Damn Swedes

Why is it that Sweden is always making kick ass guns?

The Bofors kicked major ass on all sides in WW2 and its latest incarnation still does.
Then Saab makes some decent fighter jets (not a F-15 or -16, but better than a mig)
Now, it makes the European version of the Amraam air to air missile.

Now, this perfectly peaceful and neutral nation has one of the better equiped militaries on the planet (I guess being a dog-paddle from Germany, Russia, and the UK would give you reason) but they have this nasty habit of being inconsiderate capitalists.

They sell anything to anyone, which brings up their latest death machine.

The Uzi that kills tanks. Yes. Uzi. Kill tanks (or rather APCs).

Yeah, yeah. Whoop de farkin doo.

Heres the scary, no terrifying, part. At 230 meters the little 6.5x25mm cartridge punches through the "NATO protected man" dummy target.
and a 50m, it cuts right through the 7mm armor that the russians use in their MT-LBs

and both 5.56 and 7.62 failed to do so.
Here are the links:
Cartridge
Gun

Now, this little package is easily concealed, has a 100 round drum clip, accurate, long ranged, and armor piercing. I'm sure that body guards, escorts, and secret service men across the world are ecstatic about a country that is notorious for selling weapons to undesirable parties has developed the anti-armor capabilities of a RPG compressed into 14 inches of sub-machine gun. Oh yeah, its cheap too.

Now, some pull-start with a grudge doesn't have to sneak his 6 ft. long tube onto the parade route, just his little CBJ and pump 100 rounds of armor-piercing tungsten into the motorcade. Or the guards while his accomplice across the street hoses the limo.

Actually, maybe we should look into this cartridge.

So, fuck the MP-7 and FN's P-90. Lets get us some CBJs for a quarter of the price and double the lethality.

I guess with an arsenal and know how like this, their 200 year warless streak makes more sense. "Steh dee fook oot ahr coontree, oor weel haf to blows you oop" sayeth the Norse men.

Machiavellian policies

Now, almost everyone knows the name Machiavelli (or term Machiavellian) and usually it goes along with a negative connotation. People generally assume that he was some cut throat politician.

Wrong. He was a colossal kiss-ass and oppritunist. The whole "ends justify the means" thing comes from whether or not a prince should go to war or not. It has nothing to do with racial cleansing, backroom politics, or any other vile dealings that are For The Greater Good. (see:Hot Fuzz. perfect example of what people think Machiavelli means BUT IS NOT IT.)

Speaking of Machiavelli's principles on war, he lived in a turbulent time period in a particularly turbulent country and knew a thing or three about war.

But his best and often over looked statement has to do with the pacification of a conquered state.

"Some princes have disarmed their subjects so as to hold their states securely...but when you disarm them, you begin to offend them; you show that you distrust them either for cowardice or for lack of faith, both of which opinion generate hatred against you."

Attention Politicians: We are on to you, and have been for 500 years. Keep your pacification attempts off mah guns, its pissing us off. You are either afraid that we're going to come and get you for doing a shitty job at whatever we elected you to, or you don't trust us. Again, probably because you are the suck at whatever you are supposed to be doing. Thomas Jefferson had it right when he let us keep our guns in the first place. Its our civic duty to keep all the sneaky bastards in Washington in check (not to mention the random uppity citizen).

Another interesting point old Niccolo brought up:

"There has never been a new prince who has disarmed his subjects;"
Wait for it...
"on the contrary, he found them unarmed".

The conquerer has never had to disarm his "new" subjects. He found them that way, which allowed him to actually be a conquerer and not a footnote in history. But it gets better:

"He has always armed them. For when they are armed, those arms become yours. The difference in treatment makes them obliged to him."

Proud Americans might find this notion repulsive, but if a conquerer does take over the States because we didn't have the means to defend ourselves and then he gives it back to us, I'm not going to complain. Once we're armed again and the new leader tries to pull some shenanigans, we'll do what we should've done to the people he replaced. Kill him. If one does restore our right to bear arms, he is not a dictator. The Politicians who dis-armed the citizenry in the first place are the true dictators.

Inaction

Sorry about nothing happening for a long time. It will continue. School is kicking my as up one side the street and down the other. Soon, this will be on its own website (learning that is part of the said ass-kicking).

As if anyone reads this...

Dirka Dirka. Ron Paul, Jihad!

Now, that genius is not my own and I am not taking credit. It does how ever make a perfect analogy from radical mooslems and the rabid supporters of Ron Paul. (can you be infected by being bitten by one?) I love it when the Paulistinians attack en masse a satirical web site to spout their views, lots of the times don't actually agree with their fearless leader's policies. An even more ironic twist is that 9/10ths of Ron Paul's policies agree with most of the other republican candidates. Hell, he might even be a good choice if he wasn't stark raving mad and an isolationist. The best defense is a good offense. But Ron Paul isn't the blameless angel that his followers make him out to be. He too partakes in the bacon. He adds his pork to a bill that he knows will pass and votes against it to maintain his image and voting record. My, my. Those dirty little secrets...

Remember, remember the Fifth of November

Yesterday over 400 years ago, Guy Fawkes and his merry band of Catholics attempted to blow up Parliament and King James the First. This was no mere anarchist attack, but a segment of the population that was being oppressed rising up against their corrupt king and "representatives". Before Guy Fawkes and company could enact their scheme, they were uncovered and stopped.

La dee da, some people think. But not Thomas Jefferson. This controversial act of patriotism by Guy Fawkes led directly to Jefferson's statement that the citizens of a country have not the option, but the responsibility and duty to over throw an oppressive government, just as our revolutionary army did.

Every person not living under an authoritarian government (communism, a monarchy, theocracy, oligarchy, or dictatorship) should remember, remember the fifth of November and what it means to the free people of the world.

Seriously now, people

Al Sharpton is at it again. Stirring up trouble where there really isn't any to be found. Dick Cheney went to a hunting club, the Clove Valley gun and rod club, in UPSTATE NEW YORK that had an Alabama battle flag (the stars and bars/confederate flag for you ignorant people) INSIDE a garage that was separate from the main facilities. Guess who starts bitching about racism and inequality. Good ol' Al Sharpton. I guess he hasn't had his ugly mug on the tv enough lately so he had to stir things up. Hes saying “It’s appalling for the VP to be at a private club displaying the flag of lynching, hate and murder.” Now everyone take a moment to shake their head in disbelief at the pettiness of Al Sharpton. Next time he is within a mile of a black panther, lets all run to the media and rail about how hes patronizing an organization that supports violence, murder, and gangs.

SERIOUSLY NOW, PEOPLE.

Let us go a wanderin'...

Now, I've been listening to Louis L'amour's Sackett books , particularly To the Far Blue Mountains, and got to thunkin'. Now, I want a new land discovered for me to go a wanderin' in. Also I read an article from Kim Du Toit, called crossing the wilderness. In it you are to cross America from sea to shining sea with:

• enough gold to buy provisions for the first five days’ travel
• a small backpack containing some clothing essentials
• a winter coat, raincoat and boots, waterproof sleeping bag
• ONE long gun (and 800 rounds, but no scope)
• ONE handgun (and 1,000 rounds)
• TWO knives, an axe, a box of 1,000 "strike anywhere" waterproof matches
• a topological map
• binoculars and a compass
• U.S. Army First Aid kit.

You also have a horse, a pack horse/mule, and a dog. Don't forget about all the variations in terrain, possible hostile Native Americans, dangerous animals, etc.

I want you people to come up with you selection of your rifle, pistol, and knives and post them in a comment.

Hat tip to Kim Du Toit.