Hatred and the far right originates from the left.

June 13, 11:31 AMLA Gun Rights ExaminerJohn Longenecker

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So what else is new? Saturday, June 13, 2009, the Los Angeles Times, Op-ed by Tim Rutten, Hatred and the far right. What is new is that it's not only vicious now, it's outright lies and defamation. Um.. maybe that's not so new, either, huh?

Times writer Tim Rutten operates on the presumption that the right hates. The right might feel resentment at all the intrusion like never before in this country (not to mention the lies about Americans), but it is hate only in the minds of those who have nothing left to say. When you strike the first punch — and the left in America threw the first accosted Lady Liberty years ago – you can't say that righteous indignation is hate. The dispute and the double standard is the bloodless left who perceives Libertarians and Conservatives as adults and themselves as teens. The left has contempt for expectations of the right and has no expectations of themselves. The fraud of the angry left in America is that it expects nothing of itself. There's your double standard.

In his third paragraph, Rutten refers to a ‘delusional nature of its core' (the right) made up of anti-Semitism, more militia slander, a lack of causality for it all (liberals don't get what independence is) and ‘rumors' that the Obama Administration is going to seize firearms as reflected in a run on gun stores for weapons and ammunition. Delusional, or rational societal response?

What Rutten fails to understand and what all liberals fail to understand is how they showcase their angry adolescent world view before so many mainstream people who choose adulthood, and who – millions of them by some counts – no longer trust the word of liberals and see only their actions. You might say that liberals aren't evaluated by their lip service as much as their results, if any. Such newspapers become thinner with every edition.

But as a denizen of the liberty culture – it is not a gun culture so much as it is a larger liberty culture – I can tell you that the election to buy guns and ammunition is not out of fear of any more confiscations and you better get them while you can, it's more out of a reasonable apprehension of sweeping adverse changes. These changes are anticipated by the electorate to come in how the administration perceives the electorate (whether it respects you and your earnings or disrespects you and your earnings), too much political self-indulgence. Further, that liberal behavior cements what they plan for America only in part in seizing not guns, and more importantly taking our independence (making options illegal, for instance), in redefining what is crime (such as possession of a pocket knife re-defined as a switchblade), diminishing all self-defense law, police responses by poorer and poorer availability of assets in a rotting economy, a choked justice system, a choked health care system, a total reversal of values, and perhaps even the demise of the doctrine of what is the average reasonable person. It is this that the electorate fears most of all: an ever-increasing, coerced utter dependency on government with all exits blocked. Maybe the average person can't put their finger on it, but they do accurately sense danger, and nothing says it better than responding in personal preparedness.

This sense of apprehension and mistrust can be reduced by preparedness and a hope in due process, but when preparedness is soon to be punished, then Americans really see a red flag. A big one.

This idea of preparedness (independence) infuriates officials and Rutten-types because the old value of self-reliance negates almost any need for dependency on officials, their sole reason for living. This preparedness is mocked by the left who, in fact, believes that when the hammer comes down on America, they will somehow be exempt. Even rewarded.

Let me give you an example which impeaches Rutten's entire paradigm. Not only are so-called right wing gun owners allies of law enforcement and law and order, but get along well with police. In an interview with Cam Edwards on NRA News last night, author and Examiner columnist Howard Nemerov was asked to elaborate on his latest Examiner article. Let me send you to NRANews.com for the Cam & Company show there which will be available online for the next four days. Slide into the video to 2:29 (two and a half hours into the show) to hear Howard's stats on this. Gun owners and police have enjoyed for a long time an alliance in law and order, support, and synergy, and Howard's observations show to non-gun owners that, among other things, the right is not the hateful in America.

America has never really needed liberals, not really. They are fighting for their very lives to be needed, and breaking all the rules to do it. The Conservatives, on the other hand, are needed, and are just now getting involved.

Fighting indecency including defamation is not a morbid foible, it is a safeguard of the United States. It is not extremism to be strict, to teach it, and to have a reasonable expectation of integrity from others, but it does reveal a desperate extremism within liberals who resort to defaming values which are those safeguards of the country. Not showing up to vote isn't much of a protest when it helps liberals who do show up.

Gun control disarms the electorate of arms, of knowledge and of spirit, and thereby rightful authority and power, and as it defames gun ownership as extremist, it unmasks its own ignorance and angst in forgetting that they are addressing a greater and greater majority of civil and decent mainstream electorate every day.

Independence from our own public servants is more in demand every day. Liberals hate independence from them, and for those who oppose our independence from our servants and who resort to smear, every edition of their paper seems to get thinner every day.

That's a vote of a sort, isn't it? See how it works?

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