Never in the history of this sad planet have so many bitched about so much. And it all amounts to nothing. It isn't changing a damned thing. I have yet to hear "Storm the Castle". "Lynch the bastards!"
Anyone who clings to the historically untrue and thoroughly immoral doctrine that violence never settles anything I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler could referee and the jury might well be the Dodo, the Great Auk, and the Passenger Pigeon. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and their freedoms.
Good video, good thinking, good speaker, faulty message, but certainly not completely faulty.....I'm remembering his suggestion, to those of us "bitching", to form a "pitchfork brigade" and call him when we're ready. Couple that with recent reports about the unprecedented success of Clint Eastwood's movie about The Sniper - and credible reports that many millions of so-called Americans giddily are prostrating themselves adoringly to the actions and memory of that sniper - and any pitchfork brigade would first have to wade through those millions of 'patriots' before even approaching the situs of evil - hereabouts and thereabouts. Our government knows that we pride ourselves on obeying the laws, and that such pride fetters most of us. No such pitchfork brigade will be successful until Americans, somehow, become educated about Who Is Doing What To Whom. At this time, those Americans feel goosebumps when our jet fighters roar over the Superbowl. Those Americans feel real good about themselves for despising an "enemy" that is not an enemy. Those Americans watch Cop Movies on tv, and admire the concept of Force while wishing they had it themselves. Those Americans would be jubilant to call the sheriff's office and report some friends, some neighbors, some relatives who are stockpiling pitchforks - or whatever. Our predicament is well-known at highest levels, and possibly provides much merriment there...
"The 'uniter' has brought the entire world together - to despise and deride us." Lod - Jake's best pal.
I keep hoping that there is a little group, somewhere in this nation, that has a list. And that, someday soon, they will begin working on it.
"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it." - Frederic Bastiat
...draw a line in the sand and if they cross it, then act.
That line was crossed many, many, years ago. Which makes the time for action long overdue. Unfortunately, we are captives in a surveillance state which makes overt actions quickly compromised, infiltrated, neutralized (the Tea Party, for instance).
Individuals fighting back are nothing but child's play, you could consider it a major accomplishment if you even got your fifteen seconds of fame on the local news and, as far as that goes, you would be portrayed as some sort of kook, off your meds, anarchist, or lone wolf. Hardly a fitting epitaph for an American Patriot. To quote JFK: "Its' dissenters are silenced, not praised".
To continue, with more from JFK:
"For we are opposed ... by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence--on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day. It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations".
This is the opposition and, while I believe Kennedy was referencing communism at the time of this speech, could the exact same not be said of the government under which we exist?
I do not know if there exist in this country enough individuals, willing and able, to overtly change the direction in which this country is heading. If such persons exist I would expect their movement to be quickly compromised and snuffed out. This, rather sadly, severely limits the available options.
"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it." - Frederic Bastiat
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken