Daniel Greenfield hits one out of the park

Posted on May 31, 2014 by KG

on the subject of the maniac Elliot Rodger:
‘..Our choice is not between a safe society without guns and a dangerous society with guns. It is between a society of individual responsibility where everyone can be trusted to own a gun and a society of collectivist irresponsibles where no one can be trusted to own a gun.’

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18 Responses to Daniel Greenfield hits one out of the park

  1. Cadwallader says:
    June 1, 2014 at 07:33

    I agree without question but add the caveat that this principle is wider than gun ownership/control. It is a foundational principle for all aspects of life. http://falfn.com/CrusaderRabbit/wp-content/plugins/wp-monalisa/icons/wpml_good.gif

  2. Darin says:
    June 1, 2014 at 09:56

    A radio call in show I listen to had a caller say pretty much the same thing.If the problem was sex or the lack there of a quick ride into Nevada and $500 would have fixed that in an afternoon.No this kid was sick and a product of poor parenting and a lifestyle that handed him everything.I would bet that all the people in his life that he looked to for affirmation are just as messed up as he is.None of them will admit it,so they blame the gun,its easier than looking in the mirror after all.

  3. Redbaiter says:
    June 1, 2014 at 13:58

    KG, here’s a comment on Bergdahl you might be interested in-

    You want it from the horses mouth?? Here ya go..We were at OP Mest, Paktika Province, Afghanistan. It was a small outpost where B Co 1-501st INF (Airbone) ran operations out of, just an Infantry platoon and ANA counterparts there. The place was an Afghan graveyard. Bergdahl had been acting a little strange, telling people he wanted to “walk the earth” and kept a little journal talking about how he was meant for better things. No one thought anything about it. He was a little “out there”. Next morning he’s gone. We search everywhere, and can’t find him. He left his weapon, his kit, and other sensitive items. He only took some water, a compass and a knife. We find some afghan kids shortly after who saw an american walking north asking about where the taliban are. We get hits on our voice intercepter that Taliban has him, and we were close. We come to realize that the kid deserted his post, snuck out of camp and sought out Taliban… to join them. We were in a defensive position at OP Mest, where your focus is to keep people out. He knew where the blind spots were to slip out and that’s what he did. It was supposed to be a 4-day mission but turned into several months of active searching. Everyone was spun up to find this guy. News outlets all over the country were putting out false information. It was hard to see, especially when we knew the truth about what happened and we lost good men trying to find him. PFC Matthew Michael Martinek, Staff Sgt. Kurt Robert Curtiss, SSG Clayton Bowen, PFC Morris Walker, SSG Michael Murphrey, 2LT Darryn Andrews, were all KIA from our unit who died looking for Bergdahl. Many others from various units were wounded or killed while actively looking for Bergdahl. Fighting Increased. IEDs and enemy ambushes increased. The Taliban knew that we were looking for him in high numbers and our movements were predictable. Because of Bergdahl, more men were out in danger, and more attacks on friendly camps and positions were conducted while we were out looking for him. His actions impacted the region more than anyone wants to admit. There is also no way to know what he told the Taliban: Our movements, locations, tactics, weak points on vehicles and other things for the enemy to exploit are just a few possibilities. The Government knows full well that he deserted. It looks bad and is a good propaganda piece for the Taliban. They refuse to acknowledge it. Hell they even promoted him to Sergeant which makes me sick. I feel for his family who only want their son/brother back. They don’t know the truth, or refuse to acknowledge it as well. What he did affected his family and his whole town back home, who don’t know the truth. Either way what matters is that good men died because of him. He has been lying on all those Taliban videos about everything since his “capture”. If he ever returns, he should be tried under the UCMJ for being a deserter and judged for what he did. Bergdahl is not a hero, he is not a soldier or an Infantryman. He failed his brothers. Now, sons and daughters are growing up without their fathers who died for him and he will have to face that truth someday.”

    http://mobile.armytimes.com/article/20140531/NEWS/305310046

  4. Redbaiter says:
    June 1, 2014 at 14:46

    Yep, evidently it came from up the chain. This guy just reposted it. Has the ring of truth to it.

    And now Bergdhal’s father is all over Twitter urging that Guantanamo be shut down and that reparations are offered to Afghanistan. A nest of leftists by the sound of it.

    Dunno if you read the discussion at the link but quite interesting.

    • KG says:
      June 1, 2014 at 15:08

      Yep, I read it. Interesting, but not very informative.
      My guess is that the brass will drag the chain on this until the excitement dies down and there will be no court martial. Maybe some “disciplinary measure” which will amount to SFA.
      The guy has been used to provide some feelgood atmospherics for a deeply unpopular Administration and that’s about it.

      • Darin says:
        June 1, 2014 at 16:14

        Nope,he will be the left’s next “war hero” politician aka John Kerry :evil:

  5. Ronbo says:
    June 2, 2014 at 00:56

    Thanks for posting the article on Sergeant (puke!) Bergdhal the deserter and traitor who departed his combat post because he (very likely) wanted homosexual intercourse with the Islamic enemy.

    When was stationed in the Philippines at Clark Air Force base in the late 1960s we had a Bergdhal type character by the name of Gary Farson in my unit who went AWOL in 1968 and joined the Communist HUKs insurgents; however, he was killed in a night assault on a Philippine Army base.

    The Philippine soldiers were quite upset as you can imagine because Farson was still wearing his U.S. Army dog tags when he got shot and President Marcos personally called up our commander to ask him if the American army had changed sides.

    Of course, it was easily proven that Farson had went AWOL months before he was killed, so the Philippine government was appeased.

    Farson was a weird character like Bergdhal. I was his roommate for a few weeks and this guy was really into the commie crap, for example, on his locker door he had a full size picture of “Uncle Ho” the North Vietnamese leader. Did I tell you we were Military Intelligence? Needless to say, Farson’s pro-Communist views resulted in a courts martial re-assignment to the motor pool.