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Let us frame the 2nd Amendment as “The right to effective self defense”.  Is it not reasonable that all honest citizens have access to the weapons they might be expected to face in a crime?

I will add that, as I think about it, the 2nd Amendment really means: we the Federal Government grant that you the States have the right to defend yourselves any you want, so we are not going to regulate anything.

An interesting corollary to this is that I think one could argue that the Constitution does NOT prevent STATES from making laws against guns.  All it says is that the Federal Government can’t. 

I have not made this case, but I think one could plausibly argue that the exact nature of gun laws was intended to reside in the same moral domain as laws about slavery, drugs, euthanasia, gay marriage, prostitution, gambling, alcohol and the like.

What this line of thought would lead to is the cessation of ALL Federal gun laws, and the elimination of the F from the ATF.  It would allow Illinois to ban all guns, and Kentucky to make fully automatic machine guns available without a license.

I have put this many ways.  Here is another: Socialism is a creed which can rationalize an unequal power structure within the context of opposing difference in principle.

Here is the principle intellectual difficulty of egalitarianism: given that not all people are created equal in capacity, and that not all cultural forms work equally to facilitate and foster both happiness and economic productivity, even the BEST ideas, and BEST people cannot be valued, in principle, differently.

Meaning formation is at root the development of difference, of valuing this over that, this idea over that idea, this type of behavior over that type of behavior.  As one obvious example, hard work is preferable to sloth, if the goal is economic advancement.  But they can’t value ANYTHING, including an obviously beneficial, eudaptive (opposite of maladaptive; I may be mixing Greek and Latin, but fuck it) habit like hard work and self reliance.

On the contrary, they RESENT people who show greater resilience, greater organizational capacity, greater SUCCESS on an on-going basis, because it forces them to confront the emptiness of their creed.  This is why the Left hates Jews (and even though it contains many Jews).  This is why black people who preach hard work, honesty and family are so roundly condemned using what we might term the “Usual Pretexts”.

You can see this process at work everywhere.  I was in an Urban Outfitters today, which is obvious geared to the hipsters and urban trendies.  Everywhere one sees this sense of insouciance and flippancy with respect to serious matters.  They had a CCCP t-shirt (red, of course).  They had many books which failed to take anything seriously.

Jon Stewart speaks to this crowd.  They don’t have the emotional capacity to deal on a sustained bases in an HONEST way with serious problems.  They learn the talking points, learn to demonize the Right, but they are not actually in the room if and when they engage in what they term “debate”.  They have turned those controls over to stereotypes, and propaganda. 

Yes, of course I am myself generalizing.  But I feel the right to do so, having spent literally thousands of hours engaging with these people on their own turf.  What general pictures I use in performing logical or perceptual operations, I have won through a LOT of work and data gathering.

Here is the crux of the thing: in the process of meaning formation, you must VALUE something absolutely; you must have a code; yet codes that are immutable are rejected at the HEART of their cultural ethos.

This breeds madness.  This breeds the countless distractions, the colors, the odd books, the quantitative diversity of fashion and food.  It breeds emotional superficiality, and ultimately self hate, and a feeling of being lost.  Their nascent meaning formations invariably cannibalize themselves, since they can’t be “justified”.

Only to the extent that one is willing to suspend rational thought based on egalitarianism–in effect, to say fuck it with respect to these beliefs–or reject the creed outright and consciously, can meaning be found which does not reside in the abandonment of personal identity in a mass and mutable horde.

I go in these places, and my stomach sinks.  I see the darkness.  I see the inability to find a meaning in life, then I see the T-shirts that say “Obey”, the Communist shirts, the pornographic t-shirts.  I saw 50 Shades of Grey t-shirts today, one of which said “Looking for Mr. Right, Mr. Grey”.  Imagine that: a woman advertising that she wants to be sexually (and thus emotionally) dominated.  Actually, I look in Amazon, and see a lot more, including “Property of 50 Christian Grey”.

The problem is that YOU CANNOT FIND PERSONAL MEANING within an egalitarian creed.  We all must find our own way.  We are all different.  There are countless answers to the question of why to live, but none will work IF YOU REJECT THEM.  That is the root problem of our age.  It is related, in my view, to atheism, which tends in principle to make all matter–which is to say all people–equal.

It was the signal contributions of Nietzche and Ayn Rand (who admired him) to try and retain qualitative distinction in the face of materialistic quantitative analysis.

Empirically, the best evidence is that something like God exists, even if not fully in a sense recognized at least by Christianity, and quite possibly in ways not captured by ANY religion fully correctly.  It should be the role of science to figure out how the universe actually works, but most people are unwilling to do it, if it requires the balls and INCONVENIENCE of reworking paradigms, of tired paths long trodden.

I run a small business, and am doing my taxes.

There is no question in my mind that the more complicated the rules, the thicker the nest of regulations, the greater the relative advantage of large corporations.  They can afford to hire specialists.  They can implement uniform rules that become efficient across large numbers of people.  Small business has a hard time doing this.  They can’t get an economy of scale.  The owners wind up wearing all sorts of hats trying in vain to keep up with the whirlwinds created by amoral two-bit despots.

This is why Democrats, and leftists generally, tend to promote more or less directly the well being of large corporations at the expense of small business; and why so many large corporations reward them with campaign donations. 

Obamacare is just one obvious example.  It will hurt Main Street, to the benefit of Silicon Valley, Wall Street, and all the large banks and multinationals. 

As usual, the usual idiots who vote for Democrats are generating the OPPOSITE of the outcome they think they are voting for.  When they are in character, Republicans are for Main Street, and opposed to special interests of all sorts.

The extent and scale of lies out there is simply staggering.

Since the issue of dealing with disasters–and Obama’s possible use of them to grab power–is real world for you, I thought I might pass along a
scenario and some ideas. First, I think many of you share my basic
understanding of Obama as someone who is a political radical.

What you
may not know is that the evidence is very good both that his real father
was Frank Marshall Davis–who was a card carrying Communist Party member through
the Fifties and Sixties, and who on Obama’s own account was an important
mentor; and that his association with Bill Ayers–and Ayers radical
father–likely goes back into the 1980’s, and that Ayers is the most likely
author of both of Obama’s books.

These are my best guesses, based on
the evidence available. It is a fact that a William Ayers has dined at the White
House. Keep in mind, too, that Bill Ayers was featured standing on an
American flag in the New York Times on Sept. 11, 2001, and that back in the 1970’s he dreamed of building a network of concentration camps in the Southwest, and figured in the end he would “have” to murder some 10 million Americans unwilling to submit to brainwashing.

That picture may not
have been coincidence. I deal with the overwhelming probability that there was a larger conspiracy on 9/11 here.  I have since become much more convinced that Americans HAD to
have been involved, even though I still see no reason to implicate Bush
or even the government.  Keep in mind that the Rockefellers, among others, have long term ties to political radicals, and are among the beneficiaries of the Federal Reserve’s largesse.  People forget, but the Fed is currently creating and distributing some $50 billion a month.  We have no idea who they are giving it to.  There are neither laws constraining them, nor effective means of generating public disclosure.  This situation is ludicrous, but I don’t want to digress.

Given the foregoing, let’s say
someone–false flag, or through successful attack by an actual foreign hostile power like Iran–detonates an EMP in New York, causing large regional
blackouts, food shortages, and general chaos. Who does Obama call out?
Not the National Guard: they don’t report to him. He calls out FEMA,
and the Dept. of Homeland Security it reports to. They show up in their
armored personnel carriers, and they tell all the regional Guard units
that they now work for them. He tells regular military and law enforcement that he is now in charge by issuing an
Executive Order,and puts all military, all Guard units, and all local law enforcement under the operational
command of the DHS–which he has been seasoning for this day both through selective recruiting a la Parallax View, and through indoctrination–which most or all Governors choose to honor.

National martial law is 
implemented. Gun confiscations go on in force, of the sort we have
already seen in New Orleans (I’ll post a video). At some point, the
government says it can’t care for everyone, and tells them they have to
relocate to camps built by FEMA and the US Army. The camp selections
are not random. Specific people are put in specific places they never
get out of. 

In this situation, how is order reestablished
consistent with the Constitution? How does Obama NOT become a dictator,
if all units involved follow orders that appear legal? For all service
personnel, following orders is the default, unless something is
FLAGRANTLY wrong, which it would not appear to be in this scenario.

What
I would submit is that the military, law enforcement, and Guard units represent perhaps our best defense
against tyranny, and that policies should be put in place making it
absolutely, categorically clear that  you will refuse to obey
unConstitutional orders, which would include forcible relocations, and
disarming the public.  There are not enough America-haters out there to build tyranny, unless there are enough  people unwilling to think through the consequences of what they are being told to do to make it happen on autopilot.

Look at this video on actual forcible relocations, and gun confiscations in New
Orleans: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-taU9d26wT4.  Would this be you?  Do the actions of these men make you proud?  Can you justify them, from the distance of cold, cool, calculation of the nature of your job protecting the public and freedom? Imagine this across the country, led by DHS agents:

If this can happen in America, and it plainly DID happen in America, what did our forefathers fight for?  What did you enlist for?  What did YOU fight for?

Here is a video on camps apparently being built by the Army which are
described as intended to hold civilians. They are being built,
apparently, in the United States, and are surrounded by barbed wire.
Why the Army? Why civilians?  What NEED is there for these camps?  We already have prisons.  We already have Gitmo.  Disaster recovery does not need guard towers and barbed wire and snipers.

Please think through your role in protecting the freedom of Americans in general, and the freedom of those in the State or community you are tasked with protecting.  Please ponder carefully what you are willing and not willing to do, and make your principled policies known in advance to all concerned.

I read this asshole died worth $2 billion.  I think I can say without risk of contradiction that one of the surest means of amassing wealth is gaining power by rhetorically opposing it. Leftists do not oppose wealth.  They do not oppose privilege.  They do not oppose multi tiered class systems, and pervasive economic inequity.  They simply oppose all systems of government they do not control utterly. 

Leftism is power mongering.  Period.  There is in my view no other way to look at it.  Yes, they bring along some stupid people, but the people driving the bus want power.

I read from time to time Jesus was a socialist.  What I would say is that He understood the shortcomings of wealth, and therefore voluntarily chose to live in poverty, and encouraged others to do the same.  The same cannot be said of anyone I have seen use this argument. Michael Moore, as one I have seen use this line of argument more than once, does not live in poverty (or with apparently any form of self restraint becoming any adult, much less one seeing fit to lecture the rest of us on how to live; he literally disgusts me to look at).  On the contrary, he is quite wealthy, and lives a corresponding lifestyle.  The “Socialist” head of France is also a billionaire.  If wealth is bad, why does he keep it?  And how did he amass it, if not through productive economic activity of the sort he now wants to punish?

The statement that leftism is a mental illness is in my view clinically true.  The extent of the self delusion–normally accompanied by a sense of grandeur–necessary is incompatible with intact reality testing.  It is a malady brought on by cultural alienation–one often provoked by their attacks on our history–and normally atheism and a following loss of the capacity for meaning formation outside of groups.

Alex Jones was in the main right.  So was Glenn Beck.  Our fucking government under Obama has created concentration camps of PRECISELY the Communist variety, even including interrogation chambers.  The leaked document discussing the concrete details is here: http://info.publicintelligence.net/USArmy-InternmentResettlement.pdf

As I calm down slightly, it occurs to me this could be a forgery.  But that is the ONLY way in which we the American people were not just given concrete evidence that Obama is an aspiring dictator, and that if he has his way, our freedom will be over soon.

The video discussing the highlights is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=FfkZ1yri26s

Now, add together this, 2 billion bullets, gun targets of pregnant women, and 2,700 tanks.   It’s not a fucking pretty picture.  NOW WHERE THE HELL WILL CONGRESS BE ON THIS?  DO THEY WANT TYRANNY?  ARE THEY IN ON IT? 

Some patriot leaked this.  One hopes there are enough left to prevent this plan from being executed.  In my view all National Guard commands need to have contingencies in place to fight the DHS,  and even conceivably regular military units.  This shit is real.

Death is foreordained; life is not.

I’m going to permit a bit of personal “sharing” here, which I normally eschew.  I am an odd duck, in that I can deal for long periods of time with the most horrible topics–Communist atrocities, sadism, evil–but I am still often like a little kid.  I sing quite a bit.  I laugh a lot.  My kids tell me I remind them of Santa Claus.  I laugh so loud I can embarrass them from an audience.

This morning I was not feeling well–I have a tinge of whatever is going around, but I don’t think it will stick to me, provided I’m don’t overwork myself the next couple days–and laying in bed, thinking over my life’s history.  My best reconstruction of the course of my life is that my mother didn’t want me, provided very little nurturing when I was little, viewed me as an enemy to be crushed when I was 2 and 3 (my baby book reads “many spankings”, and I have a physical memory of being slapped, and I did eventually dream when I was 6 or so of being “muddled” in a giant bowl by a giant mortar by my mothers two personalities), and as a narcissist confused her emotions with mine throughout my childhood.  My father, also a narcissist, liked to think of himself as a sort of king on the throne–despite, or really because of, considerable emotional immaturity–and constantly belittled both me and my brother.  To the extent he valued our successes, it was to take credit for them.

Net: much misery, very little love, almost no happiness.  The decades after I left home produced a predictable amount of failure and on-going sadness.  I have developed the ability to be emotionally trenchant as a condition of retaining my sanity.  Likewise with my ability to see things with my own eyes.  Had I trusted other peoples “truths” I would not have retained my sanity.  If you live in a house of mirrors, it takes patience, but you can find your way out through constant lucidity and self reliance.  And to some extent, most of us live in houses of mirrors.  Delusion is a human constant.

Here is the point I want to make, though: I have learned that you can generate your own happiness.  You are not the sum of an equation whose components are your past.  You can add in your own values.  You can be happy by allowing happiness out.  I think it is best if you think of it as already there, in a resevoir, and your task is liberating it.  Happiness is generous: be generous with your self.  Happiness is love: love others.  Happiness is mirth: laugh.

When I did my breathwork a couple weeks ago, I found myself laughing.  My partner, who had done many sessions, said he had never seen someone laugh more than cry.  My fear had been that I would have to go through much misery, but I realized that isn’t my task.  My task is building generosity of spirit.

In one of the images floating through my mind, I was dismembered (this is a common theme in some spiritual traditions): my arms were floating away on a giant body of water in three pieces each; my legs in three pieces.  And I found it comical because it was ridiculous.  I literally laughed until I cried.

And I laughed at something internal to me when someone else was screaming out in pain.  I realized that you do not have to feel other people’s emotions.  You have the right to your own space.  As a child of two narcissists, I think this was an important realization.

Finally, the imagery of the snake came through.  I gave a “snake blessing” to the group on the instruction of a sort of “guide” figure in my consciousness, and at the end random images were handed out to the group, and I got a snake.  That to my mind was significant.

Now, I have an image of the Tibetan Garuda, always pictured with a snake in its mouth depicting in my understanding delusion, on the wall I consider most important in my room, which in some respects is structured like a shine (I am odd, I know: but I think most of us fail to appreciate how to engage our unconscious through the ritual use of space; most religious traditions have very solid psychological foundations which we fail to value because we have fetishized what we call reason, which is really the subtraction both of emotion and following sensation of meaning in favor of pursuing the mechanically efficient, and inherently meaningless). 

The last time I underwent this training I discussed physically seeing what looked like a bird with a snake, and what I interpreted as some whale synchronicities.

The image in my head was an American Indian, so what felt appropriate was looking up Huichol myth.  The meaning of symbols varies greatly by tradition, and this was clearly something situated in the American Southwest, northern Mexico.

Here is one rendering of the snake symbolism:

SNAKES – Instruct shamans to become healers. The
rattle on the Rattlesnake is believed to be the tongue of the greatest
shaman of all, which is the fire god. Snakes may also
be associated with the rain goddess. The Mother Goddess of the Sea is
pictured as a huge coiled serpent forming herself into a cyclical storm
cloud from which rain falls. The Huichols believe that
rain itself consists of millions of small snakes. They are valued for
their work in the cornfields where they eat the rodents and pests
harmful to the corn harvest.

I thought was interesting.  Here is another rendering:

Serpents are middlemen between men and the spirit
world. Rattlesnakes are respected as the tongue of Tatewari, the Fire
God. The Rain Goddess is often symbolized by the Serpent as rain itself,
a great coiled serpent or storm clouds from which millions of tiny
snakes represent rainfall.

The symbol combines fire and water.  What I would extend this to say is that just as the eagle brings the snake into the heavens, the snake brings the eagle from the skies.  They are complementary signals.  I have had the motion up–into abstraction, vision–but what I need to complement it is the ability to bring it down to the concrete.

Emotionally, I can dissociate from circumstances, but my task now is to remain present, in the room, to integrate multiple “phases” (to use a term from yesterday) into a steady stream of energy.

This post is an effort to do that.  I know that much of this will seem like nonsense to many people.  I will tell, you, though, that as I heal, I am beginning to see all the wounds around me.  Virtually everyone you meet on the street is “walking wounded” in some way.  OF COURSE you can get hurt, pick yourself up, and keep moving.  Wallowing in self pity is completely useless, which is why the rejection of self pity is my first rule.

At the same time, if your goal is a larger life, larger consciousness, larger potential for perceptual/emotive movement, then you can’t have dark spots in your unconscious.  You must explore.

I would go so far as to stipulate that quite often those who most claim to value reason are least emotionally capable of “doing” it.  Yes, of course they can add up sums, make measurements, look up statistics, and make objectively true statements about circumstances of one sort or another.


But it is illogical not to value the illogical.  That is where “life” is.

I will leave it at that.  Things to do in the external world.  Actually, I will add that I am being open in a spirit of congruence with this post.  I have no idea who reads these things, but the truth is that in my own personal metaphysics, nothing internal can ever be hidden fully anyway.  One part of my emotional “wealth” is that I feel very little shame in who I am, or what I have done.  I pity those who have to hide.

 

Please read this, and tell me it doesn’t worry you: http://www.mrconservative.com/2013/03/5718-dhs-buys-2700-urban-tanks-for-high-risk-anti-civilian-use/

We already have a National Guard, which has been equal to the tasks assigned to it for the duration of our history.

It appears Obama is setting up a Schutz Staffel, which has already arrogated to itself the right to violate the Fourth Amendment at will, including setting up checkpoints anywhere and any place it pleases, even for cars and buses, and to grope small children and old people wearing diapers.

Members of our military swear to protect and defend the Constitution.  What is the oath sworn by DHS members?  Who are they?  What are they being taught?  It would seem to me that any serious military mind tasked with protecting the freedom of Americans has to have a contingency plan for protecting us from our own government.  Their task is not to protect the government, per se, but our SYSTEM of government, which, if violated, is no longer something they are tasked with defending.

The Joints Chiefs of Staff, if it is serious, has to have plans for a naked power grab by Obama (or any other future leader).  If I ran the DIA, I would also assign assets to certain segments of the power elite, including the Rockefellers, and all members of the Federal Reserve I could identify.  There are stories out there that need to be told.

Edit: I will add that I did mean the Defense Intelligence Agency.  The CIA has in my view been corrupted almost beyond repair.  I have no idea the state of the DIA, but it would seem to me not entirely unreasonable to hope there is a greater proliferation of liberty minded patriots.

We will only keep our freedom if we remember that tyranny has been the rule over most of the Earth, for most of its history, and that many elements of our intelligentsia and political elite OPENLY talk about vitiating the rights guaranteed in the Constitution.

If I were DIA head, I would also dig up samples of the World Trade Center rubble and test for thermite.  Assuming I found it, I would then cocoon a group–hide them–to see if they could figure out who the coconspirators were.