On meteors, drones, and AR-15s

Of meteors, drones, and AR-15s

Steven R. Berryman

from The Tentacle - February18th, 2013

http://www.thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=5628 

Riddle
 me this, Batman: What do meteors, drones, and AR-15 “assault rifles”
have in common? Answer: Obviously they all can kill, but there’s more;
the first two can justify the third item.

Also,
 let’s not confuse “fear” with preparedness; it is not irrational for
any citizen to consider the consequences of future possibilities that
seem as unlikely as being struck by space debris.

Of
 course, it’s unlikely to be killed, struck by, or even to witness a
falling meteor. You are far more likely to be hit by “blue ice” (frozen
waste ejected from jet airplane lavatories) dropped on you from four
miles high. There are several pending lawsuits against the airlines
based on this rare event.

But
 history and archeology teach us that over the long course of time,
major meteor events have shaped the earth, and have wiped out entire
cultures, such as the Clovis people, North American ancestors who once
inhabited our lands just 12,000 years ago.

Last
 week the exploding fireball over the Ural Mountains in Russia injured
more than one thousand people. With a calculated force of more than 100
atom bombs, had it exploded lower in the atmosphere, or closer to a
major American city, we know that a period of lawless anarchy would
prevail. Looting and criminal activity would abound.

Recall
 the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, when even the police
 went bad and turned on their own. Surely there was no 911 service for
months.

And
 having an AR-15, or similar variant of automatic rifle, would provide
quite the edge should roving bands of scavengers look for food at your
residence. I assure you they would look elsewhere once your gun
ownership was known.

And
 police surveillance drones – or unarmed UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles)
 – would not be there to help you in some unlikely post-apocalyptic
eventuality. Its advertised purpose is to spy on people.

Some
 localities, including Charlottesville, Virginia, are already enacting
ordnances to preclude their usage. In an Orwellian scenario, some future
 government-gone-bad could monitor you in real time, without your
knowledge and without a court order. Potentially anyone deemed to be a
domestic terrorist could be summarily executed from above, as President
Barack Obama has ordered already in foreign lands.

The
 symbolic AR-15 is the emblem of the current gun debate, as for some
reason this federal administration is afraid of its own law-abiding
citizens. Illegal machine-guns, and fully automatic assault rifles, as
in a real “M-16,” have been illegal since the 1930s and the “Tommy Gun.”

There is a reason they want the citizenry to be less well armed. I am suspicious.

Citizens
 must be allowed to protect themselves from unforeseen eventualities, as
 we have clear and concrete examples of worst-case scenarios. Law and
order can and does break down, certainly, predictably over the uncertain
 long-haul.

High
 tech can be used for devious purposes, such as warrantless wiretaps.
Drones make eaves-dropping and even killing easy and also allow for
cover by a pilot hiding many miles away, who is perhaps more likely to
press the button, or pull the trigger on his joy-stick, as he has no
fear of retaliation. He is not riding inside the drone!

As
 a famous patriot once said, when the people fear their own government,
that’s bad; when the government fears its own people, that’s good. And
we certainly have ample evidence that our current regime proceeds
according to its own rules and agenda, circumventing constitutionally
prescribed checks and balances, protected by a corrupt two-party system
bent on their own well being over yours.

Be prepared. Your natural freedoms are preserved only on a “use ‘em or lose ‘em” basis.

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J. FARAH: Why is government stockpiling guns, ammo?

[At this posting, this story has been out there for several months, still, inexplicably, without any rational response!  --The ed.]

Exclusive: Joseph Farah examines Obama's plan for 'civilian national security force'

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Is the U.S. government getting ready for a war we don’t know about?
And, if that’s why Washington is stockpiling massive amounts of ammunition (hollow points, by the way), why is Homeland Security doing the buying instead of the Defense Department?
I have some theories.

Many of you will remember a story I broke a long time ago – about presidential candidate Barack Obama’s little-noticed announcement that, if elected in 2008, he wanted to create a “civilian national security force” as big, as strong and as well-funded as the Defense Department.
Here’s what he actually said at a campaign stop in Colorado July 2, 2008: “We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.”
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Could what we see happening now in the Department of Homeland Security be the beginning of Obama’s dream and our constitutional nightmare?
We’ve learned more about Obama’s vision since then. Maybe it’s time for a review:

• He made the campaign promise to build this $439 billion domestic army, but all references to the initiative were inexplicably deleted from the copy of his speech posted on his website while others mysteriously disappeared from transcripts of the speech distributed by the campaign. That was strange – and ominous.
• At the time, I had never heard anyone use the phrase “civilian national security force” before. But I did a little homework and found out where it originated. It was first proposed by then Bush administration Defense Secretary Robert Gates. On that basis alone, I accurately predicted that, if elected, Obama would name Gates as his own defense secretary. Needless to say, when that appointment came to pass, no media outlet bothered to interview me about my foresight.
• Still during the campaign of 2008, I suggested that what Obama had in mind might be something very sinister indeed – perhaps “some kind of domestic Big Brother program.”

We never heard another mention of Obama’s “civilian national security force” again. Not in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 or 2012.
But that brings us up to 2013 and the highly unusual stockpiling of firearms and ammo by Homeland Security – firearms and ammo that Obama would like to deny to ordinary citizens who are not members of his domestic army.
Well, I hate to say it, but I may have predicted this, too.
In a Halloween column last fall, I stated that, if re-elected, Obama would “declare a full-scale war on his domestic opposition.”
I wasn’t joking. I was deadly serious – so serious, in fact, that I did something I pledged I would never do: Vote for Mitt Romney. It was a matter of self-defense and self-preservation. I said then that a second term of Obama might mean we would never see another free and fair election in America. (I’m not even sure we saw one in 2012.) I suggested due process would go the way of the horse and buggy. I said I expected Obama would move to shut down or destroy all independent media. I even speculated that his biggest critics would eventually be rounded up in the name of national security.
Think about it.
Why does the civilian Department of Homeland Security need billions of rounds of ammunition?
This is the agency that is responsible for policing the border. But it doesn’t.
This is the agency that is responsible for catching terrorists. But it doesn’t.
So why does Homeland Security need so many weapons and enough hollow-point rounds to plug every American six times?
Maybe this is the “civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded” as the Defense Department.
These words – “civilian national security force” – have haunted me ever since I first read them.
Obama has never explained what he meant.
He’s never been called to account for that remark.
Doesn’t this sound like police-state talk to you?
The U.S. Army alone has nearly 500,000 troops. That doesn’t count reserves or National Guard. In 2007, the U.S. defense budget was $439 billion. No one knows what the budget is today because Congress stopped passing budgets when Obama took office.
Is Obama serious about creating some kind of domestic security force bigger and more expensive than that? Is this part of his second-term agenda?
He has also set up, as I have reported, a new homeland security bureaucracy to operate under his own direction.
I think it’s worth recalling here that just over a year ago both houses of Congress unwisely passed the defense reauthorization bill that killed the concept of habeas corpus – legislation that authorized the president to use the U.S. military to arrest and indefinitely detain American citizens without charge or trial.
That legislation would empower a lame-duck Obama to use all of the power of the federal government – constitutional and unconstitutional – to target his political enemies.
If any Republican, conservative, independent journalist, pro-life activist, returning veteran, gun-rights activist, constitutionalist, Bible believer or critic of Obama thinks they will be safe in a second term under this would-be despot, they had better think again – real fast.
The “civilian national security force” is not here to protect any of them. It’s here to destroy the opposition. It’s here to destroy liberty. It’s here to destroy the Constitution.

Why is Homeland Security stockpiling big supplies of guns and ammo?

• It's being prudent, and I applaud this action
• It's just expected preparation to protect our nation and its borders
• It wants to make sure it has enough if the economy tanks even more
• Since when has the federal government been right about any of its actions?
• I don't know, but it's not some big "conspiracy" to get worked up over
• I don't know, but I fear a government that would arm itself against its own citizens
• Given the amount of guns and ammo American citizens are buying, it has become an arms race
• Obama is just further "stimulating" the only industry that has grown on his watch
• The government obviously wants to prevent private citizens from having ammo
• Homeland Security is arming itself to crush any patriots who might start a Second Revolution
• The White House is planning to arm its "civilian national security force"
• Obama is preparing to declare martial law
• Other

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