Posted on 04/04/2015 11:38:36 AM PDT by Bratch
Exactly.
We didn’t outfilibuster the King.
We didn’t use a leeter writing campaign to impose regime change.
We didn’t vote Third Party.
We didn’t try to work from within a system set up to keep us in our place.
We grabbed our guns and FOUGHT for our freedom.
Anyone thinking anything less will restore to us that same freedom is delusional.
Ready when the rest of you are....
You haven't taken the time to read their blogs, their articles, and their lecture notes, like I have.
Leftists always telegraph their punches. They tell you what they're planning on doing, knowing that you are too weak to stop them.
And what they've been telling you since the 60's is, they want you dead.
Yes.
And I'll tell you why.
Your military has been "fundamentally transformed" into something that did not exist two generations ago. The service of that age saw its ranks filled with patriotic Americans who understood the death struggle with Soviet Russia and its minions across the globe. We had leadership possessed of resolve and purpose. Our men and women in uniform had superior training and spirit, and were focused on the mission of securing freedom.
Now, fast forward to today. The service has been emasculated on the battlefield, with rules of engagement which essentially prevent the soldier from engaging the enemy; in the garrison, with emphasis on promoting perversion in the ranks and social experimentation; and over all, a command structure determined to destroy the fighting spirit and will to resist.
The military and the government minions who comprise this regime are loyal to their oaths, indeed. They swore to protect and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic - and those enemies have been redefined - as YOU. And they will prosecute this war against you, the new domestic enemies, to the fullest extent of the law and the uttermost end of strength.
This contemporary military no longer has patriotic warriors in their hierarchy. Those whom we would call "patriots" have either retired, been forced out, or otherwise purged from the ranks. The current generation of soldier - from the lowliest sailor manning the rails to the loftiest flag-rank officer spouting regime talking points - are there for myriad reasons, which include college tuition and education benefits; they reenlist to qualify for cash bonuses; they receive taxpayer-funded salaries, tax-exempt and duty-free goods and services, and taxpayer-funded health care; and when they reach retirement, they then receive taxpayer-funded pensions, further health care, and in the case of the higher ranks, their dachas by the lake, just as their Soviet counterparts did.
The current generation of military members are, indeed, mercenaries. They fight for pay and they fight well. They are committed to upholding the regime that funds their present and future lifestyle. And they are committed to collecting intelligence of the enemy they have been ordered to fight: the domestic terrorists, as defined by their chain of command.
Now, many of you will ask, "Sarge, how can you possibly say all these things?" Here's how: having spent 26 years in that uniform as an officer and as an NCO, seeing both sides of the conduct and training and corporate culture;
Having spent years as a recruiter, knowing all the training, benefits and bonuses (aka "entitlements") that a young mush-brain could be enticed with to enlist, and re-enlist over and again;
Having watched comrades with whom I served, bled, dined and drank with, evolve over time into apologists for the regime, fully supportive of the usurpers of the nation, and who will carry out each and every order against their own fellow citizens, to their uttermost conclusion;
Having beheld the current crop of leadership - MY generation, the ones who remember the "shining city on the hill" - utter pusillanimous words of aid and comfort to the enemies of freedom, both here and abroad. Folks, do not deceive yourselves into believing all this "oathkeeper" talk. It's a lie, perpetrated to spread false hope. The true oathkeepers of the military have left the service, either in disgust or dotage - or to live their golden years in their own dachas by the lake.
Ping to my #23.
Those of us in the “old guard” outnumber your mercs.
We have more of a reason to fight as well.
If it comes down to that, we still win.
Well then, Old Sarge, I hate to say it but we’re going to have to fight a nasty, ugly guerilla war against them, and treat them exactly the same way we would the worst Muslim terrorist. Car bombs, snipers, poison in the water supply, the whole bit.
However, while there are elements within the military who would do as you say, I also know from some sources in, or just recently in, that there are a lot of guys who wouldn’t, too.
Jacquerie, the articles are good, but the remarks are the dressing on this thread.
Threads like this make FR.
In the meantime a lot of people suffer and die for the pipe dream of the few, who never learn that their closed, cramped, stifling society does not work, but instead learn well how to deflect the blame for it. The liberty of free men and women is far more chaotic, far more creative, and the order conservatives are defending represents the conditions under which it may best flourish. The purpose of government is to protect the rights of individual citizens, not impose order upon them.
Utopians don't think this way. For them it is the individual citizen who must bend, must be re-formed to fit an artificial blueprint. This is not Sisyphus rolling a rock because it makes him alive, it is an infinite number of Sisyphuses chained to that rock forever, equally futile but not allowed to live any other way. The free Sisyphus suffers for his own dream, the slave, for someone else's.
<>the articles are good, but the remarks are the dressing on this thread<>
Your metaphor is worth plagiarizing.
Completely agree.
If you recall a line of dialogue from the 2012 movie version of “Red Dawn”, the Jed character simply states, “In Iraq we were the good guys - now we have to be the bad guys. And we know how they fought.”
Example of a Self-fulfilling prophecy ... But “we can’t do that, because third parties never win!”
"Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right."
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