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First, a great video ...

Tyranny is knocking on America's door, and at this point, I'm not sure the American people have the will to stop it. So get ready ... Because they're coming for your guns! (and your kitchen knives too).

Civilian Disarmament is Carried Out for the Benefit of Rulers, not Subjects

"We need to make it clear," fulminated Patrick Lynch of the New York City Policeman's Benevolent Association, "that if someone lifts even a finger against a police officer, their life could be on the line."

Taken literally, this would make a capital offense out of a familiar disrespectful gesture, a salute that is entirely appropriate when directed at officious tax-grazers of Lynch's ilk. It is scarcely an exaggeration to say that Lynch perceives criticism of the police as a species of crime.

A little more than a decade ago, Lynch (whose surname appears to be one of God's little in-jokes) attempted to manufacture public outrage over Bruce Springsteen's song "American Skin (41 Shots)."

That ballad described the death of unarmed African immigrant Amadou Diallo, who was perforated by 19 bullets fired by NYPD officers in a perfectly avoidable eruption of gunfire. The officers were pursuing a rapist, and Diallo – who, like countless other slightly built young black men, vaguely resembled the suspect – supposedly provoked an outburst of "contagious gunfire" by reaching into his pants to retrieve his ID.

The officers who gunned down Diallo were following legitimate leads in pursuit of an individual who had committed crimes of violence against innocent people. Their actions most likely were the product of panic, rather than depravity. Still, given that an innocent man died at their hands, the SCU officers should have faced some kind of accountability. It's also worth contemplating the likely fate of a civilian who shot and killed a police officer under similar circumstances.

In that respect it's instructive to recall the travails of Cory Maye, currently imprisoned (and, at one time sentenced to death) for shooting and killing a police officer who broke into his home during a no-knock drug raid at the wrong address.

If Maye had been gunned down as Diallo was, the incident almost certainly would have been treated as a tragedy, and the public would have been admonished by the police and their media stenographers not to second-guess police officers tasked to do "dangerous work" entailing "split-second decisions." No similar sympathy was ever extended to Maye, who had to make a split-second decision when dealing with a party of armed strangers who had invaded his home and threatened his family.

According to the State, Maye's actions, though purely defensive, amounted to first-degree murder. After all, he -- a Mundane -- had dared to lift his hand against one of the State's Anointed, who are invested with an unqualified license to kill.

This is how tyranny works. The "Only One's" who can carry a defensive weapon are those who are anointed by the State. If you don't understand what a serious problem this is, I suggest you study a little history.

Rights are inalienable, not granted by the State. Self defense is an inalienable right, not a privilege granted by the State. This means that all tax-eaters, from cops to politicians to judges, have no more "rights" than you or any other person walking down the street.

But Americans have become complacent and servile to the Almighty State ... So instead of freedom, tyranny in America now increases by the day.

Please take the time to read the whole post by William Grigg (click title above). In the meantime, here's a few more actions our Overlords are taking against us (formerly) free citizens.

Court upholds police pointing gun at innocent man: Greg Schubert of Springfield, Massachusetts, was accosted and held against his will by a State enforcer for legally carrying his weapon.

LA police chief wants ban on citizens owning body armor: Only the tax-eaters are allowed to protect themselves. If you try, you'll be arrested for precrime.

Oklahoma says it's illegal to 'fortify' your home: It is impermissible to "construct, install, position, use or hold any material or device designed ... to strengthen, defend, restrict or obstruct any door, window, or other opening into a dwelling, structure, building or other place to any extent beyond the security provided by a commercial alarm system, lock or deadbolt, or a combination of alarm, lock, or deadbolt."

"A license of any sort, of course, is a government-issued document that transmutes an innate individual right into a State-conferred, and state-revocable, privilege." - William Grigg

Trusting the government is a fool's errand. Giving tax-eaters the benefit of the doubt is even more foolish. We all know that taking away a law-abiding individual's ability to defend himself won't "make the street's safer," therefore (and as history has proven), citizen disarmament will lead to tyranny.