Protest at DSA!

04 June 08

This note from my good friend Marc Galli, general manager at DSA in IL:

"Jesse Jackson, accompanied by his customary, bussed-in entourage, is planning a return visit to demonstrate against DSA on Saturday, 14 June 08

Mr Jackson protested us once before, in 2007. That affair was a dud, receiving only luke-warm media attention. Jackson's mumbled "message" was, as usual, ambiguous, self-contradictory, and largely irrelevant. Even the few media people there had great difficulty translating/deciphering it.

Rather than addressing real issues, Mr Jackson predictably reverted exclusively to flippant, hollow sound-bites and standard, Marxist boiler-plate. No wonder his "message" was greeted with the collective yawnsof the public and the media alike! This time, we have no reason to believe it will be any different.

On 14 June 08, we ask anyone who is able to join us at our Lake Barrington, IL facility to show support for DSA, the American Firearms Industry, and the individual right to keep and bear arms, soon to be confirmed by the Supreme Court. We ask that all dress appropriately, and present themselves like professionals.

Many thanks for your support."

DSA's wonderful rifles are in the capable hands of police officers throughout the world. I have several copies, and they are gems! DSA is aproud, accomplished, American gunmaker, and we all want them to be widely successful!

/John

IBC

04 June 08

Excellent summary, but an friend and instructor:

"Your last two posts on the clueless bank guard and the UK Police ND ' problem' are just symptoms of a bigger, societal disease. It is rampant at all levels of government, and in most large businesses.

The disease is IBC (Ignorance, by Choice). And, IBC always leads, by a short route, to incompetence.

Many bureaucrats, public and private, are, by the nature of the job, intellectually indolent. They really don't want to know their work, their Art, their Calling, anything! They are not the least bit interested in the wayfunds are spent, since it is not theirs anyway. They would rather just throw so much money at a problem that it goes away, and there is no shortage of 'experts' who are only too anxious to grovel for it. These vendors have every confidence that no one will ever be held accountable for the quality of their work, so long as they fill out all the forms and attach a sufficiently impressive poundage of 'supporting documents,' that, of course, no one will ever even look at, much less actually read.

Any learning worth the title is simultaneously dangerous and painful. There is no learning without pain and risk. True enlightenment is always a high-effort, high-risk, comfortless process, a struggle filled with failureand small steps of success. Its just plain work.

Most make endless excuses in an effort to avoid all such exertion and commitment. Dedicated to nothing, in effect, they desire never to rise above ignorance/incompetence, and in that cheerless pit they'll remain solong as their IBC is tolerated, indeed rewarded, but our civilization."

Comment: If striving after personal excellence were profitable, we would all be duteously pursuing sainthood! But, in the real world, where avarice, cowardice, fraud, duplicity, prevarication, and even stupidity, benefit one far more than virtue and honor, the worthy among us are called upon to "buck the trend," even at the risk of being a hero!

William White put it this way: "Culture is activity of thought, and receptiveness to beauty and human feeling. A merely well-educated person is the most useless bore on God's earth!"

/John