".....and that foot is me!"
Posted on 12/20/2020 6:20:38 AM PST by Kaslin
When America was infested with “righteous” mobs who took the law into their own hands in the early 1800s, Lincoln left a remedy to future generations on how to defend against it: “… cold, calculating, unimpassioned reason.”
An utter disdain for mob law is encoded onto the DNA of the body politic, thanks to men like Lincoln.
No grievance is fit to be redressed by mob law, he said. When men “burn gamblers” and “hang murderers” unlawfully, the day will come when they will hang people who are neither gamblers nor murderers.
“[W]henever the vicious portion of the population shall be permitted to gather in bands of hundreds and thousands, and burn churches, ravage and rob provision stores, throw printing-presses into rivers, shoot editors and hang and burn obnoxious persons at pleasure and with impunity, depend on it, this government cannot last,” he said.
Government will collapse, Lincoln warned, when good men who obey the laws become so disgusted with a government that no longer protects them, that they feel they have nothing to lose.
We’re getting there.
Today, we’ve seen the “vicious portion” of our population loot, burn buildings, and beat innocent people “at pleasure” and – shockingly – “with impunity.” They do it in plain sight, repeatedly, and are applauded by political vultures as peaceful protesters.
It’s made the legs of government a bit wobbly.
But the street mobs are small beans compared to America’s most dangerous hordes: High-level, white-collar mobs who work like maniacs to uproot the philosophical underpinnings of the American Revolution and the Judeo-Christian ethic. They are politicians, judges, rogue intel alums, media, activist organizations, celebrities, leftist billionaires, tech companies, and educators who butcher our history, defy our laws, and give moral and financial support to the thugs who loot and burn things to enforce white-collar mob law.
These dignified mobs don’t swarm streets in farmers britches while carrying nooses, torches, and pitchforks. They take the law into their own hands from seats of government, courtrooms, newsrooms, big corporations, and inside algorithms of the world’s most advanced computer systems.
These are the people who got away with Russian collusion. They got away with impeachment. They got away with exploiting the pandemic. They got away with using Chinese-inspired algorithms to suppress speech. And they’ve gotten away with a hundred other disgusting schemes to take down Trump.
They are not the majority, but they’ve hijacked the wheels of the American ship, and they’re steering it toward La-La Land at flank speed against our wills. We’re starting to feel bound, gagged, and kidnapped in our own country.
And how have we dealt with all the chaos? By appealing to the cold, calculating, unimpassioned reason of “sober courts” and “ministers of justice,” as Lincoln called them.
It’s not working.
So now they’ve stolen Trump’s election. Packs of thieves, under the command of white-collar mobs, took voting laws into their own hands. We know it. The media knows it. Democrats know it. The Supreme Court knows it! Yet, our deranged institutions are incapable of dealing with the cold, hard realities of the biggest election theft in American history.
Why?
Because otherwise sober-minded men are terrified of running into a political buzz saw. They fear the mobs. “Good” men like John Roberts have a primal fear of being tarred and feathered. These are weak-minded men with no “iron in the blood” who “shrink from strife,” as Teddy Roosevelt put it. They believe that peace is the end of all things and strife is the worst of all things.
Fighting Democrats and leftists has become outrageously more expensive than fighting Republicans. Democrats have become unscrupulous, amoral, and crass. They’re at war. If the gods of Utopia wills that they deceive, cheat, intimidate, destroy lives, commit violence, and break laws – well, so be it. They are a high-level version of the “vicious portion of the population” that Lincoln talked about.
Something else primal is going on.
Journalist Walter Lippman, in 1955, quoted philosopher William Hocking as saying that human nature is “the most plastic part of the living world – the most adaptable, the most educable,” which also means that human nature can be the most “mal-adaptable” and “mis-educable.”
The cultural heritage must be acquired, Lippmann wrote in The Public Philosophy. We’re not born with it. If a country’s heritage must be acquired, it can also be rejected. It can be acquired badly, or not acquired at all.
“The ancient world … was not destroyed because traditions were false,” Lippman wrote. “They were submerged, neglected, lost. For the men adhering to them had become a dwindling minority who were overthrown and displaced by men who were alien to the traditions ...”
Fake patriots like are so scared of your own shadow, who would stop them? Craven fools like you? That is rich. LOL.
Anyone who takes a half-way look at history will discover that the leader of a society sets the pace. While we have a federal republic form of government, the president has an oversized role in leading us and setting the rules (or no rules which may often be a better choice - that is regulation). Look at leaders like Hitler, Churchhill, Roosevelt, Stalin, the many Caesars of Rome, Xerxes (Persia), King David, Soleman. They all led and moved their society. Sometimes in a very positive way and many times in a not so good way.
In our recent past think; Carter, Reagan, Clinton, Obama, and Trump. Look at how our society functioned under these leaders. Some bad and some very well.
In my mind, Reagan and Trump have moved this nation in a positive direction while others did the exact opposite. Biden will be like a Carter or Clinton except he will be a total, walking lie in a suit and a mask.
Societies usually die from within or at least start there. Then they become so weak that some outside enemy walks in and takes over by force and that is the end.
For God’s sake, and our sake, let’s hope that Trump survives this fiasco.
Why give these pukes anything, this is America intact!, the people in these blue states are being held hostage they need to be freed! They need to know that of push comes to shove we will be there to assist. I believe the time is now, once they allow this criminal and the cesspool he brings with him is in place we will have a very difficult way to go, he will have all the power to stop anything and it will get bloody real quick
Session is not a destructive process. It is a creative process and when done, two nations exist where there was once one. It is like political cell division.
Session = Secession
Agreed.
When does it go from threats and acts of secession to screw this, kill the bastards?
This Patriot enlisted at 17 during a shooting war.
I'm all up for the fight, I simply believe that we CEDE NO GROUND, and beat the enemy where they stand.
Isolating and fracturing ARE NOT A PATH TO VICTORY!
You sound like a crazed Nazi to me. The poor, the lazy, the Communists who exploit them and the radical anarchists will always be with us. A new republic will write new Constitution closing ALL the loopholes that the current ( pre Marx world USC ) has in it. Especially codifying this: NO FEDERAL WELFARE.
What happened to that guy? Get old and scared on us?
We cannot even get legislators to call for a special session to investigate massive election fraud, how are they going to suddenly develop the guts to hold a Convention of the States and amend the Constitution to stop the Fed.gov from imposing a dictatorship?
I will NOT draw a smaller perimeter to avoid that fight like you suggest.
Would Austin stay with you?
Dallas?
San Antonio?
“When America was infested with “righteous” mobs who took the law into their own hands in the early 1800s...”
The poorest people weren’t the most likely to be obese in the early 1800s.
“Today, we’ve seen the “vicious portion” of our population loot, burn buildings, and beat innocent people “at pleasure” and – shockingly – “with impunity.”
Seems to me the riots, looting and burning last summer were uncontested by any sort of law, to the point they were throwing bricks at the authorities and nobody shot at them to make them stop. All this happened in areas were the leadership wanted this to happen.
Freegards
The President needs to pick 3 states, let’s say PA, GA, and AZ. Immediately take their voting machines and run the full audits including software.
Then once they are shown faulty, make the results public, and demand those electors vote Trump.
Audit the down ballot items as well.
Yeah, what we need, a New Constitution.
This time, this time, they will read it and understand that they must obey.
The last one did not explain this stuff succinctly and with sufficient clarity.
So, what will make this New Constitution sufficiently powerful and able to withstand the onslaught of "the Communists who exploit them and the radical anarchists will always be with us?
Will it be because some worthwhile passages will be in caps? Bold? Italics?
What will prevent this new constitution from being used as toilet paper while they riot in the streets, impeach the sitting president with false make up bullshit, and stuff ballot boxes with fraudulent ballots printed especially for this purpose?
Do you actually believe a new piece of paper is all we need to set this ship straight?
Where have you been for the past 60 years?
CVA has been running the fenceline yapping at the neighbors...
".....and that foot is me!"
I still the democrats/leftists will actually launch the first shot by trying to eject a state/kick them out instead of a secession.
Its actually would be a typical snowflake/safe space move for them to make and could actually lead to the next step.
It’ll open a lot of eyes, and start getting some battle lines in place.
“The ancient world … was not destroyed because traditions were false,” Lippman wrote. “They were submerged, neglected, lost. For the men adhering to them had become a dwindling minority who were overthrown and displaced by men who were alien to the traditions ...”
Someone once said that traditions are solutions to problems that worked so well we forgot what the problems were.
Mob Law: Time ‘to Put the Foot Down Firmly’
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