“Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.”
Ben Franklin
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See, the dead white guys understood it!
Posted on 05/20/2009 5:09:32 AM PDT by bestintxas
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 ...
We’re all becoming slaves to the state...and it’s not really by force. Americans seem to pretty much want this.
And that’s the scariest part of all.
People are ready, they are not stockpiling guns and ammo just because Walmart is raising the prices, they are stockpiling ammo because they are prepared to use it to regain the Republic.
The politically incorrect problem has a politically incorrect solution.
By a "change of operating system", the only thing that this revolution should bring about is the Constitution as written plus the first 10 amendments. Equality of citizenship for sex and race should be assumed.
The only addition that I would add would be some supremacy clauses for states' powers and a clause in Article III that says that in no way is the Supreme Court entitled to be the final arbiter of the Constitution - that power lies in the states' legislatures.
SOBAMP!
Revolution - the overturning of what was and the establishment of a new system.
This is already what 0bama is doing so ever slightly...he is turning the Republic into a Socialist state...
He needs to go and not return in 2012 - he had his chance of change and hope - which means, “I’m going to CHANGE everything in the US and HOPE that it works...”
I have gotten to the point where I don’t think I can live with Democrats anymore. Their entire way of thinking is so drastically opposite of anything I believe in. I don’t see any common ground whatsoever. And to top it off, their attitudes are so vile and hateful that I don’t need that in my life.
We are at a crossroads, what is going on is not just a political ideology shift that occurs within our government, this is an assault on our culture as a whole. It is being orchestrated by a bunch of bitter people who never embraced the greatness of America. People who are too weak to make the most of their freedoms.
I’d counter that notion. It’s not what people want, its what they don’t see because of the beads and trinkets.
I hate to be cliche’, but the native american peoples on this continent didn’t want the effects brought by settlers, they just failed to understand it’s impact on their way of life. They just realized their precarious position all too late.
We, will not. But many will, and I pray we’ll not be too late to help them, because they’ll come for us next. (They already have, but it’ll turn violent against patriots, rather than subversive).
The people on this site are here because they are more astute to what is going on around them. You seek information, you are knowledgeable about how this country works, etc. Millions and millions in this country don’t care unless it directly affects them. Until that point they are happy getting their blurbs of news from the MSM, People Magazine and whatever other rag is out there. They do however get in a flop sweat over who is getting tossed on American Idol.
I concur, but have not become so cynical as some people as to believe there’s no hope that people will overturn their world views when threatened with life and limb.
I hate to be presumptious, but sadly our Jewish countrymen may remember all too well that complacency didn’t equate to wanting to be hurt, and worse. Merely when they saw the signs, they failed to act soon enough. I can’t remember which Jewish author wrote it, but lamented that it the start, their numbers were sufficient to end the holocaust that was brewing.
I just am sad when people are so ready to allow lives to be tossed out the window. Yes, people are lazy. Yes, they’re being fattened up for the slaughter. But yes, I have hope that just like the proverbial starfish, if we can help just one, it will matter to him/her. That’s all I’m saying.
The patriots that will be oppressed this time, however, have the experience of history, and the knowledge thereof, to know what will happen if we don’t resist soon enough.
The revolution started 40 years ago and the hippies took over in the 90’s. Their political agenda has not changed, the only difference is that now they have complete political power. The revolution is over my friends, the America you knew and loved is GONE. The way to take it back is to be counter-revolutionaries. Hippie America must be taken down as they took down our America. Don’t hire or promote libs. Defund any anti-american institutions like newspapers, media, TV, etc. Force the libs to abide by their own rules until the system cannot support itself. Take EVERYTHING you disagree with to COURT. Scream about RAT corruption big and small until you get a response. Drive them out of office by any means necessary.
“Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.”
Ben Franklin
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See, the dead white guys understood it!
I concur, I’m watching the signs. I feel sad that I do not know what to do. I’m yound enough not to have lived through/remember many human rights issues/the abatement of communism, and thus do not understand how to react other than voting and educating others. It’s small, but I hope it’ll help.
“I do not intend to debate judicial supremacy, I intend to demolish it.”
Listen and enjoy.
http://www.judicialsupremacyvscoequalbranches.com/?page_id=2#video
I see the 10th amendment movement as the only way to successfully restore the republic to what it was intended to be.
Even this path may well lead to violence. Eventually, there will be a clash where an agent of the federal gov’t will attempt to enforce a law within the bounds of a state that has vowed not to have that law enforced.
Push your state legislators to support 10th amendment sovereignty legislation. If you’re in a hopeless state, lobby anyone you know that is in another state to do so.
Great post. Hubby and I feel the same way. I and others I know who are conservative, cannot even pretend to be friends anymore with people we know who swallow the liberal lies whole. They fall for the attitude, the us-versus-them mentality, and in the process screw the rest of us. I’ve more than had enough. The marxists in this country have done their work well.
I live in Utah (From Nevada originally), we had a RINO governor, whom I did not vote in favor of this election. Now he’s an ambassador. I think you’re right, I’m been thinking Montana and Texas’ gun legislation may be the tipping point. I’m hoping more states will follow suit, but I heard Texas has just had a hiccup in their soverignty resolution.
And, it seems, even when it does get to the point that it affects them, and their eyes are opened, it is only temporary, open the shutters long enough to get themselves back where they want to be, and the thinking goes right back to where they were, everyone else be damned.
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