MDA (My Darling Ann) provides me with an uncomfortable history lesson - er, uncomfortable for Democrats, that is, not me. She notes the hysterical lynch mob mentality of so-called 'liberals' in America which has arisen after the Trayvon Martin shooting in Florida. ('Health' warning: I have given the Wiki link without reading it but I would advise caution on whatever 'facts' it offers and whatever conclusion it comes to!) Democrat outrage and their insistence that this was a race crime always sounded as dodgy as one of the old pieces of second-hand shrapnel I used to flog back in the day but when you read Ann Coulter's brief synopsis of the history of the Democrat party, gun laws and the Ku Klux Klan it makes you realise what a prize collection of over-ripe hypocrites they are.
She begins with a stiff dose of commonsense:
We don't know the facts yet, but let's assume the conclusion MSNBC is leaping to is accurate: George Zimmerman stalked a small black child and murdered him in cold blood, just because he was black. If that were true, every black person in America should get a gun and join the National Rifle Association, America's oldest and most august civil rights organization. Apparently this has occurred to no one because our excellent public education system ensures that no American under the age of 60 has the slightest notion of this country's history.
Alas, ignorance of history is not confined to the USA! However, ever helpful she provides a brief history of race violence, gun laws and the KKK:
Gun control laws were originally promulgated by Democrats to keep guns out of the hands of blacks. This allowed the Democratic policy of slavery to proceed with fewer bumps and, after the Civil War, allowed the Democratic Ku Klux Klan to menace and murder black Americans with little resistance.
(Contrary to what illiterates believe, the KKK was an outgrowth of the Democratic Party, with overlapping membership rolls. The Klan was to the Democrats what the American Civil Liberties Union is today: Not every Democrat is an ACLU'er, but every ACLU'er is a Democrat. Same with the Klan.)
Heavens to Betsy - say it ain't so! But alas, it is:
In 1640, the very first gun control law ever enacted on these shores was passed in Virginia. It provided that blacks -- even freemen -- could not own guns.
Chief Justice Roger Taney's infamous opinion in Dred Scott v. Sandford circularly argued that blacks could not be citizens because if they were citizens, they would have the right to own guns: "[I]t would give them the full liberty," he said, "to keep and carry arms wherever they went."
With logic like that, Republicans eventually had to fight a Civil War to get the Democrats to give up slavery.
Alas, they were Democrats, so they cheated.
After the war, Democratic legislatures enacted "Black Codes," denying black Americans the rights of citizenship -- such as the rather crucial one of bearing arms -- while other Democrats (sometimes the same Democrats) founded the Ku Klux Klan.
For more than a hundred years, Republicans have aggressively supported arming blacks, so they could defend themselves against Democrats.
And you all thought the Democrats were the good guys in the white hats, didn't you? That's because you have watched too many Hollywood films! It was Republican president Ulysses S. Grant who urged Congress to pass a law allowing blacks to bear arms and who deployed the army to destroy the KKK. But, of course, the KKK arose again in the 20th century and where-ever they were resurgent, gun control laws swiftly followed with some surprising results:
This will give you an idea of how gun control laws worked. Following the firebombing of his house in 1956, Dr. Martin Luther King, who was, among other things, a Christian minister, applied for a gun permit, but the Alabama authorities found him unsuitable. A decade later, he won a Nobel Peace Prize.
And here's another little thing I bet you never knew - it was the much reviled (in Democrat circles and the media) NRA (National Rifle Association) who supported blacks in their efforts to enjoy the right to bear arms and thus aided them in their efforts to defend themselves against attacks by the KKK. I wonder if the impeccably liberal Robert Redford will ever make a fim starring as the hero boss of the NRA who fought against the Democrat party in defending the rights of blacks to own guns? Don't hold your breath!
Ann Coulter is superb and I want her to have my babies. Just imagine the result of a mingling of her genes and mine. I'm at a loss for words . . .
"Ann Coulter is superb and I want her to have my babies. Just imagine the result of a mingling of her genes and mine. I'm at a loss for words . . . "
As are we all.
Posted by: Whyaxye | Saturday, 21 April 2012 at 12:09
From Condi Rice, Former Secretary of State.
http://www.ontheissues.org/celeb/Condoleezza_Rice_Gun_Control.htm
The event that seared its way most powerfully into Rice’s memory was the 1963 bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. She heard the blast. Rice recalls the terror she felt as an eight-year-old. “These terrible events burned into my consciousness,” she remembers. And, as America shook its head in disbelief at the murder of four girls, Condi was mourning the two she knew personally--including Denise McNair, her kindergarten classmate. “I remember more than anything the coffins, the small coffins, and the sense that Birmingham was not a very safe place.“
Armed with a shotgun, her father joined the other men of the black community in night patrols to keep the KKK out of the neighborhood.
http://eclecticmeanderings.blogspot.com/
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Posted by: Hank | Saturday, 21 April 2012 at 12:57
No wonder she became a Republican then!
Posted by: David Duff | Saturday, 21 April 2012 at 13:49
Er, DD? (Using initials here to differentiate - you understand.) Now mind, I'm not pissing into any punchbowls.
Our first Republican President, ol' Honest Abe, once told the story likening how our two Parties were to switch positions on stuff by a simple comparison to a bar brawl. It seems two drunken men were wildly swinging away at the other drunken fellow, both attired in "greatcoats." At the end of the fight the result was not much bodily damage but somehow the drunken brawlers had managed to wrestle each other into exchanging their respective greatcoats.
Only using this anecdote as a way of illustration because:
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/report-david-duke-considering-2012-presidential-campaign/
Posted by: JK | Saturday, 21 April 2012 at 18:02
Considering that was written nearly a year ago it does not appear the Mr. Duke's plans have achieved much!
Posted by: David Duff | Saturday, 21 April 2012 at 19:14
No. But being a current and fairly long-term resident of the American South I can affirm that a Party affiliation down here is much like changing socks.
Too, there's an old saying here in Arkansas (and I think it apropo to Arkansas' neighboring states) "We want our politicians to run as Democrats but legislate as Republicans."
Of course you will likely retort, "But JK, what about your elections of '08 when for the last 135 years your state's office holders had been majority Democrat?"
My reply would be, "They changed their socks!"
Posted by: JK | Saturday, 21 April 2012 at 19:50
However:
http://www.centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/articles/sabato-it-cant-be-done/
Posted by: JK | Saturday, 21 April 2012 at 20:19
Oh, darling JK, please say something else.
Don't just send links.
I can't be bothered with the f$%?#"g links.
Love from Australia
Posted by: Andra | Sunday, 22 April 2012 at 08:56
Shrewd fella', that Sabato, seen him on Fox a few times.
Posted by: David Duff | Sunday, 22 April 2012 at 09:35
Andra?
Who is Peter Slipper and is he from Cairns? I seem to recall your mentioning him fondly.
Posted by: JK | Sunday, 22 April 2012 at 14:03
Well, Peter Slipper ain't from Cairns but he just may be the fellow to bring down this, ah, Labor government, and I use the term loosely.
This mob is considered to be even worse than Gough Whitlam's and that's a hard act to follow.
We await developments with smirks not far from the surface.
Ms Gillard is currently on the way to Gallipoli and that's never been a good place for Aussies.
Posted by: Andra | Monday, 23 April 2012 at 00:34