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Something we all need to know.

New Traffic Law 2010

New Law: If a patrol car is pulled over to the side of the road, you have to change to the next lane (away from the stopped vehicle) or slow down by 20 mph. Every state except Hawaii and Maryland and the D.C. has this law. In California , the “Move-over” law became operative on January 1, 2010. http://www.moveoveramerica.com/ A friend’s son got a ticket for this recently. A police car (turned out it was 2 police cars) was on the side of the road giving a ticket to someone else. He slowed down to pass but did not move into the other lane. The second police car immediately pulled him over and gave him a ticket. He had never heard of the law. It is a fairly new law that states if any emergency vehicle is on the side of the road, if you are able, you are to move into the far lane.

The cost of the ticket was $754, with 3 points on your license and a mandatory court appearance. Please let everyone you know that drives about this new law. It is true (see details at the following web address). http://www.snopes.com/politics/traffic/moveover.asp

Any rebuttals?

“The Gun Is Civilization”

Interesting take and one you don’t hear much. . . . . .

As the Supreme Court hears arguments for and against the Chicago , IL Gun Ban, I offer you another stellar example of a letter (written by a Marine) that places the proper perspective on what a gun means to a civilized society. This is an eloquent and profound letter…

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The Gun is Civilization

by Maj. L. Caudill USMC (Ret)

Human beings only have two ways to deal with one another: reason and force. If you want me to do something for you, you have a choice of either convincing me via argument, or force me to do your bidding under threat of force. Every human interaction falls into one of those two categories, without exception. Reason or force, that’s it.

In a truly moral and civilized society, people exclusively interact through persuasion. Force has no place as a valid method of social interaction, and the only thing that removes force from the menu is the personal firearm, as paradoxical as it may sound to some.

When I carry a gun, you cannot deal with me by force. You have to use reason and try to persuade me, because I have a way to negate your threat or employment of force.

The gun is the only personal weapon that puts a 100-pound woman on equal footing with a 220-pound mugger, a 75-year old retiree on equal footing with a 19-year old gang banger, and a single guy on equal footing with a carload of drunk guys with baseball bats. The gun removes the disparity in physical strength, size, or numbers between a potential attacker and a defender.

There are plenty of people who consider the gun as the source of bad force equations. These are the people who think that we’d be more civilized if all guns were removed from society, because a firearm makes it easier for an armed mugger to do his job. That, of course, is only true if the mugger’s potential victims are mostly disarmed either by choice or by legislative fiat–it has no validity when most of a mugger’s potential marks are armed.

People who argue for the banning of arms ask for automatic rule by the young, the strong, and the many, and that’s the exact opposite of a civilized society. A mugger, even an armed one, can only make a successful living in a society where the state has granted him a force monopoly.

Then there’s the argument that the gun makes confrontations lethal that otherwise would only result in injury. This argument is fallacious in several ways. Without guns involved, confrontations are won by the physically superior party inflicting overwhelming injury on the loser.

People who think that fists, bats, sticks, or stones don’t constitute lethal force watch too much TV, where people take beatings and come out of it with a bloody lip at worst. The fact that the gun makes lethal force easier works solely in favor of the weaker defender, not the stronger attacker. If both are armed, the field is level.

The gun is the only weapon that’s as lethal in the hands of an octogenarian as it is in the hands of a weight lifter. It simply wouldn’t work as well as a force equalizer if it wasn’t both lethal and easily employable.

When I carry a gun, I don’t do so because I am looking for a fight, but because I’m looking to be left alone. The gun at my side means that I cannot be forced, only persuaded. I don’t carry it because I’m afraid, but because it enables me to be unafraid. It doesn’t limit the actions of those who would interact with me through reason, only the actions of those who would do so by force. It removes force from the equation… and that’s why carrying a gun is a civilized act.

By Maj. L. Caudill USM C (Ret.)

So the greatest civilization is one where all citizens are equally armed and can only be persuaded, never forced.

There is far too much of this obfuscation of the obvious these days, usually in the name of avoiding calling a spade a spade, and of making nice to everyone.
There is ample evidence for the existence of sustained Chinese espionage against the USA, and that needs to be acknowledged and thoroughly documented, instead of trying to seek some ambiguous, less confrontational name for it.
I, for one, sincerely hope that we, the USA are continually and energetically returning the favor by exerting every effort to discover whatever secrets we can about Communist China’s activities in all fields that can in any way bode ill for our nation … or for the Chinese people, for that matter.
Some years back there was a launch on a Chinese rocket that failed shortly after lift off.
The payload was a US commercial comsat that China was hired to launch.
Because it included a classified US encoding device, the payload was guarded by US armed people during all handling, checkout and pre-launch procedures in China.
But for some unexplained reason, the rocket failed spectacularly shortly after lift off and crashed into a nearby Chinese populated area.
That would not, in itself, constitute a cause for suspicion, but that a large contingent of Chinese troops immediately surrounded the crash site and prevented access by US people could be cause for suspicion. When US technologists were finally admitted to the crash site they discovered a strange thing : that highly classified encoding device, a device that would prevent any unauthorized access to and read out of the information being transmitted, that device was mysteriously missing from the payload wreckage.
And it was the only part missing.
It is also true that a number of Chinese villagers were killed or injured by the crash.
And furthermore, it is also clear that the troops most assuredly were pre-positioned or they could not have been so readily available to guard the crash site.
I find it verges upon the self-destructive for the USA to pursue some well intentioned but ultimately stupid nicienice policy towards people who willingly sacrifice even the lives of their own citizens in such a callous manner.
Intolerance is clearly no virtue … unless there is clear and unambiguous evidence of significant ill intent.
And tolerance is a vice, when it allows, or even encourages evil.
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On May 22, 2010, at 4:37 AM, Bijal Bee Thakore wrote:

Agents who attempt or exercise Espionage are enemies of all – of nationals whom they are exercising the espionage on AS WELL AS those from the nation of their own origin. I would suggest you drop the ‘Chinese’ in the title of the email. This may not be a fair generalization, despite even if it has a statistical merit. Rogue behavior is what we all should certainly be vigilant against, but it bears no allegiance to only one (foreign) nation, color, creed, religion. I honor and thank the part FBI’s plays in safeguarding the great scientific advancements.
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Los Angeles American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Event Invitation:

Something that Everyone that works in the Aerospace Industry here in the U.S. and abroad should be aware and ever vigilant about!!

I invite all of you to attend and learn a bit more about the ongoing threat and how agents and enemies have been, and still are…. in the gates of our country and trying to steal our classified secrets.

Los Angeles Section
Thursday, May 27, 2010

Successful FBI Investigations of Espionage against the United States

Speaker: James Gaylord
Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent

In recent years, a slew of espionage cases committed against the United States by the Peoples Republic of China (PRC) have come to light, gone to trial, and resulted in convictions: Bergerson, Kuo, Fondren. The first of these was Chi Mak, his family of co-conspirators, and his confederate, Greg Chung. Special Agent James E. Gaylord of the Federal Bureau of Investigation will be presenting the facts of these investigations and prosecutions.

In February 2004, Agent Gaylord initiated the Chi Mak espionage investigation as its Case Agent, managing it to its June 2007 conclusion. He and his fellow investigators have received the U.S. Attorney’s “Award for Excellence”, the “National Intelligence Meritorious Unit Citation” from the Director of National Intelligence, the “Distinguished Service Award” from the U.S. Attorney General, and have been nominated for the FBI Director’s “Outstanding Counterintelligence Investigation Award”.