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Stepping on the Snake
tldavis.substack.com ^ | 24 Oct, 2024 | T.L. Davis

Posted on 10/25/2024 8:26:13 AM PDT by MtnClimber

One can roll all of the majority of grievances into one basic event, the government stepping on the snake. The famous Gadsden Flag of “Don’t Tread On Me,” a warning to the Brits to mind their own affairs, or they might get bitten, is a favorite of the patriots against the decades-long process of violating their rights. It’s a warning revived during the Tea Party days, now fifteen years hence. But they have been stepping on them.

What the US Government loves to do, is step on the snake; to grind it into the ground and since 1787, they have not been bitten. It’s our responsibility to future generations to retaliate for the injustices of our time. Each generation has a duty, as I see it, to deliver the nation to the next generation with a full compliment of rights and freedoms. In that endeavor, we have thus far failed, but a new day dawns.

It’s difficult to imagine the depth and width of patriotic zeal that has slowly been eroded over the past few centuries, but it is a great reservoir that the current regime continues to draw on to inflict mass casualties on the people without significant backlash. This is largely due to a misunderstanding of loyalty.

The government likes to project symbols as the objects of loyalty, while eroding freedoms in darkness. So they shine a bright light on the flag “Old Glory,” as it’s sometimes called, that represents the past obedience of the government to its charter, the U.S. Constitution. In the meantime, they have hollowed out that document by ignoring it all along the way, from Executive Branch expansion as a means of doing a backward illegality that is the purview of congress, i.e., all spending bills have to originate in the House. But if the Executive Branch creates FEMA or the EPA, it becomes incumbent on congress to fund it with the excuse that they could simply defund it, should it get out of control. Well, that’s exactly what’s happened over and over again, except the House doesn’t have the political will to stand up for the people and defund anything. They have been terrorized by the bureaucrats that give example after example of bad things that they will be blamed for if they defund a single thing.

They like to shine a bright light on the capitol building and the Washington Monument, even the White House to appeal to patriotism, while none of those things function as intended. During the whole of the Biden Administration, the Executive Branch has run itself. The DOJ doesn’t worry about committing crimes, because who is going to hold it accountable? FEMA and the border patrol fall under their purview as well as the FBI. No one can hold them accountable, but they can defund them. Our congress, who has oversight, has been unwilling to restrain its excesses.

All of this is a challenge to patriots to do something about it, knowing that whatever they might do will be cast as an attack on the flag, the congress or the cynically termed “democracy.” We saw that on January 6th. It had a chilling effect on the right to assemble and petition for a redress of grievances as intended. The constitutional right violates the security of the corrupt government and is suddenly deemed unpatriotic, an insurrection, rather than what it was, a right to petition the government to correct an openly and arrogantly stolen election.

The point is, the government will fight back with everything it has to keep the people enslaved to their bastardization of the constitution and the denial of rights of the people. It takes a brave population to shrug off those charges, repudiate the “unpatriotic” theme with action, but look at what’s been endured since January 6th, 2021 and you’ll understand the lengths to which they will go and the methods by which you can operate.

First, don’t give them a timeline, or an opportunity to infiltrate. The very existence of opposition assembly arises from Obama and sending SEIU out to do his bidding against those who protested Obamacare. I know, I was there, I saw it, including the buses and the sign-in sheets by which these public servants were paid for their time to counter unpaid, patriotic, citizen-organized protests. This is a tactic that has been used over and over with Antifa and BLM in later-stage government’s attacks on freedom of speech and the right to assemble.

Anytime the government sponsors or pays counter-protesters, it is a violation of the First Amendment. Simple as that. They are acting unlawfully. To counter all of this, the people must be much more aware of their rights and especially the law with the willingness to report such crimes to the Sheriff or DA of the jurisdiction. That, specifically, is in violation of 18 USC 41 Conspiracy against rights, where any two people gathered to deny any right, in this case, intimidate you from exercising one’s right to petition the government for a redress of grievances through fear for one’s safety, they have committed a crime. One can tell the difference by where the “counter protesters” are placed. If it is within sight and sound of original protesters, the right has been violated......SNIP


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: censorship; donttreadonme; freedom; governmentbloat; liberty

1 posted on 10/25/2024 8:26:13 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber
The point is, the government will fight back with everything it has to keep the people enslaved to their bastardization of the constitution and the denial of rights of the people.

The J6 hoax persecutions look like they are just the beginning.

2 posted on 10/25/2024 8:28:11 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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I absolutely love people who display the Don’t Tread on Me, Gadsden Flag. I give them a Sharpie and tell them to update it with the words, “I have been Tread on willingly for 200 years, please be gentle.”
Or I like the one that has the snake tied to a stake in the ground and its got Ballgag in his mouth...


3 posted on 10/25/2024 8:35:08 AM PDT by SavannahWonderer (First do no harm)
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Disappointed. Thought this was going to be about stepping on Carville.


4 posted on 10/25/2024 8:48:04 AM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
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How about we put the ballgag in your mouth and use your sharpie to color your face to look like a clown


5 posted on 10/25/2024 8:51:33 AM PDT by joe fonebone (And the people said NO! The End)
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One of the greatest things I have ever seen is those cowards in Congress fleeing into shelters, hiding in offices, running down the hall to get away, crouching in the gallery like they were under artillery fire. All because a bunch of 50 and 60 year olds were walking into the building.

It was exactly like a cop car pulling onto a street and instantly seeing some guy on the sidewalk take off running. He knows exactly why he should run.
Congress KNEW that election was stolen and they were terrified justice was coming. Not a single Congressfool felt innocent enough, or had a backbone enough to simply walk out and greet those people... maybe even debate with one of them. That’s all they wanted.

Cowards. It was good to see them run.
That was the people’s rattle they ignored. They decided it makes more sense to keep tormenting the snake.


6 posted on 10/25/2024 8:56:59 AM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI..)
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Hopefully mass pardons of the J6 and prolife political prisoners is job one for Trump. And Special Counsel or AG Ramaswami needs to be unleashed on Colorado, and the corrupt 9 year imprisonment of Tina Peters. They massively violated her civil rights as surely as Mississippi did during the Civil Rights era. That makes it Federal Jurisdiction. That has to be done in a big public way.


7 posted on 10/25/2024 9:01:34 AM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI..)
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To: SavannahWonderer

Mockery of people expressing their anger and distrust towards DC says more about you than them.

And yeah, we know you have never done that, even once...libtard.


8 posted on 10/25/2024 9:04:52 AM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI..)
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To: SavannahWonderer

I would take that sharpie and draw bigger fangs. The feds have been stepping on us long enough. Time to go to the ballot box and bite hard and deep.


9 posted on 10/25/2024 9:29:58 AM PDT by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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To: MtnClimber

bkmk


10 posted on 10/25/2024 10:43:47 AM PDT by sauropod ("This is a time when people reveal themselves for who they are." James O'Keefe Ne supra crepidam)
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To: DesertRhino; joe fonebone; telescope115

I mockery is directed towards the folks that have a fake idea of defiance. And I am far from a Libtard but since I have your attention, this is from another thread:

I’m actually looking forward to January... The absolute chaos caused by the bad actors who get free reign OR good, red-blooded American Patriots praying that they are NOT discovered to be red-blooded, American Patriots so that they can keep their jobs, status, what have you!
So few people will have the long-term abilities to be brave.
Patriotism will be very, very dangerous. The wonderful police (Back the Blue!!!), State and National Guard, etc will follow their orders with regards to red-blodded, American Patriots.
Being prepared brings peace, not anxiety.
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Ammoseek
Brushbeater[.store] (gear and exceptional training)
Mypatriotsupply &/or 4patriots
BigBerkey Water Filters
Get...Ready...NOW


11 posted on 10/25/2024 10:53:51 AM PDT by SavannahWonderer (First do no harm)
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