Last June, democracy won a huge victory when the Supreme Court ruled for the plaintiff in the Heller case. 

As a human rights advocate (the Second Amendment being merely one right among many that needs to be jealously defended), I had been looking forward to the decision with anticipation and trepidation for quite some time. 

To the point where I basically had posts written for both contingencies – a win, and a loss.  Both posts were written, for the most part, weeks in advance. 

Naturally, we – Americans and human rights advocates – won, and I ran this jubilant-yet-defiant-to-the-point-of-belligerent post.  I’m still proud of that one.

I’ve had people ask me – “so, what did you write in case we lost?”

I remembered that question as I was cleaning some old stuff out of the Drafts folder this morning. 

Here – a little bit of alternative history written for a much uglier state of mind:

Fascism Wins.  Freedom Kicked in the Groin.  For Now. 

By a X to X vote, the Supreme Court of the United States today ruled in the Heller case that the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution is exactly the opposite of what the founding fathers intended; that a right “of the people” means “the National Guard”, not “you and I”. 

Y’know – how rights “of the people” to assemble only refer to Congress, and how freedom of speech and the press only mean the news media.

As a result of today’s ruling, the District of Columbia’s gun ban – like most gun control measures, a racist conconction intended to keep all those brown-skinned people from running amok in the nation’s capitol – stands, and will return us in deed if not in thought to the days when black people had a separate, unequal justice system…

 

…with hints of much, much worse…:

…shall carry forth for the moment unabated. 

As Gary Miller notes in his Categories list – Western Civilization; it was a helluvva run.

Oh, this is not the end of the war over the Second Amendment.  The orcs control much; many cities still pay fealty to the notion that a disarmed, docile citizenry is a safe one.  This is far from the end.  The movement of Real Americans who support our God-given rights is large, and sure – if I have anything to say about it – to take this as a wake-up call.

The big lesson?

Your rights are only as secure as your ability to bring political power to bear can make them.

The SCOTUS’ decision was a loathsome one, and a bad day for America:

And as Churchill noted, one does not forge victory from defeats:

And yet Americans – real Americans, the ones that are rendered nauseous by this decision, as opposed to tin-pot authoritarians like Heather Martens and Wes Skoglund – are all about fighting back against adversity, against horrible odds…

 

…and prevailing.  Much hard fighting remains.

The orcs will take this as a cue to continue and redouble their assault on the God-given rights of the law-abiding American.  It is inevitable; it is the way of the orc to feed on your freedom.

 But we – the Americans who’ve fought long and hard to keep this issue on the national radar – have to cinch up our belts and get back into it.  We’ve won much in the past ten years; “shall-issue” is now the law of the land in most of the US; even unabashed liberals like Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton fear the might of the NRA.

Damn right.  Let’s show the bastards what fear at the polls really is.

To the pike with the enemies of freedom.  (Speaking rhetorically, of course). 

God Bless America.

NOTE:  This blog seeks dialogue.  However, if you wish to defend the SCOTUS’ decision, you will need to make it a very, very good one to avoid having  your comment deleted or mutilated for my amusement.

Nice to see that it’s just a rhetorical curio.