Sunday, October 17, 2010
Porretto: Wishful Thinking Department - A Bloodless Revolution
Fran Porretto injects some reality into the throbbing anticipation re the 2010 election.
Beck calls the event more correctly, IMHO, but Fran is not delusional, either:
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...There will be no bloodless revolution back toward individual freedom, objective justice, Constitutional constraint, and American sovereignty and dignity.
Be mindful.
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Deterrence, by free Americans against those who would subvert and destroy this country, has failed.
The Bad People have
- the initiative,
- both the checkbook and the printing press,
- the controls of the Combine,
- the mainstream media,
- academia, from pre-K through grad school and beyond via the professoriate,
- an array of unscrupulous allied organizations,
- a standing domestic army of Federal, state, and local law enforcement,
- possession of much of the nation's remaining economic activity via regulation and/or outright ownership,
- the armed forces,
- financial and other support from strategic enemies and other transnationals,
- a domestic surveillance capability to make the Stasi blush,
- the half-hearted collaboration of the Dead Elephants, and
- a shockingly-ignorant electorate.
More importantly, they also have both
- a plan to do more transformation of America, and
- the will to implement that plan, no matter what it takes.
The Good Guys have
- some bold words,
- two ladies in suburban Atlanta with stickers and a video camera, and
- a few hundred men and women in total across the country with the courage to stand peacefully, armed, in public, quixotically demanding the restoration of this country's authorized political structure.
Looking at that balance of forces, is it wrong to echo this commenter's question?
And, even more importantly, is it possible that the only blood that will be shed will be that of the FreeFor and potential witnesses for that cause?
That's more than a rhetorical question.
Let's look at the record thus far, focusing only on events in the Nineties:
William Colby? Still dead.
Vince Foster? Still dead.
Vicki Weaver? Still dead.
All of the Davidian members from Waco? Still dead.
On the other side of the table, is there anything other than promotions, increases in personal wealth and power, successful retirements, and the prospects of even more into the future?
Didn't think so.
When they think of the Patriot movement at all (which is likely seldom), "Waco Jim" Cavanaugh, Lon Horiuchi, Jamie Gorelick, Eric Holder, Louis Freeh, Chuck Schumer, Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, and the hundreds of other FedGov veterans of the past 20 years of struggle almost certainly just roll their eyes and chuckle about the "gun nuts".
Why isn't anyone rolling their eyes and chuckling about the Zetas?
Think hard on a quiet Sunday about that question and its necessary implications.
It's dispositive.
I don't know if we WANT to be like the Zetas...
ReplyDeleteThank you.
ReplyDeleteThis says it better than I have been able to articulate.
Sam
III
I still hope. That the electoral process can return us to a Constitutionally Limited Government, Not in just one election cycle or even two or three it will take much more than that. And American Voter will have to be educated and stay awake and watch-full of the People that they are going to be electing so that hope that I have is not much.
ReplyDeleteAnd I know that hope is not a plan that´s why there is Plan 2&3.
Dennis
III
Texas
I've got no problem with anyone cutting off the head of Horiuchi or Cavenaugh.
ReplyDeleteTaylor:
ReplyDeleteWhat if the solution set is limited to:
1) submit to the Communists,
2) become a murderous SOB, or
3) blow out your brains?
Concerned: I wasn't advocating giving up at all, just the fact that Zetas have a different ideology and attack without provocation. Maybe I missed the point entirely...
ReplyDeleteAll it takes to kill someone is the will to do it, and quiet shoes.
ReplyDeleteCheck. And check.
Taylor: For sure they have a different ideology.
ReplyDeleteBut that doesn't mean that they can't offer lessons.
Especially in the "mess with us and you will regret it" sphere.
Cheers.
Two things I saw in the last five minutes. CNN's Christiane Amanpour describes Tea Party constitutionalists as "extremists," not the Republicanism of Reagan and Bush, and Rep. Eric "PATRIOT Act" Cantor, minority whip, enlists Newton "CFR" Gingrich to be poster boy of the Reptilican Party makeover.
ReplyDeletePlus, the election, and the next one, and the next one, will have no effect on the many strata of unelected federal bureucrats. If independents don't displace incumbents.
http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/republican-party/gingrich-to-be-a-public-face-of-cantors-effort-to-remake-gop/
Toronto cops at the G20 summit firing a gas grenade launcher directly at people simply standing around. Twice. Note the motionless body afterward.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZeT0FZJRJQ&feature=related
I call that assault with a deadly weapon.
Baltimore Sun: "Det. Stevenson was out celebrating with a friend at about 10 p.m. Saturday ... when he became involved in an argument over a parking spot, authorities said.
ReplyDelete"As the dispute escalated, a suspect pulled a rock or large piece of concrete from the ground and struck the officer with it"...
Stevenson sustained head trauma and died at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. He was an 18-year veteran with the department..."
Over a parking space.
The Weaver bunch shot back. The Davidians shot back. Those that could, did.
ReplyDeleteI don't know if it will ever get to the point where the shooting rages in earnest. I hope it never does. (How many of you got sick at that last comment, from the sheer cliche-ness of it?). I hope elections, as corrupt as they are, will set things to right.
The problem I have with that hope is the truism that power moves steadily towards the acquisition of more power.
I can see a time when resistance to tyranny will be bold enough to raise the public's sleepy eyelids.
"I'm hungry for some unrest
ReplyDeleteI wanna push it beyond a peaceful protest
I wanna speak in a language that they can understand"
Lyrics from a song I heard...
"They" don't care about brave words or stickers or windows.
"They" don't speak the language of: "please, pretty please, be nice and play by the rules".
So, what language do "they" understand?
One thing about the Zetas- no one misunderstands their language. Right, wrong, good, evil, whatever...their language is crystal clear.
Thus far, Freefor (myself included) is still muttering undecipherable baby talk syllables from behind the pacifier. We say no free "so-and-so" events, and "we're not backing up again", and "they had better listen" and that lasts until "they" push again. I don't know how to move from muttering behind the pacifier to speaking loudly and clearly, and I don't know if there is a good answer to that.
I suppose it's all part of a lengthy process, just like the Sons of Liberty coming before a while before Lexington, like the decades lead up to Caesar's, er, Lincoln's, war.
These things take time, I suppose. Where are we, in comparison to our other internal conflicts? 1760s? 1840s?
I believe your choices, CA, are accurate.
1.) Submit
2.) Fight
3.) Commit suicide
Notice, however, that choosing #1 or #2 may be just another path to #3. Harsh medicine.
Just my thoughts way too late on a Sunday night/Monday morning.
Justin
The beloved media.
ReplyDeleteLiberal media shill Rachel Maddow is invoking the Big Lie technique in talking about a supposed militia conspiracy-Oklahoma City federal building bombing connection again, saying a Republican congressman got advance notice. The Michigan Militia explained that THEY ARE IN the CENTRAL TIME ZONE and this was reflected on their fax machine header when they sent the analysis to DC (Eastern Time Zone) 50 minutes AFTER the explosion. On the other end, it appeared to have been sent 10 minutes BEFORE due to the time difference. Simple math.
But why let the truth get in the way of a good smear, especially at election time?
http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/jack-coleman/2010/10/19/rachel-maddow-most-shameless-claims-gop-congressman-received-advance-n
Long-tie NPR analyst Juan Williams canned for expressing concerns, "in a world of jihad," about "people who identify themselves as Muslims first."
ReplyDeleteMaybe he and that "Draw Mohammed Day" cartoonist can share a witness protection program apartment.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/21/business/media/21npr.html?_r=1
The Tea Party leadership has been co-opted and bought out by those that movement were rallying against in the first place.
ReplyDeleteAnd don't miss the lesson muy importante: the humble Mexicans, doing the job that no one else wants to do.
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