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From: MSN NicknameJreb1861  (Original Message)Sent: 9/11/2008 11:40 PM
Firearms, Freedom, and the Yankee Empire of Death
by Thomas Moore

What is the proper role of firearms, if any, in our sophisticated urban society when the only remaining frontier is technological and people no longer have to hunt for survival? Why do we need guns in this era of cradle-to-grave, government-provided security? Wouldn’t scrapping the outmoded 2nd Amendment be a small price to pay to keep guns out of the hands of mass murderers?

These and similar questions have been, well, fired at us with machine-gun-like regularity since the horrific killings last April at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia. The thirty-two victims were hardly buried when anti-gun zealots began to beat their drums with the bones of the dead. Here’s a sampling of what the ghouls had to say, and a foretaste of their plans for us.

The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence insists that colleges and universities must remain gun-free “sanctuaries;�?that is, defenseless target zones, even though one armed professor or student could have stopped the Blacksburg killer and saved dozens of lives. In the New York Times, April 26, 2007, columnist Bob Herbert cites Virginia Tech and other mass shootings as evidence that “…Americans are addicted to violence, specifically gun violence. But there’s no evidence we have the will to pull the guns out of circulation…or even register the weapons and properly screen and train their owners.�?In the April 30 New Yorker, the very essence of the Yankee sensibility and worldview, Adam Gopnik demands that America disarm its citizens, as did the United Kingdom after the 1996 shooting in Dunblane, Scotland that killed sixteen children and their teacher. He cites other foreign mass murders �?1989 in Quebec; fourteen killed, and 2002 in Nanterre, France; eight killed �?and concludes we should follow the example of these countries and prohibit private gun ownership. Gopnik writes, “There is no reason that any private citizen in a democracy should own a handgun.�?

I can think of many reasons to own a handgun, not least of them because there are so many people like Mr. Gopnik writing for major magazines and influencing the way we live �?which means insisting we become defenseless victims. And contrary to Mr. Herbert’s insulting lie, Americans aren’t hooked on violence; it is criminals who are hooked on violence. Most of us go about our daily lives, meeting our obligations, living in kindness and charity, and wouldn’t harm a hair on our neighbor’s head. And when he says, “pull the guns out of circulation,�?what he really means is “out of your possession.�?

Yankees love to scoff at our so-called Southern “love affair with guns.�?Certainly no one should become too enamored of his possessions or to any of the things of this world, including our cars, trucks, houses, riding mowers, and barbecue grills, with which it may be also said we have “love affairs.�?But the Southern gun-owners I know don’t just love guns, they love life and they love freedom, which guns help protect. And the Empire doesn’t just hate guns, it hates freedom and it loves power. The English political philosopher William Hazlett (1778-1830) said it best: “The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.�?

On this website we’ve tried to expose the growing tyranny and corruption of the Yankee Empire or “Regime,�?the apparatus of centralized power and all the appurtenances of the unlimited, consolidated, despotic state. Its formal, principal arm is the Federal Government. But the Regime also includes:

  • the government indoctrination system, otherwise known as public schools and higher education, which are aggressively Marxist, secular, and humanist;

  • the major news and opinion media;

  • wealthy foundations like those of the Fords and Rockefellers and George Soros and other coercive social engineers, all of which pretend to be independent, but which support centralized state power and the destruction of traditional American liberty. Not coincidentally, they give tons of money to various anti-gun groups like the Brady Campaign and the International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA).

In the context of the gun debate, it’s crucial to remember the Regime is not merely corrupt and despotic; it also fosters a culture of death. It is fatal to children and other living things. Its religion is the worship of man, which in practice means worship of the state, since in the humanists�?eyes the state is the highest form of man’s collective being. Unlike Nietzsche, the state has not declared God dead, it has declared Him an outlaw, for the state will have no other gods before it. In rejecting the sovereignty of God, the state behaves as our Lord warned us in His Word: “Those who hate Me love death.�?

The culture of death inherent in man-worship and God-hatred takes many forms, the most obvious of which are the insistence on abortion and infanticide, the aggressive promotion of homosexuality, the obsession with death, violence, depravity, and sadism in film, literature, and video games aimed at the young. By breaking down the social mechanisms of self-control and character building �?church and faith, family, custom, and tradition �?the Empire is spawning monsters like the Blacksburg killer at an increasingly alarming rate. And by the way, I’m not going to cite the squalid wretch by name, only refer to him as the Blacksburg killer. He wanted to win notoriety if not immortality with the blood of others. Let him go down in infamy unnamed, unremembered, unsung.

Make no mistake �?this is a relatively new phenomenon, and it is rising in direct correlation with the rise of the Yankee Empire of death. When I was in high school in the late 1960’s, school shootings were unheard of, unimaginable. We boys even carried our shotguns or rifles to school, leaving them in our cars so we could hunt after class. In one generation we’ve gone from that benign condition to random shootings in school, along with ubiquitous armed guards and metal detectors. This is a social development of enormous significance, yet the media and other running dogs of the Empire can only talk about the causative presence of firearms, even though guns were more abundant and available when I was in school than they are now.

The inescapable conclusion is that the Yankee Empire is the producer, abettor, and enabler of ticking time bombs like the Virginia Tech killer; and all the fashionable Yankee nostrums and remedies �?mental health counselors, social workers, crisis intervention, and gun-free school zones -- did nothing to prevent the senseless and horrific murder. Here are two preventive remedies that make far more sense than disarming the people.

We should start by doing something about the godless Marxist indoctrination camps laughably called public schools, especially the high schools; which exist not to produce educated, responsible citizens of a self-governing republic but obedient, dumbed-down subjects of the Empire. The Blacksburg killer was unmercifully bullied and emotionally scarred in his mega-high school in northern Virginia, as were the two killers of Columbine, Colorado. By no means does this excuse their crimes. But it ought to make us confront the consequences of widespread bullying, social conformity, and the shallow, amoral, toxic environments that are government schools -- not to mention the stultifying boredom the kids must endure. The inevitable effects of boredom and school-induced social pathologies must then be treated by psychotropic drugs, the dangers of which Political Correctness forbids us to question. It’s a wonder more monsters don’t emerge from such places.

Second, shut down Third World immigration. Only at our peril can we ignore the direct connection between mass immigration and mass killings. The Virginia Tech killer was an immigrant from Korea. No doubt his family are decent and hard-working people and are shocked and shamed by what he has done. But honestly, did we really need another laundry in Northern Virginia? Was having them here worth the price of 32 innocent dead?

Here’s a small sample of immigrants who’ve repaid our hospitality with mass murder:

  • Colin Ferguson of Jamaica, who murdered six and wounded nineteen on the Long Island Railroad in 1993, including Carolyn McCarthy’s husband, prompting her to run for Congress on a single issue, civil disarmament. She now leads the anti-gun forces in the U.S. House of Reprehensibles. If she were as zealous in reducing immigration as she has been in trying to confiscate guns, she might actually have saved some lives.

  • Another Jamaican, Lee Boyd Malvo (alias John Lee Malvo or Malik Malvo) of Muhammed & Malvo, the sniper duo that murdered thirteen in the greater Washington, DC area in 2002.

  • Peter Odighizuwa who killed three and wounded three in 2004 at the Appalachian Law School in Grundy, Virginia, until two armed students stopped him. I guess they forgot school was supposed to be a gun-free zone.

  • Sulejman Talovic, a Bosnian Muslim, who walked into a shopping mall in Salt Lake City last February and opened fire with a shotgun and .38 pistol, killing four. He would have murdered many more but for the presence of an armed off-duty policeman who pinned him down until the Salt Lake City SWAT team arrived and killed the swine.

This is only a partial list of the angry, alienated immigrants who have perpetrated acts of extreme violence against us. And because the topic here is mass murder, I’ll only cite in passing the thousands of individual murders by aliens. Approximately forty murders occur each day in the U.S. day, of which ten to twelve are committed by immigrants, mostly from south of the border. And we can never forget that the greatest mass murders in American history -- though not by firearms, as if that makes any difference -- were the terror attacks of 9/11, committed by aliens who came here both legally and illegally and had the free run of the place. The role of immigrants in the rising tide of violence is so conspicuous that it gives new meaning to the rationale, “We need them to do the jobs other Americans won’t do.�?

Of course, native-born Americans commit mass murders, too. The Columbine, Colorado killers were home-grown. The most despicable of them all, the killer of the Amish school girls in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania, was a native. The difference is we can’t do much about our domestically created killers; they were born here and we’re stuck with them. But immigrant killers don’t have to be here. The Empire encourages the Third World invasion �?which includes a statistically predictable number of killers �?for its own selfish reasons, and it deliberately turns a blind eye as they steal over the border. Thus my contention the Regime is a knowing accessory to the violence that follows.



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