Category Archives: Freedom

Termination report

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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-

Quote of the day–Eric Engstrom

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Computers and the internet are a far bigger problem for the government than they are for the individual.

Eric Engstrom
October 2003

Quote of the day–Jeff Cooper

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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

Institutionalized bigotry

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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.

Iraq “Bill of Rights”

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Peenie Wallie sent me an email with his post about a draft of the Iraq “Bill of Rights”.  I finally got around to reading it this morning.  Yuck.  It’s not a “Bill of Rights”. It’s a list of things the government must provide–such as health care.  And it specifically says citizens may not own weapons except by permit.

It’s a draft.  It should be scrapped.  Rights are things that no government can give or take away–only infringe upon.  A Bill of Rights is a written promise to not infringe upon those rights.

Quote of the day–Jim Grieshaber-Otto

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“Free trade” is actually a misnomer, Grieshaber-Otto contends; the new global rules are actually aimed primarily at restricting government regulations, which is bad news for advocates.

Jim Grieshaber-Otto, Ph.D.
An international trade expert with the government of British Columbia.
From: http://www.jointogether.org/gv/default.jtml?O=264057
August 12, 2000

ATF Type 20 License

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My license to manufacture high explosives just arrived in the mail.  They renewed it in something like 20 days.  Very cool.

I know that there have been a lot of people that have had problems with the ATF but every single encounter I have had with them has been good.  I don’t like their rulings with regards to firearms.  I don’t like that they have been given power over intra state commerce.  But given they have been tasked with making explosives manufacture, storage, and use safer I can’t really complain in regards my manufacturing of reactive targets.

Bummer.  I just noticed they have the expiration date as July 1, 2005.

Update: I sent an email to Crystal last night.  I got a response this morning saying she thinks she has things straighten out for me.

Something I have long said about people and organizations: I am far happier with those that make an occasional error and correct it quickly than those that seldom make an error and don’t admit it or correct it.

Update2: A few minutes ago I received a Letter of Authorization from the ATF Federal Explosives Licensing Center, via a FAX from Crystal, to continue manufacturing high explosives until the corrected license is received. 🙂

Anti-freedom bias by employers

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I’m doing some research on employers that enforce an anti-freedom bias on their employees.  I was inspired by the recent American Rifleman article and some other events.  I’m just getting started but I ran across this “Hiring Guide” and I would rather not pay the $20.00 for it.  Does anyone else have access to it?  If so can you tell we if it says anything about gun ownership or free speech advocates?  A sample of the description of the guide:

This guide presents valuable tools and approaches:

  • Critical Behavior Traits
  • Checklist for Evaluating Resumes
  • Important Questions to Include in the Employment Application
  • Interviewing Techniques
  • Reference and Background Checking
  • Employment Verification and Release Form

If not it, how about any similar hiring guides–even if they are specific to a particular company.

Thanks.

Quote of the day–John Stuart Mill

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If all mankind minus one were of one opinon, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.

John Stuart Mill

Quote of the day–William Rawle

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The prohibition is general. No clause in the Constitution could by rule of construction be conceived to give the Congress the power to disarm the people.

William Rawle
1825
He was offered the position of the first U.S. Attorney General, by President Washington.

This will really help their cause

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With a hat tip to Neaderpundit–The Archangel posts some ‘interesting’ news.  First he says the FBI wants to talk to him.  Next he says a Fatwah has been issued against him.  Like that is going to help convince the public Islam is a religion of peace.  [sarcasm] I’ll bet this will convince another 10 or 20 percent of the population that the U.S. is wrong to be fighting terrorists. [/sarcasm]

I think his response, while appropriate, doesn’t go as far as I would take it.  He only says:

 If you attempt to do anything to me, to my friends, to anyone I care about; I WILL KILL YOU. I will not simply defend myself, I WILL kill you, and while you are dying I will piss on you.

I have jsut rolled all my bullets in pig fat. I’m going to start carying around pieces of swine flesh with me; and I’ll shove them into your wounds, then force feed them to you. Then I’ll cut your cock and balls off and shove them down your throat.

I am heavily armed at all times, I have booby trapped my car and my home, and I am waiting for you. If you come after me or mine, you will die, and I will make damned sure you won’t see paradise for all eternity you evil motherfuckers.

Having given this some thought after the Russian school incident last year I would be a bit more creative.  I have reproduced my inclinations for dealing with such ‘people’ from that post below:

This is my latest thought which should, of course, be video taped for our websites and the news.

  1. Strip them naked.
  2. Stake them to ground in a pen full of hungry pigs.
  3. Let them be eaten alive (or dead if they had previously absorbed excess lead).
  4. There should be close ups of their genitals being ripped off and chewed by the pigs.
  5. Close ups as the manure with bits of hair and bone come out the other end.
  6. Package up the manure and put it in “bombs“.  We were using laser guided concrete “blocks” during parts of the war so this should be easy enough.
  7. Drop the bombs on their mosques.

If Archangel needs any help with guns, explosives, or pigs I’m available to help with expertise in all those areas and the time to contribute–Thank you PNNL.

Quote of the day–Greg Hamilton

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I heard a story the other day from a long time cop in New York City. The cops don’t give first aid to anybody when they arrive at the aftermath of a crime scene anymore.  They roll up their windows and yell at the victims to sit down on the curb and wait for the paramedics to arrive.

Well, this cop and a rookie went to the scene and several young blacks came out of an alley all cut up and shot up, one had blood squirting out of his chest.  The cops rolled up their windows as the victims approached the car and the victims said, “Hey! There was some niggers in there that was try’n to kill us”. This being almost entirely black area of town the cops yelled back, “You’ll have to be more specific. Which niggers were trying to kill you?”  The victims described them as best they could, standing there, blood dripping and squirting. All but one of them finally sat down on the curb to wait for the paramedics.  The long time cop finally asked the one still standing if he was feeling a little short of breath. The victim took a couple breaths and said, “Yeah!  I guess I am.”  “How about dizziness? Nausea? Anything like that?”, the cop asked. The guy, looked off in the distance and thought for a couple seconds. “Yeah, I suppose. Why you asking me all this?”   “Well”, said the cop, “Most people shot up as bad as you are, are already dead.”  The victims eyes rolled back to complete whites and he toppled straight backwards on the concrete.  The rookie cop turned to his partner and said, “Jesus!  I ain’t even HEARD of anybody killing someone that way.”

The point of the story is that you don’t stop fighting until the fight is over.  You don’t need to go down just because you have taken a few hits.  As long as you believe you can keep going you will.  If you do go down, you are still going to win because you are going to gnaw through his Achilles’ tendon and bring him down to where you can rip his head off.

Greg Hamilton
Self Defense Instructor
Nov. 19, 1995

Quote of the day–David A. Lytel

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Cryptography is an enormously powerful tool that needs to be controlled, just as we control bombs and rockets.

David A. Lytel
Co-founder and managing partner Democrats.com

Think about it

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If someone says London was bombed because of their involvement in Iraq, or the U.S. involvement in the Mideast was the reason for the repeated attacks (USS Cole, World Trade Center bombing, WTC and Pentagon hit with planes, etc.) we suffered then ask them to think about this:

More than 80 Iraqis have been killed in at least 11 suicide attacks since London had its first taste of suicide bombings a week ago today. In the first half of this year more than 1,000 Iraqis have died in about 130 suicide attacks. It has been a sustained terror assault that has steadily grown in intensity and has no precedent in Israel, Beirut or anywhere else.

The Islamic extremists are killing thousands of Iraqis.  Many, if not most, of them are Muslim.  Further food for thought is available in the same article:

THE local kids rushed to greet the US patrol. “Hello, Mister,” they cried to the American soldiers, who started handing out chocolate bars and keyrings. At that moment a car sped from a side street and exploded right next to the crowd gathered around the Humvee.

More than 30 Baghdad youngsters, aged between six and 15, were killed yesterday in a suicide bombing that marked a new level of depravity even in a city used to daily carnage.

…

One woman, Hana Ali, failed to find her 11-year-old son at the hospital. When she returned to the blast scene, she found his head in the rubble.

“They killed all the children of the neighbourhood,” wept Radhi Hamud, but he was one of the “lucky” ones. His 13-year-old son, Husam, was among another 30 or so children who were merely maimed. Husam lost both his legs.

So what’s the motivation?  Osama bin Laden told us.  And in this fight, who is a legitimate target (credit to Clayton Cramer)?

Asked what constituted a legitimate target, Bakri said: “We don’t make a distinction between civilians and non-civilians, innocents and non-innocents. Only between Muslims and non-believers. And the life of an unbeliever has no value. It has no sanctity.”

Think about it.

Quote of the day–Henry Kissinger

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The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a bit longer.

Henry Kissinger

[Although he said this decades before on another topic it could have been said about the Kelo decision.

Update on December 3, 2023: Citation for the quote.]

American Rifleman article

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I got a call from a fellow shooter about an hour ago.  He asked if had read the latest American Rifleman magazine.  “How recent?” I asked.  “I just got it in the mail today.”  “Definitely not.  What’s up?”  He told me and I ran out to the mailbox to find my copy of the magazine.

The article is titled “If You Hunt or Own a Gun… You’re Fired!”

The URL associated with this article http://www.nra.org/URfired is broken.  Does anyone have a URL that works?

Update: Here is a scanned version of the article:


Click on the picture to see the full sized article.

Update2: The related info just keeps coming in.  I just got an email with a link to this:

Guns in the Workplace:
State Laws v. Employer’s Rights
Duration: 3 hours
Cost: $169

Changes in state concealed weapon laws have created additional burdens on employers. Workplace shootings nearly doubled from 2002 to 2003, increasing from 25 to 45 incidents. The number of employees killed in these shootings rose from 33 to 69. A recent study found that workplaces with policies that permitted guns were five times more likely to experience homicides than those that prohibited weapons.

Get the information and resource you need to ensure a safe and weapon free workplace. Learn why your workplace needs to address weapons in the workplace, changes in state concealed weapon laws, model policy and guidelines and best practices for enforcement.

Update3: An email from a friend:

I seriously question this assertion;

“A recent study found that workplaces with policies that permitted guns were five times more likely to experience homicides than those that prohibited weapons.” Where can that be verified?

My response:

There is a pretty good chance it’s true. But almost for certain it includes armed robbers having their I.Q. reduced to zero from lead poisoning under the category of “experienced homicides” at a workplace. They aren’t lying, they just don’t distinguish being unjustified, justified, and praiseworthy homicide. Another point to be made is that workplaces at high risk are the ones that are most likely to allow firearms–hence it’s not the cause and effect they want to imply that results in homicides. Instead it’s homicides are likely hence firearms are allowed.

If I wanted to spend enough time on it I think I could find the statistics. But I don’t think it’s worth the effort at this point.

Update4: Another item from the August 2005 issue of American Rifleman:


And editorial by Wayne LaPierre.  Click on the picture to see the full sized article.

Quote of the day–Paul Smith

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If a law containing the word “gun” or “firearm”, etc…. would still describe an illegal act regardless of that word, the word should be removed as being unnecessary.  Furthermore, laws that describe mere possession of an item (that can be safely controlled and maintained by the possessor) as the punishable “act” are not “reasonable” …

Paul Smith
Email Sept 3, 2001, 7:13 PM

Surveillance cameras fail

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Analog Kid at Random Nuclear Strikes asks:

Do you think the vast array of surveillance cameras in London helped even a tiny bit?

Security expert Bruce Schneier has this to say:

I was going to write something about the foolishness of adding cameras to public spaces as a response to terrorism threats, but Scott Henson said it already…

Henson has been blogging on this topic for quite a while and points out that when private businesses install cameras they can have some success.  When governments install cameras in public areas they have little positive effect.  England has millions of cameras but they are now to the point of outlawing certain types of clothes that thugs use to easily defeat the cameras.  And as long as you are allowed to wear clothes and carry backpacks, shopping bags, and brief cases in public there will be no surveillance system which can prevent crime or especially prevent terrorist activities.  Spending the resources on better intelligence and destroying the culture of terrorism is a much wiser plan of action.

Another reason to eliminate the TSA

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This came in from an email list I am on:

Sent: Monday, July 11, 2005 8:16 AM
Subject: Denver Airport Checked Firearm Experience

 

One of my good friends goes prairie-dog hunting every year in the west.

This year they went to Colorado.

He has always used the same procedure when shipping his rifles:

1. Remove the bolts and put into a separate piece of baggage.
2. Declare the firearms, go through red tag procedure, etc.

On his return trip, the bolts ended up in a carryon bag. They were spotted going through the x-ray machine and flagged by the TSA. When asked what the bolts were, he explained that they were a piece of a rifle, but not enough to call it a gun and that he had separated them for safety and security.

TSA immediately called airport police and local Denver police. TSA explained that their definition of a gun is that it has a firing pin and a serial number, and that these bolts had both and were therefore guns.

He was taken to a security holding area.

My friend reports that the TSA folks and airport security were very tough on him, but the Denver police refused to arrest him when he explained his logic for removing the bolts and not thinking that they would be an issue going through screening.

He was given the option of surrendering the bolts for destruction or missing his flight to check them on a later flight.

Not liking either of those options, he suggested that there was a post office in the Denver airport and could he mail them home. The answer was sure!, good idea. He mailed them home and made his flight.

TSA is still threatening to follow up with charges. I’ll post more as I hear it.

I checked out the TSA Permitted and Prohibited Items (PDF file) web page.  It says parts of guns and firearms are prohibited as carry on.  So even a magazine spring or a basepad are prohibited.

I had my own “interesting experience” with my guns with TSA at the Denver airport once but it turned out better.  I thought I had written it up somewhere but I can’t find it right now.

Postal match–Week 1

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Analog Kid has his announcement of the series here.  The first week is here and is for your carbine.  Variations exist if you don’t have a carbine.  I’ve printed out my target and will be headed to the range either today or tomorrow.

This isn’t about competition so much as it is about getting out to the range to practice.  To exercise your freedoms.  If you don’t use it you lose it.  I’ve been extremely negligent in getting out to the range in recent months and it’s going to change.  This postal match is going to be part of it.