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Monday, January 7, 2013

I disagree. I don't think WE misunderstand THEM at all.

A Divide Widened by Misunderstanding

The big divide in America is over German sociologist Max Weber’s 1919 lecture “Politics as Vocation,” in which he announced that the very definition of a state is “the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force.” Few Americans have read Weber, but his principle has been the core premise of the gun control movement, and anathema to the gun rights movement.

Many American Weberians are also “pacifist-aggressives”; that is they believe that it is wrong for anyone (or anyone other than a government employee) to use deadly force. Their demand to impose their personal morality on everyone else are fiercely resisted by people who (like Enlightenment philosophers such as Grotius, Puffendorf, and Locke) see self-defense as the most fundamental of all inherent, natural rights.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...: Oh I understand alright. Ever since 1961. From the "ya can't make this stuff up" file....
http://dosfan.lib.uic.edu/ERC/arms/freedom_war.html

gee, and to think I could have purchased a copy for the price of a McDonald's hamburger at the time. Goes to show you inflation isn't discriminatory. note to self..file under "I wish I had known". Some people will wish they had understood the REAL meaning of the 2nd Amendment too...when it's too late to use it. BAH!; January 7, 2013 at 9:58 AM
Anonymous said...: Too many people still believe that we can compromise and just get along.

Didn't work with any tyrant ever and won't work here either, except for the tyrant. And make no mistake here, we now have that government and it will never stop until the own everything and everyone.

They can only exists where there is fear, controlled information, conspirators and slavery.; January 7, 2013 at 11:25 AM
Happy D said...: Good lord read the comments over there.
More ignorance of the issue per square inch than I thought possible. The very center of the low information voter view of the world.
Few comment posts even tried to think outside the Quisling box.; January 7, 2013 at 3:34 PM
sofa said...: It's understood: We are "Absolved".; January 7, 2013 at 7:40 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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