“Arguments of convenience lack integrity and inevitably trip you up.”   —Donald Rumsfeld

The Deceptively named, “Mayors Against Illegal Guns,” came rolling into Concord New Hampshire last week by proxy of the infamous, “No More Names” Bus Tour where local anti-gun zealots take turns reading from Salon.com’s Gun Death Tally List. The front page banner in the website declares….

“6,305 ‘Americans’ have been ‘murdered’ with guns since Newtown…” At first blush, reasonable people immediately think of Chase Kowalski, Age 7 or Daniel Barden, Age 7, or Caroline Previdi, Age 6, all innocent victims in the Newtown Massacre on December 14. Perhaps people also think of others such as a 20-year-old mother of a two-year-old son, Evevana Monique-Marie Galloway, Grand Rapids Michigan. All of whom were victims of heinous criminal acts by others…with guns…These are genuine victims.

The average person would not likely contemplate the notion that people like Kevin Bailey, Jason Letts, Troy Evan Gordon, Romero Roberto Moya  or Melvin Duane Fletcher, would have made the list. These are criminals, all of whom have one thing in common: They were all shot and killed by Police during violent crimes or confrontations with Police. 

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This came over the transom a little bit ago:

tell me what your thoughts are regarding NYC paying for a group that comes to NH and gets space in the House Calendar as a “not for profit type group”? Is this not coercion of NY on the political system of NH?   just a thought.

I thought was a pretty good question, so here is what I sent back for a response:

Well, it wasn’t NYC itself that paid for it – Bloomberg and a couple of other big donors are bankrolling MAIG.  They may have reached out to Deputy Dawg Shurtleff (or v.v; not much matter which way it happened) and those two polls put it onto the calendar.  Coercion?  Not in my mind as Shurtleff and that other person are useful idiots at the least and willing participants most likely.

Outside influence on NH?  Absolutely.  Is it new?  Hardly.  Will it stop?  Not much likely – NH, relatively speaking, has little money of its own.  Thus, there will always be those in NH looking outward for folks to open the spigots where the hose ends in Concord.  You can’t shut it off:  money IS free speech (indirectly).  We may wail about it on this issue and the Other Side will do so on other issues.  Unfortunately, there will be no financial disarmament on either side in the near or mid-term future (if ever).  Why?

Simple – human greed, be it money for capitalists or “Power Over Other Peoples Lives and Behaviors” for politicians and bureaucrats. 

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Mayors Against Illegal Guns – the gift that keeps on giving.  Remember what I said here?

I have now watched politics in detail and intensely enough to know that they cannot tell the truth about their future plans – else they would NEVER get their hands on the Levers of Power. They can only assume the Seat either by lies of omission or by commission.

Rockford, Il’s mayor has decided to quite Nanny Stater and NYC Mayor Bloomberg’s populace-disarmament group, MAIG.

Mayor [Larry] Morrissey said the chief reason he left Bloomberg’s group is because he thought the group would be against illegal guns but has instead become a group looking for ways to ban legal guns and attack the rights of legal gun owners. He also said that he intends to get a concealed carry license himself when they become available in Illinois.

And as Grokster Rick has pointed out, elevated Criminals who have been shot by Police (in the legal pursuit of their official duties) to possess the same status of “gun violence” victims like the innocent children at Sandy Hook.

Sidenote: Actually, let me correct myself – “gun violence” is just another twisting of the common language to achieve a political outcome. After all, how often goes a gun simply jump off a shelf (or out of a locked gun safe), sail miles away in mid-air, and fire itself at someone.  Guns are inanimate object – obedient to the Laws of Thermodynamics, they just sit in one spot due to inertia.  They only move under the influence of that “outside force”; a person whose evilness has decided they will kill someone.

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We’ve written a lot on the efforts of the nine NH Regional Planning Commissions’ efforts to begin the process regionalization here in NH, using Fed dollars from DOT, EPA, and HUD to rewrite and “Federalize” our local zoning codes.  We are certainly against this as this is nothing but top-down centralized planning where “Professional Planners” have the hubris in that they know how we should be geographically limited, housing limited, transportation limited, water limited, energy limited, property rights limited…

…and be taxed more for their happiness and our misery.  Well, this movement by our tin-pot ruler wannabees (“hey, it’s only for your own and our Collective good – stop your *itching!”) has been going on for a while in other places in the country.  Like in California, for instance.  My co-worker just sold her nice house and moved because Regional Planners (peace be upon them as they practice their environmental religion in “saving the planet” and totalitarian leanings) “captured” her town and several others in setting their idea of “Planning Utopia”.  RightInSanFrancisco has the story from the San Fran Bay area; some excerpts (reformatting, emphasis mine):

– The nine counties of the Bay Area (which include San Francisco, San Jose, Oakland, and about 100 smaller municipalities) have two primary regional planning agencies with professional bureaucracies and Boards of Directors comprised primarily of locally elected officials.

– The Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) which serves as the primary conduit for federal and state housing money.  The Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC), which collects the tolls from seven bridges and recently purchased a $180 million office building in San Francisco, also serves as the primary conduit for federal and state transportation money.

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One just shakes their head – WHY would NYC Nannier Mayor Bloomberg (in which he believes no one should have a gun) even think to put his AstroTurf group Mayors Against Illegal Guns that visited NH this week (ably covered by Groksters Rick, Susan, Tim and Steve here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here) on New York City Government servers?  Ace has the story (emphasis mine):

At first I pinged mayorsagainstillegalguns.org and found that it was resolving at a New York City government IP address.

Pinging NYC.gov returns the same information.

It turns out I didn’t even have to look that closely, because the mayorsagainstillegalguns.org domain is registered to the city of New York. As you can see there, the registrant name is “NYC DoITT”, which is the New York City Department of Information Technology & Telecommunications.

According to this, Mayors Against Illegal Guns appears to be a 501(c)(4).  The action fund arm of MAIG is a 501(c)(3). Even if MAIG is reimbursing the city for these services, questions would still remain. Like, would New York City offer these same services to NYCTeaParty4Eva.org? Section 1072(p) of the city’s charter on information technology appears to give the Mayor a little leeway, but I can’t imagine it would cover his personal nonprofit groups.

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The New Hampshire Democrat Party is taking offense to calls that it is in some way connected or responsible for the reading of the names of killers and terrorist as victims as worthy of reverence by the Bloomberg Bus crowd in Concord.  According to out of state Spokes-kid Harrell ‘Jersey Shore’ Kirstein…”federal elections law prohibits political committees like the NHDP from any in-kind coordination or collaboration with not-for-profit corporations like Mayors Against Illegal Guns.” So they cant, you know, reasonably be responsible for what other Democrats do.  (It only took a day to see the hypocrisy.)

But we’ll still be expecting an apology and condemnation from you, Chairman Buckley, and every elected Democrat from the state, because a number of Democrats elected to State office were not only participants in the reading of these names, two of them promoted the event in the NH House Journal.

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The New Hampshire Democrat Party should state whether or not they agree with the Minnesota Based radical left wing group Progress Now and its in state affiliate Granite State Progress, which have aligned themselves with New York Billionaire Michael Bloomberg’s out of state anti-self defense agenda.

Why?  Because we know that Progress Now’s New Hampshire affiliate, Granite State Progress  , is the “front-man (woman?)” for the NH Democrat parties all-in anti-self defense pro-Bloomberg gun agenda in the Granite State.

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A half truth is a whole lie. —Yiddish Proverb

“6,236 Americans have been ‘murdered’ with guns since Newtown,” reads the website of No More Names. What’s in a number?, I ask…This detestable bus with its detestable crowd came to Concord on Tuesday. Anti-second amendment State Reps showed up holding signs passed out by the hacks from the bus tour. Mary Beth Walz, Stephen Shurtleff, Bob Perry, Mo Baxley were just the immediate few observed there.

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When a roll call vote was asked for, to go on the record in support of a substantial county budget increase, elected NH Democrats in the Hillsborough country delegation went of their way to ensure that there was no record of the vote.

What happened to transparency?  If you are certain that you need to vote to raise spending and thus increase peoples taxes what kind of coward votes to raise taxes but refuses to go on the record?  Uhh…a Democrat Coward, that’s who.

So is it safe to say that none of these Democrats can defend their vote to increase county spending 3.5 times the rate of inflation?  They are not even able to tell us who needs that money more than we do?  That’s Democrat leadership for you.   Wait.  Are they all going to start blaming the county budget increase on some YouTube Video?

Bill O’Brien remarks (From Facebook) follow…

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When those who maunder maudlin over the troubles in our society and beg for more government for their relief don’t pay or avoid paying their own taxes, it’s utterly repugnant.

Not paying taxes.  I must admit, I first thought it was a clever trick, like the old coin trick. Where you show the audience a coin, roll it over your splayed out fingers and tuck back into your palm and voila, it vanishes. It disappears as if it was called into the magical purple hued beyond, out of sight.  Apparently that’s what many politicians use when it comes to paying taxes, little tricks and illusions. What makes it more wretched is when it comes from the same politicians whose “solutions” begin and end with the skeletal fingertips of its IRS slipping into your wallet and stripping it of more bills.

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