Independence has a meaning which has been lost on many Americans. It is at the core of why Kalifornia is going bankrupt: lack of Independence from our public servants. Demagoguery – and other official Potomac Fever endeavors to do too many things for the people, things which many of us knew should not have been done – is the official's stock in trade. This fever compels greater dependency on government by way of excluding citizens from working things out for themselves. When they go against our wishes and better judgment, they take on a dictatorial cast to them, an all too familiar cast if you think of some recent European history.
Special interest groups is a cover for this foible of breaking a safeguard and then being the one to ‘fix' it. As FOX's Greta van Susteren has said this week, "We've been had." She's right. The New Media is beginning to notice this form of governance in dismantling working social safeguards, mandating sweeping replacements, and leaving us worse off than before.
Three new candidates for Kalifornia Governor are reported by The Los Angeles Times Tuesday, 11/17/09: Meg Whitman, Tom Campbell, and Steve Poizner. [The next Arnold? A lot like this one?] Reporter Dan Schnur observes that in hoping to succeed Arnold, they all seem a lot like Arnold.
No thanks.
I told you about the reporter who came to photograph the zoo, didn't I? The reporter brought a photographer in tow to take a few snapshots of the outdoor animals exhibit hosted at state expense. But the appointment was canceled due to inclement weather. The Governor's aide then piped up, "Why don't you see the Governor? He's a RINO, he's big, he's thick skinned, he likes having his picture taken, and he's not behind bars."
Arnold Schwarzenegger has been as much against guns and the freedom from servants they really represent as any other European. The Governor still thinks like an Austrian and not at as an American. Here is precisely how. Will this change with new candidates?
Independence in our way of life differs wonderfully from the European culture of dependency on government. Here, government is a servant, and our Constitutions (federal and state) place limits on their authority and powers, the powers which they get from us by way of just powers. When they assume powers not granted, they put a European K in Kalifornia and in Amerika. They can't legally make things up or do things that weren't authorized by the people, and a lot isn't. But they do it anyway, which is the mess we're in now. This is how they put the European K in Kalifornia and in Amerika. Americans are getting tired of it.
You see, in the real America, we operate on our own in freedom as long as we don't break the law. It is a matter of personal dignity to be free from your servants and use them as you like; they do not use you. Or do they? You can see the K in Amerika in action when you see more and more servants assuming more and more powers not granted them, more laws criminalizing more and more honest people, taking more freedoms, taking more assets, claiming that more and more acts are illegal, or that more and more of something of ours is needed.
When it comes to gun control, a government again believes it has powers which we did not grant them. The armed citizen is unique to the United States. Kalifornia is out of step with forty-eight other states who see things the way gun owners see them, the way free people see them. These states are not responding to ‘special interests' or pressures from the so-called gun lobby or the NRA — these states happen to agree with their constituents on the wisdom of the citizen's independence from that respective state, friends, and that's what this is about. Independence from the crazy whims of officials versus the no-choices-left dependency on the state, or else. The K in Kalifornia means or-else.
The practice of respecting independence from the state is not in ignoring laws, but in fewer laws there. They don't close off freedoms and make people depend on government for what's left. That would be tyranny, and the frontier states of values of freedom don't go for it. They refuse it to the point of invoking the tenth amendment to the Constitution to get out from under government dependency overall. They prefer due process to abuse of process.
Taking guns or even regulating them or regulating ammunition is to frustrate the citizen's ability to fight crime the moment it strikes, and this creates an enchantingly delightful void in fighting crime for the RINO's. It actually screws things up. The state then jumps into the opportunity it just created and lies to the public that crime seems intractable. As if.
With all candidates for Governor of California, we'll need to hear solutions in the form of the repeal of many gun laws. California was never broken; it was subjected to the European concept of governance.
Vitamin C. Perhaps, then, the solution will not come from Republicans. It comes from the Constitution. Government does not grant rights nor can it take them away, not really. But they can make life Hell, and they do in an abuse of police powers. Our rights which are actually a powerful safeguard of the nation or of any state predate the Document. My suggestion for the next Governor is to inject Vitamin C into the life of California. We could use a lot more respect for constituents and our liberty and less attention to liberals. 
Vitamin C stands for Conservative and Constitution, and has little to do with K, which is a free radical. So is R sometimes, isn't it?
A Conservative will know that gun owners and law enforcement are allies; both are for law and order and due process. Free radicals try to play police and gun owners as oppositional, but it only reveals their ignorance (or a European mind-set). A Conservative will know that more Independence soon makes for a smaller government, and that repeal of gun laws makes for more independence such that big government is not even needed. (Which is why free radicals want gun control! They want to be needed.)
For the 2010 election, don't bother with more K and free radicals, go for Vitamin C, now with more 2A!
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More to come next edition.
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The second amendment is not about guns, it is about remaining sufficiently independent that government will not attempt to substitute itself for citizen power and authority. Safe Streets In The Nationwide Concealed Carry Of Handguns, (Hardcover), is now available online as an e-book.
Comments
Schwarzenegger was a disgrace long before the republican lapdogs fawned all over him as if they were seventh grade girls during the recall campaign in 2003. Even then, and long before, actually, 'arnold' was as anti gun as fidel castro. yet they love it. now, they are whining about how awful he was, 6 years later. whitman will be no better. they are truly a lost cause.
Schwarzenegger was a disgrace long before the republican lapdogs fawned all over him as if they were seventh grade girls during the recall campaign in 2003. Even then, and long before, actually, 'arnold' was as anti gun as fidel castro. yet they love it. now, they are whining about how awful he was, 6 years later. whitman will be no better. they are truly a lost cause.
Schwarzenegger was a disgrace long before the republican lapdogs fawned all over him as if they were seventh grade girls during the recall campaign in 2003. Even then, and long before, actually, 'arnold' was as anti gun as fidel castro. yet they love it. now, they are whining about how awful he was, 6 years later. whitman will be no better. they are truly a lost cause.
I'm not from or live anywhere near California, but I totally agree that his thinking is along the lines of the usual ilk that tries to tell you what you need to do in order to live your life. Altough he did make some pretty damn good movies. As far as actors becoming politicians, I was very young when Reagan was in office. But Arnold, I guess if you marry into a political family, that automatically makes you "The Right Stuff". Thanks for keeping up the good fight guys.
John, you hit the nail right on the head. After Gray Davis, I couldn't imagine things getting any worse under Schwartzenegger. But you're right. He thinks like an Austrian on gun control - especially fellow Austrian Adolf Hitler.
John, do you see California still being a trendsetting state for the rest of the country, simply because it's the most populous? I hope not. We're in the mess we are, partly because other states have mimicked California's inane practices.
Socialism coming, to your'e town U.S.A. with the leadership of bAROCK muslem oBAMA.
I am a retired Federal Auditor and worked out of various Office of Inspectors General in the U.S. and abroad. A joke phrase was floating around that I heard from time to time. "Our closest Communist neighbor is California." The election of Clinton showed that this insidious phenomenon had taken over the Democrat party and would destroy America as a Republic. And then comes Obama. Unbelievable. The Democrats run California, not the "Terminator".
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