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I'd planned writing another chapter today. The new novel's going
very well, I'm enjoying myself and laying down some of the best
material of my career.
But then some butt-stupid social parasite, with the rich, ripe
contents of an antique porcelain chamberpot for a brain, went and
declared it "Turn Off the Violence Day", filling the frequencies from
530 to 1650 kHz with some of the most feeble-minded head-dribblings
it's ever been my misfortune to listen to.
It isn't so much that these morally disadvantaged mouth-breathers
(and the mass-media happy hookers who pull their doolies for them)
really think their whining can deflect a bullet. That's just
ignorance, or lack of intelligence, and in either instance, natural
selection will deal with it, eventually. But hearing some uniformed
goon with a a big shiny gun (and a big shiny badge to make it okay)
prescribe over and over, through the day's programming rotation, a
course of suicidal pacifism on the part of those he's been giving the
same bureaucratically self-serving "advice" for decades -- and
demanding censorship of anyone politically incorrect enough to
disagree -- proved more than I could stomach.
The fact is, these stumbling louts and the office-squatting,
axe-grinding politicos behind them, don't give a fabulous furry fig
whether the policies they impose on everybody else save lives,
property, and rights or not. These saliva-drenched anticompetents
have long since proven themselves helpless to deal effectively with
the least of America's problems, despite having used all their
illicit power and deadly weapons to extort trillions and trillions
from those of us with honest jobs. What's crucial to these arrogant,
bloated tax-vacuums is retaining control by an utterly nonproductive
class over those who do the work, create the wealth, and take the
risks to build and maintain civilization.
Today's urban violence, unprecedented in history, was created by
socialist policies like minimum wage, professional licensure, victim
disarmament, and drug prohibition. It could be switched off tomorrow
-- or this afternoon -- by reversing those policies. Regions of this
country molded by socialism have rates of violence so high they
overwhelm figures for the rest of the country, figures that prove
productive-class Americans to be the most peaceful people on the
planet. Politicians know this, but it's easier to blame the
productive class, or more precisely, the unfettered exercise of
individual rights. And urban violence offers so many convenient
justifications for abrogating those rights.
In any case, given what we now know about the real America, I
don't want to discuss the British any more, the Japanese, or the
Swiss. True, Helvetians arm themselves to the dentures like
Americans, but solely by government edict, purely in defense of the
almighty state, and apparently that's less effective when it comes to
combatting criminality than the "haphazard" manner (for which read,
"operating through spontaneous order") in which sloppy old Americans
do things.
Now contrast the abysmal failure of socialism to eradicate urban
violence with the casual ease with which the merest relaxation of
unconstitutional laws against individual weapons-carry has turned the
tide. We civilians can take care of urban violence in short order,
if only the damp-panties crowd will let go of our elbow. (And if
they won't, they're gonna get that elbow in their eye.)
Violence overwhelmed urban America not because we're a violent
people (we aren't) but because Americans forgot (or were persuaded to
disregard the fact) that self-defense is an individual bodily
function just like eating, sleeping, eliminating, breathing, or
making love. It cannot be handed off to anybody else, no matter how
flashy the uniform, impressive the degree, authoritative the
"expert", lopsided the opinion poll, or intimidating the
unconstitutional statute.
The police are attacked only a third as frequently as civilians
(and wear armor and carry radios to summon backup). Yet these
"highly-trained experts" somehow manage to shoot the wrong person
five times as often as we do. The real question is, why let some
chair-warming buckethead hand us papers to fill out, take our
fingerprints, or give us other hoops jump through to get state
permission to eat, sleep, eliminate, breathe, make love, or defend
ourselves, when the ones who most need watching -- and perhaps even
disarming -- are the cops?
There ain't no "thin blue line", ladies and gentlemen, only
a deep red stream.
It's a deep red stream that cops and crooks wade through alike,
without a thought or care. Whenever we of the productive class
object to being waded through by predators that the blue-suit
street-gang can't catch (which is why they pick on us: we may not be
guilty, but we stay in one place and are so much easier to
apprehend) or by the jackbooted thugs themselves, they sneer at those
of us who make their elevated living standard possible, and call us
"assholes" or "scum". For generations they've lived by the secret
police proverb that "a civilian is simply a criminal who hasn't been
caught yet". If you doubt me, read Joseph Wambaugh -- or ask a cop
and watch his eyes.
A recent internet tagline reminds us that the idea behind gun
control is that black people will be better off if only Mark Fuhrman
is allowed to have a gun.
Since 1900 (independent of war fatalities) governments
"instituted among men" on the excuse of protecting us from one
another have murdered 120 million people. U.S. hands are far from
clean: look up Operation Keelhaul, or think back to Mount Carmel and
a Chief Executive who took the 60s exhortation "burn baby burn" too
literally. The chances of this situation getting better soon are
slender, since the GOP decided to nominate the only organism in the
Solar System capable of losing an election to mass-murderer William
Jefferson Blythe Nosecandy.
Do all these bottom-feeding sociobabblers and whimpering
copsuckers who've been polluting my radio today really want to "turn
off the violence"? Knowing their lying, hypocritical record as well
as I do, I seriously doubt it. But let me offer them a bit of
thoroughly-grounded, historically informed advice anyway:
Turn off the government, first.
My home on the web, The Webley Page: www.webleyweb.com/lneil/
My e-zine The Libertarian Enterprise: www.webleyweb.com/tle/
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