Driven to Defeat when the LEFT Directs Traffic

In another blog, Say Anything, I cross-posted the post "Is Gandhi Burning in Hell?" There were the usual ad hominem attacks from left wing nutcases. But, one commenter who calls himself MOVE_ZIG wrote this brilliant examination of the consequence of pacifism and Gandhi like inaction. It's great writing and worth reading. If it doesn't get your heart pumping and your blood boiling at the Left's invasion of our our national mores and mentality nothing will.

We must stand against the oppression of these treasonous forces. In deference to and consideration for anyone who might misunderstand the words that follow are NOT mine. I do endorse the spirit of them. But there may be some things which are not fully endorsable. Zig doesn't claim theological perspective. He does clarify the argument against pacifism.

THE WORDS THAT FOLLOW ARE ZIGS, NOT MINE:

And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling in terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?

The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt!

—Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago

Passive acceptance of oppression and/or genocide is a sin. God gave us life and freedom. If we cooperate with our oppressors, we fail in our duty to fight oppression and defending our lives and the lives of our loved ones.

Those who willingly dig their own ditches, those who are dutifully herded into gas chambers, those who stand passively as death squads prepare to shoot them—deserve it.

Free people have a positive duty to arm themselves with a knowledge of history so that they can recognize lies which have been used before, to arm themselves with weapons and to be trained in their use.

Knowledge and weapons, combined with the determination to use both in the defense of freedom are what is necessary to fight evil in whatever form it may take—particularly in the guise of a domestic government.

If every living soul was educated in the history of freedom versus the history of tyranny, was trained to arms, I can tell you with great certainty, we would have a lot more Mussolini’s strung up by their heels and far fewer tyrants in power. Read Robert A. Heinlein’s the Moon is a Harsh Mistress.

The Left have taken over the western educational systems, and they teach passivity to tyranny and oppression. They say that violence never settled anything, which is a complete and utter lie.

The American Colonists begged and pleaded with King George III to respect their rights as Englishmen and that only got them more oppression. It was only the clash of arms that settled the matter.

Neville Chamberlain promised Peace in Our Time by feeding the Czechs to the Nazi wolves in hopes that the German appetite would be finally sated. It took the lives of thousands of American soldiers to wrest back the countries overrun by rampaging Germans, Japanese and Italians.

If, on the other hand, Europe had stood up for itself, and fought—to its’ credit, like the English at the Battle of Britain—the American sacrifice would not have been necessary.

It was that European cowardice, that willing compliance of all the victims, their failure, indeed, their utter refusal to fight that led to their deaths and oppression. Switzerland, which had standing order to fight to the last cartridge, to ignore any transmitted domestic order of surrender, that convinced Hitler to find softer fare all around it.

Had they instead picked up guns and fought ab initio, the American sacrifice of thousands would not have been necessary.

This concept of the Fundamental Right of Self Defense completely escapes the Left—so alien to them is the concept of the Individual Right, and so blinded are they in their total devotion to that bright shining lie called The State.

The STATE is merely composed those self-appointed humans who have sought power of the lives of other humans.

They are not necessarily smarter nor more highly evolved than the masses of citizens to whom they are in a Republic responsible to, and in a totalitarian state, whom they lord over. This is the major difference in the worldview of Leftists versus Free People.

That is why the Left fight so hard for the control of education, for to control the past is to control the present, for control of guns, for power comes from the muzzle of a gun, and why they fight to stifle dissent and control thoughts, because free thought can lead resistance against their rule.

Ultimately, and for the reasons I have given above, the answer is yes.

Still, if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves.

—Winston Churchill