I was speaking with a few former coworkers the other day about the upcoming convention. It appears that yes indeed, there is trouble on the horizon. Paramedics and Firefighters will be targeted just like the police will be by several anarchist groups. Before long I was asked about defensive measures that they could take.

I will not go into specifics here about those moves. Why tip off opponents as to how you are preparing? Operational security is just as important here on what very well prove to be some very mean streets as it is in military planning.

After a bit one guy asked why I thought that the place could become a hell hole in a hand-basket. It really is a simple explanation.

• The DNC will have concentrated various disparate groups that all have opponents that are willing to use violence as a means of forcing their will upon all of the rest of us.
• Professional hell raisers are already saying that they will cause civil unrest.
• Mayor Hickenlooper is a negotiating wimp. He would rather try and talk his way out of a wet paper bag than use a knife to free himself.

So, we will, or very well might have groups that hate major components of the Democrat Party. There are Muslim extremist among us that operate in a state of misogyny. There are Christian extremist that would rather set off a bomb among the homosexuals than pray for them. There are racist groups that will not stand for the possibility of a black President. Then there are groups like recreate68, that just want death and destruction, along with fifteen minutes of fame. There are far right extremist’s that will have Wayne Pachelle and many other people that are on their “ten most wanted ” list.

Now they have moved the final ceremonies to Mile High Stadium at Invesco Field … The place is ; A Snipers dream. A Morter mans dream. A Chemical Weapons fighters dream, and, the list goes on.

Folks, I happen to really like folks from Akansas. But even in the best kettle of Cod, there are a few that stink up the barrel.

ARKANSAS MEN GUILTY IN COLORADO POACHING INCIDENT

The Colorado Division of Wildlife (DOW) has wrapped up the poaching case against six Arkansas men with the final two suspects entering guilty pleas in Moffat County District Court.

In late 2005 Colorado Wildlife Officer Mike Bauman began hearing stories about a group of Arkansas hunters who were poaching in the Bible Back Mountain area south of the Colorado-Wyoming border. During the 2006 hunting seasons Bauman was able to determine that a group of men from Arkansas were, at a minimum, buying leftover licenses for Game Management Units 4 and 12 but most likely hunting in Game Management Unit 5.

In 2007, wildlife officers set up a hunting camp in the area and posed as hunters to gather evidence against the group. Officers were able to document two deer that were killed without proper licenses, trespassing on private land, wounding of deer without following up on shots as required by law, and the illegal killing and willful destruction of one buck deer by two members of the hunting party.

“It was blatant poaching. At one point, individuals in the Arkansas camp were seen shooting and killing a deer then tying the head to a tree so they could later return and claim the antlers,” Bauman explained. “The incident occurred on private land the men had no permission to enter and in a unit for which they didn’t have a license.”

It was determined that the hunters were staying across the Wyoming border and Colorado officers contacted investigators with Wyoming Game and Fish to request assistance with monitoring the group at and around their Wyoming motel.

As the Arkansas hunters were packing up and preparing to leave for home, Colorado wildlife officers caught up with part of the group to interview them and charge the suspects. Additional members of the group were detained by Wyoming officers who also collected evidence from the hotel and from a Wyoming meat processor. Based on interviews with the group, wildlife officers determined that, in addition to the 2007 violations, at least three deer were illegally killed in 2006. Assistance was requested from wildlife officers in Arkansas who collected evidence from the men’s homes.

“We appreciate the cooperation we received in this case from Wyoming Game and Fish and Arkansas Game and Fish,” added Bauman. “While we had some of the charges locally, the evidence that was obtained from previous years and from the hotel made it possible to show an ongoing pattern of poaching violations.”

Based on the investigation the following individuals were charged:

William Newton (DOB 06/06/1983), Hampton, Arkansas
Plead guilty to following charges as part of plea agreement:
1 count - Illegal take of three or more big game animals
2 counts - Waste of edible game wildlife
1 count - Illegal possession of a deer
4 counts - Hunting without a license
Sentencing: 30 days in jail, $9,500 fine plus court costs, forfeiture of rifle and illegally taken wildlife.

Bradley Shankles (DOB 06/21/1983), Hampton, Arkansas
Plead guilty to following charges as part of plea agreement:
1 count - Felony willful destruction of wildlife
2 counts - Hunting without a license
2 counts - Illegal possession of a deer
1 count - Waste of edible game wildlife
1 count - Defacing a firearm
Sentencing: Deferred sentence on felony willful destruction charge, fine of $5,000, four year ban from hunting in the United States, four years of supervised probation, $2,000 donation to Operation Game Thief, forfeiture of rifle and illegally taken wildlife.

Richard W. Carson (DOB 03/14/1964), Hampton, Arkansas
Plead guilty by payment of citation
1 count - Failure to pursue wounded wildlife
1 count - Hunting deer without a license
1 count - Illegal possession of a deer
1 count - Unlawful trespass on private property
Warning - hunting without orange clothing
Carson chose not to contest the charges and instead plead guilty by paying $2,041 in fines. He was assessed 65 points against his hunting privileges.

Michael B. Welch (DOB 07/18/1983), Bearden, Arkansas
Plead guilty by payment of citation
1 count - Hunting deer without a license
1 count - Illegal possession of a deer
Warning - Failure to tag
Welch chose not to contest the charges and instead plead guilty by paying $1,781 in fines. He was assessed 30 points against his hunting privileges.

Anthony Moser (DOB 05/02/1987), Hampton, Arkansas
Plead guilty by payment of citation
1 count - Hunting deer without a license
1 count - Illegal possession of a deer
Moser chose not to contest the charges and instead plead guilty by paying $1,781 in fines. He was assessed 30 points against his hunting privileges.

Harlan C. Welch (DOB 01/12/1976), Hampton, Arkansas
Plead guilty by payment of citation
1 count - Uncased rifle on an ATV
Warning - Unlawful trespass on private property
Welch chose not to contest the charges and instead plead guilty by paying a $68 fine. He was assessed 5 points against his hunting privileges.

Five of the six men still face an administrative hearing process that will be conducted by the Colorado Wildlife Commission. Anyone assessed more than 20 points against hunting and fishing privileges is subject to wildlife hunting suspension hearings. The men could lose their hunting and fishing privileges in Colorado and 27 other states that are members of the Wildlife Violator Compact. Hearing dates have not yet been set for the men.

“Colorado has the largest migratory mule deer and elk herds in the nation,” concluded Ron Velarde, Northwest Regional Manager for CDOW. “Because of that spectacular resource we attract hunters from around the world. We welcome those who come here to experience what our great state offers, but we absolutely will do everything possible to catch those who believe that our remote areas provide enough cover to cheat and steal from Colorado’s citizens and true sportsmen.”

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For more information about Division of Wildlife go to: http://wildlife.state.co.us.

I’ve been busy as of late. I’m going to be moving to Wyoming in about a month or so. My girlfriend is leaving this coming Friday. It is amazing how much clutter you can gather in the space of a few years. Still, some things have lasted over time.

The only picture that I have of my daughter Brianna that died while in my arms. The old Ruger revolver in a caliber that almost everyone loves, but that is going by the wayside. The Remington rifle that I scrimped by on other things for years to purchase. The Orvis Fly rod that took forever to finally get. My camo for bow hunting, even though the nerve damage in my arm will probably prevent me from ever going afield with a stick and string again. A DD 215 modified to reflect a few things that just plain were missed when the original was filled out. My old certificate for the National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians, and the Gold Paramedic shoulder patch. A copy of the cover of Field and Stream magazine that had an Elk that I took.

It has been a long time this stint here in Colorado. I love this place, for all it’s faults. I moved here thirty years ago to get away from all the crowding in San Diego, and Oceanside. The constant rushing just to survive. Now, the Colorado Front Range looks like the strip between San Ysidro and Oceanside and the people are acting exactly the same.It is probably a good thing that I am leaving this place that I love. For it has changed, and not for the good. We no longer have a Denver or Front Range area. Just listen to the preening people on the television or radio. Now it’s “The Metro.”

I may have time for one last trip into the Indian Peaks Wilderness where I know of three small pools where my fellow transplants, the Golden Trout still survive. They are wary, and difficult to catch, but well worth the effort. They are elusive, wild, and free, like men should be. I have always returned them to the water, and I hope that any others that witness their beauty will do the same.I will visit the place where I spread my daughters ashes near the Moffat Tunnel, and say a prayer, it might be the last time that I can get there.

Sua Sponte Colorado! Because I chose too!

While suturing a cut on the hand of a 75 year old Texas rancher, whose hand was caught in a gate while working cattle, the doctor struck up a conversation with the old man. Eventually the topic got around to Obama and his bid to be our President.

The old rancher saw a puzzled look on the doctor’s face, so he continued to explain. ‘You know he didn’t get up there by himself, he doesn’t belong up there, he doesn’t know what to do while he is up there, and you just wonder what kind of a dumb ass put him up there.’

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The Daily Reckoning PRESENTS: Today is the day we celebrate the unique American experience with “pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells and illuminations.” But, in this DR Classique, first published on the Fourth of July, 2003, Bill Bonner can’t help but notice that America has changed quite a bit since the Declaration of Independence was signed…

SB 200 which was passed here in Colorado is really bad legislation. I base this upon basic morality, and the violent response of so many people that called into the Caplis and Silverman Shoh on KHOW and The Gunny Bob Show on KOA radio programs.

Stiff right Jab did an excellent piece about this, and I certainly cannot improve on it, hence the link.

In any case, I contacted my State Representative Gwyn Green’s office, about this. The conversation with a staffer went something like this.

“I don’t believe that you folks really looked at thisin it’s entirety.” How so? The person responded. I said that they had not properly calculated the cost of this new statuate. The person replied that, indeed they had, fully. To which I said, but you haven’t addressed all the new prison space and associated costs involved. They asked what on earth I was talking about. I responded that from listening to all the talk shows that there very well might be a flurry of homocides and major assaults on the people that decide to test the waters by going into school restrooms by family members that just plain will not put up with that sort of behavior.

They hung up the phone …

Katrina was bad. The government, especialy local government made it worse.

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Dudley Brown: “Guns Up” Approach to Political Advocacy

Filed Under: Civil Rights, Elections
Topics: Aimee Rathburn, Bill Owens, Colorado State Shooting Association, Dale Hall, David Kopel, Dudley Brown, Independence Institute, Mike Kopp, National Rifle Association, Rocky Mountain Gun Owners, Scott Renfroe

July 2, 2008

Face The State Staff Report

Colorado’s political activists come in all shapes and sizes, and so do their budgets. Millionaire Democrats Tim Gill and Pat Stryker regularly see their political tactics grace the front pages, and they have become famous for pumping unprecedented cash into state legislative races. Their impact can be measured by the Democrat takeover of the Colorado General Assembly in 2004 and further Republican losses in 2006. But there is another kind of activist in Colorado attempting to turn the political wheels. He operates on a shoestring budget, and his fellow Republicans have called his methodology controversial, uncompromising and on a bad day, damaging to conservative causes.

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Dudley Brown, executive director of Rocky Mountain Gun Owners, is a one issue kind of guy. His focus: The Second Amendment. He will accept no compromises. For candidates daring enough to fill out his candidate questionnaire, they’d better score 100 percent if they want the support of Brown and his members. Playing an active role in Republican primaries during the last few election cycles, Brown believes that party affiliation isn’t enough.

Brown says he picks candidates who are “rock stars on conservative issues,” and claims he was instrumental in securing wins in the 2006 Republican primaries of Sen. Ted Harvey, R-Highlands Ranch, Sen. Mike Kopp, R-Littleton, and Sen. Scott Renfroe, R-Greeley. In 2006, Renfroe won a competitive Republican primary against House veteran Dale Hall, who’s experience and name recognition was expected to win him the seat.

Not everyone is giving Brown credit. “It is amazing to me how many people have taken credit for ousting Dale Hall,” said Amy Oliver, host of a morning political talk show on Greeley’s 1310 KFKA radio. “Dale Hall was an arrogant candidate who felt entitled to that seat, and the voters told him no. The losses that Northern Colorado has seen can be credited to the candidates themselves [and] I don’t give one activist that much credit, unless you are a Tim Gill or a Pat Stryker.”

But Brown maintains that his influence and approach make a difference. At the 2000 state Republican Convention he organized crowd members to boo then-Gov. Bill Owens, who had just signed legislation that closed the so-called gun show loophole. After an infuriated Owens left the stage, party insiders questioned Brown’s tactics, saying they were dangerous to party unity in the aftermath of the Columbine High School shootings.

“You have to hang some hides on the barn door in order to keep the coyotes away,” said Brown in justification of his hard-line ideology.

Brown operates on the grassroots level, getting out his message through mail, phone calls and door-to-door campaigns. He also claims to have shown up at his opposition’s fundraisers with the specific purpose of embarrassing a candidate in front of his donors.

Aimee Rathburn, a 2006 candidate for House District 1, became a target of Brown after he decided that she was soft on gun rights. Rathburn was the executive director of the Colorado State Shooting Association, has a record of opposing stricter gun controls, and has won several national awards for her shooting abilities. “Dudley thinks he is going to gain politically by working against people who are with him,” said Rathburn, who called Brown “completely ineffective.”

Rathburn says Brown has a mailing list of pro-gun people, which is his only forum. She said the “average Joe” doesn’t know who he is. For Brown’s part he says he doesn’t care how people respond to him and prides himself on not compromising his beliefs.

“We think the best way to advance gun rights is to force the Republican Party to force its members to be disciplined,” said Brown.

According to Dave Kopel, research director for the Golden-based Independence Institute and a nationally recognized 2nd Amendment expert, most voters don’t demand perfection on gun-related issues.

“I think too much of his efforts go to tearing down the National Riffle Association and tearing down candidates who are 90 percent with us,” saidKopel . “There are times when to move this cause forward you have to work with people who are good 90 or 50 or 30 percent of the time.”

Brown’s desire for perfection is evidenced in a recent interview with the Fort Collins Coloradoan where he said the U.S. Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision to repeal the D.C. ban on handguns is “not a victory for gun owners.”

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June 30, 2008

Face The State Staff Report

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While the November election is still months away, public attention is already heating up around Amendment 46, known as the Colorado Civil Rights Initiative, with two debates televised over the last two days.

On Sunday morning, CoCRI Executive Director Jessica Peck Corry squared off against CU Law Professor Melissa Hart during KUSA’s “Your Show” with Adam Schrager.

Less than 24 hours later, the duo hit the national stage for a second debate - this time on Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman. The show was broadcast from the KBDI studios in Denver. Goodman’s show is traveling this week, airing two shows here before heading on to Aspen.

Amendment 46, if passed by voters this November, would ban discrimination or preferential treatment based on race or gender in government hiring, contracting, and education. Corry advocates color-blind outreach efforts, saying Colorado is too diverse to define disadvantage based on skin color and gender. Meanwhile, Hart believes past discrimination against women and minorities still demands race and gender-specific remedies.

As Face The State reported last week, a recent Wall Street Journal poll indicates that just 15 percent of Colorado voters are opposed to the initiative, with 66 percent saying they support it and the rest remaining undecided.

Corry and Hart have at least one more duel scheduled, with Schrager set to host a longer televised Oct. 6th debate from the University of Denver campus.

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