I've got a bad feeling about this... When I read this short news item a tingle went down my spine, and not in a good way. The first thing that went through my mind was this could lead to infringements of freedom of speech, rallies, etc. Am I putting on my tin foil hat prematurely, or does anyone else feel suspicious of this?
The question is: What are we going to do about it?
Write a nice, polite letter to your Congressperson?
Hey, if you think that will help, I’ve got a bridge you might be interested in buying. And it isn’t your “bridge to the future,” either.
Vote “better people, into office? Oh yeah, that’s what we thought we were doing before.
Work to fight one bad bill or another. Okay. What will you do about the 10 or 20 or 100 equally horrible bills that will be passed behind your backwhile you were fighting that little battle?
And what about the horrors you don’t even learn about until two or three years after they become law? Should you try fighting these laws in the courts?
Where do you find the resources?
Where do you find a judge who doesn’t have a vested interrest in a more powerful government?
And again, for every one case decided in favor of freedom, what do you do about the 10, 20 or 100 in which the courts decide against the Bill of Rights?
Perhaps you’d consider trying to stop the onrush of these horrors with a constitutional amendment - maybe one that bans “omnibus” bills, requires that every law meet a constitutional test or requires all congress people to sign statements that they they’ve read and understood every every aspect of every bill on which they vote.
Good Luck! Good luck, first on getting such an amendment passed and our Constitution-scorning “leaders” to obey it.
It is true, that the price of liberty is eternal vigilance, and part of that vigilance has been, traditionally keeping a watchful eye on laws and on lawbreaking lawmakers.
But given the current pace of law spewing and unconstitutional regulation-writing, you could watch, plead and struggle “within the system” 24-hours a day for your entire life and end up infinitely less free than when you begin.
Why throw your life away on a futile effort?
Face it.
If “working within the system” could halt tyranny, the tryants would outlaw it.
Why do you think they encourage you to vote, to write letters, to talk to them in public forums?
It’s to divert your energies. To keep you tame.
‘the system’ is a maze. You run around thinking you’re getting somewhere. Your masters occasionally reward you, and this encourages you to believe you’re accomplishing something.
And in the meantime, you are as much their property and their pawn as if you were a slave.
In the effort of fighting them on their terms and with their authorized and approved tools, you have given your life’s energy to them as if you were toiling in their cotton fields, under the lash of their overseer.
The only way we’re going to get out is personally, as individuals, refuse to cooperate with evil.
How we do that is up to each of us. I can’t decide for you, nor you for me. (Unlike congress people, who think they can decide for everybody.)
But this totalitarian runaway truck is never going to stop unless we stop it any way we can. Stopping it might include any number of things: tax resistance; public civil disobedience wide-scale, silent non-cooperation, highly noisy non-cooperation , boycotts; secession efforts; monkey wrenching; computer hacking; dirty tricks against government agencies; alternative, self-sufficient communities that provide their own food and utilities.
There are thousands of avenues to take, and this is something most of us still need to give more thought to before we can build an effective resistance. We will each choose the courses that are right for our own circumstances, personalities and beliefs.
Whatever we do, though, we must remember that we are all, already, outlaws.
No one of us can be certain going through a single day without violating some law or regulation we’ve never heard of. We are all guilty in the eyes of today’s law.
If someone in power chooses to arrest us, we can all, already, be prosecuted for something. And I’m sure you know that your claim of innocence is not treated under similar claims of our politicians.
Politicians are above the law.
YOU are under it.
Crushed under it.
When you look at it that way, we have little to lose by breaking laws creatively and purposefully.
Yes, some of us will suffer horrible consequences and it is very risky to actively resist unbridled power. It is especially risky to go public with resistance. It becomes riskier the closer we get to tyranny.
For that reason, among many others,I would advise you to really think twice before taking “advice” from anybody about from anybody about things effecting your life and well-being. But if we don’t resist in the best ways we know how and if we don’t resist we will be “working the system” governed by those who regard us as nothing but cattle. The revolution against We the People will not be stopped by politeness.
It will not be stopped by pleading for justice from those who will resort to any degree of trickery or violence to rule us.
It will not be stopped unless we are willing to risk our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honors to stop it.
I think of the words of Winston Churchill: “If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed —if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and -—you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you for your survival....There may be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no chance of victory...because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.”
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SEC. 802. DEFINITION OF DOMESTIC TERRORISM. (a) DOMESTIC TERRORISM DEFINED.—Section 2331 of title 18, United States Code, is amended— ‘‘(5) the term ‘domestic terrorism’ means activities that— ‘‘(A) involve acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any State; ‘‘(B) appear to be intended— ‘‘(i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population; ‘‘(ii) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or ‘‘(iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping; and ‘‘(C) occur primarily within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States.’’. (b)
CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Section 3077(1) of title 18, United States Code, is amended to read as follows: ‘‘(1) ‘act of terrorism’ means an act of domestic or international terrorism as defined in section 2331
I wonder how the government might define “intimidation or coercion.” Anyone thinking of joining a militia might want to read various sections of the Patriot Act. It a gift of power to the Feds that some militia members supported giving...without even reading the Act. The conspiracy law in the act not only goes to a groups actions but also to any govternment perceived threatning conversations by its members. Between RICO, the Patriot Act and the federal definition of conspiracy, militias will only exist if the government allows it. But most people will continue to suffer the delusion that America is the Land Of The Free.
Janet Incompetano couldn't find her own fat ass with both hands much less locate terrorists. This politically correct incompetent needs to be fired as soon as possible before she does even more damage.
