Troubling and Disturbing Winds About......The Jabberwocky of Hate!

Gun lovers gather in Virginia park

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By Kathleen Hennessey
Tribune Washington Bureau
Tuesday, April 20, 2010 - Updated 1h ago
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ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Several dozen Second Amendment advocates — many with loaded handguns on their hips and rifles dangling from their shoulders — gathered in a park within view of the U.S. Capitol building on Monday, marking a day of protest against what activists called dangerous breeches of the U.S. Constitution.

"It’s paid for in blood and, if necessary, we’ll defend it in blood!" said Bob Wright, one of the speakers at the "Restore the Constitution" protest at Gravelly Point, a national park just across the Potomac River from Washington. Organizers said they chose the spot to highlight what they see as unconstitutional gun laws.

A recent law allows gun owners to carry firearms in some national parks, while openly carrying guns is prohibited under the District of Columbia’s strict gun laws. Organizers said it’s the first armed rally in a national park since the law passed.

"We want to get the message across to the other side of the Potomac that we’re tired of the Constitution not being followed," said organizer Daniel Almond, as he held a paperback copy of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Almond, a 31-year-old former Marine, carried an unloaded AR15 rifle, a bandoleer of loaded rifle magazines and a holstered pistol. He and others wore yellow ribbons across their forearms to indicate their weapons had been checked by volunteers and were in line with laws on ammunition and gun locks.

Other, unarmed, advocates rallied on the National Mall. The crowd of hundreds that gathered near the Washington Monument was dotted with orange stickers that read "Guns saves lives."

Almond said he chose the date for the event to coincide with the anniversary of the "firing of the first shot in the Revolutionary War." It is also the 15th anniversary of the bombing of the courthouse in Oklahoma City.

He was joined on the grassy lawn in Virginia by prominent figures in the militia movement, including Wright, who is affiliated with the 1st Brigade New Mexico Militia, and Mike Vanderboegh, a founder of the pro-gun Three Percenters, the group recently criticized by former President Bill Clinton for stoking extremism.


"We are coming to a fundamental break where people, real people — the guilty and innocent alike — where people are going to be dying for their failure to understand," he told the group, whose numbers were nearly matched by members of the media. "They start wars, these wannabe tyrants."

WE seem to be living in a world that of late is fueled by the syntax of JABBERWOCKY. What is spoken may be translated to mean the opposite of what the words actually are suppossed to mean. Or it may be a mad combination of words that means both things.  Or so it seems. Confused? I think that's the general intent!

Here we have a collection of "gun enthusiasts", to be polite, absolutely convinced that somehow there is a communist/socailist/facist  (even thought the philosophies represented by each of these words means something entirely different from the other) plot to deny them a "Constitutional right to bear arms" under Article 2 of the Constitution. No proof of this conspiracy is EVER given by the spokespeople of these aggrieved individuals, but this group far exceeds the regular members of the NRA in their blind devotion to a non-specific feeling of concern that borders on hate after a brief stop at paranoid delusion. Oh those damn gun laws, like weapons registration and not carrying a concealed weapon. " It's just a crime what Washington and each of the state houses are doing to God fearin' "AMERIKANNS" " OYE! We've heard all this before on Fox News for years.

Oh no, these people are some of the completely uninformed millions of disaffected Americans striking out in frustration at the rest of their fellow Americans by being allied with the TEA Party movement. (Why do I feel like I'm sitting in my doctors office as a child with my mom when I was 6 years old and he kept asking her if I was having regular "movements"? I think it fits aptly here!)

In fact it is becoming quite clear that this Tea Party Movement is not some fringe group but really a collection of white, middle class, educated and well heeled racists, the majority of whom are found in the Southern and Western states. Quelle surprise! It is a turn smack dab into UGLY our country is being dragged through right now by this cadre of no-nothing knuckle draggers.

We've gone through periods of this madness before. But this latest one seems to have a dangerous edge to it. The real  leaders of the movement , and by that I mean financial backers of all the advertising and organizing, are all allied to the Republican Party. This has been proven beyond any doubt. It's most public faces, those of Sarah Palin, Michelle Bachman, and Dick Armey couldn't be more republican.  These folks are in no way simply independent voters upset with the direction of Washington, THEY ARE WASHINGTON! And they are manipulaing the fears of a  racist group of haters the way they have for two decades now, turning words into weapons by painting them with new meanings. It is the Jabberwocky of hate. President Obama's election has simply exposed them for who and what they are.

These gun owners, and all those who claim there is an attack on the true intent of he Constitution, do not realize that the parts of the constitution they wish to "protect" are , in fact, protected by the Constitution itself, with law making ability granted to the Congress and , in some cases, the President himself. The Constitution itself is law. It's one of the reasons our soldiers and elected officials take an OATH to defend it.

We are a country of laws made possible by the Constitution. The very right for these gun owners to strut their substitute penises in public and gather to protest gun laws and Constituional issues is gaurenteed them by that same document. In fact, unless you are a stilted, very conservative member of the "Federalist" Society, and believe that the Constitution must be interpreted only in a manner which the founding fathers intended (which we also are interpreting from their writings on other issues because they are long dead and buried - how ironic, paradoxical and somewhat hypocritical is that!) denies the reality that the founding fathers planned for future situations and needs of an ever changing society by building in a mechanism to create new sections, or AMENDMENTS, to the Constitution. The world doesn't stand still and neither does the Constitution. They were visionaries who recognized this fact. It is, in fact, a document that lives as we live, changes and all.

So these serious haters want fewer laws and less government regulation of everything, except, of course, those laws THEY want on the books and the behaviors in fellow Americans THEY want stopped. How scary is that?! Now that sounds like Nazi Germany to me. And given their "business first"  love of the republican party, it is dangerously close to being pure FACIST thought. (Facism is defined as the one party CORPORATE state.) Now throw an African-American President into the mix, and all their true colors come to the fore. "Give us back our country" is the cry. Only a fool cannot see what that really means.

Now these cretins, not smart enough to realize they are being manipulated by those above them whose greatest talent has always been speaking the BIG LIE to middle America, revile the laws that protect them as well as those people they hate. Nice.

But just because we don't like what they do and what they represent, we must still tollerate this hate because of the rights granted all of us by the Constitution. Laws for all that protect us all.

It reminds me of a caution of which we must always be mindful. It  is no better described than by this brief discussion of the need for the law wthin the play "A Man For All Seasons".

From "A MAN For All SEASONS":

 A discussion between Sir Thomas More, Chacellor of England under Henry the VIII, who wanted a divorce from his first wife which More would not agree to,  and William Roper, suitor to More's daughter, newly appointed to the Bar, concerning the need of maintaining the law in all circumstances, even when it concerned the demands of the King to do otherwise.

"  William Roper: So, now you give the Devil the benefit of law!

Sir Thomas More: Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?

William Roper: Yes, I'd cut down every law in England to do that!

Sir Thomas More: Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned 'round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man's laws, not God's! And if you cut them down, and you're just the man to do it, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake!  "

 So, even before we endured 20+ years of NBC's LAW and ORDER, the issue of defending everyone's rights under the Constitution, if for no other reason than to maintain our own rights thereunder, has been central to any discussion related to confusing, changing and challenging times we live through and the laws that govern how we live.

To protect ourselves and our fellow man, regardless of whether we disagree with them, or even hate them, if that's the sad place we find ourselves, is an ideal we must live up to under any and every circumstance. And it requires constant vigilance. It is the very essence of what keeps us all free. In the end, it might be the only thing that protects us all from the Jabberwocky of hate that we are sure to see again.

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                              JABBERWOCKY, a poem by Lewis Carroll

 

"Jabberwocky" is a poem of nonsense verse written by Lewis Carroll, originally featured as a part of his novel Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1872). It is considered by many to be one of the greatest nonsense poems written in the English language.[1] The poem is sometimes used in primary schools to teach students about the use of portmanteau and nonsense words in poetry, as well as use of nouns and verbs.

 

’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves

Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;

All mimsy were the borogoves,

And the mome raths outgrabe.

“Beware the Jabberwock, my son!

The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!

Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun

The frumious Bandersnatch!”

He took his vorpal sword in hand:

Long time the manxome foe he sought—

So rested he by the Tumtum tree,

And stood awhile in thought.

And as in uffish thought he stood,

The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,

Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,

And burbled as it came!

One, two! One, two! and through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.


“And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!”
He chortled in his joy.

’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.