Posted on 12/07/2021 7:24:21 PM PST by Signalman
The most terrifying force of death comes from the hands of Men who wanted to be left Alone. They try, so very hard, to mind their own business and provide for themselves and those they love. They resist every impulse to fight back, knowing the forced and permanent change of life that will come from it. They know that the moment they fight back, their lives as they have lived them, are over. The moment the Men who wanted to be left alone are forced to fight back, it is a form of suicide. They are literally killing off who they used to be. Which is why, when forced to take up violence, these Men who wanted to be left alone, fight with unholy vengeance against those who murdered their former lives. They fight with raw hate, and a drive that cannot be fathomed by those who are merely play-acting at politics and terror. TRUE TERROR will arrive at these people's door, and they will cry, scream, and beg for mercy... but it will fall upon the deaf ears of the Men who just wanted to be left alone." -Unknown
I know both poor, intelligent, hard-working & proud and poor, lazy and stupid.
The former outnumber the latter in my area.
This goes along with the theme I’ve said for years
one, that theme has been in my tagline for years
and two, the oher i’ve used for years, and that is, the other side cannot handle you making different choices than they do, and they simply will not leave you alone to live in peace (peaceable difference/disagreement)
The most terrifying force of death comes from the hands of Men who wanted to be left Alone.
They try, so very hard, to mind their own business and provide for themselves and those they love.
They resist every impulse to fight back, knowing the forced and permanent change of life that will come from it.
They know that the moment they fight back, their lives as they have lived them, are over. The moment the Men who wanted to be left alone are forced to fight back, it is a form of suicide.
They are literally killing off who they used to be. Which is why, when forced to take up violence, these Men who wanted to be left alone, fight with unholy vengeance against those who murdered their former lives.
They fight with raw hate, and a drive that cannot be fathomed by those who are merely play-acting at politics and terror.
TRUE TERROR will arrive at these people's door, and they will cry, scream, and beg for mercy... but it will fall upon the deaf ears of the Men who just wanted to be left alone."
-Unknown
Me...
...and you.
I feel like The Man Who Wants to be Left Alone
when I see a post from NextRush or any of our “Messianic Jews.”
I’d enjoy taking up arms with HumbleGunner, though.
He wouldn’t even have to kill the enemy, he’d just piss ‘em off so much they’d surrender in frustration.
Hangin’ with Laz on perimeter watch...
Going over the top with Travis McGee...
I’d fight with any of y’all actually.
We gotta stop typing sometime...
"From the fury of the Northmen, O Lord, deliver us."
“I’m a man with a rule: people leave me alone, I leave them alone. If they don’t, I don’t”
Jack Reacher
I was related to and knew two men, who fit this description:
“The most terrifying force of death comes from the hands of Men who wanted to be left Alone. They try, so very hard, to mind their own business and provide for themselves and those they love. They resist every impulse to fight back, knowing the forced and permanent change of life that will come from it. They know that the moment they fight back, their lives as they have lived them, are over.”
One was a uncle and brother of my mother and 3 other sisters. He volunteered for active duty the week after Pearl was attacked. He gave up an opportunity to play pro tennis and joined the First Cav and fought the Japanese throughout the Pacific. He suffered from what we now call PTSD for a couple decades after WWII.
He finally was able to discuss some of what he lived with some of us, re what he did in WWII with a few of his nephews when we started to serve our military duty.
The other was a younger first cousin of my Dad, and he was like a younger brother to my Dad. He fought the Germans in Africa, the Italians in Italy and ended up with a metal plate in his skull in the Battle of the Bulge.
He was a blacksmith and a 6 pack of beer at the end of his work day helped him to tell us what happened.
Some people ask what I have learned in my decades of travel around the world. I tell them three:
1. Most men want to live their lives peacefully do their work and enjoy some down time
2. They love their family and want the best for them
3. They believe they have to live right to live with others
In all of history there have been despots, evil people, who can’t live by the rules and instead want to make their own and have it all. Every time these people have come along peaceful men finally get out of their quiet places and thrash the living hell out of the evil people who have destroyed their otherwise peaceful lives. The peaceful men then go back to their peaceful lives as quickly and as best as they can.
You may like the poem by Robert Service: The Men who don’t Fit in.
Thank you.
My heroes and I hope kindred spirits in some way.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/58012/the-men-that-dont-fit-in
Also describes another of Mel Gibson’s iconic characters: Sir William Wallace.
At least I can still fight back with my firearms, which I will if threatened by tyrants.
The Bard of the Empire.
Addendum: Because, at that point, they have nothing left to lose. Few people actually understand this.
That’s some mighty big talk from a one-eyed fat man.
Excellent “True Grit” reference.
This year during the big fall mow I have been listening to a podcast series of the history of the American Revolution. I’m trying to understand how they did it.
So far, beginning in 1764 or so they began to take over local government and to intimidate local “officials” to resign their posts. Soon, in Massachusetts Colony, the armed citizens shut down the courts and controlled all of the colony outside Boston where Governor Gage (not for very long) holed up with his meager militia.
Parliament and Gage had tripped the balance with the Coercive Acts (four of them made up the Intolerable Acts) and then Gauge intended to hammer the colonists in line with brutal force. It didn’t work out to well.
The colonists mostly stayed to lawful acts such as when they removed all stores from the Powder House save for the Kings 200 kegs before Gage’s troops could stop them.
It is reckoned that the colonists had some 15,000 or more armed citizens to Gage’s 2,500 or so regulars. The Revolution would not have happened if the colonists did not have guns which were part of their lives and required by the terms of the militia. Colonists unlike people in the old country had grown up with guns in the preceding 200 years or so.
The colonists also were able to persuade a few of the regulars to desert. Those caught and returned were executed. That didn’t do much for morale.
The build-up to Revolution took more than 10 years. It began as a friendly fight with the colonists hoping the crown would see their logic and exercise good sense. They didn’t of course. At one time the crown tried to hire Samuel Adams to get him to stop his organizing.
With all that was going on in Massachusetts, so far little is happening int he other colonies.
Ever hear of the Suffolk Resolves of 1774? I believe their were 19 of them. The colonists were asking for reasonableness and Parliament mostly ignored them.
You can only piss people off and walk on them so much for so long.
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