Kofi: “Before you step on the rattlesnake...” (Old 'n Golden-My title)

You may recall that a couple years back I sent you a souvenir of how some of us here in Alabama celebrated United Nations Day - a thoroughly perforated steel helmet (painted U.N. baby blue), the result of a few minutes effort at our local firing range. You certainly did not take this hint of our disdain for your globalist gun-grabbing proposals to heart, for the reason I take keyboard to hand this day is to comment upon your scheduled "gun burning" by the U.N. Conference on Small Weapons scheduled for July 9.

First, as you grew up in Kwame Nkrumah's socialist Ghana and have been a global government bureaucrat since you graduated from college, I would be willing to bet you have little understanding of American history or Americans beyond the Hudson River. Of course there was that stint at Macalester College in St. Paul, but that was for a short time and very long ago (c. 1961). Much has changed in America since then, but much has not.

Let me tell you what has not changed: we still have men and women who will fight and die if necessary to maintain their God-given and traditional liberties. We are fewer in percentage of the general population than we were when you were going to college in "Frostbite Falls", but there are still enough of us to take on any combination of globalists and treasonous American Quislings-- enough to take you on and win. I share this with you for you are unlikely to hear such sentiments from the likes of Ted Turner or any of the circle of elitists you are acquainted with in New York, and it is important for you to hear the warning buzz before you step on the rattlesnake. Afterward, let it not be said that you took your step without being first warned by the natives that you were about to do a very, very stupid thing.

It's been tried before, you know, as His Majesty's General Gage could tell you were he alive today. General Gage, like you, did not want to start a war. Like you, General Gage thought his efforts to disarm our forebears were "reasonable". Like General Gage, you are apparently set upon a course that will, at length, precipitate another war to once again secure our inalienable liberties-- liberties that we derive not from an international bureaucracy's whims, but from God.

I note from the attached story below [the “Security Threat at the UN” AP story printed in last column] that other "gunnies", as I affectionately call my free brothers-in-arms, have written you in a similar vein. I also note that your bureaucratic servants have been frightened by these letters and emails, and while your minions admit that the messages carry no individual threats of harm they will be forwarded to "security experts" including, presumably, the FBI for analysis. This distorts and misinterprets our intent, I assure you. We are not threatening anyone personally. To announce publicly that any thief who breaks into your home will be shot can only be perceived as a threat by thieves, named and unnamed, and not the honest. The threat is contingent upon the act. And despite your stupidity in announcing your intent to achieve universal civilian disarmament, I certainly bear you no ill will, nor your Swedish-born wife, nor your children. Nor I daresay do any of the "gunnies" who have written you similarly.

It's just that as Americans, we never like to have to shoot somebody, even criminals caught in the act, before we warn them of their errant ways and give them the opportunity to cease and desist before deadly force is brought down upon them. It is the direct expression of American fair play for our police or armed citizens to call out, "Halt or I'll shoot". The same sentiment was expressed by the flag flown in our struggle against the British elitist gun-grabbers: "Don't Tread On Me" writ large beneath a nasty looking rattlesnake.

You must understand that having announced your intention to deny us our ancestral, God-given and inalienable rights you have placed yourself in the category of "criminal suspect". And while we would not shoot you lest we found you in commission of a crime on our soil, you should thank us for attempting to warn you against such folly before the unintended consequences of it catches up to you.

I didn't used to be so blunt. For many years I have argued history, law, facts and logic with liberal gun-grabbers of my own country. I have come to the conclusion that such arguments are useless exercises. In the end it always boils down to a conversation I once had with a child psychiatrist just before a "gun violence seminar".

The psychiatrist announced boldly (he thought): "Well, I think ALL guns should be banned."

"WWWWW Well, NO!" he stammered, seemingly as shocked as a lesbian would be if asked about male anatomy or Dracula if asked to hold a crucifix.

That one puzzled him, but only for a second: "Why, we'll pass a law and you'll have to turn them into the government."

"Wrong, sport," I replied, "let me tell you how this works: If you want my gun you're gonna have to kill me to get it. You're gonna have to kill my son. You're gonna have to kill my brother. You're gonna have to kill all my friends. And if even 10% of American gun owners feel the way I do, you're gonna have to kill upwards of eight and a half million people, and that doesn't count all the godless gungrabbers like you that we'll kill in righteous self-defense before we meet our Maker, and we intend to make that more than a one-to-one ratio, so you've got to ask yourself: 'Is it worth it?'"

The psychiatrist, somewhat nonplussed by my vehemence, started backing up about half way through this oration and responded by stammering: "WWWWWWhy you're paranoid!"

I smiled and said softly, "Well, let's accept the expertness of that snap judgement, you being a psychiatrist and all. Let's say I'm 'paranoid.'" I offered. "Let's say I'm crazy." I winked at him. "I'm still armed to the teeth, that just complicates your problem, doesn't it?"

He turned to flee but I hooked him with one last question: "Can you just do me one favor, sport?"

"Just do me this favor: you want my guns, YOU come get them. Have the courage of your convictions and YOU come get them. Don't send somebody else's son or daughter in federal service to come get them. YOU come get them. And hey, I may even let you have 'em after I unload 'em."

The psychiatrist, like me, was on the seminar panel, and he waited in the back of the room until I took a seat, and then found the chair as far away from me as he could get.

May I suggest Mr. Secretary-General, that if you're not prepared for the unintended consequences of your actions then it would perhaps be better if you did not send the UN down the American gun control road. It would also be wise to remember that a man who is willing to die for his country and liberty is most often also willing to kill for it. Just ask General Gage, another well intentioned gun-grabber, who fortunately for him escaped from this continent with his life after starting a long and costly war. A war, by the way, that we won.

May I also suggest that you step a little lightly when you're around free Americans like us, Mr. Annan. We don't take kindly to strangers trying to tell us which of our liberties meet the approval of the so-called "international community" and which do not. We may one day invite you to leave for your impolite temerity. We've whipped bigger and badder enemies than your globalist rabble before and we can do it again, any time you feel froggy. MV, AL

P.S. We'll be celebrating July 9 by going to the range and perforating more blue helmets with 5.56mm, 7.62mm, 9mm, 11.4mm & 12.7mm holes. Just to keep our skills up, of course. No threat implied.

MV would not mind if we printed his name (or his address), but we omit it as a matter of practice.

This letter separates sheep from goats. The ‘normal’ [ie, politically asleep] person reads it blankly and thinks “this guy is nuts”. You can bet the UN immediately turned it over to ‘security’ for evaluation as a possible threat! The writer reminds me of Vandenberg, the hero of Oliver Lange’s book of the same title, (later retitled Defiance). A copy was lent me by a fellow freedom fighter in WY. Vandenberg (1971) is set in Russian-occupied America, with an unlikely and reluctant hero who knocks over their apple cart. Well worth a trip to a used book store.

I remember reading this in the Shotgun News. Fred is trying to get every gun owner to learn to be a Rifleman. He sells a 25 Meter courxe for 16 dollars.

I think that every gun owner should compete in IDPA and High Power rifle. Out of the 50,000 members of Free Republic only about 6 people are signed up for the postal match. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/605592/posts

A very well written piece, and my only criticism, is that I wish I myself had written it. I think we should all flood the United Nations with letters like these. Get everyone you know to write these. Get the ball rolling so to speak.

This letter separates sheep from goats.

I've always wondered about this ezpression. Which is which? Sheep have a more positive image in people's minds, but they're also considered docile and easily led. In the final analysis, would you rather be a sheep or a goat?

Fred's speaking for me, too. These people who are talking about disarming us don't have the 'nads to try it themselves. They want it to be done by a government that gunowners have been paying for. They want our own sons to go grab up our guns, because it's a cinch their sons aren't military people.

BTW, I read "Vandenburg" back when it first came out in paperback, '73 or thereabouts. If you haven't read it and have time to read a fiction piece, it's a good one. Thanks for posting this.

Edd

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