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I think a few of them should read Unintended Consequences, Part 3.
flashguy

I had three hard copies back in the day, all of which grew legs.

Ordered this autographed Unintended Consequences in softcover replacement a few moments ago.

Thanks for the heads up on this book and also the link to purchase for a reasonable price! Looked around, cheapest I could find it was $100 on eBay and much more on Amazon. I might order another copy to pass around to my family.....

There are several sites from which you can get a free pdf download. Just search “unintended consequences download”

I have a first edition in hard cover. It was worth the twice.

I Was Wrong – They Want War I Was Wrong – They Want War

I admit it – I was wrong.

Last week I advised that the best course of action as the left attacks our rights is to keep a civil course, wow them with facts, decency, and knowledge and defend our rights with knowledge, passion, and eloquence.

I felt that we could win based on logic and rational discourse, but having watched the events of this week unfold in front of my eyes, I realize just how wrong I was.

I thought that after engaging with our political opponents en masse, peacefully stating our concerns, and rationally discussing the issues of due process and Second Amendment rights in Richmond, the Democrats would step away from their insane assault on our freedoms.

I was wrong.

Despite concerns which the Democrats admitted to have had about the proposed “red flag law” during discussions with the press and with gun rights advocates, they advanced this appalling legislation the very next day after the massive rally in Richmond, disingenuously claiming that the measure is “thoughtful” and preserves due process. They jammed through other appalling bills, limiting the ability of peaceable Virginians to exercise their rights, without so much as a second thought, claiming that “elections have consequences.”

A Democratic-led House committee voted Friday for several pieces of gun legislation that a Republican majority has blocked for years. Those bills include limiting handgun purchases to once a month; universal background checks on gun purchases; allowing localities to ban guns in public buildings, parks and other areas; and a red flag bill that would allow authorities to temporarily take guns away from anyone deemed to be dangerous to themselves or others.

Based on previous interactions with some of these legislators, I thought they would give consideration to the people whom they represent, even if those people didn’t vote for them or disagree with them politically.

I was wrong.

Virginia Democrats are now in the process of jamming bills down our throats that threatens our First Amendment rights. It’s already illegal to threaten to kill, injure, bomb, etc. government buildings or officials in Virginia, but Senate Bill 1627 goes a step further.

The bar for harassment is already as low as “vulgar language” in Virginia’s code 18.2-152.7:1: If any person, with the intent to coerce, intimidate, or harass any person, shall use a computer or computer network to communicate obscene, vulgar, profane, lewd, lascivious, or indecent language, or make any suggestion or proposal of an obscene nature, or threaten any illegal or immoral act, he shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. Bourne’s bill proposes adding the following amendment: A violation of this section may be prosecuted in the jurisdiction in which the communication was made or received or in the City of Richmond if the person subjected to the act is one of the following officials or employees of the Commonwealth: the Governor, Governor-elect, Lieutenant Governor, Lieutenant Governor-elect, Attorney General, or Attorney General-elect, a member or employee of the General Assembly, a justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia, or a judge of the Court of Appeals of Virginia.

Bourne’s Bill also changes the language of “he shall be guilty” to “he is guilty” of a Class 1 misdemeanor.

Not only do the twisted, power-hungry politicians in Richmond want to relieve you of your right to keep and bear arms, but they want to criminalize criticism of the very elected officials Virginians put into office!

Let’s remember, boys and girls. These pernicious fucks work for us, but they’re trying to keep themselves in power by silencing detractors and appealing to fetid ignorami.

And if you think this trend is limited to Virginia, you would be wrong too.

The proglodyte sociopaths have a chokehold on the Democrats, so much that they feel they have to pander to their insanity by promising abortions on demand for biological males and paying off billions of dollars in college loans at taxpayer expense, while screwing Americans who have been fiscally responsible with their earnings.

I thought there were sane Democrats left in this country.

I was wrong.

There may be some decent leftists here and there, but the shrieking, perpetually aggrieved progressive parasites have taken over, and they want you silenced and stripped of any dignity and freedoms.

The “Wax My Balls” and “Make My Cake, Bigot” woke fascists want war, and they might just get it.

Antifa is parading around in masks, threatening those who don’t toe the progressive line and even assaulting them.

A field organizer for one of the front runners for the Democratic nomination has recently professed his love for gulags to reeducate his political opponents and squawked that he was ready for the revolution.

I was wrong.

These people won’t listen to reason, and they are determined to destroy us – libertarians, moderate Republicans, hardcore conservatives, and RINOs. They don’t care. They want us gone, and they’re willing to lie, malign, and destroy using any means possible.

Elizabeth Warren is perfectly happy denigrating judges appointed by President Trump as “Homophobic, racist, sexist, and anti-voter.” And Occasional Cortex wants to change the meaning of the word “ethical” to mean giving up your property, autonomy, and freedom, as well as your earnings to those who have accomplished nothing, done nothing with their lives, learned nothing, and earned nothing, so that idiots can steal from you and control you at will.

I thought the Democrats could be reasoned with.

I was wrong.

They don’t want to just have power over you. They want you gone. They want you “re-educated” to toe their ideological line, and they are perfectly willing to use your tax dollars to ensure that your freedom of expression and your BadThink are eradicated – violently, if they have to.

This is a matter of survival – not just for conservatives, but for anyone who values freedom.

This is not just about gun rights, or free speech rights. These people are out in the open, and they want to destroy you – everything you are.

I thought the Democrats wanted the same things for our nation as we do, and we merely disagreed on the best way to accomplish this.

I was wrong.

They don’t care about human rights, as they claim. They care about giving themselves power over you, over your thoughts, over your achievements and earnings. They don’t consider you human.

They want to burn it all down, and they will do whatever is necessary to ensure that happens. OK, let’s see what happens.

They want you gone. Act accordingly.

https://victorygirlsblog.com/i...wrong-they-want-war/

Kurt has it right in this article....also it's a bit tongue in cheek

https://townhall.com/columnist...l-talk-n2560115?2715

There is no reasoning with any democrat! Democrats are a cancer to America and a threat to the people. Older, life long democrats still do not get that this is not the democrat party of 1970, but a radical bunch of out of control, socialist communist morons. If any of you closet democrats out there can help us understand how the democrat party is anything other than a bunch of delusional, wet dream morons, please educate us? Anything any democrat touches turns to crap almost over night. Can anyone name one city, town, village, county or state that democrats run that's not a SH*T HOLE? Wake up people before it's to late.....

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Kurt has it right in this article....also it's a bit tongue in cheek

https://townhall.com/columnist...l-talk-n2560115?2715

Remember, removing President Trump is a sacred, somber, prayerful moral obligation because he’s a “dictator.”


Dead President Walking
CJ Hopkins
https://off-guardian.org/2020/...d-president-walking/

Leftist democrat politicians have become untethered from the Constitution, of this there is no debate.

Is it not our obligation as a Nation to dissolve their party?

I believe it is.

A) We need to push for civics and formal logic to come back into education.

B) We need to arm ourselves, intellectually, on the values of freedom.

C) Similarly, those of us with faith, need to arm ourselves to explain the value of faith.

D) We need to become strident in our demands to end corruption, and impartial about with which party the traitorous villains claim affiliation.

We need a return to intellectual defenses of freedom, capitalism, and faith.

Pounding on emotion is “candy.” It’s easy, it’s fun, it’s appealing, and it’s devoid of value.

There is part of me which fears we may have been too overrun by individuals from failed cultures, that we may not be able to assimilate them, and combat the cupidity of the political class in time to save the Republic, but we have to try.

A purging, will not save it. Slavery was the sin which damned the Republic, and let in Socialism. Death camps, and massacres* will merely be another.

*We MIGHT survive criminals hanging from lamp posts, but we need a populace which demands them behind bars, and which has the self-confidence to demand that criminals are behind bars.

Such dedication to law, will, almost certainly, require a significant circumscription of the law - and for all parties to refrain from attempting to use force on one another, and accept argument.