I WISH TO BEGIN THIS WEEKS BLOG BY PUBLISHING A SMALL DISCLAIMER AND EXPLAINING "MY BLOGGING RULES". THIS IS MY BLOGSPOT AND THE RULES ARE BUT TWO AND VERY SIMPLE. WE AS VETERANS ONCE TOOK AN OATH WHEN WE ENTERED THE MILITARY. WE WERE ALSO TOLD NOT TO EXPRESS PERSONAL POLITICAL OPINIONS. I AM HOLDING MYSELF TO THAT RULE, AS WELL AS THOSE WHO WISH TO RESPOND. I WILL NOT RESPOND TO ANYTHING POLITICAL. THAT WOULD BE RULE 1. RULE 2 WOULD BE TO OBSERVE ROBERT'S RULES OF ORDERS AND IN ALL CASES, EITHER AGREE, DISAGREE, BUT ALWAYS AGREE TO DISAGREE AMIABLY AND HONORABLY.
MY DISCLAIMER IS THAT I WILL ALWAYS SPEAK AS A VETERAN, I WILL SHOOT STRAIGHT DOWN THE MIDDLE, NO SPIN, AND GIVE THE BOTTOM LINE. I AM NOT NOW NOR HAVE EVER BEEN A REPUBLOCRAT NOR A DEMOPUBLICAN, BUT RATHER I AM A VETERAN, A PATRIOT, AND A RED BLOODED TRUE AMERICAN. I CARE ABOUT AND FOR MY COUNTRY, BUT LIKE MANY OF US, I AM FED UP WITH MY GOVERNMENT. THAT HAVING BEEN SAID, IF YOU MISCONSTRUE ANYTHING I SAY AS POLITICAL, THAT WOULD BE YOUR INTERPRETATION AND YOUR PROBLEM. ANYTHING I MAY SAY IS ONLY AND SOLELY FOR THE BETTERMENT OF THE USA AND HER VETERANS AND IS SOLELY MY OPINION .
NOW FOR TODAY'S TOPIC, MR. ERIC HOLDER. THE NEWSPAPER, "USA TODAY" CONDUCTED A SURVEY OF MR. HOLDERS STATEMENT THAT "HE DOES NOT BELIEVE THE SECOND AMENDMENT GIVES AMERICAN CITIZENS THE RIGHT TO OWN GUNS." THE POLL SIMPLY ASKED ONE TO VOTE EITHER "YES" OR "NO" OR "UNDECIDED" TO THE QUESTION. THE POLL CAME OUT TO BE 97 PERCENT "YES IT DOES", 2 PERCENT, "NO IT DOES NOT", AND 1 PERCENT UNDECIDED. END OF QUESTION. REALLY? END OF QUESTION? I THINK NOT.
FIRST OF ALL, AS A VETERAN, I WAS TRAINED, AS WERE MOST OF US, IN THE EXTENSIVE USE, CARE AND KNOWLEDGE OF FIREARMS, AS WERE THE FIRST VETERANS OF THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR. IT HAS BEEN OUR RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS FROM THE DAYS BEFORE GEORGE WASHINGTON TILL NOW. MR. HOLDEN IS AN ATTORNEY GENERAL, HIRED BY WE THE PEOPLE, AND ASSIGNED THE TASK OF ENFORCING THE LAWS OF THIS GREAT NATION, NOT INTERPRETING THEM OR DEFINING THEM. HE IS IN THE JUDICIAL, NOT LEGISLATIVE BRANCH OF THE GOVERNMENT OF WE THE PEOPLE, AND IT IS NOT HIS JOB TO COMMENT, REDEFINE, OR LEGISLATE ON THE SECOND AMENDMENT. THAT IS THE JOB OF THE SENATE, THE CONGRESS, AND JUDICIALLY CAN ONLY BE DECIDED OR REDEFINED BY THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT.
I WOULD SUGGEST THAT MR. HOLDEN SHUT UP HIS BIG FAT MOUTH AND DO HIS JOB ENFORCING THE FOLLOWING:
District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570 (2008), was a landmark case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution protects an individual's right to possess a firearm for traditionally lawful purposes in federal enclaves, such as self-defense within the home. The decision did not address the question of whether the Second Amendment extends beyond federal enclaves to the states,[1] which was addressed later by McDonald v. Chicago (2010). It was the first Supreme Court case in United States history to decide whether the Second Amendment protects an individual right to keep and bear arms for self defense.[2]
On June 26, 2008, the Supreme Court affirmed the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in Parker v. District of Columbia.[3][4] The Court of Appeals had struck down provisions of the Firearms Control Regulations Act of 1975 as unconstitutional, determined that handguns are "arms" for the purposes of the Second Amendment, found that the District of Columbia's regulations act was an unconstitutional banning, and struck down the portion of the regulations act that requires all firearms including rifles and shotguns be kept "unloaded and disassembled or bound by a trigger lock." "Prior to this decision the Firearms Control Regulation Act of 1975 also restricted residents from owning handguns except for those registered prior to 1975."[5]
AS A PRIVATE CITIZEN MR HOLDEN HAS EVERY RIGHT TO EXPRESS HIS "PERSONAL" OPINION AS TO WHAT HE BELIEVES THE SECOND AMENDMENT MEANS, BUT WHILE SERVING IN HIGH OFFICE OF THE USA, HE NEEDS TO KEEP HIS POLITICAL VITRIOL TO HIMSELF, AS WE DID AS VETERANS BY NOT EXPRESSING POLITICAL OPINION. I FOR ONE AS A VETERAN WOULD BE GLAD TO DEBATE HIM ON THE FOREFATHERS MEANING BEHIND THE 2ND AMENDMENT, BUT I THINK THE "USA TODAY" POLL FROM CITIZENS ALL OVER THE NATION HAS ALREADY ACCOMPLISHED THAT FOR US.
THE FACT OF THE MATTER IS, WE HAVE TOO MANY OF THE 100 SENATORS, AND 435 REPRESENTATIVES ACTUALLY NOT DOING THEIR JOBS AND STICKING THEIR NOSES INTO PLACES THEY DO NOT BELONG. THAT IS WHY WE SEE THE COUNTRY IN SUCH A MESS, BECAUSE "WE THE SHEEPLE" HAVE ELECTED THE WRONG PEOPLE TO REPRESENT US. YOU AND I, YES THAT IS RIGHT, THE BLAME BELONGS TO US AND RESTS SQUARELY ON OUR SHOULDERS, "WE THE PEOPLE". WE HAVE BEEN "WE THE SHEEPLE" FOR TOO LONG NOW, NOT PAYING ATTENTION TO OUR "GOVERNESS" AND JUST GOING ABOUT OUR DAILY LIVES AS IF THIS WAS GOING TO GO ON FOREVER. IT IS OUR FAULT COLLECTIVELY, BUT IT IS ALSO TRUE THAT WE HAVE BEEN MISLED BY SO MANY WHO CAMPAIGN AND RUN FOR OFFICE. THEY CAMPAIGN ON WHAT WE WANT TO HEAR, THEY LIE TO US, AND THEN WHEN THEY GET ELECTED THEY DO WHAT THE HELL THEY DAMN WELL PLEASE. METAPHOR: UPON ARRIVING AT THE PEARLY GATES A MAN WAS TOLD HE MUST FIRST GO DOWN TO HELL FOR 24 HOURS AND THEN HEAVEN FOR 24 HOURS AND THEN DECIDE WHERE HE MIGHT SPEND ETERNITY. UPON ARRIVING IN HELL IT WAS VEGAS, ATLANTIC CITY, AND NEW ORLEANS ALL ROLLED UP INTO CALL GIRLS, MARGARITA'S , AND PARTY. UPON RETURNING TO HEAVEN IT WAS CLOUDS, AND HARPS, VIOLINS AND CHOIRS OF GREGORIAN CHANTS. THE MAN THEN TOLD ST. PETER HE'D RATHER SPEND HIS ETERNITY IN HELL, WHEREUPON HE AGAIN FOUND HIMSELF IN HELL. ONLY THIS TIME EVERYONE WAS NECK DEEP IN YOU KNOW WHAT DRINKING HOT COFFEE AND MOANING THE BLUES. SATAN, SATAN, WHAT HAPPENED HE EXCLAIMED. CAME THE ANSWER, YESTERDAY WE WERE CAMPAIGNING, TODAY YOU VOTED. SO BE CAREFUL IN THE FUTURE WHO WE ELECT TO DC AND AS I HAVE ENCOURAGED IN THE PAST,
"VOTE'EM OUT,VOTE'EM ALL OUT EVERY TIME EVERY TERM TILL NO INSCUMBENTS ARE LEFT IN DC!!!!!!!!!!!! "
BUT WHEN YOU FIND A KEEPER, KEEP'EM !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! "
I ESPECIALLY CALL OUR VETERANS INTO "BEING OF RESPONSIBILITY" HERE, FOR IT IS "WE THE VETERANS" THAT SPILLED OUR BLOOD, RISKED OUR LIVES, AND LEFT THE NAMES OF OUR DEAD ETCHED ONTO GRANITE WALLS FROM WWII TO KOREA, TO VIETNAM AND NOW WE ARE DOING IT AGAIN IN IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN. WHAT WILL WE DO NOW, BUILD ANOTHER WALL TO THEM? SORRY, THERE'S NO MONEY LEFT, BUT I DO SUPPOSE WE COULD HAVE A STIMULUS OF POLISHED GRANITE AS ROCKS AND STONE CARVERS DO COME CHEAP. AFTER ALL WE HAVE BEEN BUILDING MONUMENTS TO OUR VETERANS SINCE THE 1700'S !!!!! WE HAVE JUST NOT BEEN HONORING THEM PROPERLY. WHAT DO I MEAN BY THAT? FOR US TO HONOR OUR WWII BOYS THAT GAVE US THE GREAT NATION WE JUST RUINED, WE MUST FIRST TURN BACK TO THEM AND EASE THEIR PAIN OF ROLLING OVER IN THEIR GRAVES AND WONDERING "WHAT THE HELL HAVE YOU DONE?" IN OTHER WORDS, WHAT I AM SAYING IS THAT SINCE IT IS WE THE VETERANS THAT GIVE OUR LIVES AND LIMBS FOR FREEDOM, IT MUST ALSO BE US THAT LEADS THE NATION BACK TO SOLVENCY AND FREEDOMS WE ONCE KNEW. OBVIOUSLY "CHARLIE CITIZEN" OR "JOE BLOW" OFF THE STREETS ARE NOT GOING TO DO IT, AND THE LEADERSHIP MUST COME FROM WITHIN THE RANKS OF OUR VETERANS.
ON JULY 28TH, 1932, THEN MAJOR GEORGE S. PATTON TOOK SIX FULLY ARMED BATTLE TANKS DOWN PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE AND ATTACKED OUR OWN WWI VETERANS, WOUNDING HUNDREDS AND KILLING MANY. YOUR HOMEWORK TONIGHT IS TO GO TO THIS WEBSITE AND READ: http://www.zimbio.com/War+in+Iraq/articles/5EyT97xp7-J/Forgotten+History+Army+Attacked+Veterans+Washington YES, THAT IS CORRECT, WE THE VETERANS 17000 STRONG SURROUNDED WASHINGTON DC AND DEMANDED PAYMENT OF THEIR MONEY. FOR THAT THEY WERE ATTACKED, SHOT, WOUNDED AND KILLED ALONG WITH 25000 FAMILY MEMBERS, WOMEN AND CHILDREN. SO WHAT AM I SAYING HERE? WELL, WHAT I AM SAYING MANY OF MY FELLOW VETERANS WILL AGREE WITH, MANY MORE WILL DISAGREE WITH AND YET MANY MORE WILL AGREE TO DISAGREE. BUT, MANY OF YOU, MY FELLOW VETERANS WILL PROBABLY BE ON PATTON'S SIDE, AND SO BE IT. WHAT I AM SAYING HERE, IS THAT IF WE ARE TO SAVE OUR NATION, WE ONCE AGAIN NEED TO MARCH ON WASHINGTON DC. BUT WE NEED TO DO IT PEACEFULLY IN KEEPING WITH THE MANNER OF MAHATMA GANDHI AND MARTIN LUTHER KING, NO GUNS, NO SHOOTING, NO VIOLENCE. IT IS NOW AUGUST 21ST, 2011, AND WHAT I AM SUGGESTING IS THAT EVERY VETERAN THAT IS READY, WILLING AND ABLE, PLAN A TRIP AS SOON AS YOU CAN. AND UP AND UNTIL ELECTION DAY. GO BY BUS, TRAIN, CAR OR PLANE, WALK INTO THE HALLS OF THE SENATE AND HOUSE, AND SURROUND THE CITY WITH OUR VOICES. INUNDATE THE ENTIRE CITY. LET YOUR VOICES BE HEARD YOUR SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES. LET US THEN PICK A DATE AND HAVE A MILLION VETERAN MARCH TO LET THEM KNOW THAT "WE THE VETERANS" ARE NOT HAPPY WITH THE WAY THEY ARE RUNNING THE NATION, NOT HAPPY WITH THE WAY THEY ARE TREATING OUR YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN, FUTURE VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS. CURRENTLY THEY ARE EXPERIENCING THIRTY PERCENT UNEMPLOYMENT, AND THE HIGHEST SUICIDE RATES SINCE WWI.
THE GOOD THE BAD THE UGLY
THE GOOD: THIS WEEK IS LIBYA: WHATEVER THE "MIDDLE EAST SPRING" MOVEMENT IS ABOUT THIS WEEK HAS SHOWN IT'S GOOD SIDE IN THE DEFEAT AND HOPEFULLY THE REMOVAL OF ANOTHER WORLD DICTATOR, MUAMMAR GADDAFI. HIS 41YEAR, 11MONTH TERM IN OFFICE HAS LEFT THE COUNTRY IN RUIN, BUT AT LEAST ABLE TO MAKE A FRESH START. LET US HOPE IT IS IN A GOOD DIRECTION, AND NOT BACK TO THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD AND ANOTHER DICTATOR. THE GOOD IN THE GOOD IS THAT OUR GOVERNMENT MADE THE RIGHT DECISION NOT TO PUT BOOTS ON THE GROUND AND COMMIT TRILLIONS IN REBUILDING THAT NATO AND THE UNITED NATIONS SHOULD NOW ADDRESS.
THE BAD: THIS WEEK IN DC: WHILE WE THE PEOPLE CONTINUE TO LANGUISH IN THE INDECISION OF THE WHITE HOUSE AND BUSINESS LEFT UNDONE IN THE SENATE AND THE HOUSE, BOTH THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF AND 435 MEMBERS OF CONGRESS ARE ON A FIVE WEEK HIDEOUS. WE NEED ACTION NOW, NOT IN SEPTEMBER AS WE WATCH WALL STREET CRASH AND GROAN, AND OIL AND GOLD SHOOTING THROUGH THE ROOF, OUR SO CALLED "LEADERS" ARE VACATIONING.
THE UGLY: THIS WEEK IN FRANCE: WHILE WE THE PEOPLE ARE WORKING, ( THOSE OF US WHO ARE ) FOR AND SPENDING OUR DOLLARS HERE, WERE YOU TO GO ON VACATION, SAY TO FRANCE, A BOTTLE OF PERRIER WOULD COST A WHOPPING $10.00 IN AMERICAN DOLLARS. HOW IS IT THAT WHILE FRANCE BASICALLY DECLARES ITSELF INSOLVENT, ( AND DOING NOTHING ABOUT IT ) THE US CREDIT RATING IS DOWNGRADED BY STANDARDS AND POORS? LEST WE USE THE "P" (POLITICS) WORD HERE, IT MAY BE HIGH TIME S&P WERE INVESTIGATED FOR COLLUSION. THE EXCHANGE RATE OF THE FRENCH FRANC TO THE US DOLLAR TODAY WAS 4.55852 TO ONE. AM I MISSING SOMETHING HERE??? ME THINK THE S&P MAY BE MANIPULATED BY THE GREAT GEORGE SORE@ZZ AND HIS CHINESE COHORTS. TIME FOR CHANGE FOLKS.
THE UGLIEST: THIS WEEK ON MARTHA'S VINEYARD: THIS WEEK WHILE VACATIONING ON MARTHA'S VINEYARD WITH ALL OF THE ELITE RICHEST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD, OUR FEARLESS LEADER LITERALLY HALTED THE DEPORTATION OF ILLEGAL ALIENS WITH THE SWIPE OF THE EXECUTIVE PEN. THE LEGAL DOORS OF ELLIS ISLAND REMAINED EMBROILED IN RED TAPE AND BASICALLY CLOSED TO ALL WITHOUT CONNECTIONS, WHILE THE NEW W.O.P. ( WITH OUT PAPERS ) ILLEGALS CROSSING OUR BORDERS IS WELL OVER 15 MIL. HE THEN WENT ON TO TELL THE PEOPLE OF IOWA, MICHIGAN AND MINNESOTA HE FELT THEIR PAIN??? IN 1953 EISENHOWER DEPORTED 11 MILLION ILLEGAL MEXICAN CITIZENS TO GIVE JOBS BACK TO OUR VETERANS AND CITIZENS?? FOLKS YOU CAN ONLY GET TO MARTHA'S VINEYARD BY FERRY, MASERATI'S AND JAG'S ONLY, PRIVATE BOAT, OR PRIVATE AIRPLANE. THE ONLY PAIN ON MARTHA'S VINEYARD MIGHT BE NOT HAVING ENOUGH FRENCH PERRIER. NOT A POLITICAL STATEMENT, JUST A PERSONAL OBSERVATION, SEEING AS HOW MY WIFE'S PAY WAS CUT FIVE PERCENT AND SHE AS A TEACHER OF OUR CHILDREN IN EDUCATION HAS 15 FURLOUGH DAYS THIS YEAR. DO YOU FEEL THE CHILDREN'S PAIN???????????????????
THE UGLY: THIS WEEK IN FRANCE: WHILE WE THE PEOPLE ARE WORKING, ( THOSE OF US WHO ARE ) FOR AND SPENDING OUR DOLLARS HERE, WERE YOU TO GO ON VACATION, SAY TO FRANCE, A BOTTLE OF PERRIER WOULD COST A WHOPPING $10.00 IN AMERICAN DOLLARS. HOW IS IT THAT WHILE FRANCE BASICALLY DECLARES ITSELF INSOLVENT, ( AND DOING NOTHING ABOUT IT ) THE US CREDIT RATING IS DOWNGRADED BY STANDARDS AND POORS? LEST WE USE THE "P" (POLITICS) WORD HERE, IT MAY BE HIGH TIME S&P WERE INVESTIGATED FOR COLLUSION. THE EXCHANGE RATE OF THE FRENCH FRANC TO THE US DOLLAR TODAY WAS 4.55852 TO ONE. AM I MISSING SOMETHING HERE??? ME THINK THE S&P MAY BE MANIPULATED BY THE GREAT GEORGE SORE@ZZ AND HIS CHINESE COHORTS. TIME FOR CHANGE FOLKS.
THE UGLIEST: THIS WEEK ON MARTHA'S VINEYARD: THIS WEEK WHILE VACATIONING ON MARTHA'S VINEYARD WITH ALL OF THE ELITE RICHEST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD, OUR FEARLESS LEADER LITERALLY HALTED THE DEPORTATION OF ILLEGAL ALIENS WITH THE SWIPE OF THE EXECUTIVE PEN. THE LEGAL DOORS OF ELLIS ISLAND REMAINED EMBROILED IN RED TAPE AND BASICALLY CLOSED TO ALL WITHOUT CONNECTIONS, WHILE THE NEW W.O.P. ( WITH OUT PAPERS ) ILLEGALS CROSSING OUR BORDERS IS WELL OVER 15 MIL. HE THEN WENT ON TO TELL THE PEOPLE OF IOWA, MICHIGAN AND MINNESOTA HE FELT THEIR PAIN??? IN 1953 EISENHOWER DEPORTED 11 MILLION ILLEGAL MEXICAN CITIZENS TO GIVE JOBS BACK TO OUR VETERANS AND CITIZENS?? FOLKS YOU CAN ONLY GET TO MARTHA'S VINEYARD BY FERRY, MASERATI'S AND JAG'S ONLY, PRIVATE BOAT, OR PRIVATE AIRPLANE. THE ONLY PAIN ON MARTHA'S VINEYARD MIGHT BE NOT HAVING ENOUGH FRENCH PERRIER. NOT A POLITICAL STATEMENT, JUST A PERSONAL OBSERVATION, SEEING AS HOW MY WIFE'S PAY WAS CUT FIVE PERCENT AND SHE AS A TEACHER OF OUR CHILDREN IN EDUCATION HAS 15 FURLOUGH DAYS THIS YEAR. DO YOU FEEL THE CHILDREN'S PAIN???????????????????
WELL BOYS AND GIRLS, THAT IS MY VETERANS SOCIAL BLOG FOR THIS WEEK. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE, LET US BE CIVIL, LET US AGREE OR DISAGREE BUT MOST OF ALL AGREE TO DISAGREE FOR THE GOOD AND BETTERMENT OF OUR GREAT LADY OF LIBERTY. SHE IS HURTING STANDING AT OUR DOOR OF NEW YORK HARBOR, SEEING THE LEGAL IMMIGRATION DOORS OF ELLIS ISLAND CLOSED, TEARS STAIN HER COPPER FACE, FOR SHE KNOWS AS WE DO THAT AS A NATION WE ARE BROKE AND ON OUR KNEES. WE MUST STAND UP NOW FOR SOMETHING OR WE WILL STAND FOR NOTHING AT ALL. LET IT BE LIBERTY, FREEDOM AND THE AMERICAN WAY. Hb
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