Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali
Khamenei took to Twitter last week to call on the United States to repeal or
ignore the Second Amendment to the Constitution in light of recent shootings
that have occurred there.
Via a series of tweets, Khamenei
wrote: "No one dares apply the clear solution to the promotion of guns and
homicide in America. What's the solution? It's to make guns illegal. In U.S., 100s are killed every week by
homicide for no crime—no reason—not at the hands of police, as US police
brutality is a separate issue. The
accessibility of guns leads to homicide; it's created problems for a country
like U.S., everyone admits, fears, & is concerned about it. Gun companies are so powerful that House
representatives and U.S. senators don't dare pass prohibition of guns, and U.S.
president doesn't dare speak out, rise against it. This
is corruption. Corruption means
domination of a mafia greedy for power & wealth, in a way that the big
political & military system like U.S. won't dare stand up for prohibition
of guns—which is clearly positive. This
is due to lack of spiritual ideals, leading western societies to this
point."
It’s
good to see that the Ayatollah was able to take a little time away from
monitoring the imprisonment and slaughter of those protesting his brutal
regime, and overseeing Iran’s various military interventions and proxies in
Syria, Yemen, Lebanon, etc. This makes his remark, “US police brutality is a
separate issue” even more precious. “But that’s for another tweet.”
His
purported concern about “corruption,” and those “greedy for power & wealth,”
is the stuff of stand-up comedy given the nature of his regime. All tyrants
want—and need—to disarm their nation’s citizens to take and solidify their
power. But my favorite line is the one where he notes that “the accessibility
of guns” has “created problems” for the U.S., “everyone admits, fears, & is
concerned about it.”
If
the Supreme Leader has indeed lost sleep about this, it is for the same reason
he denies the Holocaust took place: he
wants to be the one to wipe out the Jews…and
their benefactors.
If
an astute observer reads between the lines of these most preposterous of
tweets, he or she will discern his real message: “It is intolerable that those
friends of the Jew-monkeys in the Great Satan should kill each other off before
Iran itself can wipe the American
imperialist running dogs off the face of the Earth forever!”
Speaking
of Jews, in 1938 the Nazi government extended the German Weapons Act, which
made gun ownership very difficult for its citizenry and banned Jews from owning
firearms entirely. A few years prior to that, the Nazis had engaged in
a massive nationwide seizure of weapons from
political opponents. The Jews, of course, were among the targeted groups. In fact, in Breslau in 1933, Jews were
ordered to surrender any firearms they might own to police authorities based on
spurious accusations that some used their weapons for unlawful attacks on
members of the Nazi organization and the police themselves.
Who
doesn’t remember Hitler’s heartfelt plea to the U.S. government in early 1942?
Der Führer sagt said: “The accessibility of guns leads to homicide; it's
created problems for a country like the United States; everyone admits, fears, &
is concerned about it.”
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