I have been trying to write this blog for almost a month. I find it very difficult because of my cognitive bias. I cannot really wrap my head around the logic of banning knives. This is what I believe, you guys tell me if I am off-base. Banning guns in Britain has stopped a great deal of gun murders. Knife murders have thus replaced gun murders in England. How is this success? The murder rate in London is skyrocketing. I cannot effectively express how irrelevant it is to murder victims whether they were murdered by a knife, a gun, a car bomb or an airplane flying into buildings.
Here is my basic problem with all of this: I was a horrible combat engineer officer in Iraq. Why? Because the mission of the combat engineers was to go out and find IEDs (bombs) on the side of roads. Our job was to go find the bomb. We created Task Force IED after the first year of the war to defeat the bomb. We spent tens of billions of dollars to defeat a hot-wired mortar round on the side of the road; that was really, really, really stupid. But it got a lot of defense contractors a lot of money. Hunting for bombs is a stupid way to fight a war. The Israelis have a saying, "Find the bomber, not the bomb." So, I fought very hard, and was mostly successful, at getting my company of combat engineers out of the bomb-hunting business and into the bomber-hunting business. We found, captured and/or killed the IED makers. That reduced the IEDs way more effectively then spending billions of dollars on redesigned combat vehicles that were specifically designed to get hit by street punks with homemade explosives.
Focusing on the defeat of the weapons of war instead of the defeat of the enemy is a sure way to be defeated by the enemy, regardless of his weapons of war. Bad people commit murders, not inanimate objects. Britain has been brainwashed into insanity in the last three generations. They believe that if you take the rocks away from the monkeys, they will stop fighting. The rocks do not cause the monkeys to fight. The knives do not cause the Brits to stab. The guns do not cause the Americans to shoot. It is the inevitable outcome of a morally relative society that accepts every evil aspect of every culture no matter how barbaric: marrying nine year old girls off to Sheiks, accepting honor killings, killing abortion doctors, ritualistic mutilation of children, et cetera. Accepting all of it in the name of multiculturalism means your society has adopted absolute moral relativism, and thus cannot--will not, are incapable of--believing that there are just some evil assholes in the world. People keep getting killed, regardless of the tools used to do it, and the mentally ill politicians in Great Britain are so blinded by their biases that they can't accept the existence of evil. When you stop believing in the evil that men do, you start ascribing motives to inanimate objects, because your world view will not allow you to accept that some people are gonna be murderers regardless of the inanimate objects.
There are evil people in the world. They kill innocent people. They have created incredibly intricate machines, methods and technologies to do it. But, if you take away all of those things, the monkey can still bash a brain out with a rock. The only thing that stops an evil person from stabbing you, is you. There is no law that deters an evil person from being evil. There is no law that deters a criminal from breaking laws. The insanity of the left is not its politics, it is the undermining of language; when you create "unwords" through political correctness, idiots lose sight of definitions. Criminal: one who breaks laws. It doesn't matter how many laws you pass, LAWS DON'T DETER THOSE WHO BREAK LAWS!!!
Misdemeanors that ban knives, guns, cricket bats, et cetera, do not deter evil assholes willing to commit capital murder. The lunatics running London and the rest of Great Britain have lost their minds if they believe that is not the case. Snidely Whiplash was not evil because he had a sinister mustache, and banning his mustache wax would have no effect on his intentions. Evil is defeated by good men fighting back, not banning evil's choices in how to be evil!
Thanks,
Soule
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Thursday, April 19, 2018
Tuesday, April 3, 2018
I am tired of cowards.
I am tired of the NRA getting into screaming matches with these cowards. We have to do a better job of being the hyper-rational, not the emotional. We have to argue not just about the Second Amendment, but about The Constitution as a whole. We have to be scholars of the whole document and argue not just for one aspect of the Bill of Rights, but also for the entire process contained within the document. It is the undermining of The Constitution at large that is the real threat to a democratic republic. We cannot look like lunatics in these arguments, because the deck is stacked against the NRA in every one of these "panel" discussions. Being emotionally attached to guns will not serve us. Being the most rational person, the most scholarly person, the least emotional person on a stage is the only way we can demonstrate that it's the cowards terrified of violence who are the truly irrational ones. Stop yelling about guns and making us look like every redneck caricature to ever appear in The New Yorker, and start calmly explaining the importance of respecting The Constitution in its entirety. Stop arguing the utility, culture and history of firearms, and stop arguing about tyranny of an oppressive government; big government liberals will never be convinced by that argument. What they can be convinced of is the utility of Due Process of Law, the utility of the Unreasonable Search and Seizure clause, or the utility of the Freedom of Speech. Also, the process for amending The Constitution. There is a movement to repeal the Second Amendment through a Constitutional Amendment, as happened with Prohibition; I think that is wonderful because that is how the process is supposed to work. Defend the greatest aspect of The Constitution, which is that it CAN be amended. We will not change the minds of people who are already afraid of everybody with a gun by acting like irrational, deranged gun fetishists who only care about the right to own the object. Argue about the right to self-defense, not the right to use a gun to defend yourself. Owning the object should not be what we stand for, we have to stand for all of The Constitution, including the ability to amend any aspect or amendment of it should the super-majority required to do so be assembled. We have to stand for the entire Bill of Rights, stop competing with liberals in some sort of tit-for-tat duel about which is more important of the first two amendments; they are both equally important, as are all the other creator-given rights protected from the government by our founding document.
Every shouting match we get into plays right into their hands of making us look like unhinged, dangerous rednecks. Be Constitutional scholars, not gun nuts! Argue not for the Second Amendment, but for the integrity of The Constitution as a whole, which is truly under threat. Most importantly of all, argue as the Left's greatest hero did that fear, not violence, is the enemy to be overcome. I have said it thousands of times: The only thing that defeats terror is COURAGE!
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Saturday, March 24, 2018
Great Mills High School Shooting
I have not written in a while, because I am building a website, a YouTube Channel and a mobile site in addition to this philosophy of violence blog. But, then some punk walked into Great Mills High School where I lived for ten years of my childhood. I have listened to the repeated and louder cries screaming, "Something has to be done!"
Something was done. An armed police officer stationed at the school killed a madman before he could kill anybody. Two students were wounded, but the only dead person was the bad person. Tragically, one of the wounded teens died of her wounds when her parents had to make the heart-wrenching decision to remove her from life support.
Few points: the shooter was 17 and armed with a semi-automatic handgun. It is illegal nation-wide for anybody under the age of 21 to own a handgun; that law did not prevent a criminally insane madman from shooting two fellow students. It is illegal in Maryland for anybody to own a pistol with a high capacity magazine; that law did not prevent a criminally insane madman from shooting two fellow students. It is illegal in Maryland to carry a firearm onto the property of a public school unless you are a law enforcement officer; that law did not prevent a criminally insane madman from shooting two fellow students. It is illegal in every civilized nation on earth to kill innocent children; that law did not prevent a criminally insane madman from shooting two fellow students.
LAWS DO NOT, CAN NOT, WILL NOT EVER MAKE YOU SAFE! Laws do not make a society safe. Criminals, by definition, ignore laws. Writing laws to ban weapons, drugs, alcohol, drunk driving, or the killing of innocent people does not stop these from happening. All laws are designed to do is give a framework for punishing the violators of the social contract. They are pieces of paper that cannot stop bullets or knives. Murder is illegal in every state, yet people keep getting murdered! How dare they! It's almost like murdering psychopaths have no regard for the rule of law!
This is not meant to be a pro-gun rant. Rather, the purpose of this is to say that the only thing that can protect you and your loved ones from a violent world is YOU. Cops are not paid to protect us, despite what their slogans say; they are paid to investigate our murders after they happen. The government was designed to protect us from only one type of threat, that of a foreign invasion, which would then require the services of every able bodied adult to defend the homeland, so we would be "in the shit" anyway. The military was made up of citizen soldiers from the Revolution through today; so the government can't even protect us from foreign invaders, because we become their tools for doing so.
It's like Smokey the Gun-Toting Redneck Bear always said, "Only YOU can prevent madmen...by shooting them a lot when they try to shoot you and your kids." Which, by the way, is exactly what happened at Great Mills High School. One bystander died of wounds, one wounded and a dead bad guy. That is a much better outcome than what happened at Parkland, Florida, because a good guy with a gun was on the campus and responded immediately. It is hard for some to accept that one victim fatality is a decent outcome, but, the truth is, the lunatic will always have the initiative, and his first victim is usually a surprise attack. Then the good guys have to respond to the attack, which always takes time.
And the space-time continuum will not allow for a cop to be everywhere at all times. Therefore, YOU must have the skills to defend yourself. You, me, your spouse, your neighbor, your school board, we all need to accept personal responsibility for our personal safety. The government is not going to protect us. They are not allowed to in a free society with due process of law guaranteed to every lunatic that shoots up a public place. So, it becomes your problem. A hundred years ago Americans understood that fact, accepted that fact, lived with the knowledge that they were on their own for personal protection in a much wilder country. I don't know what happened to that self-reliance and acceptance of personal responsibility, but I assure you that if you are counting on the government to protect you and your family, you are what people in my industry would refer to as a "Victim." It will only be a matter of time until somebody tries to take something from you--up to and including your life--and if you refuse to live in the real world, if you continue to delude yourself into believing that the cops are only a second away, and that more laws will somehow stop people who are defined by ignoring laws, then you will become a victim. By contrast, if you accept personal responsibility for your personal safety, then you can fight back.
Why are so many people afraid of fighting back? I think part of it is that they don't want to accept how increasingly violent our world is becoming, which is living in a state of denial. I think another part of it is that they are afraid of becoming some sort of damaged person if they learn to be better at violence than the violent criminals; this mentality drives me crazy. Being raped, stabbed, robbed or shot will create far more psychological damage to a human mind than the tough, aggressive training to prevent getting raped, stabbed, robbed or shot. People want to be pussies because they are afraid of becoming knuckle dragging meat heads like the people who do violence for a living; they want to live dainty lives. Let me assure you that the dainty never fair well in violent situations, just ask Marie Antoinette. Some people are so afraid of the violence that they have a superstitious belief that if they prepare for violence, it is more likely to find them. This is complete bullshit. Violence finds people regardless of training. When it finds you, you can either be the bug or the windshield in the scenario; you can either be the one who is really good at violence, or you can be the one who dies miserably. Pacifists did not liberate the concentration camps!
Only YOU can prevent yourself from being the victim of a violent crime. You have to train in violence. A cop with a gun is not around every corner, folks. And even if there were, until a crime has been committed, cops can't do anything to protect you, and by then it will probably be too late. The lesson of the shooting in Great Mills, Maryland (which has some of the toughest, most ignored gun laws in America) is that laws do not make you safer; only a guy with a gun stopped the madman. Be the guy with the gun.
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Something was done. An armed police officer stationed at the school killed a madman before he could kill anybody. Two students were wounded, but the only dead person was the bad person. Tragically, one of the wounded teens died of her wounds when her parents had to make the heart-wrenching decision to remove her from life support.
Few points: the shooter was 17 and armed with a semi-automatic handgun. It is illegal nation-wide for anybody under the age of 21 to own a handgun; that law did not prevent a criminally insane madman from shooting two fellow students. It is illegal in Maryland for anybody to own a pistol with a high capacity magazine; that law did not prevent a criminally insane madman from shooting two fellow students. It is illegal in Maryland to carry a firearm onto the property of a public school unless you are a law enforcement officer; that law did not prevent a criminally insane madman from shooting two fellow students. It is illegal in every civilized nation on earth to kill innocent children; that law did not prevent a criminally insane madman from shooting two fellow students.
LAWS DO NOT, CAN NOT, WILL NOT EVER MAKE YOU SAFE! Laws do not make a society safe. Criminals, by definition, ignore laws. Writing laws to ban weapons, drugs, alcohol, drunk driving, or the killing of innocent people does not stop these from happening. All laws are designed to do is give a framework for punishing the violators of the social contract. They are pieces of paper that cannot stop bullets or knives. Murder is illegal in every state, yet people keep getting murdered! How dare they! It's almost like murdering psychopaths have no regard for the rule of law!
This is not meant to be a pro-gun rant. Rather, the purpose of this is to say that the only thing that can protect you and your loved ones from a violent world is YOU. Cops are not paid to protect us, despite what their slogans say; they are paid to investigate our murders after they happen. The government was designed to protect us from only one type of threat, that of a foreign invasion, which would then require the services of every able bodied adult to defend the homeland, so we would be "in the shit" anyway. The military was made up of citizen soldiers from the Revolution through today; so the government can't even protect us from foreign invaders, because we become their tools for doing so.
It's like Smokey the Gun-Toting Redneck Bear always said, "Only YOU can prevent madmen...by shooting them a lot when they try to shoot you and your kids." Which, by the way, is exactly what happened at Great Mills High School. One bystander died of wounds, one wounded and a dead bad guy. That is a much better outcome than what happened at Parkland, Florida, because a good guy with a gun was on the campus and responded immediately. It is hard for some to accept that one victim fatality is a decent outcome, but, the truth is, the lunatic will always have the initiative, and his first victim is usually a surprise attack. Then the good guys have to respond to the attack, which always takes time.
And the space-time continuum will not allow for a cop to be everywhere at all times. Therefore, YOU must have the skills to defend yourself. You, me, your spouse, your neighbor, your school board, we all need to accept personal responsibility for our personal safety. The government is not going to protect us. They are not allowed to in a free society with due process of law guaranteed to every lunatic that shoots up a public place. So, it becomes your problem. A hundred years ago Americans understood that fact, accepted that fact, lived with the knowledge that they were on their own for personal protection in a much wilder country. I don't know what happened to that self-reliance and acceptance of personal responsibility, but I assure you that if you are counting on the government to protect you and your family, you are what people in my industry would refer to as a "Victim." It will only be a matter of time until somebody tries to take something from you--up to and including your life--and if you refuse to live in the real world, if you continue to delude yourself into believing that the cops are only a second away, and that more laws will somehow stop people who are defined by ignoring laws, then you will become a victim. By contrast, if you accept personal responsibility for your personal safety, then you can fight back.
Why are so many people afraid of fighting back? I think part of it is that they don't want to accept how increasingly violent our world is becoming, which is living in a state of denial. I think another part of it is that they are afraid of becoming some sort of damaged person if they learn to be better at violence than the violent criminals; this mentality drives me crazy. Being raped, stabbed, robbed or shot will create far more psychological damage to a human mind than the tough, aggressive training to prevent getting raped, stabbed, robbed or shot. People want to be pussies because they are afraid of becoming knuckle dragging meat heads like the people who do violence for a living; they want to live dainty lives. Let me assure you that the dainty never fair well in violent situations, just ask Marie Antoinette. Some people are so afraid of the violence that they have a superstitious belief that if they prepare for violence, it is more likely to find them. This is complete bullshit. Violence finds people regardless of training. When it finds you, you can either be the bug or the windshield in the scenario; you can either be the one who is really good at violence, or you can be the one who dies miserably. Pacifists did not liberate the concentration camps!
Only YOU can prevent yourself from being the victim of a violent crime. You have to train in violence. A cop with a gun is not around every corner, folks. And even if there were, until a crime has been committed, cops can't do anything to protect you, and by then it will probably be too late. The lesson of the shooting in Great Mills, Maryland (which has some of the toughest, most ignored gun laws in America) is that laws do not make you safer; only a guy with a gun stopped the madman. Be the guy with the gun.
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Sunday, March 4, 2018
The Myth of Dudley Do-Right Defeating Snidely Whiplash
There is no solution to violent crime that will allow us to remain a
society of cowards, so please stop looking for somebody else to save your ass. It is impossible to take away all the resources for
violence without lobotomizing us, as brains are the real weapons, and
mental health isn't being fixed. Only courage can defeat your terror!
The left wants to take guns away, as they believe that it would eliminate the "capacity" to do evil. The right wants to fix the brains of crazy people before they snap, to eliminate the "intent" to do evil. Both of these solutions want the government to create a policy that will externally make us safe. They want somebody else to do something to prevent me from having to face the dangerous realities of the world. Both sides want to believe that danger can be removed from a free society, and that is illogically impossible. It belies the nature of a free society. In a free society, evil is rarely preventable. The creation of free society accepts that potential for evil in exchange for avoiding the much more horrid evil of totalitarianism or holocausts perpetrated by Leviathan governments. It accepts the potentiality for evil being perpetrated by free lunatics because it expects that the society will be composed of people willing to protect themselves.
Conservatives have been saying that what has changed in the world is not the guns--which is true--but rather the degrading of moral values in our society. Or, they argue that the large number of crazy people not institutionalized today is what leads to increases in violence. I don't agree with these explanations. What has changed is not the moral courage of our society, it is the physical courage of our society. There were evil people in the 1950s who were deterred not by Andy Griffith and Barney Fife, who were always far away from the point of attack; they were deterred by a society of good men who would not tolerate evil in their presence. These people were the last generation of Americans who accepted the RESPONSIBILITY that necessarily accompanies the LIBERTY of a free society.
Every situation where we want the government to do something to protect us, requires a sacrifice of liberty. Authoritarian regimes have a great capacity to protect their citizens from themselves. Hitler protected the pure Aryans from the evil Jews and Gypsies very effectively. Stalin protected the communist revolution from Soviet dissenters very thoroughly. But in a free society, where we have not only the right to bear arms but also the right of due process, the police cannot protect us from each other. The only threat our government was originally supposed to protect us from was foreign invaders. That has evolved to include foreign spies and terrorists, and probably went too far after September 11th, but it was not designed to protect us from our own citizens. You would not want to live in a society where the government is supposed to protect its citizens from its own citizens.
The argument is not about the 2nd Amendment, it is about the 4th and 5th Amendments. Government cannot protect you from evil members of our society so long as their is a right to be safe from unreasonable searches and seizures, and also the right to due process of law. WHICH MEANS, YOU HAVE TO PROTECT YOURSELF AND YOUR FAMILY FROM EVIL MEMBERS OF OUR SOCIETY!
That is what both parties want to deny. They want desperately to believe that the government can and should protect them. "Forbid it almighty God!" The only way to defeat evil is to oppose evil. You cannot legislate it or regulate it or pass laws that the CRIMINALLY insane are going to respect. They are willing to commit MASS MURDER, do you really think a Class 2 Misdemeanor for possession of a firearm under the age of 21 is going to deter them? The word "Sheeple" appeared in our lexicon after 9/11 to describe those helpless and hapless souls waiting around for "rough men to do violence on their behalf" instead of following the example of my hero Todd Beamer and his fellow passengers of United Flight 93. Unarmed and unprepared they confronted evil--and died as heroes--with the only weapon that matters, the weapon that our society of pansies refuses to wield: COURAGE!
We live in a world where evil men do evil things, and the only thing that stands between them and the weak are brave men and women. You do not have to wear a uniform to be brave. You do not have to be armed to be brave. You do not have to be big to be brave. You must only refuse to be a victim. Maybe you win, maybe you die. But "dying in your bed many years from now would you be willing to trade all the days between this day and that for one chance" to tell your enemy that he may take your life but...fuck that, KILL THE EVIL SONOFABITCH! That is how you defeat evil.
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The left wants to take guns away, as they believe that it would eliminate the "capacity" to do evil. The right wants to fix the brains of crazy people before they snap, to eliminate the "intent" to do evil. Both of these solutions want the government to create a policy that will externally make us safe. They want somebody else to do something to prevent me from having to face the dangerous realities of the world. Both sides want to believe that danger can be removed from a free society, and that is illogically impossible. It belies the nature of a free society. In a free society, evil is rarely preventable. The creation of free society accepts that potential for evil in exchange for avoiding the much more horrid evil of totalitarianism or holocausts perpetrated by Leviathan governments. It accepts the potentiality for evil being perpetrated by free lunatics because it expects that the society will be composed of people willing to protect themselves.
Conservatives have been saying that what has changed in the world is not the guns--which is true--but rather the degrading of moral values in our society. Or, they argue that the large number of crazy people not institutionalized today is what leads to increases in violence. I don't agree with these explanations. What has changed is not the moral courage of our society, it is the physical courage of our society. There were evil people in the 1950s who were deterred not by Andy Griffith and Barney Fife, who were always far away from the point of attack; they were deterred by a society of good men who would not tolerate evil in their presence. These people were the last generation of Americans who accepted the RESPONSIBILITY that necessarily accompanies the LIBERTY of a free society.
Every situation where we want the government to do something to protect us, requires a sacrifice of liberty. Authoritarian regimes have a great capacity to protect their citizens from themselves. Hitler protected the pure Aryans from the evil Jews and Gypsies very effectively. Stalin protected the communist revolution from Soviet dissenters very thoroughly. But in a free society, where we have not only the right to bear arms but also the right of due process, the police cannot protect us from each other. The only threat our government was originally supposed to protect us from was foreign invaders. That has evolved to include foreign spies and terrorists, and probably went too far after September 11th, but it was not designed to protect us from our own citizens. You would not want to live in a society where the government is supposed to protect its citizens from its own citizens.
The argument is not about the 2nd Amendment, it is about the 4th and 5th Amendments. Government cannot protect you from evil members of our society so long as their is a right to be safe from unreasonable searches and seizures, and also the right to due process of law. WHICH MEANS, YOU HAVE TO PROTECT YOURSELF AND YOUR FAMILY FROM EVIL MEMBERS OF OUR SOCIETY!
That is what both parties want to deny. They want desperately to believe that the government can and should protect them. "Forbid it almighty God!" The only way to defeat evil is to oppose evil. You cannot legislate it or regulate it or pass laws that the CRIMINALLY insane are going to respect. They are willing to commit MASS MURDER, do you really think a Class 2 Misdemeanor for possession of a firearm under the age of 21 is going to deter them? The word "Sheeple" appeared in our lexicon after 9/11 to describe those helpless and hapless souls waiting around for "rough men to do violence on their behalf" instead of following the example of my hero Todd Beamer and his fellow passengers of United Flight 93. Unarmed and unprepared they confronted evil--and died as heroes--with the only weapon that matters, the weapon that our society of pansies refuses to wield: COURAGE!
We live in a world where evil men do evil things, and the only thing that stands between them and the weak are brave men and women. You do not have to wear a uniform to be brave. You do not have to be armed to be brave. You do not have to be big to be brave. You must only refuse to be a victim. Maybe you win, maybe you die. But "dying in your bed many years from now would you be willing to trade all the days between this day and that for one chance" to tell your enemy that he may take your life but...fuck that, KILL THE EVIL SONOFABITCH! That is how you defeat evil.
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Saturday, March 3, 2018
The Dangers of Tribalism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXujG-ndFs0
Warning: not appropriate for younger Audiences:
Warning: not appropriate for younger Audiences:
I was watching a Shapiro Q&A session on youtube and he made a really good point. We have--thanks to Presidents Bush Jr. and Obama in my opinion--retreated into tribalism based on ethnicity, race, gender, sexual orientation, primarily motivated by political fear mongering from the two main parties. There was a 20 year period from 1980 until 2001 where the word "us" meant "Americans". It was not perfect, of course, but we were far less divisive when I was a kid than we are now.
Dear Liberals, the VAST majority of Republicans do not care anymore about your lifestyles. Even devout Christians don't want to prevent you from living your lives as you see fit, they just don't want to bake your fucking cakes. Conservatives don't care what color your skin is, but they do care what country your birth certificate is from; THAT is nationalism, not racism, and if you are too dumb to know what the difference is between those two, you are being LIED TO, and you are LYING to others. I am a proud nationalist; I fought a war for THIS nation, with a bunch of men and women of every color, every religion and every class. We all believed that our tribe was the United States of America.
Dear Conservatives, you are being sucked into this crap also, blindly following a celebrity president the same way millions of Sheeple followed President Obama, regardless of how disastrous his policies were. I voted against Hillary, so my vote for The Donald helped him get elected too, but I don't blindly agree with everything he says or does. That's what Sheep do. That's what millions of idiots did for eight years under Obama because he was "cool," even though he didn't know fuck all shit about running anything bigger than a neighborhood clean-up committee. Donald Trump makes mistakes, big ones, and we have to hold him accountable for those and stop just agreeing with him because he's contrarian and pisses off the people we dislike in the news media. Also, we have to stop demonizing everybody in the Democratic Party as lunatics, just because their most vocal minority are a bunch of...well, freaks like Antifa and atrociously-raised young people who not only question WHO they are, like we all did, but also WHAT they are because their parents had no concepts of boundaries. They are not the vast majority of Democrats, just like the Nazi assholes in Charlottesville are not representative of the vast majority of Republicans. They ain't my fucking tribe, and I'm a nationalist, jingoist, flag-waving, redneck combat vet; but I want all Americans to be free and have the opportunities of this nation, even the freaks....AMERICANS ARE OUR TRIBE.
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Sunday, February 25, 2018
The Paradox of Non-Violence
First, I have tremendous respect for Gandhi and even more for Dr. King. I consider them in an elite class of men in history who have been so inspirational as to earn the title of "Shepherds." But, shepherds alone cannot protect a large flock of civilians; they need sheepdogs or they need sheep that are religiously committed to their non-violent revolutions. I say religiously committed because non-violent revolutions only work at the strategic level, when public opinion of atrocities grows so disgusted with the powers that be that they change the system. In the meantime, though, the atrocities continue at the tactical level. In other words, many of Dr. King's followers, at the ground level where the protest lines met the riot cops, got maced, beaten with night sticks and some got flat-out killed. That is the paradox of a non-violent movement; at the strategic level they can succeed in overthrowing evil systems, but at the tactical level non-violence is met with brutal violence.
The problem is that we see these truly rare examples of awe-inspiring men like Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Junior and we start to believe that their way is the best. Well, hell, it probably is the best. But, there is always a tremendous amount of suffering that goes along with such movements, and the leaders of those movements are willing to accept that suffering. These are figures like Jesus Christ; non-violent martyrs willing to change the world through their sacrifice are hard to find. They are very rare, and thus non-violence rarely defeats evil. Evil almost always has to be confronted by violent men willing to do violence on behalf of innocent people. In other words, the shepherds' attempts to convert the wolves to sheepdogs only very rarely works; most of the time the wolves have to be fought off by "rough men willing to violence on behalf" of the sheep.
Forget about guns, forget about school kids, forget about mental health screening, forget about arming teachers, forget about the Constitution and forget about politics. The historical facts are that evil is rarely defeated by non-violence, and then only with extraordinary leaders of profound moral and spiritual character, and then only at the strategic level. Non-violence has NEVER defeated the lone madman. Unfortunately, because of the examples of Gandhi and Dr. King, three generations of Americans have been brainwashed to believe that non-violence is the best method of defeating evil lunatics. This is a dangerous delusional view of professional predators and evil madmen. We have to stop believing this fundamental misunderstanding of non-violence, and stop believing that we have somehow become "more evolved"--as one well-meaning non-violent future victim argued to me--than The Greatest Generation. That generation understood that evil must be confronted violently and that weakness only achieves great change when it is accompanied by internal strength of the likes of Gandhi or Jesus. If you do not possess that kind of internal light--as I don't--you have to be willing to confront evil violence through the use of constructive violence.
Some residents of Mount Olympus (America) desperately want to believe in the non-violent approach because they desperately want to deny the fact that we are mortal beings. They want to believe that we have moved passed the violence of our ancestors. No REVOLUTION of thought can change our fundamental nature: we are predators who clawed our way to the top of the food chain to dominate a planet because our brains made us the most violent species on earth. This is why Marxism failed. This is why pacifists don't rescue hostages from terrorists. Revolution can't change our corporeal nature, only EVOLUTION can do that, and despite what non-violent advocates (victims) preach, we have not evolved beyond our mortality in the last century. Trying to legislate or regulate violence out of human nature is like trying to put handcuffs on a cobra for eating a rabbit.
The fact that we are mortal is what makes us susceptible to violence, or coercion by the threat of violence. This is what professional victims do not understand about predators. No amount of rules or potential punishments will stop a predator from feeding on prey. I was in a class one day in graduate school talking about gun control with a number of people of all political persuasions, including one cop also getting his masters. They were arguing essentially that banning Timothy McVeigh's Ryder truck would have prevented the Oklahoma City Bombing. So, I told them that they did not understand predators or violence. The conversation went something like this.
With a bemused smile, I said to the one sitting next to me at the conference table, "I could snap your neck before the cop across the table could shoot me. Now, he'd probably shoot me after I killed you. But, how does that help you?"
Their eyes got wide. The smart ones started accusing me of all sorts of barbarism. The dumb ones were the ones who scared me; they didn't believe I could do it before the cop across the table got to me (that's delusion for which tragically there is no cure except victimhood). The one next to me, to her credit, said, "You could try."
I smiled and answered, "Bingo. That is the only solution. YOU are the only person that could prevent me from perpetrating violence upon you. The criminal justice system will punish me, but what good does that do you?" She got it. The smart ones who thought I was barbaric, started to understand, all I had to do was convince them that there are indeed barbarians in our midst. The dumb ones, who believe they live in an impregnable bubble of police and security forces, are beyond reason and will not believe that they are unsafe until they are victims of violence.
It is especially delusional when you see that the trained law enforcement officers of Coward County, Florida had less guts than the 14 year old Junior ROTC Cadets who had to do the job of the Sheriff Deputies. Even when they are willing and not part of an organization of cowards being led by an incompetent moron like Scott Israel, the fact is cops are not capable of protecting you. Our criminal justice system is not designed for them to protect you, it is designed to punish the guilty after they commit their crimes. Which means, EVERY potential victim must be prepared to fight for their life. I don't care what your stance is on guns or politics, I am talking about the predatory nature of professional criminals. They don't see you as anything but a target or an obstacle to their goal. If you are not prepared to defend yourself with your bare hands, with an improvised weapon, with a blade, with a firearm, with your car if you're being carjacked, or with a rifle if you have one, then you are living in that delusional bubble.
Remember, evil is rarely defeated by non-violence. It is great to revere the exceptions to that historical fact like Dr. King and Gandhi, but do not confuse the exceptions for the rule. The Concentration Camps of the Third Reich were not liberated by pacifists, folks. Rough, violent men willing to cut through swaths of German human beings are the ones that liberated Europe and rescued the survivors. Violence can be used for good or evil, Navy SEALs putting bullets into bin Laden was not an act of evil, but it was certainly an act of violence. Unless you have the moral constitution of a Gandhi and are willing to suffer the slings and arrows, I'd recommend learning how to shoot some arrows back!
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The problem is that we see these truly rare examples of awe-inspiring men like Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Junior and we start to believe that their way is the best. Well, hell, it probably is the best. But, there is always a tremendous amount of suffering that goes along with such movements, and the leaders of those movements are willing to accept that suffering. These are figures like Jesus Christ; non-violent martyrs willing to change the world through their sacrifice are hard to find. They are very rare, and thus non-violence rarely defeats evil. Evil almost always has to be confronted by violent men willing to do violence on behalf of innocent people. In other words, the shepherds' attempts to convert the wolves to sheepdogs only very rarely works; most of the time the wolves have to be fought off by "rough men willing to violence on behalf" of the sheep.
Forget about guns, forget about school kids, forget about mental health screening, forget about arming teachers, forget about the Constitution and forget about politics. The historical facts are that evil is rarely defeated by non-violence, and then only with extraordinary leaders of profound moral and spiritual character, and then only at the strategic level. Non-violence has NEVER defeated the lone madman. Unfortunately, because of the examples of Gandhi and Dr. King, three generations of Americans have been brainwashed to believe that non-violence is the best method of defeating evil lunatics. This is a dangerous delusional view of professional predators and evil madmen. We have to stop believing this fundamental misunderstanding of non-violence, and stop believing that we have somehow become "more evolved"--as one well-meaning non-violent future victim argued to me--than The Greatest Generation. That generation understood that evil must be confronted violently and that weakness only achieves great change when it is accompanied by internal strength of the likes of Gandhi or Jesus. If you do not possess that kind of internal light--as I don't--you have to be willing to confront evil violence through the use of constructive violence.
Some residents of Mount Olympus (America) desperately want to believe in the non-violent approach because they desperately want to deny the fact that we are mortal beings. They want to believe that we have moved passed the violence of our ancestors. No REVOLUTION of thought can change our fundamental nature: we are predators who clawed our way to the top of the food chain to dominate a planet because our brains made us the most violent species on earth. This is why Marxism failed. This is why pacifists don't rescue hostages from terrorists. Revolution can't change our corporeal nature, only EVOLUTION can do that, and despite what non-violent advocates (victims) preach, we have not evolved beyond our mortality in the last century. Trying to legislate or regulate violence out of human nature is like trying to put handcuffs on a cobra for eating a rabbit.
The fact that we are mortal is what makes us susceptible to violence, or coercion by the threat of violence. This is what professional victims do not understand about predators. No amount of rules or potential punishments will stop a predator from feeding on prey. I was in a class one day in graduate school talking about gun control with a number of people of all political persuasions, including one cop also getting his masters. They were arguing essentially that banning Timothy McVeigh's Ryder truck would have prevented the Oklahoma City Bombing. So, I told them that they did not understand predators or violence. The conversation went something like this.
With a bemused smile, I said to the one sitting next to me at the conference table, "I could snap your neck before the cop across the table could shoot me. Now, he'd probably shoot me after I killed you. But, how does that help you?"
Their eyes got wide. The smart ones started accusing me of all sorts of barbarism. The dumb ones were the ones who scared me; they didn't believe I could do it before the cop across the table got to me (that's delusion for which tragically there is no cure except victimhood). The one next to me, to her credit, said, "You could try."
I smiled and answered, "Bingo. That is the only solution. YOU are the only person that could prevent me from perpetrating violence upon you. The criminal justice system will punish me, but what good does that do you?" She got it. The smart ones who thought I was barbaric, started to understand, all I had to do was convince them that there are indeed barbarians in our midst. The dumb ones, who believe they live in an impregnable bubble of police and security forces, are beyond reason and will not believe that they are unsafe until they are victims of violence.
It is especially delusional when you see that the trained law enforcement officers of Coward County, Florida had less guts than the 14 year old Junior ROTC Cadets who had to do the job of the Sheriff Deputies. Even when they are willing and not part of an organization of cowards being led by an incompetent moron like Scott Israel, the fact is cops are not capable of protecting you. Our criminal justice system is not designed for them to protect you, it is designed to punish the guilty after they commit their crimes. Which means, EVERY potential victim must be prepared to fight for their life. I don't care what your stance is on guns or politics, I am talking about the predatory nature of professional criminals. They don't see you as anything but a target or an obstacle to their goal. If you are not prepared to defend yourself with your bare hands, with an improvised weapon, with a blade, with a firearm, with your car if you're being carjacked, or with a rifle if you have one, then you are living in that delusional bubble.
Remember, evil is rarely defeated by non-violence. It is great to revere the exceptions to that historical fact like Dr. King and Gandhi, but do not confuse the exceptions for the rule. The Concentration Camps of the Third Reich were not liberated by pacifists, folks. Rough, violent men willing to cut through swaths of German human beings are the ones that liberated Europe and rescued the survivors. Violence can be used for good or evil, Navy SEALs putting bullets into bin Laden was not an act of evil, but it was certainly an act of violence. Unless you have the moral constitution of a Gandhi and are willing to suffer the slings and arrows, I'd recommend learning how to shoot some arrows back!
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Thanks,
Soule
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PS: Now pissing off the delusional future victims on Twitter @easy6training
Friday, February 16, 2018
"Tragedy Porn"
Aaron Sorkin titled an episode of The Newsroom "Tragedy Porn." School shootings are turning into that for America. I'm writing this two days after the Parkland, Florida School Shooting. I don't want to write about the politics of this phenomenon except to say that both sides are wrong and they better start compromising on something to solve this insanity. What I really want to write about is some philosophy of violence ideas, which are jumbled all together in my head, so forgive me if they're incoherent. I also want to write about a bizarre historical fact:
The Treaty of Westphalia. I don't know much about it from the seventeenth century Catholic/Protestant perspective, but I know a bunch about it from the twenty-first century Homeland Security perspective. Every homeland security class I took in graduate school started with a paragraph about the Treaty of Westphalia, which ended the religious wars in Europe back in the 1600s. According to my professors, warfare became the sole purview of nation-states as a result of the Treaty. That held true for over three hundred years, until the age of modern terrorism began. Some of my fellow Homeland Security scholars believed that 9/11 was the end of the Westphalian age, and that Osama bin Laden was the first non-state actor to really conduct full fledged warfare on a nation-state in three hundred years. Whether they are right or I am about the timeline, the fact is that now self-radicalized and lone-wolf affiliates of nefarious non-state networks can and do carry out devastating attacks inside nation-states. The example of 9/11 was inspirational to deranged people of many stripes. Mass casualty attacks are no longer the exclusive province of nation-states.
Seeing lightly armed civilians kill three thousand innocent people in one day is impressive as a military man; it is horrifyingly inspiring to dangerous lunatics. It's an example of what can be done. I think that is one component of this phenomenon. I think another component is the absence of violence in our homes. Yes, you read that correctly. The problem is not that we have too much violence, the problem is that we don't have enough of the right kind of violence. Shocked? If I failed to show a firearm the proper respect it deserved when I was a kid (who grew up around unlocked guns hanging on a rack in the hall), my step dad Ray Johnston would whip my butt. When I was eleven years old, my mom slapped me across the face for calling her a cuss word, so I slapped her back. My dad chased me with a Buick through an alfalfa field trying to run me over for hitting a woman until my mom finally convinced him that all I really needed was a good ass-whipping. That was the last spanking I ever got, because by then I had learned a very valuable lesson.
The lesson was not that violence is inherently wrong. Maybe it is, maybe it isn't, that is irrelevant because human beings are an inherently violent species. We did not gain dominion over this planet by being pacifists. The lesson my Korean War Vet step dad was teaching me was that violence is never to be used on the innocent. Violence is not the enemy, violence is a tool that can be used for good or evil. Pacifists did not liberate occupied France or the concentration camps, violent men in a just cause did.
This is the second cause of this phenomenon. Young human beings are naturally, genetically programmed through evolution to be violent. But for about the last thousand years, in the West we've had control mechanisms to channel that violence to productive pursuits. Without getting into the moral arguments about whether conquering the New World was "good" or "bad," it was a channel for violent young people. National wars channeled it too. Chivalry controlled it as well. None of these were perfect, obviously, because there was still atrocious violence to anybody who wasn't a white male. I'm not saying there is a perfect solution, because there is not, because of the very nature of human violence. What I am saying is that in the post-Westphalian era, when lone-wolfs and self-radicalized lunatics see examples of mass casualty events easily achievable, the absence of controls on human children will lead them to being more savage. But since the Baby Boomer Generation in the West, we have decided to ignore our basic nature. The hippy fruitcakes of the 1960s said that the real enemy is violence itself, not evil. They surrendered any constructive violence as anathema, and thus let evil run unopposed.
What I am saying is that some of these kids probably needed to have fathers who would chase them with Buicks through hay fields. Generation X, my generation, was in general bigger pussies than our parents, and now the Milennial Generation is skinny-jeans wearing basket cases who don't even know what sex they are. Yet, inside each of them is a barbarian. But unlike those of us lucky enough to have been raised by members of The Greatest Generation (like my step dad), they have never been taught that it is okay to be violent, but you have to channel that into constructive pursuits. Like hunting. Like ranching. Like fighting terrorists. Like boxing or martial arts. We have a generation of thirty year old Americans who have--with the exception of the tiny fraction who join the military--never been punched. They are castrated socially, but biologically they are still predators. Then, when they are put under stress, they crack like eggs and unleash helacious violence on innocent people.
Knights in medeval Europe, and Samurai in Feudal Japan, were taught extreme violence. But they were also taught codes of conduct that tempered and controlled their violence. Soldiers today are extremely good at violence, but they are taught discipline in basic training courses. Professional fighters are very effective at unarmed violence, but they are taught self-restraint in the dojo. We have a parenting problem in America. Emasculated hippies and their flower-power dingbat birthing partners desperately try to ignore the fact that we clawed our way to the top of the food chain in a bloody struggle that made us the ultimate alpha predators on this planet. Now, if you ignore that nature in your children, you are raising barely tamed barbarians. But, if you nurture it and channel it into something productive, you can raise Seal Team Six members, who use violence not at random lashing out, but in precise and controlled ways to protect innocent people by annihilating evil people.
Violence is not the enemy, folks. Uncontrolled, undisciplined children who have never been taught to harness their human biological urge to be predators are the enemy. Start disciplining your future mass shooters. Make them war heroes, or astronauts seeking the next frontier, or Olympic athletes. Get them into a dojo that will teach them the philosophy of when to use the skills of fighting, not just how to use them. Teach them that violence is sometimes necessary to stop evil. Pacifists did not liberate the concentration camps in Hitler's Europe, rough, violent and brave men willing to kill to protect innocent people did.
I'm a violent person by nature. I was a very angry teenager from a dysfunctional home life and very easily could have been one of these mass shooter kids. I had very violent fantasies when I was a high school kid about things like this. But I was in a martial arts school that was teaching me self-control and self-restraint in addition to self-defense. My adopted family taught me that violence is not inherently evil and that it is usually the only way to defeat those who are truly evil.
So, having said all of that, I hope our politicians do something to help identify these mass shooters before they start pulling triggers. But since that is relying on politicians to do something sane, I would also recommend every American learn to protect themselves. Learn how to be a hard and resilient target. Accept that since 9/11 we live in a far more dangerous world than we did during the Cold War. Most importantly, please don't raise your children to be hippie pacifists, because the only hope we have of defeating terror is by having courage!
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Soule
Easy 6
The Treaty of Westphalia. I don't know much about it from the seventeenth century Catholic/Protestant perspective, but I know a bunch about it from the twenty-first century Homeland Security perspective. Every homeland security class I took in graduate school started with a paragraph about the Treaty of Westphalia, which ended the religious wars in Europe back in the 1600s. According to my professors, warfare became the sole purview of nation-states as a result of the Treaty. That held true for over three hundred years, until the age of modern terrorism began. Some of my fellow Homeland Security scholars believed that 9/11 was the end of the Westphalian age, and that Osama bin Laden was the first non-state actor to really conduct full fledged warfare on a nation-state in three hundred years. Whether they are right or I am about the timeline, the fact is that now self-radicalized and lone-wolf affiliates of nefarious non-state networks can and do carry out devastating attacks inside nation-states. The example of 9/11 was inspirational to deranged people of many stripes. Mass casualty attacks are no longer the exclusive province of nation-states.
Seeing lightly armed civilians kill three thousand innocent people in one day is impressive as a military man; it is horrifyingly inspiring to dangerous lunatics. It's an example of what can be done. I think that is one component of this phenomenon. I think another component is the absence of violence in our homes. Yes, you read that correctly. The problem is not that we have too much violence, the problem is that we don't have enough of the right kind of violence. Shocked? If I failed to show a firearm the proper respect it deserved when I was a kid (who grew up around unlocked guns hanging on a rack in the hall), my step dad Ray Johnston would whip my butt. When I was eleven years old, my mom slapped me across the face for calling her a cuss word, so I slapped her back. My dad chased me with a Buick through an alfalfa field trying to run me over for hitting a woman until my mom finally convinced him that all I really needed was a good ass-whipping. That was the last spanking I ever got, because by then I had learned a very valuable lesson.
The lesson was not that violence is inherently wrong. Maybe it is, maybe it isn't, that is irrelevant because human beings are an inherently violent species. We did not gain dominion over this planet by being pacifists. The lesson my Korean War Vet step dad was teaching me was that violence is never to be used on the innocent. Violence is not the enemy, violence is a tool that can be used for good or evil. Pacifists did not liberate occupied France or the concentration camps, violent men in a just cause did.
This is the second cause of this phenomenon. Young human beings are naturally, genetically programmed through evolution to be violent. But for about the last thousand years, in the West we've had control mechanisms to channel that violence to productive pursuits. Without getting into the moral arguments about whether conquering the New World was "good" or "bad," it was a channel for violent young people. National wars channeled it too. Chivalry controlled it as well. None of these were perfect, obviously, because there was still atrocious violence to anybody who wasn't a white male. I'm not saying there is a perfect solution, because there is not, because of the very nature of human violence. What I am saying is that in the post-Westphalian era, when lone-wolfs and self-radicalized lunatics see examples of mass casualty events easily achievable, the absence of controls on human children will lead them to being more savage. But since the Baby Boomer Generation in the West, we have decided to ignore our basic nature. The hippy fruitcakes of the 1960s said that the real enemy is violence itself, not evil. They surrendered any constructive violence as anathema, and thus let evil run unopposed.
What I am saying is that some of these kids probably needed to have fathers who would chase them with Buicks through hay fields. Generation X, my generation, was in general bigger pussies than our parents, and now the Milennial Generation is skinny-jeans wearing basket cases who don't even know what sex they are. Yet, inside each of them is a barbarian. But unlike those of us lucky enough to have been raised by members of The Greatest Generation (like my step dad), they have never been taught that it is okay to be violent, but you have to channel that into constructive pursuits. Like hunting. Like ranching. Like fighting terrorists. Like boxing or martial arts. We have a generation of thirty year old Americans who have--with the exception of the tiny fraction who join the military--never been punched. They are castrated socially, but biologically they are still predators. Then, when they are put under stress, they crack like eggs and unleash helacious violence on innocent people.
Knights in medeval Europe, and Samurai in Feudal Japan, were taught extreme violence. But they were also taught codes of conduct that tempered and controlled their violence. Soldiers today are extremely good at violence, but they are taught discipline in basic training courses. Professional fighters are very effective at unarmed violence, but they are taught self-restraint in the dojo. We have a parenting problem in America. Emasculated hippies and their flower-power dingbat birthing partners desperately try to ignore the fact that we clawed our way to the top of the food chain in a bloody struggle that made us the ultimate alpha predators on this planet. Now, if you ignore that nature in your children, you are raising barely tamed barbarians. But, if you nurture it and channel it into something productive, you can raise Seal Team Six members, who use violence not at random lashing out, but in precise and controlled ways to protect innocent people by annihilating evil people.
Violence is not the enemy, folks. Uncontrolled, undisciplined children who have never been taught to harness their human biological urge to be predators are the enemy. Start disciplining your future mass shooters. Make them war heroes, or astronauts seeking the next frontier, or Olympic athletes. Get them into a dojo that will teach them the philosophy of when to use the skills of fighting, not just how to use them. Teach them that violence is sometimes necessary to stop evil. Pacifists did not liberate the concentration camps in Hitler's Europe, rough, violent and brave men willing to kill to protect innocent people did.
I'm a violent person by nature. I was a very angry teenager from a dysfunctional home life and very easily could have been one of these mass shooter kids. I had very violent fantasies when I was a high school kid about things like this. But I was in a martial arts school that was teaching me self-control and self-restraint in addition to self-defense. My adopted family taught me that violence is not inherently evil and that it is usually the only way to defeat those who are truly evil.
So, having said all of that, I hope our politicians do something to help identify these mass shooters before they start pulling triggers. But since that is relying on politicians to do something sane, I would also recommend every American learn to protect themselves. Learn how to be a hard and resilient target. Accept that since 9/11 we live in a far more dangerous world than we did during the Cold War. Most importantly, please don't raise your children to be hippie pacifists, because the only hope we have of defeating terror is by having courage!
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Soule
Easy 6
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