tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post6560604760519702177..comments2023-06-15T09:13:45.467-04:00Comments on Liberty's Torch: Freaky FridayFrancis W. Porrettohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05862584203772592282noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-16858704264237622212014-05-19T11:39:20.609-04:002014-05-19T11:39:20.609-04:00Europe is Rome. America is Byzantium. The former w...Europe is Rome. America is Byzantium. The former will fall first, but the latter will not fare much better. I foresee -- as much as any man can say such things -- that America will fragment on racial and ethnic lines. Some core of America will likely survive, but its role as a global superpower will have been extinguished.<br /><br />Like Byzantium, this is a long drawn out process with root causes stretching back hundreds of years, even before America was founded. We're talking the decline and fall of an entire civilization, not just a nation-state.<br /><br />Of course, there is hope. Rome fell. The West grew on its fertile ashes from the seed sown. Like the monasteries of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, our role is clear: to preserve and survive. Anyone hoping for another American Revolution will be disappointed. Like you say, the damn is too big, the waters too tepid.<br /><br />But even tepid water will, over a long enough period, wear through the cracks in the edifice.Xealothttp://www.thedeclination.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-35119732966926164172014-05-18T18:04:45.052-04:002014-05-18T18:04:45.052-04:00Two things on Whittle:
1. I don't think that ...Two things on Whittle:<br /><br />1. I don't think that Obama was accidentally overheard in that exchange with Medevedev. That was an intentionally staged, well, stage whisper. Obama enjoys letting us in on what he's doing to destroy the country. It's consistent with Bolshevik mocking their bourgeois enemies.<br /><br />2. What Whittle is calling gaslighting is really a variant on Marxist suppression or prohibition of questions. It's a practice integral to Marxist ideology itself and it became, apparently, a standard practice within the practice of the Party line. Reality is socialist reality and socialist reality is whatever the Party says it is. So, don't ask a question that questions the Party line, if you know what's good for you.Martin McPhillipshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02702640115003772857noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-22790253273643990792014-05-17T22:29:38.334-04:002014-05-17T22:29:38.334-04:00The Department of Agriculture has guns ... and For...The Department of Agriculture has guns ... and Fort Hood doesn't. Got it.Josephhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04720409839023747889noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-26492999902162710392014-05-16T17:56:18.297-04:002014-05-16T17:56:18.297-04:00Very good post today, Francis.
I too wish there w...Very good post today, Francis.<br /><br />I too wish there were some easy answers to these problems. Afaict, you are on to all of them.<br /><br />Recognitions that are important to me:<br /><br />1. The American Revolution documents the best case scenario. The public will be pushed only so far and no further. It is a guide. Over conflict is avoided until it can be avoided no longer.<br /><br />2. Not all of us are destined to be on the tip of the spear. There are many layers to any counter to the current trend.<br /><br />I am thinking here of some of the enlightened thinking in that book on resisting tyranny you mentioned a while back. For those who haven't picked up a copy, I recommend it. There are many parts (e.g., the discussion of public resistance groups and private more spear related activities)<br /><br />3. Watch for this tipping point. Ms Jarret's proclamations yesterday or day before that the local officials need to take the lead in confiscation and other gun control. If that happens in our respective communities, we need sound the alarm. That cannot stand. The confiscation is the first step toward the sorts of atrocities witnessed in the 20th Century. <br /><br />4. As you often close your pieces, "May God help and save us all."RichJnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-74367492271571552042014-05-16T11:59:02.784-04:002014-05-16T11:59:02.784-04:00Malcolm, Shaw and Russell were both socialists, if...Malcolm, Shaw and Russell were <b><i>both</i></b> socialists, if it comes to that. Nevertheless, with terrifyingly rare exceptions, their quoted observations are accurate.Francis W. Porrettohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05862584203772592282noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-31167920507415213262014-05-16T11:44:07.167-04:002014-05-16T11:44:07.167-04:002 quick points:
1. George Bernard Shaw was an Ube...2 quick points:<br /><br />1. George Bernard Shaw was an UberProgressive Socialist, eugenicist, and a thoroughly vile man on many different levels.<br /><br />2. In Bill Whittle's video, he forgot perhaps THE most important instance of gaslighting from the President: "There isn't a smidgeon of corruption at the IRS." I find the IRS scandal to be orders of magnitude worse than Benghazi because it strikes at the very heart of the supposedly consensual relationship between government and the governed. And Obama regime blows it off as though there isn't anything there.<br /><br />Malcolm Haysnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-44760193814416018052014-05-16T08:46:31.844-04:002014-05-16T08:46:31.844-04:00It would seem that the American Revolution was bor...It would seem that the American Revolution was born of a dam breaking, where the tyranny of the day no longer sufficed for a people longing to capture their potential in liberty.<br /><br />Contrast that with today, where the cultural waters are a tepid pool festering behind a dam being built higher every day, and I think you have a very different situation.<br /><br />Where is the upsurge in America that will break the fetter of tyranny?<br /><br />Alas, what is needed more today is a purging, an atonement for the sins of excess and largesse that have dominated our cultural mindset for years and years. <br /><br />At the end of that purging burn, perhaps some green shoots can make their way to the surface.<br /><br />Revolution? More like fracturing along the societal fault lines. Sergionoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-35235919130874723932014-05-16T06:34:07.919-04:002014-05-16T06:34:07.919-04:00Yeah, F., the USPS does have its own armed compone...Yeah, F., the USPS does have its own armed component including the the more and more prevelent swat teams - plural. Somewhere recently I read that something like 177 separate federal agencies have their own private armies of thugs.<br />We are truely blessed to live in a (soon to come) target rich environment, heh, heh. emdflnoreply@blogger.com