About a year ago I related a story of attending a “Preparedness Show” wherein I was drawn into commenting on the Anti Defamation League’s stance on firearms and the State.
For as long as I can remember, like our ideological forebearer, Aaron Zelman, OBM, I have been frustrated and disgusted by the mainstream Jewish organizations and community leaders’ suicidal position on self defense.
Comedian Jackie Mason used to quip about the cultural differences between the typical American Jew and the Israeli “Sabra”, by suggesting that the latter were not really Jews, but Puerto Ricans.
So, in the past few days I see the ever- reliable organ of the Reich, the Huffington Post, trot out a truly vile piece under the pretense of attacking Dr. Ben Carson.
When Joshua ben Nun and his guerilla force entered the Land of Israel, they did something odd. Their overarching mission was to conquer the land and drive out the Canaanites and other pagan peoples from therein, establishing on the ground the title to that land, as promised to Abraham.
Yet, here they were before a disease-ridden pest-hole of a walled city called Jericho. So nasty was it, that Joshua absolutely forbade the Israelite Soldiers to loot, nor occupy, the place. It was to be destroyed, utterly.
Why?
Joshua knew that many far more difficult cities, kings, and armies had been watching the Israelites tarry for forty years just outside of their goal.
Memories of the incredible miracles wrought on their behalf, and the certainty that they were protected by an immeasurably awesome god had faded to doubtful legend among the peoples of Canaan and beyond. Perhaps their god had abandoned them?
So, the annihilation of Jericho was a psychological weapon. Strike fear into the enemy before they ever even see you. Sow doubt and they will be weakened. Perhaps they will even fold without fighting?
Before and since, manipulating the mind of an enemy is a crucial part of warfare.
Thus it is with those who seek to keep us quietly toiling on their plantation.
Segments of society decide to be savage murderers, rapists, and thieves? Well… entrust your very lives to the government (the most prolific of all murderers, rapists, and thieves) we are told.
Take measures to protect yourself, your loved ones, your neighbors from predation? Get scolded two-fold; first, that anything you do is futile, and second, that to do so it is morally equivalent to being a predator.
Spearheaded (this time) by Nick Baumann; Senior Enterprise Editor at HuffPo, we are scolded once again by our “leaders”, and our dutiful State-Safe academics. Gee, the Nazis ‘loosened’ the restrictions on firearms, especially for party members (Heh-heh. A subtle message to get with the ‘program’ there, right?)
They even trot out sad survivors of the Holocaust to say that suggesting that to claim disarmed people (erm…Psychologically? um… Physically?) might have saved lives had they not been in such straits is to BLAME THE VICTIM (!?)
Such arrogance. Such evil.
No.
Unless you have both the inner strength and the tools to defend your life, your liberty, and property, you are destined for chains, and when no longer useful to the bosses,… to the smokestack.
Y.B. — a “truly vile piece” indeed. Of all the outrageous sentiments expressed by Mr. Baumann the worst was at the end, where he chided the Warsaw ghetto fighters for dying en masse while hardly killing any Nazis. Meanwhile, if the ghetto fighters had just escaped into the woods like Baumann’s grandparents, everything would have been hunky dory for all (he implies).
Never mentioning those ghetto dwellers who didn’t resist — and died and died and died by the tens of thousands.
He also fails to understand one of the BIG lessons of underdogs throughout history: use your small arms to capture the overwhelming enemy’s bigger, more powerful, and more plentiful arms.
His entire message in a nutshell: Resistance is futile.
Faugh!
No doubt Mr. Baumann’s relatives requested a day-pass to the a nearby village, to shop for Hummels and cocoa powder, from their Camp Commander? Then, they simply wandered off to commune with Bambi & Thumper? His relatives should slap some sense into him.
Here’s another excellent answer (with historical info) to all the criticism of Carson’s statements about the Nazis, Jews, and victim disarmament:
http://thefederalist.com/2015/10/12/ben-carson-is-right-about-nazi-gun-control/
A related article worth the read;
….The Jewish Defense Association was the first time that uptown establishment German Jews and downtown Eastern Jewish immigrants came together. The JDA’s goal had little in common with the empty rubber chicken dinner agendas of what the establishment that grew out of it would become.
Instead the Jewish Defense Association’s mission was simple. Buy guns for Jews…..
http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2015/10/how-buying-guns-for-oppressed-jews.html
“The Anti-Defamation League, which monitors and responds to anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry, has long opposed the use of Nazi comparisons in the U.S. gun control debate.”
It’s irrelevant that Aaron Zelman found that the 1968 gun control law was modeled on Nazi and Weimar Republic laws, I suppose.
That truly was a vile article, as were others in the same ilk. As to the futility of resisting, Lloyd Cohen commented:
“Dying even futilely defending yourself, your family, and your group has an honor and a dignity to it that is not vouchsafed by being helplessly slaughtered. Thus even if none had escaped from the Warsaw or Vilna Ghettos or the Sobibor extermination camp, those who took vengeance there honored themselves, their families, and their people.”
The writers of these articles have no dignity or honor, which is why they do not understand this.
The other day I happened upon a crime situation that resulted in a civil court case, where those suing the government of the District of Columbia discovered they didn’t have a case, because the police (in the US) do not have a legal mandate to protect “individuals,” only the “general public”. While the logic of this decision escapes me totally, it does, I believe, send a signal to people that real self-defence is done by oneself. While the police with no doubt do what they can, what they do is essentially a personal or human reaction, not a legal one.
The case in point is Warren vs District of Columbia. If you have the stomach for it, it’s worth reading in some detail, particularly the basis for the court’s decision.
What we see in Israel right now is that the government agrees that under the current conditions, police and army are unable for many reasons, to stop the bloodshed. So it would be most effective if the people themselves got themselves armed (and no doubt trained, although most likely the majority of the population has been army-trained).
In my opinion, this sends – or ought to send – a message to the world (including Canada where I live, and where talk of “self-defence” is not permitted by government agencies when the conversation turns to firearms and knives) is that the only one you can depend upon is the chap looking back at you in the mirror.