Is it a crime to believe you should actually abide by the oath you took to defend the Constitution? The US government says a resounding YES! Take the case of Oath Keepers... a group of current soldiers, veterans, firefighters and police officers who actually have the audacity to believe in the oath they took to "support and defend the Constitution". Just who do these … [Read more...]
Archives for June 2011
RCMP Sergeant Douglas Smith appeals conditional discharge for illegal handgun
Welcome to the world of the double-standard when sentencing police for committing crimes that would send the rest of us mere citizens to prison. RCMP Sergeant Douglas Smith kept a handgun that was turned over to him for destruction by a citizen in 2004. By all accounts it was not registered to Sgt. Smith, and nobody knew he even had the unregistered handgun. Why he kept … [Read more...]
Dance at the Jefferson Memorial and dare Parks Service to arrest you!
Either we have freedom of expression or we don't. The United States doesn't. Mary Oberwetter was charged with “interfering with an agency function” and “demonstrating without a permit” in violation of the National Park Services Regulations on April 12th, 2008. She was silently dancing with friends to celebrate Thomas Jefferson's 265th Birthday. She argued back … [Read more...]
Tragedy strikes California Police Funeral Procession
It's tragic when any police officer dies, even if it is from the scourge of the 20th century, cancer. It's even more tragic when another police officer dies trying to make that officer's funeral procession safe for everyone involved. That's what happened in California the other day. Manhattan Beach Officer Mark Vasquez died from cancer earlier this month, and police … [Read more...]
Why is the government so determined to molest children under the guise of security?
There is something deeply disturbing about a government that insists that molesting children in the name of "safety" is okay. It utterly boggles my mind that Transportation Safety Administration (TSA) pedophiles and sex offenders are granted total physical control over an entire traveling population, including our children. What baffles me even more is that people continue … [Read more...]
Keeping Perspective (with video) by Don Laird
These are difficult times we are living in. Here in Canada and in the United States we have been relatively insulated from the geopolitical earthquakes which have badly shaken Europe, the UK, the Middle East and Africa. Economically speaking, Canada has fared reasonably well and the United States is starting to recover from the brutal economic kick in the teeth they took a … [Read more...]
RCMP Constable Todd Glasman uses CPIC for Hells Angels
Love sometimes makes men do some very stupid things. Take the case of RCMP Constable Todd Glasman. He met the woman who would become his future wife sometime around August of 2009. She had, and still has, connections to the Hells Angels. She regularly visited one of her Hells Angels friends in prison. Just days after he met his wife-to-be, he began making unauthorized … [Read more...]