From the
Declaration of Independence:
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.
What happens if BushCo Diebolds the 2006 elections, like they did the 2004 elections? How do we take back our country?
Can we take it back?
The time is drawing near when it will be virtually impossible to recapture the government. Cameras everywhere, with
face recognition software, RFIDs in every license plate (just as they are getting ready to do in Texas, according to a
bill currently in the Texas House), GPS in your cell phone (but, in fact, they don't even need that; it just makes the job of
tracking you easier), FEMA 'immigration' camps (both
Rex84 - via Crawford House) and the new ones that Halliburton is building; see previous link,also), and DHS/FPS/FBI/CIA agents to ferret out and hold those that the NSA tags (moi??) (
NPR stories on NSA).
So, what are a bunch of civilians really able to do to recapture the government? The short answer is: nothing. The long answer (briefly) is: we cannot 'recapture' the government. Only the police and military can give it back to the people. Only an 'Orange revolution' (Wiki article) can restore our government to us. The problem here is that the government will soon be able to capture and imprison people so quickly that a ground-swell of revolutionary spirit will never allowed to happen. Imagine if Rosa Parks had been disappeared into a countryside FEMA camp, or if MLK, as soon as he made one public speech, was never seen again. The message is two-fold: if you speak out, you will be gone and, even if you don't speak out, this can happen to you, too, in the middle of the night. The Germans used this technique in their POW camps to break the prisoners so that the prisoners lost hope, gave up information and quit trying to escape.
We cannot beat the police, let alone the military. Have you noticed that the cops are up-armoring, and have been, for a while? Look at police station design, for instance. The Denver and Aurora (Colorado) police stations are bunkers. The Denver station is a square that is bisected, corner to corner, with entrances facing each other in the courtyard created by the bisection. Think: cross-fire zones. Very high, narrow windows on the ground floor, and the ground floor has 3 or 4 foot think, steel reinforced, walls. Gun ports on the roof. Aurora's station is built into a hillside - again, with facing doors that have a reinforced wall about 10 feet behind the glass - with gun ports. Cops are carrying M-16's (Bellaire, TX, started that back during the Vietnam protests). Cops all wearing at least Class IIIA body armor. Pistols mostly hi-capacity semi-autos with hot loads.
And that's just the cops.
Frederick Douglass said, "Find just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows or both."
Well, striking blows against the police and/or military is just going to piss them off. Think: Kent State. Don't think that our fellow citizens won't gun us down on the street, even though we are unarmed. Humans are a brutal and intellectually slow species, except for a few. Keep in mind that, theoretically, the mean I.Q. (Stanford/Binet) is 100. In our socio-economic class, think of the least intelligent person you know, and then realize that at least 1/2 of the world is less intelligent than that. Those people live on emotion, not rational thinking. Just like Rethuglicans.
And while the cops are now better educated, they got into the business, according to a Sociology professor I had, for 2 reasons, in this order: to be able to hold authority over others and for the thrill. They are not the most reasonable people on earth. How many times have you seen them reason with a person on COPS? Hardly ever. They lecture and they bully - and if that doesn't work, then they bust heads. I'm not saying every cop is like that, but most are.
So, what is the raison d'etre of the Wolverines?
Simply this: should the time come, to use any means necessary to cause the Administration (which ever one is in power) to more quickly usher in the police state.
Why?
We are sliding into a dictatorship and a police state, and are well on our way to fascism (corporatized government - think: Halliburton). If we slide slowly, we will die, as a free society, the death of a thousand cuts. Only if the government cracks down hard, and fast, enough for the people to be caused enough pain will the people ask the police and military to join us.
How do we do this? Well, that's the trick, isn't it? The trick is also to keep the particulars from the NSA/FBI/CIA/etc., as well as the names of the people involved. Don't think, for an instant, that even though we are not advocating the forceful overthrow of the government, that the label of 'terrorist' won't be applied to us. As Section 802 of the new Orwellian-named Patriot Act says, a terrorist is some who attempts to 'intimidate' the government. And guess who gets to define 'intimidation'?
We cannot 'recapture' the government by force of arms. The government must be handed back to use by the police and our standing army. The Founders, wisely, saw the standing army as the greatest threat to our freedom, and so it is.
We are slowly being drawn into a fascist state, but slowly enough that most people don't mind. Fear is being used to numb people to the pain of slavery - just as Hitler did after the bombing of the Reichstag. Fear is being used to justify the removal of our liberties. Fear is being used to cow us into submission. At each new abuse, a few more people protest, but most seem to be waiting. They are waiting for something to tell them that a breaking point - for them - has been reached. Yet, with each new abuse, their ephemeral breaking point is moved further down the line; further toward fascism.
Where is your breaking point? At what point do you say, "Enough!" We have lost the Bill of Rights, except for the 3rd and 7th Amendments. You may ask: did we lose the 2nd? The answer lies in the flood waters of New Orleans. This has put a scare into people about gun confiscation, but did it scare the Red States? Of course not, because they are (according to a review 10 years of ACT scores) idiots. What state has thought to put a limit on Federal power? How about New Hampsire.
So, is there ANY point at which you will stand up and be counted, as our forefathers did on that day, in 1775, in Lexington and at the Concord Bridge?
How much freedom are you willing to sacrifice in the name of security? Give enough up, and you might as well commit a crime and go to jail, because there (at least, in a SuperMax) you have total security (except for the occasional beating) - the only thing you lack is freedom.
You don't have much time to decide; the elections are only 7 months away.
Listen to the speech, or read it below.
Patrick Henry, March 23, 1775.
No man thinks more highly than I do of the patriotism, as well as abilities, of the very worthy gentlemen who have just addressed the House. But different men often see the same subject in different lights; and, therefore, I hope it will not be thought disrespectful to those gentlemen if, entertaining as I do opinions of a character very opposite to theirs, I shall speak forth my sentiments freely and without reserve. This is no time for ceremony. The questing before the House is one of awful moment to this country. For my own part, I consider it as nothing less than a question of freedom or slavery; and in proportion to the magnitude of the subject ought to be the freedom of the debate. It is only in this way that we can hope to arrive at truth, and fulfill the great responsibility which we hold to God and our country. Should I keep back my opinions at such a time, through fear of giving offense, I should consider myself as guilty of treason towards my country, and of an act of disloyalty toward the Majesty of Heaven, which I revere above all earthly kings.
Mr. President, it is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be of the number of those who, having eyes, see not, and, having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it.
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past. And judging by the past, I wish to know what there has been in the conduct of the British ministry Bush Admin for the last ten six years to justify those hopes with which gentlemen have been pleased to solace themselves and the House. Is it that insidious smile with which our petition has been lately received? Trust it not, sir; it will prove a snare to your feet. Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed with a kiss. Ask yourselves how this gracious reception of our petition comports with those warlike preparations which cover our waters and darken our land. Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation? Have we shown ourselves so unwilling to be reconciled that force must be called in to win back our love? Let us not deceive ourselves, sir. These are the implements of war and subjugation; the last arguments to which kings resort. I ask gentlemen, sir, what means this martial array, if its purpose be not to force us to submission? Can gentlemen assign any other possible motive for it? Has Great Britain BushCo any enemy, in this quarter of the world, to call for all this accumulation of navies and armies? No, sir, she has none. They are meant for us: they can be meant for no other. They are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those chains which the British ministry Bush Admin have been so long forging. And what have we to oppose to them? Shall we try argument? Sir, we have been trying that for the last ten six years. Have we anything new to offer upon the subject? Nothing. We have held the subject up in every light of which it is capable; but it has been all in vain. Shall we resort to entreaty and humble supplication? What terms shall we find which have not been already exhausted? Let us not, I beseech you, sir, deceive ourselves. Sir, we have done everything that could be done to avert the storm which is now coming on. We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and Parliament. Our petitions have been slighted; our remonstrances have produced additional violence and insult; our supplications have been disregarded; and we have been spurned, with contempt, from the foot of the throne! In vain, after these things, may we indulge the fond hope of peace and reconciliation. There is no longer any room for hope. If we wish to be free-- if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending--if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained--we must fight! I repeat it, sir, we must fight! An appeal to arms and to the God of hosts is all that is left us!
They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British FEMA/DHS guard shall be stationed in every house? Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot? Sir, we are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. The millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us. Besides, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come.
It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
And don't leave comments about whether or not Patrick Henry wrote this, or even said it; I could care less. It's the thought that counts.
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