History lessons from the Jewish partisan fighters in Poland in WWII, applied to the Liberty movement in the United States today. Short and worth the read:
Will you be like Tuvia Bielski, and make your goal the survival of Liberty, welcoming and protecting all those who love individual freedom, benefiting from each person’s unique outlook?
Or will you conduct intellectual auto-da-fé against all who disagree with you, seeking to crush disagreement and to force all to goosestep to the truth as you see it?
Do you view differing opinions within the Liberty movement as a threat, or as an opportunity?
I wonder what Tuvia Bielski’s Jewish partisans would say to the enraged ideologues among us?
Can you hear the whispers from the Nabiloka forest?
[DAWN] ONCE again Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... is reeling; in fact, Pakistain itself is under attack. The savagery at Bacha Khan University yesterday makes the heart sink and evokes deep despair. Monstrous as the Taliban are and have been, the determination with which they kill children and young adults comes as a shock each time.
The carnage in Charsadda may not be on the scale of the Army Public School attack, but the intentions were the same -- to deliberately, monstrously and wretchedly strike at the most vulnerable and to spread anger and fear far and wide.
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[DAWN] BY killing a move to raise the marriage age for girls from 16 years to 18, the members of the relevant National Assembly standing committee have proved that they value their subservience to conservative holy mans more than their status as people's representatives.
And once again the Council of Islamic Ideology has succeeded in doing a grave injustice to girls and Islam both because its assertion that Islam bars fixation of minimum age for girls' marriage is wholly untenable.
The CII's sickly obsession with keeping the door to child marriage open reminds us of a debate in the Indian Central Legislative Assembly, 87 years ago, on the Hindu Child Marriage Bill. The objective of the bill was to restrict the marriage of minor Hindu girls. Largely through the Quaid-e-Azam's efforts the measure was made applicable to Muslim girls and it became the Child Marriage Restraint Act in 1929.
The bill was fiercely opposed by the Hindu members of the assembly, and when it was suggested that the measure should apply to Muslim girls too, a majority of the Muslim members strongly opposed it. A measure of the public opposition to the bill can be had from the fact that petitions against it were signed by 72,725 persons while only 10 persons supported the bill.
However, man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them... not all Muslim members of the assembly and Learned Elders of Islam outside opposed the bill. Maulana SLearned Elders of Islamn Nadvi and Khawaja Hasan Nizami backed the measure. Two representatives of the Deoband school said legislation on child marriage could be initiated by a Muslim sovereign but not by a foreign government. Some Muslim members changed their position during the debate. For example, Mian Shah Nawaz from Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... was originally an enthusiastic supporter of the measure but turned against it after being shown a fatwa by 74 Learned Elders of Islam.
The Quaid-e-Azam
... a.k.a. Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the Father of Pakistan...
originally thought that child marriage was not a serious problem among Muslims. Subsequent inquiries convinced him that the 'evil' of child marriage did exist in the Muslim community and he threw his weight in favour of the bill. What he said in the house merits reproduction in some detail. After describing child marriage as a 'horrible evil', Mr Jinnah said:
"Are we precluded from dealing with this evil? Sir, I do not pretend to be an alim, and I am not one. Nor do I pretend to be an authority on theology. But I do know one thing, that during the last 30 years of my fairly active practice in Bombay, I always understood that marriage law had nothing to do with religion as such; that marriage was a contract according to Muhammadan law, pure and simple. Will honourable members point out to me a text of which I am not aware? I repeat that marriage is a contract according to Muhammadan law. Can that be challenged? If anybody contradicts me on that, he has yet to learn the Muhammadan law. But the question is this, whether there is any text which makes it obligatory on Mussalmans that they should get their daughters married before the age of 14. There is no text....
"I cannot believe that there can be a divine sanction for such evil practices as are prevailing, and that we should, for a single minute, give our sanction to the continuance of these evil practices any longer. How can there be such a divine sanction to this cruel, horrible, disgraceful, inhuman practice that is prevailing in India?
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The comments are quite amusing and would give the mods here lots of work taking out the bad language, advice that the author should suck start a firearm, etc.
I'm in the oilfield and man, even compared to us Marines talk dirty.
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However, responsible gun owners should want to make it more difficult, not easier, for criminals and terrorists to obtain these weapons.
Indeed that is why so many are pounding their desks demanding accountability for Fast and Furious - the no background check weapons drop for criminals - and 2Fast2Furious probable Benghazi hub transfer of weapons to terrorists.
Its like the 1st Amendment Mr. Hess, as is so well exemplified by this op/ed one does not necessarily have to be a proficient writer in order to exercise that right. Indeed, I am sure many people took their wordsmithing as seriously as you took weapons training. See, this op/ed is straight formula - who I am, why my background is not gun grabber, what restrictions should be added, you must agree with me because why.
And unfortunately, I am not shocked at the source, nor the continued inability to get Columbia chicks to notice him.
Yeah, some comments make our firehouse talk seem like humble friars whispering favorite bread recipes. Cracks me up.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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