The gun owners of New Jersey have had enough! They’ve tried asking for their rights, they’ve tried protesting in the streets. It’s not working. The tyrants in Trenton are going to take their gun rights away regardless. Seeing that “There *IS* no redress of our LEGITIMATE grievances within the three branches of NJ government.” The New Jersey Second Amendment Society has announced the start of a campaign of civil disobedience. “In a SINCERE effort to avoid an unhappy outcome, we must attempt to reach the public through acts of non-violent civil disobedience. This is not easy and it will take time, but the alternative at this point is much less attractive.” They are right and deserve our support.

Tags: The Mask of Anarchy | Shelley | Second Amendment Society | rights | Peterloo | peaceful resistance | New Jersey | Henry David Thoreau | gun control | Gandhi | firearms | Deacons for Defense and Justice | civil disobedience

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Last night I was not among the four Billion plus viewers who watched Tinsel-town’s sharp-elbow, popularity contest known as the Academy Awards.

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Despite police harassment the champions of liberty saved many guns from destruction at the Bensalem, PA gun buyback. This happened on February 16, 2013 in Bucks County near Philadelphia.

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'Ah, excuse me,' Roy said. 'You want to shave...what? My head? You must have me mistaken for someone else!'

The boss man spun on his heels. 'Weren't you at John Oliver in 93?'

'Yeah, so what? There were hundreds of kids there.'

'Didn't you take up with Maria Theresa Angelis and become her boyfriend?'

'No,' said Roy. 'I never had girlfriends in high school. I tried to. But I wasn't popular. I didn't even know any Spanish girls. I was trying to make it with the cheerleaders. Is she Mexican?'

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Roy likes doing his laundry. It gives him a chance to sit and read the paper in the company of strangers in a warm and humid place that is full of wet and dry clothes.

As soon as he got inside the Laundromat, he spotted two empty washers and ran over to claim them. You've got to be quick. He threw down his heap of clothes on one of the machines and inspected the other. Once he found a man's black sock that was very unappealing, but then one time, he found a woman's black thong that was stretched uncomfortably thin across the top of the washer drum. He had to peel it off carefully. The underwear lay in the palm of his hand like a baby black crow. He still has it and when he is in the Laundromat he wonders about every woman that comes in, and whether or not she is the owner of that silky, black underwear.

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Meet Roy. He’s about 26 years old. He’s a good guy, a nice guy. He lives alone in a bachelor apartment in East Vancouver, near Nanaimo and Dundas.

He lives in the same kind of apartment that everyone lives in over there. The typical three stories, with elevator. His apartment is on the ground floor in the back facing the lane. It actually has a bit of a garden. It’s mostly just dirt and a bit of grass, but it could be a garden. His apartment could be a glorious bachelor pad. His job could be great, his love life fantastic, but really, Roy is struggling like everyone else. Failing in life, failing in love, and generally just failing.

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My agent said I had to knuckle down and get another book out. I had to stop fooling around. Stop dawdling. Stop reading the paper. What does she know about writing? I guess quite a bit since she is an agent, but she's not a writer. It just doesn't happen like that.

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Unfortunately, no discussion of gun rights can take place these days without talking about the horrible murders at Newtown, CT last year. My heartfelt condolences go out to the families and friends of the victims as well as my sympathies to the survivors and the rest of that community for having to go through such a terrible experience.

Tags: Standing Armies | Sandy Hook | progressivism | police | Patrick Henry | Newtown | military | liberty | law enforcement | Jefferson | guns | gun rights | gun control | Founding Fathers | Founders | firearms | Bastiat | 2nd Amendment

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At the Citizens for Liberty meeting on January 16, 2013 Darren Wolfe talked about how the loss of liberty has created an unstable society.

Below are some of the quotes used in the speech:

Tags: Thomas Jefferson | society | progressivism | Patrick Henry | non-aggression | Nazi | guns | gun rights | gun control | Frederick Bastiat | citizens for liberty | aggression

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Since it was planned before the national and state rallies were we went ahead with our local one. About thirty people came out to support liberty and stand up for our rights.

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It was different; it was a different kind of gang-rape that shook not only the nation but also the Diaspora, besides evoking strong and sensitive reactions from abroad. It even prompted the Secretary General of the United Nations to write to the Indian Prime Minister for ensuring greater security for women. It was a different kind of rape in that it was not like the ones that are reported almost every day in the newspapers. It was different because it was an uncommonly and excessively brutal and beastly assault, which tore up the insides of the 23-year old bright and ambitious paramedic, eventually taking her life despite the best efforts of medicine men in the country’s capital and abroad.

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Explanation of Vote by Ambassador Susan E. Rice, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Following UN General Assembly Vote on Palestinian Observer State Status Resolution.

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Reuters reports: "The U.N. General Assembly is set to implicitly recognize a sovereign state of Palestine on Thursday despite threats by the United States and Israel to punish the Palestinian Authority by withholding much-needed funds for the West Bank government."

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Arvind Kejriwal, of the erstwhile NGO India Against Corruption, has made quite a splash since he went political. Even before he named his outfit as “Aam Aadmi Party” (AAP) he had commenced his campaign against the entrenched political establishment. His exposes, virtually like serial ‘bombs’, have already scorched Robert Vadra, the son in-law of Sonia Gandhi,  Chairperson of the ruling formation United Progressive Alliance, Foreign Minister Salman Khurshid, the suave but loyal to the point of being a sycophant of Sonia Gandhi, Nitin Gadkari, the reigning president of the principal Opposition,  the Bharatiya Janata Party, the Reliance Chief and the richest Indian Mukesh Ambani, and, lately, sugar mill owners of Western Maharashtra, presumably targeting the Maharashtra strongman Sharad Pawar, currently Agriculture Minister at the Centre. The Ambanis came in for further treatment in Kejriwal’s accusations regarding their alleged unaccounted wealth in foreign banks details of which, though suppressed, were allegedly available with the government.

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Darren Wolfe talks about peace, liberty, gun rights, and security from the point of view of arming the people to protect themselves while disarming the government. The talk was based on his opening statement at the Greater Philadelphia Thinking Society (http://www.meetup.com/thinkingsociety/events/88133332/) sponsored gun control debate where he took the pro-gun side.

Tags: war | speech | self defense | rights | Philadelphia | Pennsylvania | peace | militia | liberty | guns | gun control | firearm | Federal reserve | End the Fed | Debate | Darren Wolfe

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by Norman Finkelstein

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that Israel has just suffered a historic defeat.

One only had to watch the international news coverage.

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Note that this is only a subset of UN Resolutions which Israel remains in violation of to this day; e.g. those regarding Gaza and Lebanon

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GAZA CITY, 18 November 2012 (IRIN) - It was, he said, a horrible twist of fate.

When air strikes began over the Gaza Strip on 14 November, Othman Abdel'Al made what seemed a wise decision. The Israeli air force was targeting, among other things, government offices belonging to the militant group Hamas. Abdel'Al and his family live near a police station; he knew they were not safe.

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It is not a war, it is murder
by Noam Chomsky 

The following statement by Noam Chomsky indicates a different stand toward Israeli aggression than Prof. Chomsky has revealed in the past:

"The incursion and bombardment of Gaza is not about destroying Hamas. It is not about stopping rocket fire into Israel, it is not about achieving peace.

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Takers are parasites that stand upon the shoulders of great Thinkers, holding them under heel with the false “wealth” of commodified “money” and stealing their ideas that they may “profit” of them.

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