Maggie's Farm

...and the question was asked just yesterday as to why people should organize into small effective units...for all the reasons I gave yesterday AND the fact that all political philosophers have known since Plato....the STATE, any STATE, can and usually does enslave the population. Notice I said population and not citizenry.

Jefferson's admonition that The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants

But it is too late for that now for anyone alive today. Our external enemies are forcing more restrictive internal laws...

And who today would join an organization to assault Congress or support a coup? zero-3% maybe.

We cannot halt the loss of our freedoms until and unless we begin to realistically define our enemies, Islam, and revanchist Hispanics. They MUST be physically defeated by force of arms. If you want freedom you have to KILL PEOPLE who would take it from you.

Bottom line ...we're toast.....the good part is that most everyone reading this will be dead by the time it gets really really bad ........

So who will step up and at least join a nationwide moratorium on paying taxes?

zero...why..we're already afraid of our government. we're afraid our lives will be ruined, that our houses,cars ,and toys will be taken away.....

I know, let's elect a man of the people, someone who doesn't owe anything to any party apparatus .......oh yeah ROTFLMAO

A constitutional convention would be a disaster. We simply need the population educated to the fact that their rights cannot be abrogated by the Federal Register or the laws of Congress... a rebellion is preferable to opening up the entire restructuring of what we have already written down, but have, as citizens, allowed the government to become our "savior" instead of ourselves as guardians of the Bill of Rights...

I would prefer a tax boycott, thus cutting off the governments oxygen.

The biggest fear and argument of our new nation was having a second constitutional convention to remedy what the Anti-federalists felt had been too ill defined ...our Bill of Rights.

No just shoulder a weapon and go to the local town meeting...they'll get the message....

I didn't read the book "Bowling Alone" but recently I did read an article about our increasing isolation from one another in our society. According to the author there are serious socio-hist-politco-econo-Tivo ramification s for the country.

I'm not worried. I just wish we would have a world war that would do what wars do...make people appreciate things more.

Never forget your Shakespeare.. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange
that men should fear
Seeing that death,a necessary end, will come when it will come

It would also be a champion idea to hang a few socialists, define as Islam as a philosophy ,not a religion,
and then ban it since it's tenets DEMAND death to all infidels.

Let the rest of the world remain in the mode of tolerating a murderous religion if they so choose but we can simply redefine in de jure and ,arrest ,deport, shoot, or otherwise rid this nation of a problem that I guarantee you will only get worse.
They say death to all infidels, I say death to all Islams.

Of course we could have a rousing discussion of Aristotle and Plato's understanding of "distributive justice" but outside of a handful of social commentators I can't believe that conversation would illicit anything but a grunt from hoi polloi.

Better to watch reruns of Walker, Texas Ranger.

The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. — D.H. Lawrence

We have all seen this , as it is the byline for another blog often referred to on this site. But today it's meaning is hollow and rotten.

The hardest of alloys can become brittle under the proper circumstances and then fail, often with catastrophic consequences. That is where we currently find ourselves, a brittle alloy of factions.

That is what has happened to the USA. An almost exclusively Christian nation, founded on the principles of the Enlightenment has become a putrid corpus of factions set to turn the foundations of this nation to something other than intended, prostituting it's own history and meanings behind the words of her documents, but not the intentions of her founding and the illumination behind the words of those documents

This not a nation that was ever intended to provide a host for an antithetical philosophy (Islam) but rather a nation willing to embrace a symbiotic relationship with other philosophies and religions and go forward in peace and freedom. We do not have that symbiotic relationship with far too many isms that would gladly undo our entire nation.

Once again the way to remedy this is to quarantine and dispatch those isms that are easily identifiable as clear and present dangers to this country.

Hell no...kill the bastards.

Hayek's book The Road to Serfdom is what we are talking about.

here is a GREAT summation and easy to follow.

http://www.mises.org/books/TRTS/

Buddy,

Thank you for the link. I have watched that speech probably fifteen times...it is a great work and gave RWR "the buzz" for a future presidency.
I campaigned for Barry Goldwater while I was in high school. I debated his platform before the Debate Club, of which I was not a member but I was a high school pooh bah so they let me...the Debate Club sponsor was for LBJ.

It is as an inspiring a speech as one will ever hear, and it is as true today as it was in 1964.

Couple that speech with John Stormer's book, "None Dare Call It Treason" , published in 1964, and you get a flavor for that election.

Add in the famous Bill Moyers "Daisey" political commercial for LBJ and you really see how it was down and dirty by the Democrats. To this day the "Daisey " commercial is considered a tasteless piece of vile campaigning.

"No legislative act contrary to the Constitution can be valid. To deny this would be to affirm that the deputy is greater than his principal; that the servant is above his master; that the representative of the people is superior to the people." - Alexander Hamilton, Federalist Paper No. 78.

There is in the nature of government an impatience of control that disposes those invested with power to look with an evil eye upon all external attempts to restrain or direct its operations. This has its origin in the love of power. Representatives of the people are not superior to the people themselves." - Alexander Hamilton - Federalist Paper No.15, 1787.

Thomas Jefferson's prediction: "The natural progress of things is for government to gain ground and for liberty to yield.

Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison - 1788

"Aided by a little sophistry on the words 'general welfare', [they claim] a right to do not only the acts to effect that which are specifically enumerated and permitted, but whatsoever they shall think or pretend will be for the general welfare." --- Thomas Jefferson 1825 to W. Giles.

Witness the "Daisey" commercial which was produced to scare people into thinking that Barry Goldwater would start WWIII

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EG2G1wdwP48

Happy trails..bedtime

Clopfelter:

I'm surprised you've so easily forgotten this entire nation was created by mama's basement rabble rousers.......how easily you have forgotten and how ill advised you are to proffer such a statement.

Yes, we can all just line up and do exactly what we are commanded to do regardless of our God given rights , defined in our Bill of Rights. Or we can heed the advice, a sample of which is offered on post #15. Those statements, I remind you, are the accumulated wisdom of philosophical giants since Plato on the threats posed by governments to the freedom of man.

It is entirely your choice to go along to get along, but that will not begin to halt the erosion of personal liberty or the vortex sucking that liberty from us...the government.

Your pity remark, "Hey, you blog guys just keep the internet functioning and we’ll think of the rest" offers no solution other than to do exactly what totalitarian governments do....tell the people to shut up. And the arrogance without example of just how “you”ll think of the rest” is a testament to your solecism in this entire arena. Your feet of clay expose just how lame your presentations truly are. .

As an afterthought, since that is the merit you have earned, tell us who are the “we” are you refer to who will think of all “the rest?” This is your time to step up. Pray, tell us.

Apparently some folks cannot read between the lines of self-deprecating humor without putting some unconscious spin on the meaning

Read that sentence and tell me what is wrong with the thought expressed.

The closer you examine it the more laughable it becomes.

We didn't have a commercial name for the killing techniques I was trained in ..sorry I missed the MMA acronym. I might add that MMA in the real world ...well a bullets gonna get you.

Paperclip. well it's really a multi step maneuver . First you write yourself a note..KILL so and so ..attach the note to your daily stack of work papers. When you get to it , go shoot so and so with your gun.

Naw I have no idea how to kill with a paper clip other tha after gouging out an eye or two, ( which is really unplesant) you open the paperclip ( this is one of those big muthas by the way) and you rip out the carotid artery.

My apologies to all for using the term , "feet of clay". It was inapproriately applied, given that it's original intent was to expose one of greatness as having no foundation.

In the matter of Clop I do not believe he has ever approached "greatness".

Clop...being an MMA person I'm surprised you haven't figured it out.
If you can kill with your knuckle or your thumb, or an open palm strike, then having a paper clip aiding in the appilcation of Dim Mak will kill a man.