What Did You Say?

America’s Founding Fathers spelled it out pretty clearly:  The  purpose of government is to secure the God-given, inalienable rights of  men.  They put that exact language into The Declaration of  Independence.

They also spelled out, exactly, that when government becomes abusive, and “destructive of these ends,” it is mankind’s right and duty to alter,  abolish, or overthrow it.

You may have seen the recent news about prominent and well-spoken experts  testifying before Congress regarding the Obama administration’s shocking  usurpations and out-of-control excesses, especially the utter lack of regard for  Constitutional limits on the powers of the executive branch.  The testimony  was remarkable in that the prospect of possible citizen uprising and  revolt was brought up repeatedly.  I can’t recall in my lifetime this  ever having happened before, in such an official, high-level on-the-record  context before the cameras and klieg lights.

The question that comes to my mind foremost is not whether such outright  revolt is justified or warranted.  The question is whether enough  of us have the will and the wherewithal to carry it out.

Given what millions of us see as plainly egregious high crimes and  misdemeanors by Obama and his agents, without adequate redress of our grievances  by those who we believe are also largely corrupt–our representatives  in Congress–a large chunk of the American population easily pays lip service to  the idea of actual revolution, as opposed to more of the same-old, same-old  election cycle shenanigans.

But talking and doing are, of course, two very different things.

I realize that by typing these words and sending them out over the  cyber-clothesline, I’m somewhat risking a visit from the gestapo.  So  what.  Let them throw me in jail.  My wife and son would suffer, but  if I’ve learned anything about that woman in the eight years we’ve been  married, it’s that she can catch fish just as well or even better than I can on  any given day, and probably live off the land if she has to.  She was  pretty much raised that way.

Have we as a society become so soft and accustomed to the comforts  of technology and of various government checks &  subsidies that too few of us would ever forcefully resist the tyranny  that is growing from the power-mad panderers of the Left?

Life certainly is much different today than in the days of the American  Revolution.  Not only are people generally much more dependent on vast,  highly-advanced, complex, specialized, and bureaucratic systems and technology  which have removed them so much from the concept and practice of  self-reliance in nature of those more primitive times, but anyone contemplating  some kind of active defiance of the status quo has to consider also the  comparatively extremely lopsided scenario such a prospect involves where it  comes to actual weapons systems, intelligence networks, command and control  operations, and logistics.

George Washington’s regulars, guerrillas, mercenaries, and Minutemen were  long-shot underdogs against a formidable foe, of course, in the vastly  better equipped, funded, and armed redcoats of King George.  However,  the muskets, horses, and cannon of our Revolutionary fighters were somewhat  comparable, in technological sophistication and array, to the similarly  primitive (by modern standards) hardware deployed by the crown.   Furthermore, having “home field advantage,” all the colonists really had to do  was make things so horrible for the king’s forces, much of  which had come all the way from across the ocean, that the King eventually  just relented rather than continue to try to keep control from all those  thousands of miles away.

Nowadays, however, we’re talking about guys (and gals) with handguns, hunting  rifles, carbines, and really not much more than that at all, up against the  most space-age, entrenched, home-grown federal leviathan of lasers and  satellites, nuclear missiles and bomber planes, tanks, aircraft carrier ships,  helicopters, jet fighters and cargo planes, AWACS and close-air support planes,  refueling tanker planes, smart bombs, infrared and laser-guided weird weapons  that can zap and vaporize entire city blocks (I’ve been out of the military too  long to even know what the hell these new weapons are), not to mention truly  spooky, virtually omniscient surveillance and communications  technology along with the government’s presumed ability to shut down any  kind of tech networks we might employ.

Real encouraging, isn’t it?

Y’all think we should just stick to trying to vote the bastards  out?  Or am I missing something?

About the author: Donald Joy

 Following his service in the  United State Air Force, Donald Joy earned a  bachelor of science in business administration from SUNY while serving in the  army national guard.  As a special deputy U.S. marshal, Don was on the  protection detail for Attorney General John Ashcroft following the attacks of  9/11.  He lives in the D.C. suburbs of Northern Virginia with his wife and  son.

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