{"id":24209,"date":"2018-08-01T07:39:01","date_gmt":"2018-08-01T12:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.wordpress.com\/?p=24209"},"modified":"2018-08-01T07:39:01","modified_gmt":"2018-08-01T12:39:01","slug":"farnam-quips-who-takes-care-of-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2018\/08\/01\/farnam-quips-who-takes-care-of-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Farnam Quips: Who &#8220;Takes Care&#8221; of Me?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-24211\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/08\/experts.jpg?w=620\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Who takes care of whom?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will take care of you!<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019re too stupid to take care of yourself.<\/p>\n<p>So, we\u2019ll make sure you can\u2019t take care of yourself.<\/p>\n<p>And by the way, we really can\u2019t take care of you, nor do we care.<\/p>\n<p>But, we still know what\u2019s best, and we\u2019ll force you to love it,<\/p>\n<p>\u2026 even when it kills you!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Definition of \u201cEnforced Dependency,\u201d sometimes called \u201cLearned Helplessness\u201d<\/p>\n<p>European prisons, and now American prisons, are infiltrated with gangs of Islamic jihadists, who have \u201ctaken over\u201d many.<\/p>\n<p>They involuntarily \u201crecruit\u201d new \u201cconverts to Islam.\u201d Many of these \u201crecent converts\u201d then become active terrorists when released. The rest become supporters\/promoters of Islamic jihad.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJihad\u201d translates to \u201cviolent evangelism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In order to successfully resist such violence, individual citizens must be self-reliant, alert, aware, and well armed\/trained.<\/p>\n<p>But, leftists (in and out of government) tell us the exact opposite!<\/p>\n<p>They assure us that they will \u201ctake care of us,\u201d if only they are granted the absolute power and budget to do so.<\/p>\n<p>According to them, we don\u2019t need guns. In fact, we don\u2019t need to worry our little heads about anything!<\/p>\n<p>They will take-over our lives, because they know what is best!<\/p>\n<p>What concerns so many (who are reluctant to drink their Kool-Aid) is:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1) If we don\u2019t \u201cneed\u201d guns, why do they think they do?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2) Why are they so adamant that free citizens always be unarmed, helpless, defenseless, and paralytic?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>3) Why must we unquestioningly accept dependency and impotence as a way of life?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>4) Why do they insist our rights as citizens are \u201crelative,\u201d while their powers are unlimited?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>5) If we can trust them to \u201cprotect\u201d us from every bad thing that might ever happen, why do they keep getting \u201csurprised\u201d by events?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>6) If Islamic jihad and other violent criminal activity are \u201cexaggerated,\u201d why does our homicide rate keep going up?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Leftists have no answer to the foregoing, and never have, but they vainly persist with their defective philosophy, and do everything they can (when their delusory sales effort falls short) to involuntarily inflict it on the rest of us!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><strong>\u201cHow do you tell a Communist?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Well, it\u2019s someone who reads Marx and Lenin.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>And, how do you tell an anti-Communist?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>It\u2019s someone who understands Marx and Lenin!\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0 -Ronald Reagan<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The original article can be found at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/defense-training.com\/2018\/who-takes-care-of-me\/\">Defense Training International.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Stay Alert, Stay Armed and Stay Dangerous!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Who takes care of whom? \u201cWe will take care of you! You\u2019re too stupid to take care of yourself. So, we\u2019ll make sure you can\u2019t take care of yourself. And by the way, we really can\u2019t take care of you, nor do we care. But, we still know what\u2019s best, and we\u2019ll force&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4802],"tags":[1289,1290,77,713,5439,5440],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24209"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}