For two decades since the beginning of talkradio and the blogosphere, audiences and readerships have exploded in receiving the liberty message. There is an eagerness to learn more about our freedom and how it exists in 2009. .. Whether it exists in 2009.
Whole websites have emerged – thousands and thousands of political sites – with patriotic content of all topics. For thousands if not millions, there is a fabulous resonance with this kind of optimistic content of hope for a much greater independence from our own servants. But one of the greatest problems of such broadcasting has been that they have been preaching to the choir. A more mainstream movement is needed. It’s time to send the choir out to sing about independence from our servants.
Where there has been division in even the most patriotic audiences is between gun owners and the rest of America, including officials and non-gun owner citizens. Gunnies believe in a rather simple philosophy of Independence, and believe that insisting on independence is essential to the interests of the nation. This has been received as extremist, but Lady Liberty is partisan, and for a reason. Many audiences have labeled this concept mildly as self-reliance and agree with it in theory, but the follow-through has been lacking. Where many have followed through in their lifestyle and values system, they are often castigated as isolationist, extremist, survivalist, jingoistic and worse, especially the liberty writers. Further dividing Americans was that many millions of non-gun owners do not know that police have no duty to protect them, and in general, that government cannot protect as well as it insists it can. It is this perception of liberty herself that is destroying our freedoms.
For a long time, anti-gun activists, anti-violence activists, and many officials had been dividing Americans from their gun-owner / liberty loving fellow citizens by their funding, their gun control rhetoric, defiance of court rulings against them, gun confiscations and intimidations, and tons of subtle programming and entertainment motifs. It’s all been made to sound so reasonable.
But something happened in 2008 that changed the entire complexion of government competence and so-called sensible in America, and merged the non-gun owners’ perceptions with those of gun owners by the tens of millions. Tens of millions came to realize this truth that we do not in fact desire to be isolated, but are already alone and on our own in 2008. Some are still in shock over a sense of abandonment and betrayal by our institutions and our officials both. What a mess. These scandals are not a desire to be isolated, they are failures of sworn duty to us, and there is no excuse. In other cases, it reveals rather bluntly that we never should depend on government for all things. Only things we delegate, and too many officials have delegated things to themselves.
It appears that the Independence Nuts, the Health Nuts, the Constitution Nuts, the Gun Nuts, the Gold and Silver Nuts, the oath-of-office Nuts, the Preparedness Nuts were right in their warnings which they posted on the web. (And for which they were castigated as Nuts to begin with!) Today, in 2009, more and more Americans have something in common with the 80 million gun owners in America, and these writers aren’t so nuts after all. They’re all wild about Liberty, and I affectionately refer to them in the aggregate as the Liberty Nuts.
This merger of the so-called gun culture and non-gun owner Americans becomes a more homogeneous liberty culture. This is not because gun owners are blindly for liberty, it is because more pro-liberty Americans are more likely to become gun owners as part of a good breakfast and the total paradigm of personal safety and our unique personal responsibility for it. It’s a refreshing and empowering of general preparedness and independence from our servants; put another way, it is what America is all about. Dependency on government is a purely European concept. The realization is that servants who want us to depend on them are undependable, and the cost of their politically freezing citizens out of such policy formation (as in gun bans) is no longer good for the country, only good for politicians. What has been proven on gun owners is now getting around to all Americans.
It is from our dedicated liberty nuts that new thought leaders will emerge, liberty thought leaders. Writers, speakers, posters and authors who understand more about sovereignty and independence than most experts and their exceptions and conflicting information.
The key from these new thought leaders isn’t to harp on self-reliance as a goal – that’s too vague and too passive. What’s needed is the pro-active construct of actually seeking and obtaining greater independence from our servants – to be free by law from the mandates imposed in hundreds of silly programs of dependency or-else politics.
Many of these programs are built on a Gun Control Model of fighting crime and violence, of national security even. Anti-violence programs based on what is learned from the tolerance and acceptance of gun control infiltrate now every institution, with the spin of alleging hate or violence within. No-fault divorce, parenting, education content, and a National ID Card are only a few examples.
The key to reversing these by the dozens is to repeal all gun laws first. The armed citizen impeaches dozens of anti-violence policies as entirely unneeded. Where the citizen is supreme authority, because police have no duty to protect individuals, because experts agree that the target is their own first line of defense for self and for community, and where it is quite clear how many programs have become boondoggles hiding these truths, the repeal of all gun laws can unwind many seemingly unrelated policies on their face and begin the return to independence from servants who insist on our dependency on them for everything.
These new liberty thought leaders might point out a whole new paradigm with no more preaching to the choir, but all now singing on the same page of citizen as supreme authority under our system. And invoking it.
Preaching to the choir yields an army of voices to sing the liberty message to others looking for sanctuary of independence. Media pundits can’t do it alone; thousands more speakers, writers, and liberty nuts are needed. Go to LibertyNut.com
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