Monday, January 21, 2013

Molon Labe

The words Molon Labe have significant meaning, now more than ever, in light of b.o.'s new attempt to thwart my God given right to protect myself.
  The Battle of Thermopylae (480 BC), is one of the more famous battles from ancient history. 300 Spartans were surrounded by thousands of Persians. Xerxes I, the king of Persia, sent a message for the Spartans to lay down their weapons and surrender, promising that they would be kept alive.  King Leonidas of Sparta replied, "Molon Labe."   ( “Come and take them” in ancient Greek.)
What happened instead of meekly handing over their weapons, was that the Greeks held Thermopylae for three days and, even though the 300 soldiers were in the end destroyed, they inflicted such serious damage upon the Persian army, that they were able to delay  its progress to Athens, giving enough time for the city’s evacuation to the island of Salamis. Even though the Spartan were annihilated, Thermopylae served as a moral victory and encouraged the troops in the Battle of Salamis and the Battle of Plataea.
It's pronounced mo-LONE  la-VEY.  It simply rolls off the tongue in aggressive defiance, doesn't it?   I have seen that you can find companies that sell t-shirts and stickers with the phrase.  I am hoping to be able to offer them in my store by the time that this is published.
B.O. has found his agenda, and since stupidly thinking that he has a mandate to do whatever he feels like doing, he is exploiting the deaths of those poor victims of another mentally ill person.  Why isn't his first concern in setting up a panel to get more care and help to the people who suffer from mental health problems?
The victims of Aurora, Colorado, Tuscon, Arizona, and Newtown, Connecticut all have something in common.  They were murdered by people who not only had/have mental health problems, in all of those cases, someone else knew about those problems and didn't do enough to get them help. They could have easily decided to poison, stab, or strangle their victims, but instead chose to use guns.
 The problem isn't the guns.  It's the crazy people who aren't being stopped.
 In an equally stupid, dumb, willfully ignorant, liberal move, there is a public service announcement (psa) from a lot of sanctimonious idiots: Amy Poehler, Carry Mulligan,Chris Rock, Conan O'Brien, Jennifer Anniston, Jessica Alba, Aziz Ansari, Jamie Foxx, Jeremy Renner, Amanda Peet,Cameron Diaz, Paul Rudd, Michelle Williams,Reese Witherspoon,Kate Hudson,Ellen Degeneres,Julianne Moore, Beyonce Knowles, Olivia Munn, Selena Gomez,Jon Hamm, Jennifer Westfeldt, Steve Carrell, Will Ferrell, Sarah Silverman,Amy Poehler, Rashida Jones, John Slattery and John Legend.  They have all decided that as celebrities, they know much more about this issue than  you or I do.  They give names of victims of gun violence, and make a hypocritical plea for children.  Why do I say hypocritical?  Because so many of them have been involved in movies that depict quite a bit of violence.  I much prefer this video: http://youtu.be/k1SZurGArxE   but be warned, it is VERY GRAPHIC and the language is not something you want your kids to hear.
  Clearly these celebrities don't think you are smart enough to make your own informed decisions.  Think about where you'll spend your money the next time you go to the movies. I have already made a conscious effort not to give my money to the celebrities who are so quick to cut a psa asking for more gun control while hypocritically depicting violence to earn a buck and then surrounding themselves with armed guards for themselves and their families.  Clearly they don't need my money.  Think about where your entertainment money is spent.  And then think about your God given rights that are outlined in the Second Amendment.  You'll thank me later.

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