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Peace has a price. I can't get on board with statements like "Peace above all." I'm not advocating violence, but theoretically speaking, this sort of language is historically and morally ignorant. - A short thread (in which I use the word fight to of course mean with words):
2/ Our Founding Fathers certainly didn't believe in peace above all. The Declaration of Independence acknowledges that it is easier to keep the peace and take minor abuses. It says:
3/ "...all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed."
4/ But there comes a point at which the price of peace is too high. The Declaration says:
5/ "But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."
6/ Surely, as the Founders signed their names at the bottom of this most patriotic of documents, they knew what was a stake and that's why they ended with:
7/ "And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor."
8/ And what of those things are we preserving by maintaining the "peace" today?
9/ Trump is the first president since Reagan not to start a foreign war. Obama rained down bombs on the middle east like confetti. So peace for us, but let us blow up the rest of the world?
10/ Do we value our republic, our vote, our voice so little that we refuse to rock the boat? Keep the peace! Play nice! What is worth fighting for? What is worth standing up for if not our country?
11/ We are victims of the political strategy the Romans called "bread and circuses." We're kept just comfortable enough to not want to upset the apple cart. For example, $600 so you won't make a fuss when your corrupt government sends millions to foreign nations.
12/ Just enough entertainment. Just enough government support. All to keep you reliant on the govt & just stable enough. To keep your discontent just above the line at which you'd risk something. Just enough victory gin to keep you doing your telescreen exercises each morning.
13/ All the while attempting to saddle your frustrations and focus your anger at someone or something else. Today's MSM is a huge help with this one.
14/ If a stolen election isn't worth the fight, what is? What would the Forefathers think of us. Let's see:
15/ John Adams: You will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make a good use of it.
16/ Patrick Henry: Give me liberty or give me death!
17/ Thomas Jefferson: The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive.
18/ Sam Adams: If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace... Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you...and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.
19/ Jefferson again: A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high duties of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of a higher obligation. …
20/ ... To lose our country by a scrupulous adherence to written law would be to lose the law itself, with life, liberty, property and all those who are enjoying them with us; thus absurdly sacrificing the ends to the means.
21/ Ben Franklin: Those that can give up essential liberty to gain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
22/ I could write 100 more. Like these brave men, I happen to believe some things are worth fighting for. You're welcome to my portion of the bread and my ticket to the circus.
