[Jacquerie]

Article V.

[ClearCase_guy]

I’m mixing apples and oranges here, but a recent Ukraine thread carried a comment that Russia actually lacks the population to occupy all of Ukraine. I think that may be true. 44 million in Ukraine. 140 million in Russia. Occupation and control by Russia would be very difficult.

The USA has 350 million or so, and about 400 million guns. Can the US government “occupy” the US? I hardly think so.

We are free if we want to be free.

[livius]

I read last night that Trudeau had called a late night meeting of government officials and that he had one scheduled early today with the governors. It sounds like he’s following Biden’s urging to “federalize” the “response” to the truckers, which I assume means the use of the military to crush the protesters.

He could end this immediately by just listening to the Canadian people, who have had enough tyranny theater and just want their lives back. But he is so obsessed with his power and image that he just won’t let go and I think he’s going to force the situation to violence and probably will end up crushing the protest and probably killing a lot of the protesters.

There have been protests all over the world against the arbitrary and irrational actions of government that have resulted in the loss of lives, livelihoods and in fact the loss of society and civilization in some places. Extreme poverty has soared, and I think there may soon be famines in some parts of the world. These are legitimate complaints. But the governments refuse to even meet with the protesters, much less understand and grant their peaceful pleas, and instead turn to force (as we saw in Paris yesterday, where Macron’s goons had “dangerous” women and children fleeing before them in the streets and tear gassed on-lookers for good measure).

I am very worried that if the Canadians use force and crush this protest, which so many people have looked to for inspiration and courage, that all of the governments will follow suit and that we will enter an age of such tyranny that we could never have imagined it.

[bert]

slay tyrants

[wastedyears]

Nobody has the balls.

[grobdriver]

Bookmark.

[super7man]

“Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons, and gendarmes [armed French police] at the service of the plunderers, and treats the victim – when he defends himself – as a criminal,” wrote French economist Frederic Bastiat in his pamphlet, The Law (1850).

One of my favorites.

Bastiat: The Law

[Hostage]

In a 1787 letter to William Stephens Smith, the son-in-law of John Adams, Thomas Jefferson wrote:

I do not know whether it is to yourself or Mr. Adams I am to give my thanks for the copy of the new constitution. I beg leave through you to place them where due. It will be yet three weeks before I shall receive them from America. There are very good articles in it: and very bad. I do not know which preponderate. What we have lately read in the history of Holland, in the chapter on the Stadtholder, would have sufficed to set me against a Chief magistrate eligible for a long duration, if I had ever been disposed towards one: and what we have always read of the elections of Polish kings should have forever excluded the idea of one continuable for life.

Wonderful is the effect of impudent and persevering lying. The British ministry have so long hired their gazetteers to repeat and model into every form lies about our being in anarchy, that the world has at length believed them, the English nation has believed them, the ministers themselves have come to believe them, and what is more wonderful, we have believed them ourselves.

Wonderful here above is taken as "amazing", "unbelievable", "astonishing", "hard to believe". Note that "gazetteers" is mentioned here with the same disdain that we have today with respect to fake news.

Yet where does this anarchy exist? Where did it ever exist, except in the single instance of Massachusets? And can history produce an instance of a rebellion so honourably conducted? I say nothing of it’s motives. They were founded in ignorance, not wickedness. God forbid we should ever be 20 years without such a rebellion. The people can not be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions it is a lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty.

Here, we have a historical parallel to our January 6th so-called "Insurrection" concocted from a peaceful protest proceeding from "ignorance" (without knowing) as to what was to come, which we are now learning was staged with prodding and provocation. Jefferson is defending against charges that the American Revolution began in a "crime of insurrection." While abroad, the new formation of a United States is viewed in certain circles as stemming from criminals.

We have had 13 states independant 11 years. There has been one rebellion. That comes to one rebellion in a century and a half for each state. What country before ever existed a century and half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?

Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two?

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

It is its natural manure. Our Convention has been too much impressed by the insurrection of Massachusets: and in the spur of the moment they are setting up a kite to keep the hen yard in order. I hope in god this article will be rectified before the new constitution is accepted.

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We have not yet had our contemporary Lexington and Concord which in my opinion, likely will not happen as the consequences to the dirty globalist cabal are far worse for them than for us. Instead, this cabal will seek a distraction, any distraction, such as a war, to ward off their demise.

UKRAINE.

[super7man]

Credit to my wife:
She pointed that no major social change has ever occurred without violence. US Independence, Slavery, Suffrage, Civil Rights, BLM (?), etc.

Not all social changes are good, correct or beneficial but I believe violence may be necessary.

I believe the trucker thing will go violent real quick if the government starts arresting people and seizing trucks. Then we will see social change. The government will have to get in line with the people. Until it goes violent, the government does not believe the people are serious or committed. Violence’s is the test.

[PLMerite]

[Facing Tyranny, ‘What Should Free Men Do?’]

[jmacusa]

2nd. Amendment.

[Harpotoo]

What did Washington and the rest do?