The Million Feces...uhh...Faces campaign had added Robert Mugabe, Heinrich Himmler, Jeffrey Dahmer, and Lon Horiuchi to their growing ranks of supporters.
I'll be working on another gallery update over the weekend to have ready for Million Moon March Monday.
In the mean time, a rep from Control Arms wrote back about my refusal to authorize them substituting my submission (typos left in):
Dear DavidI think I pretty much understand what it's about, and am putting together a reply. If any of you would like to add your regards to Ian, leave a comment below so I can include your thoughts (please self moderate, OK?)...
I was happy to remove you from the Control Arms site. I don't understand exactly why you are so angry. I thin you have faied to understand what the Control Arms campaign is about.
With Best Wishes,
Ian Sullivan
Ian,
ReplyDeleteI "thin" you "fai" to understand the issue at hand. I cannot, nor will I, support a group who holds as its core value the denial of basic human rights -- self-preservation and -defense -- through the denial of the means to defend those rights: arms.
They posted my pic..
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but looks like I screwed up my link
ReplyDeleteIf Ian doesn't trust us or himself with owning a firearm, then why should we trust him with something even more dangerous ... access to the political process?
ReplyDeletePeople who are nervous about others owning firearms are generally having a problem with "projection". They don't trust themselves with access to deadly force, and think that others share their desire to run people's lives for them.
Ian, I have been shot twice, attacked several times, luckily I was successful in repelling the attacks, but people were hurt, including me. I was unarmed every time.
ReplyDeleteSubsequently, the occassions when would-be assailants made their intentions known and they learned I was armed, they changed their minds. Nobody got hurt.
I will be armed from now on when I feel it necessary whether within or without the law. It is the least I can do to satisfy my duty to humanity.
Your approach destroys humanity. Shame on you. Why do you hate so the idea that people have an inherent right to secure for themselves the quiet enjoyment of their lives? Unarmed people live at the sufferance of barbarians. There lives are neither quiet or enjoyable. Nor are they their own.
I think it is you that fails to understand the issue at hand and how much harm to innocent people you will cause if you accomplish your goals. Unless, of course, you know exactly what you are doing and have need of a helpless subjugated mass of humanity. Pol Pot was one such disarmament fan. As was Stalin, Mao, Castro, Mugabe, Amin, et.al. Insanity is doing the same thing over and over the same way, always expecting different results. Your way has been the rule through most of history and most cultures, mass murder has always been the result. Always. No exceptions, ever.
The only places on earth where men breathe free is where they are armed. You cannot name an exception.
Thanks guys.
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Dear Ian,
No, I kow EXACTLY what the Control Arms campaign is about.
It is about giving government a monopoly of power.
It is about enabling genocide.
It is about passing edicts to disarm sovereign individuals--by force if they refuse.
I think it is you who fails to understand what people like me who will defend our right to keep and bear arms are about.
If you'll look at my last submission, you'll see the words "Molon Labe!"
They were uttered by Leonidas of Sparta, Ian, when Xerxes demanded he surrender his arms.
It translates as "Come and take them!"
Come and take them, Ian--you and your global "gun control" state worshipping enuretics.
We will not disarm. But we are perfectly happy to not force our will on you, as long as you leave us alone, which your crowd seems unwilling to do.
So the question falls to you, Ian--how many men like me are you willing to have killed in order to impose your will under force of arms? And how many are you willing to see killed trying to enforce your evil mandates?
Pass all the edicts you wish. Ultimately, it will come down to your side demanding surrender and my side saying "No."
So Molon Labe, Ian.
And now for some words from some friends who wanted to share their thoughts. You would be wise to heed them, which is why I suspect you will instead ignore and disparage them.
Josh said...
Ian,
I "thin" you "fai" to understand the issue at hand. I cannot, nor will I, support a group who holds as its core value the denial of basic human rights -- self-preservation and -defense -- through the denial of the means to defend those rights: arms.
David A. Homoney said...
Ian,
The foundation of freedom is life, liberty, and the persuit of happiness. You can not have the latter two criteria without life itself. Your group's stated goal is to take away the means by which to protect said life and in doing so take away liberty. I as a citizen and patriot of the United States of America can not and will not support your goals. I will not denigrate the memory of my forefathers and family who have died protecting the founding ideals of this country. In fact, it is my duty as a citizen to do what I can to thwart the threat posed by groups such as yourself. My elected officials will know my stance and I will let all the people I know about your attempts to beguile the world in order to take our freedoms.
Kristopher said...
If Ian doesn't trust us or himself with owning a firearm, then why should we trust him with something even more dangerous ... access to the political process?
People who are nervous about others owning firearms are generally having a problem with "projection". They don't trust themselves with access to deadly force, and think that others share their desire to run people's lives for them.
straightarrow said...
Ian, I have been shot twice, attacked several times, luckily I was successful in repelling the attacks, but people were hurt, including me. I was unarmed every time.
Subsequently, the occassions when would-be assailants made their intentions known and they learned I was armed, they changed their minds. Nobody got hurt.
I will be armed from now on when I feel it necessary whether within or without the law. It is the least I can do to satisfy my duty to humanity.
Your approach destroys humanity. Shame on you. Why do you hate so the idea that people have an inherent right to secure for themselves the quiet enjoyment of their lives? Unarmed people live at the sufferance of barbarians. There lives are neither quiet or enjoyable. Nor are they their own.
I think it is you that fails to understand the issue at hand and how much harm to innocent people you will cause if you accomplish your goals. Unless, of course, you know exactly what you are doing and have need of a helpless subjugated mass of humanity. Pol Pot was one such disarmament fan. As was Stalin, Mao, Castro, Mugabe, Amin, et.al. Insanity is doing the same thing over and over the same way, always expecting different results. Your way has been the rule through most of history and most cultures, mass murder has always been the result. Always. No exceptions, ever.
The only places on earth where men breathe free is where they are armed. You cannot name an exception.
David, I apologize for the lateness of my entry, I was in the hospital when this column ran. I hope you will find a use for my reply somewhere in the future.
ReplyDeleteYou know, it is much easier to deny human rights to those you have dehumanized. Look to the Armenian population in Turkey or the Jews of Germany. I have been called a "knuckle dragging moron" for being a conservative gun owner, a "hick from flyover country", and "uneducated".
But know this Ian. As a member of the Armed Forces of these United States, I will glady put my life on the line daily for your right to spew the vile, hateful rhetoric of a political point of view that disintergrated on a cold November night in 1989. Just like my Brothers in Arms have done for 230 years, not only for this country, but any country that has a yearning to be free of the dispicable, vile, murderous vermin that you would enable with this kind of campaign.
Thanks for the eloquent contribution, anonynous. I hope your health problems are behind you.
ReplyDeleteDavid Codrea said...
ReplyDeleteThanks for the eloquent contribution, anonynous. I hope your health problems are behind you.
David please tell me you didn't just wish hemorrhoids on that man.
Oh man, that is so tacky I almost went anonymous. If I was a better man I would be ashamed of myself.:)
:)
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