It's great that Shaneen Allen is free and was able to share her story with us at a Citizens for Liberty meeting. I just couldn't post this video without commenting on her call for national reciprocity for state issued carry permits. She's in favor of them, I'm not. Here's why. National reciprocity is just more federal domination of the states. We have too much of that already.
The problem is states implementing gun control not a lack of federal laws on the subject. National reciprocity entrenches and legitimizes this state level tyranny while at the same time expanding federal power. Despite appearances it's step backwards for liberty. The answer is to repeal state laws about licensing and regulating guns. At the same time we need to end federal involvement with guns by abolishing agencies such as the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. It's by this kind of limiting of government power that we protect our freedom.
Now these perpetual “victims” want to learn about “Powerfully Peaceful Action in the Face of Armed and Aggressive Opposition”. Why do they say they need to do this? Because, according to them, “Almost every group in the gun sense movement has – at some time in the last several years – been confronted by armed and/or aggressive counter demonstrators at one of our public actions.” Though as you can see at the link above no examples of any aggressive behavior towards them are given. Of course, we often counter-demonstrate their events armed but that's not aggression as the zero body count and zero hospitalization rate among attendees show. If being around guns frightens them there is a name for that, hoplophobia. Perhaps a psychiatrist would be more helpful to them than a workshop.
I wish I knew what aggressiveness they've been facing. Last June we went out of our way not to interfere with their gun rights hating march from Chester to Media, two towns near Philadelphia, PA. Here is video proof that they weren't even verbally insulted.
Facing aggressors from our side isn't what's going on out there. No, they realize that they can't keep abusing us and keep the facade of goodness and victimhood intact. For example, they sure were abusive of me when I tried to flier their rally once:
Gun rights haters in Rhode Island were even worse to liberty activist Dan Bidondi:
Even disrupting a peaceful gun rights rally is held up by gun rights haters as a proper way to behave:
Then there is the vile practice of “swatting” open carriers. This is when gun rights haters call 911 and lie about open carriers' behavior so the police will stop, arrest, or even kill them.
Who really are the aggressors here? Certainly not gun rights advocates. We want only to peacefully have our rights respected. It is the other side, the gun rights haters, that want to send armed thugs with badges to infringe on our rights. Let's be very clear on this point, it is the gun rights haters who are the aggressors. They, in the form of their agents in the government, are coming after us not the other way around.
My impression is that they're stung by years of defeat in the legislatures and courts. Not to mention years of being proved wrong by the dropping crime rates that have occurred in recent decades despite the fact that there are more privately held guns than ever in the US. Just as they think that sounding more knowledgeable about guns will make them more credible and effective activists (see here for a write up of their meeting on firearms) they now think that hiding their hate will help their cause. It won't. More than a marketing problem what they have is a reality problem. They've been proved wrong and all the sweet talk in the world won't change that.
Attorney Joshua Prince makes a complete fool of CeaseFirePA's gun rights hating Shira Goodman. They're debating Pennsylvania's Act 192 which allows people to proactively sue municipalities which enact gun control laws in violation of the state's preemption statute. Enjoy!
MARCH AGAINST MAINSTREAM MEDIA is more than just
a protest. It is an attack against the credibility of the mainstream media
in an attempt to steer its viewers away from its lies and
towards alternative media sources. There are too many important things
happening today that go ignored or spun by the MSM and unnoticed by the mass
public. On November 16th, organized protest in the United States will be
brought to the doorstep of all large mainstream media studio headquarters
including: ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, and FOX News. With enough support from
truthseekers out at their local MSM studio locations on November 16, we will
force the hand of those media outlets and they will be pushed to make a
decision. http://www.mamsm.info/about.htm Pictures of the march:
I gave this presentation at
the Citizens
for Liberty meeting on August 20, 2013 near Norristown,
Pennsylvania. Below are links to source material so readers can do
their own research and come to their own conclusions.
And if we enquire
how these unhappy nations have lost that precious jewel liberty...we
shall find their miseries...proceed from this, that their necessities
or indiscretion have permitted a standing army to be kept amongst
them...
...no nation ever
preserved its liberty, that maintained an army otherwise
constituted within the seat of their government...
...the
Israelites, Athenians, Corinthians, Archaians, Lacedemonians,
Thebans, Samnites, and Romans; none of which nations whilst they kept
their liberty were ever known to maintain any soldiers in constant
pay within their cities...
It's the misfortune
of all countries, that they sometimes lie under an unhappy
necessity
to defend themselves by arms against the ambition of their
governors,
and to fight for what is their own; for if a prince will rule us with
a
rod
of iron, and invade our laws and liberties...we...must patiently
submit to our bondage, or stand upon our own defense; which if we are
enabled to do, we shall never be put upon it...
This
subject is so self-evident, that I am almost ashamed to prove it: for
if we look
through the world, we shall find in no country, liberty and an army
stand
together;
so that to know whether a people are free or slaves, it is necessary
only
to ask, whether there is an army kept amongst them?
I
will venture to say, that if this Army does not make us Slaves, we
are the only People upon Earth in such Circumstances that ever
escaped it… If this Army does not enslave us, it is barely because
we have a virtuous Prince that will not attempt it; and it is a most
miserable thing to have no other Security for our Liberty, than the
Will of a Man, though the most just Man living: For that is not a
free Government where there is a good Prince (for even the most
arbitrary Governments have had sometimes a Relaxation of their
Miseries) but where it is so constituted, that no one can be a Tyrant
if he would. Cicero says, though a Master does not tyrannize, yet it
is a lamentable consideration that it is in his Power to do so; and
therefore such a Power is to be trusted to none, which if it does not
find a Tyrant, commonly makes one; and if not him, to be sure a
Successor.
It
is certain, that all parts of Europe which are enslaved, have been
enslaved by armies; and it is absolutely impossible, that any nation
which keeps them amongst themselves can long preserve their
liberties; nor can any nation perfectly lose their liberties who are
without such guests: And yet, though all men see this, and at times
confess it, yet all have joined in their turns, to bring this heavy
evil upon themselves and their country.
It
is on a supposition that your American governors shall be honest that
all the good qualities of this government are founded; but its
defective and imperfect construction puts it in their power to
perpetrate the worst of mischiefs should they be bad men; and, sir,
would not all the world blame our distracted folly in resting our
rights upon the contingency of our rulers being good or bad? Show me
that age and country where the rights and liberties of the people
were placed on the sole chance of their rulers being good men without
a consequent loss of liberty! I say that the loss of that dearest
privilege has ever followed, with absolute certainty, every such mad
attempt.
Did
you ever read of any revolution in a nation, brought about by the
punishment of those in power, inflicted by those who had no power at
all? You read of a riot act in a country which is called one of the
freest in the world, where a few neighbors cannot assemble without
the risk of being shot by a hired soldiery, the engines of despotism.
We may see such an act in America. A standing army we shall have,
also, to execute the execrable commands of tyranny; and how are you
to punish them? Will you order them to be punished? Who shall obey
these orders?
The Lemonistas strike again! For the third year in a row they've run an illegal lemonade stand selling their refreshing drink. A police officer interrogated and threatened them but in the end did nothing. This happened in Rittenhouse Square in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. This act of civil disobedience is done to protest the closing of children's lemonade stands around the country.
The sixth Smoke Down Prohibition happened on June 30, 2013 in Philadelphia, PA. The police state turned out in greater strength than ever. They put on an overwhelming show of force. There were several arrests but fortunately no one was hurt.
This is what a police state looks like:
The cage the police state set up for the protesters:
Larken Rose (www.larkenrose.com/)speaking to the crowd before they started the march
(The next four pictures are of the marchers rallying in front of the Federal Detention Center. This is where Adam Kokesh and NA Poe were held in May after being arrested at Smoke Down Prohibition 5.)
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