Your understanding and knowledge of history is enlightening, Phil. I appreciate the lesson and information, truly. My take on it is much simpler as I’m a simple man:
Do nothing and we know the outcome of that: our descendants will live lives of hellish desperation.
Or, stand and fight. Now. Don’t wait for provocation because I’ve enough of…
Your understanding and knowledge of history is enlightening, Phil. I appreciate the lesson and information, truly. My take on it is much simpler as I’m a simple man:
Do nothing and we know the outcome of that: our descendants will live lives of hellish desperation.
Or, stand and fight. Now. Don’t wait for provocation because I’ve enough of that. The outcome of that is unknown as are all turning points in history.
But the words of Solzhenitsyn echo out to me now:
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”
I have no desire to be a martyr, but never been afraid to die. What I cannot do, is knuckle under to the diktats of tyrants.
I’ve been watching this slow descent into tyranny my whole life. It’s come to this head about 20 years too late; I’m at least that past my prime. But when they come for me, as they will for all of us, I’ll take as many with me as I can.
Thought of this passage many times, and he's right. The trouble is people in the West don't want freedom. They want to be taken care of. Give them their tech toys, some food and shelter, and they are good to go. Pathetic wretches.
This is especially true of the under 30 crowd. They are completely entitled...and dependent. But this is going to come to an end. When austerity hits and mommy and daddy can't afford to support Johnny and Susie, reality is going to bite and the entitled generation will turn on the politicians that promised them an easy street if they vote for them.
Yeah, I'll be right there with you. Solzhenitsyn should be required reading. There is so much to learn from the Russian experience. And the day may come sooner than we realize when they will come for us and we will have no choice but to fight or surrender the way the Russians or the Germans did under their Nationalist Socialist party (NAZI). Tyranny consists of fraud and force. So far, they have achieved their goals through massive fraud and indirect force (mandates). "I will not comply" has been a real defense. But this is coming to an end. When the fraud is no longer believed, all that remains is force. It is at that point that direct force must be used and the gloves come off.
There are 2 or 3 things we have going for us that is unique in history. First and biggest, never has a Marxist coup attempted to take over a population that is as massively armed as Americans are. Second is the large geographical area that Americans are dispersed over. Third, and this ties in with the second point, is the decentralized structure of American government spread out between many jurisdictions. That is very significant. Typically, governments are monolithic and easily taken over by Marxism in one swift coup. That is not America. Each state and each and every county is a separate jurisdiction. That will be our line of defense and our redoubt.
Your understanding and knowledge of history is enlightening, Phil. I appreciate the lesson and information, truly. My take on it is much simpler as I’m a simple man:
Do nothing and we know the outcome of that: our descendants will live lives of hellish desperation.
Or, stand and fight. Now. Don’t wait for provocation because I’ve enough of that. The outcome of that is unknown as are all turning points in history.
But the words of Solzhenitsyn echo out to me now:
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”
I have no desire to be a martyr, but never been afraid to die. What I cannot do, is knuckle under to the diktats of tyrants.
I’ve been watching this slow descent into tyranny my whole life. It’s come to this head about 20 years too late; I’m at least that past my prime. But when they come for me, as they will for all of us, I’ll take as many with me as I can.
Thought of this passage many times, and he's right. The trouble is people in the West don't want freedom. They want to be taken care of. Give them their tech toys, some food and shelter, and they are good to go. Pathetic wretches.
This is especially true of the under 30 crowd. They are completely entitled...and dependent. But this is going to come to an end. When austerity hits and mommy and daddy can't afford to support Johnny and Susie, reality is going to bite and the entitled generation will turn on the politicians that promised them an easy street if they vote for them.
Sadly true.
Yeah, I'll be right there with you. Solzhenitsyn should be required reading. There is so much to learn from the Russian experience. And the day may come sooner than we realize when they will come for us and we will have no choice but to fight or surrender the way the Russians or the Germans did under their Nationalist Socialist party (NAZI). Tyranny consists of fraud and force. So far, they have achieved their goals through massive fraud and indirect force (mandates). "I will not comply" has been a real defense. But this is coming to an end. When the fraud is no longer believed, all that remains is force. It is at that point that direct force must be used and the gloves come off.
There are 2 or 3 things we have going for us that is unique in history. First and biggest, never has a Marxist coup attempted to take over a population that is as massively armed as Americans are. Second is the large geographical area that Americans are dispersed over. Third, and this ties in with the second point, is the decentralized structure of American government spread out between many jurisdictions. That is very significant. Typically, governments are monolithic and easily taken over by Marxism in one swift coup. That is not America. Each state and each and every county is a separate jurisdiction. That will be our line of defense and our redoubt.