Tom’s Big Picture

One of the pleasures of this political season is finding myself out-radicalized. I advocate a gradual process of civil disobedience and gradual de-legitimization of the central government, with an eventual goal of freedom through peaceful secession.

Apparently there are a lot of Ron Paul supporters who want to just blow the whole thing to hell. What a pleasant surprise! I didn’t think that sort of thing was a winner, and out of practical political concerns (it being the art of the possible and all that), I advocate only those things I think possible. “Possible”, I’m finding, is a moving target in light of today’s events.

November 5th, today, is Guy Fawkes day, in commemoration of a Catholic partisan who attempted to blow up Parliament several hundred years ago. More recently, it has been associated with a cult around the movie “V for Vendetta”. This movie (which I don’t recommend watching, both for its liberal political bent and sexually deviant content- besides, the best parts of the movie are on the Ron Paul youtube mash-ups) turns Guy Fawkes day into a sort of celebration of rebellious anarchism against an abusive British government of the future.

The protagonist, at the end of the movie, sends a subway train full of explosives under Parliament and does the deed Guy Fawkes attempted to do. This movie was originally scheduled for 11/5/2001 but was too hot after 9/11 and was delayed for a later release.

Ron Paul supporters organized a “money-bomb” for this November 5th, largely inspired by the anti-government anarchist theme of the film. Today, Ron Paul raised a record amount, by far the largest amount ever raised in a single day by ANY Republican candidate, outstripping by hundreds of thousands Mitt Romney’s record of $3.1 million earlier this year. Whereas Romney was supported by fatcats, Paul has over 30,000 supporters who donated an average of $100.

Even if Paul loses the election, I can tell you from political experience that that donor list ensures the survival of his revolution. After all, it was Goldwater’s list that Richard Viguerie exploited to put Ronald Reagan in the White House.

And so I sit and think, reconsidering whether my own “political model” has been much too moderate, not radical enough.

I wonder what the Beltway people in Washington, DC must be thinking, as the largest political donation day in US history commemorates an event whose obvious parallel would be a crater where the Capitol building currently stands- there are 30,000 politically motivated people out there with money who would be most happy to see the whole thing blow up. The largest donor army in political history wants them gone. Not just a change in power, but they want the whole money-stealing fetus-aborting IRS-auditing gun-grabbing Evil Empire out of Washington eliminated.

Oh, that the late Sam Francis could have lived to see this moment: the hope of this country, his Middle American Radicals rising up, at long last, in symbolic revolt to the government.

I remember and reflect on my own initial support for Tancredo, my dismissal of Paul as too radical to win, even though I liked him. I remember my initial reaction to the Guy Fawkes Day appeal: “this is too radical, it will never work.” Wrong.

The American people rallying around him have shown the greater wisdom: for they have seen that the hour is too late for mere reform, for incrementalism. The only solution, our last chance to save the country, is radicalism. Ron Paul, as I’ve said before, doesn’t want to reform it, he wants to take it out back and kill it.

Many of my conservative friends have commented that even if Paul wins, they will kill him. There is too much at stake, and this man is too much of a threat, to allow him to become President.

This Guy Fawkes Day campaign for Ron Paul, and the implicit undercurrent of revolutionary violence it carries, should also serve as a warning to the ruling elite of this country. If we elect this man and you kill him, all bets are off. If we play by the rules and you kill him, we are no longer going to play by the rules. The whole thing will burn.

So remember this 5th of November. You may have witnessed the beginning of the third American revolution.

This expose’ of Huckabee leading Arkansas to become the first state to REDUCE homeschooling freedom (against the national trend of homeschool legalization) might be of interest to some of my readers:

www.ronpaul2008.com/homeschoolers/compared-to-other-candidates/

www.hslda.org/courtreport/v15n3/V15N3AR.asp?PrinterFriendly=True

First Huckabee signs a law helping homeschoolers, then signs a law further restricting them.  Changing one’s mind on critical issues based on which way the political winds are blowing?  Does this remind us of another Arkansas politician?
Consequences of Huckabee’s law:

Arkansas is now one of only 12 states to impose a deadline for beginning home schooling or requiring parents to provide advance notice to public school officials of their decision to do so. Because of this restriction, parents who encounter intolerable conditions at the public school, such as imminent danger to the safety or welfare of their child, will have to wait at least 14 days before withdrawing the child to begin home schooling or else face truancy charges for unexcused absences during the 14-day waiting period. No such restriction exists for parents who decide to immediately remove their children to attend a private or parochial school in Arkansas. This raises serious issues regarding the right of parents to direct the education of their children and equal protection of the law as guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

Another discriminatory provision in H.B. 1724 states that any home schooling student who refuses to participate in the state testing program shall be subject to prosecution for truancy. Public school students refusing to participate in state testing would not be subject to truancy prosecution.

Prior law required parents moving into the state mid-school year to provide a written notice of intent to the local superintendent within 30 days. The new law requires parents to provide a written notice upon moving into a different school district during the school year, even though notice was given in their former district.

If you think Huckabee is the solution to the four frauds they call frontrunners, you could be making a big mistake. Huckabee seems a lot more like that other slimy governor of Arkansas politically than a true conservative, even if (as far as we know) he doesn’t share his personal problems. Seriously, I think I’d rather have the Mormon than this guy. At least you know he’s phony, while Huckabee has this uncanny ability to seem genuine: what did I say about that other Arkansas governor?

Ron Paul, of course, is the obvious choice for homeschoolers, being the only Republican, besides Tancredo, in the race who opposes and voted against No Child Left Behind, Bush’s insane big-government bill proposing “solutions” based on fraudulent test results in Houston public schools.

Bush’s puppet dictator in Pakistan, Musharraf, has declared martial law in that country to squelch opposition to his unpopular policies. Incredibly, he quotes Abraham Lincoln in his defense, long known to many southerners as not “honest Abe” but a thug who destroyed the Constitution:

thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/04/musharraf-and-lincoln-in-their-own-words/

“I would at this time venture to read out an excerpt of President Abraham Lincoln, specially to all my listeners in the United States. As an idealist, Abraham Lincoln had one consuming passion during that time of crisis, and this was to preserve the Union… towards that end, he broke laws, he violated the Constitution, he usurped arbitrary power, he trampled individual liberties. His justification was necessity and explaining his sweeping violation of Constitutional limits he wrote in a letter in 1864, and I quote, ‘My oath to preserve the Constitution imposed on me the duty of preserving by every indispensable means that government, that Nation of which the Constitution was the organic law. Was it possible to lose the Nation and yet preserve the Constitution?’”

How long before an American President once again invokes Lincoln to suspend the Constitution? Do all of you Bush-worshiping people see the danger in too much presidential power? Or do you still think the globalist traitor Bush is “one of us” and therefore it’s okay?

Oh, how much of our current situation could have been avoided if the Beast, the federal murderer of innocents (30 million abortions and counting), had been killed at its birth in 1861…but brave men tried and almost succeeded. We have to respect their foresight now more than ever.