{"id":1427,"date":"2023-05-22T14:40:19","date_gmt":"2023-05-22T14:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/05\/22\/2a-a-terrorist-marker-2\/"},"modified":"2023-05-22T14:40:19","modified_gmt":"2023-05-22T14:40:19","slug":"2a-a-terrorist-marker-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/05\/22\/2a-a-terrorist-marker-2\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;2A&#8217; a Terrorist Marker?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">It emerged in the Congressional FBI whistleblower hearings that the abbreviation &#39;2A&#39; is a &quot;terrorist marker.&quot; That came as news to me. (But see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.projectveritas.com\/news\/fbi-whistleblower-leaks-bureaus-domestic-terrorism-symbols-guide-on-militia\/\">here<\/a>.) I have been using &#39;2A&#39; from time to time as an innocuous abbreviation of &#39;Second Amendment.&#39;&#0160; The context, of course, is the Bill of Rights which are the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">I have written sentences like this:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">2A does not confer, but protects, the citizen&#39;s right to keep and bear arms.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">My use of the harmless abbreviation makes me a terrorist, a white supremacist, and what all else in the eyes of the regime.&#0160; What does it make the regime? A police state. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">So I suppose it is a good thing that it has been a very long time since I attended a Latin mass. These masses, as is <a href=\"https:\/\/religionnews.com\/2023\/03\/02\/is-the-fbi-coming-after-traditional-catholics\/\">now well-known<\/a>, are notorious gathering points for insurrectionists, militiamen, and other violent extremists out to overthrow &#39;democracy.&#39;&#0160; Much less known, however, is that these masses are conducted, not in old Church Latin, but in <em>coded<\/em> Latin.&#0160; Thus <em>hoc est corpus meum<\/em> is code for <em>create mayhem<\/em>. <em>De mortuis resurrexit<\/em> means: he rose up and committed insurrection.&#0160; There really are very few threats to the powers that be stronger and more insidious than the Latin mass, which is why Pope Francis, that faithful custodian of the <em>depositum fidei,<\/em> is such a staunch defender of the old mass against the forces of reform.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Sarcasm aside, part of understanding&#0160; the destructive Left is understanding their commitment to the <em>hermeneutics of suspicion<\/em>.&#0160; You can learn about said hermeneutics, and cognate topics, from my essay <a href=\"https:\/\/philpapers.org\/go.pl?aid=VALQDT\">From Democrat to Dissident <\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">section 16.4. It is published in Hillman and Borland, eds., <em>Dissident Philosophers: Voices Against the Political Current of the Academy<\/em>, Rowman and Littlefield, 2021.&#0160; Available via Amazon where you can read some editorial reviews.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#0160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It emerged in the Congressional FBI whistleblower hearings that the abbreviation &#39;2A&#39; is a &quot;terrorist marker.&quot; That came as news to me. (But see here.) I have been using &#39;2A&#39; from time to time as an innocuous abbreviation of &#39;Second Amendment.&#39;&#0160; The context, of course, is the Bill of Rights which are the first ten &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/05\/22\/2a-a-terrorist-marker-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8216;2A&#8217; a Terrorist Marker?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[180,163,43,165,29,137,375,157,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-decline-of-the-west","category-leftism-and-political-correctness","category-political-language","category-political-nihilism","category-political-ponerology","category-political-theology","category-terrorism","category-totalitarianism","category-wokery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}