Clear as a Bell

    The hit piece on Frederick County’s constitutional sheriff titled, “Jenkins fans the flames around gun control proposal”, was biased and disrespectful of one for our republic’s treasured offices. 

    You attack his description of this increasing conflict over armaments, as “extraordinarily distasteful”,… “to invoke the deaths of law enforcement officers to bolster his political argument.”  Well how about the “good people” who refuse to be disarmed?  Would you find invoking their deaths distasteful? 

     Rather than reporting on the conflicting information presented at the hearing for SB 281 by one of the lead proponents of O’Malley’s gun grab, Baltimore Co. States Attorney Shallenberger, you take issue with our sheriff’s clear and well stated position.  Shallenberger’s statement, to the effect that this bill will deter a similar incident like at Sandy Hook where a Bushmaster, assault style rifle was used to kill children, conflicts with a report by a major news outlet!  MSNBC's correspondent, Pete Williams stated that only hand guns were used in the incident, and the rifle that was found in the car, never entered the school.  Talk about flaming a fire?

    We are blessed in Frederick County to have a constitutional sheriff.  Jenkins clearly stated: “My job as sheriff is not only to uphold the law, but also to uphold and protect the constitutional rights of the citizens of Frederick County.”  You were right about one thing, “He is the chief law enforcement officer in Frederick Co.”, and as such, he is expected to ignore any pretend legislation that is obviously unconstitutional. He doesn’t need to, “clarify what he means” to your paper, or to anyone else.  He means what he said, and he said it clearly.

Undelivered testimony on SB 281

My name is Michael Hargadon. 

I do not want my 2nd amendment rights infringed!

I have practiced dentistry for 30 yrs. in Maryland:  East side Baltimore City,  West side Baltimore city, Carroll County, and Frederick County.

One of ten children. My dad was a Baltimore City Police sergeant.  He carried a gun, and we all knew not to touch it.

About 25 years ago, my assistant and I were threatened by a man at my East Baltimore Office.  I went out the next day, bought a gun, took lessons, and carried it on my person, in my office, for several weeks.

Gun safety, and personal defense are essential, but this bill threatens the spirit of our 2nd amendment: Defend ourselves against tyranny.

Paul Craig Roberts, a former Reagan staffer, and Assistant Secretary of the Treasury summarized the danger we face today in, “America’s Future is Death” http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2012/08/20/amerikas-future-death-paul-craig-roberts/

He asks questions such as:

Why does the Department of Homeland Security need enough ammunition to shoot every American 2.5 times?

Why is Homeland Security equipping itself with full-body armor? 

Why are other federal government agencies such the Fisheries Office ordering large orders of ammunition?  

Why has the Social Security Administration ordered 174,000 rounds of hollow-point bullets?

Hollow point bullets are for killing people.

Military use of hollow point bullets is actually banned under the Hague Convention of 1899, which prohibits the use of expanding bullets.

As if this arsenal is not enough, a new army manual for “Civil Disturbance Operations” describes how the military is to be used domestically within the US to put down protests, confiscate firearms, and kill citizens.

Mr. Roberts concludes that

“The purpose of the police state is to terrorize US citizens.”

So!  Why isn’t this legislature concerned about the terror this federal police state poses to Marylanders? 

Maryland legislature was jailed before the Civil War, because they represented Maryland, and not the Feds.  The war is over, and our representatives are no longer imprisoned by the feds. 

Thank you to those senators who oppose this legislation. 

Shame on those senators who proposed, and or support, this disarming of our Freestate. 

Please kill this bill!

Evil From Frederick County

Over three years ago we moved to Frederick County and have been delighted with the agricultural culture, the rural lifestyle, and a constitutional sheriff as law enforcement.  Like anywhere though, all is not good in Frederick County.  SB 40, introduced by our own Senator Young, and cross filed by Delegate Clagett as HB 171, entitled, “Motor Vehicle Administration- Organ Donation- Presumed Consent”, strips our inalienable right to life. 

With the bill’s presupposition that the State owns your organs, this bill, will allow the medical, transplant business complex to harvest your vital organs, before clinical death, without your consent.  It strips our right to life until natural death, and requires a person to request that one’s right to life not be trampled.  This bill is arrogantly offensive and makes one wonder how these sponsors can justify this bill with our constitution.  This bill is evil.

It's Our Faught Obama Will Ruin Our Country: My Response

(original e-mail is in  bold underline)

Before I say anything, let me apologize if Dale forwarded your e-mail to me against your wishes.   He was correct however in that, "I may have something to say about the matter."      Ron Paul's notions really are very solid thinking, but few Americans paid sufficient attention to those ideas.  Just maybe, "few" paid attention because the "establishment" GOP, who have been instrumental in destroying our constitutional liberties, entangling us in unconstitutional military conflicts around the world, and fanned the fires of debt spending, systematically ignored, cheated, and otherwise minimized his message, along with the presstitutes who consistently displayed incorrect charts and results from polls and elections.

It's easier to just go for a quick sound byte here and there. His message never rose above about 1% or 2% in the Republican primary process.  Not sure where you got 1 or 2 %?  He actually won about 8 states, inspite of the irregularities that have caused major splits within state GOP memberships.

    In November, assorted constituencies that should have showed up and voted Republican stayed home because the Republican nominee was insufficiently pure to suit their tastes.  The assorted libertarians and tea party types who figured there wasn't much difference between Democrats and Republicans handed the election to the Dems by staying home.  We did not hand Obama the election.  Your party rejected a major movement that fought hard to restore your Good Old Ploys back to the "constitution", but you would have no part of it.  I don't recall you stepping up to give Dr. Paul any words of support.  You have been "blah" on Dr. Paul's message of constitutional liberty, and we know what Jesus says about those who treat truth in this manner.

     We will be reaping the output of that sin of omission for decades to come.   If this means you seriously blame the only energetic movement in the GOP that was cheated in the primaries, and at the convention.  They changed the rules, and rigged the vote to keep Dr. Paul's name from being nominated from the floor.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJ_ylYNbAlY&noredirect=1  Have you no shame???  It's not a sin of omission.  It is a sin against constitutional authority, fiscal responsibility, and TRUTH.

You and I will both die with abortion-on-demand still the "law of the land."  I had hoped to see the day when abortion was finally banished, but I wont live that long.  Oh, and lets not forget abortion and conscience.  I personally am sickened by the duplicity of you self righteous victims, who ignored the one true candidate who stood for constitutional freedoms.  Check out the early EWTN primary coverage on Raymond Arroyo.  In at least three or four segments, he mentioned every bottom feeder but not Dr. Paul.  In later shows he interviewed much of the dead wood, but not Dr. Paul.  We finally stopped watching and have not since.  No shame?????

The financial insanity of Obama will continue, running up huge debts that can never be paid off, and which no possible Federal-Reserve policy can patch up.  Financial???  Dr. Paul wrote the book on the immoral fiscal direction our country is taking, and please don't pretend that debt spending and lack of control of the private banking cabal, known as the Federal Reserve, is Obama's invention.  You guys spend my great grandkids money on warfare, and they spend it of  welfare.  Both are immoral, and Ron Paul has been the leader in stopping this theft.

     If Ron Paul had tried hard to get his libertarian followers to vote for Romney, the nation's future might not be so gloomy. Instead, Ron Paul gives a farewell speech saying "I told you so" and goes away with his full-pay Congressional   You Son-Of A Bitch!  This man has spent much of his professional life delivering babies and trying to bring our country back on the constitutional track.  He has never taken a lobbyest trip, has voted against many unconstitutional bills many times by himself, and has received more donations from military than all the other candidates together.  He did tell us so!  It is you, and your establishment GOP types, who are responsible for turning a blind eye to the prophetic voice of Consitutional restraints on government.  Truth comes to us in many forms, and Christ himself identifies himself as truth.  Your party rejected a humble man who spoke the truth.  May God have mercy on your soul.

Soliloquy of a Leaf

Ask’em, they’ll tell you.
   They’ll tell you, they’re here.
Just try’em, they’ll answer.
   They’re angels; don’t fear.

So jogging one day,
   Through a brisk autumn breeze,
I challenged my angel;
   His test, my tease.

What I asked for was simple,
   Not majestic, not grand,
“Just put a leaf,
   Right in my hand?”

My jog for two miles,
   Was busy that day.
The leaves, they were falling,
   Along the whole way.

So I ran and I prayed,
   Through this myriad of leaves,
But they seemed to move from me,
   As though I; a breeze.

A little dejected,
   A little chagrined,
I’d tested my angel,
   A negative quest in.

The next day I jogged,
   Was calm as could be,
A rare leaf would fall,
   If you were looking to see.

I jogged up the first half,
   With rosary I prayed,
And started for home,
   To the rest of my day.

Then rounding a bend,
   Through a canopied stretch,
I wondered, my testing,
   I’m an angelic wretch?

Then there, to the right,
   Some twenty feet high,
A leaf falling freely,
   Yet leading my stride.

I kept my same motion,
   No sprint, no delay.
My right hand just turned,
   To catch, angel’s play.

A leaf from my angel,
   As I held to my course,
They’re angels, they’ll answer,
   Be patient with yours.

• M.T. Hargadon 1999

Mark Grannis: The Only Qualified Candidate!

A friend of mine recently landed a job after a long search.  It was not because he did not know what he was doing.  He was over-qualified.  The jobs he was applying for, only required a Bachelors degree, but he had Masters.  This is precisely why I have concluded that Grannis is the only qualified candidate for House of Representatives in Maryland’s eighth district.

Timmerman, the Republican challenger, is obviously overqualified, and should really be running the State Department, or at least the CIA.  He has spent his entire campaign contradicting the conclusion of the head of U.S. Intelligence, Mr. Clapper, and the 16 separate agencies that deal with international intelligence.  These intelligence experts have repeatedly reported that Iran, who has signed the Nuclear Proliferation Treaty, has not developed, nor is there an indication that they will develop a nuclear weapon.  Yet, Mr. Timmerman credits his insight as an “investigative reporter”, that Iran is developing a nuc.

Across the isle, our incumbent, Mr. Van Hollen, has shown an amazing ability to reinterpret the true meaning of our constitution.  The congressman has read into, and through, the lines of Article 1 section 8.  He evidently has found authority for the U.S. Congress to force health insurance on the citizenry with Obamacare, to fund our national indoctrination under the label of education, and to promote a Green Bank and climate control.

Mark Grannis though, is an attorney who works under the premise that the constitution is the core law, that the words mean what they say, and that you cannot change their meaning without amending the constitution.  He also believes that our intelligence agencies may know a bit more than Mr. Timmerman, and that our military ventures and saber rattling actually make the world less safe.  He does not have a master’s degree in investigative reporting or social engineering.  He is the only qualified candidate for House of Representatives in District 8.

Vote “No” to Charter

October’s Emmitsburg News Journal (ENJ), front page story, “Voters asked to choose on charter government”, should have been buried in the Commentary section, if printed at all.  The article references the “Charter Education Coalition” as “a committee established to provide unbiased facts to the public”.  This is simply not the case.  When former County Commissioner Kai Hagen was asked about the “unbiased” Coalition, he said, “It’s a bunch of baloney, of course they are biased.”

To make a proper judgement on this issue we might want to hear from the County Government Education Coalition. If there were such a group, I imagine they would start by informing these snake oil charter salesmen: that we have constitutional representatives in Annapolis, that our county autonomy is currently under aggressive attack by the state, and that our sheriff is just fine.

 The headline story bemoans the lack of a “single voice” for Frederick County in Annapolis.  Why then, do we send state delegates and state senators from Frederick County to Annapolis every session?  Just because other counties wish to expand their executive bureaucracies, Frederick County should not be pressured into changing something that works fine.  If the Governor wishes to hold meetings that exclude counties that believe the best government is a lean government, so be it.

How the Emmitsburg News Journal could print fabrication such as “...Under the charter, the county is granted autonomy from the state, and gains complete control over county policies and procedures”, is disappointing.  This Charter group and ENJ must not have been aware of the biggest state power grab in recent history, Plan Maryland?  Under Plan Maryland the state has reduced private owner property rights to an all time low, and the state has seized control of planning from county governments: charter and non-charter alike.  Commissioner Kirby Delauter had an informative piece in the same issue which highlighted this power grab of Plan Maryland, and identified it’s United Nations origin.

The confusion peaks in this front page Op-Ed with a statement which placed the county commissioners in the legislative and executive branches.  The commissioners are not the lead in the executive branch of Frederick County government.  Contrary to their blurred vision, there is a separation of the legislative and executive branches of government. The Sheriff is the highest executive in the county and he answers directly to the people at the polls.  The sheriff is the personification of the separation of powers, in that the sheriff stands by the constitution to protect we the people, not the political powers of the legislative or judicial branches.  Sheriffs are under attack throughout our nation and destroying the constitutional power of our sheriff may actually be what this charter is about

Frederick County’s constitutional, “non-charter”, form of government has been in existence for centuries.  The top leadership roles of the executive branch are defined as enforcing the laws and managing the bureaucracy.  The sheriff has handled law enforcement in Frederick County just fine.  But, if you want larger government, larger tax bills, a county police force, and larger bureaucracy: buy the snake oil, and vote for the charter.