Posted on 12/21/2011 5:47:29 AM PST by GlockThe Vote
While the elites make excuses, citizens cope with theft and destruction.
I am starting to feel as if I am living in a Vandal state, perhaps on the frontier near Carthage around a.d. 530, or in a beleaguered Rome in 455. Here are some updates from the rural area surrounding my farm, taken from about a 30-mile radius. In this take, I am not so much interested in chronicling the flotsam and jetsam as in fathoming whether there is some ideology that drives it.
Last week an ancestral rural school near the Kings River had its large bronze bell stolen. I think it dated from 1911. I have driven by it about 100 times in the 42 years since I got my first license. The bell had endured all those years. Where it is now I don’t know. Does someone just cut up a beautifully crafted bell in some chop yard in rural Fresno County, without a worry about who forged it or why — or why others for a century until now enjoyed its presence?
Perhaps, in addition to the fences and security cameras, Mr. Hanson should consider acquiring a a Remington Model 700 SPS Tactical rifle (or its functional equivalent) in .308 or .30-06, fitting it with a night vision scope, and practicing his 250-500 yard shots.
Perhaps, in addition to the fences and security cameras, Mr. Hanson should consider acquiring a a Remington Model 700 SPS Tactical rifle (or its functional equivalent) in .308 or .30-06, fitting it with a night vision scope, and practicing his 250-500 yard shots.
The influx of over 11 million illegal aliens has had a sort of ripple effect that is rarely calibrated. Sixty percent of Hispanic males in California are not graduating from high school. Unemployment in rural California runs about 20 percent. There is less fear now of arrest and incarceration, given the bankruptcy of the state, which, of course, is rarely officially connected even in small part to illegal immigration. Perhaps because illegal immigration poses so many mind-boggling challenges (e.g., probably over $20 billion lost to the state in remittances, the undermining of federal law, the prejudice shown against legal immigration applicants, ethnic favoritism as the engine of amnesty, subterfuge on the part of Mexico, vast costs in entitlements and subsidies), talking about it is futile. So most don't, in fear of accusations of racism.
The article is a great recommendation for the Texas solution: we can shoot thieves here. They need it. Unfortunately we can't shoot hit & run drivers - yet.
I'm not sure where Prof. Hanson is on the CW2 Cube, but obviously the wrong part.
Best paragraph in the article, IMO:
Out here in the Dark Ages we depend instead on truth from the oral tradition, in the manner of Homeric bards. Rural folk offer their stories of woe to help others deter crime, cognizant that official accounts in the media are either incomplete or censored to reflect a sort of Ministry of Truth groupthink.
This is a nugget of Truth that can't be overlooked. Many people with first-hand knowledge of most subjects/events read a newspaper account or see a TV report of the same event and wonder if the reporter was recounting the reality that happened right in front of them. It is a rare reporter that will rise to the level of journalist and be worthy of the respect of that name. Most are happy to take the pablum handed out by official sources and accept it as the pure truth.
I see the elites walling themselves in behind ranks of military-armed "police" for their protection, while civil war (that THEY have created) is waged among the population. This has been the plan all along, and zero is the culmination of the effort...
Mexican-Americans…(a) largely successful and increasingly integrated and assimilated near majority of the state’s population. […] Sixty percent of Hispanic males in California are not graduating from high school.
Seems unlikely there will be a comfortable resolution to the problem
A backhoe would help.
It does seem like the start of the next civil war.
Good point.
In order to avoid embarrassing questions from “the authoritiesâ€, the purchase of a backhoe should immediately precede, or be coincident with, the purchase of the Remington Model 700 SPS tactical rifle, which it turns out is not available in .30-06, but only in .223 or .308.
Of the two, I think .308 would be more useful for the situation described in the article.
Maybe some of the perps will conveniently leave large pop bottles and insulation for collection and reuse.
They’re like sharks. You can write nice articles, but they don’t read them. You just have to make it easier for them to go somewhere else to steal. There is a certain amount of logic. They go where there’s easy pickings. No one should have to put up with this kind of baloney. Get all the farmers together and form a circle around the sheriff’s house and the county attorney’s house and then the mayor’s house. Don’t do anything and don’t say anything. Form a legal cooperative and send the mayor and the sheriff and the county attorney bills for the stolen property and then take them to court. Make their lives miserable, but do it legally.
They are getting just what they deserve, and to my delight - must add.
The first time he fires that weapon....he will be shortly in jail.
Somewhat similar to this lack of respect for manual work are a number of other aspects of traditional Arab life that have spread the length of the Pakistani-Peruvian axis. The chief source of many of these is the Bedouin outlook, which originally reflected the attitudes of relatively small group of the Islamic culture but which, because they were a superior, conquering group, came to be copied by others in the society, even by the despised agricultural workers. These attitudes include lack of respect for the soil, for vegetation, for most animals, and for outsiders. These attitudes, which are singularly ill-fitted for the geographic and climatic conditions of the whole Pakistani-Peruvian area, are to be seen constantly in the everyday life of that area as erosion, destruction of vegetation and wild life, personal cruelty and callousness to most living things, including one’s fellow men, and a general harshness and indifference to God’s creation. This final attitude, which well reflects the geographic conditions of the area, which seem as harsh and indifferent as man himself, is met by those men who must face it in their daily life as a resigned submission to fate and to the inhumanity of man to man.
All that Hanson describes is a harbinger of what is in store for our unique Western Civilization if we do take the terrible and necessary steps to rid ourselves of those who wish to destroy us. There will be no voting or talking our way out of this.
You just nailed it! When a man can no longer defend his property with deadly force, legally, civilization is over.
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