7th International

Paul Encimer DISARM THE GOVERNMENT GIVE UP THE GUN Okay. Listen. It’s too late to give up a political strategy of being open, honest and friendly. You know – “nonviolent.”. We have too much PC empathy for The People to nourish a fantasy about killing some of them in order to do them good. Don’t we? But, yet, can there be anything more likely to offend country, town and city people of whatever political persuasion, than threatening gun ownership. People stockpile weapons like they were investing in gold. In fact, self-defense is the gold standard. Who buys a hand-gun without imagining a situation where you need to kill someone in self-defense? The same goes for the threat to disarm a Nation State. The Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex has complete bipartisan support. Every week Barbara Lee gets to offer some utopian anti-war legislation totally irrelevant to real policy while the war budget tops 700 billion dollars and the USA leads the world in weapons sales. Don’t ever say Uncle Sam doesn’t know how to run its Own (War) Business!. As the world’s leading arms dealer Uncle Sam’s Death Merchants are doing just fine in Syria, for instance, or Mexico. Libya was plenty good for business. NATO ran out of stuff early and we had plenty to sell. If you are Israelis or Saudis or whoever and into buying guns by mail...just dial Uncle Sam. Money is the ruling sign over the birth of both armed Citizen and Occupation soldier. The Death Merchants behind the NRA profit richly when USA politics get shot from guns. Often those guns turn up in profusion during a police raid, a trophy of the citizen’s fantasy aggression/actual submission. In some cases, those guns are displayed and deployed in secret militias: beer bottle, weed sucking conspiracies rooted in our fabulous resistance to the feds – one of those government incarnations we can all afford to hate. Think how much bigger the money returns when the International Death Merchants close a deal. Why the very day that the nerd from PsyOps was slaughtering people in a Colorado Movie theater Uncle Sam was walking out of a Conventional Arms Control session. Having the biggest table at the World Armaments Flea Market is very lucrative when you spend so many billions “stirring it up.”. The national war addiction leaks over into places like Wisconsin where seven more innocents go down. Is it because American white ethnics are too clueless to tell a Sikh from a Moslem? Or because over-educated nerds find a trigger on a Glock as easy to manipulate as a video game remote? Programmed for violence? Could there be an Illuminati production line for Manchurian Candidates? Well, yeh, you can point to our institutions of learning, praying, playing and competing. The fact is that governments, economies, media, communities are ever down and dirtier. Replacing love and trust with fear and hate is an expensive process. The “technology” is there. Uncle Sam wouldn’t use it? Just watch yourself in the movie theater in the middle of one of those violent Batman scenes - as you flashback to the massacre. Or tune into the relentless drumbeat to the next endless war. Connecting the dots. The political totalitarians are closing in, protecting us globally from the terrorists or the homeless. The quest for absolute security links the armed Citizen to the Occupation soldier. Having the power to do what you shouldn’t is a good description of the Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex. Or the NRA States of American. It matters little if the guns are used, what’s important is their purchase, Display is often enough. Von Clausewitz laid it down: “it’s not how many enemy you kill, but that you break their will.” Whose will? The targets, the victims if you will, are peers, family, friends, neighbors. Those nigger, bitches, hippies an fags. Or maybe its those birthers, bitchers, birchers and baggers. Ultimately the governments no one can trust. Any ambiguity over our guns is simplified when the gun expands our enemies into infinity. "Infinity" for governments means eventual extinction. Their enemies list dooms them one after another. Gun ownership for the individual certainly does not equal real social power and secret militias are at best Reality TV. All this leaves individuals with such alienated and powerless feelings, that the private arsenal has become the best security. Communities lack the trust necessary to create “well-regulated militia” and at best clusters of friends, families, neighbors may create or fantasize private, but not community, militias. Yet unresisting Communities will steamrollered. Gandhi counseled us “not to cooperate in anything humiliating.” The role of those of us who are willing to give up the gun is not to demand our neighbors or nations turn over theirs, but to initiate noncooperation with an untenable system of lawyers, guns and money. We need to initiate another "move to resist illegitimate authority,' as Chomsky’s gang of academics put it in the Sixties. It is the fatal quirk of armed resistance that it is either premature and frightens people into the arms of Authority. Or it waits too long before it says No. The Gandian strategy is to say NO early and often. When The Chairman said that political power comes out of the barrel of the gun, the Mahatma confidently suggested that ultimately political power comes from standing up to the gun. Paul Encimer.