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By Patrick B. Yancey
“If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.†- E. M. Forster
A great deal of thought has been expended, both by myself and others, on the question of rebellion against the government of the United States as it stands and is likely to become. The problem comes in deciding when the nature of the State has passed the boundaries of protection into the realm of oppression. Many might argue, with justification, that those boundaries have long since been transgressed, but, as there are no troops in the streets on a regular basis, nor “checkpoints†through which one must pass every day, most feel that this nation is still relatively free. The key word here, however, is “relatively.â€
When one speaks of revolution, the most ubiquitous example is the very conflict which spawned the United States itself. Every revolution, it is said, becomes what it displaces, and the fact that it has taken so long for this to occur here is a tribute, not to the founders and framers, but to the men who came after. [1] Indeed, it is the American character, as Thoreau pointed out so ably, which has led to today’s surfeit of technology and wealth, and not the government, which has interfered at every opportunity. Now, however, the idea of the “culture of peace†is gaining ascendancy here as it already has in Europe , along with the shallow, untutored miasma of popular culture currently destroying the values of self-reliance and independent thought. The instruments of government are propagandized as the pinnacle of the social hierarchy, such as the police and military, and men of true vision and worth are damned as anarchists. The cultural revolution is already underway, and we are losing.
Is the answer, then, a counter-revolution? A push on all fronts to spread the ideals of reason and individualism among the hordes of the unenlightened? Can people of good faith impose their views on others this way? The answer is, of course not. That is the difference between the collectivist and the individualist: one must control, while the other cannot. A true anarchist or libertarian can never tell another what to do. What can be done, however, is to suggest. Recently, I had a conversation with a young lady about the television show Law & Order (which I am proud to say I have never watched a complete episode of), during which I pointed out that it was propaganda for the State, in that it attempted to portray police officers and prosecutors as the guardians of society rather than its oppressors. She disagreed, so I asked her if her own experiences bore out the portrayal of the denizens of the State, and she said they did not, but she “still like[d] the show.†Though I may not have gotten through directly, the next time she watches that program, a nagging doubt may tickle her powers of discrimination, and, one day, she may turn off that variety of pap, though she may substitute another. The process is slow, however, and a lot of people have to be conversed with to find those receptive to the idea of self-government.
No, an appeal to reason is unlikely to succeed, if only because it is so hard to find those familiar with its workings. What, then, to do? In truth, not a great deal can be done anymore, as the process is too far along. As Tyler (Alexander, not John B.) said, "A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.†[2]
Franklin was even more explicit: "…there is no form of Government but what may be a blessing to the people if well administered, and believe farther that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in Despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic Government, being incapable of any other."
The question is begged, however, in any discussion of revolution, with what shall the bloated State be replaced? How can the culture of dependency be overcome? Can it be overcome at all? The bureaucracy is so deeply entrenched, the incumbents so secure, the police so powerful, how could any revolt succeed? The federal government is the second-largest employer in this country, after the auto industry. What can be done against it?
The answer is: little or nothing at this time.
What would be the circumstances, however, when a rebellion, even just a guerilla campaign, would gain enough civil support to make it feasible?
The answer is: When the people being killed are not Americans, or are not wearing American uniforms.
The truth is, I fear, that the rebellion will have to wait until foreign troops, under the auspices of the United Nations, are stationed on American soil, which will likely happen when the United States cedes its sovereign power to the United Nations as a result of treaty. The putative reason for this occupation will be the confiscation and destruction of privately owned firearms, and it is even probable that United States troops will be the major participants. However, once a man puts on a blue helmet, he is no longer entitled to even the slight regard I would give to an American, because he has betrayed his country, as has every American Soldier who has obeyed the orders of the traitors above him and done so. Any politician, soldier, or other person who has taken an oath to protect and defend the Constitution yet allies himself with or serves under any other body politic is a traitor. When a United States elected official proclaims that the United Nations Charter has greater Power than the Constitution, he is a traitor. When a soldier acts as a “peacekeeper†in any capacity, here or abroad, he is a traitor.
Of course, the possibility always exists that the police agencies of the United States will be the primary confiscators, in the same “a few guns here and a few guns there†way they currently are pursuing. That is the reason I suggest starting the stockpiling now, the way many have already undertaken. Had I the money, I would buy a few cases of surplus rifles, such as Mosin-Nagants or Enfields, and a few crates of suitable ammunition, and bury them a goodly ways away from me. I would never visit the site, nor inform anyone of its existence, except by way of written instructions left with a reliable person, to be opened in the event of my death. I would watch all those programs on the television about military technology, and counter-insurgency tactics. I would do my best to obtain as surreptitiously as possible the texts necessary to prepare me for the struggle ahead. I would make up bills of sale for all my personal arms, dated to the last period when private, unregulated sales of arms are permissible, and bury them, as well, except for the one, the cheapest and most expendable, which I would let them have to prove I’m a “good citizen.â€
Most importantly, however, I would carry on my search for the people who will listen. The people who can see what is happening, but think they are alone, or that they are powerless. The people who will trust that what I say is not paranoia (for it isn’t). [3] The people who wish to be free are my quarry, as they are the State’s, though for different reasons.
Though the State holds no bit of my loyalty, I will never betray my country, for to do so may result in the death of innocent people (yes, there are a few). My country, however, is eminently capable of betraying me, and will likely do so as soon as politically possible, probably within the next two decades or so. I hope to be ready.
[1] I do not say “women†here as well because I feel that it is primarily the influence of emotion which has led to today’s welfare-warfare state, and it is women who have led to charge to replace reason as the guidepost of policy with the fulsome cry of “compassion.†I do not say that there are not women capable of reason, merely that those women do not seem often to get elected.
[2] The rest of this quote, about the fall of Athens , is even more chillingly prescient: “The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency, from dependency back to bondage.â€
[3] http://disarmament2.un.org/cab/salw-2003/statements/NGO/IANSA.pdf Pay particular attention to the Statements by NGOs (Non-Governmental Organizations—UN doublespeak for lobbyists).
Part II
“War is an applied science, with well-defined principle tested in history; analogous solutions may be found from ballista to H-bomb. But every revolution is a freak, a mutant, a monstrosity, its conditions never to be repeated and its operations carried out by amateurs and individualists.†- Robert Heinlein, If This Goes On…
A decent respect, as the saying goes, for the individuals who read my missives, obliges me.
When I spoke of rebellion only when the agents of a foreign power engaged in operations on American soil, I express the same sentiments as are demonstrated daily by all resistors of oppression. When a competing or overwhelming power has invaded your country, it is only natural that whatever force may be brought to bear upon it should be so employed.
That this invasion may occur as a result of treaty is irrelevant. If the United States government signs a treaty ceding sovereign rights to another power, no matter its identity, it is in violation of the Constitution, and no citizen is bound to obey the regulation of any such treaty. Indeed, the Constitution itself may be declared in abeyance, since the government has ignored it in such action. When the government has decided that the instrument which gives it its very existence is irrelevant, then that government itself is irrelevant, and may be ignored if possible, and resisted if not. Likewise any whom the government has invited onto American soil.
Upon further reflection and research, however, I find it highly likely that the agents of the confiscation of personal weapons will be American citizens, either federal agents or local police forces. This will take place in advance of cession of power to the United Nations, to better facilitate their installation, and will be in the piecemeal fashion currently employed. This underscores my previous admonition to stockpile now, while it is possible, not to wait until purchase of suitable arms is legally impossible. The problem lies in the draconian regulation of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (I have always found it fascinating that these three were lumped together in one agency - the three things the socialists most want to ban, along with automobiles). Whenever a firearms dealer leaves the business, for whatever reason, he must surrender his bound book of transactions, all transactions, to the BATF. This will lead federal agents to the door of anyone who has made multiple purchases of military surplus weapons. Speak to your dealer of choice about his fire insurance prior to your purchase.
There is a reason for the United Nations, and, indeed, any government, to want personal weapons removed from civilian hands, and it is being played out in the Near East as I write these lines. Anyone who watches regularly the dozens of television programs showing the advance of military technology will readily understand why open mobilization of a civil militia will result in carnage and death for the militia. Organized resistance is possible, however, and must be undertaken, whatever the cost. Some, however, may ask why. Is resistance to the machinations of an international elite really needful? Many, particularly those who believe world government to be a good idea, will assert that the guarantee of human rights has been explicitly documented in the United Nations’ own charter and Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Will not the United Nations be obliged to heed these principles? In answer, I can only ask if the reader believes the United States government seems to obey the Constitution, and further, if a government to which there is not even the plebiscitary remedy Americans are told they possess will adhere to words on paper once ascendant power is gained. The answer is, probably not. There are many and excellent expositions of the lie at the back of the “high-minded idealism†of the United Nations, and one has only to pierce the cloak of wordy bureaucratic obfuscation to be enlightened. (http://users.cyberone.com.au/myers/rights.html) There is no hope of consistency or liberty under the rule of the United Nations, and so little as to be nonexistent under the current regime. Politicians lie. The bigger the State, the bigger the lies.
The failure of social democracy has been amply demonstrated in Europe , as this is written, by the double-digit unemployment, spiraling debt, and suffocating regulation engendered by the socialist policies these democracies have voted for themselves. This is the fate to which the United States is moving, as surely as the budget deficit swells. One day, as in France , a license from the State will be obligatory in order to ride a bicycle. One day, as in England , a man who defends his home with deadly force will be tried, convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment. One day, as in most of Western Europe , it will be next to impossible to find gainful employment, because employers will know that, once hired, the penalty of law will make it virtually impossible to fire even the worst of sloths. This is where “high-minded idealism†is leading us. Any politician who claims to be working for tomorrow should be instantly mistrusted and dismissed. If he’s working for tomorrow, he’s not interested in you.
So, where, in all this, does revolution fit? It fits insofar as the only way a revolution may succeed in this country: disaffection of the enforcer. Only when more of the agents of the State are disengaged philosophically from the State’s aims can real progress be made. Only when officers and men can be made to see what the future has in store for them as tools of oppression, rather than guardians of freedom as they now are convinced they are by the propaganda machine of the news media, can the spell of the State be broken.
But how may this be accomplished? If one knows a police officer, or a soldier, converse with him. Odds are, he will have gripes about his job which he will be only too happy to share. Reasoning from the specific to the general, point out (gently, gently) the inconsistencies which afflict all government. He will likely say that, “Oh, well, that’s just the way it is. There must be government, or there’ll be anarchy!†Agree, and then ask what’s wrong with anarchy. Police officers in particular, dealing as they do with the lowest products of the culture of dependency they themselves have helped perpetuate, will believe that there must be government in order to prevent these people from committing depredation. Do not press if the officer seems to grow angry. He is not going to be swayed by argument. Leave it alone, and find a man of reason, if such exists among the ranks of the enforcers. Most importantly, never, never, never, suggest the commission of any illegal act to a law officer. He must make the first move.
But to quote Heinlein again, “Before a revolution can take place, the population must lose faith in both the police and the courts.†The viewership of police dramas and military programs must plummet. The reporting of crime must cease. The label “informer†must once again connote betrayal. The people must see that they are not free, and have not ever been. There must be civil disturbance, on a scale unknown in the past, and there must be men of resolution to do what must be done to stop tyranny.
None of these things will be easy, and still less pleasant. I, for one, despise violence, and one source of my disdain for these promulgators of socialist dogma is that their wrong-headed, idiotic, power-mad push to take my liberty may force me to it. I have no wish to give up my life as I lead it in order to hide, and scurry, and hit from ambush, and constantly wonder if I may be sold out at any time. I have no wish to risk the lives of myself or others in acts we should not have to take at all, if only people would not assume they know what is best for me. I do not hate them, for in order to hate, one must have loved, and I knew socialism for the evil it is when I first read its tenets. But, if driven to it, I will kill them. And I will weep.
About the Author
atrick B. Yancey is a certified auto technician and confirmed bachelor from the swamps of South Louisiana. He lives now in California caring for his grandparents in their dotage. Send the author an email with your comments to [email protected]
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This one-hour presentation from Perspectives on America, hosted by Jeffrey Bennett - is a MUST for all serious students of the tyranny under which we know live.
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http://www.federalobserver.com/archive.php?aid=6853
By Patrick B. Yancey
“If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.†- E. M. Forster
A great deal of thought has been expended, both by myself and others, on the question of rebellion against the government of the United States as it stands and is likely to become. The problem comes in deciding when the nature of the State has passed the boundaries of protection into the realm of oppression. Many might argue, with justification, that those boundaries have long since been transgressed, but, as there are no troops in the streets on a regular basis, nor “checkpoints†through which one must pass every day, most feel that this nation is still relatively free. The key word here, however, is “relatively.â€
When one speaks of revolution, the most ubiquitous example is the very conflict which spawned the United States itself. Every revolution, it is said, becomes what it displaces, and the fact that it has taken so long for this to occur here is a tribute, not to the founders and framers, but to the men who came after. [1] Indeed, it is the American character, as Thoreau pointed out so ably, which has led to today’s surfeit of technology and wealth, and not the government, which has interfered at every opportunity. Now, however, the idea of the “culture of peace†is gaining ascendancy here as it already has in Europe , along with the shallow, untutored miasma of popular culture currently destroying the values of self-reliance and independent thought. The instruments of government are propagandized as the pinnacle of the social hierarchy, such as the police and military, and men of true vision and worth are damned as anarchists. The cultural revolution is already underway, and we are losing.
Is the answer, then, a counter-revolution? A push on all fronts to spread the ideals of reason and individualism among the hordes of the unenlightened? Can people of good faith impose their views on others this way? The answer is, of course not. That is the difference between the collectivist and the individualist: one must control, while the other cannot. A true anarchist or libertarian can never tell another what to do. What can be done, however, is to suggest. Recently, I had a conversation with a young lady about the television show Law & Order (which I am proud to say I have never watched a complete episode of), during which I pointed out that it was propaganda for the State, in that it attempted to portray police officers and prosecutors as the guardians of society rather than its oppressors. She disagreed, so I asked her if her own experiences bore out the portrayal of the denizens of the State, and she said they did not, but she “still like[d] the show.†Though I may not have gotten through directly, the next time she watches that program, a nagging doubt may tickle her powers of discrimination, and, one day, she may turn off that variety of pap, though she may substitute another. The process is slow, however, and a lot of people have to be conversed with to find those receptive to the idea of self-government.
No, an appeal to reason is unlikely to succeed, if only because it is so hard to find those familiar with its workings. What, then, to do? In truth, not a great deal can be done anymore, as the process is too far along. As Tyler (Alexander, not John B.) said, "A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.†[2]
Franklin was even more explicit: "…there is no form of Government but what may be a blessing to the people if well administered, and believe farther that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in Despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic Government, being incapable of any other."
The question is begged, however, in any discussion of revolution, with what shall the bloated State be replaced? How can the culture of dependency be overcome? Can it be overcome at all? The bureaucracy is so deeply entrenched, the incumbents so secure, the police so powerful, how could any revolt succeed? The federal government is the second-largest employer in this country, after the auto industry. What can be done against it?
The answer is: little or nothing at this time.
What would be the circumstances, however, when a rebellion, even just a guerilla campaign, would gain enough civil support to make it feasible?
The answer is: When the people being killed are not Americans, or are not wearing American uniforms.
The truth is, I fear, that the rebellion will have to wait until foreign troops, under the auspices of the United Nations, are stationed on American soil, which will likely happen when the United States cedes its sovereign power to the United Nations as a result of treaty. The putative reason for this occupation will be the confiscation and destruction of privately owned firearms, and it is even probable that United States troops will be the major participants. However, once a man puts on a blue helmet, he is no longer entitled to even the slight regard I would give to an American, because he has betrayed his country, as has every American Soldier who has obeyed the orders of the traitors above him and done so. Any politician, soldier, or other person who has taken an oath to protect and defend the Constitution yet allies himself with or serves under any other body politic is a traitor. When a United States elected official proclaims that the United Nations Charter has greater Power than the Constitution, he is a traitor. When a soldier acts as a “peacekeeper†in any capacity, here or abroad, he is a traitor.
Of course, the possibility always exists that the police agencies of the United States will be the primary confiscators, in the same “a few guns here and a few guns there†way they currently are pursuing. That is the reason I suggest starting the stockpiling now, the way many have already undertaken. Had I the money, I would buy a few cases of surplus rifles, such as Mosin-Nagants or Enfields, and a few crates of suitable ammunition, and bury them a goodly ways away from me. I would never visit the site, nor inform anyone of its existence, except by way of written instructions left with a reliable person, to be opened in the event of my death. I would watch all those programs on the television about military technology, and counter-insurgency tactics. I would do my best to obtain as surreptitiously as possible the texts necessary to prepare me for the struggle ahead. I would make up bills of sale for all my personal arms, dated to the last period when private, unregulated sales of arms are permissible, and bury them, as well, except for the one, the cheapest and most expendable, which I would let them have to prove I’m a “good citizen.â€
Most importantly, however, I would carry on my search for the people who will listen. The people who can see what is happening, but think they are alone, or that they are powerless. The people who will trust that what I say is not paranoia (for it isn’t). [3] The people who wish to be free are my quarry, as they are the State’s, though for different reasons.
Though the State holds no bit of my loyalty, I will never betray my country, for to do so may result in the death of innocent people (yes, there are a few). My country, however, is eminently capable of betraying me, and will likely do so as soon as politically possible, probably within the next two decades or so. I hope to be ready.
[1] I do not say “women†here as well because I feel that it is primarily the influence of emotion which has led to today’s welfare-warfare state, and it is women who have led to charge to replace reason as the guidepost of policy with the fulsome cry of “compassion.†I do not say that there are not women capable of reason, merely that those women do not seem often to get elected.
[2] The rest of this quote, about the fall of Athens , is even more chillingly prescient: “The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency, from dependency back to bondage.â€
[3] http://disarmament2.un.org/cab/salw-2003/statements/NGO/IANSA.pdf Pay particular attention to the Statements by NGOs (Non-Governmental Organizations—UN doublespeak for lobbyists).
Part II
“War is an applied science, with well-defined principle tested in history; analogous solutions may be found from ballista to H-bomb. But every revolution is a freak, a mutant, a monstrosity, its conditions never to be repeated and its operations carried out by amateurs and individualists.†- Robert Heinlein, If This Goes On…
A decent respect, as the saying goes, for the individuals who read my missives, obliges me.
When I spoke of rebellion only when the agents of a foreign power engaged in operations on American soil, I express the same sentiments as are demonstrated daily by all resistors of oppression. When a competing or overwhelming power has invaded your country, it is only natural that whatever force may be brought to bear upon it should be so employed.
That this invasion may occur as a result of treaty is irrelevant. If the United States government signs a treaty ceding sovereign rights to another power, no matter its identity, it is in violation of the Constitution, and no citizen is bound to obey the regulation of any such treaty. Indeed, the Constitution itself may be declared in abeyance, since the government has ignored it in such action. When the government has decided that the instrument which gives it its very existence is irrelevant, then that government itself is irrelevant, and may be ignored if possible, and resisted if not. Likewise any whom the government has invited onto American soil.
Upon further reflection and research, however, I find it highly likely that the agents of the confiscation of personal weapons will be American citizens, either federal agents or local police forces. This will take place in advance of cession of power to the United Nations, to better facilitate their installation, and will be in the piecemeal fashion currently employed. This underscores my previous admonition to stockpile now, while it is possible, not to wait until purchase of suitable arms is legally impossible. The problem lies in the draconian regulation of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (I have always found it fascinating that these three were lumped together in one agency - the three things the socialists most want to ban, along with automobiles). Whenever a firearms dealer leaves the business, for whatever reason, he must surrender his bound book of transactions, all transactions, to the BATF. This will lead federal agents to the door of anyone who has made multiple purchases of military surplus weapons. Speak to your dealer of choice about his fire insurance prior to your purchase.
There is a reason for the United Nations, and, indeed, any government, to want personal weapons removed from civilian hands, and it is being played out in the Near East as I write these lines. Anyone who watches regularly the dozens of television programs showing the advance of military technology will readily understand why open mobilization of a civil militia will result in carnage and death for the militia. Organized resistance is possible, however, and must be undertaken, whatever the cost. Some, however, may ask why. Is resistance to the machinations of an international elite really needful? Many, particularly those who believe world government to be a good idea, will assert that the guarantee of human rights has been explicitly documented in the United Nations’ own charter and Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Will not the United Nations be obliged to heed these principles? In answer, I can only ask if the reader believes the United States government seems to obey the Constitution, and further, if a government to which there is not even the plebiscitary remedy Americans are told they possess will adhere to words on paper once ascendant power is gained. The answer is, probably not. There are many and excellent expositions of the lie at the back of the “high-minded idealism†of the United Nations, and one has only to pierce the cloak of wordy bureaucratic obfuscation to be enlightened. (http://users.cyberone.com.au/myers/rights.html) There is no hope of consistency or liberty under the rule of the United Nations, and so little as to be nonexistent under the current regime. Politicians lie. The bigger the State, the bigger the lies.
The failure of social democracy has been amply demonstrated in Europe , as this is written, by the double-digit unemployment, spiraling debt, and suffocating regulation engendered by the socialist policies these democracies have voted for themselves. This is the fate to which the United States is moving, as surely as the budget deficit swells. One day, as in France , a license from the State will be obligatory in order to ride a bicycle. One day, as in England , a man who defends his home with deadly force will be tried, convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment. One day, as in most of Western Europe , it will be next to impossible to find gainful employment, because employers will know that, once hired, the penalty of law will make it virtually impossible to fire even the worst of sloths. This is where “high-minded idealism†is leading us. Any politician who claims to be working for tomorrow should be instantly mistrusted and dismissed. If he’s working for tomorrow, he’s not interested in you.
So, where, in all this, does revolution fit? It fits insofar as the only way a revolution may succeed in this country: disaffection of the enforcer. Only when more of the agents of the State are disengaged philosophically from the State’s aims can real progress be made. Only when officers and men can be made to see what the future has in store for them as tools of oppression, rather than guardians of freedom as they now are convinced they are by the propaganda machine of the news media, can the spell of the State be broken.
But how may this be accomplished? If one knows a police officer, or a soldier, converse with him. Odds are, he will have gripes about his job which he will be only too happy to share. Reasoning from the specific to the general, point out (gently, gently) the inconsistencies which afflict all government. He will likely say that, “Oh, well, that’s just the way it is. There must be government, or there’ll be anarchy!†Agree, and then ask what’s wrong with anarchy. Police officers in particular, dealing as they do with the lowest products of the culture of dependency they themselves have helped perpetuate, will believe that there must be government in order to prevent these people from committing depredation. Do not press if the officer seems to grow angry. He is not going to be swayed by argument. Leave it alone, and find a man of reason, if such exists among the ranks of the enforcers. Most importantly, never, never, never, suggest the commission of any illegal act to a law officer. He must make the first move.
But to quote Heinlein again, “Before a revolution can take place, the population must lose faith in both the police and the courts.†The viewership of police dramas and military programs must plummet. The reporting of crime must cease. The label “informer†must once again connote betrayal. The people must see that they are not free, and have not ever been. There must be civil disturbance, on a scale unknown in the past, and there must be men of resolution to do what must be done to stop tyranny.
None of these things will be easy, and still less pleasant. I, for one, despise violence, and one source of my disdain for these promulgators of socialist dogma is that their wrong-headed, idiotic, power-mad push to take my liberty may force me to it. I have no wish to give up my life as I lead it in order to hide, and scurry, and hit from ambush, and constantly wonder if I may be sold out at any time. I have no wish to risk the lives of myself or others in acts we should not have to take at all, if only people would not assume they know what is best for me. I do not hate them, for in order to hate, one must have loved, and I knew socialism for the evil it is when I first read its tenets. But, if driven to it, I will kill them. And I will weep.
About the Author
atrick B. Yancey is a certified auto technician and confirmed bachelor from the swamps of South Louisiana. He lives now in California caring for his grandparents in their dotage. Send the author an email with your comments to [email protected]Related Product of Interest
Revolution Now!
The source of the terrorism I can see is government, primarily the federal government. The time is upon us where we have no recourse but to cast off this present government and form a new one - truly by, of and for the people. We sorely need a government founded above all upon honesty. Establishing honest government will result in a judiciary which is independent of any other matter of governance, a severe curtailing of official secrecy in the name of 'national security,' wealth in the place of debt and many other desirable results. Foremost we must not tolerate our own government as our adversary. The present government is nothing but.
This one-hour presentation from Perspectives on America, hosted by Jeffrey Bennett - is a MUST for all serious students of the tyranny under which we know live.
When do the oppressed finall say, “Enough!� The line in the sand has been drawn – the time is NOW!
http://www.federalobserver.com/archive.php?aid=6853