I’m
happy to announce that the Occupy Steubenville protest was a huge success.
Hundreds of people showed up, and we voiced our message loud and clear for all
to hear. We got some pretty good coverage by WTRF. You might recognize the guy
shown at minute 1:09. ;) WTRF 7 News Sports Weather - Wheeling Steubenville We
made excellent progress. We helped to expose the corruption that is
unfortunately brewing here in my home town. Below are the photos I took of the
event. I’ll have the video I shot of it uploaded too as soon as I can.
When a bunch of clueless celebrities get together to advance a political agenda it annoys me. I remember when I first watched Team America: World Police. While I found the movie hilarious, I didn't really like how it ridiculed anti-war celebrities. Now, 8 years later, South Park is pretty much my religion and I think Trey and Matt actually had a point in ridiculing those "liberal" Hollywood types. Their hypocrisy is astounding. Where has Sean Penn been since Obama came into power and not only continued, but expanded, the wars in the middle east? Why has he never said Obama "should be in fucking jail"? Oh right, because Obama's "liberal". It's okay when they do it!
Remember this creepy "I Pledge" video featuring numerous celebrities that was uploaded the day before Obama was inaugurated in January 2009?
Well some of those same celebrities are at it again, exploiting the recent Sandy Hook massacre and using their platform to promote a gun control agenda.
Okay let's see, orally stimulating satan this time are: Paul Rudd, Beyoncé, Jessica Alba (NOOOO!), Reese Witherspoon, Will Ferrell, Ellen Degeneres, Jennifer Garner, Selena Gomez (LOL), Chris Rock, Cameron Diaz, Courtney Cox, Steve Carell, Jennifer Aniston, Elizabeth Banks, Gwyneth Paltrow, Conan O'Brian and a bunch of other people I either don't recognize or don't know the name of off the top of my head. Lady Gaga also signed the "demand a plan" petition. If there's one thing that annoys me more than clueless celebrities making viral videos to promote a cause, it's people immediately seizing upon tragedies - especially ones involving children - to give a political lecture, and this video has both, so it's doubly disgusting.
I've lived all my life in the UK, so I've never fired or even held a gun before. And personally I'm happy about that. I am not "pro-gun", but I am anti-gun-control. In the UK, semi-automatic rifles were banned after the 1987 Hungerford massacre and handguns were banned after the 1996 Dunblane Primary School massacre (which many suspect to be a false flag, interesting how the same script is being followed at the moment in the US). Gun crime has of course gone down since those bans, though it did go up at first, but the UK is by no means a safe country. Assaults, stabbings, bottle attacks, sexual offences, burglaries etc. still go on and the police are generally incompetent. Several of my friends have been assaulted and bottled while walking home after nights out during the last five years or so and the police never do a damn thing about it! Whether or not promoting a gun culture will improve things, I'm not sure, but I'm willing to give it a try.
In the US, the number of people killed by guns is far less than the number of people killed by cars and by modern medicine. The response from gun control advocates to these undeniable facts is that cars and medicine greatly benefit society so it's worth it overall, guns don't. Their entire argument is predicated on the assumption that guns serve no purpose, but that is simply not true. Guns serve a very important purpose: they protect citizens from tyrants. Take a look at this picture...
This is a 1944 photo of the Auschwitz-Birkenau selection ramp (where it was decided which Jews would be sent to a labor camp and which would be sent to the gas chambers). Notice anything strange? There's thousands of Jews and just a few armed Nazis. How could so many allow themselves to be imprisoned by so few? Well there are many reasons, mostly psychological - cognitive dissonance, group pressure etc. Another key reason was gun control. Even those Jews who knew what awaited them couldn't exactly do anything, because they were unarmed. Years before, the Nazi government in Germany had made it illegal for Jews to own guns.
This isn't some non-sequitur invocation of "Godwin's Law". The disarming of Jews was key to the holocaust. They took away their ability to fight back, and this is how all tyrannies work. The founding fathers of America knew this and that's why America has a second amendment. I wonder how many of these "Demand a Plan" celebrities celebrate the fourth of July. If they support gun control, then they might as well not bother celebrating it from now on.
The recent increase in mass shootings in the US (assuming they aren't false flags, which, considering the media hype they attract, they probably are) is not due to guns, they are symptomatic of a degraded culture. Some people blame movies and video games, and they're probably right to a degree. That's not to say everyone who plays Call of Duty is going to shoot a bunch of people. I started playing 18-rated Grand Theft Auto games when I was 12 and I'm fine, but a subset of people of a certain psychological profile probably do get affected by these games.
On Election Day, we sent a message.Protect Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. End the wars and reinvest in our communities.
The wars and tax breaks for the rich and corporations got us into this mess. Move the money from wars and weapons to fund jobs and human services and make the rich pay their fair share of taxes.
One of the best ways to reduce the deficit is to put people back to work.It’s time to invest in our people and our communities to create stable jobs at living wages, rehabilitate our nation’s infrastructure and programs that serve the needs of people and communities, and develop a sustainable economy that protects the planet for future generations.
We want the war in Afghanistan to end and substantial cuts to be made to runaway Pentagon spending. Sign the Jobs not Wars Petition.
Over 80 organizations are gathering signatures to remind Congress and the Obama administration we need to fundamentally change Federal budget priorities from wars and ever more deadly weapons to jobs and meeting the needs of our communities.
We will present the Jobs Not Wars Petition to Congress & President Obama around the time of the Inauguration. Forward this email. Ask your friends and family to join you in signing the Jobs Not Wars Petition. Post this link http://bit.ly/jobs-not-wars-PAon your Facebook page and Tweet it to your social network.There is strength in numbers.
Don’t let our elected officials forget what we voted for. Time to change federal spending priorities from the “military industrial complex” to reinvest in our communities.
