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Disagree as I do with his actions, I do have to admit he has definitely gotten more sophisticated with his provocations.

Agreed. He is a SME in douchebaggerness.

I don't know if I would paint with such a broad brush. Not everyone is is so great. I mean, have you ever interacted with me? I'm a real jerk. :lol:

I'm not even addressing Voldemort's attention whoredom anymore. I'm making a larger point that when we seek to reclaim the natural rights usurped by the government, we cannot do so as supplicants attempting to curry favor and privilege from our masters. We must demand that they respect the natural rights that belong to every human being. These aren't privileges they ever had the authority to grant or revoke. It is well past the time we remembered that. If we can't understand that in our own minds, there is no point even engaging in the fight in the first place as the war was lost before it ever began.

I don't disagree with anything you posted. I don't like Voldemort's shenanigans anymore than you do. My point is more about how we must have our thinking correct if we are to change the minds of others and make the changes we seek. How can we convince others to respect our natural rights if we don't think of them as such? TN treats gun rights as privileges because the people thought of them as privileges.

Agree or disagree with Voldemort, this is a terrible line of thinking. Laws do not give privileges, laws infringe on rights. The idea that we have to seek permission from the state to exercise natural rights is what got us into the sorry state we are in now.

There is the stated base ideologies, and there is the actual base ideology. The stated base ideologies do differ, maybe not as much as some would believe, but it is significant. The actual basis of both parties is to maintain and increase power and wealth for the members of the oligarchal ruling class.

Money.

You may be right about the odds of a Republican working to pass an obamacare type bill would be slim, but we aren't talking about a Republican. We are talking about McCain. McCain would have reached across the aisle and been a Maverick in working with the Dems to get McCaincare passed.

I wonder how effective the HOA is going to be keeping them in line when they were placed there by HUD? In HOA vs HUD, my money is on HUD.

Fair point.

You should hang out with more .mil folks if you want more vocab additions like that. :lol:

Gotta throw the BS flag on that play. Every immoral, inhumane act committed by governments against their own citizens has almost always been perfectly legal in the countries in which they occurred. No genocide was ever against the laws of the government committing it. When those who commit violence against the people are the ones who make the laws, there is but one solution left to the victims of that violence. "I was just doing my job" sounds an awfully lot like "I was just following orders" to me. Neither excuse flies. When in the process of "just following orders" someone violates the natural rights and commits violence against the people whose rights they are sworn to protect, then they have just forfeited their right to breathe. If someone kills them when they are either in the process of, or due to their involvement in the commission of said intolerable acts then that death is morally just and correct. ETA: I am not advocating any course of action for others or myself. I am only speaking in general terms of moral/immoral just/unjust.

Advocating violence against law enforcement is generally frowned upon here so I will refrain from commenting any further on this person with a badge.

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Holy shit. They are going to turn the rest of the country into Memphis. This is pretty much exactly what was done in Memphis. They demolished the public housing and used section 8 and other HUD vouchers and programs to relocate the residents into established neighborhoods. The idea behind it is that if you take take a family out of a concentrated area of poverty, you will give the kids positive role models not dependent on .gov assistance and it will also help diffuse the concentrated power of criminal gangs. The reality is that they bring their gang affiliations with them and spread the reach and influence of those criminal gangs. This is very, very bad.

Oh, why do they have to be so far away. :(

Once again, anarchy does not equal chaos. Just because you've seen chaos and anarchy together and then just called it anarchy, doesn't mean you used word correctly. The colloquial usage of the word implies chaos, but that isn't what the word actually means. Anarchy is simply the lack of government. As you have likely surmised already, I am philosophically an anarchist. However, I do have a strong pragmatic streak (believe it or not) and in practice lean more towards the minarchist to libertarian end of things.

If anarchy leads to unbridled violence, then what would you call 2 decade long wars, SWAT teams kicking down doors tens of thousands of times a year and inner cities full of feral youth subsidized by the dole and a black market created by drug prohibition? Government IS violence.

Then you are using the term incorrectly. I don't know what to call those you describe, but they are not anarchists anymore than Bradley Manning is a soldier. Anarchy does not equal chaos anymore than combat equals murder. Agents of chaos may sometimes fly the banner of anarchy when convenient, but they will also fly the flag of Democrat or Republican or whatever will help them sow e discord they seek.

You have mentioned anarchists a couple of times;, in what context are you using that term? The reason why I ask is that after the initial outset of the occupy movement I haven't seen much, if any, anarchist involvement because the Occupy folks are decidedly anti capitalist and seek more government intervention, not less. The vast majority of the anarchists I know are of the AnCap variety and though they may see the government/business collusion of corporatism as a major problem, they don't view more government regulation as the appropriate solution.

I didn't even hear about anything going down in Oakland if that tells you anything.

OAL is measured with a fully extended stock. That was decided by a court case involving some M-1s in paratrooper stocks back in the 70s. This only applies to the federal government, some states (CA, MI for example) dictate that OAL is measured in the fully collapsed/ folded position.

This.

The tops for an IWB would be a hybrid style holster. Whether you choose the Crossbreed, Galco King Tuk, Tucker's The Answer, Desantis Intruder, Kholster or the myriad of other versions, the leather/kydex hybrid is the most comfortable IWB holster style I have used.