(Garry Larsen)
There was a popular book on management (still in print) by Curt Coffman, title First, Break All the Rules, which went on to show how the most successful managers pulled that off.
Margaret Thatcher, who died earlier this week, proved that in England. When she became prime minister she simply threw the old Tory playbooks away. Probably the greatest tribute that can be paid to her has been the few thousands “celebrants” who have been able to celebrate that the mean old witch is finally dead. Imagine, as long as she lived, these were pitiful, tormented, screeching, pulling hair-out-of-their-heads alienists. Short of mercilessly shooting them, I can think of no greater punishment than to make people like that go to bed each night knowing their most hated enemy still breathes. Wow. Since we all die, that’s what I call a Gotcha. Game-set-match for Lady Thatcher.
First, a Note a About Guns
12 months ago Australia ordered gun owners to hand over several classes of weapons to be destroyed by the government. Only two weeks ago the Australian government, expecting a $15 billion shortfall for May, has seized inactive savings accounts around the country. Not Greece. Not Cyprus. Australia.
That was just for one month. What the government will do in June, July, etc, I can’t say. Just understand, there’s little an unarmed citizenry can do about it, no matter what. For twelve months now the state has had new avenues of taking money opened up to them, simply because the realization has dawned on them the people can’t do one thing about it.
Law: As socialist-style governments become more and more pinched for revenues, they still have to feed the bureaucracy they’ve created. So they have to begin to believe what Marx always believed, that the taxpayer class is a drone class, whose only purpose on earth is to feed the state class.
The point is, the Australian people have been misinformed if they think they can suddenly get angry and vote the government out of power and replace it. Not anymore.
Once the guns are gone the government no longer has to let voters decide. Elections will become a mere formality.
Breaking all the Rules, Swimming Upstream
I was talking with some retired business men who see the current happenings in America just as I do. As we all do. They agree that things are going to get worse. Much worse. A total breakdowns in the currency, banking. Civil liberties. They make Glenn Beck sound like a centrist. Still, when I ask, Whatcha going do then? they just shrug their shoulders.
No one really wants to look ahead that far. Almost everyone seems to be waiting, as most of you are, for someone to come along and reverse things, or, in the far more likely instance, wait for the S**t to hit the fan, then duck behind a door.
We may still have jobs, cars, television, phone connectivity, a full refrigerator, but the certainty of those nice things will no longer be there. And most also agree that in some way or another, America will have returned to the primitive, where the only things that matter are survival, family and clan. No one really wants to think about the “what next’s”. When people start thinking in terms of family and survival, everyone agrees, I think, love of country” eases out the back door. It’s every man for himself.
America will go native.
No one wants to think of these things, yet no one really wants to do what needs to be done to prevent them. A thousand reasons, I’m sure.
From Congress, to business people, low information voters, news junkies, wonks, all we’re doing is swimming with the current, going wherever the swift water takes us. Waiting for wherever it takes us to. Wherever it goes, over a waterfall, down a drain, into an abyss, we’ll cross that bridge when we get to. But not one minute more.
Even if there is no bridge.
Mark Twain, as he was nearing 70, was advised to give up smoking, whiskey and mince pie. He said, “If I can’t get to 70 by a road of my own choice….I won’t go.”
So don’t go, turn around. Swim upstream. Leave the party.
At the very least, don’t go. If the government says do this, either 1) don’t do this, or 2) do that.
It isn”t hard. You don’t have to lead. Just pull out of the herd. Then you”l see others out there, just like you, who have decided to swim upstream. Since none of you can just tread water in a fast current, you have to go one way or the other.
Trust me, back upstream toward fair havens is best. Take the road with the harder work, even if all you have to do is refuse.
If you want politicians to step outside the template the Left has designed for them in Congress, you must first be willing to do the same thing at home. They’ll see it, I promise. And they’ll recognize it.
Just don’t go where you’re told.
Guns, Part II
America is the last place on earth where guns are legal. And with us, it has always been that way. Even if you don’t like them, get one. Hide it away, tell no one about it. And read up about its proper care and maintenance. And if you can find ammo, take as many rounds as you need to learn to hit a target at 10 paces. Anywhere, leg, abdomen, head, just put the target down. Then store the rest away with the gun. You’ll never need that many rounds with the work you may someday have to do with it.
Just know that the end of the Second Amendment in America is the end of liberty for the entire world, not just America. We are the last stand for humanity.
Sorry to put that charge on your shoulders, but yes, we all know how it ends for the statists in any case. But if they can get in total control in America it could be a thousand years (see the Dark Ages) and not just a generation to right the ship. As long as America is armed, humanity has hope.
So while you can still swim upstream, visit our guides to swimming upstream with a rolled up newspaper in your teeth instead of an old Walther PPK in you hand. We can still do this.
