History Lesson

The absolute first thing taught at infantry basic training during the Cold War was that the maximum effective range of an excuse is zero.  On the face of it I saw this as the response to any attempt to explain a failure to learn a necessary skill.  But this idea also applies to the moral nightmare we were facing during with the Communist enemy and their excuses for their crimes.  The functions of ideology are to erase the responsibility of the perpetrators for their actions and to deny the humanity of the victims.  But there's never a valid excuse for murder.

History Lesson

The absolute first thing taught at infantry basic training during the Cold War was that the maximum effective range of an excuse is zero.   On the face of it I saw this as the response to any attempt to explain a failure to learn a necessary skill.  But this idea also applies to the moral nightmare we were facing during with the Communist enemy and their excuses for their crimes.   The functions of ideology are to erase the responsibility of the perpetrators for their actions and to deny the humanity of the victims.  But there's never a valid excuse for murder.

A Fact And A Question.

The Cold War is over, so why do we have diplomatic relations with an Islamic state like Turkey?

Letter To The Editor

I am an opponent to pacifism.

As I was expecting a visitor to my home within the next week I began to clean up the apartment.  I was rearranging items when I came across a letter to the editor of the Star-Tribune, the Marxist rag of the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul.  The paper originated and is still published in Minneapolis but the owners have a long standing streak of the pretense of superiority. 

I had clipped out the letter and taped it to back of the cover of a notebook, but did not record the date of the letter.  I would have to guess that it originated during the administration of the Elder President Bush.  Placing it roughly twenty-five years ago or a bit more.

But this is only a guess on my part.

To quote the emission of non-sentience:

One child dies

Regarding Jim Klobuchar’s March 8 column, “8-year old boy died with grace and courage, but without an answer”: Michael Blake’s mother came into WAMM last April for information on the relationship of health-care cuts and military increases.  Her visit was motivated by son Michael’s deep understanding that research on disease saves lives while research on Star Wars ends lives.

Sometimes it’s so simple. One child dies.  One hundred thousand children live in poverty.  We spend almost $300 billion on defense.  Yet our children are left defenseless against poverty and disease.

Michael understood this.  Why can’t we? 

– Nikki LaSorella, co-director, Women Against Military Madness, Minneapolis.

If consciousness is the process of identification then this keyboard dropping is the clear evidence of brain death.  I have and continue to seriously wonder how any of these people manage to wake up in the morning and remove themselves from their own beds without killing or seriously injuring themselves.

Here the child-like condition of ignorance is held to be superior to clear knowledge.  An eight year old child is not normally educated in the theory of individual rights and the history of relations with foreign nations.  Nor would that child be aware of the mass graves and other monuments to the ideologies of totalitarian  power across Europe and Asia.  As well as the similar but yet undiscovered and unnamed horrors across Cuba, China, and North Korea.    

A child can be forgiven for his lack of knowledge.  But an adult has absolutely no excuse.  That specific adult has absolutely no excuse for the facilitation of criminal predation within Our Republic and the assistance given to foreign aggressors by the so-called peace movement.

The condition of Peace in fact cannot be identified as a moral value apart from the fundamental value of Human Life in the state of Freedom. But LaSorella is not just a pacifist.  She is clearly a Communist as well.  She is most clearly one of the enemies of mankind against whom an actual government must stand.  Her target audience in writing this letter was those alleged adults who are ignorant of moral philosophy and political history and wish to remain so.

The illusion of social justice that LaSorella promotes denies the fact that the American Federal Government protects a society of free people against domestic criminals and foreign conquerors.  Her vision is of an entire nation converted at gunpoint to a vast slave labor system.

“From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.” 

This is the exact description of the system of slavery.  And the needs of those who impose and enforce the system have no absolute limits.

The fact is that those who call themselves pacifists are vilest and most violent Enemies of Mankind of all time.