Our Founding Fathers Counted the Cost and Stood Firm

[DireWolf]

It has become painfully obvious Our Constitution is now being viewed as less than toilet paper by almost all our Politicians who now favor World Government.

We will never again have a true Representative form of government so long as we remain in the shadows, silent, and afraid.

 Our Founding Fathers who were some of the most educated and wealthy men and women of their era and had much more to lose in a material sense (respectively speaking as to the era) than most of us will ever have, yet risked all, including life and limb to institute a form of government that would best allow their progeny to live free.

 It will take that same level of commitment by us if we are to defeat this evil, corrupt, tyranny. Will our children's, children decry our in-actions or will they look to us their inspiration, emulating our sacrifices continuing to allow Liberty and Freedom reign? 

 Each of us are but little pieces in this struggle, but as a single Army Ant is of little consequence and threat easily swept aside, when joined by it's fellow ants become such a force that even the mightiest of the jungles predators flee. We need to embrace this lesson from nature. Many ants do in fact die but by doing so insure the future of their colony.

 Who amongst us will live forever? Better to do all one can rather than grovel at tyranny's feet your entire life.

[MonkeyPuppet]

As things worsen and the prospect of an undesirable necessity draws closer, I find myself feeling less and less hopeful.  I realize the hour is not yet late enough to find the true mettle of our countrymen, but so many are blind to what is happening all around them.  So many seem comfortable with whatever level of tyranny is pushed upon them... if only they can maintain the illusion of security and safety.

I fear that when/if the time comes, even if they decide they have had enough, they will be ill-prepared, both mentally and materially, for the struggle itself.  Without preparation and the needful things of such a conflict, the masses, regardless of desire, will cower and acquiesce to the oppressors.

There is a moral cowardice among Americans in general.  This is our first enemy.

[MonkeyPuppet]

How many of our brethren can even contemplate the weight of these words from the Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms (1775)?

"In brief, a part of these colonies now feel, and all of them are sure of feeling, as far as the vengeance of administration can inflict them, the complicated calamities of fire, sword and famine. We are reduced to the alternative of chusing an unconditional submission to the tyranny of irritated ministers, or resistance by force. -- The latter is our choice. -- We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery. -- Honour, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us. We cannot endure the infamy and guilt of resigning succeeding generations to that wretchedness which inevitably awaits them, if we basely entail hereditary bondage upon them."

Indeed, Thomas Jefferson and Colonel Dickinson would be hard-pressed to fill the ranks of a needful and worthy resistance today.

[DireWolf]

As things worsen and the prospect of an undesirable necessity draws closer, I find myself feeling less and less hopeful. 

My hope lies with God and in my determination to remain free. In the fact that if we succeed our children and their children will live free, maybe even more so than we. In the fact that as long as we have the means of meaningful resistance ( our firearms ) all hope is not lost. In the fact that there will always be some, yet even a few who will never surrender their freedom.