment and seizing of absolute power, was the perfect "community organizer", setting up soup kitchens to feed the starving masses, putting clothes on the masses' backs (uniforms, but the ensembles kept them warm and gave them the required sense of identity), and controlling the worst of the street terror (anarcho-bolshevism) which had arisen with the decline of the Weimar Republic.

Then Hitler and his counterparts in the USSR disarmed their citizens. This disarmament was actually the most important step, because it precluded the citizens from changing their minds later and tossing out the Socialists.

Skipping over the obvious mechanisms of failure, in both cases, the USA, we find that the US Military ended Hitler's dreams, and the US Dollar ended the Soviets' dreams.

If you are a Socialist trying to conquer US individualism and turn the nation into the next "great" Socialist empire, how do you proceed?

You proceed as in above:

• Disarm the citizens.
• Control the press.
• Throw free shit at those whom you've convinced that earning their way in life is not required.
• Constrict commerce to only those avenues of trade that the Government can control.
• Do it all in the name of the downtrodden masses.

There it is, in a nutshell.

What is the one thing that is currently stopping the wannabe Socialists?

Our guns. In our safes. The Socialist Dream simply cannot proceed while we have the guns.

Didn't fit their agenda

...again.

The latest school shooter, in Arapahoe High School in Colorado, killed himself, but left behind his legacy, a Facebook Page filled with admiration of the left's agenda, according to the Arapahoe County Sheriff.

Let's add it up, shall we?

• Lefty high school student, had recently suffered a personal reverse (failed to place well in a debating group).
• School without adequate security to prevent an assailant from entering with a less-than-concealable long arm.
• School with inadequate armed security (if any, some reports say there was one resource officer, some don't say that). It WAS a gun-free zone.

Nope, didn't fit the agenda. Put away the blood-dancing shoes. Freeze the gun-control commentaries in the press. Too much danger of the shooter being properly identified as lefty-looney, therby killing off the Marxist "necessity" for a gun-control push.

The gun-controllers are losing because their case is shallow, over-hyped AND it fails strict scrutiny of the Constitution.

Designed to destroy the Constitution

Observe this process. It is carefully calculated to attack the Bill of Rights.

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There was a mall shooting a year ago in Oregon. A crazy guy went into a mall full of Christmas shoppers and opened fire with a stolen rifle, killing two, but when a Concealed Carry person drew on and aimed at him, he ran off to a remote part of the mall and killed himself.

The simple fact of history from the Clackamas Mall shooting was that the Second Amendment didn't start the shooting, it ENDED it.

That simple explanation doesn't fit the agenda of the Left, who want to eliminate the Second Amendment, so, in a carefully-laid plan to "memorialize the victims", they have deliberately left out mention of Nick Meli, the armed citizen who stopped the shooter's rampage without firing a shot.

The Left is AGAIN revising history to suit their agenda. I am AGAIN bringing out the HISTORY book to remind folks of the truth of the incident.

Exhibit A: in today's Oregonian:

The "commentary" mentioned there is from a MAIG supporter, and does not mention the armed citizen. The link goes to a list of articles, none of which promenently mention the armed citizen. There ARE, however, plenty of mentions of gun control ideas with which to weaken the Second Amendment.

This blog does not believe in defensive warfare. Never has, never will. I offer the following solution:

Since the "free press" is not free, but is totally enrolled as a major political tool of the Left, it has ceased to deserve the protection of the First Amendment. In the State of Oregon, all political organizations which seek to press the Government for a political end must Register as Lobbyists.

It's time the press was Registered as lobbyists, and it's time that they are forced to follow the strict rules that all political lobbyists have to follow.

Register the Press, not our Guns.

 

I'm sorry

I've been blogging too sporadically, and as a result, the country's gone to hell in a handbasket. I'm guessing we will need a new country now.

On a related note, this is National Ammo Day, and we are supposed to show our support for the 2A by either buying or manufacturing some ammo.

Get out your wallet and hie thee to your gun store, or hie thee to your reloading bench and crank some out.

That is all.