The Lessons Of Myanmar
BY Herschel Smith
3 years, 8 months ago
“The regulation of guns in Myanmar is categorized as restrictive,” GunPolicy.org documents. That’s a globalist citizen disarmament project of the Sydney School of Public Health that partners with the World Health Organization and the United Nations, but which I nonetheless turn to in order to check on laws from around the world. In Myanmar’s case:
“[T]he right to private gun ownership is not guaranteed by … civilians are not allowed to possess any … no civilian (except for ethnic Chin hunters)… may lawfully acquire, possess or transfer a firearm or ammunition … the maximum penalty for unlawful possession of a firearm is three to seven years in prison…”
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What those in the media wringing their hands over Myanmar refuse to acknowledge is the citizen disarmament they demand, and the eradication of the most egalitarian power-sharing arrangement ever conceived, is what makes tyranny possible.
Those who want you to turn in your guns, have no intention of doing so.
On March 10, 2021 at 3:56 am, JC Collins said:
You have to find a white man to shoot an elephant gone mad. You have read Orwell’s Burmese Days? Elephant gone mad from misuse, Big investment (we’re talking big money as a working animal) white man must come in to kill it. The locals could have killed it, but they would have owed the owner for the loss of an elephant. They might have had an elephant BBQ and gotten something out of it, but NO. It’s in Orwell’s ‘Burmese Days’, ‘Shooting an Elephant’. It made him sick, and rightly so.
On March 10, 2021 at 11:53 am, Fred said:
This is important background. The vote was rigged and stolen using machine voting, just like in the U.S. The military is attempting to institute fair elections. The leftists are sending their street armies out to oppose the military while the global leftist propaganda machine calls what the military is doing a coup. The actual coup took place in the false electronic tallies of votes. (Just like in the U.S.)
The military in Myanmar is not the bad guy, the Global Oligarchy New Order is. Now you know.
On March 10, 2021 at 9:26 pm, Biff Slankovic said:
Australia got rid of all weapons after some false flag productions and now they are the Petri dish for the global Benetton rainbow unity utopia.
They are on the way to being a CCP serf colony if they aren’t already.
Coming soon to a fundamentally destroyed republic near you.
Why don’t they call it Burma anymore?
They are already CCP serf plantation as China is the model for the global utopia?
Why doesn’t China appreciate the Flying Tigers and Flying the Hump during WWII?
Beyond the inefficiency of flying the Hump, it was incredibly dangerous. More than 1,000 men and 600 planes were lost over the 530-mile stretch of rugged terrain, and that’s a very conservative estimate. It was dubbed the “Skyway to Hell” and the “Aluminum Trail” for the number of planes that didn’t make it.
On March 11, 2021 at 1:53 am, Georgiaboy61 said:
@ Biff Slankovic
Re: “Why doesn’t China appreciate the Flying Tigers and Flying the Hump during WWII? Beyond the inefficiency of flying the Hump, it was incredibly dangerous. More than 1,000 men and 600 planes were lost over the 530-mile stretch of rugged terrain, and that’s a very conservative estimate. It was dubbed the ‘Skyway to Hell’ and the ‘Aluminum Trail’ for the number of planes that didn’t make it.”
All of that is true, and then some. But the Chinese have a well-deserved reputation here in the West for inscrutability, and fate has mocked those who proclaim their certainty about what the communist mandarins in Beijing are thinking at any given time. Having said that, we do know some things and their official pronouncements, actions, and propaganda also communicate much.
For many years now, one of the stock methods the communist party has used to build up internal cohesion and unity which seem to falter from time-to-time, is to focus on external threats to China, whether real or imagined. To be fair to them, they are far from the first to have employed such methods, but they are certainly apt to use them.
Paradoxically, at the same time we were enjoying booming international bilateral trade with the People’s Republic of China (PRC), c. 1990 to the present, the party and the People’s Liberation Army-Navy (PLAN) have been war-gaming with the U.S. as the presumptive opponent.
As long as we were helping them modernize their economy and build their industrial base, we were probably – in some measure, at least – still safe, but now that the PRC is on the cusp of attaining – or has attained – economic parity if not superiority, that stability may disappear.
Although the U.S. and its Anglo-American allies did fight with China against Japan during the Second World War, much of whatever good will was built up was then dissipated by our support for the Nationalist Chinese under Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, the Founder of the Republic of China.
During the war, the communists and nationalists had an uneasy truce which allowed them to fight the Japanese, but once that threat was removed, the civil war restarted with a vengeance. By late 1948, the communists under Mao Zedong had defeated the Nationalists in a series of key battles and campaigns, and in 1949, the Nationalists were forced to flee to Taiwan.
And in June 1950, Chinese-Soviet surrogate North Korea invaded South Korea, thereby starting the Korean War (1950-1953), a conflict in which the communist Chinese would ultimately involve themselves directly.
The communists today have a a line of propaganda stressing remembrance of the so-called “Century of Humiliation,” what they term the intervention and/or subjugation of the Chinese people by the great western imperial powers, from 1839-1949.
It isn’t only propaganda. Memories are long in that part of the world, and resentment still lingers over the fact that the western powers stationed forces on Chinese soil for decades in the after-math of the Boxer Rebellion of 1900.
That includes the United States, which had U.S. Army, U.S. Marine and U.S. Navy forces stationed at various places around China in order to protect Americans, in particular diplomatic personnel and commercial interests.
The U.S. was not the only foreign power to station its forces on Chinese soil – Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Russia and Japan also did so – but given American primacy in the postwar era, Beijing’s attention has, quite naturally, focused on us. China wants to be “the” super power of the 21st century, and we stand in the way of those ambitions.
Divining Chinese intentions is always tricky. The common Chinese on the street probably doesn’t harbor any particular ill-will against his opposite number in the U.S. – but those aren’t the people who set policy for China, and the communists are an entirely different matter. Fortunately for us, the militants aren’t the only voices inside their halls of power. But as the PRC grows and flexes her muscles, then the moderates may be pushed aside and out of the way. At that point, anything goes. Has that point already been reached? I wish I knew….