02-22-2018, 12:09 PM
I just heard Wayne LaPierre at a televised speech at the American Conservative Political Conference -- or whatever the cult is called -- lashing out at every known living liberal (especially Barack Obama) and of course 'European Socialists' who fail to believe in unfettered capitalism as the truest expression of freedom. He even suggested a means of preventing school massacres -- armed guards. I presume lots of them, and that of course would require the sale of more firearms, the unstated but easily-discerned objective of the NRA --even more gun sales. How convenient!
Yeah, sure. Living in an armed camp in which the government has the means of enforcing the harshest manifestations of plutocracy (and he had effusive praise for President Trump) is the definitive security and freedom.
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A couple days ago I visited the pawn shop in town, one that deals largely in guns. I felt terribly out of place. Maybe I should have grown up in Canada, where guns are hard to get and not part of a paranoid culture.
Yeah, sure. Living in an armed camp in which the government has the means of enforcing the harshest manifestations of plutocracy (and he had effusive praise for President Trump) is the definitive security and freedom.
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A couple days ago I visited the pawn shop in town, one that deals largely in guns. I felt terribly out of place. Maybe I should have grown up in Canada, where guns are hard to get and not part of a paranoid culture.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.