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Liberty Guard Opposes Funding for the REAL ID ACT

by lgadmin May 18, 2016
written by lgadmin

Liberty Guard Opposes Funding for the REAL ID ACT

 

5/17/2016

(Atlanta, GA) – Liberty Guard today announced its opposition to funding for the Real ID Act. .

The REAL ID Act gives broad latitude to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), including the power to add to the list of “official purposes” for which a compliant ID is required, “all authority to issue regulations, set standards, and issue grants” toward compliance, and the power to determine whether a state is in compliance with the Act.

Liberty Guard has joined more than one dozen organizations opposing California’s funding of this ill-conceived federal mandate.

Bob Barr, Chairman of Liberty Guard, commented, “The Read ID Act represents a massive federal overreach, that raises serious problems for individual privacy and principles of federalism.” The program, Barr also noted, “should, not be forced onto states, and I am proud to join with other organizations that support privacy and liberty, and oppose funding for Real ID implementation.”

About Liberty Guard:

Formed in 2009 by Bob Barr, and supported by over 150,000 Americans across the country, Liberty Guard is dedicated to restoring and strengthening liberty against intrusions by government at all levels; including taking action against TSA privacy intrusions and ObamaCare. Liberty Guard remains committed to identifying and supporting policy, candidates, and causes which champion liberty and return our country to constitutional principles.

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Retro PC Run Amok

by lgadmin July 1, 2015
written by lgadmin

Were the hit television series “The Dukes of Hazzard” filmed today rather than three decades ago, the “authorities” constantly chasing the Duke brothers around rural Georgia would not be a crooked county commissioner and a half-wit sheriff. Instead, Bo and Luke’s Confederate flag-adorned Dodge Charger would be pursued by an armada of eco-friendly Priuses, driven by a pack of seething social justice warriors who want nothing more than to send the “racist” brothers to jail for daring to display a hate symbol.

Unfortunately for the Duke Boys, today these are authorities even they cannot escape, as we saw last week when Warner Brothers opted to cancel production of die-cast replicas and vehicle model kits of their iconic “General Lee” – another of many knee-jerk reactions to the outcry against the Confederate flag following the mass shooting in Charleston, South Carolina.

In the immediate aftermath of the Charleston mass murder, two distinct groups formed. One community rallied together in a display of compassion and forgiveness; a response rare in today’s society, where rioting and looting have come to be the “new normal” responses to perceived racial injustices. The other group, consisting primarily of outsiders, saw the shooting rampage as a catalyst for political action, and immediately launched a mass campaign of retroactive political correctness.

Rather than blame the tragedy on the demented actions of a lone coward with a twisted worldview, this PC group wasted no time blaming guns, “hate speech,” and “hate” symbols for the attack. The bandwagon was rolling. To avoid charges of being on the side of “racist rednecks,” Amazon, eBay, Walmart and Etsy quickly banned any and all products featuring the Confederate flag. Soon, other Confederate-linked objects were on the chopping block; including monuments, street names, and license plates.

As the movement gathered steam, the scope of the retroactive cleansing swept far beyond the Civil War era; taking in such icons as America’s Founding Fathers who, in the eyes of the PC Warlords, were “racist” and therefore unqualified to be memorialized, whether in marble statues or on paper currency.

This Retro PC drive, however, presents problems. For one thing, reviewing the line-up of portraits currently adorning America’s national currency, one must question who, if anyone, could possibly meet the Left’s high purity standards for 21st-Century political correctness?

George Washington ($1 bill) clearly would not make the cut. Although our first President orchestrated the military defeat of the then-mighty British Empire, and provided the political glue that kept the nascent country from descending into chaos, this Virginia landowner was himself a slave owner.

Thomas Jefferson ($2 bill), author of the Virginia Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, and founder of the University of Virginia, must in the eyes of the rabid PC police, be similarly stripped of the honor of appearing on our currency; for he, too, was a Virginia landowner who owned slaves.

Even “Honest Abe” Lincoln ($5 bill), despite being credited with ending slavery, actually freed no slaves with his Emancipation Proclamation and adamantly opposed basic civil rights for freed blacks such as voting, serving on a jury, holding public office, and intermarrying with whites. So sorry, Mr. Lincoln.

America’s very first Treasury Secretary, Alexander Hamilton ($10 bill), currently in line to be stripped from his position of honor on the bill by the Obama Administration, was a notorious womanizer and was involved in the country’s first “sex scandal.” Then there is Andrew Jackson ($20 bill), already much maligned even before the Charleston shooting, who is responsible for the shameful “Trail of Tears” and other improper treatment of Native Americans.

Good old Ulysses (“U.S.”) Grant ($50 bill), Civil War hero and our 19th President, certainly wouldn’t make the PC cut. Not only was he an alcoholic, but he presided over an Administration riddled with corruption; we cannot now condone that sort of untoward behavior.

And, like Hamilton, Benjamin Franklin ($100), though an early opponent of slavery, would be roundly accused of misogynistic womanizing by today’s feminists; a fatal flaw in our politically correct century.

Perhaps we could replace Jefferson with President William Henry Harrison, who only served a single month in office; not long enough to have committed any fatal PC errors? But even short-tenured Harrison would likely fall prey to the PC purists because of his serving as a military leader fighting against the Indians in the early 19th Century.

At the end of the day, probably it would be safest simply to remove human visages from our currency and replace them with illustrations of inanimate or non-human things. Perhaps a lovely landscape from Yellowstone National Park rather than the unsmiling face of a former, racist president. Or an unsmiling “emoji” digital messaging icon as a non-controversial replacement for Washington. Other bills could be adorned with lovely – and scandal-free – pictures of native American birds.

Of course, even if we were to remove all of the “old, dead white men” from America’s currency, it likely would still not be enough to appease the forces of social justice screeching to sterilize American history. After all, in the opinion of these zealots, even our country’s flag is emblematic of an oppressive, racist mindset. “The American flag has been flown in instances of colonialism and imperialism,” read a resolution passed in March by student “leaders” at the University of California, Irvine.

To such crazies, America is racist at its core, and there is nothing about the country of which to be so proud as to place on our currency. So, what to do? Perhaps a national flag of purist white – signifying nothing offensive. Come to think of it, a white flag of surrender might suit the current Administration just fine.

Originally published here on townhall.com

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Press Release: Liberty Guard Applauds Rand Paul on His Stand for the 4th Amendment

by Liberty Guard Author June 4, 2015
written by Liberty Guard Author

(Atlanta, GA) – Liberty Guard stands with Rand Paul and his colleagues by thwarting the unwarranted interjection of government surveillance in our day-to-day lives. Through his liberty-minded efforts, the Senate of the United States let key provisions to expire May 31, 2015.
Per its expiration, the National Security Agency (NSA) ceased any bulk metadata collection at 7:44pm on Sunday. “Section 215” allowed the NSA to collect (and store) such data on Americans for 5 years. The second provision gave law enforcement entities the ability (and freedom) to wiretap suspected individuals in an all-encompassing effect. Without such a provision, a warrant is needed for each instance.
Bob Barr, Chairman of Liberty Guard, said, “the government cannot make fallacious connections between a “lone-wolf” suspect with terror groups such as ISIS, Al-Qaeda, or the Taliban to substantiate investigations. We are excited that due to Senator Paul’s efforts, the Patriot Act has been terminated.”
Steven Thomas, President of Liberty Guard, added, “Even though the court system has told the President that the program in question is illegal, Barack Obama seems ambivalent.
As Ayn Rand has said: ‘The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.’ Rampant systematic breaches of the Fourth Amendment are justified by instilling fear amongst Americans and veiling its intentions under national security.”
Liberty Guard strongly stands with Senator Paul and what he is doing to lead the fight in the Congress to defend the Bill of Rights against many of those even in his own Party and great cost to himself. The status quo must be disrupted. As we’ve learned with the current Presidential administration, promises are moot if you later renege once elected.
Sign an e-card to thank Senator Paul for standing for liberty HERE!

 

 

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Time for Congress to Stop D.C.’s Anti-Gun Shenanigans

by Liberty Guard Author May 20, 2015
written by Liberty Guard Author

Since the landmark 2008 Heller v. District of Columbia case, which Second-Amendment lawyer Alan Gura argued before the Supreme Court, anti-gun officials in the nation’s capital have spent every waking hour trying to avoid doing what the high Court ordered be done: allow District residents to exercise their right to keep and bear arms.

Gura has been fighting them every step of the way; and on Monday, was victorious once again, as a United States District Court granted his injunction to stop the city from requiring concealed carry permit applicants to demonstrate a “good reason to fear injury to his or her person or property or has any other proper reason for carrying a pistol.”

“The fact that a person may have a greater need for self-protection says nothing about how limiting the carrying of handguns to such individuals would result in a reduction of risk to other members of the public or reduce violent crime,” wrote District Judge Frederick Scullin in slapping down D.C.’s latest effort to undermine the Heller mandate. It was Scullin who, last year, struck down D.C.’s de facto ban on guns through regulations that failed to provide a system to obtain concealed carry permits, despite requiring them for carry in public. In echoing his earlier opinion, Scullin remarked in his most recent directive that the city’s specious new “good reason”/“proper reason” requirement, “makes it impossible for the overwhelming majority of law-abiding citizens to obtain licenses to carry handguns in public for self-defense, thereby depriving them of their Second Amendment right to bear arms.”

The outrageous conduct of the D.C. government to evade its duty to uphold the Second Amendment ever since it was first handed a defeat in Heller, is a case study for how many local and state governments react to an increasing number of rulings in favor of gun rights. Rather than accept the now well-established fact that citizens possess an individual right to keep and bear arms, many local and state governments employ all manner of procedural maneuvers and regulatory tricks, to inhibit this right while falsely claiming to be following the judicial rulings.

Their plan is to buy time and wear down pro-Second Amendment forces; and at some point perhaps to find a sympathetic liberal judge to support their dilatory actions. Fortunately, there are pugnacious lawyers like Gura, and courageous judges like Scullin, who will not be intimidated or worn down.

But fighting the anti-firearm forces is expensive and time-consuming – including the cost to taxpayers. For example, the District of Columbia was required to pay Gura and his legal team $1.1 million for the Heller case, and even this amount was stiffing Gura for what he was actually owed for his many years of work on the case — close to $3.6 million.

Also often overlooked, is the double standard anti-gun Democrats apply when inventing new ways to stymie the Second Amendment, contrasted to their hysterics when they perceive Republicans to be even remotely challenging the rights and privileges they so highly cherish.

Consider voter ID laws. States that have dared to assert the right to protect the integrity of their elections with voter ID laws were threatened and intimidated by Democrats, all the way up to the Department of Justice under Eric Holder, for the negligible impact the cost of a government-issued ID required for voting, might have on minority groups. Meanwhile, the cost of acquiring a concealed carry license in Illinois, driven up by regulatory burdens, created a racial disparity so great that only 10 percent of licensees are non-white.

Yet, only in the case of voter ID laws did Holder describe the actions of government to be “political pretexts to disenfranchise American citizens of their most precious rights.”

The net effect of these shenanigans, if D.C. is to be any example, is an endless series of lawsuits, appeals, rulings, and dodging that keeps Second Amendment attorneys like Gura constantly in the courtroom, taxpayers on the hook, and the Bill of Rights hostage.

If D.C. citizens had any sense, they would use Monday’s ruling as the final straw to put pressure on Mayor Muriel Bowser to fire Police Chief Cathy Lanier, who seems utterly deaf to understanding basic orders from now multiple courts, that the right of the people in “her” city to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

It appears time for the Congress, which has ultimate authority over the District of Columbia, to step in and force these scofflaws to follow the Constitution and court rulings, even if they don’t like it.

 

Originally published here via townhall.com

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ATF Hand In the Cookie Jar Slapped Down

by Liberty Guard Author March 11, 2015
written by Liberty Guard Author

Yesterday, March 10, 2015 was a Red Letter Day. No; it had nothing to do with Hillary’s e-mail “coming out party” at the United Nations. And, no, ISIS has not forsaken its bloodlust ways. It’s perhaps even more remarkable.

A federal government agency has backed down!

Specifically, on Tuesday, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (affectionately known simply as “ATF”) publicly admitted failure and backed away from its misguided and disingenuous attempt to ban one of the most popular ammunition rounds in civilian use.

However, before we break open a bottle of The Bubbly, it must be kept in mind that this victory may be only temporary. As we know from actual experience over the past six years, the Obama Administration consistently and repeatedly has failed to live up to its self-styled status as the most honest and “transparent” in history.

This latest foray into heavy-handed regulatory warfare began a month ago when ATF – reversing a 29-year old decision – issued a “proposed” rule change that would designate .223-caliber “green tip” rifle cartridges (also known as “M855” ammunition) as “armor piercing.” The regulation would do this by removing the ammunition from the list of ammunition “exempted” from being considered “armor piercing.” The change would have made it unlawful for citizens – who use these cartridges by the millions in the widely-popular rifle platform known as the “AR-15” – to purchase or possess M855 ammunition.

M855 ammunition is used by target shooters and other sportsmen because of its accuracy, relatively reasonable price, and wide availability. It has never been documented to be have been used in handguns by criminals against law enforcement; despite claims by ATF that it is has been thus employed (which was the Bureau’s stated reason for the ban).

Unsaid in ATF’s proposed ban is the fact that the AR-15 rifle, which uses the M855 round, has long-been the “poster boy” for demonizing firearms by the gun-control crowd. This crowd, using the intimidation and fact-distortion tactics common to Liberals in politics and the media, has tried repeatedly in recent years to pass legislation limiting the availability of the AR-15. Unfortunately for them, and fortunately for those of us who understand and support the Constitution’s Second Amendment protections, gun-control efforts in this regard have failed.

But, the gun control folks have a friend in ATF; and through regulatory sleight-of-hand, the Bureau tried to slip one over on the American people. The Bureau had gone so far as to publish a newly-revised regulatory manual explaining that M855 ammunition was now considered an unlawful “armor-piercing” round – even before the public comment period for the proposed regulation was ended. That proved to be a “Bridge too Far.” A massive, public anti-ban comment avalanche, coupled with several bipartisan letters in opposition to what ATF was doing from the Congress, has forced ATF to rescind its proposed ban.

Clearly, however, the leopard has not changed its spots. This Administration, including the current leadership of the ATF in particular, remains strongly committed to restricting, rather than protecting, the people’s right to keep and bear arms – including ammunition. If the dozens of members of Congress who publicly stood in opposition to this latest “executive action” by President Obama, and if the tens of thousands of average citizens who did the same, think that the battle is won and they can take their eye off the ball and rest easy, think again.

Just as Obama and his Department of Justice (which is about to get a protégé of Eric Holder as his replacement) have thumbed their nose at the rule of law in other areas, including immigration, if left to their own devices even for a moment, they will not hesitate to find some other way to accomplish what ATF was unable to do this go round.

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Have We Learned Nothing In The 23 Years Since The Rodney King Riots?

by Liberty Guard Author August 20, 2014
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It has been nearly a quarter of a century since the bloody “Rodney King” riots ripped through Los Angeles. In the years since those horrific events in 1991, police departments across the country have been faced with numerous racially-charged altercations – including many involving police shootings of civilian suspects. During that same time, American taxpayers at all levels of government have seen hundreds of billions of their dollars spent to improve law enforcement training, procedures, and equipment. But, have we learned anything?

If what is unfolding in Ferguson, Missouri following the August 9th fatal shooting of unarmed, black teenager Michael Brown by a white police officer is any indication, all that training, money and equipment has been utterly wasted.

In less than one week, Ferguson transformed from a small and largely unknown St. Louis suburb into an occupied territory in the middle of a raging warzone. The act that initially sparked this unfortunate series of events — the shooting death of Brown – was quickly overtaken by an embarrassing series of missteps by political and law enforcement officials. The manner in which these bumbling officials issued conflicting and inconsistent statements and took similarly indecisive actions, serves as a lesson in how not to handle such an incident.

One of these factors, of course, is the danger posed by the over-militarization of civilian law enforcement. This highly problematic process moved into high gear with the 1993 ATF-Branch Davidian confrontation outside Waco, Texas, and accelerated rapidly after the 911 terror attacks. In recent days, many commentators and experts have focused on this very real and continuing threat to our civil liberties (I have written in the past about this alarming problem). Still, the infatuation many local and state law enforcement agencies have with whiz-bang military firepower, vehicles, clothing and mindset shows little sign of abating.

As serious as is the problem with over-militarizing domestic law enforcement in 21st Century America, in a broader sense it is a merely a symptom of an even more fundamental disease plaguing law enforcement organizations across the country and at all levels of government: the failure to understand, remember, and act upon the foundational principles on which our constitutionally-based federal republic was formed. These First Principles include, among others of course, that: ultimate authority in America resides in the citizenry, not government agents; government exists to serve the People, not vice versa; the Bill of Rights provides checks on government power rather than serving as a road map for government to erode individual liberty; and, federal government powers are defined and limited.

Occasional lapses in such understandings can be tolerated, but when married to the utter incompetence such as displayed by those involved in trying to control the discord in Ferguson, it is a situation guaranteed to worsen, to spread, and ultimately to feed precedent for further mischief by those always sniffing around for such opportunities.

When elected and appointed officials forget the Constitution and what it stands for, bad situations turn worse. The cast of characters reflecting this phenomenon now includes (among others) the mayor and police chief in Ferguson, and the U.S. Attorney General with his heavy-handed and premature move to seize control of the local situation.

It is said that “nature abhors a vacuum.” The modern corollary to that time-tested truism, however, is “government loves a vacuum” because it provides opportunity to step in and assert or take control. This is what happens time and again in these situations; Ferguson is but the latest example.

When local and state officials exhibited indecision and vacillation in their statements and actions in the immediate aftermath of Brown’s death, it created a vacuum. The national media, of course, rushed in to define and hype the situation to its benefit. This was followed closely by the usual “civil rights” champions elbowing their way to the camera banks — the Revs. Jackson and Sharpton, and the “New” Black Panthers. The unraveling of the situation accelerated quickly thereafter.

Even after it became obvious to even casual observers that initial comments and actions responding to the Brown shooting were mishandled, those same local and state officials continued to bungle their statements and actions; wavering between toughness and choruses of “Kumbaya,” and between detachment and forceful engagement. Not surprisingly, Uncle Sam recognized an opportunity to take control, and strode in with new directives, more “observers,” dozens of FBI agents, and the Attorney General himself. The feds claim to have taken the high moral ground; and, in so doing have once again diminished and pushed aside that authority which under our constitutional framework is supposed to be paramount – state and local government.

If we the People allow this inversion of constitutional power and federalism again to stand, it will confirm that we, too, have learned nothing in the past generation.

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