Via Jeff I saw this this picture in the NY Times:
It couldn’t cause a more empty, terrible feeling in my stomach if it were books being thrown on a bonfire. And in case you forgot this quote describes what I think about burning books. It’s guns that prevent them from burning books.
Ian Robinson writes about two losers:
Here he is again, the loser with a grudge and a gun slithering up from the basement of a middle-class home where he fermented his immaturity, anger and resentments to full and deadly potency “interacting” with like creatures on the Internet.
His mom says he was “a good son.”
The neighbours’ comments — the banality of this would be screamingly funny were it not for the horror of the event — amount to this: He was quiet and kept to himself.
Aren’t they always.
His resentment and anger are perfectly understandable.
He’s a loser and losers spend their lives being angry and resentful.
And more importantly:
Wendy Cukier, the mastermind behind Canada’s obscenely expensive and ineffective gun registry — she’s president of the Coalition for Gun Control — along with her Liberal Party lapdogs promised us more gun control would make us safer.
Way to go, Wendy.
See, this loser jumped through all the hoops, complied with the gun legislation and guess what?
He passed. His firearms were legally owned.
When questioned in the aftermath of this event, Cukier told CBC that: “The argument for gun control has never been based on individual cases. (It) has always been based on the general principle that if you have adequate control on all guns, you reduce the chances that dangerous people will gain access to them. You don’t eliminate them.”
Her statement is disingenuous to say the least.
“Disingenuous” is a fancy word for “lie.”
Yup. Ms. Cukier helped convince Canadians to spend over $1 billion (some reports say as high as $2 billion) on a gun registry after an eerily similar shooting in 1989. Ms. Cukier created losers of all Canadians. They got nothing in return from all that money spent. All the while gun owners were telling them it wouldn’t do any good. Yet the press gave her high praise and flashed her flattering photo.
Losers. All led by the Queen of Losers–Wendy Cukier.
I haven’t put much effort into the topic but I keep thinking there must be a better way than a fence or trying to catch them once they have made their way 20 miles or more inside the border.
Can’t this be broken down in to a simple exercise in controlling a “black market”? It seems to me that if there were no minimum wage, welfare, free schooling, and no guaranteed health care the immigration problem would go away. Employers in this country have to pay a “tax” for domestic, legal, labor. It’s just like a tax on anything else. As soon as the tax rate on a marketable product goes above about 15% the government ends up creating a black market for the product.
In other words I suspect the government could solve the immigration crisis by repealing laws and spending less money rather than trying to come up with more complex government solutions to a problem they created to begin with.
The Muslim extremist culture must be destroyed. The apologists in the west think we need to get out of the Mideast, or stop supporting Israel, or “something”. In other words we did something wrong.
So tell me what Thailand has done to deserve this:
Two bombs exploded in front of a pub and parking lot at the mall. The third was set off at a massage parlour. The other two bombs exploded at departments stores, including one in a restroom.
Authorities quickly blamed separatist insurgents for the attack. Since 2004, they have waged a bloody campaign that has left at least 1,700 dead, mostly civilians.
“We do believe that the insurgents are responsible for the bombs attack,” said military spokesman Lt.-Gen. Palangoon Klaharn. “Their intention is to spread fear in the region.”
The Thai army warned military personnel in the deep south to be on high alert from Saturday through Wednesday, after reports of possible attacks by the Gerakan Mujahidin Islam Pattani to mark an anniversary.
Last month, Thai militants launched a series of daylight attacks against banks in Yala province, killing one, injuring nearly 30 and forcing the temporary closure of financial institutions.
Even the Thai military is trying to do the “peace thing.”
The attacks, in Songkhla province’s commercial centre of Hat Yai, came hours after the military staged a peace rally in the south, site of a Muslim insurgency, where it expressed hope people would work with authorities to end the violence.
The only peace the Muslim extremists want is the peace of submission. The only peace they deserve is that of death or a prison cell.
Lucy Braham was stabbed to death in her own home. Disarmed by her own government and unable to defend herself against an attacker armed with only a knife she died at the age of 25. The attacker had virtually nothing to fear entering her home. If someone enters almost any home in the U.S. and they will be hyper-alert for the sound of a 12-gage shotgun being racked and prepared for firing. Not in this home, not in this country.
How many more tragic deaths do the people in these countries need before they start asking Just One Question then demand their government stop infringing on their inalienable rights?
This probably doesn’t quite meet the definition of a sick joke but it’s close enough for me to get a laugh.
Jake was dying. His wife sat at the bedside.
He looked up and said weakly: “I have something I must confess.”
“There’s no need to, ” his wife replied.
“No,” he insisted, “I want to die in peace. I slept with your sister, your best friend, her best friend, and your mother!”
“I know,” she replied, “now just rest and let the poison work.”
We can’t just jump into the dark and make conclusions without facts. That’s how we got the gun registry in the first place. That’s how we spent a billion dollars on a policy that didn’t prevent the tragedy.
Stephen Harper
Prime Minister of Canada
September 16, 2006
$1-billion didn’t prevent tragedy
[I have Just One Question for Canadians.–Joe]
I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion’s roar.
Winston Churchill
[And when will the people of the west as a whole realize we need to give the lion’s roar again?–Joe]
Via Kim du Toit.
Walter was there when his fellow Boomershoot instructor, Adam, was killed in Iraq. Then he was seriously injuried in Iraq. Now Walter is going back as a civilian and photographer. It makes me uncomfortable to think about it but you can’t get much more “fully informed” than he is. I hope things go well.
Clayton Cramer lives near Boise after having escaped California and it’s repressive gun laws and taxes. He played a major part in bringing down Michael Bellesiles with his fradulent book Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture which was widely praised by gun grabbers all over the U.S. Now Clayton’s book, Armed America: The Remarkable Story of How and Why Guns Became as American as Apple Pie is almost ready to ship.
Another book to be added to my library.
Today I got several interesting searches. These are just the top of the list:
There were some others too but I’ve abused the target of those searches enough already.
Here’s the details of the ones above:
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I am by no means sure that legalizing drugs would be a good policy, though there are some very good thinkers in the country who hold just that view. However, in view of the fact that the so-called drug war is used to justify the excesses of the federal ninja, it might be proposed that if we abolish the drug war, we could abolish the ninja too. The thing that keeps the drug trade going is the enormous amount of money involved. We must remember that both narcotics and stimulants were readily available over the counter during the Victorian period. We had very few junkies, and as far as I can tell, we had no ninja. One cannot turn the clock back, but we might give serious thought to some feasible means of turning it forward.
Jeff Cooper
Sean sent me this link and I pulled the following insights from it:
During his six months at the Colorado State College of Education (and thereafter in California), Sayyid’s hungry disapproval found a variety of targets. American lawns (a distressing example of selfishness and atomism), American conversation (‘money, movie stars and models of cars’), American jazz (‘a type of music invented by Blacks to please their primitive tendencies – their desire for noise and their appetite for sexual arousal’), and, of course, American women: here another one pops up, telling Sayyid that sex is merely a physical function, untrammelled by morality. American places of worship he also detests (they are like cinemas or amusement arcades), but by now he is pining for Cairo, and for company, and he does something rash. Qutb joins a club – where an epiphany awaits him. ‘The dance is inflamed by the notes of the gramophone,’ he wrote; ‘the dance-hall becomes a whirl of heels and thighs, arms enfold hips, lips and breasts meet, and the air is full of lust.’ You’d think that the father of Islamism had exposed himself to an early version of Studio 54 or even Plato’s Retreat. But no: the club he joined was run by the church, and what he is describing, here, is a chapel hop in Greeley, Colorado. And Greeley, Colorado, in 1949, was dry
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Qutb is the father of Islamism. Here are the chief tenets he inspired: that America, and its clients, are jahiliyya (the word classically applied to pre-Muhammadan Arabia – barbarous and benighted); that America is controlled by Jews; that Americans are infidels, that they are animals, and, worse, arrogant animals, and are unworthy of life; that America promotes pride and promiscuity in the service of human degradation; that America seeks to ‘exterminate’ Islam – and that it will accomplish this not by conquest, not by colonial annexation, but by example. As Bernard Lewis puts it in The Crisis of Islam
‘This is what is meant by the term the Great Satan, applied to the United States by the late Ayatollah Khomeini. Satan as depicted in the Qur’an is neither an imperialist nor an exploiter. He is a seducer, ‘the insidious tempter who whispers in the hearts of men’ (Qur’an, CXIV, 4, 5).
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Qutb is the father of Islamism. Here are the chief tenets he inspired: that America, and its clients, are jahiliyya (the word classically applied to pre-Muhammadan Arabia – barbarous and benighted); that America is controlled by Jews; that Americans are infidels, that they are animals, and, worse, arrogant animals, and are unworthy of life; that America promotes pride and promiscuity in the service of human degradation; that America seeks to ‘exterminate’ Islam – and that it will accomplish this not by conquest, not by colonial annexation, but by example. As Bernard Lewis puts it in The Crisis of Islam
‘This is what is meant by the term the Great Satan, applied to the United States by the late Ayatollah Khomeini. Satan as depicted in the Qur’an is neither an imperialist nor an exploiter. He is a seducer, ‘the insidious tempter who whispers in the hearts of men’ (Qur’an, CXIV, 4, 5).
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The fact of expansion underwrote the mandate of heaven. And now, for the past 300 or 400 years, observable reality has propounded a rebuttal: the argument from manifest failure. As one understands it, in the Islamic cosmos there is nothing more painful than the suspicion that something has denatured the covenant with God. This unbearable conclusion must naturally be denied, but it is subliminally present, and accounts, perhaps, for the apocalyptic hurt of the Islamist.
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As a Sunni military man put it, Iraqis hate Iraq – or ‘Iraq’, a concept that has brought them nothing but suffering. There is no nationalist instinct; the instinct is for atomisation.
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We may wonder how the Islamists feel when they compare India to Pakistan, one a burgeoning democratic superpower, the other barely distinguishable from a failed state. What Went Wrong? asked Bernard Lewis, at book length. The broad answer would be institutionalised irrationalism; and the particular focus would be the obscure logic that denies the Islamic world the talent and energy of half its people. No doubt the impulse towards rational inquiry is by now very weak in the rank and file of the Muslim male. But we can dwell on the memory of those images from Afghanistan: the great waves of women hurrying to school.
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What would happen if we spent some of the next 300 billion dollars (this is Liz Cheney’s thrust) on the raising of consciousness in the Islamic world? The effect would be inherently explosive, because the dominion of the male is Koranic – the unfalsifiable word of God, as dictated to the Prophet:
‘Men have authority over women because God has made the one superior to the other, and because they spend their wealth to maintain them. Good women are obedient. They guard their unseen parts because God has guarded them. As for those from whom you fear disobedience, admonish them, forsake them in beds apart, and beat them. Then if they obey you, take no further action against them. Surely God is high, supreme’ (4:34).
Can we imagine seeing men on the march in defence of their right to beat their wives? And if we do see it, then what? Would that win hearts and minds? The martyrs of this revolution would be sustained by two obvious truths: the binding authority of scripture, all over the world, is very seriously questioned; and women, by definition, are not a minority. They would know, too, that their struggle is a heroic assault on the weight of the past – the alpweight of 14 centuries.
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I will never forget the look on the gatekeeper’s face, at the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem, when I suggested, perhaps rather airily, that he skip some calendric prohibition and let me in anyway. His expression, previously cordial and cold, became a mask; and the mask was saying that killing me, my wife, and my children was something for which he now had warrant. I knew then that the phrase ‘deeply religious’ was a grave abuse of that adverb. Something isn’t deep just because it’s all that is there; it is more like a varnish on a vacuum. Millennial Islamism is an ideology superimposed upon a religion – illusion upon illusion. It is not merely violent in tendency. Violence is all that is there.
They think of us as inferior, arrogant, and sinful. It might have been acceptable for us do so in isolation but we, the west, tempt and corrupt them. And even worse we have been destroying their culture via our temptations and demonstrating their inferiority. It’s sort of an extreme case of When Prophecy Fails. Not only must they increase their proselyting when their prophecy of superiority fails they must convert or kill the unbelievers.
The suggested solution here is interesting and worthy of throwing into our multiple front attack on Islamic extremism–liberate the women.
Twenty people wounded or killed. Hundreds of people were present but none of them were allowed to legally possess a firearm there. The person willing to break the law prohibited murder obviously wasn’t that concerned about the law against possessing a firearm. The victims were disarmed by their own government and that government bears a large portion of the responsibility for those injuries and deaths. And notice how the attacker was stopped? By people with guns. Don’t give me any crap about “bringing a gun into the situation just increases the violence”. It put a stop to the violence. If the victims hadn’t been disarmed they could have stopped the violence much sooner.
A 25-year-old man who mounted a deadly shooting rampage at a downtown Montreal college had posted pictures of himself on the Internet with a rifle and said he was feeling “crazy” and “postal” and was drinking whiskey hours before the attack.
The man, identified by police as Kimveer Gill, also said on a blog that he liked to play a role-playing Internet game about the Columbine High School shootings in Colorado and wanted to die “in a hail of gunfire.”
In the end, Gill dressed in a black trench coat like the Columbine shooters put his own gun to his head and pulled the trigger during a shootout with officers at Dawson College on Wednesday, police said.
Gill, wielding a rapid-fire rifle and two other weapons, had already wounded 20 other people by the time he took his own life. One of his victims, an 18-year-old woman, later died. Four others remained in critical condition Thursday, including three in extremely critical condition and one in a deep coma.
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Police initially said Gill shot himself but later Wednesday they said they thought officers killed Gill during an exchange of fire. On Thursday, however, Francois Dore of the Quebec provincial police said “preliminary results of the autopsy showed that he died of self-inflicted wounds.” Dore said police shot Gill in the arm before he turned his gun on himself.
“Remember September 13th” should be the slogan of the people of Canada as they march in the streets by the tens of thousands and demand their government stop infringing their inalienable rights.
The state is a divine institution. Without it we have anarchy, and the lawlessness of anarchy is counter to the natural law: so we abjure all political theories which view the state as inherently and necessarily evil. But it is the state which has been in history the principal instrument of abuse of the people, and so it is central to the conservatives’ program to keep the state from accumulating any but the most necessary powers.
William F. Buckley, Jr.
[So why do conservatives think it is so important to get the state involved in sexual preferences and practices?–Joe]
My way overdue survey for Boomershoot 2006 is now available:
http://survey.boomershoot.org/
It doesn’t matter if you were there as a shooter, spotter, spectator, or even if you just heard about the event and didn’t attend. There is a survey for everyone.
I want feedback of any type. But just because I’m listening doesn’t mean I’ll change. But I will consider it. And if you want to send an email or give me a call that works too.
I plan to announce the dates and prices for Boomershoot 2007 sometime this weekend. If you have input that might affect that please get it to me before then. But even if you run across this posting in March of 2007 the survey will probably still be up and I’ll still be listening.
Thanks for your input.
Saturday I put in a culvert for easier access to the Boomershoot explosives magazine Ry named the Taj Mahal. This will make it easier for Boomershoot helpers (who are ATF approved explosives handlers) to get to the explosives magazine. I had been thinking about it for a while and finally made it happen. It was either that or get snorkel kits for their 4x4s. More pictures are here.
While I was in the neighborhood I talked to our neighbors just across the road from the Boomershoot site. I want to help them get high speed Internet access (currently they are just on dial-up) and then making the entire Boomershoot site a WiFi hot-spot. They seemed quite agreeable to it and I’ll probably work on that enhancement early next spring. It depends somewhat on the survey of Boomershooters and potential Boomershooters I’ll be doing this week (sometime tonight I’ll be posting the survey link here and sending out emails). If no one is interested then I might not bother with the hassle and expense.
Boomershoot–It’s not just one weekend a year, it’s a year around commitment.
If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal.
Emma Goldman
[I’m not quite that cynical but it does have a grain of truth in it. Think McCain-Feingold.–Joe]
Part of due process is being able to confront your accuser(s). Apparently that isn’t part of the law in some cases in the UK and this guy spent five years in jail before they figured out the accuser was a liar:
A father who served five years in jail for sexually assaulting a woman had his conviction quashed yesterday after new evidence suggested his victim was a liar who inflicted her own injuries.
Warren Blackwell, 36, embraced his wife, Tanya, outside the Court of Appeal in London, saying he would always love her for standing by him. But the ordeal made him “a very angry man indeed”.
“It took the police and the justice system nine months to convict me of a crime that not only did I not commit, but a crime that never even took place,” he said in a statement read by his solicitor.
And not only that she still can’t be named:
“It has taken almost seven years to clear my name.” The court was told that the woman, who cannot be named, had made strikingly similar claims of other sex attacks, had an ability to lie and a possible propensity to self harm.
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Mr Justice Tugendhat said that when Parliament passed the law granting lifetime anon-ymity to complainants in sex cases it did not contemplate someone acting as she had.
“There may, in future, be another case in which she makes allegations against another man.”
We have a Constitution which was designed to prevent these sort of abuses by government. It’s too bad our government doesn’t abide by it. But at least it gives us a clear goal in our pursuit of regaining our freedom.
This wouldn’t work with me and I can’t imagine it working any better with Columbian gang members:
BOGOTA, Colombia, Sept 12 (Reuters) – They are calling it the “crossed legs” strike.
Fretting over crime and violence, girlfriends and wives of gang members in the Colombian city of Pereira have called a ban on sex to persuade their menfolk to give up the gun.
