[NYTr] Jews for Guns Alert - Wild Stuff

[All the News That Doesn't Fit]

[And who might these weirdos be?  Jethro they ain't. Are they
Kahane-ists at war with the USA? Or are they really Jewish
Libertarians at war with the IRS and BATF, for the US Constitution
and ... separation of church and state? Pro-Israel? Anti-Israel?
Or a completely false flag operation? LaRouchies in drag? Who knows.
Check 'em out; we'll be looking at more of their material. Their public
website lists an address in Hartford, Wisconsin.

Their logo must be seen to be believed. Red-White-and-Blue
Star-Spangled Star of David with assault weapons. Wild stuff.

Part 1 of a 3-part series follows the "alert" from the homepage,
below  -NY Transfer.] 


JEWS FOR THE PRESERVATION OF FIREARMS OWNERSHIP
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JEWS FOR THE PRESERVATION OF FIREARMS OWNERSHIP
America's Aggressive Civil Rights Organization

January 3rd 2008

What's it Gonna Take? (Part One of Three)

        In his latest opus -- a three-parter, this time -- here at Jews
for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership, award-winning author and
essayist L. Neil Smith asks his readers an old, familiar question:
"When a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the
same object, evinces a design to reduce them [meaning us] under
absolute despotism," what will it take to get you and your fellow
Americans to rise up and put an end to the police state we all live in?

        You may recognize the quotation. It's from a little ditty
whipped up around July of 1776 by Thomas Jefferson, called the
"Declaration of Independence". Neil believes that thoughtful
individuals have exactly the same concerns now, regarding individual
liberty and the voracious superstate, that Jefferson and his friends
had more than two centuries ago.

        The difference is that today's superstate is many times
stronger, unthinkably more wealthy (at our involuntary expense), and
unspeakably more vicious than the British Empire was in Jefferson's
time. Thanks to 200 years more experience than he had, fewer of us are
inclined to regard, it as a necessary evil, and see it, instead, as
just plain evil.

        Be sure to check out Part One right away at
http://www.jpfo.org/smith/smith-mess-01.htm and watch for parts Two and
Three as they appear.

        Only at JPFO!

        - The Liberty Crew

                                ***

JPFO - Jan 4, 2008
http://www.jpfo.org/alerts02/alert20080103.htm

        What's it Gonna Take?

        (Part One of Three)

        by L. Neil Smith

        For Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership

Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from
the consent of the governed ... -- Thomas Jefferson, "Declaration of
Independence"

Right, left, and center, activists and ideologues of various stripes
often complain that Americans are asleep, even comatose, and in any
case, blissfully unaware of the real world around them, where
(depending on one's outlook) all manner of terrible things are going on.

A police officer once informed me loftily that civilization has to be
maintained by authoritarian managers because individuals in general are
selfishly uninterested in doing the hard work of maintaining it
themselves.

Unsurprisingly, after I pointed out that when individuals become
interested in maintaining civilization -- by voting down bond issues,
treating teachers and administrators like the hired hands they are, or
carrying self-defense weapons that demonstrably make society safer --
they're either told, not so very politely, to go away, or they get
arrested, he didn't have a whole lot to say, because he knew that it's
true.

It didn't help at all that he was my brother.

Even libertarians are sometimes guilty of this pathetic sort of
psychopolitical elitism, and can be caught referring to their fellow
human beings -- whose freedom they're supposed to be advocating -- as
"sheeple".

I know for a fact that none of these assertions is true, and I can
prove it -- to your satisfaction -- in a just couple of sentences. To
begin with, there's snow on the ground outside this morning, and it's
horribly cold, but I'm sitting here in my warm, dry house under the
pleasant glow of my desk lamp, writing these words on my trusty laptop
computer. After a while, I'll send them via Internet, to my editor at
JPFO.

Breakfast foods have never thrilled me, so I'm having a great big
steaming bowl of beef stew that my wife made last night, with nice
potatoes, carrots, celery, and onions, in a rich, tasty broth. Later on
today, she'll make Bisquik dumplings and we'll have stew again for
lunch.

This is not a complaint, mind you, it's anticipation.

None of this could be happening if Americans were actually asleep,
comatose, or unaware of the real world around them. There would be no
dumplings, no broth, no onions, celery, carrots, potatoes, or beef. All
the shelves in the stores would be empty, and there would be no
electricity to run the stove, light the kitchen, or power my lamp and
computer.

If Americans were asleep.

There would be no Internet if Americans were actually asleep. Most
people we see all around us work long, hard hours (in many instances,
they work longer and harder than their parents' generation) simply to
get food on their families' tables, by making sure that it gets to our
tables. Oh, yes, and to shell out at least a third of everything they
earn to a government that brings them nothing but deceit and treachery.

The shocking and abysmal fact is that the American Productive Class are
forced, through the process of taxation, to spend more of their own
money destroying their own rights -- by involuntarily supporting
anti-constitutional government agencies like the Bureau of Alcohol,
Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, the Internal Revenue Service, the
Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Department of Homeland
Security -- than saving their rights through voluntary donations to, or
volunteer participation in, civil liberties organizations like Gun
Owners of America, Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership, or
even the "progressive" American Civil Liberties Union, and Amnesty
International.

Americans are not asleep. Like other people, everywhere around the
world, they simply have priorities in life that are different from
those of activists and ideologues. The painful truth is that the best
among our species are not particularly interested in politics, they're
interested in life. This was an excruciatingly difficult lesson for me
to learn, because I've been interested in politics for as long as I
remember. It never occurred to me that there are some to whom it means
nothing.

What most individuals are interested in is themselves -- and their
families -- and that's entirely as it ought to be. A wise old woman
(wise in some things, anyway) once observed that your life is an end,
in and of itself. You don't have to go anywhere searching for external
causes in order to justify your existence. Your life is its own
justification.

Understand that most activists and ideologues are collectivists --
meaning socialists of one variety or another, whether they're the left
wing socialists who call themselves "liberals" or "progressives" or the
right wing socialists who call themselves "conservatives". They
uniformly hate, loathe, and despise the idea that your life is yours to
command and its own justification. It drives them insane with fury and
frustration, because they want to believe, and they want you to
believe, that your life belongs to some cause "greater than yourself"
-- namely, to them -- to be disposed of in any manner they desire, in
pursuit of whatever they feel is important at the moment, be it war or
welfare.

Those among our number who believe otherwise have a harder row to hoe.
The overwhelming majority of people are only interested in three
things: improving their lot in life; assuring that their children will
have better lives than they, themselves, have had; and, in a rather
surprising number of instances, fulfilling what they conceive of as
their sacred obligations, to themselves and to their fellow human
beings.

Not everybody hates his job. Many people -- maybe even most -- feel
they have a calling, no matter how insignificant or ignoble other may
feel it is. We're accustomed to doctors, firefighters, even some
policemen feeling this way about what they do. But I've met many a
grocery store clerk, plumber, electrician, librarian, automobile
mechanic, and garbage collector who feels exactly the same way.

It may surprise you to learn that I specifically include sales people
in this. No matter how wonderful or technologically advanced our
products may be, no matter how skilled or intelligent our effort,
nothing can happen unless somebody sells those splendid products and
services to somebody else. That's why writers, for example, need agents.

In any case, a majority of these hardworking individuals are fully
aware that they are keeping the wheels of civilization turning --
sometimes quite literally -- and they're deservedly proud of what they
do.

That's why I call them all the "Productive Class".

Because they're competent and conscientious human beings, they assume
that others possess those qualities, as well, and this aura of trust
they extend even to those in government. It's very difficult to get
folks like this to look up from their work, or away from their
families, and you can't do it by telling them they're comatose or
stupid. In an ideal world, it wouldn't be necessary. It shouldn't be
necessary. It should be safe for them to go about their business and
trust others -- including those in government -- they way they do. To a
very great extent, that's what America was supposed to have been all
about.

Don't get me wrong. Despite their preoccupation with what's really
important -- and as a husband and a father myself, I agree with them --
they already understand certain things with greater sophistication than
you might expect. They know, for example, that the White House is
occupied (and always will be) by someone who sold his soul to entities
whose interests do not run at all parallel with the interests of most
Americans.

They know perfectly well that elected officials -- Congressmen,
Senators, state legislators, county commissioners, city councilmen --
tend to be lying, greedy, overfed, alcohol-powered, middle-aged
shapeshifters in plaid polyester pants and white belts (the upper crust
among them prefer thousand dollar Armani suits) whose primary focus,
exactly as it has been since the dim beginnings of human history, is
extracting every last dime possible from the Productive Class.

And they know that the same is true of most corporate leaders.

Unfortunately, because most Productive Class Americans place a high
value on telling the truth (and reliably pass that value on to their
children) they expect other individuals to behave similarly. As a
consequence, all a politician has to do is pretend to be a political
outsider (while pushing the same ancient, weary, discredited socialist
agenda), and pretend to be critical of corporations (while continuing
to collect campaign contributions from them with both hands) and the
average Productive Class American will reward them with his or her vote.

And then he'll go back to work, never realizing that the new mouth he
has to feed will always eat far better -- given the salaries and
pensions politicians have voted for themselves -- than he himself ever
will.

The most useful instrument that any politician, bureaucrat, or
policeman can have is whatever can be represented publicly as a
credible threat to home and family that, to members of the Productive
Class, are everything. Such a threat seems to give government license
to do all of those things the Constitution ordinarily forbids it to do.

The alleged Spanish sabotage and sinking of the battleship USS Maine in
Havana Harbor in 1898 was presented as such a threat by the McKinley
Administration, when, in fact, it was probably just an accident.

The German torpedo-sinking of RMS Lusitania -- a British luxury liner
secretly equipped with deck guns and carrying tons of munitions in her
hold -- was used to stampede Americans into the first World War.

People don't like to hear it, but the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
followed months of deliberately provocative behavior by the Franklin
Roosevelt Administration -- including an illegal petroleum blocade --
in an effort to get America involved in the second World War.

A Tonkin Gulf "incident" -- that never actually happened -- was
carefully engineered by one of Roosevelt's closest proteges, President
Lyndon Baines Johnson, in order to widen and escalate a civil war in
Vietnam.

When the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City was blown up in 1995,
murdering 168 people and injuring about 800 more (a crime that was
never properly investigated and about which there remain, to this day,
many unanswered questions), then-President Bill Clinton's first,
reflexive thought was to use the tragedy to justify denouncing --
probably with an eye to suppressing -- his critics in right wing talk
radio.

And now most recently, the shocking demolition of the World Trade
Center -- by commercial aircraft hijacked by Muslim terrorists, if you
believe the government's version of the event -- has been exploited as
an excuse to generate two brutal, unnecessary wars in the Middle East,
while suppressing freedoms guaranteed by the Bill of Rights here at
home.

All of which adds up to a very disheartening conclusion that if you can
frighten Productive Class Americans, afraid of losing whatever they
love and have labored so arduously to possess -- exactly the way that
Adolf Hitler used the Reichstag Fire to frighten Productive Class
Germans -- they will keep on voting for you until the cows return to
Capistrano.

Now despite all of this, the American Productive Class is neither
asleep, nor are they particularly naive. They're just busy and tend to
leave politics to those with the interest and motivation. What we
non-socialist activists and ideologues need to do is not to wake them
up -- they're already bright, alert, and chock full of Starbuck's --
but to persuade them, without resorting to the fraud or terror tactics
of our opponents, to take a break and listen to what we have to tell
them.

It won't be easy, but if it were, anybody could do it.

And we wouldn't be in this mess.

[TO BE CONTINUED]