Pirate ‘Duped’, Time to Make Sure Others Don’t Make Same Mistake

The New York Daily News reports that the captured pirate now in New York City didn’t find the booty he was looking for in the end.

He shed some tears, which I’m sure is something not permitted in the Pirate Code.

In all seriousness, his mother said the following:

She said her son should not be held responsible for the Maersk hijacking.

“He was brainwashed. People who are older than him outwitted him, people who are older than him duped him,” she said.

“I cried when I saw the picture of him,” Hassan said of the arrest photo. “Relatives brought a copy of the picture to me. Surely he is telling himself now, ‘My mother’s heart is broken.'”

Surely he should be worrying about more than his mother’s heart.   Here is where the rubber meets the road; and while I’m certain he is younger man and I am also certain he was probably convinced that heading out to become a pirate would be a great thing to do for fun and profit, I am also certain that the best way to dissuade others from following suit is to hammer him to the wall and make sure everyone knows.

The longer people think they have an easy way to make millions of dollars in ransom, the longer people will take ships, crews, and goods.  The idea that they are just misunderstood people trying to get ahead in an area of the world where nothing is too good at all is as foolish as saying a homeless person can take money from someone walking by since, hey, he needed it more.  I know there are some liberals who do believe the above statement, and to be sure, I spend enough time focusing on that idiocy, so for now we should focus on pirates.

Convict this felon as an adult, make an example out of him, and have our navy actively engaging pirates and suspected pirates until the seas are clean.   If you want to carry guns and act tough and threat people with violence and death, then be prepared for someone to call you on it and take you at your word: kill or be killed.   The situation has escalated, and the only way the US Navy can lose is if the White House or lawyers hamper them.

GO NAVY!

I am a Threat to the United States

So the Department of Homeland Security says under the rule of Janet Napolitano, “The department “is concerned that right-wing extremists will attempt to recruit and radicalize returning veterans in order to boost their violent capabilities,” the report said.”

Yet, the report also says, “DHS had no specific information about pending violence and said threats had so far been “largely rhetorical.””

Let’s count the ways in which I may be considered a threat to Obama’s version of what America should be:

1) White Supremacist Groups

– While I am not racist, I am white and I find Kwanzaa stupid, so I might qualify in the broad new definition soon to follow I’m sure.

2) Anti-Government Extremists

– Government has its place, but not in the way Obama wants it to be, so I’m probably considered a threat to them on this count.

3) Militia Movements

– Not so much, but I do own guns, so that probably qualifies me

4) Oppose Abortion

– See this .   Definitely a strike against me there.

5) Immigration

– Foolish people will not call it ILLEGAL immigration — against which I am.

6) Oppose gun laws

– Ding!

So in the end I found out I am an extremist and a threat to the United States.   No, DHS, I’m  not a threat to the United States, I’m one of those who wish to preserve the United States.

How much longer will Americans elect the types of people who appoint agenda-driven bureaucrats to positions where they have the power to investigate, monitor, or even harass people due to their political and social views?   I’m not the one threatening to destroy Western civilization, nor the United States…  Those views need to be monitored, but the ACLU protects them.  Stop voting these people into power!

President Obama’s Method of International Relations

Giving DVDs usable in North America to the PM of Britain, Obama’s State Department’s inability to translate a ‘Reset Button’, as well as stating that The United Kingdom is just another nation… nothing special there are all signs of his ineptitude and all within the first hundred days.

While pushing away from, and then trying to get back in favor with, Britain Obama has been busy giving town hall speeches to Turks declaring that the United States does not consider itself a Christian or Jewish nation.   Strangely, the US does not have to define itself, nor let any individual define the US either.   When the vast majority of a country is of one form of faith then it is structured as such. The President should realize, unless he is too to understand that values always get translated into laws, ethics, and morality, then we are completely influenced by the largest single moral guide:  The Christian Bible.  Why? Because the majority of the people in the US is Christian.   Why has Iraq colored its laws in an Islamic frame?   Because the vast majority are Muslim.   This is not an insult or some sort of indictment; this is just a simple reality.  Why would someone need to backtrack and act like this is not the case unless that person is not happy with the current standing.   After 20 years of having Minister Wright as a moral lighthouse, perhaps I’d be turned from Christianity as well.

Obama also wants to get in bed with Cuba, cater to Venezuela, and make threats to North Korea with no plans of following through what so ever.   His cowardice and willingness to reverse so many US positions is giving more power to those who despise us.  This charity for our adversaries does go into the idea of spreading the wealth, but int his case it the wealth of international power and that is at the detriment of the United States.   His foolishness weakens the US, his stupidity makes it impossible for him to realize it, and his naivety makes him willing to give more away.

How much longer will Americans tolerate this?

An Important First Step: Part the Second

In Part the First, I attempted to explain why less laws at the top, less control at the federal level is the best method for a consensual government due to the local control and difficulty in any meaningful corruption for external forces.  In this, Part the Second, I shall attempt to address the issue of what does belong at the federal level and why.  This is actually the most simple of all posts because I only need to point to the United States Constitution for these answers.

Without cutting and pasting the majority (or all) of the US Constution (USC), which is great and quick reading by the way, the idea of a Supreme  Law of the land both so small and also limiting the power of the government at that time and in future times by enumerating the powers an authority and leaving the rest to the states or the people.  While, in the opinion of this esteemed constitutional scholar, this enumeration has been abused and warped in many instances, the most worrying element is when it is completely ignored.   Our ‘representatives’ who engage in legislation and pass bills of this sort of unconstitutional nature are doing this for two reasons: Collection of more power into a smaller quantity of hands, and also as a way to bride voters into voting for them since most of the time these power-grabs are done ‘in the name of the people’ and are defined in a way to make them seem that if the federal government doesn’t do something the sky will fall.

Without going into great detail, I will use one obvious example that has been warped and misconstrued to meet the ends not of the Constitution, but of a certain subsection of society.

If a town wishes to display a nativity scene it may find the ACLU suing them to take it down on the grounds of  “separation of church and state”.  We need to take a closer look.

The First Amendment says, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

This is obvious enough as it states, “Congress shall make no law…”  Which leads the reader to ask, “Who makes up Congress?”

Article I Section I states, “All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.”

If still uncertain, the following sections of Article I explain who may comprice the U.S. Senate (including Amendment 17) and the U.S. House of Representatives and we all should have a basic idea without me quoting the sources.

Now to get back to the idea as to whom may be putting up a manger scene:  A town.  Unless the Congress of the United States is forcing that town to put it up, Congress is not establishing any religion at all and the federal government has no authority to tell the town what to do based on the Tenth Amendment, “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”

Also, this simple display relevant to one religion does not automatically mean the establishment of the religion in that town, nor does it in any way obstruct any members of that town from worshiping as they see fit.

This is a grand example of a power grab taking control away from a locality and pushing not only to a federal level, but also into the hands of judges who are immune from public reproach and are installed for life.  There is no recourse for the town, and the people of that town can not have their way because some out-of-town group comes in and pleads their case to a sympathetic judge who is equally far removed from that town.  Freedom is diminished, power is concentrated into the hands of fewer and fewer people and the Constitution is warped to the fit the desires of the loud, not those concerned with freedom.

In ending this Part the Second, it is my desire to have explained why federal law can be dangerous and very agenda driven.  Of course local law can also be agenda driven, but it far easier to remedy (or simply move away from such idiocy).  Government must be considered as being a force as stated by George Washington, “Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.”

It thus must be kept at the level of a camp fire lest it be turned into a forest fire.