I could make a separate thread for this post since it isn't directly related to the judge's ruling on constitutionality of the CT gun tyranny, but it is related to the tyranny itself, and commentary about the judge's ruling is also linked within it, so here goes. If it seems too out of place, let me know and I'll edit this post with a link to a new thread. Anyway....
, Under Secretary, State of Connecticut, and Governor Malloy's chosen hatchet man on the forthcoming gun confiscations and prosecutions under the New Tyranny. Mike's coverage of the judge's ruling is linked within the letter, as well as a bunch of other links, all of which should be followed both to get to know Mike Vanderboegh and Michael Lawlor, the latter of which has skeletons in (and out) of his closet that may well surprise and shock even the most jaded of political observers like many of us here. Since it's an "Open Letter" I'm republishing it in its entirety. I'll double-check with Mike to make sure that's OK, but open letters are always encouraged to be republished in my experience. Soooo.........
We do have a few things in common, you and I. I am
a former collectivist while you remain one, and a rather nasty one at that, if you don't mind my saying. But as an ex-communist I am familiar with all of the known collectivist lies and more than a few of the unknown, personal, secret ones as well -- the kind that you tell to yourself when you're acting out the True Believer, as you are now.
We also each prefer to be called "Mike" rather than "Michael." It is little enough, perhaps, but it tells us something about each other. My good friend Bob Wright, the New Mexico militia leader, once told a federal policeman who was contemplating a raid upon him, "You know, in the 60s the left-wing in this country said that if the young men who fought the wars (as opposed to the old ones who started them) could sit down and talk things out, there would be no wars." He paused and then added, "We are here to test that theory." It must have worked, since there was no subsequent raid.
So I offer this letter and the ones to follow in the same spirit of mutual understanding in the hope of avoiding conflict.
You may be familiar with my name already, as I have been a leading advocate of resistance to your tyranny since my call during a
speech in Hartford last April to "Resist, defy, evade and smuggle" in opposition to your new diktat.
In furtherance of that call, I have since led a smuggling campaign to provide standard capacity magazines to Connecticut citizens and I have recently received a bit of newspaper ink in your state with my
Toys for Totalitarians program. This has apparently provoked
a state police investigation and they have recently
tried to contact me. It seemed only fair, then, that as I was a subject of your investigations it might prove profitable to make you a subject of mine. As one of the guys who broke the Fast and Furious scandal on the Internet (with the help of my good friend
Link Removed I am not without resources and contacts of my own. Why not apply them here? Why not, indeed. Turnabout is not only fair play but flattery. So consider yourself flattered.
You know it is quite ironic that on the morning I sit down to write this letter we discover that Adam Lanza (whose evil deeds were the supposed excuse for your Intolerable Act) was
something of a twisted fellow traveler of collectivism being an apparently homosexual, environmentalist vegan who was anti-Christian enough to forbid his mother to put up a Christmas tree. "Gee," I thought when I read that, "This kid could have grown up to be a Connecticut Democrat politician." That he provided the bloody excuse for tyrant wannabes such as yourself is certainly the Devil's own joke -- send a collectivist killer to enable future collectivist power. Old Scratch must be laughing his ass off.
You know after just a cursory reading of your biography
here and
here, I realized that I owed you an apology. Previously I had described you as Malloy's "Eichmann." But Eichmann was a rather colorless bureaucrat, defining as Hannah Arendt spelled out, "the banality of evil." But you, sir, are no bureaucratic handmaiden of evil. No, to call you an Eichmann would require an apology to both you and Eichmann. You, sir, are a true believer -- more of a
Heydrich than an Eichmann. Or, if you raise a Godwin's objection, shall we say a
Felix Dzerzhinsky? Yes. Dzerzhinsky is certainly more fitting.
I note that while you were at UConn in 1977 you "participated in language studies in Russia in 1977" at Moscow and Leningrad. You then earned a Master's Degree in Soviet Area Studies from the University of London in 1981. You were, what, 20 when you first experienced the Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War? It must have fascinated you early on in life. Yet after you got your Masters in Soviet Area Studies from the
University of London at a time when that and other British universities were prime recruiting grounds for KGB "political warfare" assets, and you subsequently "received a Fulbright-Hays Scholarship to study economic reform in Hungary in 1982," you decided to change course and become, in quick succession, a lawyer, a prosecutor and then a Democrat Party politician.
Why the change, Mike?
Your KGB file might provide some clues along those lines, of course. I had a long chat with a former CIA Cold Warrior who is intimately familiar with the KGB infiltration and subversion tactics of the time of your stay in the Soviet Union. He says that you certainly have a KGB file and had a KGB officer assigned to your case with the object of making an asset of you. No one from the United States got into the Soviet Union back then without the close inspection of the KGB. NO ONE.
And what would the KGB be looking for, I asked? "A lot of dewy-eyed kids were going to the Soviet Union back then with this fascination for the other side. They thought the Vietnam War proved the evil nature of American society and they wanted to see what the other side was like. So they (the KGB) would look for someone with those misconceptions and then look for other vulnerabilities. And their recruitment operations were vast. VAST." What other vulnerabilities? I asked.
"For one, homosexuality or other sexual deviance," he answered. He drew my attention to these passages regarding
the Prime case from The New KGB: Engine of Soviet Power by William Corson and Robert Crowley:
Prime exhibited most of the disabilities on the KGB check list and more than qualified as a target for recruitment. A loner, a young man with sexual problems and someone who, by his own admission, believed that the downtrodden of the world would fare better under communism. Such symptoms and attitudes assured that, at an appropriate moment, he would fall into the Soviet bag. The case is not a tribute to the Soviets' prescience but another instance of their readiness for an event such as Prime's self-selection, their single-minded patience, clerical effort, and corps of competent case officers who were trained and fully aware of what their jobs entailed.
In Berlin the Soviet support nets are massive. In addition to surveillance, drivers, couriers, police, and postal employees, they include "swallows" who specialize in foreigners who enjoy mild or other forms of perversion. . . The KGB's 'girls' . . . provide the organs with volumes of information about their clients. . . The girls are also alerted to spot the six "d's" -- discontent, disaffection, depression, drunkenness, desperation, and sexual dysfunction -- nany one of which might provide a future lever. -- pp. 390-361.
So, I don't know about the rest of you, but I agree wholeheartedly with Mike Vanderboegh that the time for *nicely* freakin' begging for our politicians to respect and protect our rights is long gone. Without Mike Vanderboegh and David Codrea, we may have never learned what little we really know about Fast 'n Furious. This guy's contacts and abilities at research are impressive to say the least. He also happens to be fighting cancer, and was in the midst of a second round of chemo when he went to CT to make the speech that he linked to in the above letter. This is what an unyielding, unapologetic Patriot looks like. Thanks Mike, get well soon, and may God bless you and protect you.
