Sipsey Street Irregulars: Howard Nemerov asks, "Why should the ATF tell the truth about Mexico’s guns…"

Friday, March 11, 2011

Howard Nemerov asks, "Why should the ATF tell the truth about Mexico’s guns…"

"…when a lie works better?"

Nemerov quotes Dan Gifford who quotes this familiar neo-con face:

Passing a law like the assault weapons ban is symbolic — purely symbolic … In fact, the assault weapons ban will have no effect either on the crime rate or on personal security. Nonetheless, it is a good idea … Its only real justification is not to reduce crime but to desensitize the public to the regulation of weapons in preparation for their ultimate confiscation … Ultimately, a civilized society must disarm its citizenry if it is to have a modicum of domestic tranquillity of the kind enjoyed in sister democracies like Canada and Britain … Yes, Sarah Brady is doing God’s work. -- Charles Krauthammer, 1996.

No wonder Krauthammer has no difficulty getting face time on the networks.

6 comments:

Graves said...: Mike, the comment about Sarah Brady doing God's work leads me to believe that conclusion is dipped and served in sarcasm.; March 11, 2011 at 2:11 PM
Unknown said...: Plus one for Graves.
Sarcastic yes, anti, not by any stretch.; March 11, 2011 at 3:28 PM
Firehand said...: Remember reading about this at the time; really pissed me off. Especially considering the Brit crime rates were shooting up at the time he said this crap.; March 11, 2011 at 5:40 PM
Keith said...: It sounds like a re run of "Christian" Progressive rhetoric from the Nineteen teens.

Then they claimed they were "Making the world fit for Ch--st's return" by prohibiting alcohol and tobacco, and all sorts of other things they perceived as "evil".

That's where the forefathers of today's jackbooted thugs got a start in kicking down doors.

Rather than fire them all when alcohol prohibition ended, FDR and Morganthau gave them another letter to their title in 1934. F, for Firearms.

"Christian" Progressives, "Doing G-d's work"?

Allong with the Domminicans and the Pietists, they're more like Christianity's own version of "The Satanic Verses"; March 11, 2011 at 6:32 PM
Graves said...: I see the full text has been posted above. I did a very short search but was unable to confirm if my suspicions were correct, and it looks like I was wrong.

As always keep up the good work Mike.; March 11, 2011 at 6:48 PM
Anonymous said...: George Will Too!; March 12, 2011 at 12:54 PM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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