Imagine 50,000 protesting daily in D.C. Now picture a gunman taken down by law enforcement after he allegedly attacks Congress or the Supreme Court. Killed and wounded include women and children tourists, plus one or more Congress Critters or Supreme Court Justices.
The media obtains graphic video and photos to run 24/7.
The deceased gunman is identified as a member of the Tea Party by the government.
The undecided and apathetic become very decided all of a sudden.
Public push polls demand action. Dems and the GOPe will be falling all over themselves competing to give King Barack whatever he wants in the interest of public safety, the war on terrorism, and for the children.
Burning the Reichstag works.
I’m wondering how many the American Spring in May will draw.
In that scenario I definitely agree. However, I don’t think we should be afraid of that scenario. If we have 50,000 on the ground that’s a more potent force than 50 million + agitating from behind their keyboards and their plasma TV’s.
Furthermore even though the first act was not one of our time and choosing I don’t think we should necessarily shy away from it. At that point all pretense of civil discourse is over. Personally, I’m not one to be consumed with Reichstag fires and false flag ops or counterintelligence-like thinking. I’ll leave that to my betters. Let’s just not go all James Angleton about it.
We cannot allow ourselves to be paralyzed with fear by the propaganda war. Personally, I think its ludicrous how so much time and energy is spent (even here on FR) determining a spree shooter’s political affiliations in an effort to assign blame. That’s just asinine. Who are we trying to convince?
The same can be said for the media talking heads and some of our own commentary. We’re so consumed with correcting each other (i.e., “There. Fixed it” mentality) with minutate that the general point gets lost, “Oh if only so and so made this point instead of that one during the debate the voters would understand.” I don’t think so. The electorate doesn’t understand first principles to begin with, so we think using the soundbite and the zinger as weapons will suddenly enlighten the previously unenlightened. I don’t think so.