A post by Maynard
Today, November 9, marks the 70th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the “Night of Broken Glass”. In 1938, shortly after Hitler signed the Munich Agreement, and a year before World War II began, the Nazis rampaged against the Jews of Germany. Stores and homes and synagogues were burned. 92 Jews were murdered, and 25,000-30,000 were arrested and deported to camps.
The Jerusalem Post takes the occasion to relate some personal stories of the horror in this article, “Coming of age in 1938″. These are excerpts from a new oral history, 48 Hours of Kristallnacht. Another JP editorial summarizes the events: “Kristallnacht: We Remember”.
Kristallnacht was a night of national thuggery. One of the many lessons to take away is that the right of the people to keep and bear arms must be preserved. Private weapons won’t stand against an army, but they give you a chance against goons and marauders.
Hitler understood this, and had passed the necessary laws to take guns out of the hands of the “wrong people”. See this article.
The concern about the “wrong people” having weapons is not new. Look to the notorious Dred Scott decision of 1857. Recognizing African-Americans as citizens…
…would give to persons of the negro race…the full liberty…to keep and carry arms wherever they went.
It’s the same old story, going back to the Book of Esther in the Bible. The thugs never want their victims to shoot back.
And don’t forget how the American Revolution began at Lexington and Concord, when the British decided to disarm the locals, and the locals declined to be disarmed. We wrote the Second Amendment to prevent that sort of thing from ever happening here again.
The Second Amendment hit the news in the past year when the Supreme Court finally (and barely!) acknowledged the right to keep and bear arms as an individual right. That means it protects you. This made a number of liberals unhappy. In a collective society, individual rights are a dangerous thing.
Where does Obama stand? Like all good politicians, he’s on your side…whichever side that happens to be. He supported the DC gun ban and also applauded the Supreme Court ruling overturning the DC gun ban. Watch this YouTube clip of his struggle to reconcile these two incompatible positions. Here’s another clip noting Obama’s contradictory statements.
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Tammy, thanks for the history lesson. I always heard about the Dred Scott decision but never knew what the contents were.
I have heard you off and on during radio broadcasts and I like your knowledgeable, common sense reporting. You now have a new listener.
MR
Thank you Maynard. I blogged about this last night – May we never ever forget..
The government is complacent in thinking they have power.
For those of you who have followed NAIS(National Animal Identification System: big brother is watching your chickens) Wisconsin threatened farmers saying it would pull dairy liscenses from anyone who didn’t VOLUNTARILY register their’ farm. Ten percent of dairy farmers refused to. The state DID NOT pull the licenses because it couldn’t afford the hit to the economy.
Those were just a few farmers. There are Millions of gun owneres. When they tell us to register, we tell them to go ta’ heck. When they tell us to turn them in, we tell them what they can do with themselves. If we do this together there is nothing they can do… almost.
They’ll probably still try going door to door using all our background information from purchases. Not many will be surprised that before such a law is passed there’s going to be a crime-wave of home break-in and roberies. Guns are prised targets of thieves after all.
I am an American and I will not be a victim to my own government.
I found this website with quotes from some great men. I’m actually starting to cry for our country. It feels like there’s been a death in my family.
http://www.wtprn.com/Famous_Quotes.html
Snow, our govenrment may be dead to the constitution and our demands of freedom, liberty, and equality. (Fairness is NOT in the constitution.) Our liberal “friends” may even want to destroy the Rule of Law by having judges ignore the constitution in favor of a (personal) sense of fairness.
http://tinyurl.com/5nty8h
But as long as citizens are willing to stand fast against the tide of injustices, we are not dead.
For more inspirational quotes I would suggest:
http://tinyurl.com/586fe3
And for the easiest explaination of why “fairness” is the biggest crime our government is perpetrating against us:
http://tinyurl.com/23com9
Great short story.
This seems to be a more appropriate place to post the passage I found the other night while reading up on Hitler’s rise… so sad and disturbing.
“The overwhelming majority of Germans did not seem to mind that their personal freedom had been taken away, that so much of culture had been destroyed and replaced with a mindless barbarism, or that their life and work had become regimented to a degree never before experienced even by a people accustomed for generations to a great deal of regimentation…. The Nazi terror in the early years affected the lives of relatively few Germans and a newly arrived observer was somewhat surprised to see that the people of this country did not seem to feel that they were being cowed…. On the contrary, the observer noted, they supported it with genuine enthusiasm. Somehow it imbued them with a new hope and a new confidence and an astonishing faith in the future of their country.”
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