I recently had to create a Facebook page for purposes of communicating with someone I need to. The details aren’t important (and I didn’t use my real name there, either. That person knows my real name.) Just for fun I was posting some memes and messing around on that page. Facebook wants you to build a “timeline” to “tell your story”. My story is my own business but I decided to include a little bit about the time I spent in Southern Lebanon in the early ’80s just for fun. I got there in February of ’83 and stayed until after the New Year. The following is my post in that regard. So what does Facebook do? It says I “moved to Beirut” …
I didn’t actually “move” there, stupid Facebook thinks it knows how to tell people’s stories as though we were all Silicone Valley pogues working in climate controlled offices our whole lives. I was in Southern Lebanon, the Bekaa and Litani river valleys, hangin’ out with the Sayeret Golani and a few Maronite Lebanese. I was a “tourist” … 😉 This was the most memorable, though not necessarily the best, time of my life. “Most memorable” but not “best” because in case you’re not familiar with the date there was a civil war raging in that nation at that time.
Having witnessed a real, no-shit Civil War up close and personal-like, I can emphatically assure everyone that it is not something you want to see happen here in our own country.
Be that as it may, if you don’t like things the way they are here in America you have a clear and well documented means of changing them. It’s called the U.S. Constitution, it has built in methods of changing the foundational law of the land through amendment ratification or Constitutional Convention. If you can’t get things changed to suit you by those means that’s because the rest of us do not want your “improvements”. The Constitution is intentionally designed so that you have to convince most of America that your changes are for the better. If you try to go around that process by any means including legislation from the courts instead of Congress etc. — You are NOT upholding the Constitution and if you’re Military or Ex-Military you are in violation of your Oath. Which, no matter how you cut it, makes you an Oath Breaker.
This nation is NOT a Democracy, it’s a Republic. The purpose of choosing a Republic was to maximize individual liberty. To give every citizen the best opportunity for maximum personal freedom that is possible while still avoiding anarchy. In this manner, the Laws of the Republic stand between the State and the Individual. The majority is often wrong and sometimes even malicious, that is WHY the Founding Fathers shunned the idea of a Democracy and opted for the stability and strength of a Republic. The Founding Fathers well understood “The Tyranny of the Majority” and built our Republic as a bulwark against that and other tyrannies. Tyranny is tyranny and it does not become less so just because 51% of the body politic supports it.
You, whoever you are reading this, should already know these things. You should have learned them in school, beginning with the easier concepts and progressing to a deeper knowledge of the foundations, workings and mechanisms of the United States of America as your academics likewise progressed. If you do not know these things, you have been robbed.
You cannot get your way simply by getting 51% of the voting public to agree with you if your way means illegal activity outside the bounds of the U.S. Constitution. Because action outside the parameters of the Constitution is unlawful and immoral. Remember I said there’s a way to change that law? You have to convince 3/4ths of the States that it needs to be done. That means that what you want done needs to be desirable, immediate and obvious to at least 75% of the component States in the United States. Not 75% of the population, there are nodes of dense population that would then become the tyrants over other areas less densely populated. New York City, Los Angeles etc. must not and will not be allowed to enforce their agenda on Wyoming, Iowa, Alaska, Arizona etc. That would not be fair to the people who live in those and similar places. They do not have to nor should they be compelled to bend their knees to other parts of the nation that have little to nothing in common with their lifestyles and cultures. Forcing that truly is despotic and it doesn’t matter if the despot is one man or 51% of the body politic. Tyranny is tyranny either way.
Which brings us full circle to Lebanon and Civil War. If you want that kind of thing, then the above undermining of the foundational principles of the United States of America and circumvention or complete disregard for our Constitution is how you get it. I have seen a real Civil War and I’m begging you with tears in my eyes not to go there. I’m trying to be a voice for reason but there are fewer and fewer with that mentality every time we hear about rioting and lives being destroyed in violence and flames by agents of the Left. I do not want to see that sort of thing in the United States of America but I promise you as I promised a long time ago as a young man … I will uphold my Oath —
“To protect and defend the Constitution of the United States of America against all enemies, both foreign AND domestic.”
… and I’m far, far from being alone in this matter. You disregard these things at your own gravest peril.
Semper Fidelis is not just a cool Latin motto.
2 replies on “On Civil War and how to avoid it.”
If I were involved in a civil war, it would be because the other side started it by trampling on my rights. I would even first try reason and logic. Only if they started violence first would I resort to violence. And they would have to be violent to try to take my rights. I hope it never occurs, and the left wakes up before it’s too late. Ironic for those who consider themselves ‘ woke” and “tolerant”.
… which is exactly why the Left intends to strip us all of our liberties without firing a shot at you, or me, or anyone else that’s likely to shoot back. They know they have to do it that way.
I’m not at all surprised or dismayed that they’re complete hypocrites about being “woke” and “tolerant”. That’s called a “disinformation psy-op”. Hypocrisy is a shame and a taboo to people like you and me, which is why it makes such a dandy tool for the Left to use against us.
We expect people to alter their behavior when their words are inconsistent with their deeds and it’s pointed out to them. The Left has weaponized words because as George Orwell demonstrated, word control is a form of thought control. This works, we can see the results in plain view. Many of the word definitions that you and I use, the ones found in actual dictionaries, no longer mean what they’re supposed to.
I feel constrained to point out that the Left has already started violence first. That violence will likely spread if Trump is reelected. As people have pointed out elsewhere on BW.com, even if Biden is elected those same people may take that as a signal to continue and expand the violence they’re already engaged in.
Correct me if I’m wrong here and I’m not being intentionally snarky nor mean any disrespect but are you saying that if a way is found to take your liberties and rights away from you (and presumably the rest of us) but no overt violence is committed in the process, that you’ll sit back and let that happen? I don’t mean you’ll go vote, or post here and elsewhere so that you’re not “sitting back and letting it happen”, we’re all doing those things and that might or might not be enough.
I mean if fighting breaks out between the two sides and the neo-Marxist Socialist Left doesn’t actually fire the first shot — which I would argue they already have and it’s prudent and wise to be alert and able to resist that sort of thing if it comes to your front door — that you will allow the Constitution of the United States of America to fall without physical engagement?
I’m not advocating for violence here and I want to be very, very clear about that. I said TWICE above that a Civil War is a very bad thing that you don’t want to see coming to a neighborhood near you. The mess is incredible and heartbreaking. Many good people die in a conflict like that and we need to do all we can to avoid it.
What if it’s unavoidable? That is usually the case with armed conflict. There are two or more parties involved and they each get an equal vote. I sure as heck don’t want war, I’ve been in a war and it’s not something I care to repeat. That’s all fine and dandy for me but it’s not up to me. Or you. If it were then the circumstances that result in armed conflict would never occur.
That’s what I’m saying in the article above. I want to avoid the circumstances where conflict becomes unavoidable. I’m also sounding a warning that if it is unavoidable I won’t take the toppling of my Constitutional Government lying down. For 244 years our Forefathers laid down their lives for the principles of Liberty that Constitutional Government has upheld. I will not betray them or my Oath, that would be bad faith on my part.
Please note that I like my life right now, and as of right now I’m not in any personal danger of violence. I’m not some silly man-child trying to live out the movie in my head with me in the hero’s starring role. I’m quite serious about this looming problem and that’s why I posted the above for discussion.