Death In Minneapolis - Packing Heat Is Not Picking Daisies, The Intentional Murderous Violence Of The Left

Another provocateur shot by ICE agents as he was reaching for his gun.  'He's got a gun', shouted the agents, and indeed he had.  The old adage, 'Give a man a hammer, and all he sees is nails' has always been the case whether malignant or benign. 

A surgeon spends decades of his life learning how to cut, so don't expect him to recommend alternative therapy. Builders are rewarded by the square foot, so incentive to build high, wide, and deep is understandable.  Armies are assembled, trained, and armed to fight with the most modern technology, so no one should be surprised when they want to try out their new weapons.  

The incineration of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was justified as the best means to end the Japanese war; but it was also a thinly disguised message to the real enemy, the Soviet Union.  'Look what we've got'.  

Besides that, the test - the first time that such a weapon was tried out on human beings - was successful.  In one magnificent firestorm, the atomic bomb destroyed a city and killed 100,000 at one go. 'It worked', said Truman. 

Why sit at home with a million soldiers under arms, mouldering away in their barracks when they could be out promoting America's interests? American military adventurism is not new. 

The point is, the nurse who was shot in Minneapolis was carrying a gun not just incidentally, something strapped on after shaving and polishing his shoes in the morning, but deliberately.  He would show those Gestapo SS Storm Troopers a thing or two. If you have bought a gun, then you want to use it. 

Rather than emptying bedpans and caring for the sick and dying, he loaded up his Glock, made sure he had extra ammunition, adjusted it for ready access, and headed out to do some damage. He was not out there to pick daisies.

Martyrdom was on his mind as it was in the case of the woman also in Minneapolis who tried to run over a federal agent.  The cause is holy, the perpetrator is evil, end of story. God will reward the crusaders. 

One liberal critic suggested that America was becoming an Orwellian nightmare thanks to Donald Trump, but he overlooked the real lesson of 1984 and Animal Farm, both cautionary tales about the insidious, destructive mindset of mind control, conformity, group-speak, intimidation, and thought police.  

The regime of 1984 saw the intellectual adolescence of the ruled, their desperation for belonging, and their willing obedience to higher powers, and took over, expanded its reach until there was no opposition, no dissent, only abject conformity. 

Behavioral scientists talk about 'the enabling environment'.  It is not enough for a promotional message, a persuasive advertising campaign, or a catchy ad for purchase to occur.  The price point of the product has to be right, community standards must provide the right environment, individual choice must be consistent with prevalent mores. 

Consumers fall for television ads that promote the newest drugs to battle psoriasis, cancer, obesity, rheumatism, and sleeplessness because: a) the Internet has given them what they consider legitimate influence over doctors' decisions; b) the cult of identity and personal worth provides the legitimacy of self-esteem to challenge received medical wisdom.; and c) mediated electronic information has become so pervasive and persistent that logical inquiry has been weakened. 

This scenario is being replayed on a national political scale.  Those taking to the streets have been enabled by all the above; plus as Orwell understood, by the desperate need to belong.  The rallies on the National Mall against climate change, for the black man, against predatory capitalism, for abortion, against white supremacy, for demilitarization...are less serious efforts to change policy, and more jamborees of brotherhood, camaraderie, and good nature. 

The elision from raising fists in unison against Donald Trump on the Mall to defying federal officials on the streets of America's cities with mayhem in mind and Glocks at the ready is an easy one. One can gain admission to the progressive club by saying the right things and raising the pitch to hateful levels; win merit badges by protests on the Mall; but full membership can be had only by violence - putting your life on the line. 

Sacrifice is nothing, said the leaders of the regime in Orwell's book, unless it is for Big Brother. You should die an honorable death doing the duty of the state.  The progressive movement in the United States, not yet universal and not yet an authoritarian state, has ambition and intentions to do so.  The hardest part - the indoctrination of the young to believe in the progressive cause- has begun with significant success.  There is a feral hatred in the anti-ICE crowds, a desperateness, a pack mentality, an unthinking ferociousness.  

The Left's elites are delighted.  They are not the ones in the streets getting tased, gassed, or shot; they are in their Congressional offices watching with glee as their minions cause havoc.  'Let us pray for the family of the deceased', they say publicly but are privately delighted that a crusader has fallen in the name of justice.  

George Floyd, the career criminal who died while resisting arrest, the progressive hero, the icon of the Left was just the beginning of a sanctimonious outpouring of faux tears.  Progressives were delighted that a black man died at the hands of the police, 'See?', they shouted. 'We told you so'; and are now just as delighted with the deaths in Minneapolis. 

Progressives are working on the enabling environment while letting children do the dirty work, a shameful enterprise, an empty, immoral, divisive behavior couched in the most sanctimonious rhetoric. 

Alexander Hamilton understood this mob gullibility and the venality of politics and how the one can easily manipulate the other.  He argued with Jefferson about the structure and organization of government and insisted that at least some buffer be placed between those who make policy and those who elect them.  

The mob cannot be trusted, Hamilton said, citing history and Shakespeare; and so it was that a Senate was created.  The august framer of the Constitution is turning over in his grave to see the chaos and insensate venal politics of the Upper House. 

 

The progressive mob, the thousands who have bought cant and presumption hook, line, and sinker, are running wild while their Washington backers cheer them on.  'More mayhem', they shout, 'the more the better.  More deaths, more killings, more blood'; but the blood is on their hands.