buy some guns, buy some ammo, find the like-minded
Barack Obama is the left’s wet dream - a far-left radical infant, who appears to be none of the above.
This little experiment in moving the underpinnings of American society 180 degrees in the next three weeks is going to get nasty. Soon.
I’m serious.
But always remember, an armed people has nothing to fear from its government.
Get armed. Find like-minded citizens. Prepare for the worst, hope for the best. Many understand the right to form militias (some might call it an obligation), if the rights and freedoms protected in the US Constitution are threatened. Believe me. They are.
Tommy Boman says:
Oh, I love this blog.
By the way, I love internet. How else can you find freedom thirsty people all over the world? Sadly I cannot really say/write the same thing. There are already several governments keeping track of little old me, but then again, you only live once. Count me in. If you do that rebellion thing, save me a gun or two and I come over in a rowing boat and help out. I truly believe that America might be humanities only hope, but also you are in a bigger trouble than most. The rest of us have lived with totalitarianism and changing rulers throughout the ages, you don’t really have the same history. Actually if things come down to it, Europe would probably do better than the US just because we are use to this crap on a level you cannot understand. Millions getting killed in death camps and getting forced to do this or that? Pfff… been there, done that…
Aaron's cc: says:
Are there guides to forming legal militias? Let’s call them VERY Well Prepared “Neighborhood Watches”, if you have to if there are problematic state laws.
Guides that specialize in rural vs. urban planning would be beneficial.
I switched from being an ignorant gun control supporter after the Los Angeles riots.
Defending the perimeters of home, block, neighborhood then city. When to circle the wagons and plan to eat what we’ve stored for a few days, weeks, months. When and how to try to escape with loved ones to safer rural areas. How to find a rural community where one’s skills/resources/labor would be needed.
Lord Bitememan says:
Welcome to France 1789.
The problem with France 1789, is that it is immediately followed by France 1793. Then comes Napoleon.
Or we could all just take a deep breath, reassure ourselves that it’s just a few bloated spending bills, and vote the clowns out in 2010 and 2012. Put down the guns, pick up a beer, and relax.
PaulW says:
Do try to have faith in your fellow man before you go start forming armed militias…
I cannot understand the ‘call to arms’ stuff that you seem to be setting up here. Even during the worst points of the Depression, labor riots were few and focused in a handful of urban centers. I don’t recall there being any massive nationwide strike, at least any that resulted in massive violence. The most violent incident I can recall was the Bonus Army March, and for what I know a lot of the violence was lopsidedly done by MacArthur’s troops clearing out the camps.
This isn’t Weimar Germany or pre-Soviet Russia. This is the United States. We leave stupid-ass screwed-up armed rebellions to the 1850s-1860s slaveowners.
Aaron's cc: says:
Neither of you lived within 200 yards of torched businesses as I did during the LA riots. I was chased by three goblins with hammers and narrowly escaped.
I sent my family to stay with friends in Beverly Hills which the police were guarding well. Someday I need to digitize the video I took from my roof.
National Guard was sent to protect the supermarket closest to me, about 4 blocks away. Idiot TV newscasters broadcast that the Guard HAD NO AMMUNITION.
Everything I want to learn to do is to do so LEGALLY. First step at securing a residential block might be to use personal vehicles to block roads. Goblins will likely choose unblocked streets to loot, instead.
Citizens ought to be empowered to know how to use the MAXIMUM force and tactics they are allowed to under the law instead of dialing 911 and hoping the LAPD, outnumbered 1000-1, will maybe come in time to stop an attack in progress.
I’m sure Great Britain had citizens who once said “this is England” and now there isn’t a neighborhood or community of hostile Wahhabis in London… there’s an occupying force of over half a million.
It’s a matter of time.
John Adams observed that all democracies eventually commit suicide. There are no counterexamples.
Iran doesn’t even have to hit us with nukes. Simply detonate an EMP bomb in space and knock out our communications and there will be chaos. I suggest you read up on the last couple of centuries of the Roman Empire. Read up on the British, too. The Brits are militarily laughable and their monarchy grabs ankles for the oil sheikhs.
Aaron's cc: says:
And regarding faith in my fellow man, the average German didn’t contemplate sabotaging the Final Solution. They didn’t protest their neighbor, the SS officer. So much for the country that once could have called itself the pinnacle of arts, science and culture.
Aaron's cc: says:
Aw, hell, there were Americans who lobbied and succeeded in getting FDR not to even drop bombs on the rail lines to the death camps which also served as factories for creating war materiel. There was a TACTICAL advantage to disrupting those rail lines, not merely a humanitarian need.
Chris says:
Well, as for faith in my fellow man? Um, my fellow man just elected Obama. That removes any faith I may have every had.
Lord Bitememan says:
Sorry Aaron, but I live in Detroit. LA on a bad day is better than Detroit on a good day. Now, take a nice long walk from the bad end of DC into Maryland some Friday night after the bars are letting out and we can talk about seeing some hardcore stuff.
And, okay, the National Guard had no live ammunition. What were they supposed to do, fire on the crowds of rioters? Just look up the international reaction to South Africa’s Soweto massacre and the general souring of relations that occured in the Amritsar massacre in India if you want to know how miserable US standing will be after that.
As for your laughable assumption that chaos will ensue should we be hit with an EMP device, I point to the general state of order under which the US found itself during the Northeast Blackout of 2003 as a fine counter example. It was all quite orderly. People didn’t flip out and begin burning down the cities of the east. Most of us had cookouts to eat the meat before it spoiled.
For your notion that “all Democracies commit suicide,” I could easily provide you counter-examples if democracy were ever a firmly enough defined concept to suggest any real ones that had. The truth is no nation lasts forever. They’re all eventually slated to die one way or another. Athenian democracy certainly didn’t commit suicide, if we can consider Athens a true democracy. Athens was conquered by Macedon (the defeat at the hands of the Spartans did not result in the end of Athenian democracy). Certainly England, to date, is not dead. Therefore one can hardly suggest it was a case of suicide. As to the obvious “example” of a democracy that committed suicide, allow me to point out that Wiemar Germany was a failed state essentially from the moment of its inception, perpetually forced to rule under emergency decree, and never possessing a monopoly of force within the country.
So, on Paul’s note about faith in your fellow man, allow me to add one more nail in the coffin of that notion, everyone go take a look in the mirror right now and say to yourself “this is the face of a man wanted to grab guns and form roving armed gangs over Washington spending bills.” I understand it’s easy to be cynical about the state of man as a half-cocked, ill-informed, rabble-monger. So, don’t contribute to that problem by creating a version of it on the right.
Lord Bitememan says:
Look folks, the fact is there are two different visions being played out here. One is a vision of anarchy cloaked in the language of American thought. The other is actual American thought. We institute a government of popular consent in this country. Obama was not installed by a cabal of clergy and college professors on an objecting public. Obama was elected with a majority vote by a percentage no president has enjoyed since 1988. We may not agree with him, but this accords him consent to govern on the principles he campaign on, and he is. Ours is a nation founded on Lockian principles. Here’s what he had to say about the sort of gun-toting anarchy I’m seeing espoused here:
IF man in the state of nature be so free, as has been said; if he be absolute lord of his own person and possessions, equal to the greatest, and subject to no body, why will he part with his freedom? Why will he give up this empire, and subject himself to the dominion and control of any other power? To which it is obvious to answer, that though in the state of nature he hath such a right, yet the enjoyment of it is very uncertain, and constantly exposed to the invasion of others: for all being kings as much as he, every man his equal, and the greater part no strict observers of equity and justice, the enjoyment of the property he has in this state is very unsafe, very unsecure. This makes him willing to quit a condition, which, however free, is full of fears and continual dangers: and it is not without reason, that he seeks out, and is willing to join in society with others, who are already united, or have a mind to unite, for the mutual preservation of their lives, liberties and estates, which I call by the general name, property.
All government is going to entail the sacrifice of some absolute rights you would enjoy in nature. Among those rights is that you constantly get to have your way. We did for the last 8 years, now for a while we don’t. If you don’t like it one absolute liberty you will always maintain is the right to pack up and leave. I recommend, if the rigors of living under a government are two much to bear and you prefer armed anarchy, the nation of Somalia. You’ll have all the guns and the total lack of government you want there.
Beth says:
I’ve always been about the LAST person to panic about the future of America. I managed to even think of one or two positive things about the Obamessiah being elected after that dreadful event.
In seven weeks he has totally made me understand what Martin is saying. If you had told me three months ago I’d agree, I’d have been pissed off and said, “you don’t know me at all.” No more.
I still have a shred of hope; people in Flyover Country like us who aren’t raising hell on the internets won’t put up with much more of this train wreck. It’s their livelihoods he’s fucking with, after all, not just wacko social engineering that most people ignore.
Even Whoopi Goldberg was ranting the other day (I saw it on FNC, not the View - lol). When SHE is pissed at Obama, you know others are.
Still…I have my Glock and my JHP ammo. ;)