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Author: Military ‘purge’ meant to weed out officers who won’t fire on Americans

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White House ExplosionFrom, of all places, the SFExaminer.com:

On Wednesday, The Blaze reported that nine senior flag officers have been fired by the Obama administration this year alone, leading some to believe that a “purge” is underway. On Thursday, Dr. Jim Garrow, a renowned author and humanitarian who was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize in 2009, told Examiner.com in an exclusive interview he believes it’s part of the effort to weed out those who won’t swear loyalty to President Obama and obey orders to fire on American citizens who refuse to give up their guns.

Dr. Garrow said the president is looking for officers who will ultimately swear loyalty to him and blindly do as he says rather than follow lawful orders.

From there, he explained, it’s not too much of a stretch for those officers to fire on U.S. citizens who refuse to obey gun confiscation orders.

“Obama is basically saying ‘obey me’ rather than the lawful orders,” he said.

“It all has to do with breaching the Constitution,” he added.

According to Sara Carter, commanders who spoke to The Blaze say the administration “is not only purging the military of commanders they don’t agree with, but is striking fear in the hearts of those still serving.”

Setting up the bowling pins, as it were.  Lining up and identifying the generals and admirals whose only interest is sticking up their index digit to see which way the wind is blowing in order to keep their positions, their car, their driver, their government-paid home and the incredible deference shown them due to rank.

The situation with the military is so bad an unidentified Pentagon official told The Blaze that even “young officers, down through the ranks have been told not to talk about Obama or the politics of the White House.”

“They are purging everyone and if you want to keep your job — just keep your mouth shut,” the official reportedly said, asking to remain anonymous because they were not authorized to speak on the matter, Carter added.

In other words, not only gutting our military but gutting its ability to think independently outside of DC.  Creating an atmosphere not of respect but abject fear.

In January, Dr. Garrow wrote on Facebook that President Obama wants military leaders who will fire on U.S. citizens.

Jim Garrow on Facebook“I have just been informed by a former senior military leader that Obama is using a new ‘litmus test’ in determining who will stay and who must go in his military leaders. Get ready to explode folks,” he wrote.

And be prepared for decorated soldiers to speak up:

Retired U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Paul Vallely weighed in on the situation.

“Obama will not purge a civilian or political appointee because they have bought into Obama’s ideology,” he told The Blaze. “The White House protects their own. That’s why they stalled on the investigation into fast and furious, Benghazi and Obamacare. He’s intentionally weakening and gutting our military, Pentagon and reducing us as a superpower, and anyone in the ranks who disagrees or speaks out is being purged.”

An interesting concluding sentence to the article:

Perhaps this explains why Obama has recently taken to calling the armed forces “my military.”

“My military.”

Sadly, the American Electorate is no smarter or in possession of a collective memory greater than that of Dug:

Ask yourself a question: if you were a tyrant with NPD, cognizant of the fact that an ill-informed electorate placed you into office — twice — wouldn’t you want to gut the American military so that it reflected your feelings and Communist teachings ranging from your mother, your mentors — think Frank Marshall Davis, Richard Cloward, Frances Fox Piven, Saul Alinsky, Bill Ayers — ?

Let me get down to a few more fundamental brass tacks, if you will.

Obama and his sycophant Leftists want to gut our military and reduce military pensions and care — things the federal government utilized in order to get young men and women to sign up initially.  ROE’s are ridiculous.  Military men and women with actual honor and courage are being forced to leave.  Some civilians are deciding it isn’t worth the effort considering the current treatment of veterans.

Concurrently, the salaries and pensions of cops are being cut with, at the same time, ROE’s becoming more and more stringent.

What happens when you give a war, and no one comes?

What happens when the intruder is coming to your door and no one responds?

Actions have consequences.

SQUIRREL!

BZ

 

 

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BREAKING: Sheriffs Refuse to Enforce Laws on Gun Control

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John CookeFrom the NYTimes.com:

GREELEY, Colo. — When Sheriff John Cooke of Weld County explains in speeches why he is not enforcing the state’s new gun laws, he holds up two 30-round magazines. One, he says, he had before July 1, when the law banning the possession, sale or transfer of the large-capacity magazines went into effect. The other, he “maybe” obtained afterward.

He shuffles the magazines, which look identical, and then challenges the audience to tell the difference.

“How is a deputy or an officer supposed to know which is which?” he asks.

Colorado’s package of gun laws, enacted this year after mass shootings in Aurora, Colo., and Newtown, Conn., has been hailed as a victory by advocates of gun control. But if Sheriff Cooke and a majority of the other county sheriffs in Colorado offer any indication, the new laws — which mandate background checks for private gun transfers and outlaw magazines over 15 rounds — may prove nearly irrelevant across much of the state’s rural regions.

Some sheriffs, like Sheriff Cooke, are refusing to enforce the laws, saying that they are too vague and violate Second Amendment rights. Many more say that enforcement will be “a very low priority,” as several sheriffs put it. All but seven of the 62 elected sheriffs in Colorado signed on in May to a federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the statutes.

Another reason, ladies and gentlemen, that I work for a department where my head officer is elected and not appointed.  Where there are politics, of course, but more independence than with a police department answerable more directly to a political mayor or a city manager.

Further, from CSPOA:

The following sheriffs, state sheriff’s associations, and police chiefs have vowed to uphold and defend the Constitution against Obama’s unconstitutional gun control measures.  We applaud these public servants for their courage and conviction.

479 Sheriffs in all.  See the list.

I am an Oath Keeper.

Sheriffs and not Chiefs of Police are more answerable to the people they serve.

Pushback?  Let it commence.

BZ

 

 

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Obama: if you can’t control guns, control ammunition

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Buy Ammo NowTrust me, Barack Hussein Obama and his minions are working long and hard on a way to remove firearms from the hands of Americans.  Any way.  By any means.

1. End of an Era: Last U.S. Lead Smelter to Close in December

From NRA-ILA.org:

In December, the final primary lead smelter in the United States will close.  The lead smelter, located in Herculaneum, Missouri, and owned and operated by the Doe Run Company, has existed in the same location since 1892. 

The Herculaneum smelter is currently the only smelter in the United States which can produce lead bullion from raw lead ore that is mined nearby in Missouri’s extensive lead deposits, giving the smelter its “primary” designation.  The lead bullion produced in Herculaneum is then sold to lead product producers, including ammunition manufacturers for use in conventional ammunition components such as projectiles, projectile cores, and primers.  Several “secondary” smelters, where lead is recycled from products such as lead acid batteries or spent ammunition components, still operate in the United States.

Doe Run made significant efforts to reduce lead emissions from the smelter, but in 2008 the federal Environmental Protection Agency issued new National Ambient Air Quality Standards for lead that were 10 times tighter than the previous standard.  Given the new lead air quality standard, Doe Run made the decision to close the Herculaneum smelter.

What is the immediate result of the shutdown to Doe Run?  Clearly, that there will be no more domestic manufacturing of ammunition involving lead.  Doing the Logical Extension: meaning that there will be a run on what little ammunition exists on the shelves in gun stores.

Which leaves, as an alternative, the foreign importation of lead.  But what are the strictures regulating the importation of lead?  Is is already outlawed or constricted?  Frankly, I do not know.  But I ask: was this a door that was already closed by the Obama Administration in anticipation of our current state?

A question.

BZ

P.S.
A thought in repose: was another reason for the 1.6 billion round DHS contract to ensure that many fewer lead bullets would be available to the public, allowing more governmental control of ammunition inherently?

 

 

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From lame to idiotic to stupid: “Obama calls on bartenders to host happy hours for Obamacare”

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Obama - Dangerously IncompetentJust when you think that Barack Hussein Obama can’t get any more idiotic or stupid or — now — dangerous, you have the above headline.

From the WashingtonExaminer.com:

by Charlie Spiering

During today’s White House Youth Summit, President Obama called on young people to do whatever they can to promote his signature health care law — including plying their customers with cheap booze.

“If you are a bartender, have a happy hour,” Obama said as the crowd laughed. “And also probably get health insurance because a lot of people don’t have it.”

Great.  Ply the youth with booze.  Fabulous idea.

Can you imagine had GW Bush suggested a fraction of these stupid proposals?

BZ

 

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Expert Testifies to Congress that Obama’s ‘Ignoring Laws’ Could Lead to Overthrow of Government

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White House ExplosionI was planning two specific posts for today and tomorrow, when the above headline caught my eye.  I bring that article to you now, from MediaIte.com:

by Noah Rothman

During a congressional committee hearing about the constitutional limits imposed on the presidency and the implications of President Barack Obama’s disregard for implementing the Affordable Care Act as written, one expert testified that the consequences of the president’s behavior were potentially grave. He said that the precedent set by Obama could eventually lead to an armed revolt against the federal government.

Apparently one person, named Michael Cannon, seems to “get it.”  Continuing:

On Tuesday, Michael Cannon, Cato Institute’s Director of Health Policy Studies, testified before a congressional committee about the dangers of the president’s legal behavior.

“There is one last thing to which the people can resort if the government does not respect the restraints that the constitution places on the government,” Cannon said. “Abraham Lincoln talked about our right to alter our government or our revolutionary right to overthrow it.”

And, in concert with Lincoln, JFK said:

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”

 Mr Cannon’s most important sentence:

“If the people come to believe that the government is no longer constrained by the laws, then they will conclude that neither are they.”

I have written, essentially, the same thing before on this very blog, but with regard to illegal immigration.  Now, we have the additional issue of ObamaKare.

Michael F. Cannon is the Director of Health Policy Studies for the Cato Institute think tank.  Check their site here.

Mr Cannon also spoke to Glenn Beck about the unaccountability of Kathleen Sebelius, the Arrogant Bitch that she is:

Do you believe that?  If Obama fired Sebelius, he would have to nominate a new HHS secretary to be confirmed by the Senate.  The confirmation hearings would be a “bloodbath.”  And all the powers of the ACA would fall to her.  Except now?  It is a filibuster-LESS Senate.  51 votes.

I already posted on Michael Cannon writing about Kathleen Sebelius shaking down companies she regulates for ObamaKare.

Unpacking Mr Cannon’s words from above: as I wrote a number of times earlier with regard to illegal immigrants and the government’s decision to NOT enforce laws on the books —

If the government can decide to avoid and disregard its own laws — essentially picking and choosing which laws it wishes to enforce (without eliminating those laws statutorily) — then what keeps any other actual citizen from deciding to pick and choose which laws he or she wishes to obey when they become inconvenient?

If Mr Obama disregards the law, then why should Americans keep the law?

You tell me.

BZ

 

 

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