Posts Tagged ‘Second American Civil War’

Wrong Wall

Friday, 26 May 2017

Wrong Wall

Trump: Hardly Worth It

Friday, 26 May 2017

It’s hardly worth getting upset about Trump. MAGA Trump died after 100 days, so whether Rabbi Trump will or won’t run again in 2020 is irrelevant. If by 2018 construction of The Wall isn’t underway with a solid completion date, Trump will be rendered inert by the mid-terms.

It’s hardly worth making anything Trump does the “last straw.” From here on out it’s nothing but last straws. Trump’s “muslim ban” (which isn’t, it’s a temporary ban on a handful of countries) was blocked by another pissant, corrupt court, based not on law but because they just didn’t like it. 

Still, as President, Trump is 100% to blame. What’s the saying? Ask for forgiveness, not permission. Trump should have enacted whatever ban he wanted and let the quisling vermin sort it out. This isn’t even really a bold move since the President already has the power to ban ANYONE from entering the US.

Alien Ban

Waiting for the Supreme Court to weigh in is a pussy move, and anyway the courts are corrupt from the top down. I expect Gorsuch to be another Roberts, that is, a spineless weakling who goes with the flow. One can hardly blame him, no one has his back, certainly not Trump. As with Roberts, I wouldn’t be surprised to learn of evil forces threatening to prune Gorsuch’s entire family tree. Roberts was but one simp standing in the way of obozocare’s trillion-dollar extortion racket; mere drug dealers have murdered grandchildren in front of grandparents for far less.

Our evil government–and it is evil–would happily look the other way while muslim terrorists went after Gorsuch.

Remember, even a wino who dies in the gutter gets an autopsy while Antonin Scalia, esteemed Supreme Court Justice, didn’t.

That’s not suspicious at all, right?

Don Pauly’s essay “Tough Love for Mexico”

Monday, 12 April 2010

Original meatlights post about this essay here.

1 June, 2007

The Mexican Problem

Mexico is a land rich in resources. It has plenty of fertile agricultural land, mineral deposits, warm seacoasts, and huge oil reserves. Instead of developing those resources to provide jobs, Mexico exports its jobless people to work here. Their government cares nothing about the welfare of their citizens. It only cares about the $25 billion that they send home each year. This money is what keeps the Mexican politicians in power and is Mexico’s second largest source of foreign exchange after oil exports. The government also benefits from the tens of billions of dollars of illegal drug profits raked in by Mexican drug cartels.

Mexicans have gotten the idea that they have the right to breed like flies, and that it is our duty to feed and clothe them. Our treasonous politicians have allowed this to happen. For that, they deserve to be dangling from a rope. Mexico has exported a FIFTH OF ITS POPULATION to our country. Of the 100 million left at home, 40 MILLION MORE want to come here, according to a recent survey. Half of the families in Mexico have at least one member illegally living in this country. Instead of our people electing a new government, our government has elected a new people.

There are 25 million Mexicans here in this country, including 5 million anchor babies. This bunch costs our tax payers $89 billion per year. This cost is spread out in welfare, education of their children, crime, incarceration of their criminals, and medical care. Mexicans send over $25 billion per year from their earnings back home, which is lost to our economy. The total economic loss to our country is on the order of $114 billion per year. This does not consider the $80 billion per year that the War on Drugs costs. Mexicans are responsible for the vast majority of all drug trafficking. The millions of their citizens who are illegally here facilitate this drug trade.

In 1941, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, sank five battleships, and killed about 2,300 military personnel. In retaliation, we killed 2 million Japanese and dropped two atomic bombs on Japan. In 2007 dollars, those battleships were probably worth about $1 billion each. In economic terms, assume that the lives were worth $1 million each. This is a total economic loss of $7 billion. Mexican illegal aliens cost this country that much in less than a month. They further kill about 25 of our citizens per day.

These killings are divided into 13 homicides and 12 drunk driving fatalities. Mexicans therefore kill over 9,000 Americans per year. From a casualty standpoint, this is four Pearl Harbors per year. Mexico costs us 16 Pearl Harbors per year economically, and four Pearl Harbors per year in casualties. Mexican illegal alien child molesters victimize an average of the eight American children each day. What is that worth? No wonder our living standard is dropping. It is time for action.

America has 300 million people and does not need any more. Our country is rapidly being destroyed by an occupying army of Mexicans. This army has rendered millions of U.S. citizens jobless and caused overall wages to plummet. Mexico has a real weapon of mass destruction inside this country aided by a fifth column of illegal alien lovers. We can have decent Mexican restaurants in every city over 100,000 with no more than 2000 Mexican chefs. Americans can do the rest of the jobs.

To solve the problem we must address the reasons why Mexicans leave home as well as what attracts them here. They do not want to come to this country. They are forced to flee here to escape the grinding poverty in Mexico. That country has proven itself incapable of self-government. We occupied Mexico City in 1848 and should have never left. We need to give Mexico a little tough love and straighten it out.

If the government there doesn’t like the necessary measures, it is time for some cruise missiles to visit the Mexican parliament. If that fails to get their attention, the next step is invasion and occupation. We can use some of the 5 million anchor babies for cannon fodder who are old enough.
How to Send Them Home

To get the Mexicans out of this country, we must eliminate the conditions that attract them here. The problem must be solved in the following stages:

1. Jail U.S. employers who hire illegal aliens
2. Seal the border with Mexico
3. Stop ALL immigration
4. Abolish all green cards and H1-B visas
5. Deport all non-citizens to their countries of origin.

Jobs in this country are the attractive nuisance that bring Mexican illegal aliens here. A bounty of $1,000 should be paid to anyone who reports an employer of an illegal alien. That employer should receive a minimum prison sentence of two years. Claims by the employer that the illegal alien’s documents appeared genuine will not be accepted. An employer smart enough to make payroll knows whether the potential employee is a U.S. citizen or not. That is the purpose of a job interview. After the first few employers are hauled off in handcuffs in front of video cameras, no illegal alien will be able to find a job anywhere.

The employment of illegal aliens is a vicious circle. When some employers hire them, other employers must do so to stay in business. Jailing all such employers will level the playing field so that no rogue employer will dare hire an illegal alien. While this will increase the prices of some things, the extra money will circulate in our economy instead of being sent to Mexico. This money will stimulate our economy and cause wages to rise more than the additional cost of a few items. When society does not have to subsidize illegal aliens, our taxes will go down and our standard of living will rise.

In 2004, Chris Simcox patrolled with the Tombstone Militia on the Arizona border for illegal aliens. Within days of Bush talking about amnesty, all the Mexicans that he apprehended said that they had come to get their amnesty. A 2,000-mile fence will cost billions of dollars and damage the environment. It is not necessary. A “shoot to kill on sight” policy should be established for illegal border crossers. This should be done without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, national origin, or citizenship status.

Not every illegal border crosser would have to be shot. After the closest Mexican consular officer collects the first carcass, word will spread instantly all over Mexico. Immigration would be halted within days. This is actually quite a humane policy. It would save the lives of the 400 Mexicans who die from thirst each summer while trying to cross the Arizona desert. This would be far more effective than putting out water cans.

Only about 2,000 Border Patrol agents used as snipers would be required, one per mile. No additional agents would need to be hired since four shifts could be organized from existing agents. Huge numbers of agents would become available for reassignment. These extra agents can be used to form dragnets to rid the country of illegal aliens who are deep inside our borders.

The Social Security Administration is the secret to getting rid of most illegal workers in this country. The vast majority of the 20 million Mexicans in this country have fake social security cards. They generally cost them about $100 each. Usually the number on it belongs to an American. The hapless owner of the number will suffer damage to their credit and get in trouble with the IRS over its use by others. A stolen social security number is typically used by about 100 different Mexicans all over the country for their IRS withholding. Billions of dollars of losses are caused by fraud from stolen social security numbers.

When the SSA spots a mismatch between name and number, the employer should be immediately flagged. If the mismatch is from a typo on a single digit they are likely innocent. A gross mismatch on a number should trigger a visit by Immigration and Customs Enforcement to the employer and to the employee using the number. Where a significant percentage of their employees have fake numbers, the employer should be arrested and imprisoned. Only a few arrests of employers and deportations of illegal employees would be necessary. With the possibility of employment gone, Mexicans would flee the country in droves and return home.

We need to revive the Old West tradition of bounty hunters to get the remaining Mexicans out. Many of them are working for cash under the table for cheating employers and will escape the Social Security dragnet. A bounty of $100 should be established for the reporting of any illegal alien. This would be a profitable profession for interested parties. Any peace officer who encounters an illegal alien or doctor who treats one should be required to report them to ICE. Teachers should be also required to report any illegal alien parents that they come across, or their children. Any law enforcement officer, doctor, or teacher who fails to report an illegal alien should be imprisoned for two years.

The next step is to stop all legal immigration. The total number of political refugees must be kept under a hundred per year. As soon as the political conditions which created the need for them to be here are gone, they should be immediately repatriated. We have earthquake refugees from Central America who are still here 10 years later. Rather than bringing the victims of natural disasters here, the aid must be sent to them.

The only non-citizens allowed to work in this country should be those employed at foreign embassies, cooks at specialty restaurants, and as language teachers. Their numbers must be kept to an absolute minimum. Tourists or students should be admitted into this country only if they have return tickets to their home countries. Foreign students attending our universities must leave immediately after graduation.

We do not need ANY foreign workers in this country. Every green card should be revoked and every H1-B visa cancelled. Their former holders should be deported along with their families to their country of origin. This is the proper way to preserve family unification. Children of non-citizens who were born in this country should be deported with their parents.

Every past citizenship application should be gone over with a fine tooth comb. Where an applicant has lied or committed any kind of fraud, their citizenship should be revoked and they should be deported. All deportees should be required to pay the cost of their deportation as well as for any welfare or medical treatment that they have received. If not able to do so, their property should be confiscated and sold for that purpose. The taxpayer should pick up the tab only as a last resort.
How to Keep Them There

Deporting all Mexicans from this country will not keep them from wanting to escape the overcrowding and poverty at home. Solving that problem is just as important as eliminating the environment that attracts them here. NAFTA (No American Factories Taking Applications) was a disaster for rural Mexico. Iowa corn is being sold in Mexico for half what it costs Mexican farmers to grow it. We should not export agricultural products to any countries which are not stabilizing their population. Cheap food exports encourage the Third World to breed like flies.

Most rural Mexican villages are virtually deserted except for the very old and the very young. The farmers have all emigrated to the U.S. to find work. The remaining population are being supported by the money sent home by their relatives in America. Mexico’s problems must be solved in the following stages:

1. Build enough affordable housing
2. Stop all food exports to Mexico
3. Import as much Mexican food as possible
4. Start a DECLINE in the population of Mexico
5. Build a Mexican highway system
6. Develop the Mexican oil fields
7. Develop Mexican mineral resources
8. Provide universal public education
9. Collect reparations

Over 20 million Mexicans live in Mexico City. The air there is the most polluted in the entire world. Tijuana is one vast slum. We need to demolish the slums of the large cities and disperse their populations to the countryside. Development of Mexican highways, oil fields, and mines will provide high paying jobs for many of the 25 million Mexicans who will be deported from this country. Hundreds of thousands of them will have been working in the contruction trades in this country as framers and masons. They can provide the labor to build affordable and plentiful housing. Small towns in Mexico also need modern sewage systems. This will develop rural areas of Mexico for agriculture.

ALL FOOD EXPORTS to Mexico must be stopped. This will allow Mexican farmers to make a living and provide jobs for the ones deported from the U.S. The benefits of stopping immigration far outweigh the harm caused by loss of the export of a small portion of our crops. We should only grow crops in this country that can be highly mechanized; like corn, wheat, soybeans, hay, and cotton.

Labor intensive crops such as lettuce, onions, grapes, and peppers should be grown only in Mexico. This will provide jobs for unskilled Mexicans who can do nothing else. We should import Mexican vegetables not Mexicans. Any labor intensive crops grown in this county should be harvested by chain gangs of immigration lawyers. It will take them many years to work off their sentences.

Mexico has an abundance of rich farm land which can be used to grow labor intensive winter vegetables, but there are problems with sanitation. In 2003, several hundred Americans in Philadelphia got hepatitis from eating Mexican scallions. Several died. The outbreak was traced to the use of human sewage as fertilizer in Mexico. We will have to show Mexican agricultural workers how to use field toilets. Our experts can teach them how to grow crops in a sanitary manner. Our inspectors can verify that they continue to do so. This will allow us to safely import large amounts of food from Mexico.

These are all stop-gap measures unless the population of Mexico is reduced. Their emigration to the U.S. is driven by out of control population growth. Until this is stopped, the problem cannot be solved permanently. A Mexican is born every 45 seconds and one emigrates to America every 30 seconds. A one child per family policy like China’s must be immediately enforced in Mexico. After the birth of her first child, every Mexican woman must be sterilized. While financial inducements are preferred, any necessary force must be used.

We can provide a small army of doctors to help Mexico do the job. The cost of spaying a cat is $100. Surely $400 would be enough for a Mexican in mass production. Assuming 20 million Mexican women are of child bearing age, this would cost $8 billion. At one operation per hour, it will take 10,000 doctors one year to do the job. This is only a few percent of the total number of doctors in this country. Thereafter a trickle of sterilizations would suffice to maintain the one child per family policy. A million Mexicans enter this country illegally each year and each costs society over $8,000 per year. In one year, we could save more than the total cost of sterilization.

There is an old joke among the Mexican Reconquistas:

When Mexico gave up half of its territory to the U.S. , that half was the one with all the paved roads.”.

Roads between many Mexico cities would not pass for a decent cow path. A massive highway building program can provide jobs for several hundred thousand Mexicans. It will make possible the rapid economic development of the country.

Mexico has huge untapped oil reserves which their state oil monopoly Pemex has not properly exploited. Since Mexico nationalized it in 1938, it has been run inefficiently with rampant corruption. We import about three billion barrels of oil from Arab countries each year. Those three billion barrels make about 120 billion gallons of gasoline. This is 400 gallons for every person in this country, or enough to drive 12,000 miles.

It would be far better to get this oil from Mexico rather than Arab countries. If we didn’t need Arab oil, we would have a handy excuse to keep them out of our country. They wouldn’t have money for terrorism if we didn’t buy their oil. Our Middle East policy would be much more flexible as well. Getting the Mexican oil fields in shape would give Jorge Arbusto’s beloved Haliburton something to do. Many high paying jobs would be created for both Americans and Mexicans.

Our southern neighbor has rich platinum, gold, and silver deposits. These riches must be exploited to provide jobs for their population. Tailings from old Spanish silver mines can be worked profitably with modern technology. Worked out mines can be reclaimed for agricultural land. Mexico has thousands of miles of beautiful sea coasts that can be developed for tourism and which will provide many jobs.

Universal public education must be enforced in Mexico. This includes teaching Spanish to Mexican Indians. Mexicans must be educated to do high-tech work rather than just picking lettuce and trimming palm trees. We should train them as doctors, nurses, and engineers. If they are short on lawyers, we can send them a million of ours. At some point, we should be able to establish self government when they become capable of it.

Mexico could become a economic powerhouse instead of a troublesome parasite. Once we get their economy humming, it will be payback time. Reparations should be collected for the past costs of Mexican illegal immigration. Most likely, this would amount to $1 trillion or so. If each of 125 million Mexicans paid reparations of $1,000 per year, the total could be paid back in only eight years. That money could be used to put Americans on Mars.

© 2007

Donald E. Pauly

The author is an electronic engineer with two patents and a commercial pilot with airplane and helicopter ratings. He is Executive Director of a new political party, the Emigration Party of Nevada.

Original meatlights post about this essay here.


Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God

Monday, 22 March 2010

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You’re not dreaming, asshole: America **is** under siege by communist tyrants

Wednesday, 15 April 2009

The current President of the United States is a communist piece of shit, voted in democratically, just like Hitler. He has no self-respect as well as no respect for America; bowing like a subservient coward and slave to a raghead monarch during his recent Bash-America/Asslick Muslims Tour. The only people The One makes a show of strength against are Americans who don’t want to serve Big Daddy Government (Please don’t mention our heroic SEALS sniping a few Somali fuckfaces…if YObama had real balls the sky over that area of ocean would be DARK with Predator drones and the whole Somalian COASTLINE would already look like a crawling catepillar of NAPALM).

A fascist cunt-dyke leads the Department of Homeland Tyranny, releasing groundless statements like this, trying to bait the 50+ million conservatives in this country.

If you voted for the Marxlatto, you should feel stupid.--not forever–but at least once this year you should look in the mirror and say:

“Self, I fucked up real bad voting for this fascist asshole. Dumbo didn’t legalize my weed, he didn’t get me a job, he didn’t fix jack shit, he took all my hope and left me with loose change. I got fucked in the ass like I was on my gay honeymoon in Iowa. I won’t make the same mistake in 2012.”

For those of you who think everything is just fine or getting better—WAKE UP.

The USA won’t remain free under the thumb of a Dumbo-eared Castro wannabe, it will either shrink into a communist hellhole or shrug off these motherfucking tyrants before it’s too late.

If it takes another Civil War, so be it.

SHOULD OBAMA WIN/SHOULD McCAIN WIN

Saturday, 18 October 2008

DISCLAIMER: I’m telling you straight up, I’m voting for John Sydney McCain III and Sarah Louise Heath Palin and this post reflects that POV. If you’re going to vote for Barack Hussein Obama, remember to vote on November 5th. Or be punished with a baby.


REGARDING BOTH MEN: I’m disappointed neither said much about freedom, optimism and America’s unique greatness during this election. I’m extremely disappointed neither man said anything about the Constitution and limiting government power. At least with McCain there’s an inkling of hope in regaining sanity, while Obama thinks, as all liberals must, the Constitution was written on an Etch-A-Sketch and is his to shake away the parts he doesn’t like (or add a RIGHT to everything from free cable to personal bodyguards to stop school bullies).

SHOULD OBAMA WIN it’s tempting to say that America as we know it will pass away. But don’t. There’s plenty to be positive about. We’re not quite there as far as a Second Civil War goes, if only because no one really knows what they’re fighting for or against. Confusion reigns and it’s preferable to anarchy.

SHOULD OBAMA WIN (not by a “landslide”, he’s not the other Hussein) there’s no reason for melodrama or pessimism. Democracy is self-correcting, and Barry’s Ascension might prove a real blessing, galvanizing the Right in a way not seen since ’94, when Congress after 40 years flipped to a Republican majority, keeping Billy Clinton in check, despite his lack of pants.

SHOULD OBAMA WIN how fast people caught in the middle wake up and realize they’ve re-elected Jimmy Carter with a better tan depends on how fast Obama’s economic schemes are unleashed. My guess is he’ll be low-key for “the first 100 daze”, drinking in the worship of the mainstream media, until even they will have quieted, waiting for the show to begin, SHOULD OBAMA WIN.

No matter how hard the media will try to conceal the ensuing flops and failures of what is essentially regurgitated marxism, the matured internets will be there as never before, documenting every misstep. I don’t mind the ignorance or foolhardiness of the American people, as long as it hurts. Stupid should hurt, and when you put your hand on a hot stove it’s your hand that should burn, no one else’s.

SHOULD McCAIN WIN it will be nothing less than a second chance for America. McCain isn’t a maverick so much as a 3-legged dark horse. He’s going to need a complete overhaul, including a visit from the ghost of Reagan. Republicans have been shitting the cot on their core values for so long that the lies of the left aren’t worth addressing, there’s too much to be done. There are bodies stacked to the rafters in the cellar: compromised, sissified Rightards still in office have no time to worry about a dead dog planted on the stoop by the New York Slimes.

SHOULD McCAIN WIN or even if he loses, these second-chance Republicans better get back to principles or they’ll find they have a very short shelf life; when it’s time to act they’ll either be fresh and ready or thrown away. That’s as it should be. Nothing less than their best will be acceptable, and should they keep on doing the same things they’ve been doing, they will deserve their crucifixions. SHOULD OBAMA WIN, true conservatives, already livid, will be trembling among stacks of wooden boards and nail guns.

I really wish the ticket was Palin-McCain. But you can’t have everything.

The most important thing you can take from this enjoyable babble is this: America was founded by people smarter than you and me. They split the government’s power into thirds so that no President could turn into a monarch, nor a mob of shits like Congress into the Central Comittee. We also have 200 million guns, and despite what politically-correct weenies may believe, we don’t run from a fight.



Foreign terrorists now have American Constitutional Rights: more madness from the senile Supremes

Thursday, 12 June 2008

Your Honor, I don’t know spit about lawyerin’, but my understanding of war and the rules of war is, enemy soldiers and combatants have no rights under the American legal system. We demonstrated this by executing German spies and saboteurs during WW2.

As bizarre as it sounds to the uninitiated, wars have rules, even if they’re often ignored.

A few I can think of offhand:

* “You” can’t shoot at enemy paratroopers in the air unless they’re shooting at you.
* You can’t smear fecal matter on a bayonet to cause infection/spread disease.
* You can’t fire on hospital ships.
* You can’t use vehicle-destroying hardware on enemy foot soldiers (Timothy McVeigh allegedly took the head off an Iraqi soldier with a tank shell in Gulf War 1.)
* No use of chemical or biological weapons permitted.
* Lasers may not be used to physically blind enemy troops.

Foreign terrorists (aka Gitmo detainees/suspects) and their organizations are not recognized by any official body or country, therefore not even international rules of engagement apply to them, much less American laws.

Imagine if Syria or Iran said, “Yeah, those guys that tried to attack New York are ours.” At our discretion we would then return these enemy soldiers to the giant glass craters formerly known as Syria and Iran.

The Supreme Court hasn’t been interpreting law so much as writing it, which ain’t their job. They’ve been out of control now for over 50 years. The other two branches, cowards that they are, have accepted this unlawful expansion of Court power because when packed with a few more guys from their side of the aisle, they themselves can get away with more. It’s easy for the other branches to openly hide behind the Supremes, who are apparently incapable of being punished, certainly not by the people.

Supreme Idiocy: just one more chapter in the unfolding history of the Second American Civil War.


Tough Love for Mexico

Sunday, 18 May 2008

The essay Tough Love for Mexico has been updated and deserves a much wider audience (which it can’t get from meatlights, ha ha ha).

The problem with most of author Don Pauly’s plans is they would require an official declaration of war to carry them out. It’s all right with me if the only way to save the USA is to make Mexico want to be a better person at gunpoint but I’m, ahem, in the minority.

Realistically, Pauly’s simple, brilliant designs are unworkable because there are no longer enough patriots in the USA to support it. It’s too late.

The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, heavily endorsed by Ted ‘Swim’ Kennedy, shifted American immigration from educated European nations to third world shitholes, and that was just LEGAL immigration, you know how the rest turned out.

Because of the failure to honor the rule of law, it’s now going to require nothing less than civil war to survive the ongoing Mexican invasion, lawlessness to defeat a greater lawlessness.

“History, it seems, is not without a sense of irony.” — El Morpheus

Empire (2006 novel)

Friday, 7 December 2007

Orson Scott Card’s Empire starts out promising and ends up…a video game. It’s supposed to be part of an upcoming video game franchise, so that might explain it.

Click here to read the reviews.

I’m surprised how many readers didn’t like it at all, especially compared to this nerd author’s other stuff. I’m not too mad or disappointed because it was only 5 bucks at Wal-Mart.

Though Card avoids mentioning Bush by name, you assume that’s whom he’s talking about as Prez. Hell, I’m surprised he mentions Democrats and Republicans and red and blue states (guess he’d have to in order to make it realistic). Card throws some implausible sci-fi in the mix (that’s his genre) which helps his story but robs the story that should’ve been written.

An Afterword where Card sermonizes about how polarized the country is does nothing but irritate, especially since he casts himself as a moderate.

I dislike the terms “moderate” and “extremist” because neither term has been defined well.

In most of America in the 1960s, it was natural and normal to be able to buy firearms through the mail, and nobody would blink twice at the sight of a youngster walking down the road with a hunting rifle. Now, anyone who favors just owning a gun can be accused of being an “extremist”. It’s a term as vague and open-ended as “hate crime” laws.

People who call themselves moderates are worse, they’re frauds (“frauderates”) standing on the sidelines of a game they’ve never bothered to play. You mean you’ve never in your life thought about whether abortion is murder or not? Or how much taxation is too much? (There’s always going to be that 3rd of the population who don’t give a damn either way. Let’s hope they die quickly if they choose the wrong side).
Empire features an Afterword where OSC complains that when political sides are chosen in a civil war, all of the other side is your enemy whether or not they were before. Well, duh. Wasn’t the first Civil War brother against brother, father against son?

A proper book still needs to be written about a Second American Civil War, one from the perspective of Joe and Jane Sixpack, for they, not armies or the media or the feds, will be the final “Deciders” of whether liberty stays or goes.