Re: Oklahoma Events and Request for help

[Tom Meisenhelder <tsmeisen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

JusJu
Justin,

It seems to me that the militias, etc. recognize the point about the need
to win over a section of the armed forces.  That is why they recruit so
heavily within the army and I think they are pretty successful there.
This is in fact evidenced by the background of many of those involved in
the OK bombing and other events.

Tom>
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> Whatever your position on gun control, the left should not adopt the far
> right's silly argument that private possession of arms is any guarantee in
> the modern world of defense against political repression. Fact: an
> unorganized or half-organized bunch of untrained (or long-ago trained)
> people calling themselves a militia cannot fight a modern army, in an
> industrial society, and win. The military and the National Guard would
> make very short work of such an insurrection. It was early on recognized
> by the Bolsheviks (to name one of the few groups to carry out a successful
> insurrection in an urban setting) that the key is to _win over significant
> parts of the military_, rather than to defeat them on their own terms. The
> experience of peasabt guerilla movements against modern armies is (a)
> mixed--they didn't do so good in this hemisphere or, say, Malasia or
> Indonesia, and (b) irrelevant to advanced industrial conditions.
>
> The Constitutiional issues are sticky and I don't feel qualified to saya
> nything about them just now. Ask me when I finish my Con Law class. But
> the political question is something else again.
>
> I'm very impressed with the fact that we have a terrifying murder rate and
> a great many accidents with guns, compared to Canada or Europe or Japan.
> AT the same time I acknowledge that in America a Canadian style ban on
> handguns is politically impossible. But acceding to the unchangeable is
> not the same as embracing it as desirable.
>
> --Justin Schwartz
>
> On Sun, 30 Apr 1995, boddhisatva wrote:
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> >             To whom.....,
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> >     Not exactly appropos to any particular aspect of current discussions,
> > I have a sort of survey question.  What are the attitudes of people on this
> > list towards gun control ?
> >
> >
> >     For my own part I am a Brady Bill supporter (except for the
> > half-witted "assault" weapons ban - but that's really just a question of
> > "how" rather than "whether"), who nonetheless feels the Second Ammendment is
> > an integral part of America's revolutionary culture.  I feel there is really
> > some value in political evildoers of whatever stripe knowing that people CAN
> > go home and get the shotguns off the wall.  It may seem like somewhat
> > dangerous naivete, but ultimately, I feel it's an important aspect of
> > self-determination - if only symbolically (and I reall don't think that it 
> > is
> > just symbolic).
> >
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> >     Anarchists ? anyone ?
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> >     peace
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> >
> > ps - I'm sorry if this message is a little Americo-centric.
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