The myth of the supercriminal ~ By Phil Elmore

And meanwhile, in a related story, an 89-year old granny in Des Moines, Iowa, used technology in the form of a 22 cal pistol to deter a would-be burglar from robbing her. Obviously, the robber want-to-be was NOT a supercriminal. He may be bigger and stronger than Granny, but Granny had the tool that was needed to establish control in the situation.   The story proves the point that Phil makes in this outstanding column today.

But Phil's column is not just about stopping "supercriminals" mugging people on the street, or trying to break down your door in a home invasion.  As you will find out, there is another type of criminal that we must have the ability to stop if necessary.  It happens to be the same criminal organization that doesn't want you to have guns.  Just sayin'...

Whether with hardware or as software, it's a fact that criminals do train, and train each other, in certain ways. The myth of the supercriminal, however, is just that – a myth propagated by defeatists on both the left and the right who seek to create an artificial division between you, the free citizen, and elevated "elite" classes, such as law-enforcement personnel and military operatives. Those on the left hold such personnel in sneering contempt unless they're being used to the leftists' own ends (battering down a door and pointing a submachine gun at Elian Gonzales was OK as long it was done to ship a little boy back to the prison state that is Cuba, for example). Regardless, glorifying the technology of the criminal while denigrating the private citizen as unworthy, unable, or simply incapable of defending himself, his family and his home is done for a single purpose: The establishment of a subjugated class of private citizens who have no power and no recourse in the grip of an increasingly totalitarian, increasingly socialist, increasing invasive government.

By Phil Elmore

Posted: May 13, 2010 ~ 1:00 am Eastern

© 2010

What is the technology of crime?

Since the first primitive man picked up a rock and used it to crack open the skull of his fellow human being, humanity has been making use of both hardware and a kind of software to hurt and kill each other. When primitive peoples figured out that a blow could be ducked or blocked, that a club swung could be intercepted by another club, that a chipped stone knife could be used to keep a similarly armed human at bay, they began to understand the technology of violence ... and everything that entails. The first ancient martial arts were the application of knowledge to the empty hand and to the hand grasping a weapon. Just as the lever amplifies human effort, the knife, the club and the gun are all force multipliers – technology that magnifies human effort. These tools, and the knowledge to use them (which, as "software," is itself a form of technology), have been with us for as long as there has been an "us."

A few years ago, USA Today reported that a 5,300-year-old Neolithic man nicknamed "Otzi" (who was discovered in 1991) was "murdered." Extensive study of the body revealed many of the dead man's secrets. He was naturally mummified and found in a thawing glacier by Austrian mountain climbers. Found with him were several artifacts, including a copper-blade ax, a quiver of arrows and a knife. The knife was, in fact, clenched in "Otzi's" right hand. There was an arrowhead embedded in his shoulder; the man had apparently been struck from behind and was able to break off the shaft. Researchers subsequently found evidence of knife wounds and bruises to the torso. The consensus seems to be that the doomed man died wounded and on the run from his assailants. Thousands of years later, "Otzi" would lie as mute evidence of ancient humans' use of technology to do violence to each other – both initiated and in self-defense.

We have no way of knowing whether "Otzi" was the aggressor or the defender. Was he criminal or victim? Was he pursued by Neolithic brigands bent on outnumbering him and killing him – or was he pursued by righteously indignant tribesmen bent on bringing him to justice? Did he fight for his life because others sought to take it from him wrongly – or did he fight to escape the consequences of his own violence? Whatever the truth, in the intervening millennia, society evolved. An unfortunate outgrowth of that evolution has been the glorification of the criminal and his technology.

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