Pravda Propaganda On The NRA, GOA and Militias

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This article touches on a note that irritates me, a pro-Capitalist, pro-gun
American.  The fact that many militias, 'right winger's' and so on are
claiming that
"global corporations, the wealthy, and ruling-class billionaires as being
behind the plot to take away America's Second Amendment rights. "
I'll agree that global corperations (such as lowe's) and "ruling-class
billionaires" (such as George Soros) are 'behind the plot to take away 2nd
amendment rights.  But generalizing that to "the wealthy" is a big mistake.
By allying with 'populists' and nationalists, we could see the NRA
supporting protectionism, stronger Union laws, and other anti-capitalist
dogma.
So should libertarians do to fight the NRA's trend left, as well as the
"liberal power-elite"

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim May" <tcmay at got.net>
To: <cypherpunks at lne.com>
Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 9:01 AM
Subject:  Re: Pravda Propaganda On The NRA, GOA and Militias


> On Friday, October 26, 2001, at 08:27 AM, Matthew Gaylor wrote:
>
> Matt Gaylor has forwarded this article. My profound thanks to him. This
> is one of the most insightful articles I've seen on the real internal
> political situation in the U.S., the "red" vs. "blue" separation.
>
> Truly ironic that it takes a "red" to understand the "reds" in the U.S.
>
> (For those outside the U.S., a word of explanation. For some reason,
> political mappers showed votes for Al Gore in _blue_ and votes for Bush
> in _red_. I have no idea how this came to be...I had never noticed it
> until this past election. In fact, it was only in this past election
> that most of the commentators glommed on this "look at the red parts of
> the map versus the blue parts of the map" meme, so apparently a lot of
> us got exposed to this red vs. blue mapping only recently.)
>
> While there's still a little bit of "propaganda" language in the
> article, it is generally a more incisive analysis of the developing
> trends in American politics than nearly all of what passes for analysis
> by American journalists.
>
> I urge people to read the full article carefully. I'll only comment on a
> handful of paragraphs.
>
> --Tim May
>
>
>
> > <http://english.pravda.ru/usa/2001/10/18/18529.html>
> >
> > Oct, 18 2001
> > 20:11 2001-10-18
> >
> > BILL WHITE: GUN GROUPS SEE STEADY BLEED INTO MILITIAS; DOMESTIC UNREST
> > STILL GROWING IN UNITED STATES
> > There are three issues that motivate America's militia movement -
> > support of gun rights, opposition to taxation, and opposition to the
> > United Nations and the loss of America's sovereignty to global
> > corporate rule - a system the militias see as socialism and
> > anti-globalists label capitalism, and which is really a blend of the
> > worst elements of the two.
>
> Amazing that a Russian publication (is it really Russian, or just
> reprinted by them?) gets this so right. Nearly all American journalists
> just babble about skinheads and survivalists when they talk about the
> militia movement.
>
> > Among these issues, the most important, the one that seems most
> > immediately threatening, and which has been the prime motivation for
> > the existence of the militia movement, has been the possibility of
> > nation-wide confiscation of firearms by the US Federal government.
>
> Indeed.
>
> > The Real Activists
> >
> > The Southern Poverty Law Center, a rather shady group of lawyers who
> > make profit by suing organizations they label as "hateful",
>
> Wow. It takes a Russian to call a spade a spade.
>
> The SPLC is the most anti-liberty organization in the U.S. Words fail me
> in describing them.
>
> > One militia group based in Southern values that recently drew attention
> > was the Militia of Georgia, an armed formation consisting of what
> > researchers claim is 300 men who operate in at least 20 cells
> > throughout the state, which ordered its members to mobilize in the wake
> > of the September 11 bombings, and to be on guard against attempts by
> > the government to use the bombings to create a New World Order.
>
> This move to a police state took a big move forward this morning,
> October 26th.
>
> > The Potential For Separatism
> >
> > America's Southerners aren't the only regional-ethnic groups seeking
> > independence from the cosmopolitan internationalism of the nations'
> > elite. Rural New Englanders have launched a "blood and soil" separatist
> > movement of their own. Carolyn Chute's Second Maine Militia, a group
> > that has mixed right-wing, left-wing, and green politics, as well as
> > regional ethnic identity and national separatism, into a 500+ man armed
> > formation based in Northern New England and Canada's eastern provinces,
> > re-released a manifesto calling for people in New England and Canada to
> > revolt and create a new nation - the New Atlantic Confederacy -
> > independent of either government, should the impending war on terrorism
> > cause the central government to lose the ability to maintain control in
> > America's more remote rural areas. Her movement is explicitly pro-gun
> > and anti-capitalist, and deals regularly with other "right-wing"
> > militia organization active in the area. As Chute put it in a 2000
> > interview:
>
> No particular comment on this excerpt, but I include it to give a flavor
> of this guy's detailed understanding (he knows a lot more than I do
> about militia movements, that's for sure!).
>
> > "Behind all those urban killings are people created by the Great
> > Progressive Society. These people are not revolting against the Great
> > Progressive Society. They are raw imitations of the Great Progressive
> > Society. We are led to believe that the professional middle class are
> > the winners, the working class are the losers. As I see it, class is
> > about values, dependence and ways of communicating. The working class
> > person values place, interdependence, cooperation, the tribe. Rural
> > working class especially values land. Many of us would kill to keep our
> > land, our home, which for thousands of years was not considered a crazy
> > thing to do. Middle-class professionals are into "success" and they are
> > a dependent people, happily dependent on the consumer system for
> > everything. You call it independence. But if you lost your electricity,
> > your service people, your access to stores, you'd see how independent
> > you are! Working-class people have become dependent on these things,
> > too, but working-class values resent this dependency."
>
> Wow.
>
> > Conclusion: America's Militia Movement Is Not To Be Discounted
> >
> > It is clear that the rural people of American - the mostly white
> > population descended from the original European settlers of the
> > nation - have become alienated from the cosmopolitan blend of urban
> > white liberals and their train of ethnically defined special interests
> > that have gained control of America's cities. One only has to look at a
> > map of who voted for George Bush and who voted for Al Gore to see that
> > a clear divide has occurred between the values of the country's elite
> > and their lackeys, and the real working people of the nation.
>
> Agreed. Too bad Bush is pushing the New World Order agenda, though I
> suppose it was thrust upon him by events. Al Gore certainly would have
> been even more internationalist.
>
> > America's white working class, so long reviled by the intellectuals and
> > the clique that control the government, has been organizing itself into
> > regional-ethnically based citizen militias that are prepared to fight
> > to restore the values of their ancestor's revolution two hundred and
> > twenty five years ago. For the first time in a century, more of
> > America's white population lives in rural areas than in it's cities,
> > and that demographic change is only one indicator of the larger, more
> > widely spread divide.
> >
> > Should the American nation fracture, whether due to a massive terrorist
> > attack, the repressive domestic policies of its government, or a
> > combination of both, it is clear that there are thousands, if not tens
> > of thousands, of Americans who are already organized in paramilitary
> > armed formation for the goal of seizing power and restoring the
> > Constitutional Republic that they feel progressive liberalism has lost
> > them.
>
> An insightful summary.
> >
> > Copyright )1999 by "Pravda.RU". When reproducing our materials in whole
> > or in part, reference to Pravda.RU should be made.
>
> Gladly.
>
>
> --Tim May
> "He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a
> monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also
> into you." -- Nietzsche