It was so cold, that I saw a Senator with his hands in his own pockets.
It was so cold, that I chipped a tooth on my soup.
It was so cold, that Grandpa’s teeth were chattering - in the glass.
It was so cold, that Richard Simmons started wearing pants.
It was so cold, that the snowman knocked on the door and asked to sleep on the couch.
It was so cold, that people with the sniffles had to suck on NyQuil popsicles!
It was so cold, that we didn't clean the house - we just defrosted it.
It was so cold, that the kids at school were using flannel notebooks.
It was so cold, that the kids had to stay inside all weekend. Parents are now organizing a "teacher appreciation day".
It was so cold, that kids' grades seemed to be improving at school - when you apply the wind chill factor, a 57% looks like 93%.
It was so cold, that dogs were getting stuck to the fire hydrants.
** selections from Anthropolis. Many more cold jokes there.
Anyone have better ones?
7.2.10
5.2.10
CBS Poll: Grade Obama's First Year in Office, still up
CBS has an on-line poll for you to grade Obama's First Year in office.
Letter Grades, A through F.
Ten areas:
. The Economy
. Foreign Policy
. Health Care
. Afghanistan
. Iraq
. Threat of Terrorism
. Energy and the Environment
. Social Issues
. Bipartisanship
. Obama's Overall Job as President
After 2 weeks... The Comments are amazing. The results so far reflect a very unhappy populace.
Also amazing - That CBS would take the chance to put up such a poll.
Any chance we'll see the results on the evening news? Didn't think so.
Results thus far:
-------------------------------------------
The Economy
A: 3.25%
B: 5.11%
C: 5.57%
D: 17.80%
F: 68.27%
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Foreign Policy
A: 6.53%
B: 4.66%
C: 8.43%
D: 21.78%
F: 58.60%
-------------------------------------------
Health Care
A: 3.59%
B: 3.86%
C: 4.28%
D: 9.55%
F: 78.71%
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Afghanistan
A: 4.46%
B: 13.47%
C: 26.69%
D: 24.14%
F: 31.23%
-------------------------------------------
Iraq
A: 5.41%
B: 10.83%
C: 25.98%
D: 23.67%
F: 34.10%
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Threat of Terrorism
A: 5.01%
B: 5.39%
C: 7.78%
D: 18.34%
F: 63.47%
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Energy and the Environment
A: 4.69%
B: 5.96%
C: 12.83%
D: 19.94%
F: 56.58%
-------------------------------------------
Social Issues
A: 5.39%
B: 6.05%
C: 13.98%
D: 20.09%
F: 54.49%
-------------------------------------------
Bipartisanship
A: 4.92%
B: 3.70%
C: 4.80%
D: 7.66%
F: 78.91%
-------------------------------------------
Obama's Overall Job as President
A: 4.42%
B: 5.10%
C: 4.61%
D: 25.27%
F: 60.60%
Letter Grades, A through F.
Ten areas:
. The Economy
. Foreign Policy
. Health Care
. Afghanistan
. Iraq
. Threat of Terrorism
. Energy and the Environment
. Social Issues
. Bipartisanship
. Obama's Overall Job as President
After 2 weeks... The Comments are amazing. The results so far reflect a very unhappy populace.
Also amazing - That CBS would take the chance to put up such a poll.
Any chance we'll see the results on the evening news? Didn't think so.
Results thus far:
-------------------------------------------
The Economy
A: 3.25%
B: 5.11%
C: 5.57%
D: 17.80%
F: 68.27%
-------------------------------------------
Foreign Policy
A: 6.53%
B: 4.66%
C: 8.43%
D: 21.78%
F: 58.60%
-------------------------------------------
Health Care
A: 3.59%
B: 3.86%
C: 4.28%
D: 9.55%
F: 78.71%
-------------------------------------------
Afghanistan
A: 4.46%
B: 13.47%
C: 26.69%
D: 24.14%
F: 31.23%
-------------------------------------------
Iraq
A: 5.41%
B: 10.83%
C: 25.98%
D: 23.67%
F: 34.10%
-------------------------------------------
Threat of Terrorism
A: 5.01%
B: 5.39%
C: 7.78%
D: 18.34%
F: 63.47%
-------------------------------------------
Energy and the Environment
A: 4.69%
B: 5.96%
C: 12.83%
D: 19.94%
F: 56.58%
-------------------------------------------
Social Issues
A: 5.39%
B: 6.05%
C: 13.98%
D: 20.09%
F: 54.49%
-------------------------------------------
Bipartisanship
A: 4.92%
B: 3.70%
C: 4.80%
D: 7.66%
F: 78.91%
-------------------------------------------
Obama's Overall Job as President
A: 4.42%
B: 5.10%
C: 4.61%
D: 25.27%
F: 60.60%
30.1.10
Peaceful Little Protest Song
Peaceful little protest song featuring Beth Witters, Kiki Williamson , and Mark Witters; seen at Coffee with a Hermit.
20.1.10
When can we vote FOR something?
Beware the injured desperate idealogue. He is a bitter clinger. Watch what happens next as he doubles down and forces more of his ideology unto his suddenly uppity slaves (that would be you and me).
Image from Theo Spark captures the moment.
So in the short run, we need to contain the injured beast, to keep him from doing too much harm.
Tactics to get us through. But then what?
In 2006 and 2008, voters rejected GOP statism and ineptitude.
Throughout 2009, Tea Party protests reject both (D) and (R) statism.
January 2010, voters reject Dem statism and progressive tyranny.
Most voters were NOT voting for something.
Voters have been consistently rejecting tyranny of kleptocracy and bureaucracy.
Rejecting failure is not a plan for success.
When can we vote FOR restoration of our Constitution?
When can we vote FOR dismantling the leviathan Fed.gov agencies of tyranny and dependency?
When can we vote FOR putting the corrupt in prison?
When can we vote FOR making illegal actually mean illegal?
When can we vote FOR naming islam the enemy of the west, and start fighting the real enemy, instead of chasing around in distant outposts of the enemy?
Face it: "PC" is just shorthand for "progressive communist" political corruption. It lubricates our slide to death.
We need to grow some balls and dare to start winning again.
Trying to 'slow the losses' is not a plan for success. Neither Islam nor progressive communism will be defeated by more of the same retreating and delaying and pretending. When can we vote FOR winning?
Image from Theo Spark captures the moment.
So in the short run, we need to contain the injured beast, to keep him from doing too much harm.
Tactics to get us through. But then what?
In 2006 and 2008, voters rejected GOP statism and ineptitude.
Throughout 2009, Tea Party protests reject both (D) and (R) statism.
January 2010, voters reject Dem statism and progressive tyranny.
Most voters were NOT voting for something.
Voters have been consistently rejecting tyranny of kleptocracy and bureaucracy.
Rejecting failure is not a plan for success.
When can we vote FOR restoration of our Constitution?
When can we vote FOR dismantling the leviathan Fed.gov agencies of tyranny and dependency?
When can we vote FOR putting the corrupt in prison?
When can we vote FOR making illegal actually mean illegal?
When can we vote FOR naming islam the enemy of the west, and start fighting the real enemy, instead of chasing around in distant outposts of the enemy?
Face it: "PC" is just shorthand for "progressive communist" political corruption. It lubricates our slide to death.
We need to grow some balls and dare to start winning again.
Trying to 'slow the losses' is not a plan for success. Neither Islam nor progressive communism will be defeated by more of the same retreating and delaying and pretending. When can we vote FOR winning?
17.1.10
The Ant and the Grasshopper
Ain't that the truth!
THE ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER
by Tyler Gothier, at Nation on the Hill
The fractured fairy tale captures the sad reality our new progressive reality, doesn't it?
America was a 'beacon on the hill' because of our decency, morality, integrity, and work ethic. (first version)
Our new and progressive 'moral relativism' (communism) is not American. (second version)
We need to get back to the first version.
Restore our Fairy Tales.
Restore our Constitution.
Review Questions:
When should the ant have applied 7.62x51 to defend his property?
Wouldn't it have been easier if he had been prosecuting the enablers and kleptocrats all along, and have them behind bars, rather than congregating and creating mischeif?
By allowing enablers and kleptocrats to go unprosecuted, nay even re-elected and empowered, don't the voters deserve this fate?
Why does the ant keep putting himself in a position where he would have to apply 7.62x51 to defend his property?
Is the ant too stupid to live?
“If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed, if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a small chance of survival. There may even be a worse case: you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.”
— Winston Churchill
THE ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER
by Tyler Gothier, at Nation on the Hill
This one is a little different…Awesome parable.
Two Different Versions! ……………..
Two Different Morals!
OLD VERSION:
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.
Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed.
The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.
MORAL OF THE STORY: Be responsible for yourself!
MODERN VERSION:
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.
Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while others are cold and starving.
CBS, NBC , PBS, CNN, and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food. America is stunned by the sharp contrast.
How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?
Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper and everybody cries when they sing, ‘It’s Not Easy Being Green.’
Acorn stages a demonstration in front of the ant’s house where the news stations film the group singing, ‘We shall overcome.’
Rev. Jeremiah Wright then has the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper’s sake.
Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid exclaim in an interview with Larry King that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share.
Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity & Anti-Grasshopper Act retroactive to the beginning of the summer.
The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the Government Green Czar.
The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up the last bits of the ants food while the government house he is in, which just happens to be the ant’s old house, crumbles around him because he doesn’t maintain it.
The ant has disappeared in the snow.
The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident. And the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the once peaceful neighborhood.
MORAL OF THE STORY: Be careful how you vote in 2010/2012
The fractured fairy tale captures the sad reality our new progressive reality, doesn't it?
America was a 'beacon on the hill' because of our decency, morality, integrity, and work ethic. (first version)
Our new and progressive 'moral relativism' (communism) is not American. (second version)
We need to get back to the first version.
Restore our Fairy Tales.
Restore our Constitution.
Review Questions:
When should the ant have applied 7.62x51 to defend his property?
Wouldn't it have been easier if he had been prosecuting the enablers and kleptocrats all along, and have them behind bars, rather than congregating and creating mischeif?
By allowing enablers and kleptocrats to go unprosecuted, nay even re-elected and empowered, don't the voters deserve this fate?
Why does the ant keep putting himself in a position where he would have to apply 7.62x51 to defend his property?
Is the ant too stupid to live?
“If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed, if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a small chance of survival. There may even be a worse case: you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.”
— Winston Churchill
16.1.10
Votes created & manufactured in January
Raw Power is at stake in the Senate election in Mass.
Votes created and manufactured in January, inform us about November.
Remember that Acorn still receives $$$M from taxpayers via Congress. They are all descending into Mass, to earn their money. How many absentee ballots from military Zip codes and AFPO's are being thrown out? How many different color pens are filling out how many other absentee ballots this weekend? How many community organizers drive bus loads of serial voters from polling place to polling place on election day to vote for the dead?
Win, Lose, Draw - We need to study their methods.
How is ACORN still getting $$$M of your money?
Why are they not all in jail?
Judges and prosecutors in bed with the corruption.
If you want to fight for freedom, fight for the legitimacy of voting; voter registration, voting laws, the process of counting and certification, variances, creative partisan judges.
We are hoping for vigorous process and the rule of law.
We are all expecting widespread "cheating" and then cover-up by partisan local and State officials and the judges (rule of corrupt men). They succeeded in MN, when the margin was small. They tried in NJ, but the margin was too big. But the methods weren't exposed, nor the cheaters held accountable.
Will they be able to cover a 2% margin? Or 5%? We need forensics to sift through the data and estimate the number of questionable votes, and the number of fraudulent votes. How many votes were tampered with? What methods did they use? Precinct by precinct, what were the names of the individuals responsible? Expose the methods, and expose the culpable.
The January election has to be carefully monitored, to understand what our votes will mean in November. Is "cheating" acceptable in the bannana republic of corruptostan?
Close observation and analysis will clarify our new reality.
================
[update] from ChicagoBoyz
And hopefully, ACORN can be dismembered, and individuals prosecuted.
Stealing elections is more significant than sticking up a 7-11. Felony? Or organized Treason?
Votes created and manufactured in January, inform us about November.
Remember that Acorn still receives $$$M from taxpayers via Congress. They are all descending into Mass, to earn their money. How many absentee ballots from military Zip codes and AFPO's are being thrown out? How many different color pens are filling out how many other absentee ballots this weekend? How many community organizers drive bus loads of serial voters from polling place to polling place on election day to vote for the dead?
Win, Lose, Draw - We need to study their methods.
How is ACORN still getting $$$M of your money?
Why are they not all in jail?
Judges and prosecutors in bed with the corruption.
If you want to fight for freedom, fight for the legitimacy of voting; voter registration, voting laws, the process of counting and certification, variances, creative partisan judges.
We are hoping for vigorous process and the rule of law.
We are all expecting widespread "cheating" and then cover-up by partisan local and State officials and the judges (rule of corrupt men). They succeeded in MN, when the margin was small. They tried in NJ, but the margin was too big. But the methods weren't exposed, nor the cheaters held accountable.
Will they be able to cover a 2% margin? Or 5%? We need forensics to sift through the data and estimate the number of questionable votes, and the number of fraudulent votes. How many votes were tampered with? What methods did they use? Precinct by precinct, what were the names of the individuals responsible? Expose the methods, and expose the culpable.
The January election has to be carefully monitored, to understand what our votes will mean in November. Is "cheating" acceptable in the bannana republic of corruptostan?
Close observation and analysis will clarify our new reality.
================
[update] from ChicagoBoyz
Dan Winslow, Chief Legal Counsel for the Scott Brown for U.S. Senate Committee writes:Close observation and analysis will clarify our new reality.Next week, Massachusetts’s citizens will head to the polls to vote in a historical election. Close elections draw intense scrutiny, and ensuring the accuracy and credibility of the process is crucial. For that reason, the Scott Brown campaign is assembling a volunteer team to ensure that every legally cast ballot is accurately counted. The citizens of Massachusetts deserve a fair and honest election.He concludes: “Please do not wait, Election Day is January 19th!”
Go to this link to join up.
There will be attempted vote fraud by some Democrats in the Brown/Coakley Senate race. There is a lot at stake. A defeat which takes away Ted Kennedy’s old seat, and loses their super-majority, will be a humiliation and a political disaster for the Democrats. They will have every incentive to use all means available to them to prevent that defeat.
If you are lawyer who can volunteer in Massachusetts on January 19, go to the link and sign up now, or please forward this link if you know a lawyer who lives in Massachusetts or can be there on election day.
And hopefully, ACORN can be dismembered, and individuals prosecuted.
Stealing elections is more significant than sticking up a 7-11. Felony? Or organized Treason?
15.1.10
Market Street, San Francisco, 1905
Amazing video showing Market Street in San Francisco in 1905, before the earthquake/fire of 1906 destroyed the area.
The people, tall buildings, signs, cops with billy clubs, bicycles, the vehicles, the clothes, the horses - I can almost smell it!
h/t Theo Spark
Remarkable.
That was "The Golden State".
William Voegeli, at the Claremont Institute
The people, tall buildings, signs, cops with billy clubs, bicycles, the vehicles, the clothes, the horses - I can almost smell it!
h/t Theo Spark
Remarkable.
That was "The Golden State".
William Voegeli, at the Claremont Institute
Rome wasn't sacked in a day, and California didn't become Argentina overnight. Its acquired incapacity to manage its own affairs has been a long, complicated story, ...George Will
Between 1990 and 2007, some 3.4 million more Americans moved from California to one of the other 49 states than moved to California from another state.
It took years for liberalism's mania for micromanaging life with entangling regulations to make California's once-creative economy resemble Gulliver immobilized by the Lilliputians' many threads. The state, which between 1990 and 2007 lost 26 percent of its factory jobs and 35 percent of its high-tech manufacturing jobs, ranks behind only New York, another of liberalism's laboratories, in the number of outward-bound moving vans.Dr.Sanity comments
It seems that the same strategies are now being utilized on a national level by Democrats in Congress and their Republican counterparts.Remember her like she was, before she got Botox.
10.1.10
American Apocalypse
Looking for some fiction? Something witty and prescient?
"American Apocalypse" is an online novel by NoVa, in several parts. "American Apocalypse I" is now also available at Amazon. Part II is online. Part III is started. A campanion volume developing one of the characters is being written/posted now.
The working drafts are online. New sections are posted frequently; almost every day, sometimes twice a day. It's easy to navigate by 'walking the links', starting in July 2009 (down the right side). After each post, there are comments. Selecting 'next post' at the bottom of each page is like turning a page in a book. The pace of writing is envigorating.
"American Apocalypse" follows a few characters through the slow disintegration of American society; a 'slow slouching descent' as experienced by those living near Gomorrah on the Potomac. This is not a documentary, or a tactical manual. The blog posts are rapid fire drafts. (Spelling problems and typos are abundant. If the author didn't apologize so much, I'd think they were an intentional device to describe the 'characters voice' and to make the narrative seem like raw reportage.) The plot keeps evolving. The characters are interesting. The writing is crisp and full of surprises. Try a chapter online, or three, or seventeen. The fresh attitude keeps it interesting.
Global Guerillas and Western Rifle Shooters Association mentioned "American Apocalypse" in early December. I got hooked. After reading everything, I bought the book at Amazon.
Here are Chapter links to the first few chapters of Part I.
Once you're started, it's also easy to 'walk the links' "up" from July 2009...
Chapters-1 - 7
Chapters 7 - 13
Chapters 13 - 20
Chapters 20 - 25
Chapters 25 - end ............ Follow the links!
What have you been reading?
There's room on the bookshelf for all of these, and more:
John Ross "Unintended Consequences" describes a campaign of individuals for the restoration of the Constitution.
William Forstchen "One Second After" describes a mid-lantic mountain rural self-help community.
Jamews W Rawles "Patriots"' describes events for the prepared living in the Northwest.
Mike Vanderboegh "Absolved" describes resistance of individuals and States for restoration of the Constitution. (individual chapters available online.)
Mark Spungin "Neither Predator Nor Prey" describes Wyoming's fight to stay free.
Matthew Bracken "Foreign Enemies and Traitors" describes the break-up into geographic regions.
NoVa "American Apocalypse" describes a 'slow slouching descent'.
Each provides a different insight into the narrative for what approaches.
Vote for as many as contribute to your awareness and enjoyment.
[update: added more books, will merge previous results asap.]
Suggest others.
It's winter, and I love to read by the fire.
[Doh'Bama Marion Barry Disclosure - This review is an incomplete approximation of my actual opinion. I do not know the author. No money, or votes, or Car Companies, or Banks, or crack, or hookers, or Irish Cottages, or Botox, or Senate seats, or Stimulus money, was exchanged for these words.]
The working drafts are online. New sections are posted frequently; almost every day, sometimes twice a day. It's easy to navigate by 'walking the links', starting in July 2009 (down the right side). After each post, there are comments. Selecting 'next post' at the bottom of each page is like turning a page in a book. The pace of writing is envigorating.
"American Apocalypse" follows a few characters through the slow disintegration of American society; a 'slow slouching descent' as experienced by those living near Gomorrah on the Potomac. This is not a documentary, or a tactical manual. The blog posts are rapid fire drafts. (Spelling problems and typos are abundant. If the author didn't apologize so much, I'd think they were an intentional device to describe the 'characters voice' and to make the narrative seem like raw reportage.) The plot keeps evolving. The characters are interesting. The writing is crisp and full of surprises. Try a chapter online, or three, or seventeen. The fresh attitude keeps it interesting.
Global Guerillas and Western Rifle Shooters Association mentioned "American Apocalypse" in early December. I got hooked. After reading everything, I bought the book at Amazon.
Here are Chapter links to the first few chapters of Part I.
Once you're started, it's also easy to 'walk the links' "up" from July 2009...
Chapters-1 - 7
Chapters 7 - 13
Chapters 13 - 20
Chapters 20 - 25
Chapters 25 - end ............ Follow the links!
What have you been reading?
There's room on the bookshelf for all of these, and more:
John Ross "Unintended Consequences" describes a campaign of individuals for the restoration of the Constitution.
William Forstchen "One Second After" describes a mid-lantic mountain rural self-help community.
Jamews W Rawles "Patriots"' describes events for the prepared living in the Northwest.
Mike Vanderboegh "Absolved" describes resistance of individuals and States for restoration of the Constitution. (individual chapters available online.)
Mark Spungin "Neither Predator Nor Prey" describes Wyoming's fight to stay free.
Matthew Bracken "Foreign Enemies and Traitors" describes the break-up into geographic regions.
NoVa "American Apocalypse" describes a 'slow slouching descent'.
Each provides a different insight into the narrative for what approaches.
Vote for as many as contribute to your awareness and enjoyment.
[update: added more books, will merge previous results asap.]
Suggest others.
It's winter, and I love to read by the fire.
[Doh'Bama Marion Barry Disclosure - This review is an incomplete approximation of my actual opinion. I do not know the author. No money, or votes, or Car Companies, or Banks, or crack, or hookers, or Irish Cottages, or Botox, or Senate seats, or Stimulus money, was exchanged for these words.]
2.1.10
What will the New Year bring?
The last decade saw the reduction of Liberty as mis-educated spoiled knaves squandered a legacy.
So "Out with the old, and in with the new"!
With a new year just started, and a new decade, we all wonder what it will bring...
We started a poll three weeks ago, and the concensus was that 2010 would resemble 1775.
Thousands of readers responded, err...ummm, about thirty responded. So far
5% forsee complete Government clampdown/control through ruthless use of force
27% forsee a continued train of abuses, with more grumbling and some protests allowed
8% forsee a continued train of abuses, and protests and losing a war and impeachment/resignation in disgrace
60% forsee Government clampdown causing a vigorous defense of liberty
Last chance to vote, and count any hanging chads, get more ACORN absentee ballots, or have the Athens Georgia Sheriff recount ... ...
Will it be like 1766 or 1774 (start/end of continued train of abuses)?
Or 1775 (general secession/nullification/restoration/widespread use of force)?
1861 (civil war resolving into geographical regions)?
1973 (abandoning a war, riots, and impeachable offenses)?
Or maybe 1984 (Orwell)?
An oversite: The original poll should have included some undated futures:
(But "I wasn't thinking" and "I don't know how to modify the poll".)
'Present Day' from Unintended Consequences
(A campaign for the restoration of Liberty.)
And also
American Apocalypse
(A continuation of the Coup leading to Balkanization, and one man's quest to survive with a Vaquero six-shooter and some friends.)
link to blog, with complete rough drafts of Books 1, 2, 3, and Gardner Summer
Every New Year is full of promise.
Some years also promise cataclysm.
We 'live in interesting times' (an old Chinese curse).
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So "Out with the old, and in with the new"!
With a new year just started, and a new decade, we all wonder what it will bring...
We started a poll three weeks ago, and the concensus was that 2010 would resemble 1775.
Thousands of readers responded, err...ummm, about thirty responded. So far
5% forsee complete Government clampdown/control through ruthless use of force
27% forsee a continued train of abuses, with more grumbling and some protests allowed
8% forsee a continued train of abuses, and protests and losing a war and impeachment/resignation in disgrace
60% forsee Government clampdown causing a vigorous defense of liberty
Last chance to vote, and count any hanging chads, get more ACORN absentee ballots, or have the Athens Georgia Sheriff recount ... ...
Will it be like 1766 or 1774 (start/end of continued train of abuses)?
Or 1775 (general secession/nullification/restoration/widespread use of force)?
1861 (civil war resolving into geographical regions)?
1973 (abandoning a war, riots, and impeachable offenses)?
Or maybe 1984 (Orwell)?
An oversite: The original poll should have included some undated futures:
(But "I wasn't thinking" and "I don't know how to modify the poll".)
(A campaign for the restoration of Liberty.)
And also
(A continuation of the Coup leading to Balkanization, and one man's quest to survive with a Vaquero six-shooter and some friends.)
link to blog, with complete rough drafts of Books 1, 2, 3, and Gardner Summer
Every New Year is full of promise.
Some years also promise cataclysm.
We 'live in interesting times' (an old Chinese curse).
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29.12.09
Our new Interpol super-sovereign (SS) masters?
A post at coord.illum was removed, and comments were lost (apologies for the lack of html skills), for being pathetic and weak, in comparison to the following clear and concise post from 'Straight Forward in a Crooked World' (go read the whole thing there)
If allowed, this abdicates sovereignty over citizens to a foreign, non-state, agency.
If allowed, this creates super-sovereign (SS) units, above the law, and above our Constitution.
They can go anywhere and do anything, and they are not constrained by our laws.
Signing this executive order is a violation of the oath of office: Treason, plain and simple.
Does the Constitution empower a resident to void the Constitution?
Irresponsibility in office creates great confusion and danger. Over the last several months, this Coup has done damage to the Republic and to the people; it has ignored the Constitution; and now it tosses asside sovereignty and the entire Bill of Rights.
We haven't asked for this. We the people want to be left alone to enjoy life, liberty, and the persuit of happiness. The system of checks-and-balances is supposed to prevent such a Coup. But evil is afoot and is trying to shove tyranny down our throats.
Honduras said "NO!".
All we ask is that good men investigate the facts of this 'executive order', review the Constitution and Bill of Rights, and consider their oaths.
The Congress has responsibilities.
The Courts have responsibilities.
We the people have responsibilities.
And some people took on additional responsibilities, when they took that oath.
The French bowed down and licked the SS boots pretty quickly. They bend over easy! Just go-along to get-along.
After all, the SS will only go after 'undesireables', right?
Here's the logo of your new SS masters. Some will bow down and genuflect at this sign. Others will note that it provides a nice blue bullseye for target practice.
Prediction: Unless the Coup is stopped and we begin to restore the Constitution, this 'executive order' will of course be put to use by the new super-sovereign (SS) priests, and lead to many violent deaths when Americans stand up for their natural God given rights, which previously were acknowledged in the Constitution. Without recourse for petitions and courts and laws, a posse to round up the Interpol interlopers is the only way to check their actions across the US; and by persuing them across borders, to disrupt their command/control, logistics, etc. Loss of sovereignty works both ways. No safe havens for the SS.
Defending ourselves is natural, so the mayhem is therefore a very 'intended consequence' of this executive order.
Which is why sovereignty and the Bill of Rights were such a good ideas, in the first place.
Pray that checks-and-balances stop this Coup.
Pray that oaths keepers stop this Coup.
Pray that responsible people check this Coup.
Wiping out our finances, currency, industries, farms and businesses is one thing.
We did nothing but hold up a few protest signs when they did that.
But sovereignty and the Bill of Rights is a whole 'nother thing.
Ain't it?
Maybe we are become the Frogs, errr.. French.
We shall see.
--------------------------------------
[update]
If anyone has data regarding sovereignty or immunity or tyranny aspects of this, please help get the information out there. This is an important topic.
Not being in the Oval Office, we don't know the reasons for this order. Information is what's needed. The only info I've seen says that Foreign and American agents of Interpol would become immune from my Constitution and important citizen constraints over government and it's agencies. From the limited data available, it looks like international socialism getting it's 'hooks in', where our Constitution clearly forbids a foreign entity from having any jurisdiction here.
The problem is: If we can't complain or petition or take them to court or vote Interpol out of office - Then the only thing left is to to resort to arms to counter this tyranny.
SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS.
As with 'gullible worming', we need data.
Executive Order -- Amending Executive Order 12425
I like to think that I make a concerted effort to avoid politics here on SFiaCW but sometimes some things transcend politics and threaten our sovereignty. And I think this is one such thing.
This link takes you straight to the White House press release for verification purposes.
The White HouseI link and directly post the quote because I like to remove rumor where I can. The gist of it is that interpol agents are exempt from any investigation let alone prosecution
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
December 17, 2009
EXECUTIVE ORDER
- - - - - - -
AMENDING EXECUTIVE ORDER 12425 DESIGNATING INTERPOL
AS A PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION ENTITLED TO
ENJOY CERTAIN PRIVILEGES, EXEMPTIONS, AND IMMUNITIES
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 1 of the International Organizations Immunities Act (22 U.S.C. 288), and in order to extend the appropriate privileges, exemptions, and immunities to the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL), it is hereby ordered that Executive Order 12425 of June 16, 1983, as amended, is further amended by deleting from the first sentence the words "except those provided by Section 2(c), Section 3, Section 4, Section 5, and Section 6 of that Act" and the semicolon that immediately precedes them.
BARACK OBAMA
THE WHITE HOUSE,
December 16, 2009
Originally this came from Reagan, but the great Communicator said in his original order that Interpol Agents were held to the same legal standards as any American Law Enforcement official. This amedment by President Obama gives Interpol Agents diplomatic immunity.
Here is the skinny you should remember on this. While our minds immediately go to international agents lurking about you have to remember that Interpol has American agents working for them as well. This means American Agents can arrest, detain, and in effect hold a license to kill American Citizens and simply walk away. The U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights bear no place in any of it.
Yet our and I mean "our" law enforcement community is constantly ham-stringed and thrown under the bus (or jail) by their own brass.
Clyde Middleton may have said it best with
"What does this mean? It means that we have an international police force authorized to act within the United States that is no longer subject to 4th Amendment Search and Seizure. The "property and assets of [INTERPOL], wherever located and by whomsoever held, shall be immune from search, unless such immunity be expressly waived, and from confiscation."INTERPOL, an international criminal police organization, is now poised to reside above the United States Constitution - in a place of sanctity beyond our FBI, CIA, DIA, and all other criminal investigatory domestic organizations.
President Obama has just placed our Constitutional rights under international law.
And you thought the PATRIOT ACT was spooky.
If allowed, this abdicates sovereignty over citizens to a foreign, non-state, agency.
If allowed, this creates super-sovereign (SS) units, above the law, and above our Constitution.
They can go anywhere and do anything, and they are not constrained by our laws.
Signing this executive order is a violation of the oath of office: Treason, plain and simple.
Does the Constitution empower a resident to void the Constitution?
Irresponsibility in office creates great confusion and danger. Over the last several months, this Coup has done damage to the Republic and to the people; it has ignored the Constitution; and now it tosses asside sovereignty and the entire Bill of Rights.
We haven't asked for this. We the people want to be left alone to enjoy life, liberty, and the persuit of happiness. The system of checks-and-balances is supposed to prevent such a Coup. But evil is afoot and is trying to shove tyranny down our throats.
Honduras said "NO!".
All we ask is that good men investigate the facts of this 'executive order', review the Constitution and Bill of Rights, and consider their oaths.
The Congress has responsibilities.
The Courts have responsibilities.
We the people have responsibilities.
And some people took on additional responsibilities, when they took that oath.
The French bowed down and licked the SS boots pretty quickly. They bend over easy! Just go-along to get-along.
After all, the SS will only go after 'undesireables', right?
Prediction: Unless the Coup is stopped and we begin to restore the Constitution, this 'executive order' will of course be put to use by the new super-sovereign (SS) priests, and lead to many violent deaths when Americans stand up for their natural God given rights, which previously were acknowledged in the Constitution. Without recourse for petitions and courts and laws, a posse to round up the Interpol interlopers is the only way to check their actions across the US; and by persuing them across borders, to disrupt their command/control, logistics, etc. Loss of sovereignty works both ways. No safe havens for the SS.
Defending ourselves is natural, so the mayhem is therefore a very 'intended consequence' of this executive order.
Which is why sovereignty and the Bill of Rights were such a good ideas, in the first place.
Pray that checks-and-balances stop this Coup.
Pray that oaths keepers stop this Coup.
Pray that responsible people check this Coup.
Wiping out our finances, currency, industries, farms and businesses is one thing.
We did nothing but hold up a few protest signs when they did that.
But sovereignty and the Bill of Rights is a whole 'nother thing.
Ain't it?
Maybe we are become the Frogs, errr.. French.
We shall see.
--------------------------------------
[update]
If anyone has data regarding sovereignty or immunity or tyranny aspects of this, please help get the information out there. This is an important topic.
Not being in the Oval Office, we don't know the reasons for this order. Information is what's needed. The only info I've seen says that Foreign and American agents of Interpol would become immune from my Constitution and important citizen constraints over government and it's agencies. From the limited data available, it looks like international socialism getting it's 'hooks in', where our Constitution clearly forbids a foreign entity from having any jurisdiction here.
The problem is: If we can't complain or petition or take them to court or vote Interpol out of office - Then the only thing left is to to resort to arms to counter this tyranny.
SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS.
As with 'gullible worming', we need data.
Observations. Reason. Philosophy.
A new friend opined that this blog was political: I hope not.
Revulsion of both major political parties is warranted.
Clearly we are getting the government we have tolerated.
As Americans, we take our God given natural rights for granted.
We instituted a government among men, to secure these rights.
And
This blog strives to be 'observational' and expressly non-political. Politics is a repulsive process.
Politics is but one grubby component of keeping our freedoms.
Results are what matters: Am I free? Will my children be able to enjoy life, liberty and the persuit of hapiness? Or is evil working to enslave them?
Reading 'John Adams', we find a familiar cause, and find examples of good people setting aside their lives to do what it takes to get results. It isn't easy or popular. And there are many dark hours. Sam Adams believed in western civilization and Christian ethics, with empowerment and the worth of individuals at it's core. Those of us with a 'clasical' western education have read and debated many of the same books and topics as Sam Adams and our Founders did, throughout our lives. There was a time when more Americans were familiar with the under-pinnings of their own civilization. And we were an example to the world, one of the richest and most vibrant culture ever. Were.
This blog strives to be 'observational' and opine about history from the perspective of western civilization. And we must acknowledge that sometimes, civilization is about killing the evil that is at the door trying to devour you children. Only barbarians with no sense of self worth would do otherwise.
That's right: "Do it for the children."
Save your way of life, and your western civilization.
Fight the King.
Fight the Czars.
"Death to Tyrants" is more than a state motto (VA).
"Live Free, or Die" is more than a saying on an automobile license plate (NH).
These sayings are the embodiment of what it is to be an American.
Know your history, or be doomed to repeat it. Pay particular attention to the part about being taxed into poverty and becoming slaves to your god-king. I recommend choosing the Liberty and Freedom, even though it comes with a cost. We must be willing to actually fight for that freedom. Get off the sofa and fight.
The Declaration of Independence couldn't state it more clearly:
Not politics. Just 'observations'. And some thoughts on our God given natural rights and western civilization.
Plato might have called it 'reason' or 'philosophy'.
And if you think it's polictics to want to be free, then call it what you will.
How about: determined, forthright, nonpartisan, unabashedly American.
Revulsion of both major political parties is warranted.
Clearly we are getting the government we have tolerated.
As Americans, we take our God given natural rights for granted.
We instituted a government among men, to secure these rights.
And
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...We 'reset' the government in 1775, 1865, 1934, and it looks like it's about to come up again.
This blog strives to be 'observational' and expressly non-political. Politics is a repulsive process.
Politics is but one grubby component of keeping our freedoms.
Results are what matters: Am I free? Will my children be able to enjoy life, liberty and the persuit of hapiness? Or is evil working to enslave them?
Reading 'John Adams', we find a familiar cause, and find examples of good people setting aside their lives to do what it takes to get results. It isn't easy or popular. And there are many dark hours. Sam Adams believed in western civilization and Christian ethics, with empowerment and the worth of individuals at it's core. Those of us with a 'clasical' western education have read and debated many of the same books and topics as Sam Adams and our Founders did, throughout our lives. There was a time when more Americans were familiar with the under-pinnings of their own civilization. And we were an example to the world, one of the richest and most vibrant culture ever. Were.
This blog strives to be 'observational' and opine about history from the perspective of western civilization. And we must acknowledge that sometimes, civilization is about killing the evil that is at the door trying to devour you children. Only barbarians with no sense of self worth would do otherwise.
That's right: "Do it for the children."
Save your way of life, and your western civilization.
Fight the King.
Fight the Czars.
"Death to Tyrants" is more than a state motto (VA).
"Live Free, or Die" is more than a saying on an automobile license plate (NH).
These sayings are the embodiment of what it is to be an American.
Know your history, or be doomed to repeat it. Pay particular attention to the part about being taxed into poverty and becoming slaves to your god-king. I recommend choosing the Liberty and Freedom, even though it comes with a cost. We must be willing to actually fight for that freedom. Get off the sofa and fight.
The Declaration of Independence couldn't state it more clearly:
... And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
Not politics. Just 'observations'. And some thoughts on our God given natural rights and western civilization.
Plato might have called it 'reason' or 'philosophy'.
And if you think it's polictics to want to be free, then call it what you will.
How about: determined, forthright, nonpartisan, unabashedly American.
27.12.09
There is a Tide in the Affairs of Men
Brutus:
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There is a tide in the affairs of men.William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar" Act 4, scene 3, 218–224
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
On such a full sea are we now afloat,
And we must take the current when it serves,
Or lose our ventures.
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22.12.09
When the Gov't is Repugnant to the Constitution
The government pretends there is no Constitution.
Schools pretend there is no American philosophy of Liberty and Responsibility, no God given natural rights, no underlying philosophy of western civilization.
Those who are Americans hold a concept that we are a nation of laws, not of men. Yet our police, prosecutors, attorney generals for our cities, counties, states, and the nation do not prosecute treason or criminality. Politicians are openly corrupt, racist, bribe taking puppets. Acorn? Black Panthers? Whoring for votes?
The failure of law is at the heart of America slide to join the rest of the corrupt world. What made us different than the rest of the shitty little countries in the past, was that we had a solid base of western ethics. We were a society of decent law abiding citizens that demanded prosecution and punishment of criminals. We held people responsible.
The concept of responsibility allows liberty. Responsible people make and uphold a society that rewards responsible behavior, and punishes irresponsible behavior. A responsible society creates stereotypes like ‘Yankee frugality’ and ‘the American work ethic’. Responsibility is one of the core ideas that made America great.
And now the communists are using that idea against us.
The kleptocrats, criminals, and communists – Do not follow laws. And now they are no longer prosecuted because they are a special group. They 'know people'. They do as they please and feast on what we, the responsible people, had set aside for our children. We do nothing in response. We expect the law to handle this.
When the law does nothing, we are left with a choice; Anarchy or Death.
(a) We can acknowledge that there is no longer a concept of law and personal responsibility: Look at all the un-prosecuted criminal behavior by special groups and self-appointed princes. Look at the serial criminals, and early release of criminals. The law no longer protects us.
(b) Do nothing, and watch the kleptocrats and communists raid our wealth, destroy our way of life, and Die.
The jews in Europe were a devout and law abiding culture. And they could not, would not, break the law to survive. It was their fundamental decency that made them vulnerable to this type of attack. The vast majority chose to remain law abiding, even to their mass graves.
Like Americans watching the communists, and doing nothing to save their children, to save their way of life.
Why isn’t the law working? Because the communists do not share your ideals, your philosophy, your concept of responsibility. Criminals have a different way of thinking. Passing a law doesn’t make them behave differently.
But that law works to constrain Americans. Even when we don’t like a law, we hold dear the concept of law. But in this case, that behavior is killing us. It is a harness the communists control us with. Once they got the reigns of power, once there was a majority who feasts on the minority, the law is whatever they need it to be, to control those who are ‘decent hard working Americans’.
What made us great, is now the method being used to kill us.
Because we thought ‘the law’ would hold them accountable. But we were not vigilant, and let the criminals get control of the law. Bit by bit, staring with Wilson and FDR and more and more until we have the President and Congress working directly against the American People today. Totalitarian Control defeating Liberty with paperwork. Treason by lawyers and judges with agendas other than ‘protect and defend the Constitution’.
They created a mountain of techno-babble which is the domain of self-appointed princes of perpetual complexity and nuance. Good for the princes, bad for the people. America abhors princes. Complexity is the playground of princes and communists. All crooks hate simplicity and transparancy. The law should be a tool of the people; a part of the government formed between men for our own protection. Not a jobs program for princes who benefit personally from spiralling complexity, bringing down our liberty and business and our country. The legal structure has become repugnant to the Constitution.
That is how we got here. Now what?
Following laws designed to bleed you out?
Killing liberty, and business, and families, and our way of life.
Until ‘the law’ gets back to restoring our Constitution, it is our sense of obligation to follow the paperwork that chains us. Our decency is what is being used against us.
So the choice is to Die following the law, or ignore the law to Live. Death or Anarchy.
We do not want to be here, but our enemies have put us here.
When your representatives do not represent you, or your way of life; when they act in direct contradiction to survival - When the law no longer serves the people, what is it? A leash.
1775 was like this. People had to choose.
The death of liberty and enslavement of family, to work for a tyrant; or Anarchy to restore the natural order.
Our founders chose survival over English laws.
And the founders spoke and wrote often about tyranny through government.
(Read the many quotes down the right side of this blog.)
Like every society we attract leeches and kleptocrats and criminals. But then one day we stopped aggressively prosecuting them. Holding them responsible for their actions. Now we are responsible for our inaction. Many of us were raised on ‘American ideals’ and are proud of America as the torch bearer for all that is good in western civilization. America is the promise of so much more. America has attracted the best and the brightest and the most independent from around the world for many generations. We were different. Because we were free and responsible. We elevated men and women, rather than subjugating them.
They Won, they say. Their laws and bureacracies are in place and will not be repealed within the current system. Modified and adjusted, maybe; enlarged and expanded, probably. But we will never go back to being America. The "change" that was promised; it's better pronounced "chains". They have all the cards. They are playing with your chips. They need you to keep playing their game.
The Declaration of Independence explains of the proper role of government.
Keep it simple.
Restore the Constitution.
Schools pretend there is no American philosophy of Liberty and Responsibility, no God given natural rights, no underlying philosophy of western civilization.
Those who are Americans hold a concept that we are a nation of laws, not of men. Yet our police, prosecutors, attorney generals for our cities, counties, states, and the nation do not prosecute treason or criminality. Politicians are openly corrupt, racist, bribe taking puppets. Acorn? Black Panthers? Whoring for votes?
The failure of law is at the heart of America slide to join the rest of the corrupt world. What made us different than the rest of the shitty little countries in the past, was that we had a solid base of western ethics. We were a society of decent law abiding citizens that demanded prosecution and punishment of criminals. We held people responsible.
The concept of responsibility allows liberty. Responsible people make and uphold a society that rewards responsible behavior, and punishes irresponsible behavior. A responsible society creates stereotypes like ‘Yankee frugality’ and ‘the American work ethic’. Responsibility is one of the core ideas that made America great.
And now the communists are using that idea against us.
The kleptocrats, criminals, and communists – Do not follow laws. And now they are no longer prosecuted because they are a special group. They 'know people'. They do as they please and feast on what we, the responsible people, had set aside for our children. We do nothing in response. We expect the law to handle this.
When the law does nothing, we are left with a choice; Anarchy or Death.
(a) We can acknowledge that there is no longer a concept of law and personal responsibility: Look at all the un-prosecuted criminal behavior by special groups and self-appointed princes. Look at the serial criminals, and early release of criminals. The law no longer protects us.
(b) Do nothing, and watch the kleptocrats and communists raid our wealth, destroy our way of life, and Die.
The jews in Europe were a devout and law abiding culture. And they could not, would not, break the law to survive. It was their fundamental decency that made them vulnerable to this type of attack. The vast majority chose to remain law abiding, even to their mass graves.
Like Americans watching the communists, and doing nothing to save their children, to save their way of life.
Why isn’t the law working? Because the communists do not share your ideals, your philosophy, your concept of responsibility. Criminals have a different way of thinking. Passing a law doesn’t make them behave differently.
But that law works to constrain Americans. Even when we don’t like a law, we hold dear the concept of law. But in this case, that behavior is killing us. It is a harness the communists control us with. Once they got the reigns of power, once there was a majority who feasts on the minority, the law is whatever they need it to be, to control those who are ‘decent hard working Americans’.
What made us great, is now the method being used to kill us.
Because we thought ‘the law’ would hold them accountable. But we were not vigilant, and let the criminals get control of the law. Bit by bit, staring with Wilson and FDR and more and more until we have the President and Congress working directly against the American People today. Totalitarian Control defeating Liberty with paperwork. Treason by lawyers and judges with agendas other than ‘protect and defend the Constitution’.
They created a mountain of techno-babble which is the domain of self-appointed princes of perpetual complexity and nuance. Good for the princes, bad for the people. America abhors princes. Complexity is the playground of princes and communists. All crooks hate simplicity and transparancy. The law should be a tool of the people; a part of the government formed between men for our own protection. Not a jobs program for princes who benefit personally from spiralling complexity, bringing down our liberty and business and our country. The legal structure has become repugnant to the Constitution.
That is how we got here. Now what?
Following laws designed to bleed you out?
Killing liberty, and business, and families, and our way of life.
Until ‘the law’ gets back to restoring our Constitution, it is our sense of obligation to follow the paperwork that chains us. Our decency is what is being used against us.
“All laws which are repugnant to the Constitution are null and void.”Breaking the law is a serious thing. Which is why it is such an effective leash.
— SCOTUS Chief Justice John Marshall, Marbury v. Madison, 1803
So the choice is to Die following the law, or ignore the law to Live. Death or Anarchy.
We do not want to be here, but our enemies have put us here.
When your representatives do not represent you, or your way of life; when they act in direct contradiction to survival - When the law no longer serves the people, what is it? A leash.
1775 was like this. People had to choose.
The death of liberty and enslavement of family, to work for a tyrant; or Anarchy to restore the natural order.
Our founders chose survival over English laws.
And the founders spoke and wrote often about tyranny through government.
(Read the many quotes down the right side of this blog.)
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
- John Adams, October 11, 1798
"Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny."European Jews faced this dilemma, and the vast majority chose the concept of law over their own survival.
- Thomas Jefferson
“A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.”
-Edward Abbey
“The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it”
- Albert Einstein
“Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.”“Live Free or Die” are not just words. Many are finding the deep truth behind that choice. To act against the law, the very thing you hold dear; in order to restore the Constitution and “natural law”. The greatest battle is in your own conscience. Brace yourself to do your duty, against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Like every society we attract leeches and kleptocrats and criminals. But then one day we stopped aggressively prosecuting them. Holding them responsible for their actions. Now we are responsible for our inaction. Many of us were raised on ‘American ideals’ and are proud of America as the torch bearer for all that is good in western civilization. America is the promise of so much more. America has attracted the best and the brightest and the most independent from around the world for many generations. We were different. Because we were free and responsible. We elevated men and women, rather than subjugating them.
"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. "This article is not advocating any particular action or inaction; but urges you to THINK. The law is being used against your interests. Look at the reality around you, even if it upsets you, especially if it doesn’t fit your ‘world view’. Do not fudge the data to fit what you want it to be. The data is the data. It may be hard, but accept it for what it really is. And use reason. Suicide is not reasonable.
- Thomas Jefferson, et al
"A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate."
- Thomas Jefferson
"Nothing... is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man."
- Thomas Jefferson
“You have Rights antecedent to all earthly governments; Rights that cannot he repealed or restrained by human laws; Rights derived from the Great Legislator of the universe."
- John Adams
"A fatal misconception is the belief that evil can be reasoned with."
-Unattributed
"The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression."Less than 50% of voters are producers. Their laws will always take from responsible people. And they now hold the reigns, and have created a system of harnesses - Because Americans accept the leash of the law. Except when the law is against the interests of the continued survival of the people. Then the tree of Liberty gets watered.
- Thomas Jefferson
"You can evade reality, but you cannot evade the consequences of evading reality"- Ayn RandThere is no other place for 48% of us to go. This place, America, remains the last best hope for humanity. We either restore the Constitution and American values - Or submit to the hordes of leeches.
"Men occasionally stumble over truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened."
- Winston Churchill
"But what do we mean by the American Revolution? Do we mean the American war? The Revolution was effected before the war commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people; a change in their religious sentiments, of their duties and obligations...This radical change in the principles, opinions, sentiments, and affections of the people was the real American Revolution."The communist take over of my country, "the Coup", is now complete. Having "won", the commisars expect and demand that we accept their Coup and lick their boots and follow their laws. Laws repugnant to our Constitution and our way of life. The attack on America continues and accelerates. Every month brings new amazing outrages. The aim of a communist takeover is a defeated people dependent upon the state. Taxes and regulations that kill our businesses and reduce us and our children to poverty.
- John Adams
"If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it."
- Thomas Jefferson letter to James Lewis, Jr., May 9, 1798
They Won, they say. Their laws and bureacracies are in place and will not be repealed within the current system. Modified and adjusted, maybe; enlarged and expanded, probably. But we will never go back to being America. The "change" that was promised; it's better pronounced "chains". They have all the cards. They are playing with your chips. They need you to keep playing their game.
The Declaration of Independence explains of the proper role of government.
"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...""Live Free, or Die". Really think about it.
"And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor."
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were ever our countrymen.”— Samuel AdamsIn violation of the law, in 1775 we began actively evicting the British tyrants and many of their followers. Many of the old laws were rendered null and void. But the transition wasn't chaos. Knowing 'right' from 'wrong' guided the people. Local law enforcement was loyal to their community. It took many years before "new laws" and a "new government" were in place. They carefully worded the organizing principles of a government that would serve the people.
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free."
-Ronald Reagan
Keep it simple.
Restore the Constitution.
20.12.09
Here's How They Do It
How have the kleptocrats, leeches, and communists been taking America from you?
Interesting post at GunRights4Us (go read the whole thing)
Know your enemy. They were smart enough to steal your government as you sat and watched.
They will not give you a trip wire. They are boiling the frog quickly, but not so fast that they think he'll jump out of the pot.
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Interesting post at GunRights4Us (go read the whole thing)
How Will They Confiscate Your Guns?Because we respect the concept of law, we hand that leash to our new masters.
by John A. Sutter
For decades I have heard gun owners claim that the government would never be able to confiscate our firearms because the government would lose too many men. The implication being, of course, that gun owners would actively resist confiscation, even to the point of shooting back. But I believe this thinking is outdated and doesn’t align very well with reality. But before you tell me how big your honor guard in Hell will be when that day comes, let’s think about how the government could really do it.
Suppose, for the sake of argument, the government bans all civilian possession of firearms at the end of this month. Congress passes a total ban and the President cuts his own re-election throat by signing it. Gun owners get some grace period to turn them in, even beyond the deadline, without being charged with a crime. If we use Australia and Britain as examples there will still be a significant number of firearms that are not turned in. Some estimates put the Australian turn-in at less than 25% and the British faired only about 28%. But Australians and the British have long been used to obeying almost every gun control law. Not so the Americans. When laws are passed that we don’t like, we bite. We scratch. We vote. So here we sit after the guns have been collected and the amnesties have run out. Now what? Send out the personnel carriers, swat and shock troops to seize the guns from those militia “terrorists” who refused to turn them in? Don’t be silly.
The government has lots of records about you. If you purchased a firearm since 1968, chances are that they have some record of it somewhere. Most likely, it will take quite some time for them to compile all the serial numbers of “surrendered” guns (surrendered essentially at gunpoint) and cross off the ones you turned in. It’ll take more time for them to attempt to “clean up” their data. Say, about two years, maybe three. Add to that the hordes of people keypunching in hundreds of thousands of sales and registration records from hundreds of gun stores forced out of business. At some point the government decides they have something approaching a “good” database of unaccounted-for guns.
The next thing you’ll get from the government is an official looking notice that they think you still have a firearm. Their information will probably include all the information from registration forms, right down to the serial number. That notice will tell you that you’re in violation of the law, subject to prosecution and imprisonment. It will give you some period of time to surrender the gun. It will also give you a very limited number of days to return the form with an explanation of why you don’t have the gun, any proof you have, and your signature that the gun was lawfully disposed of. For many people the idea that the government “knows” they didn’t turn in that pistol or rifle and they have the detailed information about it will be enough to get them to surrender the gun. Some people will ignore the letter, others will scrawl a note that “I sold this in 1982 in a private sale”. After some time, the government will figure out how many guns are still out there and what the “compliance rate” is with the gun ban. More importantly, they’ll start sorting their database by the number of guns someone supposedly has “unaccounted”.
If you think they’ll come at these multiple-gun owners with a swat team, guess again. Their most likely tactic will be yet another letter (maybe two more) that generate what they’ll call “insufficient responses”. That means they can’t track a gun after you owned it. This they’ll use as fodder for a search warrant and/or perjury charges at a later date if they can. My guess is that the time between April and August will be a bad time for a lot of “former” gun owners. Remember that the BATF is an arm of the Treasury department and they control the IRS. You’ll probably get a notice in the mail that the IRS has some questions about your taxes or wants to audit you. When you make the appointment to visit the IRS they will pass that information to the BATF. While you are sweating over your deductions, the BATF and local police will execute a search warrant and search your home looking for guns. With you safely off site and distracted, essentially forced into “the royal presence” of the IRS they will snag your guns. Expect them to use slow-scan and ground penetrating radar to search walls, yards, under the patio or deck, the basement, etc. You might even find your hot tub has been drained and moved. Yes, they’ll search your car in the IRS parking lot too.
If you are one of the those people they suspect of having multiple guns and they don’t find any guns at your home, expect them to find and search storage facilities, safety deposit boxes and other places you might use. Warn your relatives who live nearby that they can expect a visit too, even (or perhaps especially) if they never owned a gun. If they are thorough, I’d expect the government agents to check your neighbors to see which of them previously owned a gun and perhaps search their homes, arguing that your neighbor could have held your guns while agents searched your home. Remember that at this point the government authorities don’t have much to fear from the general population. And by the time your complaints are run through the mill, rejected and turned into lawsuits, they’ll have changed the rules.
But you only have one gun you say? Fine. They won’t come looking for it. But they will make sure that possession of ammunition is also a serious crime. Don’t leave any loose cartridges around and where will you hide that case of ammo you rushed out to buy? Expect any “gun parts” to be made illegal at some point in time too. Spare magazines, maybe even old cleaning kits. Anything that says “gun” will be interpreted as “probable cause” to search your entire home. Also expect that you can never use that gun without becoming a serious felon in the eyes of the government. Even if some thug has repeatedly stabbed you with a large knife and threatened to rape your six year old daughter, they won’t forgive you for having the gun. They may even give you extra penalties for using it to save your family. Especially if you are one of the first few hundred people caught this way, they will use you to “set an example”. This will cause people to “bury” their guns away in hiding places, making them all but useless. If the government does come to confiscate it, you won’t be able to get to it fast enough and they will probably find it.
You’ve moved several times since you bought a gun? Remember showing your ID when you bought a gun? Remember writing down your place of birth? Why do you think the government has so many computers? Linking you to your new driver’s license in another state shouldn’t be too hard. Besides, the Treasury folks know where you work. Think you’re safe because you had unregistered guns? Think again. I would expect that the government’s database will contain a lot of old data. Some of it might indicate that a gun was sold to a resident at your address. If they can tie you to ammo sales or range use with your credit card in the previous 2 years you might get a surprise visit. Or that seller might have remembered you bought that gun from him and filled out his gun notice to get “off the hook” for that gun.
The point of this article is that by thinking in limited terms of a “raid” to confiscate guns we lose sight of the alternative methods the government can use. Put yourself in the government’s position and think of your own methods to avoid a conflict. Meanwhile, let’s ensure that every gun owner votes for gun rights this year and the next. You can think of a thousand excuses not to vote, not to help a campaign, not to help another gun owner register to vote. I can think of one important reason to do all of those.
Liberty!
Know your enemy. They were smart enough to steal your government as you sat and watched.
They will not give you a trip wire. They are boiling the frog quickly, but not so fast that they think he'll jump out of the pot.
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16.12.09
Honduras or Argentina?
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Unlike Honduras, we apparently cannot be bothered to resist our enslavement, nor the greatest theft of the millenium.
Like Argentina, we watch and hope someone else will do something. Or we hope, maybe we can 'get it all back' in the next election (?).
Argentina was an exporter of food, oil, minerals, and machined goods - Now they can't feed themselves. From the 5th largest economy in the world to 58% poverty in one year, 2001. 9 years later, and their society has become mired in deep poverty and kleptocracy. Argentina found out that there is no 'undo' button on theft and tyranny.
Argentina is an example, a warning for where the US may be headed.
This documentary shows how it was done.
The country was sacked and the people enslaved: Old school war. Modern methods. It was done with bribery and finance. Not a spear, sword, or trebuchet in evidence. But much more effective.
The Thief is in our House here too (for many years). The new thief-in-chief just doesn't see the need to hide it anymore.
Congress and the Courts encourage him, and have become a bought and paid for allies in the revolving door of promised future kickbacks.
The thief has lawyers, bureaucrat, and cops to keep you in check and hold a sword over your head while he robs you. Play along to get along. In Peking, Chicago, Moscow, Havana, and now -DC. Unless we stop it.
We've been yelling "Stop! Thief!" and he doesn't stop.
We've been giving more and more to their friends to make them stop (Stimulus, TARP,Bailouts, car companies, banks, etc). We gave our grandparent's money to them (social security, medicare). We are giving our kids futures to them (they get our money now, our kids pay the debt for a generation or two).
For What? What benefits do we derive from this theft?
The funds from Stimulus,TARP,Bailouts were enough to pay off every private mortgage and credit card bill in the US. Think about that. Business would be where they were, but the people would have been free to produce and consume. Crazy, I know (it is crazy, in several ways).
Or we could have spent nothing at the federal level, and let individual and business creditors alike assume their own obligations all along (instead of building a house of cards). Business needs to shoulder their own burdens. Done consistently, businesses fail more frequently, but with much less impact to the country as a whole. And when government makes stupid business laws, the effect is immediate, and must be addressed quickly. Government excesses are kept in check. The feed-back loop keeps everything working. Crazy?
Would the people have been better served by paying their own bills?
By having the government pay off their bills?
Or by taking my money and giving it to AIG, Citbank, and Lehman Brothers?
Who is the government serving?
Choices point out the priorities.
Or maybe the bribery.
Hypothetical Question: In Argentina in 2000, with the 5th largest economy in the world, could an attack by 1 million Chinese have sacked Argentina any more thoroughly? How much money could have been extracted by force? Suits work better, and no one seems to fight back. And the wealth is extracted, just the same.
Hypothetical Question: Two years ago, could you imagine the US would be where we are today, without an attack by 10 million Chinese? Wealth being extracted from the people; life savings, college funds, homes, property, all gone. Homeland Security and Law Enforcement being turned against the people. Loss of freedoms. Loss of jobs, and manufacturing. Czars telling business leaders what to do and how much they make. This isn't America anymore.
It's war in a 3 piece suit. But it is war, to take the wealth from one group to give to another.
Look again at the sacking of Argentina. No pikes, swords or trebuchet were needed. But the results were the same.
Let's summarize where we are in the USA, and check the boxes:
Soap, Ballot, Courts.
Check, Check, Check.
The Founders REALLY wanted the Soap, Ballot, and Courts to work - If we could keep it.
The best we can hope for from the elections in 2010 is to slow down the madness. Elections once again do not appear to offer any hope for reversing the madness and imprisoning the corrupt, the culpable, and the enablers.
And at the rate things are 'progess'-ing in the US, what will be left by the Fall of 2010?
So that leaves us where? What boxes?
We can (a) move off planet, or (b) fight, or (c) wear the chains of our new masters.
No other options remain.
In Argentina, the thieves flew away to other countries, with their stolen money. That need not be the case. Argentina was so cowed and so exhausted that they did not follow the thieves, and hunt them down as a nation. They let the thieves live a life in luxury off their ill-gotten gains. Why not hunt them down, like hunting SS officers after WW2. We Americans do that, in the name of what's right, 'natural law'; we hunt down and punish the guilty. Sound extreme? Look again at the sacking of Argentina. How many dead? How many lives ruined? And look at what's happening in the US just now.
It's beyond criminal. It's warfare, in an expensive suit, to extract massive wealth.
When should Argentina have said, "NO! Stop! Thief!" ?
What should Argentinian's have done? Specifically? Individually?
If they could go back to early 2001, knowing how this path plays out; would they try a different path?
What are you doing today, for your kids?
The people of Honduras were wise to the Coup in their country, and they restored their Constitution.
They are an example to the world.
The people of Honduras have huevos, how 'bout you?
Like Argentina, we watch and hope someone else will do something. Or we hope, maybe we can 'get it all back' in the next election (?).
Argentina was an exporter of food, oil, minerals, and machined goods - Now they can't feed themselves. From the 5th largest economy in the world to 58% poverty in one year, 2001. 9 years later, and their society has become mired in deep poverty and kleptocracy. Argentina found out that there is no 'undo' button on theft and tyranny.
Argentina is an example, a warning for where the US may be headed.
This documentary shows how it was done.
The country was sacked and the people enslaved: Old school war. Modern methods. It was done with bribery and finance. Not a spear, sword, or trebuchet in evidence. But much more effective.
The Thief is in our House here too (for many years). The new thief-in-chief just doesn't see the need to hide it anymore.
Congress and the Courts encourage him, and have become a bought and paid for allies in the revolving door of promised future kickbacks.
The thief has lawyers, bureaucrat, and cops to keep you in check and hold a sword over your head while he robs you. Play along to get along. In Peking, Chicago, Moscow, Havana, and now -DC. Unless we stop it.
We've been yelling "Stop! Thief!" and he doesn't stop.
We've been giving more and more to their friends to make them stop (Stimulus, TARP,Bailouts, car companies, banks, etc). We gave our grandparent's money to them (social security, medicare). We are giving our kids futures to them (they get our money now, our kids pay the debt for a generation or two).
For What? What benefits do we derive from this theft?
The funds from Stimulus,TARP,Bailouts were enough to pay off every private mortgage and credit card bill in the US. Think about that. Business would be where they were, but the people would have been free to produce and consume. Crazy, I know (it is crazy, in several ways).
Or we could have spent nothing at the federal level, and let individual and business creditors alike assume their own obligations all along (instead of building a house of cards). Business needs to shoulder their own burdens. Done consistently, businesses fail more frequently, but with much less impact to the country as a whole. And when government makes stupid business laws, the effect is immediate, and must be addressed quickly. Government excesses are kept in check. The feed-back loop keeps everything working. Crazy?
Would the people have been better served by paying their own bills?
By having the government pay off their bills?
Or by taking my money and giving it to AIG, Citbank, and Lehman Brothers?
Who is the government serving?
Choices point out the priorities.
Or maybe the bribery.
Hypothetical Question: In Argentina in 2000, with the 5th largest economy in the world, could an attack by 1 million Chinese have sacked Argentina any more thoroughly? How much money could have been extracted by force? Suits work better, and no one seems to fight back. And the wealth is extracted, just the same.
Hypothetical Question: Two years ago, could you imagine the US would be where we are today, without an attack by 10 million Chinese? Wealth being extracted from the people; life savings, college funds, homes, property, all gone. Homeland Security and Law Enforcement being turned against the people. Loss of freedoms. Loss of jobs, and manufacturing. Czars telling business leaders what to do and how much they make. This isn't America anymore.
Look again at the sacking of Argentina. No pikes, swords or trebuchet were needed. But the results were the same.
Let's summarize where we are in the USA, and check the boxes:
Soap, Ballot, Courts.
Check, Check, Check.
The Founders REALLY wanted the Soap, Ballot, and Courts to work - If we could keep it.
The best we can hope for from the elections in 2010 is to slow down the madness. Elections once again do not appear to offer any hope for reversing the madness and imprisoning the corrupt, the culpable, and the enablers.
And at the rate things are 'progess'-ing in the US, what will be left by the Fall of 2010?
So that leaves us where? What boxes?
We can (a) move off planet, or (b) fight, or (c) wear the chains of our new masters.
No other options remain.
In Argentina, the thieves flew away to other countries, with their stolen money. That need not be the case. Argentina was so cowed and so exhausted that they did not follow the thieves, and hunt them down as a nation. They let the thieves live a life in luxury off their ill-gotten gains. Why not hunt them down, like hunting SS officers after WW2. We Americans do that, in the name of what's right, 'natural law'; we hunt down and punish the guilty. Sound extreme? Look again at the sacking of Argentina. How many dead? How many lives ruined? And look at what's happening in the US just now.
It's beyond criminal. It's warfare, in an expensive suit, to extract massive wealth.
When should Argentina have said, "NO! Stop! Thief!" ?
What should Argentinian's have done? Specifically? Individually?
If they could go back to early 2001, knowing how this path plays out; would they try a different path?
What are you doing today, for your kids?
The people of Honduras were wise to the Coup in their country, and they restored their Constitution.
They are an example to the world.
The people of Honduras have huevos, how 'bout you?
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12.12.09
2009 was 1765++. Will 2010 be like 1775?
The years 1765 and 1775 are interesting to ponder.
About Two-hundred and forty years ago. About 10 generations.
1765 was a year that was much like 2009. The majority of Americans “woke-up” to the realization that their government had become tyrants, obsessed with controlling them to control the products of their labor. Governments are instituted among men to secure the blessings of Liberty, not to enslave themselves.
1765 was the year that changed everything.
Some bureaucrats resigned, but there were plenty of quislings to take their place.
Historian Gary B. Nash wrote:
King George III was willing to lose the Indian Wars, as long as the people could be kept in their place and their money flowed into the government.
That’s a view of people as a resource to be extracted and harvested for the good of the State. Today, North Korea understands this mentality. China, Russia, and East Block Europeans understand this view of the State.
Forcing compliance, and making the victim pay for the means of his own enslavement.
There was a slower pace to life back then. The King never got on National TV to address the nation. There was no internet. Communications, travel, everything took longer to develop.
Incrementally, the liberty of the people was eroded by a long train of abuses. Tyranny needs money and obedience. That generation where trapped in a situation that repeats throughout history. They tried everything; speech, voting, courts, and could find no redress. Tyranny was relentless and intolerable. They came to understand that it was their duty to throw off such Government themselves. Washington, Franklin, Adams, Jefferson, Hancock, Hamilton and an much of the population banded together to resist tyranny. (About 30% resisted. About 30% remained neutral. And about 30-40% always remained loyal to the crown.)
By 1775, the government had dug in and was intent on pushing their wishes onto the people - whether the people wanted it or not. All this free speech and talk of Liberty was getting in the way of collecting money.
Where prior to 1760 everyone was considered a loyalist, by the end of 1765 the King was acting against the good of the people, and the people started protesting vigourously.
By 1775 they saw that the abuses would continue and saw the government using force to make them obey. The change happened quickly, once they understood that the King sought to enslave them for his own puposes.
In March 1775, Patrick Henry proclaimed, "Give me Liberty, or give me Death!" In April, the government tried a 'gun grab' that was repulsed by the people at the Old North Bridge across the Concord River. By August, Patrick Henry was a Colonel with 150 'good men'. By December he was actively engaged and evicted the previous government from the state. A year later, he would be the First Governor of post-colonial Virgnia.
Once the will is in place, and the acceptance of death ... then pro-active people get shit done.
By 1776, the Revolution was in full swing. It has been estimated that never more than 3% of Americans were able to fight for the Revolution, while 10% actively supplied, fed, and armed the rebellion. At that time, many of the men we consider Founding Fathers had their businesses in ruins, had prices on their head, and they were fighting the strongest military power on earth. They made a Declaration, saying
Reading slowly through the Declaration really strikes home today. What they were facing, and the principled position they took.
The Despot's view is that the machinery of state uses and controls the people.
The American view is that the people use and control the State.
Governance is a balancing act, and the framers gave the people enough power to contain the beast that they were creating. But the beast doesn’t like control, and wants to be fed more and more. Ten generations later, the State is a gigantic aggressive beast; and people scurry to stay out of it’s way while it plunders the accumulated wealth of generations, and robs our children’s future.
With a new year just around the corner, we all wonder what it will bring...
Will it be like 1766 or 1774 (start/end of continued train of abuses)?
Or 1775 (general secession/nullification/restoration/widespread use of force)?
1861 (civil war resolving into geographical regions)?
1973 (abandoning a war, riots, and impeachable offenses)?
And maybe some 1984 (Orwell), too?
My 2 cents is on 1775.
About Two-hundred and forty years ago. About 10 generations.
1765 was a year that was much like 2009. The majority of Americans “woke-up” to the realization that their government had become tyrants, obsessed with controlling them to control the products of their labor. Governments are instituted among men to secure the blessings of Liberty, not to enslave themselves.
1765 was the year that changed everything.
1765 TimelineLike 2009, 1765 was a year that transformed America.
• March 22 The British Parliament passes the Stamp Act, which is the first direct tax levied from Great Britain on the American colonies.
• March 1765 Parliament passed the Quartering Act, as an Amendment to the Mutiny Act, which had to be renewed annually by Parliament. The Quartering Act required Colonies to quarter and provision British troops.
• August 26 In protest of the Stamp Act, Bostonians destroy home of lieutenant governor Thomas Hutchinson
• October 17 The Pennsylvania Gazette reports that a Mr. McCullough, the Distributor of Stamps for the Royal Colony of North Carolina, has resigned his post in protest of the Stamp Act. A Dr. Huston is appointed to the position.
• November 1 The Stamp Act goes into effect in the 13 colonies, in order to help pay for British military operations in North America.
• December 12 The Pennsylvania Gazette reports that Dr. Huston, the recently instated Distributor of Stamps for the Royal Colony of North Carolina, has resigned his post in protest of the Stamp Act.
Some bureaucrats resigned, but there were plenty of quislings to take their place.
Historian Gary B. Nash wrote:
"Whether stimulated externally or ignited internally, ferment during the years from 1761 to 1766 changed the dynamics of social and political relations in the colonies and set in motion currents of reformist sentiment with the force of a mountain wind. Critical to this half decade was the colonial response to England’s Stamp Act, more the reaction of common colonists than that of their presumed leaders. …During the Stamp Act unrest of 1765 and early 1766, increasing numbers of soldiers were stationed in or near American cities. Some of those were new units brought from England; others were transferred from western posts, a move that enabled the Indians to regain the offensive on some portions of the frontier.
Both loyal supporters of English authority and well-established colonial protest leaders underestimated the self-activating capacity of ordinary colonists. By the end of 1765 … people in the streets had astounded, dismayed, and frightened their social superiors."
King George III was willing to lose the Indian Wars, as long as the people could be kept in their place and their money flowed into the government.
That’s a view of people as a resource to be extracted and harvested for the good of the State. Today, North Korea understands this mentality. China, Russia, and East Block Europeans understand this view of the State.
Forcing compliance, and making the victim pay for the means of his own enslavement.
There was a slower pace to life back then. The King never got on National TV to address the nation. There was no internet. Communications, travel, everything took longer to develop.
Incrementally, the liberty of the people was eroded by a long train of abuses. Tyranny needs money and obedience. That generation where trapped in a situation that repeats throughout history. They tried everything; speech, voting, courts, and could find no redress. Tyranny was relentless and intolerable. They came to understand that it was their duty to throw off such Government themselves. Washington, Franklin, Adams, Jefferson, Hancock, Hamilton and an much of the population banded together to resist tyranny. (About 30% resisted. About 30% remained neutral. And about 30-40% always remained loyal to the crown.)
By 1775, the government had dug in and was intent on pushing their wishes onto the people - whether the people wanted it or not. All this free speech and talk of Liberty was getting in the way of collecting money.
1775 Timeline
• February 9 - The Parliament of Great Britain declares Massachusetts in rebellion.
• March 23 – Patrick Henry, a delegate to the Second Virginia Convention after the Virginia House of Burgesses was disbanded by the Royal Governor, delivers his "Give me Liberty, or give me Death!" speech at St. John's Church in Richmond, Virginia.
• April 18 – Paul Revere and William Dawes, instructed by Dr. Joseph Warren, ride from Boston to Lexington to warn John Hancock and Sam Adams that British forces are coming to take them prisoner and to seize colonial weapons and ammunition in Concord.
• April 19 – Hostility between Britain and its American colonies explodes into bloodshed at the Battles of Lexington and Concord on the 19th, which ignites the American Revolution.
• May 10 - The Second Continental Congress meets, elects John Hancock president, raises the Continental Army under George Washington as commander and authorizes the colonies to adopt their own constitutions.
• May 10 - Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold, leading the Green Mountain Boys of Vermont, capture Fort Ticonderoga.
• May 17 – The Continental Congress bans trade with Canada.
• June 12 – The British forces offer a pardon to all colonists who lay down their arms.
• June 14 – The Continental Congress names George Washington as commander of the Continental Army.
• June 17 – Two months into the colonial siege of Boston, British open fire on Breed's Hill on Charles Town Peninsula. After 3 charges, the British take the hill in the misnamed Battle of Bunker Hill.
• July 3 – George Washington takes command of the 17,000-man Continental Army at Cambridge.
• July 5 – The Continental Congress sends the Olive Branch Petition, hoping for a reconciliation.
• July 6 – The Continental Congress issues Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms, which contains the words: "Our cause is just. Our union is perfect... being with one mind resolved to die freemen rather than to live slaves...".
• July 26 – The Second Continental Congress appoints Benjamin Franklin to be the first Postmaster General of what later becomes the United States Post Office Department.
• August 21 – Battle of Fort St. Jean: American rebels launch an invasion of Canada.
• August 23 – Refusing to even look at the Olive Branch Petition, King George issues a Proclamation of Rebellion against the American colonies.
• August 29 – September 12 – The Independence Hurricane from South Carolina to Nova Scotia kills 4,170, mostly fishermen and sailors.
• September 25 – Battle of Montreal: Patriot revolutionary forces under Maj. Ethan Allen attack Montreal, commanded by British General Guy Carleton. Allen's forces are defeated, and Allen himself is captured and held on British ships until he is later released.
• October – The Sayre Plotters attempt to kidnap George III of the United Kingdom.
• October 13 – The Continental Congress orders the establishment of the Continental Navy (later the United States Navy).
• November – Colonel Richard Richardson's South Carolina revolutionaries march through Ninety Six District in what becomes known as the Snow Campaign, effectively ending all major support for the Loyalist cause in the backcountry of South Carolina.
• November 10 – The Continental Congress passes a resolution creating the Continental Marines to serve as landing troops for the recently created Continental Navy (the Marines are disbanded at end of the war in April 1783 but reformed on July 11, 1798 as the United States Marine Corps).
• November 13 – Battle of Montreal: American forces under Brigadier General Richard Montgomery capture Montreal. British General Guy Carleton escapes to Quebec.
• October 26 – George III announces to Parliament that the American colonies are in an uprising and must be dealt with accordingly.
• December 5 – Henry Knox begins his journey to Cambridge, Massachusetts with the artillery that has been captured from Fort Ticonderoga.
• December 9 – Culpeper Minute Men and Virginia Militia defeat British army at Great Bridge, forcing British forces to abandon Virginia.
• December 31 – British forces repulse an attack by Continental Army generals Richard Montgomery and Benedict Arnold at Quebec.
By 1775 they saw that the abuses would continue and saw the government using force to make them obey. The change happened quickly, once they understood that the King sought to enslave them for his own puposes.
In March 1775, Patrick Henry proclaimed, "Give me Liberty, or give me Death!" In April, the government tried a 'gun grab' that was repulsed by the people at the Old North Bridge across the Concord River. By August, Patrick Henry was a Colonel with 150 'good men'. By December he was actively engaged and evicted the previous government from the state. A year later, he would be the First Governor of post-colonial Virgnia.
Once the will is in place, and the acceptance of death ... then pro-active people get shit done.
By 1776, the Revolution was in full swing. It has been estimated that never more than 3% of Americans were able to fight for the Revolution, while 10% actively supplied, fed, and armed the rebellion. At that time, many of the men we consider Founding Fathers had their businesses in ruins, had prices on their head, and they were fighting the strongest military power on earth. They made a Declaration, saying
"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. …And they made an oath to one another
And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
Reading slowly through the Declaration really strikes home today. What they were facing, and the principled position they took.
The Despot's view is that the machinery of state uses and controls the people.
The American view is that the people use and control the State.
Governance is a balancing act, and the framers gave the people enough power to contain the beast that they were creating. But the beast doesn’t like control, and wants to be fed more and more. Ten generations later, the State is a gigantic aggressive beast; and people scurry to stay out of it’s way while it plunders the accumulated wealth of generations, and robs our children’s future.
With a new year just around the corner, we all wonder what it will bring...
Will it be like 1766 or 1774 (start/end of continued train of abuses)?
Or 1775 (general secession/nullification/restoration/widespread use of force)?
1861 (civil war resolving into geographical regions)?
1973 (abandoning a war, riots, and impeachable offenses)?
And maybe some 1984 (Orwell), too?
My 2 cents is on 1775.
9.12.09
Global Warming Jihad Against the West
Let's just say it. Global Warming is a pick ax to tear down the western industrial world.
Harnessing energy has freed us from serfdom and slavery. Learning to control and manipulate energy empowers the west by freeing people from toil and drudgery. As most men were freed from the hardest physical labor, women are no longer are tied to housekeeping chores and child raising.
Let's Review:
Harnessing energy has freed us from serfdom and slavery. Learning to control and manipulate energy empowers the west by freeing people from toil and drudgery. As most men were freed from the hardest physical labor, women are no longer are tied to housekeeping chores and child raising.
Let's Review:
Energy is good.
Luddites are stupid.
Communists using Luddites are evil.
"We Hold These Truths" Radio Broadcast - December 15, 1941
The Bill of Rights was ratified on December 15th, 1791.
At the 150 year anniversary of the Bill Of Rights, every major radio station broadcast this commemoration to a cornerstone of our Republic.
The radio program is 60 minutes, available as an mp3 here. Wonderful listening.
The nation owes a debt of gratitude to Rand at Rand's Esoteric OTR for making this recording available.
h/t to drjim at Every Blade of Grass and to Sirius/XM for broadcasting this fine radio program again, for our benefit, many years later.
Help spread word of this historic recording. Liberty needs to go viral, again.
The Constitution and Bill of Rights establish the agreement between the individual people and their government. The National Archives introduces the Bill Of Rights in context:
At the 150 year anniversary of the Bill Of Rights, every major radio station broadcast this commemoration to a cornerstone of our Republic.
The radio program is 60 minutes, available as an mp3 here. Wonderful listening.
We Hold These Truths - December 15, 1941
Now, we present one of the most unique broadcasts of the old time radio era.
“We Hold These Truths” was a one hour dramatic program written by Norman Corwin for the 150th anniversary of the Bill of Rights. Scheduled to be heard on all four networks on December 15, 1941, events would turn the program into something bigger than a simple commemoration.
The federal government commissioned the broadcast and preparations were made for the show before Pearl Harbor, of course. With the nation suddenly at war, the program took on a special meaning - it holds the record for the largest radio audience for a dramatic program. Some have estimated that 63 million listeners, about half of the US population at the time, turned in to the program.
Heard in the show, broadcast from Hollywood, New York and Washington, DC, are Lionel Barrymore, Jimmy Stewart, Orson Welles, Edward Arnold, Walter Brennan, Bob Burns, Walter Huston Marjorie Main, Edward G. Robinson, and Rudy Vallee. The music was composed and conducted by Bernard Herrman; Leopold Stokowski conducts the national anthem at the end of the program after remarks by President Roosevelt.
h/t to drjim at Every Blade of Grass and to Sirius/XM for broadcasting this fine radio program again, for our benefit, many years later.
Help spread word of this historic recording. Liberty needs to go viral, again.
The Constitution and Bill of Rights establish the agreement between the individual people and their government. The National Archives introduces the Bill Of Rights in context:
During the debates on the adoption of the Constitution, its opponents repeatedly charged that the Constitution as drafted would open the way to tyranny by the central government. Fresh in their minds was the memory of the British violation of civil rights before and during the Revolution. They demanded a "bill of rights" that would spell out the immunities of individual citizens. Several state conventions in their formal ratification of the Constitution asked for such amendments; others ratified the Constitution with the understanding that the amendments would be offered.The Constitution and Bill of Rights are what fuels the light that shines out of the 'beacon on the hill'. Our birthright. Won by our forebearers. To be protected and handed down to our children.
6.12.09
John Wayne, Patrick Henry, and All of Us
The ethos he portrayed was the essence of America in the 20th Century.
John Wayne described it this way
“I won’t be wronged, I won’t be insulted, and I won’t be laid a hand upon. I don’t do these things to other men and I expect the same respect out of them.”He was the best friend you could ever hope to meet, but if you violated his code then he would would fight.
The collectivists, the NEA, Hollywood, and the media have decided that is not the America they want. They don't want anyone else to want it either.
They do not strive to become thoughtful, honorable, good christian men; pro-active, independent, and strong and free.
Their worst nightmare is an America of John Wayne's.
Sure, John Wayne was a fictional recreation. But his character resonated with a nation that looked up to a nation of real men just like that. The 20th Century was filled with them. And the 19th and the 18th.
America has been blessed with thoughtful, honorable, good christian men; pro-active, independent, and strong and free.
"... seven months before the Declaration of Independence, was at the time called the Second Battle of Bunker Hill."
Americans are what make America free.
from Culpeper Connections
The Culpeper Don't Tread On Me Flag reportedly was first used as the banner for a group of about one hundred minutemen in Culpeper County, VA who formed part of Colonel Patrick Henry's First Virginia Regiment of 1775. In October-November 1775, three hundred such minutemen, led by Colonel Stevens, assembled at Culpeper Court House and marched for Williamsburg. Their unusual dress alarmed the people as they marched through the country. The words "Liberty or Death" were in large white letters on the breast of their hunting shirts. They had bucks' tails in their hats and in their belts, tomahawks and scalping knives.Americans are what make America free.
The rattlesnake device occurs on several Revolutionary War flags. The rattlesnake's eye, supposedly brighter than any other creature's and with no eyelids, is the symbol of vigilance. It is said that the snake never begins an attack, but once aroused it never surrenders. The snake was also portrayed with 13 rattles, symbolic of the 13 American colonies.
[...]
The coiled snake might seem a strange symbol today. But it was and is effective. No American who ever sees it forgets -- and that's just the kind of message the revolutionaries wanted to send.
For those early Americans, the rattlesnake had special significance. Like liberty, the rattler was found only in America. But that wasn't all. That wily serpent was usually just a harmless, humble creature. But aroused, angered, and prodded, first it warned with violent rattle then it struck with a deadly bite. Gadsden emphasized this by printing the legend "Don't Tread On Me" on his flag.
The words swept the nation. It became the banner of minutemen militias. The Culpeper Minutemen chose the coiled snake ready to strike and the words from Gadsden's flag, but then raised another defiant fist at England by adding the words: "Liberty or Death."
[...]
Early Americans saw the tremendous opportunities of a land born of liberty where men were free to innovate, invent and explore. They could reap the rewards of freedom without government meddling and were safe because they answered to God, family and their local communities.
Most of all, those early Americans understood that liberty is fragile. To give any distant body of elites the power to tax and spend to stay in power promises corruption and a Leviathan government more interested in concentrating power for itself than in protecting the rights of its citizens.
The Culpeper Minute Men were inspired by one of their own, Colonel Patrick Henry, to acknowledge the situation that tyrants had put them in. "Liberty or Death".
Patrick Henry immortalized those words just that March
I consider it as nothing less than a question of freedom or slavery ... We have done everything that could be done to avert the storm which is now coming on. We have petitioned; we have remonstrated ... We have prostrated ourselves before the throne ... Our petitions have been slighted; our remonstrances have produced additional violence. ...Henry has this to say about the Bible:
There is a just God who presides over the destines of nations ... who will raise up friends to fight our battle for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave ... Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God!
I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death.
...is a book worth more than all of the other books that were every printed.On the balance of power
"Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?"On transparency in government
"The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them."More on the balance of power
“The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people; it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government -- lest it come to dominate our lives and interests."
Americans are what make America free.
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Addendum: After posting the above, I read this John Adams quote, h/t The Rattler
"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy."We'd rather be able to enjoy Liberty and bask in the sun. It is said that the snake never begins an attack, but once provoked it never surrenders.
more from The Rattler
"Many of us right now have this hunger for studying the history of our founders and the construction of our constitution. About the foundations that made this country great. For the role God had and needs to have in it. We are being drawn into things we had little desire of just a few years ago. We had lives we were busy with. But now... it's almost an innate feeling we are experiencing... really no different than our bodies craving for protein after a week of salads. But now it's in our souls. It's almost as if we who call ourselves freemen, by instinct, know, we must prepare for something."No one would choose slavery. Because tyranny would force us, we are compelled to do our duty, and fulfill our oaths.
28.11.09
Time for the Grown-ups to Man Up
One part of the Coup is exposed.
from James Lewis at PajamasMedia
And the money that these organizations have - I want it back. The institutions will have good lawyers (paid with my money) but many Universities need to be taken down brick by brick to repay financially what they have stolen.
And given how much we've already paid, EPA regs and small businesses and large industry effected - Hundreds of laws must be repealed immediately.
Or, we just ignore it, and let the damage continue; maybe someone else will do something...(?)
When kids vandalise a neighborhood, kick over trash cans, break a few windows, and spray paint some walls - Do we just leave the trash and graffitti, and let the kids keep their allowance and let them keep going out with their friends? No. They are held RESPONSIBLE for their actions. Remember that word? It's a concept the kids have been trying to make you forget.
It time for the grownups to impose our civilization back onto the chaos. To restore the basic framework and structure that existed before these knuckleheads tore up the place.
These kids must be grounded. Allowances and savings taken to pay for damages. Everything they overturned must be restored back to functionality. The kids really don't like the concept of responsibility, but each generation must come to terms with the results of their actions and/or inactions.
And the grownups now know that they have to be much more viligent in the future. Jail a few, punish the complicit, and try to reform the rest of the wayward. The alternative is to let these hooligans keep running amok, and destroy the whole community.
Time for the grown-ups to man up.
Time to hold the knuckleheads accountable for what they've done.
Jail.
Paying for damages.
Restore the way it was, before they messed everything up.
Reform as many of the deliquents as we can to responsible and productive lives.
from James Lewis at PajamasMedia
“Global warming was a fraud, and it has now been exposed.Why do the traitors, coup partners, and henchman remain free? Considering the sovereignty, liberty, industry, and money they were actively in the process of taking - Prison and execution would be compassionate.
“That little fraud would have cost the taxpayers of the world trillions of dollars, not to mention wrecking their economies with carbon taxes and penalties.
“But that’s not even the worst of it. The most important take home lesson is that global frauding was the clear and conscious work of a political machine aiming to steal your money, your liberties, and your country. It was a massive, worldwide attempt at a coup d’etat, and the victims were going to include all the free and prosperous peoples of the world.”
And the money that these organizations have - I want it back. The institutions will have good lawyers (paid with my money) but many Universities need to be taken down brick by brick to repay financially what they have stolen.
And given how much we've already paid, EPA regs and small businesses and large industry effected - Hundreds of laws must be repealed immediately.
Or, we just ignore it, and let the damage continue; maybe someone else will do something...(?)
When kids vandalise a neighborhood, kick over trash cans, break a few windows, and spray paint some walls - Do we just leave the trash and graffitti, and let the kids keep their allowance and let them keep going out with their friends? No. They are held RESPONSIBLE for their actions. Remember that word? It's a concept the kids have been trying to make you forget.
It time for the grownups to impose our civilization back onto the chaos. To restore the basic framework and structure that existed before these knuckleheads tore up the place.
These kids must be grounded. Allowances and savings taken to pay for damages. Everything they overturned must be restored back to functionality. The kids really don't like the concept of responsibility, but each generation must come to terms with the results of their actions and/or inactions.
And the grownups now know that they have to be much more viligent in the future. Jail a few, punish the complicit, and try to reform the rest of the wayward. The alternative is to let these hooligans keep running amok, and destroy the whole community.
Time for the grown-ups to man up.
Time to hold the knuckleheads accountable for what they've done.
Jail.
Paying for damages.
Restore the way it was, before they messed everything up.
Reform as many of the deliquents as we can to responsible and productive lives.
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