reading your post at 300 or so. Logic aside, let us start at “When will you do something?” When they are putting you in cattle cars? Remember reading that? Remember reading Churchill’s, “Will we fight when we can be reasonably assured of victory at losses not too precious...or will we begin to fight only when there is slim hope of victory at a very great cost.” (pardon the paraphrase.) The point I am making here is this. Even in the face of particulars that make this sound worse and worse for the Fed Gov, I say this, we have to fight somewhere. We may not get the “virgin bride raped at wedding” level of dishonor we might hope for. Anne Barnhardt says this may not be the hill to die on. I respect here and those that hold this view. Fact is we better pick a hill and damn fast and this one will do as well as any.
Wholeheartedly agree! A major problem is, being who we are usually means that we have a lot of material/financial things to lose, in contrast with the “other side” who generally has everything to gain. That “other side” is getting stuff for free right now. We need to prepare/protect as much as we have right now in order to survive as best we can once we “cross the line”. Once crossed, all sorts of bad things can happen. It really only should occur as a collective—a large number (e.g., 1000’s, 10,000’s, etc.) of us who band together and live as a defensible unit post line crossing. Individually or even small numbers, it cannot work. The “collective” is not yet organized to handle physical confrontation.