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Revolution
American Thinker ^ | May 20, 2009 | Herbert E. Meyer

Posted on 05/19/2009 11:44:49 PM PDT by plsjr

During the last 30 years we Americans have been so politically divided that some of us have called this left-right, liberal-conservative split a "culture war" or even a "second Civil War." These descriptions are no longer accurate. The precise, technical word for what is happening in the United States today is revolution.

Because of our country's history, we tend to think of revolutions as military conflicts, and of the revolutionaries as the good guys; the image of Minutemen fighting valiantly against the British forces at Lexington and Concord lies deep within our DNA. But sometimes -- quite often, actually -- revolutions aren't military conflicts, and the good guys are the ones trying to keep the revolution from happening. In January 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany by its elected president; he would spend the next two years consolidating his power with the legislative connivance of his political allies in the Reichstag. In October 1917, Lenin and his Bolsheviks took control of Russia from Kerensky and his Social Democrats -- who had overthrown the Czar earlier that year -- entirely through parliamentary maneuvering in Russia's fledgling Duma.

What defines a revolution -- and this is the crucial point to grasp -- is that when it's over a country has changed not merely its leaders and its laws, but its operating system.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Editorial; Government
KEYWORDS: cwii; cwiiping; flushwashington; grassroots; herbertemeyer; herbmeyer; operatingsystems; revolution; socialism; statism
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To: bert

BS.....to stop the coup there must be people and probably blood in the streets. There can be no peaceful solution in America just as in Israel. It is now all or nothing


It’s not time for that...Yet.


81 posted on 05/21/2009 8:35:28 AM PDT by patriot preacher (To be a good American Citizen and a Christian IS NOT a contradiction. (www.mygration.blogspot.com))
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To: patriot preacher

......It’s not time for that...Yet.....

You beg the question..... how do you know?

Or better, When will you know?


82 posted on 05/21/2009 8:37:23 AM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . Crucify ! Crucify ! Crucify him!!)
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To: bert

Those who have will not. Those who have not think they will but will be deluded. They too will suffer
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THat’s pretty cryptic. Care to clarify?


83 posted on 05/21/2009 8:38:58 AM PDT by patriot preacher (To be a good American Citizen and a Christian IS NOT a contradiction. (www.mygration.blogspot.com))
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To: STONEWALLS

what’s happening is a small number of anglo-european/judeo-christian whites are becoming alarmed about what’s happening to the country....there’ll be no revolution...instead there’ll be a race war that will lead to a Balkan style breaking up of the United states
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Race is only one of MANY factors moving us toward this eventuality. And, it’s not even in the top 5 most important factors. It might BECOME about race — but if so, those of us with principles and ethics will have largely lost the debate in the heat and bloodlust of the battle.


84 posted on 05/21/2009 8:44:10 AM PDT by patriot preacher (To be a good American Citizen and a Christian IS NOT a contradiction. (www.mygration.blogspot.com))
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To: patriot preacher

......THat’s pretty cryptic. Care to clarify?.....

I tried to make it succinct and clear but apparently did not.

Those of who have worked hard and accumulated some assets will have them taken away while those who have not expect to receive the transfer. They will not. Unless they belong to a big union or are politically connected is a very correct way they will not receive much. They will be subject to the hidden taxes that are coming.

To the victor go the spoils.The Brown Clown and his cronies will take the spoils and divy them up among themselves.


85 posted on 05/21/2009 9:00:27 AM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . Crucify ! Crucify ! Crucify him!!)
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To: Noumenon

WIth due respect — and I mean that — I’m unaware of the “secret police” sticking guns at anyone’s face yet. I didn’t see anything like that at the Tea Parties. I know of no raids on compounds or mass arrests at churches and synagogues.

I DO believe that is inevitable if we stay on this path. Perhaps it will be sooner rahter than later. But we are not there yet.

I thought we might be there in the 90’s, when Janet Reno burned down the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, TX. I thought when the Feds murdered Randy Weaver’s wife while she held her baby we were probably there. And when the assault weapons ban was implemented. BUt we weren’t.

And we are not there now — not yet. Like others though, I am fully aware we are headed there at a breakneck pace. But it is incumbent on us to head off such an eventuality if at all possible, but all peaceable means. Those are being exhausted, fast. But some avenues still remain.

We prepare for every potentiality, while working to avoid the worst case scenario’s insofar as possible. Precipitous and premature action would only short-circuit what must happen, and discredit the principles for which we stand...

Respectfully....

I want to avoid the French style revolution Glenn Beck is warning about where revenge will flow like water in the Ohio River.
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No one in their right mind wants this. Trouble is, the Left has made it inevitable. You can’t reason with someone whose idea of debate is sticking a gun in your face - that’s the modus operandi of the Left. They just won’t give up the idea that it’s their duty to improve your judgement by force. They want to substitute a government gun for your conscience.

That’s why we’re going to end up killing most of them if we have any expectation of remaining free men and women. We didn’t ask for that. They did. They set the ruls of engagement wit htheir take-no-prisoners Alinsk ytactics. Now let’s see how they deal with a dose of their own medicine. Unintended consequences and all that. Yes indeed - change is coming. But it’s not what they bargained for.


86 posted on 05/21/2009 9:02:00 AM PDT by patriot preacher (To be a good American Citizen and a Christian IS NOT a contradiction. (www.mygration.blogspot.com))
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To: plsjr
"That's when the real shooting started, and when blood began flowing in the streets."
87 posted on 05/21/2009 12:00:20 PM PDT by SwinneySwitch (ObommaNation - beyond your expectations.)
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To: plsjr

BUMP!


88 posted on 05/21/2009 12:15:24 PM PDT by FlashBack ('0'bama: "Katrina on a Global Level")
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To: Gilbo_3
sorry Gato, but i honestly believe that ship sailed long ago

It's possible, but I don't think it's been all that blatant, yet. But if The Messiah needs it to be, it will be.

89 posted on 05/21/2009 2:32:16 PM PDT by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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To: Gilbo_3
sorry Gato, but i honestly believe that ship sailed long ago

It's possible, but I don't think it's been all that blatant, yet. But if The Messiah needs it to be, it will be.

90 posted on 05/21/2009 2:32:23 PM PDT by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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To: MrB
“After the reset” - no one who has ever served in the federal government should ever be allowed into a position of power over any citizen.

That inlcude all Federal military veterans, and federal civil servants whose entire employement has been within the DoD or the CIA?

Or do you mean just *elected* officials and non civil service appointed officials?

91 posted on 05/21/2009 2:42:17 PM PDT by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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To: plsjr; Beckwith; null and void; stockpirate; pissant; PhilDragoo; Candor7; MeekOneGOP; Myrddin; ...

I urge everyone to read and learn about the 1938 Evian Conference that gave Hitler the green light to eradicate the Jews:

http://christianactionforisrael.org/antiholo/evian/evian.html

Read the whole thing.

When you read 1938 Germany, its leader, and followers, think 2009 America, its leader, and the Liberal Left, and all of the countries who attended the conference as the self-protectionist others in America who would rather not get involved, or who don’t know how if they did.

We have to be the ones to show them the way out.

It’s great to share our ideals among fellow FReepers, but it’s time to quit simply preaching to the choir.

The word is getting out, albeit, slowly at first, but just like the bucket brigades of old, if everyone steps forward to fill his or her bucket and pass it on, we can put out the fire.


92 posted on 05/21/2009 2:59:27 PM PDT by Polarik (Forgeries are forever)
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To: Polarik

I read about the Evian Confrence years ago in a college history course. In recent months, I’ve thought about the similarities between what ocurred then and what is happening now. The comparison is striking.......and frightening.

A must read.

Thanks for posting this.


93 posted on 05/21/2009 3:18:23 PM PDT by Rushmore Rocks
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To: FARS; usmcobra; 1stbn27; 2111USMC; 2nd Bn, 11th Mar; 68 grunt; A.A. Cunningham; ASOC; ...

Thank you for the ping, FARS.


94 posted on 05/21/2009 3:35:15 PM PDT by freema (MarineNiece,Daughter,Wife,Friend,Sister,Friend,Aunt,Friend,Mother,Friend,Cousin, FRiend)
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To: MHGinTN
“I’m a “live and let live” type of guy.” Well, being the sovereign of a nation, along with 300,000,000 other sovereigns means you have to be involved in more than a casual way else those who want to take away your sovereignty because they do not agree with your values will usurp your sovereignty just as we are seeing now. Conservatives who do not vote are the reason the left is now in charge. You cannot live and let live with poisonous snakes. There are heads that must be crushed to reduce the poisonous potential.

True, very true, most of these people are snakes and they have a mindless population that supports them. I just hate to end up getting to the point of being nasty but we are being forced to do so for our survival and for our way of life.
95 posted on 05/21/2009 3:51:23 PM PDT by Nowhere Man (Is Barak HUSSEIN Obama an Anti-Christ? - B.O. Stinks! (Robert Riddle))
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To: plsjr

bttt


96 posted on 05/21/2009 6:27:27 PM PDT by g'nad
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To: Polarik; All
we can put out the fire

Yes we can. When I have an opportune moment (at work)
I speak my mind. Many many people DO listen. I always offer a host of alternative news sites other than the MSM. My blackberry is my weapon of choice
(At this time) that could change of course. : )

97 posted on 05/21/2009 6:38:36 PM PDT by katiekins1 (Obama=DickTater N Chief)
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To: Polarik
I am afraid we have waited much too long to start putting out the fire. We are so divided against ourselves, (here, Europe, Asia, Africa,) that everyone is a perceived enemy, a potential enemy, or a real enemy and you can't tell which is which anymore.
This article is but a small example of how fractured groups which exist within the body wreak havoc until the body dies.
It exists in every facet of existence on the planet, a pandemic of insanity, a devolution into yesteryear which I simply see no way to cure.
Those of us who have seen it with clarity are the ones called insane. No one likes having the truth laid out for them in black and white. Their realities clash with truth, therefore, the truth is irrelevant.
I think all we can do now is keep from catching fire ourselves. We will fight and we might die, but I will be nobody's slave.
98 posted on 05/21/2009 7:19:25 PM PDT by MestaMachine (Will global warming make hell hotter? Or is hell freezing over? That is the ???)
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To: MestaMachine
I am afraid we have waited much too long to start putting out the fire. We are so divided against ourselves, (here, Europe, Asia, Africa,) that everyone is a perceived enemy, a potential enemy, or a real enemy and you can't tell which is which anymore.

I know what you mean. There is a side of me misses the days of the Cold War, although even then, the beginnings of today's rots got started, at least you know there was one big, bully USSR that kept us more or less on the same page. It's just an interesting observation, but IMHO, if the USSR was still around during the 1990's or even today, I doubt Obama or even Clinton would have been elected, had there be a Democrat, we might have seen someone like a Sam Nunn.

Those of us who have seen it with clarity are the ones called insane. No one likes having the truth laid out for them in black and white. Their realities clash with truth, therefore, the truth is irrelevant.
I think all we can do now is keep from catching fire ourselves. We will fight and we might die, but I will be nobody's slave.


This is down the road and speculation but if it got to the point where some states breakaway, say the Red ones, we might have to practice triage, parts of the country we know are red and can be trusted, areas in the middle that can be saved with a little effort and those hopeless cases of blue areas where we have to let go and work on much later. We might have to become lean and meaner and take it from there.

BTW, Mesta Machine, I remember they closed up in the 1970's or early 1980's when I was a kid. I live here in Pittsburgh. They were big for a while, I even found an ad in the 1960 Pirate's Program for the World Series of that year.
99 posted on 05/21/2009 7:59:02 PM PDT by Nowhere Man (Is Barak HUSSEIN Obama an Anti-Christ? - B.O. Stinks! (Robert Riddle))
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To: El Gato
when they start kneecappin their own supporters [besides the politicians under the bus] itll get ramped up quickly...

we are increasing down the ole slippery slope at warp speed, and the kenyan will soon NEED shots to fire in order to consolidate his power...

its hitler II as much or more than carter II...

100 posted on 05/21/2009 9:13:25 PM PDT by Gilbo_3 ("JesusChrist 08"...Trust in the Lord......=...LiveFReeOr Die...)
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