We are now well beyond the level of tyranny that drove our forefathers to rebel against the colonial authority. Will the American people wake up, or simply shrug and watch more reality TV?
"We are now well beyond the level of tyranny that drove our forefathers to rebel against the colonial authority. Will the American people wake up, or simply shrug and watch more reality TV?"
Americans will never do what our forefathers did. "Rebellion against colonial authority" meant going out and murdering the police. That's what it meant then. That's what it would mean today. Americans will never do it again. The population has changed, and Americans have bought completely into the idea that if an elected government does it under the duly constituted laws of the land, that for anybody to break the law is wrong. Because there is now a very thick standing army in America (it is called the police force, but that's what standing armies WERE in the past; today we call it something different, and pretend that a standing army means the US Army, but NOT the police force, because the police are controlled by "state government" and "State's rights" is what America is all about.
Remember that Kelo was the ultimate state's rights decision. States have the right to take property, it said. It's not a federal constitutional issue, it said. So, it's up to the voters of the states.
Trouble is, American government at all levels is so large, and the populace so diffuse, that getting real democratic action moving in the case of an INDIVIDUAL outrage, like this case in Port Chester, is practically impossible.
So, the only real recourse would be the sort of rebellion you mentioned, what our forefathers did. The problem with that, of course, is that "rebellion" is a noble-sounding word, but what rebellion then and now really MEANS is shooting the cops, often by surprise, and killing the authorities who run government. That is what the American colonists DID: shot down soldiers from behind walls, etc. Would Americans really shoot down the cops today?
Or would they recall from such lawlessness as "terrorism"?
The latter.
America will never rebel again. There won't even be mass movements like the ones in Europe. Americans really disdain European mass protests for their "lawlessness". I note that when the French go into the streets, the government actually caves in. Americans consider this an inferior form of government. Of course, land takings like this one in Port Chester, or the ones in Connecticut, do not happen in France, not like that. The law is very clear there, and the people have a nasty habit of rebelling over there when government does something that pisses them off.
Americans like to think that we are superior to those anarchic frogs, et al. But the truth is that Americans simply idolize the whole concept of law. That's it, at the end of the day. The courts will rule, and whatever they rule, Americans will do. If the Second Amendment is pared away, all these folks who talk about the 2nd Amendment being "The reset button of the Constitution" will not, in fact, press that button.
The frog's already been boiled here. Anglo Saxons will never rebel again. Instead, they will continue to be the dying race that we are - not reproducing at replacement rate, and being replaced in the land by more fertile people.
I'm not writing to be upsetting. I am telling you the truth. Americans will not "rebel", because rebellion MEANS murder. It means murdering police officers and government officials. Americans will never do that again. They respect the law too much. That game is over here, at least among Anglo-Saxons. Latinos are a different kettle of fish, of course, but we will have to wait and see what they do as the dominant majority running America in the future. Whites are never going to do anything other than slowly boil in the pot and gradually diminish in numbers.
It's said, but that is how great civilizations die: from within.
The degree of tyranny our forefathers rebelled against would have been considered normal order of business as far back as the civil war--on both sides....
what we're facing now is Soviet style seizures of property--only now its private developers who are benefiting..