WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES. But necessary. Very, very necessary.
Despite its spectacular brutality, communism continues to exert its lure of something for nothing that has intoxicated man since Cain killed Abel. It appears that all we need to follow the next Pied Piper into the depths of hell is the promise of free healthcare.
Good luck with that.
H/T: American Thinker
And this is STILL what America's leftist democratics are wanting for us. The only difference is Americans are still armed. If Diane Shitstain manages to get her gun control/registration/confiscation bill passed, the result will make the unpleasantness of 1861 - 1865 seem like a small misunderstanding between friends.
ReplyDeleteHave you read this one by Bob Owens? Future history, low probability I think, but not impossible.
DeleteYes, I read that, and I think it may be closer than you think.
DeleteI am thinking that the commucrats have over-reached, in their zeal for a worker's paradise. We The People will not be disarmed.
I also think that the only way that the United States is to survive as one country is for the military to step in, clean out the commucrats who have violated their oaths of office, force a clean up of the voting rolls, and police the election when they think we are ready to be able to govern ourselves once more.
It's either that or, starting with Texas, many, if not most of the states of fly-over country will secede and leave the left coast and the northeast to stew in their own juices.
Maybe so, such a shame that I lost my weapons in a tragic canoeing accident. I just buy ammunition out of sentimentality.
DeleteLiberal strongholds like New York, Chicago, and LA would be lucky to last a week in a situation like this. I doubt that it would be very hard to disrupt food deliveries, power, water and medical supplies. A big chunk of any loyalist military would be tied up just trying to keep rioters from burning them to the ground.
RG, if you have a Kindle reader, one of the titles available from Amazon is a US military field manual titled: Simple Sabotage Field Manual.
DeleteIt is not difficult to drop some bridges and thereby stop ground transportation in and out of those locations. It would also not be difficult to drop some electrical transmission towers. Or, in the case of California, Arizona and other states simply refuse to sell them power.
As Mr. Owens points out, there will be a lot of the military, enlisted and officers who take their oath to preserve and defend the Constitution, who will join in open rebellion against Ear Leader and his merry Marxists.
I may sound blood thirsty, but I certainly hope the firing squads that take care of Obama, Biden, Feinstein, Schumer, Pelosi, Bloomberg, et al, are televised nationwide. Such a fate for them is much kinder than what they have in mind for this country.
Is that the OSS one? That's also available at Project Gutenberg in several formats for anybody that doesn't have a Kindle. Just got it. I think I had read an extract from the "General Interference" section on some site a few years ago.
DeleteYesterday wasn't a day for me to be busy, it seems. You guys have been, though! I just read Bob Owen's article from your link, RG, and it is chilling. I can't honestly say whether I agree that will happen or not. But I DO believe that if it does, it won't be pretty and we won't end up with a better country. There are simply too many people deeply indoctrinated with the ideas of tribalism and control. We would simply see factions fighting, a dissolution of the Republic and mini dictators over regions. I don't believe that the Constitution would be reinstated because I don't believe most people would insist on it. I'm getting cynical in my old age.
DeleteYeah, I really, really didn't want to live in "interesting times". After a total breakdown in order, it seems unlikely that we'd return to civilian control of government for a very long time. Decades at least, possibly centuries.
DeleteThe best option might be a financial breakdown followed by states telling the feds to go and get stuffed. Stopping just short of secession. If the fed financial carrot/stick isn't available any more that would become a possibility. The states could say "You have no authority under the Constitution to order that" and when they're taken to court, instead of sending a lawyer to defend themselves they just send a note, "What part of 'no authority' did you not understand?" Risky and a long-shot but still better than civil war.
While they watch their shining faces on television, which glorifies their existence and gives them the feeling they're like movie stars, the U.S. citizen becomes more infuriated.
ReplyDeleteSooner or later, they have to go home, for whatever reason. I'm thinking everyone should tell them how they feel when they arrive. I have the feeling it won't be pleasant. They might want to listen to the majority of the people in this country next time; especially when they start demanding voter identification and harsh penalties for those convicted of fraud.
Thankfully our congressman is one of the good ones. And I mean that sincerely. He is a deeply honest and good man. And one who knows how tenuously the Republic hangs by the proverbial thread. I've spoken with him. He gets it.
DeleteBut my two Senators are Feinstein and Boxer. So there's no hope for us.
That video, and hundreds of others like it, should be required viewing starting in about 6th grade. At the latest.
ReplyDeleteSometimes I wonder if the reason I'm the way I am politically (and psychologically) is that my mom made me learn about the Holocaust when I was very, very young. She just thought it was important, and had studied it a lot herself, and gave me some books to read about it - starting of course with Anne Frank's diary when I was about 8 years old.
I distinctly remember how I felt about it as I read, slowly figuring out that Bad Shit Really Does Happen. It really does.
One of my sisters, and many of my friends, who never did read that kind of thing when young, or if they did, they never connected it to their own reality - are now liberals as adults. They just do not want to talk about or acknowledge that Bad Shit Really Does Happen. It's all in the past, they say. We'll do it right, they say.
And I talk to them less and less. I can't take their willful complicity in this shit anymore.
I know how you feel. Fortunately everyone in my family is a hardened Constitutionalist. All minutemen at heart. Except for my sister who married the communist. I'm not joking. He is an academic who has never had a real job in his life because he inherited some serious money. And he is the most arrogant son of a bitch I have ever met. I hated him the FIRST moment I met him. At the time I thought, oh, this guy won't last. My sister is just rebounding. She'll get her shit together quickly and dump him. She married him. My sister was never known for her good sense. She's an "artist." So she's got fuck-all for brains. It's really sad when you have to step away from close family members because they are INSANE. My sister hates the idea of privilege while she lives the life of the privileged. She never sees the irony. Never.
DeleteAs for early reading material shaping your worldview...for me it was Anne Frank's diary and The Lord of the Flies and the old movie High Noon. A trifecta of shit happening if someone doesn't do the right thing. Even when it's hard. Even when it's dangerous. And also the lesson that most people WON'T do the right thing precisely because it is hard and dangerous.
DeleteWhat those three showed me was that the shit was ALWAYS and FOREVER going to happen because it is in us, and if we ever act like cowards and refuse to see just how vulnerable we are to its intrusion into our lives -BAM! we'll get shit. Over and OVER. That it was beyond man to be perfected in this life. That the best we could do was devise a system of government that kept the shit diffused among us so that no one person or group got ahold of enough shit to really start shit. I've always been a bit of a pessimist about human beings.
Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Still true. Always true.
The left, however, thinks this is only true for people who are free to operate without a gun to their heads. Their loving, compassionate gun will make sure that no one is corrupted by too much power...oh...that makes perfect sense.
I don't know that I read or saw any one thing specifically. I read 1984 when I was about 13 and Animal Farm not too long after that. But I'd already read a fair amount of history and the Heinlein juveniles and other old science fiction a lot of which was libertarian oriented.
DeleteI read 1984 as well, and Animal Farm. They were influential in my thinking, but I was REALLY devastated by Lord of the Flies. That such evil was just below the surface of even children, perhaps, ESPECIALLY children, never left me. The civilizing burdens of society are the only reasons any of us become "human." Remove those, as it IS the law of the jungle.
DeleteOf course, then I read Atlas Shrugged when I was around 16 and that was it for me.
I read "Tunnel in the Sky" and wound up thinking every problem has a solution if you can find it. :)
Delete"As in Lord of the Flies, which had been published a year earlier, isolation reveals the true natures of the students as individuals, but it also demonstrates some of the constants of human existence as a social animal. Its underlying themes run counter to those in Lord Of the Flies, however, in that it shows a belief in the inherent strength of humans as proto-adults as they self-organize rather than descending into barbarism. Some of the students fall victim to their own foolishness, and others turn out to be thugs, but that is a part of human nature, just as the counter-trends take the group as a whole towards the beginnings of a stable society. The numerous political crises of the fledgling colony illustrate the need for legitimacy in a government appropriate for the society it administers, another common theme in Heinlein's books. In both its romanticization of the pioneer and its glorification of Homo sapiens as the toughest player in the Darwinian game, it presages themes developed further in books like Time Enough for Love and Starship Troopers. Unusual for science fiction at the time, but quite typical of Heinlein's works, the novel portrays several competent and intelligent female characters."
Heinlein sounds like he has a more optimistic view of humanity. I've always been one who believe in the individual, but not so much in humanity as a whole.
DeleteThere are stellar individuals; man as a species of animal is kind of a shithead.
And I say that on my OWN blog. I do NOT expect to get shit for it.
DeleteHAHAHAHA!
Of course, present company is VERY MUCH excepted by that statement.
More optimistic, but I don't think hugely so. It's been a while since I read them but I think there were generally shitheads and governments/organizations run by shitheads. If it was a bell curve with total shithead on the left and stellar on the right, his would probably be a notch or two further to the right.
DeleteWhoa, you guys were dark. My early reading roots included Robin Hood, Ivanhoe, King Arthur, Achilles, Leonidas and Aragorn. I read The Lord of the Flies pretty young, but I was just disgusted with their inability to establish order and desires to inflict cruelty, it never really imprinted on me as 'the savagery of humanity'. I guess my choice of heroes coincides with my idealistic voting practices pretty well.
ReplyDeleteWell I read other stuff too. I remember "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" (I remember that because it was an abridged version, and I wondered what I got cheated out of) and "The Three Musketeers", the Hardy Boys and Tarzan in the mix too. I think I picked up 1984 because I'd exhausted all the Andre Norton the library had and I was looking for something else science fiction-ish. Oh, and "Flowers for Algernon" was about that time, so I guess some of it was a little on the dark side.
DeleteMy earliest memories are my Mom reading us the Lord of the Rings and I just had to read it for myself. I remember 1st grade reading class as my first school disappointment.
DeleteI didn't really take off 'til later. I remember, in 1st grade I guess, being taught to read with whatever the brilliant educational method du jour was and totally sucking at it. Then my parents got me up to speed with flash cards.
DeleteSo, Tuerqas, our public school system didn't wow you as a kid? SEE SPOT RUN! didn't capture your imagination? HAHA!
DeleteI remember Flowers for Algernon. I cried my eyes out over that. To be brought out of the loneliness and isolation of a prison only to slip back, now knowing what one was losing.
DeleteBecause when it is all said and done all we are is our thoughts. Take those are we are really and truly gone.
Heh - well I wasn't THAT dark. I did read a lot of Holocaust stuff but I was actually more obsessed with the Little House on the Prairie series. I read them all like four times. Also was totally into Little Women and other purely harmless stuff like that.
DeleteBut the Holocaust stuff is what affected my personality the most, I think. I am always waiting for doom. Always. (But am also always ready to fight it to the death. I remember deciding when I was 9 years old that I would rather be beaten to death by a guard for refusing to move than go to the gas chamber.)