Not just in the UK!

11 Apr 08

Not just in the UK! This is from a friend with a large federal agency:

"The 'incompetence-by-choice' mantra is not confined to the UK! In our Agency, it is okay when special agents achieve high scores during qualification with 'standard' weapons. But, when any of us acquirers, and trains with, personal, military rifles, or attends private-sector instruction on his own dime, we are instantly marginalized and sternly told that such 'dangerous knowledge' is not conducive to our next promotion!

Those punching a ticket, rather than training for a fight (which constitutes the bulk of our upper 'management') will predictably retort, 'Only counter-assault-team members need to know how to operate rifles and SMGs,' or "Only counter-snipers need to learn how to shoot at long range.'

Thus, those of us who consider ourselves true Operators keep our interests and skills to ourselves when we're at the office. This is not goodfor the Agency nor individual agents, but it is necessitated by the enforced ignorance that always attaches to anti-gun politics.

The enthusiastic, unapologetic assertion that all Agents need to thoroughly learn any weapon system they can and to operate it with technical/tactical proficiency should be our creed. But, it's an election year, and predictably, "Don't give up the ship" has been replaced with "Don't rock the boat!"

Comment: Once again, "dangerous ignorance" will deal a death blow to any organization much faster than will "dangerous knowledge." When, within an agency, (1) truth is confined to nervous whispers, when (2) truth is so corrosive and frightening that it cannot be discussed openly, and when (3)we are supposed to solve a "problem," but the "problem" can never be mentioned, then the agency in question is doing little more than running in place.

Heroic Operators, like my friend in the foregoing, are making a bold comeback, and none too soon! But, we will always make frightened mice, in high positions, nervous. Expect it. Don't become a victim of it. When your actions and ambitions threaten them not, you are simply striving after the insignificant!

/John

Protecting men from Man!

11 Apr 08

America's future, from a friend and Operator in PA:

"What we often refer to as 'anti-gun sentiment' is actually just a symptom of the real disease. The real malady is personal cowardice, manifested in ' anti-fighting,' the (Woodrow) Wilson view that the unilateral decision to fight, to confront evil with righteous force, is the worst of all possible eventualities, far worse than even violent death of the innocent. This Wilsonian thinking made its debut in American jurisprudence in the mid-20th Century, having been written by timid souls in America's 'halls of ivy,' never places known as 'home of the brave.'

Thus, the currently-discredited concept of 'fleeing-to-the-wall' was deliberately designed, not for anyone's protection, but for the convenience of politicians and bureaucrats. When decent, law-abiding citizens are mandated to meekly accept violent death at the hands of VCAs, never forcefully resisting, there will surely be murders, but there will not be 'fights.' Murders are easy for government to deal with, and, in fact, give them 'something to do.' Fighting, on the other hand, is unthinkable! Cowards were thus granted the patently fraudulent view of themselves as 'morally superior' to those who would boldly defend their own magnificence.

Many politicians have not yet noticed, but America's populace has made it well known that we do not abide such tripe. State legislatures are responding with citizen CCW laws, inter-state reciprocity, and re-instatement of 'no-duty-to-retreat.' Much to the dismay of tyrant wannabes, adscripted cowardice has an unhappy future in the USA!

The police community too has largely cast aside institutionalized impotence. Trainers of principle now prepare officers to do their sworn duty to protect the weak and helpless by fearlessly entering the mayhem without delay, even when alone. This, despite the nauseating, disdainful references to 'John Wayne' and 'taking-the-law-into-your-own-hands' which are designed to mask the arrogant snobbery entrenched within academia, the news media, and elected officialdom.

America is boldly passing through this imposed period of the Franco-German political model, and the true nature of the American Spirit is now ineluctably re-emerging!"

Comment: When it comes to a choice between a war and a massacre, cowards will always choose massacre. To them, death is preferable to repentance. For too long, emasculates in officialdom have insisted that everyone be legally compelled to be as pusillanimous as they are. As my friend says, real Americans consistently reject such rubbish every time they're given a chance.

Justice has been rerouted From present to future tense; The law is so in love with the law It's forgotten common sense.

Does man now serve the law, I ask, When law was made by man? Or, law still serve its rightful task: protecting men from Man?

Ogden Nash

/John