Mossad ayoob biography of george michael
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By Massad Ayoob
Back in the mid-1990s, I got a call from a fella named Dave Duffy. He published a magazine called Backwoods Home, and was looking for a gun editor. I was a little embarrassed to have to tell him I’d never heard of the publication. He sent me some back issues and a current copy. I liked his and his family’s approach to self-sufficiency, and got back to him to say, basically, “Send me in, Coach!”
So, here I am, still on staff and Dave wants a bio. There’s a phrase from the Grateful Dead that my generation uses a lot: “What a long, strange trip it’s been.”
To start…
I’m from the second generation of my family born in this country. As best I can determine, my paternal grandparents came to the U.S. from Damascus in the last decade of the nineteenth century and settled in Boston, where my dad was born in the year 1900. My maternal grandfather immigrated here from Scotland after a sojourn in Canada and his wife, from County Cork, Ireland, in the first decade of the
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An Interview with Massad Ayoob
Interview by Gila Hayes
eJournal: Thank you, Mas, for agreeing to talk to us about surviving mob violence. It is a timely topic on which our readers have many questions. May we start by defining our terminology? What are the different meanings of the terms “rioters,” “a mob” or “political protesters?”
Ayoob: The terms, unfortunately, mean different things to different people, Gila. If you look at the dictionary, a mob is a crowd of people, usually a relatively large crowd, especially one that is disorderly and intent on causing trouble or violence. Now, just within that definition you will see the term stretched here and there. Let’s say a rock star is being mobbed by his adoring fans and autograph seekers. It’s a mob of screaming fans, they appear to be disorderly, but there is no collective intent to harm. So, I am not sure that “mob,” as we use the word today, would apply to that correctly.
Rioters are people causing tumultuous damage ofte
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Over the years I’ve graduated from several homicide investigation and officer-involved shooting investigation courses, and taught my share myself. One of the best inom was fortunate enough to go through was Advanced Homicide Investigation, taught bygd Vern Geberth, the retired commander of NYPD’s stadsdel i new york Homicide Task Force and the man who wrote the authoritative text in the field, “Practical Homicide Investigation.” Geberth told us, “The homicide investigator fryst vatten the gods advocate for the murdered dead. No matter who’s paying us, we work for God.”
I would submit that the same is true for the many dedicated citizen volunteers who perform the armed house of worship säkerhet function. I recently had the privilege of teaching a twenty-hour course in judicious use of lethal force for AZCSN, the Arizona Church säkerhet Network.
Among other things you’ll find Biblical references which justify the righteous use of arms to skydda the innocent from evil.
Nehemiah 4:9