4 February 2013 - Granite Grok

February 4, 2013

A Re-blogged Essay: The New Committees of Correspondence

What follows below comes from a posting I made on GraniteGrok in 2010. I want to re-state it now, preparatory to my next posting (see above). It’s in large part about the American Revolutionary-era institutions known as the Committees of Correspondence. Here’s an edited version of what I said:

I. Want. This. Video. To. Go. Viral.

With this GG posting, I’m doing something different: Normally my posts go out to a list of like-minded libertarian and conservatives; it is part of a branching communication network which his helping to replace the former MSM information monopoly. But the video below is so important, and so well done, that non-conservatives and non-libertarians should all …

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18 USC 922 – Prohibited Persons

Cross-posted in its entirety: H/T Ace of Spades 18 USC 922 – Prohibited Persons “There’s all sorts of “discussion” about firearms law in this country, 99.99% of which is nonproductive blather not worth paying any attention to because of all the intentional distortions being spread by participants propagandists. I use the word “intentional” here very …

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Black Swan: Obama’s actions created the TEA Party. Is the Establishment Old Guard Republicans are about to be black swanned?..

“ if you aren’t going to do what you say you would, we can no longer trust you“ I am beginning to think so.  Certainly here in NH during the last two election cycles, the enmity between what I would call the Old Guard Establishment (e.g., “I’m a Republican because…..I’m a Republican” and “who the …

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Yes, we MUST be critical of their thinking (or what passes for it)

Political correctness, CYA, a lack of blame-shifting / “not my fault and not my responsibility” and a total lack of “critical judgment” – what a combination we see.  And the Educational-Industrial at work (School Board Associations, Administrator Associations, and Public Teachers Unions at these Government schools purport to be all about “public education” and how …

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Differences between an “assault weapon” and a shotgun

A Minnesota resident created a video letter to his Congresman and Senators (see the link below).  The video demonstrates the differences between the affects of a shotgun and what are incorrectly being called assault weapons.  It is clear that some of our elected representatives do not know about guns, live in a complete fantasyland, or …

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