Gun Control and the Silencing of Opposition

A mass shooting in Germany, which took the lives of nine people is being blamed on an anti-immigrant, right-wing extremist. On Wednesday, February 19, the gunman launched his attack in an area well known to be inhabited by immigrants, and the first victims were of Turkish origin. This was enough for the Interior Minister of the state of Hesse to label this a mass slaughter motivated by bigotry. The shooters alleged manifesto (the fact there is a manifesto should be the first clue something is out of place) calls for the outright elimination of several African countries that all happen to be Muslim majority. The implication being that he is an anti-Islamic, white nationalist. In America the left-wing media also attempts to blame all mass shootings on the so called racist, right-wing extremists who supposedly hate everyone who isn’t white. In the report Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment, Americans who speak out against immigrants are considered potential threats to national security. Labeling dissenters as extremists is part of a larger agenda to silence the growing opposition to the destruction of national borders and the flooding of nations with third world immigrants.

Germany has very stringent gun control laws in place. Out of a population of 80 million, two million people own nearly five and a half million guns. Police also estimate that there are over twenty million illegal guns in the country. In order to legally purchase a gun an individual must first have a justifiable reason, (self-defense is not considered justifiable) undergo a very strict background check, demonstrate knowledge of firearms satisfactory to the licensing agency and, first-time applicants under the age of twenty-five must complete a thorough psychiatric evaluation. Their gun laws were recently updated to include provisions such as home inspections of gun owners by the countries domestic intelligence agency. This was done to ensure compliance with the nations safe gun storage laws, and monitor behavior for signs of right-wing extremism. These checks would occur every five years, and the gun owner would have to justify to the government’s satisfaction, the reason they need a firearm. This is another example of the utter and complete failure of gun control because the shooter in the February 19 killings was a licensed firearm owner. Of course, this shooting has renewed interest in the passage of stricter gun control laws.

Allegedly, gun crime rates in Germany are low compared to the rates of gun ownership. What is on the rise, however, is violent knife crime. This is a trend that is occurring all over Europe. For example, Jihadwatch.com is reporting that there are over one-hundred-twenty knife related crimes per day in France, that all can be linked to the countries immigration policies. In Germany, the number of knife related crimes has skyrocketed by over nine hundred percent in the past decade. There are over ten a day and the media does not report them, nor do the police release the names of the perpetrators.

 German media do not report most knife-related violence. Crimes that are reported are often dismissed as "isolated incidents" that are unrelated to mass immigration. Moreover, many crime reports, including those in police blotters, omit references to the nationalities of the perpetrators and victims — apparently to avoid inflaming anti-immigration sentiments.... Many Germans have the sense that danger lurks everywhere, but the lack of official statistics seemingly allows German authorities to pretend that the problem is imaginary (Kern, 2019).

The U.K. is another example where up to sixty percent of the violet knife crime occurring is committed by Islamic immigrants. Britain, like Germany and France, has very restrictive gun laws but that is not keeping people safe. It is making them easy targets to violent criminals who have no regard for human life. The problem is so out of hand in London that the only solution the government can come up with is the pushing of knife control campaigns to further disarm law abiding people.

America is also under extreme pressure from massive illegal immigration. This is a trend occurring all throughout the western world and the excuse is that civilized nations must take in refugees from war torn countries and nations affected most by issues like climate change. Mass immigration is an agenda driven by the United Nations in its quest for global government. The U.N. report, “Replacement Migration: Is it a solution to declining and aging populations?” highlights the need to replace populations where there are allegedly low fertility and high mortality rates. Ironically, the United States, Britain, France and Germany are all listed as targeted nations for population replacement. This is interesting considering the fact that many western countries are being brainwashed into believing that having children is unsustainable for the environment due to over population of the planet. Also, in these very same countries abortion is being pushed as a human rights issue. Is it possible that the western world is being programmed to de-populate itself, so that there is a need to replace populations?

Those considered to be politically conservative tend to advocate for laws that honor a nations national identity. They oppose illegal immigration and encourage assimilation into the nation’s culture. They have no problem with legal immigration, they just believe there should be some level of adopting the welcoming country’s culture and customs. According to the article Political Conservatism as Motivated Social Cognition, conservatives suffer from mental illness because of their rigidity towards change. Political conservatism, according to Jost, Kruglanski, Glaser and Sulloway (2003) is merely an attitude developed to “reduce fear, anxiety, and uncertainty; to avoid change, disruption, and ambiguity; and to explain, order, and justify inequality among groups and individuals.” In other words, you are a racist if you oppose millions of people who have no regard for your culture but expect you to honor theirs pouring into your country.

Recent mass shooters in the United States have been labeled as white nationalists, or white supremacists. Just as it is in Germany, if the shooter doesn’t fit this description it receives very little airtime or may be swept under the rug and ignored all together. The agenda is to label all those opposed to mass immigration as being unstable, uncompassionate or potentially dangerous. Several states have passed red flag laws, with many more somewhere in the process of doing so. Under these laws the government can remove an individual’s firearms if they have been deemed a threat to themselves or others. In this article it has been demonstrated that Germany is actively seeking to keep firearms out of the hands of people the government deems to be “right-wing extremists.” American’s that oppose illegal immigration are also considered to be extremists and conservatism as a political ideology, a mental illness. There is a definite correlation between violent crime and mass immigration, and people in western nations feel as if their livelihood and national identities are being stolen from them. The more we speak up, the more they label us as potential terrorists. Every time they portray one of these shootings as being committed by an anti-immigrant nationalist” the more public opinion turns against rational conversations about immigration. How long is it before a political ideology can have you deemed a danger to yourself or others in the United States?

           

Another Red Flag Failure

There was another tragedy in Florida. Though, this one did not involve a gun. If a gun had been involved it is all too obvious that Florida’s increasingly oppressive gun control laws would have done little to stop it. Florida was one of the first states to adopt the unconstitutional red flag laws after the Parkland school shooting two years ago. Since that time, over 3,500 people have been stripped of their firearms after being deemed a danger to themselves or others. Thirteen-year-old Corey Johnson should have been considered a danger to himself or others. Perhaps that would have stopped him from slashing the throat of young Jovanni Alexander Sierra after he converted to Islam

Johnson bought the knife from a local Publix store. The parents of Sierra are seeking to sue Publix for selling him the knife because it is illegal for people under the age of eighteen to purchase one. Prohibiting the sale of a knife to minors would most definitely prevent them from obtaining one from just about anywhere else. Perhaps they should institute a national background check for knife purchases because it has kept firearms out of violent criminals’ hands so well. It is a good thing Florida doesn’t have knife control laws in place because they would be a colossal failure.

Johnsons conversion to Islam should have been a red flag because according to the journal “Combating Terrorism Exchange,” the number of Islamic converts committing acts of violence has risen dramatically since September 11, 2001. This isn’t to suggest that all people who convert to Islam are potential threats, that would be a bigoted assumption. There is anecdotal evidence however, that shows “they constitute a growing pool of hundreds, if not thousands, of very dangerous people who represent direct security threats” (Arasli, 2011). There is also evidence suggesting a high percentage of Muslim terror attacks involve people who have recently converted to the religion. For example, Arasli (2011) states that out of forty-two Islamic terror plots foiled in the U.S. immediately following 9/11, twenty-six of them involved converts. After September 11, Johnsons conversion would have likely caught the attention of investigators. Today’s rampant political correctness has entirely changed the way terrorism is investigated. Over fears of appearing “Islamophobic,” former FBI director Robert Mueller removed hundreds of pages of documents which identified the growing threat of radical Islam from the training manuals. Taking its place as the new terrorist threat is the American gun owner.

Red flag laws are becoming the go to solution for an imagined gun violence epidemic. Under these draconian, soviet style laws, a person can file a petition with the court to have an individual’s firearms removed based on behavior alone. Dr. Dennis Petrocelli, a clinical psychiatrist, writes in his article Raising Red Flags, that confiscating guns based on the premise that someone may commit a violent crime is not something that can be proven effective. There is no evidence, according to Petrocelli, that any medical doctor or psychiatrist has, or can, successfully predict an individual’s future behavior.

Red flag laws have just become a convenient excuse to disarm America one person at a time. They have accomplished little in the way of public safety by focusing on people who have committed no crime. Even in the case of Johnson, there is no law that would have prevented this tragedy. Even if the FBI had been keeping tabs on Islamic converts, there was nothing in this individual’s behavior suggesting that he would commit a murder. Florida claims its red flag law has been enormously successful, however, in August of 2018 there was another school incident where two people were shot. On February 19, 2020 a man was shot dead near a North Miami Dade grocery store. On February 18, 2020 a home invasion left one man dead and another wounded, with no information on the suspects. A shooting on February 17, 2020 left one dead in Miami Gardens. Finally, three hours after the last one a twenty-three year old was shot dead at Lauderdale Lakes. This is four murders, excluding Johnson, in a three day period that Florida’s red flag law did nothing to prevent.

The only thing red flag laws are doing is disarming innocent people and denying them their rights to due process.

Warrior's Forgotten and A Nation Lost

There’s a patch that’s commonly seen on the back of old veteran’s biker jackets, or sometimes hanging at a local V.A. hospital. The patch has a quote that always rung in my head with a certain truth because so many people disregard our nations warriors, and our country is so much the worse for it. The patch reads “A nation that forgets its defenders is a nation soon forgotten.” Our government has sent them off to foreign wars under the lie that they are defending freedom and then, leave them to rot, or label them as terrorists when they return.

In Wisconsin a combat vet named Rich Clewien is experiencing this now, as I write this article. Rich has no criminal record and was discharged honorably from the United States Army. He purchased ten acres of land in rural Wisconsin where him and his wife both work for the state corrections department. Rich built a makeshift shooting range on his property which is perfectly legal to do. His neighbors however were offended and called law enforcement. Despite officers finding no evidence of wrongdoing and filing no charges, his neighbors continued the unnecessary harassment by filing a civil suit against him. The suit alleges that Rich is creating a public nuisance which is a complaint that is nearly impossible to defend against. Again, it should be noted that Mr. Clewien has broken no law at this point.

We live in a time where constant propaganda has created an environment of irrational fear and mistrust of people who own firearms. Most of us remember being eleven or twelve and taking hunter safety classes at the local rod and gun club. These days, children are suspended from school and mass chaos ensues when children bite pop tarts in gun shapes. In Colorado, a teenage boy was suspended from school for going to a shooting range with his mother.

The country’s attitude towards firearms certainly has changed. There is a concentrated effort to manipulate the young minds of America into an anti-gun mindset. Eric Holder, Obamas former attorney general, said that people need to be brainwashed into thinking differently about guns. America has traditionally been a warrior culture where firearm ownership has been considered our birthright and as much a part of American heritage as apple pie. If they want to disarm us, then they must first change our minds. This is being accomplished in any number of ways. The schools are continually running shooter on campus drills which, along with the spectacular media coverage of actual school shootings, creates a state of panic in our children. These children will grow up being tomorrow’s gun control advocates.

Without a doubt the most dangerous development of the gun control agenda is the spreading plague of red flag laws, or extreme risk protection orders. Ever since Donald Trump said on live television, “take the guns first go and then go to court,”, states have been passing them at an increasingly alarming rate. Many of these states are headed up by republican majorities as well. Under most of these laws a person can have their guns confiscated on the mere suggestion that they may pose a danger to themselves or others. There is no forewarning, no trial, no charges filed. Just an accusation based on fear. The term “a threat to themselves or others” itself is so vague and is ripe for abuse. Some of these laws even consider a recent purchase of a gun or ammunition to be a warning sign. Ultimately, the goal of red flag laws is to do exactly what Eric Holder suggested, create a constant fear of gun ownership to the point where simply owning a gun can have one labeled as potentially dangerous.

Wisconsin does not currently have a red flag law, though one has been introduced in 2019. This doesn’t matter for Mr. Clewien because the state is acting as if they do. Marquette County Judge Chad Hendee, on behalf of the suing party, has ordered him to release his V.A. medical files, which are protected by federal HIPPA laws. The judge has also order Mr. Clewien to provide an inventory of his firearms and all receipts for purchased ammunition. The judge cannot do this, it is a violation of the fourth amendment. If Mr. Clewien fails to provide this information by March first, he will be held in contempt of court.

Judge Hendee says that “a good judge listens well and treats all people fairly and equally without drawing immediate conclusions” (Allen, 2019). It seems to me that he is extremely biased against war veterans. Mr. Clewien has broken no laws and served his country honorably under the sincere belief he was defending their freedom, unaware of how the country has slowly changed. He is being treated like he is dangerous simply because he was in the service and he likes to shoot. With today’s increasingly hostile attitude towards the constitution, the bill of rights and gun ownership; along with the engineered mistrust brought about by divide and conquer tactics, this could happen to any one of us at any time.

The Plight of the American Vet….

Warriors in search of honor,

     in a war where there was none.

     Home to the ungrateful,

    labeled, they took his gun.

    A soldier in search of faith,

    his religion been replaced,

    Comes home from all the fighting

             To a completely different place.

              Fighters search for peace,

              war rages in their head.

              Goes back to those that sent them,

              homeless without a bed.

             Young men search for truth

              among men who only lie.

              We fought your war, yet you forsake us,

              may I ask you why?

In A World Not of Our Making

Trapped in a world not of our making,

Glimpses of the future, our hearts sadly aching.



What happened to freedom? Where did our country go?

Where did these tyrants come from? Whom to liberty they say no.



I have hopes and my children their dreams.

My wife wants to sail in the brisk ocean breeze.


I want to share joy, fancy the world’s wonder.

I love to write poetry in storms of roaring thunder.



Our freedom is slipping, being ripped away.

No not tomorrow, it is happening now, it is happening today.



Quiet soul shudders, my eye sheds a tear.



The day that would never come, drawing dangerously near.



This life is mine by virtue of God, and freedom is my right. It is not I who is picking, this senseless needless fight.



For the tyrant is here and we know what is to come.

For this life we hold dear, we can never turn and run.


The Warrior's Poet

Trained for Social Change: Creating Social Activists Through Operant Conditioning

The Western Journal recently ran an article detailing a New York Times initiative called the 1619 project. The aim of this project is to build upon the racial tensions exacerbated by the modern social justice movement by teaching elementary school children that the Revolutionary War was fought to protect the institution of slavery. There are several reasons why this is factually incorrect; however, if our children are continually exposed to this type of propaganda, they will grow up believing it. According to The Western Journal, 3,500 schools across all fifty states have adopted this lesson. Donald Trump was praised for his state of the union address, where among other things, he boasted that children shouldn’t be forced to go to failing government schools.  The truth is that the federal department of education controls the curriculum across the board. It doesn’t matter what school children go to ̶ they will be exposed to the same lessons. Why would the federal department of education allow such a lesson to be taught? The answer is simple; the school system is a catalyst for shaping young minds and conditioning children to be agents of social change. Children in elementary school today will be tomorrow’s change agents for social justice.

The goal of education is not to create free thinking individuals, but a compliant citizenry that accepts government control over their lives. This is achieved through operant conditioning techniques, a process otherwise known as stimulus response conditioning. Founded by B.F. Skinner, operant conditioning works on the premise that behavior can be controlled and modified by manipulating the environment and reinforcing acceptable behavior through negative or positive reinforcers. Positive reinforcement means awarding behaviors by adding a stimulus, and negative reinforcement means removing certain stimulus which may lead to the acceptable behavior. In other words, our children are either being praised for going along with the program or ridiculed and punished if they don’t. In 1969, the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare released a booklet entitled “Reducing Behavior Problems: An Operant Conditioning Guide for Children,” where operant conditioning is defined as the following-

“In its simplest form, operant conditioning involves the systematic use of consequences to strengthen and weaken behaviors under specified stimulus conditions. Operant behavior is strengthened by some consequences called reinforcers and weakened by other consequences called punishers. Withdrawal of reinforcing consequences will also weaken behavior. This procedure is called extinction.”

Behaviorists such as Skinner have been studying human behavior for decades. They have known how to produce compliant behavior and are developing new ways to do so. In Skinner’s Beyond Freedom and Dignity he highlights how behavior can be manipulated through people’s natural tendency to want to fit in. “People who get along together well under the mild contingencies of approval and disapproval are controlled as effectively as (and in many ways more effectively than) the citizens of a police state (Skinner, 1971). What he is saying is that through the techniques of operant conditioning, children in our schools, out of fear of standing out or causing problems will go along with what they are taught. This behavior will be reinforced through reinforcement schedules to the point it becomes ingrained in who they are. In other words, this is how our children are growing up to be social justice activists, through behavior modification techniques.

"Education should aim at destroying free will so that after pupils are thus schooled, they will be incapable throughout the rest of their lives of thinking or acting otherwise than as their school masters would have wished ... The social psychologist of the future will have a number of classes of school children on whom they will try different methods of producing an unshakable conviction that snow is black. When the technique has been perfected, every government that has been in charge of education for more than one generation will be able to control its subjects securely without the need of armies or policemen." -----Bertrand Russell quoting Johann Gottlieb Fichte, the head of philosophy & psychology who influenced Hegel and others – Prussian University in Berlin, 1810[16]

John Dewey, known as the father of modern education, believed that public schooling should be used as a means of socializing students and creating the type of citizenry that fits societies needs. In other words, education should focus on creating a work force and not free-thinking individuals. This is very much in line with the type of education system we have today. Dewey also believed that reading and high literacy rates were detrimental to this agenda and schools should focus on reducing curriculums focused on the development of reading and writing skills. Today, America is facing a literacy crisis where 30 million Americans cannot read or write above third grade level.  Many of the problems facing the teaching of writing are highlighted in this writer’s paper “The State of Writing in American Education.” One example is the fact that the English language itself is being taught as a form of white supremacy and systematic oppression. This is being done to condition students with the belief that America needs to change while reinforcing the misperception that our nation was founded on racism and slavery.

The Department of Education is also founded on the same ideals that Dewey believed in. In fact, much of Dewey’s vision for education was motivated by the Soviet system. In the book “Toward Soviet America,” Communist party chairman William foster espouses his vision for a federally controlled education system ̶

"A U.S. Department of Education; implementation of a scientific materialist philosophy; studies revolutionized, being cleansed of religious, patriotic and other features of the bourgeois ideology; students taught on the basis of Marxian dialectical materialism, internationalism and general ethics of a new socialist society; present obsolete methods of teaching will be superseded by a scientific pedagogy. The whole basis and organization of capitalist science will be revolutionized. Science will become materialistic, hence truly scientific. God will be banished from the laboratories as well as from the schools.

Does this not explain the current state of American education? Does this not give some understanding of why so many kids are coming out of public schools begging for socialism and hating their own country?

The Federal Department of Education, under the Trump administration no less, has recently signed on to the United Nations sustainable development initiative. This puts the global agenda at the heart of all education initiatives, particularly dealing with the faux issue of climate change. President Trump is the head of all federal agencies and has it within his power to ensure our schools are teaching the constitution and American values. “No parent should be forced to send their child to a failing government school,” The President remarked in his state of the union address. If behavior modification continues to be the goal, all schools will be failing our children. With each passing generation we are moving further and further away from liberty and closer to Communism. Except, it won’t have to be implemented by force. They have us begging for it.

“The most controversial issues of the twenty-first century will pertain to the ends and means of modifying human behavior and who shall determine them. The first educational question will not be what knowledge is of the most worth? but what kinds of human beings do we wish to produce? The possibilities virtually defy our imagination.” (Goodlad, 1997)

I want to be a poet,

Free my mind to wander

Forget about the politics

For there is so much more to ponder

The human soul so trapped in strife,

Blinded to the beauty in this one and only life,

Crawling through blackness to set ourselves free,

Frantically searching, for meaningful certainty.

We all want to matter but we’re spiritually deceived.

Led astray from the one, and only true eternity.

It is God that gave us this life to live,

And it is to him I wish my soul to give.

I want to be a poet and let my mind wander,

Forget about the politics for there is so much more to ponder.  

The Plight of the American Vet

There’s a patch that’s commonly seen on the back of old veteran’s biker jackets, or sometimes hanging at a local V.A. hospital. The patch has always rung in my head with a certain truth because so many people disregard and disrespect our nations warriors, and our country is so much the worse for it. The patch reads “A nation that forgets its defenders is a nation soon forgotten.” Our government has sent them off to foreign wars under the lie that they are defending freedom and leave them to rot, or label them as terrorists when they return.

The Plight of the American Vet….

Warriors in search of honor,

In a war where there is none.

Home to the ungrateful,

Labeled, they take his gun.

A soldier in search of faith,

His religion been replaced,

Comes home from all the fighting

To a completely different place.

Fighters search for peace,

war rages in their head.

Goes back to those that sent them

Medication leaves them dead.

Young men search for truth

Among men who only lie.

Alone they ask of them

We fought your war, yet you forsake me. May I ask you why?