You Won the Battle But Lost the War

Jews For The Preservation of Firearm Ownership ^ | 05/10/02 | Aaron Zelman

[Copernicus]

This has not been posted on Free Republic if my use of the search engine and search terms has been effective.

One of the best "think" pieces I've seen in a while.

Certainly worth of review by members of the President's Administration as well as other members of government

[Copernicus]

For your consideration,

Best regards,

[Leisler]

bump!

[SauronOfMordor]

2nd Amendment bump

[backhoe]

I ( sadly ) find myself nodding in agreement while reading this.

[NMC EXP]

Outstanding essay, thanks for posting it.

Good Americans were once spirited, individualistic, independent, and skeptical of government power. Now, good Americans are a lot like the stereotypical "good Germans" of Hitler's day, compliant, docile, and worshipful of government,

This passage is right on target. If you do not believe it just take a hard, critical look at the attitudes of many on this forum.

Regards

J.R.

[Liberty Ship]

Makes me prouder than ever to be a JPFO member -- even though I am not Jewish!

Shoule we print thousands of copies for distribution at Memorial Day celebrations. All the soccor moms with their SUV's, wearing their brand new (since 9/11) American flags on their sleeves...

[Shooter 2.5]

The "Greatest Generation" spawned my generation which turned into the most spoiled group in history. It's been downhill from there. I don't see much help in returning anything from the baby boomers but I noticed that our children seem to be the biggest hope. I hear more talk from my son's generation about restoring our country's freedoms than I ever heard from my generation.

[boris]

"Amendment II - A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

The, Second, Amendment, contains, only, one, comma.

--Boris

[KDD]

He accepted everything. The past was alterable. The past never had been altered. Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia. Jones, Aaronson, and Rutherford were guilty of the crimes they were charged with. He had never seen the photograph that disproved their guilt. It had never existed, he had invented it. He remembered remembering contrary things, but those were false memories, products of selfdeception. How easy it all was! Only surrender, and everything else followed. It was like swimming against a current that swept you backwards however hard you struggled, and then suddenly deciding to turn round and go with the current instead of opposing it. Nothing had changed except your own attitude: the predestined thing happened in any case. He hardly knew why he had ever rebelled. Everything was easy, except!

Anything could be true. The so-called laws of Nature were nonsense. The law of gravity was nonsense. 'If I wished,' O'Brien had said, 'I could float off this floor like a soap bubble.' Winston worked it out. 'If he thinks he floats off the floor, and if I simultaneously think I see him do it, then the thing happens.' Suddenly, like a lump of submerged wreckage breaking the surface of water, the thought burst into his mind: 'It doesn't really happen. We imagine it. It is hallucination.' He pushed the thought under instantly. The fallacy was obvious. It presupposed that somewhere or other, outside oneself, there was a 'real' world where 'real' things happened. But how could there be such a world? What knowledge have we of anything, save through our own minds? All happenings are in the mind. Whatever happens in all minds, truly happens.

He had no difficulty in disposing of the fallacy, and he was in no danger of succumbing to it. He realized, nevertheless, that it ought never to have occurred to him. The mind should develop a blind spot whenever a dangerous thought presented itself. The process should be automatic, instinctive. Crimestop, they called it in Newspeak.

He set to work to exercise himself in crimestop. He presented himself with propositions -- 'the Party says the earth is flat', 'the party says that ice is heavier than water' -- and trained himself in not seeing or not understanding the arguments that contradicted them. It was not easy. It needed great powers of reasoning and improvisation. The arithmetical problems raised, for instance, by such a statement as 'two and two make five' were beyond his intellectual grasp. It needed also a sort of athleticism of mind, an ability at one moment to make the most delicate use of logic and at the next to be unconscious of the crudest logical errors. Stupidity was as necessary as intelligence, and as difficult to attain.

All the while, with one part of his mind, he wondered how soon they would shoot him.

1984

[NMC EXP]

Orwell was a smart man.

regards

J.R.

[Neil E. Wright]

Bump for a great read.

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Toward FREEDOM

[redrock]

Excellent article!!!

redrock

[Justa]

Mind if I translate the article into FReeper-speak?

Translation: Turn off the television and do not patronize corporate media.

Everything the author complains about was accomplished via media campaigns.

[SAMWolf]

Bump.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Thanks for posting this Copernicus, I've bookmarked it on my FReeper profile.
Thanks for the heads up Neil.

[fnord]

Great post! Think I'll spread it around to my co-workers

Semper Fi

[BlackbirdSST]

Great read! Vetscor Constitutional Bump! Blackbird.