NOVAE MILITIAE

http://www.secessionist.us/blog/scarletpimpernel.html

Check out the videos. The second one is an hour-long video about the global warming hoax.

But the first one is real fun. It's always amazing to see a bunch of radical lefties get together in public. If one has any doubt whatsoever that they are all a bunch of intellectual derelicts and emotional cripples, all he has to do is watch videos like this one.

All this moronity notwithstanding, the UN is pressing for a global carbon tax.  Since "the power to tax is the power to destroy", the UN should be told where it can put its tax.  It's time to "just say no" to Green tyranny.

UPDATE 2:  Auster responds to an e-mailer who doesn't know a cuss word from shinola.  Auster was quite vexed, and for good reason.  The e-mailer is an idiot:

Oleg writes:

In regards to your blog entry on Christians arming themselves, and basically fighting back when they are attacked; does this not go against the essence of Christianity? If one is attacked, wouldn't the proper Christian stand there and accept whatever punishment is dealt to him; not fight back, run away, or go and call the police or file a complaint afterwards.

This woman who shot the shooter did what any normal human being would do. A true Christian however, would not have harmed the shooter. Isn't there some sort of a passage in the New Testament that teaches salvation through suffering, or something along the lines of that? Isn't the fundamental difference between Christians and gentiles, the fact that a Christian only harms and kills during times of war; while for a Jew, Hindu, Buddhist, Parsi or Muslim, it is justified to take another mans life if that man is attempting to take yours--regardless if it is a time of peace or a time of war.

BTW, just a quick fun fact, the Torah had different moralities for times of peace and times of war.

LA replies:

Where did you get such absolute crap? Did you land on the planet earth yesterday? Do you know nothing of history? Is all you know about Christianity a couple of passages from the Gospels taken by themselves, not considered in context? Do you have no ability to think? Do you actually believe that the Christian religion has been a suicide cult for the past two thousand years? Are you not aware that Christians have lived in organized Christian societies for the last two thousand years, and that organized societies are not in the habit of commanding their citizens to allow themselves to be mass murdered by criminals and enemies?

And what about letting OTHER people be killed? Do you believe that if Christians' children, neighbors, and wives are threatened by marauders, the Christians are commanded by their religion to stand by passively while their wives, children, and neighbors are killed? Did you THINK before you wrote your e-mail?

LA continues:

Why this comment annoyed me. This guy who knows nothing about Christianity, nothing about Christian civilization, comes along, telling Christians that by HIS non-existent understanding of Christianity they all ought to let themselves be murdered by criminals. Talk about chutzpah!

UPDATE:  Farah and Auster concur.

ORIGINAL POST:

For ongoing coverage of this tragic incident, one now in a long string, see the blog Slapstick Politics.

All of this simply underscores what I've written here about: 1) the increasing anti-Christian fury in this nation and elsewhere; and 2) the resulting need for Christian men (and as this case shows, women as well) to develop a familiarity with small arms and a willingness to use them. Yes, even at church, if necessary.

Regarding the first point, the increasing anti-Christian fury. My previous thoughts have been, I think, distilled in this post. While the motives of the Colorado shooter is not yet known (he apparently came from a Christian family), you can bet that by now the blogosphere is full of comments by leftist moonbats congratulating him. I have stumbled upon two so far, that is, without even going out to the usual haunts looking for such comments. No, they came directly to us.

From a comments box on Slapstick Politics:

So the shooter killed only two and wounded two others. Too bad he didn't have more time to get some more. Religious missionaries are very legitimate targets since they stick their noses into other people's private religious affairs. America needs more shootings like this in the future to put the religious fanatics and loonies in their place.
tanbiker | 12.09.07 - 1:02 pm | #

From the Denver Post:

Churches that teach hatred are hated.

Comment by imogene powell — December 10, 2007 @ 12:20 pm

There they are, ladies and gentlemen: the loons of the anti-Christian left, seething with hatred and full of murderous thoughts.  Evidence of why I say the war is not over. Go into my blog archives and look at the category, "What Is To Be Done (Firearms)". Learn the theology of this thing, i.e., why it is that Christian Americans MAY take up arms to defend themselves from murderous anti-Christians. Understand that pacifist theology finds no real support in the Scriptures or in the mind of the Church throughout most of its history. Understand that dispensationalist eschatology is false to the core, and that we need not therefore simply meet violence with resignation due to the fact that we are in the "end times." Only God knows what "times" we're in, and He expects men to defend the innocent.  And one need not be a policeman or a soldier to participate in the battle to defend them.   As Jeffrey Snyder notes in his bombshell Public Interest article "A Nation of Cowards, according to traditional American moral and political ideology it is the individual, not the state, who assumes primary responsibility for defending his life, the lives of others, and inherited liberties:

Although difficult for modern man to fathom, it was once widely believed that life was a gift from God, that to not defend that life when offered violence was to hold God's gift in contempt, to be a coward and to breach one's duty to one's community. A sermon given in Philadelphia in 1747 unequivocally equated the failure to defend oneself with suicide:

He that suffers his life to be taken from him by one that hath no authority for that purpose, when he might preserve it by defense, incurs the Guilt of self murder since God hath enjoined him to seek the continuance of his life, and Nature itself teaches every creature to defend itself.

"Cowardice" and "self-respect" have largely disappeared from public discourse. In their place we are offered "self-esteem" as the bellwether of success and a proxy for dignity. "Self-respect" implies that one recognizes standards, and judges oneself worthy by the degree to which one lives up to them. "Self-esteem" simply means that one feels good about oneself. "Dignity" used to refer to the self-mastery and fortitude with which a person conducted himself in the face of life's vicissitudes and the boorish behavior of others. Now, judging by campus speech codes, dignity requires that we never encounter a discouraging word and that others be coerced into acting respectfully, evidently on the assumption that we are powerless to prevent our degradation if exposed to the demeaning behavior of others. These are signposts proclaiming the insubstantiality of our character, the hollowness of our souls.

It is impossible to address the problem of rampant crime without talking about the moral responsibility of the intended victim. Crime is rampant because the law-abiding, each of us, condone it, excuse it, permit it, submit to it. We permit and encourage it because we do not fight back, immediately, then and there, where it happens. Crime is not rampant because we do not have enough prisons, because judges and prosecutors are too soft, because the police are hamstrung with absurd technicalities. The defect is there, in our character. We are a nation of cowards and shirkers. . . .

Is your life worth protecting? If so, whose responsibility is it to protect it? If you believe that it is the police's, not only are you wrong -- since the courts universally rule that they have no legal obligation to do so -- but you face some difficult moral quandaries. How can you rightfully ask another human being to risk his life to protect yours, when you will assume no responsibility yourself? Because that is his job and we pay him to do it? Because your life is of incalculable value, but his is only worth the $30,000 salary we pay him? If you believe it reprehensible to possess the means and will to use lethal force to repel a criminal assault, how can you call upon another to do so for you?

Do you believe that you are forbidden to protect yourself because the police are better qualified to protect you, because they know what they are doing but you're a rank amateur? Put aside that this is equivalent to believing that only concert pianists may play the piano and only professional athletes may play sports. What exactly are these special qualities possessed only by the police and beyond the rest of us mere mortals?

One who values his life and takes seriously his responsibilities to his family and community will possess and cultivate the means of fighting back, and will retaliate when threatened with death or grievous injury to himself or a loved one. He will never be content to rely solely on others for his safety, or to think he has done all that is possible by being aware of his surroundings and taking measures of avoidance. Let's not mince words: He will be armed, will be trained in the use of his weapon, and will defend himself when faced with lethal violence.

Christian men: the killer was taken out by a FEMALE volunteer security guard while the assailant was being distracted by a Vietnam vet who was unarmed. Here's the account, and note the very last sentence, where the security guard, a Christian and a member of the church, tells us how she remained so calm and collected.  (Quoted in the Slapstick Politics blog entry linked at the beginning of this entry):

A Vietnam veteran is among the survivors, hit by gunfire at the New Life Church in Colorado Springs.

Larry Bourbannais, 59, was eating a hamburger in the cafeteria on the church campus when he heard gunfire, said his daughter, Sherry Smith.

Bourbannais headed in the direction of the shots as frightened people ran past him looking to escape to safety.

"Where's the shooter, where's the shooter," my dad kept yelling, Smith said.

Smith, 28, and other family members met Bourbannais at a hospital Sunday where he was treated for a gunshot wound in the arm and released.

Bourbannais was alert at the hospital and told Smith in detail about the shooting.

Bourbannais came upon the gunman near an entry way in a building and yelled at him to draw his attention, Smith said.

That's when the shooter pointed a handgun at Bourbannais and fired, she said.

Bourbannais had ducked behind a hollow, decorative pillar and was hit in the arm by the bullet and fragments of the pillar.

At about that moment, a woman with a drawn handgun turned a corner and walked toward the gunman and yelled "Surrender," Smith said.

When the gunman pointed his weapon at the woman, she fired at him and kept walking toward him as she continued firing, Smith said.

"My dad said it was the bravest thing he had ever seen," Smith said.

The woman fired off about 10 to 12 shots as she kept walking toward the shooter.

After the gunman went down, Bourbannais asked the woman, who has only been identified as a volunteer security guard with the church, how she remained so calm and focused.

Smith said the woman told Bourbannais: "She was praying for guidance from the Holy Spirit."

I bet so, since she probably didn't get much guidance from a benighted, mealy-mouthed church, Orthodox, Catholic and Protestant, on the question of whether to shoot and when to shoot.  So, the holder of a Colorado concealed carry license, she relied on her training as a former law enforcement officer - and upon the Holy Spirit.  A modern-day Shieldmaiden of Rohan, like Eowyn. 

So, to blue blazes with "Christian" hoplophobia.  To blue blazes with Catholic and Orthodox priests and bishops, and Protestant ministers, who teach their flock that they shouldn't even own guns, much less use one in self-defense or the defense of others.  Long live, rather, the Christian knight.

And shieldmaiden.