THE SOAP BOX, THE BALLOT BOX, THE JURY BOX,
and THE CARTRIDGE BOX.
Posted on 06/11/2009 11:33:11 AM PDT by Welshman007
An ill wind is blowing in America. Ordinary citizens from coast to coast are feeling a growing sense of outrage over what they are witnessing in Washington. At least one talk radio host states that the rage he is hearing from his listeners indicates that trouble is brewing beneath the surface that could erupt into the streets, not in violence, but in peaceful protest that sends a signal to Washington.
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We're rebuilding politics from the bottom up.
Conservatism resists systematization, and will never be regarded as thoughtful and humane, never seen as occupying the moral high ground, because it cannot promise people that they will be happy.
Beautiful post, Noumenon. Thank you for reminding me of the Johnson quote about Nietzsche. In my view, Nietzsche is much-maligned and misunderstood by conservatives because of his discussion of the death of God. But Nietzsche was deeply conservative in the sense that he opposed mass tyranny (democracy) and favored a rule by an enlightened, antistatist aristocracy, not unlike the political system described in our own forgotten Constitution. He favored aesthetic values over political values. In fact he rejected political values entirely.
voting booths are no more
WOW.
ping #15
Great rant!!!
The time to fight is when they come for your arms. Or, more importantly, those of others. The first to be raided, will not "make it", in most cases. But they can't come for everyone at the same time. The second, third and subsequent "waves" of raids should be met with snipers at their backs.
Yea....what YOU said.
But they don't mind ordering others to pick up those guns. If no one else will, the ACORN masses and the Obama Jugen will. Of course there are a lot more of us, and we have way more, and way better, guns.
Ping. See post # 15.
Many are not comfortable with direct talk, but it is far past time for it. We need only look around to know this.
All Americans should understand the truths Noumenon speaks of...they, along with our faith in God in Heaven who has granted us our rights, are the kernal to maintaining and defending our liberty.
They always have been. We as a people forget (and have forgottent them) at our absolute mortal peril.
And, any clear thinking American who has any understanding and love for the liberty of this nation and what it is based upon, by whatever means they came by it, understands that that peril is upon us.
Today, though many do not want to believe it or comtemplate it, we live in a time, when the truth of our nation's heritage, the principles upon which its true liberty is based and the commitment required to maintain that liberty, are not only being denied and ignored, they are being villafied and set up to be viewed as "wrong thinking" and seditious. Ultimately, this thinking, particularly since it has become the basis for the "politically correct" dogma and propoganda of this nation's major governmental, political and media institutions, will lead to conditions similar to those which existed in Nazi Germany and any other totalitarian state.
We can see this all around us, whether it's labeled "gun nuts", "right wing extremists", "Christian fanatics", "homophobes", etc. the terminology itself is engineered to degenerate and disenfranchise any who voice their views in favor of the fundamental moral and philosphical principles that underpin our liberties. These efforts to marginalize and ultimately criminalize the truth of our heritage, our way of life, many of our rights and the foundational moral values that lay at their core, are clear.
As noumenon stated, where they lead is also clear.
As in Nazi Germany, and other totalitarian states that are begotten through their efforts to propogandize the people and cull independent, liberty minded people from their midst, these trends will lead to the people themselves incrementally accepting evil and tyranny in the name of superfolous reasoning. Attitudes like:
1. The trains are running on time.
2. Winning an election is more important than truth, we'll address the truth after we win.
3. Don't worry about principle, educators, the media, and our leaders know what's best.
4. Be true to the "Party", don't let principle stand in the way of the "big" tent because the party leaders have a plan.
5. Voting your consc 6. Don't offend anyone with direct talk or images about what is happening around us...that just drives them a way. 7. A vote for your conscience is vote for the other side.
6. Don't worry about your own self defense, that's the government's job.
...and more become the norm and in their name essential liberty, the fundamental principles upon which it rests and anyone committed to it are sacrificed and discarded as "danerous", "extremist", and "out of step" with reality.
How do we reverse such trends?
Noumenon provided the answer as well. We educate ourselves about our heritage and libertues and then we educate others. There are many more people in this nation who understand the fundamental truths, either intellectually, or in their hearts, than we realize. They have been marginalized, but we must stand forthrightly and find them, gather with them (and do it not just in one or two places with a few dozen, but in tens of thousands of places all over this land), converse with them, educate one another, spread the word and prepare...prepare for war.
In reality, the eternal vigilance necessary for liberty should have led us to always as citizens, be prepared for war anyway. This is so that no internal tyrant would ever think of challenging "we the people". But we have been complacant and they are well beyond "challenging" us...they are in the process of destroying us.
The root of the problem has the isolation of the individual by the propoganda machine of those seeking absolute power. This occured in Germany, it occured in the Soviet Union, it is still in place in Red China and many other totalitarian states around the world ... and it is occurring right now, right here in the United States.
The answer to the problem is to un-isolate ourselves. We still have some effectual powers to do so (talk radio, the internet, our homes, our communities and ability to gather there, etc.) and turn it around. This effectual power is still backed up by the actual power of the 2nd amendment.
Good people understand this inately and are driving arms and ammo sales up to all-time record highs as this evil is growing so rapidly amongst us.
Is there little wonder then why there is such a push to destroy that actual power by the enemies of liberty? ... or any wonder, given the trends and historical precedent, why so many allow it to incrementally occur? It is being programmed that way!
We must stand forthrightly and spread the word and let our brother and sister Americans who still recognize or can perceive the foundational truths of our liberties know that they are not alone. There are more of them out there than we realize. We have been programmed by 30 second sound bites and the mass media, government indoctrination centers for our children and treasonous officials to believe that we are alone in this thinking. We must break out of it.
Just as noumenon stated, we must encourage our compatriots, relatives, friends and neighbors to publically take the stand now, despite current risks. By so doing, we can empower them to break out of the propoganda, marginalization and isolation traps set for them ... and avoid the much harsher reality that await us in the near future.
That reality is taught to us by history and history is a harsh and direct school master. If we the people do not break out of the cycle before both our actual and effectual power is completely negated...well, just ask our founders, or ask the European Jews of the early 1940's, or ask the folks in the "Soviet Empire" or dissidents in Red China under Mao ... or ask the youth of Tienamen Square what the rersults will be.
The result of letting these conditions go unanswered is either bloody revolution or genocide. As Sophocles wrote well over 23 centuries ago :
Far-stretching, endless Time
Brings forth all hidden things,
And buries that which once did shine.
The firm resolve falters, the sacred oath is shattered;
And let none say, "It cannot happen here".
It is happening right here...right now.
They will cower?
Y & N
DEPENDS on the degree they have become TRUE BELIEVERS in the party line and/or the degree of demonization.
. . . as well as the spiritual clout in Holy Spirit on our side.
Typically, the last 60 years, many commies have been more ready to die for their cause than many “Christians.”
Let’s say that again: And above all the Will to Power would produce a new kind of messiah, uninhibited by any religious sanctions whatsoever, and with an unappeasable appetite for controlling mankind.”
That’s who we’re dealing with now. The Constitution and the rule of law are just so much toilet paper to those who would rule us now. Our values are punchlines to sneering liberal party jokes.
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YUP!
This is the endgame of Gramsci’s and Alinsky's heirs and disciples. These are the murderous great-great-great-great-grandchildren of the French Revolution, cold-eyed with contempt for you and yours; spiral-eyed crazy with hate for what you believe in and possessed of an utterly unappeasable appetite for controlling mankind. Just as Hitler was completely candid in "Mein Kampf" about what he intended to do with Germany, the Jews and the world, so the Left has been completely up front about where they intend to take America, how they've planned to do it and what they're going to do once they achieve absolute power. So, when it comes to the Constitution and rule of law, my pretties, they’ll not only sweep the pieces off the board, they’ll upend the table and put a bullet in you while they’re at it. As far as the Left is concerned, rules are for losers and history, godawful bloody history is my witness.
Spot on. Well said
Congressman Billybob
This is why the revolution must happen through the state governments. States must re-assert their sovereignty, refuse to enforce, or allow to be enforced, unconstitutional edicts, and let the feds attempt to use coercive force to impose their will on the states. At that point, we "repel the invasion".
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