Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:52:13 -0400
Subject: News: Supreme Court States the Bleeding Obvious
From: tmds-list-owner@mail-list.com

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          News: Supreme Court States the Bleeding Obvious

In the news today, top mathematicians have determined that two plus
two equals four, top theologians proclaim that the Pope is
Catholic, and the U.S. Supreme Court declares that the Second
Amendment is about an individual's right to keep and bear arms. In
other news of the bleeding obvious...

While gun rights proponents are celebrating today's ruling by the
U.S. Supreme Court (and leftists are making their usual predictions
of mayhem and death), I'd like to point out how profoundly idiotic
it was for there to ever be a QUESTION about the issue in the first
place.

"Golly gee, I think that when the Constitution says that the PEOPLE
have a right to peaceably assemble, it only means the NATIONAL
GUARD has the right to peaceably assemble. And the Fourth amendment
means you can't raid National Guard buildings without a warrant,
and the Fifth means you can't coerce someone in the National Guard
to testify against himself."

As stupid as that sounds, it is exactly the position held by the
leftists regarding the Second Amendment: that when it says "THE
RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE," it really means "the right of those who are
in the National Guard." And, insanely, FOUR of the nine Supreme
Court justices apparently agreed today!

The fact that there was a case at all is a testament to the
effectiveness of tyrant propaganda. Through repetition and the
lunacy of self-proclaimed "experts," a truly idiotic claim--that
the Second Amendment ISN'T about an individual's rights--was passed
off as something respectable, or at least debatable.

It's one thing if someone doesn't like the Second Amendment, but to
pretend it means the OPPOSITE of what it says is the sign of
insanity. How does one with even a half dozen brain cells read
"RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE" and "SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED" to mean "the
government can disarm people"? Once again, I feel compelled to
quote from my own book, "How To Be a Successful Tyrant":

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Expert Indoctrination

Peasants don't like to think for themselves. They like to be told
what to think, after which they feel "informed" because they can
spout back the tripe spoon-fed to them by their betters. That is
what so-called "experts" are for: to tell the masses what they
should think.

Of course, someone who simply says he is an "expert" isn't enough.
He needs to have impressive "credentials" to give his opinions
credibility. (This impresses most peasants, though some realize
that what credentials usually indicate is that the person has spent
his whole life in "learning institutions" and not in the real
world.) It is amazing how an utterly idiotic message can be
persuasive if the messenger appears credible and knowledgeable.
"Today we are delighted to have in our studios Professor Eugene
Wellington Horglesnunkle, Ph.D., M.D., A.B.C., to give a
nonsensical and long-winded explanation of why government should
control more aspects of our lives."

....

You should build up a collection of "experts" to sell to the public
every facet of your totalitarian agenda.  Have a "Constitutional
scholar" who can say with confidence that the Second Amendment
means that peasants shouldn't have guns.  Have a "professor of
economics" who proclaims that all the peasants will starve unless
you control the economy.  Have a "doctor of sociology" to announce
that regulating everything is good for society.  Have an education
"expert" with half a dozen degrees say that any kid who doesn't go
to your indoctrination camps ("public schools") will be
maladjusted, ignorant, and violent.  If your "experts" look
educated, intelligent and concerned, they can spout the most inane
tripe and the peasants will accept it as reasonable, if not
indisputable.

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In short, I'm not sure whether to celebrate today's victory for the
truth, or mourn just how utterly stupid the "debate" has become.

Sincerely,


Larken Rose
http://www.tyrantbook.com

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