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From YNET:

Interior Ministry says recent surge in violence has it receiving twice as many requests for firearms permits. Number of appeals over denied requests nearly triples; those ineligible for gun license opt for tear gas, knives.

The recent increase in violence in Israel’s streets has resulted in the number of gun permit applications doubling, the Interior Ministry said Sunday.

According to the ministry’s data, some 200 to 250 appeals are now being filed every month over permit requests which were denied, compared to about 100 in previous years.

“There is a notable increase in the number of appeals filed by people whose request to carry a firearm was denied,” Yaakov Amit, head of the Interior Ministry’s Firearms Division, told Ynet.

These people value their lives, families, and property and want to protect them from the constant violence they are surrounded by. Hopefully this will deter more attacks on the people of Israel.

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His words are so timeless, you would think this is written for today.

1961 – My name is Ronald Reagan. I have been asked to talk on several subjects that have to do with the problems of the day. It must seem presumptuous to some of you that a member of my profession would stand here and attempt to talk to anyone on serious problems that face the nation and the world. It would be strange if it were otherwise. Most of us in Hollywood are very well aware of the concept or the misconception that many people, our fellow citizens, have about people in show business. It was only a generation ago that people of my profession couldn’t be buried in the churchyard. Of course the world has improved since then, we can be buried now. As a matter of fact, the eagerness of somebody to perform that service gets frightening at times. Now back in 1927 an American socialist, Norman Thomas, six times candidate for president on the Socialist Party ticket, said the American people would never vote for socialism. But he said under the name of liberalism the American people will adopt every fragment of the socialist program. There are many ways in which our government has invaded the precincts of private citizens, the method of earning a living. Our government is in business to the extent of owing more than 19,000 businesses covering 47 different lines of activity. This amounts to a fifth of the total industrial capacity of the United States. But at the moment I’d like to talk about another way, because this threat is with us and at the moment is more imminent. One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism on a people has been by way of medicine. It’s very easy to disguise a medical program as a humanitarian project. Most people are a little reluctant to oppose anything that suggests medical care for people who possibly can’t afford it. Now, the American people, if you put it to them about socialized medicine and gave them a chance to choose, would unhesitatingly vote against it. We had an example of this. Under the Truman administration it was proposed that we have a compulsory health insurance program for all people in the United States, and, of course, the American people unhesitatingly rejected this. So, with the American people on record as not wanting socialized medicine, Congressman Furan introduced the Furan Bill. This was the idea that all people of Social Security should be brought under a program of compulsory health insurance. Now this would not only be our senior citizens, this would be the dependents and those who are disabled. This would be young people if they are dependents of someone eligible for Social Security. Now Congressman Furan brought the program out on that idea of just for that particular group of people. But Congressman Furan was subscribing to this foot in the door philosophy because he said, “If we can only break through and get our foot inside the door, then we can expand the program after that.” Walter Ruether said, “It’s no secret that the United Automobile Workers is officially on record as backing a program of national health insurance.” And by national health insurance he meant socialized medicine for every American. Well let’s see what the Socialists themselves had to say about it. They say, “Once the Furan Bill is passed this nation will be provided with a mechanism for socialized medicine capable of indefinite expansion in every direction until it includes the entire population.” Well, we can’t say that we haven’t been warned. Now Congressman Furan is no longer a Congressman of the United States Government. He has been replaced, not in his particular assignment but in his backing of such a bill by Congressman King of California. It is presented in the idea of a great emergency that millions of our senior citizens are unable to provide needed medical care. But this ignores the fact that in the last decade 127 million of our citizens, in just ten years, have come under the protection of some kind of privately owned or hospital insurance. Now the advocates of this bill when you try to oppose it challenge you on an emotional basis, they say what would you do, throw these poor old people out to die with no medical attention? That’s ridiculous, and of course no one has advocated it. As a matter of fact, in the last session of Congress a bill was adopted known as the Kerr/Mills Bill. Now without even allowing this bill to be tried to see if it works they have introduced this King Bill, which is really the Furan Bill. What is the Kerr/Mills Bill? It is a frank recognition of the medical need or problem of our senior citizens that I have mentioned. And it has provided from the federal government money to the states and local communities that can be used at the discretion of the state to help those people who need it. Now what reason could the other people have for backing a bill which says we insist on compulsory health insurance for senior citizens on a basis of age alone, regardless of whether they are worth millions of dollars, whether they have an income, whether they’re protected by their own insurance, whether they have savings. I think we can be excused for believing, that as ex-Congressman Furan said, “This was simply an excuse to bring about what they wanted all the time, socialized medicine.” James Madison in 1788, speaking to the Virginia Convention said, “Since the general civilization of mankind I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachment of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.” They want to attach this bill to Social Security, and they say here is a great insurance program now instituted now working. Let’s take a look at social security itself. Again, very few of us disagree with the original premise that there should be some form of savings that would keep destitution from following unemployment by reason of death, disability or old age. And to this end, social security was adopted, but it was never intended to supplant private savings, private insurance, pension programs of unions and industries. Now in our country under our free enterprise system we have seen medicine reach the greatest heights that it has in any country in the world. Today, the relationship between patient and doctor in this country is something to be envied any place. The privacy, the care that is given to a person, the right to chose a doctor, the right to go from one doctor to the other. But let’s also look from the other side, at the freedom the doctor loses. A doctor would be reluctant to say this. Well, like you, I am only a patient, so I can say it in his behalf. The doctor begins to lose freedoms; it’s like telling a lie, and one leads to another. First you decide that the doctor can have so many patients. They are equally divided among the various doctors by the government. But then the doctors aren’t equally divided geographically, so a doctor decides he wants to practice in one town and the government has to say to him you can’t live in that town, they already have enough doctors. You have to go some place else. And from here it is only a short step to dictating where he will go. This is a freedom that I wonder whether any of us have the right to take from any human being. I know how I’d feel if you fellow citizens decided that to be an actor I had to become a government employee and work in a national theater. Take it into your own occupation or that of your husband. All of us can see what happens once you establish the precedent that the government can determine a man’s working place and his working methods, determine his employment. From here it is a short step to all the rest of socialism, to determining his pay and pretty soon your son won’t decide when he’s in school where he will go or what he will do for a living. He will wait for the government to tell him where he will go to work and what he will do. In this country of ours took place the greatest revolution that has ever taken place in worlds history, the only true revolution. Every other revolution simply exchanged one set of rulers for another. But here for the first time in all the thousands of years of man’s relation to man, a little group of men, the founding fathers, for the first time established the idea that you and I had within ourselves the God-given right and ability to determine our own destiny. This freedom was built into our government with safeguards. We talk democracy today, and strangely we let democracy begin to assume the aspect of majority rule is all that is needed. Well majority rule is a fine aspect of democracy provided there are guarantees written in to our government concerning the rights of the individual and of the minorities. What can we do about this? Well, you and I can do a great deal. We can write to our congressmen and our senators. We can say right now that we want no further encroachment on these individual liberties and freedoms. And at the moment, the key issue is, we do not want socialized medicine. Now you may think that when I say write to the Congressman or Senator that this is like writing fan mail to a television program, it isn’t. In Washington today 40,000 letters, less than one hundred per Congressman are evidence of a trend in public thinking. Former Representative Halleck of Indiana has said, “When the American people want something from Congress, regardless of its political complexion, if they make their wants known, Congress does what the people want.” So write, it’s as simple as finding just the name of your Congressman, or your Senator. Then you address your letter to that individuals name, if he’s a Congressman, to the House Office Building, Washington D.C. If he’s a Senator, to the Senate Office Building, Washington D.C. And if this man writes back to you and tells you that he or she too is for free enterprise, that we have these great services and so forth, that must be performed by government, don’t let them get away with it. Show that you have not been convinced. Write a letter right back and tell them that you believe in government economy and fiscal responsibility; that you know that governments don’t tax to get the money the need; governments will always find a need for the money they get and that you demand the continuation of our traditional free enterprise system. You and I can do this. The only way we can do it is by writing to our congressmen even we believe that he is on our side to begin with. Write to strengthen his hand. Give him the ability to stand before his colleagues in Congress and say “I have heard from my constituents and this is what they want.” Write those letters now; call your friends and them to write them. If you don’t, this program I promise you, will pass just as surely as the sun will come up tomorrow, and behind it will come other federal programs that will invade every area of freedom as we have known it in this country. Until, one day, as Normal Thomas said we will awake to find that we have socialism. And if you don’t do this and if I don’t do it, one of these days you and I are going to spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children, what it once was like in America when men were free.

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CALL THEM OUT.
Don’t argue numbers.

You sir/ma’am, stand in front of your employers with that smug smile pretentiously vocalizing how you think you know we should live. Falsely claiming a more benevolent view of the world, smearing our intelligence, claiming spread of misery justifies the confiscation of our rights to property, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. We claim the responsibility to justly live our lives, whether that means we reap the benefits of success, or learn from our own failures. And to take such fundamental, god given gifts away is the greatest form of evil one can partake of in this world. You are the demon, you are the unjust, you are the filth of this world that you claim has wreaked havoc upon our great nation. If you cannot accept that our ability to prosper or fail in our own hard work or to our own demise, then you are not worthy of being our SERVANT.

The bottom line in this whole health care debate isn’t the costs, isn’t the unending wealth destruction, isn’t everyone needs insurance. It’s the encroachment on our freedoms and way of life. No one is ever denied care, they are denied insurance coverage. People are not dying in the streets, they are going bankrupt because our servants don’t have the balls to enact real reform on lawyers and insurance laws. Bankruptcy is ugly, but it is a necessity. We cannot allow them to claim that they want to protect us from ourselves. We can always go bankrupt, but we cannot bring the dead back to life.

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According to NH Law he has every right to open carry, at it has become increasingly common in NH, hence why the police did not do anything to this law abiding citizen.

“Open carriage of licensed handguns is legal in New Hampshire”

Firearms do not have to be registered in New Hampshire, and there is
no requirement to have a license or permit in order to open carry. The
New Hampshire constitution makes the freedom to practice your religion
and the freedom to own a firearm equal – you don’t need to ask the
state first.

Here is Chris Matthews crazed whack at William. Trying to appeal to the feel good mentality of the population.

Chris Matthews, I don’t like people that get tingly feelings up their legs. I don’t think that is appropriate. Should we ban all tingly feelings up legs? Just because we feel uncomfortable or someone takes something the wrong way does that mean we violate someone elses FUNDAMENTAL rights? Remember in NH, right to carry is equal to right of religion. Just because you disagree or you think he is trying to be provocative does not mean anyone can violate his rights.

William didn’t fall into Matthews birther trap, or trying to paint this man as wanting to spill blood by finishing the quote on his sign. The full quote of his sign, “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants.” is from Thomas Jefferson. Dissent from our government is taboo in most circles nowadays, while it used to be common that the states would stick it to the feds. Our states no longer stand up against the federal government, they are standing up to us!

Allahpundit @ HotAir.com:

People are going to beat the Second Amendment drum in the comments, but (a) I doubt it would have sat well with our readers if lefties carrying Bushitler signs had shown up to Dubya’s events packing heat and (b) having a right doesn’t mean you’re obliged to exercise it, particularly in circumstances where it would be provocative to do so. I’ve knocked atheist groups for suing for the right to display a “Darwin tree” or whatever on public grounds next to a Christmas tree, not because they’re not entitled but because they’re being spiteful, incendiary douchebags by doing so. How is Captain Sidearm here any different?

If you do a little research you’ll see that this man was not trying to be provocative. He is part of the NH Underground Group that is assembling peacefully in NH. Encouraging starving the government beast, and exercising all their rights. They frequently open carry, and typically in groups. When they open carry alone they frequently get harassed by the cops, as that is seen more as trying to scare people or get them riled up. So they do actually try not to open carry alone. Don’t forget the cops were there, and they know the law, and this group. If they didn’t make a big deal why should anyone else?

You can see Williams thoughts on all this here:

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“There is no position which depends on clearer principles, than that every act of a delegated authority, contrary to the tenor of the commission under which it is exercised, is void. No legislative act, therefore, contrary to the Constitution, can be valid. To deny this, would be to affirm, that the deputy is greater than his principal; that the servant is above his master; that the representatives of the people are superior to the people themselves; that men acting by virtue of powers, may do not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid.”

There has never been a time in my life (22 years) where I have not heard [from the majority of the elected] that the government knows whats good for us. That they are above us, we are too ignorant, reckless, we can’t handle our own money, they know how to spend it for us. We can’t drive a nice big safe car because the earth will shed a tear. We can’t smoke because it will kill us 60 years from now. We can’t save our own money for retirement because others need to retire now. We don’t know how to read legislation, you need a team of lawyers and several days! [A law too complicated to understand should never be passed]

Does it sound rational to say that “I don’t like frilly underwear so I’m for legislation banning frilly underwear”? Where in the constitution does one group have precedent over another? Where is it fathomable that we subsidize a small group of people that can’t afford, not can’t obtain, AFFORD, health care? Every year in highschool we were forced to write a paper on mandatory volunteerism, I was always against it, but didn’t see until after that government is forced volunteerism. The Nanny State is almost inescapable today. Our hard work is devalued when a dollar amount is placed on it above what others perceive as rich. What business is it of anyone how hard we work and how much we get paid? What business is it of the government to take from us, our family, our friends, to give to a freeloader 2,000 miles away? Where can they point out in the constitution, that men have the right to the hard work of others? They can’t. They think they are above us, but we know they are our servants. They hate us for using our God given rights. And we can always put them in their place, whether through election or revolution we can always use the timeless words of our forefathers, the Declaration of Independence, again.

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Tort [french for "wrong"] costs has gone out of control in the US in the last 50 years. Tort skyrocketed the cost of malpractice insurance, and forces doctors to practice defensive medicine to avoid getting sued. It’s hard for the left to swallow because so many of them are lawyers or even get lobbied by lawyers to not enact tort reform.

From the Pacific Research Institute:

direct U.S. tort costs were $261 billion in 2005, which translates into $880 per person.2 In contrast,
costs were only $96 per person in 1950, adjusted for inflation.

Less than 15 cents of every
tort-cost dollar goes to
compensating injured people.

Tort lawsuits need to be reformed to limit the compensation of those that have been wronged but still deter malpractice. It can be done, as many states have shown us.

And here’s more on free choice, elimination of government mandates, Health Savings Accounts, price disclosure, and interstate insurance reform.

From Health Care Freedom Coalition:

Free Choice of Doctors, Hospitals, and Health Plans
Any health care reform proposal must allow all Americans to choose their own doctor, hospital, and health plan. Furthermore, no reform proposal should coerce any American into buying a health plan designed by the government or be required to join a government-created, government-funded, or government-run purchasing pool or connector where the government selects health benefits and plans from which to choose.

Health Savings Account Option for All Americans
Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) are the only health plan that allows free choice of doctors and hospitals while providing incentives to reduce health care spending. Therefore, HSAs must be an option for all Americans, including those who are beneficiaries of government health care programs, such as Medicaid and Medicare. Any regulations or obstacles to making HSAs an option for Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries must be removed to meet this goal.

Tax Fairness and Simplification for All Americans

The current tax break for health insurance is discriminatory, unfair, and, quite frankly, a mess. Employer-provided health insurance is tax free from income and payroll taxes. Self-employed individuals get to deduct the cost of their premiums from income. And, consumers who buy their own policy get no tax break. Workers who are displaced from a job due to a trade agreement get a 65 percent tax credit under the Health Care Tax Credit (HCTC). This mess cannot continue.

We believe the tax break for health insurance needs to be fair, nondiscriminatory, and apply to all Americans whether they get their health insurance from their employer or not.
[The X Note: We are for tax repeal but tax breaks are a step in the right direction]

Affordable Health Insurance for Small Business

Fewer and fewer small employers are providing health insurance because of the cost. The cost of health insurance is especially painful for tiny employers who employ fewer than 10 employees. Benefit mandates and regulatory mandates, such as HIPAA’s guaranteed issue mandate on small employers, apply to state-regulated, fully insured plans. Large employers who self-insure under ERISA escape all the benefit mandates at the state level and have more flexibility in designing a health care plan for their employees.

Small employers should be allowed to join together across state lines and have the same flexibility that large employers enjoy.

Buying Health Insurance Across State Lines

Individuals who buy their own health insurance plan and many small employers are limited in the type of health insurance that they can buy. Most are forced to buy insurance in their state that contains all the benefit mandates and benefit regulations imposed on them by state legislators. Families in Minnesota are forced to buy a health plan that contains 62 mandates, while families in Idaho can buy a plan with 13 mandates. In New Jersey, a family HMO costs $1,652 per month, while a family can buy a HMO plan in Pennsylvania for $707 per month!

The Constitution permits interstate commerce, so American families should be allowed to buy health insurance that meets their health care needs and should be allowed to buy insurance from other states. If a family in Idaho wants to buy a health care plan with all of Minnesota’s 63 mandates, they should have the choice to buy. If a family in Minnesota wants to buy a health care plan with Idaho’s 13 mandates, they should have that choice.

Health Care Price Disclosure

Since the creation of HSAs, more than 6 million Americans have chosen them for their health care needs. While more Americans will continue to choose HSAs, it is important for America’s families to know the cost of health care. Hospitals mark up their prices dramatically – some more than 500 percent – so it is important for an open health care system for shoppers to know the cost of the care that is being provided.

Hospitals and doctors should be encouraged as a condition of accepting Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement to publish their cost to provide the care. They should also publish the reimbursement schedule from various payers, including Medicare and insurance companies, so consumers will be better educated.

High Risk Pools for People who are Sick

Thirty-three states have high risk pools that provide health insurance to people who are sick and can’t get health insurance. This population represents a small portion of the country, but they should not be left out of America’s health care system because they are sick. Congress has historically provided federal dollars to encourage states to establish a high risk pool for people who are sick, and states have taken advantage of these federal dollars.

Congress should continue to provide incentives for states to establish high risk pools so people who are sick can have access to affordable health insurance.
[The X Note: We are not for one state paying for another states affairs states should provide this at their own expense]

Convert DSH payments into Health Insurance Block Grants/Vouchers

The federal government provides nearly $20 billion dollars a year in disproportionate payments (DSH) to hospitals that treat people who don’t have health insurance. Considerable evidence exists that hospitals actually collect and profit from uninsured patients. DSH payments should be sent to the states in the form of health care block grants. States would be required to use those DSH payments to provide vouchers for private health insurance for the uninsured.
[The X Note: I am not for one state paying for another's affairs again, states should do this along with charity]

Nonprofit Alternatives to Health Insurance
More than a hundred thousand Americans choose not to buy health insurance because they belong to nonprofit, faith-based organizations that share each other’s health care costs. These Americans should be allowed to continue this alternative way to access our nation’s health care system and should not be coerced into buying health insurance.

More Competition Between Facilities
Consolidation and mergers of hospitals has led to actual or near-monopoly conditions in many communities in the United States. Monopoly always leads to excessive prices, poor quality, and lack of innovation. The biggest obstacle to increasing innovation and competition are the Certificate of Need laws that are still in effect in most states. These laws are 1970s style regulations that allow existing facilities to block the establishment of new competitors. They should be repealed.

No Mandates

According to the Council for Affordable Health Insurance, state lawmakers have enacted more than 1,900 benefit mandates on consumers. The federal government has enacted three mandated benefits on consumers. In addition, states and the federal government have imposed guaranteed issue coverage mandates and price control mandates (community rating) on American workers and small employers.

We challenge Congress and state legislators to impose a five-year mandate free zone on Americans beginning in 2008 and running through 2013.

No Government Price Controls
The Federal government should not expand its practice of setting prices in our health care system. Price Controls distort the marketplace causing perverse incentives and cost shifting.

No Basic Benefit Packages or Actuarial Equivalent
Federal and state legislators should not impose a health insurance benefit package on Americans nor should they require consumers to buy a health insurance plan that is equivalent in value to an existing health insurance plan.

No Health Care GSEs
The federal or state government should not become or create government sponsored enterprises for health care that act as reinsurance programs. Private reinsurance companies provide insolvency protection and important health care services, such as chronic care management, to people who are sick.

Why is it so hard for the dems to see this? Why do they continuously ignore us again, and again, and again?

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She voted against a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage and supports abortion rights. She also sought to reverse the ban on abortions at overseas military bases and installations. In August 2000, Sanchez refused to relocate a political fundraiser she had planned at the Playboy Mansion in California. As a result, Democratic National Committee chairman Joe Andrew cancelled her scheduled speaking role at the Democratic National Convention. Sanchez’s address was reinstated just before the convention, when she agreed to relocate her fundraiser to Universal Studios.

So why on earth would she hold her town hall meeting in a Church of all places? What happened to your definition of seperation of church and state? Or is this just you attempt to silence the reverent people of Orange County California? The left scream in favor of a woman’s right to choose, they call their opposition gay bashers and wife beaters. Sanchez attempted to have her elitist friends over at the playboy mansion for crying out loud! But when it comes down to it the American people are conservative and dems try to pass themselves off as so, because conservatives win elections.

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From the SEIU Website:

MPOs take action at the worksite, in our neighborhoods, on the phones, and via e-mail to:

• Educate members and their families
• Register members to vote
• Lobby politicians on our issues
• Raise COPE funds
• Build community coalitions
• Recruit volunteers
• Get out the vote on Election Day

Members are the driving force in SEIU. Winning requires membership involvement at worksites, in the legislatures and city halls, and in organizing campaigns across North America.

“Members are the driving force in SEIU.” Really?? Your MPO’s drive your union? Thugs that attack people for speaking their voice, for opposing you, are what drives your union? You”ll rue the day SEIU, rue the day.

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