From
“The Confederate Yankee” 7/31/10 July
31, 2010
A
Nation On The Edge Of Revolt
Ernest
S. Christian and Gary A. Roberts
wonder aloud whether the power grabs of the Obama Administration and the ruling
class mentality of entrenched Democrat and Republican
political machines
will lead to a Second
Revolutionary War. I’ll
lay it out bluntly for you; either the American people—not extremists, but
good and decent patriots like your
neighbors and yourselves—will revolt and destroy the ruling class and reform
our government based upon first
principles, or the United States we know as our forefather conceived it is dead. I
do not state this as hyperbole. I do not state this to incite violence. I state
this as nothing more or less than an observation of both history and current
events. While we are a relatively young nation, our government is the oldest on
the planet. Since our founders met in Philadelphia, the French have gone through
five republics. Every nation in Europe, Africa, Asia, South
America and North America has seen governments rise and fall, but our
resilient democratic republic, the
“Great Experiment,” has soldiered on. All
cultures and governments, however, rot. This inevitably comes from inside, as a
cancer. Our politicians view the people as rubes and subjects, and treat them as
such. They imagine themselves a ruling class that exists for their own
edification, at the expense of the nation as a whole. When
nations reach this point, they either collapse, or the people reform or replace
their governments. We
have arrived at that time. Reform increasingly seems to be a fleeting option.
Republicans and Democrats differ only in how they plan to loot the public
coffers. Our present Congress and Administration are merely more transparent in
their corruption and disdain than their predecessors. They
have won in a bloodless coup. Or
so they would like you to think. Whether
they actually win or not depends upon how much you love your family and your
nation and the principles that made this nation great. Our founders themselves
believed in the right of revolt, and knew better than any of us that governments
must be replaced from time to time. They were wise enough to provide us with a
constitutional framework that will outlast any government, including this one.
We can dispose of this government, and restore the Constitution that has served
us and the rest of the world so well for so long. We
stand at the brink. We
are on the right side of history. Our would-be rulers, fat on self-appointed
largesse and drunk on their own purloined power, imagine us subjects, not free
men and women. Revolution
is a brutish, nasty business.
Innocents will fall along with patriots and the corrupt, and success is not
assured. In
a letter to James Warren in 1789, Samuel Adams foresaw our current state. A
general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the
liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy. While the people
are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but when once they lose their virtue then
will be ready to surrender their liberties to the first external or internal
invader. The
question for you, my fellow Americans, is simple. Will
you fight, or will you surrender your liberties? I
pray for peace. But I prepare for war. |
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