Well, this ruling certainly makes things less ambiguous. If appeals to the highest court in the land have failed then we can, and should, look for other ways to protect our freedoms and ensure that the people pushing us all towards civil strife, economic depression and war cannot help but see how determined we are to protect our liberties. Even the most clueless among us should be able to recognize that none of the three branches of government is on the side of the people, the bureaucracy is hopelessly compromised, and they don't even care to pretend that our thoughts on the matter are worth considering in the least. I'd say that we are long past the point where working within the system will do anything other than give us false hope. Short of an event that is big and terrifying enough to awaken the clueless there is little hope for meaningful redress of grievences without a whole lot of other battlefield preparation before hand. They won't stop until the cost of their actions is no longer spread across our society, but rather entirely applied to them personally. In other words the penalties for their actions must be severe enough and personal enough to cut through the BS so that we can convince anyone else who is inclined to take this same path decides not to start in the first place. The tree of liberty hasn't been tended to in quite a long time. Somehow I think that's going to change, and soon.
There is much truth in the growing realization and sentiment this commentator has shared with us, and I believe it deserves more eyeballs than it will get by staying buried in comments.
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i concur, and, i think there's something more. i guess this will be "me, too!" and shameless because i posted this already on facebook, but after something like this i can't let it go unanswered so i'm going to quote myself:
while this happens all the time, the significance of a new aspect -- no explanation given whatsoever -- cannot be understated.
'we do not even have to explain why we're doing this' is the end of leadership itself. no one follows those who convey this message. not even your buddy in middle management can command trust or respect after something like this. once this is done, all future decisions, no matter how well qualified with prose, are de facto capricious.
Jon, succinct and well stated.
I shared. I fear thee time will be here sooner than anyone thinks.
Since the dreadful gun laws were passed here in CO a couple of years ago, I've thought that one of the best things we could do to present our true opinion of how off track and disregardful our reps have become, is to build some gallows on the state capitol lawn. Making the lawmakers pass that each time they come to work might just get a few to start waking up before the alternative posed here, becomes the only way to gain redress.
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