“We can either live in a paranoid politically correct world frantically trying not to offend the Hitlers and Mohammeds, and blaming their victims when they kill, or we can be free men and women who have chosen to take the power to defend our rights into our own hands.

While a thousand organizations use the Holocaust as a platform for speeches about tolerance, Children Of Jewish Holocaust Survivors [Jews Can Shoot] is conducting firearms training… Freedom is not defended with empty idealism easily perverted into appeasement of evil, but with the force of arms.”

Daniel Greenfield / Sultan Knish blog

All too many of the other great tragedies of history - Stalin's atrocities, the killing fields of Cambodia, the Holocaust, to name but a few - were perpetrated by armed troops against unarmed populations. Many could well have been avoided mitigated, had the perpetrators known their intended victims were equipped with a rifle and twenty bullets apiece... If a few hundred Jewish fighter in the Warsaw Ghetto could hold off the Wehrmacht for almost a month with only a handful weapons, six million Jews armed with rifles could not so easily have been herded into cattle cars.

Alex Kozinski, Chief Judge, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
Silveira v. Lockyer, 2003

Habah l'hargecha hashkem l'hargo -- "If someone is coming to kill you, rise against him and kill him first."

Commentary

House Dems ‘sit in’ to demand revocation of Americans’ right to due process

by Jews Can Shoot on June 23, 2016

I doubt I’m the only one for whom the inexpressibly silly ‘sit-in’ being staged by House Democrats today (Wednesday, 22 Jun) just feels…tired.

For one thing, there’s no “there” there. Although CNN (first link) and other outlets are obediently referring to the sit-in as “civil disobedience,” it is, of course, nothing of the sort. It’s a minority maneuver to interrupt the official business of a legislative chamber. The best thing for the country would be for the Republican majority to just adjourn for the summer and leave.

At some point, if the wee hours of the morning creep on and the GOP hasn’t grown a spine, there may be an issue with union contracts for building services, or something like that. If so, Speaker Paul Ryan may have some decisions to make, beyond his decision to turn off the cameras in the chamber. This is being touted, naturally, as an act of bad faith — but the House is in recess and is conducting no official business, and several bloggers have pointed out that Nancy Pelosi turned off not just the cameras but the House chamber’s utility services in 2008, when Republicans were trying to force a vote on offshore drilling. The procedural difference between that 2008 event and today is that Republicans weren’t pretending falsely to stage an epic civil-disobedience rally.

by J.E. Dyer

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"All too many of the other great tragedies of history—Stalin’s atrocities, the killing fields of Cambodia, the Holocaust, to name but a few—were perpetrated by armed troops against unarmed populations. Many could well have been avoided or mitigated, had the perpetrators known their intended victims were equipped with a rifle and twenty bullets apiece, as the Militia Act required here. ... If a few hundred Jewish fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto could hold off the Wehrmacht for almost a month with only a handful of weapons, six million Jews armed with rifles could not so easily have been herded into cattle cars." — Silveira v Lockyer, (9th Cir. 2003) (Kozinski, J. dissenting.)