Patience, Restraint, and Maintaining Focus

We live in interesting times, as the Chinese curse goes.  The question is, how are we coping?  As I make my rounds through the Internet, I’m picking up some disturbing trends.  I see people getting discouraged, people getting angry, people that are afraid, and so on.  These are all natural reactions to our current situation, but they could get out of control.  That, my friends, can lead to disaster.

Just to remind everyone, our government, as well as the MSM, have been making the claim that we are all DANGEROUS TERRORISTS because we disagree with the government.  Starting with the MIAC Report, to the DHS report, and to now, we have been characterized as ticking time bombs, just waiting for the proper spark to go off.  Even after the Ft. Hood massacre, the lapdogs in the MSM dutifully reported that “right wing militia” activity is at an all time high.  All during the summer, we were insulted, marginalized, and mischaracterized.   It seems that at every turn of events, the left sees the need to take the focus off of real events, and onto us.  There are multiple reasons for this.  One is simply the Alinsky method and discrediting a person or group so their message can be ignored.  Another is to discourage and anger us, and another, and perhaps the most important, is an attempt to set the stage to turn the populace against us.

This is similar to the intent of the FOX News attack, as the powers that be do not want the rest of the population to give us a second thought.  They seek to marginalize us into a single segment, and keep the rest of the people from figuring out what we already know.  They didn’t want to stop Fox, they wanted the rest of the media to ignore FOX, and NOT follow any stories about the government that FOX was breaking.  Anita Dunn stated this openly.  Again, they seek to separate us from the rest of the population.   Perhaps the thought is that by segregating us, they can create a disconnect with the public at large.

So far, alienating us hasn’t been working out too well for the left.  The MSM has become a joke.  By agreeing to go along with this administration, they are only hastening their own impending demise.  They can try to ignore the scandals, the corruption, and the lies, but people are turning to other sources for their information.  Instead of making us irrelevant, they are doing the same to themselves.

We are winning, and will continue to do so, as long as we don’t sabotage our own success.  The polls are increasingly turning against the Democrats.  Majorities now oppose the Democratic health care plan.   Majorities are also noted as being unconcerned with global warming, as ClimateGate is becoming better known.  The Porkulus has been proven to be just that.  Obama now has the lowest approval for any president at this stage of his presidency of all time.  They are losing; lets not interfere with that.

What concerns me is that I think that we are entering a point when the anger at the government is over-riding the logical processes needed to deal with the situations that we face.  Individuals and organizations on the left have reported receiving death threats.  Usually, I discount them, as the left is known for making up such accusations to help marginalize their opposition.  Basically, if the SEIU says the grass is green, I’m going to walk into the yard to verify it.  However, I have started seeing threats printed in blogs, and some of the comments at CH 2.0 have taken some blatantly violent tones.

I get the fact that people are angry, I am too.  I don’t want to see the country that many of my ancestors shed blood for flushed in an incremental socialist revolution.  At the same time, we can’t let that anger take over and start doing what the left wants us to do.  As I have stated, they’ve been trying to con the public into believing that we are terrorists and thugs.  The last thing we want to do is “prove” them correct in that regard.  Not only would it be the equivalent of giving aid and comfort to the enemy, if we lose the people (and they are already turning our way in increasing numbers), our cause is doomed.  If we use the thug tactics of the left, why should anyone consider us to be a valid alternative?  Why do you think they have been taunting us, lying about us, creating propaganda against us for the last few months?  They’re conducting a psyop.  They want us to feel alienated and angry.  Alienated and angry people end up doing desperate things, like making threats, or even taking shots at public officials.  They WANT us to do that.  They can then say that. “See… We told you they were DANGEROUS TERRORISTS!”  If we let them do that, we’re screwed.  I can’t state it  more simply than that.

I also recognize that there are members of the government that have committed what we consider to be acts of treason, or other crimes against our nation.  This, however, does not entitle any of us to become judge, jury, or executioner.  Did our founders arbitrarily take part in murders of opposing officials?  Did they form kangaroo courts and take matters into their own hands?  We all know the answer to that.  The founders left us with a system that grants us the “rule of law, not of men.” If we are going to embrace what the founders left for us, we have to go all the way with it.  We can’t simply act out on our anger.  If we do so, we’re no better than ACORN or the SEIU.   That is not company that I would like to keep.

The fact is that I WANT Barak Obama, Kevin Jennings, Al Gore, Nancy Pelosi, and the rest alive and well. I think that this is still an ideological struggle.  This is still a war for the minds of America; are we going to be a free people, or are we going to be slaves to the nanny state?  I want their ideas defeated, not the people.  The ideas are what are dangerous.  If you just take out the person, another head will take over, and the ideas will go on.  Let’s show the people the truth about Obama’s ideas.  That’s why I’ve been here trying to expose them for the last 10 months.  Let them go home in disgrace after being repudiated by the people.    If we defeat their ideas, we put them back by at least a decade (Sadly, they always came back-Jefferson warned us of this).  In that decade, we can elect people with integrity that WILL scale back the government, and rip out the liberal power structure in DC.

I say this because we have the ideas; freedom, free markets, small government, and an end to political corruption and influence are potential winners.  They are resonating with the people.  We are already winning.  Why ruin it with the same thug tactics and threats that we decry from the left?  We are so close to winning this battle, and it scares me to death that some will jeopardize it by letting their own anger get the better of them.

Another recent development that I have noticed is the rumor that Obama has redeployed the military to the US to go against us in the event of a revolution.  Mind you, I’ve seemed limited evidence of this, and the source for this rumor is from Russia.  This was originally published there.  I would remind everyone that the Russians have as much experience, if not more than the CIA, in destabilizing nations.  If you disagree, just remember that much of what is now our left started with the Soviets back in the 60’s (There’s much more to it than that, but that isn’t the main point here).  Our left was shaped, molded, and refined by the KGB and their puppet organizations through the 60’s, 70’s, and 80’s.  The attempt was so successful that it even exceeded the expectations of its architect, Yuri Andropov.  Destabilizing and setting up failure in other nations has been in their playbook for a long time, and they are still doing it.  Just take a look at their efforts in Georgia (the country, not the state), for some confirmation.

The Russians have much to gain if we end up in rebellion.  They are attempting to regain the power and prestige of the Soviet Union; it would serve them well if they could inflame us into acting to make them stronger in the end.  If they can take our polarized state, and fan the flames until the US goes up in smoke, who gets to dominate Europe?  We’re the only real check on them in that part of the world, so taking us out of the picture allows them to increase their own sphere of influence.  We have to remember that while the Russians are not the mortal enemy they were during the cold war, they are not our friends either.  If they could de-stabilize the US, they could move into the power vacuum left by the demise of this nation.

This story, however, has caused some to prepare for the worst.  The issue for me is that once people start thinking that something is a foregone conclusion, they will begin to act towards that conclusion, sometimes preemptively.    If the Russians, or anyone else for that matter, can convince a group that the end is near, and a revolt is going to happen, they can prompt those people into acting, either mistakenly, or too soon.  Just ask yourself, “Who benefits from these stories, or the violence that occurs because of them?”  I believe it’s a set-up- one that we simply cannot fall for.

We need to fight the left.  With words, with protests, with radio shows, with blogs, forums, and websites, with phone calls and letters and faxes-those are our weapons and ammo.  We need to find, recruit and run candidates that believe in America, not Amerika.  We need to continue educating our friends and family members.  We need to continue blogging and sharing our ideas, knowledge, and experiences.   We need to continue exposing the leftists and their agenda.  Those are the tactics and the weapons that we should continue to use, and for as long as they are available to us.

Frankly, we have been doing this, and it has been working.  Cap and Trade legislation is dormant…for now.  ObamaCare has been severely watered down.  Van Jones is gone, Anita Dunn is done.  Kevin Jennings has been exposed, as has ACORN.  Mark Lloyd lies almost every time he opens his mouth.  Copenhagen has been exposed for the fraud that it is, and there is no binding agreement at this time.  All of these are wins, or wins in progress.  We need to keep on doing these things, because they will continue to work.  The left has awakened, as Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto noted (in a slightly different context) the sleeping giant, and has filled it with a terrible resolve.

We don’t have to threaten anyone.  The government and others are aware of the fact that gun and ammo sales have skyrocketed.  They are aware of what we believe.  Just because they dismiss us publicly does not mean that they don’t believe we exist.  They have paid attention to us, and will continue to do so.  If they really thought we were insignificant, they wouldn’t spend so much time attacking us, or have their lapdogs in the media do the same. TR said one thing that is useful (remember that he was a “proto-progressive”), “Speak softly, and carry a big stick.”  We don’t have to threaten or demonstrate force.  They already fear us.  Don’t play into their hands, my friends.

Let’s remember that the left has been working on their plans for decades now.  They thought that Obama was the promised one that would finally deliver their socialist utopia.  Hence, the excitement and blind faith has been placed in this inexperienced and inept former community organizer.  We’re unraveling that dream in months instead of decades.  Just imagine the damage that we could do to the left with majorities in both houses (Majorities that we would help elect, and hold to their promises).

We are nowhere near a stage in which Revolution 2.0 is necessary.  We can still speak.  We still have the ability to vote.  We still have several means by which to communicate our ideas.  No one is being rounded up.  No attempts have been made to disarm us.  No blood has been shed.  The government has acted in ways that we believe to be illegal, or even treasonous, but these are things that can be corrected at the ballot box, should the people subsequently have the will.  Our elected (or unelected) have refused to hear us, and have dismissed our concerns with an air of elitism.  They WILL hear from us in November of 2010.

As Rahm Emanuel has stated, the left is well known for exploiting a crisis.  They either exploit existing ones, or create new ones.  Let’s not give them one wrapped up in a bow.    Keep your powder dry, and we can still win this one with words.