tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post9042709998279889096..comments2023-06-15T09:13:45.467-04:00Comments on Liberty's Torch: Because They CanFrancis W. Porrettohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05862584203772592282noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-16823433358944939912014-01-31T15:28:09.962-05:002014-01-31T15:28:09.962-05:00Fran, since I don't think your old eternity ro...Fran, since I don't think your old eternity road email addy still functions, forgive me for doing it this way. I've "dropped out" myself, in spite of my anger over the present condition of what used to be a good country to live in.<br /><br />Fran,<br /><br />Please forgive the intrusion, but I was re-reading your Chosen One trilogy (for the third time) and I realized that I never stopped to ask you if “Onteora” was an intentional corruption of Oneonta? I attended the state college there for one semester in the spring of ’68 (long story). I don’t really recognize it from the descriptions in your novel, but I was only there for those few months (Jan-June), so I don’t recall enough about the town. I took my wife to visit the campus on a drive through the area in 2009, and it had changed quite a bit (duh - forty-one years tend to change things, don’t they?), although I did recognize some of the buildings that had been present during my time there.<br /><br />Without giving up personal info, which I don’t blame you for withholding, _was_ Oneonta the basis for Onteora, or at least the similarity in names?<br /><br />Anyway, thanks again for a lovely story. I do enjoy everything that I have read that you have written.<br /><br />Sincerely,<br /><br />Reginald F (for Francis) Thibodeau<br />Currently keeping his head down in the mountains of southwestern Montana Reg Thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14099612693763932005noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-57357451703075687002014-01-30T17:27:23.338-05:002014-01-30T17:27:23.338-05:00Fran, I am also very disheartened by the state of ...Fran, I am also very disheartened by the state of our nation. John Dewey's educational system has finally, after roughly 100 years, destroyed the knowledge base of this nation. Political correctness (and the legal power behind it) has destroyed our ability to complain and correct our political problems. Massive illegal immigration, a deliberate objective of the Democrats since 1965, is further destroying it.<br /><br />So, what do we do? Doing nothing will not stop the slide to Turd World status for this once great nation (and former Republic). Hunkering down and waiting for a collapse isn't much of an option (especially when the stroke of a pen can send swarms of JBTs to our homes to seize the "public property" we so carefully squirreled away). No, the only hope seems to be some kind of revolt.<br /><br />Revolts, of course, take many forms. The American Revolution was one - active combat operations against enemy forces, whether on literal battlefields or via guerilla operations. This is certain to get a few million of us killed, combined with some pretty bad atrocities on both sides. <br /><br />Another sort of revolt is to stop funding the beast - don't pay your taxes, and try to cost it as much time and money as possible. That'll land you in jail, unless 10 million or more people do the same thing at the same time. <br /><br /><br />Then there is non-compliance - simply go about your life, considering all but those laws and regulations which have their origin in morality to be optional. You obey only to avoid being punished, and then only when you think you may be caught - otherwise, you do what you believe to be necessary and moral. Of these, the last seems to have the greatest chance to succeed - but in a nation with 300 million guns I strongly suspect that option #1 will be in operation, as well. In that case, I like Bracken's ideas - basically, a nation with several tens of millions of deer-hunters armed with scoped-rifles capable of hitting a man-sized target at 500 yards with great consistency simply cannot be defeate by a modern military. That is what we are coming to,and it is the fault of that class of people you spoke about on 1/30/2014.<br /><br />But don't stop writing - as the gent from the Western Rifle Shooters Association mentioned, if you were ever on their list, you're still on it and, therefore, dead already. Given this, keep jamming a sharpened stick in their eyes as much as you can.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-47362628388347734922014-01-30T16:30:11.743-05:002014-01-30T16:30:11.743-05:00John,
To simplify your understanding of the conce...John, <br />To simplify your understanding of the concept, a brief article, an overview the concept behind the "Plan", is at http://www.outpost-of-freedom.com/blog/?p=410Gary Hunthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02143131183141766047noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-87142417433472427002014-01-30T15:21:31.499-05:002014-01-30T15:21:31.499-05:00Gary Hunt,
Thank you for the link. I've skimm...Gary Hunt,<br /><br />Thank you for the link. I've skimmed your plan, and I plan to study it in more detail. I'm certainly in agreement that Restoration should be the primary objective. However the process might be more akin to the Civil War than to the Revolutionary War. We are a deeply divided nation. A minority is in the process of a successful "soft" revolution to destroy our common culture and to nullify the Constitution. The majority of our "citizens" are basically uninterested and are clueless as to where this is all heading. Then there is the minority who wish to limit the Federal government to the bounds established in the Constitution. I'm not sure that we have the time or the freedom to follow the parallels of the 1770's, but I plan to read and study your material. Thanks again for the link.John Workhttp://www.stardrivenovel.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-20033324052785834072014-01-30T12:56:22.740-05:002014-01-30T12:56:22.740-05:00John Work,
I agree that revolution is a bad idea. ...John Work,<br />I agree that revolution is a bad idea. However, if our goal is to return to a Constitutional government, bound by and in adherence to the Constitution, as written and intended, then, perhaps, Restoration is really the objective.<br />The Plan for Restoration of Constitutional Government <br />http://www.outpost-of-freedom.com/plan.htm<br />Gary Hunthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02143131183141766047noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-80762760018752252132014-01-30T12:38:35.696-05:002014-01-30T12:38:35.696-05:00It would seem that we have three options:
1) Do n...It would seem that we have three options:<br /><br />1) Do nothing, and resign ourselves to slavery;<br />2) Openly rebel against the regime and the TWANLOCs with more than words;<br />3) Wait for the likely collapse of civilization as we know it and hope that we and ours will survive.<br /><br />None of these options are good. The thing that the Left counts on is that we lack the courage to take any action. It's not "disinclination", it's cowardice. That's what they count on, and so far, they are correct. If we continue to fail to act, then we deserve what's coming. Those of us that live will likely wish we had acted before it was too late.<br /><br />Though it may already be too late. I saw a comment on Western Rifle Shooters that revolution is a bad idea. True, but worse than slavery or trying to survive after a collapse? The founders of this country chose the hard course, which was even more unthinkable in their day than ours. We should all be ashamed to look in the mirror or into the eyes of those we say we love.John Workhttp://www.stardrivenovel.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-57741984824600207682014-01-29T21:15:44.492-05:002014-01-29T21:15:44.492-05:00Yes, I noticed that WRSA put the Bracken post up a...Yes, I noticed that WRSA put the Bracken post up again last night.ricklhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14283227484100875907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-55449224488924326172014-01-29T15:15:19.423-05:002014-01-29T15:15:19.423-05:00The outcome of the 2014 elections do not matter on...The outcome of the 2014 elections do not matter one wit in changing Obama's behavior. He has engaged in all manner of unconstitutional behavior and the Republicans hardly break a sweat. The GOP has even gone so far as to crush conservatives who dare to stick a finger in the dictator's eye. Legislators, once thought to be solidly conservative have become cheerleaders for the amnesty which will send the GOP the way of the Whigs. No one sent to the cesspool aside the Potomac can or will clean the unconstitutional goons from the pool. It is a cesspool, the pooped-in punchbowl of constitutional government. You can't un-poop the punchbowl. Prepare.bob57noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-82219832465851098752014-01-29T15:08:34.213-05:002014-01-29T15:08:34.213-05:00Psalm 91:5-6 which reads “Thou shall not fear the ...Psalm 91:5-6 which reads “Thou shall not fear the terror of night, nor the arrow that flies by day, nor the pestilence that stalketh in the darkness, no form of destruction that waiteth in the midday hour.” I will be silenced by nothing less than deathAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-79853638253563551862014-01-29T15:06:39.300-05:002014-01-29T15:06:39.300-05:00Interesting concept, "correlation of forces&q...Interesting concept, "correlation of forces". It presumes a degree of structure that is necessary to achieve an end.<br />Perhaps understand our "end", so that conflicting factions can work in "correlation" would serve to outwit the nitwits.<br />Factions - The chains of Oppression http://www.outpost-of-freedom.com/factions.htm<br />Gary Hunthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02143131183141766047noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-36654790464345457172014-01-29T14:44:31.511-05:002014-01-29T14:44:31.511-05:00Fran:
With all due respect, you and I and a whole...Fran:<br /><br />With all due respect, you and I and a whole lot of other Cassandras are all dead already.<br /><br />You don't think the Bad People have gotten pretty good over the past dozen years at kinetically removing nits from Leviathan's buttocks?<br /><br />Pay special attention to Bracken's discussion of social network analysis in this bit of fictional fancy:<br /><br />http://westernrifleshooters.wordpress.com/2014/01/28/sotu-encore-presentation-brackens-what-i-saw-at-the-coup/<br /><br />What must be done now - especially given The Won's plans - is to turn up the volume.<br /><br />Make the Bad People take action.<br /><br />Defy the Satanic SOBs.<br /><br />Both sides are doing battlespace prep in the info space.<br /><br />We get to be on point.<br /><br />Be not afraid.<br /><br />Let's roll.<br /><br />Respectfully,<br /><br />CA<br />Another dead guy<br />http:://westernrifleshooters.wordpress.com Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-57703724346453462542014-01-29T12:38:36.625-05:002014-01-29T12:38:36.625-05:00Good blog. I think us in the 'resistance'...Good blog. I think us in the 'resistance'need to focus like a laser beam where the most effective results could be had now. Not sure I know exactly what that is but I'm thinking article 5 convention or other means that essentially bypass the machine (that is currently broken). I fear the elections will do nothing to turn the tide.http://www.tommyageofreason.com/1/post/2014/01/an-article-5-conventionits-long-overdue.htmlTommy Age of Reasonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08911695496139577988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-49425085746721673482014-01-29T09:33:31.807-05:002014-01-29T09:33:31.807-05:00"the end of all Constitutional constraints up..."the end of all Constitutional constraints upon the federal government" might well suit the Republican Party very well, should they succeed in the November elections.<br />And I believe that - in part at least - explains their lukewarm opposition to the outrages committed and promised by Obama.<br />The enemy is the political class itself, of whatever colouration.<br />"Would Twenty-First Century Americans rise against "their" government?"<br />Unlikely. Perhaps there's a faint chance that a random spark might spread and ignite the nation, though.<br />Those who love liberty had better hope it does.KGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01940428991630766942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-17838545577089692072014-01-29T09:31:47.627-05:002014-01-29T09:31:47.627-05:00"Indeed, as minor a voice as mine is, I'v...<i>"Indeed, as minor a voice as mine is, I've been tempted to cease writing, opinion and fiction both, on the chance that it might minimize my exposure to the regime's wrath."</i><br /><br />You're not alone in thinking that. Adriennehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01562944653624224107noreply@blogger.com