Life, Liberty...Not so Much

Cal Thomas has an excellent piece over at Townhall.com explaining the effect of the health provisions contained in the new Porkulus bill. He makes a similar point to the one I did several days ago, namely that once a society assumes the right to arbitrarily murder unborn infants, no one remains safe. The next likely candidate will be the elderly and the infirm. Who knows, maybe eventually we will get Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger's dream of eugenics. Only, of course, the ones to decide will be unelected bureaucrats in Washington.

You can see what is wrong with all this, I hope. What is wrong is that God decides who lives and whose work on earth is done. When man interferes to cut short a life that otherwise might serve God's plans, he takes on an awesome responsibility. Traditionally, we have called taking such responsibility murder.

Update: Laura Hollis also pointed out that all of this "steal from us"bill is designed specifically to impose a Marxist takeover of the United States. Hollis can be read here.

In the FUSA (Former United States of America)

Breda has a post about Friday the 13th of February. Go read it here. A quote from the piece is in order:

And to everyone who voted to enslave the freest people on earth...

I curse you. 48% of of your countrymen curse you. Future generations will curse you. Your own descendants will curse you.

Leave it to an Irish woman to know how to place a curse on someone.

H.R 45

I just fired off this correspondence to Mr. David E. Price, Democrat Congressman from the 4th District of North Carolina. You will note that I didn't mention that the Supreme Court has already struck down charging fees for the exercise of a Constitutionally protected right (think poll taxes here,) or that such laws have in the past been used to confiscate all legally owned weapons (think Nazi Germany, New York City, England and Australia, ) or that even if he can cite some benign purpose, for what purpose will some future administration use this legislation?

Mr. Price:

I am opposed to all public policy elements of H.R. 45.
I
am opposed to:

...passing a written examination to purchase a firearm.

...releasing medical records -- including confidential mental health
records -- to the Attorney General.

...submitting to a two day waiting
period to exercise my Constitutional right to keep and bear arms.

...paying a fee of $25 or more to exercise my Constitutional right to
purchase a firearm.

...creating a national database with all firearms
and firearms owners registered by serial number with the Federal Government.

...a Federal ban on all private firearms sales.

...all increases
in penalties for clerical errors related to this national firearms registry.

Please take these thoughts into account if HR 45 should come before you
for a vote, or if these provisions come up under some other legislation. From
the nature of the legislation, it looks as if the goal is to trip up anyone who
makes a purchase, or currently owns a gun, and decrease ownership generally by
scaring the timid into believing they can not own a weapon without tripping
themselves up. If that is indeed the purpose, it is hardly worthy of the Federal
Government. If not, then what is the purpose? Whatever it may be, the law
abiding people of NC are not the problem, and playing a "gotcha" game with us is
not going to help.

Regards,

I requested a response. I have never gotten one before from this Congressman, but if I get one, I will post it. Mr. Price has an F rating from the NRA. For the NRA to give out an F rating, a politician has to be absolutely terrible on gun issues, as they can find redeeming qualities even in Carolyn McCarthy. But he should realize that guns protect both liberals and conservatives, lefties and righties, and everyone in between.

In case anyone believes that all this fuss is over nothing, please read
How Democracies Become Tyrranies in the American Thinker. Anyone who thinks what Obama and the "Democrats" in Congress are doing is new can read what Plato wrote 2500 years ago.

5 Dangerous Things

I got this from the Newbie Shooter, down in Charlotte. It's "5 Dangerous Things You Should Let Your Kids Do". Of course, one of the unspoken points is you should be around to supervise at all times while they are playing at these things. I especially liked the pocket knife. When I was 7 years old, my Dad gave me a pocket knife for my birthday. I have carried it, or subsequent versions, literally everywhere I go, every day since. I learned to keep it sharp, how to carve wood, and make useful stuff with it. I could not describe how useful it has been, or how lost I would be without it. Sadly, today men no longer carry pocket knives, having not gotten in the habit due to school prohibitions. The slow demise of the pocket knife, the sidearm, and other things represent to me the massive feminization (read emasculation) of our society.

And with the passage of the Porkulus, we can now see that everything must be safe, so that we all live to the age when our masters decide they don't want to take care of us any more.

Update: The grand daughter and I went out and had a good time burning some brush clippings Saturday. Winds were light, and I got to show her the necessity of standing by and controlling the fire until it is completely burned out. Grandma was happy to get rid of that pile of brush clippings as well.

The Porkulus Bill

I discovered this tid bit, at Bloomberg.com, while reading about the proposed "Stimulus" that doesn't stimulate.

I have known for many years now that socialized medicine, as practiced in the UK and Canada does not work as advertized. The elderly especially are treated cruelly in these systems, because it is not deemed economically practical to treat them, despite treatments being available. How does this stack up with the Biblical command to honor your Mother and Father?

In my own case, my Dad is 80 years old, and just recently had a bout of cancer of the prostate gland. Of the two types of prostate cancer, this was the aggressive variety, and it surely would have killed him in 6 months. However, it was successfully treated through a combination of radiation and homone treatments. Would he have been treated under this proposed system? My Dad continues to operated a business at 80, and to be a productive member of society.

So, first the government has the blood of unborn children on its hands through Roe v. Wade and subsequent decisions. Now it will murder the elderly as well. When did they decide that they own our lives, and that it is theirs to do with as they please? When did we have that debate? The last I heard, we are citizens of this country, not slaves to a Fascist State. When are we going to act like it? Not to put too fine a point on this, how is this different than a farmer, whose prize bull no longer performs as a stud, so is euthanized? The farmer can do that because he owns the bull. In the same way, by witholding treatments that are available, if expensive, is the State not doing the same thing to senior citizens?

Educating Anti Gunners, One Person at a Time

Joe Huffman is educating an anti-gunner over at the ""View from North Central Idaho". Go have a read. I left a comment at Mr. Weinstein's site as well. To me, his list of "reasonable" restrictions, or whatever they are calling it today, looks like the Brady Campaign's list, right down to the wording. Everything is now couched in the bland sounding "reasonable" and " common sense." There is nothing that is either reasonable or common sense about these proposals. And the magical thinking involved is, of course, on full display. "If we can just pass these few extra burdens on all of us, these "reasonable and common sense" restrictions, why crime would decrease remarkably. " Here's a question, if these laws do it, finally, then we can repeal the other 20,000 gun laws that had no effect, right? No? Then I have to ask what Joe asked, namely what is the real agenda behind these new restrictions, because it sure ain't crime prevention.

I always liked Joe's formulation of "Just One Question" to shut up gun grabbers. It goes like this: Can you demonstrate one time or place, throughout all history, where the average person was made safer by restricting access to handheld weapons? To my knowledge, no one has ever answered his question.

Switching topics, there will be light blogging from now through the first of the new year. Last minute shopping a baking, then going to Virginia to visit with a sick friend will take up quite a bit of time.

A reminder, I will be at the gun show tomorrow, at the GRNC table. Stop by if you are in the area.

Have a very Merry Christmas, and a Happy and Prosperous New Year.

Update: Welcome to Mike Vanderboeg with the addition of the Sipsey Street Irregulars to the blogroll. I have found Mike's writings over the years to be powerful, and knowledgable. Mike doesn't pull any punches. I think his is just the voice we need right now.

Double Standard

Jonah Goldberg has a great article up today citing the double standards that exist in the mainstream media between Sarah Palin and Caroline Kennedy. Palin, Governor of Alaska, hard worker, mother and wife, is treated as if nothing she could ever do would be enough, while Kennedy, whose thin resume of accomplishments seem to be that she was born a Kennedy, is being crowned as we speak.

Admittedly, we don't know Mrs. Palin well enough, but what we do know is very exciting. Thing is, if Palin had held liberal views, she would have been hailed as the second...er...third coming. But Palin espoused the conservative values of limited government, hard work, keeping what you earn-in short meritocracy. My mother would have understood Sarah Palin, having raised 5 children of her own while also having a career as a teacher, and would have seen her as the true feminist she is. Moreover, Palin is the sort the Founders had in mind. Rather than professional politicians, or hereditary titles, the founders envisioned outstanding citizens, especially businessmen taking on the burden of government for a time, then leaving it for other tasks. Along with the citizens militia, these were thought to keep our country strong and free.