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From yesterday’s edition of the AIER Newsletter. I think this is a well-articulated article that most people should be able to read and understand.
I won’t deny being surprised when I saw and read this article. It seems that no one is quite this forthcoming these days.
There was a time when I would have felt comfortable saying that almost any American with the ability to think logically and reasonably, regardless of ideology, might identify with this. It is, after all, talking about our “way of life”, our form of government, our America… That use to include all ideologies.
But the deal of the day now seems to require Party over principle.
Anyway…
The Declaration of Independence is a fading memory. Where once it was revered as the secular foundation of a people, it’s now seen mainly as a curiosity that, at best, justifies an annual rite of fireworks and potato salad. For a few of us, the Declaration remains a beacon, though it flickers, as a candle on a stormy night.
The most stirring passage offers us to claim our rights to “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness,” but those rights seem sadly alienable today. Complementary passages remind us of what we must do in the face of tyranny. Yet, the Tree of Liberty stands before us, molting and desiccated.
Legal scholar Randy Barnett argues Americans should treat the Declaration as a charter document as weighty as the Constitution. He writes:
[T]he Declaration was considered to be a legal document by which the revolutionaries justified their actions and explained why they were not truly traitors. It represented, as it were, a literal indictment of the Crown and Parliament, in the very same way that criminals are now publicly indicted for their alleged crimes by grand juries representing ‘the People.’
But the Executive has other ideas.
“If you wanted or if you think you need to have weapons to take on the government,” said our aged president recently, “you need F-15s and maybe some nuclear weapons.”
In some ways, Biden’s not wrong. He’s just channeling Thrasymachus. But if Professor Barnett is right, we have a duty to confront a vital-but-uncomfortable question: at what point must Americans take it upon ourselves to revolt?
In other words, what is the revolutionary trigger?
“ “If you wanted or if you think you need to have weapons to take on the government,” said our aged president recently, “you need F-15s and maybe some nuclear weapons.”
BS.
2 competent 338 shooters.
Thats all I’ll say.
Your a 100% right, I am a vet joined in 1968, we better get freaking serious, if we had just a platoon say 20 men in every city in all county’s nationwide, that would amount to about 2 million strong. Or three or four man teams, we could take the communists down, f-15s or nuclear weapons I say BS.
Tom, that is a great idea, All I would require is 100 men who could snipe and fight hand to hand and i could cause so much chaos in every big city they wouldn’t know what hit them. I would begin in that rat hole City of Treasonous Communist spies in Washington D.C., but before I would start that I would hit the infrastructure first and get the government to oppress people even more and that would be the first shot fired, so to speak in the war against the communists who took over our nation. the patriots need to get the people on their side to go against that oppressive government and once completed then the shooting begins. Typical Marxist Bolshevik tactics to use against them in reverse.
Yes, Philip start small with a manageable group, we can do this, it is not beyond our means. Even at my age of 71, I have been practicing martial arts since the early 80s, if I don’t get you with my gun, I will get you with my empty hands.
Afghanistan did quite well with just some rusty AK’s, skirts and sandals.
The time to stop this massive push to the left is NOW. The longer we wait & or delude ourselves with the idea it will self correct, the bloodier it will be in my opinion. This last election should show that you can’t vote your way back to a Representative Republic. We have to take back our culture the hard way.
Obviously the President has never heard of GUERRILLA WARFARE.
We Irish beat the British in 1949, who out numbered and out gunned us by about 10 to 1, because we used Guerrilla Tactics.
We could never have won on open battlefields
I think a better question is does the population even want a revolution and freedom?
If the Wuhan flu showed us anything, it’s that a lot of people welcomed a boot on their neck while others went along to get along.
With everything that’s happened afterwards there’s still been no organizing, no protests, no show of force.
For whatever reason someone down voted this post. Why? It speaks the truth. The masses on the “right” are largely too comfortable and go to work to come home to football and beer. They’re not going to revolt. The “left” embraced the tyranny and today howls when someone speaks out about it.
The Taliban and the Viet Cong proved you don’t need aircraft or nuclear weapons to beat a super power.
Also from that article: “The consent of the governed. Only those inculcated by the state’s official civics-book authors could argue that democratic voting is consent, much less that submission to power is consent.
In his book When All Else Fails: The Ethics of Resistance to State Injustice, philosophy professor Jason Brennan argues there is no theory of state authority, nor special immunity, without gaping holes that must be filled with F-15s, nukes, and a supportive bandwagon of hooligans.”
So, “authority” is nothing more than force, it’s just shrouded in illusive rituals and ceremonies like votes and swearing oaths. Take the politicos, haul them out out of their offices and string them up. How you are the authority. Oh they’ll call their little goon squads who will show up and swagger hill dragging their dicks on the ground saying, “see this badge, I’m the authority”. So break them like little toys, let them taste the metal of that badge while they lie face down, as up and get a dose of real authority.
Submission is not consent anymore than rape and armed robbery are.