The startling reality
is that peaceful revolution has turned out to be far easier than the other
kind. The challenge is to persuade those
in possession of guns to not take private advantage. Once that is held back, it turns into a
refusal to cooperate forcing the government to come to terms with the suddenly
emergent ad hoc democratic committee.
This quickly
evolves into elections. In Egypt, the
army is reducing the fascist Muslim Brotherhood and can then step back to allow
elections for the rest that hopefully begins to throw up capable people. They will too because the people have
established bounds.
Most likely
though, the USA has not reached a clear and obvious crossroads for a real
revolution. The damage is huge but the
economy is deep also. I do believe that
we need a major overhaul of the financial system similar to the first overhaul
in 1933. Unfortunately the enemies of such
uses false fears to block that overhaul and no one has the confidence of the
electorate or the mob for that matter to effect real change.
Simply down
loading the power of the fed to the state and big city level while settling the
national debt would be simple and sufficient to turn it all around. Notice we are already buying back the
national debt.
Iceland -
Example for a new American Revolution
Sunday, December 15, 2013 - The Gathering Storm by Daniel Martin Gray
WASHINGTON, December 15, 2013 — The throes
of revolution in the Muslim Spring played out not just in public squares, but
in social media. A Twitter revolt helped topple Egypt’s President Hosni
Mubarek. This was followed by the rise to power of the only organized political
force there, the Muslim Brotherhood.
Their heavy-handed radical Islamist regime was so
unpopular that the military threw them out.
Covered in extensive and excruciating detail by
America’s major media, (save the rapes, assaults and murders of women and
Christians), we are expected to learn that overthrowing established government
is a bad thing. That it’s better to keep the devil we know.
Their message is that only turmoil and tribulation
result from removing the heavy hand of oppression; that either anarchy or
another even worse tyrant will result.
But let’s “imagine,” for a moment, a peaceful
revolution that worked.
Let’s start with a banking crisis like 2008, caused
by greedheads in government and breathtaking risktakers in multinational
megacorporations. Assume it was entirely intended, in order to cause critical
consequences and cement even more power and money in the hands of
elites.
Say that nationalizing industry and the banking
system is fine, like our media and both major parties did. Play down the
essential bankrupting of government by buying our own securities and monetizing
the debt. Assume that government passed sweeping bailouts for banks “too big to
fail”. Ramped up “benefit” payments to a populace thrown headlong from a
workforce that deserted them, in order to drain their power and hook them on
government largesse.
Posit a peaceful movement to undo the damage, that
called bailouts a failure; called for jailing the ones who caused the mess in
the first place. Sounds a lot like our own Occupy and Tea Party movements.
Picture a people so fed up they throw out a large
percentage of incumbents, sending new faces pledged to serve freedom and fiscal
restraint to the seats of power. America did this, too, spurning Democrats and
RINOs in Congress and State governments in 2010.
Allow that this was insufficient to break the grip
of entrenched elites. That they instead ratcheted up the forced march
“forward.” That in their haughty hubris and secret fear of ordinary folks, they
pushed for even more control, at the cost of human freedom. That more and more
folks became disaffected with the powers that be, but were ignored and
demeaned, instead.
Fine so far, that experience mirrors our own. Now,
step into the unknown, at least unknown here at home. What if a mass movement
put pressure on, and kept it up? What if their incessant and
unyielding demands toppled yet more of the establishment? What if they formed a
committee of average citizens, including a large percentage of the
unaffiliated, and rewrote their Constitution?
What if they arrested, prosecuted and jailed the
bankers whose actions caused the crisis, instead of rewarding them with fat
paydays? What if their actions, entirely peaceful, restored liberty and
fiscal sanity to their country?
This actually happened, you know. Or most likely,
you don’t. Spectacularly unreported in American media, Iceland did all of those
things. It was called the “Pots and Pans” revolution, because the protestors
used those to make noise. They didn’t have to fire a single shot.
There is a reason the elites don’t want you to know.
They would have you ignorant of the example. They like things the way
they are. We don’t. And here in America, we have no need to rewrite a
new Constitution. Our old one would work fine, if we but followed it.
Rise up, Americans! It’s time to take it all back!
Time to regain liberty and the prosperity that ensues!
We can do this peacefully. Just remember,
300 million guns in the hands of 100 million Americans means would-be tyrants
don’t dare risk their own necks for a fate far worse than a little
jail time. For if they sow the wind, they will reap the whirlwind.
Yes we need a new revolution;BUT if one shot is fired by either side both sides will lose. Congress stil has the power to change things,we just need to get it into their heads that we are serious about freedon. One of the best ways to get their attention would be a shut down of all busines for one day. That would get their attention.
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