Protecting the Second Amendment

Protecting the Second Amendment – Why all Americans Should Be Concerned
29 Jan 2013
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So, what do we believe will be effective? First, it is important that we recognize that this is not a gun control problem; it is a complex sociological problem. No single course of action will solve the problem. Therefore, it is our recommendation that a series of diverse steps be undertaken, the implementation of which will require patience and diligence to realize an effect. These are as follows:

1. First and foremost we support our Second Amendment right in that “A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed”.

2. We support State and Local School Boards in their efforts to establish security protocols in whatever manner and form that they deem necessary and adequate. One of the great strengths of our Republic is that State and Local governments can be creative in solving problems. Things that work can be shared. Our point is that no one knows what will work and there is no one single solution, so let’s allow the State and Local governments with the input of the citizens to make the decisions. Most recently the Cleburne Independent School District will become the first district in North Texas to consider allowing some teachers to carry concealed guns. We do not opine as to the appropriateness of this decision, but we do support their right to make this decision for themselves.

3. We recommend that Assisted Outpatient Treatment (AOT) laws be passed in every State. AOT is formerly known as Involuntary Outpatient Commitment (IOC) and allows the courts to order certain individuals with mental disorders to comply with treatment while living in the community. In each of the mass shooting incidents the perpetrator was mentally unstable. We also believe that people who have been adjudicated as incompetent should be simultaneously examined to determine whether they should be allowed the right to retain/purchase firearms.

4. We support the return of firearm safety programs to schools along the lines of the successful "Eddie the Eagle" program, which can be taught in schools by Peace Officers or other trained professionals.

5. Recent social psychology research clearly indicates that there is a direct relationship between gratuitously violent movies/video games and desensitization to real violence and increased aggressive behavior particularly in children and young adults (See Nicholas L. Carnagey, et al. 2007. “The effect of video game violence on physiological desensitization to real-life violence” and the references therein. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 43:489-496). Therefore, we strongly recommend that gratuitous violence in movies and video games be discouraged. War and war-like behavior should not be glorified. Hollywood and video game producers are exploiting something they know nothing about. General Sherman famously said “War is Hell!” Leave war to the Professionals. War is not a game and should not be "sold" as entertainment to our children.

6. We support repeal of the Gun-Free School Zones Act of 1990. This may sound counter-intuitive, but it obviously isn’t working. It is our opinion that “Gun-Free Zones” anywhere are too tempting of an environment for the mentally disturbed individual to inflict their brand of horror with little fear of interference. While governmental and non-governmental organizations, businesses, and individuals should be free to implement a Gun-Free Zone if they so choose, they should also assume Tort liability for that decision.

7. We believe that border states should take responsibility for implementation of border control laws to prevent illegal shipments of firearms and drugs. Drugs have been illegal in this country for a long, long time yet the Federal Government manages to seize only an estimated 10% of this contraband at our borders. Given this dismal performance record that is misguided and inept (“Fast and Furious”), we believe that border States will be far more competent at this mission.

8. This is our country, these are our rights. We believe that it is time that we take personal responsibility for our choices and actions rather than abdicate that responsibility to someone else under the illusion that we have done something that will make us all safer. We have a responsibility to stand by our principles and act in accordance with them. Our children are watching and they will follow the example we set.

The undersigned Quiet Professionals hereby humbly stand ever present, ever ready, and ever vigilant.

Are there unintended consequences to stricter gun control laws

Are there unintended consequences to stricter gun control laws and the politically expedient path that we have started down?

In a recent op-ed piece in the San Francisco Chronicle, Brett Joshpe stated that “Gun advocates will be hard-pressed to explain why the average American citizen needs an assault weapon with a high-capacity magazine other than for recreational purposes.”We agree with Kevin D. Williamson (National Review Online, December 28, 2012): “The problem with this argument is that there is no legitimate exception to the Second Amendment right that excludes military-style weapons, because military-style weapons are precisely what the Second Amendment guarantees our right to keep and bear.”

“The purpose of the Second Amendment is to secure our ability to oppose enemies foreign and domestic, a guarantee against disorder and tyranny. Consider the words of Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story”: ‘The importance of this article will scarcely be doubted by any persons, who have duly reflected upon the subject. The militia is the natural defense of a free country against sudden foreign invasions, domestic insurrections, and domestic usurpations of power by rulers. It is against sound policy for a free people to keep up large military establishments and standing armies in time of peace, both from the enormous expenses, with which they are attended, and the facile means, which they afford to ambitious and unprincipled rulers, to subvert the government, or trample upon the rights of the people. The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered, as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them.’

The Second Amendment has been ruled to specifically extend to firearms “in common use” by the military by the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in U.S. v Miller (1939). In Printz v U.S. (1997) Justice Thomas wrote: “In Miller we determined that the Second Amendment did not guarantee a citizen’s right to possess a sawed-off shot gun because that weapon had not been shown to be “ordinary military equipment” that could “could contribute to the common defense”.

A citizen’s right to keep and bear arms for personal defense unconnected with service in a militia has been reaffirmed in the U.S. Supreme Court decision (District of Columbia, et al. v Heller, 2008). The Court Justice Scalia wrote in the majority opinion: “The Second Amendment protects an individual right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia, and to use that arm for traditionally lawful purposes, such as self-defense within the home.“. Justice Scalia went on to define a militia as “… comprised all males physically capable of acting in concert for the common defense ….”
“The Anti-Federalists feared that the Federal Government would disarm the people in order to disable this citizens’ militia, enabling a politicized standing army or a select militia to rule. The response was to deny Congress power to abridge the ancient right of individuals to keep and bear arms, so that the ideal of a citizens’ militia would be preserved.” he explained.

On September 13, 1994, the Federal Assault Weapons Ban went into effect. A Washington Post editorial published two days later was candid about the ban's real purpose:“[N]o one should have any illusions about what was accomplished [by the ban]. Assault weapons play a part in only a small percentage of crime. The provision is mainly symbolic; its virtue will be if it turns out to be, as hoped, a stepping stone to broader gun control.”

In a challenge to the authority of the Federal government to require State and Local Law Enforcement to enforce Federal Law (Printz v United States) the U.S. Supreme Court rendered a decision in 1997. For the majority opinion Justice Scalia wrote: "…. this Court never has sanctioned explicitly a federal command to the States to promulgate and enforce laws and regulations When we were at last confronted squarely with a federal statute that unambiguously required the States to enact or administer a federal regulatory program, our decision should have come as no surprise….. It is an essential attribute of the States' retained sovereignty that they remain independent and autonomous within their proper sphere of authority.”

So why should non-gun owners, a majority of Americans, care about maintaining the 2nd Amendment right for citizens to bear arms of any kind?

The answer is “The Battle of Athens, TN”. The Cantrell family had controlled the economy and politics of McMinn County, Tennessee since the 1930s. Paul Cantrell had been Sheriff from 1936 -1940 and in 1942 was elected to the State Senate. His chief deputy, Paul Mansfield, was subsequently elected to two terms as Sheriff. In 1946 returning WWII veterans put up a popular candidate for Sheriff. On August 1 Sheriff Mansfield and 200 “deputies” stormed the post office polling place to take control of the ballot boxes wounding an objecting observer in the process. The veterans bearing military style weapons, laid siege to the Sheriff’s office demanding return of the ballot boxes for public counting of the votes as prescribed in Tennessee law. After exchange of gun fire and blowing open the locked doors, the veterans secured the ballot boxes thereby protecting the integrity of the election. And this is precisely why all Americans should be concerned about protecting all of our right to keep and bear arms as guaranteed by the Second Amendment!

Throughout history, disarming the populace has always preceded tyrants’ accession of power. Hitler, Stalin, and Mao all disarmed their citizens prior to installing their murderous regimes. At the beginning of our own nation’s revolution, one of the first moves made by the British government was an attempt to disarm our citizens. When our Founding Fathers ensured that the 2nd Amendment was made a part of our Constitution, they were not just wasting ink. They were acting to ensure our present security was never forcibly endangered by tyrants, foreign or domestic.

If there is a staggering legal precedent to protect our 2nd Amendment right to keep and bear arms and if stricter gun control laws are not likely to reduce gun related crime, why are we having this debate? Other than making us and our elected representatives feel better because we think that we are doing something to protect our children, these actions will have no effect and will only provide us with a false sense of security.

Protecting the Second Amendment – Why all Americans Should Be Concerned

We are current or former Army Reserve, National Guard, and active duty US Army Special Forces soldiers (Green Berets). We have all taken an oath to “...support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same.…” The Constitution of the United States is without a doubt the single greatest document in the history of mankind, codifying the fundamental principle of governmental power and authority being derived from and granted through the consent of the governed. Our Constitution established a system of governance that preserves, protects, and holds sacrosanct the individual rights and primacy of the governed as well as providing for the explicit protection of the governed from governmental tyranny and/or oppression. We have witnessed the insidious and iniquitous effects of tyranny and oppression on people all over the world. We and our forebears have embodied and personified our organizational motto, De Oppresso Liber [To Free the Oppressed], for more than a half century as we have fought, shed blood, and died in the pursuit of freedom for the oppressed.

Like you, we are also loving and caring fathers and grandfathers. Like you, we have been stunned, horrified, and angered by the tragedies of Columbine, Virginia Tech, Aurora, Fort Hood, and Sandy Hook; and like you, we are searching for solutions to the problem of gun-related crimes in our society. Many of us are educators in our second careers and have a special interest to find a solution to this problem. However, unlike much of the current vox populi reactions to this tragedy, we offer a different perspective.

First, we need to set the record straight on a few things. The current debate is over so-called “assault weapons” and high capacity magazines. The terms "assault weapon" and "assault rifle" are often confused. According to Bruce H. Kobayashi and Joseph E. Olson, writing in the Stanford Law and Policy Review, “Prior to 1989, the term ‘assault weapon’ did not exist in the lexicon of firearms. It is a political term [underline added for emphasis], developed by anti-gun publicists to expand the category of assault rifles.”

The M4A1 carbine is a U.S. military service rifle - it is an assault rifle. The AR-15 is not an assault rifle. The “AR” in its name does not stand for “Assault Rifle” - it is the designation from the first two letters of the manufacturer’s name – ArmaLite Corporation. The AR-15 is designed so that it cosmetically looks like the M4A1 carbine assault rifle, but it is impossible to configure the AR-15 to be a fully automatic assault rifle. It is a single shot semi-automatic rifle that can fire between 45 and 60 rounds per minute depending on the skill of the operator. The M4A1 can fire up to 950 rounds per minute. In 1986, the federal government banned the import or manufacture of new fully automatic firearms for sale to civilians. Therefore, the sale of assault rifles are already banned or heavily restricted!

The second part of the current debate is over “high capacity magazines” capable of holding more than 10 rounds in the magazine. As experts in military weapons of all types, it is our considered opinion that reducing magazine capacity from 30 rounds to 10 rounds will only require an additional 6 -8 seconds to change two empty 10 round magazines with full magazines. Would an increase of 6 –8 seconds make any real difference to the outcome in a mass shooting incident? In our opinion it would not. Outlawing such “high capacity magazines” would, however, outlaw a class of firearms that are “in common use”. As such this would be in contravention to the opinion expressed by the U.S. Supreme Court recent decisions.

Moreover, when the Federal Assault Weapons Ban became law in 1994, manufacturers began retooling to produce firearms and magazines that were compliant. One of those ban-compliant firearms was the Hi-Point 995, which was sold with ten-round magazines. In 1999, five years into the Federal Assault Weapons Ban, the Columbine High School massacre occurred. One of the perpetrators, Eric Harris, was armed with a Hi-Point 995. Undeterred by the ten-round capacity of his magazines, Harris simply brought more of them: thirteen magazines would be found in the massacre's aftermath. Harris fired 96 rounds before killing himself.

Now that we have those facts straight, in our opinion, it is too easy to conclude that the problem is guns and that the solution to the problem is more and stricter gun control laws. For politicians, it is politically expedient to take that position and pass more gun control laws and then claim to constituents that they have done the right thing in the interest of protecting our children. Who can argue with that? Of course we all want to find a solution. But, is the problem really guns? Would increasing gun regulation solve the problem? Did we outlaw cars to combat drunk driving?

What can we learn from experiences with this issue elsewhere? We cite the experience in Great Britain. Despite the absence of a “gun culture”, Great Britain, with one-fifth the population of the U.S., has experienced mass shootings that are eerily similar to those we have experienced in recent years. In 1987 a lone gunman killed 18 people in Hungerford. What followed was the Firearms Act of 1988 making registration mandatory and banning semi-automatic guns and pump-action shotguns. Despite this ban, on March 13, 1996 a disturbed 43-year old former scout leader, Thomas Hamilton, murdered 16 school children aged five and six and a teacher at a primary school in Dunblane, Scotland. Within a year and a half the Firearms Act was amended to ban all private ownership of hand guns. After both shootings there were amnesty periods resulting in the surrender of thousands of firearms and ammunition. Despite having the toughest gun control laws in the world, gun related crimes increased in 2003 by 35% over the previous year with firearms used in 9,974 recorded crimes in the preceding 12 months. Gun related homicides were up 32% over the same period. Overall, gun related crime had increased 65% since the Dunblane massacre and implementation of the toughest gun control laws in the developed world. In contrast, in 2009 (5 years after the Federal Assault Weapons Ban expired) total firearm related homicides in the U.S. declined by 9% from the 2005 high (Source: “FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Master File, Table 310, Murder Victims – Circumstances and Weapons Used or Cause of Death: 2000-2009”).

Over 1000 Green Berets Sign Letter Supporting Second Amendment

Over 1000 Green Berets Sign Letter Supporting Second Amendment



Over 1000 Green Berets have signed a letter re-asserting their oath to support and defend the Constitution by protecting the second amendment rights of American citizens.

The letter, which originally featured at ProfessionalSoldiers.com, was written by “current or former Army Reserve, National Guard, and active duty US Army Special Forces soldiers.”

It highlights the fact that the Constitution was drafted primarily as a means of protecting citizens against “governmental tyranny and/or oppression,” further citing the words of Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story, who outlined the purpose of the second amendment when he stated, “The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered, as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them.”

“Throughout history, disarming the populace has always preceded tyrants’ accession of power. Hitler, Stalin, and Mao all disarmed their citizens prior to installing their murderous regimes,” states the letter. “At the beginning of our own nation’s revolution, one of the first moves made by the British government was an attempt to disarm our citizens. When our Founding Fathers ensured that the 2nd Amendment was made a part of our Constitution, they were not just wasting ink. They were acting to ensure our present security was never forcibly endangered by tyrants, foreign or domestic.”

The legal precedent of the right to keep and bear arms which includes weapons “in common use” by the military is also documented, as is the definition of the term “militia,” which as Court Justice Scalia ruled in 2008, “comprised all males physically capable of acting in concert for the common defense.”

Tackling numerous sacred cows brought up by gun control advocates, the letter points out that the 1994 Federal Assault Weapons Ban was completely useless in preventing mass shootings because instead of using high capacity magazines, shooters like Columbine killer Eric Harris simply bought more 10 round magazines and changed them more often.

The letter also documents how, despite its draconian gun ban in 1996, gun crime in the United Kingdom has continually increased, whereas firearm related homicides in the United States decreased by 9 per cent five years after the expiration of the Assault Weapons Ban.

At the end of the letter, eight steps are recommended to reduce gun violence while still maintaining the sanctity of the second amendment, including a repeal of the Gun-Free School Zones Act of 1990, which allows shooters to carry out their massacres unimpeded by responsible gun owners.

Stricter border controls to tackle the flow of illegal firearms from Mexico are also advocated, as is the return of firearm safety programs to schools. The letter also discourages the proliferation of violence in movies and video games, citing recent scientific studies which draw a correlation between desensitization to violence and aggressive behavior in young people and adults.

Amidst the Obama administration’s effort to curtail the second amendment through both executive orders and legislation, numerous top law enforcement officials from across the country have gone public to assert that they will not follow federal orders to confiscate firearms.

Last week,Gilberton, Pennsylvania Police Chief Mark Kessler promised not to enforce unconstitutional laws that eviscerate second amendment rights.

“I will take my uniform off and I will stand with freedom before I stand with tyrannical thugs,” he stated.

Read the full letter signed by the Green Berets below.

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Protecting the Second Amendment – Why all Americans Should Be Concerned

We are current or former Army Reserve, National Guard, and active duty US Army Special Forces soldiers (Green Berets). We have all taken an oath to “…support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same.…” The Constitution of the United States is without a doubt the single greatest document in the history of mankind, codifying the fundamental principle of governmental power and authority being derived from and granted through the consent of the governed. Our Constitution established a system of governance that preserves, protects, and holds sacrosanct the individual rights and primacy of the governed as well as providing for the explicit protection of the governed from governmental tyranny and/or oppression. We have witnessed the insidious and iniquitous effects of tyranny and oppression on people all over the world. We and our forebears have embodied and personified our organizational motto, De Oppresso Liber [To Free the Oppressed], for more than a half century as we have fought, shed blood, and died in the pursuit of freedom for the oppressed.

Like you, we are also loving and caring fathers and grandfathers. Like you, we have been stunned, horrified, and angered by the tragedies of Columbine, Virginia Tech, Aurora, Fort Hood, and Sandy Hook; and like you, we are searching for solutions to the problem of gun-related crimes in our society. Many of us are educators in our second careers and have a special interest to find a solution to this problem. However, unlike much of the current vox populi reactions to this tragedy, we offer a different perspective.

First, we need to set the record straight on a few things. The current debate is over so-called “assault weapons” and high capacity magazines. The terms “assault weapon” and “assault rifle” are often confused. According to Bruce H. Kobayashi and Joseph E. Olson, writing in the Stanford Law and Policy Review, “Prior to 1989, the term ‘assault weapon’ did not exist in the lexicon of firearms. It is a political term [underline added for emphasis], developed by anti-gun publicists to expand the category of assault rifles.”

The M4A1 carbine is a U.S. military service rifle – it is an assault rifle. The AR-15 is not an assault rifle. The “AR” in its name does not stand for “Assault Rifle” – it is the designation from the first two letters of the manufacturer’s name – ArmaLite Corporation. The AR-15 is designed so that it cosmetically looks like the M4A1 carbine assault rifle, but it is impossible to configure the AR-15 to be a fully automatic assault rifle. It is a single shot semi-automatic rifle that can fire between 45 and 60 rounds per minute depending on the skill of the operator. The M4A1 can fire up to 950 rounds per minute. In 1986, the federal government banned the import or manufacture of new fully automatic firearms for sale to civilians. Therefore, the sale of assault rifles are already banned or heavily restricted!

The second part of the current debate is over “high capacity magazines” capable of holding more than 10 rounds in the magazine. As experts in military weapons of all types, it is our considered opinion that reducing magazine capacity from 30 rounds to 10 rounds will only require an additional 6 -8 seconds to change two empty 10 round magazines with full magazines. Would an increase of 6 –8 seconds make any real difference to the outcome in a mass shooting incident? In our opinion it would not. Outlawing such “high capacity magazines” would, however, outlaw a class of firearms that are “in common use”. As such this would be in contravention to the opinion expressed by the U.S. Supreme Court recent decisions.

Moreover, when the Federal Assault Weapons Ban became law in 1994, manufacturers began retooling to produce firearms and magazines that were compliant. One of those ban-compliant firearms was the Hi-Point 995, which was sold with ten-round magazines. In 1999, five years into the Federal Assault Weapons Ban, the Columbine High School massacre occurred. One of the perpetrators, Eric Harris, was armed with a Hi-Point 995. Undeterred by the ten-round capacity of his magazines, Harris simply brought more of them: thirteen magazines would be found in the massacre’s aftermath. Harris fired 96 rounds before killing himself.

Now that we have those facts straight, in our opinion, it is too easy to conclude that the problem is guns and that the solution to the problem is more and stricter gun control laws. For politicians, it is politically expedient to take that position and pass more gun control laws and then claim to constituents that they have done the right thing in the interest of protecting our children. Who can argue with that? Of course we all want to find a solution. But, is the problem really guns? Would increasing gun regulation solve the problem? Did we outlaw cars to combat drunk driving?

What can we learn from experiences with this issue elsewhere? We cite the experience in Great Britain. Despite the absence of a “gun culture”, Great Britain, with one-fifth the population of the U.S., has experienced mass shootings that are eerily similar to those we have experienced in recent years. In 1987 a lone gunman killed 18 people in Hungerford. What followed was the Firearms Act of 1988 making registration mandatory and banning semi-automatic guns and pump-action shotguns. Despite this ban, on March 13, 1996 a disturbed 43-year old former scout leader, Thomas Hamilton, murdered 16 school children aged five and six and a teacher at a primary school in Dunblane, Scotland. Within a year and a half the Firearms Act was amended to ban all private ownership of hand guns. After both shootings there were amnesty periods resulting in the surrender of thousands of firearms and ammunition. Despite having the toughest gun control laws in the world, gun related crimes increased in 2003 by 35% over the previous year with firearms used in 9,974 recorded crimes in the preceding 12 months. Gun related homicides were up 32% over the same period. Overall, gun related crime had increased 65% since the Dunblane massacre and implementation of the toughest gun control laws in the developed world. In contrast, in 2009 (5 years after the Federal Assault Weapons Ban expired) total firearm related homicides in the U.S. declined by 9% from the 2005 high (Source: “FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Master File, Table 310, Murder Victims – Circumstances and Weapons Used or Cause of Death: 2000-2009”).

Are there unintended consequences to stricter gun control laws and the politically expedient path that we have started down?

In a recent op-ed piece in the San Francisco Chronicle, Brett Joshpe stated that “Gun advocates will be hard-pressed to explain why the average American citizen needs an assault weapon with a high-capacity magazine other than for recreational purposes.”We agree with Kevin D. Williamson (National Review Online, December 28, 2012): “The problem with this argument is that there is no legitimate exception to the Second Amendment right that excludes military-style weapons, because military-style weapons are precisely what the Second Amendment guarantees our right to keep and bear.”

“The purpose of the Second Amendment is to secure our ability to oppose enemies foreign and domestic, a guarantee against disorder and tyranny. Consider the words of Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story”: ‘The importance of this article will scarcely be doubted by any persons, who have duly reflected upon the subject. The militia is the natural defense of a free country against sudden foreign invasions, domestic insurrections, and domestic usurpations of power by rulers. It is against sound policy for a free people to keep up large military establishments and standing armies in time of peace, both from the enormous expenses, with which they are attended, and the facile means, which they afford to ambitious and unprincipled rulers, to subvert the government, or trample upon the rights of the people. The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered, as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them.’

The Second Amendment has been ruled to specifically extend to firearms “in common use” by the military by the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in U.S. v Miller (1939). In Printz v U.S. (1997) Justice Thomas wrote: “In Miller we determined that the Second Amendment did not guarantee a citizen’s right to possess a sawed-off shot gun because that weapon had not been shown to be “ordinary military equipment” that could “could contribute to the common defense”.

A citizen’s right to keep and bear arms for personal defense unconnected with service in a militia has been reaffirmed in the U.S. Supreme Court decision (District of Columbia, et al. v Heller, 2008). The Court Justice Scalia wrote in the majority opinion: “The Second Amendment protects an individual right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia, and to use that arm for traditionally lawful purposes, such as self-defense within the home.“. Justice Scalia went on to define a militia as “… comprised all males physically capable of acting in concert for the common defense ….”

“The Anti-Federalists feared that the Federal Government would disarm the people in order to disable this citizens’ militia, enabling a politicized standing army or a select militia to rule. The response was to deny Congress power to abridge the ancient right of individuals to keep and bear arms, so that the ideal of a citizens’ militia would be preserved.” he explained.

On September 13, 1994, the Federal Assault Weapons Ban went into effect. A Washington Post editorial published two days later was candid about the ban’s real purpose:“[N]o one should have any illusions about what was accomplished [by the ban]. Assault weapons play a part in only a small percentage of crime. The provision is mainly symbolic; its virtue will be if it turns out to be, as hoped, a stepping stone to broader gun control.”

In a challenge to the authority of the Federal government to require State and Local Law Enforcement to enforce Federal Law (Printz v United States) the U.S. Supreme Court rendered a decision in 1997. For the majority opinion Justice Scalia wrote: “…. this Court never has sanctioned explicitly a federal command to the States to promulgate and enforce laws and regulations When we were at last confronted squarely with a federal statute that unambiguously required the States to enact or administer a federal regulatory program, our decision should have come as no surprise….. It is an essential attribute of the States’ retained sovereignty that they remain independent and autonomous within their proper sphere of authority.”

So why should non-gun owners, a majority of Americans, care about maintaining the 2nd Amendment right for citizens to bear arms of any kind?

The answer is “The Battle of Athens, TN”. The Cantrell family had controlled the economy and politics of McMinn County, Tennessee since the 1930s. Paul Cantrell had been Sheriff from 1936 -1940 and in 1942 was elected to the State Senate. His chief deputy, Paul Mansfield, was subsequently elected to two terms as Sheriff. In 1946 returning WWII veterans put up a popular candidate for Sheriff. On August 1 Sheriff Mansfield and 200 “deputies” stormed the post office polling place to take control of the ballot boxes wounding an objecting observer in the process. The veterans bearing military style weapons, laid siege to the Sheriff’s office demanding return of the ballot boxes for public counting of the votes as prescribed in Tennessee law. After exchange of gun fire and blowing open the locked doors, the veterans secured the ballot boxes thereby protecting the integrity of the election. And this is precisely why all Americans should be concerned about protecting all of our right to keep and bear arms as guaranteed by the Second Amendment!

Throughout history, disarming the populace has always preceded tyrants’ accession of power. Hitler, Stalin, and Mao all disarmed their citizens prior to installing their murderous regimes. At the beginning of our own nation’s revolution, one of the first moves made by the British government was an attempt to disarm our citizens. When our Founding Fathers ensured that the 2nd Amendment was made a part of our Constitution, they were not just wasting ink. They were acting to ensure our present security was never forcibly endangered by tyrants, foreign or domestic.

If there is a staggering legal precedent to protect our 2nd Amendment right to keep and bear arms and if stricter gun control laws are not likely to reduce gun related crime, why are we having this debate? Other than making us and our elected representatives feel better because we think that we are doing something to protect our children, these actions will have no effect and will only provide us with a false sense of security.

So, what do we believe will be effective? First, it is important that we recognize that this is not a gun control problem; it is a complex sociological problem. No single course of action will solve the problem. Therefore, it is our recommendation that a series of diverse steps be undertaken, the implementation of which will require patience and diligence to realize an effect. These are as follows:

1. First and foremost we support our Second Amendment right in that “A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed”.

2. We support State and Local School Boards in their efforts to establish security protocols in whatever manner and form that they deem necessary and adequate. One of the great strengths of our Republic is that State and Local governments can be creative in solving problems. Things that work can be shared. Our point is that no one knows what will work and there is no one single solution, so let’s allow the State and Local governments with the input of the citizens to make the decisions. Most recently the Cleburne Independent School District will become the first district in North Texas to consider allowing some teachers to carry concealed guns. We do not opine as to the appropriateness of this decision, but we do support their right to make this decision for themselves.

3. We recommend that Assisted Outpatient Treatment (AOT) laws be passed in every State. AOT is formerly known as Involuntary Outpatient Commitment (IOC) and allows the courts to order certain individuals with mental disorders to comply with treatment while living in the community. In each of the mass shooting incidents the perpetrator was mentally unstable. We also believe that people who have been adjudicated as incompetent should be simultaneously examined to determine whether they should be allowed the right to retain/purchase firearms.

4. We support the return of firearm safety programs to schools along the lines of the successful “Eddie the Eagle” program, which can be taught in schools by Peace Officers or other trained professionals.

5. Recent social psychology research clearly indicates that there is a direct relationship between gratuitously violent movies/video games and desensitization to real violence and increased aggressive behavior particularly in children and young adults (See Nicholas L. Carnagey, et al. 2007. “The effect of video game violence on physiological desensitization to real-life violence” and the references therein. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 43:489-496). Therefore, we strongly recommend that gratuitous violence in movies and video games be discouraged. War and war-like behavior should not be glorified. Hollywood and video game producers are exploiting something they know nothing about. General Sherman famously said “War is Hell!” Leave war to the Professionals. War is not a game and should not be “sold” as entertainment to our children.

6. We support repeal of the Gun-Free School Zones Act of 1990. This may sound counter-intuitive, but it obviously isn’t working. It is our opinion that “Gun-Free Zones” anywhere are too tempting of an environment for the mentally disturbed individual to inflict their brand of horror with little fear of interference. While governmental and non-governmental organizations, businesses, and individuals should be free to implement a Gun-Free Zone if they so choose, they should also assume Tort liability for that decision.

7. We believe that border states should take responsibility for implementation of border control laws to prevent illegal shipments of firearms and drugs. Drugs have been illegal in this country for a long, long time yet the Federal Government manages to seize only an estimated 10% of this contraband at our borders. Given this dismal performance record that is misguided and inept (“Fast and Furious”), we believe that border States will be far more competent at this mission.

8. This is our country, these are our rights. We believe that it is time that we take personal responsibility for our choices and actions rather than abdicate that responsibility to someone else under the illusion that we have done something that will make us all safer. We have a responsibility to stand by our principles and act in accordance with them. Our children are watching and they will follow the example we set.

The undersigned Quiet Professionals hereby humbly stand ever present, ever ready, and ever vigilant.

Message to Peoples Trust 1776

Published on Jan 24, 2013

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Farrakhan: Right To Bear Arms An Outdated White Man Concept

We want white's in America totally disarmed.

http://washington.cbslocal.com/2013/01/28/farrakhan-right-to-bear-arms-an-outdated-concept/

WASHINGTON (CBS DC) – In the third installment of his 52-week sermon series, Nation of Islam leader, Minister Louis Farrakhan, ridiculed the “volatile” American right to own weapons.

On Sunday, Farrakhan continued “The Time and What Must Be Done” sermon series by stating that Americans are increasingly angry at the government, and are simultaneously preparing themselves for war. Farrakhan went on to say that the Second Amendment has little relevance in modern society, stating that the constitutional right to bear arms is outdated.

“See, the right to bear arms was given at a time when there was no regulated militia to protect America,” he said. “But now you have police well-armed, you have state troopers well-armed, you have the National Guard and you have federal troops.”

Farrakhan served as the minister of major mosques in Boston and Harlem, and was appointed by the longtime Nation of Islam leader, Elijah Muhammad, before his death in 1975, as the National Representative of the Nation of Islam.

The Second Amendment to the United States Constitution is the section of the United States Bill of Rights that protects the right of the people to keep and bear arms.

Farrakhan said that one reason Americans are buying weapons is their anger at the government.

“Look at the American peoples’ thoughts about Congress. What is the percentage of the American people that feel that the U.S. Congress is doing a good job? Eleven percent,” said Farrakhan. “Then 89 percent of the American people are angry, disaffected, dissatisfied with their government — and you’re selling them weapons of war and the militias are multiplying.”

Farrakhan caused controversy in a sermon earlier this month when he labeled Americans as a “savage” and violent populace that was predicted in the Bible.

“This nation has been built on violence,” Farrakhan said in the Jan. 13 sermon. “Uncivilized, uncultivated, brutal, wild…and that’s why the prophet gave America one of those names as a beast — both of the book of Daniel and in the book of Revelations.”

N.I.M. Busters [Serving the mentally ill since 2002™]

• Top Secret Ex Cia black Ops Warns US Citizens, Chip Tatum , 7/8 - Anonymous 1/28/2013 12:04PM
  • what wood Jamie Yaygur doo? - Pootie 1/28/2013 12:05PM
• Machine gun fire from military helicopters flying over downtown Miami Fl. - Anonymous 1/28/2013 12:01PM
  • Scene Hannitie thpeakth 4 me! - Pootie 1/28/2013 12:05PM
• ya'll poot? - Pootie 1/28/2013 12:00PM
• Journalists arrested in raids on newspapers... - Anonymous 1/28/2013 11:57AM
• Farrakhan: Right To Bear Arms An Outdated White Man Concept - Anonymous 1/28/2013 11:54AM
• Felix is full of shit, I dox GTA for him and he doesn't do a goddamn thing. - FUCK YOU, FELIX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 1/28/2013 11:51AM
• On the Issues: American Third Position vs. Total Fascism - Anonymous 1/28/2013 11:46AM
  • RE: On the Issues: American Third Position vs. Total Fascism - Anonymous 1/28/2013 11:48AM
• Lloyd vs Woger, Lloyd Vs. Schwartz, Pdemsky Vs. Obie, UF Vs. NewsGuy.... the list goes on.... - NT - Anonymous 1/28/2013 11:32AM
  • RE: Lloyd vs Woger, Lloyd Vs. Schwartz, Pdemsky Vs. Obie, UF Vs. NewsGuy.... the list goes on.... - NT - Anonymous 1/28/2013 11:34AM
• Pumpkin is like cute and stuff - NT - Anonymous 1/28/2013 11:32AM
  • RE: Pumpkin is like cute and stuff - NT - Anonymous 1/28/2013 11:33AM
  • RE: Pumpkin is like cute and stuff - NT - Anonymous 1/28/2013 11:33AM
• OMG VONBLUVENS PLANNING A COMEBACK!!!!! Yes! Yes!!! Oh My God, YESSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - THE VONBLUVENS CADRE 1/28/2013 11:29AM
  • NewsGuy would suck that kikes dick like he does Lardass Lloydie's - NT - Anonymous 1/28/2013 11:30AM
• Proof Lloyd is a raging Anti-semite!!! - Anonymous 1/28/2013 11:28AM
  • The Duke spoke truth! - NT - Anonymous 1/28/2013 11:51AM
• Unreal… ABC’s “This Week” Has Sen. Menendez On For Entire Segment – Forgets to Ask About Underage Hooker Scandal - NT - Anonymous 1/28/2013 11:22AM
  • His daughter Alicia has huge hooters, but a micro brain. - NT - Anonymous 1/28/2013 11:23AM
    • RE: His daughter Alicia has huge hooters, but a micro brain. - Anonymous 1/28/2013 11:28AM
• Jay Diamond would give NewsGuy, Peter Goodman such a beating that his dick would stop getting hard for shemales. - Anonymous 1/28/2013 11:22AM
  • NewsGuy would knock that kike's head into the ground - NT - Anonymous 1/28/2013 11:28AM
    • NewsGuy would suck that kikes dick like he does Lardass Lloydie's - Anonymous 1/28/2013 11:29AM
• Work with me and maybe we can reduse your time - NT - Illup Gravengaard 1/28/2013 11:22AM
• Even old and sick, Nelson Mandela would beat NewsGuy's fat shemale posting ass. - NT - Anonymous 1/28/2013 11:21AM
• The Backseat Sally saga makes sense now. - Anonymous 1/28/2013 11:20AM
  • RE: The Backseat Sally saga makes sense now. - NT - Anonymous 1/28/2013 11:21AM
• So the losers Marty and Axis Sally lost their children being fuckups - what are they telling healthy folks? - NT - Anonymous 1/28/2013 11:17AM
  • RE: So the losers Marty and Axis Sally lost their children being fuckups - what are they telling healthy folks? - NT - Anonymous 1/28/2013 11:19AM
• On the bright side, Martin holding a cellphone up to head for 10 hours straight every week means he'll get the brain - NT - cancer. 1/28/2013 11:14AM
  • WalMart TracPhones are supposed to be safe - cheap as fuck, but safe. - NT - Anonymous 1/28/2013 11:15AM
  • RE: On the bright side, Martin holding a cellphone up to head for 10 hours straight every week means he'll get the brain - NT - Anonymous 1/28/2013 11:15AM
• Here is another man who would stomp a mud hole in NewsGuy's girl man fat ass. - Anonymous 1/28/2013 11:13AM
  • Nigga please. That nigger's got no testes! - NT - Anonymous 1/28/2013 11:14AM
• Jay Diamond is an asshole. A swift kick to the head would do him some good! - NT - Anonymous 1/28/2013 11:08AM
  • Why does NewsGuy always have a homo fixation with men who are obviously his betters? - NT - Anonymous 1/28/2013 11:11AM
    • That sawed-off little KIKE is in no way NewsGuy's better. - NT - Anonymous 1/28/2013 11:12AM
  • You'll have to get thru the Jay Diamond Cadre first and be aware that Melvin couldn't do it. - NT - Anonymous 1/28/2013 11:11AM
• Recent picture of Martin Lindstedt, pope of CI - NT - Anonymous 1/28/2013 11:05AM
  • thats him, but he has laptop that overheats very time you spam it - NT - Anonymous 1/28/2013 11:07AM
  • That's not him. He doesn't have half a beard. - NT - Anonymous 1/28/2013 11:09AM
  • That is Martin, he has even confirmed it. Says he has lost weight since then. - Anonymous 1/28/2013 11:10AM
    • I dont understand how Martin is soo poor regarding hardware and tech.... since hes been online for a while - NT - Anonymous 1/28/2013 11:11AM
      • he's a technophile.... he still holds a phone up to his head for the entire show - NT - Anonymous 1/28/2013 11:11AM
        • Martins brain should be well radiated by now..... been using a cell phone to do every hour of the show since the beginni - NT - Anonymous 1/28/2013 11:12AM
      • Understand he does nothing but LIE then all makes sense. - NT - Anonymous 1/28/2013 11:16AM
• Axis Sally admits on her blog she left the movement to get her kids back in custody battle. - Anonymous 1/28/2013 10:59AM
  • Fuck off, NewsGuy. Go sodomize Lloyd Davies. - NT - Anonymous 1/28/2013 11:03AM
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• UF should use Axis Sally on his site. Show her what a real butt whuppin' is all about. - Anonymous 1/28/2013 10:58AM
  • Fuck off NewsGuy you shemale posting faggot. - NT - Anonymous 1/28/2013 11:03AM
• Truth about GOP voters - NT - Anonymous 1/28/2013 10:56AM
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  • Anybody can write anything on the internet they want - Anonymous 1/28/2013 10:58AM
  • That beating Geno gave Woger must have been terrible. He is so fucked up he won't answer his door, even for a woman. - NT - Anonymous 1/28/2013 11:02AM
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• Want to see some stupid shit? AA kissing chomo Marty's ass for begging Axis Sally (link) - Anonymous 1/28/2013 10:42AM
  • Wanna hear some shit? Listen to NewsGuy's boring fucking show. - NT - Anonymous 1/28/2013 10:44AM
    • Better than supporting a convicted child molester as an "Aryan" for sure. NewsGuy is at least white. - NT - Anonymous 1/28/2013 10:46AM
      • Nothing "Indo-Iranian" about NewsGuy so the fat little homo is not "Aryan" you=fail - NT - Anonymous 1/28/2013 10:47AM
        • Is he a jew or not then? Looks more Aryan than Marty! - NT - Anonymous 1/28/2013 10:50AM
• LOL. Beaners ganging up on niggers in Compton, CA - NT - Anonymous 1/28/2013 10:41AM
  • It is about jockeying to be first in line for Barack o'Claus' hand outs. - NT - Anonymous 1/28/2013 10:48AM
• NewsGuy just doesn't get it. Obama won a mandate. His agenda will be passed. - NT - 4 da lulz 1/28/2013 10:39AM
• Beat the shit out of NewsGay and it stops his OCD. - Anonymous 1/28/2013 10:38AM
• McBride was right about Tubby Covington, the documented LIAR. - NT - Anonymous 1/28/2013 10:28AM
  • Do as Marty says and don't send Covington any support - real WN is underground, spend it at WALMART. - NT - Anonymous 1/28/2013 10:32AM
    • Why would anybody? Giving the south to niggers and beaners is "movement?" Sounds like cowards. - NT - Anonymous 1/28/2013 10:38AM
• Would you hit this? - Anonymous 1/28/2013 9:59AM
  • RE: Would you hit this? - Anonymous 1/28/2013 9:59AM
    • Visser is my go to show! All the others are un sufferable - NT - Anonymous 1/28/2013 10:01AM
      • I like Wickstrom as well. - NT - Anonymous 1/28/2013 10:14AM
        • Anybody that tells the truth about Chomo Marty is ok by me. - NT - Anonymous 1/28/2013 10:39AM
  • Yes, but not the real Visser - NT - Anonymous 1/28/2013 10:13AM
    • Give Marty a few months of lying and it soon WILL BE. - NT - Anonymous 1/28/2013 10:17AM
      • That's all that scumbag can do. Now he's attacking Axis Sally when he was begging her last month. - NT - Anonymous 1/28/2013 10:24AM
        • Yeah he was - and calling that thing " a hot chick " - NT - Anonymous 1/28/2013 10:33AM
• Corrina Burt is much more whiter than Roxie and Chomo Marty who lust after her. - NT - Anonymous 1/28/2013 9:48AM
  • Martin's show is soo repetitious and drab, the fucker doesn't follow or investigate the people who really matter - NT - Anonymous 1/28/2013 10:04AM
    • thats what living an too comfortable life give ya Mush for brains - NT - Anonymous 1/28/2013 10:07AM
      • he might be in bad health..... he can't even walk right..... - NT - Anonymous 1/28/2013 10:09AM
        • So is that why Marty doesn't clean up his yard? - Anonymous 1/28/2013 10:18AM
          • There ARE niggers living inside - only jews call whigger trash pedophiles "white" - NT - Anonymous 1/28/2013 10:22AM
  • Interesting how Marty begged the slut to repost her filth (link) now he's in attack mode! What a CONTINUAL liar! - Anonymous 1/28/2013 10:11AM
• 9 out 10 users of Mrs. Dash seasoning are blood thirsty homosexuals - NT - KFC Rawks 1/28/2013 9:43AM
  • Blood thirsty? More like cum thirsty - NT - Anonymous 1/28/2013 9:56AM
• I need to take a greasy Obama - Anonymous 1/28/2013 9:25AM
  • Let's just hope the urine is "perfectly clear" - NT - Anonymous 1/28/2013 9:38AM
• One day closer to seeing Israel get nuked - Anonymous 1/28/2013 9:07AM
• Watching this jew get a beatdown is greatly satisfying, more so if it was NG - Anonymous 1/28/2013 8:55AM
• Pummel NG to death with KFC bones - NT - Anonymous 1/28/2013 8:51AM
• Obama has now passed more laws by fiat than Hitler - NT - Anonymous 1/28/2013 8:50AM
• Obama dictator poster contest at Infowars - Anonymous 1/28/2013 8:49AM
• Obama works overtime to disarm US citizens while giving Eqyption terrorists F16s and tanks - NT - Anonymous 1/28/2013 8:47AM
• FEMA nowhere to be found anywhere in Staten Island - NT - Anonymous 1/28/2013 8:42AM
• Superstorm Sandy jews huddle in the cold discussing how great Obama is - NT - Anonymous 1/28/2013 8:39AM
• KFC is a tiny little greasy hunk of chicken encrusted with MSG and nigger hair - NT - Anonymous 1/28/2013 8:31AM
  • mmmmmmmm... - NT - UF 1/28/2013 8:38AM
• Bragging about eating KFC is like bragging about fucking a stuffed animal - NT - Anonymous 1/28/2013 8:31AM
  • Bragging about being a twink, is like bragging about being HIV positive - NT - Anonymous 1/28/2013 8:41AM
    • Stuff it up your ass, you might extract more nutrients - NT - Anonymous 1/28/2013 8:48AM
• Vonbluvens? - Anonymous 1/28/2013 8:12AM
  • Very, very possible. But Von is mysterious. It might be a hoax. - NT - Anonymous 1/28/2013 8:38AM
• Newsguy is the poster boy for jewish histrionics - NT - Anonymous 1/28/2013 8:04AM
• Fat lazy assholes eat KFC garbage, brain dead tards who can only stuff their ugly faces like cows - NT - Anonymous 1/28/2013 8:03AM
  • Jesus blessed my McRib you asshole. - Lloyd Davies - Timetard 666 1/28/2013 8:05AM
    • Stuff it up your ass you might extract more nutrients - NT - Anonymous 1/28/2013 8:06AM
• FEMA operated Gun Compliance Centers are now open in your district - NT - Anonymous 1/28/2013 8:02AM

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Dianne Feinstein Unveils Gun Control Proposals

After banning guns Dianne Feinstein wants to ban mental defectives like this nut case. Every patriot should submit to a yearly search to make sure they are law abiding ! Diane Feinstein vows "malcontents who resist lawful disarmament will face the full force of the US govt"..

Feinstein Gun Control Bill to Exempt Government Officials

Thank god for people of courage like Dianne Feinstein, Charles Schumer, and Barbara Boxer standing up for the people.Right now Obama is organizing a program against military leaders who will not fire on American citizens.Janet Napalitano speaks: "The biggest threat to our security is homegrown white militia groups." Disarm the proletariat, especially the white males. Only the Bourgeois state should be armed. We don't want any kind of armed revolution now, do we? :-)

 Those who sell their firearms should post a sign in the front yard stating that this is a gun-free home. Neighbors will feel safer and will emulate by posting similar signs. Imagine whole neighborhoods declaring that this neighborhood is firearm-free. Property values would rise as families would want to move into a safe neighborhood.

Secret Service hookers may have been underage: report

Some Secret Service hookers may have been underage: report

Underage prostitution is rampant in the sinful seaside city, where finding illicit companionship is literally a walk on the beach..

A dozen Secret Service agents and nine military servicemen are under investigation for carousing with about 20 prostitutes in Colombia.

Colombian authorities are investigating whether some of the hookers involved in the Secret Service sex scandal were underage, according to a report.
Cartagena police are interviewing Hotel Caribe employees and workers at a nightclub to try to verify the ages of the prostitutes, McClatchy Newspapers reported.
U.S. officials grew fearful of this possibility in the initial hours after the scandal, the Daily News has reported. But so far, authorities here have found no evidence.
RELATED: FIRST PHOTOS OF COLOMBIA ESCORT IN SECRET SERVICE SCANDAL
While prostitution is legal in much of Colombia, sex with minors is not — and could lead to criminal charges.
Underage prostitution is rampant in the sinful seaside city, where finding illicit companionship is literally a walk on the beach.


Visitors to Cartagena, including the agents and U.S. servicemen embroiled in the salacious scandal, simply have to visit one of its seedy shorelines, where they will almost certainly be approached by a “fixer.”
“Anything you need, amigo,” said one such carnal concierge, Ramon Morales, who slyly eyed nighttime strollers. “Beer, cigarettes, girls. I can get you girls.”
Morales said the Americans on President Obama’s advance team made quite a splash before the scandal broke.
“They were partying at the beach,” said Morales, 34, with a grin that was missing several teeth. “They were having a good time with the girls, drinking.”
HOOKER DANIA SUAREZ IN HIDING AFTER PHOTOS EXPOSED.
Morales said extra ladies were ordered up like room service when those at the Pley Club weren’t enough to meet the Americans’ demands.
“They were tall and strong,” said Morales, 34. “Lots of muscle. We got a few cab drivers to bring them girls.”
Hookers can also be easily found in bars or clubs, sometimes with the establishment getting a cut of the john’s fee.
“There are many ways to find us,” said one woman, 21-year-old Rebecca, who worked at Angeles, a dingy bar in the city’s El Bosque neighborhood.
“The guys have to pay a fee to take us out of the bar,” she said. “We feel pretty safe.”
Hotel staffers also almost always turn a blind eye to the hookers that parade up to guests’ rooms.
“Americans are shocked that these guys took girls into their rooms, even if it’s fancy like Hotel Caribe,” said a Cartagena cop patrolling outside the hotel. “This is every day here.”
“There are so many ways to getting girls into the room,” said Alejandra, 24, who works at the Dolce Vita Hotel. “Some of us walk the beach at nights to meet guys. Or the cabs call us. The tourists come here for us.”
The Latin American summit, which drew dozens of world leaders and their entourages, was a particularly good time for business, according to sex workers.
“When the city has big events, they (the pimps) bring girls in buses to the city so they can walk around,” said Morales. “That way the town looks better, sexier. These (guys) knew that we could get them girls.”
Meanwhile, the Secret Service’s South American supervisor personally made the decision to aggressively pursue her agents’ egregious behavior, The Washington Post reported.
Paula Reid, an African-American woman, had to overcome a white male-dominated agency culture to ascend to her post.
“If every boss was Paula Reid, the Secret Service would never have a problem,” a former agent told the paper. “It would be a lot more boring, but never a problem.”

Democrats defend Sen. Menendez in the underage hooker scandal

How will Democrats defend Sen. Menendez in the underage hooker scandal -- other than by ignoring it?


New Jersey Democratic Senator Robert Menendez has been allegedly caught in a sex scandal involving underage prostitutes, according to published sources.
Senator Menendez, who is divorced, allegedly used taxpayer dollars to pay for the hookers from the Dominican Republic.
News of the scandal broke late Wednesday night on The Drudge Report, and was later reported in full Thursday morning from The Daily Caller.
Senator Menendez would allegedly fly down to the Dominican Republic and have orgies with the underage prostitutes. It is claimed that not only did he have sex with them, but the senator helped direct them to other politicians. It is not known who the others in question are.
The allegations are being made from two of the prostitutes, who felt they were underpaid by the senator. The girls were able to positively identify Senator Menendez when shown a picture of him. It is not known if more women are going to step forward.

The woman made her accusations known via a Skype interview.

The scandal is also drawing in campaign donor Salomon Melgen, an ophthalmologist and owner of an eye clinic in Florida. Melgen has donated $14,700 to Senator Menendez’s campaigns since 1993, according to federal records.
Menendez spokeswoman Tricia Enright said in an e-mail she would not respond to “a completely false accusation.”
Senator Menendez is the Junior Senator from New Jersey. He was first appointed to fill the seat in January 2006 when it was vacated by Jon Corzine, and was then elected to his own full six-year term in the 2006 U.S. Senate election.
Senator Menendez is currently up for re-election to a second full term. His challenger is Republican Joseph Kyrillos.