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While the Democrats are saying “Shit, that ain’t true”, the Liberal pollsters here in Canada are spewing poll numbers that ain’t true. Call an election and find out what is the real truth. Changing the Liberal leadership ( jumping out of the frying pan into the fire) ………..a Liberal is a Liberal is a Liberal, WEFFERS.
Donald Trump has not lead the Canadian Liberal Party for the past 9 years. Nick Nanos is a dyed-in-the-wool Liberal. They are no longer polling companies, they are master manipulators, left loons, WEF elites. To say the Liberals are leading or tied with the Conservatives, well “Shit, that ain’t true.” “Shit, that ain’t true”. “Shit, that ain’t true.
Some peoplekind have no morals, no values, shame on the storytellers. I loved when a pollster interrupted me, after asking who I am most likely support, and then said “Ooops, your age range is full” and hung up. LOL
Jihad Watch:
Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth says Israel working with Russia to keep Turkey out of Syria
Yedioth Ahronoth is Israel’s second-largest daily newspaper after Israel Today, and it reports that Israel is working with Russia to keep Turkey out of Syria. With most of the Western world obsessed with Russia and Ukraine, many may be nonplussed by this news.
But there are other pressing issues besides Ukraine. For instance, Trump has warned that America “should worry less about Putin and more about migrant gangs, drug lords, murderers,” so that the US doesn’t end up like the European Union.
Turkey is extremely dangerous to Israel. It was responsible for facilitating and backing the jihadist regime that is now governing Syria, and it is virulently opposed to the state of Israel….
Turkey facilitated the rise of the Islamic State, which continues to be an ever-present threat in Syria. 10,000 ISIS fighters are jailed inside Syrian detention centers, while tens of thousands more of their jihadi family members are in displaced person camps. This potentially enormous army of jihadists is a grave threat to Israel, to the region and to the world.
https://jihadwatch.org/2025/03/israeli-newspaper-yedioth-ahronoth-says-israel-working-with-russia-to-keep-turkey-out-of-syria
The left wants us to look at things through the prism of 1 good guy and 1 bad guy, in reality both sides have done and will continue to to bad things. What we have to do is look at what is best for the US in each individual situation, some times we will support one side and other times the other side.
This is a very simplified explanation of international affairs but it explains why we will support Putin against Ukraine and then oppose him else where, he understands this just as he understands that at times we will allow him slack to do bad things when this will cause him to support the US in other more important things.
Welcome to the real world and real politic
That’s “transactional”.
The most transactional leaders hate that tag. They think of themselves as Good, their counterparts are Evil.
Take that serious world!
Do not take a drink when listening to her. LOL I love her Thank you.
Katie Hopkins: Here’s what happens next with UKRAINE. Zelensky has reached his expiry date
Once again here is the right video, I don’t know what went wrong
Ben B@dejo @BenTelAviv
If Harvard tells the truth to the U.S. Department of Justice, bad things will happen to Harvard. If Harvard lies to the U.S. Department of Justice, worse things will happen to Harvard. And guess who knows about some of things Harvard wants to lie about? Oh, that’s right. Me.
https://x.com/BenTelAviv/status/1896042103534469328
The Wagon Box Fight: Never Tell Me the Odds
here is the right video
China Is Heading for Zero Births
Boomerang, Karma, Eye-in-the-Sky.
Yup, this is payback for the one child policy, it will take many decades to undo the damage done to the entire world by the abortion on demand craze.
Ukraine’s Missile Strikes Lose Efficiency After US Stopped Sharing Intel – Targeting for HIMARS and Storm Shadows Was Done Using Data Handed by NATO Allies
thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/ukraines-missile-strikes-lose-efficiency-after-us-stopped/
Mar. 6, 2025 1:40 pm
Ukrainian missiles like the UK-provided Storm Shadows were targeted using US intel data.
When Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky lit himself on fire in the Oval Office, US President Donald J. Trump warned him sternly: ‘your problems begin now’.
And indeed, shortly after that, the US stopped all military aid to Kiev, and right after that, stopped sharing military intel – and forbade the NATO Allies from sharing any US intel with the Ukrainians, too.
Without the information gathered by US satellites, spy planes, surveillance drones and intel assets, Ukraine can only hit static, ‘low hanging-fruit’ targets.
Trump’s ban on sharing US intelligence with Kiev via the ‘Releasable to Ukraine’ program is dealing a serious blow to Zelensky’s war effort.
Sputnik reported:
“Ukrainian military’s command and control capabilities have become increasingly dependent on intel supplied by the West. Without this information, Kiev’s ability to plan combat operations will be severely degraded.
Using high-precision weapons such as ATACMS and Storm Shadow will become problematic, because in order to use them to hit some sensitive Russian target, one must first locate it.”
Storm Shadow missile attack in Kursk, Russia.
The Ukrainian air defense effort will equally suffer greatly if information is not supplied about the Russian missile launches and airstrikes.
“Critical Ukrainian assets will become more vulnerable to Russian attacks as without adequate intel Kiev will be left guessing which high-value target will be hit next.
Without data about Russian troop movements, Ukrainian command will be hard-pressed to anticipate and counter further Russian offensives.”
Trump dives a very hard bargain, something Zelensky is finding out.
Read: BREAKING – Zelensky Grovels to Trump After US Pauses All Military Aid to Ukraine
The Telegraph reported:
“Ukraine’s most powerful missiles were left frozen on Wednesday after the US cut off intelligence-sharing and demanded fresh talks with Volodymyr Zelensky. Crucial intelligence for long-range missiles such as Himars, which have been key to holding back the Russian offensive, went dark at about 2pm on Wednesday.”
After Zelensky threw a spanner in the works of the minerals deal, and it was put on ice, Zelensky is rumored to now have to offer ‘additional concessions’ to get talks restarted.
“Ukraine was left exposed on Wednesday when it emerged that intelligence-sharing had been cut. The US also told allies including Britain not to pass on American intelligence to Kiev. John Healey, the Defense Secretary, was due to meet with his US counterpart on Thursday.
‘President Trump had a real question about whether President Zelensky is committed to a peace process’, John Ratcliffe, the CIA director, said on Wednesday. ‘He said let’s pause. I want to give you a chance to think about this, and you saw the response, President Zelensky put out a statement saying ‘I am ready for peace’’.
[…] A Ukrainian defense source described the American decisions on weapons and intelligence as an attempt to ‘blackmail and aimed at pacifying Ukraine by reducing its defensive capabilities’.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/ukraines-missile-strikes-lose-efficiency-after-us-stopped/
(Richard: One of the tactics used against guerrillas is the policy of no sanctuary, you keep the pressure on them and don’t let them have any place they feel safe, if possible you insure that they don’t feel safe inside their own minds.)
New York Times Interviews Mexican Drug Lords Terrified of Trump’s Cartel Crackdown: ‘The Most Important Thing Now is to Survive’
thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/new-york-times-interviews-mexican-drug-lords-terrified/
Mar. 6, 2025 1:00 pm
Mexican drug cartels / Sky News Screenshot
Mexican drug cartels are reportedly worried about their futures with Donald Trump in the Oval Office.
According to a seemingly sympathetic report from the New York Times, the cartels are expressing fears that their business model is at risk because of the Trump administration’s crackdown on drug cartels.
The report states:
One cartel leader says he’s trying to figure out how to protect his family in case the American military strikes inside Mexico. Another says he’s already gone into hiding, rarely leaving his home.
Two young men who produce fentanyl for the cartel say they have shut down all their drug labs.
A barrage of arrests, drug seizures and lab busts by the Mexican authorities in recent months has struck the behemoth Sinaloa Cartel, according to Mexican officials and interviews with six cartel operatives, forcing at least some of its leaders to scale back on fentanyl production in Sinaloa state, their stronghold.
The cartels have sown terror across Mexico and caused untold damage in the United States. But here in Culiacán, the state capital, the dynamic seems to be shifting, at least for now.
Cartel operatives say they’ve had to move labs to other areas of the country or temporarily shut down production.
“You can’t be calm, you can’t even sleep, because you don’t know when they’ll catch you,” said one high-ranking member of the Sinaloa Cartel who, like other cartel operatives, spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of capture.
“The most important thing now is to survive,” he added, his hands trembling.
Since returning to office in January, President Trump has taken an aggressive stance against Mexican drug cartels, designating them as foreign terrorist organizations on his first day in office.
Another important aspect of their strategy has been the closing off of the southern border, which drug cartels exploit to help traffic billions of dollars of drugs into the United States.
Just this week, Trump imposed a 25 percent tariff on Mexican imports, citing the government’s failure to curb fentanyl trafficking.
The administration is also exploring the possibility of unilateral military operations, including special forces deployments and even targeted air strikes.
“’All options will be on the table’, said Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth during a recent interview with Fox News.
Defense Secretary Hegseth Puts Mexico on Blast: ‘Curb the Influx of Migrants and Fentanyl, or US Military Will Strike the Cartels’
Such efforts are facing pushback from the Mexican government, with President Claudia Sheinbaum recently proposing changes to the country’s constitution that would try and block any investigation or military action by foreign entities without permission from her government.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/new-york-times-interviews-mexican-drug-lords-terrified/
aiding and abetting
Wht kin of encryption were the reporters and terrorists using to communicte with each other?
probably a commercial one that is on the app stores
Senior Trump Team Officials Hold Secret Discussions With Top Ukrainian Opponents to Zelensky, Probe Possibility of Holding Quick Elections: REPORT
thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/senior-trump-team-officials-hold-secret-discussions-top/
Mar. 6, 2025 12:40 pm
The USAID media is out defending its golden boy, Zelensky.
Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky is, at this point, an unelected politician ruling via Martial Law, who appears not to have understood that the world has fundamentally changed with the arrival of President Donald J. Trump.
The US President is a disruptor and is ushering in a new era of peace between the nuclear powers. If Zelensky doesn’t wake up and join the effort, Trump has warned, ‘he won’t last much.’
Yesterday it arose that four senior members of Trump’s administration reportedly held secret discussions with some of Kiev’s top political opponents to Zelensky.
Politico reported:
“The senior Trump allies held talks with Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko, a remorselessly ambitious former prime minister, and senior members of the party of Petro Poroshenko, Zelensky’s immediate predecessor as president, according to three Ukrainian parliamentarians and a U.S. Republican foreign policy expert.
The discussions centered on whether Ukraine could hold quick presidential elections. These are being delayed in line with the country’s constitution because Ukraine remains under martial law. Critics of holding elections say they could be chaotic and play into Russia’s hands, with so many potential voters serving on the front lines or living abroad as refugees.”
AI-generated image by Grok: the desperation of Zelensky.
Read: Zelensky Has NO Friends in Trump Team, They Want Him Gone – ‘Best Case is He Leaves to France Immediately’ – NYP
By now we understand that a POLITICO report will be hostile to ‘all things Trump’, including, of course, the peace process – so they have to smear former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko as being ‘remorselessly ambitious.’
But the lunatic bias from POLITICO pretends that Zelensky is polling well in the country when, in fact, he has less than half of General Valery Zaluzhny’s numbers.
The ‘most recent poll’ the report alludes to, which ‘shows Zelensky still comfortably ahead in the race for the presidency’, was released right after the Ukrainian comedian lit himself on fire in the Oval Office, and is clearly bogus.
Read about the polls here in MSM Finally Reports on General Zaluzhny, the Absolute Favorite to Win Ukrainian Presidential Elections, With MORE THAN DOUBLE the Voter Preference of ‘Dictator’ Zelensky.
Will the Ukrainian rampant corruption be exposed?
Read: After Zelensky’s Ungrateful and Impertinent Display at the Oval Office, Trump Team and DOGE Move Swiftly To Audit Hundreds of Billions in US Aid to Ukraine
“The official line from the U.S. administration is that Trump is not interfering in Ukraine’s domestic politics. This week, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick denied his boss was ‘weighing into Ukrainian politics’, adding all that Trump wants is a partner for peace.
[…] Both Tymoshenko and Poroshenko have publicly opposed holding elections before the fighting ends, as has Kiev Mayor Vitali Klitschko. Nonetheless, ‘Poroshenko’s people and Yulia, they’re all talking to Trump World, positioning themselves as people who would be easier to work with. And people who would consent to many of the things that Zelensky is not agreeing to’, a top Republican foreign policy expert told POLITICO, asking that his name be withheld so he could speak freely.”
Trump top officials have frequently suggested Zelensky should step aside unless he comes fully on board with the U.S. plan to end the war rapidly.
And – despite the USAID-media wailing – that’s the right way of tackling the situation.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/senior-trump-team-officials-hold-secret-discussions-top/
Tymoshenko and Poroshenko are horrible. (Though Poroshenko’s candy company made terrific chocolates.)
General Zaluzhny could run the place and do the diplomatic thing. Unfortunately, he’s a total knot-zee.
An article he wrote in November 2023 goes on some fantasy excursion to a different galaxy where gizmos do the fighting.
The commander-in-chief of Ukraine’s armed forces on how to win the war
Technology is the key as the war becomes “positional”, says Valery Zaluzhny
https://archive.ph/wNzUa#selection-943.0-947.75
He is right, although you need to break out and make it a war of maneuver as soon as possible, positional war eats up soldiers and equipment. This is where the technology comes in, you need to break the line so you can run around destroying their lines of communication and other interesting things.
Pro Hamas Agitators at Barnard College Refuse to Disperse After Bomb Threat, Stage Lynching of President Rosenbury (Video)
Pro-Hamas agitators at Barnard College are back at their disruptive activities as they cheerlead for the terror organization that held a parade to celebrate murdering toddlers.
During their latest public tantrum, a bomb threat was called in for the building they took over.
Despite the uncertainty about the veracity of the threat, the agitators refused to evacuate the building. Police officers and college administrators were forced to remain in the building, risk their lives and others, as they attempted to protect those in the area.
click through to read the rest and watch the x post videos
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/pro-hamas-agitators-barnard-college-refuse-disperse-after/
(Richard: The Dems constant calls for violence against Trump and his supporters is paying off for them, the crazies are starting to come out and try to use violence against the people who are working to save the US. Wait until warmer weather and we will see riots in the Dem controlled cities.)
Florida Man Arrested After Threatening to Assassinate President Trump and Launch Missiles at New York City
thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/florida-man-arrested-after-threatening-assassinate-president-trump/
Mar. 6, 2025 11:00 am
Screenshot of Justin Blaxton via NBC Miami
A Florida has been arrested after allegedly threatening to assassinate President Trump and launch missiles at Trump Tower in New York City.
Justin Blaxton, 34, called 911 operators in Palm Beach County and made multiple threats against President Trump’s life.
The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office arrested Blaxton on February 26 after he made the threats.
In the call, Blaxton reportedly told 911 operators, “I need a ride to the airport to be taken to The White House so I can assassinate the president.”
He later told operators, “I’m about to launch the missiles to destroy New York.”
Florida man claimed he would assassinate Trump, shoot missiles at New York during unhinged calls to 911 operators https://t.co/D35DcWuUP5 pic.twitter.com/XTPQm5CL48
— New York Post (@nypost) March 6, 2025
Per The New York Post:
A Florida man has been busted for allegedly threatening to assassinate President Trump and “launch f–king missiles” at New York City in a series of bizarre phone calls to police.
Justin Blaxton, 34, of Loxahatchee, made multiple threats against the president on Feb. 25 while repeatedly calling 911 in Palm Beach — where Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate is located, according to audio released by police, CBS 12 reported.
“I need a ride to the airport to be taken to The White House so I can assassinate the president,” Blaxton told a dispatcher in one call, the report said.
“I’m about to launch the missiles to destroy New York,” he allegedly threatened.
He also rambled in another call, , “I’m a Confederate soldier and I’m looking to get revenge. My missiles are attracted to Donald Trump’s tower.”
Deputies reported that Blaxton has a history of mental illness.
FLORIDA MAN’S WILD 911 RANT THREATENS TRUMP, NYC WITH MISSILES
A Florida man, Justin Blaxton, 34, was arrested today, after bizarre calls to 911 in Palm Beach, threatening to assassinate Trump and “launch missiles” at New York.
Blaxton demanded a ride to the White House and… https://t.co/5DKzvODSnG pic.twitter.com/appjdAW5Ki
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) March 6, 2025
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/florida-man-arrested-after-threatening-assassinate-president-trump/
While Lauding FL Gov’s Pro-2A Remarks, Don’t Ignore Alarming Dem Discipline
Ammoland Inc. Posted on March 6, 2025 by Dave Workman
Florida’s Governor Ron DeSantis
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis called upon lawmakers to reverse strict gun control laws and make Florida a ‘strong Second Amendment state.’
OPINION: While gun rights activists in Florida and across the country are giving Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis high marks for his call to re-evaluate Sunshine State gun control laws during his state-of-the-state address, they should remain vigilant following Tuesday’s embarrassing performance by Congressional Democrats during President Donald Trump’s Capitol speech.
DeSantis, according to the Tallahassee Democrat, may have set the stage for “what may become the most memorable gun fight in state Capitol history.”
“Second Amendment rights and gun safety advocacy groups are going all-in,” the newspaper reported.
During his address, the governor—who may already be laying the groundwork for a 2028 presidential campaign since Trump cannot run for a third term—said this to the Florida Legislature:
“The free state of Florida has not exactly led the way on protecting Second Amendment rights. We have some of the more weak laws on the country compared to our other states who consider themselves conservative. I would ask you to protect people’s Second Amendment rights. Look back in instances where legislation may have been passed in recent years, such as shifting the burden on red flag laws, such as taking away the right of young adults to purchase firearms, such as limiting somebody’s ability to both keep and to bear arms as our Constitution does.
“We need to be a strong Second Amendment state,” DeSantis declared. “I know many of you agree with it, and so let’s get some positive reforms done for the people of the State of Florida.”
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The newspaper quoted Florida State Sen. Shevrin Jones (D-Miami), whose comment underscores what his party thinks about Second Amendment rights, as he criticized the governor’s apparent pro-open carry remarks: “I think the governor is absolutely on the wrong side of history on this. There’s no need for expansion (of gun rights). We don’t need to keep up with Texas or any other state. Let Florida be Florida.”
In the firearms community, restoring the Second Amendment isn’t about a “need,” it’s about necessity. All rights are equal, and government erosion of those rights, say gun rights activists, must be reversed.
But Sunshine State Democrats appear poised to fight the effort, which brings the discussion around to how Capitol Hill Democrats behaved during Trump’s address Tuesday.
Rather than dismiss their stone-faced silence, refusing to even applaud a young cancer patient’s appointment as an honorary Secret Service agent (a moment which should have left not a single dry eye), as a “debacle,” the nation should be alarmed at the Democrats’ display of lockstep discipline during Trump’s speech. The scowls, fixated eyes, rigid jaws; America saw elected representatives in one party on live television who did not appear to be politicians with disagreements, but partisan fanatics.
Perhaps the best warning signal about this exhibition of extremism came from Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman, a Democrat who is showing increasingly strong signs of disillusion with his own party.
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Posting on “X,” Fetterman called Tuesday night’s performance by his colleagues “A sad cavalcade of self owns and unhinged petulance. It only makes Trump look more presidential and restrained. We’re becoming the metaphorical car alarms that nobody pays attention to—and it may not be the winning message,” according to Fox News.
The removal of cane-waving Texas Congressman Al Green from the House Chamber only underscored how serious Democrats are, and part of their agenda is citizen disarmament.
While Florida’s DeSantis is proposing what WPLG News described as a “roll back” of “key provisions of Florida’s gun laws, including reversing red flag laws and lowering the minimum age to purchase a long gun from 21 to 18,” Democrats are digging in to stop it.
At the far corner of the U.S., in Washington state, Democrats are pushing Substitute House Bill 1163, requiring a permit-to-purchase before a citizen can exercise his or her right to bear arms under the state and federal constitutions. Ammoland News reported on this earlier.
The Washington Senate has passed Engrossed Second Substitute Senate Bill 5098, which restricts the possession of weapons on the premises of state or local public buildings, parks or playground facilities where children are likely to be present, and county fairs and county fair facilities.” The vote was 28-21 along party lines.
This fight, pitting hardline anti-gun Democrats and their constituents against Republicans, conservatives, gun owners and evidently language in both state and federal constitutions may be the acid test for the entire nation. Washington has become something of a petri dish for gun prohibitionists to test just how far they can go. It is important political ground because the state is home to both the Second Amendment Foundation and Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms. The National Rifle Association, despite what many perceive as being a shadow of its former self, has a strong presence in the state.
The discipline to toe the line displayed by Congressional Democrats during Trump’s speech has permeated state legislatures. The “Party of Gun Prohibition” displayed what might be a genuine threat to democracy, which is the ability to coldly ignore a moment of triumph for a cancer-fighting child while adhering to an agenda that treats constitutional rights as government-regulated privileges, and law-abiding citizens as casualties of a culture war they are determined to win at any cost.
https://www.ammoland.com/2025/03/while-lauding-fl-govs-pro-2a-remarks-dont-ignore-alarming-dem-discipline/
“After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it.” ~ William S. Burroughs
“Gun control? It’s the best thing you can do for crooks and gangsters. I want you to have nothing. I’m a bad guy; I’m always gonna have a gun. Safety locks? You will pull the trigger with a lock on, and I’ll pull the trigger. We’ll see who wins.” ~ Sammy Gravano
“If you own a gun and have a swimming pool in the yard, the swimming pool is almost 100 times more likely to kill a child than the gun is.” ~ Steven Levitt
“The laws that forbid the carrying of arms…disarm only those who are
neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Can it be supposed that
those who have the courage to violate the most sacred laws of humanity…will
respect the less important and arbitrary ones… Such laws make things worse
for the assaulted and better for the assailants, they serve rather to
encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with
greater confidence than an armed man.” ~ Cesare Beccaria
“You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.” ~ Charles A. Beard
“An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.” ~ Robert A. Heinlein
“Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom of Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops that can be, on any pretence, raised in the United States.” ~ Noah Webster
“Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? Where is the difference between having our arms in possession and under our direction, and having them under the management of Congress? If our defense be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands?” ~ Patrick Henry
“…the rank and file are usually much more primitive than we imagine. Propaganda must therefore always be essentially simple and repetitious.” ~ Joseph Goebbels
“That the said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights of conscience.” ~ John Adams
“… the right to defend one’s home and one’s person when attacked has been guaranteed through the ages by common law.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
“A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.” ~ John Stuart Mill
“A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.” ~ Seneca the Younger
“Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.” ~ Mao Zedong
“There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters” ~ Daniel Webster
“An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it.” ~ Jeff Cooper
“Let us hope our weapons are never needed – but do not forget what the common people of this nation knew when they demanded the Bill of Rights: An armed citizenry is the first defense, the best defense, and the final defense against tyranny.” ~ Edward Abbey
“The Second Amendment only protects the people who want all the guns they can have. The rest of us, we’ve got no Second Amendment. What are we supposed to do?” ~ Louise Slaughter
“No Kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave.” ~ James Burgh
“By calling attention to ‘a well regulated militia,’ ‘the security of the nation,’ and the right of each citizen ‘to keep and bear arms,’ our founding fathers recognized the essentially civilian nature of our economy… The Second Amendment still remains an important declaration of our basic civilian-military relationships in which every citizen must be ready to participate in the defense of his country. For that reason I believe the Second Amendment will always be important.” ~ John F. Kennedy
I think you posted this some time ago:
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what’s for dinner. Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote.
– Ben Franklin
I found it next to this statement of fact in my files:
Israel refused to be the only vegetarian state in a world of predators.
I think I did post that several years ago.
He had a way with words that makes you remember what he said.
“The balance of power is the scale of peace. The same balance would be preserved were all the world not destitute of arms, for all would be alike; but since some will not, others dare not lay them aside … Horrid mischief would ensue were one half the world deprived of the use of them … the weak will become prey to the strong.” ~ Thomas Paine
“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed. – Second Amendment to the Constitution An armed society is a polite society.” ~ Robert A. Heinlein
“There are many advantages in their being accustomed to the use of arms, and no possible disadvantage.” ~ Joel Barlow
“The powers of the sword are in the hands of the yeomanry of America from sixteen to sixty. The militia of these free commonwealths, entitled and accustomed to their arms, when compared with any possible army, must be tremendous and irresistible. Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man against his own bosom. Congress has no power to disarm the militia.” ~ Tench Coxe
“Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man gainst his own bosom. Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birthright of an Americans.” ~ Tench Coxe
“The whole of the Bill [of Rights] is a declaration of the right of the people at large or considered as individuals… It establishes some rights of the individual as unalienable and which consequently, no majority has a right to deprive them of.” ~ Albert Gallatin
“I sympathize with people who want to ban guns, but I can’t agree with them. We have to be careful in our zeal to abolish guns that we don’t wind up with counter-productive legislation that will leave armed only the people most likely to do harm with them.” ~ Hugh Downs
“A ‘liberal paradise’ would be a place where everybody has guaranteed employment, free comprehensive health care, free education, free food, free housing, free clothing, free utilities and only law enforcement personnel have guns. And, believe it or not, such a liberal utopia does indeed exist. … It’s called prison.” ~ Joe Arpaio
“[T]he Clinton administration launched an attack on people in Texas because those people were religious nuts with guns. Hell, this country was founded by religious nuts with guns. Who does Bill Clinton think stepped ashore on Plymouth Rock? Peace Corps volunteers? Or maybe the people in Texas were attacked because of child abuse. But, if child abuse was the issue, why didn’t Janet Reno tear-gas Woody Allen?” ~ P. J. O’Rourke
“Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself.” ~ George Washington
“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom – go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!” ~ Samuel Adams
“War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.” ~ John Stuart Mill
“Foolish liberals who are trying to read the Second Amendment out of the constitution by claiming it’s not an individual right or that it’s too much of a safety hazard don’t see the danger of the big picture. They’re courting disaster by encouraging others to use this same means to eliminate portions of the Constitution they don’t like.” ~ Alan Dershowitz
“Laws that forbid the carrying of arms . . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes . . . Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.” ~ Thomas Jefferson
“I don’t believe gun owners have rights.” ~ Sarah Brady
“None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important.” ~ Thomas Jefferson
“Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.” ~ Ayn Rand
“In Chicago, which has the toughest gun laws in the United States, probably you could say by far, they have more gun violence than any other city. So we have the toughest laws, and you have tremendous gun violence.” ~ Donald Trump
“The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that… it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.” ~ Thomas Jefferson
“How a politician stands on the Second Amendment tells you how he or she views you as an individual… as a trustworthy and productive citizen, or as part of an unruly crowd that needs to be lorded over, controlled, supervised, and taken care of.” ~ Suzanna Hupp
“People who object to weapons aren’t abolishing violence, they’re begging for rule by brute force, when the biggest, strongest animals among men were always automatically ‘right.’ Guns ended that, and social democracy is a hollow farce without an armed populace to make it work.” ~ L. Neil Smith
“I carry a weapon. I got a death threat a few years ago and was really scared. But I don’t want bodyguards. I am my own security.” ~ Miranda Lambert
“A handgun ban is not realistically enforceable. Confiscating guns would require house-to-house searches and alienate the very individuals whose compliance is essential to the success of any regulation. If gun ownership were prohibited, organized crime would step in to provide the firearms that will continue to be procured with criminal intent.” ~ Don Kates
“Reality: “If we can sue the gun manufacturers for human actions, does this mean we can sue the car manufacturers for being hit by a drunk driver?”
They (in favour of gun control) must believe in the existence of a substantial number of persons who are willing and able to break serious laws such asthose prohibiting murder, assault, and robbery, yet who are not willing or able to break gun control laws. Dr.” ~ Gary Kleck
“Place your clothes and weapons where you can find them in the dark.” ~ Robert A. Heinlein
“I’m getting a little tired of politicians trying to prove how ‘moderate’ and ‘centrist’ they are by taking more of my money and freedom. Where’s this center – somewhere between Lenin and Stalin?” ~ Ann Coulter
“I once played a sheriff who thought he could do the job without a gun. I was dead in twenty-seven minutes of a thirty minute show.” ~ Ronald Reagan
“Some people who don’t like guns can’t stand the idea of so many gun owners in one place (at gun shows) buying and selling their wicked products. It’s how some communists feel when they visit the New York Stock Exchange.” ~ Dave Kopel
“I rely on guns for protection in life. God does not say, ‘This is la-la land.’ God doesn’t say, ‘Welcome to Earth. Everything’s perfect. There’s no crime. There’s no murder. There’s no death.’ The world is imperfect, and you have to be on guard.” ~ Luke Scott
“The thieves and killers are goin’ to have guns, so if the honest men don’t have ’em they just make it easier for the vicious.” ~ Louis L’Amour
“If I were to select a jack-booted group of fascists who are perhaps as large a danger to American society as I could pick today, I would pick BATF [the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms].” ~ John Dingell
“The biggest hypocrites on gun control are those who live in upscale developments with armed security guards – and who want to keep other people from having guns to defend themselves. But what about lower-income people living in high-crime, inner city neighborhoods? Should such people be kept unarmed and helpless, so that limousine liberals can ‘make a statement’ by adding to the thousands of gun laws already on the books?” ~ Thomas Sowell
“The framers gave us the Second Amendment not so we could go deer or duck hunting but to give us a modicum of protection against congressional tyranny.” ~ Walter E. Williams
“That is why our masters in Washington are so anxious to disarm us. They are not afraid of criminals. They are afraid of a populace which cannot be subdued by tyrants.” ~ Jeff Cooper
“Crime is a human behavior problem, not a mechanical problem. Furthermore, if firearms were not very useful for self-defense, then police wouldn’t carry them. In a free country, if the government can go armed, so should the citizens, if they so choose.” ~ Charley Reese
“Not to our surprise, we discover that gun crime in Britain is up 10.9 percent since the disarmament of the private citizen.” ~ Jeff Cooper
“Passing a law like the assault weapons ban is a symbolic – purely symbolic – move in that direction. Its only real justification is not to reduce crime but to desensitize the public to the regulation of weapons in preparation for their ultimate confiscation.” ~ Charles Krauthammer
“Today, as always, the people, no less than the courts, must remain vigilant to preserve the principals of our Bill of Rights, lest in our desire to be secure we lose our ability to be free.” ~ Earl Warren
“Reread that pesky first clause of the Second Amendment. It doesn’t say what any of us thought it said. What it says is that infringing the right of the people to keep and bears arms is treason. What else do you call an act that endangers “the security of a free state”? And if it’s treason,then it’s punishable by death. I suggest due process, speedy trials, and public hangings.” ~ L. Neil Smith
“You could say that the paparazzi and the tabloids are sort of the ‘assault weapons’ of the First Amendment. They’re ugly, a lot of people don’t like them, but they’re protected by the First Amendment – just as ‘assault weapons’ are protected by the Second Amendment.” ~ Charlton Heston
“Wear a gun to someone else’s house, you’re saying, ‘I’ll defend this home as if it were my own.’ When your guests see you carry a weapon, you’re telling them, ‘I’ll defend you as if you were my own family.’ And anyone who objects levels the deadliest insult possible: ‘I don’t trust you unless you’re rendered harmless’!” ~ L. Neil Smith
“An armed man need not fight.” ~ Robert A. Heinlein
“A government that intended to protect the liberty of the people would not disarm them. A government planning the opposite most certainly and logically would disarm them. And so it has been in this century. Check out the history of Germany, the Soviet Union, Cuba, China and Cambodia.” ~ Charley Reese
“The Chinese, the Russians, the Nazis and Saddam Hussein all agree! Gun Control Works!” ~ Dean Armstrong
“Let me make a point here, in case this isn’t becoming extremely clear. My state has gun control laws. It did not keep Hennard from coming in and killing everybody! What it did do, was keep me from protecting my family! That’s the only thing that cotton pickin’ law did! OK! Understand that! That’s …that’s so important!” ~ Suzanna Hupp
“If we were living back in 1789, your musket would be really useful in a military conflict. If you were called up to service, they said bring your musket. And indeed, the First Congress passed a law. You want to know the first gun control law in America? First Congress passed a law mandating that all able-bodied men must own a musket.” ~ Ted Cruz
“Strict gun laws are about as effective as strict drug laws…It pains me to say this, but the NRA seems to be right: The cities and states that have the toughest gun laws have the most murder and mayhem.” ~ Mike Royko
“A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well-digested plan is requisite; and their safety and interest require that they should promote such manufactories as tend to render them independent of others for essential, particularly military, supplies.” ~ George Washington
“The Brady Bill’s only effect will be to desensitize the public to regulation of weapons in preparation for their ultimate confiscation.” ~ Charles Krauthammer
“No matter how many people you kill, using a machine gun in battle is not a war crime because it does not cause unnecessary suffering; it simply performs its job horrifyingly well.” ~ Sebastian Junger
“When my kids started preschool, the teachers had to take away all the fake bananas because all the boys would pick them up and pretend that they were guns. Boys find sticks to play swords and anything that looks like a gun to shoot. It’s just inside of them. It’s who they are.” ~ Dean Norris
“Legal gun ownership always prevails over the emotionalism of the gun control movement.” ~ Greg Gutfeld
“Guns don’t walk into a theater by themselves and shoot people. You have to look at who’s behind it, who’s behind the trigger?” ~ Kimberly Guilfoyle
“A gun doesn’t have the brain to hate with, or a finger to pull the trigger, so the problem isn’t the gun.” ~ Alan Gottlieb
Charles Krauthammer – another brilliant Canadian who came to us via Harvard. He passed too soon.
That he did, I was struck by the one by Joe Arpaio
“A ‘liberal paradise’ would be a place where everybody has guaranteed employment, free comprehensive health care, free education, free food, free housing, free clothing, free utilities and only law enforcement personnel have guns. And, believe it or not, such a liberal utopia does indeed exist. … It’s called prison.” ~ Joe Arpaio
He was dealt very harsh cards.
Dr. Peter McCullough. I haven’t heard from him in a while:
https://usawatchdog.com/mutated-bird-flu-new-cv19-vax-injury-cancer-treatments-dr-peter-mccullough/