Month: October 2019

As I’ve said, I think the primary reason the Founding Fathers put the right to keep and bear arms in the Constitution (in the Bill of Rights, I might add, which was added to get the assent of States fearing a tyrannical Federal government) was to make watering the tree of liberty with blood a more present possibility, thereby constraining in advance many possible abuses particularly of Federal authority.

But I think they were also quite aware that guns serve many purposes.  For the lonely homesteader, the gun is their only line of defense.  Communities which are well armed tend to deter criminals.  Most criminals are not looking for a fight: they are looking for an easy score.  This has always been true, and remains true today.

To this discussion, though, I would add an angle which just occurred to me: a factor worth keeping in mind is the ratio of offensive to defensive gun uses.  In a community which has been disarmed by law, one would expect this ratio to be very high.  It is high, for example in Great Britain.  It is high in Chicago and probably New Orleans.

When you look at poor black communities (this issue would apply in white communities too, but if we are honest, the overwhelming bulk of street gun violence happens in black, and to a much lesser extent Hispanic, ghettos), the problem is often not that guns are not available, but that they are EXPENSIVE, making most of the people who own them people who got them illegally.

In both cases, though, criminals are much more likely to have guns than the people they are victimizing. In such a case, it would look like “guns” are causing violence, and doing little good.

But guns are both a disease–when used offensively–and a vaccine or remedy or medicine, when used defensively.  Violence is a disease which is often PREVENTED by the presence of guns.  It is prevented when you break into someone’s home and they point an AR-15 at you, as was the case in a video I watched a couple days ago.

And it is also prevented by the idea that you PROBABLY have a gun.  Most homes in most of rural America have AT LEAST one gun.  And in those areas, crime is very low.  As Sun Tzu wrote, for unfailingly secure defense, defend where there is no assault.

He also said to to attack where there is no defense.  This is the rough situation of people who own guns where guns are hard to own legally.  They have an advantage which is not even remotely mitigated by the possibility of police help.  As the saying goes, when you need help in seconds, the police are AT BEST minutes away.

So you need, to evaluate this thing honestly a disease/prophylactic/ or disease/vaccine ratio.

If the CDC wants to treat gun violence as a disease, it has LOGICALLY to treat ALL violence as a disease, for which guns are often the cure.

My hypothesis, which I am quite sure about, is that the ratio will be high where there is legally constrained access to guns–which is a disease out of control–and very low where gun ownership is plentiful.  I would suspect there are many communities in America where the ratio is less than one, where guns are used more often to stop or prevent crimes than to commit them.

If violence is the disease–and if you think about it, this point is really indisputable–then anything which alters it in a positive direction must be seen as a policy failure, and as extremely stupid.

I’m safe now:

The World sleeps, its belly

full, with dreams of its own.

The schemers are lazily reading, smoking, drinking coffee,

their ambition idle for now.

A kind breeze gently stirs the leaves

soaked in a new, early sun.

I’m safe now. 

It won’t last, but I’m safe now.

I am going to state the latent but still obvious: all incels, as the term is used by the media, and particularly with regard to The Joker, are white.  There are no black, hispanic, or Asian incels.  Just pointing that out.

Effectively, it is a genuinely racist term, in the way I am seeing it used.  You might just as well substitute or use it interchangeably with “angry white male”.

May we all aspire to one day be as great as you already think you are.

To call your thinking simplistic would be an insult to simpletons.

If I knew nothing about Donald Trump other than who hated him, I would vote for him—and contribute to support him—for that reason alone.

Joe Biden shakes down Ukraine, then lies about it: crickets (and ritual use of the “debunked” propaganda tool). Trump asks about it:  IMPEACH.

Fuck these jackals and literal, taking money from our enemies to help destroy America traitors.

Whatever his shortcomings, Trump is willing to tell the truth come he’ll or high water, and to do his best to do what he said he was going to do.

I have to believe we have reached peak lunacy. There is no 11 from here, I do t think, even if they DO   impeach him.

Either we are batshit insane as a nation, or people in large numbers are awaking from their slumbers.

I think the long term efforts by Cultural Sadeists to induce shame in Americans (and everyone else, and everywhere else they operate) has to be seen in the context of building hatred and violence, as divisive and usable forces for ripping apart target societies.  This is done in the name of utopian ideals, but as I have long argued, the destruction IS the end.  It is Satanic in all but name, and in what I suspect are no small number of cases, literally in name too.

Do all Democrats worship Satan?  Of course not.  It is a stupid idea.  I didn’t follow it carefully, but it does sound like someone said something profoundly stupid.

But at the core, among perhaps 10% of the people pushing this thing, I DO believe there is a hatred that is deep and powerful, and that they want to infect as many people as possible with this hatred.  This, of course, is why they accuse everyone else of being haters.  It is relatively simple psychology, seen both sociologically and politically.

I don’t think you can teach people to hate directly.  I don’t think Hitler, for example, taught the Germans to hate Jews, or that Lenin taught people to hate whoever he told them to hate, such as the “Kulaks” (which proved a very mutable term, like “Capitalist”).

I think the primary emotion is shame.  Hitler drew on the shame felt by Germans at their ignominious defeat in WW1, an emotion buttressed by the Versailles Treaty.  The Germans were ready to hate.  They just needed a target.

Likewise, the Bolsheviks (always a minority party) drew on both the Russian defeat in WW1, coupled with centuries of humiliation at the hands of the various power elites.

For his part, Pol Pot learned that you CAN teach children to hate, if you get them before they develop the emotional capacity for empathy, a capacity you can permanently stunt if you get your tricks inside them early enough.

But psychologically normal people will not and cannot carry true hatred in them.  Anger and mistrust, to be clear, are very different from hate.  Hate is a word which has been used so reflexively in recent years that it means nothing.  It is like racism in this respect.  It has been ruined.

True hate, though is the combining of shame and anger.  The two must go together.  In order to hate someone, you must first feel yourself inferior.  This triggers a survival instinct, a survival urge, which enables the orderly expression of aggression via anger.

For myself, I find myself saying “I hate everybody” whenever I feel shame.  I think most people can relate to the sentiment “fuck everyone”.  I think most of us–except the happiest among us–have felt this.

I don’t really hate everyone.  I don’t know everyone, and I know there are people out there who are good.  What I do is hate myself, then direct it out as unbearable, and to use language more precisely here, shame is the equivalent of self hatred.  It is a lasting, pervasive emotion in those of us who got stunted at some point through trauma and lack of emotional nourishment.

Ultimately, it is shame I am trying to deal with in my neurofeedback.  Here is the thing: anger and fear tend to be social emotions.  Most of the time, they happen when you are out and about.  You overreact both with excessive anger, and excessive paranoia about people and their intentions.  I do, in any event.  But shame backgrounds everything.  It is the water in which this fish swims.

I am going through some hard times right now.  Thick emotional mud.  This is what I understood from the Tibetan Kun Zhi, although my scholarship is insufficient to know if I am using this term properly.

Roger Waters always spoke of carrying a stone.  This is where the stones live.  This is where you find them, and discard them, after which you are much lighter.

I was thinking this morning that one of the obvious blessings of having a body is that your body can continue when your psyche cannot.  It can just keep putting one foot in front of the other, when you can’t imagine it.  I think anyone who has reached a state where they could not go on, but they went on, will have felt this.

Imagine the alternative: pure consciousness, flitting around the universe.  When you felt despair, you would go there and stay there.  The increase in capacity for learning made possible by being able to get in the game and stay in the game is inestimable.

I may just be human soon.  Stay tuned.

The real, true enemy of  American democracy is, to my mind, very obviously the CIA.  It is odd reading that Phillip Corso viewed the CIA as a de facto KGB mouthpiece as early as the first part of the 1960’s.

John Brennan, in my view, almost certainly masterminded the Steele Dossier.  Getting things done behind the scenes without leaving too many obvious fingerprints is the MO of the CIA, and I’ve never seen any reason at all to doubt his intelligence or competence.  Merely his loyalty, and I think he has shown that his loyalty is neither to the Constitution nor our way of life.  Once you view the CIA as a KGB organ, the fact that he voted Communist in 1976, admitted it, and STILL rose to direct the Agency makes perfect sense.

And this “whistleblower”: all the accounts I read fail to mention how this individual came by the details of a private conversation our President had with a foreign leader.  He (or she) does not seem to have been in the room, leaving me with the obvious conclusion that our spy agency is not only operating domestically, and not only are they eavesdropping on our President (and presumably other senior leaders), but they are actively MINING that data for politically damaging material.

Nothing farther from the spirit of representative democracy could be imagined.  This agency probably needs to be abolished and rebuilt from the ground up.  The FBI has become the means, but the CIA dictates, so it seems to me, the ends.

If this stuff doesn’t make you a bit dizzy, then I don’t think you are understanding what I am saying, or the wealth of evidence in support of my views which is already in the public and undisputed domain.

It occurs to me this word is used roughly the way “conspiracy”: to make a direct demand for ideational conformity lest one risk being cast out.

“Motherfucker IT IS DEBUNKED”. Claim otherwise, and suffer condemnation.

As one obvious example, I am—against my will—watching CNN in a restaurant. The headline is “Pence repeats debunked Joe Biden conspiracy theory.”.

Now we know Hunter Biden was dishonorably discharged from the Navy—where he spent his spare time whoring and snorting coke—and a month or two later was earning $50,000/month. We know Joe Biden told them to fire a prosecutor who was subsequently fired.

But none of these things can be discussed by anyone who values their social standing once debunked and conspiracy have been applied.

It more or less amounts to a conditioned response which happens so quickly among the compliant they literally think they are evaluating the evidence for themselves, when all they are really doing is parroting.

I would like to make a brief post pointing to a role the FBI has seemingly evolved to play: a killer of investigations.  They killed the Epstein investigation, which was initiated by local law enforcement, after they had failed, many years ago, to make the obvious case which needed to be made.

They have the cameras from Epstein’s holding facility, which were obviously tampered with.  We will most likely never hear about them again.  The media will keep doing what it does, and the short memories of most Americans will do what they do: cause the memories of this horrible case to disappear. 

Epstein was murdered, almost certainly, and almost certainly on the orders of a power elite who were guilty of we have no idea what crimes, but almost certainly pedophilia and rape.  The FBI is actively covering it up.

You have to look at the FBI’s history.  J. Edgar Hoover more or less ignored the Constitution.  He did whatever he wanted to.  It would absolutely not have been beyond his moral compass to commit political murders.  He certainly framed people, incited people, and ran all sorts of covert and unscrupulous operations.

FBI history is not one of honesty but the abuse of authority.  The same with the CIA, obviously.

But any time the FBI assserts jurisdiction, all local law enforcement, which may well be, and probably usually is, honest and diligent, is cut out of the loop.  They seize all evidence.  They arrogate to themselves the right to interview witnesses.  They arrogate to themselves the right to arrest or ignore anyone they like.  Local cops have no more say.  Legally, they cannot interfere.

This situation is absurd.  Maybe States need to pass laws asserting the right to retain primacy in criminal investigations.  The FBI is not referenced in the Constitution, and most of their authority rests on a trust they really cannot claim to have earned.

In some sorts of cases–bank robbery, serial killers, kidnapping–yes, maybe they are the pros.  But it was an FBI agent who shot Randy Weavers wife.

These people, in aggregate, are not to be trusted with the impartial enforcement of justice.  Their acquittal before investigation of Hillary Clinton–who was OBVIOUSLY guilty of hundred of felonies–should alone make this obvious, along with all the grants of immunity to everyone involved.

I wish our system could be trusted.  It remains much better than those in much of the world.  But all honest people who value peace, freedom and dignity, need to be on their guard.