I am a Political Newbie. Or Noobie. Or Noob.
Y’know why?
‘Cause I’ve only been immersed in this crapola for roughly three years, which is to say that I am not a member of the Elite comprised of Lifetime Political Activists. And make no mistake, Lifetime Political Activism IS an oh-so-elite Elite. Political Activism is the flip side of the coin that keeps the Moneychanger Game tilted in favor of the Effete Elite.
Barack Obama is Effete Elite.
The Sierra Club is Effete Elite.
Rahm Emanuel is Effete Elite.
The ACLU is Effete Elite.
The George Bushes are Effete Elite.
PETA is Effete Elite.
The Bill Clintons are Effete Elite.
MoveOn is Effete Elite.
Again and again, it seems advisable to simply jump into the middle of Issues without researching either “side.” Here’s why. If it’s been an Issue for a long time, neither side is right and/or neither side is doing it right . . . or it wouldn’t still be an Issue. No collective is that stupid. Even a broken clock is right twice each day.
When we were young – when we never ONCE worryied about the roof over our heads or the food on our table, never ONCE fretted over medical or dental care, never ONCE confronted unaffordable education or transportation – we WERE chastised to consume plates of food we detested because there were children starving in Biafra.
Did that ever make ANY sense to ANYONE? Even as a child, the solution was obvious to me. The cooked carrots that make me gag? Don’t make ME eat them, rather, SEND them to the starving children. How on God’s green earth could obliging me to eat food that I was known to hate do ANYTHING toward mitigating starvation in Africa? Send them the sweet potatoes and coconut, while you’re at it.
That was in the 1960’s.
It’s 2009. Children are STILL starving in Africa. CLEARLY, the people who profess to “help” are not helping, or there wouldn’t be even more children still starving in Africa. I would remind us that we DO still destroy crops and/or pay farmers NOT to plant, in order to bolster-read-that-manipulate market prices.
Which, in a round-about-you-had-to-be-there kinda way, brings me to Gun Control.
Gun Control presents an interesting variation on the Lucrative Circular Argument paradigm in at least one regard. Generally speaking, the Gun Guys are not effete. Which begs the question, what’s the problemo?
In those of the taxpayer-funded facilities that still have textbooks, “we” familiarize our young ‘uns with our Constitution in Middle School. Middle School. Teenie Boppers. This is not rocket science. In fact, I will go out on a limb and suggest that the only thing that IS rocket science is rocket science.
Our Constitution is unambiguous in ensuring our right to Bear Arms. Moreover, our founding principles unambiguously COMMAND us unto vigilant defense of same, including by force if need be. Does or does not “defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic” ring a bell?
Is anyone unclear about the foreign/domestic dichotomy?
Alrighty then, here’s the deal.
I need protection. I need weapons. My country needs protection. My countrymen need weapons. It is sad, scary, outrageous, take your pick. Until rather recently, it was unthinkable. But it is NOT complicated.
I declare my belief that among those who champion Gun Control, we not only have Traitors positioned in our midst, we have Traitors positioned in power. That there’d be whatcha call Enemies Domestic.
I’m not saying that every Anti-Gun Activist is a Terrorist. God KNOWS that Do Goodery is one of the few surpluses that America steadily runs. Ill-advised, ineffectual, inefficient Do Goodery, you bet – we have so much of it we could EXPORT it, and we do.
But I AM saying that some of those Anti-Gun Activists ARE Terrorists. In particular, the ones who are labeling dissidents as terrorists are Terrorists. I declare my conviction that we have Traitors in government.
Which is why I and FIFTY-THREE MILLION other single women need guns. Moreover, because we are inexperienced, and because threat is so nigh upon us as to have its own color scheme (that constitutes a commitment in Girl World), we need semi-automatic guns.
American single women are UNMISTAKABLY citizens upon whom stronger, meaner, armed predators regularly inflict assault, rape, murder and assorted carnage. If we are not entitled to sidearms, semi-automatic weapons and concealed-carry permits, then Washington High Flyers can henceforth roll without Secret Service and other extraordinary taxpayer-funded protection.
Barack Obama has enjoyed a bigger, costlier, taxpayer-funded Secret Service bubble since earlier in his campaign than any presidential candidate in our history. Why? Because he apprehends danger, that’s why. (And because he is a Spender Extraordinaire, but that is a separate obscenity.) I ALSO apprehend danger, and I have been here longer than Barack Obama.
Some of us are NOT more equal than others, or some of us ARE more equal than others . Which is it? Why are Barack Obama’s wife and daughters better protected than me? Greatness by association? Let us bear that in mind, then, when it comes time to assigning Guilt.
I cry foul.
I cry discrimination of the basest order.
American government unabashedly declares the lives of its “official” members and the lives of the official member’s family members to more valuable than other people’s lives. Where is the normally abnormally noisy Sanctity of Life crowd? I spy cowardice and/or hypocrisy.
Remember when we were young and sibling rivalry/torture/mayhem got outta hand? Ultimately, an adult would march in and, drowing out a whiney flurry of he-did-this-she-said-that, announce that they didn’t care WHO started it, THEY were finishing it. My sentiments exactly, on Gun Control.
What’ll it be? Gurlz ‘n Guns, or an ACLU-caliber, class-action lawsuit mounted by Baby Boom Women? I would remind those with a pronounced tendency to disregard facts that dispute their theories of these simple truths:
Baby Boomers = largest conceptual demographic ever born in America.
Sustainedly,, # of women born > # of men born AND # of surviving women > # of surviving men.
Ergo, # of Baby Boom-read-that-Menopausal Women = THE voting bloc to court.
I guaran-effing-tee that tens of millions of Hot Flashes will put a whole new spin on Firefight.
