Paul Revere’s success is outlined in “The Tipping Point”. Why did people listen to him when he warned them of the approaching British troops but not William Dawes? The answer is simple: Paul Revere was a member of every group in Boston which was supporting the rights of the people over British tyranny. He was a known entity in the Liberty movement and this credibility enabled him to mobilize the people.
Whose warning would you listen to today? Who has the credibility to motivate you to pick up arms and fight? Or is this the right question to ask? What action would cause you to defend your family and country from tyranny from the federal government? You may trust a modern day Paul Revere and his judgment that danger is imminent but if you have not already made the conscious decision to act with Sacred honor, the original question is moot.
In my opinion, the federal government has already committed enough actions against Liberty to warrant a response. The rule of law has been abandoned but the people have yet to act: whether the alarm is raised or not. The first step is to draw the line in the stone that will cause you to say “ENOUGH“. Most people feel that gun control legislation will be their “tipping point”. The second step is to define what action you will take when your individual line is crossed. The time for rhetoric is fast passing and physical action by patriots willing to “mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor” is coming. The third step is to develop your network for coordinated action to defend the Constitution with people whom you trust.
But let me back up and add a new requirement. The first step is a firm belief in God and that He will help us secure our natural rights that He has given us. I believe that the founding fathers knew this when they wrote the following:
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.
We also need to understand the consequences of inaction to tyranny. Bondage under tyranny is not acceptable: let the words of Patrick Henry motivate you today as he motivated the Second Virginia Convention in 1775.
David DeGerolamo
Of alarms, militias, and destiny
What made “Revere’s ride” special was that he wasn’t just a man. He was many men and women in a deeply interconnected network linked by the a common cause of Liberty.
Fiercely dependent and interdependent upon one another, the Colonials had been through three wars within the the preceding decades, and had devised a system of church bells, dispatch riders, signal fires and musket volleys to warn the countryside of danger. This was perfected after earlier raids during the Powder Alarm.
Paul Revere and the other dispatch riders that April morning were cogs in a communications machine that had 14,000 militiamen marching towards the Concord Road before the sun rose on April 19, 1775.
Six hours. 14,000 men.
I want you to think about that for a moment.
h/t Tina
