Revolution – or serfdom.

9 Responses to Revolution – or serfdom.

1. Ronbo says:

   December 26, 2013 at 00:53

   An excellent intellectual discourse concerning what I think most of us Crusader Rabbits already have come to understand in our individual independent analysis of history, politics, economics and philosophy – The Great Issues Of The Early 21st Century will only be settled in the time tested way of revolution and war.

   When compromise, fair play, peaceful redress, free elections and freedom of speech disappear in the world the only viable option are the dogs of war, or the chains of slavery.

   …and let history that the freedom fighters went the distance before we picked up the knife, sword, bomb and gun.
2. Michael in Nelson says:

   December 26, 2013 at 05:01

   Yep KG, I saw this yesterday and was impressed by the scope and thoroughness of it. Praying long and hard the people rise up in the mid-terms and throw the bastards out, especially the false traitorous Republicans.
3. KG says:

   December 26, 2013 at 07:58

   Greenfield on the media:
   ‘..A free society does not only become unfree at the point of a gun. It becomes unfree when its mechanisms of freedom are jammed, when the institutions that are meant to provide power to the people are taken over by unelected forces and twisted into the apparatus of a new tyranny. When undemocratic institutions seize control of democratic institutions then democracy dies, strangled by men and women who keep on smiling while they tighten their grip..’
   http://sultanknish.blogspot.com.au/2013/12/rise-of-mediacracy.html
4. KG says:

   December 26, 2013 at 07:59

   “When compromise, fair play, peaceful redress, free elections and freedom of speech disappear in the world the only viable option are the dogs of war, or the chains of slavery.”
   Exactly.
   And read the linked Greenfield essay above to see just how unfree elections have become.
5. Andrew Berwick says:

   December 26, 2013 at 08:30

   This article sails very close to socialism:

   Never has there been so little diversity within America’s upper crust.

   As if the founding Fathers were diverse. The article’s populist slant misses the most important point: all the founding fathers had a real stake in society — the all owned significant property.

   The rot is universal welfare, and that is caused by the universal franchise.
   • KG says:

     December 26, 2013 at 08:42

     If you think the article “sails very close to socialism” then perhaps you should go back and read it again, Andrew.
     Either that, or you have a comprehension problem.
     The word “diversity” may trigger a reaction in you because that word has been all but co-opted by the left. But the lack of diversity in academe, the media and “permitted” thought is a signature of the left. So stop the knees jerking and engage brain before commenting.
     What Codevilla said was:
     “Never has there been so little diversity within America’s upper crust. Always, in America as elsewhere, some people have been wealthier and more powerful than others. But until our own time America’s upper crust was a mixture of people who had gained prominence in a variety of ways, who drew their money and status from different sources and were not predictably of one mind on any given matter.”
     “The rot is universal welfare, and that is caused by the universal franchise.”
     There’s a deal of truth in that, but it wasn’t the subject of the article. It isn’t the cause of the rot that Codevilla addresses.
     And as a person who believes that doctors, nurses and firefighters are leeching off the welfare tit, your opinion on the matter lacks all credibility.
     (we have long memories here, Sinner.)
6. KG says:

   December 26, 2013 at 09:30

   Slightly O/T:
   ‘Police state – Bill Binney is the high-level NSA executive who created the agency’s mass surveillance program for digital information… Last year, Binney held his thumb and forefinger close together, and said: We are, like, that far from a turnkey totalitarian state. But today, Binney told Washington’s Blog that the U.S. has already become a police state.’

   http://www.woodpilereport.com/html/index-349.htm
7. mawm says:

   December 26, 2013 at 11:56

   14 July 1789.
   • mawm says:

     December 26, 2013 at 11:58

     BTW it IS a very good essay, the parallels are notable.