Posted on 01/27/2013 4:18:28 PM PST by Codetrader
Only Rebellion Can Save America
The US federal government has strayed so far from the Constitution and the rule of law that it can now be considered rogue and illegitimate.
Written by Lawrence Sellin
The thoroughly irresponsible rate of government spending projected over the next twenty-five years will drive federal debt to unsustainable levels. The country is heading for a financial meltdown and economic ruin.
The Republican Party is inept and impotent and cannot provide the necessary political opposition to the crimes and unconstitutional policies of the Obama regime or stand against the rampant voter fraud which is now polluting the electoral process. There is a report claiming that the Republican Party signed a legal agreement with the Democrat Party in 1982 not to pursue suspected vote fraud. If there is no guarantee of election integrity, then elections become only window dressing for tyranny.
Barack Obama is an illegal President and unindicted felon. Congress, the American media and the courts are engaged in a criminal conspiracy to conceal their complicity in perpetrating the Obama fraud on the American people. Law enforcement and our elected officials have chosen to risk the survival of the country rather than risk the truth.
According to recent reports, Obama continues to use a Social Security Number (SSN) not issued to him, in the process, committing numerous counts of social security fraud. The SSN Obama uses, issued in Connecticut, a state where he never lived, does not pass a check with E-Verify, the electronic system the U.S. Citizenship and Immigrations Services of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has created to verify whether or not prospective employees have the required authorization to work legally in the United States. It appears that the SSN Obama uses, was actually issued to a Harrison J. Bounel, born in 1890. Once issued, a SSN is never reissued to another individual. Why isn’t any of that evidence investigated? It is because Barack Obama is protected by a dishonest media and criminally complicit federal officials and, unlike ordinary Americans, he is above the law.
The US no longer has representative government. Members of Congress seek election not to uphold the Constitution and serve the American people, but to obtain power and to use that power to accrue professional and financial benefits for themselves and their major supporters. All the traditional means for the American people to seek the redress of grievances have now been blocked by a corrupt government composed of a self-absorbed permanent political elite unaccountable to the people.
The status quo is no longer defensible. Unless there is a significant reversal soon, it is only a matter of time that a catastrophe will be upon us, which will inevitably lead to national collapse and fragmentation.
All unconstitutional and unlawful policies of the Obama regime must be opposed, obstructed and undermined. The Democrat Party and their radical left-wing supporters must be aggressively and continuously confronted. The Republican Party must be defunded and its leadership replaced. The purveyors of disinformation and propaganda represented by most of the mainstream media must be professionally destroyed.
A county by county battle is the means by which the American people can restore the Constitution, establish responsible fiscal policies and take back control of the political process and the government. Patriots need to organize locally outside of the party apparatus to exert political pressure and prepare for armed defense, if necessary. No county officials, in particular the Sheriff, should be elected or maintained in office, who do not fully honor their oath to support and defend the Constitution.
Fundamental to this effort are the rights guaranteed under the Second Amendment. Each county should establish elements of an organized and disciplined Constitutional Army with sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence and individual liberty from anyone who might attempt to abuse them.
It is indeed ironic that the Mexican border made maximally porous by the Obama regime may become the route of choice for weapon and ammunition resupply, a Fast and Furious in reverse, capable of making gun control about as successful as the national prohibition of alcohol (1920-33), another failed “noble experiment” undertaken to reduce crime and solve social problems.
Efforts should be directed towards decreasing the influence of the federal government in county affairs, cooperating with federal officials and agencies only when it benefits local citizens. Counties should maximize the consumption of federal resources and overburdening federal agencies administratively while at the same time reducing or delaying taxes paid to the federal government. County residents should forcefully shun, oppose or drive out of business, individuals or media outlets, which support the criminal Obama regime.
“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will. Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.” — Frederick Douglass, August 4, 1857.
Author Bio
Lawrence Sellin, Ph.D. is a retired colonel with 29 years of service in the US Army Reserve and a veteran of Afghanistan and Iraq. Colonel Sellin is the author of “Afghanistan and the Culture of Military Leadership“. He receives email at lawrence.sellin@gmail.com.
I have no car payments and no credit card debt.
Oh, and I’m about to buy a house...with *cash*.
- Writing from somewhere in Galt’s Gulch
A county by county battle is the means by which the American people can restore the Constitution, establish responsible fiscal policies and take back control of the political process and the government. Patriots need to organize locally outside of the party apparatus to exert political pressure and prepare for armed defense, if necessary.
I've said it all along, we don't need a CWII, our beef is with several thousand Marxists in Washington D.C. and the MSM. I still think we should all just drive, bus, bike, fly and walk to D.C. and have a 10 Million Patriot invasion with demands. If not met, all bets are off. They'll show us their true colors in the coming months. I suspect they'll be doubling down. . maybe a false flag.
Pray and Prepare. .
The problem is deeper than that. All representative governments known to man ended up isolated from their voters. Once they gain enough power to control the country they don't need voters anymore; or they can keep up the pretense by limiting the choice (Tweedledum vs. Tweedledee.) This is what's happening.
This is a natural path of regression of every representative government - simply because there is nothing standing guard, protecting the voters from a megalomaniac Senator or President. As we have learned, the voters "have no standing" to question the constitutional validity of the President. The system is now self-contained; it elects the necessary front men, and it protects them from the voters, and the Supreme Court rubber-stamps all the abominations as constitutional and lawful. This is going to happen to every represenative system - and it's quite a miracle that the USA managed to last as a largely free country for as long as it did.
From this point of view it is clear that once the old set of fools is kicked out of Congress, the new set of fools will descend into the still warm seats. Often those would be completely random people, those who did nothing of value and did not risk their life and limb in the struggle. This is something we can see in Northern Africa today; one group does the fighting, and when it's all over a carefully prepared and candy-wrapped President in a $5,000 suit is delivered on an airplane and takes command. The mass of rebels may not even realize at the time what just has happened; and when they do, it's back to square one.
In other words, it all depends on personal honesty and integrity of all the leaders of the uprising. In Russia, for example, in 1917, the leaders started to fight each other practically immediately, which culminated with Stalin killing them all by 1937 and seizing complete control. In Germany Hitler had many of his old friends in SA killed when they became a liability. Infighting among the victorious is pretty bad, especially because the parties still have considerable resources under their command.
Your ideal government has to be controlled by a person or a machine that is incorruptible and wants humankind to prosper. Its logic should not be a democracy; why should the government obey if 99% of the voters vote to hang the remaining 1%? This means that the government has to be impersonal, and probably inhuman. It also has to be ruthless and efficient in doing its job. If someone is guilty of murder he is terminated, or shipped out to a faraway planet to live the rest of his very short life wandering the surface in a spacesuit, until that spacesuit fails. This is not what a human would want to do; but this is what the human collective benefits from the most.
So it would be undemocratic. A monarch may listen to his subjects, and he may even do what they petition him to do, but he doesn't have to. Would such a society be free? To some extent, yes. For example, today you are free to get into your car and drive anywhere you please. But you are not free to drive that same car into a crowd, on purpose. Same with politics. You would be free to do whatever you personally want to do - within the same limits as any free society accepts, like "your rights stop where mine begin." But there would be no freedom to attack the political system itself.
Interestingly enough, the modern China uses something that is very close to this fictional AI-driven computer government that I described. The Chinese are largely free to do business, we have evidence of that all around us, in every room. This very keyboard is probably made in China. But dare to question the Party, and disappear you will.
So, I wonder, is this the best model of a government in this century? I have no illusions, the Chinese Communist Party is not immune to the same sickness that permeated US politics. Just in last year one of party bosses was very publicly taken down. But, as a larger collective, they do have some immunity. OTOH the same party in USSR was unable to survive - and it rotted out, and died.
All in all, the government by men will be always vulnerable to the desires of those men that it employs. That's what caused anarchists to show up. They deny the need for a government; instead they promote small, fluid groups of people who associate - and disassociate - as they see fit. There is no one single theory of anarchism, so most proponents just make one up as they go.
I'm not familiar with anarchism; but democracy is inherently unstable, and monarchy/dictatorship is too much dependent on the benevolence of the monarch. IMO, the benevolent artificial monarch, one that could reason but has no human desires, would be the ideal solution. Unfortunately, it's nothing but deus ex machina at this time. It is also one step away from becoming the Skynet. If that is not in the cards, perhaps anarchism is the next best option. It is also likely to be the most free one among all. The sad fact about a large government is that once it has enough power to care for you, it can equally easily destroy you. From that point of view any strong government is undesirable. The USSR's government was ultimately strong - it took all the worker's earnings, and in exchange provided him with a fixed list of social benefits that he may or may not need. That same strong government held the life of the citizen in its hand and could destroy that life whenever it wanted.
"Futile"? Hardly, my friend.
If only one in ten US gun owning citizens chose to exercise their 2nd Amendment prerogative to directly confront the tyrannical usurpers in our government, they would comprise an army roughly 10 million strong.
On the other hand, the combined uniformed personnel of the US armed forces numbers about 1.5 million. If they were given orders to suppress the American people through force of arms, about two thirds would refuse that order, and would very likely go to war against the other third who chose to violate their oaths to the Constitution.
An order to the military to impose martial law upon the civilian population would only result in the arrest, detention, and possible execution of many thousands of uniformed military personnel (who chose to obey), and the commanders and politicians who forwarded that treasonous order down the command channels.
The 10 million strong patriot militia would never have to fire a single shot to achieve their aims.
In the unlikely event the patriot militia made the first move, the same dynamics would be in play. US military and security personnel would be forced to make a choice -- to defend the immoral and treasonous regime and make war against their own brethren, or follow their hearts and basic loyalty to their people and the Constitution. Again - the same scenario would be forced into play within the military establishment, with the exact same result.
Let us also remember that the entire US military was engaged in Iraq for nearly ten years by a force of insurgent jihadists who never numbered more than perhaps fifteen thousand at best. You tell me how the military would successfully engage millions of their own people on their home ground.
I tell you now....it will never come to pass. If the people stand up and force the issue, the government will stand down. They will not, and cannot defy us.
And that will be bad news for black patriots like myself.
Be a damn shame to love and honor my country my whole life, just to wind up as collateral damage in the second American Revolution.
And they decide to fire shots saying it was us and use it as an excuse to wipe millions of us out. We must not amass.
First of all, when a people have nothing left to lose, they 'lose it'. The American people most definitely can be pushed into armed rebellion - just like any people anywhere.
The difference is, at least a third of us - approximately 100 million, are sufficiently equipped to do so, against a tyrannical and out of control government.
How do The People stack up against the combined might of the US military? Well, the government has approximately 1.5 million under arms, and they're our brothers, sisters, sons, daughters, cousins, and grandchildren. The vast majority of them would flat refuse orders to suppress their own people through deadly force.
At best, the government might be able to mobilize a couple hundred thousand active jackboots, er....I mean troops, to do their dirty work. Then again, those jackboots would have to get past all the other armed services personnel who chose to live up to their oaths to defend and protect the Constitution.
Rest assured. What you envision will never come to pass.
GGpa, I believe your glimpse into the crystal ball of our future to be completely accurate. Unless the treasonous left is (somehow) forced to relent and retreat, it will come to a second revolution. That's a battle that they cannot win.
If they had a lick of sense, they'd go back to the device of slow motion incrementalism that served them so well throughout the twentieth century. In the new century, they've thrown caution to the wind, and are sprinting toward what they think is the finish line.
But they fail to see that, by putting the pedal to the metal, they've awakened and alarmed The People, who are now on full alert and preparing for the ultimate confrontation.
Should that confrontation come, the left as we've known it will not survive.
Don't be hysterical. There's nearly 100 million of us, versus 1.5 million of them. That's not a fair fight under any stretch of the imagination.
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Col. Sellin is correct, it’s that simple.
There’s no where we go or anything we do that isn’t subject to being monitored by the government. That alone should be sufficient to justify rebellion. I’m tired of being subject to anyone. I’m a self-sufficient, self-disciplined American. I don’t need the government for anything, but they consider that lack of need a marker for concern.
I want the government out of my life, and if that requires that many patriots die at the hands of the overreaching leviathan that DC has become, then I’ll be one of the first to volunteer to die for the cause. It has to stop somewhere.
“So died these men as becomes Athenians. You, their survivors, must determine to have as unfaltering a resolution in the field, though you may pray that it may have a happier outcome.” - Pericles
I pray that you and I both have a happier outcome. Our field at this time is the arena of ideas. The MSM currently hold the high ground, but our ideas are stronger, tested and more enduring. Have we so little faith in the value of these ideas that we will not make the effort to take the high ground?
I’ve occupied the high ground for quite some time. I’ve been a gentleman, a pensive citizen, a teacher, a husband. I’ve voted on my morals, remained ethical in my decisions, and lived a spiritually fulfilled life.
The gutter sniping has consumed the media and the public. The high-ground is now so high as to be forgotten. Unless you deign to their level, you get no where in conversation with either side of the arguments.
It’s been said several times that the only language Leftists and Communists understand is violence. I pray it never comes to that, but my soul is prepared for it when it does.
And it’s reassuring to know that you and millions like you are similarly prepared. In every age there are wise fools who believe that they have evolved to that enlightened stage that they can make those long proven failures of utopian ideas finally work. Bambi is the current poster child.
It is their pride that leads to the fall.
CWII Ping!
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