Is this a Battle Of Athens Moment?

The rule of law is the legal principle that law should govern a nation, as opposed to being governed by arbitrary decisions of individual government officials.
Tyranny can be defined by that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry. Also cruel and unfair treatment by people with powers over others.
There is no Rule of Law in this once great country. People will not accept the simple fact that there is no Republic without the Rule of Law.
Our government officials don’t even try to hide it anymore. They slap us in the face with their lawlessness and smile. The FIRST foundation of civil society is The Rule of Law. Without it, there is literally nothing other than the Law of the Jungle.
Look at the year 1946. We had just won WWII. And in the middle of America, a corrupt local government tried to steal an election. It was not the first election they had stolen.
But this was to be the last election they would steal. I’m talking about the Battle of Athens. Look it up.
This was when men were men. When they understood that election integrity was important enough that they might have to go to war, literally, with men in their own nation.
When does election integrity start to mean something. When does the Rule of Law mean something?
Rick Scott sat back and allowed Broward’s Brenda Snipes to violate Florida law, including alleged felony violations, in previous elections. This time ballots were moved well after the election in violation of chain-of-custody laws, opening the question as to whether legitimate ballots were swapped with hand-filled out ones to rig the outcome.
Tampering with elections never matters unless an election is very close. When there’s a wide differential in vote the amount of tampering required to swing the outcome is so large that it would be very hard, without widespread coordination between different groups in different counties, to swing the outcome.
This was a close election and one race has already been swung. Two more remain open but within the margin of tampering in a large county like Broward.
You ought to think long and hard about the implications of silent acceptance of this crap as they are grave indeed.
If this issue, the utter destruction of The Rule of Law is not addressed now, there is a very real risk that the spiral of events that has been growing, first slowly and now exponentially, could erupt into literal war within our own nation.
If it does, you had better get up and look in the mirror because it is the collective inaction and refusal to demand the restoration of the Rule of Law by the American people that has and will lead to this outcome. There is no violent repression by police or anyone else that can stop it.
Only restoring the Rule of Law so everyone has equal recourse to the law will stop and reverse what is otherwise inevitable.
We have been taught since childhood that fighting solves nothing, but is this really true? Isn’t our country and our Freedom worth fighting for? History has shown that violence in the face of tyranny is often necessary. Let’s hope our government officials will wake up, see what is happening and restore the Rule of Law; then again we see how good they are at policing themselves.
The Democrats are laughing at us as they walk free, while anyone else would be rotting in a cell is yet another dividing point for what is left of the country. One side understands the rule of law and the consequences when it is replaced by the rule of man. The other side asks, “what difference does it make”? Neither side will support Liberty so we are only left with the consequences of tyranny.
The Declaration of Independence states that “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.”
They don’t realize that by rejecting the Rule of Law, they have set us free. We are independent. We owe them nothing, not respect, not loyalty, not obedience. We Owe Them Nothing!!!
May God have mercy on our country.

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United We Fall, Divided We Stand, by Robert Gore

Unity is not all it’s cracked up to be.

Everything I said is contained in a single word—collectivism. And isn’t that the god of our century? To act together. To think—together. To feel—together. To unite, to agree, to obey. To obey, to serve, to sacrifice. Divide and conquer—first. But then—unite and rule. We’ve discovered that one at last. Remember the Roman Emperor who said he wished humanity had a single neck so he could cut it? People have laughed at him for centuries. But we’ll have the last laugh. We’ve accomplished what he couldn’t accomplish. We’ve taught men to unite. This makes one neck ready for one leash. We found the magic word. Collectivism.

Ellsworth Toohey to Peter Keating, The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand, 1943

Countless commentators have decried disunity. They fret about our divided nation, warn of impending civil war, and implore us to come together to avert it. Unity’s desirability is taken as given, but what if the longed-for unity is that of passengers on a jet plunging into the ocean? A reappraisal of disunity is in order.

Unity was doomed with the passage of the 16th, or Income Tax, Amendment. It’s hard to feel any goodwill towards a government that forcibly relieves you of what you’ve produced, benefitting itself and those to whom it redistributes. The income tax divides the country into makers and takers, a division that cannot be bridged.

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Is Nationalism a ‘Betrayal of Patriotism’?

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The President of France made the following statement:

“Patriotism is the exact opposite of nationalism. Nationalism is a betrayal of patriotism. By saying our interests first… we erase what a nation holds dearest, what gives it life, what gives it grace, and what is essential: its moral values.”

Compare this to what Thomas Paine wrote:

“What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated.”

I would classify Thomas Paine as a patriot. As he fought for and inspired a revolution to have a free nation, I doubt that he would agree with Macron’s statement. However, the point is not what was said to belittle our President in front of the world. The point is that people in this country do not realize what is at risk and the consequences of our apathy. The other side has successfully manipulated half of the nation to support Socialism which always leads to Communism. If I had to wager which side will win, I would put my money on the Communists. They believe in their dogma more than “patriots”.

David DeGerolamo

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Well, he got it “half-right” …

What follows is an excerpt from an essay by Prof. Gary Galles:

F.A. Harper: The Greatest Threat to Liberty Is the Idea That Democracy Guarantees Freedom

Democracy is important only insofar as it serves and defends liberty. For example, if whatever the current majority decided “democratically” was to be law, our Constitution and Bill of Rights, which put some things beyond majority determination, could not in fact, be the highest law of the land.

Unfortunately, democracy need not serve liberty. It is entirely consistent with choices that destroy liberty, even though Americans commonly equate them. Consequently, it is important to refocus attention on the primacy of liberty as we move from electing to governing.

What is missing from Prof. Galles’ otherwise good essay, is that a return to common law is necessary to re-establish a culture of liberty.

Common law and liberty are complementary aspects of a functional society.  This was covered in detail at the fall PATCON.

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The situation

The mid-term election should tell anyone who was paying attention a few things about our country. By and large, those people who President Trump campaigned for (rally) seemed to do well in general. Those who he didn’t campaign for didn’t seem to do nearly as well.

America is a fragmented country. There are regions containing conservatives, mainly in the fly-over areas between the coasts, and the big cities contain masses of liberal voters. The chasm in America is basically between those who favor self-reliance and those who feel it is the function of government to be a perpetual nanny.

Normally, or normally until a few years ago, the media would arbitrate and provide both sides of political issues; that is no longer the case. What happened during the President’s recent news conference brought the media to a new low. Those of us that have even a smattering of journalism training have been taught that we are to report the story; not become the story. In a narcissistic world of TV news personalities, that admonition has gone by the wayside.

Jim Acosta, the boorish White House reporter for CNN accused President Trump and engaged him in a back and forth which was more about getting soundbites for CNN’s evening shows than garnering any real information. Once he was finally relieved of the press microphone and had made a complete ass of himself, the baton was picked up by an NBC reporter who took the same accusatory tone. As a result of the drama and boorish behavior, Acosta lost his White House press pass.

A press conference is for listening to the speaker’s talking points and then asking questions; not manufacturing a stage show for TV outlets. There needs to be stringent ground rules established for news conferences; question all you want, but if the reporter wants to argue, his press credentials should be pulled. Acosta is just a belated start; there are more who attend White House news conferences and try to make themselves the center of attention with rude and obtuse behavior. I have the feeling that this rancorous behavior is by design and geared towards sound bites on the evening news.

Admittedly, it doesn’t take a great deal of agitation to get under President Trump’s skin but a consideration most folks don’t take into account is that Trump is the first president to receive this degree of media animus. Many reporters weren’t impressed with Obama but there was never the accusatory, argumentative, demeaning tone during his rare press conferences. His responses ran for minutes, and rarely, if ever addressed the question; but still he was extended a degree of respect, and with questions not confrontation.

Trump is hated by about the same number of people that adore him, and probably for the same reason, he gets things done and doesn’t really care whom he offends. His minions love his earthiness and the liberal elitist hate him for the same reason.

The vast majority in the media, or at least those whose name appears in written op eds or whose face appears on a TV screen, hate Trump. The people applying the makeup, working the lights, cameras, and hauling equipment may not share their animus but have no voice with the imperial press.

We live in an era where people, especially the liberal/socialist left, but not exclusively, seem to be unable to disagree on any issue without resorting to vile, personal attacks on one’s character, intelligence, and motives. This is the new America, the new normal, and in all likelihood, will ultimately lead to a complete collapse of our nation.

This insanity cannot continue, we cannot allow it to continue. I’ve said more than once that the United States is at a crossroads, we can continue to digress until we fragment into obscurity; or we can come together and discuss our national problems in an adult and reasonable manner. The time to change is now!

Have a good week. Bill Shuey is a freelance writer in Quincy, Florida.

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Democrats Take Aim At Gun Rights; Will Push Most Aggressive Legislation In Decades

The new measures will be supported by an influx of pro-gun-control lawmakers on their way to Capitol Hill after Tuesday’s midterm elections, however any new measure would face an uphill battle in the GOP-controlled Senate.

Democrats ousted at least 15 House Republicans with “A” National Rifle Association ratings, while the candidates elected to replace them all scored an “F” NRA rating. –WSJ

“This new majority is not going to be afraid of our shadow,” said California Democrat Mike Thompson, a Napa Valley, California legislator and chairman of the House Gun Violence Prevention Task Force. “We know that we’ve been elected to do a job, and we’re going to do it.

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It Never Gets Old

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Still Not Tired of Winning

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A Couple of Good Genocides

The truth about the election is that nothing is going to change. The Democrats (communists) have it in their mind to pursue the Alinksy protocols right down to the death of the Constitution. And, for those who believe that a paper with words on it means something, it does, but only when backed up with the force of law and people willing to enforce those laws.

The Republicans (communist-lite) want the laws to work for them while in office and don’t really care what happens to the individuals that the Constitutional laws are supposed to protect. To this end, they will use those laws (rights) of the people to gain political advantage over their competitors, the real communists. But, if people are still looking for something to be legal and move the Democrats off of their agenda, forget it.

With the rise of Antifa as the military wing of the Democrat Socialist Party, it will only get worse. They are the IRA of the Sinn Fein political party and no one in politics seems to care one way or another, not even when harassed by these militants themselves, so if you think they care about them harassing you, you are mistaken.

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Which Black Swan Will Be the Trigger?

The list of upcoming triggers that will precipitate a world war and economic collapse that are the globalists’ goals is growing. It does not matter which trigger will be the “one”. It does matter how you prepare, act and react.

I would like a straight up trigger that I can see. The outbreak of disease is one which is also looming but never fully realized. Ebola may be back in the picture and its use as a terrorist weapon is not to be overlooked. Imagine the impact on the economy if people did not go out and spend money for Christmas in the malls for fear of a contagion. Then again, who goes to the mall anymore since Amazon and online shopping have become the new paradigm.

David DeGerolamo

CDC Director: Congo’s Ebola Outbreak May Not Be Containable

The problems with containment of this particular Ebola outbreak stem from the fact that the disease is spreading in an active war zone with several armed groups attacking health officials, government aids and civilians. Some civilians with Ebola have refused treatment, and health care workers are still being infected. About 60 to 80 percent of new cases do not show an epidemiological link to prior cases.

The daily rate of new Ebola cases had more than doubled in early October. In addition, there is community resistance and a deep mistrust of the government as the raging outbreak continues to spread through an active war zone.

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The Only Resolution Is Revolution

While the talking heads are still talking, the people who are sentient are realizing that we have a divided country whose ideologies will not foster reconciliation. When one side openly is against the existing structure of government in a country and they have support from a Deep State government, the only resolution is revolution. Their side is willing to fight regardless of laws or consequences. Our side is hoping that President Trump will succeed and everything will be fine. This normalcy bias will accomplish one thing: the overthrow of the Constitutional Republic. It may not happen tomorrow but their success is guaranteed based on history.

Just as the Democrats were able to regain control of the House of Representatives without any platform, it is only a matter of time before they regain control of the federal government. The other side uses (and will continue to use) our apathy until they win. As we enter the Bondage phase of Tyler’s cycle, I encourage people to remember what Liberty used to represent in this country so that when we have a generation with great courage, they will understand what they are fighting for.

David DeGerolamo

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Lessons?

The smoke is clearing from the most expensive midterm elections in American history and the outlines are just becoming visible.

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The Absolute Best Example of Fake News

Acosta has had his press credentials suspended from the White House for his actions regarding his behavior of this intern. Anyone who has watched the exchange between the President and Acosta knows the truth concerning Acosta and then NBC’s Peter Alexander.

David DeGerolamo

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What Would You Do If Terrorists Came to Your House?

https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1060329164367167488

After seeing the earlier post here, I saw another tweet with the same video. I encourage people to read the comments on both tweets. Then consider your options. We are moving from “what if” to “when” very quickly.

David DeGerolamo

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A Primer on the Midterms and Media

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