If you want to behave like a bunch of Brownshirts then you be treated as a bunch of Brownshirts, in the Nurembung style, from the neck until dead.
Punishing a man for an act he did not commit is unjust. Imprisoning a
man for speaking the truth is tyrannical. Disarming the citizens -- who
are the sovereign authority of the nation -- is treason.
To say anything more would require the extensive use of barracks language.
Showing posts with label Brownshirts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Brownshirts. Show all posts
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Sunday, March 13, 2016
Jerry Pournelle On Brownshirts
Writing from Chaos Manor:
Hitler and Mussolini used to disrupt their political’ opponents’ meetings and speeches, Hitler’s gangs with truncheons, Mussolini’s with castor oil which they forcibly fed to opposition leaders. These tactics had been honed by the Reds before the Revolution, and were exported for use by the Communists in various parts of Europe. To the best of my knowledge there have been no such operations by Trump’s followers, but apparently there are increasing numbers of protests at his meetings. While there have always been some roughhousing and scuffles in American politics, raiding each other’s gatherings has not been traditional, with some exceptions. More usual is getting yourself thrown out of someone else’s meetings, thus getting the publicity rather than the speaker. I expect to see a lot of that in the next few weeks, and a great deal more after the conventions.
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So far no Castor Oil, and I expect Trump and his followers are too smart to retaliate in kind; but we’ll see. Interesting times indeed. And as you say, they are protesting what he is fighting. I saw a number of “Veterans for Trump” looking rather disgruntled but doing nothing. The US Army, led by West Pointers, is not the Wehrmacht of the Thirties, nor is the American Legion anything like the Stahlhut. But there are veterans of the Iraqi wars not all that much older than the protesters, and it is rather unwise to taunt them beyond the limits of patience. Eventually that is going to happen and the result will not be pretty. Today’s veterans are all veterans of a volunteer army; very few squishes among them.
Hitler and Mussolini used to disrupt their political’ opponents’ meetings and speeches, Hitler’s gangs with truncheons, Mussolini’s with castor oil which they forcibly fed to opposition leaders. These tactics had been honed by the Reds before the Revolution, and were exported for use by the Communists in various parts of Europe. To the best of my knowledge there have been no such operations by Trump’s followers, but apparently there are increasing numbers of protests at his meetings. While there have always been some roughhousing and scuffles in American politics, raiding each other’s gatherings has not been traditional, with some exceptions. More usual is getting yourself thrown out of someone else’s meetings, thus getting the publicity rather than the speaker. I expect to see a lot of that in the next few weeks, and a great deal more after the conventions.
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So far no Castor Oil, and I expect Trump and his followers are too smart to retaliate in kind; but we’ll see. Interesting times indeed. And as you say, they are protesting what he is fighting. I saw a number of “Veterans for Trump” looking rather disgruntled but doing nothing. The US Army, led by West Pointers, is not the Wehrmacht of the Thirties, nor is the American Legion anything like the Stahlhut. But there are veterans of the Iraqi wars not all that much older than the protesters, and it is rather unwise to taunt them beyond the limits of patience. Eventually that is going to happen and the result will not be pretty. Today’s veterans are all veterans of a volunteer army; very few squishes among them.
Friday, March 11, 2016
Brownshirts In Chicago
H. Beam Piper on how to deal with Brownshirts (Space Viking-1964):
“Put up about fifty combat-cars. Drawn a deadline, and opened fire as soon as the mob crossed it, and kept firing till the survivors turned tail and ran. Then send out more cars, and shot everybody wearing a People’s Watchman uniform, all over town. Inside forty-eight hours, there’d be no People’s Welfare party and no Zaspar Makann either.”
To those who value power over all else, no act is too depraved and no bodycount is too high.
Kill them all before it's too late.
“Put up about fifty combat-cars. Drawn a deadline, and opened fire as soon as the mob crossed it, and kept firing till the survivors turned tail and ran. Then send out more cars, and shot everybody wearing a People’s Watchman uniform, all over town. Inside forty-eight hours, there’d be no People’s Welfare party and no Zaspar Makann either.”
To those who value power over all else, no act is too depraved and no bodycount is too high.
Kill them all before it's too late.
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