Yeah, I know: every day there's a post on THR, TFL, AR15.com or another forum about SHTF scenarios. No doubt such fantasies have existed since the first formation of the Wog versus Gog neanderthal political dynasties.
But something is growing, and not for the better. The political landscape is more divided, whether national, statewide, or even local.
Believe it or not, young members of THR, but there was a time when politicians of both parties actually respected the Second Amendment. JFK, Hubert Humphrey and other Democrats didn't use the terms "hunters and sportsmen." They said flat-out that the Second Amendment means what it says.
I believe that, don't ask me why because I wasn't there, deep down I
want to believe it. My courage depends on believing it, if not within the past sixty years then the past 250, sometime somewhere someone believed that freedom was worth dying for. Someone, somewhere, sometime, believed that freedom was worth killing for.
How did the General put it? "I will have peace, even if I have to go to war to get it" it would read for them so long ago "I will have freedom, even if I have to start a war for it" or, even better,
"Give me liberty or give me death". It would read for us soon too, indeed the impossible storm is coming, make no mistake whether it is fought in the court room, the congress floor, or the streets of America, it is coming.
That era was long ago and far away.
In its place, we have a system where the Republicans take for granted the votes of the gun owners, the fundamentalist Christians, and other groups that can find no haven in the Democrat party.
And the Democrat party takes for granted that Blacks, Hispanics, gays, and other interest groups will simply pull the voting lever for the "D" ticket
I was on the phone today with gun shop owners from all over the country. One, in Illinois, told me that she couldn't commit to any sort of advertising until she saw the outcome of the proposed AW ban/registration scheme proposed by Daley and Governor Blago.
If the bill passed, she said, she and her husband would sell their gun store for whatever they could get for it, and move to another state.
How in the name of God did things ever get this far?.
Please... Don't be fooled into thinking that this is the first time it has happened. The Egyptians forbade their slaves to have weapons, the Babylonians as well, the Romans, the Franks, the English, the Japanese... the list goes on and on. It all follows a trend, those in power want what those with money want, namely... more of it.
Then someone stood up, a small band of people, and said 'enough'. That simple attitude, that simple sentiment marked the turning point of history yet again, then began what would live to be called here in America "The Revolutionary War".
It didn't stop there, the Indians had to fight for their freedom, the blacks had to shoot raiders from the Klan, women had to take to the streets enmasse for their freedom, blacks had to hold demonstrations and suffer viscous attacks from the police for equal freedom. I could keep going on and on, freedom is what America is all about, and there will always be those who wish to gain power over others.
This is why it is said "every generation needs their heroes", because without heroes to remind us of the good in ourselves and the power within us to change our environment we become little more than sheep, herded around by other sheep who think they are wolves.
We aren’t sheep, and we aren’t wolves, we are Humans. When my cat wants something that I have and I will not give it to him, he does what an animal is supposed to do, “the strongest survive” so they say and he attempts to take it from me. If I were to follow the law of nature then I would respond with a slightly greater show of force to let him know that I am superior, but I’m not an animal, I have authority over my decisions and myself.
In the same way those who would wish to disarm Americans are doing so because they see something that they want, power, they are in my opinion sub-human because they do not base their decisions on decided thought but rather on their carnal fears and desires.
Thus it has been and thus it shall continue, every generation has to fight its own wars against the power hungry, my grandfather went to world war two and we saw what happened when monsters were allowed to rule and that strengthened their resolve, but we don’t have a world war two, and we don’t have a man in tights to stand up and fight for ‘Truth, Justice, and the American way’. We haven’t had to taste our own blood for our freedom, and that is why things are the way they are, we sit and argue fruitlessly while believing that we have to conform to any and all laws that get passed.
More to the point, what will people do?
Have we forgotten the words of our forefathers? Have we forgotten that the price of freedom is eternal vigilance? Have we forgotten what John Quincy Adams told us when he said “Posterity--you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.” And Woodrow Wilson, “Liberty has never come from the government; it has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.”
My soul, has it slipped the minds of everyone that "To consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions is a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy." (Thomas Jefferson) or that northern jurors in the 1850's refused to convict Quakers and others of aiding and abetting runaway slaves, though in direct opposition to the Runaway Slave Act.
First Chief Justice John Jay said “The jury has a right to judge both the law as well as the fact in controversy.” Or Lysander Spooner (An Essay on the Trial by Jury, 1852): "Our American constitution have provided five...separate tribunals, to wit, representatives, senate, executive, jury, and judges; and have made it necessary that each enactment shall pass the ordeal of all these separate tribunals, before its authority can be established by the punishment of those who choose to transgress it."
I hear you, “where is he going with this?” simply here, listen closely
IF THE LAW IS WRONG, THEN THE H*** WITH IT! If a ‘law’ says something that is contrary to freedom or righteousness, then the people are above that law. The people are not subject to laws, laws are subject to people, and people to people.
So, back to your question ‘what will people do?’ that is simple, we will stop meekly submitting to the sub-humans who want to take away our rights and assert our power as Humans to set them in their place. We will wave off their ‘laws’ and tote our freedoms valiantly for all to see. What we are doing right now we are doing quietly, ‘under the radar’ so to speak, however we will be prepared to let rivers of blood flow to refresh the tree of liberty if it must be.
I'm not a hero. I'm a coward. But I'm reaching the point where I feel that the potential sacrifice of my own life, if I thought such a sacrifice would achieve the means to a truly free society, would be justified.
And that idea just scares the hell out of me.
Congratulations, , you have taken the first step to heroism. I am confident that when the time comes, you will have already admitted and past that first hurdle and will be miles ahead of the horde, leading your pack.
What can you do now? If you are really serious about your rights and the constitution then consider forming a
C.R.E.S.T. chapter in your area. I am, and when the time comes (and I said when, not if) and you have to stand up for your freedoms, then we will be standing together.
Semper Fi, Carry On.
- Ghost
We must realize that today's Establishment is the new George III. Whether it will continue to adhere to his tactics, we do not know. If it does, the redress, honored in tradition, is also revolution.
— Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, Points of Rebellion, New York: Random House, 1970
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