Liberals are bullying America into submission!

By Hamster Running on the Server Wheel

I told you! I told you liberals were going to steal the election so that they can conspire to turn this once great country into a slime-ball, socialist shit pit! BUT YOU WOULDN'T LISTEN!?! Liberal Hollywood and video game designer maniacs have poisoned our youth to this terrible, horrible point where one of them became so tragically mentally ill that he overpowered his patriotic mother and stole her guns and murdered her. Then went on one of the most horrific kill-crazy rampages I have ever seen and all of us reeled. I am still in a total funk at what a complete travesty that was, a total and complete rage fueled nightmare brought to us exclusively by a clearly mentally deranged psychopath.

It has taken me all week to even be able to think clearly enough to write up anything about it, no matter how much that liberal sociopath Ahlblogger begged. I am still unsure what really to say other than to point out that this blog's namesake put out a huge post just chock full of crazy, liberal loon bullshit. "Waaaah, we have to do "something" about guns!?" Might as well ban hammers because you smashed your own fingers with one, right? Some nut stabbed 22 people in China the same damn day so surely they will have to ban knives, right? You know, just as soon as I heard that there was a rampage in Connecticut I looked online and each and any post that had anything to do with the tragedy had comments just loaded up, hundreds of them, of liberal, un-American assholes just crying about banning guns. Forget that this shooter was obviously not stopped by any laws already in place nor the fact that there simply couldn't be any law passed that will stop the next mentally ill psycho from going off the deep end after one too many hours in front of Call of Duty.

And instead of taking a long look in the mirror, liberal loons, and admitting to yourselves that you are not safe and the only way to be safe is to protect yourself and your family, you want to magic away all the guns thus further disarming us against a socialist tyrant who just finished stealing an election. And you dare blame the true American patriots who are law abiding citizens who own guns, advocate for them, for you, and protect our families and yours by preserving the second amendment of the constitution. If that principal was armed, if the teachers, or the custodian in that school were trained and proficient with a firearm (like I am) then that despicable psychopath wouldn't have gotten two more steps into the door.

People, the REAL world is a dangerous place and there are REAL risks and these sociopaths who have been weaned on a lifetime of violent television, movies and incredibly realistic video games have been completely desensitized and they will blow you, your children, your grandma, whoever right to hell without a moment's reflection. They don't even see it as real and they think they're justified in doing it. And how you horrible, brainwashed, liberals freaks can sit there even while the floors of that school were still covered in the blood of those innocent children and maintain this insane notion that the guns that nut stole was the real problem while completely ignoring the nut?! Then you all get on your virtual soap boxes and bully anyone sane American and tell us that we're insensitive for trying to explain the truth of the matter? That we're inhuman for defending our constitutional right? Hell, some of you liberal crazies got on TV that very night and tried to pin this whole thing on "gun nuts" and the blasted the NRA (one of the most patriotic organizations in this country) for "enabling this massacre."

Now, it's not surprising that the liberal media would use this opportunity to move aggressively forward in their brainwashing campaigns as there are few entities or people who are more into gun control, hence people control, then the media. It's all part of the bigger conspiracy to exert control on the masses at the behest of the liberal, socialists powers that be. Take away our guns and we're one more step closer to the indentured slavery the Obama administration is pushing for on behalf of the rich liberal loons like George Soros and the United Nations plan to convert the world to a one world government via Agenda 21. The liberal media is nothing but a tool used to perpetrate the greatest crime on American exceptionalism and freedom and help disarm the citizens thus preventing our ability to rise up and fight back and leading more and more of us to go onto the federal dole. Shit this whole shooting may have been set up by the government and the New World Order just to get the gun control ball rolling! And rolling it is as the usual list of NRA enemies have sprung back into action by instantly readying the return of the already proved to fail "assault weapons ban" illegally put forward by criminal, liberal jack-off Bill Clinton in the 1990's.

They will exert control and ban guns from the citizens all while the criminals will remain armed. Drugs are banned too and look how well that has worked?! It's crazy and it's why I am saving money to buy and install an Atlas Survival Shelter behind my home.



We cannot stand to let these liberals keep taking away our freedoms one law at a time, one gun at a time. People, the revolution is coming, the end is near and I recommend you start preparing. I know we all like to pretend these "preppers" are crazy and paranoid and whatnot but I am hear to tell you that this just the liberal media further brainwashing you to believe, "there is nothing to fear, we can all get along, we don't need guns, your families are safe." They even have TV shows made just to isolate and make us look like crazy fools for brainwashed liberals to sit in their big cities and snark about us and masturbate to Al Gore Global Warming videos, or whatever it is these latte sipping idiots have been conditioned to believe.

Meanwhile the streets are full of minority murderers, our children are getting gunned down in their schools and in their movie theaters while they wait to see the latest Hollywood glorification of violence. It's the beginning of the great decline and whether the gird gets knocked out by an EMP or a terrorist nuclear bomb you need to be ready. You need to know how to grow your own food hydroponically, you need to start stocking up canned goods, water and ready to eat freeze dried foods. You need to learn about water purification and god dammit you need to start stockpiling your weapons and ammunition NOW before it's too late and there are none left.

And furthermore, concealed carry permits need to be issued right away so you can protect your family outside of the home, in the mall, in the movie theater, at the park, on the road, THE MENTALLY ILL PSYCHOS ARE EVERYWHERE!!! They also need to train and arm your local school's teachers and administrators so that there will never be another Sandy Hook. It's time for these lazy, usually liberal babysitters to actually acquire a useful skill and protect our children.

I've had it! I am not accepting blame from liberals we can't ban guns it won't work. We have to ban criminals! We have to enforce the laws that already don't work and we need to even the playing field. These kill crazy, desensitized maniacs will be less likely to shoot up schools if they knew that they wouldn't get two feet before being put down. They wouldn't look for the innocent and powerless to exert their insane fantasy of becoming a Hollywood villain that will instantly become a media star for being mentally ill instead of remaining the clueless, sad-sack, nobody they already were. I have the right to bear arms as afforded to me by my God given rights as an American citizen and in these crazy, horrific times I will be damned if I am expected to lay down MY arms in the face of all of these media fueled dangers.

FROM MY COLD DEAD HANDS OBAMA!!!

The worst.

I have been holding off on commenting on the December 14th massacre as doing so wouldn't contribute anything meaningful and I also wanted to take a few days to process some before I posted. In the last few years something like this happens and I am usually blogging away on my initial reactions and media criticisms as soon as I am able to but this event was just so very heinous that I simply couldn't wrap my head around it. It was reminiscent of 9/11, surely not the same as that, but primarily because of the loss of so many children, right before Christmas...It's almost too much. I say almost because of another tragic aspect of this nightmare is that this sort of thing happens so often already, whether it be the movie theater shooting in Aurora, Colorado or an entire family blown up in Afghanistan by one of our drones, it's not really that uncommon these days. It just has that extra layer of unimaginable awful due to the deliberate attack on school children. 20 kids either 6 or 7 years old, executed. Plus the 6 adults charged with their education and safety killed, from all accounts, trying to protect them. There simply isn't words to effectively communicate how terrible it all was.

Naturally, largely due to a massive, unbelievably awful crime scene in what was a worst worse-case scenario, there was a shit-ton of misinformation doled out across all corners of the media online and on television and though I have yet to plunge into the darker, conspiratorial sides of this (it was a shadowy government conspiracy to set up Obama's looming gun collection policy!) I have seen a whole lot of unbelievable bullshit from made up stories about the survivors and some of the victims to bizarre quotes and internet memes said to be attributed to celebrities like Morgan Freeman. Not really that surprising and when things get weird then things get weird. And it truly was weird and it remains weird and really times are just fucking weird. People are weird, civilization is weird, America is weird, the world is weird and I, nor do most people truly, actually understand it anymore. Never did.

What's more is that it took me about 6.7 second to discover that there was a massacre in Connecticut to finding a comment on every article about said tragedy from some crazy, gun nut proclaiming guns are not the problem followed shortly by a "liberal gun control nut's" response that something needs to change. Thus angry, political, flame wars erupted everywhere and carried on and on all weekend long. All of Facebook and Twitter became active pro-gun/anti-gun arguments juxtaposed with mourning and shock. It was painful and surreal and I did my best to tune it out after a while. It was just too much and it was too ugly. All the hateful comments, aggressive justifications and good, old fashioned ignorance. So many people needed to tell the rest of us how they felt, about the massacre, about their stance on guns, mental health, even their media watching (or not watching) habits. It was a time you'd think would draw us closer together generally and instead it seemed to highlight, in stark relief, how far apart we remain. It demonstrated just how worried gun people are that the rest of us don't understand them, the second amendment, or that guns are things and the crazy people are the real problem. While the rest of us think "something" ought to be done about guns, mental health, all of it...Above all something needs to change.

I think President Obama really hit on the head quite well in his speech broadcast Sunday night, December 16:

Though it has to be mentioned that even that speech was met with fire for daring to exist and temporarily preempting a football game, behold this Deadspin article highlighting the awful, racially fueled hatred put out there on Twitter when his speech aired.

Take that nigger off the tv, we wanna watch football! @Hester52 @Ty_CoolerThanU

Unreal. Un-fucking-real.  How can such a self-indulged nation of narcissist sociopaths such as ourselves ever come back from this cliff? Sometimes I am amazed we, as a nation of people, have even made it this far. Now, it's true that sort of thinking isn't everybody and there are surely good people for every racist scumbag who hate Obama. And we know there's A LOT of people who hate Obama but on this weekend?

Eh, whatever, allow me to digress back to my original, loosely stated thesis here, something has to change. I am not sure what that something, or probably somethings, really need to be as I am not really anti-gun and as many, many people have pointed out ad nauseum all the gun laws in the world would likely have not stopped this from happening (save a complete and total gun ban that was a) effective and b) happened years and years ago so that there just weren't any guns to get nor crazy gun nuts to obsess over them) though that is not an adequate excuse to not put in place some sort of stricter gun safety regulation. Then there's better mental health treatment/access which is needed though I do not possess the expertise to say how that would work. This whole argument, even while just typing it out here, just feels a lot like a snake eating it's own tail and I don't have answers. Just questions, and the need for a discussion that I know I can't have because either side is unable to do so because they already know that THEY'RE RIGHT AND FUCK YOU! Something I fully expect to see if Hamster Running on the Sever Wheel decides to contribute his two cents.

Of all the articles, memes, prayers, pictures, and "facts about guns" articles that have over run my internet cup this weekend there have been two that have really caught my eye. One, by a Gawker author I have read for years and who is not usually known for writing anything along these lines, Drew Magary. I usually read Drew for a lot of dick and poop jokes related to football so it took me by surprise that he came up with such an insightful article. Insightful in that it asks questions that you just don't see much when discussing guns.

One of the amazing things about the gun control debate in America is the remarkable success with which gun manufacturers—Sig Sauer, Glock, Smith & Wesson, Ruger, The Freedom Group (yes, it's called the fucking Freedom Group)—have been able to avoid the conversation altogether. When you think of Glock, you think of a gun, and not of the company behind it. That needs to change. We've shit on cigarette companies for lying about cigarettes. We've shit on Roger Goodell and the NFL for underplaying head injuries. We're even making inroads against the sneaky bastards at BIG SUGAR for making us all hopeless fatasses. But here is an industry—firearms manufacturing—that makes products whose deadliness is disputed by NO ONE, not even the people who treasure those products. And yet the executives and shadowy international holding company execs—whose job is to flood the world with as many of these weapons as possible—skate by cloaked in blessed anonymity. Wanna know why nothing ever gets done about gun laws here in the US? This is why.

And that's true! The gun companies have little to nothing to say ever about any of this and no one ever asks. Not that it would make a whole lot of difference right now as it relates to all these dead bodies and in the end there's simply the notion that their guns didn't kill people, people kill people (a lot of them, with guns!). He goes on:

Gun manufacturers have successfully managed to shift virtually all blame for lax gun laws in America onto their lobbyists and their customers. It's no coincidence that companies like Sig Sauer, Freedom Group and Glock (which also made one of the weapons used in the killings) are privately held. They strive for minimum transparency, and they have achieved it. The NRA, bless its heart, is a front—a perfect little whipping boy designed to weather all of your abuse so that Ron Cohen (CEO of Sig Sauer) can drive to and from his office without a reporter shoving a microphone in front of his stupid fucking face. They have taken phrases like "Gun control" and "the Second Amendment" and crafted them into permanent, bulletproof diversions. They've done such a good job of shielding themselves that Sig Sauer doesn't even feel compelled to issue a public statement when one of its weapons is used in a mass tragedy. They don't have to express their regrets or spew some bullshit about being dedicated to making sure guns are used safely. Higher profile companies have to send out public apologies when they send out a bad tweet. Big Gun does nothing and doesn't have to. Isn't that remarkable?

It kind of is. I also particularly gel with the whole NRA is the front concept because anyone who has ever tried to talk about guns with anyone involved with the NRA knows that you will get no where and you are going to hear a whole hell of a lot of talking points about the protection of families and the rights of armed bears. Drew goes on to discuss the need to get the CEOs of these gun companies on TV, in front of grand juries, or congressional hearings and essentially compares the idea to the way the proverbial they took on the tobacco industry. Who knows if that would provide for this undefined change, or rather help us to define what exact kind change is needed, but it certainly is worth the reflection.

The other article making the rounds, I think, quite succinctly identifies the mental health aspects of these single shooter nightmares we seem to keep having. Not in discussing one of our infamous killers so much as worrying about the son that could become one in "I Am Adam Lanza's Mother," is well worth a read. Again, no answers here but it sure highlights some important questions.

I live with a son who is mentally ill. I love my son. But he terrifies me.
A few weeks ago, Michael pulled a knife and threatened to kill me and then himself after I asked him to return his overdue library books. His 7 and 9 year old siblings knew the safety plan -- they ran to the car and locked the doors before I even asked them to. I managed to get the knife from Michael, then methodically collected all the sharp objects in the house into a single Tupperware container that now travels with me. Through it all, he continued to scream insults at me and threaten to kill or hurt me.
That conflict ended with three burly police officers and a paramedic wrestling my son onto a gurney for an expensive ambulance ride to the local emergency room. The mental hospital didn’t have any beds that day, and Michael calmed down nicely in the ER, so they sent us home with a prescription for Zyprexa and a follow-up visit with a local pediatric psychiatrist.

How does one solve this problem exactly?  The article goes on to discuss dificulites of getting the kind of mental health "Michael" needs particularly at this stage since he does not yet have a criminal record, or isn't old enough. What will that mom do? What can they do with "Michael?" Institutionalize him? Drug him? what can be done? Tragic, frightening and tragic. This is coming from a non-parent so I can only barely, peripherally begin to understand what this specific situation, let alone the rampage last Friday, means to anyone who is a parent.

A lot of pro-gun types I see around the internet seem to think the answer to all of this is more guns! Arm that mom and if 13 year old "Michael" attacks, put him down.These same folks are also advocating for guns in the classroom. If only teachers were armed then a crazy comes in the class and bada-bing, bada-bang the highly trained teacher will  be able to dispatch the bad guy with a well placed round right between the eyes, custodial staff come by for a quick clean up and we can move forward with our lessons! No harm, no foul! I am not going to link where I got this next bit from but I think these quotes kind of sum up nicely where some of these people are coming from:

Thieves don’t care about laws against theft, and rapists don’t care about laws against rape. The same is true about drinking and driving.
Laws won’t stop people intent on doing harm.
So what do the law-abiding citizens do? They arm themselves just like they would in war. There are terror insurgents in the United States hell-bent on destroying others. That’s a fact.

So, people is people and there is no solution but kill 'em dead! This almost advocates just abolishing laws altogether since apparently people will just break the laws anyway. So, why bother, right? A bunch of gun bans will get ignored by criminals and those of us who are law abiding have no means to defend ourselves. Therefore, everyone should get a Bushmaster AR-15 anything less may as well be a pea shooter. Also, the unstoppable law breaker could just as easily kill their victims with knives, bats, cars, bricks, power tools so then shouldn't we dismiss any nuance and just ban everything that potentially can kill people if applied correctly? So, it's either the complete ban of weapons or everyone should have every weapon. As is usually the case with these folks it is only one way or another, black or white and there is never, ever any form of middle ground or compromise. Just a lot of false equivalence and passionately applied rage.
This person goes on:

Schools should immediately develop a program where every teacher is trained in how to handle a firearm. All teachers must comply to get hired. If Israel can do it, why not America? Larry Pratt of Gun Owners of America wrote the following in 2008: “In the mid-seventies, a terrorist attacked an Israeli school bus, murdering over 30 children. . . . A majority of Israelis . . . found a compelling reason for putting guns in schools — terrorists would get guns whether Jews were armed or not. As a result, schools in border areas, and school buses, were manned with gun-toting teachers or others assigned to be at the ready.”
Signs should be posted around the school that read:
“The teachers and administrators of this school are armed and trained in deadly force. Anybody attempting to enter the school intending to do harm will be shot on sight.”

No reasoning with the unreasonable. Let's just convert our schools to rootin' tootin' saloons in the old west! A lot of schools apparently are considering arming teachers or at least having armed security patrolling the halls. Every school in America has re-evaluated their lock-down plans and official plans to deal with a shooter on campus. Every parent in America was nervous about bringing their children to school today because no one can say with any certainty that won't happen again. That this unthinkable nightmare will now become some sort of status quo that we will all need to deal with today. "Oh look, that pre-school down the street got shot up again!" In the end, it's plain and simple that everyone is afraid and the great American culture of fear continues.

Who knows where this will go, probably no where, as the Christmas is coming and, despite the absolute horror of 20 (TWENTY!) little kids being murdered in a classroom, this too will fade away as the next big media orgy rolls out, and the next one, and the one after that. Diane Fienstein says she will be putting forward that assault weapons ban next month, the same one from the 1990's which surely caused America's NRA members' pulses to rise precipitously. Surely that will quietly get torpedoed away as usual, but you never know, even some conservative politicians, even a few with the wondrous NRA A grade, are coming forward today and saying maybe they need some practical gun control on the books. Who knows if that will stick or if it would make a lick of difference towards much of anything.

I leave you with a brilliant Tom Tomorrow comic from today that is actually a modified version of one he did for one of our previous, recent  massacres:

Hilarious conspiracy!

Did you know about this?


And that apparently Anonymous claims to have actually thwarted a plot by Karl Rove and friends from stealing the election? I find this amazingly entertaining! I mentioned back in November when discussing Rove's mini-meltdown live on Fox that it just felt like watching some sort of super-villain finally get his on live TV.  Now I have make believe evidence that is exactly what happened!

Naturally, I have no way to prove that this is true and honestly it feels like it's malarkey...but...there's still that little, naive boy inside of me that enjoys lapping this kind of shit up! It's like UFOs or ghost stories, probably garbage though highly entertaining garbage. I first heard about this whole thing over the Thanksgiving holiday so a little post-turkey Google action yielded this from Salon by Natasha Lennard:

A release claiming to be from hacker collective Anonymous alleges there was more behind Rove’s freak-out than first met the eye. The group says that it foiled Rove’s attempt to steal the election in Florida, Virginia and Ohio by using the GOP’s ORCA system.
Two weeks prior to Election Night, a typical Anonymous video was released warning Rove against rigging the election. “We want you to know that we are watching you, waiting for you to make this mistake of thinking you can rig this election to your favor,” Anonymous’ ubiquitous Guy Fawkes character warned.
Then, following Obama’s win and Rove’s very public outburst, a group calling themselves “The Protectors,” believed to be comprised of Anonymous hackers, sent a letter to election transparency non-profit, Velvet Revolution, claiming to have thwarted attempts by GOP strategists to flip votes and rig the election in three swing states.

Oh, so, so magnificent! Naturally, there is no real way to prove much of anything and in the end it boils down to either choosing to believe it, or not. I am not enough of a techno-dweeb to truly understand how this could have worked in the first place so I am a perfect sort of person who can just take this at face value and assume that what I read is true:

The letter claims that the GOP’s ORCA — a GOTV (Get Out the Vote) system — was in fact designed to rig votes in favor of Romney (although the letter does not verify this or specify how ORCA was designed to do this.) The Protectors claim that they installed a  password protected firewall to block attempts to digitally rig votes:

We coded and created, what we call, The Great Oz. A targeted password protected firewall that we tested and refined over the past weeks. We place this code on more than one of the digital tunnels and their destination’s that Karl’s not so smart worker bees planned to use on election night.

The Protectors alleged these “digital tunnels” were leading to servers in three different states. The release claims that Rove’s operatives attempted to unsuccessfully breach The Great Oz firewall to access these tunnels throughout election night. “We watched as Karl’s weak corrupters repeatedly tried to penetrate The Great Oz.  These children of his were at a loss-how many times and how many passwords did they try? — exactly 105.”

Sounds legitimate to me! Hell, I feel like Hamster when he published that ridiculous Agenda 21 thing earlier this year. The same quoted article goes on to question the validity of this claim and even asks a few pertinent questions that make it seem even more unlikely that is nothing but fictional fluff. Though I kind of like it even if it is fictional fluff, in fact, it probably IS fictional fluff and it still makes me smile as the real reporter types have no way to verify this story either. A few days after the first story I linked came out there was also this from the Daily Caller:

The left-wing Velvet Revolution, which works to investigate and prove instances of electronic election tampering, offered IT specialists a $1 million reward for proof of instances of electronic election tampering during the 2012 cycle. The Velvet Revolution is particularly suspicious of Republicans.
Following the election, Velvet Revolution says they received a letter from a hacktivist group — referring to itself as “we protectors of democracy” — that claimed it was responsible for the program’s technical failures, and that it had found a system in place to electronically rig the election in three states.

Oh? Really? But...

The letter did not offer any proof of its allegations.

Oh, then why bother posting it in the first place?

 “Regarding the Protectors letter, we posted the reward asking for info about electronic manipulation of the vote and then right after the election we received ‘The Protector’ letter at our POBox,” said Kevin Reese, an attorney for Velvet Revolution and a board member, in a press statement.
“We posted it not because we are vouching for it but because it is news, and it seems to corroborate the Anonymous video that came out two weeks before the election warning Rove not manipulate the election,” Reese said.

I see, then it does generate some web traffic, eh?
WHO WOULD EVER POST SUCH UNSUBSTANTIATED GARBAGE LIKE THIS ONLINE?!

Probably some asshole blogger tapping away on their lap-tops, late at night, alone, in their underwear, in their parent's basement...That's who. Worry not friends, I remain confident that this post will continue Ahlblog's fine, long-standing tradition of having virtually no web traffic. If you read the comments on the Daily Caller post you will get a nice, solid sense of just how far down the rabbit hole this whole probable fabrication goes but I just cannot help but enjoy it a little and hope for nothing but the best for Karl Rove and his bright future making shit up on Fox News with the best of them. Also could make for a smashing film!