The moral of the story...

I am not the biggest fan of Bill O'reilly. His idea bout having oil corporations cutting profits by 20% was about stupid. When an economist tried to explain to him that price ceilings inevitably lead to shortages, he just got huffy, and soon the host was screaming at the expert guest because the host did not understand. Just an example.

Anyway, Bill has fallen from grace in a number of ways, but he absolutely hit the nail on the head on today's program. It was at the very beginning, where he said that the moral of the story was that "if you count on the governmnet for anything, you are going to be disappointed." [emphasis mine].

That sounds like it was ripped from the writings of kim DuToit. So, to put a little mustard on it, here is a list of things where you might be disappointed;

[clears throat, does best Jeff Foxworthy impression]

If you count on the government to provide a safe, clean and confortable shelter from a category 5 hurricane (which the rest of us call internment camps)....

        .....You are going to be disappointed.

If you count on the government to provide you with prescription drugs,

        .....You are going to be disappointed.

If you count on the government to keep it's mitts off your inheritence,

        .....You are going to be disappointed.

If you count on the government to keep the borders secure,

        .....You are going to be disappointed.

If you count on the government to keep politics out of warfighting,

        .....You are going to be disappointed.

If you count on the government to let you defend yourself,

        .....You are going to be disappointed.

If you count on the government to cut back on pork barrel spending,

        .....You are going to be disappointed.

If you count on the government to let you know a freshly paroled child molester is moving in next door,

        .....You are going to be disappointed.

If you count on the government to keep thug agencies like the ATF in check,

        .....You are going to be disappointed.

If you count on the government to protect your private property rights,

        .....You are going to be disappointed.

[/Foxworthy]

Securing New Orleans will probably take a few days to make safe. Just to put things into perspective; New Orleans was under the control of thugs for a few days, and it will take days more for it to be restored to order. Iraq was under the control of thugs for decades, it might take more than a few years for everything to be restored back to order.

As things become less uncertain, and more shocking tales escape from that Hell, we will start to see politicians playing the blame game. The fact of the matter is that New Orleans was looted by the people of New Orleans. A lot of people in New Orleans could have left, but just chose not to out of pure laziness, or denial that they were actuallyt facing a city-killer hurrican in a coastline city below sea level. Christ, had they just started walking the day before, they could have gotten a good 20 miles inland. That's far enough to avoid flooding. That's far enough to suvive. Domestic-6 just told me about a group they profiled on TV. Four people who decided to hoof it out after the storm. They got 15 miles to a family members place. They are unharmed, safe. Why? Because they took responsibility for their own lives, and became masters of their own fate.

Kim DuToit is a great man, and I am honored to call him my friend. When I first met him, he rekindled the smoldering ashes of my hoplophilia (much to my wife's dismay). When I went with him to area 45, home of the late, great Steve Herod, we were talking in his truck on the way to a resaurant for dinner. As we careened along the unlit dirt roads, hurtiling through the darkness as spectral green waves of foliage seemd to leap out at the headlights, only to stop short, I complimented him on his stalwart efforts to reclaim gun rights. Then he said something very simple and very profound. He said "I don't just want gun rights... I want individual liberty, a culture of self-reliance....I want the whole bloody thing." Or, words to that effect. It reminded me of one of the last scenes from the Alamo, where Dennis Quaid, as the famous Texas general, was sitting on the ground with a wounded leg with a group of his men gathered around. They had General Santa Anna, and were arguing over which tree to hang him from, or some other such early Texas politics. Sam Houston silenced them, and then he said something similar (again, I paraphrase). "You want blood. Well," he continued, " I don't want blood, I want Texas."

Now, many of those who embraced the shackles of state reliance, found themselves in the most dire of straits. Many perished, many hid. but the great majority now find their salvation in the welcoming arms of a city in Texas. The city was named after that Texas General, who, like Kim Dutoit, wanted the whole thing,   ... Sam Houston.

The fall of New Orleans to chaos was not just a failure of the NOPD, or the mayor, or the governor, or any politcal party. It was the failure of the state. This is a hard earned lesson for some, lethal for others, they should mark it well.

The bloody, starving, violent, fiery moral of the story is;

The state cannot be relied upon without disappointment. You must learn to rely upon yourself.

Respectfully Submitted,
-doc Russia

UPDATE: Leatherneck M31 has come to very much similar conclusions