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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Not interested in change driven by mob rule.
Give me the process the founders followed.
If it is driven by mob rule, you will not like the outcome.
Some FReepers would favor it. But quite a few would have to wait to see what Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin thought of it before they knew what to think.
That is what Democracy is... change driven by mob rule. It is what we are experiencing now.
I’m still waiting on that process the founders followed. What was it? Revolution I think?
The Founders started out as a rebellious mob who vandalized a legitimate business and threw their inventory into a body of water. They also had a penchant for tarring and feathering government officials - an act of assault that frequently resulted in the deaths of said officials. They even went so far as to SHOOT at government soldiers who were acting in a law enforcement capacity and who were just following orders and doing their jobs.
And the outcome of all of that ‘mob rule’ has been the nation in which you enjoy the freedom to denounce people who act to protect their liberties.
Yeah that's the problem with our country, it's the bankers. /s
Never mind the fact that it's the federal government who has given itself power to control the banks and just about everything else in this formerly great country.
Sorry but the tea didn’t belong to a legitimate business. It belonged to crony capitalists and our forefathers knew the only correct way to deal with them.
Our nation has been thoroughly screwed over by the overpaid political elites (and their cronies), CEOS, and Hollywood, of both Parties while average hard working citizens that have go find a red or blue team T shirt pretend it isn’t their Party that caused it.
I’ve got news for you. The politicians and the big donors of both Parties have screwed over most of us Americans. I’ve been a fiscal conservative voter for decades, voted for Goldwater, and have argued with my liberal relatives at Thanksgiving and Christmas since the 60s too.
The problem we average citizens face is way above average Americans, as we have been made the chumps by the media. We go off to war, die, get medals while the Wall St financiers count their Federal Reserve handouts and bailout money.
Something is very wrong. America was built by average hard working Americans, not by deal makers and political cronies.
I’ve come to the belief that both Parties have stripped Americans (especially average hard working Anglos) while the NYC financiers and their anti-gun laws will rape us and send us to war for their profits.
But not here.
Don’t compare Iceland and the US. The former has a much smaller population and there is an almost absence of racial diversity.
Racial diversity is also diversity in ideologies. You should know by now that there is no longer the unity in the US that there once was when the Greatest Generation lived.
What happened in Iceland is not possible in the US unless there is extreme national bloodletting.
Amen.
So it's OK for me to steal a brand new Camaro?
No thanks.
Sounds like an “ex post facto” law, which our current constitution prohibits.
The original tea partiers didn’t keep the tea.
If you haven't read Tom Kratman's book Caliphate then you should! Based on what you just wrote here I imagine you'd like this book quite a bit!
Was going to post that very point if no one else got to it first...
Kudos.
If the Founders were alive today they'd face 'extraordinary rendition' and they'd be sent to some CIA prison in Tajikistan where they'd never be heard from again. Their approach would not work so well these days.
“What if they arrested, prosecuted and jailed the bankers whose actions caused the crisis, instead of rewarding them with fat paydays?”
Scapegoating the Banksters again. Just like Occupy Wall Street. Just like 100 years of leftism.
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