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The Right Versus The Privilege to Bear Arms

category international | rights, freedoms and repression | opinion/analysis author Thursday April 19, 2007 21:13author by blonde haired bar worker - (ipsiphi) but you don't need to know that. u can ignore it now. Report this post to the editors

Without the right to bear arms almost a hundred years ago the Irish Republican Brotherhood would have found their strategy for Irish Independence somewhat more challenging. As we know many militia were present in Ireland at the point in our history. As for Ireland the universal right to bear arms which had first been codified in "modern law" as a privilege by the British Bill of Rights in 1689 facilitated insurrection, rebellion, revolution & held the forces of oppression in check throughout the world. The whole world. Not the bit you see in the movies or can send an email to.
know your liberties before it is too late
know your liberties before it is too late


Then in the last 4 generations our right to bear arms was completely suppressed in European society. It is a core right - which like most rights becomes a privilege when it is refused any minority. Despite the didactic work of Michael Moore many people ignorantly still believe that the only large or federated state which upholds the right to bear arms is the USA. Since the Bill of Rights of the USA which are the first amendments to their constitution in 1798 US citizens have had that right & its obvious incumbent responsibilities. But so also did Canada and Mexico. Without that right the EZLN would not have kept the federal army at check when the Mexican Federation attempted to exert dominion over Chiapas. No right to bear arms - No Marcus.

Any rash decision forged on manipulation by the Global Psychological Complex to further restrict the right or privilege to bear arms in the USA will have immediate domino effect on the other states where such a right is vital to the most oppressed in that hemisphere.

We are not going to let that happen. So for the moment we on the left are lining up with Charlton Heston (whom you may see in the illustration). He did Moses and he might have as rumoured sat down to tea with the KKK. But we can't say he did - merely repeat the rumour and insinuation of the afore-mentioned didactic product " Bowling for Columbine" by Michael Moore.

Mentioning the KKK on a leftist or libertarian site such as our own ought see the Black Panthers introduced. The last adjustment by the Federal Government (which came to its power during the Roosevelt solution to the Great Depression, Famine and Agri-economic collapse of the USA in the 1930's) was made in response to the Black Panthers & others (including the Weathermen) using their right to bear arms and form militia to challenge oppression and class or state dominion within the US homeland.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Panthers#Conflict_wi...ement

Thereafter the type and quality of arms which could be borne publically or concealed by US citizens regardless of gender, ethnicity or class was restricted by the same power block who though "NRA sympathizers" then as now - were happy to hobble an opposition movement. I am of course making reference to the Carlyle group central to the Global Commodities and Hydro-Carbon and Arms complex led by own Bush klan.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlisle_Group
This evening a respected psychologist on the European academic circuit quipped during a brief conversation on the scare-mongering of American media and the obvious pathology of its so called gun-culture that the obvious step for men or women in positions such as his in employment in US universities is to learn how to shoot back.

That might not be the best solution till we screen all academic staff and weed out the sociopaths or psychopaths who may nurse delusions of symbolic terrorist drama & think for some unfathomable reason they're either Satan or Jesus.

These are "the bills of rights" which are generally considered to be if not the corner stones of Liberty and Libertarianism - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_of_rights

The British bill of rights allowed the protestant ascendancy - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_of_Rights_1689 for centuries later it proved together with the Scottish Claim on Right of the same year http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claim_of_Right_Act_1689 a legal precedent within the imperial structure for the oddities of the University of Dublin (Trinity College Dublin) calender. Without such privileges the IRB would have taken TCD in 1916 and removed one obstacle to cross-Dublin military control. But I bore you. Double bore you. Lock - stock and automatic bore you.

A wikipedia guide to the Right to bear Arms. though not a utterly complete treatment on the subject a quick perusal of the material will assist you stop the bleating of well-intentioned lberals especially in Europe who would now strip the poor of the USA of one of their core remaining privileges with appalling domino effect.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_bear_arms

We're not going to let that happen. Because it won't help us evolve. If guns aren't really your thing - & you're shocked by libertarians on the left arguing their continued presence in society then check out today's wikipedia feature Charles Darwin. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page it will only be there today vut if you want to see a photo of the man without a big beard go here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Darwin
We are going to evolve. We are not going to destroy our planet and hand it over to simians complete with science, religiosity and carbine rifles.

For those who would cry "it is not bleating" a massacre has occured because of the US gun-culture - I would simply ask "how many massacres have been stopped by the deterrent of arms in US history?" & then remind you it is the so called "culture of gun use" combined with the pathology of general US society and the effects of its Global Psychological complex which cause the problems you worry about. As Michael Moore helped suggest long ago - make the ammunition more expensive.

Finally I would counsel all Irish readers in the USA, diasporia or homeland - that the 21st century brit project has no place for arms.

This is an "other press" article - it might have easily been an "opinion analysis" article. But an "other press" article requires a decent weighty link. Portland Indymedia in Oregon State USA - today's feature article has a look at "arms control". I honestly don't know where or how to section it. That's why the editors are excellent. We don't need to read US news & thoughts so much but US people won't go far wrong reading ours.

Related Link: http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2007/04/357903.shtml

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   "From his cold, dead hands!" :- Charlton Heston has died aged 84 years.     iosaf    Sun Apr 06, 2008 14:34 
   Charlton Heston, RIP     William Kilgore    Sun Apr 06, 2008 16:29 
   I said he had quite probably sat down to tea with them.     iosaf    Mon Apr 07, 2008 13:18 
   History Isoaf     A10    Mon Apr 07, 2008 21:37 
   1871. foundation of NRA & illegalisation of KKK. = same year.     iosaf    Tue Apr 08, 2008 23:14 
   Just provided it yourself     A10    Wed Apr 09, 2008 00:07 
   I said the KKK was surpressed the same year the NRA began.     iosaf    Wed Apr 09, 2008 14:24 
   Iosaf     Historian    Wed Apr 09, 2008 14:43 
   Ah but Historian, I am of the left & I argue for the right to bear arms.     iosaf    Wed Apr 09, 2008 21:12 
 10   arms and the man     Barry    Thu Apr 10, 2008 02:07 
 11   “They don't come any more Right-wing than me.” : Heston to the "Daily Telegraph" 1999     iosaf    Thu Apr 10, 2008 14:12 


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