NC Renegades

Those who can’t do, demand.

Profit propels civilization. When a producer can make an item or provide a service at a cost lower than a customer values that item or service, and the customer has the means and the freedom to buy, the difference between what’s paid over cost is profit. That profit is the producer’s incentive to produce, and in turn funds the producer’s consumption, savings, and investment, which creates other producers’ profits. Profit is the necessary prerequisite for consumption, savings, investment, and consequently, progress.

Many of us profit every day. We offer services and provide goods, supporting ourselves at a cost that is lower than what we’re paid. We’re profitably competent, engaging in honest production and peaceful, voluntary exchange. The only alternatives to profitable competence are living off of someone else’s profitable competency via inheritance or charity, or criminality—theft via fraud or violence.

Criminals cloak their thefts in all sorts of justifications, some of which, like socialism, become full-blown political doctrines. Ironically, a larcenous litany of demands and rationalizations are efflorescing at a time when whatever is left of the overall profit pool has been drained. It has been mortgaged multiple times, just as hordes of the unprofitably incompetent, who had no hand in producing it, clamor for their “fair share.” They’ll insist the profitably competent figure out how to pay for it, but the fair share of nothing is nothing, political promises to the contrary notwithstanding.

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Perhaps the Wrong Questions are being asked?
Maybe there isn’t any answers for those previous Questions we’ve been throwing around.
Maybe it should be asked
What Line will have to be Crossed before We Stand Up and Fight for Our Freedom?
Amendment 1

• Freedom of Religion, Speech, and the Press
  Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
  Lines Crossed.
  Amendment 2
• The Right to Bear Arms
  A well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
  Lines Crossed
  Amendment 3
• The Housing of Soldiers
  No soldier shall, in time of peace, be quartered in any house without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war but in a manner to be prescribed by law.
  Up for Debate
  Amendment 4
• Protection from Unreasonable Searches and Seizures
  The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched and the persons or things to be seized.
  Lines Crossed
  Amendment 5
• Protection of Rights to Life, Liberty, and Property
  No person shall be held to answer for a capital or otherwise infamous crime unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use without just compensation.
  Lines Crossed
  Amendment 6
• Rights of Accused Persons in Criminal Cases
  In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor; and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense.
  Lines Crossed
  Amendment 7
• Rights in Civil Cases
  In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury shall be otherwise reexamined in any court of the United States than according to the rules of the common law.
  Open for Debate
  Amendment 8
• Excessive Bail, Fines, and Punishments Forbidden
  Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
  Lines Crossed
  Amendment 9
• Other Rights Kept by the People
  The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
  Lines Crossed
  Amendment 10
• Undelegated Powers Kept by the States and the People
  The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.
  Lines Crossed
  I think you catch my drift here.
  Point is it’s way past time to do something about all the injustice and the trampling of our Freedoms.
  I’ll leave you with this
  All experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
  The Tree of Liberty is Mighty Thirsty. Think about it.

According to Google, its $250,000 donation to the SPLC was to fund a redesign of the SPLC’s Teaching Tolerance program. The program trains teachers and provides them with materials – including lesson plans – to discuss controversial topics in classrooms.

“The Teaching Tolerance program bills itself as a program focused on social justice, civil rights, multiculturalism, and anti-bias education,” said the Family Research Council (FRC), which monitors the SPLC program. “However, Teaching Tolerance program materials, sample curricula, and resources focus disproportionately on conveying acceptance for homosexuality and endorsement of the Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual, and Transgender (LGBT) community.”

The program’s newsletter and magazine reaches 400,000 teachers nationwide, “presenting strategies for creating classroom environments that celebrate the LGBT lifestyle” and beginning in preschool, according to the FRC.

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• goodthink – thoughts that are approved by the Party and follow its policies, ideals and interpretations. It is the opposite of crimethink
• bellyfeel – a blind, enthusiastic acceptance of an idea

Ever feel like that 2019 is 1984? The other side’s useful idiots have too much bellyfeel based on their indoctrination of goodthink.

David DeGerolamo

The White House is drafting plans to declare a national emergency along the southern US border which would provide $7 billion in potential funds for President Trump’s long-promised border wall, according to CNN – citing internal documents we hope are more accurate than BuzzFeed‘s.

Trump has not ruled out using his authority to declare a national emergency and direct the Defense Department to construct a border wall as Congress and the White House fight over a deal to end the government shutdown. But while Trump’s advisers remain divided on the issue, the White House has been moving forward with alternative plans that would bypass Congress.

“The massive amount of aliens who unlawfully enter the United States each day is a direct threat to the safety and security of our nation and constitutes a national emergency,” a draft of a presidential proclamation reads.

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One small business owner in New York is making headlines for his stance against New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s Reproductive Health Act, which was made official on the 46th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion throughout the United States. The Act, as previously reported by Live Action News, “expands abortion for virtually any reason through the third trimester” even allowing abortion on viable babies for financial reasons. Insurance carriers will now be required cover abortion and non-physicians may commit abortions. The law even rescinds protections for babies born alive during an abortion, and will not treat preborn victims of violence as homicide victims.

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