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Quote of the Day – A Little Strong Edition

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Islam will be the defining problem of the 21st Century the same way Communism was to the 20th. It is an existential threat to Western Civilization and like Communism, it needs to be eradicated. – Snarkybytes, That Equal Protection Thing?

I see it as more pre-Reformation Catholicism. Islam can’t be “eradicated” any more than Communism can. As the poster says,

Catholicism was never what Islam is, a complete guide on how to live your life during every waking moment, a guide and exhortation to take over the world, but it was the overwhelmingly most powerful force in the lives of ordinary Western people for centuries until its corruption spawned Luther and the Reformation.

Islam isn’t so much corrupted as it is being properly interpreted by those who want to drag the world, beaten and bloody, back into the 14th Century. What needs to happen is a rejection of its teachings. But no matter what, it won’t be “eradicated.” No idea ever really is. It needs to be ridiculed into oblivion.

Quote of the Day – Billy Beck Edition

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I keep saying it: the basic conflict in American politics is individualism vs. collectivism in all its pretense forms and manifestation. I keep saying it because no arrangements of coalition electoral politics will address this fundamental schism: as the necessary economic implications become real, so-called ‘democracy’ becomes impotent to manage coalition demands, all while the force of ‘law’ becomes more arbitrary at coalition demand.

I’ve been saying it for at least fifteen years: “The pace of this thing is picking up.”

I hate to keep saying it, because I know it’s no fun to hear it and it just wears my narrow white ass out to keep-ass saying it, but the real problem under all this is fucking enormous

I really don’t think it can be fixed before it really goes the way of the pear. We’re really in it. In our lifetimes.

Billy Beck, Two-Four – What Really Happened

The Shall-Issue CCW Wave Began in Florida

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…and they’re still fighting the good fight.  Robb Allen emails:

As some of you may know, I am a board member for Florida Carry and we have been active in trying to get some new bills passed through here in the Sunshine state. You all comprise a wide group of readers, many of which may live here in God’s Waiting Room who might not read my blog. SB 234 is the largest piece of pro gun legislation we’ve seen since Shall Issue was pushed 24 years ago.

We’re beating back decades of anti-gun legislation and as more states are moving toward things like Shall Issue and Constitutional Carry, each win, regardless of state, helps the freedom of all.

Damned straight.

Do you live in Florida?  Drop by and read Robb’s post on the carry reform bill now in committee, and swing by Florida Carry too.

I Wish I’d Written That

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Via Improved Clinch, please take a few minutes and read Moral Communism at Counting Cats in Zanzibar.  Excerpt:

If they try to communise the economy directly, there is an enormous body of “right wing” economic theory that can knock down their plans. So instead, they go for a two stage process. First of all, they persuade people that some Damned Thing is immoral. Then they show that the free market allows or encourages that immoral thing. Then they can say, “well, we wish we didn’t have to do this, but I’m afraid we’re going to have to intervene in that part of the economy, to stop the Damned Thing, sorry”. This leaves the free marketeer floundering around having to try to justify the continuance of the Damned Thing in the name of some nebulous “liberty”. And then they say, “so your selfish desire for “liberty” means this Damned Thing must go on?” and you lose the argument in public, because most of the audience have been persuaded that there is a moral crisis that must be addressed, and you are a heartless asshole who just doesn’t care.

RTWT.  Seriously.

Dicta! It’s Just Dicta!

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Obiter dictum (noun, Latin):  An opinion voiced by a judge that has only incidental bearing on the case in question and is therefore not binding.

Where There’s a William makes a fascinating legal connection between two points brought up here:  the finding that Obamacare is unconstitutional by United States District Court of Northern Florida the and the Seventh Circuit’s 1982 decision in Bowers v. DeVito that I excerpted as Quote of the Day a couple of days ago.

Will’s point is perfectly logical and rational, so of course it must be wrong!  I can see the Left screaming that the Bowers declaration that

The Constitution is a charter of negative liberties; it tells the state to let people alone

is merely dicta, and not binding on any court.

Or, as Nancy Pelosi put it, “Are you serious?  Are you serious?“

Edited to add:

No less a Constitutional scholar than our President, Barack Obama concurs with the court’s interpretation of the Constitution in Bowers:

http://static.photobucket.com/player.swfLonger excerpt available on YouTube.

Quote of the Day – Seventh Circuit Edition

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In keeping with the post below:

There is a constitutional right not to be murdered by a state officer, for the state violates the Fourteenth Amendment when its officer, acting under color of state law, deprives a person of life without due process of law. Brazier v. Cherry, 293 F.2d 401, 404-05 (5th Cir. 1961). But there is no constitutional right to be protected by the state against being murdered by criminals or madmen. It is monstrous if the state fails to protect its residents against such predators but it does not violate the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment or, we suppose, any other provision of the Constitution. The Constitution is a charter of negative liberties; it tells the state to let people alone

Bowers v. DeVito (1982)

Found initially at Another Gun Blog, where Mike W. has some important things to say on the topic.