Roy Larner, 47, fought off three terrorists who burst into a restaurant following their vehicle rampage on the London Bridge on June 3, 2017. (Screenshot via The Sun/ thesun.co.uk)
A recent, highly disturbing story underlines that regime’s bottomless hunger for absolute control over its subjects’ attitudes and thoughts:
A man famously lauded as a “hero” in 2017 for fighting off terrorists on the London Bridge has been forced by British authorities to attend “de-radicalization” classes “over fears he may become extremist” after being stabbed eight times, British papers reported.
Forty-nine-year-old Roy Larner became known as the “Lion of London Bridge” after three Jihadis in a van plowed into a crowd of people on London Bridge before stalking from building to building, killing seven people and eventually reaching the Black and Blue pub where Larner was drinking with friends.
“They had these long knives and started shouting about Allah. Then it was, ‘Islam, Islam, Islam,’” Larner said. “Like an idiot I shouted back at them … I took a few steps towards them and said, ‘Fuck you, I’m Millwall,’” he said, referring to his favorite soccer team….
He fought them off with his bare fists, sustaining serious stab wounds all over his body but allowing dozens of other patrons to escape.
Larner has now been added to a terrorist watchlist know as Britain’s “Prevent” program after fears he could become an anti-Islam extremist, the Sun reported Monday.
I hardly need to comment on the ironies here. Britons don’t dare say a word about the Islamic invasion of the Sceptered Isle and what it’s done to their lives. That’s “hate speech” that can land you in prison. But Roy Larner, who defended others from homicidal Muslims who’d already killed seven people, must have his thoughts reshaped to prevent him from becoming “an anti-Islam extremist.”
What does the regime really fear? That Britons might be thinking, “We’d be a lot safer had we not agreed to give up our firearms,” maybe? Or “These Muslims are destroying everything we hold dear, and the politicians are perfectly all right with it,” perhaps? Either one would threaten the elite. Therefore, anyone who exemplifies individual resistance to What Has Been Decreed From On High must be remolded. Roy Larner makes a perfect object lesson to the rest.
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By 4 p.m., Superior Court Judge Susan Bray sided with the county and civil rights groups and dismissed a challenge to the statue’s removal filed by the the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
“I think it is implicit in her ruling that the monument is owned by the Daughters of the Confederacy, not the county,” said Nick Ellis, who argued that point on behalf of the county.
You do not have to have a firearm to defend yourself as we saw in London. You do have to have the will to fight using whatever resources are available. If you do not have resources to fight, get some. If you have resources, training is essential.
VIGILANTISM, WITH its alluring tingle of defiance and frontier justice, conjures a cinematic idea of American individualism. A similar impulse is at work among advocates of the so-called Second Amendment sanctuary movement, a trend in mainly rural counties declaring they will refuse to enforce restrictive state gun laws. Both are examples of individuals who, lacking legal authority, put themselves above the law, thereby promoting chaos.
In Virginia, the movement has lately become a fad, spurred by legislative election results that will, starting in January, hand pro-gun control Democrats control of both houses of the General Assembly for the first time in a generation. With a Democrat also in the governor’s mansion, some rural Republicans are raising the specter of mass gun confiscations — and pronouncing themselves Second Amendment Sanctuaries.
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In Virginia, local governing bodies in a few dozen Appalachian southwest and central Piedmont counties have passed or are considering resolutions declaring themselves gun sanctuaries. In many, longtime gun owners are hunters who say their way of life is threatened by liberal lawmakers in Richmond.
This is nonsense fanned by mischief-makers with an agenda. In fact, the gun legislation with the best chance of passage would promote public safety by requiring universal background checks — a measure with overwhelming bipartisan support among Virginians in public opinion surveys. Other bills with broad support would limit the number and types of weapons that can be sold. For instance, by restricting handgun purchases by individuals to one per month — an anti-trafficker measure that was the law in Virginia for 20 years before it was repealed in 2012.
The only cases in which gun confiscation could take place would be if the legislature enacts a “red flag” bill, which would allow law enforcement authorities to take away firearms from individuals deemed a threat to themselves or others. Such laws, which have received bipartisan support in many states, generally depend on an order from a judge who would consider evidence presented in court.
Local authorities who refuse such orders would be thumbing their noses not just at state law but also at judicial orders — and they should be removed from office and prosecuted. Short of that, however, the gun sanctuary movement seems mainly symbolic, another manifestation of growing division in an increasingly tribal nation.
It would be too laborious to fisk this completely, but let’s make a few important points.
First, notice the literary device right out of the gate. Vigilantism = Rugged American Individualism, or at least it conjures that image. They could have said that hard work and self reliance = rugged American individualism, or that a free market economy conjures images of rugged American individualism.
But they didn’t. They equated rugged American individualism with vigilantism. This is no mistake, for they like neither one. The inside-the-beltway culture holds the collectivist value system in high regard. It takes a village, you know.
In a move hailed as a positive step by environmentalists, Washington became the first U.S. state to legalize the composting of human bodiesin May of this year.
According to its website, Spade founded the revolutionary company with the goal of offering “natural organic reduction to the public,” a system that converts human remains into soil as an alternative to cremation or burial.
Recompose’s website explains the benefits of natural organic reduction:
“By converting human remains into soil, we minimize waste, avoid polluting groundwater with embalming fluid, and prevent the emissions of CO2 from cremation and from the manufacturing of caskets, headstones, and grave liners.
By allowing organic processes to transform our bodies and those of our loved ones into a useful soil amendment, we help to strengthen our relationship to the natural cycles while enriching the earth.”
In November, around 75 people attended what was described by the Seattle Times as “a housewarming party for a funeral home where bodies would not be burned or buried, but laid in individual vessels to become clean, usable compost.”
Spade told the crowd, made up of investors, doctors, architects, funeral directors, legislators, and lawyers:
“You are all members of the death-care revolution.”
When all is said and done, the process will yield about a cubic yard of soil per person. The soil can be taken home by friends or family and used to grow a tree or a garden. Remaining soil will be used on 640 acres of conservation land in southern Washington that will one day become an ecologically sustainable village.
Second Amendment Advocates Seek Gun Rights Resolution From Supervisors
A pro-gun rights movement that’s sweeping rural Virginia reached Rockbridge County Monday. Hundreds showed up at a Board of Supervisors meeting to demand passage of a resolution designating Rockbridge as a “sanctuary” for Second Amendment rights.
The Second Amendment giving citizens the right to bear arms, declared Jared Lawhorn, “has nothing to do with hunting. It has everything to do with protecting us from tyrannical rule. … It’s one of the major deterrents to a land invasion. That’s what the founding fathers had in mind.”
According to Lawhorn, “There’s nothing common sense about gun laws. More gun laws will not protect us – they’ll just make us more vulnerable.”
Second Amendment advocates are pushing for sanctuary status as a response to the election earlier this month in which Democrats gained control of both chambers of the Virginia General Assembly. Now in charge of both the executive and legislative branches of state government, Democrats have pledged to enact gun control measures such as universal background checks, a ban on assault weapons, bump stocks and high-capacity magazines, and limiting handgun purchases to one per month.
Of the 300-400 people who crowded into the Maury River Middle School gymnasium, where the meeting was moved because of the huge turnout, not all approved of Second Amendment sanctuary designation. Of the 27 citizens who addressed the supervisors on the issue, eight opposed the designation.
“I’m a gun owner and I think it would be a bad idea to pass this type of [resolution],” said Jeff Scott. There are limitations to all rights, he asserted. The First Amendment doesn’t give an individual “blanket permission to say anything. You can’t shout ‘fire’ in a theater and there are libel laws.” Likewise, the Second Amendment doesn’t grant “blanket permission to own any kind of weapon. You can’t own a machine gun or a tank.”
Scott raised the specter of the county, if it passes such a resolution, being held liable for individuals acting in defiance of gun laws. He noted that no new laws have been passed by the General Assembly, which doesn’t convene until January. “This discussion is premature.”
B.J. Flint said he came home one evening recently to discover his basement door open, indicating someone had broken in. With his 6-year-old child by his side, Flint said he was armed with a gun and prepared to use it. “I think everyone needs a gun who knows how to use it,” he said. “I want to keep my guns.”
Tim Goodbar cited the Holocaust as an example of what can happen when guns are taken away. He questioned a proposal to prohibit children from owning guns. He said his late 13-year-old granddaughter was an avid bear hunter and would have been at the hearing to defend her gun rights, if she were still alive. Children, he said, need to be taught how to safely use firearms before they’re 18.
Ann Massie, who taught Constitutional law at Washington and Lee University, said the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, a conservative whose opinions concurred strongly with the right to bear arms, acknowledged that the right is limited, “that various gun regulations are permissible.” These include prohibitions against the mentally ill and convicted felons from owning guns and rules against taking firearms into “sensitive places.”
“I would suggest that no one in this room knows which gun proposals [under consideration] would be unconstitutional,” said Massie. “That’s for the courts to decide. It makes no sense to pass a sanctuary resolution. Are we going to harbor lawbreakers?”
“I strongly support the Second Amendment, but I admire those on the other side who are standing up [for what they believe],” said Tom Mc-Craw. Stating his opposition to placing restrictions on firearms, McCraw asked, “After gun registration, what comes next? How do you get a criminal to give the serial number on his weapon? It’s like the saying, ‘If guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns.’”
When he joined the U.S. armed forces, Steve Hart said, “I swore an oath to defend against all enemies, foreign and domestic. I believe in defending the Constitution, including the Bill of Rights.” He suggested Rockbridge County “be a sanctuary for all rights.”
Of the sanctuary resolution, Kery-Lyn Coleman asked, “What message are we sending to our children if we tell the government to ignore laws?” She contended that “Validated research supports gun safety measures. Research shows background checks work. Raising the age of gun ownership save lives.” Addressing the supervisors directly, she added, “You, as government officials, are entrusted with the power to protect society.”
Ted Chalgren said he’s concerned “about sanctuaries for people who invade our country illegally. He said he is “a strong supporter of the Constitution and a strong supporter of families. The Apostle Paul said, ‘He is an infidel who doesn’t protect his family.’”
Quoting a passage from the Declaration of Independence on citizens “having the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” Galen Lemmon said the Second Amendment “enshrines the right to life.” He maintained that the right to bear arms prevents genocide. “History is filled with examples,” he said. Without this right, he contended, millions more would have been killed in the last century than were.
“I support us being a sanctuary county,” said Stephanie Petty. “I’m concerned that people who already have guns are going to become criminals. People are going to automatically be labeled as criminals for already having guns.”
David Reynolds admonished the supervisors to “support Second Amendment rights.” He said Chicago has the strictest gun laws but the most shootings.
At the conclusion of the 90-minute hearing, supervisors chairman Jay Lewis, with the acquiescence of other Board members, directed County Administrator Spencer Suter to look at resolutions adopted by other counties and prepare a draft to be considered at the supervisors’ next meeting on Dec. 9
“Consideration of citizen concerns regarding the Second Amendment” is to be an agenda item at that meeting, which is to be held in the Rockbridge County High School auditorium to accommodate what’s expected to be a large crowd.
