"What Is The Threshold At
Which Americans Will Revolt"
from "In Defense of Rural
America"
By Ron
Ewart, President
National Association of Rural
Landowners
and
nationally recognized author and speaker on freedom and property rights
issues.
© Copyright Sunday, February
15, 2015 - All Rights Reserved
As published on
Newswithviews, February 11, 2015
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A few days ago, we received an e-mail containing the story
from a doctor who treated a 25-year old illegal alien mother with eight
children. The doctor writes:
"Today I had a 25-year old mother
with 8 kids - that's right 8, all illegal anchor babies and she had the nicest
nails, cell phone, hand bag, clothing, etc. She makes about $1,500 monthly for
each anchor child. You do the math. That is $12,000 PER MONTH. What
could you do with $ 12,000 PER MONTH for say the next ten years? Does she pay
taxes on that $12,000? Not likely! I used to say, we are the dumbest
nation on earth. Now I must say and sadly admit: WE are the dumbest people
on earth (that includes ME) for we elected the idiot ideologues who have passed
the bills that allow this."
No, the story isn't true, but what the doctor said is right. We
are the dumbest nation and people on the earth, whether the story is true or
not. That this kind of thing is happening in America on a massive scale is not
in dispute. Sadly, the stories like this one keep growing. There are
hundreds more of these legislated injustices inflicted on our tax dollars and
they are too numerous to list here. We only need cite Obama's proposed $4
Trillion dollar budget that is full of pork and massive income
redistribution.
But we wondered, what would it take for the people to say
enough is enough and then punctuate their anger with real action, in a grand
way? Why are Americans so cowed by government? Why do they sit back
and do nothing, even when there are many solutions being offered to these
problems? Is it fear? Is it cowardice? Or, is it that they
like it the way it is, especially if they are on the dole. Perhaps they
just don't recognize that there is a problem and everything is just fine with
them.
Or, is it that they are just too damn comfortable to do
anything that would burst their nice little bubble? To Hell with their
children's future! Let the children fight for freedom in their own
generation. That is one way of looking at it but it sure avoids the
serious realities in America today. There may be no freedom left for their
children.
Several years ago we witnessed a strange and unexpected event
between a dog and a cat. A fairly good sized German Shepherd spotted a
much smaller, black house cat and broke into a dead run after the cat.
The cat startled by the dog and now instantly charged with adrenalin, struck off
down the sidewalk in a black blur.
Now a dog chasing a cat is hardly news, but it was what the cat
did that drastically altered the outcome of the chase. After about 30
seconds into the chase, the cat, without regard to the consequences, suddenly
whirled around and planted five sharp claws on the dog's nose as the dog, trying
to stop, ran into the cat. The dog turned tail and bolted back up the
sidewalk, yelping in pain, as he fled into the distance. The cat simply
decided it had had enough and "esplained" it to the dog (bully), by
punctuating his message of displeasure with the weapons with which nature had
armed him.
The episode brought to mind our current dilemma. The
"dog" (bully government) has been "chasing" the cat (the American
people) for the last 80 to 100 years and the "cat" has yet to whirl around
and punctuate its message of displeasure on the "dog", with the weapons with
which nature and our constitution have armed us. And no, in America they don't
have to be weapons of violence.
It took over 150 years (1620 to 1775) for the colonials
to grow tired of the British government and turn on them, no matter what the
consequences. Their brave, courageous and some say foolhardy actions gave birth
to a unique kind of freedom, but at great cost. The British were many,
heavily armed, well outfitted and trained. The colonials were poorly
armed and disorganized. In reality they were an unruly, unregulated and
untrained militia, which, in hindsight, may have been their salvation. They
invented Guerilla Warfare, which took the British by surprise.
Throughout the battles and skirmishes during the Revolution,
many feared that victory would never be theirs to celebrate and defeat would
come with even greater injustices, intimidation and retribution on the
colonials, at the hands of the King's men. Some say providence turned the
tide. Other's say the French, who hated the British and helped the
Americans because of it, snatched the King's victory right out from under his
generals' noses. Perhaps both are right.
But like the dog chasing the cat, the difference that
characterized the American Revolution was what the Americans did. They
had finally had enough and "esplained" it to the British (bully), by
punctuating their message of displeasure with the weapons with which nature,
man, bravery and courage had armed them.
We may rightfully ask, what, in the instance of the cat being
chased by the dog, caused the cat to turn on the dog, even though the dog was
five times the size of the cat? And along the same lines, what was the
catalyst that caused the colonials to turn on the British, even though the
colonials were much smaller in number, armament and training? We believe
that the catalyst is of the same substance from which heroes are born on the
battlefield and it finds its roots in three human emotions and motivations,
anger, self-preservation and the thirst for freedom. Anger, self-preservation
and the thirst for freedom are, or may very well be, the motivations for a
corresponding response to any threat.
It was the cat, without regard to his own life, who turned on
the dog. It was the colonials, without regard to their safety and
security, who turned on the British because the colonials stepped outside of the
main stream, the rational and the accepted, to overcome their fear. They
resisted abusive authority, no matter what the cost. The cat turning on
the dog was a form of individual heroism. The American Revolution, where
Americans turned on the British, came in the form of collective heroism.
Not a single living, two or four-legged organism on Earth likes
to be pushed around, chased, or bullied. They in fact, have a fairly
strong desire to be free. In most cases, the natural reaction to bullying is
anger and results in either fight or flight, depending on how nature has armed
them and the size and strength of the bully.
Our situation in America is different, however. Because
of the undaunted bravery of the colonials and the wisdom of the Founding
Fathers, we do not have to resort to violence to "esplain" it to the
bully. We need only use the tools with which nature has armed us, our
intellect and high morals and values, along with the foundation of liberty
embedded in the Declaration of Independence and our Constitution. From
that foundation we will, in the end, reverse the destructive path we are
currently taking into abject socialism and ultimately, enslavement. Government
doesn't fear us now, but they will soon.
Today, the American people are still capable of collective
heroism and the challenge to abusive authority, just as they were during the
birth of our freedom over 230 years ago. We see the growing signs of that
emerging heroism almost every day now. That those in government are
becoming aware of this rising tide is evident by their irrational panic to pass
more controlling legislation before all Hell breaks loose. There is no
substance in their arguments. Acting in desperation, their current weapons are
intimidation, name-calling, smearing and maligning the opposition. But make no
mistake their eventual goal is perpetual or absolute power.
Let us emphasize that there is no other country like America
and there are no people like the American people, anywhere on earth.
Freedom is burned into their souls and their genome and as the cat who turned on
the dog, the brave ones, the collective American heroes, will not let freedom
die, no matter what it takes to preserve it. We have smelled freedom and
it is ours.
So we say to those who oppose less government and individual
liberty, the gift from our creator, we are right and you are wrong,
because freedom is right and slavery is wrong. We also say to those who
work to tear down America's liberty, sovereignty, exceptionalism and its moral
and ethical values, let the games begin. In the end, we have no doubt that we
shall prevail, just like we prevailed on the day that freedom was born when
"..... a shot was fired, a shot heard 'round the world".
Figuratively speaking, we are going to fire that shot ….. over
their bow that is. In our recent articles on corruption in government we have
hinted at a solution to challenge that corruption. Last week we announced
that solution by launching our "Exclosers" website: http://www.theexclosers.org/.
The response was timid to the launch but that was to be
expected so early in the game. However, one person responded with the following
as a preamble to forwarding our article to others:
"Ron is one tough cookie. A few illegally
and unconstitutionally franchised "Alphabet Agencies" have lodged complaints
against him as he has stood solidly on his constitutional rights as a free
citizen. He’s been a "person of interest" by those agencies for that
reason, often accused and harassed by the IRS, the illegal hammer the
America-haters use to usurp the freedom of the people. He’s tirelessly
fought their excesses even winning a few of them. However, it’s a
never-ending challenge and Ron is committed to winning. In my opinion the
citizen resistance at Concord against the British is a tradition with Ron, who
has tirelessly fought against the same criminal mentality of those who have been
running our government for the last sixty years or more. Inform yourselves
about what is currently taking place in the USA, a name having fallen into
unbelievable disrepair since the current lawless administration has taken our
country into its illegalities. Please read Ron’s article on the so-called
"Department of Justice" at this link:
http://www.newswithviews.com/
We were humbled by his response and did not realize that there
were people out there who were reading our articles and being inspired by them,
hopefully inspired enough to take action on their own, or join in the efforts of
our "Exclosers" organization.
Ladies and gentlemen, the threshold for a peaceful American
revolution is at hand. But Americans are going to have to be the
"cat" that turns on the "dog" no matter what the consequences, or the "dog" will
win. All Americans have to do is to "step outside of the main stream
and the accepted", to overcome their fear of government, or the
consequences of challenging government. We are offering that step outside
of the main stream and the accepted with the "Exclosers". The Nay Sayers will tell us that our efforts won't succeed, but
then we weren't supposed to win the American Revolution either. No matter what
the Nay Sayers predict, were forging ahead with only winning on our minds.
The battle to reclaim our individual freedom in America under
the U. S. Constitution, the greatest nation since the dawn of civilization, is
ours to win ….. or lose. Right now we are losing. Are you the cat
chasing the dog, or is it the other way around.
So the question remains, "what is the threshold at which
Americans will revolt?" Anyone with any intellect knows we reached
that threshold a long time ago.
Ron Ewart, a nationally known author and
speaker on freedom and property rights issues and author of this weekly column,
"In Defense of Rural America", is the president of the National
Association of Rural Landowners (NARLO) (http://www.narlo.org), an advocate and consultant for
urban and rural landowners and a non-profit corporation headquartered in
Washington State. He can be reached for comment at: info@narlo.org.
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