Posted on 10/11/2008 6:42:31 AM PDT by Kaslin
What is that spirit that we recognize and can build on? What is that spirit that we want to connect to … that spirit of rebellion? The spirit of resistance ... the spirit of insurgency! It’s that spirit we should be talking about.
—Bill Ayers, 2007, on the occasion of the 40-year anniversary of the Weather Underground
Perhaps his wife, Bernadine Dohrn expressed that “spirit” best in a public warning at the zenith of the Weather Underground’s influence:
Now we are everywhere and next week families and tribes will attack the enemy around the country. We’re not just attacking targets; we’re bringing the pitiful, helpless giant (the USA) to its knees. Guard your planes … guard your colleges … guard your banks … guard your children … guard your doors.
This election long ago ceased to be a partisan battle between Republicans and Democrats. It really isn’t a contest over big and small government, higher or lower taxes, or even abortion and homosexual rights.
Somewhere along the way while most of us were enjoying our precious freedoms, taking kids to soccer, ordering pizza and listening to our iPods, there was another group of people who were at work to destroy America. Even as they enjoyed with us its benefits, they schemed and planned and, moment by moment, inch by inch gained a footing and we never realized the ground was shifting.
You could say the groundwork was laid in the ’50s when radicals who were often synonymous with communists made a concerted attempt to destroy America through infiltration of media, government and labor unions. Top secret documents were leaked to the Soviets which resulted in the charge of treason for Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. America believed in punishing its traitors then and they paid with their lives.
The children of the ’60s, raised in postwar prosperity on the “don’t discipline” philosophy of the wildly popular Dr. Benjamin Spock, were fertile young plants for leftist fodder. Throwing off all constraints, they embraced “free love,” unbridled drug use and turned with a vengeance on the parents whose system of values they had come from. Their indulgent refusal to embrace rules, coupled with legitimate simmering emotions of the black community over cruelty and discrimination, created the “perfect storm” of protest and violence—one group rejecting any restraint, the other rebelling from too much of it.
Surely the protest methods were as different as the participants. Hippies were often little more than clueless spoiled brats dulled by drugs, but others were serious radicals who preyed upon trouble and agitated it with the stated purpose of revolution. They wanted to overthrow the government of the United States of America. The black movement was characterized on the one hand by the high-minded non-violence of Dr. Martin Luther King, and on the other by the violent anger of the Black Panthers. The hate-filled factions of each, black and white, found each other and together nearly shipwrecked the country and undermined the Vietnam War. It was success for the rebellion in part … but not completely.
As those frustrated radicals came of age, they realized they would have to game the system, and improve their plans to accomplish their goals. They got advanced degrees and begin to fill colleges and universities. They slowly infiltrated the professional organizations of almost every major field of endeavor—education, medicine, retired citizens and unions. Gradually, these professional associations began to use their members’ money to fund leftist causes. Leftist leaders spoke for their membership as if they had the right. And perception became reality for the members. Then they did what all socialist regimes have done … they radicalized public school. They virtually eliminated the American story from history, removed civics, dumbed down math and science and English with outcome-based education. It became more important that kids had the right “thinking” on social and environmental issues than that they understood the academic disciplines. They took over law school faculties, co-opted many mainline Christian denominations—like Methodists and Presbyterians—and subtly replaced the teachings of scripture on man’s need for redemption with emphases on social justice and helping the poor. Man could now obtain his own redemption without any inconvenient mention of sin or moral behavior.
Once again they infiltrated Hollywood and news media, this time without consequence. In fact they managed to turn the consequences upon those opposing leftist views. They produced movies and reported news designed to support their view of the country—and it wasn’t a good one.
As with the communist agitators in Western Europe and later China, they learned to agitate, to find trouble and make it worse. Natural disasters, strikes, environmental concerns, the method was the same. Agitate. Stir up. Scare people and make things worse than they were so that people would look to their movement for “change.”
For nearly four decades, while we were living our lives and enjoying our freedoms, they were working diligently to destroy them. And now their plans have found the perfect personification in the handsome and charismatic Senator Barack Obama. But while he seems to bring new inspiration, their philosophy is as old as time.
They know who their inspiration is: Saul Alinsky, the ’60s author and philosopher of the left who profoundly influenced Hillary Clinton, Bill Ayres and Bernadine Dohrn and Barack and Michelle Obama. Alinksy stated clearly in the dedication of his famous treatise, “Rules for Radicals”:
To the very first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom—Lucifer.
The rebellion has found new strength. The attempted destruction of America has begun—and it is not a partisan fight.
Please someone tell me just HOW to go about this rebelling. My husband and I are 60+ and shooting, even a handgun, is painful.
We easily boycott CNN (can’t afford cable). Buy no magazines. Drive a 1984 Honda for gas mileage. Have a Victory Garden and chickens for food. We don’t even have cell phone service, unless you count a pay as you go Virgin Mobile cheapie.
Please tell me what else we can do.
I do not want to wait for him to be elected to rebel.
Regards,
To hell with the whack left!.....
-— I don’t know about this “civil war” thing, but if it happens maybe it’s needed.-—
How ‘bout we just stop paying our taxes? They can’t arrest all of us.
I just lost 50% of my retirement savings and my house is worth a fraction of what it once was. I can’t afford to keep funding people who don’t work, groups like ACORN, and overpaid/underworked vast bureaucracies who work against my interests. Washington will never make cuts on its own. We have to do it for them.
Time for a nationwide taxpayer revolt.
Now you might choose to attempt to have a converstation over a cup of Java with a liberal and enlighten them about that. : )
MSM news seems to be one big ad campaign selling alot of BS to Jo Publics brain.
I wish we could all (every real American) band together and do something, but would you want to be one of the first few who they do come after? My luck would be, I'd be one of the first ones they come after, look around for my buddies and ... {crickets}. I like the thought though.
g in az
How true. Thats why the anger and depression. We know we will roll over and HOPE we can CHANGE things in the next Corrupt election, that is if there is a next election.
Bring it on once and for all. Let’s douche the creeps, man!
I’m in the Cape Cod area of Massachusetts and want my fellow local freepers to know that I dedicate myself to our mutual safety, protection, and preservation of our liberty. Let’s chat
They've connected with a spirit, alright. Funny thing is, these people consider themselves to be too educated and "evolved" to actually believe in such, though.
Who is the father of rebellion, the father of lies? The most satanic lie of all is that he doesn't exist.
When the time is right post them to some good CWII websites, where the conversation can be a little more free wheeling. Does anyone know of any sites like this?
Get “Mor chikuns.” With your garden and chickens, you can keep your good neighbors and the righteous fed and supported in bad times so they can carry the fight. Keep the faith.
Once they get control and silence conservative radio (and conservative blogs) there'll be no chance for change. It's now or never and we'd better face it. They'll silence talk radio and take away our guns ... checkmate.
That photo has always bothered me. One woman, emoting directly into the camera, in a very dramatic pose, with everyone else just out on a stroll? “Hey, honey, let’s go for a walk. Look, a dead guy, oh the ennui.” The contrast in body language is strange.
Back in Carter time that happened to me. I will not say what has to happen for everyone to get involved with a strident NO MORE.
We have until JAnuary before they can do that, if he wins. Start planning now.
We (Conservative Americans) need leadership and we need it right now.
Elected officials are not the answer. If something does not happen soon to fight the left, we are well and truly screwed.
Personally, I don’t see anyone standing up nationally against the left. Let me state my thoughts once again:
Elected officials are not the answer. Leadership must at this critical time come from somewhere else in our country. Our politicians have failed us and continue to fail us. How is it that we got to this point, with these choices. I just don’t know anymore.
If you do, please let me know, because I could sure use some hope.
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