Posted on 12/19/2013 3:48:28 PM PST by Libloather
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Fine so far, that experience mirrors our own. Now, step into the unknown, at least unknown here at home. What if a mass movement put pressure on, and kept it up? What if their incessant and unyielding demands toppled yet more of the establishment? What if they formed a committee of average citizens, including a large percentage of the unaffiliated, and rewrote their Constitution?
What if they arrested, prosecuted and jailed the bankers whose actions caused the crisis, instead of rewarding them with fat paydays? What if their actions, entirely peaceful, restored liberty and fiscal sanity to their country?
This actually happened, you know. Or most likely, you don’t. Spectacularly unreported in American media, Iceland did all of those things. It was called the “Pots and Pans” revolution, because the protestors used those to make noise. They didn’t have to fire a single shot.
There is a reason the elites don’t want you to know. They would have you ignorant of the example. They like things the way they are. We don’t. And here in America, we have no need to rewrite a new Constitution. Our old one would work fine, if we but followed it.
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Article V is happening.
All we need is to implement the process in article 5. Period.
“But it was definitely an ordered process.”
Not so sure the brits at the time would agree. Nor even the Americans. It was quite a nasty revolution at times and the losers were summarily ejected.
History is written by the victors.
Unfortunately there is more than a little truth to what they’re saying. Neither big government nor crony corporatism is your friend. One hand iwashes the other.
You don't get how it works. Regulation benefits the big players, the guys who show up at treasury bond auctions having already obtained a list of concessions.
We don’t need to rewrite our constitution though. We need to follow it.
Wow, “new history”, kind of like “new math”.
Anyone can play this game.
Good point and well said!
“At some point,real Americans will have to start dealing with the country’s internal domestic enemies in the same way we would deal with an invading army.That’s the cold truth,like it or not. “
There aren’t enough real Americans left. It’s as good as it’s going to get right now.
The public is hypnotized by 900 channels, politics has been reduced to a spectator sport of “My Team vs Your Team” and the burning issue today was about a reality TV show.
The general public drank the Kool Aid years ago. Now we’re just squabbling about how to arrange the deck chairs as the boat sinks.
A republic is an organized overthrow of the government every four years, within a set of guidelines.
Democracy by mob rule is more likely to yield Occupy Wall Street politics and lynch mobs.
Give me the process the founders followed.
If it is driven by mob rule, you will not like the outcome.
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I second that.
Iceland is essentially a remote village where everyone is related. It is a homogeneous culture with little permanent immigration. The Iceland example simply could not be replicated in the US.
What did those evil bankers in Iceland do to cause the crisis? What laws did they break? How much time did they get?
Anyone have any specifics?
I think it was Iceland that when they couldn’t pay back the loans they let the banks who lent it at risk enjoy their risk rather than rob their population.
Are you sure about who controls who?
Sure. John D Rockefeller was happier than a camel on Wednesday when Teddy Roosevelt and his cohorts in Congress showed up a hundred plus years ago.
His thing was the income tax. Teddy was a creature of JP Morgan.
“What if they arrested, prosecuted and jailed the bankers whose actions caused the crisis, instead of rewarding them with fat paydays? What if their actions, entirely peaceful, “
Arrest isn’t peaceful. Arrest is: submit to disablement (shackling, jailing) and subjugation, or we WILL perform escalating atrocities upon your person until you relent. Arrest is demand for total abject obedience in lieu of anything but “peace”.
If the bankers’ actions were lawful, then there are no grounds for prosecution. Ex post facto laws are abhorrent to the core of Western jurisprudence.
In light of the lead suggestion, and the nature of the possible outcomes, it might behoove the wealthy to arrange rescue services in advance should the rampaging horde get to the “jail” stage.
Damn. I wanted fireworks, carnage, politicians hunted and hung in the town square. Oh well maybe next time.
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