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Hey, Folks; Poppajohn is back again with some more rants for you. De Old Effo has this thing about paternalistic government that just drives him bananas, throw in the way the teachers of this country have screwed up the education system and taken it completely away from the people who pay for it And there you have the makings of an all day (or longer) rant. That’s why when I ran across this article in my local paper the Orange County Register I was absolutely astonished that here was an educator that sounded so much like me that it coulda been me. So naturally I just hadda share it with alla you folks. Here it is exactly the way it was found nothing added nothing taken away.

The Orange Grove: The founders wanted us to be well-armed
Unlike today’s government, they treated citizens as adults
By NICHOLAS WISHEK
An educator from Fountain Valley
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I recently caught the movie “The Patriot” on cable. The 2000 movie depicts the events of the American Revolution in the South. The leading character, played by Mel Gibson, a composite of Daniel Morgan and Francis Marion, helps defeat the British under Lord Cornwallis. The movie is above average for accuracy in Hollywood, even if it doesn’t come close as a documentary.

What I want to address is from a captivating scene early in the movie. In the scene, Gibson’s character sees his second son killed, his home burned and his eldest son taken away to be hanged by British troops. Unlike most 21st-century Americans, Gibson’s character doesn’t look around for a lawyer. He grabs a bunch of firearms and enlists the aid of his two school-age sons. They catch up with the British patrol taking the grown son to his execution and, basically, massacre them. Both young sons help by killing British soldiers.

How many modern-day Americans would even dream of doing the same? Not many, I’d wager.

More importantly, how many could? I’m military-trained, but neither of my grown sons has even fired a gun. At ages 12 and 10, as were the apparent ages of the boys in the movie, I cannot even imagine my asking them to do what the boys in the movie did. My question is this: Does this make America a better, safer country? Or does it make us less safe, and less self-reliant? My vote is the latter. A citizenry that is not willing to defend itself is not a citizenry that can guarantee that they will continue to be free.

In the wake of the recent Supreme Court decision upholding an individual’s right under the Second Amendment to own guns, I would like to point out a couple of important implications that “The Patriot” highlighted. For starters, we have been given the right to protect ourselves from danger, whether foreign or domestic. To give up that right is going against the well-reasoned intentions of our founding fathers.

Another, even more important consideration is this: The founders expected citizens to be able to have guns as good as, or better than, the standard military weapons of the time.

In “The Patriot,” the guns Gibson’s character and his sons used were clearly long rifles, weapons that could hit a man-size target up to 300 yards away. The British soldiers had smooth-bore muskets, probably the Brown Bess, which weren’t likely to hit anything reliably from more than 50 or 60 yards. To me this means that the writers of the Second Amendment wouldn’t have had any problems with private citizens today owning automatic weapons, possibly up to .50-caliber machine guns.

How about handguns? Give me a break. There is no way that they could have imagined banning pistols. They wanted to give us the right to protect ourselves.

The difference is that they trusted common citizens to be able to make responsible decisions. Our current government doesn’t trust us nearly as much. Why else would we have seat-belt laws, bicycle helmet laws and hands-free cell-phone laws? The list goes on and on. The truth is that they don’t trust us.

It is amazing to me how anti-gun advocates can always point out how many accidental shooting deaths occur each year but never mention how many lives are saved by someone having a gun besides just the bad guys. How many horrific shooting sprees, like the one at Virginia Tech last year, might have been avoided or reduced if citizens, as the founders, could have protected themselves?

Our Nanny State, in trying to protect us from ourselves, has taken away too many of the basic rights our forefathers fought for and sometimes died for. Good movie, “The Patriot.” If you’ve never seen it, you might consider renting it. It might remind you that “all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights.”

One unalienable right the framers didn’t enumerate, because it was so obvious to them, was the right to be treated as a responsible adult, not as a child.

Well there it is and as I and George Washington have always said:
“A free people should be at all times armed”.

So be armed (always carry personal protection), be aware and have a plan!!

Thanks a lot! Poppajohn
ARMAMENT

Well looks like the free nation of Georgia is still in the eastern bloc the Georgians just didn’t know it. Russians in the Northern and Southern Osettia states of Georgia are celebrating just like the rest of Russia over the apparent victory of Russia over the miniscule Georgia in their invasion. While we and the rest of the world celebrate smaller victories at the Chi Com olympics. Yeah I have a problem with the Communist state of China also but at least it appears they may be able to join the twentieth century and get away from the post WW2 perceived greatness.
The US does not have the ability to respond militarily to this invasion of a sovereign state and ally since good ole boy Billy decimated our military during the nineties. Oh yes he did! Ronnie had built it back up again after Carter ruined it post Vietnam and Clinton re-ruined it during his less than a majority tenure (made possible by your friend and mine? Ross Perot). My major problem with the current administration is that they have had nearly eight years and a really good reason to make us strong again but have done nothing. We are still stuck with the half size army (yes half) and the no longer preparing for the future Air Force and Navy. We are cutting back new weapons systems which the left says are no longer needed since the end of the Cold War. An end they did everything they could to forestall (the left is hard to figure). Now however we have the ex KGB agent Putin running the show in Russia and guess what, he seems to have liked the cold war and wants to bring it back. Looking at his record in Chechnya, Dagestan and now Georgia he is reclaiming and re-establishing Russia as a world power. At the very time when we are over committed in the middle east and elsewhere with a still too small military. We are being slapped in the face by the Russian Bear and it looks like we are going to have to just take it.
NATO don’t make me laugh they deploy peacekeeping forces not fighting forces. They will do nothing and Georgia will be disemboweled by the bear and returned to their submissive condition of earlier years while we watch and do nothing because we can do nothing we just don’t have the goods, the strength or influence any longer. This is due to sixty years of the leftist influence of the American Academia and Journalist cultures. Which incidentally is the same reason we walked away from Vietnam after winning the war there on the ground (because Walter Cronkite told us it was what we had to do).
Okay okay end of rant. Thanks for readin.
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Thanks a lot! Poppajohn
always carry personal protection, be aware and have a plan

Poppajohn is just gettin too damn old, he can’t take it anymore.

Saturday in my local paper there was a story about a former soldier P.F.C. Joseph Dwyer

who had volunteered as a medic and participated in the original Iraqui Freedom Campaign and the incredibly successful run up to Baghdad which had been orchestrated by my old classmate T.R. Franks. He had been photographed rescuing an Iraqui child that had been injured by shrapnel and had been treated as the hero that he was although he always deflected that by turning it to the other guys who he said deserved that accolade more. He had a wife and baby daughter he obviously loved very much. Heroism turned to tragedy after the young man returned home suffering from ptsd he could not cope with the images from the combat and imagining the enemy all around him. He simply went downhill until he ended up abusing inhalants until he died alone without his family, no friends, no anything. Terribly tragic and on the front page. We must do something to see to it that our returning heroes do not have something like this happen to them. Not a fitting end for a legitimate hero and such an obviously fine man.

The same day I received an e-mail with the following story about a local hero from Garden Grove, CA.:

This much I knew. PO2 (EOD2) Mike Monsoor, a Navy EOD Technician, was awarded the
Congressional Medal of Honor posthumously for jumping on a grenade in Iraq,
giving his life to save his fellow Seals.

This I did not know. During Mike Monsoor’s funeral in San Diego, as his coffin
was being moved from the hearse to the grave site at Ft. Rosecrans National
Cemetery, forty five of his fellow SEALs were lined up on both sides of the
pallbearers route forming a column of two’s, with the coffin moving up the
center. As Mike’s coffin passed, each SEAL, having removed his SEAL gold
Trident Insignia from his uniform, slapped it down embedding the Trident in the wooden coffin.

The slaps were audible from across the cemetery; by the time the coffin
arrived grave side, it looked as though it had a gold inlay from all the
Tridents pinned to it. This was a fitting send-off for a warrior hero.

This should be front-page news also at least as much as PFC Dwyers’ tragic story.
Since the major portion of the mainstream media won’t make this news, I can at
least blog it. I am proud of our military. I am certain that you are also proud of them.
We can all rest assured that the fine men and women of our military will continue to
serve and die with honor. God bless all the PFC Dwyers and PO2 Monsoors. Where do
we get such men?

Always carry personal protection, be aware and have a plan.
Poppajohn

Hi, Folks; De Old Effo is back cuz bears are in the news here in California: A woman walking her two dogs in Caliente CA. (Thats a rural town near the mountains and a recent burn area) was attacked and severely injured by a black bear, the reason we know it was a Black bear is cuz back when folks in California did things fer the benefit of the “Human” race the Grizzlies were eliminated for being too likely to eat someone. Bears are sometimes provoked by dogs who get between a mother and her cubs but it doesn’t seem to be the case here. The woman although injured managed to escape the attack and drive herself to a fire station along with her two dogs I guess. One of the dogs was also injured but not seriously they say. The lady was later airlifted to UCLA Medical Center for further treatment.
Folks, Poppajohn has been saying for years don’t camp in, walk in, eat in, drive through, or even be near possible bear habitat without bear spray or a high caliber firearm at hand, both are best. Bears are unpredictable, they do what they damn well please and fifty years of watching em be cute and cuddly on World of Disney does not change that. The bear authorities here (i.e. Fish and Game) were trying to track the bear so far without success. Why were they tracking the bear (to kill it) we kill them after they attack a human. Kind of like the police whose job it is to respond to crime not prevent it. Now Poppajohn loves the outdoors and would not harm any wildlife unless it was necessary but when it becomes necessary one must have the means at hand. Now bear spray can actually prevent the harming of a bear becoming necessary and that makes it really great stuff to have with you on your camping and hiking trips. De Old Effo has what he believes is the best price you can find on bear spray, decide for your self. All the information is below. If you order two De Old Effo will throw in a Mace Screecher Alarm this thing makes an absolutely ear piercing noise and is a good thing to have for mooks as well as bears remember Ugotta order two (2) and Ugotta tell us in the message section just write Free Mace Screecher or we won’t know to send it to you.

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