THE LIBERTY AMENDMENTS

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Two Choices What is there to say that hasn't been said? What can be said that will make a difference? There probably is no magic word or words, at least not by this writer, or not by any other among us, those who care so strongly about the truth of God and the rights he gives us as expressed in the United States Constitution. As was expressed by my very good friend, El Gringo Viejo, those who stood up for the Founders and Fathers of the United States should be given all the credit for trying to make the point if not the difference that could have slowed the momentum of the progressive Marxist march toward total destruction of the way of life we have taken for granted. Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, Rand Paul, Louis Gohmert, Dr. Ben Carson and several others showed character in support of and dedication to the liberty that is at stake because of Obama and his signature legislation, Obamacare. We have to stand with these brave men if we are to survive as freemen. Under no circumstances should we abandon the polls. We have to elect more men like these; however, that in itself will not stop the progressives from reeking havoc on the Constitution. The 17% of the government shutdown over a resolution out of the House of Representative that would have fully funded the government sans Obamacare was denied by Harry Reid and President Obama ostensibly to keep the country from "being held hostage" by the Tea Party. In reality it was a test of wills, an attempt to intimidate and break the will of the majority of Americans who detest the Obamacare atrocity. What did they choose to display as a result of the shutdown? They closed national parks and memorials to Veterans, many of those on private property or built by private funds. They also threatened disability pay-checks for Veterans. The media went all in to make this arbitrary choice of closures appear as painful as possible. There are two potential choices available to the population to preserve the Republic and the Constitution and/or our individual liberty and security. The first choice is to preserve the Constitution and the United States. The second choice is to separate by state from the Union. In order to restore the Constitution as it was intended by the framers we need to look at what has happened. The position we find ourselves in now is a Congress divided and a radical for President. The House of Representatives are elected by the people. The House is responsible to the people of the states locally precinct by precinct. Our House today is Republican and mostly conservative due to the majority of the population who rejected progressivism and Obamacare in the election of 2010. The Senate was originally elected by the state legislatures and were responsible to represent the states equally having two Senators from each state. But, the 17th Amendment to the Constitution changed the way Senators were elected from being chosen by the legislature to being elected directly by the people of the state. The impact of this took away the representation of the states in the United States Congress. Therefore, the Senators feel little or no responsibility to the states from which they are elected. So, we have a Senate and a President that are aligned against conservatism and the Constitution. That being the case, there is no way Americans will have a voice as long as Progressives are in control of the government. They will only grow stronger as they can purchase elections with free stuff. As Obamacare gets installed and accepted there is little chance the government will observe the Constitution. They will continue to legislatively, judicially, and by executive order rewrite the Constitution until we are no longer a Constitutional republic. Still considering the first choice, and knowing where we are, we need to understand what we can do to return to what the founders intended and restore the Constitution. There is an important writing by Mark Levin, The Liberty Amendments, which spells out the problems and possible practical answers. He explains that the Constitution needs to be amended, not reconstructed, to reinforce the original intent. The way to do this is by the Fifth Amendment. By this amendment there are two ways to do it. All amendments to date have been offered and approved by the Congress. That is one of the ways it can be amended. As long as the Congress proposes and approves them, there is no possibility for positive reform, only further rewriting, defamation, and destruction of our fundamental document. However, there is another way to amend the Constitution by the states and the people of the states spelled out in the Fifth Amendment. This method has rarely been attempted and little considered. This way the state legislatures can propose amendments as follows: "The Congress, whenever two thirds of both houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments to this Constitution, or, on the application of the legislatures of two thirds of the several states, shall call a convention for proposing amendments, which, in either case, shall be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of this Constitution, when ratified by the legislatures of three fourths of the several states, or by conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other mode of ratification may be proposed by the Congress; provided that no amendment which may be made prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any manner affect the first and fourth clauses in the ninth section of the first article; and that no state, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate." Even though this method has never been used it is a very valid way to circumvent the federal government in the amendment process. The Congress or the President cannot prevent, change, or alter this process. They have no say whatsoever! In his book, Mark lays out possible amendments that will strengthen the Constitution to bring us back to the fundamentals intended by the framers. We will not try to rewrite his book here but his suggested amendments would be: 1) Term Limits 2) Repealing the 17th Amendment 3) Restoring the Judiciary to its proper role 4) Limiting Taxation and Spending 5) Limiting bureaucracy 6) Defining the Commerce Clause 7) Limiting Federal power to take private property 8) Allowing State Legislature to Amend the Constitution 9) State Authority to Override Congress 10) Protecting the Vote These amendments can be seen as summarized at Liberty Amendments Summary. The second choice for Americans to be free of this progressively Marxist/Socialist society is for the states to individually secede from the Union as desired. We will not go into the process in this writing but it is almost a last resort. To secede is an individual state prerogative and process. It would necessarily be a hugely traumatic event with so many considerations and preparations that the result could end in an American civil war not unlike the first one. The economics and ties the states have to the Federal government and interstate relationships would make this choice almost impossible. We did say "almost" but what cost is there for liberty? "Give me Liberty or give me death" (attributed to Patrick Henry at the Virginia Convention of 1775). We will certainly have more to say about secession at a later time. In conclusion it is the opinion of this writer that the only right and real solution to restore the constitution is in the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution. Mark Levin has marked a path. It is up to us to proceed. How many of you are willing to work on this? How many of you will talk to everyone you know about the Fifth Amendment, whether they want to hear it or not? How many of you will educate yourselves on this one really possible way off this mortally destructive path? If you have any kind of communication ability i.e. web sites, email, telephone contacts, letter writing, any social skills at all. Contact your state legislatures any way possible and inform them about the Fifth Amendment, read the book The Liberty Amendments and pass it on to others. If you can afford at least one extra copy give it away for Christmas or any other occasion as a gift. It is available at most book stores, public libraries, and electronic media. It is cheap! It will be one of the best gifts one can give. There has to be a surge by conservatives and the Tea Party to make this work. It will not be easy. We need 34 states to convene and coordinate the amendments. We have 30 states now that have Republican Governors. There are more that have Republican legislatures either part or in full. The possibilities are in our favor if we only communicate. We have to prevail. If we cannot strengthen the Constitution to rid ourselves of this insanity then it is time to consider secession.      EL ZORRO     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Tired of It! If you dish it out...see if you can take this, Obsolete, Politically Correct Media!

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Ku Klux Klan members march down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C. in 1928.   They are marching behind an American Flag.

  Should that emblem be cast away as well,
 as a nostalgic remnant of identity?

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     Founded in 1915 and inspired by the Reconstruction-era organization of the same name, the second Ku Klux Klan shared with its nineteenth-century namesake a deep racism, a fascination with mystical regalia, and a willingness to use violence to silence its foes. It also professed anti-Catholicism and anti-Semitism as strongly as it affirmed racism. The “secret” society had 3 million members during its heyday in the early 1920s; roughly half its members lived in metropolitan areas, and although it enjoyed considerable support in the South, the Klan was strongest in the Midwest and Southwest. In this photograph, forty thousand members of the Klan march down Pennsylvania Avenue on August 8, 1925. Organized to counter reports of faltering enrollment, this “konklave“ succeeded in attracting national attention but marked the peak of Klan power in the 1920s. (Library of Congress) 

     Notice that the article points out that the Klan was strongest in the North and to a lesser extent in the Southwest.  One might note that the Stars and Stripes were the banner of choice of the Ku Klux Klan.  Its strength in the South had ebbed substantially by this time.

     The Klan genuinely was the darling of the Progressives and Elite Marxists and Social engineers like Margaret Sanger's crowd, and the friends of dear Eleanor....Roosevelt that is.  Horrid people, just like Obama.   But, like Michelle said, ".....all this over a piece of cloth?"



 

Published by the New York Daily News. Cute, but no banana.   If anyone would like to review the marches of the Ku Klux Klan, for instance, during its resuscitation by the Progressive movement, the Communist Party, and the Margaret Sanger crowd it will be noticed that their great march back in the 1920s on the Mall in Washington, D.C. was accompanied by strictly American Flags.   Using the logic and whatever other thought process the Daily News employs, it could be imputed that  Old Glory is the banner of the Ku Klux Klan. 

 



Obsolete Media Outlet continues
to equivilate un-like things and
to tell the public what can be
said and not said by the un-
washed provincial class.

 

 

      El Gringo Viejo will not impute anything.   He will simply state that the Daily News is drawing its own picture which pleases them.  It makes them feel superior.  In their ignorance of the facts and their certainty that their illogic will lead them to the Truth, no matter how false it is, they are content that they are superior to the rubes in fly-over country.  They are certainly superior to the hicks who think that governments damage their nations when they run deficits to the point that, one day, everyone wakes up in a country with more than 17,000,000,000,000 greenback, Yankee dollars worth of Central Government debt.

 

 

 

A series of quick truths follows.

 

    The States of the Confederacy, with all of its foibles and weaknesses, contributed more soldiers to the Wars against Spain, Germany, and the Axis powers than any other section of the re-established American union.   Both of the most decorated soldiers from the two World Wars came from Confederate States.   Sergeant Alvin York from a place not far from my mother's home area in Tennessee, and Lieutenant Audie Murphy (battlefield commission) from the Republic of Texas.   This statement takes nothing away from the other Regions of the American Union nor from those from those areas who served nobly and honourably.

 

     The Swaztika...an ancient artistic design employed by many and diverse cultures throughout the Earth....was usually associated with the Divine or Cosmic or Natural ordering of forces affecting the Planet.   It was employed by a group of madmen and a willing Nation of incredibly intelligent and incredibly gullible and stupid people.   It was adopted by a people who seemed to be willing to vote like stupid, mentally defective, self-centred dolts who believed in undefined Hope and Change as a national industrial policy.  They fell for the seduction of free everything and the promise of the Glory of the National Socialist Democratic Workers' Party paradise.  Ah!  Socialism; under any configuration it always winds up making a one-point landing shortly after take-off.

     Abraham Lincoln chose to make a stand to keep the Union together.  In that the northern part of that Union was composed of people who had no stain upon their soul and who could judge the nature and inner beliefs and understandings of another group due to the superiority of the Northern people over any other, there was a War Between the States to settle the issue that northern people were and are better than Southern people.

     Abraham Lincoln made it clear that he "....in no wise would ever say that the black man is in any way equal to the white man."    He also stated and/or wrote on several occasions that if he could save the Union by maintaining slavery he would do that, and that if he could save the Union by abolishing slavery, he would do that.   He also pointed out that once the War could be terminated favourably for the Union, it would supply a good number of Negroes to work in the establishment of a Transoceanic Canal in either Nicaragua or Panama, since the Negro was better suited to that climate and the kind of work that would have to be done.

     Abraham Lincoln knew that that within a generation or a generation and a half, mechanisation would render the "peculiar institution" in the Southern States obsolete.  He also had to have known that manumission was certainly a better path to social and cultural solidity of the Negro race in America.   Manumission always meant that that some stuffy old White man/woman had well determined that that particular Black man....who was actually owned by that White man / woman....had been established as a true person and worthy of acceptance as a sovereign in a Republic.  It showed that there was very reasonable probability that the Black man being manumitted was skilled and probably literate to some degree, and that he had a Faith in Providence and had proven responsibility and truthfulness in his dealings.   Such process of manumission also pertained to Black women, depending upon the White owners' discretion.  It was a cumbersome, subjective procedure but manumission was valued much more than emancipation, because the process of emancipation was impersonal and guaranteed by no one.  It was guaranteed by no process that could be readily understood by White man or Black at the time that emancipation was imposed.

     True it should be better to be a free man than a slave, but what if the Black man really, really, really were not ready to face the slippery situations in Southern AND Northern society that were presented by White folks of low degree or ill motive?   In the metropoli of the South, fully one-third of all the skilled tradesmen in 1860....shortly before the outbreak of the War Between the States.....were Black.   Literacy in many areas of the Black folks was at or near the levels of the White folks.  Laws against the teaching of reading, writing, and ciphering to Negro children were simply disregarded in most places, as were laws requiring a manumitted Negro to evacuate the State of his residence at the time of manumission.   It was a stupid law, because the manumitted Negro was, by definition, some kind of yeoman and/or gentleman and a positive feature within the community where he/she was manumitted.

Harriet Beecher Stowe



Harriet Beecher Stowe
as Pocahontas playing
Elizabeth "Fibbing
 Fawn" Warren

     Revisiting the issue of tradesmen, it is well to point out that the status of such individuals was enhanced because of the fact that they were frequently free-standing small businesses, with an employee or perhaps even several.   The normal Yankee is frequently surprised to learn that the fourth biggest owner of slaves in the late 1850s was, in fact, a black man.

     One of the great ironies of the period that marked the beginning of hostilities between the North and the South was that episode in Lower Manhattan wherein a Negro preacher was on a street-corner delivering a soap-box speech.   He was exhorting the gathering to oppose the coming War, and to understand that the Negro situation in the South was not fairly depicted in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin.   He was essentially saying that the Simple Truth was not, at times, the Truth, the Whole Truth, and nothing but the Truth.

    The fine points of his argument were lost when the Irish immigrants who were being conscripted hand-over-fist to go fight a War for a Union about which they knew nothing,  decided to silence the Preacher Man by taking him to a lamp-post and hanging him.  So much for racial tolerance north of the Mason - Dixon.   And yes, he died there in Manhattan that day.  Among the many ironies that day was that he was preaching in favour of what the Irish themselves were supporting during those dark hours.

     To this writer, the Confederate reliquary....be it banners, flags, tombstones, genealogies, stories/tales/lore about the War or just life in the South....is something that fascinates and entertains.   It also instructs, because this Writer knows what and who is good and what and who is bad.  We know that the entire ill of the present American Union, especially the ills suffered by Black people and White people and all the other sorts of people, was imposed upon us by Urban, White liberals and Marxists, frequently people of the Social Register who like to run our lives and "provide free things" for us.

Weary Willy
 made famous by Emmett
Kelly, America's most
recognised and beloved
clown.  He represented
the pathos of and a bit
of what little humour
could be made of the
'Hobos of the
 Depression.

    On the side-bar of this same blog, one of the things this writer lists as bad and disliked is the Ku Klux Klan.   Nathan Bedford Forrest, the most defamed Southern field commander (major general) was also, according to no less an authority than Robert Edward Lee, the best strategist and tactician of the War.   He established the Ku Klux Klan after the War as a Southern Veterans' Fraternity.  When carpetbaggers and scallywags began to use it to frighten and abuse Negroes...as well as white people who just wanted order.....he ordered it closed down.   He famously said, "There is no need to deal with the Black Man in this manner".   The only ones who gained, of course, from the excesses of the early Klan were the Reconstruction politicians....many of whom were recently arrived from the North. 

     If it comforts the effete and conceited self-endowed liberals in New York to somehow equivilate the ill-presented Confederate battle flag (it was square, not rectangular) or the image of a Red Man as a business trademark with the National Socialist emblem, that is fine.   It is also inaccurate.  Red Man with a red skin called the White Man with pale skin....paleface, white-eyes, gold hair, and several other things that cannot be mentioned here.  No offense taken.  There is nothing pejorative or insulting per se about using the term Red Skin, unless some pinky-pants liberal with conscience problems decides one day to deign it so.   Mon Dieu!   Do we have to apologise for calling a Cop something like ''Copper" .   Has the population become so narcissistic that each can demand that the entirety of the rest of the population not say "Hebe" for Hebrew, or Tex for a guy from Texas, or Brit for a guy from Great Britian, or Aussie.....and all that Mick ever meant was that the Irish were Mc while the Scot were generally Mac....so you had Mick and Mack.   And then, imagine the Brooklyn Dodgers, easily the most beloved team in Baseball...the Yankees being the most admire (Imagine that I was 16 years old before I learned that damnedyankees was two words)....but going back to the Dodgers, their nickname was "Da Bums" and their anthropomorphic emblem was Emmett Kelley.....America's favourite Clown for many decades.

 

El Gringo Viejo

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Gratitude: Attention, Louis Gohmert, Dr. Carson, Ted Cruz, Mike Lee

Ted Cruz
United States Senator
Republic of Texas



 We extend here an expression of gratitude for the efforts of these men and others not pictured who stood against the extension of debt against the interests of our children, grandchildren, and beyond.   Against all ridicule and unfair innuendo, they stood fast and demonstrated  the errors, deficiencies, and mistakes that the present administration and the Republican "stalwarts" are making while they make things convenient for themselves and disastrous for the productive sectors of American public.

 





 

Mike Lee

United States Senator

Utah



Dr, Ben Carson

Director of Pediatric
 Neurosurgery (Emeritus)
Johns Hopkins Hospital

 author and renowned

commentator

 

    The people who detract from the fact that there is certain national devastation awaiting those who think that we can continue to spend three and take in two in terms of the national exchequer are fools piloting a ship in the iceberg field with their eyes closed at midnight.

    The time for being "reasonable" and bi-partisan has long passed.   We are now in a debt morass that will soon bring a crisis that will mirror the Weimar Republic's experience with creative financing of national budgets.   Argentina will collapse soon, along with Venezuela in terms of the value of their currencies.  Brazil will follow.   The error?   Spending more than that which is taken in. Buying fealty of the "impoverished masses" with money that is freshly printed to be thrown at those who become accustomed to being cared for, however minimally.

     The Obama siren song of Free Medical Service brought to us by the Obama Socialised Medicine Initiative will soon be recognised as an administrative debacle forced upon a gullible populace by deranged National Socialist control freaks.  Our pleasantly to cumbersome medical system will be supplanted by an "efficient system" that will be ten times more cumbersome and one hundred times more inefficient.

     We laud and congratulate these men and the other personalities who supported them.  The thinking people support them.  The people who dream of some magic system that provides "free medical" will be waking up from their trances when the Pied Piper stops playing and they feel the shackles around their souls.  For that is the issue.  To be free and a son of Divine Providence  or to be a slave and the serf beholden to one's betters, grovelling for the next crumb or favour.



Louis Gohmert
Representative,
 Texas Ist District
United States House of
Representatives



 





      As stated by one more eloquent than this participant in life, we ask:   "Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!"
      If life and liberty are granted El Gringo Viejo a little longer, it will be to aid to the degree possible in this fight, while he also persists in his support for an amicable withdrawal of thr Republic of Texas from what must be considered at this point a nation no longer capable of self-government.

     The American Union seems reconciled to the comforts of free services from the central government and to the certain knowledge that money grows inside of ugly buildings in Washington, District of Columbia.  The nation concerns itself so much with the avoidance of saying one or another word that might somehow destroy the life of the hearer, when, day by every night, the slaughter of the spawn of the dependent reveals the true human cost of self-induced bondage.   I would prefer to spend my time edifying projects of good will and prosperity, and not the bondage of political correctness and the worry about people who wish to contaminate themselves with incurable medical conditions and addictions.

 

     If we can stand alone, as we should, as the Republic that we are, we could certainly learn from the mistakes of the list of nations that have turned themselves grey and devoid of imagination, that are full of degeneracy, graffiti, and indolence, and devoid of thoughts of liberty.

 

We leave the OROG to his/her peace and now retire to the kitchen to practice my alchemy.

El Gringo Viejo

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The Fast and Furious Story Takes on More and More Life

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These are stories that are known by those in the know and they are kept until well after Obama elections so that the American public cannot express disgust save by shaking the head and saying ,"God help us all."

     The number of people who were allowed to walk and conduct illicit business, ostensibly while coordinating with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives during the administration of Obama will never be known.  Some say that the Bush people lost five or six who disappeared into the cactus shroud, only to resurface later in some other part of Mexico, Latin-America, or even in the United States.  During this horrid presidency the number is measured by the scores.  The weaponry and explosives "lost" by the Obama people are implicated in the deaths of as many as 600 innocent men, women, and children along with various honest to somewhat honest cops, Army soldiers, and Naval Infantrymen.

     Now, even Columbia Broadcasting System will talk about it, but not the White House

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CJNG Used "Grenade-Walkers" Against Police- 2 Years After Being Smuggled for CDS

Thursday, October 17, 2013
| Borderland Beat Reporter Chivis

Borderland Beat
 

Backstory:

The following is from WSJ report of September 2011:

Mexican authorities on Tuesday confirmed the capture of Jean Baptiste Kingery, an American citizen accused of smuggling grenades across the border to help arm drug cartels.

U.S. officials said earlier that Mr. Kingery had been arrested in late August at his home in Mazatlan, in the Pacific-coast state of Sinaloa, but Mexican police only confirmed the arrest Tuesday.

Mr. Kingery, from Arizona, allegedly purchased components to make hand grenades and other weapons in the U.S. and smuggled them across the border for use by the Sinaloa Cartel, one of Mexico's major drug-smuggling outfits, Mexican officials said in a news release.

U.S. officials briefly had Mr. Kingery (at left) in custody in June 2010 but let him go after just a few hours, fueling an ongoing battle between prosecutors and agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. That followed a failed plan to use Mr. Kingery in a sting operation in early 2010.

The Justice Department and Congress are investigating the series of missteps in the case, which is similar to the botched "Fast and Furious" program that allowed suspected smugglers to buy thousands of U.S. firearms. The mistakes made in the Kingery case helped force the ouster last week of Kenneth Melson, the acting director of the ATF, and Dennis Burke, the U.S. attorney in Arizona, U.S. officials said.

Mexican officials said Mr. Kingery's arrest came after they broke up another grenade-smuggling ring in Baja California in April, which eventually led federal police to Mr. Kingery's hideout.

The following was reported today, this  from CBS:

CBS News has learned of a shocking link between a deadly drug cartel shootout with Mexican police last week and a controversial case in the U.S. The link is one of the grenades used in the violent fight, which killed three policemen and four cartel members and was captured on video by residents in the area.

According to a Justice Department Significant Incident Report (see as image below)  filed Tuesday and obtained by CBS News, evidence connects one of the grenades to Jean Baptiste Kingery, an alleged firearms trafficker U.S. officials allowed to operate for years without arresting despite significant evidence that he was moving massive amounts of grenade parts and ammunition to Mexico's ruthless drug cartels.

"Grenade-walking" part of "Gunwalking" scandal
New evidence in ATF's mysterious grenade smuggler case
Complete coverage of the gunwalking scandal

The gun battle took place last week in Guadalajara. Authorities say five members of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel used at least nine firearms and ten hand grenades against Mexican police. If one of the grenades was supplied with the help of Kingery, as believed, it adds to the toll of lives taken with weapons trafficked by suspects U.S. officials watched but did not stop.

The Kingery case was overseen by the same Arizona U.S. Attorney and ATF office that let suspects traffic thousands of weapons to Mexican drug cartels in the operation dubbed Fast and Furious. The strategy was to try to get to the cartel kingpins, but it was halted after CBS News reported that Fast and Furious weapons were used by cartel thugs in the murder of Border Patrol agent Brian Terry on December 15, 2010. Weapons trafficked by other ATF suspects under surveillance were used two months later in the cartel murder of Immigration and Customs Agent Jaime Zapata in Mexico on February 15, 2011.

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On Wednesday, ATF told CBS News it has "no information" about the Kingery connection to last week's gun battle in Mexico.

As CBS News previously reported, documents show ATF began watching Kingery in "2004 related to AK47 purchases" he was believed to be trafficking to Mexico.

In 2009, ATF also learned Kingery was dealing in grenades; weapons of choice for Mexico's killer cartels. Documents show they developed a secret plan to let him smuggle parts to Mexico in early 2010 and follow him to his factory. Some ATF agents vehemently objected, worried that Kingery would disappear once he crossed the border into Mexico. That's exactly what happened.

Kingery resurfaced several months later in 2010, trying to smuggle a stash of grenade bodies and ammunition into Mexico, but was again let go when prosecutors allegedly said they couldn't build a good case. In 2011, Mexican authorities finally raided Kingery's factory and arrested him -- they say he confessed to teaching cartel members how to build grenades and convert semi-automatic weapons to automatic. The Justice Department has not provided an update on whether it's trying to extradite Kingery to the U.S., and an ATF spokesman said on Wednesday that he doesn't know the status of his case.

Sources:WSJ-CBS-DOJ

 

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     In other films and pictures, El Gringo Viejo  noticed that the casings for many if not most of the hand grenades are Warsaw Pact era, probably originating in the Bulgarian or Polish black market, as are the guts in the brief depictions the OROG may be able to see in the various pictures.   Some of the shells are "pineapples", that are probably American or Red Chinese knock-offs. It seems  as if the "guts" are still Warsaw but modified to fit the "pineapples".

   Most of the already assembled grenades arrive in Mexico from trawlers that park about 20 miles off the Gulf Coast, and were shipped from cells within the Venezuelan Army.    The trawlers are off-loaded onto "pangas", a type of short distance fishing craft.  There are also erstwhile "militias" associated with the Venezuelan Army that are usually nothing more than "enforcers" for the government party or arms runners to the "resistencia" as manifested by the Frente Armada y Revolucionaria de Colombia, (FARC).  The weaponry and armaments are filtered through a conduit that originates in Eastern Europe or in Red China.

 

More Later.

 

El Gringo Viejo

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A Timely Re-Post - The Truth Does Not Rust

Be Afraid!

Being a confident individual does not mean that one can never be afraid. From personal experience, I can tell you being afraid is normal and mandatory in order for survival. Being afraid is motivation for action. Today we have plenty to be afraid of. It is a simple proposition that the central government is on the precipice of totally managing your life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. We sit dumb and happy because today started the same as yesterday and the day before and the day before that. But do not rest easy! The writing is on the wall. We know that the Affordable Care Act and its relationship to the Internal Revenue Service is a reality but the impact is yet to be felt; however, there are significant signs that all is not well. Even the congressional signatories of the Obamacare legislation are now saying it is a proverbial train wreck. What on earth good can come of this when the IRS is not only in charge of the amount of wealth you can accumulate but also whether you can live of die? Just think, PLEASE! The central government/IRS today takes as much of your wealth as they want with no recourse for you. You have no part in the decision making regarding how your money is spent. Much is simply redistribution of income via the entitlement programs. Fraud not withstanding, the entitlement programs (welfare, afdc, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and the largest parasitic enterprise Obamacare, etc.) suck money out of the economy that would ordinarily be reinvested in manufacturing, technology, real health care and medicine, etc. This government is a huge parasite bleeding and feeding off the American dream. It takes from the productive among us and redistributes to the least productive of us. The temptations of the welfare society are attracting otherwise decent working citizens by offering something for nothing as well as taking away the incentive for doing hard work. The IRS is the tool of the government that progressivley extracts from earned income at the discretion of the President and Congress. It has extaordinary power to take as it will from whomever it chooses. This is such a destructive institution that America will not last much longer as the bastion of liberty inspired by God and designed by the forefathers almost two and a half centuries ago. The first and maybe the last of the best society ever designed for the human race. The IRS has to go! This is the time for action. "You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before." - Rahm Emanuel The IRS must be abolished in favor of either a flat tax or the "Fair Tax" proposed by some. Either of these alternatives allow the individual to be totally in control of how much income is allocated to the public welfare. In addition, the gargantuan IRS would be disassembled at a huge savings to the Fed. Think how much simpler it will be to know what you can afford based on what tax would be attached to a purchase. If there were a 20% tax (all taxes included) and you want to buy a car with a retail price of $20,000. You know immediately that it will cost you $24,000. A loaf of bread at $1.98 would cost $2.38. If your annual income is $55,000 your taxes at the end of the year on that income would be $0.00. That is the flat tax. The fair tax is a little more complex but the idea is similar. The fair tax is a progressive tax based on income but is collected on consumption. In theory, there would be no tax on foods and necessities then all other goods and services would be based on rates determined by income levels (i.e. poverty level, 0% twice poverty level 11%, up to a maximum of 23%). With the Fair tax as in a flat tax all payroll and income taxes would be abolished. Abolishing the IRS would repress the Affordable Health Care Act until it can be repealed. Be afraid! If we do nothing now we will have nothing very soon. Support your representatives in Congress who would abolish the IRS now! Support those who are in favor of a flat tax or the Fair Tax. Support Ted Cruz and the Tea Party Congressional representatives to abolish the IRS to save America.         Signed: El Zorro

Contemplations on a Debacle

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This is analogical picture.  The Strawberry is the body of socialists
 who are in charge of the central government at this time. 
  It is a very happy strawberry.   It scoffs at the terrapin.
  The terrapin is ugly and everybody hates him.
  The Strawberry is pretty, and everybody loves him.
   Right now, the terrapin is having a hard time trying
 to grasp a hold of the Strawberry.   In another few
minutes, the terrapin will be very happy, and the
 Strawberry will be gone.

The terrapin is the Cruzites, and the Strawberry
 is the socialist cabal and the lackeys who
 zombie-walk into the abyss of debt
 that the socialists have created.
As in the case of the hare and the turtle,
 against all odds, the terrapin will win.
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We are now done with it.   Only 92 more days before the deadline is accomplished for the next debacle.   About three months between now and that time that there will be further authorisation to publish another few trillion dollars worth of Yankee greenbacks.....thereby further devaluing the worth of the greenback dollar.

 

     At the very moment that it became apparent that the Congress was going capitulate and follow Harry Reid into the Palace of Oz, the American dollar lost four - tenths of one per cent of its value against the Mexican peso.  Reason?  In spite of everything, the Mexican national budget is within some reasonable position of balance, and the overall deficit is in a better posture than our own.  The American running budget and deficit and overall debt is now edging into the zone of psychotically catastrophic.   The Mexican budget and debt situation is moving from bad to not-so-bad.

 

     The average American understanding about the debt is that the Red Chinese hold much if not all of the outstanding American Treasury paper.   In actuality, they hold a little less than 10 per cent.   The average American understanding is that most of our oil comes from Saudi Arabia and a cartel of six or seven other Arab countries in South America or Austria or somewhere.   But, most of the natural gas and oil used in the United States comes from ...... the United States.   After that, Canada and Mexico generally exchange first and second place with each other....although Venezuela can be found in first, second, or third place depending upon the month.

     The point of this diversion in the screed is simply to point out that the folks who go about their business every day are not, and cannot be expected to be, experts on macro-economic or resource provision.   The Obsolete Press does everything it can to make certain that the general public remains in that penumbra of mild ignorance so that when push comes to shove the folks will make only one decision about who is at fault for the manifestation of any particular artificially created crisis. 

     To do complex thought, for instance such as:   Why do the Republicans do things that seem to be so injurious to them?  Is it possible that they see a damage being done that is so severe that they feel that they must risk their own political popularity in order to confront that injurious thing?  Why are the hard-line conservatives voting the way they said they were going  to vote when they were elected?   Why are we spending so incredibly much more than we are taking in?   Why does the president always invoke the notion that he is going to go back to work to strengthen the middle class when every action he takes injures the middle class and the productive elements of the society?

 

     Why has the American dollar lost four per cent of its value against the Mexican peso in the last 36 hours?

 

     Why has gold increased by fifty dollars per ounce in the last 36 hours?

Why does the Fernandez de Kirchner's administration  have an Argentine Peso  that looks like it does as it relates to the American dollar during her horrid, socialist regime's administration of the nation's business.   We urge that OROGs remember that El Gringo Viejo has stated that this insane woman and her equally insane cabal of ultra-socialist elitists are bound and determined to  invade the private pensions....confiscate them....because "....it just doesn't make sense to have so much 'dead money' sitting around doing nothing when there are so many poor people who need so much."   This is among those ultimate objectives of Obama - Soros - Annenberg and the Bolshevik vultures who radiate from them.

     Please review the effects of just the past three and one-half years of hyper-deficit spending by Mrs. Fernandez de Kirchner.   She, like (Sir Edmund)Hillary, had the good sense to utilise a medical emergency briefly last month.   She went in for a brain operation, literally, and has sense been returned to the Presidential Palace (literally known as the Pink House).  Rumours circulate, of course, that she is intellectually incapacitated, but in that I do not know, nothing shall be stated. 
 

Source: tradingeconomics.com

Source: tradingeconomics.com

This note:   Please click onto the linkage "tradingeconomics.com" just below the graph so as to arrive at a very user friendly familiarisation with economic disaster.

     The above graph shows the price of profligacy.   Argentina has been printing money at four times the rate that Obama and Bernanke have been printing money.   Therefore, in the lemming-run to the cliff, Fernandez de Kirchner and her loons should arrive before Obama  and Michelle in the three-legged sack race.

 

 

More later.

El Gringo Viejo

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