tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post1252592700601953245..comments2023-06-15T09:13:45.467-04:00Comments on Liberty's Torch: As The Foundations CrumbleFrancis W. Porrettohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05862584203772592282noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-23620303830288071022014-08-09T15:05:39.687-04:002014-08-09T15:05:39.687-04:00Your talking about the power of a plurality and th...Your talking about the power of a plurality and the inherent legitimacy it possesses. Power derived from that legitimacy.<br /><br />Yes it matters greatly they know what they do. If they are tyrants worthy of the name they understand perfectly well what threatens them and their power and what they have wrought.<br /><br />It is a worthy question of not why, but what for, in understanding how powerful consent of the governed truly is.<br />For if a plurality did not possess the inherent power to thwart the enemies of its will and liberty, the encroaching police state and meddling in every facet of our affairs would not be taking place.<br /><br />I believe absolutely in the good and greatness of a plurality of Americans. It works. It is just such a thing that created this republic to begin with. A plurality is what fought and won the single greatest and by far most successful resistance to tyranny in history. <br />They fear such an idea like nothing else. <br />But, proof is in the pudding. It is staring us all right in the eyes. Those running things would not be doing everything within their power to keep people from realizing a plurality is possible if it was not the existential threat to their power it is.<br /><br />They are afraid of what we will do to them for what they are doing to us. Otherwise what reasons exist for classifying normal law respecting productive people from all walks of life, along with spying on us, as "domestic terrorist"? What does a legitimate republican form of government require huge number of fema camps in our civil society? What reason to disarm millions and millions of these same Americans? They ain't shooting at or assassinating anybody. They want to be left alone. Cant get simpler and more legitimate than that. <br />But this same government and its mercenary's certainly are threatening us with violence if we do not comply. It is their ultimate fallback. No legitimate government, those running it at the behest of people consent has need of such.<br /><br />They are very afraid of withdrawal of consent and what comes with that act of defiance.<br />It is loss of the appearance of legitimacy for them. That is as it should be. <br />They loose this fig leaf of a lie of legitimacy, all they have is threat of force and violence backing their tyranny and treason.<br />It is the default position as things stand now. It is the reason every law and regulatory act of diktat possible is decreed.<br />To as Adolph Hitler said in regards to it being enormously convenient to create a system of laws where everyone is a criminal.<br /><br />There is a very fundamental difference here in America. Something unique among people in this republic. A plurality understands culturally what consent and liberty, all the virtues of the laws of primal natural born rights and freedoms.<br />And that puts our liberty far upstream of any tyranny. It is also our culture of civility that is the glue which holds everything together.<br /><br />I say to all the tyrants and shit stirrers, you all have had it easy. Be smug and in your hubris and cunning you think you have special powers over us, you somehow got something over on us?<br />Up your arses, your lucky right now. For when people have had enough of the meddling and thieving, nothing will save you from the wrath of a republic unleashed, from the comeuppance so richly deserved. 2%, III%, it only matters it is a plurality aroused which can not be denied.<br /><br /><br /><br /> Phil Carlsonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-75751309517600777962014-08-09T11:20:49.609-04:002014-08-09T11:20:49.609-04:00"When Milton Friedman said that the key to go...<i>"When Milton Friedman said that the key to good government isn't installing good men in power, but rather creating conditions under which bad men would find it desirable -- by their own standards -- to do the right thing,..</i><br /><br />That's interesting. When I used to administer a small network, I set things up so the right thing was by far the easiest thing to do and so that doing things wrong was harder (e.g. storing a file, or writing up phone notes).<br /><br /><i>"As the Obama Administration continues to engage in casual, contemptuous law-breaking itself, do they ever stop to consider the harm they're doing to the oldest, longest-lived republican democracy in the world?"</i><br /><br />Oh, they consider it, alright. I think the harm is their goal.Weetabixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06106614092497408546noreply@blogger.com