Posted on 11/21/2010 11:41:42 PM PST by Rashputin
The Threat of Leftist Violence By Joe Herring
Politics can be described as the process through which citizens attempt to educate and persuade each other to not kill each other. History shows that differences in political philosophy create very real differences in perception. What appears "self-evident" to conservatives may appear to liberals as "authority needing to be questioned." If you ignore for a moment the recent media hyperventilating about right-wing hijacking of democracy, it becomes clear that it is not the right advocating violence against their own government.
To conservatives, the idea of armed overthrow of the government is nigh on unthinkable. To foment a revolution seeking to invalidate the Constitution in favor of some form of beneficent utopian dictatorship seems as lunatic as to be dismissed without thought. Yet this is precisely the stated aim of hundreds of left-wing groups in America and abroad. Where conservatives can envision resistance to only a government that has destroyed the Constitution, progressives now advocate armed rebellion against a government that won't destroy the Constitution.
Global leftist protest is beginning to coalesce around a single theme of a coming civil war. Following the results of the midterm elections, the leftist blogosphere in America is buzzing with rant after rant about the need for armed conflict to stop "casino capitalists" and wrest control of the government from "retrograde politicians." "The Coming Insurrection," published in August of 2009 as the blueprint for revolution in Western Europe (rising as high as seventy-first on Amazon.com in the U.S.), declares itself to be "a strategic prescription for an emergent war-machine to "spread anarchy and live communism."
Liberals point excitedly at a Tea Party candidate musing about applying "Second Amendment remedies" to a federal government operating far beyond constitutional bounds, but fail to note the myriad examples of actual violence and mayhem from the far left. The left projects its own failings of character onto the newly resurgent right, and the media amplifies the charge until it attains credibility via repetition.
The continuum on the left that ranges from the "wouldn't it be nice if we all just smiled" types to the hardcore authoritarian communists may disagree about methods, but sadly, all agree on one thing: if their utopia is to come about, the Constitution -- and the form of government derived from it -- must be replaced with...something. The "something" differs depending on which wild-eyed radical you ask, but all versions spring from the same central core of collectivism.
Now that the euphoria of midterm electoral victory has begun to fade into a more reasoned sense of accomplishment among the conservatives, our thoughts necessarily turn to the business ahead -- restoring our republic to its constitutional mooring.
Senator-Elect Marco Rubio (R-FL) noted that this was not a victory for Republicans, but rather a second chance for them to govern responsibly as conservatives. Although Republican candidates were the main beneficiaries of the Tea Party phenomenon, it should be recognized that many liberal and moderate Republicans found themselves packing boxes much sooner than Democrats due to primary challenges from their own right. The real lesson the Tea Party movement teaches is that anti-constitutional governance is unacceptable, no matter the practitioners.
In 1918, the Sedition Act was added to the Espionage Act of the prior year, making it a crime to publish, speak, or write in a fashion critical of our form of government. Aimed at the radical Progressives, there were more than two thousand successful prosecutions under the act.
The Sedition act was upheld in the Supreme Court numerous times as a perfectly constitutional means of protecting the Constitution from those who sought to subvert it. Twenty-two years later, the Smith Act made it illegal to advocate the violent overthrow of the government. Yet just the other week, MSNBC anchor Dylan Ratigan committed prosecutable violations of both acts when he hosted a segment on his show featuring cartoonist/author Ted Rall discussing his cheerful new book, The Anti-American Manifesto.
Ratigan led off the segment by saying,
So what kinds of abuses are we obviously going to rise up against? "Wrongful wars," "corrupt economy," "special interest industries," "the political system itself," and "gerrymandering."
To clear our dire problems may require even more drastic solutions; violence or at least the threat thereof. (Italics mine.)
Rall then suggests that the appropriate response by an American citizen is to rise up and violently sweep our government into the abyss.
That such a discussion was held on a mainstream American news network defies belief. What might be more disturbing is that open anti-Americanism has become so commonplace that this episode garnered little notice -- although in all likelihood, only a comparative handful of people actually viewed the segment when it aired.
Nevertheless, the stage is being set. Minor incidents like the rough treatment of the MoveOn.org protester at a Rand Paul for Senate event are given the lead on multiple news channels, while far more disturbing violence on the left is either ignored or given low-key treatment. When the new Congress begins the process of dismantling the overreaches of the Obama administration, there is a significant danger that many on the left may choose a violent path.
The Noam Chomsky mindset of the radical left is well-known, but what has not been readily apparent is the virulence of their anti-Americanism. We have sent Republicans to Congress to defend the Constitution, stop the progressives, and undo all the left has done. Given the stakes, to compromise is to capitulate.
A few days after the midterm election, Harry Reid greasily mumbled that he has learned his lesson: "The American people want us to work together and stop the partisan bickering." I sincerely hope no one disabuses him of that notion, as its tone-deafness serves to enhance Democrat vulnerability in 2012.
In the hope that Harry Reid is reading this, I'll speak frankly: the American people didn't bring conservatives to power to sit down and work with you, Harry, but to whip your tail back to Searchlight, Nevada. If you have any love for this nation at all, you'll spend your remaining political capital urging your left-wing "useful idiots" to stand down before someone gets hurt.
The author writes from Omaha, NE and can be reached at readmorejoe@gmail.com.
I would hope it never comes to violence, but when I see the riots in Europe......
Unfortunately, I see this coming. There are a tremendous amount of people out there with a dangerous sense of entitlement.
To conservatives, the idea of armed overthrow of the government is nigh on unthinkable.
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Eh? That is what our Founding Fathers did to the colonial governments of the Crown.
Britain? - Yes, 1645
France? - Yes, 1789
Russia? - Yes, 1917
Ireland? - Yes, 1919
Spain? - Yes, 1936
China? - Yes, 1949
Romania? - Yes, 1989
Latin America anyone? Asia?
Happens all the time. Usually over taxes or some other form of confiscation or oppression.
The delusion on the left is that it would necessarily inure to their benefit.
It has already arrived. There were violent protests in San Francisco by students over tutition hikes for UC San Francisco.
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2031923,00.html#ixzz15zkJ4SnE
This is out of the handbooks; get the students to begin the protests. We had better be ready to counter this with peaceful protests in response so that we are not ignored. We didn’t allow them to do this with our military this time, or we would have had another era of ‘vietnam type protest’ where only one side is heard.
I have no problem with an increase in tuition at Universities. I actually think that there should be cuts in things like monetary support for clubs, for conferences, for ‘teacher special training’ at out of state meetings etc., etc.
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Of course the left will bring the violence. Unlike in Europe, though, we peace loving patriots are well armed. And well practiced with our arms. We don’t want violence, but we do things like go to the shooting range and get upset if our grouping at 200 yards is over 2 inches.
As far as close quarters goes, I’m not the only conservative I know who has studied - and still practices with - steel. From 3” to 3’ of steel. Being prepared is different from wanting to have to go to the mat, though.
IOW, we won’t bring the violence. Last thing we want. They will. But when they do, we’ll END IT.
BTW, to elaborate: To become truly proficient with arms requires discipline, study, self-knowledge, and work. All of those are antethical to the left, but instinctive to the right. Ergo, unless the population has been disarmed, violence is a losing proposition for the left. However, they can’t see that, so they will still try. Why? Because it usually works after they have sufficiently degraded a society. Not the case here - we still have an enforced right to arms. Thank Roberts, Alito, Scalia, Thomas, and yes, Kennedy (the Justice) for that - and GW for his SCOTUS picks...
The left is and has always agitated to shed blood. Remember what the A.N.S.W.E.R. crowd attempted to set in motion after 9/11. There are some really sick and twisted people in this world and some of them with the aid of public airwaves got elected.
This most recent bunch of elected thugs have done their very best to bait the civilized amongst US to drawing first blood.... All those empty promises of cars, houses and utopia have not been fulfilled. Now those evil, selfish, and rich republicans control the power of the political purse...
Wonder is this why BamBamKennedy has saved all that stimulus cash he borrowed from US? Did he foresee a need to have cash stashed when his power grab was rejected by the people? Was this up front treasury looting done to fund himself, his own private political army?
Accurate.
I know more about these pigs than I care to recall.
Me too.
I have been seeing this coming since the late 60s.
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“To become truly proficient with arms requires discipline, study, self-knowledge, and work”; my wife and I are studying on that and to pass along a tip, we discovered that our local gun range has all sorts of classes and instructors to teach the proper use of firearms; it isn’t free, most classes come in at about $200.00; but for that amount we can become “members” and then get a discount on the classes. It’s been extremely helpful. Just an “FYI”.
I’m not quite that old, but I have been predicting it since 1980, and upon looking back, I am convinced it started with FDRs dictatorial power grab and the entitlement society he pushed for.
The left will do whatever it takes to establish a marxist paradise. They have no principles. There is nothing they won’t do. They don’t think like normal people, who have limits to what they would do.
Don’t forget the late 1960s/early 1970s...
This was the preview to the Second U.S. Civil War.
I’m surprised it didn’t happen already - There is no compromise between capitalism and socialism - It’s battle to the death!
UP THE REPUBLIC!!!DEATH TO SOCIALISM!!!
The fat boys in SEIU tried to disrupt a tea party here. They were confronted and retreated into a building. They got really scared when the crowd started chanting “USA!” They were crying and begging the cops to rescue them. The cops arrived and escorted the babies away from the mean tea party patriots.
It was all quite amusing. Even the cops were laughing.
If the leftist vermin ever resorted to widespread violence, we could easily defeat them in 4-6 years.
The problem is that they will not need to do this. As long as they have access to our finances, they can just spend and tax us into submission. What can we do to stop them? Many of us are too poor to buy silver and gold!
Not only can they make us poor at a whim, they have unlimited resources to brainwash any children who are not raised by the most exceptional parents and let out into public grade schools and the universities.
The evil power of the Marxists and the Muslims is about to obtain lasting dominance forever.
Ya have to wonder who they expect to do the fighting.
We like guns. Lots of us have served in the military. The Left likes to disarm people and despises the military.
Are the thugs of SEIU and other Unions good enough for them, or do they have something worse waiting?
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