The latest Woodpile Report is up.

Ol’ Remus:
‘The Maryland Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals’s decision ordering the lower court to apply strict scrutiny to an “assault weapons” ban has heartened Second Amendment defenders. They see it as the first light at the end of a long, dark tunnel. I see it differently….

…Natural rights are not dispensed by men. One man can’t give another man permission to be armed, it’s not his to give. Permission schemes are worse than invalid, worse than fraud, worse than “pre-crime” star chambers, although they are all of these. Permission schemes are a denial of personhood itself. The right to be armed does not rest on its acceptability to others. No legislative or judicial body can claim authority to dispense the right to keep and bear arms and also claim legitimacy, and no person can apply for permission and see himself as, or be seen as, or be, a free man…’
The rest of it is just as good.   And Wombat’s post gets a mention, too.

The cashless society

A warning from the estimable Cory Bernadi, Senator for South Australia:
‘Today I am going to write about money. More specifically, what the government wants to do with your money.
The Sydney Morning Herald reports this morning that Australia is ‘on an unstoppable march towards a cashless future’; with the Assistant Minister to the Treasurer Alex Hawke MP saying that a move to a purely digital currency “will lead to countless benefits for all Australians in convenience and security, and will save billions in transaction costs every year”.

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The serious President speaks:

serveimage ‘Obama: ‘Trump will not be president’
“I continue to have faith in the American people. And I think they realise that being president of the United States is a serious job. It’s not hosting a talk show,” Obama said at a news conference in Rancho Mirage, California…’
It’s not obsessive golfing and celebrity fundraisers either, you incompetent White House squatting piece of shit.

Goons in uniform:

British Police have promised not to tolerate any speech that could cause offence on social media regarding Syrian migrants, after arresting a man for Facebook comments made about recent arrivals on his small Scottish Island.
The tiny Isle of Bute in the Firth of Clyde, which had a total population of just 6,498 in 2011, is expected to take in around 1,000 Syrian migrants, with 12 families already arriving since December last year (picture above).
However, commenting on the comparatively huge and sudden influx of Muslim immigrants online just became a very risky business for local residents.
…A police spokesman was unequivocal, that any harsh criticism of the Muslim influx would not be “tolerated”…’
Naturally, those same police will crack down on muslims posting comments on social media promising to behead Christians, rape their daughters and enforce sharia “law”./sarc

An authentic hero

TommyRobinson Better than most Brits deserve:
Tommy Robinson Attacked, Hospitalised One Week After Revealing Islamists Are Out To Kill Him
Tommy Robinson, an organiser behind the anti-Islamisation group PEGIDA UK, has been found unconscious after a night out with his family. He is said to have sustained head injuries, and is now recovering in hospital.
….When asked on the John Gaunt radio show on the 11th of February, just last week, if he thought his life was under threat and someone might try to “execute you like they executed Lee Rigby”, he replied: “That’s a matter of time… I know that’s going to happen. They’ve already tried to; they’ve already planned to.”
“The Dewsbury bombers — who were caught with IEDs [improvised explosive devices] guns and bombs — were trying to track me. I had briefings with counter terrorism. They ended up trying to track my mobile phones to see where I was. That’s just a matter of time,” he said…’
Sick, isn’t it, that in a country where primitive thugs have access to guns and bombs – a country where a soldier was beheaded on a street in the capital and nobody could or would intervene to prevent the murder – that this man and a few others like him must by law lack the means of self-defence.

Leftists, pandering to filth:

‘Australia’s Labor Party going anti-Israel in quest for Muslim votes
The Australian Labor Party, which is currently the opposition to the centrist Liberal/National coalition that has formed the government, has long favored Muslim immigration.
Now that Muslims located in Sydney’s western suburbs form a significant voting bloc, the ALP is going hard against Israel.
……Labor, desperate for Muslim votes in Western Sydney, is openly pandering to bigots and anti Semites…..