http://www.examiner.com/gun-rights-in-national/north-carolina-declared-gun-free-zone-anticipation-of-hurricane-earl

Upon Governor Beverly Perdue’s declaration of a State Of Emergency on September 1, 2010 Dove Hunters, Concealed Carry Handgun Licensees, Target Shooters and all other gunowners cannot possess, transport or use firearms off their personal property as per N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-288.7

New Orleans did the same thing during Hurricane Katrina (and local and federal goons went door to door STEALING guns from honest citizens in the time when they needed self-defense the MOST!

I’m glad that in my state, there is a law prohibiting this sort of nonsense!

–Michael W. Dean

Successful home gun defense illustrates unfairness of Chicago gun laws

Written by

David Codrea, Gun Rights Examiner

“An off-duty Chicago police officer shot and killed a man who broke into his South Side home Friday morning,” Becky Schlikerman of The Chicago Tribune informs us.

The suspect, we are told, was armed:

“The officer…fired his service weapon several times, killing the intruder…”

Neighbors are supportive:

“They invaded his home, he did what he had to do…”

A core issue behind the McDonald Supreme Court case was so if the neighbors’ homes are invaded, they’ll be able to do what they have to do. That the Daley administration continues to fight recognition of their right to do so every step of the way ought to be all any fair-minded person needs to know…..

More here.

Oath Keeper Sheriff Richard Mack – interview for the movie “Guns and Weed: The Road to Freedom.” Filmed at Wyoming Liberty Fest in Lander, August 21, 2010.

http://www.sheriffmack.com/

http://oathkeepers.org/

THIS FOOTAGE NOT YET COLOR CORRECTED OR AUDIO FLUFFED.

“Guns and Weed: The Road to Freedom”

http://www.gunsandweed.com/

A film by Michael W. Dean and Neema Vedadi. Drops Spring 2011.

View the pre-trailer (be sure to watch in hi-def mode!):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qo2a1QQDgOk

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I think a lot of libertarians and Republicans tend to not want to “rock the boat.” For instance, I have a Goldwater Republican friend who lives in Phoenix and he hates illegal immigration, is directly affected by it in a negative way, but doesn’t like what the governor’s doing there, because it “causes unrest” and “goes too far.”

Whereas liberal progressives LOVE to yell and demand their “rights.” It’s a problem…..libertarians just basically want to “be left alone”, that’s almost the common DEFINITION of libertarianism. And the definition of progressivism is that they LOVE to screech, tell people what to do and “push the envelope.”

Libertarians should all own and carry guns. Carry a handgun and own a rifle. It reinforces the idea of self-defense, in everything. Guns are not only a physical tool, they are a psychological tool. Carrying one reminds you that libertarianism isn’t just “leave me alone”, it’s “if you push me too far I’ll push back.”

Some may think that “rocks the boat” or “goes to far”, but I’m a peace-lovin’ man and it makes a lot of sense to me.

ZAP: Do not initiate aggression.
ZAP 2.0: Do not initiate, OR ACCEPT, aggression.

–Michael W. Dean

Republican Liberty Caucus endorsee, Ron Micheli says that “Sheriffs are the ultimate authority.”

I dig it. Commonly considered a fringe belief, it’s actually codified into the Posse Comitatus Act:

Posse Comitatus (Latin): Power of the county. The whole force of the county: that is, all the male members of a county over fifteen, who may be summoned by a sheriff to assist in preventing a riot, the rescue of prisoners, or other unlawful disorders. Clergymen, peers, and the infirm are exempt.

From the Casper Tribune:

CHEYENNE — Republican gubernatorial candidate Ron Micheli’s support for a movement to recognize local sheriffs as the ultimate law enforcement authority has drawn fire from his opponents and runs counter to an emphatic warning from a federal judge in Casper.

Micheli insists the higher power of elected sheriffs is an extension of states’ rights spelled out in the U.S. Constitution. In a recent interview, he said that if elected, he would appoint a state attorney general who agrees with him.

“I will appoint an attorney general who understands the 10th Amendment, and who understands states’ rights, and we will do everything possible to enforce them,” Micheli said.

The 10th Amendment to the Constitution specifies that all powers not expressly delegated to the federal government are reserved to the states or the people.

“A federal authority, if he comes into a local jurisdiction, should be in communication, and should be working with the local sheriff before an arrest is made,” Micheli said. “The fact (is) that the sheriff is the authority in that jurisdiction.”…

….An Associated Press report earlier this year found that the push to declare sheriffs as the highest law enforcement agent in the land is gaining traction nationwide. Many federal officials say the effort is misguided…..

Micheli has been endorsed by Richard Mack, a former sheriff in Graham County, Ariz., who is active in the loosely organized movement called the Oath Keepers. The group enlists law enforcement and military personnel to pledge that they would refuse 10 unconstitutional orders, including any commands to confiscate guns or to perform warrantless searches…..

Sounds like a good way to push back against federal encroachment.

–Michael W. Dean

House Democrats are planning more than 100 events around this week’s anniversary of Social Security to attack Republicans who want to reform the popular entitlement.
Democrats and interest groups on the left have scheduled “birthday parties” and other events to highlight Saturday’s 75th anniversary of the program signed into law by President Franklin Roosevelt.
A Democratic leadership aide said Republicans are “highly vulnerable” on both Social Security and Medicare.
“This is a party that said they want Medicare to wither on the vine and want to privatize Social Security,” the aide said.

Burn your Social Security Card!
Curiously, in the entire piece there’s no mention whatsoever of the Libertarian Party which advocates in their platform complete privatization.
From LP.org:

Libertarians believe you should be able to opt out of Social Security and invest your money in your own personal retirement account. An account that you own and control – one that politicians can’t get their hands on.
Republicans and Democrats say it can’t be done – that your Social Security taxes are needed to pay benefits to today’s retirees. Instead of letting you invest in your own future, they want you to have faith that someone else will pay your benefits when it comes time for you to retire.
Although most won’t admit it publicly, their “solutions” to the Social Security crises all come down to some combination of tax increases and benefit cuts.
Libertarians know that there’s a better way.
Countries like Chile, Mexico, Britain, and Australia have successfully made the transition from their failed Social Security systems to healthy systems based on individual retirement accounts.

The Libertarian Party even went so far as to sponsor nationwide rallies in the 1980s to burn Social Security cards, and urge its members to drop out of the S.S. system.
Republicans gain Libertarian voters with boldness; not bland pastels
So here we have the Libertarian Party criticizing Republicans for not backing real Social Security privatization.
And if you think the LP is “fringe,” consider for a moment their candidate for US Senate in North Carolina is currently polling between 8 to 10%.
But of course, the Dems can’t attack the Libertarian Party. They have to portray the Republican Party as the “extremist Privatizers.”
The Republican Party needs to not only appeal to moderate Centrists, but the libertarian swing voter, as well. Libertarians are not pacified by namby pamby proposals of soft reform, or tinkering around the edges.
A bold Republican stance for full privatization of Social Security and other failed government programs will undoubtably attract that hardcore libertarian vote. Without such boldness, the Republican candidate is likely to loose 3, 4 or 5% or maybe even like North Carolina with a strong articulate Libertarian candidate on the ballot, as much as 8 to 10% of the vote on their libertarian flank.
The job of us libertarian Republicans is to help the GOP appeal to that flank.
So, go ahead Democrats. Keep playing up the “Republicans want to Privatize Social Security” line. You only make our job much more easier.
Dr. Thies is a longtime Republican, former National Chairman of the Republican Liberty Caucus, and currently Senior Editor of Libertarian Republican. Eric Dondero is a former Senior Aide to US Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX), 1997-2003.

A film by Michael W. Dean and Neema Vedadi.

Drops Spring 2011.

View the pre-trailer (be sure to watch in hi-def mode!):

Website and mailing list: http://www.gunsandweed.com/

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We’re making this film because we’re amazed by how many people who love guns also support the War on Drugs, and how many people who love drugs support the War on Guns. They need to know the two wars fuel each other. And most pro-pot people are also into progressive socialism. It doesn’t make sense. If you’re into one freedom, you really should be into ALL freedoms.

For instance, Woody Harrelson is a well-known pot advocate. I agree with Harrelson on the pot issue. But he’s an inveterate Obama licking socialist progressive.

How’s this for justifying lunacy?:

Salon.com: At least at this point, it appears that Obama is pushing onward with the war in Afghanistan. Is he just constrained by geopolitics? Is he simply not free to say, “Look, we’re not going to do this anymore”?

Harrelson: I think there’s a lot of persuasive and powerful people around Obama. For a president to make his own decisions, I think that’s a rarity. Even someone who we think of as our guy — this is a guy with integrity, a guy who cares, for the first time in a long time — in the Oval Office, even with him we don’t really know who’s pulling the strings. I think of every president as being a marionette. Whether he’s any different, I don’t know. Certainly his military advisers all want him to prosecute this war to the end, just as they did in Vietnam with LBJ.

It’s just too depressing, I think we’re going to have to hit the streets. Obama has the chance of becoming JFK or LBJ. I think JFK was one of our last great presidents, although I thought Carter was pretty great too…..

Which just goes to prove my thesis….the Republicans better quit trying to legislate against what people smoke and who they bed, or we’re going to have a permanent majority of people who want to rob from the disarmed producers to support the insolent and indolent parasites.

Not that repubs don’t do that, but lately the dems have been taking it to vast new levels. And while dems don’t care what kind of freaky mammal sex you have, they certainly want to control or eliminate every tiny little other nuance in the world. Coal, oil, commerce, guns, hunting, water, health care, salt, or body fat index and ironically, weed.

Why should the government protect us from ourselves?

If you think they should, then no one should have guns, right? (Except of course, the government, because the government is an all-knowing and perfect loving-yet-stern parent to guide us in our every decision!)

Another issue: PROHIBITION DOES NOT WORK.  The War on Drugs has been unwinnable since the 1930s. It only fuels government waste, bolsters government intrusion, and puts good people in prison. It also fuels the War on Guns. Look how Holder tried to reinstate the Assault Weapon Ban to help the War on Drugs.

Prohibition doesn’t make people quit smoking pot anymore than a total gun ban would make a patriot hang his head in shame and voluntarily hand in all his hardware to the federal smelter.

–Michael Dean

Really good review of my book A User’s Manual for the Human Experience. Well-written by Marina Cheshire.
Excerpt:

“A User’s Manual For The Human Experience” by Michael W. Dean is a book I most likely would have never read if I had not previously read, reviewed, and enjoyed Dean’s “$30 Writing School.” I’m glad I found “$30 Writing School” on the shelf of a book store and enjoyed it, because that led me to this “User’s Manual For The Human Experience.” It is a self-help book, but one like no others I have read. I found it to be unique, interesting, informative, and most of all enjoyable.

Dean definitely has a style of his own. It’s a mixture of reflection, self-assuredness, a zest for life, libertarianism, his own brand of humor, all combined with a love for his wife and cats. In this very revealing book, Dean shares some of his triumphs along with some personal tragedies in order to present a message that will help the reader live a more productive and positive life. He calls his personal philosophy of living “Life Amplification,” or “LifeAmp” for short, and describes this as learning to be comfortable in your own skin, and making a living doing what you love….

Read the whole review here.

My friend Neema directed this piece (which features me) about the Wyoming Firearms Freedom Act, for the news. This showed in Casper, Cheyenne, Riverton, Lander and throughout most of Wyoming. Yay! It’s also got Anthony Bouchard, from the Wyoming Gun Owners Association.

Neema and I are working on a film together. It’s about liberty.

Here’s part two, Wyoming governor candidates talking about guns:

– Michael W. Dean

Wolverines!

This could be on the cover of "Mall Ninja Monthly" magazine

Check out our new Yugo AK-47. Yup, believe it or not, the AK commonly said by experts to be the best AK is made in Yugoslavia by the same company, Zestava / Zestava Arms, that made the YUGO automobile. (The cop ridden in the movie “Dragnet” by Dan Aykroyd and Tom Hanks. In the movie, Dan Aykroyd calls the car “The cutting edge of Serbo-Croatian technology.”)

It’s an M-70 AB2, the very best AK you can get, and we’ve got one! yay! You’re not a real libertarian if you don’t own a rifle (and know how to use it), so get your Yugo AK-47 here.  Be sure to pick up some commie cold-war ammo too.

Sgt. Joe Friday (Dan Aykroyd) narrating: “After losing the two previous vehicles we had been issued, the only car the department would release to us at this point was an unmarked 1987 Yugo…a Yugoslavian import donated as a test vehicle by the government of that country and reflecting the cutting edge of Serbo-Croatian technology.”

It’s a great Schumer-hits-the-fan gun to keep zombies at bay. And it’s NOT LEGAL IN CALIFORNIA. (The best things aren’t.)

Never forget what they say,

AK-47 Magacin koji prihvataju članov familije 7,62 x 39 je istovetan.

Punjenje Puške automatske M70 AB2 vrši se iz odvoivog magacina (okvira) kapaciteta 30 metaka. Moguće je korišćenje i specialnog magacina kapaciteta 75metaka, a koji se isporučuje na zahtev kupca.

–Michael W. Dean