Former MLB pitcher John Rocker, who has a reputation of creating controversy, might have just stirred up the proverbial pot once again.
The 38-year-old is now a political columnist for World News Daily, and he recently used the platform to express his views on gun control, which is a very sensitive topic in this country right now. Naturally, given his track record of ill-advised remarks, he wrote something which is likely to upset some folks.
Mr. Obama wants to severely neuter the Second Amendment and disarm the law-abiding citizens of this nation, a similar act of tyrants throughout the 20th century such as Stalin, Mao and Hitler. Absolute certainties are a rare thing in this life, but one I think can be collectively agreed upon is the undeniable fact that the Holocaust would have never taken place had the Jewish citizenry of Hitler’s Germany had the right to bear arms and defended themselves with those arms.
Wait, what? Is Rocker really suggesting the Holocaust could have been avoided if Jewish citizens had more firepower? I believe this is the case.
This isn't the first time Rocker has voiced his opinion and came under fire for it. In a story published in a December 1999 issue of Sports Illustrated, Rocker made several questionable remarks regarding his hatred for New York City. Most of his remarks came across as racist, sexist, homophobic, and just generally offensive in nature.
Rocker, who resides in Atlanta, broke into the major leagues with the Braves in 1998 as a hard-throwing reliever. He played in parts of four seasons with the Braves before being traded to the Indians during the middle of the year. Rocker was traded by the Indians to the Rangers a mere six months later. After one season with Texas, he later signed with Tampa Bay for the 2003 campaign.
Marred by off-the-field issues, criticism from fans, and declining performance, Rocker was eventually released by Tampa Bay during June 2003. He took the 2004 season off to recover from shoulder surgery and tried to make a return to baseball in 2005. However, his comeback was short lived after being released by the Long Island Ducks of the independent Atlantic League in June 2005.
Rocker, who resides in Atlanta, broke into the major leagues with the Braves in 1998 as a hard-throwing reliever. He played in parts of four seasons with the Braves before being traded to the Indians during the middle of the year. Rocker was traded by the Indians to the Rangers a mere six months later. After one season with Texas, he later signed with Tampa Bay for the 2003 campaign.
Marred by off-the-field issues, criticism from fans, and declining performance, Rocker was eventually released by Tampa Bay during June 2003. He took the 2004 season off to recover from shoulder surgery and tried to make a return to baseball in 2005. However, his comeback was short lived after being released by the Long Island Ducks of the independent Atlantic League in June 2005.
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January 16, 2013
Adolph Hitler did remove firearms after he became Chancellor in 1932. He made a comment to the effect that others will follow in the footsteps of Nazi Germany to make a safer nation.
The other despots took away weapons, rights, dissent etc to maintain control. Why is that so foreign sounding to us. John Rocker may be loud, proud, crude and rude but he has the right to say it because of the Bill of Rights.
Streetlaw1 has it "covered" with his/her comments above, as Stalin did the same after WW II in all of the countries behind the Iron Curtain, as Hitler did in Germany before WW II. Therefore, Poland, Czechoslovakia, etc. could not fight the communists because all of the citizens who owned weapons from after the war were identified and then sent to the Siberian “gulags”.
So, there is NO controversy about Johnny Rocker’s comment(s), as he seems far more learned and historically aware, then the author who decided to stir-up the pot with this biased opinion, which consequently is just as protected by the 1st Amendment, as is John Rocker's - with the 2nd to support it.
God Bless America... Jerz says so…
"The 1938 German Weapons Act, the precursor of the current weapons law in Germany, superseded a 1928 law. As under the 1928 law, citizens were required to have a permit to carry a firearm and a separate permit to acquire a firearm. Furthermore, the law restricted ownership of firearms to "...persons whose trustworthiness is not in question and who can show a need for a (gun) permit." Under the new law, gun restriction laws applied only to handguns, not to long guns or ammunition. Writes Prof. Bernard Harcourt of the University of Chicago, "The 1938 revisions completely deregulated the acquisition and transfer of rifles and shotguns, as well as ammunition.” He actually loosened the gun laws in Germany, and only restricted guns from the Jewish peopl and Gypsies.
Rocker has been proven to be nothing more than a failed athelete, a bigot, and now of course a shinging example of the redneck gun owners that give responsible gun owners a bad name.
The Nazis took guns away from Jews & Gypsies, leaving them unable to defend themselves.
Rocker has an important point. The Jews were defenseless victims until they started fighting back. It was too little too late. They fought back with guns smuggled in by the resistance.
Look up the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. The Nazis where shocked when Jews put up fierce armed resistance. The Nazis didn't expect it. The Nazis had to dring in heavy artillery to battle the resistance.
Now if every Jewish/Gypsy/Gay/Etc neighborhood or town throughout Europe had been armed, it could have severely delayed and diluted the Nazi plans, saving thousands of Jewish and other lives.
Look at Isreal now. every citizen serves in the military, and everyone is armed. Their survival depends on it.
From: (http://astillthinsound.blogspot.com/)
"Juden Haben Waffen" - kol dimama daka
This essay was written in memory of all those who decided to fight rather than die like sheep
It has now been 62 years since the Warsaw ghetto uprising. Sixty two years, six decades which have seen the reestablishment of Jewish sovereignty in our land and a mighty legion once again rise. However, most of us here in the galut and indeed many in Israel fail to learn anything from the heroes of Warsaw. The walls of the ghetto were already closing in when a few brave souls decided not to die like sheep but to exact vengeance on the enemies of our nation with their every last breath. These fighters were not, however, the majority. Even as some were being loaded onto cattle cars they still condemned the “militants” of the ZOB and the “fascists” of the ZZW for trying to fight. These people were so awash in the “ turn the other cheek” mentality that had been beaten into us, that even as they were hauled to Treblinka they decried the “hooligans” of the underground. Poor Jews, it was not their fault “eyes they have but they see not, ears, but they do not hear”. The fact of the matter is that two thousand years of European exile had brainwashed the Jews. What kind of behavior is violence for the sons of Abraham? Better that we die obediently at the hands of the Nazis than cause undue fuss. No , it is not true .The heroes of Warsaw whether they were socialists, bundists , bnei akiva or Betaris all understood what most of European Jewry did not and most of American Jewry does not know; that it is not a mitzvah to be peacefully persecuted. Nowhere in the Torah are we instructed to give in to our own decimation. The fighters recognized that violence unto our people deserves violence in return. And so, as the first of the wicked one’s SS companies entered the ghetto on April 19th at the start of the “grossaktion” they were met in turn with a hail of Jewish bullets. As the murderers fell the cry went forth “Juden haben waffen!”, “the Jews have weapons”. Let those three words be seared in the mind of every one of our enemies and may all of our brethren finally understand the true importance of those words.
You don't know a thing about John, you F'ing Punk. He is about as racist as you are intelligent. If you knew anything about him, you would know that he had an African-American girlfriend for several years and is now fighting for a worthy cause - homes for homeless Vets who served this nation.
Now, as most of those Vets are also African-American, I would suggest you STFU, you Simple-Minded Fool. Get a life and contribut half of what John has to the Vets of this nation...
Caus Jerz Said So...
Either way, the 2nd is the 2nd, so you and the government should not worry about what I have or want to have, and leave me in peace. I am a VET, a gun owner (lost count of how many) and I fought to support and defend the Constitution, so I take it personally when some A-hole in the White House or otherwise decides that I should not own something that I am allowed to own under the 2nd.
So, just like I protected your right to open up your "yap" and provide your opinion under the 1st, I feel compelled to do the same through my VOTE to protect all other rights given to us by our (much smarter and less lasier) fore-fathers...
God Bless America - and if you don't like it, I'll buy you a one way ticket out of it...
Cause Jerz said so...
Randy Weaver lost family members when FBI agents and US Marshalls attacked his home based on lies told by people that had disputes with him.
Kathryn Johnston was gunned down by Dekalb County's Red Dog Squad when they busted down her door. The investigation would show that they had the wrong house and had followed faulty information.
You don't think you need it now, but what about if it's your door they come to? This is the reason the Second Amendment gives us the right to bear arms. To protect ourselves, our families, and our country from tyranny, whether it comes from an outside nation, our federal government, our State government, or our local government.
The corrupt Republican OIL corporate MONARCHY has 24 applications for permits to STEAL the American People's "VERY OWN NON-POLLUTANT" Natural Gas, FRACTURE/DRILL, LIQUIFY & SEND IT OVERSEAS under the false pretense that it will CREATE JOBS! Bull$hit! Nothing but MORE of their UNCONTROLLED CAPITALISTIC GREED while they CONTINUE GOUGING the American People at their PUMPS with their 3x's too high-priced HIGHLY POLLUTANT gasoline! We should've been on "OUR VERY OWN" Natural Gas for home & automobile a long, long time ago! And, by now, we should have been CONVERTING to 100% NON-POLLUTANT, DAMN NEAR FREE, MAGNETICALLY-DRIVEN ELECTRICAL ENERGY for BOTH HOME & AUTOMOBILE! We own 3 viable patents by Howard Johnson and we have the AC/DC electrical technology to quickly CONVERT to this form of energy! And, since EACH system would be INDEPENDENT OF EACH OTHER, WE COULD NEVER HAVE ANOTHER "MASSIVE POWER OUTAGE" during inclement weather that their HIGHLY POLLUTANT gasoline is causing and changing our climate forever!!
As a VET I second your opine - everyone should mind their own damn business and let me pray in peace, let me protect myself with whatever hi-cap weapons I want and start paying atttention to their kids so that they don't bully anyone or get bullied and go f'ing postal...
God Bless America - the Home that I LOVE...
Cause Jerz said so....
At least he has an opinion and isn't like the mindless politicians and people who feel it is correct to just put on a show to America. People you gotta stand up for yourself..