Opinion
We recently warned you about the latest stupidity from [Oregon’s] James Manning and Floyd Prozanski, joined by Senators Meek and Woods.
This bizarre bill replaces the word “militia” in Oregon law with “national guard.” That’s not “National Guard”. That’s “national guard” lowercase n and g.
A quick read of the bill, SB 947, will show it to be a clumsy and poorly crafted effort to reinvent the meaning of the word “militia” with the single purpose of telling the people of Oregon that they are not part of what we all know they are part of and to remind us further that all power is vested in the military as controlled by Tina Kotek and the people are merely subjects. Much of the bill makes no sense, which we have come to expect from anything Manning and Prozanski do.
This is, of course, another dangerous step towards the complete destruction of the Constitution, but it’s so much more.
Oregon’s roads are crumbling. Its students cannot read or write. Its streets are awash in homeless drug addicts dying in their own waste. Its citizens are struggling to afford basic necessities. And while the legislature pretends that these issues are priorities, it wastes thousands upon thousands of dollars of your money to draft and move stupid bills like this to feed the insatiable egos of clowns like Manning and Prozanski.
There are thousands of bills currently in the legislature, and even the people who requested them have admitted that few will ever see the light of day. They serve one purpose: to give the grifters in Salem something to brag about in their newsletters, even though most are totally meaningless.
SB 947 is another step towards the goal of crushing individual liberty and responsibility and a massive waste of money in a state that frees dangerous criminals because it has no public defenders.
Our governor is more interested in feathering the nest of her unqualified mate than fixing the problems of the state. The legislature is more interested in squandering your money on this kind of nonsense than addressing very real issues. While the new federal administration is revealing the insane flushing of billions down the toilet nationally, plenty of that is going on right here in Oregon.
Take Action
SB 947 is scheduled for a public hearing on Feb 18th at 1 pm in hearing room B in the Capitol in Senate Committee On Veterans, Emergency Management, Federal and World Affairs (Remember that law-abiding gun owners are no longer allowed in the Capitol while lawfully armed.)
Please take a moment to submit testimony against this idiotic waste of time and money and remind the legislature what we sent them there to do.
You can submit written testimony and sign up to testify remotely or in person here. The links to submit testimony or register to testify are at the top of that same page.
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I live 45 minutes north of Oregon and stupid doesn’t recognize state borders. It might as well be California here. I keep telling my wife we should move to Idaho but she doesn’t want more snow although I love Coeur D’Alene.
The National guard is a arm of the federal government and there for is not eligible to be a replacement for the peoples militias due to the fact that the second amendment was designed to be a check on the tyrant’s in the government . The government serves the people not the people serve the government . These idiots in Oregon are Marxist trying to do away with the citizens ability to keep them in check .
Yep, and it is a 250,000 dollar fine and 10 years in prison if you are caught in a “We the People militia” that is now outlawed. This action by the legislature is to tie up the loose ends they didn’t realize existed until they were told it was unconstitutional. The change in the use in a capitol letter vs. lower case will take care of that. I have stated in the past that this new law says if you are caught with anything paramilitary on your devices, have phone numbers of people in a group that have been identified… Read more »
Moved out of Oregon 45 years ago! Best move I ever made. Love Texas!
I hope Tampon Tim doesn’t read this and get any ideas…