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Speaking of things that pass under our liberty-loving radar while everyone is focused on the pseudo-event du jour, has anyone been tracking this as reported five days ago now: Armed IRS agents raid Montana gun shop, seize gun purchase records Armed IRS agents seized dozens of boxes of ATF form 4473s from Highwood Creek Outfitters …
Continue reading Anti-Narrative Digest – The ‘SQUIRREL!!!’ Edition
There is a great scene from season 9 episode 19 of Seinfeld (The Maid) where Kramer finds himself abandoned in unfamiliar "downtown" and calls Jerry for help: Jerry: Well, what street are you on? Kramer: Hey, I'm on 1st and 1st. How can the same street intersect with itself? I must be at the nexus …
Of course, the real question surrounding the case of the magic, uncatchable 'pipe bomber' is: Why were fake bombs planted in the first place? (See relevant posting history here. Or as later cross-posted over a Ricochet here.) But the fact that the authorities, who under any conceivable good faith exercise of the massive powers granted …
Normally I just post stuff like this as updates in the comments of the recent relevant post on the subject but, given this new format, I am going to try to make a habit of putting what I consider substantive updates in follow-up posts like this. This update (H/T Instapundit) links to a couple of …
Continue reading Irreversibly Broken – The ‘How Corrupt is the FBI?’ Addendum
It could be argued that the agency has gone rogue. Unfortunately, that the greater system…from the judiciary to the watchdog press…enables the behavior and abuses hints rather strongly that something much more substantial is wrong with the Republic established to ensure justice and liberty for all. I do give the The Los Angeles Times credit …
Continue reading Irreversibly Broken – Is Today’s FBI no Longer Compatible with American Liberty?
I do smile to myself when pet topics of mine are occasionally refreshed in the broader interwebs where more than three or four people may read about it. Still, in so many cases, far too few bother to recognize the importance of the phenomenon playing out right under their noses. One of these occasions happened …
On many levels a broader swath of We the People are starting to catch on to how the anti-American forces that now form our ruling beltway can count on the fully compliant and reliably incurious media to overtly spin to the dictated narratives at all costs. That tool is vital to cultivating reportable polling support …
Continue reading Refusing to Ignore the Anti-Narrative: The Chill Continues to Descend Upon Us
“There is one rule that works in every calamity… The rich get richer and the poor get poorer.” – A Will Rogers Treasury, Page 157 I suspect that bit of wisdom holds equally well when the currency is “liberty” as when it is good, old American dollars as Mr. Rogers intended. Under this updated model, …
Instapundit informs us this morning (yet again) that A MAJORITY OF AMERICANS SEE THE FBI AS BIDEN’S PERSONAL GESTAPO, AND NOT WITHOUT REASON with a topic not unfamiliar to this blogger. In fact, it was referenced just eight days ago in a post here titled Skimming the Totalitarian Playbook…and Connecting a Few Dots. But is …
Continue reading The Attkisson Affair – Totalitarianism Ignored is Totalitarianism Secured
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