Posted on 10/19/2009 7:41:42 AM PDT by Hank Kerchief
[The frustration of most Americans with the systematic destruction of their country, its society, and its economy, by a handful of corrupt politicians grows daily. It is not that they are not willing to do anything about it, but the fact they do not seem to know what to do. The growth of the tea-party movement and the huge march on Washington are evidence of their eagerness to do "something," but it is equally obvious that demonstrations and a millions articles have done nothing at all, and the leftist "Destroy America" railroad roars on without even noticing the protesters. "What can we do," is the question on everyone's lips. It is obvious, campaigns and movements are not going to do anything. This article lays the groundwork for what can and must be done to bring about a true revolution and it is based on the ignored principles of the true nature of America.]
I am not a pacifist, but there is a common view that if you do not agree with that class of people who always see as the first solution to any problem, killing people and destroying things, you are classified as a pacifist anyway.
I regard war as an evil thing. No good has ever come from any war. That does not mean that things might not have been worse if the war was not fought, only that things would definitely have been better if there had been no war.
I am not opposed to using force, however, when force is the only means left by which one might defend himself and his own from the use, or threat, of force by others. In such a case, I regard not using force to be wrong. But the use of force ought to be the option of last resort. There are other methods of defense (among which I do not include negotiation), but when no other method is going to work, then force is not only justified, but mandatory.
This is the first reason I do not believe the next American revolution ought to be one of force, at least, not initially. I think nothing short of a revolution can restore true individual liberty in this country, but I think a violent revolution, at this stage, would be a mistake, not only for the reason already stated, but also because it will not work, and more importantly, because there is a way that surely would work.
Why A Violent Revolution Will Not Work
A violent revolution could only work if it were totally organized. In spite of the huge numbers of Americans who are frustrated and ready to try anything to restore individual liberty in this country, there is not enough agreement among them to form an organized revolution.
There will no doubt be violence in the future, but it will not be a revolution. It will be what is properly called, "civil unrest," consisting of riots and purposeless attacks on groups of individuals and businesses, and it will be totally counter-productive, because it will give the government an excuse to enact and impose more draconian laws—perhaps even marshal law.
There is another problem; the fact there there can be no "front." Where would the revolution be fought? Certainly Washington DC is not the place, because it is not buildings that are the problem, but the tyrannical pols who would certainly not be there. Not even secession would work, at least at the moment. Most state governments are at least as oppressive as the Federal government, (some more), and no state is dominated by freedom loving individuals. The only state I think might successfully secede is Alaska [and I personally wish it would].
The Nature of the Revolution
There are two classes of people in this country—producers and parasites. Everything of value, the services and products that make life possible and worth living are created and provided by the producers.
Most of us know who the producers are. The producers are everyone who has a job, whether in a factory, a clinic, a store or an office, that provides a product or service. They are every entrepreneur that creates jobs, every doctor, nurse, plumber, electrician, automobile mechanic, and carpenter who works to provide the services and products our very lives depend on.
The parasites are everyone who enjoys the goods and services provided by the producers, but produce nothing of value themselves. The chief parasites are politicians who, with rare exception, have never and could never produce anything of value, but think they ought to have the power to regulate everything the producers create and provide.
The single most recent and blatant example is the so-called Obama-care push. How a whole society could be bilked into believing the incompetent collection of frauds in Washington, who could not apply a band-aid to a minor cut, ought to decide how health-care will to be provided is beyond absurd, but can be understood. Most people really believe their government can provide everyone health care. Most people do not understand that government cannot provide anyone anything except oppression and trouble.
Who are the Rebels
If there is to be a revolution, and there must be if America is to remain a free and prosperous country, the rebels that will bring it about are those producers who are awake enough to know what is happening, and the danger it is to themselves and everything this country is meant to be.
While most producers know there is something very wrong with our country, that the economy is tanking, that jobs are disappearing, that every day one is greeted with new government regulations, taxes, and oppressive outrages, they do not really understand that they are the ones that make all these horrors possible.
The government perpetuates the lie that all the good things people enjoy, from their jobs to their entertainment, is provided and made possible by the government—and most people buy that lie. They buy it, because most are enjoying a good life and haven't a clue about where the things that make that good life possible really do come from.
It is those producers who do know where everything of value comes from that must be the rebels, and the nature of the revolution must be a demonstration that is so dramatic, even the dumbest of both parasites and producers cannot fail to understand it.
The Nature of the Revolt
Without firing a shot, the producers of this country can bring about a total revolution, because everything, including the government, depends on them.
The nature of the revolt is simple—the producers must stop producing—they must go on strike—an organized planned and massive strike.
It will not be necessary for everyone to go on strike, and it would not take a very great number, because the entire economy and structure of this country depends so much on producers faithfully providing all the goods and services required to sustain it, even a small temporary stoppage in the flow of those goods and services will disrupt, or even bring down the entire edifice.
Truckers, For Example
Did you know "trucks deliver nearly 70 percent of all freight ... in the U.S. ... accounting for $671 billion worth of manufactured and retail goods," with an additional, "$295 billion in truck trade with Canada and $195.6 billion in truck trade with Mexico?"
In most cities, "major chain grocery stores carry a five day supply of food," and many less. It is the same for most fuel, and supplies of medicine and perishables is frequently much less.
How long would most American cities be able to survive if 20% of truck deliveries were stopped for two weeks? They would not survive. If just 10% of truck drivers would strike for a month, even the stupidest of people would know who their life and welfare depended on, and they'd know it wasn't the government.
A major strike of truck drivers, say 50% or more, would cause such upheaval and send a message so loud not even the MSM could ignore it.
The Doctors
Doctors have already held one march on Washington and are planning others. The doctors are among the better informed producers. Up to 45% of doctors consider quitting or taking early retirement if Congress passes Obamacare.
But, they do not need to quit. They only need to go on strike. Not only doctors, but every producer in any aspect of medicine—pharmacists, nurses, medical technicians, dentists, optometrists, and all other medical personnel need to stop producing their services for two weeks. Again, it would not have to be all of them, just a large percentage.
These are only two fields of producers. When people began to learn they could not get food, medicine, fuel, or anything else that depended on truck deliveries; when people learned they could not get their medical problems attended too; when they learned what was standing in the way of those things were politicians and bureaucrats (czars) pushing their oppressive "laws" and regulations, when they realized it is was Obama, Pelosi, Reid, Waxman, Frank, and the rest of that leftist crew that brought on this strike, they would demand their resignation. People tend to panic when they are hungry.
What the parasites, from the welfare recipient to the president, do not understand is that they need the producers, but the producers do not need them, and parasites have nothing to offer the producers except to get out of their way. That is the message and nature of the strike. The producers have to make the parasites understand they will not be slaves any longer, they will not produce under compulsion, and they will not produce anything until the parasites get out of their way.
All Producers
The strike ought to include all producers, because all producers face the same threats from the government. From landscapers to builders, from handy-men to machinists, from bakers to chemical engineers, every profession and every business that uses energy in any form is going to be crippled by the so-called cap-and-trade fraud. Many entrepreneurs will go out of business and many small, as well as large, companies will cease to exist, and all the jobs associated with them will cease to exist as well.
So all of these, landscapers, builders, handy-men, machinists, bakers, chemical engineers, and every other individual producing a product or providing a service needs to be part of this strike.
Nothing to Lose, Everything to Lose
Why should a producer give up his income for a month, or even two weeks? Most won't be willing to make that sacrifice, will they?
This is a revolution, after all. There are some who are seriously talking about taking up arms as though they are willing to risk their lives for the sake of the revolution. It might come to that, but it is not necessary yet. Still, there will be no revolution without a cost. Considering what is at stake, a month without income is a very small sacrifice.
This is what it boils down to. The present government's policies and laws are going to destroy the American economy, what's left of it, and will destroy the life-blood of its industry and business, energy, and further destroy business with it's draconian cap-and-trade tax fraud, while signing away America's sovereignty to every international redistribution-of-wealth scheme that exists.
Those unwilling to sacrifice a few weeks business or income will most likely end up losing all income and their businesses. Those unwilling to intentionally suffer a small loss now, are very likely to end up losing everything, with no way to recover those losses.
But wouldn't such a strike hurt people? You betcha, and the ones it will hurt the most will be those who believe the producers won't dare do it, or that the government will prevent it, and refuse to make preparations for it. The government could prevent it, of course, simply by having all the leftists in it (95% of the pols and bureaucrats) step down and striking down all the bills named in the strikers' demands—a very unlikely possibility.
Organization and Demands
To work, a strike needs specific demands that must be met before the strike will end. I've been using an example time of a month, or two weeks, because I am convinced the consequences of the strike will so terrify the parasites, that in less than two weeks they will be screaming for the striker's demands to be met, at which time I would not bet two cents on the health or longevity of any politician that was not working to see those demands were met. Hungry, cold, sick people, with no relief in sight, tend to be hysterical.
In the next article in this series I'll discuss the kind of demands the strikers ought to make, and how that strike needs to be organized and implemented. It is very simple.
—Reginald Firehammer
Well said indeed! CO
The author has clearly not thought through potential political, economic, media, and tactical minefields for Washington politicians under these various scenarios.
Thank you CO.
Funny that you should be using the wars of Israel and Judah as an example of war’s virtue. All those wars were the consequence of the Jews being disobedient to God’s plain teaching that they were not to have a king like the heathen nations around them, and that having a king would mean their children would be taken away from them to to be the King’s servants and soldiers in the king’s wars—a curse, not a blessing; but the Israelites insisted on a king, and Samuel was directed to give them one. So all those wars were meant by God as a curse for their disobedience, and like the Israelites, you think they are some kind of glory. Israel and Judah were constantly at war, not only with other nations, but with each other. You think that’s a blessing?
(I Samuel 8)
If war is so lovely, why is it always peace that is described as the blessing of God, e.g. “The Lord will give strength unto his people; the Lord will bless his people with peace.” ps. 29:11.
Wish Christians would read their Bibles.
Hank
I regard war as an evil thing. No good has ever come from any war. That does not mean that things might not have been worse if the war was not fought, only that things would definitely have been better if there had been no war.
In those statements I see, most generously, incompatibility and, least generous, contradiction.
However, the reason your argument is fatally flawed is that you would be assisting Obama with your plan. Until everyone grasps that the goal of this administration is to destroy this country and then have them rebuild it on the ashes with their remaining in power for perpetuity, they will continually fall for the misdirection and sleight of hand employed by these Communists.
Are you tired of seventy plus years of Unintended Consequences? Aren't you beginning to see that those disastrous consequences were intended after all? Look at every policy of this administration. What is the likely outcome? Disaster, right!! Unintended? Naiveté? No! It is well planned and definitely intended!
Why help them with your plan? They are itching for a reason to declare martial law as it is.
I understand what you saying, and am very much aware of what the agenda of the left has been and is since Gramsci so articulately stated what the plan was, and the fellows of the Frankfurt school infiltrated our Universities and the media and so successfully corrupted American institutions.
But there is something the Doctors get, you and most others do not. The whole thing has been and continues to be put over with a lie and a huge theft. The lie is that the government can provide people something, anything, like healthcare. But the government cannot provide anything. All it can do is steal what other’s produce and redistribute it.
But healthcare is not something they can directly steal. The government promises to deliver health-care, but the Doctors know the government cannot deliver anything, and certainly cannot deliver health-care without them. So they are going to quit, and how will Obama-n-company deliver health care then.
But this is true all the way up and down the line. Everything the government promises to deliver is actually divered by all the stupid producers who are handing it to the government or providing it for them. If the produces stop producing, how will the government deliver the things they promise to buy their votes then?
Go read the quote by Adams someone posted:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2365718/posts?page=7#7
America is not the government, not it’s institutions, not its traditions, it is all the self-reliant self-sufficient independent individuals who produce and make the country what it is. They are the only ones that deserve freedom or can achieve it. All the others have sold themselves out to government slavery. We should we producers support them?
We do not agree, but I appreciate the comment.
Hank
Just curious. Would you be diappointed if a producer’s strike did produce a real revolution?
If it didn’t work, you could still resort to blood.
Hank
Why did WW1 need to be fought? Why should the USA have entered it in particular? Why did we care who ended up on top in the endless European top of the heap contest?
Why did the Civil War need to be fought? Could not the South have been allowed to evolve their way out of slavery. Slavery was abolished in every other Western nation in the 19th century, no one else needed to have a million dead to accomplish it. Could not FedGov have bought all slaves and freed them for far less money than the war cost. Was this even considered?
You have no idea the risks you have taken. (I’m exaggerating, only a little.) There are some things that are merely accepted, and no one can question them without their sanity being questioned—like the sanity of those who dared to question the geocentric theory of the universe, at one time.
Some of those accpted ideas one is not allowed to question are the necessity and virtue of war, the necessity of government, and in these days, the necessity of education, and in most universities, the certainty of evolution.
On the latter, even if you do not believe in God, as I do not, if you question evolution you are automatically branded anti-science and “a creationist,” both of which in my case are absurd.
One accepted view, never to be questioned, is that US participation in World War I was both necessry and good. Why it was necessary and for whom it was good must also never be asked, because it certainly wasn’t good for all those young men who were killed or had their lives ruined, especially if they were gassed. The US certainly could have defended itself if necessary, but it would probably not have been necessary.
As for the civil war, it is not so commonly accepted that war was necessary. In fact, it was a terribly wrong war, and had nothing to do with freeing the slaves, which would have been freed anyway. It is ironic that when the south seceded it was almost a carbon copy of the American revolution—people who wanted to get out from under the thumb of an oppressive government. They should have been allowed to secede. The civil war was a crime, a violation of all the principles that were supposedly the basis of the American revolution.
We are both going to hear about this. Hope it doesn’t bother you, I rather enjoy seeing the unthinking lose control of themselves.
Hank
First off, Atlas isn’t going to shurg. What most producers are at the level you refer to are corporate fascists. NAZI Germany was full of them.
Second, if any did as you suggest the fascists would just take over their companiews for the good of the people/state.
There is IMHO no way this doesn’t end up really bad. The fascists are already targeting conservatives as evil, vile, murdering, rascists. We will need to defend ourselves in case you haven’t noticed the increase in viloence towards conservatives.
“A people unwilling to use extreme violent force to preserve of obtain their liberty, deserves the tyrants that rule them.” Thomas Jefferson.
We are already be ruled by tyrants.
“Where Justice ends tyranny begins.” and “Repression breeds violence”
There is no justice and we are in fact under the rule of tyranny.
“First off, Atlas isn’t going to shurg. “
Perhaps you did not read the article carefully. This is not an “Atlas” type shrug, but and expansion of what the Doctors are already planning to do—simply stopping long enough to make the lack of their production recognized, because it will hurt.
There will be nothing to take over. Nobody is going to giver up their businesses, just take an extended holiday.
As far as targeting “conservatives,” they are the ones that contributed to or allowed all these leftist policies to come about. No one is interested in saving conservatives, especially conservative politicians. Only interested in protecting the freedom of productive independent self-competent individuals.
There is no unwillingness to use extreme violent force, here, but riots do not a revolution make.
“There is no justice and we are in fact under the rule of tyranny.”
True enough. Why keep supporting them?
Hank
Hey sorry Hank, I read my Bible every day without fail. All Scripture is given for our examplem it actually says, ensample. As Christians we are now grafted in Jews. We are God’s people too. And if we obey God’s Word we are blessed and if not, we are cursed.
There were times HE sent them into battle because “I will be with you”. When a nation’s sins become so great and that nation kicks God out, because he’s a gentleman he leaves BUT HE takes all of His Blessings and Protection with Him. Also, let’s not forget the position that Obama ha put the America in when it comes to standing with Isreal. He is totally against Isreal, has shown her no support whatsoever. “I will Bless those that Bless You (Isreal) and I will curse those that curse you (Isreal). Fighting to get rid of evil and evil leaders to be replaced with righteousness is not wrong.!! Respectfully, CO
My frind, I studied the Bible for years, have read it in both Greek (NT), and (haltingly), Hebrew, and have studied most of the thologians, from the early church Fathers to Finney.
I am not a pacifist, and am surprised a Christian (perhaps not) so loosely accuses people of things without evidence.
I do not really care what you think, but just want to make it clear I’m not opposed to necessary war, but regard a love of war tantamount to a love of wholesale murder, which is what it is.
Hank
Thank you for your courteous reply, and I appreciate your making your position clear.
I really was not directing my remark at any individual, so I’ll apologize for making it. (But you know that most who call themselves Christians have not read the Bible through even once.)
I do not agree, by the way, that the country created by Harry Truman and the UN that now goes by the name Israel, is the Biblical Israel. I feel very sorry for the Jews who live there, and wish they had chosen to come to America instead to being bilked into moving to that man-made disaster.
I’m almost alone in that view—as I am in almost all my views. I have made the “mistake” all my life of thinking for myself.
Hank
“That does not mean that things might not have been worse if the war was not fought, only that things would definitely have been better if there had been no war.”
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I wonder what the above sentence was supposed to have meant. As written it appears totally contradictory.
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