Denied the tools for duty

The Associated Press reported:

"I was confused and just shocked," said Spc. Jerry Richard, 27, who works at the center but was not on duty during the shooting. "Overseas you are ready for it. But here you can't even defend yourself."  Soldiers at Fort Hood don't carry weapons unless they are doing training exercises.

Yesterday a 39 year old Psychiatrist, Major Nidal Malik Hassan, executed 11 unarmed American warriors at the Fort Hood Army base in Texas.  Hassan, a Muslim, may have been a frustrated single man.  The Imam from his Mosque told reporters that Hassan complained to him about not having a wife.  Hassan received a poor job performance evaluation from Walter Reed Medical Center in July, just before he transferred to Fort Hood.

The words of Spc. Jerry Richard quoted above haunt me.  He said, "Here you can't even defend yourself."  How many massacres of this kind will America absorb before it halts its freefall into the gun control abyss?

Just one armed individual in close proximity to Hassan would have radically changed the outcome of this rampage.

Instead of creating a society full of responsible armed men prepared to protect innocence we are creating a surveillance society in which we demand that the government guarantee our safety.  That doesn't make any sense at all.  It isn't possible to build a government big enough to protect all 300 million of us all the time.  That should be painfully obvious to everyone by now.

How many more Columbines, Virginia Techs and Fort Hoods will it take to wake us up from our utopia-induced stupor so that we can take personal responsibility for ourselves and those we love.  It has become, of course, impossible to protect yourself in much of the world because of bad thinking about guns.  The liberal idea of ridding the world of guns has actually only kept guns away from the good men who would use them properly.

A perhaps unintended consequence of this bad ideology is that the process of feminization gets a testosterone boost.  Men will always choose coddling over duty, if those are their only two choices.  The problem with the world is that those aren't ever the only two choices. 

Feminists think duty can be feminized.  Men are eager to let them believe that.  It makes life so much more pleasureable ... until the going gets tough.

Then everyone, feminists included, look for the alpha male -- the man of principle who was created to use just the right amount of force, at just the right nanosecond, to secure justice for all.

That man was surely present in the Soldier Readiness Center yesterday.  Our society just made sure he was denied the tools to perform his duty.

Homosexuals participate in killing then testify for "marriage" four days later

This story doesn't fortify the agenda of the sexual disorientation crowd so you won't be reading about it on the front page anytime soon. Here's the high points that are public. Three men are together in an apartment here in Maine handling a loaded gun. One of them shoots the other one in the head and waits an entire day to report to authorities what he has done. The two witnesses (I'm assuming here, the news story linked above doesn't make it clear who the second shooting witness was) then appear, four days later, in front of an adoring crowd of 2000 supporters in the Augusta Civic Center in support of sodomy-based marriage, and go on vacation.

Law enforcement are bringing manslaughter charges against the shooter, who apparently didn't know the gun was loaded.

Let's assume the best. The three friends were sitting around discussing firearms while handling a gun. No alcohol or jesting that would cause carelessness. The shooter isn't pointing the gun at the head of the victim and it goes off. To me, that's the best scenario here, given the facts that have been reported.

The two witnesses panic and leave the apartment. They struggle all day with what has happened and finally agree to call the police. According to the news story they tell the police they should go and "check on Wilson (the victim)."

Four days later the shooter stands in front of the whole state of Maine on the most contentious moral issue of our time and offers testimony. Is it just me or is something terribly wrong here?

Even if the description above were accurate (and we already know it is worse because the District Attorney admitted the three men were participating in "something like" Russian Roulette) this story raises so many questions.

1. What were the men doing when the shooter pulled the trigger? What is "something like" Russian roulette.
2. Why did they wait all day to confess? If I were innocent in this matter I'd be either running for the hills or to the police to confess. The casual quality of both the shooting and the response of the law enforcement community is curious.
3. What sort of thinking and emotions govern a man who can put a bullet in another man's head that kills him, then a short four days later testify in the most high-profile public hearing of 2009? I can't imagine what is going through this man's head.
4. Did the organizers of the hearing know this happened? And if not, why not? The Attorney General appeared in the same testimony line as the shooter and his "lover." I would think they would be keeping this man from giving testimony, if they knew about the shooting. The homosexual community is pretty tight in Maine. I'd find it hard to believe they didn't know what was going on here.

One last question.

If the shooter was a Christian man who testified at the hearing against homosexual marriage how would this propaganda opportunity be playing out publicly?

Bold Men of God

I saw a book title this morning. "God Built: Bold Men of God aren't Born, they're Built." That got me wondering whether it is possible any longer for bold men of God to be political. In saying that I'm not wondering if they can want power or success. That, in fact, seems to be all that they can want.

I'm wondering if bold men of God can be like the character examined in the book mentioned above. God Built is about Joseph. I haven't read the book so I can't write about its contents. I have read about Joseph.

Joseph didn't want power or success in Egypt. It literally fell into his lap after he fell ... was pushed actually ... into a hole in the desert by his brothers. We all know the story. When offered culturally acceptable sex with the wife of his boss he fled. She lied about him and he went to jail.

Anyway, Joseph wasn't politically correct. He was, however, spiritually powerful. It was, of course, possible to be religious in pagan Egypt. It isn't possible to be both religious and powerful in America anymore. We appear to occupy a nether world between cultural Christianity and rabid atheistic secularism. Many of us now believe that multiculturalism is the glue that will bind us together going forward.

I don't think it will.

Religion is what binds groups together. Shared values are what work. Pretending that a nation can hold opposite values in tension and survive is folly. Bold Christian men will either stand and be counted in a way that honors the Bible and Christian tradition, or the USA will continue to crumble.

President John Quincy Adams said, "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."

Unfortunately I meet less and less bold Christian men as I travel. I do meet them, but almost none of them understand the cultural mandate. Many of them are interested in evangelism. Some are evangelizing.

Three men whose communications inspire and challenge me are Doug Giles, Dave Daubenmire and James Dobson. They are different from one another. Their styles are so divergent as to be completely disconnected and even contrary to one another. However, they share in common a passion for applying Biblical reasoning to unpopular ... non politically correct ... issues like sexuality, abortion, marriage and the family.

You can check them out at these websites:

Dr. James Dobson
Doug Giles
Coach Dave Daubenmire

These men are modern day Josephs.