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Guest Blogger – Ed Riordan: Attorney General Eric Holder’s agenda both violates his oath and hurts those he purports to help

Posted by PoliticallyUnEZ on July 17, 2013
Posted in: 2nd Amendment, Conservative Principles, National Politics, Social Conservative, Uncategorized. Tagged: , , , , , , , , . 3 Comments

Today we welcome guest columnist Ed Riordan to Politically UnEZ.  Ed is a strong Constitutional Conservative who is politically engaged both in his home state and nationally.  He has written many articles and is a leader in the fight for Conservative Values, dedication to the Constitution and defense of our Founder’s ideals.   He is no stranger in the offices of our Congressional Representatives and has met with the Speaker’s staff on the IRS scandal and Veteran Affairs during last month’s Tea Party Rally in DC.  I know you will enjoy his opinions.

Attorney General Eric Holder’s agenda both violates his oath and hurts those he purports to help

Attorney General Eric Holder strongly condemned “stand your ground” laws at a speech before the National convention of the NAACP in Orlando, FL, saying the measures “senselessly expand the concept of self defense”. He said that “the list of resulting tragedies is long and, unfortunately, has victimized too many who are innocent.” Mr. Holder would be wise to check the data in light of his making these comments in the context of a more broad discussion of claimed racial inequality, in which the populace was whipped in to a frenzy by deceptive media and political operatives seeking to gain ground by inciting emotional, racially grounded contempt of the law of the land.

According to an independent analysis by The Daily Caller of a database maintained by the Tampa Bay Times, African Americans use Florida’s “stand your ground” defense claims at a rate of 33% of the time in homicide cases, nearly twice the percent of the state’s population they comprise. Additionally, the exercise of the strategy by African Americans exceeds those of the state’s white population rate and results in a successful defense in 55% of the claims by the group, matching the statewide average and also exceeding the successful rate of use of the defense by whites.

In addition to ignoring the glaring facts, which never seem to matter to the politically and racially motivated Attorney General, he needs to be reminded that he is charged with the preservation, protection and defense of the constitution and laws of the United States from all enemies foreign and domestic. Bowing to mobs calling for their own brand of justice in a Nation of laws contradicts his obligation and oath. Holder is specifically charged with protecting the unalienable rights of our citizens, those rights we have as individuals that come from God and are not granted by the government. Holder cannot take away those rights in a society comprised of free citizens, and any attempt to do so should frighten the free people of a Nation founded by believers in Judeo Christian doctrine who attribute the granting of our innate rights from the Creator and not the government.

Our laws recognize that the inherent right to immune defense of one’s self from an aggressor is annunciated in the Bible, Torah, and the Jewish law of the Talmud.

Exodus 22:2 World English Version states “ If the thief is found breaking in, and is struck so that he dies, there shall be no guilt of bloodshed for him”.

Jewish law set forth in the Talmud states “ if someone comes to kill you, arise quickly and kill him”.

Christian Roman Catholic doctrine, per the Catechism of the Catholic Church 1994, cites and quotes Saint Thomas Aquinas, and asserts “Someone who defends his life is not guilty of murder even if he is forced to deal his aggressor lethal blows”

Protestant Doctrine on the personal and unalienable right to self defense, even against the government, in Samuel Rutherford’s Lex, Rex (1644 and the 1982 Sprinkle Publications edition) cites Luke 22:36, “Jesus advised his disciples to arm themselves in view of likely persecution”

None less than Cicero, Rome’s greatest orator and advocate of personal liberty, argued that the right to self defense was natural and inborn, and not a creation of the government, and that the right to use weapons was a necessary part of that right, and that any view to the contrary was nonsense.

Holder’s contempt for law, both natural and constitutional, not only makes him unfit for his office, but serves to undermine rights that are the very basis of our society. His race baiting and politicization of his position serves to divide when we should unite as the Nation of laws we are. He is seeking to destroy both doctrine and laws that are long recognized and defended as the very fabric of western civilization.

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I am an Armed Citizen

Posted by PoliticallyUnEZ on April 2, 2013
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I live in a small sized city.  Due to the nature of my business and activities I have a slightly public image in a rather defined demographic.  Because one of my roles is in public service, I sometimes have to take unpopular public positions on issues that affect people emotionally and financially.

While our city is considered very safe compared to many, I have had acquaintances get held up as they’ve come out of their homes for their morning paper.  I have had friends mugged while enjoying an evening on the town. I have had a business robbed… twice.  I have had to outrun an irate and road raged driver on the highway.   My wife and I live alone in a nice community but near the woods and a major highway.   I know that we have one of the best, most highly regarded Police Departments in our state, but I also know that it could be 4 to 5 minutes before one can show up to an emergency.  The difference between life and death.

Therefore, I am an armed citizen.

It is my right, and my responsibility.  It is my sacred obligation to be able to protect and defend my family, my life, and property.   I don’t need public approval, social acceptance, or have to rely on laws to tell me how I should do this.  The 2nd amendment and my common sense tell me all I need to know.  Even without the 2nd Amendment, the right of a man to protect those he loves is unchallengeable despite the civic or criminal consequences.  I will never be the guy that just watched as bad things happened to me family.  A close friend in law enforcement uses the term, “I would rather be judged by 12 then carried by 6”.  I could not agree more.

To me, it is as natural as putting on my socks.   My wife and I are armed 24 hours a day.  I am physically uncomfortable if my pocket gun is out of my pocket.   I cannot relax watching TV on the other side of the house knowing that my firearm is in the bedroom and the front door is between me and it.  So it stays in my pocket.   I don’t take my dogs out at night for their last pee, without first making sure it is in my robe or pajama’s pocket.   I don’t check the mail without, or answer the door, …ever.  We keep his and hers side arms attached to our bed, and a short barrel pistol grip multi-round 12 gauge within reach.  I started to feel silly about taking my handgun out on the patio with me when my wife and I enjoyed our hot tub, until a police chief friend I highly respect told me he takes his “into” the tub with him and lays it underwater, within reach so he doesn’t have to lunge for it in an emergency.  I carry at least one extra magazine at all times.  I take at least 2 guns on trips where legal and try not to travel to areas where being able to protect my family or myself is not legal.

And, before you think I am a mafia don, or some other miscreant, I’ll tell you that I am nice guy.  I fulfill a civic role, I am an independent business owner creating jobs and contributing to the local economy, I have raise successful children, I play golf, the guitar, like cars, motorcycles, little dogs, and ice cream, ( to a fault ).  I am a Christian, love my Wife, love my Mom and I Pray.   I have a concealed weapons permit.  I am law abiding and I have only ever been in a courtroom to see a judge sentence the people who robbed me … twice … to probation with no jail time.

There are many like me.  I am an armed citizen, but I could be your spouse, your neighbor, your clergy, mail carrier, or the guy who cuts your grass.

I look at the knee jerk laws that were passed today in Connecticut and watch the debate in DC and across our country and am dismayed by the ignorance of our elected leaders.   I know full well it is a shame, a false sense of security.  It give people a feel good moment, but that is all.  The criminals, terrorists, thugs and gang members, laugh at our laws.  We are making their job easier.  Good law abiding citizens who don’t want to break the law or are afraid to, are sheep in a world of coyotes.  The elected representatives of Conn. Just lit an open for business sign on the unsuspecting citizens of their small sleepy communities.  A brightly let neon sign that says to all criminals and bad guys, “Unarmed Sheep Ahead, Attack at Will”

I, and thankfully my Wife, prefer to be sheep dogs.  We will not let any temporary government get in the way of our right to protect those we love.  I pray the good representatives of my state do not make me a criminal for protecting the lives of my loved ones and my property.  And I pray for the sheep in NY, CT, CA and other liberal bastions of do-gooders who now have targets on their backs.

God bless and keep the good citizens of Connecticut.

Liberty Granted by God’s Grace Must Not Be Subverted by the Corrupt

Posted by PoliticallyUnEZ on February 13, 2013
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I was reading from a book of Founding documents this morning and in my reading came upon the Ten Commandments.  It caused me to begin to contemplate again the influence of Religion on the founding of our country.   I have always been a stalwart believer in the hand of God in the development of our guiding principles.   No formed government has ever held true to the laws of God and used them in the development of its system, nor believed in their righteous guidance more than those engaged in the Colonies’ initial quest of liberty.   At every stage of our history the Hand of God has been present.  Leading us on through the flaws in our character and the evilness of our acts but forever seeking the way forward toward true freedom, liberty and equality, not only for our sake but in His light.

So today I am beaten down, distraught and betrayed in my faith in the Great Experiment by those who are working so desperately to destroy Her and to remove us from God’s influence and eternal blessing.

It certainly isn’t new to this age.  All through our history the corrupt have sought to turn the course of Liberty toward the darkening night of Socialism and Subjugation.  Jefferson, Madison, Adams, ( first ), Buchanon, Washington, all battled with influences that would destroy the fledgling fires of Freedom in deference to personal gain and those who would dismantle the very Foundations of opportunity for which they gave their life’s blood to kindle and stoke.

Lincoln has recently come under attack as being imperfect in character by those who would recreate him in their image of corruption. But he faced no different demons than the Founders.  Successfully navigating the sea of self interest and the mis-guided narcissistic power hungry in order to bring about a new face on this Nation and finally start on the long and winding road of Representative Democracy for all.

Throughout the last century we have faced it many times again.  Under Coolidge, Roosevelt, Johnson, Carter and now.  Those who would have as their legacy the “Fundamental Changing of America”.

As so, we are betrayed yet again in our Religious and Patriotic Faith by a Corrupt Congress and a Subversive President in Barak Hussein Obama.  We have a traitor in the Court, a pretender to the Throne and a complicit Congress of accomplices to the continuing removal of America from God’s grace.

We are witnessing a renewed attack on Christianity in favor of extremism in our country and indeed throughout the Western World.  We have a bevy of Leaders who are assisting in that destruction for the advance of a personal gain under the guise of a collectivist ideology.

We are witnessing a systematic attack on Liberty as one by one we watch our First Freedoms come under attach under the guise of National Security.  The 1st, 2nd, 4th, and 10th Amendments have all been directly attacked over the past four years.  The Supreme Court has been subverted through appointments of radical liberals shrouded in political correctness who are accomplices to the acts of traitors of the American Ideal.    The President and his supporters in Congress are now talking about bastardizing the intent of the 14th Amendment to unilaterally raise the debt ceiling, further relegating Congress, our Constitution and indeed our system of governance irrelevant.

Now, and once again there is a bill introduced by New York Democratic Rep. José Serrano titled H.J Res. 15 that would repeal the 22nd Amendment removing the Term Limit clause for Presidents.  It is in Committee.  You can be certain that if the liberal’s win the House in 2014, his measure will see the light of day.

The time has never been more important for patriots to speak out.  Speak out and Speak loud to our Leaders, in the press, in blogs, and most importantly to your family and friends who may not be paying attention or understand the impact of the times we live in.  Speak out and Speak loud on the issues of Fundamental Conservative Principle that have been attacked over the last four years:  of Gun Control, Immigration, National Debt, Government Spending, Destruction of our Military, Removal of God’s word from our Government and Schools, Abortion, Gay Rights, National Sovereignty, Misappropriation of our National Wealth, Redistribution, Subversion of our Health Care System, and so much more.  Be Loud, Aggressive, and above all Peaceful in your pursuit of Justice and understanding.  But speak out.

‘Tis Grace that brought us here thus far, and Grace shall lead us home”

“The Only Thing Necessary for the Triumph of Evil is that Good Men Do Nothing”.

 

What Gun Control can Bring to Our Liberty

Posted by PoliticallyUnEZ on January 16, 2013
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Salon, the epistle of the Über Left, is doing its best to cast any comparison between the actions of the Weimar Republic in 1928 prior to Hitler’s purge of the Jews and Obama’s attack on the constitution, framed as gun control for our own safety, as reckless and frenzied right wing fear mongering.  We should expect nothing less.

But in the light of a rational argument, is the comparison that far off?  Is the fear understandable?

The Nazi Weapons act of early 1938 strengthened the 1928 Weimar law and further required all German citizens who wished to purchase or own firearms to register with the government and undergo a background check.  The Act gave the Nazi’s complete authority over which guns could or could not be owned, and which ammunition would be available.

But that wasn’t the end. It was only the beginning.  In November of 1938, the Nazi’s began using these “registration” lists to identify and disarm the entire population of German Jews prior to the Night of Broken Glass attacks by the Nazi’s on the Jewish Ghettos.

Other European countries also had laws requiring records to be kept on gun ownership by the government.  Hitler’s forces used these lists during the occupation of Czechoslovakia and Poland and others to disarm the population upon invasion.

The current acts of our government currently under review not only harken back to darkest times in human history but also should make the hair on the back of our necks stand up.  Especially if enacted by Executive Fiat.

The 2nd amendment is very clear.  It is not about Militia’s only for national defense of outside invaders.  In the version ratified by the states, it reads:

 A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state,

the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

These are two distinctively different concepts; the requirement for a Militia to protect the people from the government, and gun ownership as a right of the people protected “from” the government.

We don’t have to look far to see another stark example of how gun registration and gun control can lead to totalitarian control.  Look 90 miles south of Key West to Cuba.  The parallels between Castro and Hitler on Gun Control and Governmental control are well documented.  The day after ceasing power, Castro sent his troops out using Gun Registration Lists to disarm the population of the Island.  Eliminating the possibility of any armed resistance to the Socialist take over.

It is probably a stretch to think that the Obama Administration would enact a confiscation action through Executive Order, at once trashing both the 2nd and the 4th Amendments.  But given his proclivity toward unilateral actions and his routine threats to by-pass Congress on many issues, do we have a right to be concerned?

I think magazines like Salon and other Socialist leaning publications and news outlets do a tremendous disservice to their readers by over simplifying the issues into a politicized, Right Wing, Left Wing ideological war.  I think Americans, including our Congress, are as terrible with History as they are with Math and there are many more examples of gun control leading to a direct threat to personal liberty for those willing to do their own research.  Even stopping with just the two examples above it is clear to see that we are heading down a dangerous path which left unchecked and unbalanced may have the unintended, (or intended) effect of bringing us on a collision course with history.