“A SCORPION and a Frog meet on the bank of a stream and the Scorpion asks the Frog to carry him across on its back. The Frog asks, ‘How do I know you won’t sting me?’ The Scorpion says, ‘Because if I do, I will die too.’ The frog is satisfied, and they set out, but in midstream, the Scorpion stings the Frog. The Frog feels the onset of paralysis and starts to sink, knowing they both will drown, but has just enough time to gasp ‘Why?’ The Scorpion replies: ‘It is my nature…’ ” Aesop’s Fable, The Scorpion and the Frog
“WOLF, meeting with a Lamb astray from the fold, resolved not to lay violent hands on him, but to find some plea to justify to the Lamb the Wolf’s right to eat him. He thus addressed him: ‘Sirrah, last year you grossly insulted me.’ ‘Indeed’, bleated the Lamb in a mournful tone of voice, ‘I was not then born.’ Then said the Wolf, ‘You feed in my pasture.’ ‘No, good sir’, replied the Lamb, ‘I have not yet tasted grass.’ Again said the Wolf, ‘You drink of my well.’ ‘No’, exclaimed the Lamb, ‘I never yet drank water, for as yet my mother’s milk is both food and drink to me.’ Upon which the Wolf seized him and ate him up, saying, ‘Well! I won’t remain supperless, even though you refute every one of my imputations.’ The tyrant will always have a pretext for his tyranny” Aesop’s Fable, The Wolf and the Lamb
“Lee raised a hand. ‘General Pickett, I want you to reform your Division in the rear of this hill.’ Pickett’s eyes lighted as if a sudden pain had shot through him. He started to cry. Lee said again with absolute calm, ‘General, you must look to your Division.’ Pickett said tearfully, voice of a bewildered angry boy. ‘General Lee, I have no Division.’ He pointed back down the hill, jabbing at the blowing smoke, the valley of wrecked men, turned and shuddered, waving, then saying, ‘Sir? What about my men?’ as if even now there was still something Lee could do to fix it. ‘What about my men? Armistead is gone. Kemper is gone. All my colonels are gone. General, every one. Most of my men are gone. Good God, sir, what about my men?” Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels
“Having thus taken each citizen in turn in its powerful grasp and shaped him to its will, government then extends its embrace to include the whole of society. It covers the whole of social life with a network of petty, complicated rules that are both minute and uniform, through which even men of the greatest originality and the most vigorous temperament cannot force their heads above the crowd. It does not break men’s will, but softens, bends and guides it; it seldom enjoins, but often inhibits, action; it does not destroy anything, but prevents much being born; it is not at all tyrannical, but it hinders, restrains, enervates, stifles, and stultifies so much that in the end each nation is no more than a flock of timid and hard-working animals with the government as its shepherd.” Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
Taken together, these extracts, warn lovers of freedom, at this time, to react cautiously to a major defeat in the war against progressive socialism. Greed, stupidity, and an excessive desire for personal wealth on the part of Republicans, when in office, opened up the opportunity for the hard left to gain power. Tyrants listen to reasoned argument only to treat it with open contempt; that is their nature, they can do no less and no more. The progressive socialists currently have the divisions, and freedom lovers do not. Ideas are always trumped by power as the Emperor Napoleon recognized in his contemptuous dismissal of the Vatican: ‘How many divisions has the Pope?’ General James Longstreet was correct and General Robert E. Lee was mistaken. One should never attempt to defeat a significantly superior force by a massed assault against a heavily fortified position.
An out-numbered army in defeat is tempted to engage in open battle on every available occasion. That is the stuff that legends are made of; but it is also the certain Road to Appomattox. Now is the time for freedom lovers to regroup, to rethink their strategies, to engage in a defensive guerrilla warfare, designed to encourage the tyrant to overreach, to over extend his lines of supply, and then to turn and take him down.
Make no mistake, lovers of freedom are now engaged in a Great War, a war that will determine whether the United States can survive as a Land of Liberty. To open up an opportunity for victory, what is now required is not an aggressive General Lee at Gettysburg on July 3, 1863, but a defensive General Kutuzov at Borodino on September 7, 1812. The date for that battle is November 2012, not March 21, 2010, when the forces of freedom are still significantly under-manned and ill-prepared for a decisive engagement.
Tags: Land of Liberty, preparing for November 2012, progressive socialist tyranny
March 24, 2010 at 12:42 pm |
[...] In War: Resolution – In Defeat: Defiance « Charles Rowley's Blog [...]
March 24, 2010 at 4:37 pm |
Be warned, sir.
If your battle is for butts in seats in Washington, you will be defeated once again.
The enemy sits on all sides of the vote – using one enemy to defeat the other enemy guarantees your enemy’s victory and your enemy is again sitting in the offices ready to inflict government violence on all their subjects.
Using tactics of the last, failed, “war” will assure failure once again.
Using columns of men standing in upright alignment will be slaughtered when facing static machine guns.
Using static machine guns in trenches against mobility, armor and dive bombers will surely lead to defeat.
Using mobile armor, and delivery of massive firepower on targets by air power upon on fighters who are a dispersed, decentralized resistance of guerrillas will be a failure.
Using past tactics will not prevail against old enemies.
Freedom needs to assume the paradigm of the 4th Generation fighter.
Gen 4 warriors do not a battle for territory.
It is a battle for legitimacy.
4th Generation warriors attack the legitimacy of the powerful and government and its inability to fulfill its promises of security and safety.
The Gen 4 warrior cannot be defeated in the field, no matter how many causalities inflicted on them or the extent of territory captured.
They are not defending dirt, so losing dirt causes them no loss. They are not defending people, so losing people causes them no loss.
They are assaulting legitimacy – and every battle, they win if their enemy destroys innocent lives or property. Their enemy inflicts wounds on themselves – how can one claim to protect lives and property when it is that entity that is destroying and killing?
The powerful can only defeat the Gen 4 warriors by offering the Gen 4 access to government.
Since government is centralized violence, opening up government centralizes the warriors. This creates a solid, defined center that can be attacked by traditional means and defeated.
Gen 4 warriors need to tread carefully when offered the trappings of centralized force. It is how the government defeated the Apache, it is how the government defeated Hamas and the PLO, it is how the government will defeat the Taliban and Hezbollah.
In this paradigm, Freedom fighters must leave behind -forever- the belief that seizing government power will empower freedom for themselves.
The battle for territory – butts in the Big Chair – the ‘enemy’ is far more skilled at emotional rhetoric than all the bumbling and mumbled voices of freedom.
Men will always be memorized by the lies and the promises of effortless seizure of wealth, and shy from the truth of hard work and need for perseverance for self-fulfillment. History has shown that power in the hands of those willing to lie and those willing to listen to lies will overwhelm those that hold to truth.
So, Freedom cannot battle in the halls of evil – it can never win the government.
Thus, it must abandon government. More so, it must assault government and its illusions and destroy its legitimacy. The fall of government power will also destroy the structures built around it; and all of it is built on lies.
The tactics must be 4th Generational – attack the legitimacy of government force and violence and avoid at all costs the mirage of taking government force for its own use. We must think Tolkien’s “Lord of the Rings” – all those that wish to seize its power to do good and free men will only, in the end, add to its evil and its tyranny and enslave men.
“No man, regardless of the badge or hat he wears, has a right to inflict violence on non-violent men.”
This one mantra will sweep away the core foundation of all government.
Then, freedom has a fighting chance.
March 24, 2010 at 9:46 pm |
[...] http://charlesrowley.wordpress.com/2010/03/24/in-war-resolution-in-defeat-defiance/I, however, do not think the tactic of “taking” government is correct. [...]