"Why Waste The Effort, If
Nothing is Going To Change?"
from "In Defense of Rural
America"
By Ron
Ewart, President
National Association of Rural
Landowners (www.narlo.org)
and
nationally recognized author and speaker on freedom and property rights
issues for over 10 years
© Copyright Sunday, May
31, 2015 - All Rights Reserved
As published on
Newswithviews, May 27, 2015
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available on our website at:
"The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so
dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy"
..... [or a
Republic] Charles de
Montesquieu French Philosopher 1689 to 1755
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Our last article entitled "Is It Too Harsh To Force Illegal
Aliens to Self-Deport
?" was of
vital importance to every legal citizen in America. It laid out a succinct
and detailed argument on how illegal aliens and the government-created magnets
that draw them here, impact our way of life, our culture, our sovereignty, the
criminal element, disease and the rule of law, but especially our pocket books.
It demonstrated with clarity that to deport or force self-deportation was
nowhere near as harsh as the impact that illegal immigration has on every legal
American.
Expecting that this article would touch many hearts and minds of legal
Americans, we had predicted, unfortunately falsely, a significant
response. To our disappointment, we received about eight (8)
responses. One of those responses said this:
"As always many thanks Ron for your
articles. "Too harsh on illegal aliens" was outstanding. From 1972
to 911, my partners and I saw the political fiasco, illegal immigration feel
good policies disregarding INA codes for decades from Reagan's 1986
Amnesty."
We are grateful for this man's acknowledgement, but as the poem says,
"one swallow does not a summer make."
Many conservative writers and talk show hosts have
regurgitated the conservative message on the airways for decades ad nauseam and
in cyber space since the birth of the Internet. Rush Limbaugh, with a huge
national audience, has been on the air for going on 26 years and yet, with all
that power to persuade he has not been able to stem the tide of
liberalism. Rush Limbaugh has done nothing more than exploit the political
schism that exists in America today, reaping huge profits from his advertisers
and his products in the process. We say, more power to him. He was
and still is using a niche' market and the tools of capitalism to make a profit,
as millions do. It matters not that his impact is negligible ….. to him.
Thousands of very good conservative authors write daily or
weekly articles on the deadly plague that is Progressivism, as it uses its
agenda of collectivism, social justice, radical environmentalism,
multi-culturalism, one-world government, political correctness and the public
treasury to buy votes, control the masses and maintain perpetual power.
But the power of the Progressives has grown to the point that more Americans
find a sleazy, hopelessly corrupt, power hungry, insanely ambitious, half man,
"What-Difference-Does-It-Make" Hillary Clinton a better candidate
for president than any one of the 25 declared or undeclared Republican
candidates. That's not Hillary's fault! It is a
testament to how successful the Progressives have been over the last 100 years
in buying off the public for votes …. with your money.
It is going to take the people to rise up en masse, outside
of the political system before there will be any changes. It is going to take
massive resistance against government policies. Voting and writing to our
Senators and Congressmen "ain't" going to cut it any more, if it ever did.
The simple reality is, it boils down to ..... NO GUTS, NO FREEDOM!
We have tried to get people to demonstrate their resistance
to government and drafted a Petition calling for a Declaration of Open
Resistance. Out of the thousands of people who read and forward our
articles, seven (7) people actually signed the petition. SEVEN
people out of tens of thousands had the guts! The excuse is that
petitions are worthless and the excuse is valid when only seven people sign the
petition. A petition will only have impact if millions of people sign it
and act on it.
Most of the American people are like lambs to the
slaughter. Half are on the dole and won't bite the hand that feeds them
and the other half are just plain scared of government. They have good
reason to be scared. Nevertheless, they aren't going to do anything to upset
their little apple cart, or draw attention to themselves. The similarities
to what happened twice in Europe in the 20the Century, are deeply
troubling.
Sure there are some fighters in our midst and they are ready
to fight, if it wasn't for the fact that they are too few, nationally
disorganized, rudderless, have no concrete plan to win and out of touch with
others who are ready to fight.
In contrast, every time we write an article, we draw
attention from the government. They monitor our website and might even
have our phone tapped for all we know. We are still fighting the IRS, as
are other beleaguered conservatives. Most conservative authors know what
we are talking about and have felt the "sting" of government because of what
they write. We hear stories of clandestine censorship, missing e-mails,
disappearing e-mails, blocked e-mails and hacked websites. About 4 to 5
times a year our e-mails are blocked by Comcast, requiring a significant effort
on our part to get them un-blocked.
For 10 years and over 500 articles, some of them damn good,
and like so many other authors, we have failed to make a difference.
Progressivism has metastasized into a full-blown, invasive, out-of-control
cancer in America with no cure in sight until an excruciating, painful,
disfiguring death overtakes her. Any potential cure could, in all
likelihood, kill the patient before it cures the cancer, as many cancer cures
do, that is of course if anyone invents a cure.
"You can hit a nail with a hammer a million times,
but if the force of the hammer is not greater than the friction the nail
encounters as it enters the wood, the nail will not
move." Ron
Ewart
There have been many workable solutions proffered by thousands
of dedicated patriots. But without a charismatic leader, a well organized
national entity, millions of devoted followers and the billions of dollars it
will take to implement any one of those workable solutions, there will not be
enough energy to overcome the 100 plus year inertia of the Progressives and the
Progressives know it.
So far, our conservative "hammer" has not had sufficient force
to drive the nail into Progressivism (Socialism) and silence it
forever.
Insanity, according to Einstein, is to do the same thing over
and over again, expecting different results. That is exactly the insanity
that all conservative authors, talk show hosts and bloggers have been
unwittingly practicing. Like voting, writing articles or espousing conservative
principles on the airways and in cyberspace are not enough. Unless
peaceful solutions are designed and implemented to "cure" this cancer on a
massive scale, radical and violent alternatives will suddenly erupt in
skirmishes and clashes all over the place, like they have in Los Angeles,
Ferguson and Baltimore, but for entirely different reasons. The rallying
call at these clashes will be "FREEDOM!", punctuated by
guns. These skirmishes and clashes will be put down with even more intense
violence by over-powering government forces and nothing will be
accomplished. What is even worse, many of the skirmishes could easily
erupt in full-scale civil war. Whether skirmishes, clashes, or civil war,
freedom will have not been assuaged.
We have put forth many initiatives to inspire people to take
action in the defense of liberty. Sadly, we have nothing but an empty
wallet to show for it. At our age wasting time and money is a fool's
errand. In the coming weeks we will be re-assessing our effectiveness as a
conservative author and determine whether to continue, or whether to pursue more
lucrative endeavors.
What we will not do is suspend or terminate our efforts on
behalf of the American rural landowner through our almost 10-year old,
nationally known organization, the "
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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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