They may try to take our freedom away. Somebody is out there planning it right now. But there is a surprise waiting for them, a spirit they don’t understand.
Every man with a radar detector in his car, anyone who ever cheated on an income-tax form, every seventeen-year- old who has figured out how to buy a bottle of beer, every- one who knows the taste of out-of-season trout, every driver who ignored a parking ticket, anyone who ever made some wine in the cellar but neglected to fill out the federal form the law requires, every woman who needed and got an abortion back when they were illegal, every man that’s made an illegal bet on a football game, every bureaucrat that blew a whistle and embarrassed the guy at the top all these people are already secret freedom fighters.
You are out there waiting, waiting for the day when things get serious, when the people in charge stop trying to limit freedom and start trying to take it away altogether. You will be free, because you will insist on it.
Jefferson Mack
1986
Secret Freedom Fighter: Fighting Tyranny without Terrorizing the Innocent, page 5.
[Read the whole thing.—Joe]
Preference cascades are real, and they are spectacular.
Hmm. I never considered lawlessness to be the very definition of libertarian, as this QOTD might suggest. I mean, libertarians will be violating certain laws, but law breaking is not the essence of their identity. Quite to the contrary, I would say. So we might (note that I say “might”) have something of a false dichotomy here;
Law-breaker politicians being “opposed” by law-breaker regular citizens, thus resulting in more and widespread law breaking.
But the law, the Supreme Law of the Land, that being our constitution, and God’s law, which backs up much of the former, are of a different character. We have to make the proper distinction between legal laws and illegal laws. Fortunately we have a clear guide;
“To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word it is because there is no light in them.” Isaiah 8:20
“But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.” James 1:25
“So speak ye, and do so, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty” James 2:12
It goes without saying that the violators will be…un-blessed.
And so, as long as we’re fantasizing, my fantasy scenario would be somewhat different, being that we’re (hopefully) taking about legal action by human patriots. For one thing it would involve getting together a dedicated and well organized (well regulated) group of state and federal prosecutors, local police and sheriffs, and where necessary, some among the militia, to start amassing and tabulating the mountains of evidence against the law-breaking, surreptitious and insidious politicians (including their own boastful words), arresting them, and getting them convicted of their crimes in large numbers. Who is ready for some real, legitimate, community organizing, to root out the evil “community organizers”?
“Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them.” Ephesians 5:11
Mack is, for sure, correct about one thing though;
“Somebody is out there planning it right now. But there is a surprise waiting for them, a spirit they don’t understand.”
It’s just that he has no apparent clue as to who that’s going to be.
Here’s one clue I’ve used several times here;
“For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.” 1 Thessalonians 5:3
You don’t even want to know what’s in the book of Revelation regarding the things that are in store for the charter members of the evil, Romish, leftist CABAL. It says they’ll be hiding in the mountains, begging the rocks to fall on them and cover them from the face of Justice. IOW, panic like you’ve never seen it.
Good reading. The only thing I’ve seen so far is that this time TPTB aren’t as interested in taking over and controlling everyone. Just everyone that’s left alive.
The golden billion I believe there called.
I don’t see the standard ROE of communism/totalitarianism at play as much as they have in the past. And the end game is going to be much worse.
But Mack’s all good!