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For those who think anything is going to change in November.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8977
For those who know its not.
http://www.urbansurvival.com/week.htm
"Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire. "
"An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life. "
Robert A. Heinlein
"To Ride, Shoot Straight and Speak the Truth" Jeff Cooper
Things are going to change in November. They're going to get worse. About a 99.999% chance of it.
By change, I meant changing the "rolling down hill like a snowball headed for hell" Shameless Haggard reference.
You have done such a good job of keeping things like the Patriot Act from being approved, no wonder it will get worse.
"Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria."
When ever I hear these words, look for a strong turn toward the Right. Of course these are from my favorite fascist writer, Heinlein, who was always a fun read.
Well, TS Eliot could write quite well, and he even surpassed Heinlein in supporting fascism.
The Wasteland is still enjoyable to read.
"To Ride, Shoot Straight and Speak the Truth" Jeff Cooper
I believe that that saying originated in Persia; something like "teach him to ride, shoot well and speak only the truth".
Yeah, those disarmed Japanese display constant rudeness towards one another, while the Iraqis armed to the teeth get along with each other famously. People call Robert Heinlein's published fantasy life "science fiction" for a reason.
I wouldn't exactly call the Japenese disarmed, they just have a tradition of swords instead of firearms. Their fear of firearms dates back to the samurai, which made a peasant equal to the samurai on the battlefield, funny how that works out.
If you think an unarmed society has less crime, perhaps you should research what happend to the crime rate in England after Blair disarmed everyone. "Don't worry, the police are here to find out who robbed/raped/killed you."
DC says that the police aren't obligated to protect you, so what are they for?
Someone here said government would be lucky to answer the phones, sounds about right. They didn't even do that during Katrina.
Yes, the phrase is Persian. The book is by Jeff Cooper.
Guns don't create the courtesy, however. Sometimes they establish a delicate truce, sometimes a condition of enforced obedience.. I wouldn't confuse these with a culture that has established a tradition of courtesy. Our traditions of short-tempered rage and self-deprecating jealousy might too often upstage our wish for 'Polite Niceness'.
I am sure that this does not fit jrc9596's ideology, but twice, in two separate planning forums, New Orleanians were asked what they most wanted to preserve about our beloved city.
It was not music, food, architecture or even Mardi Gras
In both cases, by large margins, it was the way that we relate to each other.
Many native New Orleanians, after being forced out, lived for the first time elsewhere in the USA and were uniformly shocked by the social isolation prevalent elsewhere in the USA.
"People don't talk to each other".
Best Hopes for New Orleans,
Alan
You just have to give them lots of guns, and then they can talk about ammo and camo, safe in the knowldege that a people well-encumbered with pistolas will never be subjected to economic, educational or social deprivations. Who would dare?
problem solved!
No, we're just bitter, like our meat fresh, and very cynical of smooth talking lawyers and politicians.
Only been to New Orleans once during Mardi Gras in 93, seemed like a nice place but I didn't have much time or money so I didn't stay long. Like most places in the old south, people related to each other very well. Of course, it was a very dangerous city then as well.
Here in Oklahoma City alot of Katrina refugees have stayed because of the same small town atmosphere here that they had there. The rest of the states is pretty impersonal from what I have seen, but most of my travels in the past 10 years have been Europe and Aisa so I probably just have the wrong first impression.
How about the Swiss? Aren't all the the men between 19 and 54 required to have assault rifles at home?
something like that.
In 1946, the Swiss bought a shed load of tracked armoured vehicles from Germany. They were low profile , slanted armour 75 mm gunned high velocity weapon systems.
They were called the 'Hetzer' which is German for trouble maker.
aka Teenage boy.
One of these things could quite happly defend a mountain pass.
Nobody has fooked with the Swiss since Napoleon....
Hetzer:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hetzer