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Friday, January 10, 2003
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Liberty Magazine. Ken Valentine at
Liberty Magazine - transcribed from p.6 of the
February 2003 issue:
War Wimps
In "Wail of the War Wimps" (Reflections, Dec.), Clark
Stooksbury stated his case rather mildly--by my standards. Chicken
Hawk? I think a more appropriate term would be Chicken Shit!
My father, who was a mortar squad leader on Bougainville and a forward
observer on Guam and Iwo Jima, said is best: "What happens in war is
that one bunch of politicians gets mad at another bunch of politicians
so they tell their people, 'Let's you and them go fight.'" Another
cause of war is when one government has something another government
wants. As Jacob Bronowski put it: "War is a highly organized and
co-operative form of theft."
The practical fact is that young men are yanked out of their lives,
guns are thrust into their hands, and they are sent off to kill other
young men who have been yanked out of their lives and guns thrust in
their hands. While these young men huddle shivering in their foxholes
hopint that they will live to see the next sunrise, the people who
cause the problems--the politicians, generals, priests, mullahs,
tribal elders--sit back in their comfortable digs and move their chess
pieces around.
When those who declare war, vote for war, or send troops into battle,
have to actually go with those troops themselves... When they know
that they, themselves, will have to shiver in a foxhole, endure an
artillery or mortar barrage, draw a bead on another human being, press
the trigger, and watch their "target" drop and writhe on the
ground--in the full knowledge that someone else may be drawing a bead
on them--then, and only then, will we learn what is really worth
fighting for.
[End the War on Freedom]
I completely agree. It's easy for the "crusaders" to sit around their comfortable homes in America or the UK and talk about how vital it is that we invade Iraq, but somehow none of them seem to be in any hurry to pick up a rifle and put their own bodies on the line.
11:23:37 PM 
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Defending the Homeland Begins at Home. Nearly a decade later, the dichotomy between our fetish of self-sufficiency and our aversion to self-defense is greater than ever. As a culture, we have increasingly come to realize that each of us can perform many of the tasks we once consigned largely to 'experts,' whether it's refinishing the hardwood floors or filing our taxes. Yet when it comes to confronting rapists, murderers, robbers, or terrorists, that's a duty most of us--especially those living in the 'blue states'--would just as soon leave to the professionals, even though the professionals are usually the first to admit that in most situations, there's little or nothing they can do. [FirearmNews.com]
A look at how Jeffrey Snyder's A Nation of Cowards applies to defense against terrorist attacks.
9:40:32 PM
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Discredited volume on U.S. gun culture going out of print. Alfred A. Knopf Inc. has halted publication of a book that claimed guns were rare in early America, after Columbia University revoked a prestigious award to the author who was accused of research misconduct.
Michael A. Bellesiles' 'Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture' won critical praise when it was published in the fall of 2000, and received the Bancroft Prize for historical writings in 2001, but was later discredited by researchers who found evidence that the author had fabricated or misrepresented his sources. [FirearmNews.com]
7:30:23 PM
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Rebels Kill Nine Russians in Chechnya [AP World News]
About 530,000 Chechen residents and 38,000 federal troops permanently stationed in Chechnya will be eligible to vote in the March 26 constitutional referendum, said Alexander Veshnyakov, chairman of Russia's Central Election Commission.
The occupying soldiers will vote? It's a given that the referendum will be rigged, but that's awfully blatant.
6:49:19 PM
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Dog Shooting Tape Released. WKRN Nashville -
Dog Shooting Tape Released - story and (Windows Media) video of
the New Year's killing of a pet dog by Cookeville police. Seems to me
that there should have been at least one pig killed that night as
well. The perp was marching around pointing his long gun every which
way. How is it that police get away with pointing their guns at
civilians? Sure, I expect them to defend themselves, but they can do
that by aiming at the ground. If I have no weapon, or my weapon isn't
pointed at the cop, him pointing his weapon at me is assault with a
deadly weapon, pure and simple. [notreasonblog] [End the War on Freedom]
The video clearly shows the cop shooting the dog, and also shows another cop with a shotgun pointed at the head of one of the family members who's kneeling by the car.
6:00:38 AM
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