Of Madmen, Meat Cleavers And Firearms

I don't know about the rest of you folks but I'm fed up with of Mansour O. El-Kikhia's raving and ranting about how terrible the United States is. His anti-America "poison pen" articles that appear in the Express-News makes one wonder whose side he's on. America or its enemies at home and abroad.

His slanted articles, from the war on terror and the econmy to politics, have certainly been encouraging to Al Qaida and foreign governments hostile to the US. It makes me suspect that he's an undercover reporter for Aljezeera, the largest Arabic news source in the Middle East and mouthpiece for Al Qaida.

He says Barack Obama is his choice for president and slammed the door on Republicans. "Electing a Republican for another four years would be disastrous for the United States. Obama can represent the new world order," he says. Really. And just what in the hell is the new world order. Obama's first 'new world' order would be to "cut and run" in Iraq and let Al Qaida win.
Kikhia says, "The name Barack is a derivative of the Arabic word Baraka, which means divine blessing." No kidding. That really makes me fell warm and fuzzy about Obama who refuses to wear the US Flag lapel pin or recognize the National Anthem or the Pledge of Allegiance. No thanks.

He laments that unemployment and inflation have risen to rates never seen before, as has hatred for the US. I guess Kikhia has forgotten that unemployment and inflation were in double digits during the Jimmy Carter administration and that Carter, with the exception of a blotched rescue attempt, sit on his butt while Iran held 52 US citizens for over a year until President Reagan came along.

In his latest diatribe Kikhia is upset over the "economic stimulus" package that will return $165 billion in cash payments to American families and businesses. "America (federal government) needs the money more than we (taxpayers) do," he says. In other words, to hell with the taxpayers big government needs this money to squander on "bridges to nowhere," more welfare programs and foreign aid to countries that hate us and burn our flag.

"I am tired of hearing that both the debt and deficits are miniscule in comparison to America's wealth," Kikhia says. He may be tired of hearing it but it's true. Sure we've got problems but the economy of the country is still strong with unemployment and inflation at record lows, especially in comparison to the Carter years.

He says the US is not as powerful as it was after World War II because of the Bush administration, which posterity will hold responsible for "screwing up a wonderful country." Baloney. Thanks to Reagan and Bush and in spite of the Clinton years, the US is still the most powerful nation on earth, both militarily and economically. Far more powerful and prosperous today than we were immediately following WWII.

Kikhia points out that "those guys in Washington" are always quoting President Kennedy's famous comment of "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country," but they never live up to it. Maybe, but here's what Kennedy had to say about tax cuts in 1962: "Our true choice is not between tax reduction, on the one hand, and the avoidance of large Federal Deficits on the other. It is increasingly clear that, no matter what party is in power, so long as our national security needs keep rising, an economy hampered by restrictive tax rates will never produce enough revenue to balance the budget - just as it will never produce enough jobs or enough profits. The soundest way to raise revenues in the long run is to cut taxes now." Well, how about that folks and from a Democrat no less.

What Kikhia and other liberal, socialists of his ilk fail to understand is that the government produces no wealth. All wealth is produced in the private sector by working Americans. The only money the federal government has is what it takes from citizens in the form of taxes. The latest economic stimulis package is only returning tax money to the taxpayers. In reality its another "tax cut." It worked for Kennedy in 1962 and it's working for Bush now.

As a note of interest - the 16th Amendment passed by Congress in 1909 and ratified in 1913, established the Federal Income Tax. "Congress shall have the power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several states, and without regard to any cenus or enumeration." In other words "give Uncle Sam your money suckers."

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Northern Illinois University's "Gun Free Zone" policy, as was the case in the Viginia Tech shootings, failed once again. This time to stop a gun toting nut-case from killing seven students and wounding a dozen more before turning the gun on himself.

Instead of admitting that "Gun Free Zones" don't work, the liberal media and their equally liberal, anti-Second Amendment, university professors and officials, go on about what a great student the killer was. The problem they say is that gun control laws just aren't tough enough.

What they don't want to admit is that Steven Kazmierczak, the 27-year-old killer that went on a shooting spree could have been stopped if the university had an "armed" security force or allowed students or staff to carry or have quick access to a firearm. Simply put when heavily armed, nut-case Kazmierczak showed up he could have been taken out with a couple of well placed shots. End of problem.

Let's face it, there's a lot of nut-cases running around that should be locked up in a mental institution. Unfortunately, many are given a bunch of pills and turned loose to roam the streets and universities. If you happen to be the next murder victim of one of these nuts it doesn't make any difference whether he was crazy or not you're still just as dead.

The liberals solution is always the same "pass more gun control laws." None of which has ever reduced crime or its rate of increase. Jurisdictions with the most restrictive gun control laws and policies have the highest crime rates compared to those with less restrictive ones.

Not all crazies use firearms to kill their victims. In new York city a known nut-case 39-year-old David Tarloff, was arrested for killing a woman with a meat cleaver and injuring a man who came to the victim's aid. In San Antonio Tommy Flores was arrested for killing his grandmother with a meat cleaver and shooting his girlfriend to death. I guess the liberals solution here would be to "regulate" meat cleavers and require backgound checks before being allowed to buy one.

On tuesday evening, Feb. 12, 2008, therapist Kathryn Faughey was slashed 15 times with a meat cleaver and a 9-inch knife in her Manhatten office. Dr. Kent Shinbach was badly injured when he came to Faughey's aid.

According to neighbors, Tarloff was a "troubled" man who would wander the halls half-dressed. He had been arrested two weeks earlier for assaulting a security officer at a hospital. One of his neighbors, 72-year-old Betty, summed it up well, "I know he's crazy and everything. I would keep out of the elevator if I saw him. I wouldn't go near where he would be."

On Monday, Feb. 18, 2008, Flores slashed 72-year-old Eva Flores, his grandmother, to death with a meat cleaver and then shot and killed his unidentified prostitute girlfriend. Flores said he killed his grandmother because she wouldn't allow his girlfriend to stay in the home. Flores lived with his grandmother. It appears that he shot his girlfriend to shut her up.

Karmeirczak used guns to kill; Tarloff used a meat cleaver and a 9-inch knife and Flores used a meat cleaver and a pistol. Kameirczak and Tarloff were known nut-cases but allowed to run loose in the community. Flores, based on his actions, comes across as another nut-case. Gun control laws did nothing to stop them. In Karmeirczak's case state Sen. Dan Kotowski, a sponsor of a tougher law to keep mental cases from buying firearms, admits that it probably wouldn't have stopped him from buying firearms. On Feb. 9, Karmeirczak legally bought a shotgun and a 9mm pistol from a licensed gun shop. In Aug. 2007, he bought a 9mm pistol and in Dec. a .380 pistol.

John Boch, a Second Amendment proponent in Illinois said the answer is for the state to loosen its gun laws, not tighten them, so that students could have been able to shoot back. How trues that is.

The best defense against a nut with a gun or a meat cleaver is a firearm in the hands of the intended victim. It works everytime its tried. Criminals and crazies have little regard for "gun control" laws. In fact criminals support gun control laws as it's a government guarantee that there will be no firearms in any home, business or university they decide to enter. The biggest fear of criminals is that their next victim may be armed.