14 Years Ago.....

14 years ago today.. I was a resident of Keene Hall on EKU's campus... I had woken up that day and heard of a plane crash in NYC... It was just a normal day for me...Grudgingly getting up...Getting a shower and then going to my first class..But clearly by the time I got there... Chaos had broken out on Manhattan Island..  Still not knowing quite what happened, I seen students acting hysterically crying....talking really fast....Just visibly disturbed over something...My first class was in a computer lab and no one was actually doing classwork but everyone was on different websites looking at what was going on...Not even the instructor was interested in teaching... Finally an announcement was made that all students would be excused from attending anymore classes for the rest of the day.  After learning about what had actually happened with the Twin Towers with the Pentagon and in that Pennsylvania Field... I felt just numb I guess...I really didn't feel scared per say...But I felt just empty because whether it was because I was an Army brat growing up or because of some instinct....I knew that things were going to change and it wasn't going to be for the better.  I WAS RIGHT!!!

#September11th Eve Thoughts

On this eve of the 14th Anniversary of the 9/11 Attacks.. I have some thoughts..Im sure there will be those that agree and disagree alike.

I am left with the question of, When is enough going to be enough?.. How many more of our finest men and women in our Military need to die, come home maimed, and forever altered before we decide that we have gotten our so called "revenge" for the attack 14 years ago...

I am left with the question of, When is enough going to be enough?... How many more of our constitutional civil rights are we going to have to forfeit in order to feel "safe"...to feel "protected"....to feel "secure".....

I am left with the question of, When is enough going to be enough?... How much more debt do we need to pile on before we understand that we are following the path of the former USSR..of Rome...That global military occupation and imperialism has brought down once great nations and brings unattended consequences to be paid later down the road....

I am left with the question of. When is enough going to be enough?... How many more US House of Representatives, Senators, and Presidents are we going to elect before we understand that electing the same people and the same type of politicians over and over will not allow us to properly move on from the events of that horrible day 14 years ago...

We continue to lose more of our soldiers, we continue to lose more of our constitutional rights....we continue to go into debt....and we continue elect the same fear mongering war hawk type politicians....

WHEN WILL ENOUGH BE ENOUGH???

#EKU Campus "Threat Mode" 1030 AM Update 2/11/15

A Rational Student's View of #EKU's Over Reaction to Shooting Threat

     As stated in a previous post, I am what is considered on EKU's campus as an OWL or older, wiser, learner.  I am a non traditional student pursuing my Bachelors Degree.  Being an OWL and a believer of the Conservative/Libertarian political ideology or "Conservatarian" if you will has me looking at this entire threat that is supposed to come to fruition on EKU's campus in Richmond, KY. from a mature, rational, realistic point of view.  For those that do not know, the following was written in big letters on a bathroom stall in the Combs building on campus last week.  "BRINGING GUNS TO HERE 2/11/15 DEAD STUDENTS.  While it is not your typical graffiti garbage that you would find or even the occasional threat written on the walls of a bathroom stall, it is a vague threat.  

     To understand where I am about to go with this, we have to understand the psychological make up of the USA right after 9/11.  We were angry, scared, and blood thirsty for revenge.  We were so blinded by ambition that we lost sight on what actually took place.  It wasn't just hijacked planes that crashed into the World Trade Center Towers, the Pentagon, and a field in Pennsylvania.  It was a direct attack on our senses.  Our sense of security, destroyed.  We seemed to have lost that day the notion that we were too big and powerful to be attacked.  But perhaps what damaged us more so than the physical terror attack, than the amount of lives lost, than the financial repercussions of losing the World Trade Center, was how we far too easily gave up our constitutional rights, our freedoms, our liberties.  We fell for one of the oldest political tricks in the book.  We allowed something called "The Patriot Act" to be passed and thought this was going to help us reclaim our security and punish those who attacked us.  But 13 years later, all we have as a result is more debt, more infringements of our liberty and freedom.  We then took a direct hit again when the federal government established the Department of Homeland Security.  Again, we fell for the oldest political trick in the book.  We allowed congress to pass liberty robbing debt accumulating legislation all packaged up with a name that couldn't possibly be debated in the realm of political correctness.  The very attempt would draw sharp criticism in the media, 'How could you possibly be against Homeland Security' just as 'How could you possibly be against "The Patriot Act."  If that wasn't enough, we were then subjected to the creation of the TSA.  This unconstitutional arm of the federal government took over airport security. The TSA introduced to the mainstream the notion that you must be willing to be physically fondled by federal employees in order to prove that you are an innocent civilian merely looking to fly to see Grandma before she dies.  Even little boys and girls and Grandpa's in wheelchairs were not immune to being fondled in a manner that if you or I did that to someone on the street would be cause for us to be thrown in jail for sex crimes and be outcasts of society for the rest of our lives.

     What am I driving at?  Simply this, we must NEVER sacrifice one ounce of liberty for any amount of promised security from government.  Yet even to attend classes on campus during a regular day requires that I sacrifice one very BIG Constitutional right.  That is my Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms.  In the Commonwealth of Kentucky, I am permitted by license to conceal carry deadly weapons including of course firearms.  However EKU and other education institutions have decided that they do not want people exercising that particular freedom on campus.  To illustrate how delusional this is, EKU is one of the biggest training facilities in the state for training Law Enforcement Officers.  Also EKU is lucky to have a Kentucky State National Guard facility near by which encourages those seeking ROTC programs to attend EKU.  I often see these fine men and women walking campus in full uniforms.  You cannot possibly tell me that our campus would not be safer if we allowed these people to conceal carry on campus.  One of the biggest reasons in my humblest of opinions and already have been echoed by more than one professor on campus is that this threat is the product of a dense unarmed population as a result of EKU's Weapons policy.  The simple psychology is this, criminals or those seeking to commit a crime, especially for the first time will ALWAYS choose a victim they know is unarmed over one that they either know or don't know to be armed.

     Tomorrow is the 11th which will mark the day set by the deviant who wrote that threat.  Some professors have already called off their classes for tomorrow.  Students have expressed that they will not be on campus at all or at the least be staying in their dorms all day tomorrow.  This was not spurred by the threat.  This was spurred by EKU's President Benson who publicly announced that any student, staff, faculty that did not feel safe coming on to campus on the 11th could stay away without any consequences.  Not only does President Benson make as much if not more than the President of the United States, but with that declaration shared President Obama's affinity for giving in to the enemy, to give in to terror threats.  This will no doubt be repeated by the next deviant who seeks to bring a new wave of fear and a free day off once this even subsides.  Please stay tuned to this blog and make sure to follow me on Twitter @ IrvinePatriot for live updates as I will be on campus tomorrow and documenting any instances where I see constitutional rights violations above and beyond what normally takes place on this campus.  Oh and one more thing, I AM NOT AFRAID, I AM NOT SCARED, I DO NOT GIVE IN TO THREATS! 

#EasternKentuckyUniversity's Overreaction to Bathroom Stall Threat

Liberal Karma regarding the #Siege in #Sydney #Australia!

As we know by now, a "lone-wolf" attack on a Lindt Chocolate shop in Sydney Australia was carried out during December 14-15th.  This attack which saw between 15-20 hostages taken by armed radical Muslim Jihadist!  We saw on the media images of hostages being forced to hold against a window of a black flag that no doubt was a message of Jihad!  During this tragic incident, Liberals were already at work to marginalize this incident by tweeting and facebooking that this does not reflect true Islam and that we should not see this individual as representing true Muslim which they continue to tout the farce that is known as the "Religion of Peace".  They beg for people not to become "Islamaphobists" The "lone-wolf" was killed along with 2 of the innocent hostages.  The following is what I propose would be KARMA coming to America for not outright rejecting and throwing out the window the train wreck that is Political Correctness along with its continued infringement on our Second Amendment rights.

At 11:03 AM on April 3rd 2015, A masked gunman entered a Starbucks cafe in San Francisco, CA. immediately taking everyone hostage.  Screams of praise to Allah and demands of Muslim conversions took place.  San Francisco PD and California Highway Patrol quickly gathered outside as to best figure out how they can end this situation in the most politically correct manner as to not draw the ire of Obama's DOJ!  Having learned how the PD's of Ferguson/St. Louis and NYPD were thrown under the bus by Obama and their respective elected leaders, they wanted to make sure they did not harm nor offend the Muslim Jihadist currently forcing American hostages to hold a black flag up to a window in Starbucks for all of the media of which outlets like CNN and MSNBC will censor for political correctness.  FoxNews and alternative media outlets like Vice News and InfoWars will be the only outlets to cover this incident from beginning to ending!  CNN and MSNBC will show flashes of the incident while having commentary from SJW's about the abuse of Police officers when it comes to minorities including Muslims.  GUNSHOTS ring out as someone apparently did not convert to Islam as demanded.  A little girl begins to cry out in pain and distress as she is currently being raped as is allowed by the Muslim religion.  At this point Nancy Pelosi is on C-Span and National Media attempting to calm the fears of the people in her district pleading for tolerance for the Muslims and issuing warnings about not attacking people over this incident.  MORE gunshots as yet another person refuses to convert to Islam.  Remarkably the police still have not formulated a plan to bring this tragic incident to an end.  Protests have already set up shop just down the road from the Starbucks shop but not against the Jihadist inside Starbucks which has already raped one little girl and killed two others, but against the cops for showing up in mass numbers as they no doubt believe that since he is just one, they should not be many!  It is worth noting at this point that NO ONE inside other than the jihadist is in possession of a firearm.  Starbucks long standing policy of being anti-second amendment and the media's slander of responsible conceal carry citizens has discouraged anyone from entering Starbucks with a concealed weapon.  After demands for military withdrawal from the middle east are ignored, a 30 Second constant round of gun fire is heard from inside the Starbucks, about 20 seconds into this melee, the police finally decide to go inside to apprehend the jihadist.  In the end, 23 people are killed including 2 police officers.  The jihadist is taken into custody receiving serious but not life threatening wounds.  The little girl is impregnated during her rape.  Liberal SJW's act on multiple fronts.  One being to immediately encourage the little girl whose mother was killed in the attack to have an abortion.  The other being that they urge Obama to call this a work place violence incident and a "lone-wolf" attack as to avoid labeling this what it actually was which was an act of TERRORISM!  In the days following, the pundits and Democrat politicians like Chris Murphy of Connecticut will tell people that more guns is not the answer and that this incident more illustrates the need to ban assault weapons!  Moms Demand groups will undoubtedly use this tragic incident to further push for more violations of our Second Amendment rights.