Posted on 04/29/2011 9:26:36 AM PDT by marktwain
There are three issues that could presently trigger a Civil War in America:
* Illegal aliens. A government that refuses to protect our borders, the methodical structure of citizenship, and the rule of law, will only be tolerated for so long. America is reaching a tipping point on this issue.
* Abortion. Irreconcilable differences here. This may likely become as potent an issue as slavery was in the 1860s.
* The right to keep and bear arms - see "2A Today for The USA"
No other significant present day problems could potentially result in the “brother against brother” tragedy of a Second American Civil War.
Sooner or later, the massive invasion of America by illegal aliens will be confronted, if not by the rule of law then by either armed police officers and soldiers … or armed citizens. There are twenty million or more illegal aliens entrenched in this nation now. How many tens of millions more will it take to reach a tipping point? At what point will law enforcement agencies and/or the military begin to do the job they were sworn to do? At what point will citizens themselves be forced, by government inactivity, to confront this invasion by force of arms?
Will the liberal politicians actually allow this showdown? Is this actually the sort of crisis opportunism that Obama’s Rahm Immanuel, and other leftist cultural Marxists, relish?
As an American, and a gun owner, would you take to the street to confront this illegal alien invasion? Do you have a personal breaking point on this issue?
I won’t deal with abortion here, except to note that the anti-abortion forces have the same moral intensity and personal commitment that was demonstrated by the slavery abolitionists of the nineteenth century. We saw where that led in America.
However, there is a third possible cause of a Second American Civil War: infringement of the right to keep and bear arms.
This nation’s Second Amendment freedoms have too long been burdened with the lethargic, tunnel vision behavior of the gun owners known as “Elmer Fudds”, or, as Aaron Zelman used to call them “quackers”. This is the “good ole’ boy” type who simply doesn’t care about gun registrations, permits, regulations, or even confiscations, as long as he can keep his deer rifle or shotgun and exercise his “sportin’ rights”. This myopic fellow can be bought off for the price of a buck tag or duck license. Even Senator Chuck Schumer is a “Fudd”! “I ain’t gonna take your shotguns away, fellas!”
On the other side of the room from the Fudds is the “Cold Dead Fingers” crowd. A lot of tough talk over in that camp. A lot of arm chair patriotism and rhetorical heat. A lot of “let ‘em try to take my guns!” chest puffing. But somewhere at the core of this quite large group of gun owners is a determined minority that does really mean it.
I would assert that every single one of these very determined armed Americans has some idea, deep in his or her heart, as to what their personal “line in the sand” actually is. When it comes to this amorphous, mostly low profile, group, the hammer is cocked. These folks are getting to be known as the “Three Percenters”.
What the cultural Marxists, elitists, and authoritarians who advocate “gun control” (read "Know Thine Enemy") don’t seem to be able to grasp is the strange fact that a significant minority of human beings are willing to fight ferociously to preserve their freedoms. This irascible minority has yet to be awakened to action. But they’re sleeping with one eye open.
The attacks on the Second Amendment have, since 1934, been so gradual and incremental that the victim disarmament forces have prevailed to an amazing degree. They hear the loud complaints of gun owners, then make strategic “compromises” with other compromisers, and then, sure as day, there’s another gun regulation, permit process, limitation, restriction, tax burden, or license needed for each of us to exercise an unalienable right that, according to the American Bill of Rights, “shall not be infringed”.
Makes me think of the laughs I got as a kid when, in the Bugs Bunny cartoons, Elmer Fudd’s head turned into a big “SUCKER” when Bugs had tricked him once again. What also comes to mind is Charlie Brown and Lucy with her football, the football, that, to my knowledge, Charlie Brown was never able to kick. Only, unlike the comics, few of us are smiling about this. This could become deadly serious. Because the sneaking vermin cannot be allowed to win.
What must be obvious to any truly concerned American gun owner is that we absolutely must take EVERY action afforded us to prevent a Second American Civil War. This means that gun owners must become far more personally involved. Gun owners have to really grow fangs and learn to “snarl” in a societal and political sense. Wake up! You are the “gun lobby” these insidious liars and manipulators complain about! Remind them of that in every lawful way that you can.
Do you want to remain completely anonymous, but still help? A blank postal money order sent to GOA, SAF or JPFO works just fine, thanks.
We have to learn how to warn these gun prohibitionists off with unrelenting determination. When we gain a political victory or legal victory like the Heller or McDonald cases, we must be willing to dig into our own pockets and financially support those who truly won those victories, so that they may drive forward and win another, and another, with relentless momentum.
Political activism doesn’t need to cost much at all, especially in this day and age of email and unlimited phone calling plans. If you can’t afford to donate money to a Second Amendment organization, write the letters, send the emails, and make the phone calls in support of our gun rights. Talk to your gun owner friends and neighbors. Don’t let them remain Fudds or Quackers!
Or, when you hear “They ain’t gonna get my guns!”, ask that person how he or she is going to stop them. Don’t let this kind of chest puffing go unquestioned. Ask the arm chair warrior what he or she is doing now, today, to PREVENT that horror. If the question makes them uncomfortable it should! It won’t be Chuck Norris, Sly Stallone or Arnold coming through with minor flesh wounds, friends. A Second American Civil War will not be played out on a Hollywood set. You won’t be able to get up and leave the theater.
We need to prevent that war before it happens. How can we best do so? By preserving our right to keep and bear arms. Contribute to JPFO today and help us to protect that right. So called “gun control” must be completely destroyed. We must restore the pre-1934 state of affairs to America. Join JPFO today.
Frequent JPFO contributor and strategist, Kirby Ferris collaborated intensively with Aaron Zelman over the last two years. Ferris is now the Public Affairs Director of JPFO.
“And the media will spin it as the ‘racist hoarders massacring the hungry.’”
Who cares how they spin it?
I agree. Tyrants don't get totalitarian control when things are peachy, they take totalitarian control on the heels of crisis or uprising.
The Fed Govt is already at war with the States and the People there in.
And that’s why it’ll never happen. We’ll just go gently into the night, rather than step on any innocent toes.
Yep, economics above everything else.
When people are loosing their property because they can’t pay taxes that keep going up to pay for more and more services for the none produces and more and more of those services go to illegal aliens, you have a lit stick of dynamite just waiting to go off.
Also, do we start from the top down, or from the bottom up?
There’s a fourth and driving factor, Obama. After all, he is a community organizer as is Emanuel; and, IMHO, they would love to see violence break out, of course, they would go underground. Obama has so much as stated this in at least one of his orations; but, alas, I don’t have it(the quote) at my fingertips.
Illegal immigration: Yes, I have reached my breaking point, but am not foolish enough to think I can solve it by myself, so I’m just waiting for the rest of you folks to catch up-please hurry up. BTW, if/after the problem is resolved, I want to hold the people who created/sustained the problem personally responsible, you know what I mean?
Abortion: Same, same. Abortion is the greatest crime against humanity in the history of the world, the holocaust on steroids. I think those who support unrestricted abortions should be aborted.
RKBFA: As Charlton Heston said, “...from my cold, dead hands.” All things being equal, I would love to have Obama try and take my weapons.
Good points. Actually your first paragraph describes the lefts current tactics. They are doing this right now.
Your second paragraph hearkens back to the days of the Roman Empire with the grand circuses and gladiator fights. Again, this is what leftists are currently employing as a national pacifier. But what happens when the welfare checks stop arriving or the banks can’t cash them? What will be the response when grocery stores can’t open their doors because they have no groceries to sell - because the trucks that deliver them couldn’t get fuel?
What will happen if (when) the lights go out?
Truth.
The media, the enablers and accomplices, will be dealt with in the same manner as the freeloaders.
Top down, bottom up, inside out! I don't think it would be hard to find the enemy - just cut off the welfare for a week or two and they'll come rising up out of the cities like ducks on a pond.
That reminds me. Did you see Death Wish 3 Wednesday night on AMC?
Personally, I see it playing out this way:
The number 1 priority for the Federal Government (aside from keeping the spigot for deficit spending open) is to keep patriotic Americans disarmed. If they can’t keep them disarmed, it is to keep them asleep. If it cannot keep them asleep, it is to keep them disorganized. This strategy works insofar as despite the fact that the deck of legal recourse is stacked against anyone attempting to further traditional viewpoints because of the large number of liberal lawyers and judges who infest it, no one wants to be the first one to take the step of extrajudicial recourse. Now we’ve reached the stage where not only the judicial, but the executive branches of government are stacked against those who would promote traditional patriotism.
I expect that it will be the left that takes to the street first - either in a disorganized fashion as the nation goes bankrupt and federal dole money purchases increasingly fewer tidbits - or in an organized fashion as union demonstrators and other radicals take to the streets and demonstrate on your front lawn. Really, they’ve already taken to the street in the latter form in isolated instances (invading bank buildings, demonstrating on a bank exec’s lawn, Madison Wisconsin)...
The question is, what do you do? If a union mob that may be armed and violent shows up on your front lawn and is chanting, carrying signs, do you hide in your home? Or do you stand up, open a window and make an announcement “YOUR ATTENTION PLEASE! THIS IS PRIVATE PROPERTY! ANYONE WHO DOES NOT VACATE THE PREMISES WITHIN 5 MINUTES SHALL BE SHOT!” Knowing of course that the unionized police are in bed with the union mob and will ignore their violation of the law in showing up on your private property and threatening you but will probably try and take you down if you resist?
“Can We Prevent a Second Civil War?”
Perhaps, but I doubt that we will.
President Obama and his policies and the weak economy.
You are 100% correct. The pending civil war will be the producers standing their ground to protect their property against the rioting looters and the government.
It could come to a point where the grocery stores are empty along with the gas stations. People will kill for food, water or gas.
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