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Guest Post: The Good Guys Are Not Coming To Save Us
Authored by Paul Rosenberg and originally published at Free-Man's Perspective,
A lot of Americans know that the US government is out of control. Anyone who has cared enough to study the US Constitution even a little knows this. Still, very few of these people are taking any significant action, and largely because of one error: They are waiting for “the good guys” to show up and fix things.
Some think that certain groups of politicians will pull it together and fix things, or that one magnificent politician will ride in to fix things. Others think that certain members of the military will step in and slap the politicians back into line. And, I’m sure there are other variations.
There are several problems with this. I’ll start with the small issues:
- It doesn’t happen. A lot of good people have latched on to one grand possibility after another, waiting for a good guy to save the day, and it just doesn’t happen. Thousands of hours of reading, writing and waiting are burned with each new “great light” who comes along with a promise to run the system in the “right” way, and give us liberty and truth. (Or whatever.) Lots of decent folks grab on to one pleasant dream after another, only to end up right back where they started… but poorer in time, energy and finances.
- Hope is a scam. It’s a dream of someday, somehow, getting something for nothing. People who hope do not act – they wait for other people to act. Hope is a tool to neuter a natural opposition: they sit and hope, and never act against you. Even the biblical meaning of hope is something more like expectation (or sometimes waiting) than the modern use of hope.
- Petitioning an abuser for compassion. The “good guys” are considered to be a few people inside the abusive government. But if the good guys were really good, wouldn’t they have dissociated themselves with an abuser some time ago? By pleading for the good guys to rise up, people are asking one sub-group of the abusers to save them from the rest of the abusers. However, they all work for the same operation; they all get paid out of the same offices; according to the same rulebook. And if the good guys are so willing to turn against their employers, why would they have waited until now?
- Movies. We all grew up in the company of movie heroes who rode in at the last minute to save the noble victims. From John Wayne to Star Trek to Bruce Willis, the story line differs little. These are pleasant stories, of course, but cinema is not reality, and hoping for it to become reality is something that we should get over prior to adulthood.
But, as I say, those are the smaller issues. Let’s move on to the serious ones.
The Magic System
A lot of Americans believe that the American “Founders” created a system that automatically fixes itself. They talk about the “balance of powers,” and think that it will always save them from a tyrant. The balanced powers of the US Constitution, however, were trashed within fifteen years and doubly-trashed just a century ago.
In the Constitution, the states balanced the power of the national government (the one now in Washington, DC.) Not only did the states control half of the legislature, but they decided if and how they would implement the edicts of the national government. And that included deciding whether a law was constitutional or not.
This changed in 1803 with the Marbury v. Madison ruling. This ruling – taught as a work of genius in American schools – was a fraud against the US Constitution. In it, the Supreme Court held that they understood the Constitution better than James Madison, the man who wrote it!
But worse than even this, they held – with absolutely no basis – that it was they who would decide what was constitutional or not. The states were tossed aside. Even the sitting President of the United States, Thomas Jefferson, called it “a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy.”
Marbury’s Judicial review (the Supremes ruling on constitutionality) merely involves one branch of the national government providing a check on the other branches of the national government. After Marbury, no one could check the national government.
Washington DC was unleashed with Marbury v. Madison. What made it almighty was the 17th Amendment of 1913, which took the powers of the states and transferred them to Washington, by mandating the popular election of senators.
With senators being elected directly by the populace, the states were cut-out of the equation. In their place, political parties gained massive power, and nearly all power was consolidated in the city of Washington.
And so it is today. Washington is an unfettered beast. The system will NOT fix itself; the mechanisms to do that were lost a long time ago.
The Easy Way Out
Standing up against a beast like Washington DC is scary, to be sure. Understandably, not many people want to do such a thing. But if the beast is abusing you, what other choice do you have? You can certainly avoid or evade the beast, but we all know that the beast hurts people it catches avoiding it, so the risk of doing this isn’t zero either.
So, what’s a person to do? They hate their abuse, but outright disobedience would be scary. Unfortunately, many people have come up with a third option: Get someone else to do it for you.
Lots of writers have done this, for example: Write flamboyantly about the abuses people face and stir them to “rise up against the power.” Fairly seldom does the writer take big risks himself – he just stirs up others to do the scary stuff.
Something very similar happens to basically moral people who don’t want to risk pain and suffering: they imagine good guys riding in to save them.
But, as I say, these are genuinely decent people, and they are willing to take smaller risks to help the good guys: They will spend time and money promoting them, and they will even accept name-calling in many cases. They just don’t want to become full-blown rebels and outcasts.
The result of this is predictable: abuse by the political class. If the politicians show them a viable possibility every election cycle, they’ll keep voting their way forever… and the hero never really has to show up.
The Sad Truth
Let’s just say it:
No one is going to ride in and save you.
If you want things to get better, then YOU will have to make them better. YOU will have to stand up and take the arrows, yourself. Liberty, at this stage of human development, requires risk and pain.
I trust that you will remember the end of Jesus’ famous Sermon on the Mount: That it is not those who call upon his name who will be saved, but only those who DO the things he said.
Likewise in this situation, our only hope of salvation lies in DOING.
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I am a lone wolf.
Find a she-wolf and get 'busy'. ;-) [wolf howl]
Remember TARP. That's as good as the good guys can get when the shit hits the fan.
It ain't that good.
I'm going into meditation. I might come out if someone steps up to the plate, otherwise, good luck you're on your own.
I'm gonna vote for who ever keeps my free money checks from uncle sugar coming to my mail box or EBT card.
Signed (from a warm and white sandy beach):
The 47%,
The Obowel Movement's civilian army, as big as the regular army, and HSA & the 1.6 billion hollow points that the AP says are a hoax, will save us all and herald in a new age of Recovery Summers, Falls, Winters & Springs and then Recovery Summer 5 will begin!
But Bush would have did the same thing, same with MCKane an Romknee woulda' done.....
uh huh, yep
Fantastic article Tyler. Needs to be widely distributed!
Thanks for the red arrows losers. Memo to self: Do more.
It was clearly stated by the President, in both the State of the Union and the recent Boston Cathedral speech. Nothing about liberty, rights, or the Constitution. No. Just 'take care of your neighbor', 'Americans come together to rebuild'.......
Translation: NO ONE IS COMING TO SAVE YOU.
It couldn't be any clearer. But then, I think by now everyone knows that anyway.
(ironic footnote--folks in the ghetto have known for a long time)
Top of the eve to you Sir JiM.
Had to log on just to give you an update on the real situation in the "ghetto." Here is the new National Anthem>:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaOuq0dPRvc
(turn it up-the answer is there)
The Founders weren't all on-board for a childproof or self-fixing Country.
James Madison definitely didn't want a democratic Majority voting away the property and power of the most accomplished. Along with protecting little states from big states, the Senate and therefore becoming the Republic, would be guided by the greater Statesman of the Senate.
Where Madison fucked-up was he thought because these men who represented larger portions of each electorate would be "noble statesmen" who were successful, educated, strong, and good Men.
He was wrong on most of those counts. Add a 60 vote cloture rule and the cost of each Senate seat each election, and you have a real shithole of a co-governing body.
Actions speak louder than words.
As you rightly quote Jefferson: “a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy.”
Defend the 10th Amendment.
I didn't ask for CONgress to wage endless war abroad, and no one I know did.
I didn't ask CONgress to reject capitalism by bailing out failed big banks, thereby privatising profits and socialising losses.
I didn't ask for illiterate slaves from hateful lands to come to the U.S. for the relief of corporatists and CONgress Nazionists, and bring their hateful Islamist bombs here, and billions from U.S. taxpayers to a foreign place Israel, and other illiterate slaves come to the U.S. aided by JP Morgue and CONgress, all scamming innocent Americans:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2315115/Shocking-US-government-l...
I live in an honest genuine community, and when the federal system fails and its lab rats turn on it, we will prosper as we ever did, among our own...far from the maddening crowd, and Crown.
Because we have the wit, the will and the weapons to defend ourselves.
Sorry for your troubles. Your troubles.
I found this on BBC site. Since we talk about 9/11 all the time this should add little to the discussion.
"New York police say what appears to be part of the landing gear of one of jets flown into the World Trade Center on 11 September 2001 has been found.
The 5ft (1.52m) piece of metal, which bears a Boeing label and serial number, was wedged between two New York City buildings, police said."
Alex Jones will soon come out with a theory as to how the FBI secretly carried off the landing gear and placed it between these two buildings. No way could this have happened otherwise.
Photo analysis?
What is the geometric alignment between WTC and the walls? Linear? Parallel?
No scratch marks on walls from falling object.
No burn marks on the metal.
Metal looks like it was cut, not torn in wreckage.
Possible planted false evidence.
what should the individual do? civil disobedience, such as refusing to pay taxes, has consequences, unless it is performed on a large scale, and then simultaneously. violence, if it can even be rationalized, doesn't stand much chance of success
Don't vote for fraud, the Democraps and Repugnants. Stay close to home and community. Speak for the Constitution. Berate the liars in CONgress and big banks. Let the sharks eat each other, as they most certainly are doing.
There is no reason for good honest Americans to die for failed CONgress which is going to be eaten alive by its slaves.
Here are some psyops designed to keep good people from doing something:
Galactic Federation, NESARA, probably a large fraction of the alien/angel/Gaia channelers who came out of the woodwork recently, the White Dragon Society, David Wilcock and Cobra's "inside sources", Republicans vs. Democrats, voting, "think of the children", the many forms of insidious brain rot (mostly media and education), OPPT, Collateral Accounts, most anything you may read about on American Kabuki (AK is honest but gullible), public opinion polls, most churches, shows portraying law enforcement as omnipotent, magic-word UCC opt-outs, and ANY story about fixing the system by means of law.
Not to mention the whole "Mass arrests are coming" meme that one chatter here was proliferating. Now I kow someone else claiming to be "working on the inside" with others in banking and military circles. We are being told by some that people in the system are working to change it for the better.
What-evvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv-er.
And yes, I think it's psyops to stop people from learning, asking questions, and getting involved.
Yeah, poor Drake, his "inside sources" played him like a fiddle. I wasted many hours listening to him because I wanted to believe in peaceful justice. Our very own toomanyfakeconservatives still believes.
A merry heart doeth good like a medicine. Hope deferred maketh the heart sick. Look around you. Got Hope? Merry heart? What are we chasing? Have you caught it yet? When you do what will it do for you? Do we stand for anything as a nation? As a state? As a city? As an indiviual? We live in a sad, sick, morally, finanacially, spiritually decrept and sick nation. When you teach your children that everything is grey and there is no right and wrong, you end up with where we are. We are all guilty. There is no one on a white horse riding to our rescue. There is an ill wind blowing. Light the lamps, and the candles. Don't walk away any more when you can make a difference. Where we go from here will be determined one man and woman and child at a time. Choose your friends wisely. Know your neighbors better. Make choices every day as if your life depends on it. One day you might be right.
Cliche much?
A merry heart doth doeth good, but you have to ask yourself in what times are we living. I do believe the Bible also says that in the end times even the Saints will be worn out. I'm paraphrasing but I'm pretty sure it says that. So if even the Saints will be ground down and their enthusiasm diminished, how can mere ZH posters be expected to keep their spirits up? I have an answer.
Tequila.
The article has a lot of falsehoods.
The Sermon on the Mount took place to a jewish audience before Acts2, before er there was a church. At that point there was a hope that God would bring in his kingdom to Israel. It's about the works of the Law. But since that generation of jews rejected their Messiah, God had to die for mankind, jew and gentile. The gospel of death, burial and resurrection of Messiah is always by grace w/o works thru faith in Him. Call on his Name to be saved and filled with the Spirit. On his worst day the believer's life is better than the unsaved who does ten thousand "works".
Because the believer is born again-- or born twice, he only has to die once (which isn't really death but the body sleeps). The unbeliever must die twice.
But for you worldlings, there is a saviour coming, your very own Christ. He will be an economic, political and religious boy wonder.
Alpha and Omega. It is rather rich for a money changer to call upon christians to save his falling temple, again, at no cost of blood or treasure to his sort.
Nazionists wage endless war, and when their schemes fail, they call upon christians to save them.
Save them from their gold,silver and fiat scam, for example.
the money changer's destiny's quite sure,
for the welfare of the poor they ruefully ignore.
As per JP Morgue, Goldman Sacks, MF Global, Bernie Madoff...all ripping off jews as much as gentiles, and buying CONgress to give billions to the Nazionist cause of endless war, and a foreign country called Israel.
And now they want christians to save them: give them more money, more military, more blood, more treasure. Now, they whine about no Superman.
Is Israel a foreign country? I think it more like Uncle Oivingk.
It's all about Israel.
All of us - Risking life, limb and liberty our homes, futures, life itself - for Israel.
And all they say, save us, don't let us perish, clear the path, put up the blockade, sound sirens and send chills down the spines of people who stand in the way.
Israel needs more security, it will never stops, will never be enough, never will end, ...The yada yada yada Enterprise
Israel rule
The planned overthrow and subsequent declaration of martial law is a massively financed operation with billions of dollars available. The primary impetus for this action is a belief by members of the “dispensationalist” pseudo-Christian heresy that pervades America’s military service academies that the United States should be subservient to the State of Israel.
Over the past three decades, religious extremists have taken over the Air Force Academy, Annapolis and West Point, teaching mandatory classes in obscure religious beliefs, hatred of Islam and stressing obedience to an “Apocalypse Cult” that stresses pre-emptive nuclear war in order to bring on the “end times” and destroy all life on earth.
Some find these beliefs inconsistent with oaths sworn by all members of the military:
“I, _____, having been appointed an officer in the Army of the United States, as indicated above in the grade of _____ do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign or domestic, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservations or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office upon which I am about to enter; So help me God.” (DA Form 71, 1 August 1959, for officers.)”
http://www.presstv.ir link to original articleOaths, so easy to take, so convenient to break, and so it goes…
If you read DaVinci Code and Holy Blood, Holy Grail, etcetera, and Freemasonry Mormon beliefs, the Royalty and Nobility and Elites of Europe, West, are all genealogical descendants of King David, Solomon, and Jesus.
Thus all the genealogical factions fighting over the Royal Inheritance for ruling the World.
"DaVinci Code" Why learn History, when Fantasy is easier. In their learning, our self-proclaimed Nobility ought to have studied their Biology a little harder; especially the part on inter-breeding.
DaVinci Code theme was based upon non-fiction books, although perhaps pseudo-history.
There is often history hidden in fiction, and the Establishment promotes the agenda in fiction, Hollywood.
Freemasonry, Illuminati, Mormons, all have their Fantasy Legends taught to their followers.
Symbolism carries meaning, sometimes secret meaning. "Non-sense" to Outsiders.
"Truth" to Insiders.
Royalty and Nobility have been inter-breeding for more than three thousand years.
Scientific biology is relatively new.
"He will be an economic, political and religious boy wonder."
By golly, sure hope "He" is really spiritually aligned too!
Bless'ed Love in your Sacred Heart.
May it guide each and every one on board...always.
More likely not a boy wonder, but instead a wise old man.
You can't have ordered liberty among slaves. The problem isn't the banks. It isn't the politicians. The problem is the people. THEY have empowered the politicians and the banks.
So we have to rid ourselves of these people.
There are only two ways: in an orderly fashion, or a disorderly one.
To liberate ourselves of these people in an orderly fashion would require giving more power to the government, and why would they want to kill the goose?
The alternative is disorder. The only way to achieve a disorderly reduction in surplus population is more of the status quo.
Obama, 2016!
"You can't have ordered liberty among slaves."
Hello Nim.
Than answer is as it has always been. Education.
Imagine if the LSM told the nation and world what ZH tells the world here every day for just one week. A month. A year. What if the whole agenda was to quickly educate the nation about what is going on, WHO is responsible, and why. Imagine if the real Law Enforcers dealt with the real criminals that are trying to kill us all first. All of them. Assume the corrupted judges are in there with them and new constitutional and fair judges are used to convict them all in fair trials like Nuremberg. Supposedly, there is plenty of prison space available and they can go eat the grog and play with the guillotines they have planned for the American Seditionists.
Imagine if say, someone like Ron Paul and a grand choice of great thinkers put together a new monetary system. Since all the country's debts have now been assigned to those who were responsible for incurring them, the people of the USA can start with a new slate in the reset. Let those who got the people in debt be the ones that pay the lenders back. The majority of the nations people want nothing to do with them babylonians, or their debts.
Imagine all the money that is being spent on the Military Industrial Complex and useless senseless wars for the banksters being spent on America, and her people instead. Imagine all the technology that the oil companies have held back is let loose that eventually provides free energy to everyone world wide. Imagine more usage of organic products to reproduce the oil based ones. Imagine weening off oil consumption by replacing most of it with plenty of other alternatives.
There are plenty of answers. All they have to do is be implemented. Education in the final chapter of America will help people prepare for the beastly marxist-nazi's that are coming to your neighborhoods soon. Of course, we have to dodge the effects of that really big comet coming into the system also. Do ya think all this horizontal stuff is to distract the world from the vertical issues? Would a world war spare humanity from the inevitable earth changes that might shake, rattle, and roll everything like not ever seen in this epoch of time? Hummmm....
##### LEAVE #####
I did, over 3 years ago, and I'm utterly glad I did. True, there's nowhere on this planet that no government claims some right to screw you over, not even antarctica or the open ocean. But there are much better places, including places that are far "out of sight, out of mind" from predator eyes and minds.
First and foremost, do not feed the beast. If you are a producer, or were a producer and still have savings, leave the predator-class and parasite-class to consume each other. Let them starve. And above all, don't support them.
G'luck in your chosen place, honestann. However, there are such places in every land. It's a matter of local knowledge vs Big Brother thieves.
Leave, but from them.
Let's turn our backs on them. I did.
Uruguay and New Zealand seem to be expat hotspots.
If "The Bombs start a'flyin", you could do a lot worse than Outback Australia. Population density about that of Antarctica I note.
Unreliable rainfall, ancient (poor) soil quality, but with some commonsense, determination and a little luck it's liveable.
(The locals are really nice too - not the "City Slicker" types. more your down-to-earth practical type). Somewhere to retire to maybe??
In my travels Aussies were some of the coolest people I met.
No guns. Just sayin'...
And there was no need to disarm themselves .... they didn't have a crime problem .... like Detroit ? The solution to crime .... is more arms .... in the hands of regular people .... anyway !
Do not feed the beast. If you are a producer, or were a producer and still have savings, leave the predator-class and parasite-class to consume each other. Let them starve. And above all, don't support them.
This is the only solution. Let the economy stagnate, let the debt grow, let the free riders fend for themselves. Can you eat electronic digits ?
Buy gold. That helps. Kill the banks and we are staring to restore liberty.
Let's get this shit started. DHS you know where I live and what I believe. Bring it on BITCHEZ!
...disclaimer...I have had 5 too many to drink tonight. Thank GOD for the 1st amendment. Oh that does does not apply anymore? Sorry my bad. Not fuck you NSA DHS FBI BFD TBTF! And for Jammie Diamond and extra big FUCK YOU.
So we still have freedom of speach right?
Apply in triplicate and someone will get back to you.
5 too many? You are pretty coherent for 17 beers.
I like this site more and more every day.
America's downfall is due to an early 19th century landmark SCOTUS decision, Hollywood westerns/action movies, and the 17th amendment? Hahahaha. Oped writers on here are generally kind of creative. I'll give them that much.
Paul Rosenberg:
No one is going to ride in and save you.
Then he quotes Jesus.
Creative, indeed. Yet, those who would disarm us go by the name Feinstein, Bloomberg, Boxer, Schumer, Emanuel, Lautenberg, Giffords, Blumenthal
EDIT: Expecting Jeff Bauman and Sidney Cocoran to come out anti gun in 5, 4, 3, 2....
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2315638/Jeff-Bauman-Hes-dead-Im-...
Insightful article, but I can't help but feel Paul is taking The Easy Way Out.
so does this entirely perclude ralph nader's fictiocios** solution- "only the super-rich can save us now"?
(i can see it now- face-zuckerberg spends less than the cost of a hollywood movie*on an advertizing campaign revealing the reality of the "toilet" in syria releasing chemical trace farts via european mercinaries and pre-concieves world piece ..... you cun't handle the great american novel!)
* the 'cost of a hollywood movie' used to be able to buy you a presidential election circa 1992 or thereabouts.
** You Fucking Sell It Fuckjing Then !!!! i've come back four times in lew of a spell check.... and then ther was that new trip-me out moving advertizing/edit thing-ama-fuck-with-me-jig thing
*** spell.
Is anybody else dying to know where honestann lives?
I ain't skairt, Jeezus is comin to rapture me away any day now. Glory Hallilewya! /s
You mock the Lord .... cleverly and humorously .... but don't give us your guidance ? Hell on earth is a man made thing ! He gave us a paradise .... and free will .... a few pointers on how to live .... the rest is up to us !
No that was more to mock those who claim to follow that Lord, but have forgotten his words and do not do as he said.
Followers in name only...
Sorry, I woke up a little mean today .... and you were the first to cross my path !
Perhaps the best article I've read on ZH yet. Agreed that things are now so bad that it is up to each of us individually to act, and that there is real danger to such action.
That no one is coming to save us (you) is a great theme. That your actions/beliefs will lead you to the land of milk and honey in the afterlife is the same theme fed to the peasants since tyrants began using religion as another tool.
Read the History of Judeo-Christians and Pauline Christianity as co-opted by the Romans.
PRAY as if all depends on God
WORK as if all depends on you!
~ ora et labora ~
Worst case scenario .... they will screw us with false paper market discovery .... discouraging newbies .... they will ravage gold mine investments .... they'll tax us to death .... they'll come for our 401Ks ..... they'll come for our guns .... they'll come for our property and income ..... and when all else fails .... they'll declare our gold enemy of the people .... and put a bounty on us ! What .... they're already doing stuff like that ?
Government by and for the people requires the people themselves to actually govern. This means proactively getting educated about issues so that you can be an informed voter. It means jury duty. Lots of it. Community service and charity work to replace Big Sis. It means organizing with friends and neighbors into a militia for law enforcement and defense. Either the people will *volunteer* or somebody will get paid to fill these needs. If somebody gets paid, they are likely a government employee. The nation got wealthy and then used money to pay for the volunteer services that must remain volunteer for us to remain free. Our free time has only increased with technology. We've filled it with self-interested wasting of time and not spent it on jury duty, militia duty, doing community service, running for office, etc.
Excellent points .... Americans are very generous .... if they are left alone to prosper .... now, they are increasingly busy covering their asses !
Take away the generous charitable tax writeoff and let's see how generous they really are. Americans often care about something intensely for a short period of time and quickly move on. Most also don't give 2 shits about any brown/yellow/black person in the rest of the world either.
"Well Chuck, what's the story?"
"Mr. President, it appears that Sarin gas WAS used in Syria...
Unfortunately, the tracers indicate it was from Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland."
"Aw SHIT."
WMD imported from Iraq .... way back then ? Let them eat yellow cake !
In WWII .... we fought fire with fire .... we defeated the agressors .... with our terrible swift sword .... it worked then .... let's give these terror states .... a lot of their own medicine !
In Mexico .... in the provinces .... there is a saying: "Haz Patria .... mata un Chilango !" (Do a patriotic act .... kill someone from Mexico city !)
The present crowd of elites would rather die than be rescued. And so the good guys know when they are not wanted, and have gone Galt. The only people the good guys are going to rescue are the few good who are left alive in the wreckage.
For a good example of how smart the self-credentialed "smart people" really are, just notice who participated in the Benghazi debacle, and see John Kerry, (who served in Vietnam) flounder as the smartest SOS we have ever had. I wouldn't risk a dime or a fingernail to save that fraud.