''“Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace-- but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!” -Patrick Henry, March 23, 1775.''
I’ve read dozens of online articles lately, as well as emails and blogs that try to get the angry but not yet focused American public to question why the last 10 years has given us so many laws that rob us of Constitutional rights, ostensibly to provide for our security: the Patriot Act, which gave us the Department of Homeland Gestapo, I mean, Security and allows the government to arrest anyone deemed a terrorist and periodically redefine what a terrorist is; the National Defense Authorization Act, which gave us USNORTHCOM and CBRNE brigades, which allows active duty units to respond to domestic emergencies – presumably even Tea Parties that get just a little too loud; the National Criminal Information System (NCIS) Improvement Act, which allows the feds to disarms veterans and police officers who just happen to be trained to use firearms and military tactics but may be a harm to themselves or others because they were at some time in their lives diagnosed with PTSD; and the recent Hate Crimes Protection Act, which allows the feds to suppress public speech and religious expression against a federally protected subspecies, even if it means closing up churches and locking up pastors and members of that congregation.
There’s also the pending National Identification System, efforts to re-instate the so-called Fairness Doctrine, and growing proof of internment camps all around the country, already built and waiting for their residents.
Those of you who say you’re ready for the fight sure to come, let me ask you, are you really? Rest assured the man who hesitated three months to decide to send additional troops to Afghanistan will not hesitate to send troops to destroy lunatic fringe elements like us, just as his mentor did in 1861.
I’m sorry, Chuck, but the internment camps are not for us. Those of us who’ve incited the Christian right Republicans, libertarians, and God & Gun Democrats will be singled out and eliminated. They won’t even bother to cure us of our thought crimes first. Most of us will become non-persons. The docile, outer party, simple Americans who can’t focus their anger long enough to save their country will be housed in these camps where they’ll be worked, starved and systematically exterminated the same way Hitler, Stalin and Mao took care of who submitted to their demands to surrender their rights, property and personal dignity.
So again, I ask, are you ready for this fight? Are you willing to die trying to bring back our Constitutional Republic, as hundreds of thousands of Southern Americans did 150 years ago? As surely as no declaration was made to start that war, no peace treaty was ever signed to end it. The fight for liberty still lives in the hearts of every American willing to give his or her life for his country – not his government. Are you willing to live by the words of that great American patriot, Patrick Henry? http://www.newswithviews.com/Murray/randy116.htm