gun control to major tom

GUN CONTROL TO MAJOR TOM


Pretty cleaver, isn’t it? It just came to me. No, you are not as witty, your hair does not look as nice, and your mother dressed you in combat boots. As I’m presently reading militia fiction, and since a minion asked about it, I’ll cover gun confiscation. In short, I’m not sure it will happen positively. I don’t discount it totally, but I question the effectiveness of the effort. As usually, being just as single minded as the rest of you, I like to pick one lens to view my reality through and then ignore all other inputs. It’s the oil. Declining oil, declining energy, does not see a build up of control long term but a decrease in centralization. The long term part is the stickler. In an effort to retain the control slipping with the economy, does the government have the means to impose gun control or does it simple pacify the regions it wants with food control? Or is it going to be a combination? I have no reason to be any more sure than you, but you pay me the big bucks to reason these kinds of questions through.

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First off, the government has to simply start totally regulating the manufacture of ammunition to get its 80/20 results. It doesn’t have to kick down every door. Not that they would have the manpower. It simply over taxes ammunition. Or declares their components “vital to the national security under Patriot Act Four” or something similar. You will still have at most 20% of the gun owners heavily armed and with reloading components to last three generations, but you won’t have to worry about the other 80% who will have one box of ammo for each gun, thinking the store will be their back stock. Now, I’m not saying that the government doesn’t love bloated employment roles. But in an energy decline, limited resources must to prioritized. Look at Afghanistan. We are paying truckers to haul in supplies because for this war we don’t have the helicopter fleet that we did in Vietnam. Less resources. Limited resources point toward keeping our dwindling oil supplies pumping and being transported, not chasing after guns in the Homeland.

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Again, it wouldn’t hurt to perhaps bury a gun out of the way. If you live in a state that allows private sales, you claim that one was sold. But make sure to have one they can confiscate for that strategy to even have a chance of working. Living in a Nanny State? Move, or just prepare to give up your guns if it ever comes to that. Private sales in reality have pretty much dried up to nothing everywhere. People aren’t giving up their guns like they used to. And forget buying an old antique unless you can pick it up in person. Any other way leaves a paper trail. If you are poor, you can make a plumbing pipe shotgun. Just beware that if found you are now a terrorist with bomb making material. Perhaps a crossbow would be better. Don’t totally ignore the threat, but also don’t be terribly freaked out about it ( as long as you have enough ammo ).

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why survive?

WHY SURVIVE?


Back in the good old days under the very real threat of global nuclear holocaust the common refrain was that under the horrible post attack conditions, there was very little reason to want to live. I mean, you were losing your hair and crapping blood and all the farmland was poisoned with radiation. A few hardy souls stockpiled their underground fallout shelters and waited with glee for the commies to kill all our socialists so that a new world order could rise out of the ashes. Now, I can understand how nuclear war was not something you wanted to be around after. It would plain suck, and you can almost excuse those that chose to live atground zero so as not to feel either the pain or suffer the anticipation. I wasn’t one of them but I can certainly understand the trade off they made. Eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow we glow in the dark.

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Today, the prospects of nuclear war have increased in probability. But more likely than not it will be a limited war rather than a global one. Not guaranteed, but then what is anymore? Most likely we’ll just get a Chernobyl amount of fallout and die in our fifties rather than sixties, assuming we avoid ending up in the stewpot. But the old complaint still seems to be there. Oh my goodness gracious, how can I be expected to live like a primitive POOR person? Do without my grid and central heat and SUV, sucking at the corporate teet to sustain myself in high style? Never. I would never live primitively, pouring water out of a jug and putting on a sweater to stay warm. I’ll just stay in the city and have every convenience. If the end comes I’ll just bug out to my summer estate in my armored limo. People have gone from not wanting to live like chemo patients to not being able to conceive of living without luxuries. How friggin sad. We have become so conditioned to living an overfed and bloated existence with everything at push button control, we don’t want to survive its end. Live on grain and beans? Inconceivable! If I can’t have my freeze dried canned food I don’t want any at all.

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Why survive? Because we are not a bunch of spineless worms that jump off a bridge when we get too sad. I’m getting all teary that our lives can’t all be perfect. Humans have a built in survival instinct. You prepare to survive if you are a normal human. Who asks this kind of question anyway? Dial 1-800-DarwinWasRightAndIShouldDie, share your feelings, and then blow your brains out and do all of us a favor.

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corn down

CORN DOWN


As you might have noticed, panicked about, and informed your one friend about, I have now started moderating the comments. This quite frankly sucks as I wanted a wide open process to get honest feedback. I’m getting troll feedback instead. You can still post anonymously, so I hope that keeps your thoughts unencumbered. I honestly want politically incorrect feedback, but I’m over providing a forum for the idiots amongst us. So, congratulations, you won. I’m now censoring. I could wait around to get sued, then sell all my worldly processions and hock my future until death ( a lawsuit doesn’t need merit to break you ), all to satisfy your sense of fairness and free speech on my dime. Get your own blogs if you want a voice. I really don’t have time for this crap. I’d rather be writing instead of editing. But I won’t fight the tide anymore. Creekmore, thank you for your understanding regarding the jerks attacking you from here. There’s a gentlemen for you folks. You could learn a thing or two from him.

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As I was checking out http://www.americanenergycrisis.blogspot.com/ , I was rather startled by the newest corn to ethanol figures. 43% of our total corn crop is going to fuel now. Last year it was, I believe, mid thirty percent. Almost half of our food crop corn is powering our vehicles. Add that to our 13% decline in foreign oil imports last year. Translation- bend over baby, here it comes. No lubrication other than sand. Do you honest injun really think this isn’t an energy crisis? How much more evidence do you need? The last fuel crisis was going from independence to foreign dependence. This crisis is going to be total lack of fuel globally. For a short time China will suck up the surplus we can’t afford. But just because the Saudi oil fields aren’t in free fall decline doesn’t mean spit. The Mexican fields are, due to lack of maintenance spending. The Saudi’s were smarter than that. But they are also sneakier. They are drilling everywhere, in marginal fields, buying up a disproportionate share of drilling rigs, all to give the illusion that their main field isn’t running down. Its been going for over forty years, and that is the max you get out of a field before decline. They might, or might not, go slow decline rather than fast, but decline it will be. No green shoots allowed in an energy down climate.

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So why are corn prices falling? This question wasn’t answered by our intrepid blog writer mentioned above, other than as proof of deflation. Cop out. Gee, just because he doesn’t make any money writing, is that really any excuse not to devote his life to giving us all the answers? Selfish bastard! And, yes, for you trolls, that was sarcasm. So, since I do make a few shekels writing due to my generous legions of doom ( when I get grumpy and mean, it is usually because of only a few jag offs- 99% of you are in fact the bees knees ), I’m going to give this a thought or two. I don’t think it is deflation. It might be commodity inflation, which will be temporary. But it certainly isn’t currency deflation. Look, I know he is smarter than me, at least financially. I’m not trying to put words in his mouth. Read the article yourself. I’m assuming he meant deflation in commodities. But to you and me, non traders, the deflation/inflation debate is really about how the money under our mattress is affected. So, if I’m taking his article wrong, my bad. I really do respect his work as I have mentioned before. Could it in fact be nothing more than a temporary drop fed by an increase in corn acreage ( at the expense of other crops ), and a decrease in demand for traditional corn products? If corn prices went up, corn syrup as a sweetener and corn feed for meat saw a decrease in demand. So now you will see a temporary decrease in corn price. It shouldn’t last long. Go to the feed store and buy as many bags as your greedy little hands can carry, now. Just a few thoughts on corn. I’m running late, so I’m cutting it a bit short.

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die now or later

DIE NOW OR LATER


I just got done reading “Domestic Enemies” by Matthew Bracken, the second in the militia porn trilogy given to me by a loyal minion first class with oak cluster. I understand that you also aspire to reach this exalted status, but fear not. It isn’t the dollar amount represented by your tribute but the thought behind the gift. Remember, just give according to your income as a percentage. I’m sorry, but I can’t accept pleas of poverty as an excuse. Not when you compare it against my income. If you wish to be removed from the Enemies Of Bison list and put on the Friends Of Bison list, or even better the List Of Those Not To Be Executed After The Collapse ( When Lands Far From The Great Basin Are Pacified ), some sort of payola must be remanded. The book was very enjoyable. Fast paced, keeping your interest, and fun. I can’t say it would be worth $20 as was the first book. The second was actually a better read, but the first is full bore militia action whereas the second isn’t so much. It seems to suffer, oddly, by focusing on the character rather than the bigger picture. I liked it, it sometimes delved into economics. Derivatives are mentioned, and remember this book came out four or five years ago. He was definitely ahead of the curve here. And he gets into the personal problems of hyper inflated pensions which was done quite well. I think I need to read book number three before I recommend the second or not. I’ll let you know soon. I loved the book, it is just a question if it is worth the asking price.

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As I keep reminding you, the immediate future offers you one of two choices. The first is to die now because you didn’t take basic precautions. The second is to die later, because you had to make poor decisions about the kind of provisions you were able to afford. It seems that most people would prefer to die sooner rather than later. Look, they seem to be saying, I am so friggin special that I deserve the very best. Only the very best will do to keep me alive. Anything less than perfect is unacceptable since it won’t keep me alive as long as I deserve to be. Okay, I don’t know about you, but I know for a fact that I’m a lot more special than you are. I know I’m number one. But I also know that the odds are good that we are fast approaching the waterfall in our pretty sparkling cardboard canoe. We are about to go over. The canoe looks good. But it isn’t very solid. A thin supply line of imported oil is all that is keeping us going. And that imported oil supplies our military which occupies those countries which supply us with that oil ( or, the country right next door- you might think the few units in the reserve or National Guard left in the border states are there to haul your ass off the roof of your flash-flooded home but really they are there to insure “our” oil reaches us from Mexico ). Those countries are literally selling the rope we are using to hang them, a rich turnaround on Lenin’s boast against capitalists. Or was that Marx? Anyway, once the oil is gone, it’s gone, and no matter how many nukes we have in our arsenal, the party is over.

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Prepare now, even with the substandard supplies you can afford. It is better than nothing. When I read in the comments section about our poor minion and his iron shavings in the China corn mill, I was deeply disturbed. That sucks, mainly because I bought three of the bastards. I own one Corona and the other three mills are China copies. If they all grind themselves up they are practically useless. I’m not out much money, about sixty bucks since I bought before shipping cost went up, but it isn’t like I can replace them with $200 worth of brand name mills. Yet, even if this turns out to be a common problem, it is still better than nothing. If you need a mill, even a substandard one will do. You can use a magnet to sift through the flour, as our commenter did, and eventually there will be a gap between the parts and the problem ceases. I don’t think this is a good situation, not at all, but the only other option, after the crash, is no mill at all. If you can’t afford a lot of storage food, potentially mild toxins in other food is better than none at all. Remember, we are only talking about potential problems, not guaranteed ones. Potentially, food grade buckets in the paint section of Wal-Mart COULD leach some toxins into the food. You die in twenty years from cancer. Potentially, feed corn grown from frankenfoods COULD cause digestion or other health problems. You could die in ten years from cancer. But those substandard foods in storage will keep you alive, so that you have the opportunity to get cancer. If you hold out for freeze dried or canned foods, you end up with no foods at all. Or, certainly, far from enough food.

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If you only had wheat kernels, and used a crappy corn grinder from China that sprinkled your flour with metal shavings, you face protein deficiency and tearing up your gut if you don’t carefully sift out your wheat. If you save up worthless paper money to buy “real” food and a “quality” grain mill ( costing $500 plus an electric motor powered by $500 in panels and batteries so your pasty white cellulite dimpled ass doesn’t have to work too hard- Christ, I was grinding up flour on a Corona when I was eleven years old, a weeks worth of bread at a time ) you might just end up with neither. The real panic hasn’t even started yet. Wait for real food shortages, then you’ll see true panic and shortages. Prepping for Y2K was easy, with oil being cheap. Not this time.

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If your improvised water filter fails to trap chemicals, that’s bad. But better a filter that keeps you alive today, by filtering out pathogens that kill in 24 hours, than having no filter at all because you were saving up for a better unit. The chemicals will kill you slower. No, you don’t want to die at all. But any level of protection is better than none. Better to have a slow bolt action rifle than no rifle at all because you were saving up for something ten times the cost. Better a bolt action and three hundred rounds, than a semi automatic with not nearly enough ammo or mags. Far better a Russian bolt gun without a ruptured case bleed safety than no gun at all. It does pain me, but you are better off with a Mosin Nagant and a tin of ammo, than waiting to buy the far superior Lee-Enfield. If all you can afford is the Czar rifle, because it and its ammo are half the price, so be it. The lack of the safety is a factor, but better alive today by being armed than dead in five years after a case explodes and fries your face and you die from infection.

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Better alive on a piece of desert with no garden than once having a lush farm you’ve been evicted from after you lost your job and couldn’t pay the mortgage. Better an ugly or fat wife than paying a pretty crack whore to give you syphilis. Okay, that almost doesn’t fit, but it does point out the benefit of function over fashion. Or, better something that works marginally than nothing at all. Or, the 80/20 rule which we’ve covered before. You complain I keep covering the same ground, but you ain’t listening. If you were, I’d have some minion neighbors by now, the first recruits in my cannon fodder army of world domination. Verily, the end in nigh!

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economy least of your problems

ECONOMY LEAST OF YOUR PROBLEMS


I would like to thank our good buddy Creekmore for today’s article idea. If you zip on over to his web site at http://www.thesurvivalistblog.net/ you will read an article on post crash occupation ideas. Nothing fun like I’ve brought you such as honey wagon operator or prostitute, but a few thoughts on what occupations would be suitable. I thought the article mainly covered an economic collapse, and what would be apropos afterwards. He did warn that his advice did not cover a complete collapse. Which is where I come in. The Great Depression, the Argentina collapse, Zimbabwe are of course all the wrong lessons to be learned. The Fall Of Rome is our only barometer as far as recorded history goes. Yes, you do have to contend with an economic collapse. You know, the one we are already in and the one that has its bottom always advancing sometime in the future. But that is just the warm up to the end of the Oil Age.

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This is where I’m parting company with most of my minions. They think green shoots are going to blast out of Obammy’s butt any day. They have to, because otherwise that means the home is in jeopardy, the pension is toast, their SUV will run out of gas and the forests will be stripped of firewood the first winter of the oil import freeze. I might be wrong, but I don’t plan around that fact. I plan around being right. This way I’m prepared for the worse possible scenario. If you act paranoid and nothing bad happens, you can enjoy it. If you act optimistic and bad things happen you will be disappointed. In an Energy Up history, economic collapses ended with the government getting bigger. The government took over some of the private sector activities and paid for it with inflation. The cost to each person was disguised. The means the government used was increased energy inputs ( petroleum, or wheat, the form of energy increased ). In an Energy Down history, power contracts. Your oppressive government never goes away, true, it just changes form. From national or even continental to county or city state or village. Despite the kind of collapse we see, total or simply economic, government will play a huge role in your occupation and other activities.

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In a total collapse, you will see a slight period of time between when the ruled from afar government collapses and when the local bandits fight out amongst themselves who is going to be in charge. Self reliance helps you survive this period. However, after that, you go back to being dependant on others. In today’s economy, you are not allowed to be self sufficient. You are forced to join the money economy and render unto Caesar. After a collapse, you are going to be doing what you are told to do in the brave new economy. Most of us will be serfs farming. While it is going to be swell to have skills, keep in mind we are not going to be free to utilize them. Stop thinking about prospering in the free market ( everyone will need guns fixed, honey, etc. ) and instead think about what it is going to take to either escape local rule or better your prospects with the local king.

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The way I see it, you either go with the Robin Hood idea ( hiding out in an uncontrolled region and stealing from others ) or try for a skill that will be in demand by the local ruler. My best guess would be chemist able to build from scratch ( not pre made stocks brewed in factories using petroleum but processing from raw ore and such ). Or a gun and ammo manufacture. Not repairing what we have but being able to fabricate new and useful weapons. I don’t know if it will have to be black powder. But most of us won’t have access to heavy weapons ( they will be left in Iraq and Afghanistan ) and they are vital for warfare. Of course, then we go back to the availability of nitrates. It isn’t that a gunsmith won’t be useful. He will. But I think rather than a professional being able to corner a market we will instead see it as just another minor skill. The ammo will run out before most guns will need to be repaired. It would be better to be able to replace the powder and primers than to repair the weapons. But don’t fall back into the free market trap. Try to keep in mind that you will be forced to labor as the ruler needs, not as the market does.

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Just because we have a choice today picking a job doesn’t mean we aren’t controlled in that process. Almost all traditional jobs are denied us. They are allowed as hobbies, but because of that few know them. We are only allowed to choose between a certain number of newer tech jobs or services. After a collapse, your choices will be similarly constricted. By government. Before or after, you are told how to live and work. It isn’t a free market paradise in either case. So go ahead and garden now. Don’t worry about a post collapse skill. You are going to be a serf in the fields. Get really good at growing food and you can swing a position as foreman. Then you might get enough calories to live on. Stop by anytime for more cheerful instructions.

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wally world wheat update

WALLY WORLD WHEAT UPDATE
If you are trying to order the buckets of wheat at Wal-Mart ( free shipping to store usually ), here is the info I have.  Harvest Of The West brand.  Hard red wheat, 45 pounds.  UPC is 078716001024. Let me know how this works out for you so I can tell others.
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fried mush

FRIED MUSH


You can fool most of the people most of the time but you certainly can’t satisfy many of them most of the time. I’ve been bitched at, complained to, criticized, burned in effigy and turned into the thought police more than once. I realize in the “new” economy that everyone expects free perfection. I didn’t start posting on the Internet thinking people would actually be thankful for free content. It is something all of us now take as a given. Myself included. It is a harsh taskmaster, but it is a pure form of Darwinism that must be admired in the abstract. I fully expect most peoples attitude to be, “Well, that was fine for yesterday, but what have you done for me today”. I might complain like a one pack prison bitch that people aren’t grateful for the free Bison, but beneath that I understand what they are saying. The thing is, you can’t have it both ways. One person complains I keep covering the same old basic “trailer filled with wheat on junk land armed with bolt guns” and another person bitches that I’m covering politics instead of survivalist topics. Which is it? No one is satisfied and everyone wants something different. How about specific requests for subject matter? Stop complaining and threatening to leave and suggest something concrete. Not just vague ideas. Concrete, specific ( within the areas I’m familiar with, obviously ).

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Yes, I understand that this isn’t an original idea. I don’t claim it is. The original fried mush idea I wrote about long ago I got from Kurt Saxon’s video. I must of got that something like twenty years ago. I know he got it from someone else. You live in the South, you’ve tried to fry everything. Hot oil makes everything taste better, even slimy vegetables. I would try goat rectum if it was fried, most likely ( I don’t want to make any concrete promises on that one ). His instructions were to take corn meal and water and simmer in the crock pot for three hours, pour it into a bowl and let sit overnight, then slice and fry for a yummy filling, cheap breakfast. Perhaps he had just gotten a crock pot for Christmas and was eagerly trying it out on everything. This article today is just reinventing the wheel. But I am modifying the previous recipe I had passed on to you. In short, you don’t need a crock pot for fried corn mush. And, you can also make fried wheat mush although it isn’t as good. One minion commented that the current corn is toxic frankenfood and I shouldn’t recommend it for storage. I have my own doubts about genetically engineered foods and so I don’t totally discount that concern. Wheat should comprise the majority of your food storage ( remember, panic until you have the basics such as a year supply of grain per person [400 pounds] and at least one bolt gun [with a few hundred rounds]and one grinder and improvised water filter, then you can relax and take your time investing in better and more gear ) with corn merely as a variety item like rice. Unless you are so totally broke you must buy half and half wheat and corn. Eating crap food is better than no food. Starvation will kill you before cancer.

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I had not had fried corn mush for almost two years, having no crock pot. But necessity is the mother of invention and I was pretty burned out on my current diet over the weekend. I needed my corn mush! I bought a small bag of corn tortilla flour in the Wal-Mart Mexican food section. Regular corn meal in the flour isle is de-germinated and not a whole grain. The Mexican flour is prepared with lime for better nutrition and the entire kernel. It’s like comparing white flour with whole wheat flour. I took two cups water and brought it to a boil and turned off the heat. Dump in a cup of flour and stir quickly to avoid lumps. Let sit for several hours. It cooks better, with less crumbling, if left overnight, but you can make do with a few hours if needed. Slice it up and fry it. Cast iron skillet frying, not deep frying like in the Fry Daddy ( remember, no electricity ). Just a thin layer of grease. I imagine it would taste much better deep fried, but luxuries like that are for rich bitches. Top with salt and pepper, or jam, or syrup, right out of the skillet. Yum! I also did a batch of wheat flour. It doesn’t set up as firm as corn meal, but almost as good. When you are bored with regular bread or need a fat fix, this is just the ticket. Obviously, this is not approved by Weight Watchers. If you live out of a drive thru window you don’t need anymore flesh on your ass. But as I’ve said before, after the Apocalypse, fat is your friend. Either carried around with you everywhere you go ( I think it is absolute nonsense the “new” fat standards which set impossibly low body fat counts- body fat is natures survival mechanism to see you through lean times ) and/or in buckets of lard.

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I think gallons of maple-like syrup will last forever. It is basically just corn syrup and flavoring ( there’s that frankencorn again-oh wait! It’s in your soda too. And in your beef and chicken. It’s everywhere ). Add it to your condiment list in the storage food. You should already have a lake-o-lard. Fried corn/wheat mush-it’s what’s for dinner!

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gun control questions

GUN CONTROL QUESTIONS


Around four years ago I read “Enemies Foreign And Domestic” by Matthew Bracken. I just finished reading it again after a loyal minion sent me the trilogy by that author. I enjoyed it the first time, not minding the high price tag at all. I would never, ever, spend the money they want for fiction new releases. $35 for a new hard back. Inconceivable! Most mass market fiction is not worth spending five bucks an hour on. Especially since it will be out in paperback soon enough. But for genre specific books, I don’t mind at all. I spent the unheard of sum of over $30 for “Unintended Consequences” back in the early to mid nineties. Not once but twice. My goodness, now that was, and still is, the giant of militia books. Just as it doesn’t appear that anyone will ever top Ayn Rand and “Atlas Shrugged”, I can’t believe anyone will ever come close to “Consequences”. Bracken probably comes as close as is possible. Not that I particularly love militia fiction. It is a nice change of pace but it certainly isn’t my everyday cup of tea. But when it is done right it is if nothing else very entertaining. Bracken does it right. He certainly deserves the price of his books. I have nothing but good to say about them. I’m about a third into the second book, “Domestic Enemies” and I love that even more. Bravo.

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Of course, as much as I like the fiction tale of Second Amendment rights being fought for, you know where I stand on the issue. I feel that until folks actually have an empty belly they won’t fight back, regardless of how patriotic they are. Too many times we’ve seen gun rights assaulted with nothing more than a whimper and a brief upsurge in the sales of PVC pipe as everyone buries their plastic poodle shooters. But reading the book did bring up some questions in my mind. I know you are going to dismiss them, as you always do. But perhaps at least I can plant a seed of doubt that will eventually germinate and once I am dead you can look back and say, hey, maybe that beautiful bastard had a point after all. I wonder if the battle to control guns isn’t pretty much a scam. How, please hear me out. I know this seems silly because of course all oppressive regimes want to keep their citizens from shooting back. But there are certainly more than one way to skin a cat and the way to control Americans isn’t necessarily the same one used in Germany or Chile. Are we being feed the wrong set of worries to distract us from the real agenda?

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I’m sure that our political toadies sincerely believe in their crusade. Whether pro or anti gun, they fight for what they believe in. Or what they are told to believe in by their voters. Not that the voters really are anything more than window dressing. I believe in true voter control like I believe in Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy. It is part of the illusion to keep the herd quiet and lined up at the slaughter chute. But the politicians are among most of the “American Democracy Myth” believers. They themselves are controlled by the bankers. If the power to control the purse is with the bankers then the politicians will dance to the tune of the paymaster. But the politicians are like most people and lie to themselves to face the image in the mirror the next day. They truly believe. Which makes it much easier to control the whole process. I’m not claiming that “the gnomes of New York” sit in a smoke filled room and micromanage the politics that safe guard their financial empire. They don’t have to. They set macro policy and the details, while messy, pretty much sort themselves out. As long as unimaginable amounts of money continue to flow into their pockets, it is all good. Do you really think the bankers care if you are armed or not? In fact, I believe it is far better for them if you are actually armed with an evil assault weapon.

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If you are a fat cat banker with a mansion and an armored limousine, do you care if some punk ass bitch with a carbine takes a few pot shots at you? What is the harm? The range and penetration is crap. Since you most likely don’t own an antique bolt action in thirty caliber, the tactics of the issue are in their favor. Not to mention they live in a urban, more heavily controlled area. But strategically, they are even safer. If the punk even thinks you exist. 999 times out of a thousand the perceived target is one of your paid flunkies, the politicians. Who are protected anyway, courtesy of the taxpayer. The bankers have little to fear due to their hiding in plain sight behind false targets. The idiots in an investment firm with public outrage directed at “performance” bonuses? Smaller cogs in a much larger machine. More false targets. The politicians might care if the public is armed or not. But the bankers only care about controlling the money. And every last Constitutionalist is led around by the wallet. And since the more important issue to the banker is that the politicians never slip their leash, the regular mode of operation is to have two sides which pretty much cancel each other out. One side pro gun control, pro socialist, pro health care reform and the other side pro gun, pro free market. Slowly but surely a little bit more power is always grabbed by the politicians but since obviously no one side ever gets irreversible control it is all still in the hands of the real masters.

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A politician gets too big for his britches and there are many ways to respond, from letting the trained dogs in the CIA perform a little wet work to allowing an under represented political party to achieve a “surprise” victory. Which are performed by an army of underlings least the big boys ever get too close to such mundane details. Deniability through hundreds of layers. I’m not claiming I’m so smart I can figure all this out on my own. I’m just wondering aloud how the pieces fit when the bought and paid for politicians constantly cancel each other out generation after generation. To include gun control efforts. You are being ruined economically, which leaves no target for all your guns to be used against. And you will be controlled by food. The bankers don’t care if you are armed. They will be out of the country by the time you start using your arms to keep yourself fed. In the meantime, they stop any potential revolution. Most areas are strictly controlled, with a few parched and unproductive areas allowed to keep gun ownership as an escape valve from the urban areas. Does it strike you that the freest gun states are almost the same places the American Indians were banished to after all their good land was taken away. Think about it.

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