What Difference Does It Make?

In her testimony on the Benghazi Incident, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton showed her contempt for the four men who were murdered by terrorists by saying: “What difference does it make?”

From the collectivist view a person is simply a thing to be used. A tool. The fact that a person has a complete life outside of the alleged goals of the collective is completely blanked out. To the collectivist the full human life is completely meaningless.

And because a person is seen as simply a tool it does not matter if it breaks as a result of being misused. The tool can simply be disposed of and replaced, as were the men in Benghazi.

Secretary Clinton’s open contempt for the people serving under her is perfectly normal for a collectivist. In The Mask Of Command, John Keegan recounts an incident where Adolf Hitler was having dinner served to him in the dining car of his private train when it stopped at a station. When another train, loaded with wounded soldiers returning from the Eastern Front, stops beside Hitler's private train. Hitler had the stewards in the dining car pull down the shades so he wouldn't have to see the other train and the wounded passengers.

What are your questions on this block of instruction?

A Spot Of Tea

I attended a Tea Party rally in downtown Minneapolis at noon today at the IRS Headquarters at 250 Marquette Avenue South. There about a hundred people in attendance and there was a bit of drizzle. Several people, especially those driving commercial vehicles honked and the drove by. Not everyone was happy to see the Tea Party. Some people were visibly hostile. One woman who walked by the rally had a look on her face that was like one would expect from a member of a royal family that had just stepped in a freshly laid pile of dung. She may have worked for the IRS.

Seriously, if the Democrats want to survive as a political party they must drop the partisan nonsense and take the lead on cleaning up the abuses of the Obama administration. If not, they will go down with him.

Oh, here's a previous piece I wrote on the Tea Party.

Thought For The Day

Doublethink is the act of simultaneously accepting two mutually contradictory beliefs as correct.

For example:

Barack Obama is the President of the United States.

And:

Barack Obama has no control over the actions of Federal agencies.

What are your questions on this block of instruction?

Notice

I've posted something over on My Own Private Universe.

Suggestion

An answer to the IRS question about the content of prayers:

From the wrath of the taxman, oh Lord deliver us.

Friday

Pat Condell takes a baseball bat to the head of organized religion, again.

Monday

Who does the Big Zero think he is? President Richard Nixon?

I expected bad behavior from the Zero but I didn't expect him to go Tricky Dick on us. Actually I expected the Idiot In Chief to go a full Hitler on us. I'm not sorry to be wrong on this.

On another topic, the Objectivist position on abortion is based on the concept that a person has right to be in full control of their own life. The result of a live birth is a person with the full rights thereof. Killing that person, even by throwing him or her out in the trash with the other biohazard material, is murder. In my opinion Doctor Gosnell clearly deserves the death penalty.

A Reminder

Humanity is not merely a physical condition, it is a state of mind. To be human is to be essentially rational and productive. The human mentality (or soul) looks upon the world, the land, the animals and plants, the natural forces, as things to be mastered for the benefit of himself and his posterity. On the other hand, the predator, or savage mentality does not seek to to master the world, but to be the master of men. The savage prefers not to sustain himself by his own effort, but to seize and consume the lives and property of others for material and spiritual sustenance. To the predator, justice consists of "getting away with it" -- those who rightfully resist the predator are to be punished or destroyed.

-- Leslie Bates, The Resister, Vol VI, N. 1, Page 42

Anniversary

Today is the anniversary of what is commonly called The Kent State Massacre. Or the day a mob of nihilist punks came into contact with reality.

Here's a number of things I've said on the subject of peace activism:

If there is one thing I have certainly noticed, it is that pacifists in general have no objection to enjoying the benefits of civilization but are unwilling to take the measures necessary to defend it from foreign and domestic barbarians. Such as the National Socialists, the Soviet Socialists, and the home grown socialists of the Democratic Party. Contrary to their general delusion of virtue, pacifists are in effect, moral and political parasites upon civilized society.

Peace in the real world is simply the absence of those -- such as the socialists -- who seek to deprive you, I, and our fellow citizens of our own Life, Liberty, and Property. Real peace can only be achieved by the physical isolation or outright elimination of those who seek to subjugate, plunder and murder us. This can only be done through the use of physical force. In short, true peace can only be achieved only through the possession of superior firepower and the moral will to use it.

The narcissistic trash that makes up the membership of the so-called peace movement simply do not care whether you and your children live, or die, or suffer under the yoke of an unwashed barbarian. They plaster their cars with bumper sticker, carry signs, bang on drums, throw Frisbees, and perform other useless rituals so that they can feel good about themselves and show the world how morally superior they are. Never mind that they openly deny the fundamental fact which is the foundation of all valid moral law, that Human Life -- life as a rational being in control of one's own life -- is the standard of all moral values, and that those who would damage or destroy Human Life must be removed from human society and if necessary be destroyed. The adherents of pacifism have so inverted their own mental processes that they look upon the perpetrators of mass slavery and mass murder as good and those who take up arms to defend the society of consent as the most depraved evil.

Now there are some folks, who regard themselves as morally superior beings, who question why the other bastard has to die. The answer of course is that the other bastard is attempting to impose his will, or the will of his leader, upon you by force. It is the act of coercion by force that makes what General Patton called the other bastard an enemy. Peace is simply the absence of enemies. But there are some folks, who pretend to be morally superior beings, who would have us believe that "peace" could be achieved by submission to the will of the other bastard. In reality this is not peace, it is slavery. There are some well meaning people, some of whom that I respect, who believe that there are times that one cannot have both peace and freedom at the same time. I have to disagree. Liberty is simply the condition of existence in which the person is free to live his own life in accordance with his own rational judgment. This does of course require the absence of some other bastard who is attempting to impose his will upon the person by force. In practical terms real peace and real freedom are inseparable. I will go further is saying that to a civilized person, peace, freedom, and security, are simply three words that can be used to describe the identical condition, the absence of another bastard imposing his will upon the civilized person. Contrary to what those who describe themselves as peace activists would have us believe, and as General Patton has ably demonstrated, the path to real peace invariably takes us over the real dead bodies of those other bastards who insist on violently imposing their will upon us. Unfortunately this process is by no means a safe one. Let us take this day to remember those who died on the path to real peace.

A rational study of the real world would show that a real state of Peace is effectively indistinguishable from a state of Liberty and a state of Security. Peace, Liberty, and Security are simply three words that a rational person uses to describe the same condition, the rightful ability to live one's own life without coercive interference by others. A rational study of actual history would show that the state of peace for the citizens of a free nation is the result of the violent elimination of the would be conquerors and their pet quislings. If we rationally examine those who constitute the membership of the so-called Peace Movement we find that virtually every one of them is an open advocate of the coercive subjugation of the productive members of the Human Race. The occasional exception being a self-blinded fool who isn't paying attention to what they're ideologically in bed with. In short, a "peace activist" and the "peace movement" are in fact enemies of Peace.

Peace is only an affirmative value to those who live in the condition of liberty, that is being rightfully in charge of one's self and able to set the goals for one's own life. Peace cannot be a value to the subjects of a totalitarian socialist state. To the victim of such a state -- the ordinary worker who is bullied by a commissar, the inmate of a slave labor camp, or the occupant of a darkened cell awaiting murder at the hands of the local chekists -- war, either an internal uprising against the socialist masters, or an invasion by an army of liberation, is in fact the positive value.

I stand by what I said.

What are your questions on this block of instruction?

Thought For Yesterday

“Local NBC Reporter Hilariously Denies Soviet Flags Present At May Day Rally: ‘What Do They Represent?’”

I’m not surprised to read this. In my view the basic function of liberal (and specifically Marxist) doctrine is to deny reality.

The specific fact of reality that absolutely must be denied under all circumstances is that each of us as human beings has right to say no.

No to the demand for obedience. No to the demand for material support. And no to the demand for absolute power over our lives.

Liberals, and the left in general, are parasites on human society. Without the power to compel others to materially support them the members of the left would be compelled either to become rational and productive people or to literally die off.

And it is not enough for the Left, especially their leaders, to be materially supported. They must also feel secure in their status as the masters of the productive. They must stage spectacular rituals of mass obedience to create and reinforce their feelings of security.

The parades on May Day and anniversary of the local ruling party's ascent to power. The hours-long speeches that must be listened to with total attention and applauded with the greatest of enthusiasm. And don't be the first to stop applauding when the leader speaks, that's disloyal!

To the left, every word of dissent or refusal is in practical effect a sentence of death for each of them. It is no surprise that they are hostile to actual thought based on actual facts.

May Day

Today is the Victims Of Communism Day.

Thought For The Day

I read a few online articles on the Fundamentalist Christian claim that Objectivism was connected to the Church Of Satan.

I had not been so thoroughly disgusted since I read The Turner Diaries.

Thought For The Day

Our rights are a fact of nature. The Constitution are the terms under which WE THE PEOPLE grant authority to the federal government to act on our behalf. Obama, and the Democratic-Republican Party, are willfully violating those terms in the pursuit of power.

Thought For The Day

Without the sword they will take away your pen.
Without guns they will take away your butter.

This is not an either/or choice.

Living In The Real World

Some people apparently have a problem with it.

Bombing Suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Last year (May 12, 2012), retweeted this:

I don't know of anything in this Dunya that could uplift & increase the good manners & behavior of a person the way Islam does.

Dunya apparently means material world.

So how does rape, robbery, and murder -- the behavior demanded by the Koran -- raise the manners of someone?

It doesn't.

What is the maximum effective range of an excuse?

Zero.

What are your questions on this block of instruction?

Waco And Oklahoma City

Every year I post an article on this blog about the Massacre of the Branch Davidians in their home outside of Waco, Texas. I have never mentioned the bombing of the Murrah Federal building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, even though it was a related event.

And I never raised the question of why those events happened.

Why? Why did those events occur?

I have a theory, But I need time to think it through.

Quote Of The Day

From Frontpage:

“We must teach our children to hate. Hatred is the basis of communism.”

V.I. Lenin, 1923

On the subject of Marxism, Mark Hendrickson wrote:

The hateful spirit of Marx and Lenin has suffused all leftist ideologies, movements, and regimes, whether Soviet communism, Hitler’s national socialism, or today’s illiberal progressivism and pagan environmentalism. Only hatred could explain the willingness to kill, enslave, and rob vast numbers of innocent human beings. Hatred corrodes one’s conscience. Under its toxic influence, a person will regard man’s God-given right to be secure in his life, liberty, and property as nuisances to be overcome, not commandments to be obeyed. The flip side of hatred is an inflated self-love, self-importance and self-righteousness so extreme that respect for other human beings diminishes and, in extreme cases (Stalin, Mao, Castro, Kim, et al.), disappears.

Quote Of The Day

Another comment on yesterday's bombing:

The one thing that the willfully depraved are loathe to do is to acknowledge the fact that there are people who are in fact better in some respect than they are. To make such an acknowledgement is to issue an indictment of themselves and their own actions. The willfully depraved will murder individuals or even exterminate entire nations before they will recognize the truth about themselves.

-- Leslie Bates, December 24, 2003

Boston Marathon

The running of the marathon commemorates the defeat of an attempt by the Persian Empire to conquer Greece. The battle took place on the Plain of Marathon in 490 BC. It was a victory of Western Civilization over Asiatic Despotism. As such it may have the most important battle fought in history.

Moron Of The Day

Pardon me for using all capitals, BUT THIS IS DISGUSTING!

An brainless urban boy-bitch that I won't name, a product of the entertainment business (I won't call it an industry), somehow managed to write a disgusting message in guestbook at the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam.

The brainless urban boy-bitch, who wouldn't last ten seconds at the Benning School For Boys, suggested the the late Miss Frank would be a fan of his.

Oh, really?

The disgusting boy-bitch, who is a product of the irrational urban culture and apparently never had an original thought in his entire life, apparently believes that he is the most important thing in existence.

Well so did Hitler.

The fact of the matter is that nice Jewish girls have standards. When they get married it's to real men with real fully functional minds. For example, Ayn Rand and Frank O'Connor.

What are your questions on this block of instruction?