I bet you thought about gun confiscation or internment camps or invasion by blue-helmeted “peacekeepers.” Maybe you believed your line in the sand would be reached if your religion was outlawed or your son or daughter was drafted to fight in one of the empire’s future foreign wars. Your personal line in the sand could be any one, or two, or three of a million acts of government overreach.
But who thought of this?
-WiscoDave
...and read the comments. Disheartening, but true. Nemo
ReplyDeleteI seceded sometime early-1970s.
ReplyDeleteIt was gradual.
Then, one day, I realized I was outside TheHive.
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And I recognized hivers.
Back in those days, hivers were Political Science majors, Liberal Arts majors, easy enough to recognize.
Their energy was opaque, weakly wishy-washy, unsettled.
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These days, hivers announce their hive-ness with bumper-stickers promoting local/state/fed BOLCHEVICS.
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And they wear driving-alone masks.
Also known as 'face-masks'.
And they are still weak, non-viable outside TheHive.
Yah...well...I didn't trust 'em. I didn't trust 'em I was younger and I have not gotten any less suspicious as I have grown older. They are going to have to accomplish something, before I believe they are serious about returning to The Constitution as it was written.
ReplyDeleteI prefer my fellow countrymen ungovernable and my tea in the harbor.
ReplyDeleteAny society is always governed with the consent of the people. Whether it be Mao's China, Stalin's Russia, or the people of America by those who we set in place as our supposedly elected officials. If at any point, the majority of any of those people rise up and refuse to be governed by the bourgeois elitists, then that government is doomed to fail, no matter how many guns or troops they have to enforce their rule.
ReplyDeleteIn America, it may be even more of a tenuous balance, due to the founders brilliant foresight in ensuring that the people would retain the ability to overthrow the shackles of bondage, via the 2nd Amendment, if, or more likely when, needed. It seems like the time for such action has gotten closer now than at any time since the 1860's. I hope that it doesn't come to such action, but I also hope that if such a thing happens, it goes far enough to reinstate the Constitution to where it has the teeth that it was meant to have, and not just to make some people feel good, while accomplishing little to nothing tangible.