tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post566227757791902334..comments2023-06-15T09:13:45.467-04:00Comments on Liberty's Torch: This is the economy.Francis W. Porrettohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05862584203772592282noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-49317386356243024522020-07-14T17:47:28.470-04:002020-07-14T17:47:28.470-04:00Dr. M, that's an astute description of some an...Dr. M, that's an astute description of some antecedents to our situation. I read recently a commenter's take on chaos, namely, that people in times past had an appreciation of it and the danger of its reoccurence. The more comfortable people are and the more secure they feel the less they internalize that danger. I've done a little reading about 16th- and 17th-c. England and the crowned heads seemed to have a healthy appreciation of treason. Now treason, subversion, and sedition is the stuff of late night comedy, as is the notion of "the established order." Thus, at every turn, we slide further down the slope towards idiocracy and insurrection.<br /><br />I think we need to bring back the medieval English concept of the outlaw. Step off the straight and narrow and it's life in Sherwood Forest for you, mate. To be killed without penalty if it comes to that. I view the idea that a convicted criminal has "paid his debt to society" merely by serving time in prison is wrong. The prisoner's sentence is served and liberty awaits but there should be many years of civil disabilities and adverse criminal legal presumptions, such that if your shot on somebody's front lawn it's conclusively presumed that your intent was to commit a violent act. Ditto, violence in defense of property. The present rule is that it's impermissible, property being much less important than human life. However, that changes if you are still within your 10- or 20-year period of civil and criminal disability. Touch my car and if you end up dead for some good or bad reason it's not on me but you, the "outlaw." Sort of an "outlawry per the point system." <br /><br />Ditto, being a welfare recipient. Automatic disenfranchisement and death or injury within 300 yards of any act of arson, looting, or property destruction and you or your surviving relatives have no recourse against anyone.<br /><br />Anyone who asserts a defense of self defense against such a person wins. Period.<br /><br />Modern western civilization insists on dropping its defenses and ends up being hostage to the worst of the worst.<br /><br />The takeaway for anyone with a record of conviction of a serious crime is to stay away from riots and the property of others.<br /><br />The connecting thread here is the actual legal structure we have where we will NOT do anything that even hints at the notion that our society is excellent in many ways. Thus, non-action, non-decision as the impunity of Antifa filth demonstrates.Col. B. Bunnyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09590364016079745156noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-71309817522913929182020-07-14T17:18:47.177-04:002020-07-14T17:18:47.177-04:00I know what you mean, Old Fart. She used to model...I know what you mean, Old Fart. She used to model in a bikini for a garage, if memory serves me. Then her career took a turn for the worst!Col. B. Bunnyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09590364016079745156noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-39205986645840970752020-07-11T21:15:12.062-04:002020-07-11T21:15:12.062-04:00"...every last opportunity that presented its..."...every last opportunity that presented itself along the way to reverse course and re-embrace sanity was firmly declined..."<br /><br />I expect people in the future will read about these days the way we read about the Bolshevik Revolution or the French Revolution. One thing that's always struck me when reading about those disasters is how many chances there were to do something different, and yet somehow, the people in charge invariably made the wrong decision. It wasn't just one wrong turn, it was turn after turn after turn, always the wrong way, always making things worse.<br /><br />It's like when an airplane crashes - the investigation shows that it's rarely ONE thing going wrong, someone pushing the wrong button and the plane falling out of the sky. It's a chain of events, one bad decision after another, leading to catastrophe.<br /><br />Now I know that the people who lived through those earlier revolutions weren't completely taken by surprise - well, not all of them, anyway. There are people today who can see quite clearly where this obsessive wrong-headedness will lead, and they talk about it all the time, but I feel it's already too late. Too many wrong turns have been taken, a lot of them the ones that led to utter mediocrities gaining control of government and society. Now these "leaders" are like people in a dream, forcing the machine in a plummet toward the ground, and fighting off anyone trying to correct the descent. I don't know if they want to die, or if they're so lost in fantasy that they think they have super powers and can defy the laws of nature.Dr. Mabusehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01792194424034622756noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-88603293637971905442020-07-10T21:31:13.695-04:002020-07-10T21:31:13.695-04:00"... a Nancy Pelosi pole dance."
Please..."... a Nancy Pelosi pole dance."<br /><br />Please Dear God, pass the Brain Bleach. Over the years I've witnessed some terrible things but nothing as terrible as that mental picture.Oldfarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08723282658199062459noreply@blogger.com