COSTUMES | 2007-02-05
I begged you folks to look at basics. I thought you MIGHT think of costumes, aka, uniforms.
OK, damn it, I'll do it for you.
No one explains why General Patton wore those two silver-plated revolvers. I don't remember this exciting episode in his life mentioned in the movie Patton.
Before World War I, Patton was the last man to have a real, old-fashioned gun fight. In fact, it was larger than life. He was along when the Mexican raiders came in, back in the Pancho Villa days, and there were – REALLY – a lot of them and one of him. He had his guns on and he faced them on foot as they came in on horseback.
He killed them. Their leader, a famous bandit, dropped his gun and Patton waited while he picked it up and fired wildly at Patton.
They are still trying desperately to show that the men at the Alamo acted just like a bunch of panicky New York Jews would have acted. But Patton's gun fight, which would have made a hell of part of the movie, had to be just ignored completely.
That's why Patton wore two six-guns to the end of his days. He EARNED them. Hollywood likes to make it look like he was just an overaged cowboy. In the real world, an overaged cowboy is anybody who is above the rank of colonel and wears a costume, a.k.a., "uniform."
Dwight D. Eisenhower never heard a hostile shot fired in his life. But, as General Douglas MacArthur, not one of Ike's worshippers, said, "He was the best staff man I ever had." Eisenhower was an EXCELLENT staff man. He was one of the finest bureaucratic decision-makers of his time.
But why did he have on a costume?
In "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes," the President is conferring with the uniformed services. One guy has on an army uniform, another a Navy uniform, another an Air Force outfit, and then one has on a Boy Scouts uniform. It actually took me a full minute to catch onto the joke here. That is how accustomed even I am to costumes being called "uniforms."
But, as I keep pointing out what seems an endless number of times, I am trying to get you to QUESTION the most basic assumptions. This does NOT mean that I am able to catch them instantly myself. Which is why I am looking for intellectual partners, not disciples.
Why SHOULDN'T the head of the Boy Scouts be there?
One of the mainstays of every tyranny is the worship of a costume. When the President swears to uphold and defend the Constitution, he never says what he means: "I will uphold and defend the latest decision of the United States Supreme Court." But if you study Constitutional Law, at public expense, you will find it consists entirely of Federal Court decisions.
And what do ALL of these federal judges have that sets them apart from the mere mortals who are presidents and senators and congressmen. They ALL wear DRESSES.
Why can't you defend yourself with a gun? Because it is generally accepted in America, and ABSOLUTELY accepted in almost all of Europe, including Canada, that no one should be allowed to have a gun but someone who is wearing a government-sanctioned costume.
Policemen have a consistently low IQ (two were rejected for the job because their IQs were too high), a suicide rate that is out of sight, and a rate of alcoholism in the same range, while they are armed to the teeth all the time. But they got COSTUMES.
The pro-gun crowd WORSHIPS law enforcement, so they are the first to drop on their face in front of those uniforms.
Before the bitching starts that this is too long, let me cut it off.