Going through some of the high-minded but empty-headed writings of
the Small Arms Survey, an NGO sponsored by a Swiss do-gooder institute
that’s an offshoot of the League of Nations that prevented European war
(wait… what?) one is shocked by some of the moronic drivel written
there. All the usual suspects of hack advocacy are there: “many experts
say” without naming one such expert; “it is generally accepted” followed
by some tendentious, extreme, and woolly-headed assertion; or “the
peer-reviewed literature generally” prior to repeating some
assumption that underlies a raft of bad research.
It is hackery wrapped in bad faith, shackled by an anchor chain of
dishonesty to an anchor of cold-rolled fable, and then dropped into the
trackless depths of the Sea of Lies, taking you along for the ride if
you’re so unwise as to latch on.
We’ve seen this clown show before.
And that’s the supposedly
factual bit. We particularly howled at the assertion that the
widespread availability of military arms and the provision of arms and training by Russia, France and Egypt, led to the massacre of hundreds of thousands of Rwandans by
machete and
club. Because
the eeeevil assault weapons made ‘em do it — never mind that the bulk
of the foreign weapons provided to the state of Rwanda
before the
unpleasantness were complex crew-served and support weapons, machinery
of wholesale warfare of no use to unlettered militiamen perpetrating
retail mass-murders of civilians. But these guys have an agenda and an
ideology, and they live in that deep place in the Sea of Lies where the
lights of truth, fact and logic cannot penetrate.
But they don’t end with making questionable factual assertions. They
also editorialize, or reprint others’ editorial opinions, which are
obviously their own opinions, even though the author’s own institution
(then ICRC) flashes a fig leaf saying, “The opinions expressed above are
those of the author and are not in any way to be attributed to the
ICRC.”
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