Hassled by TSA - over carrying cash!

...in an email I got from the Ron Paul organization:

April 6, 2009

Dear Friend of Liberty,

Campaign for Liberty’s very own Steve Bierfeldt has become an unexpected Internet sensation -- and the latest target of over-reaching federal government agents.

You see, Steve was detained by Airport Police and TSA officials shortly after the Campaign for Liberty regional conference in St. Louis.

The officials rudely berated and harassed Steve for 30 minutes in a secluded room at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport. Fortunately, Steve was able to record nearly all of the interrogation with his cell phone.

Steve’s alleged “crime”? Carrying $4,700 in checks and cash from Campaign for Liberty, along with various other materials from our conference.

The local and Federal agents harassed Steve. They were belligerent, cursing and using insulting language. They threatened to turn Steve over to the DEA and the FBI, all the while refusing to inform him of his legal rights or explain how cash and checks threatened airplane or airport security.

Throughout the interrogation, Steve remained polite but resolute and declined to answer the invasive questions without an adequate explanation from these federal and local agents as to why they needed to be answered. Without telling Steve what law he was accused of breaking, they continued their harassment.

Although they grew increasingly frustrated that he remained committed to exercising his rights, intervention from another officer eventually led the police to reluctantly release Steve.

Last Wednesday, Steve appeared on Judge Napolitano’s Freedom Watch to discuss the flagrant violation of his rights and to promote the importance of each of us defending our civil liberties.



Gee! I wonder if they were wearing leather overcoats, fedora hats and sporting swastikas on their sleeves!

YOU may think being turned into cattle at an airport is justified.

I don't!

Keep in mind this young patriot is merely demanding an answer to a question of clarification of his rights! And for this he is treated like a dog!

I think this is a DELIBERATE conditioning of the American people ...being done in preparation of further degradations of our Liberty.

College student quietly but thoroughly takes Barney Frank to task!

Harvard student takes on Rep. Frank

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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (myfoxboston) - It all started with a question: "How much responsibility, if any, do you have for the financial crisis?"

Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass) and a conservative Harvard law student debated over how Frank should have handled his role as the House Chairman of the Financial Services Committee. Frank was at Harvard University for a speech at the Kennedy School of Government.

Frank said the student wasn't backing up his claims, invoking some laughter from the crowd, and the student told Frank he wasn't answering his question.
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GR4U - Awww this kid is awesome. He quietly and most definitely makes marble-mouthed Barney Frank sweat! This is too good to miss!!!

Navy SEAL's dog murdered by punks...

I read the book authored by this heroic man. He seriously looked the Gods of War right in the eye! These punks are lucky to be alive.

An important quote from our president...

* "As I've said before ... ummmmm"

* Actual Obama quote. (Not actual photograph)

And now for something totally different!

I give you the Badass of the Week site. It's tongue in cheek, but the guy is a pretty good writer and the broad range of characters (both real and imaginary) makes for some fascinating stuff.

Check out The Viking Berserker at the Battle of Stamford Bridge, or how about cartoon character Race Bannon from the old Jonny Quest series!

The language may be a bit coarse, but ... just deal with it.

About sums it up...

Why I am NOT a member of the NRA

This lady makes the case far better than I ever could!

Do 90% of Mexican 'Crime Guns' come from the US?

By David Codrea

March 30, 9:04 AM

Before I get into today's column, I'd like to make a few more observations about yesterday's.

Hopefully, it's clear to all that the three interdiction stops referred to in the ATF "Operation Southbound Steel" intelligence advisory information request were conducted by local law enforcement (specifically by the Pearl River and Jackson County Sheriff's departments, and the Gulfport PD). So it's not like the intrepid feds with their expanded Project Gunrunner budget are doing anything other than acting as a news aggregator here.

As one of my sources observed to me:

This is not the result of an ongoing federal investigation, it's BATF piggybacking on local cops...what is not being seized in Miss., they aren't seizing RPGs, grenades and Class III Military ARs and AKs. The point is that the military guns aren't coming from here. They come from Venezuela, Colombia, Cuba, Israel, Brazil and China...

That the cartels are getting military grade weapons from non-U.S. sources is borne out by journalists doing their own investigation instead of relying on government agencies for their talking points:

Most of these weapons are being smuggled from Central American countries or by sea, eluding U.S. and Mexican monitors who are focused on the smuggling of semiauto- matic and conventional weapons purchased from dealers in the U.S. border states of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California.

Which brings us to one "reporter" who does parrot talking points, Matthew Price of BBC News, who "authoritatively" tells his readers:

It is estimated that at least 90% of the guns used by the Mexican drug trafficking organisations have come from the US.

Price may as well be working for the Brady Campaign, which tells those it hopes to manipulate:

More than 90% of the guns used by the drug cartels originate from U.S. gun sellers

And CNN spreads the meme via Brady Campaign president Paul Helmke and Brady board member and former Maryland Lieutenant Governor/US deputy attorney general Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, who tell us in no uncertain terms:

American gun sellers supply the cartels with 95 to 100 percent of their guns, according to the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

Am I calling Price, BBC and the majority of establishment media following suit agenda-driven propagandists (or lazy incompetents) and the Bradys opportunistic liars trying to swindle us out of our rights? You tell me. Because here's what happens when we take these statements everyone assumes to be authoritative and true, and add one critical element: an oath or affirmation, with penalties for perjury.

I'd like to share with you a bit of testimony, from the Statement of David Ogden, Deputy Attorney General, United States Department of Justice, before the United States Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs hearing entitled “Southern Border Violence: Homeland Security Threats, Vulnerabilities, and Responsibilities”, presented March 25, 2009. Just a small bit, really, but a critical one, almost lost in the 20 pages of his statement:

According to ATF’s Tracing Center, 90 percent of the firearms about which ATF receives information are traceable to the United States.

Read it again, and compare it to what the antis are saying. It's very different, isn't it?

But it does raise the interesting question about why a guy with nothing more than a handful of friendly sources and access to the Internet (that would be me) "receives information" that is, according to sworn testimony before the Senate, apparently unknown to and uninvestigated by the agency tasked with enforcing the nation's gun laws. Or by the press...

The only explanations are ATF and their masters at DoJ are either hopelessly oblivious to what is really happening, that is, criminally negligent, or they are engaged in an outright conspiratorial fraud to deprive us of our rights.

Those are serious charges. I submit the sworn testimony of Deputy AG Ogden makes this a matter for official inquiry. Under glaring lights.

Why not go on the offensive instead of waiting for manipulators and deceivers to introduce further gun bans based on misrepresentations and lies? Why not demand of our representatives that they initiate hearings into what ATF actually knows about Mexican cartel guns and their suppliers? And take an extra close look at how they're deploying their manpower and resources?

You can start by contacting your representative and senators. Copy and paste the link to this article in your email. Then here's all you need to tell them, again a copy/paste:

Read this column. I expect you to open an official inquiry into why DoJ and ATF are misdirecting the American people on how Mexican drug cartels are supplying themselves with military grade weapons.

Who knows what this will result in? Perhaps nothing, or perhaps it will be the first few loose pebbles that precede the avalanche. Why not do it right now? And pass this along to your friends...?

What have you got to lose, a minute or two?

Good training is where you find it!

I’m just wondering aloud here. How much combat shooting could be learned by shooting squirrels while canoeing thru flooded woods.

Think about it! You’re moving, by virtue of the canoe’s roll, pitch, and forward progress. The squirrel is certainly moving. They tend to avoid sitting still for long periods – except when they think themselves well hidden.

It’s then, when they’ve “hunkered down” up there amongst the green, that your skills of observation can be tested and enhanced. By learning to search for target indicators like movement, sound, and silhouette, even though your target is a mere tree rat, the skills being honed are identical with those of a combat infantryman.

And finally, the size of a squirrel’s head at 25 yards compares favorably with the size of a man’s torso at 500 yards. Methinks the shooting skill-set is well served by squirrel hunting.

In addition to being loads of pure fun, squirrel hunting in flooded swamps while afloat is not bad training!

THIS guy was determined not to be a victim!

I guess it could be said that the gangbangers who repeatedly tried to rob this guy all experienced a Castastrophic Failure of the Victim Selection Process!