20 thoughts on “Politicians And Lampposts”

  1. Probably not. Personally, I think the veneer of civilization is very thin. Not too much pressure will scrub it away. If the European economy collapses and takes the US economy with it, there’s going to be blood in the streets. Glen wrote he’s going long on ammo and canned goods.

  2. I once wrote an article in The Space Review entitled SSP: A Spherical Architecture. In this article I propose an inflatable solar power satellite. I saw on the internet that you had this same idea. My question is: will the gravity gradient rip it apart?

  3. Don’t be silly. A big reason we’re in this mess is a gangster political class. You can bet they’ve got enough money (in gold), powerful friends and pull to keep some world class protection when the fecal matter hits the air circulator.

  4. This is over the line, but for a reason most people don’t seem to think about.  It is because such rhetoric instantly becomes a theater of the complacent if you don’t act on it.

    I grew up around the Far Left, most of them were old crotchety old leftist who hated hippies for betraying the revolution, but they were mostly Trotskyite Reds.  You’d hear crap like: “First up against the wall when the revolution comes” or “x should be shot”, and all the rhetoric had this super militant blood and guts tone.  But other than a few crazies, that were talked about in hushed tones nobody ever did anything and all this talk of revolution raised the bar so high for any action that the only political activity I ever saw was organizing each other into committees and disciplining those whose hearts were weak.  This was because nobody actually had the stomach for revolution, but talking about it was so cathartic that it made everyone feel like they were actually doing something.  Overheated rhetoric is a substitute for action and it all just become macho posturing to gain alpha male status in the group or a sort of policing action used by the women to destroy each other by questioning the commitment of others to the cause.

    The only way you can indulge this crap is if you are actually going to start the revolution, but that takes serious balls and it usually goes very badly, because in most places and times the people are not willing to give revolutionaries the acceptance they need to win.  So unless you have the cojones of a Mussolini or Castro, the willingness to get locked up in a hole forever or executed (which I guarantee will happen if you try revolution from the right in this country) or you have the general approval of the local authorities, like the Sons of Liberty, you aren’t going to actually do squat and now you are locked into this whole idiotic rgetoric as opposed to action.

    Of course if you do have the guts for it and the will to do it, tell me all about it and I will call the FBI so you can start spending your time in that hole as quickly as possible.

    2. Which is why I have become tired of all the talk like that below: “That’s why quite a few people I know are investing in brass and lead as precious metals.” Most of those people doing the “investing” are engaged in just the same macho posturing as those Trotskyite Reds, and they’ll probably have similiar results.

      Also, the question needs to be asked of these “investors”: who do you plan to shoot? Are you going to take “preemptive measures”? Or is you goal to declare yourself Baron of your local suburb? Because until the Left starts getting violent with guns and mob actions, all you are doing is giving Leftists the excuse to agitate for becoming violent.

      1. The people I’m talking about are all military veterans who’re taking measures they believe necessary to protect their own familites. They aren’t planning mass murder like those Reds you mentioned. None are joining a group or militia. They’re trained and equiped to do what’s necessary to keep their families safe. If someone breaks into their home, they’re likely to end up dead. In Colorado, that’s legal under the “Make My Day Law.” That’s completely different from the posturing Reds whose wet dreams are of mass murder and genocide.

      2. I’ll bet that in two years, I’ll be able to trade a brick of .22LR’s or a couple of boxes of .45 self-defense loads for about what I paid for them, in goods or services. Maybe for more, maybe a lot more.
        Pretty good investment, if you ask me.

        1. Ammo as a barter item only works with someone you really, really know and trust. Otherwise, what would stop them from using that ammo to get the rest of what you have?

  5. Keep in mind OWS Oakland (West Coast, et al) still plan to shutdown all West Coast Ports in 2 days. Imagine US reaction if a foreign power said they planned to blockade our ports with the intent to disrupt or destroy our economy? Imagine if southern states threatened to blockade northern ports?

    Now imagine a foreign power selling firearms to our known criminals, and once discovered, the foreign leaders glossing over the death of Americans as “they were going to die anyway”. And those leaders and their followers seriously held that belief.

  6. The way I’ve gotten used to phrasing it is “Rope, tree, politician. Some assembly required.”

    It probably sounds more sophisticated in French, perhaps “Piétinez les politiciens ! Pendez-les aux lampadaires !” But I don’t speak French, so I’m not sure if that’s correct.

  8. It’s only over the line if a Republican says it. When Democrats threaten to assassinate Republicans, when they say all sorts of hateful things, why that’s just freedom of speech. Let a Republican put a target shaped symbol on a piece of paper and it’s loudly denounced with calls for “civility.”

    We’ve seen this year large scale, desctructive and even deadly riots in Greece and the UK over austerity measures. Don’t be deluded into believing it can’t and won’t happen here as economic reality starts to hit home. That’s why quite a few people I know are investing in brass and lead as precious metals.

    1. Never hang the bankers. They’re the only ones who know the combination to the vaults, so the entire world would have to live on whatever money was still in the ATM machines when the balloon went up. That money would run out pretty quickly, within a week at most, certainly before society came up with plan B, cracking open the vaults. But by then it would be too late because with the banks shut down, safecrackers would wisely only except cash, not checks or credit cards, and running out of cash is why we wanted to hire them. It would be a catch-22 leading directly to the end of civilization.

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