Exactly Regan.....
On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 9:16 AM, Regan Duffy <[email protected]> wrote: > Very good points in this essay, but I sense that this is more bloviating > rhetoric from a self superior "smarter than anyone else" person who would > quickly hide behind rough men with the cojones to stand up to the cowards > who would prey on soft "gun free zone" targets. > > Do not be fearful, be forewarned and forearmed. > > *Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID* > > > MJ <[email protected]> wrote: > > > December 3, 2015 > > *Nothing to Fear But the Fearful Themselves *Dan Sanchez > > *(ANTIMEDIA <http://theantimedia.org/>)* When I first learned of the > recent attacks in Paris, a chill went down my spine. “No,” I thought, “This > is all happening too fast.” > > I was terrified. I was not *terrorized*, mind you. What happened in Paris > was tragic, of course. But I was not so ignorant and innumerate as to think > the kind of violence it represented was a statistically significant direct > threat to myself and my loved ones. I was fully cognizant that, even with > the recent uptick in terror attacks, the probability of my family ever > being caught up in one was vanishingly minuscule. I am more likely to be > felled > by a deer or a bolt of lightning > <http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/07/youre-much-likely-killed-brain-eating-parasites-lightning-alcoholism-obesity-medical-errors-risky-sexual-behavior-terrorist.html> > than by a jihadist’s Kalashnikov. > > What terrified me was the response of all the people who are incapable of > such a proportional perspective: those who saw the news from France and > panicked, thinking “I’m next!” As distant as it was, the Paris attacks > unleashed in America a surge of fear and of calls for greater police > powers, as well as an attendant wave of anti-Muslim hate and war lust. > > And as sophisticated and urbane as the French are reputed to be, they too > let irrational terror wash over them. And under its sway, they permitted > the State to run rampant over life and liberty. The public attitude was > distilled by a young French citizen whose message to her government was, “ > Do whatever you want, but keep me safe > <http://www.rawstory.com/2015/11/do-whatever-you-want-but-keep-me-safe-some-french-willing-to-exchange-freedoms-for-safety/>.” > With this mandate, France escalated its pointless and terrorist-breeding > bombing of civilian-filled Syrian towns. And at home, as *Truth in Media * > reported > <http://theantimedia.org/france-makes-major-shift-toward-fascism-in-wake-of-paris-terror-attacks/> > : > > *“…the French government declared a* *state of emergency* > <http://truthinmedia.com/france-strip-citizens-of-civil-liberties-after-paris-attacks/> > based on a rarely used 1955 law that allows the state to conduct > warrant-less searches of private property, impose curfews, restrict public > gatherings and movements of people, confiscate weapons at will and take > over the press.” > > As always, the statist public perversely responded to terrorism drawn upon > their heads by their government’s foreign militancy by sanctioning more > such militancy. And it perversely *rewarded* that government for its > abject failure to prevent the attacks with more resources, powers, and > responsibility. > > On top of arrest sweeps and threatening to close mosques, the French > government’s emergency powers were invoked to place activists under house > arrest > <https://reason.com/blog/2015/11/30/france-climate-activists-house-arrest> > in order to squelch completely unrelated protests. This demonstrated > vividly that war is indeed the health of the State > <http://www.dansanchez.me/feed/the-herd-mind>, and war-spawned terrorist > attacks are like an adrenaline shot for domestic tyranny. > > When I saw these responses, it fully sank in just how surrounded my family > and I are by human livestock and just how acutely dangerous that position > is. I realized that, when an attack of that scale and shock-value again > happens on American soil, the pack-minded multitudes all around me will > deafeningly bay for war > <http://www.dansanchez.me/feed/the-symbiosis-of-savagery>. And the > herd-minded <http://www.dansanchez.me/feed/the-herd-mind> hundreds of > millions will stampede to the State for security, bleating to *please, > please* be shorn of their remaining liberties. > > I am not terrified of the terrorists; i.e., I am not, myself, *terrorized*. > Rather, I am *terrified of the terrorized*; terrified of the bovine > masses who are so easily manipulated by terrorists, governments, and the > terror-amplifying > media > <http://fair.org/home/once-again-media-terrorize-the-public-for-the-terrorists/> > into allowing our country to slip toward totalitarianism and total war. > > Now the result of *that* could be a statistically significant threat to > myself and my family. Under an omnipotent government with permanent > emergency powers, there would be a significant likelihood of my nephew > being drafted > <http://www.dansanchez.me/feed/on-veterans-day-who-should-thank-who> to > help occupy a foreign country; my daughter going hungry thanks to wartime > economic planning > <http://www.dansanchez.me/feed/war-is-the-health-of-the-economy>; or > myself being imprisoned or shot as a dissident. > > Yet I have drawn solace from the fact that libertarians like myself are > not alone in pushing back against the terrorized Right. Following the Paris > attacks, many excellent > <http://www.alternet.org/world/how-western-militarists-are-playing-hands-isis> > articles from the political Left were published wisely warning the West not > to answer indiscriminate violence in kind. Such a terror-driven response is > exactly what the terrorists want, in order to polarize and sharpen > <http://www.dansanchez.me/feed/stop-helping-isis-in-its-war-on-the-gray-zone> > a “clash of civilizations.” > > And then yesterday’s San Bernardino attack happened. > > Before the fact that the alleged shooters were Muslim emerged, the Left > began jumping all over it as yet another in a long series of mass shootings > by whites that demonstrated the urgent need for more gun control. > > Two weeks earlier, these same progressives were calmly counseling the > public to not be terrorized into giving their government more power to > bomb, register, and persecute Muslims. Now they themselves were trying to > terrorize the public into giving their government more power to disarm, > register, and persecute gun owners. > > They point out that you are more likely to be killed by a white, > homegrown terrorist > <http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/11/30/3725562/you-are-more-than-7-times-as-likely-to-be-killed-by-a-right-wing-extemist-than-by-muslim-terrorists/> > than a Muslim one. That may be true, but *both* of those fates are still > far less likely than your odds of being crushed by furniture (or being killed > by a cop > <http://theantimedia.org/white-and-muslim-terrorists-kill-less-than-cops/>, > for that matter). Neither of these exaggerated threats are any > justification for incurring the great and underestimated dangers involved > in granting government sweeping new powers. > > Progressives, who rightly support Black Lives Matter, are pining for more > gun laws, while the already existing gun possession laws are one of the > chief pretexts cops and courts use to brutalize and incarcerate blacks > <http://blog.independent.org/2012/12/21/who-goes-to-prison-due-to-gun-control/> > . > > And the same progressives who rightly warn of potential fascism > <http://www.dansanchez.me/feed/make-america-good-again> under the > divisive demagoguery of Donald Trump, want to give the institution that > Trump may come to control *greater* power to register and disarm the > public. They ignore > <http://www.dansanchez.me/feed/progressives-are-the-last-people-who-should-want-gun-control> > or deny the fact that the mass human roundups > <http://reformed-theology.org/html/issue12/disarmament_and_destruction.htm> > we associate with such regimes are only practicable given broad civilian > disarmament. And broad civilian disarmament, in turn, is only practicable > given broad gun registration. For example, the German Jews and liberals > were easily liquidated by the Nazis, thanks to the Weimar Republic’s gun > registration laws > <http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/nov/7/halbrook-the-key-to-this-german-pogrom-is-confisca/>. > > > *Do you really want every single Mexican and Muslim in America disarmed or > easily disarm-able under “Chancellor” Trump? *After San Bernardino, I am > just as terrified of the terrorized and terrorizing Left as I am of the > terrorized and terrorizing Right. I more fully realize that the latter can > only do its worst if enabled by the former. The Left sets us up for the > Right to knock us down. Call it the Weimar/Third Reich one-two punch. > > I do not irrationally and disproportionately fear Muslim bomb-wielding > jihadists or white, gun-toting nutcases. But I rationally and > proportionately fear those who do, and the regimes such terror empowers. > History > demonstrates <https://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/MURDER.HTM> that > governments are capable of mass murder and enslavement far beyond what > rogue militants can muster. Industrial-scale terrorists are the ones who > wear ties, chevrons, and badges. But such terrorists are a powerless few > <http://www.dansanchez.me/feed/when-an-ideas-time-has-come> without the supine > acquiescence > <http://www.dansanchez.me/feed/the-state-lives-in-the-minds-of-its-victims> > of the terrorized many. There is nothing to fear but the fearful themselves. > > Paris and San Bernardino taught me that my family is trapped amid a herd, > completely surrounded by cattle-minded millions who can be spooked into > large-scale stampedes with small-scale crimes. And there is literally no > way out, because virtually the entire world is afflicted with one form of > collectivist statism or another. Therefore, the only way to prevent my > loved ones from being trampled is by helping as many people as I can to > break the spell of terror that turns civilized men and women into rampaging > beasts. > > That is why I am writing this essay: to implore you, the reader, to snap > out of that spell if you have not already, and to help others do the same. > Stop swallowing the overblown scaremongering of the government and its > corporate media cronies. Stop letting them use hysteria over small menaces > to drive you into the arms of tyranny, which is the greatest menace of all. > Overthrow the reign of terror the State has installed over your mind. Else > the days ahead may be terrible indeed. > > *Further Reading:* > > - *The Herd Mind <http://www.dansanchez.me/feed/the-herd-mind>* > - * Stop Helping ISIS in Its War on the “Gray Zone” > > <http://www.dansanchez.me/feed/stop-helping-isis-in-its-war-on-the-gray-zone>* > - * Progressives are the Last People Who Should Want Gun Control > > <http://www.dansanchez.me/feed/progressives-are-the-last-people-who-should-want-gun-control>* > - * Make America Good Again > <http://www.dansanchez.me/feed/make-america-good-again>* > - * The State Lives in the Minds of its Victims > > <http://www.dansanchez.me/feed/the-state-lives-in-the-minds-of-its-victims>* > - * When an Idea’s Time Has Come > <http://www.dansanchez.me/feed/when-an-ideas-time-has-come>* > > > > http://theantimedia.org/nothing-to-fear-but-the-fearful-themselves/ > > -- > -- > Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. > For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum > > * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ > * It's active and moderated. 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