"The oppressed, ultimately, choose oppression"

This is one of my favorite sayings.

And, no, it's not only because it was coined by...me.

It was announced today that Hugo Chavez's Venezuela has now banned private ownership of firearms.

Now, the people of Venezuela have NO means to defend themselves from Chavez's relentless pursuit of Communism.

Folks, there IS precedent for this.

Adolf Hitler said:

‘‘The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subjected people to carry arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subjected peoples to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by so doing. Indeed, I would go so far as to say that the underdog is a sine qua non for the overthrow of any sovereignty. So let's not have any native militia or police.’’

On the other hand, Mao Tze Tung said:

“All political power comes from the barrel of a gun. The communist party must command all the guns, that way, no guns can ever be used to command the party.”


It is WELL known that Hitler, Mao, along with Stalin, Lenin, Pol Pot, etc, were STRONG advocates of bans on privately owned firearms.

I would HOPE that the results of such legislation on a country's citizenry, unable to defend itself, is obvious:

EVERY case of genocide in the 20th Century was preceded by confiscation of privately-owned firearms.

The question, now, is whether the people of Venezuela will allow their firearms to be confiscated.

If they do, they deserve EXACTLY what they will get: a totalitarian dictatorship and genocide.

Unfortunately, if they DO decide to fight, they won't be able to count on America, since our President happens to strongly believe in confiscation of personal firearms, too.

Hirota: out.