{"id":2751,"date":"2008-10-01T05:19:35","date_gmt":"2008-10-01T10:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2751"},"modified":"2009-12-23T13:43:33","modified_gmt":"2009-12-23T18:43:33","slug":"alternate-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2751","title":{"rendered":"Alternate History"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0<\/strong>Last June, democracy won a huge victory when the Supreme Court ruled for the plaintiff in the Heller <\/em>case.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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.\u00a0<\/p>\n

To the point where I basically had posts written for both contingencies – a win, and a loss.\u00a0 Both posts were written, for the most part, weeks in advance.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Naturally, we – Americans and human rights advocates – won, and I ran this jubilant-yet-defiant-to-the-point-of-belligerent post<\/a>.\u00a0 I’m still proud of that one.<\/p>\n

I’ve had people ask me – “so, what did you write in case we lost?”<\/p>\n

I remembered that question as I was cleaning some old stuff out of the Drafts folder this morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Here – a little bit of alternative history written for a much uglier state of mind:<\/p>\n

Fascism Wins.\u00a0 Freedom Kicked in the Groin.\u00a0 For Now.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

By a X to X vote, the Supreme Court of the United States today ruled in the Heller <\/em>case that the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution is exactly the opposite <\/em>of what the founding fathers intended; that a right “of the people” means “the National Guard”, not “you and I”.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

As a result of today’s ruling, the District of Columbia’s gun ban – like most gun control measures<\/a>, 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…<\/p>\n

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…with hints of much, much worse…:<\/p>\n

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…shall carry forth for the moment unabated.\u00a0<\/p>\n

As Gary Miller notes in his Categories list – Western Civilization; it was<\/em> a helluvva run.<\/p>\n

Oh, this is not the end of the war over the Second Amendment.\u00a0 The orcs control much; many cities still pay fealty to the notion that a disarmed, docile citizenry is a safe one.\u00a0 This is far from the end.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

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The big lesson?<\/p>\n

Your rights are only as secure as your ability to bring political power to bear can make them.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The SCOTUS’ decision was a loathsome one, and a bad day for America:<\/p>\n

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And as Churchill noted, one does not forge victory from defeats:<\/p>\n

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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…<\/p>\n

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…and prevailing.\u00a0 Much hard fighting remains.<\/p>\n

The orcs will take this as a cue to continue and redouble\u00a0their assault on the God-given rights of the law-abiding American.\u00a0 It is inevitable; it is the way of the orc to feed on your freedom.<\/p>\n

\u00a0But 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.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

Damn right.\u00a0 Let’s show the bastards what fear at the polls really is.<\/p>\n

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To the pike with the enemies of freedom.\u00a0\u00a0(Speaking rhetorically, of course).\u00a0<\/p>\n

God Bless America.<\/p>\n

NOTE:\u00a0 This blog seeks dialogue.\u00a0 However, if you wish to defend the SCOTUS’ decision, you will need to make it a very, very good one to avoid having\u00a0 your comment deleted or mutilated for my amusement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Nice to see that it’s just a rhetorical curio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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