States' Rights advocates on a roll these days

No, not really. Dick Heller is about as white as they come:



Not to mention he's a bad speller. And, as the photo suggests, he can be charitably described as "wacky."

Look out, he's got the "crazy eyes!"

Dick Anthony Heller

is a nationally known 2nd Amendment advocate and a proud citizen of the United States of America. Heller’s most recent gun case is entitled Heller II v. DC, a follow-up to the victorious Heller v. DC case of 2008 that overturned the 1976 DC Gun Ban and opened the door for over 150 new gun cases nationwide in the first year after the Supreme Court decision.

Heller became interested in 2nd Amendment Liberties when his house was shot up " once through his living room window and once in the front door " in the 1970’s at his residence on Capitol Hill. He realized that the 1976 DC Gun Ban was disarming good citizens yet criminals were still bearing arms. Heller did not find the situation to be moral, safe, or constitutional and realized that
“Doing nothing was no longer an option !”.

Heller advocated for gun-rights as a citizen and as DC Armed Special Police Officer. Ironically, when Heller v. DC was filed " formerly known as Parker vs. DC " he was working at the Supreme Court Annex " Thurgood Marshall Federal Judicial Center.

In addition to his commitment to 2nd Amendment Freedoms, Heller is actively involved in the DC Community. In 1984, he founded the “Children’s Birthright Trust Fund” " a charity that supports and raises funds for youth projects, such as computer access " and has taught classes on entrepreneurship in both DC public schools and DC housing projects. He has also served as the Treasurer of The DC Libertarian Party from 2004 until 2010 and was actively involved with Dr. Ron Paul’s two Presidential Bids " Libertarian and Republican.

Before his time as a 2nd Amendment proponent, he worked his way through Montgomery College in Silver Spring, MD (earning an AA in Engineering) and completed one year of MBA studies in London's Kingston Polytech. His previous jobs consisted of: Bank Teller, Data Technician at NASA-Greenbelt, IT Consultant for TYMnet, and Investment Banker.

Prior to attending Montgomery College, Heller served in the Army. He was a Paratrooper in the 101st Airborne division and also a Sky Diver at Fort Campbell, KY. Heller’s childhood, growing up in a Navy and then an Army family, consisted of frequent travels across the U.S. and abroad prior to his graduation from Manteca High School in Manteca, California. Heller has four brothers and was born in San Diego, CA in 1941.

High Seas, you are thinking of Chicago v McDonald. Mcdonald fits the description you posted.

I have to say that when High Seas took me to task . . . totally out of context . . . because of this Heller thing . . .which I had not seen here in this thread . . .because I probably read the first and second page and then the last before posting . . . I had never heard of Heller. I had not written about Heller. But, then, why would I suddenly start writing about someone I had never heard of? Sounds a little like hearing voices.

I responded to that oft-repeated but silly charge that all leftists are racists. That is as grounded as Okie's charge, on another thread, that Abolitionists were conservatives and that it was ABraham Lincoln's conservatism that led him to free the slaves. Right (imagine the voice of John Cleese saying that word).

Abraham and Mary were both political animals. They were drawn to each other because of their political interests. The nascent Republican party wanted them to move to the Pacific Northwest and for ABraham to run from there in order to extend the party's base. At that time, the Republican party was the liberal party. Susan B. Anthony famously voted the Republican ticket "straight."

While at least one writer credited Lincoln's impulse to free the slaves to Mary, in my readings on the couple and the time, I have found nothing to substantiate that claim. Rather I credit the pressure on Lincoln from the Abolitionists and from a nation made weary from years of war to act in that way. Just as Americans wearied of Viet Nam and largely turned against that war, so, too, Americans wearied of the Civil War. Although the South has continued to fight it.

I also remember proof reading a term paper my older son wrote while in high school which included an incident following an Indian uprising during the War. Lincoln could have, as the Army wished, simply hung all the captive Native Americans but instead ordered a contingent of lawyers to defend the men which resulted in something like less than four being hung.

Now, Lincoln liked business. He thought business would be good for the nation, help to develop the raw lands of the west. In that, he seems like an early to mid-20th C Republican. However, in freeing the slaves and in ordering attorneys to defend the Native Americans he seems more like a liberal.

That's some funny sh!t right there

If he had increased the number of slaves and taxed the Native Americans he would have seeded more like a Liberal.

Thanks to you and to H2O for the correction - got my USSC cases mixed up: McDonald of Chicago was meant, not Heller of DC. Apologies.

I have to agree because THIS, says it ALL!

Abraham and Mary were both political animals. They were drawn to each other because of their political interests. The nascent Republican party wanted them to move to the Pacific Northwest and for ABraham to run from there in order to extend the party's base. At that time, the Republican party was the liberal party. Susan B. Anthony famously voted the Republican ticket "straight."

It's the reason my Mother was a life-long Republican, in the segregated South, I grew up in and the Democrats were the party of George Wallace, Gov. Faubus of Mississippi and other PRO-segregationists, that were
fighting phase-2 of the Civil War, of the infamous naming of streets of
Confederate Generals; ex: Lee Circle in New Orleans, Jefferson Davis Pkwy., and of the adjoining Orleans Parish to JEFFERSON Parish after again, Jefferson Davis.

I sat in the back of the bus, ate at separate lunch counters, drank from "For Colored Only" water fountains and was 21 before I could vote in 1965, so this
so-called "Tea-Party" movement is nothing like the movement in Massachusetts, for it was a Black Man, Crispus Attucks, that was the first to fall in the war of the Revolution from Colonialism. Please read your history
before you revise it. I became a Democrat out of respect for the Southern
President Lyndon Baines Johnson, for liberating ME!

....Ane the Repugs have been trying to turn back the clock, ever since! I have lived through the Civil Rights movement of the 60's but ever since the
first Black stepped off the first slave ships in 1619, Black Africans have revolted. America had no king after 1776, but a "class" system has existed
since the Plantation Slave owners created a system to last in perpetuity, a
PERMENANT underclass.

Now you see Republicans "egging on" the so-called Tea-Partiers, to take up their guns against Federally elected officials, spitting at and hurling racial slurs from an all-white movement. I saw ONE black man carrying a gun at one rally and it was learned he was PAID to do so. No, the so-called Tea Party movement is against Black People, elected Officials and anything
Obama!

Plain Ole Me: I agree with YOU 100%!

Tell us again how you think Bill Clinton, while he was President, secretly orchestrated massive drug importation and distribution to black neighborhoods with the intent of keeping them addicted to drugs, in poverty, and killing themselves.

Please....

Here it is.



This is one of the craziest things I've ever seen posted.
http://able2know.org/topic/71145-1453#post-3797594

Hi, teeny!

Yeah, and today's righties are lying about the role played by Democrats after the JFK assassination. Their new version is that all social legislation is slavery renewed. Well, if some law didn't do what it was intended to do, at least a solution was tried. The Republicans just say no to all social programs . . . unless they need them!

What's really terrible is, they accept Medicare, a government run program, but reject health care for ALL, something they, the legislators have and is absolutely FREE for them! Can't have that, can we? Equality for all? The Civil War of 1861, was all about the poor whites against enslaved Blacks. The rich have a habit of enforcing "class" rules to keep their "lessers" in check, by warring them against each other and against their own best wishes, which is why we have former "segregationists" that were former Democrats in the 60's, becoming Republicans and are nothing like Lincoln at all!

Then, to make a bad situation worse, are trying to regulate women's bodies, but
I'll bet Viagra isn't on that list of non-funding! Medicaid pays for that but won't pay for birth-control pills that prevent unwanted pregnancies. Viagra; legal.
Birth control or abortion, even if by incest or rape; illegal. You tell me what's fair!

I DON'T think that; YOU do, so please explain!

This country has never had a Civil War - Not yet.

Please see the next post, where I quoted YOU and provided the link back to the thread where you said it. LOL

this should be directed at teenyboone, not h2oman.

Whatever you say, smartypants! I guess Ft. Sumter never happened
or the surrender at Appomattox! YOU make the call!

Many private health insurance policies cover Viagra but do not cover birth control pills.

Men make sure THEY can take advantage of a woman!
Nothing for the woman who wants to avoid an unwanted pregnancy.

Sure there is, its called keeping your legs closed!!!

Why, that's so "SEXIST" of you! Let it happen to a daughter
of YOURS!