An author I liked - Edward Abbey
July 22nd, 2009I used to read books. I still do, but almost always non-fiction except for the Harry Potter books. I know, boring, but I’m one of those people who go through phases.
One of my favorite authors back when I read fiction was Edward Abbey. Hated by both the Right (for environmental extremism) and the Left (for voicing that there are too many God damn illegal immigrants), Edward Abbey is my kind of guy. He believes in open space, the natural world, sex, and Freedom. Anyone want to argue with that?
“The tank, the B-52, the fighter-bomber, the state-controlled police and military are the weapons of dictatorship. The rifle is the weapon of democracy. Not for nothing was the revolver called an “equalizer.” Egalite implies liberte. And always will. Let us hope our weapons are never needed—but do not forget what the common people of this nation knew when they demanded the Bill of Rights: An armed citizenry is the first defense, the best defense, and the final defense against tyranny.”
-Edward Abbey
Abbey gets it. Guns are the equalizer. I hear liberals say “what good is a rifle against a tank?” I’ll tell you what, Mr. Liberal. You get in a tank. I’ll hide with my rifle. We’ll play a game called hide and go seek. I’ll let others put money on us, and I guarantee you that the people putting money on me will be happy with the results. I could write a separate blog post on how easy it would be for me to kill you, but it will be long and boring and over liberals’ heads because liberals don’t know anything about how guerrilla warfare works.
“The most common form of terrorism in the U.S.A. is that carried on by bulldozers and chain saws.”
-Edward Abbey
This will piss off conservatives. Well, conservatives piss me off. Today’s conservatives are completely unable to see anything past the dollar sign. I don’t want to see the entire America turned into strip malls and suburbs. I just don’t. I think nature is beautiful as is, and the last thing we need are more cities.
We need less people. The world is overpopulated. And yes, I’m for limiting immigration to only taking the best of the best. I’m sick of taking in the shit, the gang bangers, the pregnant teens, near retards, and illegals with diseases. Send them all home.
“It might be wise for us, as American citizens, to consider calling a halt to the mass influx of even more millions of hungry, ignorant, unskilled, and culturally-morally-genetically, impoverished people…Why not [support immigration]? Because we prefer democratic government, for one thing; because we still hope for an open, spacious, uncrowded, and beautiful–yes beautiful!–society, for another.”
Exactly.
America simply was more beautiful when it had 200 million people. It was even more beautiful when it had 100 million people. Now we’re over 300 million people and every year, the population grows. Not from within, but from outside the borders. Americans know how to use this thing called “birth control.” Illegal immigrants don’t. They just breed and breed and breed, then their kids join gangs and tag everywhere and make the schools suck.
I know this first hand. I’ve lived in those neighborhoods that white yuppies are afraid to enter. They’re not pleasant for anyone, and the teachers in those schools burn out within five years, because illegal parents simply don’t take education seriously.
Anyways, Abbey’s books are excellent. I suggest pretty much anything he ever wrote. I like people who think for themselves, and Abbey not only does that, but he can write.



. I haven’t been this glad to buy a book in years.