REBELLIONS HAVE STARTED OVER LESS

 

 

Start with the fact that all the major polls show 70% of Americans now think that the country is going in the wrong direction and follow that with the 40% approval rating of the administration. Most Americans now feel like sticking their thumb in Uncle Sam’s eye because of intrusive self important politicians and the regulatory mountain they have spawned. The country has grown weary of being told how big a soft drink we can buy and what a school lunch menu must contain on the one hand and what our health insurance must include on the other. Progressive politicians always reserve enlightened and intellectual status for themselves so that they can proclaim all of their social engineering experiments are “for our own good whether we are smart enough to know it or not.” If, you see, we were among the enlightened we would not question their judgment in the determination of what course of action represents the greater good. I have grown to love the way the truth gets uploaded onto the internet in the form of cell phone videos and well documented research that constantly puts the lie to big government spin and the liberal press who repeat it. The failed domestic agenda and ridiculous international fumbling of the current administration are evident to conservatives and liberals alike; we understand that the facts demonstrate something quite different than enlightened intellectual leadership. Americans sent a majority opposition to the House of Representatives in 2010 and 2012 in hopes of curbing the runaway spending and regulation but got instead an imperial President with the will to govern by decree who uses the slur of “do nothing Congress” as justification. Progressive politicians have loaded the courts with activist judges and put an outright criminal in charge of the Justice Department in an attempt to control Americans and press on with their agenda without interference. One U. S. attorney was so effective at blocking legal challenges to Senator Obama’s eligibility for higher office that she was rewarded with a place on the Supreme Court. I have no knowledge of the truth about the matter and I do not seek to take a position here but it is clear that due process was denied to those who brought the legal complaints.

The attention of the 24 hour news creatures was drawn earlier this week to a little known part of Nevada where the Federal Government had a rancher surrounded by overwhelming numbers of federal agents with equally overwhelming fire power. Attempts by the feds to control the news by restricting access to the site with an FAA “no fly zone” and traffic barricades failed to stop a citizen militia from descending on the scene and filming the actions of the federal officers. The authorities next tried to herd all of the protestors into what they called “first amendment areas” for their own good which of course didn’t work on a bunch of independent minded citizens who knew that the first amendment cannot be confined to an area. The government came prepared with two cover stories to justify the abuse of their authority; first was that the cattle were encroaching on the habitat of the endangered desert tortoise and the second was about unpaid grazing fees by the rancher. The truth about the government killing hundreds of the tortoises in the last few months and the government’s desire to rid the land of cattle to make room for a Chinese company’s solar project came out on the internet. This revelation was quickly followed by information about Harry Reid and his family’s financial involvement with the Chinese in the project. The State of Nevada said that the rancher was current on his taxes and fees weakening the other cover story especially once it came to light that 52 other ranches had been put out of business by the Feds in the same area.

The nation is sick and tired of Chicago style politics where the power of government agencies like the IRS is brought to bear on citizens who dare to assert their Constitutional Rights. It didn’t take long for the highly charged and very public spectacle to prompt references to Waco and Ruby Ridge. The huge display of government force confronted by angry armed citizens was the last thing that the progressives wanted in this election year. The abrupt end to the standoff appeared at hand when the Feds cited safety concerns for both their troops and the public and called off the roundup. Tensions flared again as the citizen militia followed the troops to the impound area demanding the return of the ranchers cattle.

The job and economy killing social agenda of this progressive administration is starting to boil over into confrontations. The government was, for just a moment, fearful of the people yesterday as they should have been since they were elected. Americans individually fear this imperial government but it would not take much to coalesce these scared individuals into a determined and defiant militia. Every attempt that the progressives make to control the content of the internet and edit the second amendment should be recognized for what it really is, the enslavement of “we the people.”