Good Victims?

02 Dec 08

Fire extinguishers are now considered a "hazard" in the UK!

All fire extinguishers may be forcibly removed from apartment buildings, and individual residences, throughout the UK! Government eggheads have decided that fire extinguishers represent a threat, because their presence encourages "untrained people" to take (God forbid!) personal initiative and actually extinguish a fire, rather than simply fleeing the building!

"Risk assessors" further pontificated that typical citizens(aka: "idiots") might point fire extinguishers in the wrong direction, or use the wrong extinguishers. They just can't be trusted to do anything right! Besides, they add, with new building regulations, every escape route "should be" fireproof.

I am left to wonder about those confronting small fires in their kitchens. Do you suppose there is even a slight chance they might just figure out how to actually use a fire extinguisher for its intended purpose? They're awfully complicated, you know!

I also wonder if all those who are trapped and subsequently burned to death in "fireproof" escape routes will find these risk assessors' assurances comforting!

Comment: Among ordained collectivists, every possibility of personal initiative must be suffocated! This is the same thinking that underpinsanti-gun politics in this country. They only want victims. Being a "good victim" is thus one's ultimate civic responsibility!

/John

Bombay!

02 Dec 08

Bombay, India, 2008

Since throwing off British occupation in the last century, India has rabidly tried to rid itself of everything that so much as smells British, even changing names of cities (Bombay to Mumbai, for example)!

Unfortunately, one British legacy to which succeeding generations of cowardly politicians have held fast is anti-gun fanaticism, the black curse Britain inflicted upon all her colonies. Today, the licensing process for an Indian citizen to legally acquire a firearm is so complex and bewildering that few even make the effort (kind of like NYC, eh?). In addition, guns cannot be legally imported for non-government consumption, so there isn't much of a selection anyway.

Accordingly, India has no "gun-culture," which means there are no competent instructors who are able to teach even those few police who are ostensibly " armed." The resultant incompetence of Indian police was on public display last week. As terrorist sieges of hotels proceeded unabated, and innocents were being mercilessly gunned down left and right, arriving police, even though armed, milled about aimlessly and did nothing, for hours and hours! They were more afraid of their own firearms than they were of terrorists. Theonly activities at which they showed any real acumen was cowering and hiding!

As a result, a team of armed, foreign terrorists went about their deadly program, with virtually no interference from police, nor anyone else, because, in India, good people are, by law, unarmed! The city, indeed the entire nation, was paralyzed, for days. Bodies piled up!

Even Gandhi cursed the British, and the gutless Indian politicians who followed them:

"Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest."

Well, this evil "black curse" is still alive and well today, and it still arouses power-mad politicians (not too much of a redundancy!) in every corner of the globe.

In the aftermath, predictably, the current gallery of entrenched Indian politicians and bureaucrats will scurry about, trying desperately to conveythe false impression that they are actually doing something. Of course, they will accomplish nothing, and, in a week or two, everything will be back to normal, as if nothing had ever happened.

However, foreign visitors have taken notice! India, and many other countries, are no longer attractive as places to do business, nor even visit! So long as west-hating terrorists can expect little interference, much less active opposition, from the local "government," Westerners and western business interests will stay away, and should!

Indian politicians, British politicians, indeed most politicians, prefer dead victims to live heroes, and always will. Well, they were granted their wish last week!

In 2009, we can expect more episodes like the one in Bombay, and, in view of the foregoing, there is scant reason to hope for different results!

Once again: You're on our own. Dress appropriately!

/John