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Books about Politics and Current Events in The Radical Academy Bookstore Click Here for New & Used College Textbooks at Discount Prices Click Here for College Education Information & Study Resources Shop Amazon Stores in the Radical Academy Bookstore Magazine Outlet Music Store Video Store DVD Store Computer Store Camera & Photo Store Computer/Video Games Software Store Outlet Store Cellular Phones Toys & Games Tools & Hardware Outdoor Living Consumer Electronics Kitchen & Housewares Baby Superstore Apparel & Accessories Gourmet Food Sporting Goods Jewelry & Watches Health & Personal Care		August 14, 2002 - Updated September 19, 2002 Something to Think About   The First Weapon by Gordon Francis Corbett   Imagine that in 1943, a Jew discovered that Himmler's goons were sending Jews, not for "relocation," but for extermination; and that when he began to tell his fellow Jews, his rabbi remonstrated, "Come on, now. We must not start a panic." There was reason for panic. German politicians had disarmed almost all Germans, including Germany's Jews, long before Hitler took office. Similar disarmament had already preceded wholesale political murder in Turkey, the Soviet Union, and in other countries described in the book, "Lethal Laws." Worse, the Germans' own mores demanding order, forbidding violence, and requiring subservience to authority, had disarmed them psychologically. Any fighter's first weapon is his mind. Even when politicians have disarmed him physically, he can still fight if his mind will let him. He can inform his friends, he can organize them, and he can lead them in obtaining a few firearms. This is why hurried organization and raw courage let 1943's Warsaw ghetto rebellion wreak such terrible damage on German General Juergen Stroop's soldiers. A few Jews had organized, obtained a few weapons and a little ammunition, and fought the Germans to a standstill. Stroop finally crushed the rebellion, and all survivors captured were sent to the death camps; but, as Hitler had always intended to kill everyone, the Jews' heroic resistance cost them nothing. For further information, see http://www.jpfo.org . Civil disarmament is under way here. Our politicians are disarming us incrementally, using news accounts of accidents, robberies, and berserkers' rampages to justify restricting the rights of the careful, peaceable, and sane. We can still counter the disarmers peaceably. We have time. We have weapons and ammunition. We have good political ideas. We can inform and organize our friends. Time, tools, ideas, and organization can obviate the use of force. Let us hasten to forestall it.   Enrich your life with a book about politics and current events... Enrich your political & social life with a politics or news magazine... Something to Think About Index Politics Resource Center Main Page
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