Ninth Stage

New Orleans must be some kind of cesspool that Katrina did not cause but rather revealed. NO cops stealing from stores is an image we remember. That was impersonal burglary. We also remember NO cops and their proxies stealing the tools of protection from the survivors of Katriana. Badged robbers are [...]

Stop using swat teams on civilians. That’s a reasonable request. One that will go unheeded of course.
There’s an old saying, if you don’t use it you lose it. That is the primary reason that SWAT teams being used for routine search warrants will not go away.
Another reason is that being on a [...]

I’ve been reading about lines in the sand in various blogs. These line-in-the-sanders think that their lines are some kind of clear delineation between freedom and serfdom, they’re not.
Here’s how it’s going to happen (and I suggest that it’s been going this way for decades): You stick your big toe in the sand [...]

It’s worse than I’d hoped (pdf) but better than I’d feared.
Meanwhile, Radly Balko pees in the party pool.
UPDATE: Then Radly Balko faults the NRA for not pushing Heller from the start while saying, at the link above, “I’m having a hard time getting too excited about today’s decision.”

So, I guess my Tennessee concealed carry permit is now recognized there too.
UPDATE: The NPR link used to quote the governer as saying, “We’re just trying to respect the laws of other states and other governments,” (just as I heard on the radio). It has since changed as you can see from this [...]

You probably remember Metal Storm as the company making those programmable high speed electronic “machine” guns seen on you-tube. Now Metal Storm seems to be having financial problems.
[I]n its 1999 prospectus, [Metal Storm] hypothesised that it could earn as much as $1.1billion in revenues from its technology over five years.
At the time it also [...]

Insty says yes, I say hell yes.  ” Should prosecutors who withhold exculpatory evidence face criminal charges?“  Hell yes, severe, harsh, and frightening criminal charges.
I am not one to single out prosecutors, any government employee that violates the law and/or civil liberties of an individual should be prosecuted in the most severe manner possible.

People like these are the only ones. The only ones that should be subject to the death penalty; government agents involved in violating citizens.
Via Two-Four.

Anti-freedom Clark Garen proposes on his website here that we:
1. Create a one year period for the United States of America to purchase at fair market value all guns and firearms, including hand guns, rifles, and even antique guns and rifles from domestic private ownership.
2. Prohibit and criminalize the domestic sale of guns and firearms, [...]

Tracy Schario, spokeswoman for George Washington University in Washington, D.C. said, “We do not allow weapons on campus for the safety and security of our student body and faculty.”
I keep reading statements like this and they never sound complete. They’re leaving off the reasons they do allow guns on campus, “We only allow weapons [...]

Enraging:
In 2005, Oklahomans in Action launched a campaign to put a Taxpayer Bill of Rights (TABOR) measure on the November 2006 ballot. The measure would have put a cap on state spending increases, giving voters and taxpayers—instead of politicians—the power to override the cap.
Paul Jacob, as an advisor to the campaign, helped Oklahomans In Action [...]

Joe Huffman finds the center and it is us.

Stolen shamelessly from Radley Balko.

Only seven days left to voice your opposition to the first step in the next five year plan to make the United States a true, we mean it this time, honest, workers paradise (and avoid insurance fraud by positively identifying your charred remains after the next terror attack) known as Real ID.
Via C.D.

Quote of the day Imprisonment by stealth.
What many of us have been thinking and talking about all along but well put.
Via Coals to Newcastle.

The killers of Kathryn Johnston got off easy today by pleading guilty to manslaughter. Kathryn Johnston was the victim of a home invasion by police officers last November, when she defended her home and life she was shot dead in a hail of 39 police issue bullets.
Old woman killer Officer J.R. Smith pleaded guilty [...]

In an impossible event, 29 32 people have been shot dead in a GUN FREE ZONE!
VIA ABC Newsradio.

Dem Dems are at it again. Les Jones alerts us to “H.R. 1022: To reauthorize the assault weapons ban, and for other purposes.”  Yup, an attempt to renew the so called “assault weapons” ban is back (with other, certain to be lovely, “purposes”).
Recriminations abound for those who voted “D”.  Misplaced I think as the [...]

Now that’s a motto.  “Congress Shall Make No Law”, sounds like music doesn’t it?  The latest installment of The Probability Broach is available.

Heard on NPR about the “consensus for compromise that the recent election shows we want” (condensed and paraphrased).
Compromise is fine in negotiations over the sale of say a house; seller and buyer agree on a price somewhere between the asking and offer and everyone is happy at the end.
With natural rights compromise is not possible [...]