anecdote is not the singular of data. Its a nice story, but that's about it. right up there with Warsaw etc.
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 7:56 AM, Jerry Barnes <[email protected]> wrote: > > Americans never give up your guns ( > http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/28-12-2012/123335-americans_guns-0/) > > > These days, there are few things to admire about the socialist, bankrupt > and culturally degenerating USA, but at least so far, one thing remains: > the right to bear arms and use deadly force to defend one's self and > possessions. > > This will probably come as a total shock to most of my Western readers, but > at one point, Russia was one of the most heavily armed societies on earth. > This was, of course, when we were free under the Tsar. Weapons, from swords > and spears to pistols, rifles and shotguns were everywhere, common items. > People carried them concealed, they carried them holstered. Fighting knives > were a prominent part of many traditional attires and those little tubes > criss crossing on the costumes of Cossacks and various Caucasian peoples? > Well those are bullet holders for rifles. > > This well armed population was what allowed the various White factions to > rise up, no matter how disorganized politically and militarily they were in > 1918 and wage a savage civil war against the Reds. It should be noted that > many of these armies were armed peasants, villagers, farmers and merchants, > protecting their own. If it had not been for Washington's clandestine > support of and for the Reds, history would have gone quite differently. > > Moscow fell, for example, not from a lack of weapons to defend it, but from > the lying guile of the Reds. Ten thousand Reds took Moscow and were opposed > only by some few hundreds of officer cadets and their instructors. Even > then the battle was fierce and losses high. However, in the city alone, at > that time, lived over 30,000 military officers (both active and retired), > all with their own issued weapons and ammunition, plus tens of thousands of > other citizens who were armed. The Soviets promised to leave them all alone > if they did not intervene. They did not and for that were asked afterwards > to come register themselves and their weapons: where they were promptly > shot. > > Of course being savages, murderers and liars does not mean being stupid and > the Reds learned from their Civil War experience. One of the first things > they did was to disarm the population. From that point, mass repression, > mass arrests, mass deportations, mass murder, mass starvation were all a > safe game for the powers that were. The worst they had to fear was a > pitchfork in the guts or a knife in the back or the occasional hunting > rifle. Not much for soldiers. > > > J > > - > > The monstrous evils of the twentieth century have shown us that the > greediest money grubbers are gentle doves compared with money-hating wolves > like Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler, who in less than three decades killed or > maimed nearly a hundred million men, women, and children and brought untold > suffering to a large portion of mankind. - Eric Hoffer > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:359840 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
