Comments on Pro Libertate: Fire At Will: Reader Feedback -- QUICK UPDATE, 4/19

> Resistance is futile: A Taser warning posted in ...

2007-04-23T09:30:00.000-06:00

> Resistance is futile: A Taser warning posted in an Idaho courtroom (courtesy of Pro Libertate reader SW).

Courtroom, or courthouse lobby? If the former, how did the camera that took this picture get past the metal detector &/or other search?

Note well: "COMBATIVE or RESISTANT". I wonder if this phrase will one day include merely withholding one's consent to pass through the metal detector.

Will's good friend [Name Withheld] wrote:
> We will be prevent[ed] from using nukes due to the proximity to our own troops.

I sure wouldn't count on that if I was him.

> "Maybe i need to start making some Christian contacts or here in case we get cut off and overrun?" he concludes.

Has your friend read this?

Mark Odell

Good grief, Will. It seems that Idaho's Payette Co...

2007-04-22T21:54:00.000-06:00

Good grief, Will. It seems that Idaho's Payette County (low-pop, quasi-rural locale?) has more in common with Virginia's Fairyfax County, the most populated, wealthy, and most liberal (read: most constraining) county and locale in this state.

For example, Fairfax county has WAY more eco-nazi ordinances than any other county or city in the state, bar none. Judging by their eco-nazism, they presumably would also have heavy-handed pet ordinances as well.

It just seems to me that this particular kind of excessive local governmental interference would be contemporary and even expected (these days) in the metro locales, but NOT a place like Payette county, Idaho, for cryin' out loud.

York County, VA is not "hands-off" the individual/family by any means, but currently most of their most-prickly ordinances plague businesses (height of signs, zoning hell, etc.) rather than families, but that brings up its own unique set of issues, of course.

We'll probably also be plagued with more meddlesome ordinances aimed at essentially curbing individual/family freedom as time goes on, no doubt, especially when the increasing number of transplanted "New Yawkas" and other New Englanders to this region eventually compose the majority of the city/county councils/board of supervisors.

There is so much said about FAT pets and how irresponsible pet owners "fatten" their pets these days. Of course, as your saga makes clear, one can be dinged for having a SKINNY pet!

You know, looking at this in a connect-the-dots, panoramic sorta way, I wouldn't be surprised to eventually see being poor OUTLAWED, judging by how some folk have their kiddies ripped from them due to arbitrary "quality of life" arguments. After all, arbitrary "quality of life" dictates, such as "bony" pets or "fat" pets being cast as a public-health issue and responsibility, can also be applied just as easily to human beings, especially one's kiddies.

All I can say, Will, is be on guard...

Sigh, it does seem as if one can't even live peaceably in "post-office" towns and locales anymore without meddlesome government.

Thanks, Anti-Bush!I erred in dating the photo of C...

2007-04-22T20:16:00.000-06:00

Thanks, Anti-Bush!

I erred in dating the photo of Chief; it was actually taken about four days after the visit from the She-Police. He looks pretty much the same now that he did when we got that visit, despite the fact that we've followed the regimen that officious little parasite prescribed. So....

It looks like we're going to have to take Chief to the Vet, and what I'm guessing is that we'll be told he's fine -- just a little underweight.

Incidentally, the Payette County government, seeking to fine-tune the Utopian splendor their wisdom has provided us, just passed an ordinance banning the ownership of Pitbulls. Those who own the proscribed breed are grandfathered in for a license if they're willing to pay an extortionate fee (the better part of a house payment or monthly rent for most people).

nice dog!

2007-04-22T13:45:00.000-06:00

nice dog!

In California, shortly before Christmas, a message...

2007-04-22T01:16:00.000-06:00

In California, shortly before Christmas, a message was posted on recently constructed electronic freeway message boards, "Report drunk drivers. Dial 911." I thought this was in reference to the holidays. The messages were up until February.

"The truth is always the first victim of war."Exce...

2007-04-19T19:36:00.000-06:00

"The truth is always the first victim of war."

Excellent post, Will. Keep up the good work.

Just saw the results of a poll taken on MSN as to ...

2007-04-19T16:03:00.000-06:00

Just saw the results of a poll taken on MSN as to whether or not more gun control would shave prevented or will prevent the type of thing that happened at V Tech. Surprisingly, at least to me, something like 59% of the folks polled said that more gun control would not make any difference.

Maybe I'm just the eternal optimist, but is it possible that the commoner is rising out of his complacent slumber and beginning to smell the coffee?

D.D., thanks for the kind words about Korrin, and ...

2007-04-19T14:46:00.000-06:00

D.D., thanks for the kind words about Korrin, and the typically perceptive comments about the pernicious effects of collectivist herd-thinking.

By the way, folks, one can listen live at The Fait...

2007-04-19T12:40:00.000-06:00

By the way, folks, one can listen live at The Faith and Freedom Network.

Anyway, Will, that guy who slammed you as a "left-wing nut job" is a part and parcel of those who can only discern between "labeled" factions and not what's truly right and wrong, regardless of faction in question.

Is that really surprising? The Left, as well as every other faction, has their share of the same kind of confuseniks within their ranks. Everybody is a faction extremist these days! They favor group identity, and by necessity groupthink, or the herd mentality, over individual discernment.

And, of course, the media just eats these kinds of assertions for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. The consequence being that the society as a whole continues to slide left.

I'm glad to hear that your wife is doing better these days! Keep us apprised periodically.

Thanks for the radio heads up, Will. I'll be sure to listen.