This week one of two Republican FCC Commissioners leaked the new “Net Neutrality” Commandments that will become policy/law by March. At the same time the FEC is mulling increased regulation of the Internet to prevent “politicking” in that medium.
The new information about the inevitable FCC and FEC rulings is demoralizing, deflating. It seems the deathblow to those few freedoms remaining to us. It is difficult to find hope. Government appropriation of the Internet is the last domino falling.
All this occurs despite the majority of Americans self-identifying as Conservatives or as adherents to core Conservative principles. Despite our superior numbers we Conservatives nonetheless march toward a battle of total annihilation. It seems we are to be undone completely.
We are beyond the tipping point. Liberalism’s relentless brinksmanship and incrementalism, paired with its successful use of the “doubling effect” bring us now to the exponential growth phase of the Leviathan. Every day assaults us with news of more defeats, more freedoms lost. And every defeat is exponential in its effect, each one a hole in the dike portending our obliteration.
It is remarkable we have survived so long. Perhaps this fact alone rekindles hope.
Can one President save us? Not bloody likely. Could a Ronald Reagan save us? Not likely either. It’s almost as if we’re beyond saving, that we’ve finally arrived at the point where neither words nor actions matter (campaigning, voting, etc.), like we’re all ill-fated protagonists in a Greek Tragedy, doomed no matter what we do.
What choices are left to us? Secession? Societal breakdown? Civil War? (But we’re all mixed together, so that’s out). Some humorously suggest granting to Liberal Statists the Dark Blue States conditional upon their pact to leave us alone in our Dark Red States. This won’t happen. What is left for us to do?
Mark Levin recommends Article V action, a Convention of the States for Proposing Amendments. Though hostility to this idea exists (John Birch Society and others), I believe sober reflection finds no other option.
Time, however, is working for the enemy. Article V, and even Amendment Nine and Ten Nullification Actions take time. Yet, our foes marshal larger forces each day, committing more and more atrocities each day. How can we be saved after we are already dead? How can we save our Country after it has already been destroyed?
Perhaps we might prevail even so. Perhaps we’re in one of those situations where the good guys win in the end – at the very end – against enormous odds.
Imagine it is December 22, 1944, and you are Chief of Staff to General Anthony McAuliffe, Commander of the 101st Airborne. The 101st is stranded in Bastogne, a Belgian crossroads suddenly pivotal to the outcome of the larger Battle of the Bulge. Your too few men are already exhausted, freezing, underfed, many wounded, and nearly out of ammunition – and reinforcements are at best days away. You face total annihilation by the German forces surrounding you. They outnumber you five to one.
An aide brings you a communiqué – it is from the German Commander. You deliver it to Gen. McAuliffe. McAuliffe reads the letter out loud.
“The fortune of war is changing. This time the U.S.A. forces in and near Bastogne have been encircled by strong German armored units. There is only one possibility to save the encircled U.S.A. troops from total annihilation: that is the honorable surrender of the encircled town.”
The German Commander demands a response within two hours.
Your boss falls silent, grimaces, begins to smile. He tells you to send the following response to the German Commander:
“NUTS!”
