Saturday, January 5, 2013

Press TV: The Truth About Americans and Guns


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Press TV: The Truth About Americans and Guns

The Truth About Americans and Guns

By Gordon Duff and Press TV


With the discussions of gun seizures in the US, discussions primarily tied to stock manipulation scams within the sporting goods/arms industry and National Rifle Association, it is, perhaps, time we took a look at American gun owners.
Are they a force that will protect America from tyranny or are they more a gullible and dangerous tool of powerful special interest groups?
During the 1980s, the “militia movement” in the United States, built on the example set by author J. B. Campbell, a good friend, an example intended to represent an armed and organized independent force free of empty rhetoric that the two political parties.
Before a year was out, half the members of “militia” groups were FBI informants and a mysterious influx of money put those who claimed to be fighting tyranny solidly behind the Israel lobby and Wall Street.
The largest of the groups, the Michigan Militia, actually disbanded when Bush 43 came to office, stating:
“There is no longer a need to defend freedoms in the US as we trust totally in President Bush.”
As Jim W. Dean so often says, “You just can’t make things like that up.”
What I saw so very clearly then and even more clearly today is that too many gun owners are obsessed with their own “2nd Amendment rights” and are willing to “burn down” the rest of America’s freedoms in the process.
The majority of gun owners are not just oblivious to constitutional guarantees but have been wildly in favor of drone attacks, Gaza bombing, torture and rendition, illegal surveillance and suspension of habeas corpus.
On the whole, were one to look for what is best in America, those who favor freedom and equality for all as outlined in the Declaration of Independence and Constitution, gun owners are far from the top of the list.
I am an American gun owner, collector and gunsmith.  I know guns, I have used guns in combat, including as a Marine sniper in Vietnam.
As a very “pro-gun” individual, I reel at the thought of “organized gun owners” and their long history of racism, bigotry and susceptibility to childish propaganda.
It is my belief, and not without reason, that if Homeland Security sends out gangs to collect guns and round up “dissidents,” the NRA membership will be standing beside them.
My question is simple, how did American gun owners “go bad?”
I would like to be able to say that broad gun ownership by Americans enhances the concept of “freedom from tyranny.”  I believe quite the opposite is true.
Though some, perhaps not so many gun owners are politically aware, clearly the majority are among the group activists refer to as “sheeple.”
Two groups typify the majority of politically vocal gun owners in America, NRA members and those who were involved in the Tea Party movement.
Both organizations are politically right wing, fully under the control of the Israel lobby and Wall Street; both are totalitarian, Islamophobic and use psychological warfare tactics to manipulate members through fear and deception.
Both organizations, supposedly based on protection from tyranny, are aligned with powerful corporations, extremist “think tanks” and foreign intelligence services.
The money, and the money behind the “gun lobby” is endless, comes from organized crime and drugs, human trafficking, financial criminals and those who profit from crime and war.
Americans know war; we not only have been at war around the world since 2001 but for eight years suffered at the hands of an illegal regime in Washington, two stolen elections, two illegal wars, endless propaganda and the total dissolution of all rights to due process and privacy.
By the time Barak Obama assumed the presidency, there were no constitutional rights left for Americans.  Our question to him is a simple one, why has he failed to restore the right Bush took away, promises made long ago?
However, let us be clear about blame.
For eight years, the Bush 43 regime systematically warred against America.
When the most childishly obvious “inside job” in history, 9/11, was perpetrated, sending America into a frenzy of race war abroad while creating an illegal police state at home, not a word was said.
The cartoonish “pop culture media” played the tune and the “sheeple” danced along, keeping their guns but gladly giving up their freedom, gleefully watching thousands of Americans slaughtered, gleefully watching Americans slaughter what well now be millions across the planet.
At home, the TV was filled with shows about new “precision weapons” and hour upon hour of tales about Hitler and the holocaust.  Entire networks were set up to do nothing else, nothing but to sell war, sell a very deceptive version of history, pure psychological warfare to place the focus on imaginary enemies while those at home were taking America down.
And they took America down, destroyed America’s constitution, turned America into a nation of torture and secret prisons, of drone attacks, a nation that openly financed and supported genocide in Palestine, in Iraq, in Afghanistan, in Pakistan and now that list is growing.
Now, gun owners are awakened by one of the great mysteries of all time, “Sandy Hook.”  What little exists of a half-formed “official cover story” is not being questioned.
Proof that Sandy Hook was a terrorist attack is being suppressed.
Bulletproof vests become “fishing vests,” assault rifles turn out to be shotguns (Benneli M2), multiple cars are found with weapons, drug cartel ties are “erased,” motives are invented and disappear as quickly until none whatsoever remain.
Then the “pop culture media” tells us to “move on,” the cover story for a terror attack was so botched that no one seems to be able to make the lies fit together.
Why distrust gun owners?
After 9/11, billions were made in airline stocks, based on mysterious predictions of the event and its impact on key financial markets.
Many more billions were made by Larry Silverstein, who held the lease on the World Trade Center, a $124 million investment in buildings mandated for unaffordable refurbishment and asbestos removal, legally prohibited from “official” demolition, turned a profit of between $5 and 7 billion in insurance after “the incident.”
What “incident?”
On 9/11, we are “told” that around 12,000 gallons of jet fuel (kerosene and ethylene glycol) produced the heat and blast power that destroyed more than 10 times the steel the Hiroshima nuclear bomb accounted for.
The NRA has never mentioned 9/11 and the Tea Party, though originally established in Boston to demand an investigation into 9/11, was quickly taken over by the Israeli Koch Brothers and turned over to media buffoons Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachman, fronts for the AIPAC lobby.
Why do I have trust problems with “gun owners?”
It is one thing turning away from 9/11 “conspiracy theories” when hand fed propaganda for years.
I can almost understand the “Israel worship” of some when television obsessively portrays Israelis as heroic and honorable, even though reality runs much the other direction.
Then there is torture, kidnapping and murder, those too are accepted, this is where I become untrusting and unforgiving.
I no longer feel safe around those that seem able to deny, able to turn away from anything, from everything.
There is a point where “moral flexibility” becomes psychopathic behavior.
What good is a gun without honor or courage?
What good is a gun in the hands of a bully or coward?
Why trust in the judgment of a moron?
And so it goes….
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2013/01/04/press-tv-the-truth-about-americans-and-guns/

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Spot on. :( "Don't cry for me, America"

Anonymous said...

Excellent article. I will keep Mine and will die to do so. I don't want to live in a world with so many assholes any way. I have been trying to share the truth since 1970. The people in this country are the stupidest in the world and you can't fix stupid. Bill Copper is the only hero I know of in modern history.

Anonymous said...

So, Mr. Duff, just what is the "Truth" about America's guns as your title asks? All I see are your very biased personal opinions, which I might add are really not any better than my opinions! No facts, no real history, no statistics, just Gordon Duff"s opinions. First off, you seem to mix and confuse "organized" gun owners with any and all Americans. Not every American gun owner is a member of an organization. In fact, very few are. Perhaps if you didn't dabble and hobnob with so many Palestinians and other anti-Israeli, anti-American foreigners who contribute editorials, articles and probably money to your website, you might have a better understanding of not only the real American gun owner, but the Tea Party, the two patriots (Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachman) that you refer to as buffoons and attempt to demonize. (A little off topic, too, don't you think? I mean what do they have to do with gun owners of America? In fact, what the heck does Israel have to do with gun owners on Maple or Maine Street in the USA?)

Since you are free to give your opinion, I'm taking the liberty to give mine, also. You say, "there is torture, kidnapping and murder, those too are accepted." Are you in Lala Land? Are you not aware that Palestinians torture, kidnap, and murder? I'd say they have been very active doing those exact things on a GLOBAL scale as well as attacking their neighbors. Where are your vociferous objections in regard to that? There are none! You are a disseminator of anti-semitic propaganda as well as other types of propaganda...pro-Islamic. I'm taking the liberty of throwing back a few of your own words with a few changes:
What good are WORDS without honor or courage?
What good are WORDS in the hands of a bully or coward?
Why trust in the judgment of a liar?
And so it goes...
Aren't you the one who said 40% of what you write is untrue??? I'd be ashamed to admit it!

Anonymous said...

5:04 P.M. is the perfect example of the type I made reference too in My 2:22 P.M. comment.

Anonymous said...

I am 5:04...you know nothing about me whatsoever except the fact I don't agree with Gordon Duff. I'll keep my guns,too,and won't hesitate to use them. And you are correct about Americans being ignorant. In fact, most of them have the inability to think and read...

Anonymous said...

I tend to agree with the man who wrote at 5:04 more than I do with either Gordon Duff, whoever he is, and anonymous at 7:15. Duffs comments about the 0 and Bush leave me scratching my head.