The Corner - National Review Online
Consequently, the next six weeks, like the next ten months, are going to be worse than we think. We’re wired to think that everyone plays by the ususal rules of politics — i.e., if the tide starts to change, the side against whom it has turned modifies its positions in order to stay viable in the next election. But what will happen here will be the opposite. You have a party with the numbers to do anything it puts its mind to, led by movement Leftitsts who see their window of opportunity is closing. We seem to expect them to moderate because that’s what everybody in their position does. But they won’t. They will put their heads down and go for as much transformation as they can get, figuring that once they get it, it will never be rolled back. The only question is whether there are enough Democrats who are conventional politicians and who care about being reelected, such that they will deny the leadership the numbers it needs. But I don’t think we should take much heart in this possibility. Those Democrats may well come to think they are going to lose anyway — that’s why so many of them are abandoning ship now. If that’s the case, their incentive will be to vote with the leadership.
I think this may be right. Well, America has a historical example of how to treat would-be tyrants: Modern Historians Confront the American Revolution - Murray N. Rothbard - Mises Institute
The most important and dramatic change in interpreting the history of the American Revolutionary War has come about very recently: the realization that the Americans won because, and insofar as, they were conducting a massive guerrilla war. They fought a “people’s war” against the superior firepower and orthodox military strategy and tactics of the British imperial power.
If that’s what it takes, then that’s what it takes.
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Never gonna happen. People, in general are selfish cowards. You could no more muster a committed, principled
collection of revolutionaries than you could herd a pack of craven weasels. People don’t give a shit about what is right if it requires any sacrifice whatsoever. Who’s your army Bill? Frothing theocrats? Anti-government pensioners? Randian bloggers? Good luck….
So much wisdom in such a little package.
Ah, Judson sticks his head up out of his ass for a few minutes:
All of the above and far more. And that’s pretty scary, isn’t it, Judson? It won’t matter who they are, as long as they’re on my side against your tyranny.
Who were the people who rose up against the British Crown, Judson? Who fought those battles? And who stood victorious at Yorktown?
You’re a pompous ass, Judson. There are plenty of us out here who will eventually take up our arms if necessary. We are an army in waiting, ever vigilant and ever sure.
Where’s your army? You moron. It’s the same army that served in every war we’ve had. Men and women who came to the call, and bled and died or returned home broken or whole and got on with their lives.
That army is still out there, Judson, and it’s stirring. It’s a part of what America is. It has been with us from our inception; from our birth. Volunteers will always rise up against tyranny.
And if tyranny finds your sorry ass across from the barricades from me Judson, then I’d advise you to reevaluate your statements about that army, because we will roll over you without mercy.
Alas, I fear Judson may be right. Too many of our fellow citizens are watching American Idol, Survivor, and Lost (three shows I’ve never watched) to pay attention to politics. Have we even rolled back one social program once it has been put in place? Reagan campaigned to abolish the Department of Education. It’s still there. In 230 years we have gone from a nation of rugged individualists to a nation of an apathetic bunch of sheep. Look at the percentage of people who actually vote in elections. I fear for my once great country.
Time for you to retire Chef, collect your SS and drink a nice bottle of wine.
In any revolution only a small part of the population is actively involved. That’s why the rest are called sheeple.
Don’t be so pessimistic, Denny. Even during the Revolution, those actively engaged in resistance were a very small minority. Those who didn’t care one way or another were a much larger minority of America’s 3 million population, but with a current population of nearly 310 million, there are a lot more of them.
The nature of guerrilla war doesn’t consist entirely of a “French Undergound” carrying out covert operations. In the revolution there was a large scale sympathetic movement that embraced small, anonymous acts of support that induced a steady stream of loyalist Tories to move to England throughout the war, convinced in a thousand little ways that they were not welcome in America.
You won’t see whole towns rise up to attack government buildings, but you’ll see individual communities take action locally to chip away at the measures designed to constrain them. Just don’t be discouraged by our contradictions. We may be so obedient that we wait at red lights in the middle of the night, when nobody’s around, but we also view speed limit signs (and many other traffic laws) as suggestions. We’ll come through when we have to.
Time for you to reach down, far behind your weak-kneed stance and pull your pointy lil’ empty head out of your ass, lil’ Judson*.
If it comes to that - I sincerely hope it won’t, but I suspect it might - I think, like Lorenzo and Bill both make reference to, there will be enough to deliver that “guerrilla” action that’s needed.
The other side of that old one about “evil triumphing if good men simply do nothing”, is that evil can be defeated if only a few good men do something.
Every day, in this country, there are just a few more who understand that Gubmint is mostly the problem, almost never any kind of solution - and that not “going along with the program” is sometimes both a necessity and a real smart move. It doesn’t really require “…a committed, principled collection of revolutionaries…”, after all - just a certain percentage of those who’ve had enough, and/or have come to believe that they have nothing really left to lose…
*nice to see someone finally showed you how to use the “shift” key, and capitalize the first letter of your name, BTW - doesn’t make you any smarter, of course, but if you keep getting and more-or-less retaining instruction like that, someday you might actually begin to write something that looks like you have two digits in your I.Q., and only one of them is a zero)
Speak for yourself and your fellow leftists.
Threepers - The name comes from the historical fact that only about three percent of the American colonists, at any one time, took up arms against British rule.
Wars can be deceptive. I read that on average, during the Nam, only 250 US soldiers (including sailors, airmen, marines) were actually in combat on any given day, for instance.
John Ross’ book “Unintended Consequences”, among other things, predicts a revolution method I think very plausible, and likely. I also think every American should read it.
Lastly, I really, really hope it doesn’t come to that, or another secession attempt like the last one. And not just because I will be unlikely to survive it. 700,000 (Civil War) dead will seem like a skirmish compared to what we could do with modern, civilian owned weapons today.
One must also remember that Washington brought Von Steuben to his rag-tag American army to teach it European fighting methods - to drill it in the order of arms. So must we learn the art of war against the Liberal hordes, being wise to their tactics and employing what we will to preserve the Republic. Keep in mind it was a charging line of bayonets not muskets firing from a distance that struck fear and caused soldiers to break ranks and flee.
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I recently watched the John Adams mini-series. I grew depressed thinking that now one couldn’t find 3 people in Massachusetts that would fight for freedom. Days later, Dead Ted’s seat was filled by a republican. That was heartening.
We will see what November brings. Perhaps the status quo will stand, perhaps republicans will gain some seats, perhaps Obama will be a lame duck by the end of the year. Whatever happens, I really don’t think that armed conflict is likely nor wise. The government is very well armed and Washington is controlled by liberals who are just a hairbreadths distant from fascists. It’s going to be interesting, that’s for sure.
Judson seems to think that he can just keep stealing people’s stuff and they’ll never stand up to protect themselves.
I may be among the selfish cowards you cite, Judson, but I’m getting mighty tired of working my ass off just to buy flat-screen TVs for you, your favored bureaucrats, and the herds of “victims” you rely on for votes. At a certain point, those who’d rather not be involved decide that they’ve had enough.
That’s what you’re seeing today, Judson. Get used to it.
genes and Lorenzo are right, according to John Adams. He once stated that, during the Revolution, about 1/3 of the populace were Patriots, 1/3 were British Tories, and the remaining 1/3 really didn’t care who won.
The Patriots prevailed anyway.
Even if the
ProgressivesAtavists manage to pass their loopy agenda, it will be possible later to take a page from their handbook and modify their programs beyond all recognition - just so long as us Conservatarians don’t get baited into using words like “repeal”, which turn elections into plebiscites on wedge issues. We were able to modify the welfare state and balance the budget in the 1990s; we could base future campaigns on this reform model if necessary.Judson should remember that no more than one-third of the American population of 1776 supported the Declaration of Independence. One-third more were loyalists to the Crown, and the remaining third were just hoping to stay out of the way.
Yet the third that supported independence beat the best army in the world.
Mr. Quick’s point is a simple one: there are more than enough people willing to take a stand even if the ratings for American Idol, Survivor, and Lost remain robust (I wouldn’t know myself). The proof of that is already seen in the Tea Party rallies. There’s the nucleus of your new patriotic front right there. That tea party does indeed seem to be learning how to fight properly.
They’ll need to, because the movement Left will stop them and push their agenda through in the next year by any means necessary.
The movement Left, as cited in the Corner article, is willing to preach a “damn the torpedos, full speed ahead over the cliff” approach because most of them (other than the ones who will lose their next election and have to become lobbyists to make a living) have no real skin in the game. The academics, MSM, various elitists and apparatchiks continue to do well in life whether BambiCare passes or not, and whether the Democrats lose in November or not.
So the movement Left is indeed willing to push “by any means necessary” to get BambiCare through so as to create a permanent, center-left, authoritarian-lite style of governance in which they are the ones who set the agenda. The results can be seen in David Cameron’s Tories in Britain, who merely plan to make all the government Britain has more efficient, not to have less government in the first place.
“By any means necessary”: any history student knows that is how the Roman Republic fell. From the Gracchi Brothers to Gaius Marius to Sulla to Pompeius Magnus to Julius Caesar, each was willing to do what they did by any means necessary. The result was Octavian, though at any point in that hundred year march you would have been hard-pressed to prove it.
The movement Left wants to get rid of the American republic and start another one. BambiCare is a necessary step. They’ll do it by any means necessary.
It may be true that no social program has ever been rolled back and that every government employee is still there.
California added something like 47,000
parasitesworkers, in 2008 alone, though running a $21,000,000,000 deficit, a $500,000,000,000 debt and massive unfunded pensions. That’s one state.The difference compared to, say, 1930 or 1968 is that this time something as large and intrusive as Nationalized Health Care will paralyze and then bankrupt the nation.
Nationalized Health Care won’t sneak up on us like Wilson’s income tax did (”Don’t worry! It’s only on the rich and only 1%!”) or Social Security (”Don’t worry! It’s a very small part of your check and there will always be more kids paying into this scam to pay for this Ponzi scheme!”)
This time the impact will be sudden and severe.
People won’t like this. Especially when…
1) we will get worse service than we have now
2) it will cost more than it does now
3) it still won’t cover everyone
4) Congress and the unions get sweetheart deals
They ARE going to pass it. The Republicans do NOT have the spine to turn it back…only tweak it. The fact that government doesn’t have to report their payments of all these programs with IRS Form 1099-GOV means we will never really know who gets what. So basically, by giving the Democrats an, almost, filibuster resistent majority last time because of the MSM failing to vet the Democrat nominee…we’re doomed. 1099-GOV for all! (And I’m taking my anger out on the MSM. One more copy to the toilet paper row at the grocery store. Every frigging day!)
I’d rather it not come to this, but if the right is going to arm themselves to the teeth and dig in, I’d like to see the left do the same and finally eliminate all of you wanna-be monkeywrenchers. Cleanse this nation of all of the right-wing, corporate-hugging glibertarian pieces of shit.
Not all battles involve conventional soldiers and weaponry. If every small businessman calculated his financial hit under new legislation,he could perhaps justify shutting down his business and laying off his employees for an equal loss. Then the powers that be could be dictated into undoing and redressing their legislation or face crippling economic and social consequences. We small businesses are the backbone of our economy and, if organized, can and should call all the shots.
So what’s wrong with American Idol? Looks like a meritocracy to me!!! LOL!!! That’s a far sight better than Congressthings or their ilk.
Seriously, so what if people watch “American Idol” or dumb shows you don’t like? Americans are like that. Generally speaking, we do what we like to do even if it offends someone else’s overdeveloped sensitivities. Sometimes we do it just because IT DOES!
We also tend to get royally pissed off at pompous asses telling us what to do. THAT, if nothing else, eventually pisses us off enough to turn off the TV and go kick ass so we can get back to our jobs and our families and whatever else it is that we like to do. You know, to stuff that matters.
There’s a need for people who thrive on political events and on studying the various political machinations of the self-appointed “Ruling Class”. Many of them, it appears, write blogs! I read several of them! But that’s not my main focus in life by any means.
So to you all who follow each political blip, and struggle to place it into proper perspective, I say “Thank You!” But don’t think that I’m not paying attention, just because I don’t get as worked up as you do.
I’m watching. Most of us who carry our own weight in this country are watching closely. We are lightening our financial obligations, selling stuff that distracts us, getting our families and those we love “ready.” Above all, we want to be able to move quickly when necessary.
I am one of the 50% of Americans who carry both myself and the other half who don’t pull their own weight. Do you think I am falling for that “compassion” crap that says I have to keep working hard to carry the deadbeats just so they won’t have to pull their own weight? Get real.
There is a time and place for everything. When I see my way clear to, shall we say, ENCOURAGE the deadbeats to grow up, I shall not hesitate. Whatever it takes, I shall not hesitate.
Whatever it takes. Remember that.
Basically, it boils down to: We have guns. You don’t. You’re a’skeert of them.
But hey, bring it. Might be good for a few laughs.
Exordium sounds just like his “intellectual forefathers” in the Fascist, Communist and Nazi parties.
Of course he only learned revisionist history so does not know what happens to people like him (Here is a hint-it won’t be very pretty for you, Exordium).
He and his ilk have also never understood the American people, just like his “intellectual forefathers” in the Fascist, Communist and Nazi parties. Melville understood it, Yamamoto had an inkling of it but no one listened to him.
The time is coming soon where you will have to walk the walk. The question you will have to ask yourself is are you ready to die in very nasty ways for your beliefs, Exordium, because that is what it will come down to. This won’t be like your stupid Berzerkley “student riots” or “anti war protests” complete with giant papier-mache puppets. You won’t be going out for a soy latte at Charbux and Tweeting your friends with your iPhone after a hard day of rioting followed by going home to your parent’s basement and firing up the bong. No, when the pointy sharpie things start flying and you see your buddies heads blown off the fear will over come you and you will run but there will be nowhere for you to run to and nowhere to hide. There will be no going back to “the way it was” for you, hun. There will be no T-Shirts with your mug on them being sold to idiots at the GAP, either.
Like I’ve always said, it’s a sad and dismal thought. But it isn’t entirely devoid of appeal.
And we’ve had those guns for a long, long time. Think about that, Exordium. Do you think they’ve been sitting around collecting dust all these years?
Those of us with firearms, tend to be, as a general rule, deadly serious about their use and maintenance. In some instances, our fathers and their fathers taught us their use. For others, the military taught them. And in many cases, the two converged.
Exordium, I sort of pity you and your brick throwing comrades. You’ll never know what hit you.
Oh. and Exordium? The imbecility of a drive-by troll using “Exordium” while posting such a comment is somewhat breathtaking. Crawl back into your playpen and tear more pages out of that copy of Rhetorica ad Herennium that your momma brought at the junk shop to beat you with. Chew the paper slowly. Let your drool soften it up.
There now. Be a good little pinhead.
Bill Quick is right. If the lefties push it to the point where force is required, it will be a faster replay of the Spanish Civil War and the Right will completely finish the opposition once and for all. It will be ugly but once it’s over, leftism will have been purged from this country.
There will be a lot of pock-marked walls, unmarked leftist graves and well-fed feral dogs.
Said it before, and will probably say it again;
There are a lot of people around my general age who may be described as “not leftist” and have, combined, a rather frightening skillset. If you think a bunch of nitwits in caves and tinpot dictatorships can cause trouble, you haven’t seen shit.
The left talks; it’s what they’re good at. Everyone else actually does things. We don’t need to “arm to the teeth”; we already are, or have other applicable skills.
What is a leftist army of Starbucks cashiers, non-profit pencil pushers, local college profs, trust-fund wannabe anarchist punks, and Prius drivers going to do - nag us to death? Send us a sternly worded letter? A world with only moonbats works until the oil needs changing. It certainly doesn’t defeat anyone.
I can personally arm at least two infantry platoons. If you include hunting rifles and shotguns, closer to three.
I’m just sayin’.
DCP
Don’t be too sure. Those guys get paid because somebody sold something. If there’s no functioning private sector….
And Exordium bleated:
I bet you would like to see somebody else do it, Mr. Internet Tough Guy. What’s wrong with you doing it, on the strength of your own convictions and with your own resources?
Ye maun try.
Arming platoons is but one aspect of the game.
Another is keeping those platoons busy. That is to say, do your detective work now rather than later, in regard to worthy subjects and targets in your area of operations. This is no less essential than drilling in arms.
Think Michael Collins and the Twelve Apostles writ large. Need enough intel to surprise them on a Sunday morning, and to pick out the fleeing rats at patriot-manned checkpoints.
“Clinton Rules of Engagement”, people. GOOGLE it. Similar to Unintended Consequences.
Mike Vanderbough on Clinton Rules etc.
“They kill some of us, at first accidentally perhaps, but almost immediately thereafter intentionally. The spasm of defensive killing begins, targeted at their leadership. They spasm in return. They would not be able to scuttle into their “green zones” fast enough. For each clumsy attack on us, they receive a lesson in the 500 meter war, one bullet (or many bullets) at a time. They commit “collateral damage” of our innocents, we stay within the rules of engagement and kill only war-planners and war-wagers.
I have asked this question before. They will fight to the last ATF agent or to the last oath-breaking soldier. Will they fight to the first senior bureaucrat, the second Congressman, the third newspaper editor, the fourth Senator, the fifth White House aide? Can they stand Bill Clinton’s rules of engagement?
These are the stakes for them, though they do not understand it.
And once they start it, they will find it impossible to stop, until they surrender unconditionally or personally face the music themselves.”
Also ALL of you need to read “Civil War II” by Thomas Chittum. Especially EXORDIUM. If there is mass civil disturbance in this country it won’t be just left vs. right. You will have to deal with gangs and ethnicities also. Haves vs. have not’s.
Just take a look at the number of gang members of all types in this country and then the number of police. Figure that about only 25% of the police are street capable, the rest being admin types. How many of that 25% have actually fired their weapon in a life or death situation? How many of the gang members done that? Are the LEO’s up for it? Then ask yourself how the gangs are armed. Gun control only works for the law abiding.
There is a list of things towards the end of the book that need to come about before CWII happens. You will be amazed / frightened at how far along that list we are. Don’t forget to look at the pub date of the book. Chittum was a bit prophetic.
hbbill,
Chittum’s book may be great, but reading some of his more recent comments suggest he has escaped from the ‘funny farm’ or is off his meds.
“…We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security…”
Destructive? CHECK.
Long train of abuses and usurpations? CHECK.
Despotism? Damn right. Nobody can argue that an overwhelming majority of Americans DO NOT WANT what the
Demmunists are pushing, yet they turn to an obscure committee procedure to jam it through anyway.
It is long past time we Conservatives stop beating around the bush and speak plainly: We have a G*D-given, inalienable right to take arms for our defense.
See http://tinyurl.com/yz4s3jc for what Dear Reader, Toe-jam Joe, Dingy Harry, Fine-Swine, Her-Supreme-Wickedness and other prominent Evil-party Senators said about reconciliation in 2005 – when the Retardlicans (IE “The Stupid Party”) threatened to use it to fill a few Federal Bench seats to stop criminals walking free for lack of a speedy trial.
Try to reconcile why it was the end of our Republic over a few no-name Judges in podunk locations but now it’s the “right” thing to do for the biggest expansion of govt in our history??!!
Consider what Conrad – the man who killed the reconciliation-ban over a UNANIMOUS Senate vote as referenced above – said about Reconciliation in 2001: http://blip.tv/play/hJNRgcGqLAI%2Em4v .
There are MILLIONS of us who have had ENOUGH. We seek not “revolution” but rather RESTORATION of our Constitution and our small-r-republican form of government in a union of sovereign states — in other words we demand restoration to our Founders’ Republic where the Federal government lives within its proper Constitutional bounds.
Enough.
As to the gangs and criminals, we Patriots will likely have to deal with them as well. The cops will - like Katrina - be holed up at home taking care of THEIR families.
The .mil - likely just Army and Marines - will fight against us for a time, but will see mass desertions/defections not to mention numerous “fragging” incidents and will soon become ineffective. Though there are exceptions, and far too many have no idea of the meaning of the oath they took, they’re largely a very patriotic bunch of people and will soon see the evil they’re ordered to perpetrate. Most won’t participate for long on the side of evil.
Though I pray every day for - and work diligently to help bring about - a peaceful restoration, I no longer believe it is possible. Our would-be Masters in DC and the REAL Masters with their hands up said puppets’ backs - have other plans and they NEED a collapse/revolt/etc. as an excuse for implementing them. If they don’t get one they’ll pull a Gulf of Tonkin or other such false-flag “incident” to get things rolling.
I too don’t expect to survive what is coming, but I’d rather die on my feet fighting evil than live on my knees licking the hand that beats me. As my Ancestor said:
“Give Me Liberty, OR GIVE ME DEATH.”
G*d help us - and God Save Our Republic!
PH
Gentlemen and Ladies,
Exordium’s mouth is obviously writing checks his ass can’t cash, but if you talk to enough left-collectivists, they really expect that “the government” will in the end force their will upon the rest of us. They extrapolate from their own cowardice and assume that if “the government” issues an order, we will meekly submit, as they would. Remember they have no principles in the end that they are willing to die for themselves, although they are perfectly willing to see other people in government employ do so.
This is why Oath Keepers scares them so badly. The prospect of soldiers and police THINKING about the constitutionality of their orders introduces strategic uncertainty into the minds of the wannabe tyrants. “If I issue the order, will it be obeyed? Or will they turn their rifles on me?”
In the event, I rather suspect that the military will attempt to sit it out, letting the “civilians” sort things out. At least, they will if our side does not resort to Fort Sumters, OKC bombings or blindly striking out at the military itself.
No, I rather think that if a 4th generation warfare campaign, initiated only after deadly violence from the other side cedes us the moral high ground, and targeted Clinton-like at the war makers, the tyrants and their media and philosophical cheerleaders (see Serbia, 1999) and not the footsoldiers doing their bidding, the conflict would be over in record time for a civil war.
Indeed, we could probably avoid this conflict entirely if we could but persuade Exordium and his pals in government that such a course would lead to their immediate deaths. Unfortunately we have not even seen fit to use Sons of Liberty tactics against them — breaking their windows, tar and feathering, etc. — so they find our growling to be not credible.
It is our fault we have not shoved back over these past 75 years. Our backs are now to the wall. We recognize that, but the enemies of the Founders Republic do not. It is unfortunate that the only epiphany they will likely experience is when, God forbid the necessity, a 150 grain thirty caliber slug penetrates their tiny, tyrannical minds at considerable velocity and exits the other side.
May God have mercy on their heathen souls, but in any case, may God save the Republic.
Mike Vanderboegh
GeorgeMason1776@aol.com
http://sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com
Exordium?
Just remember: We’ve been practicing for a long, long time; don’t think firearms are icky and evil, and many have actually served in the US Military……just to remind you not to let your ego (since apparently you lack a mind) write checks your ass isn’t prepared to cover…..
from Sipsey Street
Admit I didn’t read all the comments, but the ones I did included some babbling from a “Judson” and was rather demeaning towards seniors, so I’d like to offer some insight to the pompous ass! “Don’t pick a fight with one of us old bastards, we’ll just shoot your ass!”
I find myself agreeing with numerous posters here who say there will be a big suprise should the “progressives” try to force the issue with this mess. And as for judson you would be wise, although I see form your posts you are not, to not pick trouble with an older patriot, as they are more like than not, to just end a fight early rather than waste the unecessary energy on “sorry young left wingers” who think they have this planned out. You will be required to jump first, and we promise you will land hard. Its about to be your move… John III
I would just point out to the commie boot-lickers around here that some of us don’t have anything to lose, anymore.
This is it: this fight, in our time.
Be goddamned careful what you wish for, kids.
Exordium, while you are busy writing “Progressive” across your forehead with the red marker you borrowed from your mother, we are busy cleaning rifles.
patrickhenry3
Exordium, while you are busy writing “Progressive” across your forehead with the red marker you borrowed from your mother, we are busy cleaning our rifles.
patrickhenry3
Exordium - PLEASE consider carefully the returned comments in plain English that warn you of the folly of your statement. If you mean to have a war, you may not live to regret what you so diligently sought…
These people are serious. They have had enough. They have resolved to back up no further in regards to the never ending encroachment on their rights.
Do not ask anyone to dance if you don’t know the steps….
Read all the posts and it seems clear that the leftist, progressive, commies are clueless. They view the world though their own eyes, incapable of understanding that not everybody sees things as they do.
Furthermore they seem to believe their being rescued by the cowardly government who risk only what is not theirs; they re-define cowardice.
Arrogance is the last character trait I noticed. So the old among us are incapable of defending this country.
As mentioned above, many of us possess skill sets that are very useful regardless of age. Our collective wisdom, knowledge, and morality pose, formidable problems that need to be overcome.
Last I reiterate what has been wisely mentioned above; many of us have nothing to loose; that alone should concern any person with an IQ above 60.
Those who may have something to loose generally fear not death and are willing to stand at any cost, in opposition to tyranny that is upon us.
Perhaps we made a mistake in the past tolerating tyrannical abuses. We have learned from our mistakes however and will not repeat this.
As for the leftist, commie, progressives, they cannot seem to help themselves, seemingly pushed onward by the demonic force that is their soul. So too will they reap what they have sown.
May God have mercy upon us.