Get ready to be called racists and gun-toting thugs again!
The couple who murdered two Las Vegas cops have been associated with swastikas and the "Don't Tread on Me" Gadsden flag. I like the Gadsden flag and support the 2nd amendment, but despise everything about Nazis. However, this story will be used to tar all of us. Just wait and see.
The Gadsden Flag should be popular among all groups, when you think about it: "Don't tread on me". Can't you see that being invoked by pro-gay-marriage groups?
I remember the poem, "Invictus", which I liked... until Tim McVeigh forever tainted it before his execution.
At 2:30 they explain the swastikas seen earlier.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbNwPdfO...
(this episode is on Youtube in six parts... along with a lot of other episodes... I used to love this tv show... but I digress...)
Almost _everyone_ says they oppose gov't. Sometimes they (usually politicians) do it sanctimoniously: "Am I a rare righteous person willing to stand up to gov't spending? [except for all the programs I benefit from]." The joke goes that we want to cut gov't, but not programs that affect the children, the elderly, or the military, i.e. almost all spending.
This whole thing's a setup. Putting lovers of liberty together with oppressors.
Those two tried to infiltrate the Bundy protest. The crowd's own marshals showed them the door. But I wonder whether anyone suspected what I suspect they were: government operatives.
plan" makes sense -- like inflation, it lowers all
boats. -- j
I am concerned about all the noise the anti- second amendment side cries out in the name of all that is good and decent, etc. We need to defend our rights by speaking up and taking a stand whenever the occasion presents itself. But coming from the right side of the gun issue is somehow perceived as a "shoot em up bang, bang" type person with almost evil overtones... All I can say is that I will keep my gun legally or not. Period.
JC
Nazi = National SOCIALIST Party
Nohting to do with my point of view. Sorry, libtards.
The bat-spit crazy liberals are just plain deluded...again.
The protagonists in the AS and The Fountainhead were not normal. Normal is fine, but it's over-rated.
This is my favorite thing about the US. It's far from perfect, but when someone says, "you're doing something abnormal or totally different", the average American has a more positive attitude on first hearing that than most people around the world. People are intelligent and free-thinking around the world, but the _first_ reaction to someone doing something abnormal is more positive in America.
I know it needs to become more so, but it's pretty good now compared to most other places.
As they left swastikas on one of the bodies, that makes them left wing and not at all philosophically compatible with the militia movement in the U.S.
The swastikas would be a support of Nazism, a left-wing ideology...
But notice how they associate "militias" with "white supremacists". That association is made in the mind of the "authorities".
socialists, but did they not operate like fascists,
"letting" the private sector continue to own the means
of production, but directing the operations centrally?
"Nazism may be considered a subset of Fascism,
with all Nazis being Fascists..."
-- http://www.fact-index.com/n/na/nazism.ht...
and our current administration is operating this way,
directing operations centrally. leftists.
please note that I am NOT calling the current
folks Nazi -- just fascist. -- j
From Wikipedia:
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"The full name of Adolf Hitler's party was Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (National Socialist German Workers' Party). The shorthand Nazi was formed from the first two syllables of the German pronunciation of the word "national" (IPA: [na-tsi̯-o-ˈnaːl])."
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazism
Spock summed up the collectivist philosophy in Star Drek II: The Wrath of What'sisname:
Spock: "That is wise. Were I to invoke logic, however, logic clearly dictates that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. "
(never have I ever hated any Star Trek villain as much as I hated Spock for uttering that blasphemy).
And the evil within the collectivist philosophy is that it permits any unspeakable horror, any insane injustice to be perpetrated on the few, or the one, in the name of the collective, the state, the "public good".
(Aside: My favorite Star Drek movie was "Star Drek IV: Spock Saves the Whales"... Not because it was so entertaining, but because Spock's mommy sets things right:
" Amanda: Spock, does the good of the many out weigh the good of the one?
"Spock: I would accept that as an axiom.
"Amanda: Then you stand here alive because of a mistake made by your flawed, feeling, human friends. They have sacrificed their futures because they believed that the good of the one - you - was more important to them. "
This is where true civilization first began.
Human life is not additive.
Btw, Star Trek IV contains some objectivist, or at least Randian, philosophy. The computer testing Spock asks:
Vulcan Computer: "What was Kiri-Kin-Tha's first law of metaphysics?"
And Spock answers:
Spock: "Nothing unreal exists."
Left side of spectrum - total collectivist control. Think "Anthem".
Right side of spectrum - anarchy. Total individualism. Every man for himself.
It began with the Pournelle axes, with one axis subsequently being dropped.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pournelle_...
The wikipedia entry has the chart reversed left-right from the one I saw in Pournelle's book.
"Left-Wing Communism: an Infantile Disorder," by Vladimir Lenin
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/w...
But, he wouldn't engage, and was not in the break room when I got back with my drink. While we've yet to butt heads, I think he realizes that he'd get his rear handed to him debating me on such issues. He's like the teachers who go into the profession to be the wisest and most powerful person in the room.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Roth...
W. Cleon Skousen is another favorite political writer of conservatives, and though he didn't openly advocate it, he was nevertheless guilty of egregious historical revisionism.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleon_Skous...
Paul B. Skousen, son of Cleon Skousen, has also followed in the footsteps of his father, engaging in significant amounts of historical revisionism as well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Skouse...
By the way, any reported-word on the mention/rumors that a concealed-carry civilian first shot one of the assailants in Walmart that led to their giving up and committing suicide?