A Pack, Not A Herd
By Mitch Berg
Ted Nugent, famous gonzo guitarist and gun nut, says that armed, law-abiding citizens are likely the only coherent way that open societies have to protect against “soft target” terror attacks like the massacre Westgate Mall in Nairobi:
“Societies have to think about how they’re going to approach the problem,” Noble said. “One is to say we want an armed citizenry; you can see the reason for that. Another is to say the enclaves are so secure that in order to get into the soft target you’re going to have to pass through extraordinary security.”
Noble’s comments came only moments after the official opening of the 82nd annual gathering of the Interpol’s governing body, the General Assembly. The session is being held in Cartagena, Colombia, and is being used to highlight strides over the last decade in Colombia’s battle against the notorious drug cartels that used to be the real power in the country.
The secretary general, an American who previously headed up all law enforcement for the U.S. Treasury Department, told reporters during a brief news conference that the Westgate mall attack marks what has long been seen as “an evolution in terrorism.” Instead of targets like the Pentagon and World Trade Center that now have far more security since 9/11, attackers are focusing on sites with little security that attract large numbers of people.
Wait – “Noble?” I thought it was Ted Nugent…
…oh, I can’t keep a straight face. It’s not Ted Nugent. It’s Ronald Noble, who is in charge of Interpol.
And if Interpol – an agent of international statism – is finally twigging to the idea that the citizens are their own best last line of defense (short of absurd levels of “security”, which we all know means “Security Theater”, and for the most part immense sacrifice of freedom.
Your choice.
October 23rd, 2013 at 7:24 am
You mean Ted Nugent the “draft dodger”?
Ted Nugent interview in “High Times” 1977.
/Interviewer: How did you get out of the draft?
Ted Nugent: Ted was a young boy, appearing to be a hippie but quite opposite in fact, working hard and playing hard, playing rock and roll like a deviant. People would question my sanity, I played so much. So I got my notice to be in the draft. Do you think I was gonna lay down my guitar and go play army? Give me a break! I was busy doin’ it to it. I had a career Jack. If I was walkin’ around, hippying down, getting’ loaded and pickin’ my ass like your common curs, I’d say “Hey yeah, go in the army. Beats the poop out of scuffin’ around in the gutters.” But I wasn’t a gutter dog. I was a hard workin’, mother****in’ rock and roll musician.
I got my physical notice 30 days prior to. Well, on that day I ceased cleansing my body. No more brushing my teeth, no more washing my hair, no baths, no soap, no water. Thirty days of debris build. I stopped shavin’ and I was 18, had a little scraggly beard, really looked like a hippie. I had long hair, and it started gettin’ kinky, matted up. Then two weeks before, I stopped eating any food with nutritional value. I just had chips, Pepsi, beer-stuff I never touched-buttered poop, little jars of Polish sausages, and I’d drink the syrup, I was this side of death, Then a week before, I stopped going to the bathroom. I did it in my pants. poop, piss the whole shot. My pants got crusted up.”/
October 23rd, 2013 at 7:29 am
You didn’t read below the quote, did you?
October 23rd, 2013 at 7:45 am
Emery: tl;dr. Thread-jack. Ad hominem.
October 23rd, 2013 at 7:48 am
Draft dodger? Next DG will weigh in saying that Nugent is a liberal.
October 23rd, 2013 at 7:53 am
Emery: tl;dr. Thread-jack. Ad hominem.
The Full Emery.
October 23rd, 2013 at 9:12 am
Here’s another benefit of permit holders: they’re much less likely to loot the mall during and after the event, assassinate the leader of the rival security forces and then set fire to the site to mask their actions.
http://www.kenyanewsonline.net/national/westgate-how-kenya-military-looted-from-the-dead
October 23rd, 2013 at 12:25 pm
Hate it when Emery misses the point completely – but I am glad the Interpol chief is catching on!!
October 23rd, 2013 at 6:49 pm
The guy’s an American, what can you expect? I was foolishly hoping it would be a Scandinavian or European. I wonder if Nobel will be looking for a new position shortly? Janet Napolitano is free. Can’t let that blasphemy stand. Next thing, he’ll be talking about arming school and theater personnel.
October 23rd, 2013 at 6:51 pm
@ewaters925
If the blogger chooses to use Mr. Nugent as a link in the post, then Ted is fair ‘game’. Mr. Nugent is on the National Rifle Association’s board of directors
/”Mr. Nugent used a series of military deferments that allowed him to dodge the draft, according to Selective Service System records.”/ http://i.cdn.turner.com/dr/teg/tsg/release/sites/default/files/assets/tednugentselectiveservice.jpg
/”In his High Times interview, Nugent recalled his glee at evading the chance to defend his country (though he mixed up the 1-Y and 4-F deferments). “And in the mail I got this big juicy 4-F,” he said. “They’d call dead people before they’d call my ass.”/
October 23rd, 2013 at 7:12 pm
Right, but you’ll note that in this post Mr. Nugent was a smokescreen. A feint. A maskirovka. A non-subject.
Prating and gabbling about his background is a bigger waste of your energy than ours.
October 23rd, 2013 at 9:27 pm
I like like to stimulate conversation. I have a knack for that.
October 24th, 2013 at 9:36 am
Eh, Emery calls it “stimulating the conversation”; I call it “farting in the tub.”
October 24th, 2013 at 9:44 am
Tiny bubbles….
October 24th, 2013 at 10:30 am
Sounds more like you “like like” to be a troll, Emery. *shrug*
October 24th, 2013 at 10:49 am
Emery,
You stimulated an off-topic conversation of no meaning to the subject at hand.
Just saying.
That said, I’m glad you’re here. You’re one of very few liberals who’s turned up here and not gone completely mad in short order.
October 24th, 2013 at 11:40 am
MBerg,
Aside from from Mr. Nugent’s enthusiasm, there are better individuals to represent the interests of gun owners. That is my point.
October 24th, 2013 at 1:56 pm
Hate it when Emery misses the point completely …….. Do you enjoy the ridicule heaped upon you when you threadjack and stick with it instead of ever addressing the real point ?? You “have a knack” for convincing everyone you don’t want to address Mitch’s post ……… Once again, I’m glad the Interpol chief seems to be getting the point; hope more people in the business of crime/violence who feel the same as he does begin speaking out regularly
October 24th, 2013 at 4:31 pm
Don’t be a hater… ;^)
October 24th, 2013 at 6:17 pm
A classy guy who missed the point to pitch a fit would have said “Oops, my bad.”
Even Emily Litella would have said “Never mind.”
October 24th, 2013 at 10:37 pm
I’ve never been accused of being a classy guy.
“Please accept my resignation. I don’t care to belong to any club that will have me as a member”. Groucho Marx
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