Sunday, April 05, 2009
Rules For the Radical Right
In an earlier posting, where I was discussing, in a purely academic way, the pros and cons of armed insurrection by conservatives, I pointed out that one of the cons was that the first line of defense for the local and then the state and federal governments was the police and then the National Guard and the Armed Forces, all of whom were more than likely to be our political brothers. It's worse than I thought. If someone actually snaps and decides to off the pigs, as the hippies used to say, the less than intellectually rigorous left will suddenly accuse the right of "liking" to kill cops.
And it will be darned difficult to argue in the particular cases, where swallowers of the nativist and paranoid delusion/Kool Aid, of the black helicopter, new world order, worrier type, did the killing, that it's actually the left who advocated cop killing and celebrates infamous and undoubtedly guilty cop killers.
And it will be darned difficult to argue in the particular cases, where swallowers of the nativist and paranoid delusion/Kool Aid, of the black helicopter, new world order, worrier type, did the killing, that it's actually the left who advocated cop killing and celebrates infamous and undoubtedly guilty cop killers.
Labels: Armed Insurrection
Tuesday, March 03, 2009
Thinking the Unthinkable
Jared Diamond, who wrote the interesting Guns, Germs and Steel and the slightly more tedious Collapse (never cut down all your trees) never seems to see what caused the mistake and disasters in the New World or the cutting down of all the trees in Greece, Turkey, the Yucatan and Easter Island--it's bad leadership, Jared. I see in every collapse the shaky hand of bad, sometimes horrendous leadership.
We have here in America now bad, possibly horrendous leadership. I have before mentioned in the non serviam posts that I am willing to do whatever I can, in a non-violent way, to oppose the horrendous policies of the Obama administration and the Reid-Peolsi axis in Congress. Since those posts, the market has continued to tank (about 50% down from just over a year ago), absolutely nothing effective has been done to solve the originating problem of loans which should never have been made (and but for the liberal launched and enforced CRA, would not have been). Indeed, nearly every single action of the liberals in charge has been the wrong move, designed to destroy private industry and grow government power. The likes of Glenn Beck and Jim Cramer, and other even more level headed media types have been saying and writing things nearly indistinguishable from the things people wearing "The End is Nigh" sandwich boards on street corners are usually spouting. So is it time to think the unthinkable?
Is it time, in a purely academic exercise of thought just now, to take up arms against the people ruining our country?
Let's look at the pros and cons.
Pros:
1. More people on the right own guns and know how to use them.
2. More people on the right have military and police training.
3. More people on the left are unarmed and generally harmless.
4. From time to time, the tree of liberty must be wetted with the blood of tyrants.
5. Few things are more worth fighting than for freedom and against tyranny.
Perhaps there are more, but those are the highlights.
Cons:
1. The guys who have to resort to violence to get their way have already lost the rational arguments.
2. The first guys any armed resistance would have to fight are police and military units, who are generally our brothers and sisters politically.
3. It will be bloody, messy, difficult, expensive, destructive and there is no telling how far it will go or how long it will last.
4. We could well lose.
5. It is very difficult to go from armed resistance to a republican form of government, even if successful and if we are unsuccessful, the left will take away even more freedoms and ruin the economy even more than a civil war/rebellion.
At this point, the cons clearly overwhelm the pros. I'll come back to this subject in a year or so.
A pro-gun nut was on the radio this morning talking about HB 45, the gun registration legislation not yet pending in Congress. I had pretty much decided not to obey that, if it passed into law. The gun guy felt the same way and said that everyone he knew would do the same, let the chips fall where they may.
I do recall that the American Revolution began when British troops were dispatched to seize the guns in the villages outside Boston. Unlikely that history would repeat itself, but...
We have here in America now bad, possibly horrendous leadership. I have before mentioned in the non serviam posts that I am willing to do whatever I can, in a non-violent way, to oppose the horrendous policies of the Obama administration and the Reid-Peolsi axis in Congress. Since those posts, the market has continued to tank (about 50% down from just over a year ago), absolutely nothing effective has been done to solve the originating problem of loans which should never have been made (and but for the liberal launched and enforced CRA, would not have been). Indeed, nearly every single action of the liberals in charge has been the wrong move, designed to destroy private industry and grow government power. The likes of Glenn Beck and Jim Cramer, and other even more level headed media types have been saying and writing things nearly indistinguishable from the things people wearing "The End is Nigh" sandwich boards on street corners are usually spouting. So is it time to think the unthinkable?
Is it time, in a purely academic exercise of thought just now, to take up arms against the people ruining our country?
Let's look at the pros and cons.
Pros:
1. More people on the right own guns and know how to use them.
2. More people on the right have military and police training.
3. More people on the left are unarmed and generally harmless.
4. From time to time, the tree of liberty must be wetted with the blood of tyrants.
5. Few things are more worth fighting than for freedom and against tyranny.
Perhaps there are more, but those are the highlights.
Cons:
1. The guys who have to resort to violence to get their way have already lost the rational arguments.
2. The first guys any armed resistance would have to fight are police and military units, who are generally our brothers and sisters politically.
3. It will be bloody, messy, difficult, expensive, destructive and there is no telling how far it will go or how long it will last.
4. We could well lose.
5. It is very difficult to go from armed resistance to a republican form of government, even if successful and if we are unsuccessful, the left will take away even more freedoms and ruin the economy even more than a civil war/rebellion.
At this point, the cons clearly overwhelm the pros. I'll come back to this subject in a year or so.
A pro-gun nut was on the radio this morning talking about HB 45, the gun registration legislation not yet pending in Congress. I had pretty much decided not to obey that, if it passed into law. The gun guy felt the same way and said that everyone he knew would do the same, let the chips fall where they may.
I do recall that the American Revolution began when British troops were dispatched to seize the guns in the villages outside Boston. Unlikely that history would repeat itself, but...
Labels: Armed Insurrection
