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Do you know your history? The assassination of ArchDuke Ferdinand was accomplished by one Gavrilo Princip, 19 at the time, a member of Young Bosnia and one of a group of assassins organized by the Black Hand. Sheer dumb luck rather than purpose and organization allowed Princip to succeed that day.

No one could have predicted the consequences of such an act, although Europe had been teetering on the brink of conflagration for some time. ArchDuke Ferdinands assassination jsut happened to be the precipitating factor. Hence, the allusion to Barbara Tuchman's brilliant The Guns of August.

America is no less on the brink of something dreadful and there are those who have been working for generations and with a will at destabilizing this nation. Who and to what end, you ask? As I have said, there are those who would rather rule in hell from atop a pile of rubble and corpses than leave us alone to live in peace. These are monsters, killers without conscience.

So here's your picture: I will not fire the first shot - that will come from the monsters on the Machiavellian, Gramscian Left. But I will do my utmost to be the one to fire the last one. These monsters have a goal: millions of us dead and the rest in chains. They've said as much.

As to your assertion that "can win more politically by being non-violent," that preseumes two things: Fisrt, that there is a political solution to be had, and second, that our opponents are rational human beings with rational self-interest based upon a shared set of values to which we may appeal.

I submit that neither case is true. Remember who we're dealing with. Lee Harris concludes his Civilization and Its Enemies with this:

"...we must all struggle to overcome the collective tendency of civilized men and women to forgetfulness. For that, in truth, is the ultimate question facing us today. Can the West overcome the forgetfulness that is the nemesis of every successful civilization? If it can, then there is hope that mankind will be able to move forward to a higher stage of historical development. If it cannot, then the next stage of history will be one that we once hoped never to see again.

I know the answer to that question. The memory of how we got here, how we achieved our freedom and at what cost has been systematically purged from the general consciousness. Not necessarily from ours, but from that of many of our countrymen. Harris' concluding sentence is the price that we will all pay for that forgetfulness...