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The Patriot Post Brief 2-4-2013
From The Federalist Patriot
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We Lost a Patriot
February 4, 2013
The Foundation
"A good moral character is the first essential in a man." --George Washington
Chris Kyle, RIP
Former Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, a Patriot from Texas and author of the outstanding book, "American Sniper," was killed Saturday while assisting fellow veterans suffering from PTSD. Chris served with the SEAL Team 3 Sniper Element Charlie platoon, and was the most lethal sniper in U.S. history. He accumulated 160 confirmed kills and another 95 probables, and was known to his enemies as Al-Shaitan Ramad (The Devil of Ramadi).
During his four combat tours, Chris was shot twice and survived six IED explosions. His longest shot was taken in 2008 near Sadr City, where he neutralized an RPG-carrying insurgent at more than 2,000 meters with his Lapua Magnum .338 PGM. He left military service three years ago after earning two Silver Stars, five Bronze Stars with Valor, two Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medals, and one Navy and Marine Corps Commendation. He has devoted much of the last three years to working with fellow vets suffering from PTSD.
Chris leaves behind his wife Taya, two children, and a long list of family and friends. Kyle was a tireless defender of Liberty and the Second Amendment, and he will be sorely missed.
Read more here1.
Essential Liberty
"Chicago's government, which is not normally known for elevated thinking, is feeling so morally upright and financially flush that it proposes to rise above the banal business of maximizing the value of its employees' and retirees' pension fund assets. Although seven funds have cumulative unfunded liabilities of $25 billion, Chicago will sacrifice the growth of those assets to the striking of a political pose so pure it is untainted by practicality. Emulating New York and California, two deep blue states with mammoth unfunded pension liabilities, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has hectored a $5 billion pension fund into divesting its holdings in companies that manufacture firearms. Now he is urging two large banks to deny financing to such companies 'that profit from gun violence.' TD Bank provides a $60 million credit line to Smith & Wesson, and Bank of America provides a $25 million line to Sturm, Ruger & Company. Chicago's current and retired public employees might wish the city had invested more in both companies. Barack Obama, for whom Emanuel was chief of staff, has become a potent gun salesman because of suspicions that he wants to make gun ownership more difficult. Since he was inaugurated four years ago, there have been 65 million requests for background checks of gun purchasers. Four years ago, the price of Smith & Wesson stock was $2.45. Last week it was $8.76, up 258 percent. Four years ago, the price of Sturm Ruger stock was $6.46. Last week it was $51.09, up 691 percent. The Wall Street Journal reports that even before 'a $1.2 billion balloon payment for pensions comes due' in 2015, 'Chicago's pension funds, which are projected to run dry by the end of the decade, are scraping the bottoms of their barrels.'" --columnist George Will2
Obama the Skeet Shooter
Over the weekend, in an effort to affirm that Barack "Skeeter" Obama really does support what he errantly insists is the Second Amendment's "protection of the rights of hunters and sportsmen," the White House PR cadres released a photo of Obama, purportedly, skeet shooting at Camp David. Mark Alexander consulted with one of the nation's leading sport shotgun seller, whose opinion was affirmed by two national championship skeet and trap shooters, that the photograph "is not right." For the full story on WHY the experts conclude the photo was altered, and, more importantly, why Skeeter's propagandists want the photo to be perceived as a fake (a political diversion), link here3.
The Right ... to Keep and Bear Arms
Barack Obama and his NeoCom cadres aren't letting up on their anti-gun agenda. We can let down our guard, either.
Please take a moment and join the 37,000 of your fellow Patriots who have pledged4 to support and defend our Constitution, including the Second Amendment. Share it with your family, friends and colleagues via social media and email, as well.
Sign the 2A pledge!4
The Gipper
"Every American should read the Declaration of Independence before he reads the Constitution, and he will see that the Constitution aims at preventing a recurrence of the way George III's government treated the colonies. The declaration states this plainly: 'But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government and to provide new Guards for their future security.' There is no question that the first 10 amendments are a part of those 'new guards' for their future security. And one of the most basic of those guards is the right to keep and bear arms." --Ronald Reagan5
Reader Comments
"Regarding Mark Alexander's essay, Obama/Feinstein: Obfuscation and Vilification6, gun bans have been proven to not work by the government's own studies. Expanded checks are code for registration, which in turn is code for confiscation, period. Any ground given in this battle will be wasted when they return under the call to 'fix what they didn't fix last time,' and the killing will continue. Make no mistake, they will be back, because their 'fixes' are not intended to be fixes at all, but incremental emasculation of the 2nd Amendment. The Bill of Rights was written to protect personal rights against a tyrannical government, one that wanted to seize our weapons. I guess we've come full circle." --Terrell in Weldon, Iowa
"We must all keep in mind and reiterate it to all who will listen that the 2nd Amendment is not and never has been about 'hunting.' It has always been about self defense and defense against tyranny." --Bill in Golden, Texas
"Why not concentrate on the truth, namely the problem is not guns. It's control of a non trustworthy government that is threatening our freedom. The Second Amendment was enacted for exactly the right to bear arms against a tyrannical government such as we have enfolding since Obama took office in 2009." --Price in California
Boy Scout Update
Mark Alexander's "Letter to an Eagle Scout7" received broad support from Patriots across the nation last week. Mr. Alexander offered this postscript to that letter over the weekend:
By way of followup to my Letter to and Eagle Scout, if you are one of those who is "mixed" when it comes to opinions on the homosexual agenda, the strongest words against this BSA proposal would be Obama's endorsement of it: "I think that, uh, you know, my attitude is, is that gays and lesbians should have, uh, access, and, and, opportunity, uh, the same way everybody else does, uh, in every institution and walk of life, and, um, you know, the, the scouts are a great institution, uh, that, are [sic], uh, promoting, uh, young people and exposing them to, uh, you know, opportunities, and, and, leadership, uh, that, you know, will serve people, uh, for the rest of their lives." (For the record, the most distinct "poker tell" that betrays Obama's efforts to deceive is his prolific use of "uh" when he is telling a lie that isn't scripted from a teleprompter. Additionally, he was turning his head back and forth as to say "no" when answering "yes" to on this issue.)
After the national protest from BSA rank and file leaders and members, I would like to believe the BSA board will defeat the proposal to remove its proscription against avowed homosexuals. But then, as is often the case with national government, religious and civic "leadership," most are insulated from the those they, ostensibly, serve. Consequently, too often their actions are wholly inconsistent with the positions of their constituents -- on the arrogant assumption that they are much wiser than grassroots Americans. Thus, if the BSA board passes this measure, and straps the responsibility for enforcing this restriction on Councils nationwide, then every Council, chartering organization, Troop, sponsor, donor, and even Scout, will become subject to being labeled "bigots" by homosexual advocates in their Council area. Even if just one homosexual protests against a Council, that will be trumpeted in the local media, and the result will be a challenge to every organizational and support level of that Council.
For the record, over the past four years, Barack Obama has been signing Eagle certificates, even though for the first three of those four years he opposed homosexual marriage and open homosexual military service. Last year, Obama reversed his position on both counts. That leaves one to question from whom the BSA national board takes its orders. Some have suggested if the BSA board passes this measure to shift the burden to local Councils, Scouting as we know it will be gone in a decade. I must respectfully disagree -- it will be gone in a year, not 10. |
