The House bill has 12 co-sponsors - all D's, of course - and the sponsor is Jamie Raskin from Maryland, of whom you might have heard - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDFNEsoO1K4
It's been in committee since 11 January, no action taken, no hearings held.
The Senate bill has one co-sponsor, a California Democrat, and the sponsor is Ed Markey, Democrat from Massachusetts. It's been in committee since 16 January, no action taken, no hearings held.
Probably the House version is designed for a campaign fundraiser, because it's going nowhere, not this session. Same case for the Senate version. Of course, they both bear watching.
Point taken, but I'm not all that interested in what they can actually accomplish in a given congressional session, or individual congress. If they're going to introduce bills to either the House or Senate, I'm not going to wait until the vote to bring it to the attention of my readers. One thing I do know, the communists never give up, they keep coming. They went from don't ask don't tell in the military to transgender officers and funding the operations in 30 years. This is their next target for the Second Amendment. They won't get it this time, but that's their target.
I've seen this stuff go on since 1994, when a friend and I spent $100 to get the Kansas version of the Assault Weapons Ban stopped cold in its tracks - one of our flyers made its way to a UAW union hall, 10,000 copies were printed up and passed out to all three shifts at an auto assembly plant, and the phones in the Capitol at Topeka had a fast busy for the next two weeks, until the governor, speaker of the Kansas House, and President of the Kansas Senate went on TV and begged for people to stop calling, that they'd dump the bills, and they'd never consider them again. Kansas passed Constitutional Carry about 10 years later, I believe. The NRA was asleep at the switch for both efforts. I got fined $500 by the Kansas Governmental Ethics Commission for failure to file a lobbying report - they couldn't believe that we'd spent just $100 in printing up 1000 flyers and handed them out at a gun show... and the fine was handed down out of pure spite, in an effort to shut people up. Didn't work.
The rule is to be always vigilant in the cause of Liberty, even if it costs you a weekend of work and $600 ... So yeah, definitely keep eyes on those people, the greatest threat to liberty is the Government - that's what the Bill of Rights and Tenth Amendment are about, and it's up to the people to enforce them. The second greatest threat is deadass organizations like the NRA, and people who rely on them for warnings on threats to liberty...
RINOs retiring in an effort to give D's a majority in the House. These people will stop at nothing in their pursuit of power, and they will start rounding us up and killing us just as soon as they can.
This is part of the Media Narrative/Legal nexus. "Militia" is a loaded (heh) word already.
There are no militias, but there is a threat of militias. There is no White supremacy, but there is a threat of the creme supreme. There is no far right extremism, racisms, etc. but there are institutional resources tasked toward all this straw. Its all on the mews every night.
The drafting of these sorts of white paper legislation pieces seems to serve a number of purposes, not the least of which is for certain swamp people to generate name recognition while bolstering the Narrative and its lexicon, and media presence.
The Official Truth has a long development pipeline. These things accrue toward that long game of shaping how people think about fundamental matters and position the Power to be able to respond if and when the situation arises.
These sorts of things don't have to become Law to be dangerous but are valuable in the framing of the moral primacy of the occupiers as well as becoming the raw material for future put options and soft power accruing to the administrative state who will be ultimately tasked with enforcement.
Which these days is largely within the matrix of social and economic levers. And should "something bad happen" with some fedasset wearing the right symbols, well then suddenly they go back into the deep stacks and dust off these things that become law on a Friday night.
Like tax "law", 2A infringements, and the constellation of "hate"/speech and growing online censorship movement, these things are designed to be dragnets to effectively indict large swaths of dissidents or badthinkers, while leaving the hammer cocked until sometime when it can be dropped.
Or not.
The power of that option hanging over swaths of badthinkers necks is in its discretion; its potential, and the subsequent incremental negotiation, compromise, and risk-aversion, self-censoring etc. that arises under that shadow. Think "register your pistol brace now or risk very bad things later" or "you lied to the FBI".
That threatpoint and building up a labyrinth of expensive, ambiguous, arbitrarily enforced lawfare is insurmountable for average citizens. It is a means to sort out the potential actual threats to the power as well as subvert and subdue those who don't want to risk their comforts, normalcy, etc.
This is the insidious nature of tyranny as it inserts itself not just into our daily lives but into our very thoughts and potential actions well into the future. Creating "red lines" that you may or may not know you have already crossed.
This, coupled with the pincer of asset forfeiture, existing Anti-"terror" banking/financial law, anti-hate, and de facto social credit of being canceled/blackballed from your career, income, ability to transact, move money, move physically (no fly list) for running afoul on the social front, which is entirely under their purview, is a lot of power that is not reflected in these sorts of things becoming "Law".
All this is why the Constitution is dead letter. There are Jan6 citizens who are in this very grinder still.
Things are diffidently all FUBAR'd. Regardless if those bills are still docked in committee it still is a tell of what the Democrats want and may actually get should they hold both houses of congress with the Dementia Patient still in the WH. Over a dozen AGs in the process of suing Glock over an illegal device sent into the US by China that, when installed, turns a Glock into a machine pistol. Why not sue China? Don't want to upset the paymaster, I guess. Over $700M to be funded through the DOJ to entice more states into enacting unconstitutional 'red flag' laws . At the same time an Obama appointed DEI hire judge rules its legal for illegals to own firearms! Every Democrat in the senate voted down an amendment that would have unfunded Biden's secret flights of illegals into the country. Can you believe it? Why would an American have down that? It remains to be seen how that bridge disaster in Baltimore will be parlayed into more chaos and stress for Americans. Remember, "let no crisis go to waste"! Just look at how many are putting all their hopes into yet another election. "Oh, but it will be different this time" they think. No it won't!
The US government and the governments in California committed hostile acts against me and my family during the Covid Panic. No militia stopped that. No National Guard troops or Sheriffs, or Boy Scouts stood up against the Draconian Covid Edicts in California.
Everyone, well almost everyone (77%) in my county went along with the Covid Edicts. They've all been jabbed at least twice.
The illegals don't have to be jabbed. They don't need passports or IDs. They are freer than I am.
American society is insane. 32 million Federal employees. That's bigger than most states.
I suppose us kids getting together with our .22 rifles to shoot rats down at the grain silos on the RR tracks would be considered a militia today.
I got thrown out of a Mavericks for not wearing a mask, an Information place along the highway, and they tried to throw me out of a Post Office, but I argued that being federal, the governor of a state had no right to require me to wear a mask. They argued with me, but I refused to accept it. That was the only parcel I ever sent through the mail that did not make it to the destination. BTW, no one has a right to require me to wear a mask anyway and I didn't.
T. L. Davis: Good for you! I was yelled at several times in town at stores, even an outdoor Farmer's Market for not wearing a mask. It gets old. So I went online and ordered one of those Medical Exemption badges and wore it around my neck on a lanyard.
I'm old and use a walking stick so I look pretty bad. After I started wearing the badge I only got yelled at once. I complained to the manager of the store. I never saw that employee in the store again.
I did have to wear a mask when I went to the Wound Care Clinic. Cellulitis was eating my left leg alive so I had to get it treated once a week for three months.
This raises an issue that has long been heavy on my mind... I. e., can a statutory law pased in Congress override the Constitution, THE SUPREME LAW OF THE LAND???
Personally, I think not. The Constitution clearly expected a militia presence in the states. The Bill of Rights is a charter of NEGATIVE RIGHTS, what the central gov't SHALL NOT DO.
It's the habit of tyrants to try to negate or circumvent the clear meaning and restrictions of the Constitution, but no one objects. No one references the Constitution and says, "NO way. You don't have the authority to do that. BACK OFF".
So... You can't abolish the Electoral College, or transfer authority over elections to the fedgov, or restrict the right to bear arms, abrogate any 1st Amendment liberties, etc, without a Constitutional Amendment. It is the ONLY PRESCRIBED WAY.
And yet Dems try to do this ALL THE TIME AND no one stands up. Obergefell MADE NO LAW, the SC acted ONLY as the ultimate court of appeal to a lawsuit that came up through the courts. Therefore it's opinion/ruling was binding ONLY ON THE PARTIES TO THE LAWSUIT...NO ONE ELSE. But did any state AG stand up for his state, and clearly state this? The SC has no authority to make law, therefore the ruling MADE NO LAW.
In fact, it's my view that not even a Declaration of federal Martial Law can restrict or obviate the rights described and codified in the Constitution. They are ours, given by God, and no inferior power can legitimately take them away.
My point being that we are going to have to stand up for our constitutional rights, and right soon. Draw the line for our right to militias, free speech, citizen grand juries, trial by jury, due process (outlawing ex-parte procedures), etc. Our state AGs must be educated and instructed not to adopt and SC rulings/opinions that are not constitutionally binding on our states.
The tyrants and traitors of this once, great country have been usurping the United States Constitution since at least 1789. If a Patriot challenges the actions of boro, town, city, county, state or fedgovs one must have LOTS of money or little knowledge of the corruption at every level of government. Especially the judiciary.
Hell, look at BATFE....they don't like the rule THEY created they change the definition !
The Constitution of the United States is LONG dead ! Killed by the very same people who swore an Oath to defend it.
BTW, I found out the "Supreme Law" question in several discussion about the WHO BS. Evidently, the SC has thrice ruled that treaties are not only EQUAL in authority to the Constitution, but SUPERIOR in such!
So, the evildoers are now wanting to call this WHO tyranny a "treaty", BUT somehow avoid the necessity of the 2/3 majority Senate vote, which will deny them a victory!
And no more of that Cardin-Corker turning the Advice & Consent power of the Senate on its head!
Three people make a militia? Buhwaahhaha! Does that mean the ANTIFA goons are going to jail? Somehow I don't see that happening.
Antifa is simply an arm of the US govt.
Pnoldguy,
You've ID'ed more of the hypocrisy so rampant among Amerikan governments. Especially the entity one knows as "fedgov",
Dan, Erie County, Pennsylvania
It's usually a good thing to look up the bills before you go off on half-cock:
The House bill - https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/6981
and
the Senate bill - https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/3589
The House bill has 12 co-sponsors - all D's, of course - and the sponsor is Jamie Raskin from Maryland, of whom you might have heard - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDFNEsoO1K4
It's been in committee since 11 January, no action taken, no hearings held.
The Senate bill has one co-sponsor, a California Democrat, and the sponsor is Ed Markey, Democrat from Massachusetts. It's been in committee since 16 January, no action taken, no hearings held.
Probably the House version is designed for a campaign fundraiser, because it's going nowhere, not this session. Same case for the Senate version. Of course, they both bear watching.
Point taken, but I'm not all that interested in what they can actually accomplish in a given congressional session, or individual congress. If they're going to introduce bills to either the House or Senate, I'm not going to wait until the vote to bring it to the attention of my readers. One thing I do know, the communists never give up, they keep coming. They went from don't ask don't tell in the military to transgender officers and funding the operations in 30 years. This is their next target for the Second Amendment. They won't get it this time, but that's their target.
I've seen this stuff go on since 1994, when a friend and I spent $100 to get the Kansas version of the Assault Weapons Ban stopped cold in its tracks - one of our flyers made its way to a UAW union hall, 10,000 copies were printed up and passed out to all three shifts at an auto assembly plant, and the phones in the Capitol at Topeka had a fast busy for the next two weeks, until the governor, speaker of the Kansas House, and President of the Kansas Senate went on TV and begged for people to stop calling, that they'd dump the bills, and they'd never consider them again. Kansas passed Constitutional Carry about 10 years later, I believe. The NRA was asleep at the switch for both efforts. I got fined $500 by the Kansas Governmental Ethics Commission for failure to file a lobbying report - they couldn't believe that we'd spent just $100 in printing up 1000 flyers and handed them out at a gun show... and the fine was handed down out of pure spite, in an effort to shut people up. Didn't work.
The rule is to be always vigilant in the cause of Liberty, even if it costs you a weekend of work and $600 ... So yeah, definitely keep eyes on those people, the greatest threat to liberty is the Government - that's what the Bill of Rights and Tenth Amendment are about, and it's up to the people to enforce them. The second greatest threat is deadass organizations like the NRA, and people who rely on them for warnings on threats to liberty...
'stream,
Thank you for sharing your wonderful and inspiring story,
Dan, Erie County, Pennsylvania
"Deadass", love it!
RINOs retiring in an effort to give D's a majority in the House. These people will stop at nothing in their pursuit of power, and they will start rounding us up and killing us just as soon as they can.
Illegals have 2A rights now?
Keep your powder dry.
This is part of the Media Narrative/Legal nexus. "Militia" is a loaded (heh) word already.
There are no militias, but there is a threat of militias. There is no White supremacy, but there is a threat of the creme supreme. There is no far right extremism, racisms, etc. but there are institutional resources tasked toward all this straw. Its all on the mews every night.
The drafting of these sorts of white paper legislation pieces seems to serve a number of purposes, not the least of which is for certain swamp people to generate name recognition while bolstering the Narrative and its lexicon, and media presence.
The Official Truth has a long development pipeline. These things accrue toward that long game of shaping how people think about fundamental matters and position the Power to be able to respond if and when the situation arises.
These sorts of things don't have to become Law to be dangerous but are valuable in the framing of the moral primacy of the occupiers as well as becoming the raw material for future put options and soft power accruing to the administrative state who will be ultimately tasked with enforcement.
Which these days is largely within the matrix of social and economic levers. And should "something bad happen" with some fedasset wearing the right symbols, well then suddenly they go back into the deep stacks and dust off these things that become law on a Friday night.
Like tax "law", 2A infringements, and the constellation of "hate"/speech and growing online censorship movement, these things are designed to be dragnets to effectively indict large swaths of dissidents or badthinkers, while leaving the hammer cocked until sometime when it can be dropped.
Or not.
The power of that option hanging over swaths of badthinkers necks is in its discretion; its potential, and the subsequent incremental negotiation, compromise, and risk-aversion, self-censoring etc. that arises under that shadow. Think "register your pistol brace now or risk very bad things later" or "you lied to the FBI".
That threatpoint and building up a labyrinth of expensive, ambiguous, arbitrarily enforced lawfare is insurmountable for average citizens. It is a means to sort out the potential actual threats to the power as well as subvert and subdue those who don't want to risk their comforts, normalcy, etc.
This is the insidious nature of tyranny as it inserts itself not just into our daily lives but into our very thoughts and potential actions well into the future. Creating "red lines" that you may or may not know you have already crossed.
This, coupled with the pincer of asset forfeiture, existing Anti-"terror" banking/financial law, anti-hate, and de facto social credit of being canceled/blackballed from your career, income, ability to transact, move money, move physically (no fly list) for running afoul on the social front, which is entirely under their purview, is a lot of power that is not reflected in these sorts of things becoming "Law".
All this is why the Constitution is dead letter. There are Jan6 citizens who are in this very grinder still.
Dangerous Variant,
Excellent, excellent commentary. If I could I would choose to make your comment a "sticky".
Dan, Erie County, Pennsylvania
Things are diffidently all FUBAR'd. Regardless if those bills are still docked in committee it still is a tell of what the Democrats want and may actually get should they hold both houses of congress with the Dementia Patient still in the WH. Over a dozen AGs in the process of suing Glock over an illegal device sent into the US by China that, when installed, turns a Glock into a machine pistol. Why not sue China? Don't want to upset the paymaster, I guess. Over $700M to be funded through the DOJ to entice more states into enacting unconstitutional 'red flag' laws . At the same time an Obama appointed DEI hire judge rules its legal for illegals to own firearms! Every Democrat in the senate voted down an amendment that would have unfunded Biden's secret flights of illegals into the country. Can you believe it? Why would an American have down that? It remains to be seen how that bridge disaster in Baltimore will be parlayed into more chaos and stress for Americans. Remember, "let no crisis go to waste"! Just look at how many are putting all their hopes into yet another election. "Oh, but it will be different this time" they think. No it won't!
The US government and the governments in California committed hostile acts against me and my family during the Covid Panic. No militia stopped that. No National Guard troops or Sheriffs, or Boy Scouts stood up against the Draconian Covid Edicts in California.
Everyone, well almost everyone (77%) in my county went along with the Covid Edicts. They've all been jabbed at least twice.
The illegals don't have to be jabbed. They don't need passports or IDs. They are freer than I am.
American society is insane. 32 million Federal employees. That's bigger than most states.
I suppose us kids getting together with our .22 rifles to shoot rats down at the grain silos on the RR tracks would be considered a militia today.
It's all crazy shit.
I got thrown out of a Mavericks for not wearing a mask, an Information place along the highway, and they tried to throw me out of a Post Office, but I argued that being federal, the governor of a state had no right to require me to wear a mask. They argued with me, but I refused to accept it. That was the only parcel I ever sent through the mail that did not make it to the destination. BTW, no one has a right to require me to wear a mask anyway and I didn't.
T. L. Davis: Good for you! I was yelled at several times in town at stores, even an outdoor Farmer's Market for not wearing a mask. It gets old. So I went online and ordered one of those Medical Exemption badges and wore it around my neck on a lanyard.
I'm old and use a walking stick so I look pretty bad. After I started wearing the badge I only got yelled at once. I complained to the manager of the store. I never saw that employee in the store again.
I did have to wear a mask when I went to the Wound Care Clinic. Cellulitis was eating my left leg alive so I had to get it treated once a week for three months.
This raises an issue that has long been heavy on my mind... I. e., can a statutory law pased in Congress override the Constitution, THE SUPREME LAW OF THE LAND???
Personally, I think not. The Constitution clearly expected a militia presence in the states. The Bill of Rights is a charter of NEGATIVE RIGHTS, what the central gov't SHALL NOT DO.
It's the habit of tyrants to try to negate or circumvent the clear meaning and restrictions of the Constitution, but no one objects. No one references the Constitution and says, "NO way. You don't have the authority to do that. BACK OFF".
So... You can't abolish the Electoral College, or transfer authority over elections to the fedgov, or restrict the right to bear arms, abrogate any 1st Amendment liberties, etc, without a Constitutional Amendment. It is the ONLY PRESCRIBED WAY.
And yet Dems try to do this ALL THE TIME AND no one stands up. Obergefell MADE NO LAW, the SC acted ONLY as the ultimate court of appeal to a lawsuit that came up through the courts. Therefore it's opinion/ruling was binding ONLY ON THE PARTIES TO THE LAWSUIT...NO ONE ELSE. But did any state AG stand up for his state, and clearly state this? The SC has no authority to make law, therefore the ruling MADE NO LAW.
In fact, it's my view that not even a Declaration of federal Martial Law can restrict or obviate the rights described and codified in the Constitution. They are ours, given by God, and no inferior power can legitimately take them away.
My point being that we are going to have to stand up for our constitutional rights, and right soon. Draw the line for our right to militias, free speech, citizen grand juries, trial by jury, due process (outlawing ex-parte procedures), etc. Our state AGs must be educated and instructed not to adopt and SC rulings/opinions that are not constitutionally binding on our states.
So ... What say you all??
The tyrants and traitors of this once, great country have been usurping the United States Constitution since at least 1789. If a Patriot challenges the actions of boro, town, city, county, state or fedgovs one must have LOTS of money or little knowledge of the corruption at every level of government. Especially the judiciary.
Hell, look at BATFE....they don't like the rule THEY created they change the definition !
The Constitution of the United States is LONG dead ! Killed by the very same people who swore an Oath to defend it.
Dan, Erie County, Pennsylvania
BTW....let us NOT forget all these fedgov agencies who create a "rule". Their rule shortly thereafter becomes a FEDERAL RULE with the force of law.
Why do we have a Congress ? The unelected in FUSA are creating laws once reserved for state and federal legislatures.
Dan, Erie County, Pennsylvania
Yep... Death by a thousand cuts.
BTW, I found out the "Supreme Law" question in several discussion about the WHO BS. Evidently, the SC has thrice ruled that treaties are not only EQUAL in authority to the Constitution, but SUPERIOR in such!
So, the evildoers are now wanting to call this WHO tyranny a "treaty", BUT somehow avoid the necessity of the 2/3 majority Senate vote, which will deny them a victory!
And no more of that Cardin-Corker turning the Advice & Consent power of the Senate on its head!