The words I used in my title have been said to be those of Thomas Jefferson, though it has never been proven from any of his letters or works. But I contend that these words don't mean any less had Jefferson not uttered them, as long as they indeed ring true. They certainly ring true with this article. The murder of a 15 year old Chicago girl was a mere blip on a radar screen in comparison to the attention the Obama administration attributed to the Newtown, Connecticut slayings at Shady Hook Elementary School. This is greatly in part to the Progressive Movement's philosophy of making the very best of a perceived crisis. So why, you might ask, did another possible gang-generated slaying even make the national news? After all, in Chicago, the adopted home of Barack Obama, 42 murders have already occurred since the new year. I'm writing this in early February. There were approximately 500 murders in the Windy City the year before. Well, not to say that the other 541 people (surely more have died since I penned this) weren't important, but this particular young lady had participated in Obama's recent presidential inauguration. That act, gave her notoriety and rose her above the common, now routine amount of slayings in a state where the gun laws are probably some of the toughest in the country. Though I might say that those laws are toughest on law-abiding citizens, they are of course barely applicable to crooks, thugs, drug dealers and gangs of which Rahm Emanuel and many mayors preceding him have been powerless to curtail.
Her name was Hadiya Pendleton, a beautiful talented young lady whose light was taken from her due to senseless violence. The left-wing media quickly attached this model youth to the Obama witch hunt on gun ownership, but I'm not so sure it was a welcome association. This mostly one-sided media thought they were contributing yet another notch to the President's own pistol grip used to attack gun rights, however, they forgot to consult the Alinsky play book to truly see if the Pendleton murder qualified as a good case. It was kind of like when the media and Al Sharpton rushed into the Trayvon Martin shooting, hoping for a white on black crime to exploit for the race-baiting Obama Administration. Much to their chagrin, it wasn't such an open and shut case. Zimmerman (a typical Aryan sounding name of Germanic origin if you're simply mining headlines) ended up being of mixed ethnic descent. The incident didn't pan out as they had hoped it would. I would venture to guess that the media and Reverend Al probably do a bit more research when selecting a controversial issue to confront since that pitiful debacle. The Prez jumped right in there too, with his comment that Trayvon could have been his own son. Really? Obama also chimed-in on a 'white cop vs. a black college professor' conflict, inciting that the cop was in some way racist, or perhaps at the least, profiling. Again, it didn't pan out do to the cop's sensitivity training and professionalism. This ended up in a rather bizarre 'Beer Summit' to ice over the obvious faux pas. The Obama Administration has become more cautious in how it picks it's battles, and you can bet the Hadiya Pendleton murder was a bit of a political hot potato in the White House strategy room. Here's why.
You can safely wager that the Obama Administration 'skunk-works' were scrambling on how, if possible, to spin the Hadiya Pendleton shooting. The problem was how to avoid or skip around the blatant hypocrisy. How do you go about an aggressive gun-grab, when it is now so clearly obvious through Hadiya's example that only law-abiding citizens can be harmed by disarming or downgrading their own defense, while the criminal element remains well armed and at large. Surely, some of those folks in the 541 other people murdered in Chicago in the past 13 months, were either unarmed or out-gunned citizens thanks to Illinois tough gun laws. Surely some of these citizens were killed in their own homes and not in a city park. It is also irresistible to point out once again that Obama's own Justice Department was involved in its own gun running scandal that cost the life of a U.S. border agent. Or, that this gun-grabbing administration will be selling a total of 20, F-16 fighter jets to the unstable government of Egypt which they aided in revolution, only to replace the vacuum with the Muslim Brotherhood. Feeling the coming betrayal by Obama, Israel is now taking matters in its own hands with the instability in Syria. The NRA, an organization that has heralded gun safety and the 2nd Amendment for over 100 years, attended in good faith, Vice President Biden's committee meeting on guns with the intent of helping get to the bottom of the gun violence issue, but Biden and his band of gun hating zealots ignored this age old group. The NRA wanted to talk about mental illness and crime, but it didn't suit the true Progressive agenda which is simply, to disarm the American people. So you see, Obama's 'think tank' might well try to let a sleeping dog lie in Chicago. They were successful in getting the media and police departments to withhold the truth about Newtown from the public. They wanted the focus to be on AR-15 military style rifles and armaments, so it was intentionally withheld from the American people that this rifle, though in the car of the murderous madman, never made it into the school. He accomplished his murderous rampage with several pistols. For a deranged man, hell bent on dealing death to innocents, he might well have used anything pointed, explosive, flammable, toxic, blunt or sharp. Why? Because any thinking human knows that it is the madman behind all these implements that can improvise murder. It happens in prisons every single day, where security is as high as it can possibly be. It doesn't stop killing, drug running, raping, plotting, or prison personnel who are on-the-take. Knowing that, why then do we not disarm criminals and the mentally unstable, instead of law-abiding Americans? If you do hammer your weapons into plowshares, then you will plow for those who don't.
The government knows the truth about mankind, which is why it is armed to the teeth. The President, Senators and other high officials know the truth about mankind, and arm their guards and Secret Service personnel at an enormous cost to American tax payers. The rich, radical left-wing elitists like Mayor 'Big Gulp' Bloomberg of New York, and Rahm 'Deadfish' Emanuel of Chi-town, know the truth about mankind and are surrounded by armed security with high capacity magazines and automatic weapons (we lowly citizens have to use semi-autos). Are those elites more precious than Hadiya Pendleton and what remains of her family? Are these heavily guarded public servants any better or more worthy of security than you? Anyone of them could be compromised due their elitist, Marxist ideologies, but you; you could be killed just because some nut wanted the Nike shoes you were wearing on your feet. It isn't their 'royal hind-asses' that are on the line in the real world. Progressives aren't the ones in denial about the world condition. They're armed and safe. There is a reason these particular elites love class warfare, race-baiting, redistribution, and entitlements. Because that is exactly how they plan to control us. They'll have their ruling class (of which most of them are already multi-millionaires), and then there will be the rest of us. It will then truly be an 'Us and Them' scenario. We'll be so busy scrambling for their handouts, we will have forgotten that we were once their bosses and that they answered to us and hopefully feared our public outrage. These entrusted politicians have been traitors to our Constitution and our sovereignty. Yet, it has been our own lethargy that allowed such a cancer to metastasize.
Supposedly, Obama has talked to the Pendleton family and given his condolences. I'm sure he's had contact with 'Rahm-bo', and others of equal impotency like Jesse Jackson (who at one time wanted Obama's testicles in cup) that will try to keep damage control at a minimum, or have a carefully scripted speech drafted that will be pontificated as friends and family of Hadiya grieve their tragic loss. The Obama Administration will doubtfully parade this family around like they have Gabby Gifford, due to the true face of this particular type of gun violence which cries out for arming law-abiding civilians. Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced a reward for anyone who would 'snitch' on the gunman that killed Hadiya Pendleton. Reminiscent of Orwell, Rahm stated, “You won't be a snitch if you come forward. Be a citizen”. Where was such a plea for the other 541 that were murdered on his watch. No one was watching or holding the mayor accountable. Emanuel could care less. He's living large. Only when it advances their sick Progressive agenda, does any incident get attention. Otherwise, it's a local routine matter. Fighting crime and drug dealing would endanger those political cowards who don't have the guts to focus on cleaning their own cesspool, if indeed they aren't involved in the illegalities themselves. Chicago Marxist politics have never been above that. There will be no revival of 'the Untouchables'. Out of sight out of mind. I've seen where the reward for Hadiya's killer is up to $40,000 now, and that police believe that the many tips coming in might bring the shooter to quick justice. Its strange what lengths political officials will go to when the cameras are rolling and American's are watching their actions. But that will pass soon enough. The sorry truth is that all they are capable of doing are flowery speeches, creating stuffed animal memorials, and lighting candles, but challenging true crime or seriously confronting mental illness aren't on the agenda. It never was on the agenda. It was a 'bastard child' discussed behind closed doors and out of the spotlight. The thing that our New World government fears the most, are the law-abiding citizens that could organize and uprise against tyranny. Supposed republican and certainly Progressive democrats have worked feverishly to write laws that could make anyone a suspected terrorist (ie, the Patriot Act and other bills coming down the pipeline). New, wacky gun laws will make law-abiding believers of the Second Amendment into instant criminals, and their homes and possessions are likely to be inspected at a whim from a number of government agencies if citizens practice their First Amendment right and harshly criticize tyranny.
These elements are intentionally laced into the law, so that anyone can be subject to governmental scrutiny. Ask rocker Ted Nugent about his brush with federal law. He's not barking quite as loud since they nearly nabbed him on some obscure hunting law. They even told his hunting pal that if he 'turned on Nugent' they'd be easy on him. The judge in the infraction wasn't even aware of the law, but ignorance (as they say) is no alibi for not knowing the law. They want Nugent to shut his mouth, and he's now piped down quite a bit in this debate. Who'd blame him? It beats wasting away in some federal penitentiary. Outspoken critic of Obama, war hero Chris Kyle, was gunned down at a firing range by a combat vet suffering from PTSD (and perhaps a bit of MK-ULTRA). Coincidence? I don't think so. Timely though, wasn't it? Seems the squeaky wheels are getting 'greased'. And how about the 'survivalist' that gunned down that bus driver and took a kid hostage? A perfect example of why even a bus driver on a school bus should carry a gun, in my opinion. I had even predicted school bus hijacks would one day occur. It doesn't take a genius to see that one coming. The poor driver tried to defend those kids with absolutely nothing but his heroism, which was consequently not impervious to lead. Lesson learned you'd think, but the networks didn't even consider that the bus driver could have ended the madness with a gun of his own. If the loony 'prepper' was that crazy he could have shot a hell of lot of kids. He certainly had the opportunity, but that wasn't really what he was after or he'd have done it. The news reports he was a cranky, mean SOB anyway, but some 'normal' folk will soon be starting to 'act out' to the unrelenting squeeze the feds are putting on our personal liberties. It was not a wise way to go about protesting it, but look for more of this 'paranoid' behavior in the future as 'the Gov' reticulates its serpentine coils around our freedoms more and more. Every American will have their breaking point, and this administration more than any before it, is certainly testing those limits. They are causing the paranoia, all the feelings of desperation, and the outlandish reactions of those approaching their personal boiling points.
Its said that Obama is now going after the banks that do business with gun manufacturers. How underhanded is that, and who gives him the authority? Is he now the Dictator-in-Chief? So, I hearken to the Pendleton's, the parent's of the children murdered in Newtown, government voodoo-doll Gabrielle Gifford, and any others that this or any administration might use as a prop for the national disarming of citizens; don't cut your own throats. Don't allow the day to come when you'll have to look at a son, daughter, wife, husband, family member or friend and say, “I'm sorry I couldn't protect you against the minds of madmen, be they criminals, gang members, the mentally ill, or a tyrannical administration. Don't be forced to 'plow' for any entity or government, simply because you trusted their 'good intentions'. Use the brain the good Lord put inside your skull. Don't be a hopeless, pleading dishrag.
