Tuesday, August 3, 2010

S-21 & A Reprise of Six Lessons I Learned From the Twentieth Century.


Photo of an unknown young Cambodian girl tortured and executed at S-21.

By way of Pete at WRSA we have this commentary from Skeeter at Armed and Christian on a story about UN "justice" for a Khmer Rouge torturer and executioner who worked at the infamous S-21 execution facility.

A haunting documentary about S-21 is available on DVD.


I wrote this in 1999.

What I Have Learned From the Twentieth Century

With thanks to Schoolmasters Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Mao Tse-Tung and Pol Pot

June, 1999
by Mike Vanderboegh

As an amateur historian of this sad century whose time is almost up, I would like to reflect upon six lessons I have learned in my studies. Folks who wish to live free and prosperous in the next century would do well to understand the failures of the past.

LESSON NO. 1: If a bureaucrat, or a soldier sent by a bureaucrat, comes to knock down your door and take you someplace you do not want to go because of who you are or what you think -- kill him. If you can, kill the politician who sent him. You will likely die anyway, and you will be saving someone else the same fate. For it is a universal truth that the intended victims always far outnumber the tyrant's executioners. Any nation which practices this lesson will quickly run out of executioners and tyrants, or they will run out of it.

LESSON NO. 2: If a bureaucrat, or a soldier sent by a bureaucrat, comes to knock down your door and confiscate your firearms -- kill him. The disarmament of law-abiding citizens is the required precursor to genocide.

LESSON NO. 3: If a bureaucrat tells you that he must know if you have a firearm so he can put your name on a list for the common good, or wants to issue you an identity card so that you be more easily identified -- tell him to go to hell. Registration of people and firearms is the required precursor to the tyranny which permits genocide. Bureaucrats cannot send soldiers to doors that are not on their list.

LESSON NO. 4: Believe actions, not words. Tyrants are consummate liars. Just because a tyrant is "democratically elected" does not mean he believes in democracy. Reference Adolf Hitler, 1932.

And just because a would-be tyrant mouths words of reverence to law and justice, or takes a solemn oath to uphold a constitution, does not mean be believes such concepts apply to him. Reference Bill Clinton, among others.

The language of the lie is just another tool of killers. A sign saying "Arbeit Macht Frei" (Work Makes You Free) posted above an execution camp gate does not mean that anybody gets out of there alive, and a room labeled "Showers" does not necessarily make you clean. Bill Clinton notwithstanding, the meaning of "is" is plain when such perverted language gets you killed. While all tyrants are liars, it is true that not all political liars are would-be tyrants -- but they bear close watching. And keep your rifle handy.

LESSON NO. 5: Our constitutional republic as crafted by the Founders is the worst form of government in the world, except when compared to all the others. Capitalism, as well, is a terrible way to run an economy, except when compared to all other economic systems. Unrestrained democracy is best expressed as three wolves and a sheep sitting down to vote on what to have for dinner. The horrors of collectivism in all its forms -- socialism, communism, national socialism, fascism -- have been demonstrated beyond dispute by considerable wasteful trial and bloody error. Leaders such as Bill Clinton who view the Constitution as inconvenient and ignorable are harbingers of tyranny.

LESSON NO. 6: While nations do not always get the leaders they deserve, they always get the leaders they tolerate. And anyone who tells you that "It Can't Happen Here" is whistling past the graveyard of history. There is no "house rule" that bars tyranny coming to America. History is replete with republics whose people grew complacent and descended into imperial butchery and chaos. Dictators count on the assistance of people who are complacent, fearful, envious, lazy and corrupt. While there is no "Collective guilt" to the crimes of a regime (all such crimes being committed by specific criminal individuals), there is certainly "collective responsibility" -- especially for those who watch the criminals at work without objecting or interfering.

A French journalist of the last century wrote: "I must speak out, for I will not be an accomplice." Evil tyrants require, indeed they depend upon, willing and unwilling accomplices -- good people who would never think of harming a soul themselves. Lenin called such people "useful idiots."

De Tocqueville observed that "America is great because America is good. When America ceases to be good, she will cease to be great." As related in the Old Testament, God judged nations based upon the immorality and criminality of their leaders. Entire peoples were scourged because of their failure to remove corrupt leaders.

As we move from the Twentieth Century into the Twenty-First, we should take care to remember the ancient story of Sodom and Gomorrah. If we wish to avoid the butchery of the Twentieth Century and the righteous judgment of the God of our antiquity, we would do well to keep our Bibles, our Constitution and our firearms close at hand.
Remember, folks, DON'T GET ON THE BOXCAR.

Kill the thug sent to put you on it.

Then kill the collectivist politician who sent him.

Kill them all, to the end of time.

Unless, of course, you are willing to have some little girl that you love and cherish end up as a ghostly image in a murder archive.

Mike
III

"
Someone ever tries to kill you, you try to kill 'em right back!" -- Malcolm Reynolds, Firefly.

16 comments:

Dennis308 said...

But I tell you this: I will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night.

I can think of no better words.


Dennis
III
Texas

Unknown said...

Guess we'll see how this plays out with the Mexican invasion in Arizona and Texas. I hope they (the Feds) do not let that poor sheriff get splattered all over the dessert... If that happens, it might just spark another "Remember the Alamo" event

Anonymous said...

Thanks Mike,

A lesson that many more need to read and understand. I've passed it along to my friends.

Anonymous said...

That, sir, is one of the BIGGEST differences between progressives/liberals/communists, and everyone else that believes in freedom and the individual.
The p/l/c believes, to the bottom of their heart and soul, in the sanctity of the collective state. ANd anyone who deviates from that belief in expressing any form of individualism, needs to be eliminated for the good of the state. Hence all the executions of these dangerous people who wanted nothing more then to be left alone. To the p/l/c collectivist, such heresy cannot be allowed to stand unchallenged.

God rest the souls of the executed ones.

B Woodman
III-per

Sean said...

Well, tyranny HAS come to America, and now what? I know, let's talk about it some more. Yeah, that's the ticket.

Female III said...

Mike, thank you so much for re-posting your words. Most of us know inside what it is we must do when tyranny comes to our door. Having someone (especially someone we trust) reassure us that our guts are guiding us correctly is like being handed a belt-fed weapon. I assure you I will be passing every one of them along to others who have hungered for the reassurance.

Jimmy2Times said...

Hey Mike, a question for you.

History has demonstrated time and time again (since the begining or recorded history, actually) all of the good that comes from tyrants and dictatorships. So as a society armed with that knowledge, why do all governments eventually devolve into such a state?

I know that somewhere in the answer lies the unsatiable need for money, power, and control. But I was hoping you could elaborate on why things always end up this way.

Thanks,

J2T
III

Anonymous said...

Talk about "spinning" the copy pasted truth ...

No wonder you guys still believe we came from a story with a snake in ...


A scared person carries a gun,

a scarred person goes on about it,

what did your good Lord tell you ?

"turn your weapons into plows and you might just get out of the hole yall in..."

maybe it's time for a little less

comix talk , cereal box religion

and a bit of focus on

progress ?

by the sounds of it you DO need a war, just to realize it's the worst thing to wish for in life, stop romantisizing it, the moment a loved one is bloody dying in your arms you'll be the saddest bugger on the block, at that dark point in time, neither a bullet or gun engineering will bring back these here luxurious times of toughtalkin' discussions,

grow up fellas, still loads of alternatives and options open, you sound like a bunch of revolutionaries lost in the swamps over there, the Taliban sells their crew, exactly the same drivvle, while reading Playboy and sipping John, ironic heh ?

Anonymous said...

All evil needs to succeed is for the good men to do nothing.

Anonymous said...

Thanks Mike ... let us never forget these [your] words of wisdom and especially the factual history behind your thesis!

John
Idaho

Dennis308 said...

Anon 09:13

I have held a loved ones bloody and torn body in my arms and know how terrible that is.

No one wants a war that is what we have all been trying our best to avoid. But a war and all the pain that goes with it is far better than the collectivist servitude that this time is being called Progress.

Now I ask You who will be the one holding your body in their arms and crying their loss.

Dennis
III
Texas

MamaLiberty said...

[quote]
still loads of alternatives and options open,
[/quote]

Too bad you remain "anonymous" when you have all the answers. Care to share any of those other alternatives with us?

All we ask is to be LEFT ALONE. Since that is obviously not going to happen, and the powers that be are happy to murder us for even having the temerity to want such a thing, the only options left are to be killed - or to defend ourselves.

Our attackers must take responsibility for the results. They decided to attack us. We would be perfectly happy to be left alone.

So we must kill them when they come to murder us and our families, or lay down and die. The only other possibility is abject slavery.

Which of those options work for you?

Anonymous said...

Anonymous... "To everythng there is a season... a time for peace, a time for war... a time to lay down our weapons and a time for gathering our weapons..."
"He has prepared my hands for war..."
"they who will not defend their loved ones are worse than non-believers..."
Don't try useing one verse from the Bible to put send people on a guilt trip.
Especially since you intimate being a non-believer, your feeble attempt at condemning those who do is foolishness exemplified by "He has closed the eyes of the non-believer..." and "believeing themselves to be wise, He has made them all fools..."
We can go on and on but the lessons will be lost on all like you who want to wallow in the kool-aid.
Shy III

Jimmy the Saint said...

@Anonymous (August 4, 2010 9:13 AM):

Mr. Anonymous, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.

Anonymous said...

Jimmy2Times said;
"So as a society armed with that knowledge, why do all governments eventually devolve into such a state?"

Jimmy, There is a great quote from Merlin in Excalibur "...it is the doom of men that they forget."

I think that sums it up.

-Bubba Man (one of the Bubbas of the Apocalypse)

Anonymous said...

from "anonymous 9:13"

it sounds very serious business guys,
I promise I won't interfere/comment with the end being nigh anymore.

Please continue and excuse my newly discovered ignorance.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8UgOvJVol8