John B. Alexander: ISIS And The NRA: Similarities Abound
This is the dumbest shit ever written. The fellow John B. Alexander claims to be a Vietnam Special Forces officer, and honestly, I don’t care. John B. Alexander is an idiot for writing his piece at the Huffington Post entitled “ISIS And The NRA: Similarities Abound“. I don’t plan on taking a lot of time bothering to answer this garbage, but we’ll see how that turns out.
So, how are the two organizations similar?
– Institutionally, both organizations are remorseless about the deaths of victims
– Both use fear and intimidation to obtain their objectives
– Both assume their ideology is superior to the wishes of the majority of citizens
– Both have intensely loyal followers
– Both recruit and indoctrinate members who are ignorant of the basic facts
– Both are relatively small organizations that have impact far beyond their size
– Neither organization will apologize for the harm they cause
How are they different? Well, the NRA doesn’t send it’s membership out to terrorize innocent people by chopping off their heads. In fact, I’ll bet that hardly any of the deaths that are illegal and committed by criminals is not committed by NRA members. However, every single death attributed to ISIS was committed by it’s membership.
The NRA has created no victims – criminals create victims, and the NRA doesn’t approve of criminals having firearms, so how can the NRA be remorseless about their victims?
The NRA has yet to burn victims alive in cages to obtain their objectives. The majority of Americans believe in the 2d Amendment.
Hillary Clinton has “intensely loyal followers”, too, so what’s your point?
Tell me I’m “ignorant of the facts” to my face.
How, exactly, does the NRA cause harm? They represent the millions of members who want to keep their guns. That’s like blaming the ACLU for deaths caused by bullying because the ACLU supports the First Amendment.
A legitimate criticism of the article is that even if modest gun control legislation were to be enacted, it would probably have little effect on the shooting violence level in America; at least in the short term. The seemingly intractable problem is that there already exist an estimated 300 million guns in the U.S. It is also acknowledged that most gun owners do not commit crimes or intentionally shoot others. However, too many gun owners do.
Yeah, well ALL of ISIS’ members commit crimes against humanity while gun owners who belong to the NRA do not, generally speaking. In fact, I’d love for Alexander to name even one NRA member who committed a mass shooting. He cannot.
According to his bio, “His latest book is UFOs: Myths, Conspiracies, and Realities.” Wiki says about Alexander; “John B. Alexander (born 1937) is a retired U.S. Army infantry officer and colonel and a leading advocate for the development of non-lethal weapons and of military applications of the paranormal.” Apparently, he was involved in staring at goats.
He should stick to writing about space aliens and leave the social commentary to people with actual brains.
Thanks to David for the link.
Category: Gun Grabbing Fascists
Boy, he must have been a barrel of laughs to have as a platoon leader.
Mr. Alexander needs to stick with things he’s good at…
…like “cloud bursting”.
Or sucking cock.
I’m pretty sure he’s already a professional.
Based on his Wikipedia Article linked above by Jonn, this guy indeed looks to be “cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs”. Per Wiki, in his 1990 book titled The Warrior’s Edge he advocated the use of ” ‘neuro-linguistic programming’ with which he hoped to create ‘Jedi warriors’.”
The guy’s Wikipedia article is a scream. IMO he’s a freaking loon.
Non-lethal foam d-bag and Area 51 believer. Ugh. No wonder he was more of a fit in the blankethead’s HR group. Another BAW (Big Asshole Windbag)
– Institutionally, both organizations are remorseless about the deaths of victims
– Both use fear and intimidation to obtain their objectives
– Both assume their ideology is superior to the wishes of the majority of citizens
– Both have intensely loyal followers
– Both recruit and indoctrinate members who are ignorant of the basic facts
– Both are relatively small organizations that have impact far beyond their size
– Neither organization will apologize for the harm they cause
I thought this described the Democratic and Republican parties quite well….
How does a Colonel earn a CIB, wings and pathfinder and not have a single other medal or decoration?
He simply chose not to wear them.
You can do that, don’t ya know?
I am guessing that he feared that the gov’t-issued ribbons might be laced with a special mind-bending drug. He is THAT nuts.
Maybe he thought they were Christmas candy and ate them?
The guy is a loon, crazy as a bedbug. After reading snippets of his writings and watching part of a UFO video in which he is interviewed, I have no doubt that he wears a metal colander–covered in thick, gold foil– on his head. Yeah, this will most certainly help the HuffPo’s creds. Cripes.
I’m thinking a few too many hard landings while on jump status, 2/17 – landings in which his PLF was “FAH” vice using the correct 5 points of contact.
Seriously, does this guy write anything worth reading? HuffyPoodle paid him for that article because it panders to their social moron meme, that anyone who disagrees with them is a horrible, horrible person and should be sent to Coventry… although I doubt that they could find Coventry if they had a map and a compass.
I don’t have to read that article because it is pure nonsense based on fallacious comparisons. Any reasoning person can draw the same conclusion that I did, and several already have. If you can’t see the holes in his argument, bigger than bubbles in Swiss cheese, you are not paying attention.
I find it particularly obnoxious that he lumps dead criminals in their dead or injured victims. They are NOT victims. They create victims.
Find Coventry if they had a map and a compass? HuffPos and Kos Kiddies can’t find their own ass with a mirror on a stick.
Spent too much time staring at the wrong end of goats at the Skinwalker Ranch.
Skippy! Get this assclown a grounded copper helmet! Now now now!
Another most excellent potential member of the DRC.
Danni-Boi’s shadow writer for his next 10,000 word brief, perhaps?
“…a leading advocate for the development of non-lethal weapons and of military applications of the paranormal.”
They thought this asshole was credible? I get that it’s the Huffington Post, but seriously, their standards are THAT low? Jeeeezus, Mary, and Joseph! I got nothin’.
Did the goats start whispering to him?
He was anally probed to depths previously unknown to man or space aliens.
After all the commentaries above, I got nuttin’ new to add. Carry on.
I’d like to note that NARAL meets all of this dickhead’s criteria for being like ISIS. Even more accurately, however, since gun ownership CAN lead to death and abortion DOES lead to death.
I think comparing Americans to terrorists is asinine, but if the left wants to play those cards, I’m game.
Guess someone otta run a FOIA on this loop.
Agreed. I’m calling BS on this one.
If anyone has or can get the requisite info, I’ll do that. But I’m pretty sure the guy is legit regarding his military claims – he apparently was indeed a LTC in 1980, and was published in the Dec 1980 issue of Military Review.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ztFIHYywMMUJ:pactsntl.org/assets/Col._John_B._Alexander_-_The_New_Mental_Battlefield.pdf+&cd=5&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
Here’s the opening paragraph of that article he published:
You really don’t need to read anything beyond that.
So apparently he’s been crazy for quite a while. I wonder what the reaction of the Army brass to that article was, and if there were any referrals to psychiatric services?
I didn’t say he wasn’t a loon, Hayabusa – merely that his claims relating to his military career appeared to be legit.
As I noted above: I think the guy may well have had a few too many hard landing “FAH” PLFs while on jump status. And maybe several of those were sans helmet.
Evidently Military Review has a Comedy section.
Just going to leave this here:
https://youtu.be/F4yzkefot3c
So this guy writes about UFOs and Aliens?
I guess when the took him for the anal probe, they went in a little too far. Or maybe they used his head for the probe and forgot to remove it….
I think they gave him way too much Valium during his last colonoscopy. I’ll send another hundred bucks to the NRA for him though.
Maybe he got abducted by space aliens that anal probed him hard enough to cause brain damage?
Everytown for Gun Safety “liked” my post on Twitter – I guess they didn’t read what I wrote.
Muhahahaha, fucking idiots.
I wonder what Mr. Alexander thinks about the use of vinegar spray bottles to combat chemtrails. You just know he has an opinion.
Could this guy have been the inspiration for Gen. Jack D. Ripper in “Dr. Strangelove?” Because I can totally imagine him obsessing about his Purity Of Essence.
A problem he discovered during the physical act of love, no doubt.
https://youtu.be/0he-LZNzVg0
Is he into remote viewing?
I have actually met people in the army that believe in that crap. Ridiculous.
Here’s a good Bio of him with all his awards. It shows his special forces association card, Ranger association card, pathfinder association card. He claims he has PH.D too. I would FOIA him and look into it. He looks to be exaggerating if you ask me.
Check this out. His education background says “Academically, he holds a M.A., Pepperdine University, Ph.D., Walden University, and later attended the Anderson School of Management at UCLA, the Sloan School of Management at MIT, and the Kennedy School of Government general officer program “National and International Security for Senior Executives” at Harvard University. In addition to many military awards for valor and service, Aviation Week & Space Technology selected him as a 1993 Aerospace Laureate and in 1997 inducted him into their Hall of Fame at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington. He received a Department of Energy Award of Excellence for the Nuclear Weapons Program in 1994, and is listed in Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in Science and Engineering, American Men and Women of Science, and in 2001 was named to the OCS Hall of Fame at Ft. Benning, Georgia. During 2001 and 2002 he was a member of the National Research Council Committee for Assessment of Non-Lethal Weapons Science and Technology. In 2012 he received the Knowlton Award for lifelong contributions to military intelligence. For nearly a decade he was a Senior Fellow at the Joint Special Operations University which published several of his monographs (all available on this web site)”.
Did he land on Mars while he was at it?
http://www.johnbalexander.com/biography
On Amazon in his book “The Warrior’s Edge” a customer said “The authors also mention a technique known as dim mak, the death touch, which apparently disrupts a person’s chi/qi, causing death a few hours later. Col. Alexander, the authors say, studied under a kun tao karate practitioner who could kill a goat in 12-24 hours by dim making it”.
Who’s Who is a joke, thye tell you that you are in it, then they charge a fortune for you to buy the book which lists you. About as prestigious and limited as a rainstorm.
Dim mak? Seems to me a deep touch of a knife along its throat is much quicker and surer.
The colonel isn’t as completely wacko as his current Huffpo article would indicate. Here’s another Huffpo piece from 2015 on defeating ISIS which makes pretty good sense:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-b-alexander-phd/defeating-isis-amercian-forces_b_6739138.html
Hey, the guy’s four years older than I am so maybe he’s finally losing it.
Yeah, Poetrooper, and Ted Kaczynski was damn good at Math but…
It would be interesting to hear from someone who served with him in his Airborne Infantry/Ranger/SF days. That is not your usual career path for total screwballs, especially those who start out enlisted and end up full colonels.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=g4bftQ4xxFc
I had a feeling the good Colonel might be found here:
http://www.coasttocoastam.com/search/?query=+John+B.+Alexander
http://www.coasttocoastam.com/guest/alexander-john/5669
His latest book is UFOs: Myths, Conspiracies, and Realities.
FFS
Is this guy the inspiration for that movie Men That Stare At Goats?
Fine with me if more non-lethal weapons are developed. Having more toys is always a good thing.
Of course, developing more hybrid veggies, improving seat belts in automobiles, and dozens of other things are AOK with me as well. Research and development of ideas, some pretty outrageous initially, led to every bit of technology we use today. Most of it does not require either a tinfoil hat or a spray bottle of vinegar.
Over.