A British soldier was decapitated a few hundred yards from a UK Army base by two men with large knives saying: “We swear by almighty Allah we will never stop fighting you.” The men were shot when police responded 20 minutes later.If I were the British Army, I would reintroduce a sword to the uniform and mandate training in it. There's no reason to lose fights like this except that our side has unilaterally disarmed. US soldiers, all of whom are trained with arms, and many of whom own private firearms and are licensed to carry them off post, found themselves prey for Nidal Hassan because regulations disarmed almost every soldier on base. British soldiers are having their heads hacked off with meat cleavers, because they -- also like people coming off of many US military bases, especially those run by the Air Force -- can't even carry a combat knife, or even a lengthy pocket knife.
"They" want us to be this way, The Belmont Club says. Allahpundit notes that the British Army's actual response is to order soldiers to take off their uniforms:
Hard to imagine a more demoralizing order for a soldier than to tell him to take off the uniform and hide after an enemy’s attack. And the powers that be know it: They’re stressing that the order’s temporary in order to blunt public indignation over their decision.We don't have to lose this fight. There is no reason we ought to be losing it, except that we have a political class -- internationally, here and in Europe -- that has all the wrong principles, and that ought to be stripped of every last power.
The twisted punchline here is that the victim yesterday wasn’t wearing a uniform. The two degenerates who murdered him apparently targeted him because they saw him entering or exiting a barracks. There’s the next move, presumably — evacuate the barracks nationwide until they’re safe. For soldiers.
Amen.
ReplyDeleteThat's why they told you not to wear your uniforms outside the base... although that didn't seem to have helped.
ReplyDeleteOne doesn't need melee weapons to kill people with projectile or melee weapons. Just a lot of courage and training.
Weapons slant the odds in favor of the weak, the green recruits, and the various other people who don't know which end of the stick bad stuff comes out of.
On Another note, even a steel katana intentionally made blunt and unable to cut, I can cut and stab through light material with utilizing purely gravity and mass momentum transfers.
It would be about as easy killing people with a "non weaponized" blunt steel sword as it would be with a sharp one. At least for those with the appropriate training.
Weapons are meaningless tools in the hands of slaves and ignorant pacifist civilian mall shoppers. They need to change themselves first before they can ever deserve a weapon, a manifestation of human will.
You're talking a lot lately, Ymar, but you haven't yet convinced me that you know what you're talking about. I asked you a question a few days ago, and I want an answer. Where do you see the logistic chains?
ReplyDeleteThe US Marines always had the right idea with their warrior philosophy. A warrior is no warrior if he can't kill an enemy naked as the day he was born.
ReplyDeleteThe obverse of that would be "a slave, even when armed to maximum with weapons and tools, cannot kill a single damn enemy".
ymarsakar@yahoo.com
ReplyDeleteYou can mail me direct if you have something you think I should respond to.
Convincing people... that is no longer my goal, if ever it was. The time for talking is over. Other factions and powers will do the convincing, one way or another. I have no obligation to convince people. If people want to change their own beliefs, that's up to them to change themselves. There are other things I have to preserve and dedicate myself to.
I'm not too sure what you mean by "logistic chains".
Those bystanders would not have responded if they had a machine gun- it is their will that is lacking, first and foremost. The mind is the weapon.
ReplyDeleteThey have been taught not to resist,
to wait for the authorities,to take drugs to suppress anger,that anyone who ventures to protect themselves will be treated as a criminal.
They are ideal farm animals, productive, complacent, disposable.
The attacker's rant ,disturbing as it was, had moments of unpleasant truth- - "the Government does not care about you."
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One of these days, we are going to have a real serious attack on this country, all across it, with multiple cells and coordinated effect-how rare in history is the opportunity to pre-position masses of trained warriors behind the enemies (US) lines.And we pay them to be here. How enlightened.
Then we will find out what we are made of. It will not be pleasant.
I'm still reading this comment thread if you want to ask your question, Grim. But I'm not going to check back on every comment page every 10, 30, 60 minutes just because someone "might" want me to do something for them.
ReplyDeleteHence *points at mail*.
Ymar:
ReplyDeleteI was responding to your comment. You said:
"Those who focus on short sighted tactics, will never see the strategic battlefield or where the enemy's key logistics chain is at."
I want to know where you think those chains are. It's a simple question, on a topic you brought up yourself. Where do you think we should strike? Why do you think this will disable them?
Raven:
ReplyDeleteThen we will find out what we are made of. It will not be pleasant.
Who says it won't be pleasant? I think that sounds invigorating and tonic. I merely feel sorry for the poor soldiers, who have been disarmed and -- however unintentionally -- left out as bait for that eventuality.
"Where do you think we should strike?"
ReplyDeleteThat's a rather complicated topic. One I think deserves a more complete consideration. I'll write a blog article about it and link it here, soon.
If you want my view on where the Leftist alliance's weak point is, I'll give it. There's no point in withholding information. However, that is just my opinion, and it doesn't matter to me what anyone else thinks of it.
I know what I'm talking about. Whether anyone else agrees or disagrees with me... well that's a side topic.
To give a short executive summary. The Left's weak points are obvious to those who were once from the Left (defectors, Andrew Breitbart, etc) or those outside that study propaganda, psychological manipulation, and ruthless power applications.
Their weak points are primarily their funding, their money laundering (taxes -> gov -> unions -> Democrat politicians -> Leftist alliance special groups).
Their other primary weakness is their inability to cooperate absent force, fear, blackmail, power. Black Panthers are not cooperating with homosexual activists because they like each other, to give one example. Thus by training children and adults to be more independent minded and start thinking and acting for themselves, it makes it far harder for the Left to create more slaves out of the population. This has the potential to generate internal instability amongst the Leftist alliance, as they aren't working together because they love each other. They just want the slaves, the money, and the power.
This is a pretty shallow description of the power of the Left, but it should suffice until a better description of how they work is written.
Part of why civil war is inevitable now is because the Leftist logistics chain has become self-regenerating. It is well protected. It can be damaged, but it will regenerate before the damage exceeds the limits of their ability to repair. The next 10 Presidents can be Republican. It will not change that inevitability. The reasons are a bit more complicated than just that, unfortunately.
Gee, I usually try not to enter someone else's place and act like I own it...
ReplyDeleteAnyway, it's gona take more than giving every soldier a sword (much as I like the idea). They ran him down with their car first, and by the looks of the damage on the front end, he must have been incapacitated if not dead already before they laid a blade to him.
Still, the crowds compliance was pathetic.
On the topic of swords, there are two videos from my sources which I thought did a good job on the subject.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXbLyVpWsVM&feature=youtu.be
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apTVzm09WYc&feature=youtu.be
Vikings first, then fantasy movie swords forged using a hybrid machining process.
The blunt sword cutting trick is shown starting around minute 2 in the viking vid.
When the laser printer is out of power and can't make any more gun components, when ammo runs out, there's always other things that can be made.
Lastly, whether you have a sword or not, practice jumping up in the air when there are cars heading near you. You never know when two jihadis will ram you into a wall with one. You need to be able to hit that soft impact absorbing windshield first. Fortunately, that's easier than dodging bullets from a speeding car.
"We don't have to lose this fight. There is no reason we ought to be losing it"
ReplyDeleteActually there is. We have several generations of children educated by statist "useful idiots" that is our fault for not taking their education into our own hands.
When a child grows up expecting that BOTH parties to a fight will be expelled. That drawing a picture of a gun is as bad as bringing one to school That it's not ok to defend yourself since the police will come deal with any threats..
When we spend generations making sure that all forms of "self" is subjugated to the collective then we reap exactly what we have sown.
Ymar may be right that civil war is inevitable. If it's not then we die with a whimper and chains.. Either way, this story ends at the point of a sword.
The only real question is "Is a free man holding it or a tyrant"?
So let's try to turn this into a strategic plan. If the targets are:
ReplyDeletetaxes -> gov -> unions -> Democrat politicians -> Leftist alliance special groups
...more or less, anyway, then the obvious place to break the chain is with taxes. If you did that, in theory, the rest would starve.
The problem is that conservatives tried this approach for a generation, and it is a clear failure as a strategy. At some point the government discovered that it didn't need tax revenue to keep up the spending operations. In states with balanced budget amendments, actual cuts have happened, but the Federal pig just keeps growing.
So tax reform is needed, but it isn't adequate to the problem. A balanced budget amendment is also needed. That needs to be the #1 legislative priority.
I think we should also continue to push for tax reform that eliminates the IRS. Given its recent scandals, it should be within the realm of possibility to convince Americans to dispose of it if a plausible alternative is proposed instead. We would need to replace the income tax with some kind of automatic taxation like a sales tax, and repeal Obamacare to eliminate the mandate requirements (which require submission of personal information to the IRS).
Both of those are worth doing anyway. What else?
I wish I could think that there's such a thing as an automatic tax that doesn't require enforcement by a tax agency, but I can't get there. We've automated income tax quite a bit with payroll withholding, but the IRS still has a role in forcing employers to withhold (very serious penalties apply) and penalizing workers who fail to withhold enough or fail to make up the difference at the end of the year. Sales tax works pretty much the same way: without the enforcement, the automatic payments dwindle.
ReplyDeleteBut we could help a lot by making the tax code flatter and simpler. If it's based on income, there's no getting around the need (for businesses at least) to consider expenses, since no one wants to impose taxes on the basis of gross rather than net income.
But we could get rid of a whole lot of complication and discretion by eliminating all tax treatment that's designed to punish or reward behavior in furtherance of one social policy or another. The less discretion the IRS has, the less we'll see it succumbing to the temptation to exercise its discretion capriciously or politically.
I favor the flattest of all possible flat taxes: per capita. If you vote, you pay.
I agree that targeting taxes and the budget are strategically essential. However, what enabled the whole chain (taxes -> gov -> unions -> Democrat politicians -> Leftist alliance special groups) is education & news media; generations have been taught that this system was right, and so it's going to be extremely difficult to break any of the links.
ReplyDeleteI.e., one front is taxes and budget, but we also need to focus on another front: raising generations to value the things the system destroys, and thereby motivate them to change the system.
Also, it's often a good strategy to attack where the enemy is weak instead of where he is strong. Thanks to Scott Walker, I have the feeling that public unions might be vulnerable right now. At least, it might be easier to weaken or take that link out than to get a constitutional amendment passed right now.
Well, we're having an interesting experiment on public unions and government support right now in Chicago. The Chicago Public Schools are looking at a $1.1 billion deficit for next year. So the Chicago Public School Board - consisting, by law, of people selected by the Mayor of Chicago - have just voted to close 50 schools, combining their students into other schools so that the money used to keep them open can be saved.
ReplyDeleteSome of the parents are furious because that means that their children will have to walk across gang boundaries to go to school and this will thus endanger them. That's a legitimate complaint. But the big issue is that this will cause a reduction in teachers, and some Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) members will lose their jobs. The CTU struck earlier this year, and they were warned that if their demands were met this would have to happen. Well, they continued their strike, they won and now those schools are being closed.
The CTU's response has been to start organizing to find candidates to run against those who favored this, including and especially the Mayor of Chicago, Rahm Emannuel, who prior to his election was Pres. Obama's Chief of Staff. They're serious, too. What we're seeing here is red-on-red action as far as I'm concerned. But the Mayor is stuck. He just can't keep those schools open. There's no money. Not from Washington. Not from Springfield (the State capital). Certainly not from raising taxes - Chicago's population has decreased to close to 1930's levels. Many of the people leaving are the black descendants of the people who came up from the South after WW II during the Great Migration. The CTU is going to file suit on the basis that the school closings are disproportionately in black/poor neighborhoods, but that's who's moving out and those are the neighborhoods where the schools have underutilized facilities.
The blue model is failing. Margaret Thatcher was right.
Agreed: a lot of parents are going to have to refuse to turn their children's education over to either unions or the government.
ReplyDeleteGrim- no , it won't be pleasant. There will be no fluttering pennants or gleaming spearpoints for the Men of Harlech this time. Think 100 Beslans. Sledges Old Breed are gone now, but we do have a lot of combat vet's back from the 'stan and Iraq- they may have to pick up more slack than they ever imagined.
ReplyDeletefor inspiration-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmZbCwmOC6I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MR87LsmXzBs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rxbv4YxCc5A
To restore a society that has lost the very concept of honor, it will be necessary to start at the very first rung-the child.
The left has successfully destroyed a centuries long tradition of children's stories that both entertained and taught how honorable civilized people behaved. Even the simple parables like the Three Little Pigs has been changed to a socialist outcome as the two lazy little pigs who failed to be prudent now get to seek refuge with their hardworking brother pig, instead of being eaten by the big bad wolf-
The Jesuit's said "give me a boy till seven years of age, and I will show you the man". How can we willingly turn over the education of our children to people who believe in our polar opposites and expect any different? And now the Zero is pushing for mandatory pre-school- another effort to expand the indoctrination.
...their children will have to walk across gang boundaries to go to school and this will thus endanger them. That's a legitimate complaint.
ReplyDeleteNot entirely. The parents don't have to tolerate the gangs in their midst. Even with an honest police force (I grew up in Kankakee, some decades ago that was an iffy premise), the cops need to know they have the people's backing and active assistance before they can effectively risk their own necks--and families. The parents who are concerned about the gangs need to quit bleating from the sidelines and start acting on those concerns.
Community runs both ways.
Yes, it'll be bloody. The alternative will be--surely already is, if they're serious about their children's safety--worse.
Eric Hines
Sales tax to replace Federal income tax. check. Repeal ObamaCare. check. Totally on board with that.
ReplyDeleteActually that one has to be part of a broader entitlement repeal. ObamaCare is the symptom of a broader malady in the country. One more likely cured with the cautery
The real problem is that none of this passes the reality test. Neither party has the guts to propose the level of cuts in the deficit needed but will come to some "grand compromise" that involves higher taxes instead (and more spending, since they will never actually cut now) and these taxes will define "rich" lower and lower.
I read somewhere that we've reached the point of simulated government. The Feds "pretend" to follow the Constitution and we "pretend" that they are because neither side dares stop pretending.
Currently proposed reductions in the rate of increase are met with cries that we are killing people. Imagine what it would take to get them to spend merely what they take in? It can't be done. Neither party will do that. Now add a few million immigrants to the entitlement system and the Democratic voting roles..
There are days when I reach the "screw it, let it burn" point so that I can be here to help my children through the hard times then I realize what that would (will) be like in reality and shudder.
So heres how it ends..
The Laffer curve is already starting to come into play as people and businesses change their activity simply to avoid taxes. That will only get worse and the government will only get more desperate.
We all know their only answer to failure (stealing from the Smallest Minority) is to do it again, but harder. The problem is that there is no "harder". They can't reduce interest rates. They can't keep printing money forever and stopping will political death. Catch 22. Then something big will happen. Student Load default.. Another 9/11 another banking crisis and crash.. Whatever it is, there will be nothing left to respond with and it will get bad in a hurry. There is a broad range of "bad" but whatever it is, we will not see "normal" for a long time after that.
Not exactly the happy note I intended to end on when I started typing.
I agree that there will need to be revolutionary acts as well. However, one thing you learn by looking carefully at successful revolutionary programs is that they always have a political program as well. That and a good rhetorical program (sometimes called propaganda, but it can be as honest and forthright as you want -- it just needs to be there).
ReplyDeleteA well-thought-out political program can limit the duration and damage caused by a revolution by swinging popular endorsement to it relatively quickly. It can also sustain a revolution that might otherwise be quashed, because people know they believe in it. The rhetorical program serves the same goals, plus trying to swing those who might come to believe.
http://ymarsakar.wordpress.com/2013/05/25/the-leftist-alliance-deconstruct-in-detail/
ReplyDeleteSince it's not a chain, it should be apparent why it can't be broken by targeting any of its links.
Previous attempts to do something akin to it, will show why.
To be honest, if credit cards and UPS/Fed Ex were in charge of enforcing tax collection and distribution, things would be a lot better. That's not saying much... unless it is.
I'm not making a recommendation for policy or changing the world. Because there's something more fundamental people need to do first, described above.
One other thing I needed to cover in more detail was not the funding but how they launder the funding. Those who are familiar with why the mob launders money should be able to easily understand the need.
ReplyDeleteThe Left's money is based on the concept of the Ourobos. There's a wiki about it.
Essentially, just like socialism and welfare, the concept is to have humanity sustain itself by eating itself. Making profits off aborted babies, post or pre birth... that's just sort of like the perks of the cause so to speak.
The fed prints money -> gives it to Leftist orgs to distribute out to their agents -> corporations sell products in exchange for cash -> gov taxes corporations and individuals, selling or buying -> taxes go to gov -> gov prints more money.
Everyone already suspects that the fed is printing money to pay for itself. What they need to think about is why the Leftist alliance has this money laundering chain on top of that.
This is a way for to maintain that term of secrecy. Deniability. They didn't know that people would be killed, murdered, raped, reprocessed with that money. It wasn't "their" money. They didn't "give it" to the Leftist organizations. They aren't connected to Democrat politicians or voters or the feds.
Deniability.
The war chest is there to be a war chest, not merely for the Left to conduct normal operations. The money is there because they are in a war. And they're using it. And that's been the case since before Obama was born.
This is what I mean by "strategic and logistical" scale and level.