K Street bets on Harry Reid.

Well, why wouldn't they?

The next sovereign debt crisis. Where? Look out the window.

Got militia?

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.

An important public service.

I'm with Pete. These folks need our support.

Another day older and deeper in debt. . .

You load sixteen tons, and what do you get?

another day older and deeper in debt

St. Peter, don't you call me, 'cause I can't go

I owe my soul to the company store. - 16 Tons, written by Merle Travis.

State debt rises.

Oh, what sad times are these when passing ruffians can jump out and pummel defenseless naked drunks.

Roger the Shrubber: Oh, what sad times are these when passing ruffians can say Ni at will to old ladies. There is a pestilence upon this land, nothing is sacred. Even those who arrange and design shrubberies are under considerable economic stress in this period in history.
King Arthur: Did you say shrubberies?
Roger the Shrubber: Yes, shrubberies are my trade. I am a shrubber. My name is Roger the Shrubber. I arrange, design, and sell shrubberies.

One wonders what Roger the Shrubber would make of this.

In the insatiable appetite for control, Obamanoid EPA seeks to regulate farm dust.

"On the collective farms of the future, Dear Leader Obama will prevent the scandalous waste of topsoil represented by the photo above. He will do this by jailing the disobedient kulaks and taking away their fuel-wasting farm vehicles."

That's right, the EPA is going to control dust.

Project Vigilant: "'Give them everything you have.'" More than merely interesting.

Tyranny has many handmaidens.

Praxis: Urban Varmint Rifle

Y'all may recall this post at WRSA the other day on the "Guerrilla Sniper Rifle" in .308.

Now Pete has given us this discussion of the same sort of rifle in .243. I like this proposed platform a lot, especially for those of smaller stature who might find the larger caliber rifle's recoil onerous.

The .243 has much to recommend it as a cartridge and the Savage/Stevens action is an excellent platform.

Space weather warning. Large coronal mass ejection (CME) blasting in the direction of Earth. ETA 3 August.

My thanks to Spider Ted for forwarding this space weather warning.

This morning's solar flare could be expected to cause some minor issues with communications over the next 4 days.

http://news.discovery.com/space/incoming-the-sun-unleashes-cme-at-earth.html

Earlier this morning, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) witnessed a complex magnetic eruption on the sun. The joint NASA/ESA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) -- a mission sitting at the L1 point between the Earth and the sun -- also spotted a large coronal mass ejection (CME) blasting in the direction of Earth.

Another neo-Nazi poster boy.

At least this one's heterosexual, unlike his Austrian male prostitute Fuehrer.

Comes the dawn . . .

Dawn in the Arizona desert.

‘Our Own Government Has Become Our Enemy’

Charlie Quintard in Africa.

Sudan's "Arrow Boys."

There are no obsolete weapons, only obsolete tactics.

We really ARE everywhere.

On a pickup truck in Michigan.

And, allegedly,


Deep under the Gulf of Mexico on the capping stack containing BP's leaking well.

"No Soup For You!" Michelle Obama, Food Nazi.

Remember Seinfeld's "Soup Nazi" yelling "No soup for you!"?



Now we have Michelle Obama saying "You vill eat vat ve tell you to eat!"

"No soup for you that is not government approved!"

Waging a campaign of persuasion against childhood obesity is one thing. Enlisting the power of the federal government to compel it is something else again.

Just in case you were wondering: "The Federal government can do most anything in this country."

"The criminals are going to run wild."

"California Market owner Richard Rhee returns fire at looters approaching his market in Koreatown, Los Angeles on the second day of the Los Angeles Riots."

Got militia?

Anecdotal proof of G. Gordon Liddy's low opinion of "Correction Officers." Aryan Brotherhood at work?

A tip of the boonie hat to Stan for this link.

Peake said Tuso kept guns for him and said they'd been "stealing guns for the purpose of overthrowing the federal government" (of the United States of America.) Peake said he and Tuso together are members of this organization. Peake refused to name that organization and told police he would " kill to defend his country and he was stealing weapons to defend his country."

Anybody want to take my bet that these pukes are members of the Aryan Brotherhood or some such racial collectivist bunch?

People, ALWAYS be aware of your surroundings when you are at the range. If you feel something is hinky and you don't have someone to back you up, leave backing up with your loaded weapon in your hands. This is not the first time this has happened.

Mike
III

2 prison guards face charges for shooting range homicide

By: Ben Russell
7/31 4:33 pm

Two corrections officers from the State Correctional Institution at Camp Hill are charged in the shooting death of a Cumberland County attorney and the theft of his custom, silenced rifle, authorities announced late Friday.

Raymond Peake, 64, of Hampden Township, Cumberland County is charged with homicide, robbery and other crimes for the shooting death of Todd Getgen, 42, of Enola. The shooting happened last Wednesday at a State Game Commission rifle range in North Middleton Township, Cumberland County.

According to Cumberland County District Attorney David Freed, a witness told investigators they saw a man matching Peake's description driving away from the rifle range on the afternoon of Wednesday, July 21, the day Getgen was found shot to death.

On Thursday, July 29, officers began surveillance of Peake and followed him to a sporting goods store, where Freed said Peake purchased a gun cabinet. From there Freed said Peake drove to the Perry County home of Thomas Tuso, 34, of Duncannon, Perry County. Tuso is also a guard at SCI Camp Hill.

Freed told CBS 21 News that officers witnessed Peake carrying a heavy, black duffel bag out of Tuso's home. From there, detectives followed Peake to a storage unit facility south of Carlisle, Freed said. According to the district attorney, Peake then put the bag and the gun cabinet into a storage unit.

On Friday investigators executed three search warrants; at the storage unit, at Peake's home and at Tuso's home.

Freed said police found three firearms inside of the storage unit. One was Getgen's custom, silenced AR-15 rifle that was stolen from the range the day of his death. The second was a scoped Remington rifle that had been reported stolen from the same range in May. And the third gun was another AR-15 that Freed said ballistics may prove to be the murder weapon.

Freed said authorities confronted Peake and Tuso at the Camp Hill prison Friday.

Tuso is charged with conspiracy, receiving stolen property and other crimes, Freed said. Tuso's only connection to Getgen's homicide was storing the weapons, according to the district attorney.

On Saturday, CBS 21 News obtained court records. In them, Peake told police during an interview that he and Getgen were the only two people at the range. Peake said he found Getgen dead, then took his AR-15 with the attached suppressor. Peake said he later took the AR-15 to Thomas Tuso's home for the purpose of having Tuso keep it for him in Tuso's bedroom. Peake said he told Tuso that the weapon was from the man killed at the rifle range. Peake said Tuso kept guns for him and said they'd been " stealing guns for the purpose of overthrowing the federal government" ( of the United State of America.) Peake said he and Tuso together are members of this organization. Peake refused to name that organization and told police he would " kill to defend his country and he was stealing weapons to defend his country."

I'm ashamed to say I missed this announcement.

Charles H. Sawders, aka "Straightarrow." has passed over the bar. May God help and comfort his family.

He was one of the original Three Percenters and I will miss his counsel.

Mike
III

Facing the arithmetic. If you read nothing else today, read this.

At WRSA.