The end of the republic? Opportunity, not ThunderDome...

There is considerable doom & gloom across the Liberty Movement regarding the imminent ugliness.

I am the guy who can always find opportunity in chaos. 

Here are a few realities one must keep in mind in order to understand why I remain so optimistic about the future of America and of Liberty: Sciences understand that from the quantum to the cosmic, there is a rhythm to all things, that all is cyclical, that expansion and contraction are natural events, and that all things, even those things made by Man, tend to go from some state of order toward a state of lesser order.  (Example: We put great effort into building something like a teacup - we take raw materials and make the china, form it, paint it, and then, one day, that cup will break - an example of Man trying to make his world orderly, and Nature exercising natural cycles to shift from the ordered to the disordered.  We do this in our politics as well.)

If we look at the days surrounding the ratification of the Constitution and BoR as the high water mark for the concept of maximum personal Liberty and Government, and the nearly immediate unwinding of that orderly state as Federalists moved into the Judiciary, as the Judiciary usurped the balance of the Constitution via claiming Judicial Review, and every act since that has taken us away from that ideal few moments when Liberty and Government were able to coexist, if we look at the 200+ years since ratification as the natural cycle of moving from the orderly to the disorderly, we can see opportunities begin to form. 

If we accept my paradigm, that we are rapidly approaching the shattering of the teacup (Constitution and BoR) that was made (ratified) in 1791, then there will be a period of severe chaos (our blogs call it everything from a Ruckus to the Big Ugly to War) - and once that chaos comes to a close, we will attempt to build another teacup.  This one will be improved upon, in an attempt to avoid the mistakes in our last design.  Liberty will have the opportunity to be more secure next time around if we add term limits, or add voting requirements, or add criminal penalties for even proposing another 16th Amendment-type violation of Rightful Liberty.

We have the chance to grow Liberty.

But we must be bold.  We must be willing to do the same hard work as did those who made the first teacup, and we have to have the resolve to make it better, to grow the geographic footprint of Liberty, to push the Tyrants further from us and no longer tolerate their deliberate attempts to destroy our work.

No, I do not share doom and gloom pessimism.  I see the opportunity to make America better, to free more people from tyranny, and to improve upon the best example History has of building a system of governance based on personal Liberty - our DoI, Constitution and BoR.

The Citadel is not some hidey-hole we intend to cut out of the wilderness, in which we will pull the covers over our heads and hope the wolves eat us last.  Quite the contrary - the Citadel is to be a stronghold for the ideals of Jefferson, Franklin, you and me; a place where we can keep these ideals alive as the teacup is shattered, and a place whence Patriots can return to the far corners of America in the Aftermath and grow Liberty - expand Liberty, as is Nature's way.  We are in a period of contraction, and it will be followed by the opportunity for Liberty to expand.

However: If Liberty has the opportunity to expand, so does Tyranny. 

What happens will be up to you and me, and what we decide to do in the world in the Aftermath.

I intend to make it better than it was, to grow Liberty.

We have a LOT of work to do.  Much of that work needs to be done now, from prepping and training, to forming a special nationwide team of III Patriots, to building our voice in the III Congress, and more.

I have to do something to the day I die - might as well fill part of every day trying to grow Rightful Liberty.

There are worse lives to have lived...

Kerodin
III