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Tennessee Legislature Helps Preserve Second Amendment — Joe Biden Tries To Destroy It

Posted by M. C. on September 15, 2023

Joe Biden has just shuttered more businesses and made it harder for people to earn a living—as well as made criminals out of honest, hard-working Americans. Virtually everything Biden does ruins someone’s business or life.

1. It makes it a crime to sell a personal firearm for more money than one paid for the gun.

2. It makes it a crime for an individual to sell personal firearms “in their original packaging.”

3. With the stroke of a pen, Joe Biden made it a crime for an American citizen to sell his own personal property—a firearm—at a gun show.

This EO must be challenged in court!

https://chuckbaldwinlive.com/Articles/tabid/109/ID/4432/Tennessee-Legislature-Helps-Preserve-Second-Amendment-Joe-Biden-Tries-To-Destroy-It.aspx

Chuck Baldwin

It was one of the largest and most intense attacks against the Second Amendment in modern times. The Neocon Republican governor of Tennessee, Bill Lee, called the Tennessee legislature back to Nashville for a special session with the specific intent on coercing its Republican members to pass the most draconian Red Flag gun confiscation law ever proposed.

Lee knew what his GOP colleagues would be subjected to during the special session. He absolutely knew it. In fact, he was counting on it.

Gun-grabber Bill Lee had three months before the special session began to threaten and bribe the GOP majority to pass his Marxist gun control bills. And you know that he used every political trick in the book to get his way. But the Republican legislature held firm. That, in and of itself, demands our respect for these stalwart Tennessee legislators.

But there is much more.

As soon as the special session began, the “Mob Squad”—these are the anti-Second Amendment radical leftists who have zero appreciation or use for our Constitution and Bill of Rights and who are rabid purveyors of mob rule (the Mob Squad also composes the majority of the “woke” agenda, the “green” energy/climate change agenda and the forced vaccination agenda)—descended on Nashville like a plague of locusts. They hassled, harangued and hammered the GOP legislators for the entire session. They behaved like bullies. But that is the way every Mob Squad behaves. 

One of the highlights of Mob Squad stupidity and duplicity was when one of the Squad members was interviewed by a reporter and she screamed, “They are trampling our First Amendment rights.” This was after a committee chairman was forced to clear the chamber because of the rude, unruly and obnoxious behavior of the Squad.

When I read the report, I couldn’t help but laugh out loud. Here is a would-be tyrant doing her best to deny Tennessee citizens of their Second Amendment rights, screaming about how her First Amendment rights were denied. But I doubt that the poor useful idiot ever made the connection.

But it would get worse still: The mainstream media—local, State and national—used their respective bully pulpits to pressure, coerce and intimidate the Republican legislature into submission. The media treated the event like a pack of bloodthirsty wolves feasting on helpless prey.

BUT THEY FAILED!

In the end, not only did the Tennessee legislature refuse to enact Bill Lee’s Marxist Red Flag gun confiscation bill but they did not pass a single gun control bill of any kind.

Pro-Second Amendment freedomists around the country should send the Republican legislators in Tennessee a hearty Thank You.

Here is how one biased mainstream report recorded the event:

Tuesday’s tense standoff marked the latest turn in a session Republican Gov. Bill Lee initially organized in response to a shooter opening fire at The Covenant School in Nashville, killing three young children and three adults. Lee had hoped to convince fellow Republicans to pass legislation to limit dangerous people from accessing guns [Red Flag laws], but the proposal never gained enough support. Some Republicans said they didn’t think a session was even needed and tried to adjourn from the outset last Monday.

While we can take great encouragement from the courageous Liberty convictions of the Tennessee State legislature, it is with great angst that we see how our Marxist would-be tyrant and liberty-hating president has signed an Executive Order that took a huge bite out of our Second and Fourth Amendment liberties.

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Journalist Arrested Upon Inquiry into Judges – LewRockwell LewRockwell.com

Posted by M. C. on November 11, 2021

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2021/11/no_author/journalist-arrested-upon-inquiry-into-judges/

By David Tulis

Lew,

I am the journalist suing Gov. Bill Lee to halt the fraudulent state of emergency. The courts are blocking this effort, and threw my petition for writ of mandamus into the appellate court.

Meanwhile, the court system arrested me for crashing their secret conclave Saturday in Franklin, near Nashville. Here’s my press release.

I’m a big fan of Lewrockwell.com, and often recommending it to my listeners at 96.9 FM.

FRANKLIN, Tenn. — Two reporters who crashed a secret meeting of the Tennessee judiciary were forcibly removed by police after asserting their rights to cover the event as guaranteed by the Tennessee Constitution and the Open Meetings Act.

On Saturday, Nov. 6 at roughly 10:30 a.m., NoogaRadio 96.9 FM investigative reporter David Tulis was handcuffed and arrested following his inquiry into a secretive backroom-style conclave of court judges paid for at taxpayer expense.

In an arrest streamed live on social media, Tulis could be seen sitting at a table calmly asserting his right under the constitution and state law to be in the room.

Staff from the Administrative Office of the Courts vociferously objected to the presence of the press, stating that the event was a “members-only conference.” But they cited no legal authority for excluding the public. “It’s our policy,” said one unidentified court staffer.

Retorted NoogaRadio’s midstate bureau chief Christopher Sapp: “Policy does not trump law and it certainly does not supersede the constitution.”

Tulis rebutted the closed-door policy by reminding officers that according to the Tennessee constitution art. I § 17, “That all courts shall be open.”

“I’m here as a matter of right!” Tulis said. “This is a taxpayer-funded event in which public business is being conducted.” The meetings cannot be closed to the public “because Tennessee government does not  — and cannot  — be conducted in secret,” Tulis says.

Municipal judges from around the state had descended on the Embassy Suites hotel over the past weekend to take part in a state-sponsored annual conference to discuss the formation of public policy, court procedures, legislative recommendations, and the administration of justice — all public business.

Sapp was the first to point out potential improprieties and the lack of transparency for the way these conferences were being conducted.

“I simply wanted to monitor the conference for myself no differently than I watch the General Assembly when they are in session,” Sapp says. “When I was denied access to online log-in credentials, it prompted further inquiry as to why my request was being denied. After the AOC’s general counsel refused to yield on the matter, we decided that we would just walk into the lions’ den to see what they would do.”

Expecting resistance from AOC staffers, the journalists filed extensive briefs with Chief Justice Roger Page to avoid confusion or public embarrassment to the judiciary. Justice Page holds direct supervisory authority over the administrative director and AOC.

Tulis sent an 8-page “Memorial, remonstrance & petition invoking administrative authority to access AOC conference” via certified mail 17 days before the meeting. Sapp hand delivered a 9-page analysis on the constitutional rights of the press and the state’s open meeting laws to Supreme Court staffers on Thursday. It included 33 footnotes of legal authorities.

Sapp and Tulis were  backstopped by John Gentry, a judicial reform activist who stood ready with habeas corpus petitions in hand in the event the two men were unlawfully incarcerated.  Gentry was prepared to file emergency “next friend” petitions with a U.S. district court judge on behalf of the two to secure their release. Gentry is an independent candidate for governor and a staunch supporter of open government and court reform.

Tulis was arrested, handcuffed, and forced onto a gurney for a medical evaluation after stating to police, “I have the strength to report the news, but I don’t have the strength to assist you in violating my rights!”

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