To recap: government will do what “it” wants to and let’s all figure it out later. This may be why they are so afraid of people who choose to exercise their second-amendment rights. Often there is no opportunity for the criminal to “sort it out” after the fact. It requires them to obey the law in the first place, and this is not part of the current modus operandi of our officials.

And please don’t send my name to the White House for exercising my 1A rights either.

Yes, some of us will fight over our loss of free speech but how many of us will totally lose it when we can’t get to our money? All it would take is one hint of
- a right-wing conspiracy to raise funds for a revolution
- terror funding (domestic or otherwise)
- market crash
- hyper-inflation
- any type of “bank run”

Without online networks, can you imagine how you will get access to your accounts? How long will it take for a bank to verify balances/checks/transfers? Sounds like a real crisis to take advantage of, no?

I find this aspect much more frightening than not being able to read RedState everyday. Because even on those days when I don’t have time to peruse the blogosphere for news, I can rightly assume Obama is absconding with more of our rights, Congress is stealing our money and the dictators of the world are plotting against us.

Here is the article written by Kit Lange: (thanks again Kit)

Subject: What to expect with our new president?

Now that America has shown us all that affirmative action even works in politics, I’ve compiled a list of things that you can probably expect to happen. These predictions are 80% gleaned from information all of us have access to, and 15% gut instinct based on many years of research, historical study, and being glued to current affairs. The other 5% is just anger at my countrymen’s stupidity–I admit it.

-Websites and mass emails offering “free grants,” courtesy of the government and “Obama’s wealth redistribution.” Actually, this one’s a freebie, because I have an email with a date and timestamp of literally minutes after Obama was declared the winner, offering exactly that.

- Israel will understand this election was the end of any type of assistance, military or otherwise, from the U.S., and will stop holding back their defense at the request of the American administration. Look for a first strike on Iran soon, as well as increased activity by the Israeli military in general. Israel is on her own now, and God help us all because of it.

- Look for Iranian retaliation–against American targets. That goes doubly for other terrorist organizations. We just elected a man with the full endorsement of every major terrorist group in the world as leader of the free world. It’s the political equivalent of hiring a child molester to babysit your kids while you leave for the weekend. Not only is HE going to have fun with your child, but he’ll probably sit and watch while his friends come over and do it too.

- Look for far-left justices appointed to the Supreme Court, effectively tying up the entire government in a trifecta of liberal humanism, the buzzwords of which remain empty platitudes like “hope and change,” and the ultimate goal of which is socialism–and soon, sharia law.

- Military cases of troops being tried and convicted for killing the enemy in combat will continue to rise–and the conviction/plea-bargain rate will stay at nearly 100%, as the government seeks to use the best men and women this country has to offer as sacrificial lambs on the altar of global appeasement. Those brave and honorable men who currently reside in prison cells across the country, stripped of their rank, their careers, families, and their good name, will not taste free air again for many years. Their sacrifices and their stories will be forgotten by the general public, remembered only by those of us who continue to fight for them.

- Look for the slow but steady erosion of rights you have enjoyed for your entire lives–all the while being told it’s “for your own good.” Restrictions on gun ownership, home schooling, encouraged dependence on the ever-growing federal government. More nanny-state provisions will be put into place to protect the “disadvantaged” and the “poor,” (read: lazy, uneducated, unwilling to better themselves) even while groups like the unborn, the mentally handicapped, elderly, and terminally ill are slowly pushed toward euthanasia. Of course, this will be done with feel-good phrases like “death with dignity,” “not wanting to be a burden,” and “merciful release from suffering,” all of which ignore the basic fact that we are killing people without their consent for the “good of the people.” Before you tell me I’m crazy, let’s just remember that Barack Obama was the ONLY senator in the Illinois state senate to vote against providing medical care for babies who were inconsiderate enough to survive an abortion. Also, look for taxes to go up. Yes, they’ll go up.

- You think the economy is bad now? Just wait. You’ll have the most expensive “free” health care ever. Bread lines aren’t just for Russians anymore.

We have traded experience for color, freedom for slavery–and the irony is that the average American sheeple thinks their vote somehow righted an ancient wrong, somehow ENDED the spectre of slavery and ushered in some beautiful era of liberty. In reality, we are about to be less free than you ever thought possible.

I watched the faces of those crowded into the mob (excuse the pun) in Chicago. They stared at Obama like he was a god, an idol, a panacea to their every want and need. We have truly failed as a nation if we are at the point where we feel we must look to one man to take care of us all, to be our father figure and our sugar daddy. We have lost not only the “can-do” attitude of past generations, but the “MUST-do” attitude of our forefathers. We have allowed ourselves to become reduced from Patrick Henry’s proud cry of “liberty or death” to the sniveling, whining idea that we are owed something. We have gone from being the honorable defenders of freedom, to being told we are the problem.

The eyes of Obama and McCain were also telling. McCain acted with class and grace in his concession speech, offering the most honorable response I’ve seen yet. I don’t agree with all of McCain’s positions, but it cannot be denied that the man has served his nation–at permanent and severe detriment to himself–for half a century. His eyes were clear and sincere, honest. His speech underlined the very reasons why, of the two men offered, he was hands down the best choice.

On the other hand, Obama’s eyes were cold, calculating. His manner was smug and still carried the arrogance he has always had. His facial expression was one of barely disguised disdain for everything people like me believe in. His body language was smooth, polished–too much so. He talked of patriotism as though it is a value he is familiar with–and yet, his horrifying attitude toward the country he now leads is as well-documented as his friendships with those who seek its demise. He is charismatic to those who don’t know what to look for, and he is inspiring to those who cannot or will not think for themselves. However, too many who voted for him are guilty of the most dangerous kind of hypocrisy. You see, we are told daily that we must not see color, just mankind. (We are all family, you know–or so we’re told.) And yet Barack Obama was handed the White House on a silver platter by a fawning media, a bevy of foreign donors (who, to this day and in violation of U.S. election laws, remain nameless and unaccounted for), and a populace who voted based on color instead of right and wrong–even in the face of the most damning evidence against a Presidential candidate in many years, perhaps ever.

It is said that the people receive the government they deserve. Sadly, I fear that’s correct. We have become complacent, unwilling to see the writing on the wall, content to frolic in the warm water without bothering to notice that it’s been getting hotter by the minute. We are two seconds from a rolling boil–and perhaps it is already too late.

So, liberals, enjoy your victory. Jump around. Have a party, file for your free grants. Scream “Gimme my handout!” and make fun of those of us who fought to make sure your “messiah” didn’t get access to the most powerful position in the world. Just remember when it all comes crashing down: You own the White House, the Congress, and soon the Supreme Court. You have no one to blame but yourselves for the mess you just created.

Civil war is now in the very near future, don’t get on the train.
As for me, I’m buying my handguns this week so I have an answer for those who will come try to take them.

Kit

Coming from what was a Southern Democrat this was pretty amazing, and the right thing to do. I’ve always admired Truman for standing up to the Southern wing of his party on race issues in the late 40′s and early 50′s.

And if you’re going to blame him for the Berlin blockade, you have to credit him with the Berlin Airlift which broke the blockade.

I have to think the Cold War’s a little harder if we can’t have troops deep in the DDR.

At least the Conservative movement has leaders and is a repository for the principles our Founding Fathers stood for. Those that seek to destroy us will find that it is not the easy job they thought it would be. We have been free too long to just give it up.

They cannot silence our voices, nor our words.

a) Standardization of the IPv6 protocol such that advanced routing could be attained.

b) Implementation of a tiered network level where sites (banks, electric companies, etc.) deemed as priority national security targets would then be hosted such that routers could be modified on the fly to deny packet traffic from threat origination.

c) Implementation of a tiered network level hosting sites that contain personally identifiable information subject to Payment Card Industry (PCI) standards such that routers could be modified on the fly to deny packet traffic from threat origination.

d) Implementation of a tiered network level hosting commercial and non commercial sites that do not contain personally identifiable information

This is the beginning phase out of “net neutrality”. There will be Quality Of Service (QOS) issues along with possible byte metering. Don’t worry though, this can’t even begin to happen until 10 years from now. Government isn’t smart enough and “old” internet technology is too entrenched.

With President Fascist-Jihadi and his merry band of unelected and unaccountable Communistas, there’s no telling what they’ll do, even without getting legislation through Congress.

BTW, Socrates, I’m stealing your lines for my e-mail sig….. fantastic quote in there.

Cheers !

By which I mean, the pen and the sword are two sides of a coin. The loss of either means the loss of both, and to save the use of one we may need to use the other.

I do not trust this man. This must not stand.