Posted on 05/10/2015 7:55:24 AM PDT by goldstategop
The unnamed traffic cop who stood up to two offended killers did not follow Gandhi’s advice; he refused to lay down his arms or try to fight them with non-violent arms. His heroism reminds us that freedom is not defended with empty idealism easily perverted into appeasement of evil, but with the force of arms.
Gandhi and his Western disciples were wrong. The soldiers who fought Hitler did far more to save humanity than Gandhi ever did. A single traffic cop with a gun has had more of a positive impact on freedom of speech in this country than all the journalists of the free press fighting against freedom.
It takes a good guy with a gun to defend freedom of speech.
Read the rest here:
Its the much-maligned cop with the gun and the soldier with the rifle who defend it.
The truism hits home: it takes a good guy with a gun to defend freedom. Its as old as history and will always be true.
That's why America's Founders wrote the Second Amendment into the Constitution.
In large numbers, people being attacked, do two things;
They find God and wish they had a gun.
I have both. Neither are negotiable.
Or as Charlton Heston famously said, “they’ll pry my gun out of my cold, dead hands.”
Never trust liberals to keep you safe when they can’t even stand up rhetorically to the most evil people on the planet.
The Indians were disarmed by the British something that Gandhi deplored. Gandhi was educated in London and understood the British Psychology and knew he could beat them with non violent protest and economic sabotage. He was right and he did. This type of resistance only works when your enemy is basically moral. This type of resistance in futile against a tyrant. The tyrant will kill you in mass and sleep well in his bed at night.
A couple of quotes from Gandhi are below concerning firearms.
"“Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.”
“Hence also do I advocate training in arms for those who believe in the method of violence. I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honor than that she should in a cowardly manner become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonor,” Gandhi wrote in his work The Doctrine of the Sword.
“When violence] is offered in self-defence or for the defense of the defenseless, it is an act of bravery far better than cowardly submission.
GANDHI WAS NO PACIFIST.
Read more: http://www.storyleak.com/fact-even-gandhi-opposed-gun-bans/#ixzz3ZkV3BUna
If the Nazis had ruled India, no one would have ever heard of Gandhi.
Pacifism has its limits. When you confront people (like the British) who are basically moral with non-violent resistance, you can point out to them the folly of their actions.
That has no effect on the Hitlers, Stalins, Attas and Khameneis of our world. They’re not going to be swayed by an appeal to a good nature they don’t have.
The only thing that can stop them is force.
Ping.
“Its the much-maligned cop with the gun...”
The cop in the car who shot/killed these guys in a few seconds, was also a member of the swat team. Two well placed bullets and the terrorists were dead.
We often hear of shoot-outs with many bullets fired - didn’t happen here due to that swat cop. He immediately reacted, no thinking of how the terrorists just needed a job, he dispassionately shot down two “objects” that were trying to kill him and others.
"Though violence is not lawful, when it is offered in self-defense or for the defense of the defenseless, it is an act of bravery."..
"I want both the Hindus and Mussalmans to cultivate the cool courage to die without killing. But if one has not that courage, I want him to cultivate the art of killng and being killed rather than, in a cowardly manner, flee from danger."
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"Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest."
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"He who cannot protect himself or his nearest and dearest or their honor by non-violently facing death may and ought to do so by violently dealing with the oppressor. he who can do neither of the two is a burden."
More details that emerged are discussed in this great article with pics.
HE PUSHED FORWARD: Brave Garland Police Officer Advanced As He Brought Down Garland Terrorists
Do you have a link for the info associating the Officer with SWAT training? He was only described as a "tenured traffic officer" in the article I read.
There was also a report that the FBI informed security at the event three hours prior to their arrival, that the Phoenix contingent was traveling there.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3072949/FBI-sent-bulletin-gunman-Texas-attack.html
Nice shooting, but apparently they knew what was coming.
Gandhi's game situation was that he and his movement were fundamentally illegitimate (they were not the Government of India, or the Indian People, but a mob), so his task was to delegitimize the incumbent British Raj by stigmatizing them as irremediable racists and brutes. This he did by carefully modulated provocation and defiance. This is the essence of "nonviolence": It is predicated precisely on violence.
Keep in mind that Gandhi's proposition, that Englishmen were disqualified from governing India by their origin and their skin color, was just as bigoted as anything he and his followers complained about.
That the English were by merit capable of ruling India is demonstrated by what happened after they left. The Indians and Gandhi's Congress Party didn't know as much about governing India as they thought they did.
GARLAND, Texas – Officers protecting a controversial Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest did not know about an FBI memo sent to authorities in Texas beforehand that contained information about one of two gunmen who ultimately attempted to attack the event, but the information would not have changed their response, Garland's police chief said Monday.Police Chief Mitch Bates told reporters no one at the law enforcement command post set up to monitor the event was aware that the FBI had sent a memo about Elton Simpson hours before the May 3 shooting, even though he acknowledged that a Garland police officer sits on the local terrorism task force that he says received the information via email.
Police department spokesman Joe Harn said after Bates' press conference that his department's officer on the Joint Terrorism Task Force to which the email was sent was working at the contest and did not see it until after the shooting. It was not immediately clear if anyone else on the task force, a collaboration of federal and local law enforcement, was working at the command post.
Read more here >>> http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/05/11/garland-police-chief-to-discuss-information-sharing-ahead-muhammad-cartoon/
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