Posted on 12/11/2013 9:34:25 AM PST by IChing
America’s Founding Fathers spelled it out pretty clearly: The purpose of government is to secure the God-given, inalienable rights of men. They put that exact language into The Declaration of Independence.
They also spelled out, exactly, that when government becomes abusive, and “destructive of these ends,” it is mankind’s right and duty to alter, abolish, or overthrow it.
You may have seen the recent news about prominent and well-spoken experts testifying before Congress regarding the Obama administration’s shocking usurpations and out-of-control excesses, especially the utter lack of regard for Constitutional limits on the powers of the executive branch. The testimony was remarkable in that the prospect of possible citizen uprising and revolt was brought up repeatedly. I can’t recall in my lifetime this ever having happened before, in such an official, high-level on-the-record context before the cameras and klieg lights.
The question that comes to my mind foremost is not whether such outright revolt is justified or warranted. The question is whether enough of us have the will and the wherewithal to carry it out.
Given what millions of us see as plainly egregious high crimes and misdemeanors by Obama and his agents, without adequate redress of our grievances by those who we believe are also largely corrupt–our representatives in Congress–a large chunk of the American population easily pays lip service to the idea of actual revolution, as opposed to more of the same-old, same-old election cycle shenanigans.
But talking and doing are, of course, two very different things.
I realize that by typing these words and sending them out over the cyber-clothesline, I’m somewhat risking a visit from the gestapo. So what. Let them throw me in jail. My wife and son would suffer, but if I’ve learned anything about that woman in the eight years we’ve been married, it’s that she can catch fish just as well or even better than I can on any given day, and probably live off the land if she has to. She was pretty much raised that way.
Have we as a society become so soft and accustomed to the comforts of technology and of various government checks & subsidies that too few of us would ever forcefully resist the tyranny that is growing from the power-mad panderers of the Left?
Life certainly is much different today than in the days of the American Revolution. Not only are people generally much more dependent on vast, highly-advanced, complex, specialized, and bureaucratic systems and technology which have removed them so much from the concept and practice of self-reliance in nature of those more primitive times, but anyone contemplating some kind of active defiance of the status quo has to consider also the comparatively extremely lopsided scenario such a prospect involves where it comes to actual weapons systems, intelligence networks, command and control operations, and logistics.
George Washington’s regulars, guerrillas, mercenaries, and Minutemen were long-shot underdogs against a formidable foe, of course, in the vastly better equipped, funded, and armed redcoats of King George. However, the muskets, horses, and cannon of our Revolutionary fighters were somewhat comparable, in technological sophistication and array, to the similarly primitive (by modern standards) hardware deployed by the crown. Furthermore, having “home field advantage,” all the colonists really had to do was make things so horrible for the king’s forces, much of which had come all the way from across the ocean, that the King eventually just relented rather than continue to try to keep control from all those thousands of miles away.
Nowadays, however, we’re talking about guys (and gals) with handguns, hunting rifles, carbines, and really not much more than that at all, up against the most space-age, entrenched, home-grown federal leviathan of lasers and satellites, nuclear missiles and bomber planes, tanks, aircraft carrier ships, helicopters, jet fighters and cargo planes, AWACS and close-air support planes, refueling tanker planes, smart bombs, infrared and laser-guided weird weapons that can zap and vaporize entire city blocks (I’ve been out of the military too long to even know what the hell these new weapons are), not to mention truly spooky, virtually omniscient surveillance and communications technology along with the government’s presumed ability to shut down any kind of tech networks we might employ.
Real encouraging, isn’t it?
Y’all think we should just stick to trying to vote the bastards out? Or am I missing something?
I don't think it's his yet but it's getting there.
The answer is “no”. The only way it would ever happen is if someone with a lot of moxy stood up and called for an overthrow. Someone like Palin or Cruz or even Rush. But, if they were to do it and the people didn’t respond in huge numbers, they’d be put away and never heard from again. And they’re not convinced those huge numbers would show up.
They are leading us right into the arms of communism via community organization and homeland militia. It boggles the mind.
JRandomF. — you are right—don’t think we have used Nukes anywhere since we cooked the Japs.We also didn’t learn a dam ting when we was sellin’ weapons to the Tali so they could oppose the Russian Bear. Now we being done same as they was. How many of Ours —and our Allies have died since BO Changed America?
Maybe it's just me, but doesn't it seem like there are more CWII articles every day? Whether it's about abuse of federal power from one agency to the next, or revolution and rebellion of a populace, to the abuse of Executive authority, etc., it just keeps on coming day after day...even from the liberal/progressive/Marxist/democRAT media.
I don't think I spend that much time consuming news, so to me, it seems wide spread.
The circa 1860 type "wide spread," with an Internet.
5.56mm
“We didn’t allow the IRS to steal the election”
True, but we did not demand a new, legal election, and we don’t seem to be stopping it from happening again. Issa is all about show and theatrics (imo).
I always enjoyed decimals in school :)
Duh!....Totally forgot about that. I gotta look at my calendar bro and see what's more convenient....Geez!
Is there any way they can start the revolution without me?
Or is my reasoning wrong?
I'm unavailable for any revolt until after the NCAA basketball championships...sorry.
How do you explain more votes than population in some districts?
Democrats don't care how unpopular they are, they can simply manufacture votes in certain districts in swing states just like in '12.
There was another expert witness who brought it up.
We said the exact same thing.
Excellent commentary.
What a turd
Think you might get on better if you thought about those moms to be.in a diffrent light.
I know more single women who are conservative than not.
Just let me clairify ... turds don’t rate here.
Example...?
ME!
I don’t remember that, and I hung on every word. But in any case, it certainly wasn’t repeatedly. Makes the hearing sound different from what it was. This is why I don’t like blogs. They can say anything. No reputable media outlet would phrase it that way, not even the wilder ones.
Certainly there seems to be a lot more belief that we are reaching some terminal stage and that "if something can't continue forever, it won't". I consider the nullification movement (similar to the movement which preceded CW1), the blatent lying of this administration, Mark Levin's push to have a ConCon, and many other tidbits from the news of the day all to be pointing in the same direction.
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