Wednesday, September 25, 2019 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
The Bunkhouse
Chronicle
Craig Rullman
Columnist
Civil Disobedience
If you are one of those
rarified Americans who still
believe that natural rights
are bequeathed to us by our
creator, rather than granted
to us by government masters,
you will perhaps appreciate
the gift of Robert Francis
O9Rourke.
During the last presiden-
tial debate, O9Rourke did us
all a great favor by pulling
back the curtain on progres-
sive thought, exposing their
willingness to seize by force
the legally held and protected
property of law-abiding
American citizens.
Beto was the dodo who
actually admitted what many
of us have suspected for
years: Modern progressives
are camouflaging an agenda
that is inherently confisca-
tory, punitive, and authoritar-
ian. Moreover, it is clear that
resistance to this agenda will
be met with endless char-
acter assassination, smear
campaigns, violence, and
threats of violence, which the
DNC, ANTIFA 4 and now
Beto 4 have demonstrated
repeatedly.
And isn9t it bizarre to see
an audience of aging hippies,
decades after Vietnam and
the Civil Rights era, openly
applauding Beto9s call for
government-sanctioned vio-
lence against innocent peo-
ple? How quickly that gen-
eration flipped.
Beto came out in favor
of outright gun confiscation,
but it would be foolish to
doubt, even for a second, that
every candidate on the debate
stage supports it. The likely
nominee, Elizabeth Warren,
was strategically intelligent
enough to keep her mouth
shut, but if her redistributive
agenda for your 401k serves
as any indication you can rest
assured she9d be perfectly
happy to kick down your
door and seize your property,
too.
Which is weird com-
ing from a self-declared
Native American, her apol-
ogies for that deception
notwithstanding.
One would presume that
Warren is aware of Wounded
Knee, which is where the
7th Cavalry attempted to
disarm the already impov-
erished Lakota and mur-
dered 300 men, women, and
children with a Hotchkiss
gun. One would also hope
that the senior senator from
Massachusetts is at least tan-
gentially aware of Lexington
and Concord, where British
soldiers attempted to disarm
American colonists 4 mostly
farmers 4 by brute force.
America9s flirtations with
prohibition and outright con-
fiscation have never ended
well because something
in the American character
despises that kind of despo-
tism. Or at least it did, once.
And even a cursory glance at
history shows that there can
be no public-safety reasoning
behind these tyrannical ide-
ations that isn9t rooted firmly
in the pursuit of absolute
power.
We shouldn9t be surprised.
The Democrat Party, after
all, is the home of American
slavery. Democrats fought
tirelessly for slavery, which
resulted in a catastrophic
Civil War. After losing the
war they created Jim Crow
laws to enforce segregation.
Every democrat in Congress
voted AGAINST the 15th
Amendment, and every
Southern democrat voted
against the 1964 Civil Rights
Act.
Beto9s progressive uto-
pia requires that every run-
away be dragged back to the
plantation 4 disarmed and
muted, to suffer reeducation
by government bullwhip.
Beto 4 and this both thrilled
and horrified his colleagues
on the dais 4 revealed that
progressives are feeling bold
enough to enforce their dys-
topian fantasies by chain-
ing innocent Americans to a
post and whipping them into
obedience.
While the Democrat Party
is the birthplace of burning
crosses, the contemporary
shift to radical leftism is omi-
nous. It9s ominous because
millions of Americans have
come to believe that sheep
somehow make good citi-
zens, and because the his-
torical evidence points to the
known result.
One need only look at
Cuba, Venezuela, Mexico,
Ecuador, the permanent
economic stagnation of the
EU, the entire continent of
Africa, or the former Soviet
Republics, which remain
impoverished authoritarian
backwaters.
The economic, physi-
cal, and spiritual bankruptcy
of the slave cabin remains
the operating prescription
for Americans who flee the
plantation, and Beto has now
admitted they would enforce
that vision with stormtroop-
ers. All to uniform applause
and while making emotional
appeals to a <public-safety
crisis.=
Progressives are unable
to see the problem, naturally,
yet every public proposal
meant to curtail gun violence
will fall exclusively on law-
abiding citizens. Not one of
them deals with criminals in
possession of guns, or who
use a firearm in the commis-
sion of a crime. Not one. This
is the single most revealing
irony of progressive <gun-
control= ideology.
The progressive obsession
with gun-control, which is a
euphemism for people-con-
trol, is yet another legacy of
Deep South racism, where the
first measures curtailing fire-
arm ownership were passed
in Florida to prevent black
Americans from defending
9
themselves against the Ku
Klux Klan. Disarmed by law,
and in the name of public
safety, many hundreds were
murdered across the South in
sanctioned raids on their per-
sons and their property.
Only deliberate ignorance
could believe such a thing
will never happen again.
Oregon is likely, in the
near future, to pass a raft of
gun-control measures. Not
one of them will prevent
future gun crimes, and tens
of thousands of conscientious
and otherwise law-abiding
citizens will then be forced
into acts of subterranean civil
disobedience. If outlaws you
will make them, then outlaws
they will surely become, but
as students of history they
are unlikely to ever surrender
their natural right to be prop-
erly armed against violent
criminals, or Beto9s frothing
slave-hunters.
Not that there ever was,
historically speaking, a dis-
cernable difference.
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