To a collectivist screed writer: "Why you should get down on your knees and thank whatever god you worship that there is an NRA."

Dave Perry, latter-day Julius Streicher.

Well, here I go again, trying to warn a latter-day Julius Streicher about the unintended consequences of his actions. The offending screed: We can only save ourselves from kidnappers at the NRA -- I’m talking about the real terrorist threat here in America: the National Rifle Association

My reply:

-----Original Message-----

From: georgemason1776@aol.com

To: dperry dperry@aurorasentinel.com

Sent: Tue, May 7, 2013 9:38 am

Subject: re: Why you should get down on your knees and thank whatever god you worship that there is an NRA.

My dear Mr. Perry,

Having read your histrionic screed on the National Rifle Association, wherein you label them, among other things, "freaks," "terrorists," "liars," and extortionists, I must say that it is one of the most remarkable examples of evil hysteria since your fellow newspaperman Julius Streicher declared that "The Jew is a devil in human form (and) it is fitting that he be exterminated root and branch." You may recall that Streicher was Hitler's favorite "journalist" and shaped the predicate of the Holocaust with his Nazi propaganda. You may also recall that he met a fitting end at Nuremberg in 1946, dancing the executioner's jig.

Here is what he looked like afterward, in a commonplace outcome of the iron-clad Law of Unintended Consequences:

As near as I can figure out by sifting through your frenzied illogic and dehumanizing name calling (another Streicher trademark), you seem distressed that the NRA, using long accepted political methods which are perfectly legal, has frustrated the demands of the citizen disarmament advocates for more of American firearm owners' liberty and property. You label these five million of your fellow citizens a "cancerous threat" -- the same language that Streicher used referring to the Jews. I conclude therefore that your use of such dehumanizing language has the same purpose as Streicher's -- to literally deny the humanity of people you seek to marginalize, oppress and, if they prove too troublesome to your collectivist purpose, kill. (I refer you to Victor Klemperer's classic, The Language of the Third Reich.)

Oh, you will claim, that is hyperbole. Your "purpose" you claim (even to the point of self-delusion) is to save lives and "stop the carnage" of garden-variety felons and the rare mass shooter. Yet does not every federal law come with the threat of arrest for non-compliance? Are not the raid parties who enforce them not armed to the teeth and prepared to use deadly force? You may ask the Davidians, if you can find any left alive. So your allegedly benign purpose -- which your dehumanizing propaganda serves -- comes wrapped in a threat of iron-fisted violence from the state. Couple that with the fact that it seeks to further rob us of our pre-existing and eternal God-given, natural and inalienable rights to life, liberty and property as passed down from the Founders, which the Constitution merely codifies, and perhaps even someone as fact-challenged as yourself might be willing to admit that when seen from our side of the argument, that makes you little more than a latter-day Streicher, using your newspaper for the advocacy of tyrannical state power.

Which brings me to the reason why you should get down on your knees and thank whatever god you worship that there IS an NRA.

You see, as long as the political process works to frustrate your appetite for our liberty and property, no one's life is at risk. It is only when you defeat political advocacy groups such as the NRA and Gun Owners of America with the passage of your tyrannical laws that other methods of redress kick in. For when democracy turns to tyranny, the armed citizen still gets to vote. And it seems to me more than mildly ironic that in your alleged crusade to "stop the carnage" that you are willing to stack up hundreds of thousands of bodies in another civil war of those whom you have dehumanized in order that you may work your will upon us. Indeed, how many of us are you willing to kill to achieve your purpose? A hundred thousand? Five? A million? Ten million? For that is what it will take. Ask yourself now how big the mass graves you seek need to be.

In addition, it is merely polite to point out that those who are willing to die for their principles are most often willing to kill in righteous self-defense of them as well. Also pertinent are Bill Clinton's changes to the U.S. military's rules of engagement in 1999, when he declared the political, intellectual and media underpinnings of the Serbian war effort to be legitimate targets of war. Streicher, had he been Milosovic's propagandist, would not have had to wait for a war crimes tribunal to settle his account. His dehumanizing propaganda in service of the tyrannical state would have been terminated by a precision-guided munition, or a rifle bullet -- which amounts to the same thing.

Thus you should arise from your bed and thank whatever god you worship that the NRA -- and the political system it is able to use to frustrate your purpose -- exists. The alternative is bloody massacre on a scale this country has never seen. Or, as the Chinese say, "be careful what you wish for, you may get it."

Your fellow dehumanizing propagandist Julius Streicher could tell you that, if you can summon up the shade of his tormented soul from Hell.

Mike Vanderboegh

PO Box 926

Pinson, AL 35126

http://sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com