Pass The Ammo

Here’s a good dog story out of Iraq.

The queers at Code Pink were out numbered yesterday by flag waving patriots in Berkley, CA, the home of the “peace movement” and one of the most liberal, anti-military cities in the entire nation.

On Wednesday, October 17, 2007 Move America Forward organized a rally that attracted hundreds upon hundreds of pro-troop supporters who gathered in Berkeley to counter anti-war protesters from Code Pink. Code Pink has been engaged in a 3-week campaign to “shut down” the U.S. Marine Recruiting Center in Berkeley, including vandalizing and defacing the recruiting office, harassing the the Marines and calling them “traitors” and “liars” and “murderers.”

However, yesterday the far-left anti-military protesters got crushed on their own home turf! As the Contra Costa Times reported, “Flag-waving demonstrators far outnumbered a group of peace advocates who were protesting a U.S. Marine Corps recruiting center in downtown on Wednesday.”

You can see more rally pictures here »

Excellent video a soldier made of his tour in Ramadi. Worth a watch.

Here is a pretty touching story that was on the yahoo front page. A WWII vet gets his wallet back from the son of another WWII vet after 60 years.

View the slide show.

“He that suffers his life to be taken from him by one that hath no authority for that purpose, when he might preserve it by defense, incurs the Guilt of self murder since God hath enjoined him to seek the continuance of his life, and Nature itself teaches every creature to defend itself.”

Sermon given in Philadelphia in 1747

I don’t watch too much tv. I have been watching a couple shows more often though. I’ll drop what I’m doing to watch Cops, and Most Shocking. Court TV’s newest show of extreme criminal footage. From high speed police chases, to a couple of punk ass thugs taking a steak knife to a convenience store clerk.

I’ve seen several of these security camera movies, where innocent people get brutalized, and come mighty close to death over a few bucks in their register. It’s hard for me to watch. But I have to, and I want my wife to watch it as well. She needs to see it. Everyone needs to. You all need to know that every day is potentially your last day. Granted that some areas high higher potential than others. But there will always be drug-induced crimes, or a desperate convict with nothing to lose. Will you be a victim or a survivor?

Last nights episode showed a 12 year old girl working the register at her folks bakery. In broad daylight a blood thirsty animal came in with a hammer. She didn’t stand a chance. He walked right up and repeatedly beat her over the head, until blood was everywhere. She pretended to be unconscious at one point, and he left her alone. Then decided to come back for one more clean hit to her head. Then as he went for the register, she was able to crawl to the door and run across the street to her home. By then, the savage was gone with the money, and still on the loose.

This stuff happens. Might not be often where you live. But there’s always a chance. After every gun-point robbery, when they interview the clerk… the clerk always says “I thought I was dead. I thought of the people I loved, and how I would never see them again.”

Choosing to be a victim. That is what our society preaches. Our law enforcement, our leaders, and sometimes our pastors. Why? Why would they teach us a defeatist outlook on our existance? Why would they teach us something that goes against the very fiber of nature? The basic human right to self defense.

The bank across the street from my bank was robbed a couple months back. I was talking to the middle aged teller about it. I asked her if this banks employees even carry concealed. Her response: “No. Never. Never have anything that can be taken away and used on you”. I stood there with a blank stare on my face. Just incredulous that she seriously believed what she had just said. I glance over to the young guy at the next teller, hoping for a hint of disagreement in his face. Nothing there either.

Ever since my daughter was born, I really think alot more about what it means to be their dependent. They depend on me for their safety. As they should. But at the same time, I’m not always there to be the defender. My wife is a preschool teacher. What if a deranged parent walked into her school with a firearm. Just like the Amish school, and the Jewish preschool before that… and the countless other times it has happened. I want her to be mentally able to defend herself. And we’ve had talks about this before. Unfortunately, it just might take a life threatening situation before she’ll fully understand. Her response is “I’ll kick em in the groin”. A nice tactic, I’m sure of… but not realistic when this guy weighs in at 250 and has a baseball bat, or shotgun. What can I do to help her understand? I dunno. I guess I just need to teach her to be more comfortable around weapons. Build her confidence with them.

In my state, it is legal to carry concealed anywhere, BUT a school. The one place we would want to be able to defend our children most. We basically send our children into a bad guy sanctuary. Think about it. This law basically says “All law abiding gun owners not allowed”. And what does that say to any bad guy??? Easy target children, with no other firearms around. It blows my mind.

Christians and guns. Thats pretty much a whole nother topic. I’ve heard it, you’ve heard it. “Jesus says to turn the other cheek” etc. True, only in the sense that your neighbor just bad mouthed you in front of everyone. Not true when a drug induced rape/murder spreeing thug just broke into your house at 3am. Self-murder as it was used in the beginning quote that was pulled from a sermon in the 1700’s. In refusing to preserve your own life you become lower than animals. You consider yourself worthless.

I could talk about this all day. Only because it holds so true to common sense. Why is common sense so uncommon these days? Why do gun owners, and gun advocates have to constantly defend a basic human right daily? In our friends and family’s houses, in our capitols and courthouses.

Gun owner or not, I encourage everyone to just fill out this questionnaire. You don’t need to submit it. It’s just for re-enforcing the common sense of a basic human right.

Image credits: http://a-human-right.com/

What a great day this is. Makes you think about all the great people, experiences, and possesions that we have.

What am I thankful for? Here’s a few things

• My beautiful wife - She is my reason for not murdering people in the first degree.
• My big family - For always being there to support me, and pick me up when I fall.
• My Country - Where I have the right to shoot to kill, to defend the wellbeing of my family.
• My Arsenal - Because without it, I’d be stuck throwing rocks like Palistinians.
• My God - He is the sole reason for my existance.
• My hound dog, Copper who is currently curled up on the floor by my feet.
• My Friends - Because who else could I go out drinkin with?
• My freedom of speech - Because we all love to Praise the Lord, and Pass the Ammo!

For those of you who do not know what Valour-IT is, it began a few months ago when milblogger TCOverride was injured by an IED. With the partial loss of some of his fingers, Cpt Chuck wanted to write home but didn’t have the means or ability too. That was when Soldiers Angels stepped in and gave him a laptop, and a faithful reader gave him a copy of the Dragon Naturally Speaking Preferred Software. Now Cpt Chuck was able to easily type letters to home from the Walter Reed Hospital.

From there Project Valour-IT was born.

Now there is a fund raiser drive going on. Many of the major milbloggers have banded together to raise more money for Valour-IT and seeing who can raise the most! Heres where we can do our part as patriots and donate money to make easier the lives of those who put theirs on the line.

The Fund Raising Competition is divided up by branches in the military. Below is the booster for Team Army who I’m supporting.

To view the other boosters, and to see what other bloggers are supporting this fund raiser, stop by Soldiers Angels.

The average age of the military man is 19 years. He is a short haired, tight-muscled kid who, under normal circumstances is considered by society as half man, half boy. Not yet dry behind the ears, not old enough to buy a beer, but old enough to die for his country. He never really cared much for work and he would rather wax his own car than wash his father’s; but he has never collected unemployment either.

He’s a recent High School graduate; he was probably an average student, pursued some form of sport activities, drives a ten year old jalopy, and has a steady girlfriend that either broke up with him when he left, or swears to be waiting when he returns from half a world away. He listens to rock and roll or hip-hop or rap or jazz or swing and 155mm howitzer. He is 10 or 15 pounds lighter now than when he was at home because he is working or fighting from before dawn to well after dusk. Read the rest of this entry »

Found a great peice written by Peter Ferrarra on America and terrorism. He’s an associate professor of law at the George Mason University School of Law.

You probably missed it in the rush of news last week, but there was actually a report that someone in Pakistan had published in a newspaper there an offer of a reward to anyone who killed an American, any American.

So I just thought I would write to let them know what an American is, so they would know when they found one.

An American is English…or French, or Italian, Irish, German, Spanish, Polish, Russian or Greek. An American may also be African, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Australian, Iranian, Asian, or Arab, or Pakistani, or Afghan.

An American is Christian, or he could be Jewish, or Buddhist, or Muslim. In fact, there are more Muslims in America than in Afghanistan. The only difference is that in America they are free to worship as each of them choose.

An American is also free to believe in no religion. For that he will answer only to God, not to the government, or to armed thugs claiming to speak for the government and for God.

An American is from the most prosperous land in the history of the world. The root of that prosperity can be found in the Declaration of Independence, which recognizes the God-given right of each man and woman to the pursuit of happiness.

An American is generous. Americans have helped out just about every other nation in the world in their time of need. When Afghanistan was overrun by the Soviet army 20 years ago, Americans came with arms and supplies to enable the people to win back their country. As of the morning of September 11, Americans had given more than any other nation to the poor in Afghanistan.

An American does not have to obey the mad ravings of ignorant, ungodly cruel, old men. American men will not be fooled into giving up their lives to kill innocent people, so that these foolish old men may hold on to power. American women are free to show their beautiful faces to the world, as each of them choose.

An American is free to criticize his government’s officials when they are wrong, in his or her own opinion. Then he is free to replace them, by majority vote.

Americans welcome people from all lands, all cultures, all religions, because they are not afraid. They are not afraid that their history, their religion, their beliefs, will be overrun, or forgotten. That is because they know they are free to hold to their religion, their beliefs, their history, as each of them choose.

And just as Americans welcome all, they enjoy the best that everyone has to bring, from all over the world. The best science, the best technology, the best products, the best books, the best music, the best food, the best athletes.

Americans welcome the best, but they also welcome the least. The nation symbol of America welcomes your tired and your poor, the wretched refuse of your teeming shores, the homeless, tempest tossed.

These in fact are the people who built America. Many of them were working in the twin towers on the morning of September 11, earning a better life for their families.

So you can try to kill an American if you must. Hitler did. So did General Tojo and Stalin and Mao Tse-Tung, and every bloodthirsty tyrant in the history of the world.

But in doing so you would just be killing yourself. Because Americans are not a particular people from a particular place. They are the embodiment of the human spirit of freedom. Everyone who holds to that spirit, everywhere, is an American.

So look around you. You may find more Americans in your land than you thought were there. One day they will rise up and overthrow the old, ignorant, tired tyrants that trouble too many lands. Then those lands too will join the community of free and prosperous nations.

And America will welcome them.

Hattip: Pam

Here is what is on the inside cover of a bible that was given to a soldier during the Great War (WWI) with a special message from the President, Woodrow Wilson.

Hattip to JJ, and Glenn Beck.

Regarding this post back in December, Officer Krelicek is making his triumphant return home!

For those who remember, he was a newer officer in town when he was responsible for apprehending a bad guy, when he was shot in the face by the scum. He has been over in a hospital in Seattle getting reconstructive surgery. Now he’s ready to return. The local press had a pro photographer go over and spend a week with him shootin photos, as he prepares to come home. Thank the Lord for his return. And thanks to Michael Kralicek for his service to us civy’s. Welcome home officer!

My friend Pam, posted this on her personal site. I’m sure alot of you have already read it, or seen it floating around the net. But I haven’t posted it yet, so I’d like to.

A mother writes:

My son serves in the military. He is still stateside right now. He called me yesterday to let me know how warm and welcoming people were to him, and his troops, everywhere he goes, telling me how people shake their hands, and thank them for being willing to serve, and fight, for not only our own freedoms but so that others may have them also.

But he also told me about an incident in the grocery store he stopped at yesterday, on his way home from the base. He said that ahead of several people in front of him stood a woman dressed in a burkha.

He said when she got to the cashier she loudly remarked about the U.S. flag lapel pin the cashier wore on her smock.

The cashier reached up and touched the pin, and said proudly, “Yes, I always wear it and I probably always will.”

The woman in the burkha then asked the cashier when she was going to stop bombing her countrymen, explaining that she was Iraqi.

A gentleman standing behind my son stepped forward, putting his arm around my son’s shoulders, and nodding towards my son, said in a calm and gentle voice to the Iraqi woman:

“Lady, hundreds of thousands of men and women like this young man have fought and died so that you could stand here, in my country and accuse a check-out cashier of bombing your countrymen. It is my belief that had you been this outspoken in your own country, we wouldn’t need to be there today. But, hey, if you have now learned how to speak out so loudly and clearly, I’ll gladly buy you a ticket and pay your way back to Iraq so you can straighten out the mess in your country that you are obviously here in my country to avoid.”

Everyone within hearing distance cheered!