Nom de plume: Rivrdog

Would you sell this man a gun?

You own a small, but successful gun shop. Your State, gun-friendly as it is, has just instituted a new "universal background check" system whereby each transaction has to have the usual NICS check AND there is a place on the mandatory form for the seller to personally evaluate the buyer.

This guy walks in with several buddies, and looks at an FN Five-Seven pistol. You recognize the guy, and are somewhat surprised that he came to your store, since he could get any gun he wanted without the usual red tape.

He's a stranger to guns, obviously, so you take your time showing him how the pistol operates. He grins the universal grin of a gun-buyer about to get a new gun, and pulls out his credit card. You pull out a Form 4478 and the new State background check forms, and he efficiently completes both of them and pushes them back across the counter to you. You have your one checkbox on the State form to fill out, so you pull out your laminated checklist, one that the NSSF gave you, to do the evaluation.

You assess:

1. Does the buyer seem ill at ease - NO
2. Did the buyer pass a NICS check? YES
3. Do you know the buyer to be a person who follows the law? - NO, Failure of check, NO SALE

"I'm sorry, President Obama, according to this new State Law, I can't sell you a gun".

This pipe dream brought to you by the Letter "A", which stands for.....never mind.

The next American Revolution

Will go off without the revolutionaries firing a shot, but it will bring down the Socialist Government as surely as if ten million men at arms rose up to oppose the Government.

Note to Rivrsis: yes, I am aware that the Government is not officially socialist, but it's masters sincerely desire that outcome, and you can only call skunk cabbage a salad green until it's time to take a bite of the salad.

Back to the revolution. To succeed, any revolution must have popular support. Not overwhelming popular support, but enough of it to make the government fall. In the case of the USA, I estimate that no less than 30% of the citizens would have to participate in this revolution for it to succeed.

What will be the weapons of the revolutionaries?

Their checkbooks and banking programs.

The ultimate revolution, and one for which the Government can never prepare (it is actively preparing for an armed revolution), is the cut-off of it's money.

What is the biggest obstacle to an armed revolution? The taking class is the biggest obstacle. There is a huge surplus of "cannon fodder" right now. The Government pays the way for probably 40% of the folks, and part of the way for another 10-15%. If an armed revolution broke out, the Government would simply enlist all those dependent folks to help put down the revolt. It's hard for an armed revolution to succeed when the partisans are outnumbered 2-to-1 by those who would turn them in, if not actually fight them. An armed revolution cannot fight both the government and it's colossal army of government dependent citizens. If you, John Q. Partisan, loaded up your car with your S.H.T.F. gear and guns and headed for your sooper-secrit militia rendezvous, you would be reported by snitches fifteen times before you got there. You would be engaged by hostile fire before you could join up with your putative comrades, and the armed revolution would die a-borning.

Consider a different revolution. It's three or four years down the road, and the Government has borrowed so much money and issued so much fiat paper that it now takes 75% of the revenue stream to just pay interest.

The revolutionaries have prepared, they have stocked up on food and put their taxpaying cash aside in their mattresses, or in gold, or some other secure place. On April 15th of that year, when the Feds normally finish collecting the 80% of their entire revenue take for the year, that huge chunk of the Federal necessary fails to come in. The folks who aren't takers, over half of that category or about 15-20% of the citizenry , just do not pay (the takers don't pay any tax anyway). The Treasury Department plays the pea and shells game for maybe 90 days, but then the defaults start cascading, and within 30 days, the conservative opposition asks for and gets the resignation of every liberal congresscritter and Administration hack. New elections are held on short notice, and since the stock market has crashed and the Dow is at 10% of it's pre-revolt level, no one can write those big checks to support new liberal candidates, so they lose and a veto-proof conservative government is installed. It immediately cuts Federal payroll by 60% and Federal expense by 40%, balances the budget, creates a surplus, starts paying down the national Debt, and passes a Balanced Budget Amendment.

Could the Socialists counter this tax revolt in the making? They would see it coming, as millions of taxpayers adjusted their witholding level to the legal minimum and stopped making their Estimated Tax payments (quarterlies). They might even make a splash and hurriedly try to jail the leaders of the tax resistance. For every one who went to the cushy Federal pen, a thousand would rise to take that resister's place, and soon, the Feds would stop that gambit. After all, they didn't convince the illegals to stop barging into the country, did they?

Nope, anything the Feds did to counter the tax resistance would end in disaster, and the fight against the resistance would be doomed on the first day the welfare checks didn't go out. Those takers are fickle, you see. They want their FREE SHIT, and if they don't get it, then some bullets would fly. It would be the welfare class shooting up the cities in rage at their FREE SHIT being cut off. There might be some riotous skirmishes, but sorry, Three Percenters, the guns aren't going to win this war, cash will.

That is the future of Revolution in this country, and the quicker the Socialists try to ram their failed system down the throats of the taxpayers of this Nation, the sooner that Revolution will come.

Socialism is doomed, you see, as long as there are enough people who still believe in earning their way. For now, that's slightly over half, but that half is plenty more than enough to carry off a tax revolt. 

Wednesday WTF,O

That stands for pilot lingo, "What the f**k, over" The "over" is from the earliest days of radio, when, to transmit voice, you were on such a narrow bandwidth that you couldn't transmit duplex (both halves of the conversation at once), so a switch had to be thrown "over" (it was usually a large bat-handle switch on the front of the transmitter cabinet) to end the transmitter's broadcast and change the antenna to receive mode. The word "over" was added to the end of each voice transmission so that the receiving party would know that it was his/her turn to transmit. The military probably still uses this protocol, although most forms of radio-telephony are now full duplex.

WTF #1: Do you get the feeling that the whole planet is going to Hell in a Handbasket just now? We just re-elected a President who cares not for the Constitution he's sworn to uphold, and a Congress which won't follow THEIR oaths of office, either. We seem to have a military whose Generals seem more concerned about the press and fit of uniforms and how those unis dazzle the babes than their prowess in battle. Europe applies band-aids to their trashed economies, economies beaten down into the dirt by the excessive expense of Socialism, but the EU citizens don't get it, and riot over every little cut to the largess of their Socialist regimes. Now Israel has slouched into full war with Hamas, which will likely bring in Hezbollah in the next few days, and the IDF will have to defend the Jewish State on all it's borders. But, back on Wall Street, the Day Traders make their lightning trades, advancing their portfolios a penny here and a penny there, and thinking that they are singlehandedly holding the American Dream together. People, we are exactly one RCH away from global chaos, driven mostly by fear, OVER.

WTF #2: The "fiscal cliff". This story rates not only a WTF, Over, it rates a resounding "Whoop Factor Nine". Game of farging chicken. Means exactly ZERO, because neither party wants to address the central idea at the root of the "Fiscal Cliff" issue: the size of Government itself. The current (minority) flavor of Righty politix is "center-right", meaning that government excess, both fiscal and power, can be tolerated with minor objection only. The current (majority) flavor of Lefty politix is that Government is never big enough or powerful enough, so it's NEVER excessive to increase it's size or power. It all costs money, that Government, and there is only so much of it to go around, and not enough to actually PAY for all that Government, so we get a deficit (debt) building up, sometimes less and sometimes more, but always building. Okay, there is a perception that the cost of Government has built up from "of serious concern" to the "dire copnsequence" level, to finally the "Fiscal Cliff". It's all perception, people. There is no bright line, that when crossed, the economy fails. Instead, there's a progression: the higher the debt-to-revenue ratio, the more the costs of Government rise, and when the rate of rise approaches vertical, then an end will come, but we're a long way from vertical, people. Look, I'm not sayin' don't fix this mess, but I am saying that 010113 at 0001 EST, there is not a "Fiscal Cliff" to fall over, unless the boneheaded Day Traders of Wall Street declare one (and some are trying that, even as I write). If everyone just does their job: the President managing the Administration the best he can, and the Congress producing and passing a budget the best they can, we'll get by. We may not be the perfect Jeffersonian Model of a Government, but we'll get by, OVER.

WTF #3: The Lemming Factor. Reading the above WTF,Os, you get the idea that it is fear that drives us these days. You would be right, to a degree. The preppers prepare out of fear (I am one of those who evaluate common fears as to their potential effect on ME, and prepare accordingly). The Press sells soap because of fear (righty and lefty press). Fear causes more fear, but what is all of this fear but momentary discomfort? Enter the Lemming Effect. That's when the fear makes you run in the direction the herd/flock/school is running, just to be doing something about your fear. Someone at the head of the herd/flock/school gets lost (lack of good Navigator, heh!), runs over a Cliff (Fiscal or real), and un-necessary carnage results (and the Zombies waiting at the bottom of the cliff get fed!). That's the Lemming Factor. My take on the Lemming/Cliff paradox is all about not running when the herd/flock/school runs, but standing still to wait until the group passes, just to see what or who is driving them. If they are being driven, I have choices: I can join the running group, I can challenge the drivers, I can hide from the drivers. I have CHOICES, and so do you, OVER.

 

Omen?

Some believe in omens, for me, I'm not so sure.

Today, I had a longish nap, and awoke at 1530 to take a shower. After the long, hot shower I got out and dried off, then happened to glance out to the East from Schloss Rivrdog, a second-story window, and saw this:

Yep, that's a double rainbow. It seems that a herd of Unicorns had just ridden the stormy skies, and farted. Cue "Ghost Riders"

Is it significant?

You tell me. It's less than two hours to the Grate Dee-Bate.

No matter, I'm prepared, as you can see Adam, the M35A2 lurking out there, ready to take me and my selected load to wherever the HELL I want to go, and yes, it might be that very place.

Does the Devil's herd ride tonight? Vaugn Monroe, sung by Burl Ives

If it does, are YOU prepared?

Okay, one more: Marty Robbins

Some history: The Ghost Riders, US Navy Attack Squadron VA-164, flew A4Ds during the Vietnam war (same airraft flow by "Viper" in the movie Top Gun)

Is is "chatter"?

...or is it the future?

I just signed on to a new gunboard (new for me, CastBoolit.com has been around for a while).

Some old heads over there raised a suspicion that I have held for a while: since the 2A is about GUNS, not ammo, a wannabe gun-grabbing gummint could put a severe crimp in the 2A by just shutting down ammo supply, without much chance of an immediately-successful challenge.

After reading some posts over at CastBoolit, it re-enforces this belief that I've held before now.

Accordingly, I give this advice:

Stop buying guns to bulk-up or improve your inventory. When you have the basic inventory on hand (3 guns/person: rifle, shotgun, handgun), concentrate on buying ammo.

Several things to consider: an actual "gun-grab" by the .gov would meet with immediate resistance (perhaps except for guns like 50BMG, which I think could be grabbed without SCOTUS opposition). An ammo crunch would be harder to resist successfully. By Executive Order (remember, Obama has issued close to 1,000 of those, eclipsing all the previous POTUS' together), all imports of ammo would cease. No more CommBloc stuff for your AKs or RPKs. No more milsurp stuff from anywhere, and that cheap Russ steel-case stuff would also stop.

That's only Day One of an ammo freeze. It gets harder for the .gov after that, but imagine if an Executive Order froze powder shipments, or declared any component of ammo as HazMat? Maybe an Executive Order declaring copper and/or lead to be a strategic and controlled supply item. I seem to recall that there is already an Executive Order on the books for that, but it was never put into practice.

Don't dismiss these musings with, "Well, CalGuns or 2AF or NRA or JPFO would fight THAT". Of course they would. When is the last time you saw some sort of Executive Office plan to delay a legal process? If you're a Geezer, think back to Watergate, but just recently, we had Gunwalker, which is not resolved yet despite an entire Congressional Session investigating it. Oh, yeah, those Oval Office people know how to delay things, yes they do.

Here's the program:

• Buy ammo. Buy it/load it often. Develop a system to keep track of it, storage systems to protect it's quality, and possibly be ready to hide it from .gov eyes if some sort of  "Arsenal Law" is declared.
• Plan on having enough ammo for the duration of an Obama second term. If an "Arsenal law" gets declared by ObamaFiat, it will be in effect immediately on publication in the Federal Register, and that can be done in days, maybe hours. All ammo sales will likely be immediately frozen until the Registration requirements for the Arsenal Law are worked out.
• Don't talk about your ammo supply any more. Not on your blogs, not to anyone outside of necessary household members who have to help you with ammo logistics.
• If your State/Muni gummint already registers/limits ammo purchases, you are screwed, unless you have found a way around them (like driving to a neighboring State and purchasing, making you an instant criminal). NEVER talk about such lawbreaking to ANYONE.
• Consider caching most of your ammo away from your primary residence. If you DO get known as an ammo hoarder, and I'm sure I am known that way already, you MUST have off-site and dispersed storage.
• Reloading: reloading is a long-term solution to an ammo ban, but reloading components/equipment will likely be embargoed as well as loaded ammo in the Arsenal Law. We will all have to pack up our reloading benches/rooms and prepare to hide/disperse them also if ammo gets banned by fiat.

Okay, you're a gunny who isn't a Type A prepper. How about YOU? How long until your ammo supply runs out at your present rate of use without re-supply, Grasshopper?

"Death Panels" cranking up? Veterans to be their first victims!

I got this letter passed to me in an email from the Coyote Kid, who is retired USAF, but got his start as a grunt in 'Nam, so he's always a Marine first, and I don't hold it against him.

The letter is from a Vietnam vet, who had a strange experience at the hospital medical clinic just recently:

I  am a 67-year-old former Marine and a Vietnam veteran. And I say:
"Forget about living to age 75 in the USA!"

This  morning at Danbury Hospital here in Connecticut, I was scheduled  for
a cardio-lite stress test. This is a treadmill stress test  where nuclear
dye is injected into your bloodstream and you are  put in a CAT scan or
something similar in order to take a  picture of your heart. If all is
good, the heart shows up red;  if there are blocked arteries anywhere, the heart shows
up pink.  I have had three of these tests in the past twelve years due to
blocked arteries discovered in 2000. They use the test to  determine if I
need a "roto rooter" or a bypass  operation.

So,  I arrived for my previously schedule appointment at the hospital  at 8
a.m. this morning and in the process of checking in, the  lady in the front
desk said that my appointment has been  canceled. She made a call, spoke
with someone, and then she  handed me the phone. It was a nurse in the
Cardiology Department  who said that my medical insurance carrier denied the
procedure.

I  said, "It is a routine part of my heart maintenance program as  ordered
by my PCP and with approval from my cardiologist who is  the head of Danbury
Cardiology Department, which is right where  I am standing right now."

She  went, "Yes, but our request was  denied."

So  I said, "I have Medicare, so what is my backup insurance doing  denying
anything."

Then  the bombshell. . .she said, "It was the Medicare Board that  denied
the procedure."

At  that point, I turned to everyone behind me, and it was a long  line,
and I said to them "Well, you won't have to wait too long  today because my
stress test procedure was just canceled by a  Medicare Death Panel. I am only
67 so can you imagine what is  going to happen when we really get old?"

The  entire waiting room and everyone there from patients to staff  just
went dead silent.

Then,  I turned to the front desk staff and told them, "I guess I will
have to write a letter to the editor of the  Danbury News Times and call my
senators and congressman and let them know the Death Panels have  already
convened".

Then  I walked out.

By  the time I got home the message machine was blinking. My PCP had
called and so did the hospital and guess what? Medicare decided  to
approve my stress test procedure, and I should get back down  to the hospital, and they
would fit me in right away for the  3-hour procedure.

I  called back and told them that I couldn't make it, I was going  fishing
because I didn't know how many more fishing trips I  could get in before I
went into cardiac arrest, but not to worry  about me costing the government
any money because I am a 30%  disabled Army veteran due to Agent Orange
poisoning which is  what caused this heart problem to begin with, and I
qualify to  be buried for free in a plain pine box in the cheap graves  section at
any national cemetery. I certainly don't want to cost  our government any
money. So, maybe we just won't do the  procedure anymore and we can use the
money to redistribute it to  all of the illegals to keep them alive so
they can mow the lawns  at the national cemeteries.

And  so this note is for everyone to know that the Death Panel crap  has
already started. And if we don't vote this guy and his  criminal cronies out
of office this November, then we should all  expect to die younger and as
completely broke paupers as the  country goes further down to hell.

Feel  free to distribute my note to anyone and make it your mission to  not
only make your vote count in November 2012 but on behalf of  all of us,
please also make an effort to help convince everyone  to NOT vote for the
present White  House occupant or any of his cronies in the November 2012
election if they want to receive proper medical care and expect  to live
to age 75 or older!




Another  forwarded email message from another  Marine:




Dr.  Suzanne Allen, the head of Emergency Services at the Johnson  City
Medical Center in Johnson City, Tennessee, was recently  asked if she has
seen any effects of ObamaCare in her  work.

Her  reply was: "Oh, yes. We are already seeing cutbacks on the  services
we provide. For example, we are now having to deal with  patients who would
normally receive dialysis, who no longer can.  In the past, there was always
automatic approval under Medicare  for anyone who needed dialysis -- not
anymore."

When  asked what the outcome will be. "The patient will die sooner  without
dialysis," she  replied.

What  about other services?

She  said that as of 2013 (after the election), no  one over 75 will be
given major medical  procedures unless approved by the government-appointed
local  Ethics Panel. These Panels will determine whether a patient  should
receive medical treatment or not. Dr. Allen points out  that most
life-threatening emergencies do not occur during  normal hospital business
hours, and if there are emergencies  that need to be resolved within minutes or few hours,
the  likelihood of getting these Panels' approval in time to save a  patient
life is going to be very challenging and difficult, if  not impossible.
This applies to operations such as stent placement, bypass  surgery, kidney
operation, or treating an aneurysm which are  normally covered under Medicare
today. In other words, starting  in 2013, if you needed a life-saving
operation, it is likely  that Medicare might not provide coverage anymore,
or ifit does, it will require approval by a government  appointed Ethics Panel if
you are age 75 or over.

When  in 2013? "We haven't been given a specific date, it could be in
January or July, but it's after the 2012 election," says Dr.  Allen.

This  is shocking to anyone who will be 75. Her advice? "Get healthy  and
stay healthy. We do not know the specifics of the actual  implementation of
the full ObamaCare policies and procedures;  they haven't filtered down to
the local level yet. But we are  already seeing severe cuts in what we
provide to the elderly. We  have refused dialysis to an individual who was 78 just
the other  day. We have also refused to give stents to a gentleman who was
in his late 80s. Every day, we are seeing these cutbacks aimed  at reducing
care across the board for anyone who is over  75."

This  is a death sentence to those who are over 75....perhaps you  should
pass this on to your friends who are thinking of voting  for Obama this year.
Regardless  if you have private health care coverage now (I have Aetna
Medicare Part B), it will no longer apply after 2013 if the  Ethics Panels
disapprove of a procedure that may save your life.  Scary!  Think about
how this applies to you, your parents, and your  other loved ones!

If  you didn't know about it, as Nancy Pelosi said, "Well, if you  want to
know what's in the bill, you'll have to read it...."  (after it was already
passed).

This  is an important reminder to stay healthy, and to get your plot  at
the nearest Forest Lawn Memorial Park now, while they are  still available
because the ObamaCare Plan is a death sentence  to those who are age 75 or
older!


Semper  Fi
Mofak
Back-to-Back  We Face the  Future

I have plans to fight these "Death Panels". The first is to start finding out who are on them, at first politely reminding those docs that they swore the Hippocratic Oath on their first day in Medical School, and it is a forever Oath, just like my Oath of Enlistment. If politeness doesn't work, well then, that's what street politics is for. That's what Grand Juries are for, because it is likely that ObamaCare rules will NOT protect docs who are sworn to uphold State constitutions which say for them to save all possible lives.

Okay then, we will have used the Soap Box and the Jury Box to no effect, and the Won bypassed/stuffed the Ballot Box, so what Box is then left?

You know THAT answer, readers.

Quote of the Day

or, "what she said" if you're under 30...

"After the disillusion and bitterness will come a painful lesson: that it is foolish to derive laws for human affairs from gods and prophets."

Ayaan Hirsi Ali, writing in the Daily Beast

Word.

H/T to the Armorer of Argghhh!

BTW, this article answers my most burning question regarding the rise of the Islamists: Where the HELL are the world's free women? Their voices should be deafening to our ears about the resurgence of Islam into Western Culture, but all we hear is the occasional whisper. Where are the women? My guess is that aside from a very few like this writer, they just don't give a flying fark about how other cultures treat women. Why is it that only men can look beyond their cultural boundaries? Why do not the women in Islam see that so much more is possible for them?

Ladies, it's a global thing. Not since Aristophanes penned the play, Lysistrata over two millenia ago have women been considered a game-changer in affairs normally the province of men. It could happen here, if the petty internecine squabbles for "women's rights" issues were set aside, and women universally challenged Islam to rid itself of it's misogynist wing. If women were to unite and do that, they will have literally saved the cultural progress of the planet. If they continue to ignore their obvious role as saviors here, and men fail to come to sufficient agreement on how to stop Islamism and rid the Earth of it's scourge, well then, women have no one else to blame but themselves when more and more of their sex are enslaved.

If the women of the free world WERE to unite with the objective of freeing their sisters enslaved by Islam, it would force the mullahs to either take a stand against them, in which case those mullahs would become legitimate targets for elimination, or the mullahs would have to back down, and admit that Islam CAN be interpreted to give equality of the sexes. That's a win either way for women.

Aux Armes, Mesdames! C'est la guerre pour votre droit! (To arms, Ladies! This is the war for your right).

T.E.O.T.W.A.W.K.I. - Game point, first of many

On September 12th, less than two weeks distant, the German Constitutional Court (equivalent to our SCOTUS) will issue an opinion as to whether German participation in the Euro Bailout is constitutional under THEIR constitution.

If that Court rules against it, the Euro will likely collapse, since only the Germans have the funds to prop it up, and then only for a limited time.

Without German participation in the bailout, the Euro, which is already pegged right at it's introductory level of 1/1/99 (US$1.25), will likely fall to parity (or worse) with the US Dollar, itself not a strong currency.

I'm not into the politicization of the German High Court, but if they ARE politicized, they will probably okay the German Central Bank bailing out the Euro, and all will be okay, for a while....

Should they say that their Constitution does not extend to funding Socialism past their own borders however, the panic starts in Europe and will quickly spread to the USA markets, and we will have a Black September. The "original" Black September referred to the paleoswinian massacre in the '72 Olympics, but this Black September will be much, much worse.

A renewal (continuation?) of the "recession" is guaranteed here, and likely worse.

Are YOU ready for worse?

You have twelve days to prepare.

1. If a crash involves a "bank holiday", you need to be prepared to function on cash for as much as several weeks. Can you do this?
2. If Obama can't get a handle on it in several weeks, we will see the T.E.O.T.W.A.W.K.I. (the end of the world as we know it) scenario. In that case, the election means nothing, because the Nation will cease to exist before November. Specie for personal & family continuance will be beans and bullets.
3. Do you have enough beans and bullets?

If this crisis is avoided, there will be others, because the cost of socialism in Europe has exceeded the ability to both pay and borrow for it, and the loans are due.

We're next.

Read it - and be scared, very scared

This article lays it out, but it's what it DOESN'T say that's important. The authors have the figures down for the various unfunded liabilities of the USA, but they don't show them for other major world economies, the collapse of one or more which might trigger our crash. Several other major nations have economies with a much worse debt/GDP ratio than ours.

You can't monetize up for this one. You have to drop back to the basics: beans and bullets. If you haven't done that by now, it may be too late, but do it anyway.

At this point, I'd even consider the possibility of going into debt to buy those beans and bullets. The fact is that the debt won't amount to much in a hyper-inflated economy, which is what we're talking about here.

One of this year's two candidates will accelerate the rush towards this Armageddon, the other one, at best, might delay it a bit.

Bottom line is that YOU will survive it or YOU will not. It really is up to you. Government won't be able to do a thing except make it worse.

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UPDATE: 082212 0848 PDT: Joe Huffman also blogged on the scary. Read his short article here, and don't forget his links. The comments are instructive as well.

UPDATE: 082212 0854 PDT: This is NOT the scary, and don't let the media tell you it is. Actually, this tax re-initiation does a tiny bit to help stave off Armageddon, even as it probably puts a crimp in the economy. Hard to say what the effect will be, other than to rape the DOD.

Second Amendment Warning – first Alert

Just heard on the KPTV (Fox) News out of Portland, courtesy of the soon-to-be deactivated analog repeater station in Astoria, OR:

(Paraphrasing) PTSD policy for returning War Veterans. Today, the Veteran’s Administration announced that ALL returning veterans will be tested for PTSD, and RETESTED every year. (end of headline).

If you are a gun-owner who has served in a war zone, you should be aware that the VA has been asking “entrance questions” for some time, and they are designed to ask for a voluntary statement of hostile feelings, etc, which might be a result of PTSD. Those questions, anywhere from two to five in number, are followed (or sometimes preceded) by “do you have any guns in your home.”

Folks, there are two possible answers. You may consider yourself under duress of the removal of your constitutional rights with the Second Amendment, and a person under duress is permitted to dissemble (lie) as a proper defense of constitutional rights, so you answer “No”, even if you have guns. The other possibility, more palatable to those who can’t bring themselves to lie under any circumstances, is to use the time-honored, “I’m not at liberty to answer that question”, and if that answer is questioned by the VA intake people, reply, “because it compromises a legal position I am required and permitted to sustain.”  Do not further elaborate, and if required, firmly inform the intake person, “I am here to (state medical appointment) and further questioning is delaying this doctor visit. If you persist in attempting to question me on these private matters, I will be obliged to report you to the Patient Affairs representative.”

Be properly polite and professional during these confrontations, and realize that they are simply an extension of enemy action against you as a military member, but remember that YOU, as a Veteran, have all the rights of the HIPP Act, AND your rights as a military person. You have the right to be given all orders in writing, and in fact, you may end all of this by demanding that right. Of course, the VA will never issue you such an order. OTOH, if you are still in the IRR, or any branch of the Reserve, you CAN be issued orders, and the above advice may not apply.

Recognizing the end result of this new VA policy will probably put a stop to it: it is designed to do nothing less than disarm THE most likely armed opponents of a dictatorial take-over by the Obama Regime, and it’s consequent complete suppression of the US Constitution.

Veterans WILL remember and act on their to act on their oaths to protect the Constitution with their lives (and by TAKING lives, if required by circumstances), and the would-be Gauleiters of the American Reich know this, which is why they will do their utmost to defang their primary opposition before their final moves to take this Nation into dictatorship.

Your resistance to the onrushing American Reich starts now, with YOUR refusal to be classified as unfit to keep and bear arms. Your Nation WILL depend on you, of that I’m sure. No one else has the training and the proven valor to stand in this breach. Stay strong, my fellow Veterans.