GUNS AND RACE

I don’t often read Ann Coulter, since she’s much too acidic for my taste.  But her piece Negroes with Guns hits more than one nail squarely on the head, so much so that I’m tempted to ask her to help me build a gazebo in my back yard.

The main points are these.

The Democrats, both ante- and post-bellum, have always sought to keep weapons out of the hands of blacks, to keep them defenseless and therefore  submissive.  Hence their devotion to gun control.

The Republicans have always adhered to the right-to-keep-and-bear-arms perspective, both directly and through the NRA.  Wherever blacks had acquired arms and weren’t afraid to use them in self-defense, KKK vagaries had diminished.

A few pertinent quotes:

Gun control laws were originally promulgated by Democrats to keep guns out of the hands of blacks. This allowed the Democratic policy of slavery to proceed with fewer bumps and, after the Civil War, allowed the Democratic Ku Klux Klan to menace and murder black Americans with little resistance.

…the KKK was an outgrowth of the Democratic Party, with overlapping membership rolls.

In 1640, the very first gun control law ever enacted on these shores was passed in Virginia. It provided that blacks — even freemen — could not own guns.

Chief Justice Roger Taney‘s infamous opinion in Dred Scott v. Sandford circularly argued that blacks could not be citizens because if they were citizens, they would have the right to own guns: “[I]t would give them the full liberty,” he said, “to keep and carry arms wherever they went.”

After the [Civil] war, Democratic legislatures enacted “Black Codes,” denying black Americans the right of citizenship — such as the rather crucial one of bearing arms — while other Democrats (sometimes the same Democrats) founded the Ku Klux Klan.

Under authority of the Anti-Klan Act, President Grant deployed the U.S. military to destroy the Klan, and pretty nearly completed the job.  But the Klan had a few resurgences in the early and mid-20th century. Curiously, wherever the Klan became a political force, gun control laws would suddenly appear on the books.

The NRA opposed these discretionary gun permit laws and proceeded to grant NRA charters to blacks who sought to defend themselves from Klan violence — including the great civil rights hero Robert F. Williams.

All in all, this is an article worth reading, for the historical perspective of it — if you can stand the more-than-occasional squirt of battery acid.

It is also worth noting that gun control is a tried-and-true pattern in every dictatorship: the ruling caste has control of all meaningful forms of power, the slave castes are powerless and are zealously kept so.

How does that apply to us?  Simple.  Today’s Democratic Party remains devoted to gun control.  Key Democratic personages hallucinate about a “permanent Democratic majority” (i.e. a one-Party state).  The Democratic Occupy White House character has a great impatience with the Constitution and is given to rule by decree.

Therefore, clinging to our guns (not to coin a phrase, or anything) may be the surest way to keep the Party of the KKK at bay, thus preserving democracy.

VERY BAD DOG

Now, things aren’t safe even on top of the microwave (about 4-1/2 feet off the floor).

MAURICE SENDAK – REQUIESCAT IN PACE!

This indispensable man died yesterday.  All my wild things are crying disconsolately.

Mr. Sendak will be sorely missed.

CANINE DEJECTION

Prozac, please!

EVICTING ORDINARY PEOPLE TO BENEFIT 1% GREENIE WEENIES

Error Theory has an interesting April 07, 2012 exposé about a pattern of evictions and confiscations of isolated residences throughout California’s Mojave Desert.  This process, a brainchild of LA County Supervisor Antonovich, was something that Lenin would have been proud of.  It was carried out by “legal” means, namely sending out so-called Nuisance Abatement Teams (NATs) to “[hit] people with an ever-increasing list of code violations, imposing whatever it took to drive residents out.”  Too often, this meant fix-or-dismantle orders.

The NAT inspectors apparently let the cat out of the bag a few times.  However, Antonovich’s office denied any ulterior motive, claiming instead that “neighbors” had complained about the violations.

These so -called neighbors turned out to be over thirty utility companies that had their pet politicians grab the land to build “renewable” power installations, to satisfy the diktat of a 2006 California law which demands that retail energy providers had to derive 20% of their energy from renewables (to go up to 33% by 2020), no matter how much it costs the users and taxpayers.  A number of these companies are big-time recipients of Obama’s greenie largesse; with one of them, First Power, benefiting to the tune of $3.73 billion.

Unconscionable, undemocratic, but alas, all too Democratic these days.

Stand by for much more of the same if Obama is reelected.

CZECHOSLOVAKIA’S DIRTY, SOCIALIST PAST

The Czech Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes now has  a link to the Secret Services Archives from the Communist (1945-1990) era.  Good place to go for any interested persons to discover the dirt…

…if you’re strong enough, that is.  Imagine the chagrin of literary-minded persons when they found out that Milan Kundera (the Unbearable Lightness of Being, etc.) had allegedly been an informer, having reported to the secret police a young Czech pilot, Miroslav Dvořáček.

Such denunciations, which had the potential for ruining people’s lives, took place too many times during the Communist era.  The report of Kundera’s denunciation may or may not be true (Kundera denies it), but the affair certainly illustrates the moral compromises that  people had to make on a daily basis to survive, too often at the expense of others.

This is an indelible feature of the true face of socialism.  For a comprehensive illustration of how this perverse system worked, I heartily recommend the German film The Lives of Others.

A STAIRCASE WITH A VIEW

Jasper languidly observes those beneath him.

RARE FRAGMENTS FROM HITLER’S PAST

When Adolf Hitler rose to power, he began a systematic liquidation of documents that shed any light on his earlier life, the better to compose his own legend.  This is why Hitler-related documents from the pre-Nazi era are so rare today.

Two such rarities have emerged in the past year (h/t iDNES and Daily Mail).

The first is a 1916 post card that just surfaced during a Europeana digital project road show event in Munich.  A hospitalized Hitler had written it to a regimental pal Karl Lanzhammer, promising his speedy recovery and voluntary return to the front.

Armchair psychologists make much of this postcard.  They claim, for instance that Hitler’s desire to return to the front voluntarily as soon as he could is a sign of –  fill in whatever psychological baggage appeals to you today  — .  Ditto for he fact that Hitler apparently didn’t keep in touch with his family and his pre-war acquaintances, only with his army buddies; ergo he saw the army as his real home, ergo there are all kinds of psychological implications, etc. etc.  I myself say 20-20 hindsight bunk, but okay.  People are free to think.

The second document, which gives an ominous preview of Hitler’s perspective on the so-called Jewish Question, was revealed in June 2011 by the Simon Wiesenthal Center.  Unlike any other document concerning Jews, it actually contains his signature.

Hitler created the document, dated September 16, 1919, while assigned to a German Army propaganda unit, as a result of an order to articulate the German Army’s position on Jews.  He concluded that the German government’s final goal must be Entfernung der Juden (removal of Jews).  He identified Judaism as a race, not a religion, that has been preserved “through a thousand years of inbreeding” and is only concerned with “the pursuit of money and power….The result of which is that a non-German race lives among us with its feelings, thoughts and aspirations, while having all the same rights as we do.”  And: “To accomplish these goals, only a government of national power is capable and never a government of national weakness.”

Parenthetically, Hitler was also spying on the German Workers Party at the time.  This was a tiny group, founded only six months earlier from members of the Free Workers’ Committee for a Good Peace.  He was invited to join, took it over withing a year, and built in into the National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP, or Nazi party).  The NSDAP would give him the “government of strength” that he wanted and, before three decades’s end, he would come very close to his stated goal of Entfernung der Juden.

The document, which puts post-paid to all denier claims that Hitler didn’t know about the Holocaust because he never signed anything related to it, is now on permanent display at the Wiesenthal Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles.

MY AUNT VERA WAS AN INDIAN!

Elizabeth Warren, the über-loony Harvard professorette of law and national socialist candidate for the U.S. Senate, says that she is Indian, uh, Amerind, I mean Native American.  As evidence, she said that her aunt said that her grandfather had high cheekbones, “like all Indians do.”

This impeccably scientific assessment is only the latest turn in the ridiculous saga of Warren’s claim to Native American heritage whenever playing this particular race card might prove advantageous to her.  Such as a claim to fame, or at least notoriety, as the “first Native American professor of law at Harvard,” a $150,000 interest-free loan from Harvard, being much caressed by the Obama White House for idiotic economic theories, or getting a leg up in a Senate race against a – collective gasp of horror! – white male.

Calls from genuine Native Americans for Warren to back up her claims have so far gone unanswered, except for sporadic sputtering from Warren that she never, not ever, claimed to be an Indian, or that she only did so to find “others like her.”

Which amounts to little more than the proverbial hill of beans.

But I digress.  I also claim Native American heritage, on account of my aunt Vera’s high cheekbones.  I might add that this is not just some report from a relative – it is something I had witnessed myself. and present here as evidence.

Just check out them impressive zygos on Aunt Vera!  Proof-positive that, at least on my mother’s side, I’m firmly ensconced as a member of the South Bohemian Band of Cherokee (originally known as Doudlebové).

It’s a little more problematic on my father’s side – no prominent cheekbones that I remember.  But he was a Jew, and the Northern Cherokee Nation of Old Louisiana Territory claims Jewish roots, and so it all sort of fits together, in a postmodern, minority-worshiping, non-linear thinking, politically correct kind of way…

Anyway, you get the picture.  I am a redskin, through and through.

So, somebody’d better start showering me with benefits, and soon, or I’m going straight to Eric Holder to complain!

AIN’T GOING NOWHERE, NO WAY, NOHOW!

If you’re going to roll in something, take your time and do it right!