Thomas Burback:
"As
long as we pose no REAL threat to the
powers-that-be, to what is shaping up
into a dictatorship, we will continue to
be ignored. Right now, we are ignored
because we present no organized power to
fight this onslaught of anti-democratic,
totalitarian government that we are up
against.
"It
will take time, but it's time to get
more left-leaning liberals and outright
leftists to at least POSE a threat, by
getting organized and getting ARMED.
It's time to get well past this liberal
phobia and taboo about weapons and
force. After all, our liberalism was won
with a REVOLUTIONARY WAR! they used real
guns in that war. The French Revolution
was also a WAR and they used real
weapons there too.
"Perhaps people believe that since the
US federal government has the fire power
to blow up the world X times over, that
we have no chance, and that the 2nd
amendment is therefore moot. I used to
think the same thing. In fact, this was
the major if not the only lasting upshot
of the Cold War. The Cold war wasn't
about one opposing ideology against the
other; it wasn't about the East vs. the
West. In the end, it was about the
respective governments against their own
peoples. The Cold War resulted in the
repression of the peoples in those
countries, and likewise, of peoples
around the world.
"But, it is still a myth that the US
citizens are powerless against their
government, a government that has become
tyrannical and has usurped our
democratic rights. We are not powerless
against it. If we get organized and
armed, and form a force of hundreds of
thousands, we can overcome this
government, or pose enough of a threat
to have power. The government cannot
drop a nuclear bomb on DC. It cannot
risk the lives of whole cities, without
revealing its own contradictions that
is. Further, there is no guarantee that
the military will remain loyal to a
government that continually reveals
itself as imperialistic and ruthless and
having no real concern for its own
personnel. The Iraqi occupation is
teaching many of them that hard lesson.
They are realizing that not Hussein, but
the Bush regime, is their real enemy.
