We're about 90% of the way from Step 4 to Step 5
Posted on 12/11/2013 9:34:25 AM PST by IChing
America’s Founding Fathers spelled it out pretty clearly: The purpose of government is to secure the God-given, inalienable rights of men. They put that exact language into The Declaration of Independence.
They also spelled out, exactly, that when government becomes abusive, and “destructive of these ends,” it is mankind’s right and duty to alter, abolish, or overthrow it.
You may have seen the recent news about prominent and well-spoken experts testifying before Congress regarding the Obama administration’s shocking usurpations and out-of-control excesses, especially the utter lack of regard for Constitutional limits on the powers of the executive branch. The testimony was remarkable in that the prospect of possible citizen uprising and revolt was brought up repeatedly. I can’t recall in my lifetime this ever having happened before, in such an official, high-level on-the-record context before the cameras and klieg lights.
The question that comes to my mind foremost is not whether such outright revolt is justified or warranted. The question is whether enough of us have the will and the wherewithal to carry it out.
Given what millions of us see as plainly egregious high crimes and misdemeanors by Obama and his agents, without adequate redress of our grievances by those who we believe are also largely corrupt–our representatives in Congress–a large chunk of the American population easily pays lip service to the idea of actual revolution, as opposed to more of the same-old, same-old election cycle shenanigans.
But talking and doing are, of course, two very different things.
I realize that by typing these words and sending them out over the cyber-clothesline, I’m somewhat risking a visit from the gestapo. So what. Let them throw me in jail. My wife and son would suffer, but if I’ve learned anything about that woman in the eight years we’ve been married, it’s that she can catch fish just as well or even better than I can on any given day, and probably live off the land if she has to. She was pretty much raised that way.
Have we as a society become so soft and accustomed to the comforts of technology and of various government checks & subsidies that too few of us would ever forcefully resist the tyranny that is growing from the power-mad panderers of the Left?
Life certainly is much different today than in the days of the American Revolution. Not only are people generally much more dependent on vast, highly-advanced, complex, specialized, and bureaucratic systems and technology which have removed them so much from the concept and practice of self-reliance in nature of those more primitive times, but anyone contemplating some kind of active defiance of the status quo has to consider also the comparatively extremely lopsided scenario such a prospect involves where it comes to actual weapons systems, intelligence networks, command and control operations, and logistics.
George Washington’s regulars, guerrillas, mercenaries, and Minutemen were long-shot underdogs against a formidable foe, of course, in the vastly better equipped, funded, and armed redcoats of King George. However, the muskets, horses, and cannon of our Revolutionary fighters were somewhat comparable, in technological sophistication and array, to the similarly primitive (by modern standards) hardware deployed by the crown. Furthermore, having “home field advantage,” all the colonists really had to do was make things so horrible for the king’s forces, much of which had come all the way from across the ocean, that the King eventually just relented rather than continue to try to keep control from all those thousands of miles away.
Nowadays, however, we’re talking about guys (and gals) with handguns, hunting rifles, carbines, and really not much more than that at all, up against the most space-age, entrenched, home-grown federal leviathan of lasers and satellites, nuclear missiles and bomber planes, tanks, aircraft carrier ships, helicopters, jet fighters and cargo planes, AWACS and close-air support planes, refueling tanker planes, smart bombs, infrared and laser-guided weird weapons that can zap and vaporize entire city blocks (I’ve been out of the military too long to even know what the hell these new weapons are), not to mention truly spooky, virtually omniscient surveillance and communications technology along with the government’s presumed ability to shut down any kind of tech networks we might employ.
Real encouraging, isn’t it?
Y’all think we should just stick to trying to vote the bastards out? Or am I missing something?
The elections weren't rigged and fraudulent. We lost fair and square. We lost because our Santa Claus wasn't as generous as their Santa Claus. It's the demographics that are killing us. Now that the "gibs me dat" class is outnumbering the hard-working productive class, the Santa with the biggest bag of "free" stuff will continue to win.
Take solace in the fact that one of these days the money is going to run out and the free ride will be over. Santa's bag will be filled with nothing more than empty promises. That's when things are going to get really interesting around this place!
Barring a disaster somewhere on the scale of a nuclear war, this government is here to stay...for the foreseeable future, anyway.
Absent an engaged electorate its only going to get worse. The ‘system’ was designed to work that way. Its not working b/c of US not them.
Most Americans are too lazy to bother.
I wonder if the South would have won the Civil War if they had solely used guerrilla warfare tactics?
Revolt is coming.
Allowing single women, illegal aliens, felons, welfare leeches, et. al. to vote IS rigging them.
That’s what I was thinking.
Black folks revolt.
Mexicans march at the drop of a hat.
White guys watch football.
I think what is happening is that as the thugs in business suits that occupy the District of Criminals continues to increase their tyranny the reaction is to flee from it, but sometimes go to court and fight over it. And as more try to avoid Fedzilla the more tyrannical they become and thus the Vicious Circle gets more obvious and dangerous.
Slowly people are begining to wake up and smell the coffee. The problems with Obamacare is one sign.
I believe that people think they have too much (material possessions and the like) to lose and are not taking inventory of the things they’ve already lost. Their priorities are not right, there’s no reason for them to fight.
“King eventually just relented rather than continue to ...try to keep control... from all those thousands of miles away.”
Excuse me! Can you say Kings Mountain? (Battle of)
Old king George’s top man got his a$% kicked here in S.C.. Then our people chased the rest of them back to Charleston..
I believe George’s troops made a deal, when they got to Charleston and found out there was no where to go.
It went something like this....
“If y’all will let us live we won’t burn the town down while we fight..
Done deal, we like Charleston so y’all can go..
Our troops up North heard about the whipping the South gave the English.
That rallied our American soldiers up North to fight and sent them all packing back to England..
English didn’t control nothing down South.
Saying and doing are far apart.
Attacking the Southern portion of America will be the next attackers down fall to..bet on it..
That was a big logistics war more than anything.
/johnny
Yes, Americans would.
Wadd’s ya think “Tea Party” means?
Encourage young people to move to areas such as East Tenn (not Knoxville or probably Chattanooga) or East Texas or the region from the Dakotas to eastern Washington state. The more these areas fill up with ambitious, hard working, market oriented, family oriented straight people the better. Even the worst sort of government is much easier to bear if the population is not full of Quislings and welfare suck ups and queers.
We're about 90% of the way from Step 4 to Step 5
You mean the “Tea Party” that backed down, packed up and went home, cancelled their planned protest of unloading a truck full of boxes of tea outside the White House on April 15, 2009, because the U.S. Park Police said they didn’t have the proper permits in place for a protest? That?
You made my point for me.
"How we burned in the prison camps later thinking: what would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good‑bye to his family?
"Or if during periods of mass arrests people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling in terror at every bang on the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand...the Organs (police) would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers...and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt."
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Gulag Archipelago
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