Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Time is Running Out to Save Western Civilization
American Thinker ^ | April 2,2024 | David Prentice

Posted on 04/02/2024 10:45:01 AM PDT by Lakeside Granny

“What has been will be again, and what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.” --Ecclesiastes 1:9

“Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it.” --George Santayana

What we face as a nation is daunting; if we do not correct our left-leaning course, we will fall into the ashbin of history. The city on the hill. Gone.

The U.S. is moving quickly towards a centralized state. Our liberties, our culture, and our national greatness are being subverted. Subverted by a corrupt, clever, twisted, amorphous blob of powerful people. Most of the old media, the new technocratic media (i.e.,: Facebook and Google), one entire political party, part of the other party, along with the unelected bureaucracies and spy agencies of the U.S. are all a part of this blob.

Evil that’s difficult to overcome.

What this blob is doing is not new. These current evils have often been repeated. During the French Revolution, Robespierre et al. terrorized their population, and thought they could control people, not just what they did, but what they thought. Their ideas turned bloody. Would our elites repeat those evils to retain power? Yes. Consider the horrid treatment of the J6 prisoners and the Trump family as a beginning.

More recently, the Soviet state and its satellites controlled their citizens in horrible ways. China has been doing the same since the Cultural Revolution and continues today. This is not new. Unchecked tyranny corrupts, causing massive harm.

Our government was originally set up to counter the capacity of centralized power to overwhelm individual rights, to guard its citizenry from the government itself. To provide a culture of freedom where good can thrive, and great things can be accomplished.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: speakout; standup; timeisrunningout; volunteer
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-28 next last
Everybody needs to read this.
1 posted on 04/02/2024 10:45:01 AM PDT by Lakeside Granny
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: 1_Rain_Drop; 4Liberty; alaskamomma; antceecee; backpacker_c; Billyv; Candor7; caww; Chani; ...

Pinging a few FRiends.......


2 posted on 04/02/2024 10:46:38 AM PDT by Lakeside Granny (IN GOD WE TRUST with TRUMP WE STAND)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Lakeside Granny

One woman on Newsmax had it right the other night when she stated that this has gone beyond left vs right and is now good vs evil. Frankly, it has been that all along but just not so obvious as it is now. And guess what, it is gonna get worse.


3 posted on 04/02/2024 10:48:16 AM PDT by Democrat = party of treason
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Lakeside Granny

…has run out


4 posted on 04/02/2024 10:50:20 AM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast (We have not yet achieved peak crazy)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Lakeside Granny
The U.S. is moving quickly towards a centralized state.

We've been there for a while now. What they are doing is simultaneously building that central core higher, while undermining the foundation.

The crash will shake the world when we fall. Every bit as much as the dissolution of Rome.

5 posted on 04/02/2024 10:51:03 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Lakeside Granny

Bookmark


6 posted on 04/02/2024 10:55:00 AM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (God save the United States!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Lakeside Granny

Today we need to see thousands of tyrants meet the fate of Robespierre who was himself a tyrant.


7 posted on 04/02/2024 10:55:20 AM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Dead Corpse

It will be much greater than the dissolution of Rome.


8 posted on 04/02/2024 10:56:51 AM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: Lakeside Granny

Good article, thanks for sharing.


9 posted on 04/02/2024 10:59:27 AM PDT by ducttape45 (Proverbs 14:34, "Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Lakeside Granny; Responsibility2nd

We were Couped:
Responsibility2nd,
Since Nov 8, 2005 Responsibility2nd

view home page, enter name: Responsibility2nd
~ About ~ Links ~ Contact ~ In Forum ~ Mail To ~

The Great American Coup d’état.

Coup d’état, also called coup, the sudden, violent overthrow of an existing government by a small group. The chief prerequisite for a coup is control of all or part of the armed forces, the police, and other military elements. Unlike a revolution, which is usually achieved by large numbers of people working for basic social, economic, and political change, a coup is a change in power from the top that merely results in the abrupt replacement of leading government personnel.

A coup rarely alters a nation’s fundamental social and economic policies, nor does it significantly redistribute power among competing political groups. Among the earliest modern coups were those in which Napoleon overthrew the Directory on November 9, 1799 (18 Brumaire), and in which Louis Napoleon dissolved the assembly of France’s Second Republic in 1851. Coups were a regular occurrence in various Latin American nations in the 19th and 20th centuries and in Africa after the countries there gained independence in the 1960s.

Types of Coups d’Etat:

As described by political scientist Samuel P. Huntington in his 1968 book Political Order in Changing Societies, there are three generally recognized types of coups:

The breakthrough coup: In this most-common type of takeover, an opposing group of civilian or military organizers overthrows the seated government and installs themselves as the nation’s new leaders. The Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, in which Russian Communists led by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin overthrew the tsarist regime, is an example of a breakthrough coup.

The guardian coup: Typically justified as being for the “broader good of the nation,” the guardian coup occurs when one elite group seizes power from another elite group. For example, an army general overthrows a king or president. Some consider the 2013 overthrow of former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi by General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi as part of the Arab Spring to have been a guardian coup.

The veto coup: In a veto coup, the military steps in to prevent radical political change. The failed 2016 coup conducted by a faction of the Turkish military in an attempt to prevent what it considered Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s assault on secularism could be considered a veto coup.

Wikipedia lists some 13 examples of coups here in the US. Number 13 is a complete lie and does not tell the truth of the Biden overthrow. But that’s what makes for a great coup; the state run media lying to the public.

Wikipedia also speaks about a Soft Coup. Or a nonviolent revolution. AKA a bloodless coup.

But is that what has happened here in America? Nope. Look at the violence and bloodshed

Types of Coups d’Etat

As described by political scientist Samuel P. Huntington in his 1968 book Political Order in Changing Societies, there are three generally recognized types of coups:

The breakthrough coup: In this most-common type of takeover, an opposing group of civilian or military organizers overthrows the seated government and installs themselves as the nation’s new leaders.

The Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, in which Russian Communists led by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin overthrew the tsarist regime, is an example of a breakthrough coup.
The guardian coup: Typically justified as being for the “broader good of the nation,” the guardian coup occurs when one elite group seizes power from another elite group. For example, an army general overthrows a king or president. Some consider the 2013 overthrow of former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi by General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi as part of the Arab Spring to have been a guardian coup.

The veto coup: In a veto coup, the military steps in to prevent radical political change. The failed 2016 coup conducted by a faction of the Turkish military in an attempt to prevent what it considered Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s assault on secularism could be considered a veto coup.

Wikipedia lists some 13 examples of coups here in the US. Number 13 is a complete lie and does not tell the truth of the Biden overthrow. But that’s what makes for a great coup; the state run media lying to the public.

Wikipedia also speaks about a Soft Coup. Or a nonviolent revolution. AKA a bloodless coup. But is that what has happened here in America? Nope. Look at the violence and bloodshed Antifa and BLM has caused in our American cities and see how clearly violence has played a part in the overthrow of our American government.

And then there are Predictors. Event and issues that lead up to a coup. One predictor not listed but which played a very large role in the 2020 coup was the manmade crisis caused by the manmade Covid 19 virus. The manipulation by our enemies to overthrow a legal election using panic over Covid was ingenious.

But there are other components that liberals used in overthrowing America. Lets list them:

1. State Run Media. There is no doubt that the news media and social media are but tools of the Democrats to spread disinformation and lies.

2. Fraudulent Election. There is also no doubt the election on November 3, 2020 was stolen by millions of votes.

3. Collusion with a foreign military power. The Biden’s (Hunter and Joe)collusion with China and other governments played a key role in how and why the election went the way it did.

4. Riots and insurrections. From Minneapolis to Portland to many other cities, we saw government allowed actions of violence and sedition in the streets.

5. A puppet regime. Look at many South American or African overthrows and you will often see a weak leader that is totally controlled by another powerful entity. Joe Biden is the perfect example of a puppet.

6. Government Agencies. The FBI is but one of many agencies that have been complicit in undermining the Constitution and was but another part of the coup. The events on 1/6 were completely orchestrated by the FBI using Antifa agents as provocateurs.

7. Troops in the Capitol. How can any coup d’etat be successful without a powerful military force to back it up? Pelosi and the democrats show of force - 25,000 troops at the Capitol - was another essential element of how the US was overthrown.

8. Political Prisoners. Yep. We have them also. Months after the events on 1/6 the FBI has rounded up and jailed hundreds of political prisoners with no bail and no trial. The Kangaroo Court verdict and the massively unfair sentence of Derek Chauvin is also an indication of how a Banana Republic sends innocent people to jail simply because they are on the wrong side of politics in this country.

9. Suppression of Civil Rights. The right to vote is a fundamental freedom. The liberals stealing millions of votes in effect removed our right to vote. We also had the right to free speech removed. Facebook, Twitter, Google and other media sites are very public ways to express our freedoms. The very idea that they routinely and capriciously remove and cancel conservative POV’s is unconstitutional. And what about the authoritative and illegal lockdowns we endured. The USSR would have been proud of that.

More Info on how this coup was successful
An American Coup
New English Review ^ | Jan 2021 | Daniel Mallock

It’s a Coup. Just Say It!
American Thinker ^ | Jay Valentine

American Coup
Frontpage Mag ^ | Nov 9, 2020 | Daniel Greenfield

The election coup plot, explained
American Thinker ^ | November 5, 2020 | Thomas Lifson

The Deep State’s Stealthy, Subversive, Silent Coup to Ensure Nothing Changes: No doubt about it, the coup d’etat was successful.
Rutherford Institute ^ | 01/20/2021 | John Whitehead

You Have Been Couped
The Gates of Vienna ^ | January 15, 2021 | H. Numan


10 posted on 04/02/2024 11:02:26 AM PDT by Grampa Dave ((“Surrender often means wisely accommodating to what is beyond our control!” — Sylvia Boorstein.))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Lakeside Granny

God is going to let the USA reap the harvest.
It is so sad what is coming.
Even now, I pray for His mercy. But He is thoroughly just.
The last 25 years have been a stunning peek at how fast things can get bad.


11 posted on 04/02/2024 11:03:27 AM PDT by Honest Nigerian
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Honest Nigerian
God is going to let the USA reap the harvest

Yes He will, just as He has with every other kingdom/empire that has ever rose to power thru the ages. All we have to do is look at ancient Israel and Judah for a good description of what is come.

12 posted on 04/02/2024 11:08:58 AM PDT by ducttape45 (Proverbs 14:34, "Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: Democrat = party of treason

Sad thing, is it has always been good vs evil but we got swayed/taught to think it was left right, rich poor, etc etc.


13 posted on 04/02/2024 11:12:42 AM PDT by b4me
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: Dead Corpse
The U.S. is moving quickly towards a centralized state.
I'll say it again: There's long been centralized states run by autocratic thugs via the power of police state machinery. The dealdy difference now is the advent of and the progression of the microchip society. Going forward, the thugs won't need armies or even police with guns.

All they now need is an internet-ruled society where what you say, do and buy - or don't say, do and buy - determine what "freedoms" you "enjoy." Have a bad social credit score and puppet magistrates will deem you an undesirable and you get locked out of much of society, to be properly "corrected." Or some may just get disappeared.

The conversion will be messy, with losses and maybe some wins via the courts - but we are already well on the way to a China-like monitored society.

14 posted on 04/02/2024 11:13:18 AM PDT by citizen (Put all LBQTwhatever programming on a new subscription service: PERV-TThose look good)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: Lakeside Granny

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cg9q9sxJFnA&t=296s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15HSTmmWtJM

15 posted on 04/02/2024 11:14:59 AM PDT by Dick Bachert (TH)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Lakeside Granny

Thanks for posting and pinging!


16 posted on 04/02/2024 11:22:56 AM PDT by Jane Long (The role of the GOP: to write sharply-worded letters as America becomes a communist hell-hole.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Lakeside Granny
its the edge of the world and all of western civilization, the sun may rise in the east, but it settles in a final location. its understood that Hollywood sells californication - rhcp
17 posted on 04/02/2024 11:24:03 AM PDT by Ikeon (I get up nice every morning and then, I run into stupid persons one after another until I give up. )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Lakeside Granny

My father, who was an old time family doctor who delivered scores if babies, frequently said God is going to punish this country for allowing abortion. I think Dad was right.


18 posted on 04/02/2024 11:30:49 AM PDT by The Great RJ ( )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: The Great RJ

I think your dad was right too.


19 posted on 04/02/2024 11:31:58 AM PDT by Lakeside Granny (IN GOD WE TRUST with TRUMP WE STAND)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 18 | View Replies]

To: Lakeside Granny

What we call “The Deep State” the DS calls “The Blob” and has for year.


20 posted on 04/02/2024 11:43:42 AM PDT by Glad2bnuts (“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: We should have set up ambushes...paraphrased)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-28 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson