Globalize the Second Amendment?

 At the American Thinker today Arthur Schaper has an article (actually the same one twice, but who's counting, right?) entitled It's Time to Globalize the Second Amendment. He suggests that our leaders need to start calling out other countries for denying their citizens their natural rights. He is correct, of course, but before we do that, perhaps we could call out states within the United States for the same thing?  

Gun control is not just a bad policy. Based on the latest horrific mass shooting, it’s just plain evil. Any government that thinks it’s okay to take away a people’s firearms should automatically be considered illegitimate, and our American leaders should not resist stating that fact.

Schaper is exactly correct. I have long made a similar point. Any government that does not trust its citizens with the means of self-defense cannot itself be trusted. For the only reason to deny citizens that right is because the people in charge of that government have no good planned for their citizens. Usually, it is Leftists who want to cram unpopular ideas down the public's throat.

Granted, most thinkers (?) and commentators around the world scoff at the Second Amendment and fear massive gun violence in their countries. Liberal pundits like Piers Morgan excoriated conservatives like Alex Jones and Ben Shapiro over their resistance to gun control and their insistence on maintaining the right to keep and bear arms in the United States.

Gun-control advocates love to point at the statistics, shooting off the number of gun-related deaths in the United States compared to other countries. Of course, many of the statistics are doctored and distorted, or they fail to indicate that many gun deaths are suicide related or occur in urban areas with little enforcement of the law.

In reality, the problem is never the guns. Instead, it’s the people who are misusing the firearms, and the government entities that refuse to prosecute criminals. One can only hope that a horrid mass shooting such as that at Bondi Beach would be the spark necessary to make people around the world give up their inherent or indoctrinated aversion to firearms.

There’s been a lot of talk about “globalizing the intifada,” which has clearly come to mean global jihad. Perhaps the United States should use its soft political power and cultural heft to globalize the Second Amendment and start pressuring Western governments to respect the natural rights of their citizens to keep and bear arms.

Perhaps before calling out other countries, which needs to be done, Congress should show that we mean it by passing a national reciprocity bill for guns?

France Revives Ancient Demon Worship

 For those who think that the Devil and his minions are not real, please read Fay Voshell's article today at the American Thinker entitled A Massacre of the Innocents in France. There, a government sponsored parade featured mechanical automata of the ancient gods Moloch/Ba'al and Lilith. This after the disgusting opening of the Olympic games this summer, which featured a mockery of Da Vinci's The Last Supper. It seems the French want to poke God in the eye, but He will not be mocked.

In France, a nation in which glorious architecture, literature, and art once celebrated the Prince of Peace, citizens recently beheld a parade celebrating the Herodian malice revealed in the Massacre of the Innocents.

Leading the parade were monstrous automata representing the human flesh–eating Minotaur and Lilith, the infant-killing mythological first wife of Adam.

Writer Baxter Dmitry, reporting for The People’s Voice, reveals the Macron government–sponsored parade included a “Minotaur float, complete with a sacrificial labyrinth stage where performers in goat masks symbolically offered a child mannequin to the bull-headed god, [which] was a direct nod to Ba’al and Moloch worship, the very deities the ancient Israelites were warned never to tolerate.” The theater company behind these giant monsters has been featuring them in events, mainly in Toulouse, for the last few years.

As for the reality of these demons, why would the French, or indeed any people, keep replicating them if they weren't real. Clearly, the people putting this parade together think they are real. And such parades replicate ancient parades featuring the same themes. France seems well and truly lost without a miracle, heading the same direction as ancient Babylon and Nineveh. Perhaps there will be one, I certainly don't know the will of God. In any case, I urge gentle readers to read Voshell's article and pray that this does not spread. God has a way of dealing with such societies.

Some say the world will end in fire...

 When I was a teenager (back when dinosaurs roamed the earth) a new fad hit the fashion world: wide ties and wide lapels on suit and sports jackets.  Yes, the zoot suit from the 1920s was back (or at least part of it). I "borrowed" some of my Dad's old wide ties since I couldn't afford new ones. Mom bought me a wide lapeled sport coat, and I was in high fashion on Sundays going to church. I eventually picked up on the fact that, as book of Ecclesiastes notes, there is nothing new under the sun.  Every "new" idea is just a reworking of an older one. 

So, it was with some amusement today that I noted that the "they" who attempt to keep the population worked up and scared out of their wits are now saying that the earth is headed for a new ice age. This after several decades of claiming that the earth is going to be burning up unless we go back to living like cave men. At the moment they are still tying it into the global warming scare by claiming that warming will create cooling or something. But this whole ice age scare is not new. In the late 1960s the "they" were predicting an oncoming ice age, the solution for which was to give up our modern lifestyle for living again in teepees.  Some things nothing ever changes.

“Vanity[a] of vanities,” says the Preacher;

“Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.”

So, gentlemen, save those old ties and bell bottom jeans. You never know when they will come back into fashion. Oh, and here is a little poem on the subject, Fire and Ice by Robert Frost:

Some say the world will end in fire,

Some say in ice.

From what I've tasted of desire

I hold with those who favor fire.

But if it had to perish twice,

I think I know enough of hate

To say that for destruction ice

Is also great

And would suffice.

Socialism Steals from the Wealthy and to Hell with the Needy

 Mike McDaniel has a post over at the American Thinker entitled MiGs and farmer's markets that yet again presents the absolute shock when people from socialist countries come to America and see what is available to even the poorest of us. These are always good to read, to remind yourself, in case you forget, that we have more material prosperity than probably anyone else. We take this for granted most of the time. The MiG pilot thought he was being driven past Potemkin Villages constructed to impress him, because that is what the Soviets did. Anita from Cuba is a more emotional story because she knows that people back in Cuba don't even have a plate of food for Christmas.

You should go read McDaniel's piece, for sure. On youtube you will find people from North Korea who have the same experience. A grocery store, not even a particularly large one, is unbelievable to them. And all this plenty is available year-round in any grocery store in America. Is it expensive? We yes, but that is because of the government who inisits on inflating the dollar.

Meanwhile we have supposedly college educated students who think we should burn down our system and install a socialist one. Remember that socialism makes everyone equal by stealing everything you have. I builds nothing, and discourages you from building anything either.

Anita’s story, like Victor Belenko’s provides perspective for those who have always enjoyed the benefits of freedom, but who esteem it too lightly. Even today, useful idiots have elected an Islamist Communist Mayor of New York City, and others extol the virtues of Socialism without Anita’s understanding of reality.

I’m glad Anita and her family have found what they sought. She’s the kind of immigrant we ought to welcome. Perhaps someday we will.

Understand that material wealth is not our most important quality. God always comes first, and we must be strong, disciplined and humble despite our wealth if we are to survive as a nation for another 250 years.

If wishes were fishes...

 I have two articles to highlight today, both from the American Thinker and both related to self-defense and guns.

The first I noticed last night, but it was too late, and I was too tired to write about it. Andrea Widburg had a post entitled Lox and load, a Jewish gun club, slowly grows across America. My first thought was: It's about time, after I had a chuckle over the pun. I have always wondered where the notion came from that Jews were supposed to be sitting ducks waiting to be slaughtered. It is nowhere in the Law, the five books of Moses. The 10 Commandments contain a law that says one may not murder, but by extension it also means that one must defend oneself and those in one's care. And indeed, the ancient Israelites were a warrior people.

I believe that history proves that all Jews should be legally armed and defensively dangerous. As law-abiding citizens and moral human beings, we should always be able to exercise our God-given right to self-defense. Fortunately, it seems that, slowly but steadily, more and more American Jews—a demographic that was traditionally anti-gun—are beginning to see things my way.

I grew up in a very anti-gun home, something that mostly came from my mother. My parents had experienced World War II and the Israeli War of Independence firsthand. My dad was a combatant in both wars, first in the RAF and then in the Israel Defense Forces (“IDF”). Dad’s lesson was that a good rifle will defend you, and he eventually bought an old British Lee-Enfield rifle...which Mom promptly made him get rid of.

Why did she do that? Different life lessons.

My mother was a victim of World War II (she was interned in a Japanese concentration camp in Java) and an IDF cartographer in the Israeli War of Independence. Although she knew how to handle a rifle as part of her IDF basic training, she was never a combatant.

Maybe that was why Mom was one of those Jews who learned the wrong lesson about guns: Namely, that the problem is the gun, not the ideology that drives the person holding the gun (whether that ideology is basic criminality or race- or religion-driven hatred). Our family’s Democrat politics reinforced this attitude.

This is fascinating. It is a matter of Christian faith that man is born sinful, and there is nothing he can do about it. That is why we need Christ, to forgive our sins. The belief is derived from the Bible, right there in Genesis, where Eve takes a bite of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, and gives some to Adam. Right then and there, God set a plan in motion to ultimately save mankind. The Hebrew texts contain the exact same material, but for some reason Jews read these facts differently. People like her mother seem to believe that people are good, it is just the instruments that are evil.  In any case, I am glad to see these people waking up.

Next up we have Mike McDaniel telling us that Anti-liberty/cracktivists are...let's say deceptive. McDaniel cites one such person, a Professor John J. Davenport PhD at Fordham University. He fisks a statement by Davenport, who describes himself as a philosopher of "peace and justice."  Like Widburg's mother, he is sure that the bad guys are really good.  It is just the guns that somehow made them kill.  And if wishes were fishes...but they are not.

McDaniel concludes with this:

It appears the professor is a bit light on the “justice” part. The right to keep and bear guns is a fundamental, unalienable right. Smoking isn’t. If it’s in the Constitution banning it is off the table. And if we want to deter and stop attacks, we need to ensure many willing citizens are armed in colleges and everywhere else and potential attackers know it.

That’s what saves lives, not disarming people who would harm no one. You know, the peaceful and just?

Please read both pieces as they are short.

Merry Christ's Mass

 Merry Christmas to one and all.  Christmas is of course the celebration of the birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.  If you have time, you might take a look at the American Thinker's Olivia Murray who has penned a post entitled Politico reporter rages against 'far right' for claiming Christmas as a holiday for Christians. She links to the article, which can be found here.

Despite what Hannah* Roberts may believe, we have had a war on Christmas for at least the last 30 years. I remember as a child that at Christmas time, everyone wished everyone else "Merry Christmas." Oh, there have always been Scrooges, but most people were generally glad to wish everyone else a Merry Christmas. Nativity scenes were set up even on public property. It was our culture, back when we were allowed to have a culture of our own. Which is why there has been a war on Christmas.

The Left, now aided by Islamist, want to burn our culture to the ground so they can install totalitarianism. But Christmas is a holiday for Christians. It is not about gifts, though the reason we give gifts is because we have been given the greatest gift of all. It's not about lights, though He shown the brightest light of all to the world. It is about God coming into history and becoming man, living with us in real time. God has shown us that he is not like the pagan gods, removed from mankind, but intimate and available to those who believe and trust in Him.  Murry has it correct:

The mainstream can’t stop platforming SHOEs—Stupidest Humans On Earth—but what’s new?

Merry Christmas everyone!

* Hannah, by the way, is the name of the mother of the prophet and judge of Israel Samuel. He was the last judge and anointed the first king of Israel Saul. Saul's successor, David, was a man after God's own heart and was the progenitor of Jesus. I wonder if Hannah Roberts knows the distinguished name she carries?

Georgia Finally Wins the Civil War

At the American Thinker Joe Fried has a piece entitled 2020 GA Election Fraud is Confirmed. It is the most complete explanation of the Fulton County Democrats rigging of the election of 2020, and is must read. But here is the thing nobody is saying: "So what happens now?" Will anyone suffer any consequences whatsoever? And what does the country as a whole do? This didn't just affect the state. We all suffered under Biden and the Democrats. Theoretically, all the laws and executive orders supposedly signed by Biden and possibly laws passed by Georgia Senator Ossoff were illegitimate. What do we do about it?

Fulton County has in effect shrugged its collective shoulders stuck their collective tongue out at us, and said to the nation, "Yeah, we fraudulently rigged the election. So what?" And the thing is, they continue to do so. They won't release information, and they won's seat two Republican members defying a court order. It as if they as still fighting reconstruction after the Civil War.

Which brings us back to the question of what to do about it?  What I fear is that there is nothing we can do. Which means they have gotten away with it, will get away with it in the future, and there will be no justice. So, except for hobbyists and historians, but I repeat myself, there is really no reason to look into the matter, because nothing will come of it. There is also no reason to vote, because your vote doesn't matter. And I frankly don't believe our republic will withstand it. Sorry.