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The Self Defense Guy, who has the best deal for hidden cameras on the web, got this bit of choice news from being a Tea Partyer. Did you know that even before Arizona cowboyed up and passed our new anti-illegal immigration law, California already had virtually the same law on its books?

Here’s the link. See for yourself.

I guess the L.A. city council and the rest of the talking but not thinking heads are in over those empty heads of theirs. But of course, an empty head will float, so they may be alright in the long run.

But kudos, and you’ve got to know how hard this is for The Self Defense Guy, who’s also got the best deal on stun guns on the web, kudos to Phil Jackson of the Lakers, who’s read the law, read what the Arizona legislators said about the law, and had no problems with it atall.

Thanks, Phil, but Los Suns in 7, sorry.     

If you ever find yourself face to face with a meth addict who wants your wallet, you’ll be glad if you have some pepper spray handy, and you know how to use it.

You won’t want Binaca. You won’t want a safer, more diluted mixture that’s more friendly to your attacker. You won’t want something that makes you equal to your attacker. And you certainly won’t want to “engage” him in some sort of “there but for the grace of God go I” bullshid counseling session.

You’ll want something that let’s him know, let’s any bystander know, that there’s a difference between the 2 of you. That you’re the good guy, that he’s the bad guy, and that you put him on the ground writhing in pain, blinded, coughing and choking because he deserved it.

That’s what you would want.

Unless the democrats are the meth addicts, and the Republican National Committee is the
intended victim. Then the victim would do his best to bend over backwards and take it in the shorts, which is what they did when they passed on Phoenix and awarded the 2012 National Convention to Tampa.

Now let me say right off that The Self
Defense Guy likes Tampa. He’s made a dozen or so round trips to there over the past 4 years and always enjoyed himself. And his missus, The Fairy Godmother of Fashion, likes Tampa a lot, too.

Tampa is a great place to have a convention — but NOT in 2012, NOT if you’re trying to send the message that the Republican candidate is the good guy and Barack the Terrible is the bad guy.

Why NOT Phoenix? Why NOT Salt Lake City? And for that matter, why NOT Boston, or Newark or Richmond or Milwaukee? All of these cities are in states that have taken CONCRETE, discernible action that tells the rest of the country that we want our country back — back from Barack the Terrible, and the rest of his unAmerican party.

To be fair to Florida, a possible Marco Rubio victory in the fall would make all of this moot, but that hasn’t happened yet. Right now, at decision time, it’s only those cities, those states listed above whose citizens have taken the lead to let the rest of us know that there’s still hope.

Right now, at decision time, is when the Republican National Committee could have fanned the flames of our revolt, could have gotten lots of appreciation for itself and for the work that it does, if they had chosen one of the cities listed above.

They could have said Yes, America, we’re with you, we support you, we believe what you believe.

But what did they do? They ran away and hid, afraid to show that sometimes there IS such a thing as righteous anger. But no, NOT the RNC. Instead, they contacted the democrats, invited them over, bent over backwards and said please sirs, let us have some more. What a bunch of morons. What a bunch of gutless wonders.

Doesn’t mean that The Self Defense Guy will desert them in the general election, but it does mean that he’ll be much more selective with his contributions, and he’ll be much more intent on making sure that he holds Republicans to conservative principles. And if he don’t see none, come the next Republican primary, he’ll do whatever he can to defeat any rino’s still in public office.    

In case you didn’t know, The Self Defense Guy is lucky enough to be married to The Fairy Godmother of Fashion, who’s not only beautiful, she’s very talented, too. When it comes to custom clothes, for men or women, there’s no one better.

If you haven’t yet heard of the political ruckus the past few days from West Palm Beach, Florida, here’s where you can read about it. When you get there, you’ll notice that 1 of the tuxes from The Fairy Godmother of Fashion is front and center of the story. Then, if you follow the link a few lines down, the “A shameless, self-promoting Canadian,” you’ll find other examples of her work, standing next to other folks you probably know.

Oh yeah, buy something here.     

If you order a Runt stun gun from The Self Defense Guy, you don’t have to worry about getting some Wildfire Pepper Spray when you open the box. Same goes for a Self-Contained hidden camera that does its own recording.

With The Self Defense Guy, you get exactly what you expect — every time. With Jonny McCain, not so much.

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Let’s talk definitions for a second. RINO is short for “Republican in NAME only.” To be more specific, “there may be an R as his party affiliation, but he votes like a democrat just when the party needs him the most.”

These days, there’s lots of RINO’s floating around Congress, and I used to think that Jonny McCain was one of em. Come to find out he ain’t no RINO atall, he’s worse than that — he’s a phony republican, a NERINO — Not Even Republican In Name Only.

The most important part of the RINO moniker is the “INO” — in NAME only — meaning that the politician “calls” himself a Republican. But Jonny ain’t even be doin that no more.

You drive around Arizona and see his campaign signs, and guess what?? Jonny be callin hisself nuttin these days. That’s right. On his campaign signs, there’s no “Republican” there, there ain’t no R there — hell, there ain’t even no r there.

All’s that’s there is John McCain
                                      2010 — that’s it.
The man’s a wordsmith of the first order, alright.

The conventional wisdom from the mainstream media is that Jonny’s challenger in the primary, J.D. Hayworth, is a serious threat to win, so Jonny need to be sewing up support from the conservative base of the Republican Party in Arizona.

But Jonny’s smarter than the rest of us, doncha know. He don’t need to be affecting a false conservative attitude. Why, he don’t even need to actually BE a Republican. He can win the party nomination with that lovely smile of his, with that winning personality he’s got.

So Jonny don’t have to be no RINO, not anymore.

Jonny’s just a phony, and his campaign signs prove it. With any luck, we be sending him home to Sedona real soon.     

ALL the libs have their panties in a twist about Arizona’s new illegal immigration law, but the fact is that FORBES magazine just came out with their TOP TEN Most Livable Cities in the U.S., and NONE of them is further south than Provo, Utah!!

No connection, of course, to the prevalence of illegal aliens in the area SOUTH of FORBES magazine’s “most livable cities.”     

The Self Defense Guy was doing inventory the other day, checking his supply of stun guns and pepper sprays, when he got an email from Tim in California, with a link to Dennis Prager’s column. What better time to take a break than to read something from Prager, who never disappoints. Thanks, Tim.

The gist of the column is that democrats no longer look at the world with the view of discerning what’s right, what’s wrong. Instead they decide issues on the basis of what’s white and what’s black, what’s male and what’s female, and what’s rich and what’s poor. In democrat speak, white, male, rich = bad; black, female, poor = good.

And Prager gave plenty of examples to prove his point, not that it would make any difference to any intellectually challenged democrat who might have stumbled on his column completely by accident. Here’s the link, if you’d like to read it.

What Prager didn’t say, but what’s an obvious conclusion from his column,
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is that if Martin Luther King, Jr. were alive today, the “big tent” democrats would force him out of their party. That’s right, the modern-day founder of the civil rights movement would be persona non grata in the party of Barry Aboma, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Billary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and every last one of the NAACP.

Now, one doesn’t make a statement like that without proof, unless of course one’s a democrat. Then proof would not be required. All that would be necessary would be a listing of the approved slurs and epithets, and the main stream media would take one’s blog post and splash it cross-country.

But The Self Defense Guy ain’t no freaking democrat, and if he has some disagreements with St. Peter at the pearly gates, that’s gonna be his last line, his final appeal for admittance, “Yeah, well…at least I weren’t no freaking democrat.”

So here’s the proof that Martin Luther King, Jr. would be ridiculed and laughed at and forced out of the democrat party:

August 28, 1963, Washington, D.C.

“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. This will be the day when all of God’s children will be able to sing with a new meaning, “My country, ’tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim’s pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring.”

“And if America is to be a great nation this must become true. So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops… And when this happens,…we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, “Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!”

“Content of their character?”
“God?”
“Sweet land of liberty?”
“Freedom?”
“America is to be a great nation?”
No pejoratives attached to “Jews and Gentiles,
            Protestants and Catholics?”
“Thank God Almighty?”

All of those above are deliberate and outright violations of page 1 of the democrat playbook, and Martin Luther King, Jr? He be gone, baby, he be gone.

Oh, just for the record, at that August 1963 speech? The late gun loving, former president of the NRA, no good sob Charlton Heston?  He be there.       

If there’s one thing The Self Defense Guy hates, it’s liars, and there’s a whole lot of liars telling stories about Arizona these days. Let’s look at a few facts, ifn you don’t mind.
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1. Arizona’s new law is not much more than a re-stating of federal laws that already exist, namely, that immigrants to the U.S. have a legal method to get here, and if they come here outside of the existing system, then that’s a crime.

2. One thing that is new with the new law, which is called “Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act,” is that an Arizona citizen now has standing to sue either an agency OR AN INDIVIDUAL OFFICIAL who limits or restricts “the enforcement of federal immigration laws to less than the full extent permitted by federal law.” The Self Defense Guy loves that part about being able to sue an individual bureaucrat who’s working against the interests of Arizona citizens.

3. Now it’s not only illegal for illegal aliens to work in Arizona, it’s also illegal to even look for work, and it’s now a crime to conceal or harbor an illegal alien, an exception being granted to someone providing emergency, public-safety or public-health services to illegals.

4. Law enforcement folks may now arrest without a warrant anyone they have probable cause to suspect of being in violation of any immigration laws, but, and this next part comes directly from the law itself, “The attorney general or county attorney shall not investigate complaints that are based solely on race, color or national origin.”

5. Any illegal alien within the state’s borders is guilty of trespassing, and anyone suspected of being in violation of current immigration law must show proof of compliance, and if they cannot, it is required that they be sent to ICE and be processed for deportation.

6. The new law is supported overwhelmingly by the people, and even enjoys support from a large part of the Hispanic community.

7. Arizonans know that 90% of the illegal aliens are only here to work. They work hard at low paying jobs, and they pay their share of payroll and sales taxes. Most Arizonans have no problem with these people, most of the time. But they DO clog up our emergency rooms, they do get a large share of pre-natal care for their babies, and they often do not pay for the service. The hospitals and the taxpayers get stuck with the bill. This is a prime example of what’s wrong with the Abomicare plan that was shoved up our…, er, shoved down our throats in March. These people who DO work hard to support their families and DO pay payroll and sales taxes nevertheless avail themselves of all the free medical care that they can, and think nothing about doing it. It’s a situation that will quickly get out of control if Abomicare is not repealed.

8. Governor Jan Brewer says that she had sent 5, count em, FIVE letters to Barry Aboma in 2009, requesting that he do something about enforcing the border, and he never even gave her the courtesy of a reply. Talk about a sumbitch of a president.

9. Governor Brewer is not even that popular here, and she may not even win the Republican primary this year. The Self Defense Guy is very glad she signed the bill into law, but he has no plans to support her election, as Governor Brewer is working hard to increase the state sales tax because she claims there isn’t any more that can be cut from spending. All of us are tired of that old lie, and it’s going to cost Brewer her election. But at least in this case she did the right thing, and if she does win the primary, then The Self Defense Guy will vote for her in the general.

10. Article 4, Section 4, of the U.S. Constitution says this: “The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.” Clearly BOTH president Barry AND Congress are not living up to their duties as outlined in the Constitution. They are not protecting us against this “Invasion” of illegals, and they are not putting down the “domestic Violence” that a small percentage of illegals engage in.

Arizona had no choice but to act, and the sooner other states follow our lead, the sooner we can get our country back from the sumbitches who have it now.

The job of the police is to catch criminals, while the job of the Army is to kill people and break things. A person confronted by the police has a reasonable — not a guaranteed, but a reasonable — expectation of surviving the incident. Not so with the Army.

The tools of their trade say as much. While modern day police forces often have SWAT teams that are equipped with military-style weapons, the Army still packs much more firepower. The police may have 1 or 2 tank like vehicles, but the Army has tanks by the thousands, and can call on air support if needed.
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If you look at other countries around the world, those regimes spend millions of dollars on the Army every year, because it’s the Army that maintains the regime’s power over its citizens. But the police? They get only crumbs every year, because the regimes don’t care about the police’s main job, which is protecting the citizens.

If you live in one of those countries and you’re having trouble with a local gang, you’re pretty much on your own. But if that local gang were dumb enough to do anything that threatens the ruling regime, the Army will show up and wipe them out.

In short, in most countries around the world, the Army is in the service of the regime, NOT in the service of the citizens, and when the citizens get uppity, it’s the Army that comes in and crushes that uppity rabble.

In 1932, it was the U.S. Army who dispersed the “Bonus Army” that was threatening Washington, D.C., although for the most part it was a peaceful dispersal. That’s a U.S. example of how the Army can be used to maintain order — it can be done rather peacefully.

But the rest of the world doesn’t operate that way. Tiananmen Square in China was not a peaceful, non-violent use of the Army. The tanks that maintained order in the old Soviet Union were not there just for show.

The rest of the world is full of examples of a nation’s army turning on its own citizens, killing them and breaking their stuff, all in support of the ruling regime.

That’s the problem we face from the Aboma regime. Their goal is to re-make our country into one that is like all the others in this world. Aboma and his people have said so themselves.

They’ve been careful with the words they use, but they’re about power and whatever it takes to keep it. If they can do it peacefully, they will, but if not, they’ll be inclined to follow the lead of those they want to emulate — the Chinese commies, the Castros and the Hugo Chavez’s of the world.

And there’s the question. What will the Army do if they get a call from President Barry Aboma, asking them to disperse a TEA Party rally that generates 1 million protesters on the capital mall, and some of those protesters are actually Acorn TEA Party pretenders who start throwing molotov cocktails?

The Army will definitely show up, but what will they do? They’re sworn to follow orders, to defend their country, to defend themselves. And don’t forget, U.S. hater Barry Aboma is now commander in chief and entitled to be obeyed and defended.

But the Army doesn’t live, doesn’t serve, in a vacuum. The Army knows that Barry and the dems hate them, that the TEA Partyers love them. The Army knows that their own friends and families are likely to be TEA Partyers and unlikely to be supporters of Barry and the dems.

So if push came to shove, would the Army fire on its “own” people?

What if the Army shows up, the display of force disperses the crowd peacefully, without incident, that particular problem gets solved, but 2 months later, after more anti-American policies by Aboma and the dems, another 1 million person crowd shows up in D.C.? And what if it happens again 2 months after that?

What will the Army do then? The Self Defense Guy can help you deal with some local bad guys, but he can’t help you atall if you’re staring down the U.S. Army.     

(end of part 2)

That’s the question that was on everyone’s mind
that day in Washington, D.C. The mall was covered
with Americans, and the rumor was that if the police
were unable to keep order, the president was going
to call out the Army to do it.

And the police failed. Even with modern day equipment,
Washington’s finest was unable to control these
Americans who were demanding money from the
federal treasury, and they wanted it now.

This is NOT fiction, by the bye. This actually happened
in an America that boasted the world’s finest air
traffic, the world’s most advanced phone coverage,
the finest automobiles in the whole world, the best
equipped police forces in the world.
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The president was forced to enlist the service of the
Army’s most senior General, who was given the task of
driving out completely the entire group of Americans
who had made camp in front of the Capitol and were
a possible threat to members of Congress.

The troops eventually arrived, under the command of
General MacArthur, and the “Bonus Army” was forced
out of the city. It was July, 1932, almost 78 years ago.
Majors Dwight Eisenhower and George Patton were also there that day.

The group of Americans in question were veterans from
WW1, and 8 years earlier Congress had decided to thank them for their service by awarding them a one-time, lump sum “bonus,” based on where and for how long they had served. Hence the moniker “Bonus Army.”

The kicker was that the payment was not scheduled to be made until 1945, 13 years from then. But the Great Depression had been on for almost 3 years now, and these Americans needed help now, they didn’t want to wait for 13 years.

The Army did it’s job that day, and dispersed the “Bonus Army.” It wasn’t much of a fight. It was more of a hasty retreat. MacArthur’s troops were in no particular danger that day. There were lots of casualties who showed up in nearby hospitals, and 2 babies actually died. A few months later President Hoover lost his bid for re-election, and Americans put into office the first guy who promised nothing more specific than hope and change.

You can read more about it here,
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/snprelief4.htm

No one had ever seen a protest group as large as that one that showed up in D.C. that day. But the truth is that it was only 10,000 people, rather small by 2010 standards. In 2009, the TEA Party protest saw 5 to 10 times that number show up to protest Abomicare.

So the question is, as Americans have to deal with first Abomicare, and then cap and tax, and then amnesty for illegals, and then only God knows what, what will the size of the protest group be that shows up next at the Capitol?

And what will happen if President Barry and the democrats decide to see the group as one that, because of its very size, threatens to get out of control? What if the group of leftists who the AP reported were trying to sabotage the TEA Party’s tax day protests, but failed, actually show up this time and start throwing rocks and such at the police while carrying TEA Party signs when they do it? What will President Barry do? What will the Army do?

The Army is different than the police. The Army is supposed to be used for national defense, not for police control of the citizenry. But in cases of emergency, like in 1932, President Hoover had no other option than to use the Army to put down a citizen revolt.

And use of the Army is kind of a blurry situation. The police, for example, are our defense against criminals committing misdemeanors and felonies, obvious illegalities that society is entitled to be protected from.

But when the Army is called out because the police are overwhelmed by the citizenry, it raises the question that maybe the citizens have a legitimate complaint that they’re acting on. And in that instance, calling on the Army can look more and more like a regime using unlawful means to stay in power.

This has been bugging The Self Defense Guy
for a long time now. What will the Army do IF President Barry needs to call them out to keep order? And will it be a legitimate use of the Army, as was the case in 1932, or will it be an over-reaching attempt by President Barry and the democrats to enforce their own personal, political wills at the expense of the American people, as they did with Abomicare?     

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The Self Defense Guy joined a TEA Party
chapter the day afore tax day. Figured it was time.

Then yesterday, tax day, he noticed all the meetings
held across the country, and realized that another
national TEA Party meeting needs to be scheduled
for Saturday, Nov 6, 2010. Why?

Because that’s the first Saturday after this November’s
mid-term elections. What better day to make a national
warning to all the new Republicans elected that day that
they had better start rolling back Abomicare immediately, cause if they don’t, we’ll throw them out of office in the very next primary election.

We can’t just relax after this election. We must make
sure that the Republicans we elect are not rino’s.
And refusing to authorize funding for Abomicare is the first place to start.

That should be the beginning of the litmus test, and we should demand that the de-funding be accomplished in the 1st week of the new Congress.

But after that, there’s a lot of good that can be done by just de-funding some of the federal programs that are choking us to death.

Things like the EPA; the Department of Education; the
National Endowment for the Arts; the Corporation for
Public Broadcasting — a private corporation funded by the American people!?!?!?!?; the Department of Energy; and …

What do you think? I haven’t exhausted all the possibilities. Got any you’d like to add?

What about your preferred timetable? What do you think we should demand to have accomplished in order to satisfy ourselves that indeed, we did not elect rino’s, we elected patriotic Republicans who we will support again in the next primary?