Kort Explores conundrums of the human condition

Fifty years after their last major effort to destroy freedom in the United States, the Japanese have launched another aggressive assault on the constitutional rights of American citizens. This time the danger of the Japanese assault has been enhanced by the active support, or at least the complicity of shared interests, of the many national governments around the world who have already succeeded in stripping their citizens of their individual rights. Leading this unholy alliance, the Japanese are orchestrating the efforts in the UN to usurp through international treaty the most precious rights guaranteed to Americans in the Constitution and Bill of Rights.

Launching their campaign over two years ago, the Japanese have been maneuvering ever since to use the power of the UN to outlaw all private firearm ownership world wide. Unsatisfied demonstrating their absolute contempt for the most basic rights of their own citizens, the Japanese and their coconspirators glory in the hope of also demonstrating their contempt for the citizens of the most powerful nation on earth.

Having so far withstood most of the lies, deceptions, and emotional manipulations of domestic anti-freedom activists, the hard pressed defenders of America's founding principles continue to prove a frustratingly effective defense against direct attacks. The Japanese have pursued a little publicized back-room effort they hoped could create their new reality before their plan was uncovered and the alarm raised.

As the first wave of their assault on American liberty, the Japanese funded a "study" on guns and crime that was little more than a contrived justification for an international ban on private firearm ownership. They then lobbied their "study" through the UN Commission on Crime Prevention - which has now signed off on the scheme and instructed the UN Secretary-General to prepare a "UN Declaration of Principles on Firearms". The final stage of the campaign will be an international treaty embodying the contrived "findings" of the Japanese "study" in international law - law that with the ratification of the Senate would supersede the US Constitution. The most critical guarantee of liberty in the Bill of Rights would be erased without even a vote of the full Congress, let alone the expressed support of the American people.

It's not too surprising that the representatives of tyranny, so hostile to the concepts of democracy and individual liberty in their own nations, have decided to use the cynical farce of democracy practiced in the UN as a weapon to destroy the real freedoms enjoyed by the citizens of the few remaining free nations in the world. It's also not surprising that the Japanese have positioned themselves as the most virulent enemy of the American concept of the primacy of the individual. Especially bothersome to the Japanese is the American ideal of the ultimate right of the individual to self-defense against both crime and tyranny from within and without as guaranteed in the Second Amendment.

The ruling elite in Japan have for centuries exploited the tradition among the lower classes of subservience and sacrifice for the pleasure of the local samurai, warlord, emperor, corporation, or whoever had become their current purpose for living. A compliant population of obedient unquestioning ego-less slaves to authority has repeatedly proven useful to the powerful. Just as unquestioning Japanese soldiers proved so usefully devoid of even the slightest shred of human decency while following orders to commit unspeakably depraved atrocities during Japan's wars of conquest, the generations of workers willing to abandon their personal pleasures and aspirations for the good of the company have been very useful in pursuing Japan's "unrestrained by inconvenient ethics" style of doing business.

But today the denial of self is in danger in Japan, and the citizens are starting to think dangerous thoughts. Heresies such as the idea that there might be more to life than unquestioning dedication to authority and the enrichment of the privileged few are starting to infect the restive fringes of the monolithic industrial machine.

Global telecommunications have made it increasingly difficult for the Japanese elite to conceal from their captive population the embarrassing example of freedom across the ocean. The Japanese elite increasingly see the overly free America with its focus on the value of the individual as the primary cause for the decline in traditional Japanese culture. Unable to maintain the ignorance of their own people, the threatened powerful have shifted their efforts to hobbling the American giant and eliminating those American rights the Japanese elite deny their own citizens.

Having sold to the highest bidder the most basic rights of their citizens as an integral part of franchising the right to commit and control crime to the Yakuza, the Japanese have found it useful to deny their citizens the right to bear arms. Disarming the citizenry eliminates the power of individual citizens to both resist the extortion and other abuses of the Yakusa, and/or reclaim those rights usurped by their government. The ruling elite doesn't want the manipulated common man to have the right let alone the ability to stand up for principle and demand respect from those who claim ownership of his rights. Such behavior would seriously complicate the cozy deals that the powerful have arraigned between government, business, and the Yakuza.

The desire of the Japanese elite to continue their exploitation of their own citizens is not a valid justification for the elimination of freedom in America. Neither is the fanatical hostility towards freedom by the majority of the member states in the UN a valid justification to use the UN to attack the founding principles of those nations who continue to value individual rights and liberty.

The UN and its member nations deserve only as much respect from us as they demonstrate toward us. It was bad enough when the UN was content to focus on expanding its bloated bureaucracy, squabbling over how best to squander the fortunes paid by America to subsidize the UN's waste and corruption, and exercising their diplomatic immunity by running down New York pedestrians and stealing the secrets of American industry. As an expensive embarrassment the UN was a just barely tolerable insult to our sensibilities. But now, empowered by the overt support of the new world order by those occupying high office in the American government, the UN has redefined itself as an active enemy of the American people.

Our Constitution has given us two centuries of unparalleled freedom and prosperity. The UN has consistently worked to defend the enemies of freedom from their victims, and sought to hobble the progress of modern high tech civilization. The UN now seeks to force us to choose one or the other - confident that the American people have already slipped far enough down the slippery slope that we are ready to abandon the onerous responsibilities of individual liberty for the empty promises of the new world order. Have we so completely forgotten the lessons of the past and the principles that served us so well for two centuries that we will even consider relinquishing the last of our self respect and prostrate ourselves before those who seek to proclaim themselves our new global masters?