REVOLUTION! ... or what? (Vanity)

Lazamataz ^ | 12/24/2010 | By Lazamataz

[Lazamataz]

Let's face it: We are losing against the forces of Socialism and Communism.

Over the course of the last 100 years, we have gone from a purely capitalist society, to one slowly working through the throes of communization. The New Deal; the seizure of privately held gold; The War on Poverty / Drugs / Whatever; Social Security; Medicaid and Medicare; the abuse of Eminent Domain; the creation of the EPA, EEOC, FCC, NEA, CPB, and a myriad number of other barely-accountable agencies -- these have been the slow ratcheting-up of the forces of Socialistic control.

It has taken generations, and we now stand on the precipice of the full realization of the Socialists desires: Forceful control of the citizenry -- from cradle to grave -- and the destruction of wealth and the middle class, with an emphasis to collectivizing that wealth in the hands of government.

So, it is obvious that it is WELL PAST Claire Wolfe's popular admonition: "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards." It is, indeed, past time to shoot.

However, this is not America circa 1776. The things that may have worked then cannot work now. This is not even America circa 1968, whereinwhich only marginally violent 'social force' was useful.

Force is an odd bird, today. Let us consider the range of options available to the resistor:

1. Somewhat-organized brigades of irregulars: Frankly, the best you could hold to field would be barely-trained irregulars with very poor C3 (Command, Control and Communications). If you could even assemble them, the irregulars would be put down quickly by professional military and police combinations. Armed with over-the-horizon technology, devastating missile technology, and unmanned drones, you'd never see it coming, and as a heat source, you'd stand out in the wilderness like a lightbulb.
   
   Okay, that won't work too well. The armed rebellion seen in 1776 won't work today. Well then, how about if you convinced a great number of military elements to desert and join our cause?
   
   
2. Professional Military Crossover: You'd get some takers, no question. We still have patriotic people in the military. But, they would be stripped of command and control machinery and the best weaponry. They would be a good adjunct and advisor group to irregulars, but they would not have the true power of the geniune military. They, too, would be crushed.
   
   Well, then, there is always the emulation of successful cell-groups as practiced in Islamic circles, or as practiced in the resistances of occupied countries since the 1900's. Let's look at that:
   
   
3. Leaderless Cell-based Resistance: These are routinely branded as terrorists, and are treated as non-citizen combatants, replete with the stripping of civil liberties, etcetera. Monitoriing and surviellance (especially network link-analysis) makes them relatively ineffective in this very-modern, very-computerized society, since any code you define would be immediately cracked, and patterns of contact are very observable. Further, what mischief would you make, without garnering negative publicity?
   
   Clearly a non-starter. Let's look, then, at the left's strategy of mass demonstrations in the 1960's.
   
   
4. Mass Demonstrations: There are now very effective non-lethal counters to this form of resistance. From the microwave-emitter to much-more-potent pepper-sprays to the sound-caster, there are ways to effectively break up a demonstration without actually killing or maiming people, and thusly the government garners no 'Kent State'-style negative publicity, with the concurrent changing of the public's mood.

Ok. Looks like direct confrontation would be a poor option. The form of tyranny we most likely face, is what I call the Soft Tyranny. It isn't like Stalin starving his Ukranian foes. It isn't like Hitler rounding up his hated Jews for orderly disposal. It isn't like Pol Pot lining up the town leaders for summary execution on the spot. It, instead, consists of a low-level bureaucrat coming over and fining you $25.00 because you are using the wrong kind of light bulb. Most students of history see that this (genocide and mass killings) are not the most effective form of control. The most effective form of control is the small regulation and the tiny civil fine. Those tend to make people behave 'correctly'.

One important caveat: If the governmental parties are NOT students of that history, then every thug they sent to round up and kill one of us, obviously, should be liquidated.

Again: giventoday's society, you are much more likely to see a soft tyranny, what are the most effective tools?

The answer is clear: Emulate the success of the left.

Widespread infiltration and the changing of the public's mind: To do this, you must educate. Free Republic is one such form of education, but it's reach is limited. The goal is to train millions of youth. Homeschoolers have a chance to do this, also, perhaps groups such as the Boy Scouts and other social groups. Here, you can educate the minds meaningfully.

Maybe even reach the immigrant population, meaningfully. Deradicalize the La Reconquistas if possible, and show them the merits of freedom and the ways to defeat - by law - government control.

Install more journalists. Train them and send them out.

Get into more churches.

Turn to social media.

Launch more conservative blogs and websites.

The best weapon against communism and socialism is truth, imparted slowly and over a generation. They have two generations on us, so we won't be alive to see the fruits of our labor.

But labor, we must.

[Lazamataz]

Southack is correct to point out the positive and Conservative things that Bush did, and you are correct to point out the negative and liberal things that Bush did.

Bush, to my view, was a mixed bag.

[Natural Born 54]

Someone sent me this recently and I thought it worth keeping, so now I can post it to you - you can see where this is relevant to the current situation not just defense against foreign invasion:

In WWII, Japan’s highest ranking naval officer was Isoruku Yamamoto. Although he was Japanese, and his loyalties were unquestionably with The Empire, he studied for many years in America, graduating from Harvard University. There is an oft-repeated (and sometimes disputed) quote attributed to him regarding the possibility of any nation taking a war to American soil:

“You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass.”

Here is why he was correct:

America’s Hunters. The World’s Largest Army.

The state of Wisconsin has gone an entire deer hunting season without someone getting killed. That’s great, considering there were over 600,000 hunters that got permits this year.

Allow me to restate that number.

Over the last two months, the eighth largest army in the world - more men under arms than Iran; more than France and Germany combined - deployed to the woods of a single American state to keep the deer population under control.

But that pales in comparison to the 750,000 who are in the woods of Pennsylvania this week. Michigan’s 700,000 hunters have now returned home. Toss in a quarter million hunters in West Virginia, and it is literally the case that the hunters of those four states alone would comprise the largest army in the world.

And that is just FOUR states.

The total population of registered hunters in America today ranges from 23 million to 43.7 million individuals. (Based on annual data provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.) As long as the American Hunter retains his right to Bear Arms, America will forever be safe from foreign invasion of troops.

Hunting - it’s not just a way to fill the freezer. It’s a matter of national security.

[B4Ranch]

Trusting any politician is something that I cannot bring myself to do. They start out on the Right and before you know it they are acting as if they were born on the Left.

Now, if you can snuggle up to someone like that then more power to you. I refuse to trust backstabbers and I refuse to let bygones be bygones when it comes to backstabbers. Now apparently that bothers you. That’s fine with me.

Still, I’ll wish you a Merry Christmas and mean what I say.

[mamelukesabre]

Laz, what you would have is the producers of the world against the parasites, the producers would win every time
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not if the ruling class won’t allow it.

[CincyRichieRich]

Join your local Democrat Party.

I’m serious. First, you will learn who is doing what where.

Then, you will be able to shift things in oh-so-subtle ways.

You can decide if you want to reform the Democrats in your midst, or run them off a cliff.

Operation Hyper-Chaos.

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You’re a crazy loon, which is why I like you. I think this would work, but we need A LOT of folks to do this...I’d like to see Rush orchestrate it, but that would advertise too much.

[McGavin999]

Allow? You say “Allow” to an American? Yeah, we have a bunch of spoiled brats and we have a bunch of sleeping fools, but they are still Americans and their DNA won’t accept “Allow”

[mamelukesabre]

There are now very effective non-lethal counters to this form of resistance. From the microwave-emitter to much-more-potent pepper-sprays to the sound-caster, there are ways to effectively break up a demonstration without actually killing or maiming people, and thusly the government garners no ‘Kent State’-style negative publicity, with the concurrent changing of the public’s mood.
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The horrors of George Orwell’s “1984” are now technologically possible. the government has the will and the means to enforce what is deemed “proper” thoughts. They’ve already taken the first step of implementing...hate crime laws...these are in fact “thought crimes” since these laws punish the thoughts of the person rather than the action of the person.

[Chode]

[UnwashedPeasant]

"If every block in the country, USA for example, has a dozen men with fire arms, the one that doesn’t stand a chance is the military force."

The government forces can go one block at a time with crushing force. They would not take on everyone at once.

[aragorn]

The government forces can go one block at a time with crushing force. They would not take on everyone at once.

This might be true. For a while.

I invite you to ponder the possible consequences of such a course of action.

Questions to consider:

1. Would it be possible to keep the story bottled up tight, or would there be inevitable leaks?

2. What would the likely reaction of the American public be to such a show of force? Would it be supported initially? As it proceeded to more and more blocks?

3. What is the probability that non-local friends or relatives of those in the subdued blocks (or just those unwilling to sit still for this naked aggression) would strongly disagree with this course of action, and indeed, would take significant and personal offense to it?

4. What are the chances that some of those who took offense to the destruction of their friends, family and fellow Americans might have, in their personal storehouse of knowledge, accurate information as to where some of those ordering this activity, and those following those orders, make their residence? Or their immediate and not-so-immediate families?

5. What is the probability that those same bureaucrats, agents, enablers and their families can be completely protected 24 hours a day, every day, from now on?

I agree with B4Ranch - those that would visit violence upon the American people should not be surprised to have violence visited upon them in return.

Just some things to ponder.

[Quix]

Be careful Cwazy Dear One.

The walls have ears and the walls’ ears have ears.

May God guide all those who Know Him to do the right thing at the right time in all situations.

Regardless of the consequences.

[DCBryan1]

I married the best woman on earth. She got me to read Rand's Atlas Shrugged, and I got her to read John Ross' Unintended Consequences. The night she finished it, she rolled over to me and said, "Now I understand".

It completely changed her perspective on the "gun culture". Our relationship changed from "you have alot of guns, almost too many" to "do we have enough ammo and spare parts for all of them in case the time comes that we need to them?"

Anyways.....

I've got my list. When the ballon goes up, hopefully everyone stops being John Galt, and starts being Henry Bowman.

Merry Christmas FRiends....and lets hope the Prince of Peace can avert CW2 and cure the insanity of liberalism and the curse socialism.

[2ndDivisionVet]

What Good Can a Handgun Do Against An Army?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2312894/posts

[Lazamataz]

Forgot to ping you.

[mamelukesabre]

Federal government had NOTHING to do with education until fairly recently.

[Lazamataz]

You might enjoy this vanity / editorial. Merry Christmas to you and your family!

[wintertime]

Yes, I know that.

But...Whether collectivist education is ruled by the federal, state, or local government it is still collectivist. The government gun is still aimed at the heads of the parents, children, and taxpayers.

Even if school collectives were the size of a suburban subdivision, they would still be a First Amendment and freedom of conscience abomination.

[BlueDragon]

Join your local Democrat Party.

Democrats In Name Only.

DINO's

Remember to SMILE. Be pleasant. No really, I'm serious.

You can decide if you want to reform the Democrats in your midst, or run them off a cliff.

As long as you speak in measured tones, you can say and do anything. They do. They'll stab in you in the back, or even right in the front, and act as if it is YOU that is the problem, because you got "hot" about getting cut.

So Dino's to be, Dino's in waiting, just SMILE, outwardly telegraphing agreeableness in all outward clues.

Study body language. Work on having friendly, open, facial expressions. (be subtle, less is more).

What's to worry? Isn't Barack the (half) magic half-Negro in charge now? He rules!

[ok, ok, i haven't yet figured out where we're going to hide the barf bags, until we get used to smiling to the tune of mmhm, mmmhm, mmmmM]

[mamelukesabre]

I’m a Dino fan. I like Dean martin.

[BlueDragon]

He make a better logo.