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?
I don’t think we’ll ever revolt against the government no matter how tyrannical it beocomes. As a nation, as a people, we’re too fat, lazy and comfortable. Not all of us...but as a nation this is true.
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I agree and with your reasoning
Believe the “boiling frog analogy” is appropriate here. Unfortunately.
And miss the NFL playoffs? Are you kidding?
If pushed far enough, I think so.
I am 60 years old.
Get off my lawn.
Our Forefathers would’ve never succeeded if the British had nuclear weapons.
We still don't have control of the Taliban.
/johnny
That was always the criterion. Totalitarians recognize this and try to push the envelope, always, as our own are doing at the moment. Nobody sane wants to start shooting anyone if it isn't necessary.
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government...
Soap box, ballot box, jury box, cartridge box. The media soap box has been expropriated, the ballot box corrupted, the jury box overruled. I don't get the sense that the ones pushing the envelope have any idea how very close they're coming to the last resort. I do get the sense that they think they can control it when it happens. Every ruling class ever overthrown felt thought so, and they were all wrong.
What we really need is a great General Turdgeson or twenty.
The fighters in Afghanistan don’t have high tech and we’ve been there for, what, 12 years now? Viet Nam was no easy task either.
Voting is obsolete. We just allowed the ruling party to use the IRS to win an election, and the Civitas database probably was fed FBI and CIA and NSA data as well as IRS data. Nobody seems to be doing anything about that, so Iassume that the next election will see the same tools, tactics, and databases used again.
The public might be more willing to revolt if the Republicans in Congress would do their job, but instead of leading the way, they keep ignoring Obama’s abuses of power.
Having successfully imposed 0bamacare with little to no resistance will only empower the regime to double down on lawlessness.
Even worse, the senior Republican leadership is BASHING REPUBLICANS when they should be TRASHING OBAMACARE AND THE REGIME’S LAWLESS BEHAVIOR!
They sure didn't have any trouble revolting against the Johnson and Nixon governments.
. . . not to mention “Dancing With the Stars”.
Revolutions are nasty businesses, make you late for dinner and make you miss your shows. . .
(/sarcasm)
Interesting observation, I'd like to see it tested by cancelling EBT's though.
LOL, what???
But do you think that if the bureaucrats who transmit the orders to and pay the soldiers and cops suffered a ten percent cull that the rest of them would continue to resist us? Or even show up to work, for that matter?
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