Bob Seargent pays ominous tribute to the AK-47 assault rifle on it’s 60th birthday:
The AK’s symbolic power and charisma continues to intoxicate “friends of the people” who like arming the insurrectionist masses. The Kalashnikov culture thrives. Pre-teen “soldiers” in Africa and the Asian subcontinent tote AKs with a casual familiarity.
Hugo Chavez, Venezuelan “El Supremo,” believes that the 100,000 AKs he recently ordered from Russia for his people’s militia are too few to dissuade the capitalist devils from invading his fair nation. Chavez could have selected a more modern, formidable weapon, but a front-page picture of a campesino carrying a Heckler and Koch or FN rifle just won’t cut it.
All you bourgeois, reactionary, capitalist running dogs out there beware, because the world is not going to run out of Kalashnikovs for a long, long time.
Great read, as always.