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Ik zag deze borden onlangs in een Netflix docu voorbij komen. Trial by Media. Iig afl. 2 en 3 gaan ook over hoe witte amerikanen zich gedroegen richting de donkere amerikanen. Heel erg interessant om te zien en van leren
Why do folks think bayonets are bad? Once you're pointing rifles at folks, that is This Carroll Quigley lecture lauds the bayonet over missile weapons as a control device (see esp the 2nd image) Quigley is the author of _Tragedy & Hope_, a favorite of Bill Clinton's as I recall
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Quigley appears to advocate shock weapons for controlling people, but eventually acknowledges even that won't work. fyi 👉🏽 link to Quigley's _Weapon Systems & Political Stability: A History_ (pdf, 38 MB) 📚 carrollquigley.net/pdf/Weapons%20
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Missile weapons which you hurl.  You may shoot, you may have bombs dropped from airplanes, take a hand grenade, and, whatever it is.  Missile weapons.  This has an absolutely dominant influence upon the ability to control individuals.  And individuals cannot be controlled by missile weapons.
The difference between a shock weapon and a missile weapon is essentially this:  a missile weapon is either fired or it isn't fired.  It cannot be half-way fired.  In other words, once you let it go, it's out of your control.  It's gone.  It is a killing weapon.  But a shock weapon -- a billy club or a bayonet -- can be used to any degree that you wish.
All right.  Individual behavior in our society no longer can be controlled by any system of weaponry that we are using.  In fact, without eighty percent of [our population's having] internalized controls, we do not have enough people, even if we equip them with shock weapons, to control the behavior of the population which does not have internalized controls.  We're already reached that in our society.
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