...and in Massachusetts a local politician...

...wants to give police the power to enter private homes to inspect whether firearms are properly stored. In Selectman Barry Greenfield's little utopia there's no need to worry about little things like probable cause or search warrants. Somehow I don't see that going over so well even in the People's Republic, but who am I? All I know about Massachusetts, I learned from the escapees.

I think he pissed her off...

..and showed her to be the lightweight she is.

Not all threats to our liberties are direct.

I remember reading somewhere about a family of German Christians that had chosen to home school their children to essentially keep them from the indoctrination of the German public schools. The German courts came down on them hard. I hadn't realized the Romeikes had fled Germany for the United States and were granted asylum. The Holder Justice Department is trying to sent them back because in his view and that of the current administration they don't have the right to educate their children as they see fit. The case is currently before the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Won't effect us here in the United States you might say?

Really?

What makes you think that Obama's Department of Education won't take a win on this case to heart and use it to good effect on local home school movement?

The United States Supreme Court has made it very clear in the past that religious freedom is an individual right. Yet our current government does not seem to understand this. They only think of us as members of groups and factions. It is an extreme form of identity politics that directly threatens any understanding of individual liberty.

This is as much a threat on our individual liberties as Obama's current assault on the Second Amendment.

I don't think so.

A license to access the Internet? The Statist's among us and parts of the main stream media think this is a nifty idea. I don't think so. Self-expression, anonymous self-expression, on the Internet or frankly in any other medium is as necessary to our continued freedom as say the right to keep and bear arms. Climategate, the resurgence of the second amendment as an individual right, the tea party movement and god know what else is a result in large part of free access to the Internet. Of course these Statist bastards want control. I don't think so.

H/T to Firehand.

A thought...

I was typing in the label stateists on the Hugo Chavez' destruction of 30,000 guns post when the Dead Statemen label popped up. My thought...we should be so lucky.

Venezuela destroys 30,000 guns

Venezuela destroys 30,000 guns in alleged response to a high violent crime rate. Considering Hugo Chavez' track record consolidating power in the hands of his thugs is the more likely explanation. We'll see how this crime control measure works out for them.