The Necessity of Violence

We have been told that violence is not the answer so many times that many people now believe that it is never the answer. Such a position is not only deluded, but dangerous. Take the prisoners of war stored at Guantanamo for instance. Each man released has a better than fifty percent chance of being re-captured upon the battlefield where he was actively trying to kill Americans. Yet there are those who say that we are wrong to imprison them and seek criminal trials in the U.S. in order to grant them a day in court. Some even go so far as to say that we deserve the acts that murdered thousands on September 11, 2001 and that we must atone for our own acts of evil committed against the third world. I say those who advocate for the terrorists are cowards and brain damaged.

Even the news media has refrained from calling those who strap explosives to themselves and detonate them suicide bombers and now call them homicide bombers as if the person wearing the explosive vest survived his own insanity. When Hamas commits an act of war against Israel and Israel responds, the world cries foul on Israel and offers comfort to the terrorists. It would seem that those who aspire to pacifism have forgotten one cardinal rule of humanity: some people just need killing.

There is no amount of reason or diplomacy that will stop a bullet from reaching its target. Therefore, it is the will that must be broken because it is the will that launches that round downrange. That is the sole reason for the use of violence, to break the will. If someone attacks you do you try to reason with that person while they are pummeling you or do you ball up your fist and punch them in the nose in order to convince them that it is a poor course of action to attack you? Because if you do not convince them quickly of their error, you are at the mercy of your attacker and those who have been on the receiving end of such a beating will tell you it is not pleasant.

Here in the U.S. the courts have ruled that public law enforcement has no responsibility to protect any individual, but to protect the general public at large. This leaves the responsibility for self defense squarely on the shoulders of the individual. Yet the individual is discouraged from defending himself at every opportunity. This does not create a more peaceful society, but rather a society of willing victims. Yet those who assiduously seek to disarm the American people do not seem to care if they are creating a flock of lambs to be led to the slaughter.

Irrespective of whether the fight is personal or international, if the will must be broken to preserve the state or the individual then violence is the only answer. For if that stage is reached, then diplomacy and reason has already failed and only two choices remain: surrender or fight.

If we choose surrender, then we must ask ourselves why it is the better response. Are we surrendering because our preservation is not necessary? Is it because we deserve what we are going to get? Is it because we cannot defend ourselves effectively? Or is it because life is so precious that there is nothing worth dying for? As Ronald Reagan once asked of the last question, if that is true then when did that happen? (See video posted below – Reagan’s Rendezvous with Destiny) What if we felt that way during the time of the Revolutionary War or the Europeans felt that way when they faced down the Muslims at the battle of Tours? History would have been changed and the world would be very different.

Laser guided munitions, strategic weapons, and carpet bombing of cities all have their place, but breaking your back and exposing your troops so that you can avoid or minimize civilian casualties is stupid. If the enemy has moved artillery into a residential neighborhood those targets should be engaged. If the enemy retreats to a hospital to continue combat, the hospital now becomes a target. If we can avoid or minimize civilian casualties while engaging such targets then great, if not, we did not make the residential area or hospital the target, the enemy did. By avoiding such targets we do not break the will of the enemy, but encourage him to use more human shields and to continue his resistance prolonging the conflict and increasing civilian casualties.

When violence is applied with maximum alacrity and force, the conflict will resolve quickly minimizing casualties on both sides. Long, protracted conflicts increase casualties and move rapidly toward stalemate. During Operation Desert Storm, the Iraqis bunkered down in trenches hoping to achieve such a stalemate. The use of earth moving equipment buried hundreds of thousands of Iraqi soldiers alive and neutralized the Iraqi defenses quickly putting enemy forces on the run where they could be captured rather than killed. The combat was short and casualties were kept to a minimum because of the correct use of violence.

Where the “peace at any price” crowd consistently fails to achieve results is in the Tibet region. For decades I have seen the peaceniks place “Free Tibet” bumper stickers on their vehicles, hold rallies, concerts, speaking engagements, ad infinitum, ad nauseum, and yet Tibet is not free. Despite decades of giving peace a chance, they have failed miserably in their goal. Had they organized an army, armed themselves and the Tibetans, the goal could have a chance of actually happening. Instead, their dogged adherence to their hopes and dreams has produced nothing except fodder for punch lines. Yet these people still listen to the Grateful Dead, smoke dope, and sing Kumbaya while they fervently hope that their good wishes actually frees the people of Tibet.

By acknowledging that violence is a necessity and has a place in human interactions, we confirm that there are bad people who actually deserve the act of violence. Violence is not in and of itself evil or bad. It is the intent behind the violence that makes it use good or bad. If the intent is to victimize, abuse, or deprive another of their rightful possessions, then the use of violence would be bad. If violence is used to defend, protect, or prevent a crime, then the use of violence is good. For far too long has there been 64 million shades of gray defining morality in human interactions. If we return to just right and wrong, the judgment of such actions will once again become clear and maybe when there is a fight at school, only the aggressor will be punished rather than to also suspend the victim for defending himself. I believe that the world has had its fill of appeasement and now needs a far more direct approach for the miscreants that seek to victimize others.

** Note: The photo accompanying this article is that of the corpse of Che Guevara who richly deserved what he got

The Truth

One thing that the left cannot seem to stand is the light of day. Take the ad depicted to the right that appeared in Atlanta, Georgia. Some say it is racially charged and only hurts the human rights progress that has been made in the United States in the past 40 years, but the sad reality is that this billboard is 100% accurate. The founder of Planned Parenthood, Margaret Sanger, was a eugenicist that saw blacks as human weeds that needed to be cleared from the gene pool. As a result, she began her infamous Negro Project whose aim was the slow, silent genocide of the black race. As I have written here before, it is likely that Sanger would have approved of Hitler’s final option had it not been swift, bloody, and vicious. You see, Sanger was a coward because she preferred to the slow certitude of murdering children in the womb rather than the openness of murdering adults and living children. Both are effectively lethal, it is just that one method does not leave so much of a mess.

Further, Sanger and her cohorts took steps to head off the criticism of blacks and recruited black ministers to combat any hue and cry coming from that quarter. More recently, the Reverend Jesse Jackson decried the actions of Planned Parenthood as nothing less than the genocide that it certainly was. At least, that was he did until he was bought off by the left and silenced. Now that his palms have been sufficiently greased, he seems to be quite happy that black children are being murdered in the womb. Aside from Reverend Jackson’s elastic ethics, the murder of children in the womb is far worse than you know.

This is because it is more than the murder of children; it is also the murder of potential. As a race, we stand on the shoulders of preceding generations. We inherited the knowledge base of 30,000 years of human effort and use that information to propel ourselves through time into the future. That being the case, what have we cut up and suctioned out of the womb before it could come to fruition? Was there a physician that would have found a cure to AIDS or cancer? Was there a scientist that would have found the grand unified theory of the universe? How about a person that would have found a way to prevent the death and destruction of 9/11? While we will never know the answers to these questions, the 30 million murdered unborn represents a massive waste of human potential and that is the greatest tragedy.

Magnifying the tragedy is that abortion is done for selfish reasons. Some mothers who don’t wish to ruin their figures do it, some for birth control because they wanted the natural feel to sex, some because they want more disposable income or time. Regardless of the reason, it is ultimately because they are selfish. Worse, they know in their heart that what they are doing is wrong. To illustrate, there was a hospital that routinely threw away murdered children with the garbage. The mothers who aborted their children at that hospital found out about this practice and they were outraged. That outrage stemmed from the fact that their children were disposed of in so callous a fashion. Yet, these same mothers saw their children as nothing more than hair clippings or an unsightly growth when they had their children butchered. They felt no outrage for the act of abortion, but for the improper disposal of their children. That fact had never been considered any more than you would care what the barber does with your hair clippings. Therefore, these mothers never constructed any plausible denial for the fact that the destroyed bodies of their children were thrown unceremoniously into the trash bin. You see, the most effective lie is that which we tell ourselves to paper over an unsightly truth.

This is also why the proponents of slaughtering the unborn dislike showing pictures of the children about to be aborted to the expectant mothers. The truth may wake them up to their heinous intent. You see, NARAL and NOW like having the power of life and death. They can envision themselves as Kali and pretend to be all powerful as both the creator and destroyer. Sick? Absolutely. Twisted? Definitely. Why else would they so ardently support the murder of those who cannot speak for themselves or had no choice in their creation? It appears that a silent victim is the best victim for murder and best of all there is no next of kin who will advocate for the victim.

Unfortunately, there are those on the left who believe that abortion of the unborn does not go far enough and advocate Mothers being allowed to murder their children until the age of two. Which is reasonable in their twisted minds because you don’t know if you will really like your kids until you get to know them, so if little Johnny or Susan is a pain in the ass you can just take a hammer and kill your child with it and that is the end of the problem. Makes sense right? That is the problem with sanctioning murder, how far can you let it go and still call yourself civilized? The blood drunk left has already demonstrated this with the holocaust, the murder of millions in the Ukraine, the social purges of Mao, and the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. When you see people in economic or selfish terms, evil soon follows.

I believe that one day we will awaken from our self-deception and realize the evil that we have willingly perpetrated on our unborn. Because of its silent and hidden nature, it is an evil that will take some time to surface out of the mists of our delusion. So far, we have thirty million dead and counting. I don’t know what the final total is going to be, but I fear it will dwarf anything we have ever seen as a people. I pray by then we will be able to live with our folly.

No Pain, No Gain

I predicted the economic collapse of 2008 when I delivered a presentation in 2006 that predicted that the American housing bubble would burst leaving tens of thousands of Americans holding mortgages on property that was worth tens of thousands less than what they had borrowed. Not surprisingly, my report had zero impact upon the people to which I was speaking. The lights were low, the room temperature was warm, and my audience wanted to be elsewhere. Today, I am just as certain that the worst is yet to come.

President Obama and the weasels on Capitol Hill are all saying that we dodged a bullet, but they are lying through their teeth. What happened is that the housing bubble burst and it took out the commercial banks and mortgage industry and this had a profound impact upon industry. That is why the Federal government now owns 2/3 of American auto manufacturing and a huge chunk of the banking industry. Worse, the American taxpayer is now the proud new owner of more than half of the housing in the United States of America and the Treasury has been printing money like there is no tomorrow. You see, we didn’t dodge a bullet. We merely created a new bubble to prop up the economy.

Contrary to the politicians in Washington and around the nation, you cannot spend your way out of a financial crisis. If you tried that at home, you would end up bankrupt and in the street. This is because you have finite resources. It is like writing a check for 2,000 dollars when you only have 37 dollars in the bank. The difference between you and the government is that the government does not depend upon a third party to give it a raise. When the government wants to spend more money they just take it from you by force. If you believe that force is not involved in taxation, then try not paying your taxes and see what happens. When you as a private citizen attempt to do the same, we call that robbery, but I digress.

The bubble that was created by the ever running printing press in Washington cannot be sustained. I suggest that you google the Weimar Republic and Zimbabwe to verify the problem. Money is running off of the printing presses as fast as the government can print it. This is because the government must pay out more than they have coming in through taxation. As the amount of cash in circulation increases, the value of the dollar drops leaving the American citizen holding a dollar that is worth less today than it was yesterday. The government is for this because they owe trillions of dollars and America’s creditors will be paid with dollars worth less than what they loaned. This process is called monetizing the debt. This is why China and our other debt holders don’t want to loan us anymore money. They can see the handwriting on the wall.

That means that when this bubble pops, there will be no reprieve for the average Joe. The economy will implode and there is nothing that can be done to stop it. If you are beginning to think that we are on borrowed time, you understand exactly what I am saying. Economic collapses do not give you six months warning to prepare for the fall out. They occur suddenly and without warning. You will go to sleep one night believing all is right with the world until you get up the following morning and then swing by the ATM on the way to work only to find that the machine will not allow you to access your accounts. You will arrive at work and people will be complaining about not being able to access their accounts either. News will begin to trickle in slowly revealing the ever expanding scope of the problem. At that point, there is nothing that you can do. You have to operate on what you have until the crisis abates. It is that simple. If you are not prepared for that eventuality you will have a hard road to follow.

Right now, Greece, Spain, Ireland, and Portugal are all feeling the pinch. In a sense, they are the bellwethers for the United States. We do not have the resources to pay what we owe, we print money like there is no tomorrow, and we spend like drunken college kids with daddy’s credit card, and expanding entitlements to citizens that are financially unsustainable. All of this is in addition to the 74 trillion that Medicare is in the hole and the fact that Social Security is nose diving into the pavement. Does government cut spending? No, they race to spend as much as they can as fast as they can without any idea as to how to get the money to spend on their pork barrel projects. Unfortunately, that is not the worst of it.

Concomitantly, the Congress and the left have been dismantling the greatest engine of wealth creation ever created by man. They and the trade unions have been assaulting the capitalist system unrelentingly and with increasing fervor. SEIU’s chief executive, Andy Stern, has logged more visits to the White House than any other interest. Did I mention that Stern was a Marxist? Stern is not the only one as President Obama seeks to surround himself with the enemies of capitalism. The President’s advisors: Sunstein, Browner, Jones, et al, are not shy of professing their faith in the communist ideal and expressing their contempt for crass capitalism. Further, the corruption and fumbling of Congress is working hard to push us over the economic edge.

Barney “I run man whores out of my house” Frank, Nancy “Most ethical and open congress in history…not” Pelosi, and Harry “I hate the common man” Reid are the three stooges on Capitol Hill that are all doing their best to drive the nation over a cliff. The House of Representatives and the Senate no longer listens to the voice of the people. They care not about the damage that they are doing to our nation or for the hardships that we must endure because of their arrogance. Thus, we are now operating under a system of government that does not represent the interests of the American citizen, but rather the interests of the few while they pick our pockets for their damned taxes and hang the burden of financial slavery upon the necks of our children. Therefore, I ask the question: What are we to do?

First and foremost, we must take back control of our own government. We must evict the neo-aristocracy from Washington and install a new leadership that will represent the American people. Secondly, we must set term limits for public office to insure that the vermin cannot return. Third, we must allow our economy to reset. No more can we spend, bail out, expand entitlements, or create pork projects for special interests. We must also cut Federal spending by 50% and rift agencies that are redundant or could be done by private interests. If that means that those who are under 40 must now be responsible for their own retirement and health insurance in old age, then so be it. This includes support to trade unions that cannot manage their funds effectively. If they can’t afford to pay the pensions or afford the health care that they promised their members, then they have to deal with the consequences of their actions as the taxpayer will not bail them out either.

What I am proposing will not be pleasant or fun, but we can survive these measures if we return to the values that founded our nation. Otherwise, we may wake up one morning to find a situation that will be even more unpleasant to deal with.

Live free or die

Waxing Philosophic

I have not posted an update for a while now, and I have a confession to make. Truthfully, I have been playing Mass Effect 2. The game is similar to System Shock in that it blends role playing and shooting into a perfectly formed universe that is addictive, but I will not review the game here. Instead, I want to talk about the similarities of the game and of human nature. Humanity has certain characteristics that if ignored always lead to trouble. We tend to be greedy, power hungry, selfish, and self absorbed creatures. That is not to say that we do not possess our good points. We can also be noble, self sacrificing, courageous, and giving. It is the balance between these two sides of humanity that creates the character of the individual and that is why character matters. It determines who you are and drives your choices.

One of the most certain ways of insuring that you do not succumb to your darker nature is to ally yourself to a cause greater than yourself. Patriotism, freedom, and service to others are all great ways to achieve this. This is the bedrock upon which liberty stands and it is why freedom detests a weak host. That is not to say that freedom does not like the weak, the West has always defended those who cannot fight for themselves, but freedom cannot long exist unless a free people possess the discipline and strength of will to protect their liberties from those who would steal it from them and leave them in subjugation. Just as there are people who believe that human nature is comprised of two halves, some people believe that man is incapable of evil and that he would always choose the high road rather than a darker path. This is the difference between the American Revolution and the French Revolution.

The American Revolution recognized that man has equal parts of good and evil and that is why the American founders did not trust government and built checks and balances to prevent tyranny. Even then, they knew that such a government would not be easy to maintain. Ben Franklin said it best when he was asked what kind of government had been created and he said, “A republic, if you can keep it.” Franklin knew that a republic form of government was risky, but it was also the only way to insure that the freedoms of the people could not be assailed directly. The ability of the republic to endure was greater than any of the founders had hoped, but those who believe that man is inherently good have found a way by which a free people may be returned to servitude, for that is exactly what collectivism is and I shall not sugarcoat it.

The French Revolution saw no evil in man’s nature and therefore trusted government completely. To this day the French look to government to solve their problems. However, a government that is strong and large enough to give you everything is also large and strong enough to deprive you of everything. This is done through taxation, regulation, and police enforcement. The end result is the breakdown of public order. This is because this system cannot stand on its own for long. It bleeds the rich, endows the poor, and economically murders the middle class. This is why France has experienced riots for weeks on end. When the well has run dry, the government cannot keep its promises. A government in this position must decide upon three paths: military suppression of the population, borrow massive amounts of money, or reform. Of these three paths, reform is the most dangerous.

This is because entitlements are addictive. They are the opiate of the collective and the addicts will fight relentlessly to maintain them despite the cost to their own society or the damage to themselves. It is here that human nature reasserts itself; a man will not take a hard path to navigate when there is an easier path to take. When one assigns values to these paths, the outcome will rarely be different. Hence the old saying, nothing worth doing is ever easy. This is why freedom does not favor a weak host because it is fragile and easily shattered. This is what happened to Rome when Caesar crossed the Rubicon and ended the republic.

Freedom, justice, virtue, and character only find resonance in a heart that recognizes their beauty and is willing to defend these ideals. The past year has been a difficult one for the West. Our culture, values, and faith have been under assault from what seems every quarter. Even those charged with defending the tenets of liberty have turned against their sworn oaths and joined in savaging Lady Liberty. The burden for defending her now falls to us because if we fail, we will no longer be a free people. Our enemies are arrayed against us and have proven to be relentless foes. We must strive against them and confront them at every opportunity and we must give no quarter, for we shall certainly receive none. Gird yourselves for battle, our field is the arena of ideas and our armor is our belief in freedom and individual liberty. That being said, I think that this year is going to be one hell of a ride.

Sic Semper Tyrannis