This is, of course, old news now and suitable for the memory hole. But here’s more blood dancing wishful detective work on the part of our dear leaders’ opinion makers…
CNN Pundit Already Blaming Anti-Government Militias for CA Shooting
Who, oh who, will save us from the gun violence epidemic?
They say that Louis XIV had the inscription Ultima Ratio Regum cast into all the cannon of the French Army. It means “The Ultimate Argument of Kings,” and that always struck me as one of the most honest and up-front things any ruler or would-be ruler ever said. “We can dress it up prettier than this, but when it comes down to the unvarnished truth this is what it’s about: You’ll do as I say or I’ll send my goons to kill you.”
I thought about that for a long time. If there’s an ultimate argument, it seems only logical that there must be an ultimate answer. For years I thought the ultimate answer must be the bullets in my rifle, but it never seemed quite right. I’ve got bullets – he’s got frigging Cannon Balls. I mean, if there were three hundred million rifles throwing bullets at him, then maybe. But we all know that’s not going to happen. So if there’s an ultimate answer to his ultimate argument, it sure as hell ain’t bullets.
It finally came to me – and that’s when I abandoned the city and most of my stuff, and gave all that was behind me a good stiff Randian Shrug.
The ultimate answer to kings is not a bullet, but a belly laugh.
Little Bear 2009-2018
Laddie the Amazing Torso Boy 2011-2020
"Freedom Outlaw. It’s not what you do; it’s how you do it. It’s an attitude — from which actions always follow. It’s a do-it-yourself occupation. And a lifetime vocation."
- Claire Wolfe, Backwoods Home Companion, 6-07-10
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
- G. K. Chesterton
"If every Jewish and anti-Nazi family in Germany had owned a Mauser rifle and twenty rounds of ammunition and the will to use it, Adolf Hitler would be a little-known footnote to the history of the Weimar Republic."
- Aaron Zelman
"Authority should derive from the consent of the governed, not from the threat of force."
- Barbie
"Never underestimate the ability of shit to find a fan."
- F. Paul Wilson
"You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs." The sophistry of villains - Bah!
- Robert A. Heinlein, Double Star
“Truth is, I’m not specifically interested in an armed society. What I want is a free society.”
- George Potter
I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself
A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.
- D. H. Lawrence
Aristippus passed Diogenes as he was washing lentils.
He said, “If you could but learn to flatter the king, you would not have to live on lentils.”
Diogenes said, “And if you could learn to live on lentils, you would not have to flatter the king.”
Sandy Hook was a Gun Free Zone. So was the Westroads Mall. And the Aurora Theater. And Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Should I go on? They were all Gun Free Zones.Â
– Reality
“Political tags — such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth — are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire. The former are idealists acting from highest motives for the greatest good of the greatest number. The latter are surly curmudgeons, suspicious and lacking in altruism. But they are more comfortable neighbors than the other sort.”
- Robert A. Heinlein
"Civilization is the process of setting man free from men."
- Ayn Rand
If ever a man should ask you
For your business or your name
Tell him to go and fuck himself
Tell his friends to do the same.
For a man who'd trade his liberty
For a safe and dreamless sleep
Doesn't deserve the both of them
And neither shall he keep.
- Frank Turner
Don't be afraid to try something big, just because you're an amateur. The Ark was built by amateurs. The Titanic was built by professionals.
- Anon
"Nothing scares a police officer more than the threat of being treated the way that they treat people every day."
- Anon
"Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet."
- Gen. James Mattis
"Lust for power is the most flagrant of all the passions."
- Tacitus
"The man who knows what freedom means will find a way to be free."
- F.A. "Baldy" Harper
"The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude."
- William James
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
- Viktor Frankl
The free man will ask neither what his country can do for him nor what he can do for his country.
- Milton Friedman
“We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.”
- William Faulkner
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.
- Ernest Hemingway
"Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
John Moses Browning - The most badass Mormon who ever lived.
"The nine most terrifying words in the English language are 'I'm from the government, and I'm here to help.'"
- Ronald Reagan
The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
- James A. Baldwin
"It is better to be a warrior in a garden than to be a gardener in a war."
- Anon
“I tried to live in such a way that, when dying, I would rather feel happy than scared.”
– Witold Pilecki
Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
- Sallust
"Place your clothes and weapons where you can find them in the dark."
- Lazarus Long
Read, every day, something no one else is reading.
Think, every day, something no one else is thinking.
Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do.
It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.
– Â Christopher Morley
“I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken his moral and mental vision, and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason. He must be able to detect no inconsistencies in slavery; he must be made to feel that slavery is right; and he can be brought to that only when he ceases to be a man.”
-Frederick Douglass
ESSE QUAM VIDERI –
To be, rather than to seem
– Marcus Tullius Cicero
“A Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home, and it should be used for that protection which the law refuses to give.”
– Ida B. Wells
Do what thy manhood bid thee do; from none but self expect applause.
He noblest lives and noblest dies, who makes and keeps his self made laws
– Sir Richard Burton
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
– Winston Churchill
“Happiness is a journey, not a destination. Dance as though no one is watching you. Love as though you have never been hurt before. Sing as though no one can hear you. Live as though heaven is on earth.”
― Father Alfred d’Souza
What’s funny is that there’s nothing to prevent these jihad folks from joining the NRA, the evangelical church, or the PTA… The pundits would have a lot of propaganda ammunition if they did… but, so far, I can’t recall any of the jihadists who have even been part of the “anti-government” section of the American population, and zero connections have been mentioned to any sort of “militia” movement.
The dear leader’s propaganda people are certainly missing a bet here, especially if any of these attacks are “false flag.” What a bunch of maroooons.
Maroooons, indeed!
False flag or no, there’s an anti-rights agenda being pushed. It’s no longer just nudging.
What is it Paul Revere is to have yelled?
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Wow, yeah. How many anti-government militiamen do you know who are also Arab Muslims like the apparent shooters here?
I mean, the militias I know of try to be inclusive and all, but …
I feel for the victims of this tragedy however I realize that in any free society this will happen. What is truly disturbing is the way the leaders are using this to advance their agendas This is just another example of the adage “There are no facts, there is no truth just data to be manipulated.”
I don’t know, MJR… such things MIGHT happen in a free society, but I suspect it would be incredibly rare – and not turn out anything like this one did.
There’s an old story here in Wyoming:
A guy comes into a bar, sticks his hand into his pocket and says he’s got a gun, demanding that the barkeep hand over the contents of the till.
He hears a polite cough from behind his back and turns to find six people pointing guns right at him. He glances back at the barkeeper, who is now holding a 12 g shotgun on him as well.
Barkeep says, “Do we draw straws or should we all shoot at once?”
The would be robber faints dead away.
One cowboy says, “He must not be from around here.” They all reholster, then resume talking and drinking their beer.
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On my homepage yesterday there was an article from Reuters calling itself Factbox. It listed all the mass shootings in the country and there were a bunch on the list. It started back in 1998 with the Columbine shooting and comes to present with this San Bernadino thing. All totaled, including the shooters who were killed or committed suicide, there were just under 200 dead – TOTAL.
While I feel great sympathy for the victims and their families and realize that these shootings are tragedies for them, come on people…..LESS THAN 200 VICTIMS IN 16 YEARS. I’d bet that asprin has killed far more people than mass shootings have. That many people die daily in car accidents. Where’s the outrage? It just boggles my mind that these miniscule numbers can create such a panic.
“LESS THAN 200 VICTIMS IN 16 YEARS.”
Yes, I have noticed this too. It’s like a rustler starting a stampede, over nothing.
That’s why we have the media AKA the Ministry of Propaganda. The rulers find such events useful. They’d have to create them if they didn’t happen by themselves.
ML I’m not sure this will make sense but here goes… I agree with your comment that this sort of thing in a free society might happen, that was what I meant, I just failed to express myself correctly, my bad.
Unfortunately not all States are like Wyoming and the bar you talk about. The United States is (technically) a free society (don’t laugh) where there are 112.6 firearms per 100 residents.* As soon as the bad guys brandished their guns they should have been cut down but they weren’t. The blame for this failure to act falls on the Congressional Left, Academia and Media (CALMs).
The CLAMs are people who will move heaven and earth to ensure that they get as much power as they can. One of the ways they do this is to indoctrinate the public. They preach that it is wrong to defend oneself, wrong to even have a gun. In addition to the CLAMs the world is a dangerous place. There are a lot of organizations and countries around the globe that want to see harm come to the US. To these elements add the crazies your country has. BTW the US is not unique, my country (Canada) and all the other countries have their crazies too. Take all these factors together and the risks of these mass shootings increase. I just wish there were more places like the Wyoming bar you talk about, America would be a lot better off and I would have a place to go and be comfortable.
* https://www.atf.gov/file/89561/download
Hey Paul, Looks like the ministry of propaganda are increasing the nastiness. It appears that if this report can be believed they are trying the change the definition of mass shooting to inflate the numbers.
http://bearingarms.com/media-attempts-redefine-mass-shooting-order-inflate-number-attacks/
Come on down, MJR. Plenty of room here. 🙂 But don’t be fooled… we have far too many CLAMS right here in Wyoming. And people who accept and even support them. And, BTW, the “right wing” of this bird of prey is no better than the “left.” They both want total control of our lives and property.
Seems to me that the problem is that far, far too many people accept the “authority” of government to dictate just about anything and everything. Think about what the world would look like if people decided to ignore all that and take control of their own lives. Those in power get that power because most people allow it, or even benefit somehow from it – at the expense of others. Without that belief and all the rationalization that goes with it – without the compliance so necessary to the CLAMS’ schemes – involuntary government would collapse just about overnight. The only hard part about it is getting people to understand and take action on it.
I have no idea how to go about that, of course. It would seem that only a serious apocalypse of some kind could even hope to shatter the momentum of the involuntary government worship all over the world. I’d rather not go through that, of course, but I doubt we have any real choice.
ML one of these days I will visit the “Big Sky Country” of Wyoming, it’s on the bucket list. As for what to do against the CLAMs that’s simple, keep fighting them every chance you get just as I do with the Canadian equivalent. Oh, and keep your powder dry.