An armed republic submits less easily to the rule of one of its citizens than a republic armed by foreign forces. Rome and Sparta were for many centuries well-armed and free. The Swiss are well-armed and enjoy great freedom. Among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible. It is not reasonable to suppose that one who is armed will obey willingly one who is unarmed; or that any unarmed man will remain safe among armed servants.
Machiavelli
The Prince; Chapter 17
I’ve been watching the log for my PNNL info site and noticed there were a fair number of referrals coming in from search engines. I did my own searches and came up with interesting results:
The other search engines appear to be a little behind but they don’t matter nearly as much.
Thanks to everyone for linking to the site as per my suggestions on this page. That helped make the above happen.
I’m in the process of making some more changes that should boost the visibility even more. And since I’ve been seeing the Google bot traverse the website recently that can only be good news.
Barb and I made it back home tonight and as I was going through my piles of email I found this gem from Alan Korwin, author of numerous books on gun laws:
18 USC 241. If two or more people conspire to injure, oppress, threaten or intimidate any person in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured under the Constitution or laws of the United States, they shall be fined, or imprisoned up to ten years, or both.
I wonder… Does firing someone from their job meet the legal definition of “injure” or “oppress”? I’m not sure–but you can be certain I will be finding out soon.
You can’t shoot somebody just because they are a scumbag. They have to have the ability, opportunity, and have put an innocent person in imminent jeopardy of life or serious bodily harm. If you are looking to just shoot somebody go to some other country and buy a tag.
Greg Hamilton
Self Defense Instructor
Nov. 19, 1995
The Second Amendment gives us the right to bear arms in order to have a “well-regulated militia.” People with little understanding interpret that as meaning the National Guard or some other government organization. But here’s how George Mason, one of our unsung framers, responded to the question, “I ask, sir, what is a militia?” Mason answered, “It is the whole people, except for a few public officials.” James Madison said, “Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion…in private self-defense.”
George Washington said, “When firearms go, all else goes…we need them every hour.” The framers of our Constitution knew well that an armed citizenry was the ultimate defense against government tyranny. As for crime, Thomas Paine said, “The peaceable part of mankind will be overrun by the vile and abandoned while they neglect the means of self-defense…(but) arms like laws discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe….Horid mischief would ensue were the good deprived of the use of them.”
-Walter Williams-
Periodical
Colorado Springs Gazette
4/24/94
And Miss (Attorney General Janet) Reno, I say to you: If you send your jackbooted, baby-burning bushwackers to confiscate my guns, pack them a lunch. It will be a damned long day. The Branch Davidians were amateurs.
I’m a professional.
Harry Thomas
NRA Board Member
Most people are grass-eaters with their heads down on the ground. The jackals and lions know this and think of them as that. Hold your head up and walk like you are the biggest, badest lion that walks. The jackals and lions will notice and leave you alone because they don’t want to get hurt. Don’t challenge them because they might feel they have to respond to it. All you want is their respect, not their dignity.
Greg Hamilton
Self Defense Instructor
Nov. 19, 1995
[T]he government of the United States, under Lyndon Johnson, proposes to concern itself over the quality of American life. And this is something very new in the political theory of free nations. The quality of life has heretofore depended on the quality of the human beings who gave tone to that life, and they were its priests and its poets, not its bureaucrats.
William F. Buckley, Jr.
Periodical
National Review, August 7, 1965
Who can protest an injustice but does not is an accomplice in the act.
The Talmud
The political, economic and social consequences of the anarchic proliferation of light weapons are well known. They are the millions of victims, most of them civilians, the displaced populations with their tears and suffering, the phenomena of child soldiers, terrorism and wide-scale banditry in urban areas. This belief in disarmament does not proceed from idealism, or from naivete. The best strategy for prevention of armed conflict is to eliminate the means of violence.
Alphan Oumar Konare
President of Mali
Oslo, April 1998
From http://www.prepcom.org/low/index.html
Don’t carry a weapon. You lose, whether you use it or it’s used on you.
National Crime Prevention Council
10 things you can do. Tip number 8.
From: http://www.weprevent.org/your10.htm (as of March 10, 1999)
While I am still many hundreds of miles away from home (are the black helicopters gone yet?) I do have a reliable Internet connection now. I’ll be staying here until tomorrow morning and hope to be home by the weekend. Since we are driving that means I many not get connected again until I get home.
I have spent the last several hours reviewing the referrals to my www.pnnl.info site, doing an interview with a gun rights organization, and making terse comments on numerous gun forums and blog sites. There are just so many that I can’t begin to keep up. I am running a report generator on the log file but I expect it will take a several hours. I’ll post an update here with a link to the report when it’s done.
I have enough donations now that I was able to pay off the previous visits to the lawyers. More news on that front when it is appropriate to do so.
Thanks so much to everyone for all they work they put in. I just don’t have enough time to thank everyone individually. But some deserve special recognition–in particular “S” has been a huge help. Ry of course has contributed time and ideas and offered to contribute a lot more work. My daughter Xenia took care of the Quote of the Day for the last several days while I was going in and out of Internet connectivity.
All the bloggers that have linked and commented have contributed a great deal as well. Michelle Malkin’s post in particular was a huge boost.
Here are some interesting things Ry has to say about what is going on:
Update: Here is the log report on referrals. Lots of people talking about the PNNL Bigotry website.
The associations of the nation revival, SA [Storm Troopers], SS [para-military adjunct of the Gestapo], and Stahlhelm [a non-Nazi lunatic fringe para-military organization], give every responsible citizen the opportunity of campaigning with them. Therefore anyone who does not belong to one of the above-named organization and who unjustifiably nevertheless keeps his weapon . . . must be regarded as an enemy of the national government and will be brought to account without compunction and with the utmost severity.
SA OBERFUHRER OF BAD TOLZ, GERMANY
Quoted in Richard Munday
“The Monopoly of Power”
(paper presented to the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, 1991)
I’ve posted about this in the past:
Some may ask, “So what do you think now? Don’t you see that we can’t come out of the closet? Look what happened to you!”
Yes, it’s risky. Yes, if you stick your head up high enough it’s likely to get “wacked.” But what’s the alternative? If you won’t fight now when the worst they can do is get you fired (I have evidence a political opponent gave PNNL a tip about me–and I think I know who it was) then who among you will take a stand when they are going door-to-door taking your guns? Or when they are rounding up the Jews/Christians/homosexuals/whoever? Taking a stand now is far, far less risky and far more likely to succeed than if you wait until the thugs are knocking down your door.
Get out of the closet and do something today. If nothing else support me as I fight the bigots who demand we stay in the closet.
As predicted there was no repsonse from PNNL. They (both Richland and Battelle in Columbus) spent a lot of time reviewing the site but in the end they did not have any factual corrections to make.
Check out http://www.pnnl.info. There is a link on the main page to What You Should Do. Check it out.
Barb and I are going hiking now. Internet and cellphone access again tonight sometime.
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
Milton Friedman
A few minute ago the last of the FOIA requests went out and I sent the following email to my former employer:
Subject:
Corrections?I have created a new website, XXXX, that might be of interest to you. Before the news releases are sent out on Monday afternoon I am giving you an opportunity to make any factual corrections.Please send all corrections, complete with documentation, to XXXX before 12:00 PM PDT Monday July 25th. Only email to that address will be accepted. All responses will be posted on the web site.
And since the picture below seemed to play a significant role in the investigation that lead to my termination I am including a copy:—-
Joe Huffman
A few people have seen a preview of the site. Here are some of their comments:
I’m shaking with rage. Bastards.
-Kim du Toit-
Jesus H. Christ.
-Neaderpundit-
I thought PNNL’s mission was to support the Constitution–not destroy the lives of those who exercise the rights it guarantees.
-Lyle Keeney-
You can get canned for practicing free speech in support of one’s right to self-defense. What’s next? Get canned for blogging about the war? Gay marriage? Religious freedom?
-Stephanie Sailor-
New Jersey gun rights activist
This is the point in the story where the audience comes to understand, if not condone, the antagonist turning into a mad scientist.
-Sean Flynn-
And then head off on vacation. Good move. Pay cash. Watch out for Black Helicopters.
-Sean Flynn-
Does your life insurance cover getting knocked off by your former bosses?
-Lyle Keeney-
Be careful. Don’t get shot in some dark alley.
-James Huffman-Scott-
They honestly had no clue that you are so fastidious in your operation. This kind of evidence is very clear and easy for even a layman to understand.
-Permission Pending-
Computers and the internet are a far bigger problem for the government than they are for the individual.
Eric Engstrom
October 2003
The media insist that crime is the major concern of the American public today. In this connection they generally push the point that a disarmed society would be a crime-free society. They will not accept the truth that if you take all the guns off the street you still will have a crime problem, whereas if you take the criminals off the street you cannot have a gun problem.
In the larger sense, however, the personal ownership of firearms is only secondarily a matter of defense against the criminal. Note the following from Thomas Jefferson:
The strongest reason for the people to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against the tyranny of government.
That is why our masters in Washington are so anxious to disarm us. They are not afraid of criminals. They are afraid of a populace which cannot be subdued by tyrants.
Jeff Cooper
From Jeff Cooper’s Commentaries
Vol. 2, No. 5
May 1994
According to these guys I imagine I exhibited all the symptoms of someone about to go postal, except for one. The one missing was supplied by PNNL–by firing me. How many other civil rights activists exhibit the same “symptoms”?
Some type of obsession, e.g., weapons, other acts of violence, romantic/sexual, zealot (political, religious, racial), the job itself, neatness and order
Performance Problems, including problems with attendance or tardiness [I am a night person and I, and others, would arrive late and leave late]
Access to and familiarity with weapons
Being fired, laid off or suspended; passed over for promotion
As I read this web page I and others who advocate for the rights of gun owners, should never be hired in the first place. There is a word for this–bigotry.
