M2RB: Blue Öyster Cult
Experiment's that failed too many times
Transformations that were too hard to find
Poison's in my bloodstream, poison's in my pride
I'm after rebellion, I'll settle for lies
Is it any wonder that my mind's on fire
Imprisoned by the thoughts of what you do
Is it any wonder that the joke's an iron
And the jokes on you
Poison's in my bloodstream, poison's in my pride
I'm after rebellion, I'll settle for lies
Is it any wonder that my mind's on fire
Imprisoned by the thoughts of what you do
Is it any wonder that the joke's an iron
And the jokes on you
The outrageous rhetoric and threats coming from some Democrats demonstrates the necessity of the Second Amendment.
By Clayton E. Cramer
In the period immediately before the Civil War, the most ferocious
rhetoric came out of the mouths of Southern Democrats who were soon known as “fire-eaters.” They
got that nickname because of the strength of their rhetoric in support
of slavery and their willingness to talk about secession as a response
to the possibility of abolitionists gaining influence in Congress, and
even winning the White House. The louder and more ferocious speeches
they gave, the stronger the abolitionist position seemed to become.
Today, we again have Democratic fire-eaters whose violent rhetoric is
strengthening the support enjoyed by their opponents. First it was a statement by Professor Erik Loomis
at the University of Rhode Island, saying that he wanted “Wayne
LaPierre’s head on a stick.” Okay, maybe that was just hyperbolic
rhetoric, intended as a figure of speech. Now, we have a far less
figurative statement by Donald Kaul in the Des Moines Register:
Declare the NRA a terrorist organization and make membership illegal. Hey! We did it to the Communist Party, and the NRA has led to the deaths of more of us than American Commies ever did. (I would also raze the organization’s headquarters, clear the rubble and salt the earth, but that’s optional.) Make ownership of unlicensed assault rifles a felony. If some people refused to give up their guns, that “prying the guns from their cold, dead hands” thing works for me.
Is that clear enough for you? He is declaring his desire to see
millions of Americans killed to support his goals, while at the same
time making membership in a peaceful organization a criminal matter.
It gets worse: “Then I would tie Mitch McConnell and John Boehner,
our esteemed Republican leaders, to the back of a Chevy pickup truck and
drag them around a parking lot until they saw the light on gun
control.” I remember a few years ago an incident where several criminals
in Texas did something like that to a black man; it is obvious who Kaul
sees as his role models. Donald Kaul thinks that disagreeing with him
about a political matter justifies torturing someone to death.
Now, if this was simply one raving kook, or two raving kooks
bloviating on obscure websites, I suppose we could ignore it. But
Kaul’s demand for criminalizing membership in an advocacy group and
proposal to torture people to death for disagreeing with him was
published not in an obscure lunatic fringe location, but in a serious
daily newspaper: the Des Moines Register. We can reasonably
infer that the editorial staff of that newspaper considered this a
perfectly respectable idea as part of the national conversation about
gun control. (Imagine what the reaction would be if a conservative
newspaper had published an opinion piece calling for abortion-rights
advocates to be dragged behind a pickup truck, and for membership in
NARAL to be made a criminal matter, in response to a similarly horrifying public tragedy.)
I have a few friends who have of late developed some fairly paranoid
ideas that our government is run by to totalitarian thugs intent on
suppressing all dissent and creating a police state. Reading something
as repugnant as Donald Kaul’s column in a respectable daily newspaper
makes me start to wonder if they are paranoid or simply better in touch
with the ferocious hatemongering of today’s Democratic fire-eaters.
Kaul’s willingness to advocate a totalitarian society and his obvious
enthusiasm for mass murder and torture, and the Des Moines Register‘s
willingness to print it, make me even more appreciative of the wisdom
behind the Second Amendment: there needs to be some popular restraint on
this sort of bloodthirsty progressivism.
At this point, you might compare Kaul’s call for confiscation and
killing to the insurrectionist argument for the Second Amendment. There
is one great difference: the insurrectionist argument is always
presented as a horrible last resort in response to tyranny. You will not
see any responsible newspaper publish the insurrectionist
argument for the Second Amendment with the clear bloodlust of Prof.
Loomis or Donald Kaul. Loomis and Kaul are clearly looking forward to a
bloodbath. The louder they demand torture and murder to satisfy their
emotional needs, the more Americans will be arming in self-defense.
Flaming Telepaths - Blue Öyster Cult
Well I've opened up my veins too many times
And the poison's in my heart and in my mind
Poison's in my bloodstream, poison's in my pride
I'm after rebellion, I'll settle for lies
Is it any wonder that my mind's on fire
Imprisoned by the thoughts of what you do
Is it any wonder that the joke's an iron
And the jokes on you
Experiment's that failed too many times
Transformations that were too hard to find
Poison's in my bloodstream, poison's in my pride
I'm after rebellion, I'll settle for lies
Yes I know the secrets of the iron and mind
They're trinity acts a mineral fire
Yes I know the secrets of the circuitry mind
It's a flaming wonder telepath
Well I've opened up my veins too many times
And the poison's in my heart and in my mind
Poison's in my bloodstream, poison's in my pride
I'm after rebellion, I'll settle for lies
Is it any wonder that my mind's on fire
Imprisoned by the thoughts of what you do
Is it any wonder that the joke's an iron
And the jokes on you
And the joke's on you [repeat ad infinitum]
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