I read the post by Mike Vanderboegh titled “We are everywhere.” — A call for all Sons of Liberty and Three Percenters who can to join the IRS plus a little task for those who can’t . and something about it struck me as wrong. Oh, the idea sounds nice and valid, but the actual practice will be quite different.

Of course, the idea for this comes from two sources that can be readily discerned. The first, a movie titled “Michael Collins” about the Irish leader who fought for Ireland’s independence from 1916-1922. He was killed in an ambush during the Irish Civil War. However, instead of citing any historical documentation (the movie, like all Hollywood’s stuff, is not accurate – and always carries a socialist message), Mike cites a scene from the movie, and draws inspiration from that directly. More indirectly, it appears that inspiration is drawn from the fictional character John Galt in Ayn Rand’s novel “Atlas Shrugged”, who, like the fictional G-man of the Michael Collins movie, works within the system to oppose it.

All well and good — and totally without historical precedent. Of course, that IS the problem with fiction — it is NOT reality.

No, the real reality here is this is recipe for ACCEPTING the shackles and chains that are swiftly coming upon us. Please remember there is a significant difference between OPPOSING a system, and PREVENTING or OVERTHROWING a system.

You can oppose a system all life long – AND NEVER, NEVER OVERTURN IT! No, what you become is the worst of traitors and hypocrites. Mike talks about the “moral high ground.” Well, this ain’t it. But there again, if fictional characters are your sources, I guess you can do whatever you want — and it works — at least on paper.

However, it will not prevent the coming tyranny. Rather, it will assist its emplacement and entrenchment — guaranteeing slavery for our sons and daughters. Of course, you could convince them to oppose the system from within too — but they would still be slaves living under tyranny.

And you will have compromised everything you said you stood for . . .

You know, the saying “The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.” doesn’t discriminate.

Our Founding Fathers would shudder:

“If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.” SAMUEL ADAMS, DEBATES OF 1776

“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, 1775

BETTER RED THAN DEAD, MIKE?

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2 Responses to “Accepting our chains . . .”

  1. 12:05, 2 April, 2010 р.
    jon says:

    i fail to see how taking a government job and then intentionally partaking of many small acts of subordination to hinder or prevent said employer from completing its unconstitutional and unlawful mission is accepting what i understand to be invisible and intangible chains. you would be literally getting paid in an increasingly worthless currency for the sole purpose of opposing, preventing, and perhaps non-violently overthrowing that very system, as well as converting it into firearms, ammunition, and other such stores of value as a fail-safe mechanism.
    in fact, it doesn’t matter who your employer is, because we’re still talking about the same currency, aren’t we?
    on the other hand, i can see clearly how the belief that the constitution can actually prevent the kind of government it has bequeathed unto this society does constitute said chains. as the zen student said, “my horns won’t fit through the door.” the selfsame road to hell awaits.
    “[I]t is incontestable that reasonable men may disagree as to the weight they attach to the prevention of insecurity in comparison with the protection of autonomy, and, for this reason, it is plain that not all reasonable men will accept that the right to autonomy enjoys  an absolute priority over the other considerations comprehended in the right to security.” john stuart mill.
    “An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.” thomas paine.
    archimedes also said something clever about raising the world, if only one was standing in the right place. applied to liberty, this would mean first knowing what the rules are, within context.
    and there aren’t any.

  2. 18:13, 2 April, 2010 р.
    Rollory says:

    Small acts of insubordination will not accomplish anything concrete.  It is a way to lose more slowly.  Right in line with voting Republican.
    Also, once people get used to taking the money, that WILL affect their choices in life.
     
    Btw, tech note: cookies are required to post.  Well ok but I am just going to delete the cookies in question and re-add the site to the blocklist as soon as the msg is posted, so wtf is the point exactly?