"When is Enough Really Enough?," updated.
I originally wrote this article on November 7th, 2007. I have updated it, but I did not have to remove one thing, only add. What does it take? The loss of Constitutionally guaranteed Rights? The loss of Habeas Corpus? Illegal and Unconstitutional Wars? Domestic Spying? Dismissal of most of the Bill of Rights? Presidents who perjure on something far more important than their sex-lives? More than 5,000 [a 2k increase sense the first writting] of our Citizens dying after we already lost half that many in an attack? What does it take? I would have thought it would have already occurred. We are a People born of Revolution, we are a People who took part in the grand experiment of liberty and sovereignty. Why then, have we waited quietly, and unperturbed at these horrible assaults? Marx was right about one thing at least, the Revolution will come; it just will not be the Revolution he thought it would be. However, history has proven him wrong on at least one other front, Marx always thought that the Revolution would come from the middle class but we have seen that instead it comes from the fringe, the poor, the peasants. The middle class has far too much to lose, whereas the working class and working-poor have nothing to lose and everything to gain. These are the dangerous men and women. And that is why a great lie was perpetrated on the American People. As the economy continues it's ever-so-graceful swan dive, the markets are manipulated, more and more people lose their homes, the jobs, their lives; we just might find this group gets larger and larger. This is why the Revolution is late. We bought the biggest lie; bought it hook, line, and sinker. We were told that we were the middle class. We were told that we were comfortable, and moderately well off. We were lied to. Most of us live paycheck to paycheck, never the wiser; deeper in debt; always deeper in debt. Our retirements are whisked out from under us like the proverbial rug. Corporations till our time and our productivity, the government taxes us to the hilt, so all we do is keep our heads above water. We are the working class, we are the working poor; Wake up America! If we don't, we will see that we have already lost it all. I think people are waking up to this fact, and that is a dangerous, and maybe needed, thing. So what does it take? A war? Wars are good for the economy, right? That's what we're told. We are in the most privatized war in history are we not? We, the People are not at war, for one Congress never declared one, the President has no authority to declare War. On top of that, ask someone who lived through one of the World Wars if we are at War. Have you bought War bonds recently, rationed your food, donated garden produce or scrap copper and nickle to the military? Turned your yards into gardens? No? I thought not. But you might want to do this last one... The US has a GPD of more than $13 trillion. The Iraq war has cost us less than half a trillion dollars to date. Conservative estimates place the total at $2 trillion, whilst liberal estimates at about $4 trillion. The highest of which is slightly more than one-third of one year's GPD for us. That is about 3-6 months of war-time mobilization. Imagine, if every car factory, every chemical plant, every newspaper, every job turned its efforts to War upon another nation. Imagine a full $13 trillion effort. The economy of the US is not well off; we have more mortgage foreclosures now that in the Great Depression, but we are still a force with which to be reckoned if we so chose. We are not at War. As we have given up our national sovereignty to organization like the UN. We have agreed that open war without UN sanction is in fact illegal. So we do not declare war. We disguise military action, and confuse the words by having the War on terror, or the War on Drugs, or the War on Poverty. Actual wars are unheard of, and We, the People are not at war. Please do not misconstrue, I am not advocating the government take over of industry. I am simply pointing out that the District of Columbia is at War; We, the People are not. So what does it take? We must mobilize. Not to make war on another nation, but as We, the People, we must stand up and say "Enough is Enough!" Their privileges do not supersede our Rights! Enough is Enough. We must, as a People, the great revolutionary People that we are, mobilize, and take back what is ours. We must do the right thing. Enough is enough, and we must act soon, or else it could be too late. Talk to someone. Ask if they are unhappy in their job, disenchanted with everything that is happening, politically apathetic, ready for a change. Life does not have to be like this. We can decide to make a change, make a difference. Real Change, not the hopey-changey platitude of Election Seasons. Talk to one person, and they will talk to two, and they, four, and soon, we will develop a goal, and a vision. We will see what it take to mobilize our selves, and stand up for what we know is right. As threats mount, and the government's fear-mongering takes hold, will Swine Flue be the excuse for martial law? The WHO has already suggested forced vaccinations. Ron Paul has even mentioned this possibility, something he has not touched on before. Just last month, August 2009, the reported number of people killed by the Swine Flue VACCINE was 25. The Obama-Care Bill has language in it authorizing 'home intervention teams.' The government will be sending people to your house to make sure you have given your children all the recommended vaccines. And, if it slipped your mind, they are even equipped to give those vaccines on the spot. This would be the same vaccines that use mercury solutions as the carrier. This was an event, a take-over, long in the planning. If we do not Rise Up, and take back our Sovereignty and our Rights before it's too late; it will be just that, too late. There are thing worth fighting for, things worth working for, and we need to protect and defend those things. We find ourselves ruled by an illegitimate government that does not answer to the people. We find ourselves lacking basic and human freedoms and Liberty. We find ourselves afraid of the government's inappropriate use of force. Friends, compatriots: we must not bow to fear. Even though we are afraid, even though you may feel that we are small, they are large; we are weak, they are strong; It is not so! Their weaknesses are our strengths. Their size is their immobility. Their tactics are not ours, their beliefs are not ours. Revolution is the rightful cause. I made the mistake of listening to Sean Hannity for the past three days. I came away with one important thing which I noticed. Every day, more than a few times, he mentioned how we [so-called conservatives] are "the peaceful resistance [to the left]" Why so much emphasis on peaceful? The Townhall meetings, talk radio, corporate news, all we hear are how this is a peaceful movement... Interesting. What are they afraid of? What do they know that we do not? Might it be that we strong, and they are weak? We are many and they are few? Our strengths are their weaknesses? Might it be that We, the People, the children of 1776, if not by blood, then by spirit; We, the People, are ready to support, protect, defend, and fight for the Constitution and for Liberty?! It just might be. I ask you to be ready, be vigilant. Prepare. Do not jump the gun, because early actions is just as unfavorable as late. But Be ready, Be Vigilant, and Prepare. Train, acquire, group together. When your principles dictate Liberty, the only cause of action is clear. So I ask you, what does it take? It might just take you.
--- KPatrick "History has shown us that government leaders often ignore the fundamental fact that people demand both dignity and freedom. Stripping motivated people of their dignity and rubbing their noses in it is a very bad idea."
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