Posted on 04/29/2011 9:26:36 AM PDT by marktwain
There are three issues that could presently trigger a Civil War in America:
* Illegal aliens. A government that refuses to protect our borders, the methodical structure of citizenship, and the rule of law, will only be tolerated for so long. America is reaching a tipping point on this issue.
* Abortion. Irreconcilable differences here. This may likely become as potent an issue as slavery was in the 1860s.
* The right to keep and bear arms - see "2A Today for The USA"
No other significant present day problems could potentially result in the “brother against brother” tragedy of a Second American Civil War.
Sooner or later, the massive invasion of America by illegal aliens will be confronted, if not by the rule of law then by either armed police officers and soldiers … or armed citizens. There are twenty million or more illegal aliens entrenched in this nation now. How many tens of millions more will it take to reach a tipping point? At what point will law enforcement agencies and/or the military begin to do the job they were sworn to do? At what point will citizens themselves be forced, by government inactivity, to confront this invasion by force of arms?
Will the liberal politicians actually allow this showdown? Is this actually the sort of crisis opportunism that Obama’s Rahm Immanuel, and other leftist cultural Marxists, relish?
As an American, and a gun owner, would you take to the street to confront this illegal alien invasion? Do you have a personal breaking point on this issue?
I won’t deal with abortion here, except to note that the anti-abortion forces have the same moral intensity and personal commitment that was demonstrated by the slavery abolitionists of the nineteenth century. We saw where that led in America.
However, there is a third possible cause of a Second American Civil War: infringement of the right to keep and bear arms.
This nation’s Second Amendment freedoms have too long been burdened with the lethargic, tunnel vision behavior of the gun owners known as “Elmer Fudds”, or, as Aaron Zelman used to call them “quackers”. This is the “good ole’ boy” type who simply doesn’t care about gun registrations, permits, regulations, or even confiscations, as long as he can keep his deer rifle or shotgun and exercise his “sportin’ rights”. This myopic fellow can be bought off for the price of a buck tag or duck license. Even Senator Chuck Schumer is a “Fudd”! “I ain’t gonna take your shotguns away, fellas!”
On the other side of the room from the Fudds is the “Cold Dead Fingers” crowd. A lot of tough talk over in that camp. A lot of arm chair patriotism and rhetorical heat. A lot of “let ‘em try to take my guns!” chest puffing. But somewhere at the core of this quite large group of gun owners is a determined minority that does really mean it.
I would assert that every single one of these very determined armed Americans has some idea, deep in his or her heart, as to what their personal “line in the sand” actually is. When it comes to this amorphous, mostly low profile, group, the hammer is cocked. These folks are getting to be known as the “Three Percenters”.
What the cultural Marxists, elitists, and authoritarians who advocate “gun control” (read "Know Thine Enemy") don’t seem to be able to grasp is the strange fact that a significant minority of human beings are willing to fight ferociously to preserve their freedoms. This irascible minority has yet to be awakened to action. But they’re sleeping with one eye open.
The attacks on the Second Amendment have, since 1934, been so gradual and incremental that the victim disarmament forces have prevailed to an amazing degree. They hear the loud complaints of gun owners, then make strategic “compromises” with other compromisers, and then, sure as day, there’s another gun regulation, permit process, limitation, restriction, tax burden, or license needed for each of us to exercise an unalienable right that, according to the American Bill of Rights, “shall not be infringed”.
Makes me think of the laughs I got as a kid when, in the Bugs Bunny cartoons, Elmer Fudd’s head turned into a big “SUCKER” when Bugs had tricked him once again. What also comes to mind is Charlie Brown and Lucy with her football, the football, that, to my knowledge, Charlie Brown was never able to kick. Only, unlike the comics, few of us are smiling about this. This could become deadly serious. Because the sneaking vermin cannot be allowed to win.
What must be obvious to any truly concerned American gun owner is that we absolutely must take EVERY action afforded us to prevent a Second American Civil War. This means that gun owners must become far more personally involved. Gun owners have to really grow fangs and learn to “snarl” in a societal and political sense. Wake up! You are the “gun lobby” these insidious liars and manipulators complain about! Remind them of that in every lawful way that you can.
Do you want to remain completely anonymous, but still help? A blank postal money order sent to GOA, SAF or JPFO works just fine, thanks.
We have to learn how to warn these gun prohibitionists off with unrelenting determination. When we gain a political victory or legal victory like the Heller or McDonald cases, we must be willing to dig into our own pockets and financially support those who truly won those victories, so that they may drive forward and win another, and another, with relentless momentum.
Political activism doesn’t need to cost much at all, especially in this day and age of email and unlimited phone calling plans. If you can’t afford to donate money to a Second Amendment organization, write the letters, send the emails, and make the phone calls in support of our gun rights. Talk to your gun owner friends and neighbors. Don’t let them remain Fudds or Quackers!
Or, when you hear “They ain’t gonna get my guns!”, ask that person how he or she is going to stop them. Don’t let this kind of chest puffing go unquestioned. Ask the arm chair warrior what he or she is doing now, today, to PREVENT that horror. If the question makes them uncomfortable it should! It won’t be Chuck Norris, Sly Stallone or Arnold coming through with minor flesh wounds, friends. A Second American Civil War will not be played out on a Hollywood set. You won’t be able to get up and leave the theater.
We need to prevent that war before it happens. How can we best do so? By preserving our right to keep and bear arms. Contribute to JPFO today and help us to protect that right. So called “gun control” must be completely destroyed. We must restore the pre-1934 state of affairs to America. Join JPFO today.
Frequent JPFO contributor and strategist, Kirby Ferris collaborated intensively with Aaron Zelman over the last two years. Ferris is now the Public Affairs Director of JPFO.
I kinda got that myself. I’m not completely dense no matter what my children think.
It is amazing how fast some Freepers forget that everyone of us lives in a semi autonomous functional country(state) and the we’d hardly notice if FedGov™ disappeared. Lincoln did a hell of a job destroying the republic.
If FedGov™ collapses then the state will be the governing body. Yes there will still be socialists and conservatives but no anarchy. Your comment sound stupid, naive. Stop listening to anarchists like Melas who preach anarchy and chaos. Those types are FOS.
As important as 2A rights are, I agree with you on this one. Every time I have to send in my monthly fed taxes it starts a slow burn. Every time I see the news where the teacher’s unions/police unions/firefighter unions/labor unions...ad nauseum...are complaining about how they need those pay increases keeps the burn going. I can bury/hide/loose the guns, but I haven’t figured out yet, how to keep the business going and not send money in to the government to be handed out to the slackers.
Thanks for the ping, really.
Ayn Rand actually called that group ‘moochers’ in her 1957 book Atlas Shrugged.
Plausable. Financial Pressures can send things over the edge. I see no trends reversing our financial issues for the better.
I was thinking more about the enemy faction among the political leadership, the ones who give the orders, than about the usual predators. For instance, my local RINO congressman and the state's two far left whacko RAT senators, the leadership of the county RAT apparatus, the RINO county sheriff, etc.
Then there is the moral problem of when preemptive self defense becomes murder. Is taking them out morally justifiable, and are their families EVER legitimate targets? (No, never!) I know, their side would not show such restraint, but I am not them.
I'm certain you could.
It would be much more accurate to expand this into a world war against all of political correctness.
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There has been much talk over the growing divide between the so-called Red States and Blue States. It’s amazing that it’s being spoken of, albeit informally and often in jest, but but perhaps we should research into whether there is a legal way to expel states from the union. Let them form their own socialist nation-states if they want.
“Can We Prevent a Second Civil War?”
Do we want to?
CF,
“It’s amazing that it’s being spoken of, albeit informally and often in jest...”
You know I don’t joke when I discuss it.
A lot more of our ancestors believed that than contemporary Americans. Unfortunately.
Remember in the 60s when members of the left would say "Better Red than dead"?
I wasn't even born. My future dad was too young to vote. But I'll take your word for it! :o)
THe lights going out would be the key to trigger something massive. Most citizens have not a single clue there is even anything wrong. The govt isnt stupid enough to overtly start something i.e. try and squash the 2nd Amendment. That would start violence almost overnight. They will keep using the economic hardships to push people to the breaking point. Once people cant sit home and watch their cable tv they will get restless and when the welfare checks stop then the looting and rioting will begin. People are still too comfortable to do anything other than bitch.
They will all no doubt be safely ensconced in undisclosed locations with 24/7 well armed protection.
The media useful idiots will be the first to go, I’ll bet.
I certainly hope so. They are the enemy.
Don't forget the innocent kids and grandmothers shot by the SWAT team in the course of executing a legally-sanctioned home invasion.
Off the top of my head I can think of at least one of each.
“And the media will spin it as the ‘racist hoarders massacring the hungry.’”
Who cares how they spin it?
That’s right.
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