02.11.2025
STOPPING STUPID
Recently we warned you about the latest stupidity from 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” lower case 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 further remind us 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. UPDATE. Or possibly just more corruption.
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.
SB 947 is scheduled for a public hearing on Feb 18th Feb 20th (rescheduled due to weather) at 1pm 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:
https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Measures/Overview/SB947
The links to submit testimony or register to testify are at the top of that page.