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some of you might have seen or heard about the driver’s licensing scandal here in tennessee. it’s being called operation crooked highway by the local news media. apparently, in may of 2004 tennessee passed a law allowing undocumented immigrants to get driving certificates, which would explain the high concentration of illegals here.

as much of an issue as that is, that’s not the crux of this discussion. you see, apparently what’s been happening is that 2 state officials and the winchester driving school have been accepting bribes to issue certificates to people who shouldn’t have them… to the tune of about 1,000 certificates. they were ousted by the fact that the illegals who came in to get the driving certificates couldn’t even communicate with their examiners. not even so much as reading the letters off of an eye chart.

this really makes me proud of my state government, especially when you look back over the recent history. speaking specifically of the safety department, the seattle p.i. said, “The department has been at the center of a series of scandals, including the hiring of Highway Patrol officers with criminal backgrounds, ticket-fixing and an atmosphere of political favoritism.” yep, that sounds about right.

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Written by Matthew Holmes Friday, April 29, 2005

Liberals and criminals alike are anxiously awaiting the verdict on Illinois’ newest gun ban, HB 2414. Honestly, it’s hard to tell who’s more excited.

I guess liberals figure if they can’t keep Americans from buying guns, they’ll try putting people in prison for owning them.

Meanwhile, thousands of law-abiding citizens in Illinois are forced to imagine being incarcerated for legally purchasing and owning a gun.

That’s the idea behind The People’s Republic of Illinois House Bill 2414, in which gun owners would have 90 days to surrender their legally purchased semi-automatic firearms to the police, or face felony prosecution and stiff jail sentences.

Illinois State Rifle Association Executive Director Richard Pearson called the bill a “public policy nightmare.”

Apparently, Pearson still thinks the Second Amendment to the Constitution (for you liberals, that’s the one that says Congress can’t make laws infringing on your right to keep and bear arms) actually means that Congress can’t make a law infringing on your right to keep and bear arms.

You’ll have to forgive conservatives, who haven’t grasped the concept of a living, breathing Constitution, where “keep and bear arms” actually means “sodomy and abortion on demand.”

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Prosecutor Drops Case Against Man Who Says Plainclothes Police Tried To Force Their Way Into His Home Without Warrant. By Edward Ericson Jr.

Scheper holds his busted deadbolt lock

It was 28 seconds past 7:45 p.m. on Aug.18 when the 911 dispatcher took the call from Sascha Wagner. “There’s someone breaking into the house,” she yelled at the 911 operator, giving the address of the home she shares with David Scheper on the 800 block of West Lombard Street. “Send police now!”

Moments before, Scheper had opened the door to two strangers who then tried to force their way in. Scheper, who is 6-foot-6 and 240 pounds, slammed and locked the door on the would-be intruders, but he was in a panic as they smashed the glass in the 100-year-old door. He grabbed his 12-gauge shotgun and “was racking the slide over and over,” he recalls.

“I didn’t have any ammo for it, I’m racking the shotgun, telling them to get out. I’m not sure they’re in yet.” He ran to his basement in search of a usable weapon to defend himself and his girlfriend. “I was scared for her safety more than mine,” Scheper says.

In the basement, Scheper grabbed a CZ-52 semiautomatic. “I have this piece-of-junk Czechoslovakian pistol,” he says. “I put a magazine in it, racked the slide back. I was trying to check to see if there was a round in the chamber and I couldn’t rack the slide… so I was fighting it. The gun was jammed, and I was trying to get it operable. It accidentally went off into the floor of my basement.”

And with that, police say, Scheper committed the crime for which he was charged in Baltimore City Circuit Court: Discharge of a Firearm in Baltimore City. He faced up to a year in prison and a $1,000 fine.

Prosecutors dropped Scheper’s case Dec. 2.

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On August 1-2, 1946, some Americans, brutalized by their county government, used armed force as a last resort to overturn it. These Americans wanted honest open elections. For years they had asked for state or federal election monitors to prevent vote fraud (forged ballots, secret ballot counts and intimidation by armed sheriff’s deputies) by the local political boss. They got no help.

These Americans’ absolute refusal to knuckle under had been hardened by service in World War II. Having fought to free other countries from murderous regimes, they rejected vicious abuse by their county government.

These Americans had a choice. Their state’s Constitution — Article 1, Section 26 — recorded their right to keep and bear arms for the common defense. Few “gun control” laws had been enacted.

These Americans were residents of McMinn County, which is located between Chattanooga and Knoxville in Eastern Tennessee. The two main towns were Athens and Etowah. McMinn County residents had long been independent political thinkers. For a long time they also had: accepted bribe-taking by politicians and/or the sheriff to overlook illicit whiskey-making and gambling; financed the sheriff’s department from fines-usually for speeding or public drunkenness which promoted false arrests; and put up with voting fraud by both Democrats and Republicans.

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Images from the battle for Monrovia, Liberia, where use of iron sights is known to be strictly prohibited. Also prohibited are aiming, assuming a supported firing stance, and any common practice of marksmanship whatsoever. Hip-Hop/Rapper/Gangsta shooting stances are mandatory, the “Glock Foh-Tay” hold being the most popular. lethality is acheived by subjecting the target to a wide swathe of area fire, simliar to unaimed indirect artillery, or scaring the enemy away with gesturing and aggressive hip-hop style dancing while firing. Points are awarded for artistic effort, style, fearsome facial expression/vocalizations and blue duct tape.

Note perfectly executed flamboyant sideways-rifle “Glock Foh-Tay” running stance.

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