The right to keep and bear arms is not just for citizens. Self-defense is a universal right for all, including foreigners. Even illegal aliens, as long as they are not violent criminals, should not be denied this most important right. WND: unarmed victims beaten, burned to death.
Link: Townhall.com::Bitter, Clingy Gun Owners of America::By Doug Giles.
1. In 1929, the Soviet Union established gun control. From 1929 to 1953, about 20 million dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated. 2. In 1911, Turkey established gun control. From 1915 to 1917, 1.5 million Armenians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated. 3. Germany established gun control in 1938, and from 1939 to 1945, a total of 13 million Jews and others who were unable to defend themselves were rounded up and exterminated. 4. China established gun control in 1935. From 1948 to 1952, 20 million political dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated 5. Guatemala established gun control in 1964. From 1964 to 1981, 100,000 Mayan Indians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated. 6. Uganda established gun control in 1970. From 1971 to 1979, 300,000 Christians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated. 7. Cambodia established gun control in 1956. From 1975 to 1977, one million people, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated. 8. Defenseless people rounded up and exterminated in the 20th Century because of gun control: 56 million. As the old adage goes: “With guns, we
Link: Kyiv Post. Ukrainian directors at work on Holodomor films.
As Ukraine observes the 75-year commemoration of the Holodomor this year, two film projects are under production to throw spotlight on the Soviet-imposed famine-genocide of 1932-33 that killed millions of Ukrainians.
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“Kobzar” is the fictional story of an American boy who gets stranded in Ukraine in the early 1930s and ends up as a guide for a blind kobzar, one of the traveling bards who played the bandura, a traditional Ukrainian instrument. He survives after witnessing NKVD executions in 1934.
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“The story unfolds against the backdrop of the Holodomor, but it is a story of how a young boy survived in the most tragic and dire circumstances,” said Peter Borisow, one of the film’s backers and president of the Hollywood Trident Foundation, an organization founded in 2001 that connects professionals working in the entertainment industry interested in Ukrainian affairs.
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Part of the problems is that many Ukrainians themselves deny the Holodomor was genocide against Ukrainians. The Party of the Regions and Communist Party of Ukraine, both supported by millions of Ukrainians, voted against recognizing the Holodomor as genocide in parliament.
Meanwhile, the Jewish people thrived in tolerant, Western societies, where they developed an extensive record of the Holocaust and financed its memory through museums, libraries, and films in particular.Since 2000 in fact, more than 40 documentaries and 20 feature films depicting the Jewish Holocaust were produced worldwide; several hundreds were produced since World War II.
Shedding light on the Holodomor has been gaining pace through efforts by Ukraine’s president Viktor Yushchenko, who has urged the international community to recognize the catastrophe as genocide.
Link: NRA-ILA :: Articles (Kopel/Gallant/Eisen):
While the United Nations works diligently to curb the Second Amendment rights of Americans, it is turning a blind eye to abused Karamojong tribesmen fighting a brutal government to keep their only means of self-defense.
Link: Kenya Church Torched, 50 Reported Killed.
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - A mob torched a church where hundreds had sought refuge Tuesday, and witnesses said dozens of people—including children—were burned alive or hacked to death with machetes in ethnic violence that followed Kenya's disputed election.
Will Baca issue them CCWs? Link: My Way News - LA Gang F13 Accused of Targeting Blacks.
There were even instances in which Florencia 13 leaders ordered killings of black gangsters and then, when the intended victim couldn't be located, said "Well, shoot any black you see," Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca said. "In certain cases some murders were just purely motivated on killing a black person," Baca said.
Fraud, corruption, mismanagement...when applied to UN "peacekeeping" these are euphemisms for genocide.
Link: U.N. Finds Fraud, Mismanagement in Peacekeeping - washingtonpost.com.
A U.N. task force has uncovered a pervasive pattern of corruption and mismanagement involving hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts for fuel, food, construction and other materials and services used by U.N. peacekeeping operations, which are in the midst of their largest expansion in 15 years.
Link: Disease made Karl Marx boil with anger - Times Online.
“In addition to reducing his ability to work, which contributed to his depressing poverty, hidradenitis greatly reduced his self-esteem. This explains his self-loathing and alienation, a response reflected by the alienation Marx developed in his writing.”
This constantly updated "homicide map" identifies victims by race, graphically depicting the current ethnic cleansing in LA. We recall that gun control had its modern origins with Democrats' KKK and Jim Crow, yet the LA Sheriff still tightly restricts CCW issuance.
Link: WorldNetDaily: KKK's 1st targets were Republicans.
The original targets of the Ku Klux Klan were Republicans, both black and white, according to a new television program and book, which describe how the Democrats started the KKK and for decades harassed the GOP with lynchings and threats.
The NRA is the nation's oldest civil rights organization, and we know that gun control in this country began mainly as a result of efforts to control blacks. So this makes sense.
Link: Feds: Latino Gang Targeted Blacks | Newsweek National News | Newsweek.com.
A south Los Angeles Latino street gang targeted African-American gang rivals and other blacks in a campaign of neighborhood "cleansing," federal prosecutors say. Alleged leaders and foot soldiers in the Hispanic gang Florencia 13, also called F13, are being arraigned this week on charges stemming from a pair of federal indictments that allege that the gang kept a tight grip on its turf by shooting members of a rival gang—and sometimes random black civilians. The "most disturbing aspect" of the federal charges was that "innocent citizens … ended up being shot simply because of the color of their skin," U.S. Attorney Thomas O'Brien told reporters in announcing the indictments.
Link: Dave Kopel & Paul Gallant, & Joanne D. Eisen on Armenian Genocide on National Review Online.
Hitler reminded his generals that “nobody remembers the Armenians,” and he worked assiduously to disarm his own genocide victims more thoroughly than the Turks had done. When we do remember the Armenians, let us remember that the difference between life and death was often the possession of arms to resist mass murder by government.
We all know 800,000 Rwandans were killed by (mostly) machetes, but who armed the Rwandan militias with all those machetes? China, of course:
Note 13: Gourevitch, 93. Between 1990 and 1994 the Habyarimana government imported massive shipments of machetes from China and rifles and grenades from France and distributed them to these militias.
(The same China that seeks and obtains exemption from the international gun control it advocates.)
...by Latino gangs, apparently.
The appropriately-named UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon (Korean for "lunatic gun ban") says that climate change is behind the killing in Darfur.
Given the conclusively demonstrable link between gun bans and genocide in the last century; the UN's sickening support of genocide in recent years; and its current efforts toward a global gun ban, isn't this statement of Ban's just a tad insulting to the victims?
(Maybe this is just another test, in a long series of tests, to see how much lunacy we are willing to put up with?)
I pray for climate change in New York.
Link: Reason Magazine - Guns Don't Kill People, Gun Control Kills People.
This time, the pretext for the "disarmament" of the Karamojong is United Nations gun control. The Ugandan military is trying to round up every last firearm in Karamoja, supposedly for the Karamojong's own good.
Dr. Lott links to a law review article by Stephen Halbrook responding ably to the recent assertion that Nazi gun control is just a myth perpetuated by the NRA. Link: John Lott's Website: Gun Control and Nazi Germany.
Dave Kopel, Paul Gallant and Joanne D. Eisen cover the little-known disarmament/genocide against the Anuak people of the state of Gambella in Ethiopia. Link: TCS Daily - The Other War in Ethiopia.
Link: WorldNetDaily: French linked to Rwanda slaughter. Excerpt:
Fearing a loss of influence in the region, France – with the knowledge of the U.S. – helped rekindle the civil war in Rwanda that led to the massacre of more than 1 million people in 1994, according to a growing body of evidence.
I'll have more on the Dallaire cable in a couple of book reviews I hope to finish shortly.
Link: The Volokh Conspiracy - James Madison, Gun Nut:#171608. Excerpt from an anonymous comment on Volokh Conspiracy, responding to a contention that small arms could not effectively check the power of a better-armed government:
Small arms such as a single-shot deringer, a semi-automatic pistol, .22 revolver, a bolt action rifle, a modern military type rifle, heck, couldn't even a simple knife be considered a potential check on government, or at least on those who govern? Looking at history it would appear to me that small arms are quite capable of being a “check” on those who govern.
Interesting speaker at today's monthly meeting of the Orange County chapter of the Thomas More Society (a Catholic lawyers group): Bishop Peter Esterka, Auxiliary Bishop of Brno and Bishop for Czech Catholics in Diaspora. This gentleman was one of only three to have escaped across the Czechoslovakian border alive in 1957.
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Link: The Jakarta Post - Police civilian gun crackdown praised. Excerpt:
"Civilians choose to own guns because they are concerned about deteriorating security conditions. The police should improve security while revoking licenses for firearm ownership," he told journalists in Jakarta.
Link: Philadelphia Daily News | 12/05/2006 | Letters | Hitler & gun control. Excerpt:
"Once Hitler had the general populace duped, he didn't need to take away their guns. If anything, it was too many guns and not enough rational thought that allowed Germany to descend into the madness that was the Nazi era."
This gentleman's letter misses the point: it's the victims that need guns, not merely the "general populace," which, as he correctly points out, descended into madness. The Jews mounted a brave and effective resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, with only a few pistols. Imagine what they could have done if better armed and trained. See Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership for more info on the Warsaw uprising, and how the Nazi's perfected the gun control they inherited, inventing handgun control and using it to disarm Jews and anyone opposed to the Party.
This rationale for the need to arm victims can be applied to arming teachers. The teacher in the classroom, who may be a victim herself, will engage more quickly than an armed guard or police officer (remember Columbine?).
Here is a recap of the immigration debate our parish had last Thursday:
Link: Scotsman.com News - International - Ukraine remembers 10 million killed by Stalin's famine.
This is not something academics and journalists generally like to discuss, since they were complicit or at least remained silent as it happened.
Link: allAfrica.com: Ethiopia: Country Burns 7,000 Guns As Region Fights Illegal Small Arms. Excerpt:
To inculcate an anti-gun culture, the centre has embarked on thematic programmes involving schoolchildren in primary and secondary schools.
This is where the battle is. (Schools, not Ethiopia.)
Link: Accra Daily Mail - Online.
"The UN will do its utmost to help African countries to overcome the problem of small arms proliferation."
Case is made that UN efforts to disarm those who would defend themselves are illegal: "Is Resisting Genocide a Human Right?" by David B. Kopel, Paul Gallant and Joanne D Eisen (Notre Dame Law Review)
