Mike posts about the futility of looking for justice in our National Government.
Government is like any other organism. Self preservation is the #1 priority.
Expecting anything else is futile and vain.
Who has suffered over Gunwalker, besides the families of the dead?
WHO?
Who has benefited?
Many of the traitors and criminals responsible for it.
Change does not occur until the pain of staying the same is worse than the pain of change.
No pain, no change.
You didn't really expect FedGov to turn on itself over a little corruption and a few dead people, did you?
Change does not occur until the pain of staying the same is worse than the pain of change.
After Ruby Ridge and Waco, there was no pain. After Katrina's wide scale 2nd Amendment violations, there was no pain. When Gunwalker is drowned out in the 2012 election cycle, there will be no change.
Because there is no pain.
It is said that one definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over, expecting a different result.
We could tweak it a bit and say that it is watching the same things happen over and over, and expecting different results.
My hat is off to David Codrea and Mike on this story. In the end though, after all their hard work and dedication on this, the end result will not differ one iota from any of the other times before.
Score?
Cynics and FedGov: 1, Optimists, justice seekers, and dead victims: 0.
Did you expect any different?
Some would say that expectation borders on insanity...
Change does not occur until the pain of staying the same is worse than the pain of change.
Without pain, or some sort of tangible reward that may be missed (another form of pain), there is no motivation, nothing to drive change.
Says who? The Weavers. The Davidians. Brian Terry. Scores of dead Mexicans.
Soon, you.
This event does not change, in any way, shape, or form, the government's legitimacy, or lack thereof. Nothing has changed, it has always been this way.
Our time will come, and this isn't it...
Resist.
Despicable. The Davidians failure was allowing the barbarians to retrieve the wounded and expired. Yet i get why they did. Mr weaver, well there's no word for that whole travesty.
ReplyDeleteWe haven't learned one dam thing from ANY of it. Yet we,including myself,continue to train,prep,purchase,do PT,and stock up.following every rotten rule and subversion of how we are to be "free" from such abuse.
Silent Lucidity....
CIII
Left this post at Mike's
ReplyDeleteanother politician turns out to be a worthless Piece of $hit?
color me not suprised.
They don't give a damn about you or justice. They have been proving it for decades. Let us learn our lesson now and move on to the real work that needs to be done. Top off preps, confirm your zero, read as many praxis posts as you can; then turn up the freedom propaganda campaigns in your AO.
The system is broken... let's fix that bitch.
Fuck them
It's not our time? It's not time yet?
ReplyDeleteIf not us...who?
Fuck that, let's do this.
We claim to study tactics, and war, and strategy...
ReplyDeleteLet us now apply it.
You do not do anything but waste lives and resources by striking an enemy at his strongest. Lee learned this at Gettysburg. Grant at Cold Harbor. Burnsides at Fredericksburg.
Our time will come, but it is not yet.
If NDAA is not worth movement, if the TSA is not worth action, if the Patriot Act is not a tripwire, neither is Gunwalker.
I do not presume to tell you how to conduct your business, only offer my opinion.
To paraphrase Concerned American:
Free men are free to act according to their consciences at any given time. They are free.
This is merely one man's opinion.
I share your frustration. I do.
AP
Many, including yours truly, advised Mike V. that he was wasting his precious time on attempting to get the US government to discipline itself.
ReplyDeleteA major fool's errand. He couldn't let it go.
Perhaps, soon, he will be able to get on with his life, eat healthier, and become less sick.
And, more free.
I agree, Gunwalker is not the tripwire...
ReplyDelete"Did you expect any different?"
ReplyDeleteNo. Hence my advice on how to view the "life of the contract". If more Americans actually understood that concept, that awareness alone would start the change. In the meantime, most people believe they still have a contract which they don't --due entirely to their own willful ignorance.
Well put AP. Very well put...
ReplyDeleteWork on strengthening ourselves as individuals; so that, the groups and organizations that we start and belong to that support our goals and advance our cause will be strong and resilient. So that, What we build after won't be as crappy as what came before.
ReplyDeleteA collective is only as strong as its weakest member and all that.
Forethought->self-discipline->->Action!
:-)
Josh
Pat, I also told Mike nothing will happen on his blog when this all broke out... what, 2-3 years ago. Nothing good has came out of this, not even its failure. No one, except for a small minority of people are bothering themselves to be even concerned that, once again, no matter how egregious the government is, it behaves as if it is above reproach and gets away with murder.
ReplyDeleteBusiness as usual.
We were told that it is natural for governments to grow. The more it grows, the more despotic it becomes. The more it thinks itself beyond reproach.
But we know this. Sadly we are so few. And it is we who will be scapegoated and paraded before the booboisie and hissed and spit at.
Well, someone has to worship the beast.
@AP: "You do not do anything but waste lives and resources by striking an enemy at his strongest. Lee learned this at Gettysburg"
ReplyDeleteLee never really learned that lesson. Many of his battles involved extremely costly assaults against at least somewhat prepared positions - and the one thing the South could not spare was manpower - they just didn't have enough. He should have listened to Longstreet and adopted Roman tactics (offensive campaigns, but defensive battles - maneuver to get to favorable ground, and force your enemy attack you at his disadvantage).
Jimmy-
ReplyDeleteYou're right.
Longstreet was a brilliant tactician. Had Lee listened to him at Gettysburg, I believe this would be a different nation altogether today.
AP
"We haven't learned one dam thing from ANY of it."
ReplyDelete====================
I have.
I have learned that *I* can't win against them, so I must do everything I can to stay away from them. That is, if I want to keep living.
This gov't will change only when the pain of not changing is more than changing and I suspect that change will come from something other than the US citizenry. Currency collapse, hostile takeover, intergalactic body collision, etc. Until such time they will just keep doing what they are doing, and I will too.