I love this. It reminds me of my first-generation Irish Catholic mother who simply 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒏𝒐𝒕 refer to the English -- in any context -- without the preface, "the God-damned British." Every time...Though we had access to PBS, she prohibited our watching one of the most famous and watched British series, "Upstairs, Downstairs." Not in this house, she'd say. That's how fiercely she despised "the English."
"The murdered man or woman, or the rape victim, is not made whole again because we realize that a felon did what he did after having been abused as a child, or because of a an alleged chemical imbalance in his brain." I prefer fixing a problem rather than duct tape it. If you take a close look at our 'world' today, you'll see the results of how we live today - absent fathers, couch parenting, abandonment, extreme affects nonstop from movies, videos, gaming, cell phones, all where killing is almost a one-sided 'sport.' We've become godless, selfish, greedy, self-centered and dangerous. We make laws preventing women from elective abortions but we have no laws against piss-poor parenting and having a government who removes parental rights is definitely going in the wrong direction. Require parenting education vs punishing them. Interesting article - learned a lot.
Why do I feel like we're fighting against the Red Coats and Nazis at the same time? Perhaps it is all one thing. Franco-Prussian Anglicans. The Franks were Germans. Frankish money built England after the English Revolution. Many German investors moved to England because that's what happens when foreign investment takes over. Perhaps that's why Hitler felt such an affinity for the British upper class. And that is also the reason why I hate the fuckin' British upper class. I don't hate the British people. I hate the system of Frankish manners which is a method of displaying their contempt for everyone they feel is beneath them. I hate their philosophy. I hate their religion. It's Toryism with a Nazi core. And it stinks a little like the southern racist democrats and their rot. I don't like the flavor of it.
No doubt! The husband was a lawyer, the wife didn't work, IIRC, so they were sitting there saying how our country should be run and cutting down the US for having guns. Yeah. "The Ugly American," that's me. 😂
Which seems to be happening more and more these days…seen this book yet? Let's begin with the basics: violence is an inherent part of policing. The police represent the most direct means by which the state imposes its will on the citizenry. They are armed, trained, and authorized to use force. Like the possibility of arrest, the threat of violence is implicit in every police encounter. Violence, as well as the law, is what they represent.
Using media reports alone, the Cato Institute's last annual study listed nearly seven thousand victims of police "misconduct" in the United States. But such stories of police brutality only scratch the surface of a national epidemic. Every year, tens of thousands are framed, blackmailed, beaten, sexually assaulted, or killed by cops. Hundreds of millions of dollars are spent on civil judgments and settlements annually. Individual lives, families, and communities are destroyed.
In this extensively revised and updated edition of his seminal study of policing in the United States, Kristian Williams shows that police brutality isn't an anomaly, but is built into the very meaning of law enforcement in the United States. From antebellum slave patrols to today's unarmed youth being gunned down in the streets, "peace keepers" have always used force to shape behavior, repress dissent, and defend the powerful. Our Enemies in Blue is a well-researched page-turner that both makes historical sense of this legalized social pathology and maps out possible alternatives.
Great article and I fully agree with you . There are too many fantasies of one beautiful harmonious world all holding hands . Yes who wouldn’t want that . The fact is not in our lifetimes, so be prepared to defend yourself if things go to shit in your local neighbourhood. I wish Australians would wake up . The young feminised men in my country saddens me . Thinking by acting soft and vulnerable girls might like them ( blue pilled rubes ).
RIght? Women getting raped all over the place and no one can do much about it. Pitiful. Ireland is my roots on my Dad’s side. Hungary is my roots on my mothers side. The Hungarians figured it out. Try illegally immigrating there. It won’t happen.
True, but without the milita it's you against however many they send. Like with Bryan Malinowski. They sent 10 CAR LOADS for one guy. It was a hit squad.
You do Sherman a great disservice. His efforts to control his troops were thwarted by courts marshall. There was even the peculiar instance where he allowed himself to be a witness for the prosecution in a case of one of his soldiers for being, shall we say a wee bit too enthusiastic in his foraging. Despite Sherman testifying as the commanding general on the behalf of the prosecution, the military court found the soldier not guilty. Sherman at one time remarked that if he were only allowed to met out regular army punishments to the volunteers, all manner of disciplinary troubles would all but cease. The civilians in the war department, congress and the officers of the volunteers prevented this. Eventually, he stopped fighting those opposed to his ideas of discipline and focused on out maneuvering his enemy in the field.
Where do you get your information from? Obviously I haven't hadn't ever read any of that before. I'd like to compare the writings of whoever wrote that to the writings that I've read that describe Sherman as a monster.
Bits and pieces here and there but the whole story of it is laid out in the book “SHERMAN A Soldiers’s Life” by Lee Kennett. Fascinating read, paints a totally different picture of him. But long long ago, when I was first getting interested in the war I read that contrary to what everyone thinks, he did not order his army to do the worst of what it did during the March to the Sea, he just did little to stop it. This had been reinforced in later readings too. I do not recall any specifics as I read it over 30 years ago, but “War so Terrible” on Sherman’s March to the sea provided more or this.
Sherman loved the South. He was employed by a State military school in the South at the start of the war. He and Bragg were buddies. His statement that his soldiers would make South Carolina howl was not a command nor wish but a plain simple statement of fact similar to a doctor telling you “This is going to hurt”, but perhaps with at least a tinge of lamentation. He was stating what an army composed of men that the commanding officer was not allowed to bring the full weight of army discipline to would do in that situation. He both lamented and reveled in his reputation during the war. Lamented it as it was not who he was and it was due to his disciplinary efforts being curtailed. Reveled in it because it made his job easier. Terrified soldiers are easier to defeat and a terrified populace easier to control.
During his march through Georgia, he did send units to protect private property. Any civilian that came to him asking for protection, got. There may have been exceptions, especially if found unguarded by the bummers before the protection arrived. Occupied homes were protected, to the best of his ability. However, he stated something along the lines of if the homeowners did not care enough for their homes to stay in them, he was not going to spend any effort to defend them.
Sherman is considered a monster by those he vanquished mainly because he was successful, secondly because of how he attained that success which has been exaggerated to some degree, and because his requests to use regularly army discipline on his volunteers were denied.
Now to really piss people off. The Commanding general of the forces responsible for the Rape of Nanking was absolutely appalled be the behavior of his command. An intercepted (perhaps captured after the war, I forget which) radio transmission has him complaining that his command were acting like “Attila and his Huns”. In private writings, he lamented he had no idea how he could face his Chinese friends, did not know what he could say. His efforts to control his command were thwarted by a junior officer, who as an imperial prince. The CO would say “stop that” but the prince would say “go ahead”. After the war, the CO committed suppuku for failing in his duties to the Emperor.
So if my “commander” says to shoot some civilian in the head and I do so, I’m not responsible? Your argument didn’t hold up to well at the Nuremberg trials. I’m ALWAYS the one responsible for my actions. No one can, even as an authority pull my trigger finger. So, no, those RESPONSIBLE were those that committed the atrocities. The King of England ordered his men to take the arms from the colonists at Concord Green. Without the ENFORCERS, it couldn’t happen. ENFORCERS accept THEIR responsibility for what they do, not the moron telling them what to do. You have it backwards.
That is true, but in the US, no military commander is the supreme authority. Further, there are such things as unlawful orders. If I, as a us naval sailor obeyed an unlawful order, I would be at just as much jeopardy as I would for disobeying an order.
Has anyone on here learned about new AI 🤖 technology Biden approved for use by EO. … it’s all ELectrical. Guns don’t work at that point. … go watch & learn all the new technology our police & military have
Well said! The Second Amendment said "shall not be infringed", which means EVERY GUN LAW violates the Constitution!
Says. It still stands. And ever law on the books, gun related or not, if there is no VICTIM violates the Constitution as well as common decency.
I love this. It reminds me of my first-generation Irish Catholic mother who simply 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒏𝒐𝒕 refer to the English -- in any context -- without the preface, "the God-damned British." Every time...Though we had access to PBS, she prohibited our watching one of the most famous and watched British series, "Upstairs, Downstairs." Not in this house, she'd say. That's how fiercely she despised "the English."
Stay armed.
I can't say as I blame her.
... a government set on taking your guns must know they've done something that might get them shot.
"The murdered man or woman, or the rape victim, is not made whole again because we realize that a felon did what he did after having been abused as a child, or because of a an alleged chemical imbalance in his brain." I prefer fixing a problem rather than duct tape it. If you take a close look at our 'world' today, you'll see the results of how we live today - absent fathers, couch parenting, abandonment, extreme affects nonstop from movies, videos, gaming, cell phones, all where killing is almost a one-sided 'sport.' We've become godless, selfish, greedy, self-centered and dangerous. We make laws preventing women from elective abortions but we have no laws against piss-poor parenting and having a government who removes parental rights is definitely going in the wrong direction. Require parenting education vs punishing them. Interesting article - learned a lot.
I'm not part of the "we" in that list.
Me neither.
Why do I feel like we're fighting against the Red Coats and Nazis at the same time? Perhaps it is all one thing. Franco-Prussian Anglicans. The Franks were Germans. Frankish money built England after the English Revolution. Many German investors moved to England because that's what happens when foreign investment takes over. Perhaps that's why Hitler felt such an affinity for the British upper class. And that is also the reason why I hate the fuckin' British upper class. I don't hate the British people. I hate the system of Frankish manners which is a method of displaying their contempt for everyone they feel is beneath them. I hate their philosophy. I hate their religion. It's Toryism with a Nazi core. And it stinks a little like the southern racist democrats and their rot. I don't like the flavor of it.
BRAVO. BRAVO!
We will never disarm.
NEVER!!!
The old saying…you can have my gun after you pry it from my cold dead fingers.
I said that to an Australian couple on a cruise. They got up and left. I didn't feel bad, they were in my country.
and "their" government treated them so nicely during the CONvid scamdemic, didn't they?
No doubt! The husband was a lawyer, the wife didn't work, IIRC, so they were sitting there saying how our country should be run and cutting down the US for having guns. Yeah. "The Ugly American," that's me. 😂
And they will, not the first, or even the second, third, fourth, or even fifth, and it will stop some time after that.
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn said so.
When seconds count, the police are just minutes away... unless they're the ones that you happen to need to defend yourself from.
Which seems to be happening more and more these days…seen this book yet? Let's begin with the basics: violence is an inherent part of policing. The police represent the most direct means by which the state imposes its will on the citizenry. They are armed, trained, and authorized to use force. Like the possibility of arrest, the threat of violence is implicit in every police encounter. Violence, as well as the law, is what they represent.
Using media reports alone, the Cato Institute's last annual study listed nearly seven thousand victims of police "misconduct" in the United States. But such stories of police brutality only scratch the surface of a national epidemic. Every year, tens of thousands are framed, blackmailed, beaten, sexually assaulted, or killed by cops. Hundreds of millions of dollars are spent on civil judgments and settlements annually. Individual lives, families, and communities are destroyed.
In this extensively revised and updated edition of his seminal study of policing in the United States, Kristian Williams shows that police brutality isn't an anomaly, but is built into the very meaning of law enforcement in the United States. From antebellum slave patrols to today's unarmed youth being gunned down in the streets, "peace keepers" have always used force to shape behavior, repress dissent, and defend the powerful. Our Enemies in Blue is a well-researched page-turner that both makes historical sense of this legalized social pathology and maps out possible alternatives.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1849352151
Great article and I fully agree with you . There are too many fantasies of one beautiful harmonious world all holding hands . Yes who wouldn’t want that . The fact is not in our lifetimes, so be prepared to defend yourself if things go to shit in your local neighbourhood. I wish Australians would wake up . The young feminised men in my country saddens me . Thinking by acting soft and vulnerable girls might like them ( blue pilled rubes ).
And look at Ireland now.
RIght? Women getting raped all over the place and no one can do much about it. Pitiful. Ireland is my roots on my Dad’s side. Hungary is my roots on my mothers side. The Hungarians figured it out. Try illegally immigrating there. It won’t happen.
This is scary: https://www.americas1stfreedom.org/content/the-biden-administration-is-watching-you/
being necessary to the security of a free state
What good is that without the first four words as part of the understanding?
not as important as “shall not be infringed”
True, but without the milita it's you against however many they send. Like with Bryan Malinowski. They sent 10 CAR LOADS for one guy. It was a hit squad.
Truly!
Dysfunctionally unworldly.
You do Sherman a great disservice. His efforts to control his troops were thwarted by courts marshall. There was even the peculiar instance where he allowed himself to be a witness for the prosecution in a case of one of his soldiers for being, shall we say a wee bit too enthusiastic in his foraging. Despite Sherman testifying as the commanding general on the behalf of the prosecution, the military court found the soldier not guilty. Sherman at one time remarked that if he were only allowed to met out regular army punishments to the volunteers, all manner of disciplinary troubles would all but cease. The civilians in the war department, congress and the officers of the volunteers prevented this. Eventually, he stopped fighting those opposed to his ideas of discipline and focused on out maneuvering his enemy in the field.
Where do you get your information from? Obviously I haven't hadn't ever read any of that before. I'd like to compare the writings of whoever wrote that to the writings that I've read that describe Sherman as a monster.
Bits and pieces here and there but the whole story of it is laid out in the book “SHERMAN A Soldiers’s Life” by Lee Kennett. Fascinating read, paints a totally different picture of him. But long long ago, when I was first getting interested in the war I read that contrary to what everyone thinks, he did not order his army to do the worst of what it did during the March to the Sea, he just did little to stop it. This had been reinforced in later readings too. I do not recall any specifics as I read it over 30 years ago, but “War so Terrible” on Sherman’s March to the sea provided more or this.
Sherman loved the South. He was employed by a State military school in the South at the start of the war. He and Bragg were buddies. His statement that his soldiers would make South Carolina howl was not a command nor wish but a plain simple statement of fact similar to a doctor telling you “This is going to hurt”, but perhaps with at least a tinge of lamentation. He was stating what an army composed of men that the commanding officer was not allowed to bring the full weight of army discipline to would do in that situation. He both lamented and reveled in his reputation during the war. Lamented it as it was not who he was and it was due to his disciplinary efforts being curtailed. Reveled in it because it made his job easier. Terrified soldiers are easier to defeat and a terrified populace easier to control.
During his march through Georgia, he did send units to protect private property. Any civilian that came to him asking for protection, got. There may have been exceptions, especially if found unguarded by the bummers before the protection arrived. Occupied homes were protected, to the best of his ability. However, he stated something along the lines of if the homeowners did not care enough for their homes to stay in them, he was not going to spend any effort to defend them.
Sherman is considered a monster by those he vanquished mainly because he was successful, secondly because of how he attained that success which has been exaggerated to some degree, and because his requests to use regularly army discipline on his volunteers were denied.
Now to really piss people off. The Commanding general of the forces responsible for the Rape of Nanking was absolutely appalled be the behavior of his command. An intercepted (perhaps captured after the war, I forget which) radio transmission has him complaining that his command were acting like “Attila and his Huns”. In private writings, he lamented he had no idea how he could face his Chinese friends, did not know what he could say. His efforts to control his command were thwarted by a junior officer, who as an imperial prince. The CO would say “stop that” but the prince would say “go ahead”. After the war, the CO committed suppuku for failing in his duties to the Emperor.
authority may be delegated. responsibility cannot. the commander is always responsible for everything his unit does or fails to do.
louisiana. mississippi. alabama. georgia. south carolina. patterns. sherman and troops under sherman in each case.
So if my “commander” says to shoot some civilian in the head and I do so, I’m not responsible? Your argument didn’t hold up to well at the Nuremberg trials. I’m ALWAYS the one responsible for my actions. No one can, even as an authority pull my trigger finger. So, no, those RESPONSIBLE were those that committed the atrocities. The King of England ordered his men to take the arms from the colonists at Concord Green. Without the ENFORCERS, it couldn’t happen. ENFORCERS accept THEIR responsibility for what they do, not the moron telling them what to do. You have it backwards.
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That is true, but in the US, no military commander is the supreme authority. Further, there are such things as unlawful orders. If I, as a us naval sailor obeyed an unlawful order, I would be at just as much jeopardy as I would for disobeying an order.
We all need to keep up with latest technology…
Here is one for you…100 yards away. Broad daylight.
Can’t see anything 🤷♀️
Look again. Use the enlarge feature on your screen.
lol. My screen 📺
Has anyone on here learned about new AI 🤖 technology Biden approved for use by EO. … it’s all ELectrical. Guns don’t work at that point. … go watch & learn all the new technology our police & military have
Watch what happens with guns once they start using some of that shit on we the people.
Do you watch Nonvaxer420 on Rumble. He has videos on the latest approved weapons waiting to be rolled out 🙏.
But until then .. so love my Florida
If “we the people” haven’t all been “knocked out by AI drones” to be already awakened somewhere 😞