Rules of Engagement - Part X

Tales from the battlefields: 
Your opponents will try to replenish the dwindling stock of weapons at their disposal by sending slithering snakes to raid your stash of weapons. Dig deep trenches around the parameters of the weaponry. Fortify the trenches with mongooses. 
Keep your eyes on the number of snakes let loose and slithering towards the trenches. They will fall into the traps and will be at the mercy of the mongooses. See how many are already belly up. 
Do you see the one from New Zealand and the one from Ireland? Count them all. What?!! Only 91?!! In the entire 5 full days and nights since the 3 bags of slithering snakes were released?!! Do the count again, go through the rows and rows of trenches. Still only 91. And how many slithered out of the trenches and slipped back again? More than half? Aw... that is tragic - NOT. Never pity the enemy. Pity is a failing on the battlefield and you should never be accused of having even the minutest of quantities of this failing. 
Simply acknowledge your deep satisfaction that the number of snakes at the enemy's disposal are dwindling too, just like their weaponry. The enemy has become a low lying fruit of the poisoned tree. You are a cat and the enemy is a mouse. Continue the game of combat. It is the only entertainment in the wilderness of the battlefield.

 Today we continue with more quotes from Dr. John Ray. I like this guy. Emphasis mine.
 quote:
1) The Leftist's dissatisfaction with the world about him and his burning desire to change it can come from many sources but for Leftist leaders and other preachers of Leftism in the economically successful "Western" democracies ("liberals" in contemporary North American terms), the major motivation is to fulfil the ego needs of the Leftist himself -- needs for self-advertisement, self-promotion, excitement, influence and ultimately power. And the prime source of power is the state, so Leftists love the state.
 2) The desire for change is at its base the desire for one particular sort of change: Putting Leftists in power so that they can reshape society into a mould that feels good to them. And why is power sought so single-mindedly? Why the single-minded egotism? At the deepest level, the Leftist leader appears to be psychopathic -- with the psychopathic disregard for all norms, morals, standards and ethics in the ruthless quest for personal praise and satisfaction. It is because of their quest for power that Leftists come into conflict with conservatives. History shows that what has always motivated conservatives is resistance to government power -- in particular government encroachment on individual rights and liberties. So conservatives may either favour or oppose change to promote that cause
 3) The most detailed causal chain proposed for preachers of Leftism, then, is as follows: Psychopathic personality, high ego need, hatred of an indifferent world, need for change, need for power, love of the State. Psychopaths are normally seen as lacking in emotions so it may seem perverse to say that Leftist leaders are both psychopathic and motivated by rage -- and it is certainly not asserted that ALL Leftist leaders are psychopathic. Psychopaths are however not totally lacking in emotions. What they lack is normal emotions. And one emotion that they do definitely display is rage -- in particular outrage at what they see as poor treatment of themselves by those around them. And Leftist intellectuals in particular display feeling of that sort too. It really burns them up that they are not as well-paid or as influential as successful businessmen, for instance. unquote

 Confucius quote for today: What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.