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Time to put on the foil hat…The black helicopters are real

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http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/video?id=8971359&pid=8971311

A day or so ago, it was Miami, now it’s Houston. For those who don’t know, the Hughes 500 helicopter seen in this video sports a configuration flown almost exclusively by the Army’s 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment in this country. Just as was the case with the Blackhawk helicopters seen over Miami. If you saw Blackhawk Down, you likely saw the same helicopters and it might have been some of the same pilots.  And again, little or no detail about what these military units are doing or planning by operating in such public areas.

Folks, a little over four years ago, we were promised more transparency and honesty in our government than we’d ever seen before. Instead, if you’ve been paying attention, we’ve seen continuation and expansion of every secret program Bush ever started. You know; Gitmo, indefinite detention without trial, as well as warrant-less searches, seizures, and wiretapping?

Well, we now have a government that has openly stated it can, has, and will continue to kill US citizens or anyone else without any form of due process if they believe them to be “enemy combatants” in active war zones while known terrorists in the same region are supposed to be mirandized and given a public trial. When asked if the authority to kill US citizens applied to those on US soil, the current Director of the FBI said he wasn’t sure. Really? There used to be a document called the US Constitution that said quite clearly the answer is no but, the FBI Director isn’t sure if the Federal Government still sees things that way.

Meanwhile, all the people who were screaming that Bush was guilty for all of the above and more, have been conspicuously silent or leading the charge to disarm the public while the Federal Government buys billions of rounds of ammo, thousands of new rifles and shotguns, and heavier armor to “serve you better.” I’m not usually the foil-hat guy but, I am no longer confident that we are moving toward a freer, safer society

-Gary

Don’t let the facts get in the way of a good sound bite…

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http://home.nra.org/pdf/Transcript_PDF.pdf

This has bothered me to no end for weeks.  Days after Wayne LaPierre spoke the NRA new conference in response to the Sandy Hook tragedy, I heard liberals left and right saying his speech was shameful and that he’d made a fool of himself in calling for armed teachers.  But I couldn’t for the life of me remember hearing him say that. Armed security in the schools, certainly but, I don’t remember him saying all our kindergarten teachers needed to get strapped as the media has continually suggested.  So I decided I needed to read the transcript again, just to be clear because, it’s not like the media would ever get something wrong.

Well, I can’t find a single phrase in the entire thirteen page document.  Those of us who actually listened to the press conference with an open mind will not be surprised by this “revelation.” The fact is the liberal media is continually spinning “the facts” to fit their agenda while quietly, Democrats across the country are apparently embracing what Wayne LaPierre actually suggested…Professional, armed security for schools.  Congress is looking at grants to fund it.  Legislatures around the country have already authorized it in many cases.  So it seems that while the media continues to sell the idea that “we” and the NRA are crazy for suggesting it, legislators and administrators across the country are quietly acknowledging the idea that armed security is, in and of itself, a deterrent where as “Gun Free Zones” are a magnet for tragedy.

– Gary

Liberals act as if they have a monopoly on personal interests in this debate

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Lawmakers touched by gun violence take debate personally – Yahoo! News.

I have heard it said on more than one occasion that those of us against gun control would feel differently if WE had been the victims of “gun violence” or otherwise had violence by an armed individual touch our lives.  Folks, I take personal exception to that as a survivor of more violence than I care to remember (more than my fair share of fights, an attempted stabbing, and more than one drive-by shooting) .  And I’d also like to remind these people that violence does not occur in a vacuum where the only people who are hurt are Democrats and liberals.  We could argue whether or not their mindset of a willing victim means they are that much more traumatized but, that’s another discussion.

I have not been present for a mass-shooting…Don’t want to be and hope I never have to deal with it.  Chances are very high that I never will because I don’t spend a great deal of time in places where these incidents are likely to occur (invariably Gun Free Zones) .  But if you’ve never heard of her, I’d like to take a moment to turn your attention to former Texas State Representative, Suzanna Hupp.  She too was a victim of violence.  She was sitting in a Luby’s with her parents when George Hennard crashed his truck through the front of the restaurant and began shooting people.

When Hennard approached Hupp, she reached for a revolver (.38 caliber) she normally kept in her purse only to realize that it was still in her vehicle outside the restaurant.  Hupp’s seventy-one-year-old father, Al Gratia, rushed, unarmed, toward Hennard in an attempt to subdue Hennard and defend  Hupp and her mother, Ursula.  Mr. Gratia was fatally shot in the chest. Hupp tried to flee with her mother but, Mrs. Gratia stayed to cradle her fatally wounded husband Al and was ultimately executed by Hennard.

Police arrived and exchanged fire with Hennard.  Faced with armed force, like nearly all mass shooters, Hennard retreated further into the restaurant to commit suicide rather than continue to fight.  Hennard had shot 50 people, killing 23 of them, including Suzanna Hupp’s parents.  It was, until the Virginia Tech shooting, the worst mass shooting in modern US history.  But Suzanna Hupp’s reaction and her story does not fit the narrative of Diane Feinstein or others who go so far as to arm themselves while simultaneously treating the rest of us as chattel that must be disarmed.  In fact, rather than demanding more restrictions, Hupp demanded the right to defend herself rather than be a victim.

I seriously doubt Ms. Hupp would suggest you or I go out hunting for mass shooters or act as police but, she championed concealed carry laws across the country.  Why? Because she too had a personal stake in changing the law.  Never again, would she be forced to wait her turn to be executed by a mass murderer. Never again, if she could help it, would someone have to watch helplessly, as their parents or other loved ones were killed like fish in a barrel because someone like Diane Feinstein would prefer they be a good victim.

In closing; I offer this warning, those who propose limits on law-abiding people are not seeking to make things safer for the rest of us. These people have a self-serving agenda and there are many, well meaning people, who will go along with the program because it “seems” reasonable.  Talk to them. Tell this story and be sure they hear both sides because they won’t get it from the media.

– Gary