Saturday, April 25, 2009

The Unutterable is Uttered ,,, READ AND THINK

For some time now I have been pondering the direction this administration has taken with regard to those it clearly considers domestic ENEMIES. The flip flop actions over the water boarding, and imminent release of photos will create firestorm of stupidity which will increase the incline on our slope from the Gracchi, to Drusus, to Saturninus, which ended with Sulla and Caesar. What began over Robert Bork is a straight line thru Lewis Libby and that this process will lead now to trials of those whose actions saved many lives in LA is unconscionable. I have said this before...what do these people imagine was going on, on Guadalcanal, Peleliu, Tarawa, Okinawa? What would have been the reaction if FDR and his people had faced ex post facto war crimes trials over the Japanese Internment policies? Policies opposed by his OWN AG, Robert Jackson who went on to become a highly respected Supreme Court Justice. Suppose Dwight Eisenhower was in such a mind in order to demonize his political opposition for domestic political purposes?

Harry Truman who COULD HAVE BEEN looked at as the war criminal murderer of 250,000 in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and was at LEAST as unpopular as Bush the day he left DC, is instead ..

REVERED.

Precisely because among his other qualities, he stood first for those actions which saved his countryman's lives. UNASHAMEDLY

Today, though, one of the possibilities is that the dedicated leftists can brook no domestic opposition AT ALL. Are so enamored with their idea of social and economic justice that opposition can only be evil.

All this can only lead, as I have said with regret repeatedly, to several really undesirable outcomes. Obama simply cannot be this stupid. He and his supporters are forcing these issues. If the republicans gain control after some national tragedy, what then ... trials of former Obama admin personnel for TREASON?

We cannot go on this way. They cannot make us enemies without factionalism DESTROYING THE NATION, PRECISELY as Madison warned.

From HERE:

You want me on this wall

By J.J. Jackson
web posted April 6, 2009

Jack Nicholson in A Few Good MenThis article is directed at those in the conservative movement who find my existence grotesque. You know who you are. You are the people that do not know how to get from point A to point B without being led around by the nose. You are the people who might be able to recite Jefferson, Madison, Washington and other founding fathers but cannot understand what you are quoting and the meaning of those words. You are the people that want to stop one step short, take options off the table and who think that when push comes to shove, there is still always more talking that can be done. These words I am about to write come forth because of an email exchange I had with a friend of mine who is a retired Marine and also made necessary because of wishy washy comments I have heard coming as of late from some on the right who think that I am far too radical, being too realistic, too rational in reviewing historic facts and in the process offending their sensibilities which have been generated by false beliefs.

Last week my Marine Corps. buddy and I were discussing the current state of America and the exchange eventually led into what the options for the nation were moving forward. He, like myself, has become very concerned about the direction this great nation is heading and he foresees America as quickly becoming far too weak to correct its course. He asked me straight, "What do you think needs to be done?" I responded, without even a second thought, that I thought there were three options that faced us

1) convert the hearts of Americans to embrace liberty through proselytizing on its virtues and retake our government through peaceful means, 

2) acquiesce to the current majority and join them in socialist misery 

or, lastly and ultimately, 

3) have an armed revolution that would either allow those of us that believe in liberty to part ways and divide the nation or that would retake the entire nation

I added that I did not believe that those who are currently destroying America would let us leave willingly and without a fight making that last option inevitable should they not be converted and considering that many Americans would never chose to join them willingly and would need to forcibly defend their right to cease being part of yet another failed socialist non-utopia utopia.

He then responded with what was obvious surprise, but relieved surprise, that I even mentioned that last course as an option. I made sure that he understood that it was not my favored option and that I certainly believed that we had not come to such a point in this nation yet even if I did fervently believe that we were rapidly approaching it. 

But he was still none-the-less very happy to hear someone else say what he told me he was also thinking might be a necessary path to walk. Talking about this further it became clear that he had been scorned by some of his other friends, so-called conservatives, for bringing up such an option when he and they had a similar conversation last month. They had scolded him for even mentioning such a thing. Revolution? Violence? How utterly droll! The problem was that they misconstrued his statement of such as a possibility as his endorsement of such an option even, according to him, after he made it clear that he certainly did not want it to come to that.

I can relate to all this because I get the same sort of response when I tell people that an armed revolution in America may be coming our way. Whether we want it or not is a moot point. If we do not correct ourselves and right this sinking ship it may become the only tenable option left to those that seek liberty for themselves and their fellow man. A few weeks ago I wrote an article titled, "This Power Keg Has Long Sought A Spark," in which I discussed how America just needs a single event to set us off into what was not at all a thinly veiled reference to civil war where citizens would no longer take governmental abuses of power and begin to fight back violently. Most of you that read my weekly articles cannot imagine the amount of visceral hate mail that I received from so-called conservatives for even broaching the topic.

I was called everything from a, "dangerous radical," to a, "trigger happy lunatic whose blood lust for innocent life was insatiable." And that was just for putting forth a lesson on how Americans have long looked the other way as the federal government has overstepped its bounds and trampled the rights of citizens in exceedingly violent manners. Shattering urban legends and popular myths about what actually happened leading up to and during events like the raid on the Branch Davidians in Waco to Ruby Ridge was also not taken at all well by those with their blinders on. And remember, these were the responses from people that called themselves conservatives! You can imagine what the responses were from the lefties that stumbled blindly upon my article with their guard down.

So believe me, I can relate to my retired Marine Corps. friend. When I shared with him some of this, his next sentence to me in the conversation was a reworking of some lines from the movie, "A Few Good Men." It was something that I had not thought of. He said, "Believe it or not, and not to sound cliché, they don't want the truth because deep down in places they don't talk about at parties, those people that claim to be conservative and who attack you don’t know what to do when liberty is under attack and they want you guarding the wall. They need you on that wall. They need you rattling the cages, sounding the horn and standing that post with a pistol on your hip and a rifle within reach reminding the tyrant class that if they push too far there are patriots who will rise up against them using more than just words."

At first I cringed at being compared to the maniacal Colonel Jessep who in the movie used much of his speech about walls and the need for them to be guarded to justify in his own mind how he had not been complicit in the murder of a young Marine and then the conspiracy and cover-up of such an act. But I quickly realized that this part of the speech is right even if the whole of it was meant to be self-serving. Those that react so viscerally to the truth seem to forget that from time to time, as Jefferson once said, "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." They either have no idea what must at times occur for their own rights to continue on or are simply unwilling to accept such costs.

Any talk of taking to the streets and any warning that blood may be required to be spilled in the defense of liberty causes them to wince and turn up their noses in either pretend or real anger at anyone that even says that such actions may be necessary. Not that they are necessary mind you; just the insinuation that that they may become necessary. Perhaps they agree to allow the people to take to the streets but remove from the table any acceptance of further action and wring their hands at the very thought that some citizens may decide that a line in the sand has been crossed while the wishy washy continue to think more talking is needed. Those that do so in pretend anger do so because they know the truth and that history has shown us this truth over and over again. But they and their circle of friends have chosen to simply ignore it. Those that do so in real anger do so because they think that they are smart enough to never have to resort to such, as they see them, barbaric actions. To do so would cause them to have to break a nail or mess up their finely quaffed hair and offend their metrosexual facade.

But when push comes to shove both of you sorts, I firmly believe, want me on this wall banging the pots and pans and shouting from atop it as the hordes from without are assaulting it with weapons of ever increasing power. For you do love liberty. Yes you do, even if you are not willing to say so and perhaps even do what is necessary to defend it from time to time when your back is against the wall and the hordes are rushing at you with their own weapons drawn. You are like leaches and leaches are often content to let the host do all the work while they draw off their own sustenance from it. They, like you, remain unaware of trouble until the host has been killed and the blood stops flowing. You may not listen to me as you sit around the table at the local tavern sipping your wine and pontificating about how strong the wall is and how it can never be breached. But you do so while ignoring that at the table next to you sits a group of the enemy who have already breached the defenses and who plot your demise openly and loudly. But once those men plotting your demise finish their planning and begin to strike you will cry out for those of us on the wall to come save you without fail.

The thought of blood may be grotesque to you. The mere thought of me speaking of it perhaps at some point being necessary may cause you to wretch and require the fainting couch to be fetched for you to fall upon. But as long as the enemy believes that the option for revolution and a violent defense by the people of their liberties is off the table, they will run roughshod over all who stand in their way. Yes, even you as you try to talk to them and make agreements and capitulations. It is not you that will say when that one spark hits the powder, causes this nation to explode and the citizens to do what is necessary. It is not you that keeps the enemy from complete control and who keep the wall from crumbling entirely. It is not you who will make the hordes think twice about how far and how fast to advance. But it can be you who will make them think that we no longer guard the walls and give them too much comfort, even when we are still guarding vigilantly, and encourage them to make their final move.

And to tell the truth, there may not be enough of us guardians upon the wall any more to stop them. So rest well under the blanket of the very freedom I and others provide by keeping the hordes second guessing whether it is finally safe to begin their final assault. For tonight may be your last night underneath that blanket if you continue to undermine the guards.

Sleep tight. ESR

J.J. Jackson is a libertarian conservative author from Pittsburgh, PA who has been writing and promoting individual liberty since 1993 and is President of Land of the Free Studios, Inc. He is the lead editor contributor to American Conservative Daily and also the founder of SignalCongress.com. He is the owner of The Right Things - Conservative T-shirts & Gifts. His weekly commentary along with exclusives not available anywhere else can be found at http://www.libertyreborn.com.

12 comments:

midnight rider said...

Amen.

As a Libertarian Conservative, I'm with you & Jackson on that wall, Epa.

Part of the problem with Americans is they see that kind of action, that kind of outcome, as something that only happens in satellite and third world countries. Georgia, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia etc.

Can't happen here. We already fought our War of Independence. We're far too forward thinking and advanced for that kind of rabble rousing.

And too stuck in taking the asy way anymore.

Who else will join us on that wall?

The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance. -- T.J.

Always On Watch said...

Epa,
Thanks for posting this.

It's the elephant in the room.

The question is this: Are there enough Americans with enough guts to stop what BHO et al are doing to America?

I doubt it.

Anonymous said...

I just got done posting this comment at Atlas:

Pamela - there is an entry at Hot Air that should, I repeat, should alarm even the most leftist of the left, as well as the right: The Obama administration is apparently arguing that a person detained by the police has NO RIGHT to an attorney if he/she requests one during an interrogation.

As anyone who has watched a crime show on TV knows, when a detainee asks for a lawyer, the questioning has to stop until a lawyer is procured for the person.

It has been a safeguard for years, as articulated by the S.Ct., I believe, to back up the right to counsel in the Constitution.

Where is the media on this??? Oddly enough, Hot Air reports that one place carrying it is HuffPo, although I have not checked it out.



His admin. dropped the fight to keep us and our fighing forces safe from the reaction to what appear to be inflammatory photos, but they are now ARGUING AGAINST the rights of US citizens to have counsel during interrogations????


This is nuts, and it seems no one is picking it up.

I will send my usual e-mails, call my rep, etc., etc., but nothing makes an impact like a viral internet report.

WC said...

On our show last Friday, Always and I discussed with Timothy what would happen if the local police and the national guard were called in to quell the attempted internment - or worse - of young Muslims after the next 9/11 - on that would kill hundreds of thousands Americans.

Would the local police and national guard, who would be used first on the scene fire on their own friends and neighbors? Or obey the dictator in charge in Washington?

And if they don't, will the full-time armed services do his bidding?

Anonymous said...

Well, a bunch of those you mentioned will probably not follow those orders - the Oath Keepers and those who agree with the Oath Keepers.

But if your scenario happens two years from now, the Internal Security Force (with all the equipment of the US military and all the training of the UN Peacekeepers) probably will.

And it won't be Muslims they will be rounding up, most likely. (IMHO)

Ro

midnight rider said...

WC -- Under the scenario you describe I believe the police would BECAUSE, unless laws had been changed by then rounding up beating interring Muslims at random would still be illegal. We're not talking morality here, righteous or justifiable. We're talking legal. And doing that to anyone is illegal under current laws, forming the lynch mob if you will, grabbing someone off the street because someone(s) else of their religion has commited a heinous act. And they would follow their orders & oaths to protect and defend, maintain law and order.

Now the military is different. Following orders like those would be illegal. Posse Comitatus. Can't use the military for law enforcement. I don't believe most officers wiould be willing to cross that line.

Were martial law declared I think it would depend very much on their leaders and their own consciences.

Pastorius said...

Everyone go read my latest post (above Epa's on the page) "You Do Not Have The Right To Remain Silent ..."

Anonymous said...

IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America

When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
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. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

Let's roll.

Pastorius said...

jdamn,
I was thinking of putting up the same excerpt from the Declaration. I'm glad you did.

midnight rider said...

I disagree, jdamn. While profiling may be okay (it certainly is with me) not all "Mohammedans" are terrorists and mass murderers. And having citizens forming a lynch mob and "rounding up the usual suspects" is not going to fly under our current system. Think of where that phrase "the usual suspects" comes from and tell me we should be reduced to that.

Now, that said, I do believe it may very well happen. And it will then turn American against American, just what the "Mohammedans" want and have been working for.

And that's when the real horror will begin.

Epaminondas said...

"law enforcement should be doing their job"...have you considered the record of convictions here?

I'm not certain it is too good, certainly for the feds.

I still believe the best way to keep things level in the USA is to use CIVIL SUITS against mosques and each member of the boards of directors when violence occurs against Americans by members or attendees who have gone to mosque school there. Are they teaching the Stone and the Tree? 9:29? Apes and Pigs? In that case they have incited violence, and violence has resulted.

3 or 4 of those lawsuits and the jig will be up in the USA as far as endemic threats are concerned.

No law will be necessary about what can be taught. Nothing in the Quran or the Hadith will be illegal or singled out from any other religion ..but if you teach the hate, you pay the freight.

Pastorius said...

Jdamn,
I like the way you make your argument, but here's the problem with it.

Zakat is like a kind of Islamic tax.

By your logic, all Germans were Nazi-supporters because they paid taxes.

Do you believe that?