-Caveat Lector-
Bill, I have to agree with this assessment. There are three things that
have to occur: 1. a precipitating event, 2. a charismatic leader, 3.
serious economic problems. If these things come at the same time, open
revolt could well follow. The precipitating event could well be
anything, a true variable. The charismatic leader would have to declare
himself early if already a politician. If he arises from outside, he
would have to declare at the point of open revolt. I have to chuckle at
the people who are upset when one of the founding fathers is portrayed as
a real person (good points/bad points) who drank and had mistresses. I
feel that the more we understand that the founding fathers were just like
us, the more likely we are to think we too can be free of a repressive
government.
On Tue, 2 Jan 2001 19:35:57 EST Bill Richer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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>Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War!
>
>What's ahead for Freedom Lovers?
>
>By Chuck Baldwin
>
>January 2, 2001
>
>
>I use the term Freedom Lovers intentionally. The word "conservative"
>or even
>the word "Christian" is far too vague and indefinite. In today's
>lexicon,
>Bill Clinton is said to personify the term Christian and Colin Powell
>is
>hailed as a conservative. Yet, both men betray the substance of the
>accolades heaped upon them. It's to the point that the terms
>conservative or
>liberal seem to share more in common than most care to admit.
>
>Liberals will steal one's freedom in the name of welfare or
>entitlement
>programs, while conservatives will steal one's freedom in the name of
>law
>enforcement or free trade. The result is the same: Americans continue
>to
>lose their liberties.
>
>What Nazism and Communism could not do through acts of war and
>conquest,
>both major political parties in America are doing through acts of
>congress,
>court rulings and executive orders: putting the shackles of bondage on
>the
>American people. And the unfathomable part to the story is the fact
>that, on
>the whole, the America people don't seem to mind.
>
>Of course, there are those who do mind. There are those who yet regard
>individual liberty (as described and defined in the Declaration of
>Independence, Constitution and Bill of Rights) as worth fighting and
>dying
>for. Their lot may not be large, but it is principled and determined.
>What
>does a new century hold in store for them?
>
>Sooner or later, lovers of freedom will have to make the same kinds of
>choices that yesterday's lovers of freedom had to make. It appears
>inevitable. Neither the Republicans nor the Democrats have the courage
>or
>fortitude to make the hard political decisions necessary to return
>America
>to the founding principles of limited government, states rights, and
>individual liberty. (It may be questioned how many of them even
>understand
>those principles?)
>
>Only the rise of a potent and principled third party can avert the
>hard
>decisions to come. And since this seems remote, it would appear that,
>like
>our ancestors, Freedom Lovers would have to choose from the following:
>
>We can choose the option made by our Pilgrim Fathers and relocate. Or,
>we
>can choose the option made by our Revolutionary brothers and separate.
>The
>only other option is to live in subjugation, which to Freedom Lovers
>is not
>an option at all. The unknown factor is how many Freedom Lovers will
>be left
>when it becomes necessary to make the hard choices described above?
>
>A few months ago, a friend of mine (who was recently elected to public
>office) gave me a wonderful history book. On the inside cover he
>wrote, "To
>Chuck, A Patriot and Friend. Sometimes I think you were born 200 years
>too
>late." Or, at age 48, maybe 50 years too early.
>
>
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