Observer » August 19th, 2018, 11:23 pm wrote:
I know, I know, this post comes off very "vigilante encouraging" "violence inciting" "agent provocateur", but I feel it is needed for balance when I saw the "only a warmongering type would want to bring killers to Justice" post above.
I have no interest in a debate about the subject. Hoi has made his John Lennon "Peace PLEASE" stance clear (in the past and present), and I have made my Peter Tosh "JUSTICE First" stance clear (in the past and present). Probably Simon is somewhere in the middle of these two extremes.
Oh well, dear Observer, I'd say my stance would be distinctly more "toshian" !
In fact, I certainly share your frustrations in many ways as to the prevailing lack of action & justice pervading our so-called civilized world. This glaring lack is, of course, another resounding socio-engineered "success" on the part of the Nutwork - whose relentless and insidious propaganda has even penetrated our daily, personal lives in order to subdue and discourage anyone daring to
speak up and take necessary
counter-action. And by "speak up", I literally mean talking a little louder (as I will further elaborate in a minute).
By "counter-action", I simply mean to say that 'we the people' (i.e. the vast majority of
non-psychopathic folks of this planet) must start recognizing that we cannot indefinitely postpone forceful, responsible action [and no, I did not write "violent, lethal force" - read again] in the name of "restrained / civilized behavior","political correctness", hippy-ish "peace & love ideals" - or whatnot. Of course, what
sort of forceful action is available to us is the Big Question - yet one that should certainly be seriously discussed
and developed on forums such as ours without fear of offending any intelligent readers. For where else is this Big Question being tackled? In the media? At the best universities?
"Violence" - or Self-Defense?
I would say that only a liar would claim to NEVER have dreamed of simply pushing on a magic "delete" button - thus eradicating in one fell swoop all the, say,
Kissingers of this planet. I might have chosen any other major turd as an 'iconic' example of an incorrigible psychopath - but it is hard to imagine what a full confession by Mr Kiss(-my-ass) would lack in terms of revealing the inner workings of the PTB (or what I like to call the Nutwork) and the names and surnames of all the top criminals - what with the
unspeakable pain and suffering they've inflicted upon humanity at large. To try and contrast such vicious and seemingly never-ending violence cannot
itself be called, by any stretch of imagination, "violence". It should be called by its proper and logical name, namely: self-defense.
And sure enough...
"Physical self-defense is the use of physical force to counter an immediate threat of violence." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-defense
So what to do? I'll hasten to say that I have no magical, one-off solution to put forth at this moment. Just rounding up the psychopaths of our world and shoving them over the edge of one of their ugly 100+story-skyscrapers seems like a messy and unrealistic project. To be sure though, the psychos have never hesitated to kill off their enemies in gargantuan blood baths, napalming innocent men / women and children (remember the
Vietnam war?), burning intellectual dissenters on the stake (see
Giordano Bruno), or sending them off to gulags (see the Soviet rulers who,
according to Putin (get this!) were simply
"guided by false ideological considerations"...) to endure an assorted variety of slow and atrocious deaths.
It should therefore become obvious to any intelligent & self-respecting human being that what is at stake here is the very sustainability of our world as a dignified, functioning entity - and the survival of those earthlings who rightfully deserve - and truly qualify - to represent what we call the "human race". For those darwinians out there, I'll ask: "survival of the fittest?... Really?" Gimme a break: what we seem to be heading for is the survival of the dumbest, the sleaziest and the most obnoxious specimens of our species. And before some imbecile tosses a "racist" tag at me, let me state very clearly (and once again) that dangerous psychopaths are to be found within ALL the racial groups making up this world's inhabitants. Heck, I even have two MOFO elder brothers of that vile kind : one stole the bulk of my mom's savings - while the other tried to evict her from her house, at age 85. And no - no justice ultimately prevailed, in spite of our "marvelously advanced social and judicial safeguards" against, well... injustice. (although I thankfully
just managed to prevent my old mother from being kicked out of her own home by her own deranged son!...)
But I (seemingly) digress : my petty family troubles are, of course, peanuts in comparison to having your house bombed, your wife raped by foreign invading troops and your children killed. Yet, as a member of this planet's 'human community', I feel a natural & moral duty to raise my voice and concern among my similarly privileged (and as yet, non-bombed) fellow 'western' citizens. And here's when things can get pretty irksome and - at times - frankly excruciating. See, it is a trait of my personality to express my views (about the woes of this mad world) with a fair amount of passion. This involves some gesticulating and raising somewhat the volume of my voice. Luckily, I live since many years in Italy where such colorful social communication is the order of the day. However, I've come to realize how "improper and unpalatable" such verve has become to people in countries such as, for instance, the USA and the UK - although I've also seen a lot of this in my 'home' countries, Norway and Sweden. In short, I often get folks there telling me to "tone down & hush up" - or else they'll refuse to engage. In worst case scenarios, people will interpret my lively ways as being "uncivil" or / and "inappropriate" (read "
not politically correct") - or, wait for it, 'implicitly violent". As I see it, this only goes to show just how wimpish the "best-educated" folks in the western world have become - and what an appalling 'success' the Nutwork's brain-numbing schemes (aimed at defusing popular dissent) has been in these particular, "highly-developed" nations.
I once wrote somewhere on the forum about my dearly-missed father Eyvind (1929-1990) and proudly described him as a fearless idealist and (peace-loving) warrior "fighting the Sicilian mafia with a typewriter". At the time, I remember that Hoi was fascinated by that, i.e. of the very concept of using our brainpower to counter the bad guys of this world. Unfortunately, my father is long gone - yet the mafia is still there. Being rather older than Hoi whom I love like a father (which, 'technically' speaking, I could be), I've probably grown out of my youthful "peace-&-luv-no-matter-what" kind of idealism - although I've never really been one to turn the other cheek when slapped... So perhaps give Hoi a slack regarding his pleas for peaceful resistance - I'm sure he has the best intentions, however naive - and let's start developing ideas on how to define, build and enact our collective Self-Defense program (and explore the means to achieve at least
some tangible disempowerment of the Turds-That-Be).
And remember, folks - it's all about physics...
"Physical self-defense is the use of physical force to counter an immediate threat of violence."