Pro-Freedom Quotes

"Freedom is My Nationality"

I denounce the policy of protection as bondage - yea, bondage; and I refer to bondage in the same manner in which American slavery was bondage.

I am a subject of the British Crown, but whenever I have to choose between the interests of England and Canada it is manifest to me that the interests of my country are identical with those of the United States of America.

Let them look to the past, but let them also look to the future; let them look to the land of their ancestors, but let them look also to the land of their children.

Two races share today the soil of Canada. These people had not always been friends. But I hasten to say it. There is no longer any family here but the human family. It matters not the language people speak, or the altars at which they kneel.

I appeal now to any friend of liberty in this House; I appeal not only to the Liberals who sit beside me, but to any man who has a British heart in his breast, and I ask, when Subjects of her Majesty have been petitioning for years for their rights, and these rights have not only been ignored, but have been denied, and when these men take their lives in their hands and rebel, will any one in this House say that these men, when they got their rights, should not have saved their heads as well, and that criminals, if there were criminals in this rebellion, are not those who fought and bled and died, but the men who sit on these Treasury benches? Sir, rebellion is always an evil, it is always an offence against the positive law of a nation; it is not always a moral crime.

Sir Wilfred Laurier House of Commons

These things I believe:

1. That government should butt out.
2. That freedom is our most precious commodity and if we are not eternally vigilant, government will take it all away.
3. That individual freedom demands individual responsibility.
4. That government is not a necessary good but an unavoidable evil.
5. That the executive branch has grown too strong, the judicial branch too arrogant and the legislative branch too stupid.
6. That political parties have become close to meaningless.
7. That government should work to insure the rights of the individual, not plot to take them away.
8. That government should provide for the national defense and work to insure domestic tranquility.
9. That foreign trade should be fair rather than free.
10. That America should be wary of foreign entanglements.
11. That the tree of liberty needs to be watered from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
12. That guns do more than protect us from criminals; more importantly, they protect us from the ongoing threat of government.
13. That states are the bulwark of our freedom.
14. That states should have the right to secede from the Union.
15. That once a year we should hang someone in government as an example to his fellows.

-- Lyn Nofziger
[Franklyn C. Nofziger] (1924-2006) American journalist, political consultant, author,
Press Secretary for President Reagan

REMEMBER! The Constitution was written to protect THE PEOPLE FROM THE GOVERNMENT - NOT to protect the government from the people!

"One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws." - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

"I'd rather have a gun and not need it than need a gun and not have it." - Christian Slater (In the movie "True Romance")

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. - Edmund Burke

"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." - Lord Acton

"The said constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms." - Samuel Adams

"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen. " - Samuel Adams

"Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: first, a right to life; secondly, to liberty; thirdly to property; together with the right to support and defend them in the best manner they can." - Samuel Adams

"Be more wary of the rights you are willing to give away, just because YOU are not using them -- the next person may be willing to give away YOUR rights." - Dave Tomlinson, NFA

"When law and morality contradict each other the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his or her sense of morality or losing his or her respect for the law" - Frederick Bastiat

Trust is a two way street. If your government does not trust you, how can you trust your government? - Bruce Montague

"If we expected self-reliance of family groups, if we expected hardiness and resilience and initiative on the part of individuals, and if we rewarded initiative instead of dependence on government, we would not only ameliorate many of the family-related social problems we see at present, but we would also reduce our vulnerability to terrorism. People who are hardy, resilient, and self reliant are a lot harder to terrorize." - Bernard H. Levin, FBI National Academy Associate, November/December 2004, Volume 6, Number 6, Page 25.

"Anti-domestic violence and women's groups create the impression that guns are always part of the problem and never part of the solution. The current mainstream of feminism -- from which most anti-domestic violence advocates proceed -- is an expression of left liberalism. It rejects private solutions based on individual rights in favor of laws aimed at achieving social goals. A responsible individual holding a gun in self-defense does not fit their vision of society. In the final analysis, such advocates do not trust the judgment of the women they claim to be defending. ... The true meaning of being anti-domestic violence means is to help victims out of their victimhood and into a position of power." -- Wendy McElroy

Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom. - F.A. Hayek

For in a Republic, who is "the country?" Is it the Government which is for the moment in the saddle? Why, the Government is merely a servant - merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them. - Mark Twain

There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him. - Robert Heinlein

No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him. - Thomas Jefferson

The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments. The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster. - Ludwig von Mises

"There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power government has is the power to crack down on criminals. When there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Unjust laws have to be fought ideologically; they cannot be fought or corrected by means of mere disobedience and futile martyrdom." - Ayn Rand

Liberty has never come from government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of government. The history of liberty is the history of resistance. - Woodrow Wilson

"You know, the very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common, they don't alter the their views to fit the facts, they alter the facts to fit their views, which can be uncomfortable, if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering." - Doctor Who, The Face of Evil.

"The government has created a nation of paper criminals. People can be put in jail and lose civil rights and liberties through bureaucratic procedures.The only thing that is keeping you out of jail is government goodwill." - Ayn Rand

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. - Edward Abbey

The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic. - H.L. Mencken

Every actual state is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Any excuse will serve a tyrant. - Aesop

"The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis." - Dante

"All that is needed for evil to triumph is for the good men to do nothing." - unknown

"Better to die on your feet,... than to live on your knees" - Zappata

"Live free or die." - the caption on New Hampshire license plate

"If you have got to resist, your chances of being hurt are less, the more lethal your weapon." - Dr. Arthur Kellerman New England Journal of Medicine

"A gun is 32 times more likely to be used to defend against criminal threat than to kill anybody." - Dr. Preston Covey

"When the government fears the people ... we have democracy .... when the people fear the government ... we have tyranny. - Thomas Jefferson

"Most of the time most people know the right thing to do ...its the doing of it that gives them trouble" - Harry S. Truman

"LIBERTY is something you cannot have, unless you are willing to give it to others." - Unknown

"Reckless, homicidal and suicidal people may own guns but gun ownership does not make anyone reckless, homicidal or suicidal." - Dr. Preston Covey

"In Germany they first came for the communists and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a communist. They came for the Jews and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade Unionists and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade Unionist. Then they came for the Catholics and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me and by that time no one was left to speak up." - -Pastor Martin Niemoller (Lutheran Pastor)

"A land where only the police (and military) have guns is called a Police State!"

"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence." - Albert Einstein

"Whenever the legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience,..." - John Locke,2nd Treatise of Government,1690

Henry Bowman asks his professor "Prof, Arkes, I don't disagree with the basic principle, but it's not enough just to say, "Totaltarian regimes are wrong, so don't let the State enslave you". That's like saying, "Don't get sick". The important question is, when do you know it's going to become enslavement? When is the proper time to resist with force?"...... But when you're naked and seventy pounds below your healthy weight, it's too late. You have no chance. On the other hand, no one would support you if you started an armed rebellion because the government posts speed limits on open roads and arrests people for speeding. So when is it not too late, but also not too early? -- Unintended Consequences by John Ross, Page 337

"It is true that I must run great risk; no gallant action was ever accomplished without danger." - letter to the American Commissioners in Paris, 1778.

>From 'The Moon is a Harsh Mistress' by Robert Heinlein; "I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do."

"Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't." - unknown

"In the Beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, and brave and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot" - Mark Twain

"The best way to lose your freedoms is to stop exercising them."

"Guard with jealous attention the public LIBERTY. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, NOTHING will preserve it BUT downright FORCE. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined... The great object is that every man be armed... everyone who is able may have a gun." - Patrick Henry (in 3 Elliot at 45)

"Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. Liberty is two wolves attempting to have the sheep for dinner, and finding a well-informed and well-armed sheep."

"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." - Thomas Paine

"A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity." - Sigmund Freud, General Introduction to Psychoanlysis

"A ruler is legitimate only in so far as he upholds the law. A ruler that violates the law is illegitimate. He has no right to be obeyed; his commands are mere force and Rulers who act lawlessly, whose laws are unlawful, are mere criminals." - John Locke

"Freedom consists in a people's being governed by laws made with their own consent." - Swift: Drapier's Letters (1725).

In logic, to deny a necessary consequence is to deny the premise on which it rests -no matter what the motives of the denier. To deny the right to arms is to deny the right to live. The rest is just a matter of time, circumstance, and how much the leftists think they can get away with. - Peter Landry

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. - H.L. Mencken

A note on democracy: As a Supreme Court Justice recently said; "Five people in a life raft cannot, as an act of democracy, vote in favour of eating the sixth."

"War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feelings which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." - John Stuart Mill

"I don't trust a government I can't shoot back at" - Claire Wolfe

Laws that forbid the carrying of arms, disarm only those who are inclined to obey the law. - From Unintended Consequences by John Ross

"The right of self-defense is the first law of nature; in most governments it has been the study of rulers to confine this right within the narrowest limits possible. Wherever standing armies are kept up, and when the right of the people to keep and bear arms is, under any color or pretext whatsoever, prohibited, liberty, if not already annihilated, is on the brink of destruction." - Henry St. George Tucker, in Blackstone's 1768 "Commentaries on the Laws of England."

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Hoplophobia (n.): The irrational fear of weapons, correctly described by Freud as "a sign of emotional and sexual immaturity". Hoplophobia, like homophobia, is a displacement symptom; hoplophobes fear their own "forbidden" feelings and urges to commit violence. This would be harmless, except that they project these feelings onto others. The sequela of this neurosis include irrational and dangerous behaviors such as passing "gun-control" laws and trashing the Constitution.

He who goes unarmed in paradise, had better be sure that that is where he is. - unknown

"No democracy that so distrusts the majority can long remain a democracy; it becomes a police state in the worst tradition of police states." - Unknown

We are free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it. - William Faulkner

"Government is not reason. It is not eloquence. It is a force, like fire a dangerous servant and a terrible master." - George Washington

"The tank, the B-52, the fighter-bomber, the state-controlled police and military are the weapons of dictatorship. The rifle is the weapon of democracy. If guns are outlawed, only the government will have guns. Only the police, the secret police, the military. The hired servants of our rulers. Only the government-and a few outlaws. I intend to be among the outlaws." - Edward Abbey "The Right to Arms" [New York, 1979]

"...a state that deprives its law-abiding citizens of the means to effectively defend themselves is not civilized but barbarous, becoming an accomplice of murderers, rapists, and thugs and revealing its totalitarian nature by its tacit admission that the disorganized, random havoc created by criminals is far less a threat than are men and women who believe themselves free and independent, and act accordingly." - Jeffrey R. Snyder, "A Nation of Cowards"

"One of the ordinary modes by which tyrants accomplish their purpose, without resistance, is by disarming the people and making it an offense to keep arms". - Joseph Story, U.S. Supreme Court Justice.

"Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms." - Aristotle, "Politics"

I am willing to defend my property and liberty with the same force and enthusiasm as the ones that try to take it away! - Bruce Montague.

All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable. - Henry David Thoreau, "Civil Disobedience", 1849

"Canadian politicians, unlike Americans or those who've actually lived under oppression, value peace higher than freedom. Peace-seekers need reminding that cattle on a well-run farm have the ideal peaceful existence: abundant food, warm accommodation, no threats - until the day they go to the slaughter house. That's not the sort of peace most of us value." Peace is Lloyd's game, a Nobel Prize is his aim - PETER WORTHINGTON Toronto Sun January 12, 1999

"Experience hath shewn [sic] that even under the best forms [of government] those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny." - Thomes Jefferson

When asked "Is it worth risking my life to defend my property?", I ask "Is it worth risking your life to take away my property?" - Bruce Montague.

"Find out just what the people will submit to and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress." - Frederich Douglass

"A people who chose security over liberty will receive neither nor deserve either." - Benjamin Franklin

"...when you ask 'What can one do?'- the answer is 'SPEAK' (provided you know what you are saying)....Speak on any scale open to you, large or small....Do not pass up a chance to express your views on important issues." - Ayn Rand

"Today's citizen is obliged to find his freedom only in the narrow ruts pre-approved by his bureaucratic overlords. "Risk-free liberty" is the ideal of the Welfare State: citizens are permitted only liberties which have been declawed, defanged, neutered, certified and wrapped in benevolent restrictions." - James Bovard

"One cannot have a right to life without the right to defend it with deadly force." - Bruce Montague

"The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws." - Tacitus

Only after the last river has been poisoned, Only after the last tree has been cut down, Only after the last fish has been caught, Only after the last Gun is seized. Only then will you find out that Money Cannot Be Eaten. ~Cree Prophecy~

" "Trusting contemporary governments means dividing humanity into two classes: those who can be trusted with power to run other people's lives, and those who cannot even be trusted to run their own lives. Modern Leviathans seek progress by giving some people the power to play God with other people's lives, property, and domestic tranquility." - James Bovard

You don't have to go through life snarling, but it's knowing you're willing to fight that keeps the other dogs out of your dish. - Unknown

"There can be no compromise on basic principles. There can be no compromise on moral issues. There can be no compromise on matters of knowledge, of truth, of rational conviction." - Ayn Rand

People sometimes rationalize their greed by saying that it is all for the good of their children but this is nothing but an excuse they use to make their despicable actions appear respectable and praiseworthy. - Democritus (460-370 BC)

"Sovereign immunity creates a two-tier society - those above the law and those below it, those whom the law fails to bind and those whom the law fails to protect. In some parts of this nation, laws against abusing pets are better enforced than are laws against government employees abusing citizens. Sovereign immunity presumes that the more evils that government officials are permitted to commit, the more good they will achieve. Sovereign immunity presumes that in order to protect people, government must be permitted to destroy them." - James Bovard- freedom in chains

"Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual)" - Ayn Rand

The following appears to be the mindset of the anti-gun group: "The more helpless you are, the safer you are from criminals." That ordinary people, in the presence of guns, turn into slaughtering butchers, and revert to normal when the weapon is removed. - excerpted from a list by Michael Z. Williamson.

"The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools." - Herbert Spencer

"FREEDOM" For those who Fought, Bled and Died For It "FREEDOM" has a flavour the protected will never Know or Savor. - Anonymous

"Our country is at an awkward stage; it's too late to work within the system, but it's too early to shoot the bastards." - Claire Wolfe

"Those of us who support the citizens' right to guns believe the vast majority of people make good choices. Anti-gunners have much less faith in others; perhaps even in themselves." - unknown

Only crooked politicians fear armed citizens. - unknown

Politicians and diapers have one thing in common. They should both be changed regularly and for the same reason.

"It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the labourer that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest." - Adam Smith

"Liberty not only means that the individual has both the opportunity and the burden of choice; it also means that he must bear the consequences of his actions... Liberty and responsibility are inseparable." - F.A. Hayek

"As nightfall does not come all at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is twilight. And it is in such twilight that we all must be aware of change in the air, however slight, lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness." - Justice William O. Douglas, US Supreme court (1939-75)

"We don't have a gun control problem in Canada. We have a government control problem in Ottawa". - unknown

"Pity the poor, wretched timid soul who is too faint hearted to resist his oppressors. He sings the song of the damned: "I can't fight back, I have too much to lose; I own too much property; I have worked too hard for what I have; they will put me out of business if I resist; I might go to jail; I have my family to think about." Such poor miserable creatures are hiding their cowardice behind pretended family responsibility." - Author Unknown - If you have that much to fight for, then you should be fighting.

"Security is the mother of danger and the grandmother of destruction" - Thomas Fuller

Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants. It is the creed of slaves... - William Pitt, Speech to the house of Commons, 18 November, 1783

Misc. One-Liners - An armed man is a citizen. An unarmed man is a subject. - A gun in the hand is better than a cop on the phone. - Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface. - Gun control is not about guns; it's about control. - If guns cause crime, then pencils cause misspelled words. - Free men do not ask permission to bear arms. - If you don't know your rights, you don't have any. - Those who trade liberty for security have neither. - 64,999,987 firearm owners killed no one yesterday. - Guns only have two enemies: Rust and Politicians. - Know guns, Know peace, know safety. No guns, no peace, no safety. - You don't shoot to kill; You shoot to stay alive. - 911 - government sponsored Dial a Prayer. - Assault is a behavior, not a device. - Criminals love gun control - it makes their jobs safer. - If Guns cause Crime, then Matches cause Arson. - Only a government that is afraid of it's citizens try to control them. - You only have the rights you are willing to fight for. - When you remove the people's right to bear arms, you create slaves. - The American Revolution would never have happened with Gun Control.

"You may not like guns. You may choose not to own one. That is your right. You might not believe in God. That is your choice. However, if someone breaks into your home at 3AM the first two things you are going to do are: 1) Call someone with a gun. 2)Pray they get there in time." - A wise man.

"They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom, For trying to change the system from within." - Leonard Cohen

"We fight not for glory, nor for wealth, nor honour but only and alone for freedom which no good man surrenders but with his life." - Robert the Bruce

If you can't trust a weapon to an individual, how can you trust it to a group of individuals? - unknown

"Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with freedom. No free government, nor the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people except by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles." - Patrick Henry

In an October, 1995 speech to a woman's group, the registry's chief architect, Justice Minister Allan Rock proclaimed that "guns in the hands of criminals are not the problem - guns in our homes are the problem".

The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it's good-by to the Bill of Rights. - H.L.Mencken

"Minds are like parachutes. They only function if they are open." -author unknown

The sentiment that modern day ordinary Canadians do not need firearms for protection is pleasant but unrealistic. To discourage responsible deserving Canadians from possessing firearms for lawful self-defence and other legitimate purposes is to risk sacrificing them at the altar of political correctness. - Alberta Provincial Court Judge Demetrick

"There is no crime more infamous than the violation of truth. It is apparent that men can be social beings no longer than they believe each other. When speech is employed only as the vehicle of falsehood, every man must disunite himself from others, inhabit his own cave and seek prey only for himself" - Samuel Johnson, the great 18th-century moralist.

"Fear of death will not prevent dying, but it may prevent living" - Anonymous

"You do not examine legislation in light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered." - Lyndon B. Johnson

A self righteous Liberal with a cause, is more dangerous than a Hells Angel with an attitude. - unknown

"I have great sympathy for the oppressed but I do not expect them to be morally superior to the oppressors. I merely expect them to be oppressed." - Jerome Barkow, Anthropologist, Dalhousie University, 1989

"War is an ugly thing, but it is not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degrading moral value which believes that no freedom is worth fighting for is much worse. These men are never truly free unless their freedom is secured and maintained for them by better men." - Anonymous US NCO, 101"t Airborne Div, 1991

"Of all the tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be preferable to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies." - C.S. Lewis

"Government never furthered any enterprise but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way." - Henry David Thoreau

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by dictatorship.

The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to complacency, from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependence, from dependence back again to bondage. - Professor Alexander Tyler. 1874

No one ever said our freedoms would come cheap. Some we must be prepared to fight for, some we must be prepared to die for. Take freedom for granted once and it could be gone forever. -1776

"Pity the poor opponents of the right to keep and bear arms! They must distrust just everybody except criminals and except the tyrant to whom they concede the armed monopoly of their protection." - Pierre Lemieux [LIBERTY Magazine Nov. '97]

"I may disagree with what you say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it!" - Voltaire

"When you disarm your subjects, however, you offend them by showing that either from cowardliness or lack of faith, you distrust them; and either conclusion will induce them to hate you." - Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

If we don't all hang together, we will surely be hanged seperately! - unknown.

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. - Calvin Coolidge, Past President of the United States.

Finaly Someone Has Confirmed What I Suspected.

WASHINGTON – Just when liberals thought it was safe to start identifying themselves as such, an acclaimed, veteran psychiatrist is making the case that the ideology motivating them is actually a mental disorder.

"Based on strikingly irrational beliefs and emotions, modern liberals relentlessly undermine the most important principles on which our freedoms were founded," says Dr. Lyle Rossiter, author of the new book, "The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness." "Like spoiled, angry children, they rebel against the normal responsibilities of adulthood and demand that a parental government meet their needs from cradle to grave."

This explains soooo much! I just don't know where to begin????? I have long suspected that the progressives of our Country had a problem; hmmm "a problem?" many and several problems. Not the least of which is irrational fears.


Like all undiagnosed mentally ill people it is everyone else who is crazy not them. The liberal progressive loves to think of themselves as being enlightened( not to be confused with intelligent they are intelligent) evolved; people who disagree with them are the ones who are regressive neanderthals. The dead give away with the liberal progressive is that they never attack an idea; because of their illness they lack rational analytical ability. Instead they revert to the childish "bully tactics" the ad hominem or name calling; they attack the person not their idea.

It would also explain the "idolatry of ideology" and the worship of their leaders. A liberal progressive never fails their ideas are always absolutely correct again if something didn't work it was because someone sabotaged the idea in the implementation. A good example is the Firearms Registry; it is inaccurate and riddled with errors; yet the liberal progressives are fighting its repeal to the bitter end. In their words it is error riddled because firearms owners sabotaged it. Well explain to me then; if it is such a perfect idea how could errors even occur? How could someone register a screw gun or glue gun? It was proven that the information that was submitted was accurate the information was submitted for a "screw gun" make and model "Black & Decker" the serial number was correct for it. Yet a registration certificate was issued. Of course it is not the registries fault it is those knuckle dragging firearms owners who don't even know the difference between a screw gun and a handgun! It just needs to be fixed; often parroted by the liberal progressive; news flash! there is no fix for stupid.

The Firearms Control Program in Canada is a fine example of where reason took a vacation. It was prompted by a mass shooting in Montreal Quebec 1989; by a confirmed anti-social woman hater. It is absurd to think any legislation could have prevented this; It is lunacy to try to legislate against lunacy. Our liberal progressives were not dissuaded by this little fact; no indeed, with childlike rationale they determined if he didn't have the gun he couldn't have killed these poor women. Ignoring the social engineering of other liberal progressives which had taught everyone guns are bad; the mere presence of a gun in the hands of one person(other than Gharbi) in the class would have prevented the tragedy. Even a madman knows not to attack armed people. Oh nooo!! guns are bad no one needs a gun; we are safer without them.

I'll go out on a limb here, and say that at some point one of the victims wished they had one.

You Need a Licence for.....

The biggest argument used to justify the Firearms Control Program is listing things we need a licence for. For example "You need a licence to drive a car" "you have to register your car why not guns"

REALLY? Since when? I would point out that we in Canada live in a Common Law jurisdiction; as such we have the right to "travel the Queens Highways free from tax or levy". Oddly enough Common Law can be overridden by Statute. So each Province with the exception of Alberta has what is referred to as a "Highway Traffic Act" This is the enabling legislation that gives the Province the authority to issue drivers licences and register motor vehicles. What is not commonly known is by definition the highway traffic act only applies to those that make their living by the highways. That's right those who engage in "Commerce" via the roads should pay for them; that is what it was intended for. Traffic by legal definition means commerce or trade; the legal definition of a "driver" is one who is paid to do so like a bus driver or truck driver taxis driver. The Highway traffic Act merely overrides the Common Law where money is concerned.

When you obtain a "drivers licence" it is assumed that you intend to be paid; that the person sitting next to you is paying you to drive them. As a "driver" you are subject to the traffic act.
In truth there is not a single "LAW" requiring a licence nor the registry of your private property (your car). In fact you can buy any car your heart desires and never register it even a 13 year old with the money to do so (though I suspect contract law is in play and a 13 year old cannot contract without consent of a parent or guardian) This however does not give an individual to ignore other laws as in liability for accidents and injuries; leaving the scene of an accident is criminal.

It is because of the Highway Traffic Act that when you are pulled over you are asked for licence registration and proof of insurance in that order. The licence identifies you as a driver subject to the act; everything follows from the establishment of that fact. Before you test this though I would suggest you send your licence and registration back to the ministry of transportation with a notarized letter stating that you are surrendering to the crown your licence and registration that you are not engaged in commerce upon the highways and will not ever engage in such activities therefore you do not require a licence to do so any longer; keep a certified copy of this with you in your car. there is a proper form the letter should take which I will not go into here.

So to say that you need a licence for a car and register it; is a fallacious argument. No one needs a licence to travel in a car. However having a licence for a boat is another matter. The waters of Canada is not a Common Law jurisdiction it in fact falls under Admiralty Law which again is the sole domain of the federal government; in theory they could even forbid you from having a boat.

An Epic Fail, Our Firearms Control Program

We will soon see the first step in dismantling of the Long Gun Registry. I among others are working towards the end of the firearms control program.

Bill C-68 which became our firearms control program was created out of hype and hysteria; furthermore it was an overt act of fraud when it was put through Parliament to ensure passage. It divided the Country along geographic and urban/rural lines. In short everyone took leave of their senses.

The net end result of the Firearms Control program; it is a criminal offence in Canada to possess a firearm bottom line; regardless whether you have owned them for years. Like all criminal offences in Canada the statute must provide a defence to the charge; it does so in the form of a licence; you must have a licence to possess firearms in Canada lest you face the full force of the statute. What is not commonly known though is that this defence provided must be available to the accused. Which presents an interesting proposition.

Say that I was a career criminal with a lengthy criminal record including assault. I am found in possession of a firearm; I would be undoubtedly be charged under section 91 and 92 of the criminal code of Canada. This would be the bare minimum the Crown usually uses a scatter gun approach to prosecution(pardon the pun) lay as many charges as possible in hopes of intimidating the accused into a plea bargain. Be that as it may however the main charge could be beaten and the net end result would be that section 91 and 92 become of no force or effect because they are unconstitutional (R. v. Morgentaler) provided that there was not a pre-existing court ordered prohibition for possession. I would wager that any charge where an authorization of some form that is dependant upon having a valid licence would be considered null and void. I believe it will be only a matter of time before a sharp ambitious criminal lawyer hits upon this and defends one of these thugs with this defence and wins.

I say thug only because no legitimate firearms owner would ever get a fair trial in Canada. This is why I haven't challenged the Criminal Code on this basis; though hypothetically I could obtain a black market prohibited firearm either handgun or other type of prohibited firearm like a sub machine gun and invite the authorities to arrest me. Not having the magic grandfathered status to have a licence for such I could not possibly ever have a valid licence for them; since the defence is a licence that I could not obtain the defence is "illusionary" the statute is invalid. Though I would not risk such a venture solely because the "good guys" don't play by the rules of fair play. I would find myself defending 50 charges stemming from the single offence. Given my activist activities on the internet this too would be used against me. This isn't paranoia I have been witness to such activities by our "good guys" I have also studied the case law over the past 4 years it never ends well for the challenger.

All this notwithstanding I put to you a question and an appeal to logic and reason. The cost of implementing the firearms control program has cost in excess of 2 billion dollars the true costs of the program will never be known because the Chretien Government made them Cabinet secrets; further more the cost of operating the program runs in the neighbourhood of 130 million dollars per year. It has stripped all firearms owners of their constitutional rights and safeguards simply because they complied with the program; whereas your average street thug has all his intact simply because he did not comply with the firearms program and is free to obtain whatever firearm their heart desires completely illegally and authorities would have to obtain a search warrant even to find their firearms. They can't get a search warrant for known drug houses why would they be able to get one for this? 2 million firearms owners out of 7 million complied; 7 million out of 21 million firearms were registered; this does not include criminals because criminals are not troubled by such things as obeying the Criminal Code.

So I put it to: The firearms act was intended to end all gun violence it has not. People still get shot whether the firearm is registered or the shooter has a licence or not. DEAD is DEAD this is one statistic that no one can argue with. The firearms Control Program has failed to end this; it has failed to save "one life" Therefore is it not time to scrap it and start from scratch?
Is it not time to really look at the real problems like organized gangs, rather than ordinary citizens who own firearms? Is it not time to put our tax dollars into effective community programs to eliminate criminality, rather than chasing honest people for paper crimes?

The Demise of the Firearms Registry

At long last the bill to kill the long gun registry will soon be law. HIP HIP Huzzah.
It's only worth one cheer! The draconian Firearms Control Program will still be in full operation the day after C-19 becomes statutory. It will still be a criminal offence for ordinary Canadians to have lawful firearms without a licence. I would like at this time to assure all advocates of gun control that WE'RE NOT DONE YET!! We will not rest until this bad statute is finished, and become a memory.

As predicted by "we" "paranoid" "gun nuts" right on cue the Coalition For Gun Control have started their campaign of fear; they have started planting the idea that with the loss of the long gun registry it will mean "high powered" "deadly accurate up to a KM" sniper rifles will be de-registered.

Among the firearms community there is a divide those of us who figured out that if you can ban one type of firearm you can ban any type of firearm, and those who think that their firearm is safe just because they are hunters and none of their guns are a problem. We call these firearms owners "Fudds" after the Warner Brothers character Elmer Fudd. To say the least it is a very derogatory term. The Fudds have long held that their firearms are not the problem that they only hunt with them so on so forth; we have been telling the Fudds "yes you're right they won't come after your deer rifle, but they will come after your high powered sniper rifle". Well as if we had been watching a "future TV" it happens CCGC releases the fear campaign "High Powered Sniper Rifles Will Be De-registered." For the non firearms owner I will explain; any hunting rifle with a scope can be called a sniper rifle. Firearms manufacturers have spent thousands if not millions of dollars in research to develop hunting rifles that are more and more accurate for hunters, police and military. What is not commonly know by someone who has never shot a firearm is that the rifle is only one part of the equation; it might be of the perfect design and precision it still requires hundreds of hours and thousands of rounds of ammunition to become a consistent marksmen. It requires carefully controlled breathing an understanding of ballistic trajectory and the effects of wind to hit a target even at a hundred yards. No one can pick up a rifle and become an instant Hawkeye; even with the high tech rifles of today.

To put it succinctly it is pure Coalition for gun control propaganda.

It's Not A Law, The decline of rights and the rise of legalism

Firstly the devil is always in the details. We as a society are generally quite ignorant when it comes to defining differences between laws and legislation.

We are a Common Law jurisdiction. The Common Law is a law of consensus it is agreed upon. It is a law based in custom and tradition, which was applied by judges who articulated them into law. In the words of Peter Landry it is the fair haired child at societies table.

Legislation is the brutish ugly bastard child at the table. It is the embodiment of what government truly is, which is 'force'. Legislation is what causes our society to slip into 'legalism' where anyone can become a criminal. It is the forced control over behaviour, or put another way it is ad hoc social engineering. Unfortunately it is necessary in our modern world to keep things moving and in certain cases keeps fairness in society.

The law is designed to protect freedom and rights. Whereas legislation is aimed at taking away these things. The law applies to everyone including the Queen, whereas legislation does not always apply to everyone equally exemptions can be written into it. A Law cannot be repealed since it was not enacted by a parliament, legislation can.
Although both ours and England's Parliaments can limit the Law with legislation unfortunately.

Statutes and Acts of Parliament are not law. They are only given the force of law. It might be a stretch but you could say it is a polite form of mob rule, since it was enacted by our elected representatives of which a majority of them approved the Act before Parliament. Though I would not say that is true in every case. A NGO can lobby the government claiming to represent a majority of people which in reality they only represent an minority of like minded people. Squeaky wheel meet oil.

We all have rights both constitutional and Common Law. When we claim a right it also imposes a duty on us. A right cannot exist without the accompanying duty. Blackstone says that we have the right to our life and our limbs, therefore it imposes the duty of protecting them. The law allows the keeping of such tools to this end. However in Canada we are denied these tools, The firearms act says self protection is not a valid reason for owning firearms.

My goal in this is to demonstrate that there is a difference between a law and a statute. If we begin to make this fine distinction between the two perhaps we can start regaining what the law allows and begin to regain our rights and our freedoms. As we have seen with the firearms act which was supposed to stop criminals and the misuse of firearms but instead protects criminals and began turning law abiding citizens into criminals.