Posted on 08/08/2019 7:30:41 AM PDT by Heartlander
Yesterday I warned that President Trump might throw away his re-election chances and undermine our freedom. How? By backing the attack on the Bill of Rights that Red Flag laws represent. They let any nosy neighbor, angry ex-spouse, or frustrated stalker, take away a citizen’s Second Amendment rights with a single uncorroborated phone call. Then the burden of proof is on the citizen to prove that he is “innocent.”
You can see on the face of it why such proposals are lawless and un-Constitutional. Now let me explain just why they’re profoundly dangerous.
I’ll start with a headline. The Epoch Times reports: “Movie Showing Elites Hunting Down Trump Supporters Slated to Hit Theaters in September.” The story notes:
A movie showing liberals stalking supporters of President Donald Trump is slated to be released in September but has lost an advertisement on ESPN in the wake of two mass shootings on Aug. 3 and Aug. 4.
The movie, The Hunt, from Universal Pictures, shows people hunting down “deplorables,” a term failed presidential contender Hillary Clinton used to describe supporters of Trump during the 2016 campaign.
“Did anyone see what our [expletive]-in-chief just did?” one character asks others early in the movie, reported the Hollywood Reporter. “At least The Hunt’s coming up. Nothing better than going out to the Manor and slaughtering a dozen deplorables.”
According to the Reporter, the movie’s script features blue-state characters choosing to hunt red-state characters who expressed pro-life positions or were deemed racist.
This is exactly the right time to give liberal judges the power to disarm the very targets of such an organized campaign of violence, being touted in the media. Don’t you think?
Most media treat simple support for the GOP as virtually equal with neo-Nazi sympathies, and a propensity for terrorism. Think I’m exaggerating? Ask Nick Sandmann about what happened to him for wearing a MAGA hat at a pro-life march.
Let me cool the temperature a little, by turning to history. It proves beyond a doubt that we must stand firm in defending our Second Amendment rights. Without them? All the other amendments will end up as legal fictions.
At every stage of the Cold War, the Soviet Union enjoyed a massive conventional superiority over the West. Most nations of war-exhausted Western Europe wouldn’t pony up for their own defense. American taxpayers and policy makers? They wouldn’t stand for keeping millions of U.S. soldiers in West Germany for decades. Meanwhile, the Soviets saw their economy stalled and sinking. They poured huge portions of their Gross National Product into massive military spending. Their official ideology was world revolution. They openly wished to “liberate” all of Europe. So why didn’t they invade?
There was just one teensy obstacle. The Western nuclear arsenal. From Truman on, American presidents made it clear that a Soviet invasion of Germany would yield just one result. That is mushroom clouds over Moscow, and dozens of other cities. Conversely, the West knew that if we used nuclear weapons offensively, our cities too would burn. This balance of terror we aptly named MAD (Mutual Assured Destruction). Whatever we think in retrospect of its moral character, that policy kept the peace. It prevented a Third World War. That would have killed millions of soldiers and tens of millions of civilians. And ended with Soviet tyranny and labor camps from Gibraltar to Vladivostok, from Edinburgh to Athens.
Why is Kim Jong Un still in power, while Muammar Gaddafi lies buried in some ditch? The former clung to his nuclear deterrent. The latter gave up his WMDs. Why does China feel perfectly safe against Russian aggression? Even as Ukraine suffers partial Russian occupation? China has a massive military and nuclear deterrent. Ukraine tragically, foolishly, gave up its legacy Soviet nukes in return for a piece of paper signed by Bill Clinton.
Power is only rebuked and held back by power. Face that reality in our fallen world. You needn’t read Machiavelli. Read St. Augustine instead to understand why we should be suspicious of the powerful, and ready to resist them.
Our nation’s founders looked back at the history of tyranny. They surveyed the wreck of liberty from the fallen Roman republic that gave way to Nero and Diocletian, to the rule by warlords that rose among the ruins of Rome’s empire. They looked at the cruel religious persecutions that marred the face of Christendom. And the suffocating centralism of monarchies like France’s. They set up a system of government designed to frustrate and deflect any rising tyrants. Our checks and balances, Electoral College, and decentralized power among the several states … these were all means to stop future Napoleons and Lenins.
Many of those measures for restraining centralized rule by urban elites have decayed or been dismantled. The Supreme Court now runs roughshod over the laws of 50 states, whenever five of its lawyers decide to. Leftists are trying to burn down the Electoral College, so Los Angeles and Manhattan can run the country. Congress handed much of its power to appointed bureaucrats, from the EPA to the Deep State, to micromanage much of our lives on silent autopilot.
The founders foresaw all this. So they left in the hands of the people a final deterrent, a “nuclear option” if you will. The Second Amendment.
The Nazis couldn’t impose their totalitarian programs until they’d seized German citizens’ guns. Neither could the Soviets. The only Nazi-occupied countries where a serious Resistance arose were those with widespread private firearms. One reason the Nazis didn’t act on their plan to invade Switzerland was the nation’s citizen militias. Every able-bodied man had an automatic weapon, and training to use it.
More recent history? The U.S. military can’t pacify Afghanistan, after 18 long years of war. Why? The Afghans have plenty of firearms, and the means to make IEDs.
What all of this tells us is clear: Tyrannical government, or foreign occupation (even a well-intended one like ours in Afghanistan) can’t overcome an armed citizenry.
I’ll go further. Why are things like home-schooling legal in America, but not in most EU countries? And why are our churches freer? Why doesn’t the government lock people up (as Germany does) for opposing its immigration policies? Or as Britain does, for criticizing Islam?
Our citizens aren’t disarmed, passive subjects of a government with a monopoly of force. We have the nuclear option, so statists won’t even try that kind of micromanagement here. At least, until they’ve disarmed us.
So are we going to let them? Will we let the same people who go to watch The Hunt and chuckle as pro-lifers and Christians get mowed down by Antifa hand their pals in judicial robes the power to render us helpless?
If we do, we might as well take down all those American flags, reverently fold them, and bury them. Because this experiment in ordered liberty will be over. We will have taken the freedom deeded us by our ancestors and sold that birthright for a worthless mess of pottage. Our descendants will be ashamed of us, and they will be right.
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It is painfully obvious that the Liberal Elites are the Bad Guys in the Movie.
How in the world could you not figure that out after watching the Trailer?
And as I said, given the obvious overload of crazy this nation is currently experiencing, as the TDS plague continues to grow daily, this whole thing is at best a very, very bad idea.
Yea the libs in the movie lose to the deplorables in the end.
But any idiot sitting in a dark theatre watching this with their back turned to the entrance is dumber than s*it.
As far as your dismissal of such a film's ill effects, I must disagree.
It's a bad idea to keep the crazies thinking about going on shooting sprees. A bad, bad idea. And movies like this do exactly that.
‘You think they are going to win in the end of the film rather than the plucky, resourceful female that always wins in these kinds of films?
every film today has to have said plucky little 110 pound female saving all these able bodied males’ bacon, while cooking dinner for the kids and caring for both sets of aging parents...all followed by some preachy commentary on how women can care for themselves very well, thank you...Hollywood has to contain the laziest ‘creative artistes’ in the history of humankind...
Well, like they say, timing is everything.
My point was that the Trailer laid out the Plot Device showing who the Bad Guys and the Good Guys are in the scenario.
In this case the Trumpsters are the Wolverines.
Well, with this genre, that kind of goes back to the 70s. Halloween, Friday the 13th, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, all those old slasher movies always had the “innocent” girl be the one to survive. So I don’t get too upset when I see that in these movies, because it’s always been that way.
Now, female “action hero” taking out a team of roided out Russian assassins? Yeah, that’s gotten real old, real fast.
Consider how few if any government programs work as advertised. Then stop to think of how Red Flag laws and their “temporary” confiscation of weapons will actually work. Very scary indeed.
These intimidation tactics again gives evidence they WANT a civil war before the election.... so they can be the Party who runs in to the rescue....that’s what they do....create havoc and then play the roles of rescuers..... Any violence will certainly be blamed on the Trump Administration and the Media will certainly push it out there as so.
Hollywood makes movies that show violent rape, cruelly, blood lust and then in the last 5 minutes ‘the hero’ wins and kills the ‘bad guy’.
For a full 153 minutes every sicko sits there and gets off on the sexual violence... it's the violence that sells this garbage. Notice how little dialog is put in these movies? Interferes with the violence.
This is violence Hollywood couldn't show WITHOUT the pollyanna ending. It would be too obvious. I can assure you - the ‘message’ is the 150 minutes of violence NOT the 3 minutes of ‘good guy wins’.
This show is the same.
- liberals getting off on killing and hunting deplorables. With maybe 10 minutes tacked on with the deplorables - the ones not dead or dying - ‘winning’.
“the patriot leader who snaps and turns the game around is a woman. Is that the satirical part?”
Two exceptions: Joan de Arc and Sarah Palin.
I think of hunting progressives. The technique is to set out some bait. Some free stuff. After they have come to get it several times, shoot them from afar. Any well made rifle will do but a scope will be helpful
A good day would be four or five
I’ve got to think a while on what bait would be best.
That would be good. I suppose at some point I'll have to watch it and see for myself. On rental DVD. $;-)
In the meantime, I'll take this as the silver lining in a dark cloud. A very, very dark cloud.
I do find it interesting that with a smart twist I can accept a female butt kicker. It just has to be clever. The Green gal Gamora and her sister Nebula in Guardians of the Galaxy don’t bother me one bit. Unfortunately, that doesn’t serve feminist dogma so they try to avoid it.
Not an exact quote from the film “Open Range”;
Evil people who mean you harm will tell you what they plan to do to you, if you’ll just listen to them.
You don’t even need bait, just a sign that says FREE.
Sorry, I don’t have a link, but search the title....I think the articles (plural) I saw were from conservative blogs: American Thinker or Daily Caller or maybe Brietbart.
It was not widely reported until the conservative outrage reached a high point. I suppose they didn’t want to dampen prog enthusiasm.
Remember, half the Country thinks the other half should be put into Reeducation Camps.
Ask a Liberal which half thinks that and they will say it is us. They are immune from Facts and Reality.
We are moving from Détente with the Left to Civil War. Every day the drums beat louder.
“I can assure you - the ‘message’ is the 150 minutes of violence NOT the 3 minutes of ‘good guy wins’.”
Ah, I see. So when you watch “Get Out”, with a group of rich, racist white people kidnapping and torturing black people, the message Hollywood wanted to put out was that rich, racist white people are great and torturing black people is cool?
Is that right? Is that what the black writer and director wanted us to “get” from that movie?
Women would be more effective if they operated by their Natural talents, as spies. The quiet woman can learn more by keeping a low profile, and is never too old to keep “watch”. Where do the cops go to get information on the neighborhood?
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