Feeding Frenzy!

03 Nov 08

Current retail front, from a friend who owns a big gun store in the Medwest:

"We are experiencing a feeding frenzy here! We're selling guns as fast as our staff can run cash registers and complete paperwork. Yesterday expendedour stock of Kalashnikovs, and today we ran out of ARs. We have virtually nothing remaining in stock.

We've even run out of G17s! In the gun business, running out of G17s is like a bar running out of Jim Beam! At this pace, the pipeline's capacity is measured in only a day or two."

Comment: Who are not already "set up" are going to have great difficulty from this point forward.

/John

Turning Point!

03 Nov 08

On tomorrow's election, from friends in PA:

"There is an willful and calculated effort on the part of those in the USA who reject the Constitution-defined, Anglo-American Political Model, and rather embrace the Franco/German/Soviet mantra (that believes citizens exist only to serve government) to subjugate, and ultimately asphyxiate all species of individual freedom. Denigration and disrespect of the history of Western Civilization in general, and US History in particular, is their MO.

Throughout American history there have been examples of suppositional national peril that have caused the electorate to put in place officials who were foolishly enamored with F/G/S constructs. In response to threats of war with France, John Adams signed the Alien and Sedition Acts. His son, John Quincy Adams, became naively enamored with early renderings of Communism. Lincoln suspended habeas corpus and arbitrarily jailed elected legislators in order to prevent them from voting against him. FDR casually imprisoned thousands of American citizens, based solely on race. Carter emasculated America in the face of the Soviet Union.

Each time, however, the American People subsequently chose to right the situation, resulting in restoration of individual freedom.

America is the home of exceptional men, hopelessly wedded to liberty. Such men defiantly reject the F/G/S model that suggests that some men, by birth or acquired position, are inherently superior to others and should thus reign and enslave, rather than serve.

Ignorance is a natural state. Each of us is ignorant of much more than what little we know. Stupidity, on the other hand, requires education, effort, and willful maintenance. Still, Churchill pointed out that Americans can always be relied upon to do the right thing, after trying everything else!"

Comment: World history is, once again, taking an accelerated, sinister turn. The American experiment, the last, great hope for mankind, may answer these challenges with boldness and audacity and go on to new victories and new accomplishments, or it may not! In this world, civilizations come and go. There are no guarantees and no "divine protection." Nations with a naive and self-indulgent death-wish are rarely disappointed. The dustbin of history still has plenty of room!

/John