The Minuteman Chronicles

I. Apparently there are more ‘freedom fighter’s’ up in North Louisiana. Maybe this could help the Brown’s out in New Hampshire.

The Internal Revenue Service has lost a lawyer's challenge in front of a jury to prove a constitutional foundation for the nation's income tax, and the victorious attorney now is setting his sights higher.

"I think now people are beginning to realize that this has got to be the largest fraud, backed up by intimidation and extortion and by the sheer force of taking peoples property and hard-earned money without any lawful authorization whatsoever," lawyer Tom Cryer told WND just days after a jury in Louisiana acquitted him of two criminal tax counts.

He said the free exchange of labor for compensation has been upheld as a right by the Supreme Court, but that doesn't necessarily make the compensation income.

If ever such an argument were to be presented widely, Cryer said, the income to the federal government would plummet. But not to worry, he said, the expenses could be reduced equally by eliminating programs, departments and agencies that also have no foundation in the Constitution.

For example, he said, the Constitution does not empower the federal government to regulate education, or employment, and agriculture, yet it does so.

He warned without a restoration of constitutional basics, the nation is lost.

"Read your Constitution and you will see that the federal role does not include ANY authority to regulate or tax any citizen directly and that WE expressly reserved the right to rule and govern ourselves as States, not as mere political subdivisions," his website says.

"The Constitution does not allow the government to run your lives, but the money it is stealing from millions of Americans is the fuel for its over-reaching and kibitzing. Take the money back and we and our states and communities can again be free," he said.

The fight is over "our FREEDOM from rule by a DISTANT RULER, just as we fought to free ourselves of a distant England over 200 years ago," he said.

Just in case you aren’t following it yourself, there was ‘provoking’ gun fire in NH on Saturday. But, the Brown’s did not fall into the trap of firing back at nothing but the ‘sounds’ of gunfire.

II. In a time where New Orleans city officials continue to breaking the law refusing to return people's confiscated guns, instead letting them rust in a semi trailer, a story like this at least returns a bit of a smile to one's face.

"The number of permits issued to carry concealed weapons is running twice as high as it was before Katrina - this, in a city with only about half its pre-storm population of around 450,000. Attendance at firearms classes and hours logged at shooting ranges also are up, according to the gun industry."

One piece of spin-via-omission that we see all the time though:
"While many are buying guns for protection, only two defensive killings of criminals by civilians took place in New Orleans in 2006, according to police. No charges were filed against the shooters."

A round need not be fired and a criminal's career terminated to count as a defensive firearm use. We don't really know the number of encounters where a gun is never fired and no one is injured, but the estimations are always pretty high. There surely were more than 2 cases where the mere sight of the firearm sent the criminal running in the opposite direction.

You should report these encounters, but many do not. But to me they are perfectly valid defensive firearm uses!