Alphecca: Guardian Honors Alphecca

June 29, 2006

Guardian Honors Alphecca

Thanks to a heads-up from Eric Scheie, I've learned that Alphecca has been profoundly honored by Great Britain's Guardian newspaper as part of "...the lunatic fringe of the US right". In an article about the AK-47 and the UN conference, they write:

Perhaps wary of a backlash from Washington, the UN won't even be looking at the issue of legitimate gun ownership. But that hasn't stopped the lunatic fringe of the US right from raising suspicions that an overmighty world government is plotting to abolish the holy second amendment.

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On Alphecca, Jeff Soyer has come up with a novel approach to human rights activism which, he claims, could see those 100m AKs being used to improve the lot of the world's unfortunates:

"The UN and other so-called 'human rights' groups ought to be making sure that AKs are also available and used to fight for human rights and be provided to those who are being 'trampled upon'."

For some reason they didn't provide a link to my actual post which was about Mikhail Kalashnikov joining forces with IANSA and which said:

He makes the same mistake that many of the gun-grabbers he's rubbing elbows with make. Is the AK-47 being used by bad people? Yes. It's also being used by good people. The firearm is neutral.

If some third-world governments are using the AK's to "trample human rights" then rather than banning the sale and export of them, the UN and other so-called "human rights" groups ought to be making sure that AK's are also available and used to fight for human rights and be provided to those who are being "trampled upon".

Instead, they follow the faulty (and proven wrong) logic that banning guns will stop bad people from having them and using them for evil. Cities such as DC and Chicago prove this everyday when they prevent the law-abiding from handgun ownership, thereby empowering the criminals and thugs to prey on them.

None-the-less, I think I'll feel flattered by the attention. Besides, as the song went, ...it's nice to be a lunatic! so I'm changing the headers on the sidebars right now. By the way, now that I'm officially part of the lunatic fringe do I get a membership card?

Posted by Jeff Soyer at June 29, 2006 07:49 AM

Comments

...and that's why I've been calling it the "Democide Enablement Conference" all along. :)

Posted by: Tam at June 29, 2006 08:55 AM

Any publicity is good publicity, Jeff, as they always say. Congratulations. It's hard to believe that shithole of an island was the birthplace of the Magna Carta, precurser to our freedoms.

Posted by: Dave Lincoln at June 29, 2006 12:40 PM

Re the Magna Carta. There is, in england, a small monument at the location of the signing of the Magna Carta. But there is no parking lot, no wide spot in the road, no nothing. I suppose you could visit it but they don't make it easy, I bet most people see it as I did - from a vehicle.

Posted by: Marc at June 29, 2006 01:22 PM

The Grauniad! a complement indeed from the chosen news source of sandal wearing public employees, social workers and liberals.

The nickname comes from the poor type setting the paper used to have until they faced up to the modern world and went digital.

Just for the record, I'm wearing sandals, have a bushy beard and have just finished a days work in Luanda, capital of Angola. For obvious reasons I'm not making too many comments while I'm here

Let's hope one or two of their readers have the curiosity to visit your site and read the sense that "the lunatic fringe" are capable of.

Great site

Posted by: Keith at June 29, 2006 01:23 PM

I can see you now:

With a hideous, wheezing cackle, not unlike Renfield from the Lugosi version of Dracula, hissing your menacing free speech at those righteously determined to sink a stake in the heart of liberty....

Posted by: tomWright at June 29, 2006 07:11 PM

You May Be Right
Billy Joel

You may be right
I may be crazy
But it just might be a lunatic you're looking for
Turn out the light
Don't try to save me
You may be wrong for all I know
But you may be right

I believe it was Heinlein that said the surest sign of a person's character is in the enemies he makes.

Contgratulations on the hit piece from Moonbat Central.

Otpu.

Posted by: Otpu at June 29, 2006 09:09 PM

Man, I am sooooooooo jealous

Posted by: Ken Summers at June 30, 2006 09:27 AM

Like the man said, when people like this scream and insult and get a case of the vapors, you're doing something VERY right.

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June 29, 2006

Guardian Honors Alphecca

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