What is not to be done

The following piece comes from a Trotskyite site. It shows one more example, and even more, of where people go wrong in the struggle against Left dhimmi fascism in the real world. What is the gain in shooting some nobody political hack in Arkansas? Lenin covers this completely in What is to be Done? If Timothy Dale Johnson wanted to express his displeasure against the Left, in what way did he succeed?

He is not merely a fool, he is dead.

Patrick Martin,"Gunman murders Arkansas Democratic Party chairman." World Socialist Web. 15 August 2008

The Arkansas state chairman of the Democratic Party was shot to death Wednesday by a gunman who was himself killed in a later exchange of gunfire with police. Bill Gwatney, 48, was murdered in his office in Little Rock. ...

The gunman, Timothy Dale Johnson, entered the premises pretending to be interested in volunteering, then pushed past several staff members to reach the chairman's office. He introduced himself to Gwatney and they shook hands, whereupon he pulled out a handgun and opened fire, hitting the Democratic Party official four times, including once in the head. Gwatney died four hours later.

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The Little Rock murder is the fourth recent incident in the South of violence or threatened violence against groups or individuals demonized by the ultra-right.

On July 27, Jim Adkisson, 58, walked into the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church near Knoxville, Tennessee and opened fire with a semiautomatic shotgun on the audience attending a children's play, killing two members of the church, Greg McKendry, age 60, and Linda Kraeger, age 61, and wounding six others. He subsequently killed himself, leaving a suicide note in which he stated "his hatred for the liberal movement," particularly the church's openness to gays.

On August 2, 22-year-old Raymond Hunter Geisel was arrested in Miami and charged with making death threats against Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. Police found weapons, body armor and other military gear in his car and hotel room. Geisel made the threats against Obama, including a reference to the candidate with a racial epithet, during a training session he was undertaking to become a bail bondsman. Others in the class reported him to the police. He faces federal charges.

On August 8, 48-year-old Jerry M. Blanchard was arrested in North Carolina for making similar threats to kill Obama. A Secret Service agent claimed that Blanchard may have mental health issues due to a recent head injury, and Blanchard has denied threatening the Democratic presidential candidate.

Johnson fits the social profile of these cases. He was white, middle-aged and under considerable economic stress. He was socially isolated, living alone in the home he had shared with his parents until his father's death in 2006. He owned a small arsenal of weapons—14 guns in the house, two more in the truck in which he died—and took regular practice at a local shooting club.

He was undoubtedly conservative in his political views, and had voted in Republican primaries for most of the past decade, except in 2006 when he voted in a Democratic primary. He voted in the Republican presidential primary February 5, which was won by the former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/aug2008/arka-a15.shtml

Trotskyites are here gloating over fools. Good for them. Maybe the ridicule they spew will wake up some people enough that they will realize the Communists have sometimes a better approach to revolution that some idiot with a gun in his pocket.

As the slogan above reads: A successful revolutionary is a statesman. Perhaps I could change it to: "An unsuccessful one is dead." One dead fool.

We should struggle to win, not to be idiot jihadi homicide-bombers and fools. To win requires intelligence and planning. Even that can lead to death, but at least one won't die a total fool.

On Idiots and Useful Idiots

Jim David Adkisson of Knoxville, entered the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, headquartered in Boston, with a shotgun and killed two, wounded others.

A news report from Boston:

There was one previous shooting at a Unitarian Universalist congregation. In 2001, police in Brattleboro killed a man wielding a knife in a church there, and there have been several recent shootings at churches of other denominations.

"The first reaction is, 'Why a Unitarian Universalist church, and why go in there when there are children there and try to kill people because of liberalism?' " said the Rev. Kristen Harper, minister of the Unitarian Church of Barnstable on Cape Cod.

"Even though he's crazy, you still wonder, why a liberal church, and how does shooting up liberals make sense?" she said. "For people to use violence against us, it's really sad."

http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2008/07/30/unitarians_are_rattled_by_attack_on_church/

OK, call me a heartless reactionary, but I think it's a bit more than "sad" to have people shot down in a church like dogs. If one is a brain-dead flake, then maybe "sad" is as deep as one gets. Still, in the real world where the living die and where the living live on if they survive, what good did the man do in furthering his own cause? I think it's fair to say he did nothing in his own cause, either case above. Failure. There is no welcome of failures here. It is more than sad to see people killed for no reason at all other than to satisfy ones own rage against ones own failure in life. No place here for those.

The Washington Post and Newsweek come up with this, quoting people Jim David Adkisson would likely have delighted in shooting. He didn't shoot them. They speak to the press:

The Unitarian Universalist Association might be the most liberal denomination in the country. Most members consider themselves part of a post-Christian religion that draws wisdom from all religions and philosophies. There is no central creed, but the denomination promotes a set of principles that includes a belief in "the inherent worth and dignity of every person."

David Gushee and Rachel Laser used a similar phrase earlier this month when they called on Barack Obama and John McCain "to bring a just end" to the culture wars.

"Gay and lesbian issues, like abortion, have also been tearing the nation apart," Gushee, an evangelical and professor at Mercer University, and Laser, a program director for the progressive think tank called Third Way, wrote in a guest column for On Faith.

"But on these issues too we can find a shared common value and shared path forward. That shared value is human dignity. We can all agree that all human beings are created in God's image and have and deserve an innate human dignity - even those with whom one differs or disagrees. We can all agree that honoring this human dignity is a high moral and religious calling."

"Senators McCain and Obama," they concluded, "each of you has great potential to model a new type of leadership. Each of you has the power to heal the country and carve a new path forward through our shared common values. We humbly submit our joint prayer that you, Senators McCain and Obama, help bring a just end to the culture wars."

http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/undergod/2008/07/a_whole_lotta_ugly_in_church_s.html

V.I. Lenin would have referred to Adkisson as a "useful idiot." But Adkisson was not useful. He was merely an idiot. A homicidal idiot, but an idiot nonetheless.