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Pacifism: The Ultimate Immorality (This is SENSATIONAL!!!)
ChronWatch ^ | 25 July 2006 | Raymond Kraft

Posted on 07/24/2006 10:42:24 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher

Last week, Jack and Jill Pacifisto were walking home through the park after dinner with friends, during which they had spent a few hours discussing the immorality of violence and war and their commitments to send more money to progressive activists over the next year. Suddenly, Tony Thug stepped out of the shadows and pointed a pistol at Jack and said, “Give me your wallet,” and, pointing the gun at Jill, “Your purse.”

“What?” asked Jack, incredulous, “Hey, we don’t want any trouble. We’re pacifists. We aren’t going to hurt you.”

“Not my problem,” said Tony, “Gimme your money.”

So Jack and Jill did, and then Tony said, “And now gimme your watches, rings, jewelry, everything worth anything.”

“Hey,” said Jill, “This is my wedding ring!”

And Tony said, “Not my problem.”

Jack and Jill handed over their wallet, and purse, and all their jewelry and Rolex watches, and then Tony shot them both twice in the chest and picked up the loot and stepped back into the shadows.

As Jill lay dying she whispered, “Tony? Why didn’t you fight back? Why didn’t you have a gun?” Those were her last words.

“I couldn’t,” whispered Tony. “I’m a pacifist.” Those were his last words.

A few days later, Bill Thaxton and his wife were walking home through the park after dinner, when Tony Thug stepped out of the shadows.

“Give me your wallet, your purse,” said Tony, pointing his gun first at Bill, and then at his wife. He did not know that Bill was an old lawman, and had been a Marine sniper when he was young, and was active in the Single Action Shooters Society and had a concealed-carry-permit. Tony assumed that the old man was just an old man with some money and a few credit cards in his wallet walking home from dinner.

“Sorry, friend, I don’t like guns, and I don’t want any trouble,” said Bill.

“Not my problem,” said Tony, “Gimme your wallet, your purse,” he said, waving the gun at Bill’s wife, “Rings, watches, everything.”

“And what if I don’t?” asked Bill.

“I’ll shoot you both. Her first,” said Tony, pointing his gun at Bill’s wife again.

“Well,” said Bill, “Okay, honey, do what he says.”

She tossed down her purse. Bill reached slowly for his left lapel with his right hand and then, like lightning, did a cross-draw with his left and came out blazing with his trusty little 9, nailing Tony three times.

As he lay on the sidewalk dying, Tony Thug was heard to mutter, “Damn, I shoulda stuck with the pacifists . . .”

An acquaintance wrote me last week to tell me proudly how he had been a pacifist since the ‘60s. His letter set me thinking about pacifism, which is the ultimate and vilest form of immorality.

If you are Hitler, or Saddam, or Osama, or Ahmadinejad, your desire to kill those you dislike is at least honest and open. You wear you hate on your sleeve and we know who and what you are. But the Pacifist wears his refusal to resist evil as if it were a badge of honor, and claims it as a sign of his or her absolute moral superiority. The Hitlers and Osamas are at least honest about who they are, the Pacifist is not. Not even to himself.

The German Pastor Martin Niemoller wrote a poem circa 1946 about the quiescence of German intellectuals in the face of the Nazi rise to power that has become famous. Translated, it reads:

When they locked up the social democrats,

I remained silent,

I was not a social democrat.

When they came for the trade unionists

I did not speak out,

I was not a trade unionist.

When they came for the Jews

I did not speak out,

I was not a Jew.

When they came for me

there was no one left to speak out.

The Pacifist says something like this, but, unlike Niemoller, without apology. He says:

When you come for my allies

I will not fight you,

for I am a Pacifist.

When you come for my countrymen

I will not fight you,

for I am a Pacifist.

When you come for my neighbor,

I will not fight you,

for I am a Pacifist.

When you come for my mother,

my father, my brother,

my sister, I will not fight you,

for I am a Pacifist.

When you come for my wife,

my husband, my son,

my daughter, I will not fight you,

for I am a Pacifist.

When you come for me,

I will not fight you,

for I am a Pacifist.

The Pacifist claims that he (or she) is too good to fight against evil, and this is the catastrophic intellectual and moral failure of Pacifism. In the guise of being too good to oppose evil, the Pacifist invokes the ultimate immorality by aiding and abetting and encouraging evil, on the pretext of being too pure, too wise, too sophisticated to fight evil, thereby turning the pretense of goodness and purity into an invocation and license for evil to act without opposition.

The moral stance of the Pacifist is, unwittingly perhaps, homicidal, genocidal, fratricidal, suicidal. The Pacifist says, in effect: “There is nothing good worth fighting for. And there is nothing so evil worth fighting against.”

The Pacifist is willing to give evil free reign, because he or she thinks or feels that fighting against evil is even worse than evil itself . . . an intellectual and moral equivocation of monumentally staggering proportions. In order to be a Pacifist, one must hold that Nazism or Islamism or Communism or any other puritanical totalitarian ideology that seeks to slaughter or oppress all the Jews or all of any other race or tribe is no worse, is not morally inferior, to the existence of Jews and Judaism, or whatever other race or tribe is the whipping boy of the day.

To be a Pacifist, one must hold that acquiescence to a Jihad that seeks to destroy Western Civilization is no worse than Western Civilization, even though the Jihad seeks to extinguish intellectual freedom, religious freedom, political freedom, and ultimately even the freedom to be a Pacifist.

As the English philosopher Edmund Burke said, “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” The Pacifist replies, “I am so good that I will do nothing, I will hurt no one, even if that means that good will be destroyed and evil will win. I am so peaceful that I will not discriminate between the goodness of good and the badness of evil, certainly not with enough conviction to take up arms, literally or figuratively, against the triumph of evil over good, of totalitarianism over freedom, of barbarianism over civilization.”

And so the Pacifist, perhaps unthinkingly, unwittingly, mistakenly, is deeply mired in his intellectual confusion, but surely and unequivocally, the epitome of evil itself, For the Pacifist devoutly believes that by refusing to fight against evil he is affirming that he is good, too good and pure to oppose evil, too good and pure to fight evil, to good and pure to kill evil. But in the end, he is the enabler without whom the triumph of evil would not be possible.


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To: Aussie Dasher; DieHard the Hunter

GOOD READ!


41 posted on 07/25/2006 5:56:04 AM PDT by alpha-8-25-02 ("SAVED BY GRACE AND GRACE ALONE")
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To: Aussie Dasher

Bump for later!


42 posted on 07/25/2006 5:56:25 AM PDT by bcsco ("He who is wedded to the spirit of the age is soon a widower" – Anonymous)
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To: goldstategop

I agree. Unless the pacifist enjoys the vicarious protection of his neighbor, community or nation, he will either be a slave or dead.


43 posted on 07/25/2006 6:44:37 AM PDT by Truth is a Weapon (Truth, it hurts soooo good!)
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To: DenverCossack

Justv curious. Why wouldn't he have mentioned the Catholics. It seems to me they were taking a beating during that time , especially the priests and nuns.


44 posted on 07/25/2006 7:10:47 AM PDT by xxyyxx
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To: Aussie Dasher
This aricle describes why this non-pacifist's "American Express" "second wallet" containing one of my L.W. Seecamps is always with me. (Even when I am "properly" armed...)

How you behave dictates which wallet I grab...

("American Express -- don't leave home without it!")

45 posted on 07/25/2006 7:14:21 AM PDT by TXnMA ("Allah" = Satan in disguise)
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To: karnage

I know, but there were several attempts on Hitler's life during the course of the war. The last bomb attempt was in 44. It almost got him. Afterwards, Hitler had 200 people executed because of it.

Not that Wikipedia is the sine qua non of unbiased info, but: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_20_Plot


46 posted on 07/25/2006 7:37:37 AM PDT by garyhope (It's World War IV, right here, right now courtesy of Islam.)
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To: Aussie Dasher

This is a keeper -- superb!


47 posted on 07/25/2006 12:51:43 PM PDT by DieHard the Hunter (I am the Chieftain of my Clan. I bow to nobody. Get out of my way.)
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To: NZerFromHK

> I think the reactions will truly show how left-leaning mainstream NZ really is.

Funny, I was just thinking the same thing, running thru my mind which of our newspapers, publications &tc would have the stones the actually publish this.

Can't think of one.


48 posted on 07/25/2006 12:55:12 PM PDT by DieHard the Hunter (I am the Chieftain of my Clan. I bow to nobody. Get out of my way.)
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To: jefseadot
Pacifists believe that violence is not the only way to solve problems.

Correction:
Pacifists believe that violence is NEVER a way to solve problems.

49 posted on 07/25/2006 1:01:46 PM PDT by ctdonath2
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To: garyhope

You nailed that one.


50 posted on 07/25/2006 1:02:27 PM PDT by Scotsman will be Free
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To: Gerfang

Sorry, how did the story end for Jack and Jill Pacifisto in the lead post? That's a reflection of reality for many.

When it's about "your money or your life", it's not about the money anymore.


51 posted on 07/25/2006 1:05:17 PM PDT by ctdonath2
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To: Aussie Dasher

Pacifist = chicken.


52 posted on 07/25/2006 1:10:28 PM PDT by hollywood (Stay on topic, please.)
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To: garyhope

I thought 5,000 went down in the von Stauffenberg plot...


53 posted on 07/25/2006 3:17:28 PM PDT by karnage
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To: Aussie Dasher
As Jill lay dying she whispered, “Tony? Why didn’t you fight back? Why didn’t you have a gun?”

The more important question is, why did she whisper in the thug's ear instead of her husband's?

54 posted on 07/25/2006 3:20:40 PM PDT by Sir Gawain
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To: Aussie Dasher; SJackson; yonif; Simcha7; American in Israel; Slings and Arrows; judicial meanz; ...
"What else is left to say?"

Nothing.





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55 posted on 07/25/2006 7:37:14 PM PDT by Salem (FREE REPUBLIC - Fighting to win within the Arena of the War of Ideas! So get in the fight!)
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To: Tolik

Nailed it! nominee.


56 posted on 07/25/2006 7:40:04 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Guns themselves are fairly robust; their chief enemies are rust and politicians) (NRA)
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To: TR Jeffersonian

ping


57 posted on 07/25/2006 7:42:19 PM PDT by kalee
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To: Aussie Dasher
What else is left to say?

Nothing.

Well, except....
Thanks for posting this...

58 posted on 07/25/2006 7:52:41 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: Salem

Pacifist is just another name for COWARD!


59 posted on 07/26/2006 12:00:47 AM PDT by Fred Nerks (Read the bio THE LIFE OF MUHAMMAD free! Click Fred Nerks for link to my Page.)
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To: Aussie Dasher

It is EVIL to look the other way.


60 posted on 07/26/2006 12:02:55 AM PDT by Porterville (Hispanic Republican American Bush Supporter)
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