Saturday, March 10, 2007

For Love or Money

A drug rehabilitation center has sued Courtney Love, claiming the singer has repeatedly refused to pay her $181,000 bill for her stay there 1 1/2 years ago.

This lack of character and personal accountability is hardly surprising. Love was another anti-defense media icon I profiled in "A Judgment Call," my March 2005 Rights Watch column for GUNS Magazine:
Where do we begin with grunge diva Courtney Love? Multiple arrests for drug abuse, reportedly shooting heroin while pregnant? Assault with a deadly weapon, attacking a woman at her ex-boyfriend's home? Hitting a man at a nightclub in the head with a microphone stand? Getting arrested for disrupting a transatlantic flight? Being assigned a guardian, losing custody of her daughter and being institutionalized?

How about if we just focus on her statement to the Million Moms that US gun laws are "nihilistic and barbaric"?

Who Bravely Breaks the Most

Yon roaring boys, who rave and fight
On t'other side the Atlantic,
I always held them in the right,
But most so when most frantic.

When lawless mobs insult the court,
That man shall be my toast,
If breaking windows be the sport,
Who bravely breaks the most.

But oh! for him my fancy culls
The choicest flowers she bears,
Who constitutionally pulls
Your house about your ears.

William Cowper's words reflected a sentiment at the time of the Rebellion that, while brutal, was inevitable, and even cruelly utilitarian. So much so that:
In 1776 General Putnam, meeting a procession of the Sons of Liberty who were parading a number of Tories on rails up and down the street's of New York, attempted to put a stop to the barbarous proceeding. Washington, on hearing of this, administered a reprimand to Putnam, declaring 'that to discourage such proceedings was to injure the cause of liberty in which they were engaged, and that nobody would attempt it but an enemy to his country.'
I really don't want to see this happen again. Like the man said, can't we all get along? Can't you collectivists, busybodies, do-gooders, Marxists, statists, fascists, democrats, RINOs and idiot celebrities just leave Americans who believe unyieldingly in their rights the hell alone? Won't you let us live unmolested, and in peace?

We're the Only Ones Expert Enough

Reaction was mixed in the legal community over allegations that Joseph Kopera, the state police firearms expert who committed suicide last week, may have falsified his academic qualifications.
For those who would use suicide prevention as a rationale for disarming you, show 'em the statistics for "The Only Ones."

Workers Protest "Job Control"...

...or would that be "citizen disemployment"?
Workers from some area gun manufacturers are taking a bus to Springfield next week to plead their case for jobs they may lose if Illinois Senate Bill 16 passes and is signed by Gov. Rod Blagojevich.
I wonder how many of these workers voted for Blagojevich?

As for the manufacturers, they're going to need to strap 'em on and adopt the Ronnie Barrett approach. The heavy lifting can't all be done by activists, fellas...

"Leave My Family Out of It"

Selected quotes:
...Democrats and Republicans clashed again Friday over a mailer attacking several Democratic lawmakers for their vote last month against a gun-rights bill...

“This is the first time that these politics of hate are going to go out while we sit in this body,” he said...

The mailer, sent to households in five lawmakers' districts, blasted each individual lawmaker for voting against House Bill 340, which broadens the definition of self-defense when using a firearm.

The two-page mailer pictured each respective lawmaker, described them as “anti-gun,” said they believe “using deadly force to defend yourself against a criminal makes you the criminal,” and listed a phone number where constituents could call and tell them their “anti-gun stance is dead wrong.”

It also had a picture of a corpse in a body bag, with the words “Is this your neighbor?” superimposed across the top of the picture...

“It was blatantly callous; it was unnecessary,” he said. “It was unprincipled. Take me on; I can deal with it. I've got thick skin. But leave my family out of it.

Why? Your presuming authority to vote against our unalienable right to defend ourselves doesn't leave our families out of it--talk about "politics of hate."

Your betrayals are personal to us. You're the ones oppressing--and when people protest, you paint yourselves the victims.

Here is what these creatures voted against. And now they're all upset because someone unequivocally explained what their vote meant to the people who will be affected by it.

This Day in History: March 10

On this day in 1792, John Stuart, 3rd earl of Bute and advisor to the British king, George III, dies in London.