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Proof that citizens need to be armed
Indisputable PROOF that you have the RIGHT and the NEED to be armed as a private citizen.
• Posted by Wallace Dunn on April 8, 2013 at 8:20am• View Blog
April 7, 2013
A Good Samaritan tries to help a rape victim, winds up shot and paralyzed, she is shot ON THE LAWN of the Police Station. The rape victim is again kidnapped, assaulted and murdered.
Now, here’s where Paul Harvey would say… AND NOW for the REST of the story…
Fast forward seven years later. A crazed man, jilted lover of the daughter of the same Good Samaritan above, sets fire to a car to lure the family out of the house. Well, this time the Good Samaritan is ARMED and prepared to defend herself and her family.
Read on for the REST of the story…
Early on February 12, 1994, 25-year-old Rhonda Maloney was driving home from her job as a Central City, CO cocktail waitress. It had snowed that night, and Rhonda's car got stuck at the intersection of interstates 76 and 25. A man pulled over: Robert Harlan.
Driving home from work, Jaquie Creazzo, had just exited eastbound I-76 for northbound I-25 when she noticed two cars parked on the highway. As she slowed to see if there was a problem, a woman emerged from the passenger side of one of the cars and frantically gestured for help. Creazzo stopped, and the woman, Rhonda Maloney, jumped in, saying she'd just been raped and that a man in the car had a gun and was going to kill her.
The pair took off with Harlan in pursuit. Pulling alongside, he fired several shots, striking Creazzo in the face, knee and spine. She lost control of the car -- on the lawn of a police station. As the car came to a stop, Harlan ran up with his gun, warned Creazzo that he'd kill her if she told anyone, then dragged Rhonda out and put her in his car.
It took the police 45 minutes to find Creazzo on their own lawn. When seconds count, the police are only minutes away... 45 of them in this case.
Creazzo, who was left paralyzed from the waist down, was able to give police a description of her assailant. But it was Harlan's own family that found bloody evidence of his crime and turned him in three days later.
Rhonda Maloney's body was discovered four days after Harlan's arrest, near the intersection of Colfax Avenue and I-70. She'd been raped, beaten -- there were more than sixty injuries on her body, including a fractured skull and facial bones -- and then shot in the head.
Now, seven years later, we meet Jaquie Creazzo yet again.
On November 13, 2001, A woman who was paralyzed seven years ago while trying to help a rape victim shot and wounded a gunman in her yard early Sunday.
Jaquie Creazzo, 38, was armed when she went outside in her wheelchair with her three daughters, ages 16, 18, and 19, after smoke from a car fire seeped into her Jefferson County home at 3:15 a.m.
Justin Michael Getz, 21, who is suspected of setting the car ablaze to lure the Creazzos out of their house, came toward them screaming and firing two pistols, Creazzo said. "He was loaded for bears," she said.
Getz, the former boyfriend of Creazzo's eldest child, had pledged two days earlier to kill Creazzo and her three daughters after the oldest girl refused to reunite with him, Creazzo said.
Two firefighters and Creazzo's three daughters dove out of the way of the erratic gunfire, she said.
But instinctively, Creazzo fired a volley of bullets. One struck the attacker's leg and he fell. "I'm certain that if I hadn't responded, none of us would be here today," Creazzo said. "He had made threats to kill each and every one of us."
Getz was arrested on two counts of attempted murder, arson and attempted arson, Jefferson County sheriff's spokeswoman Jacki Tallman said. He was being held Monday in the Jefferson County Jail without bail, she said.
Here are Creazzo’s thoughts on arming herself AFTER the first incident…
Shortly after Harlan's trial, Creazzo debated buying a gun. She said she was conflicted because friends told her criminals could take a gun away and use it on her.
"I had thought hundreds of times about using it," Creazzo said. "I had a lot of mixed emotions about it."
But too many people today have no respect for God or the law and she concluded she needed the gun for protection, she said.
"Some days I sit back and I don't know what this world is coming to," Creazzo said.
This story extracted from:
http://www.westword.com/2001-06-07/news/murderers-row/8/
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/569910/posts
http://www.texnews.com/1998/2002/texas/texas_Texas_man103.html
http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F
Visitors from 10 countries have visited here
I was surprised to check the statistics for this blog this morning and found that it has had visitors from 10 countries, using everything from Windows to iPhones and iPads:
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It's good to see such strong international interest in American politics and our feuding democracy ... or is that democratic republic? Maybe we could all learn something from each other.
United States 292
Russia 35
Germany 30
France 4
Ukraine 4
Poland 3
Latvia 2
Brazil 1
United Kingdom 1
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It's good to see such strong international interest in American politics and our feuding democracy ... or is that democratic republic? Maybe we could all learn something from each other.
Am I Commie, a Nazi or what?
How a Hickman County nobody made history
In my long years as
a political activist, author, reporter, editor and publisher and syndicated
columnist I’ve been called lots of things, many of them not nice. Forty years
ago I was called a communist and in more recent years a “neo-Nazi” or, as The Tennessean put it, “the extreme of
the extreme.”
That doesn’t disturb
me too much. It just tells me maybe I’ve been doing something right.
In 1968, when I became
state chairman of a disorganized presidential campaign on behalf of Sen. Eugene
McCarthy, the corrupt political machine of Chicago Mayor Richard Daley (who
controlled state politics and is known for getting the graveyard votes for John
Kennedy in 1960 with the Mafia’s help), refused to allow us on the ballot, even
though we had more than enough signatures. So I did what lawyers say to do – I sued
the bastard.
Of course it was
thrown out of court and Richard Nixon won the election and gifted us with
Watergate. But I wasn’t done yet. You see, as one of the candidates for the
Electoral College ticket of McCarthy, I took it all the way to the U.S. Supreme
Court on the argument that Illinois law violated the “one man – one vote”
principal of the U.S. Constitution.
The way it was set
up is that even if we had the nominating signatures of every voter in the state
behind us, if we didn‘t have 100 signatures from Cairo, Illinois (a hotbed of
KKK allegiance) we were denied a place on the ballot. Of course, the State of
Illinois argued that, “Hey, its moot – irrelevant! The election’s over and done
with – get a life!”
Whoa, Bubba, not so
fast! As long as that law is on the books, the same stall and shove it under
the rug tactics can be used over and over and over. As long as a bunch of sharp
lawyers can delay it until after an election, there may never be a fair
election.
Well, the Supreme Court
pondered it and said, “Well, maybe you have something here” and the case of
Moore v. Ogilvie (394 U.S. 814 (1969). No. 620) was on its way. (Richard
Ogilvie, former sheriff of Cook County (Chicago) was elected Illinois governor
in 1968). The case was argued March 27, 1969 and decided May 5, 1969 – long after
the 1968 elections. My Oct. 8, 1968 motion to advance and expedite the hearing
and disposition was denied because Illinois argued there was no way they could
do anything before the Nov. 5 election. But the Supreme Court ruled that:
“But while the 1968 election is
over, the burden which MacDougall v. Green, supra,
allowed to be placed on the nomination of candidates for statewide offices
remains and controls future elections, as long as Illinois maintains her
present system as she has done since 1935. The problem is therefore 'capable of
repetition, yet evading review …. The need for its resolution thus reflects a
continuing controversy in the federal-state area where our 'one man, one vote'
decisions have thrust. We turn then to the merits.
“Today …, 93.4% of the State's
registered voters reside in the 49 most populous counties, and only 6.6% are
resident in the remaining 53 counties. The constitutional argument, however,
remains the same.
“'How then can one person be
given twice or 10 times the voting power of another person in a statewide
election merely because he lives in ar ural area or because he lives in the
smallest rural county? Once the geographical unit for which a representative is
to be chosen is designated, all who participate in the election are to have an
equal vote whatever their race, whatever their sex, whatever their occupation,
whatever their income, and wherever their home may be in that geographical
unit. This is required by the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth
Amendment.' Gray v. Sanders, 372 U.S. 368, 379, 83 S.Ct. 801, 808, 9 L.Ed.2d
821.
“'The right to vote freely for
the candidate of one's choice is of the essence of a democratic society, and
any restrictions on that right strike at the heart of representative
government. And the right of suffrage can be denied by a debasement or dilution
of the weight of a citizen's vote just as effectively as by wholly prohibiting
the free exercise of the franchise.' 377 U.S., at 555, 84 S.Ct., at 1378.
“It, therefore, lacks the
equality to which the exercise of political rights is entitled under the
Fourteenth Amendment.
“MacDougall v. Green is
overruled.”
The vote was an overwhelming 7-2
with Justices Stewart and Harlan dissenting.
This case,
overthrowing a law that had been on the books since 1935, has since been cited
in well over 1,000 cases and in the current controversy over gay marriage and
possible repeal of Roe v. Wade, it rears its head again. In fact, it was used
as the foundation for the original Roe v. Wade decision (1973), as well as in
cases brought by supporters of George Wallace in his presidential campaign and,
more recently, in the explosive Bush v. Gore decision of 2000. In March 2013 Bush
v. Gore was even cited in an election case in Kenya.
So, no matter what
you want to call me, I am proud to have my name on this tiny, tiny footnote to
history because it has served the entire political spectrum, not just liberals
or conservatives.
©2012 by Jim Moore. All rights
reserved.
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Are you a liberal or a conservative – or neither?
One of my readers, not a blogger but “a real person”, stopped me the other day and said, “Why do you run a Tea Party website? You don’t seem to believe the same things we do.”
I guess I was expecting something like that sooner or later, so this is a good time to explain a bit about me and answer that question.
You see, I guess you could say I’m liberal on some things and conservative on others, but middle-of-the-road on most. I’ve looked at politics – from the inside and outside – and come to the conclusion that our great nation is sort of like a huge redwood tree. The liberals are hugging it as they move from right to left. The conservatives are moving from left to right, wondering how much they can make off the lumber if they cut this big giant. As they keep going, they end up meeting each other on the other side.
If people would just open their eyes and see how much of the distrust, fear, paranoia, even hate is manufactured by higher powers, we would see we have a lot more in common than we think.
When Sen. Eugene McCarthy ran against Lyndon Johnson in 1968 to try to bring an end to the Vietnam War (which most people now admit was a pretty stupid idea) I ran his Illinois presidential campaign. I saw up close the dirty tricks from both the Nixon campaign and the George Wallace campaign – both were offering us money to try to split the Democratic vote. I turned them both down. McCarthy forced LBJ out of the race and the rest is history.
In 1980 I was Republican John Anderson’s Davidson County co-chair and I saw still more dirty tricks when a Republican operative, trading on his old college friendship with Roger Hoover, our state chairman, tried to take the candidates daughter out on the town and get her drunk, drugged or both – but that’s another story that has never been told.
Along the way I’ve also worked on Tennessee Senate campaigns, a Fairview mayoral campaign and even helped a school principal get elected Williamson County Judge (long before they were called county mayors).
On that journey I discovered that both major parties are controlled by the same powers that be – powers bigger than any government. I discovered we live in a corporatocosy where the giant global corporations pull the strings, not any president, Senator or Congressman … and it’s gotten worse, not better.
These corporate wizards (as in Wizard of Oz) hide behind the curtains, using what is called the Hegelian Principal to sow discord. It works like this: first, you create a fear among the public of some real or imagined boogyman, then you agitate that fear, then offer a phony solution that serves your interests, not those of the people. Finally, you get public support behind your “solution” and presto – the people willingly give up their freedom in a so-called “trade” for security and safety.
When all is said and done, we all run around afraid of each other – suspicious, fearful, just barely inside the limits of violence – and even violence is used when desired. Hitler’s burning of the Reichstag is but one example, when he hired a retarded man to burn the historic site to the ground and blame it on the Jews. LBJ’s Gulf of Tonkin lie was another. There have been several.
The truth is, if you look behind the curtain where the little “Wizard of Oz” is hiding you find a schizoid little man who is both Republican and Democrat – and there’s not a dime’s worth of difference in their ultimate goal of achieving total power, whether by communist or fascist means.
Knowing this takes off your blinders and allows you to see the world the way it really is – whether in local politics or global.
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