I have tried to step back and look at this from every angle, and can only come up with one solution that doesn't involve an armed revolution which
would include untold civilian casualties.
I am not saying that an armed revolution can not or will not happen, and I am not saying that I am against such a thing, if push comes to shove I will
gladly be one of the first people in the streets. With that being said, the only way (I can see) that this can be done without ridiculous ammounts of
bloodshed is for our armed forces to begin it.
What we really
need is for some military brass to say 'enough is enough' and seize the government and return it back to the people. I have
tried to poke holes in my own theory and find the mistakes in my own logic and I can't, so please feel free to correct me if you can.
Here is why I believe this.
Any way you look at it, nothing else can produce an effective end result without massive bloodshed.
We could try to vote out the corrupt leadership but I think we all know that the real 'puppetmasters' aren't in positions they could be voted out
of. We could inundate Washington with letters and phonecalls demanding that things change, but they would only change enough to get most people to
settle back into their comfortable lives.
What you are witnessing is 'boiling frog syndrome' at it's finest. They know damn well that if they turn the heat up too fast we'll jump out of
the pot and burn this mutha down, so they won't be that naïve.
It may be presumptuous of me to think that our armed forces would ever do such a thing, but I hope, and I pray that they will 'see the light' and
come to their senses and realize that they are being used as instruments of oppression on a global scale. I can only hope that the day will come when
some military brass will finally say no more, not in my name, or my countries name any longer. They are our last, best hope for a full revolution, a
full dismantling of this diseased bloated monster that was once the greatest nation the world had ever seen.
The corruption that grips this nation should be looked at like a virus or like cancer, you can't treat the symptoms and you can't cure 'parts' of
the disease. It must be completely removed and a new one must be formed, anything less would be an exercise in futility, and would only land us back
in the same spot we are in now, at some later point in time.
What was once a shining beacon of hope to millions, if not billions, has become a festering sore on the posterior of mankind. Our only hope is that
military brass at the highest levels finally come to the same conclusion and decide that they want their children and grandchildren to have a place to
call home that they can be proud of, instead of having to hang their heads in shame and claim to be canadian anytime they go on vacation outside of
the continental U.S.
And yes we would need to make changes to the constitution so that our elected officials couldn't subvert it and/or write new legislation that would
render it useless as the patriot act has done to portions of it.
Yes my rant is over, flame away...
Here is the full versions (or the closest thing I could find to full versions) of the above Senate Subcommittee on Terrorism from '95.
I had to throw this quote in, I love this...
While some may say that the right to keep and bear arms is granted to americans by the constitution, just the opposite is true. The federal government
itself is the child of the armed citizen, we the people are the parent of the child we call government. You senators are part of the child that we the
people gave life to. The increasing ammount of federal encroachment into our lives indicates the need for parental corrective action. In short the
federal government needs a good spanking to make it behave. One other important point needs to be made, since the constitution is the limiting
document upon the government, the government cannot become greater than the granting power. That is, the searvant cannot become greater than it's
master. Therefore should the chief executive or other branch of government, or all branches together act to suspend the constitution under
a rule of martial law, all power granted to government would be cancelled and defer back to the granting power, that is the people. Martial
law shall not be possible in this country as long as the people recognize the bill of rights as inalienable. - Norman Olson
I find it amazing that something like this didn't happen after 9/11, and if it did and I just haven't found it, someone please bring it to my
attention.
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