Recall her.

I’m also the President of Illini on Target, the University of Illinois’ pistol and rifle shooting team. You can learn more about me at http://www.timnuccio.com

Get your friends to vote for me to become the next Top Shot! You can vote for me here:

http://www.realitywanted.com/member/id/147284

Par for the course.

Can you spell R-I-N-O?

In Liberty,
JJH

I was starting to enjoy this.

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There are no particular rules of debate here though I do reserve the right to grade the content of various contributions in a range from lame to excellent (as I expect to be graded-fairly or unfairly-myself).

The Ohio Food Raid may be of some interest to the Senator in his role as a member of the Armed Services Committee and Readiness Subcommittee since the Head of Household was an active duty Seabee (US Navy) on deployment in Iraq (I believe) at the time some low-level functionary in the Ohio Department of Agriculture took it upon himself to shop around for a SWAT Team to enforce some preposterously arcane tax regulation.

It is amazing battlefield combatants must travel with a JAG Officer over each shoulder to define the rules of engagement while civil authorites can summon the hounds of hell for the most insignificant infraction -real or imagined- with little more than a few minutes of paperwork.

(If you wish to establish six degrees of separation between Ohio and North Carolina understand there is a substantial contingent of Seabees stationed in Raleigh)

Surely there can be no more demoralizing news from the homefront than to learn some armed thugs literally took food from the mouths of your children under color of law while you were overseas helpless to assist.

It would send a strong message to the troops to learn a United States Senator covered their backs while they were deployed.

Frankly, I think an investigation into the circumstances of this case would be a great morale boost for Seabees everywhere.

As for legislative “strategeries” I can only remind you Jesse Helms saw and/or created opportunity where Elizabeth Dole and Lauch Faircloth saw only liability.

In the end their fear doomed them to failure.

When you are surrounded you can shoot in any direction and hit the enemy.

There is no current discussion on this blog of S 669 as there is no discussion of a least a thousand other issues that emerge on a nearly hourly basis.

For that I apologize.

After 18 months of bloggery I have begun to conclude the way to kill the alligators is first to drain the swamp.

To chase them individually is to deplete limited resources.

But I will devote what attention I have available.

In Liberty,
JJH

Reasonable people can disagree on the appropriate legislative strategy for any bill. It appears we will have to do so in this case. We are fighting this bill, but, as I said, there are 60 Democrats in the Senate. If all 60 are in agreement, they can pretty much do what they want. To stop this bill from becoming law, we must hold them short of 60. To hold them short of 60, we have to remind them, and inform their constituents, about what this bill does and what it represents. We will use the full range of tools available to us to achieve that end, including accepting UC requests, making UC requests, and objecting to UC requests.

I take your point about the frequent exercise of the Right To Keep And Bear Arms, and how such exercise only helps strengthen understanding of—and appreciation for—the Second Amendment. Would I like to be able to shoot every day? Absolutely. Am I able to? Unfortunately, no. But I would be an ardent supporter and defender of the Second Amendment even if I did not own guns, just as I am an ardent supporter and defender of the First Amendment even though I don’t have a blog.

As to the land exchange, the town (and, by extension, its population of roughly 1,400) purchased the land in question in 2003. The town wishes to engage in the land exchange, which has been the subject of local discussion and consideration for almost a decade. The request for a land exchange represents a local decision, and we are accommodating the local request at the federal level. This story has been covered by the local conventional press. It is certainly your right to disagree and advocate against the land exchange bill.

I am familiar with both of the other two stories you mention, more so the Prince George’s County drug raid than the Ohio Department of Agriculture SWAT team’s food raid. Do I believe both are examples of the overreach and increasing militarization of law enforcement? I do. Should the citizens of Maryland and Ohio hold their local and state elected officials accountable? Yes.

Finally, I did not mean to imply you and your readers were unaware of S. 669 or the campaign against it. I have seen blog chatter about the bill elsewhere; perhaps I’ve missed a previous post on your blog about the bill. If so, I apologize.

We, The Trampled, welcome the opportunity to speak truth to power.

In that vein, while your candor is appreciated, your artful answers are not.

No one asked for the combination to your gunsafe, but experience has demonstrated the firmest grasp of the complexity of the Right To Keep And Bear Arms comes from those who exercise that right most frequently.

Gun Guru and NRA Board Member Jeff Cooper openly carried his 1911 pistol on routine errands in Arizona until he died. Coincidentally he seemed to have a pretty good grasp of the 2nd Amendment as well.

As for legislative strategy note GOA is not a lone voice skeptical of Republican acquiescence to unanimous consent agreements. The Titular Head of the Republican Party- Rush Limbaugh-has also expressed concern.

Surely a Senator who has a “B” rating from GOA ( as a gun supporting compromiser) would find some way to break from conventional wisdom and upend the Democrat Wrecking Crew.

http://gunowners.org/111thsrat.htm

Here at the scorched roots of society you might be surprised at how familar we are with the various topics du jour inside the Washington DC bubble (to include S 669) http://gunowners.org/fthoodtragedy.htm

For example, Grassroots North Carolina has issued numerous alerts about Richard Burr’s endorsement of the Blowing Rock Land Grab, a topic not widely discussed by the conventional press -but widely circulated amongst hunters and gunowners. Apparently the votes of hunters in that neck of the woods are disposable in the Senator’s overall re-election strategy.

The real question to answer is how familiar are you folks in the ivory tower with the daily nonsense that occurs around the country as a result of your, um, insouciance?

A family farm in Ohio has a year’s supply of food seized because of some contrived sales tax investigation? (Stowers File) http://johnjacobh.wordpress.com/category/ohio-stowers-food-raid/

A Maryland Mayor watches as his dogs get shot in front of him and his fifty something Mother-in-Law as part of some contrived drug investigation?
(Berwyn Maryland) http://johnjacobh.wordpress.com/2008/09/14/swat-team-gone-wild-update-berwyn-heights-md-file/

This kind of stuff is terrorism and anarchy by another name.

If Republicans cannot stand and deliver on the issues these and other examples represent they are more useless and dangerous than Democrats.

We have been down this road before:

George the elder Bush: Read my lips no new taxes.

George the younger “Vote Freedom First” Bush: Unleashes Acting ATF Chief “Maximum Mike” Sullivan on unsuspecting FFL’s.

Father of the TSA.

Doubles the size of the Education Bureaucracy.

If you would like to talk about the issues this forum is open to your comments.

With all due respect please leave the canned answers in your desk drawer.

In Liberty,
JJH