Democrats Want To Bring Back Slavery

Slaves were slaves because they were not allowed to own the means by which to defend themselves. Think about that before you give up any more of your rights and freedoms to the very liberal progressives who fought to keep slavery, then later formed the KKK, and fought against civil rights. These are the same people in the white house and Senate right now who want to take away your gun rights. What next, your freedom?

Liberties

Our liberties are at risk and we are blinded by media hype. It is not about gun rights, it is about all rights. When select people manipulate a tragedy in order to usher in a new set of useless laws, they make victims of us all. Please ask your fellow representatives to think about that before they rush off to support yet another attempt to give up any of our rights. Just ask them to stop for a second and think, if we give up this right today, what right will we be boxed into to giving up tomorrow?  Please tell them that we cannot sell out our freedom today for the sake of political convenience tomorrow.

Choices you make this next year will have life long affects on all of us.  Please do the right thing for us and support our rights by not supporting any legislation that would abrogate, marginalize, or deny any of us the ability to exercise any of our rights.

At It Again

In light of these most recent horrible and unfathomable acts of violence where a person suffering from some form of serious mental illness chose to act out and cowardly target defenseless people for mass murder an aged debate has resurfaced with a vengeance.  That is gun control. 

While progressive will say that we need "reasonable" gun control, the truth is, they mean complete gun control one "reasonable" law after another that do nothing to prevent such crimes, and in fact as proven in all instances where it was implemented, has increased crime.  We cannot let this become the focal point of the issue at hand. While the families will look to someone to blame, and there will be more than enough progressive to direct their rage toward the NRA and gun owners, we as a society shouldn't accept these progressive tactics. 

Ask yourself, if it really in my best interest that these government types want to prohibit one of our constitutional rights?  Ask yourself why that is?  And why we should let them manipulate such horrific tragedy to their benefit when we should be focusing on the families and the cause behind these acts of evil. 

If we fail in our duty to protect our own freedom from such people who would use such a tragedy to try and steal it, then what else will we allow them to steal in the dead of night while we sleep soundly in the knowledge that we gave up not only that which we thought we were achieving, security, but also our freedom?

We were entrusted with the sacred duty to protect that most honor of all documents, the constitution. To ensure that we the people, not the government, but we the people could secure our freedom for all time, the founding fathers wisely gave us the bill of rights.  Paramount to those rights was the ability to defend those rights against tyranny.   The second amendment was established as the second amendment for a reason.  To fundamentally make it known that the people of the united states shall have the right to self defense not only for the sake of their own families, but for the sake of everyone's family.

We cannot compromise our freedoms by allowing those who advocate there abolishment to win.  We shall not have security, nor freedom if we fail to keep these vile dogs of progressive liberalism at bay.

Those who would give up you're rights without your consent without giving up their own, should tell you all you need to know about who these people are.  When you're freedom is on the chopping block and the executioner swing that axe, there is no going back.  Any people who have known and lost freedom in their life times shall never know freedom again.  Ronald Reagan once spoke similar words; "Those who have known freedom and then lost it have never known it again"  How truth that comment is.

It is not about gun rights, it is about all rights.  When vile people manipulate a tragicomedy in order to assure in a new set of useless laws, they make victims of us all.  Think about that before you rush off to support yet another attempt to give up your rights.  Just stop for a second and think, if I give up this right today, what right will I have to give up tomorrow?

Insanity Is No Defense

Insane Man kills 27 people at a school:

It sickens me to think that we have yet another horrible tragedy at the hands of a sick individual too mentally ill to know better but sane enough to know how to kill. My God what a horrible horrible situation this 20 year old insane man has left us all in. My heart, prayers, and best wishes go out to the families affected by this mad mans actions. That being said, to blame the gun for this would be a logical emotional reactions, but would ultimately solve nothing. This man was already barred from having such things yet the laws didn't stop him. Much like laws don't stop speeders. Only a sick sick mind could construct rational to do something so heinous as this. Where was his family? Why didn't they see this man going off the deep end? I guess no one can predict what a sick person will ultimately do. The blame for this monstrous crime lays with the man who did it. And the families have been cheated out of justice because this vile man acted like a coward, taking the lives of people who could not defend themselves, and then took his own life. I hope that he burns in the hottest part of hell for all time.

The Balance of Terror And The Enemy Below

A departure from politics.

Inspiration for Balance of Terror.

In 1957 the World War II movie The Enemy Below, starring Robert Mitchum and Curd Jürgens, was released and decades later it was adapted for the Star Trek episode Balance of Terror.
Now there has been no, and I doubt there ever will be, formal acknowledgment of that the movie Enemy Below was the guiding force behind the Star Trek Episode Balance of Terror, but the similarities cannot be ignored.

In The Enemy Below Robert Mitchum plays the Captain of the USS Hayes, a US Destroyer on patrol in the South Atlantic during the Second World War. While on patrol, the Hayes stumbles across a German U-boat captained by Curd Jürgens. Jürgens's character, Captain Von Stolberg, has grown disillusioned with the war but remains dedicated to his duty through to the bitter end. A similarity to the Romulan Captain played by Mark Leonard in Balance of Terror.

Mitchum's character, Captain Murrell, starts a cat-and-mouse game with the German sub all the while being careful not to underestimate the U-boat captain. Likewise, the U-boat captain tries every trick in the book to evade the Hayes time after time and is at each turn outwitted by Mitchum's character, Captain Murrell. At one point the U-boat captain's tactics are anticipated by Captain Murrell and he lays a trap for the U-boat which prompts Jürgens's character, Captain Von Stolberg, to tell his First Officer, "He is the devil that one." A very close similarity to "He is a sorcerer that one." As said by Mark Leonard's character, The Romulan Commander, in Balance of Terror shortly after being outsmarted by Captain Kirk of the USS Enterprise.

The U-boat, like its Romulan Bird of Prey counterpart, can hide from view simply by submerging much like the Romulan ship cloaks. The U-boat can be tracked via underwater sonar after it has submerged, while the Bird of Prey can be tracked by motion sensors while it is cloaked.
Both ships use Torpedoes that are devastatingly powerful. Both ships are limited by speed barriers and can easily be overrun by their opponent's vessels.

In the Star Trek episode, Kirk must press the attack against the Romulan ship before it crosses the Neutral Zone, while Mitchum's character must confront the U-boat before it can pull his ship into a trap against a German Raider. Captain Muller orders a series of hit-and-run attacks that weaken both the crew morale and the structure of the U-boat itself. Ultimately he decides to order a final lunge forward to attack the U-boat and hopefully destroy it. Having anticipated the tactic, Jürgens's character fires his torpedoes at an opportune time striking the Hayes amidship and crippling her. Similar to what happened to Enterprise when it fired upon Romulan's nuclear device detonating it mere meters from the ship.

Mitchums knows that his only chance at survival lies in the tactic of luring the U-boat into a trap. He plays dead in the water and orders fires set on the deck to give the appearance that his ship was heavily damaged by the attack. The U-boat Captain buys the bait and moves in close for the kill only to be shelled and ultimately rammed by the Hayes.

In the end, the U-boat is destroyed by a self-destruct device that also takes out the Hayes. A tactic that the Romulan Captain had used in Balance of Terror a decade later. It should also be noted that the destruction of the Romulan ship was also done by measures of a self-destruct device, however, the Enterprise was not destroyed as that would have ended the series.

Mitchum's character also had a good working relationship with the ship's doctor and Executive Officer, which I believe inspired the relationship that Kirk, Spock, and McCoy ultimately shared. You can see the developing friendship between the characters in the movie The Enemy Below as Mitchum's character shares a moment of reflection with the ship's Doctor who gives him advice much like the Character of Dr. McCoy later gives to Captain Kirk.

"In this galaxy, there's a mathematical probability of three million Earth-type planets. And in all of the universe, three million, million galaxies like this. But in all of that, and perhaps more, only one of each of us." - Dr. Leonard McCoy (DeForest Kelly)

Additionally, the U-boat captain shares a very similar relationship with his First Officer. At one point Jürgens tells his First Officer of his growing fear that the war is unjust and he morns for what it has done to his beloved Germany, much like the talk between The Romulan Commander and his Centurion First Officer.

"Another war, must it always be so? How many comrades have we lost in this way?... Obedience. Duty. Death, and more death..." - Romulan Commander (Mark Leonard)
In the end, both First Officers are killed as a result of the battle, another strong similarity between the two.

Additionally, both the movie and the Star Trek episode had a loyalist character who was shunned by the Command staff. The two characters shared a strong sense of loyalty to their government leader, one to Hitler, the other to The Praetor, and were a source of irritation to both Captains.

It was clear that both the Captain of the U-boat and the Captain of the Destroyer had commanders' respect for each other as did Captain Kirk and the Romulan Commander. The similarities between the movie The Enemy Below and the Star Trek television episode Balance of Terror are unmistakable.
The movie The Enemy Below@ is clearly the inspiration for the Star Trek episode ABalance of Terror.

If you have not yet seen either of the movies The Enemy Below or the Star Trek episode Balance of Terror, you should consider watching them both and make your own comparison. They are both excellent films of their era and I would highly recommend them both.