Letters to the Editor
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Bucky1,
Your fixation on the relationship between arms and tyranny is a bit extreme, as your comments clearly indicate. You hold these opinions because of the right wing crap you read. The Weimar Republic actually had more restrictive gun laws than those enacted by the Nazis when they came to power. Think about that. The Nazis actually liberalized the gun laws with the Reichswaffengesetz in 1938.
http://www.law.uchicago.edu/faculty/harcourt/harcourt_fordham.pdf
ON THE NRA, ADOLPH HITLER, GUN REGISTRATION,
AND THE NAZI GUN LAWS:
EXPLODING THE CULTURE WARS
[A Call to Historians]
Bernard E. Harcourt, Univ. of Chicago
While you are at it, you might want to read up on the Weimar Republic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weimar_Republic
It is true, the Nazis did prohibit possession of weapons by Jews shortly thereafter. Lots of different ethnic groups and minorities were persecuted, however, not just Jews. Now some may argue that stringent gun laws were enacted by the Weimar Republic in an attempt to curb the frequent outbreaks of unrest and violence caused by various fringe groups (like the Nazis or the Freikorps) and this is what allowed the Nazis to come to power. IOW, if only the Spartacist league and other socialists and communists had access to enough weapons, Hitler could have been stopped. (Excuse me for mentioning this but you don't seem like the type who would want to arm communists, socialists or leftists). Maybe we should have run around shooting Republicans and sticking them in the guts with a bayonet, like College Republicans, chickenhawks all, have been fantasizing about doing to Democrats for years. But only in the relative privacy and safety of their campus meeting halls, of course.
In Gang of Five, Nina J. Easton recounts a story from the early-1980s heyday of the College Republicans, under the lead of Grover Norquist and Ralph Reed. According to Easton, before sending out campus recruitment teams, Reed and other CR leaders would require members to memorize the infamous speech from the film Patton, substituting the word "Democrats" for the word "Nazis": "The Democrats are the enemy. Wade into them! Spill their blood! Shoot them in the belly!"
Sorry for spamming this quote, all. It just cracks me up every time I read it.
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Frankly, my dear, ...
Please do not leave out Paul, he is part of the tag team. I have told both that I will reply in the same manner as they post to me. In fact, most every post of mine is a reply to someone else who wrote to me. I do not have the nature to let these slimy insults pass. (perhaps the Scots-Irish in me)
However, I promise to be as polite as the slime team allows. No apology needed --- they just need to stop the insults.
I will not ignore the insults just so they "honored regulars" get to write any bestial thing they want to and insult others without retort --- that has been the problem all along.
I am betting that LWM can not stop. Time will tell.
Try to enjoy the rest of your Sunday morning.
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To me, sometimes I think the stork may have dropped us off at the wrong planet? Maybe.
I admit I'm not a news junkie. I browse enough to get nauseated.
There was a day (the Internet is a new hobby I do enjoy) I'd brood in dismay, no doubt, often it be so melancholy, I'd run off the Blue jay and the Blu'Igirl, drummer, and sword flame eater.
Whatever label we like to attach or feel fame and status about, nasty or not...It is good and informative here. If we no paragraph, only paraphrase, always doze, stay dazed, always flame throw, throw up, upchuck, or use dope? nope...Cordial, yes.
To me, it is a cordial, an elixir, a Maria-- a 'little flower'...
...It's easy to get petered out. The daily thought expressed HERE sure helps. Thoughts must ascend to the highest levels of this lowly maladministration. The forum here addresses, IMHO, a very dangerous time. Listen. Hark.
It need not be so pitiful, dangerous, and a global era that gestures LIES and sanctions DEATH is actually bordering on a collision crash. Suicide.
The non-sober mentality is gonna be worst than a slop-faced Exxon kayak driver, CAPsized, if this era isn't gonna wake up. It's a crash into jagged rocks and all plant life may die too? I don't enjoy thinking about the culmination of the human race, either! Gads.
It need NOT be this way. What a opportunity to participate in a public debate as a 'equal' who can't possibly have read every single published book or Federal Register etc., Sometimes I smell baloney, a honey, and a b-toughie drunk high as a kite on Cat Eye Marble Wine? huh.
It can get weary and artificial. Who would not sometimes wish to sit in an Adirondack chair facing South, and I also admit being here at a window looking North is okay, too. I miss a paperback book morning. We can be taken on-by the Internal Revenue Collectors who wish to steal a copper still hid under a oak board in the pig pen's internet? huh.
Whatever we call our personal SELF, educated or dull, if the mentality is of greed and exploitation...Shuck a corncob YKW and go to your own person suffering-spot and eat slime-stew...on Earth.
A mind that exploits and destroys a watershed, a natural environment...is the same person who will allow the TRICK WAR to continue. GWB's hoodlums say, 'O, dress the cute little boy scouts up in sandy colored camouflage immediately post-VietNam. Paint a green hummer brown. O, unleash some artificial intelligence and sick-um on women and children in the Middle East. Kick down doors. In panic, if they flee, shoot in the back, and lock and torture all brothers and sisters who come from Katrina up too...Greed of real estate developers forced the levies to break....'
O, institutionalize the prospects for a new Californian Watt's Riot or have one in every neighborhood? O, let's just say, "war is hell" and fake a public grimace on MEET Tim RUST-Y's "distinguished" expert-drips. O, express no shock, the world just works in such a manner. Why fix? No need to solve NOTHING?
O, we can go golf. Does the country club T-off membership holder still get to wash their sliced Dollop balls in the red ball scrubber? A wet sliced Titlists will get you a trophy wife or a hole-in-one in a after Life heaven?
We can become real fools. The fool doesn't ever admit it. Maybe I'll come back because a question about honey wine interest me and I need to be less cranky.
I'm needing some Pea Pod Wine or some Dry Marigold Melomel with an apologetic sugar doughnut. Wow. I am cranky. Its another turn of the crank nuthouse Sunday Spurts...Read between the vague lines? Dregs.
I do luv learning about these people who ruin a world. It is sad. I never heard of many of them. Glenn's post would be less fun without class participation. The stork dropped him off to help out a sinking ship. Ahoy?