It's not enough to prepare our minds to be the Last Custodians of our Constitution, we have an affirmative duty to help prepare others' minds as well.
A friend of mine, an attorney quite a bit younger than I, is a conservative. She comes from a VERY conservative family, and most of our meetings are celebrations when sons and cousins, ALL Army men, return from their combat tours, or prepare to go on them.
This lady asked me to participate in an email blitz on Nancy Peloser's email box. I believe that to be a futile gesture, so I didn't do it. She emailed me back and asked if she could send an email in my name. This was my reply, with her name redacted several times:
Actually Xxxxxx, I want to live to fight another day. I say nothing in
letters, emails, faxes to these cretins, and here's why: they are deathly afraid
of us. They are afraid of our guns, and they are afraid of our military service
which taught us that an honorable death in battle is preferable to a lifetime of
slavery. They have erected what they think is a mighty fortress and they hide
inside it. That fortress is the Department of Homeland Security, which Bush 43
originated, naively thinking it would never be used as the start of a Fascist
"Brown Shirts" movement like it is under Gauleiter Napolitano, but, in fact, her
writings and utterances tell us that she thinks just like a Nazi of 1934. I have
ZERO doubt in my military mind that the simple act of writing a letter to a
Democrat, in opposition to just about ANYTHING, gets one put on a list to be
seized as a "potential domestic terrorist" and sent off to "preventive
detention" at the earliest opportunity that these Nazis can fabricate. That's
why I shudder whenever some kook like the old fart who shot up the Holocaust
Museum fires a round from a rusty .22 rifle: what is going to be OUR "Reichstag
Fire"?
Nope,
as articulate as I am, I don't send letters. I blog in opposition to this
destruction of the Constitution, and my blogging probably has me on a list
already, but I don't send letters or emails or faxes.
You
are playing by the old rules, Xxxxxx. Those rules don't count anymore. Here's an
analogy: You played ice hockey as a kid, so you get in shape to play it again 30
years later, but you don't read the rule book. The first time you play in a
game, you get carted off the ice to get your face stitched up from the
high-stick you received while fore-checking. As they cart you off, you are
surprised to see the game resume with your opponents at full strength. You stop
the first-aid procession and ask your coach, "What, didn't the referee see that?
What about all the blood on the ice?" The coach replies, "doesn't count as even
a minor now, Xxxxxxx. Next time, put your stick up sooner to ward off that
high stick-check. Oh, and call me as soon as you can play again."
My
analogies are never that good, but to understand this change, go out and rent
the original "Rollerball" movie. It will clue you in on just how it must feel to
have the rules change from an ordinary contest to a
death-match.
Use
the new rules are to harden yourself to the idea that all the law books on
either your shelf or Obama's aren't going to stop this juggernaut, and it will
probably be up to hard men and women who dare the ultimate horror, insurrection,
to change all of this. Because both history and my conscience tell me that
insurrections rarely succeed, and usually have horrible consequences of
collateral damage when they do, I do not want to join one, and refuse to start
one. I think it prudent to study them however, and I do. I also happen to think
that there WILL be a time, within my lifetime (and I'm 65), that I will have to
Make The Choice to fight this government or not. I cannot tell you what my
choice will be, but put it this way, Xxxxxxx: I have sworn the oath to protect
the Constitution about 7 times, including re-enlistments, and it is THE
strongest ideal I believe in.
Bottom
line: sure, we have the right to petition our Government. The Government, on the
other hand, thinks it has the right to decide, now or later, whether that makes
us dangerous to them. We just can't take a chance that it thinks we are
dangerous. Besides, if we all suddenly stopped this futile exercise of email
floods, etc, it would scare the pants off of them, and THEIR reaction to the
Great Silence would be VERY instructive.
So goes another teachable moment. Some time expended, the lesson taught.
