Friday - April 26, 2013

AN ANTI GUN DUMB AMERICANS RANT BY A LEFT WINGER THAT RUINED MY BREAKFAST

F***!

So I was stupidly reading this left wing paper this morning as I was finishing breakfast.  I take meds for bad gut and I guess it’s well I have to, or else I’d bust a gut in anger.  Why do I let these asswipes get to me this way?  Sorry. No. I can never seem to take things in stride when I see this shit.  I just get pissed off and blow up.

I have heard this guy on the radio and he has been very funny.  It’s only recently I discovered he wrote a column and realized what he was fully. So decided to ignore. Which mostly I have. Until this morning.  Well hell, it was the headline that caught my eye. Of course I should have known better. Nobody to blame but myself.

So since misery loves company so much I thought I should share this crap with my net friends here at bmews. And I think you can if you want to, leave a comment at the site. Not here necessarily.  On the column by a fellow named Mark Steel.

By the way ... here is how the paper would like their readers to see all Americans. I guess even the women. Whatever. Does not make my day.
Just a further example of our unknowing critics being experts and passing judgments on our ways and people. Fuck em all. 
Maybe if the damned German foreign office had smarter people back in 1917 working for them instead of loose cannons like Zimmerman, we could have stayed the hell out of WW1 and allowed the Germans to win or draw at the least.

IF EVERYONE HAD A GUN THEY’D BE SAFE. RIGHT?

By Mark Steel

The National Rifle Association in America will be preparing its statement. Each time a nutcase goes berserk with a gun, the NRA insists that this proves everyone should have a gun, so in a couple of days it’ll announce that the only way to respond to events in Boston is for every citizen to have a nail bomb.

In particular, marathon runners, instead of taking a bottle of water and a sponge at each stage of the race, which are useless in the fight against international terrorism, should be handed a grenade and a flamethrower.

The logic of the lobby that last week defeated the attempt to introduce gun controls must be that this is the only way to keep marathons safe. It might be trickier with sprint races, as the starting gun would go off and every runner would instinctively shoot at the poor sod who fired it, which might make race-starting a difficult post to fill. But the right to carry a nail bomb is surely a constitutional right of every US citizen.

People such as the pro-gun campaigners exhibit a special sort of genius. At a time such as last weekend, when you wouldn’t think you could feel anything but sympathy for Americans, they manage to make you think: “Mind you, quite a few of them are bloody creepy.”

For example, on the night that the surviving bomber was captured, you might expect a mood of sombre relief. But CNN showed cheering crowds, and the reporter described the atmosphere as “ elated, excited and jubilant”. Then we saw them chanting “U-S-A, U-S-A”, and some of them let off fireworks.

Maybe the anxiety had disturbed them and caused them to get the capture of a lunatic mixed up with New Year’s Eve.

“We got ’em, we GOT ’EM,” roared a series of men, waving flags into cameras as if they’d won an Olympic medal. And once the story wasn’t so much a human tragedy as a triumph for the USA, I couldn’t help thinking “Oh, you ARE masterful aren’t you, managing with no more resources than the army, SWAT teams, marines, an assortment of helicopters, the FBI and the entire population of Boston to track down a lunatic covered in blood who’d been shot through the neck and was wriggling about in a boat in someone’s garden. I wonder who you’ll meet in the SECOND round of the World Hide and Seek championships.”

The strangest part is that this excitement doesn’t usually happen on the occasions that a madman in America gets captured after going on the rampage in a school or shopping centre with the machine-guns he’s constitutionally entitled to carry. For example, there were no joyous celebrations when James Holmes was captured after blasting 12 people dead in a cinema in Denver. I suppose that, unlike in Boston, the people of Denver just aren’t party-going types.

Or it could be that there’s a rule that the capture of a dangerous criminal is only a victory for America if the criminal can be portrayed as not American. Because if you’re going to go on a killing spree in America, you should at least have the decency to be American. There must be some people saying: “It’s a disgrace. These Chechen lunatics are coming over here taking our lunatics’ jobs.”

The above was all there was in the hard copy edition.
Below is what was added to the on line version.

When it was known the bombers were nice and foreign, the fun could start. Bob Beckel, a reporter on Fox News, informed viewers this was the time to “cut off Muslim students from coming into the country”. The New America Foundation in Washington, which influences the government, declared that the problem was whether Muslims see themselves as “Americans first or Muslims first”. New York Senator Steve King was one of many who concluded: “We must increase surveillance amongst Muslims.”

But Adam Lanza, who went nuts in December with a gun in a school in Connecticut, was said to be from a “good Christian family”. So, at some point presumably, the government will be told that Christians have to decide whether they’re “Americans first or Christians first”. Maybe it will be acceptable if they’re from a bad Christian family, but good Christians are clearly lethal.

And James Holmes was a committed Presbyterian. So Fox News will demand that Protestants aren’t allowed into America as students. Anyone working too hard will be monitored as a potential terrorist, Senator Steve King will demand increased surveillance among people who sing along to Songs of Praise, and reporters will scream that the country’s become so soft that it lets prisoners at Guantanamo Bay wear orange, which is exactly what they want, the Protestant crackpots. “I suppose we’ll give them all a flute next,” they’ll gasp.

There is another America, in which thousands of Boston people gave blood to help victims of the bomb, and tens of thousands have already registered for next year’s marathon. But these acts can end up submerged, beneath the more important need to let off fireworks and yell about Muslims.

And if it turns out that these particular Muslims have responded to the war in Chechnya by concluding that if armies come into your area with bombs then the only sensible way to behave is to make sure you’ve got bombs of your own, they ought to be offered a free year’s membership to the National Rifle Association.

MARK STEEL, ANTI GUN/AMERICAN RANT

What? No, he’s serious? Well then, that’s whores of a different “colour” altogether.

There are now plenty of articles around the Right Wing blogosphere and what little Right Wing press we have (aka the VRWC), including the Day By Day comic right here on the right sidebar that are decrying the whole approach to the Boston bombing. Easy to find the video, shot by some scared shitless homeowner peeking out his window, of the Tsarnaev brothers standing right across the street from him, in the headlights of their stolen SUV, shooting at the cops. And the response to that video is generally “Where was your gun? If you had the nerve to stand there and take pictures, why the hell didn’t you shoot these bastards yourself?” Plenty more have written how the swarm of LEOs rampaging across the town, kicking in doors and dragging people from their homes, searching houses without a warrant when NO state of martial law had been declared ... was the worst constitutional abuse seen in generations. And all to naught: almost the minute that the fuzz declared an “all clear” that homeowner went outside all by himself and found the kid hiding in his boat. Given that info, hundreds of cops swarmed the guy’s yard, and opened fire on the unarmed suspect - which is tantamount to attempted murder, plain and simple, even if Dzokhar had been shooting at them earlier. Plenty of words written about that abuse of power too. Plenty more about the seeming cowardice of the “shelter in place” edict. The entire older part of the nation, raised on the historic meme of “Boston = freedom fighters” woke to find out that those folks are just as cowed, and just as dependent, on Big Bother as any other urban group.

So this Mark Steel of yours is not alone in noting that the post-capture celebration seemed a bit out of place. But to be fair, the entire city of Denver was not put into lockdown and turned into a war zone by an entire ARMY of police and “guys in military uniforms” (my quotes, not Steel’s) whether those were Guardsmen, or Special Ops cops or feds or whatever. “All the weapons of war” which our own President had declared just a week or two before that “don’t belong on our streets” were visible, in use by the powers of government. Right down to the “up armored” Humvees with the .50 BMGs mounted on the roofs. Golly, why, was there some need to perhaps shoot down airliners? Even when the airspace above Boston was shut down?? So if the folks of Boston needed to vent their relief, let them. It was only slightly embarrassing to the rest of us, but the rest of us didn’t have bullets shooting through our homes all day long as they did. So in the balance, it’s OK.

I’m not sure if Steel is saying this between the lines, but if not I will say it for him: the people of Boston were more terrorized by the government than they were by these two man-child terrorists.

As to the “dirty wog immigrant camel-fucker muslims” reaction, our own media and any number of our elected reps went apeshit pointing fingers over those other shootings; don’t you know it was the Tea Party, or Sarah Palin, or “some white guy” aligned with some “far right” group that was responsible for the last 3, 4, 5 of these events? That was the MSM message. But an underlying truth is that our borders are not secure and the government is going out of their way to keep them that way. And nobody can understand State Dept’s view on student visas or the numbskull immigration policies that we have. So there will be public outrage over that, and the Boston event was another channel for it.

When it was found out that some of those previous mass shooters were genuine crazy people, a huge debate about better screening for the mentally ill ensued, but was almost lost in the mist of the big anti-gun push of our Tyrant In Chief and his “we are above the law” minions. And because those provisions were wrapped up in a BS bill to strip normal Americans of more rights, they too went down to defeat in our Legislature.

Furthermore, regardless of what the Fellating PC Pansies In Power (FPCPIP)™ try daily to make us believe, the VAST majority of thinking Americans understand that the muslim world is at war with us. That effectively makes us at war with them, government denials notwithstanding. We know that Fort Hood was terrorism. And while Jesus said “love your enemy” I don’t think he meant it to apply when they were actually attacking you. So yeah, we hate those who hate us, especially when we find out that extraordinary largess has been freely granted to some of them with no avail. We gave them solace, we gave them bread, we gave them shelter, we covered them with love and acceptance. And they answered that with random mass murder. Well fuck that, in spades. The carrot has failed, bring out the stick.

As a final By The Way, the Second Amendment says “arms”. It does NOT say “guns”. “All the fearsome tools of the soldier” (or words to that effect) is what “arms” means. And if that includes mines or bombs, so be it. (compare a pressure cooker IED to a military Claymore anti-personnel mine; the Claymore is much more effective). Does this mean I can now renew my subscription to American Rifleman and send Steel the bill?

Posted by peiper     on 04/26/2013 at 03:40 AM   
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