Independence Day Plans

Here's my plan for observing this Independence Day. 

1) Get up.
2) Go to work as normal. 
3) Mourn in my heart at every flag I pass wondering why they're not at half staff, or upside down.
4) Bank the "holiday" and use it some other time. 

I informed my boss Friday and that's okay with the BigDumbCo I work for.  Maybe I should find some orange prison jump suits to wear every July 4 as well.  "Property of Amerika" on the back, just to complete the picture. 

In 1775, our leaders signed their name to their death warrant-otherwise known as the Declaration of Independence.  In so doing, they sought liberty for themselves and their posterity at any cost. 

In 2012, our leaders have received the last signatures necessary for your death warrant-otherwise known as the Affordable Care Act.  In so doing, they have sealed tyranny for you and your posterity at any cost. 

Welcome to Amerika.

Profiles in Freedom - The Replacements

From the movie, The Replacements.

Jamal and Andre Jackson take care of a couple of bullies. 

Money. 

More Wisdom from AlSol

I'm on a Solzhenitsyn kick lately, trudging my way through the Gulag Archipelago.  As I run across ideas that are particularly penetrating for me, or applicable in the present tense for us as a people, I'll share them. 

If only there were evil people somewhere insiduously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to seprarte them from the rest of us and destroy them.  But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being.  And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?
Gulag Archipelago - Volume 1, The Bluecaps.

We all have choices.  You can make a life-long committment today.  But this must be followed with daily activity that aligns with that committment.  In different terms, you may commit to a principle, but must follow that with routine practice that aligns.  (See Principles-Practices)

Physics is aware of phenomena which occur only at threshold magnitudes which do not exist at all until a certain threshold ...has been crossed.

...evildoing also has a threshold magnitude.  Yes, a human being hesitates and bobs back and forth between good and evil all his life.  He slips, falls back, clambers up, repents, things begin to darken again.  But so long as the threshold of evildoing is not crossed, the possibility of returning remains, and he himself is still within reach of our hope.  But when, through the density of evil actions, the result either of their own extreme degree or of the absoluteness of his power, he suddenly crosses that threshold, he has left humanity behind, and without, perhaps the possibility of return.
Gulag Archipelago - Volume 1, The Bluecaps.

There's a reason we hesitate to execute judgment on those we think are just plain evil.  Because we fear crossing the threshold ourselves. 

What are we to do?  Someday our descendants will describe our several generations as generations of driveling do-nothings.  First we submissively allowed them to massacre us by the millions and then with devoted concern we tended the murderers in their prosperous old age.
Gulag Archipelago - Volume 1, The Bluecaps.

A body blow to the solar plexus of our people.

The chapter closes with this bomb.  

In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousandfold in the future.  When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers, we are not simply protecting their trivial old age, we are thereby ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.  It is for this reason, and not because of the "weakness of indoctrinational work," that they are growing up "indifferent."  Young people are acquiring the conviction that foul deeds are never punished on earth, that they always bring prosperity.

It is going to be uncomfortable, horrible to live in such a country!
Gulag Archipelago - Volume 1, The Bluecaps.

In line with the theme AP has been on lately (the foundation of the American Revolution was in the preaching of the word of God from the black robed regiment), it is undeniable that the foundation of the American Devolution is found in our abandonment of that same word of God. 

Evil must be punished, but a man must do this without crossing his own threshold.  Silence endorses evil and encourages its multiplication.  When Solzhenitsyn talks about implanting evil, this is an immensely powerful image for it is the principle of the harvest being applied. 

• You will reap what you sow.  (plant green beans, reap green beans.  Plant evil, reap evil)
• You will reap more than you sow.  (You can count the apples on a tree.  You can't count the apples contained within one appleseed.  This isn't just reproduction it is multiplication.)
• You will reap in a different season than when you sow.  (It will always be later than you sow.  One generation plants the tree, another generation gets the shade.)

Wisdom from Al

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn that is. 

Started reading the Gulag Archipelago, highlighter in hand.  I just wanted to throw out a couple of quotes that grabbed my attention and overlay them onto current events. 

The note from The Trainer, posted over at WRSA is a must read. 

Al says: 

Some still have hopes of a favorable outcome for their case and are afraid to ruin their chances by an outcry.  (For after all, we get no news from that other world and we do not realize that from the very moment of arrest our fate has almost certainly been decided in the worst possible sense and we cannot possibly make it any worse.)  (emphasis added)
Gulag Archipelago

Volume 1, Chapter 1; Arrest

We are at the cliffs.  Which way are you facing? 

This was the truth in Russia under communism.  It is becoming the truth here in America.  If a man truly believes what Solzhenitsyn says here, then he must give up the false hope of successful defense against the endless resources of Leviathan.  If there is no possibility of succesful defense, then what is left but offense? 

Should we wrap it all up and simply say that they arrested the innocent?  But we omitted saying that the very concept of guilt had been repealed by the proletarian revolution...we can't even discuss these outdated concepts, guilt and innocence. 
Gulag Archipelago

Volume 1, Chapter 2; The History of The Sewage Disposal System

Guilty, innocent, doesn't matter to the state.  As laws are piled upon laws, how can anyone keep them all straight and remain a "law-abiding citizen"?  That's our present reality.  And just as was the case then, the very concept of innocence and guilt are being flushed down the sewage system. 

Your choices are being reduced.

It was at precisely this moment that an important step was taken in universal participation in sewage disposal, universal responsibility for it.  Those who had not yet been swept bodily down the sewer hatches, who had not yet been carried through the pipes to the Archipelago had to march up above carrying banners praising the trials and rejoicing at the judicial reprisals. 
Gulag Archipelago
Volume 1, Chapter 2; The History of The Sewage Disposal System

Resist or join the "patient queues"*

Patient queues for the gallows sing the praises of the hallowed. 
Our machines feed the furnace, if they take us, they will burn us.
Knife Edge
Emerson, Lake, and Palmer

Most Interesting Comrade In World

An update from the Most Interesting Comrade In World as seen on Drudge this morning.

I launch ICBM with stare alone. 
Obama can't figure out umbrella-much less Missile Umbrella

I AM your 3 AM phone call. 

Boromir Retakes Osgiliath!



"In your face, Sauron!!"

Oh, wait.  That was Walker winning the recall in Wisconsin.   

To-may-to/To-mah-to. 

The left will pour on more steam, more "get bloody", more punch back twice as hard, more poll intimidation, more "voter irregularity", more Minnesota and Illinois voters in Wisconsin, more thugnuts, more orcs and trolls, and more money (stolen through QE and stimulus) until they achieve the desired result. 

"Conservatives" and friends of liberty will likely gloat, celebrate, slumber, and squander what has been won. 

Though there may appear to exceptions, the truth still holds.  We will not vote our way out of this. 

More "We are Doomed"

I've got good news and bad news. 

First the bad news:

DA: Judge Blackwood wrong to order new Christian/Newsom trials, should step down, cites 'little birdies'

KNOXVILLE — A special judge has decided to — again — grant new trials in one of Knoxville’s most high-profile cases, and state prosecutors are responding by asking him to step down from the case.

A motion filed late Friday afternoon in Knox County Criminal Court reveals that Special Judge Jon Kerry Blackwood is planning to enter an order granting new trials in the January 2007 torture slayings of Channon Christian, 21, and Christopher Newsom, 23, without holding a hearing and despite a recent state Supreme Court ruling faulting his legal reasoning.

The judge was essentially told by the Tennessee Supreme Court, "These aren't the droids you're looking for."  Blackwood insists that they are. 

Just for reference, the grand jury indictment handed down in this case.  It's far worse than anything George Zimmerman did to Trayvon™. 

We are doomed as a people. We are also doomed as a nation. When it goes over the cliff, we're all going.  When we land at the bottom, we'll all land together.  Some will make it, some will not.  Simple statistical averages say that there will be some percentage of free men who make it and some percentage of beings like Blackwood who make it. 
 
Those career long government service sponges who derived their standing, their power, their privilige, their protection, and their wealth from the government will tremble in terror to find that with the government gone, they stand no taller than any of the survivors. 

The good news? 

Those free men who survived the crash will feel liberated to take whatever action they see fit-particularly against those who created the crash and were unfortunate enough to survive it. 

So let me get this straight...

Mayor Bloomberg wants to prevent you from getting a soda greater than 16 ounces in volume, but supports a plan to limit arrests for choom.

Presumably, they'll need to add items to the school curriculum to help young students learn how to properly roll their taters, where to get roach clips, and such.  Because just like with sex, they're gonna do it anyway. 

"You wanna smoke with the old boy Barack James?"

We are not going to vote our way out of this. 

On this date in history, June 4, 1942

The Battle of Midway. 

As I read through this, there are any number of changes which could have swung the battle in Japan's favor. 

• Such as combining the forces to provide more screening for their carriers.
• Such as bringing a fifth carrier into this battle.
• Such as communication between Yamamoto and Nagumo regarding the increase in American sub activity and message traffic
• Such as better scouting of the battlespace and communication in general

An interesting epilogue:

On 10 June, the Imperial Japanese Navy conveyed to the military liaison conference an incomplete picture of the results of the battle. Chūichi Nagumo's detailed battle report was submitted to the high command 15 June. It was intended only for the highest echelons in the Japanese Navy and government, and was guarded closely throughout the war. In it, one of the more striking revelations is the comment on the Mobile Force Commander's (Nagumo's) estimates: "The enemy is not aware of our plans (we were not discovered till early in the morning of the 5th at the earliest)." The Japanese public were kept in the dark as to the extent of the defeat, as was much of the military command structure. Japanese news announced a great victory. Only Emperor Hirohito and the highest Navy command personnel were accurately informed of the carrier and pilot losses. Subsequently, Army planners continued to believe, for at least a short time, that the fleet was in good condition.


On the return of the Japanese fleet to Hashirajima on 14 June the wounded were immediately transferred to naval hospitals; most were classified as "secret patients", placed in isolation wards and quarantined from other patients and their own families to prevent the secret of this major defeat from getting out to the general populace. The remaining officers and men were quickly dispersed to other units of the fleet and, with no chance to see family or friends, were shipped to units in the South Pacific where the majority died. By contrast none of the flag officers or staff of the Combined Fleet were penalized, with Nagumo later being placed in command of the rebuilt carrier force. - Wikipedia

Public kept in the dark?  Check.

Much of the command structure kept in the dark?  Check.

Those who knew the truth isolated or sent far away to prevent the truth from getting out?  Check.

None of the leaders in charge were penalized?  Check. 

 

Since the truth was suppressed and the leaders allowed to keep their position and their power, Japan continued plowing forward on a course to maintain their Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.  Or as we say in English, "National Destruction."  That Japan did not determine and act upon the truth was great news for America, but obviously sucked for Japan. 

I can't help but think that it sounds very similar to our impending economic collapse of 2012.