You enlist the cops and the military to our side. You can get the ones we need to lead us from the membership of the oath keepers. http://oathkeepers.org/oath/
Our only chance is to give them the backup they need when the time comes. If done correctly I see no reason for a single shot to be fired. It's not a war we need....it's some arrests. The military backs a police service of arrest warrants.
Who gets handed the Presidency is still a problem for me. I don't trust Boner (John Boehner) so who's next in line?
I skipped a few of the arrested of course.
Well, I wouldn't end being an insurgent in any capacity as I did swear an oath to defend the USA a long time ago.
I would support something passive but wouldn't support anything that put people at risk. People come first. So far I haven't heard of anything that would work for me except voting.
Well, I wouldn't end being an insurgent in any capacity as I did swear an oath to defend the USA a long time ago.
I would support something passive but wouldn't support anything that put people at risk. People come first. So far I haven't heard of anything that would work for me except voting.
I tend to agree with you. Since voting is our only reasonable path back to a sane govenment, we need to insist on proper voting rights, and properly educated voters.
The 2012 upset was done with very clever targeted advertising to specific groups by the Democrats. They used social media and E-mails to focus specific messages to specific ethnic and political groups. Well done and well executed. The GOP needs to consider the same kind of technological approach to getting out their message.
However, until they can come together and define that message, I have little hope the GOP will prevail.
I understand your positition DS but the simple truth of the matter is this. If we must come to arms to defend the Constitution, what wil we construct in place of the Government upon which it was founded?
An inssurection, successful or failed, only proves that the great experiment didn't work.
A bit of a Conundrum.
I understand your positition DS but the simple truth of the matter is this. If we must come to arms to defend the Constitution, what wil we construct in place of the Government upon which it was founded?
An inssurection, successful or failed, only proves that the great experiment didn't work.
A bit of a Conundrum.
You misunderstand. I don't want to replace; the idea is to restore. The Great Noble Experiment needs to be reborn, not replaced. I fear we may not be able to accomplish that via ballot; we are, after all, some 200 years beyond Jefferson's limit.
I don't misunderstand at all. My question is simple. The original blueprint, however noble and good it was, was imperfect because it has eventually failed. Based on the concept that failure, we must remove what has evolved from the original blueprint.
Therefore restoration would simply lead us back to where we now are. What changes would you make? If we were to make changes to the Constitution you just defended with a insurrection, how then can you claim to defend it?
It is an intellectual argument but one we had best be prepared to answer.
Meanwhile the bloodless route of election seems more inline with the intent of the original design. It may not be possible at this point. As I have repeatedly warned ,,,,, WE DON'T GET BACK FROM HERE."
Truth be told, I don't believe it is anymore.
As with many things, it was people that failed; not the blueprint. The plan held together for nearly 200 years,
until we decided to try and make up for past ills by creating a system, with the best of intentions, that ended by putting
blacks into a system of slavery where the only major change was in their masters; they traded being owned by a single
person for being owned by the government. Most of them don't see it that way I know, but when you strip any peoples'
self worth and dignity - the ability to get an education, find work, support their families - and substitute a system of
handouts, you create a people wholly dependent on others. With no incentive to do for themselves they fall into a state
of moral lethargy. Not recognizing the true cause of their misery they blame those they see around them who are
leading successful lives, never realizing that the ones they presume are their friends are in reality the ones holding
them down; the new masters.
We need to turn that situation around, eliminate the ones who are the true villains in the story, begining the slow process
of once again freeing the slaves and allowing them to become proud and productive members of society. This can be done
if we take out that old blueprint and follow it once more; but doing it solely through the ballot will likely not work. We
are going to have to "put people at risk" to save us all.
Conversely, if we must make a fundamental change, we should look to the system that Heinlein described in his novel
Starship Troopers and given body in Colonel Tom Kratman's A Desert Called Peace series. It is the most sensible model
I have ever seen but is likely to be met with great resistance at first as it posits that the franchise must be earned; just
having a body temperature in the vicinity of 38C is not enough.
Or so it appears from this seat.