Because there will be violence. We are dealing with evil now in our country and evil will have its way. We've seen the beat downs from SEIU here in St. Louis and elsewhere. These are just the beginning. The forces aligned with the administration have waited for this moment for years and they aren't going to let it slip from their hands.
I've been, for most of my life, of the mindset that force should be met with overwhelming force. If my family or I am threatened then I wouldn't wait to be hit first but would attack with as much power as I could muster to destroy the threat before it harms us. Just like a fist fight; they don't remember how you won, just that you did.
But this fight for the soul of our country and the fate of our people is different. It's not a fistfight, personal and dirty. We're not just trying to come out on top, to survive to fight another day. We are working for something much greater. We are trying to restore our country to the ideals established by our Founders. To do this we must act as our Founders acted; slow to anger and deliberate in our actions. We must make the case, not only to the people of America and the world of today, but to future generations, that we have done all we can to find a peaceful resolution to our circumstances. Because we will be judged by history for the decision we make.
If somehow, by the grace of God, we are able to restore our Republic to what it was intended to be we need future generations to know we fought with honor, that we worked for peace and if we take up our guns that we only took them up after all other options had been exhausted. We must fight on the side of God, looking to him and Him alone for guidance. We have to act humbly and prayerfully or we will be destroyed.
Anyway, you can read Ioannes' comment below and my response below that. I'd be real interested to get the input of others on this subject so please leave your comments.
(Follow up: Ioannes has posted a follow up on his site. Please hop over and read it. Every American needs to, no, absolutely must begin to think about this issue. Much will be asked of us in the coming days. We have to know where we stand and be ready to take the action we deem appropriate. When the time comes for action there won't be time for thinking.)
"I pledge to always place the individual right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness first, and to never initiate force against another.
I cannot pledge never to use force. Hitler could never have been stopped by the type of resistance showed by Ghandi to the British, and the only thing that dissuaded the Soviets was the threat of the use of overwhelming nuclear force on the part of the United States if we were to be attacked.
Evil respects one and only one thing: overwhelming and unremitting force to engulf and conquer it. Pacifism does NOT work. It never has. And it never will. Our freedom will once again require the shedding of blood not by martyrs in the cause of pacifism, but by men willing to be soldiers in the defense of hearth and home. If attacked, then we have to fight NOT because we hate liberalism (though that may be true), BUT because we love our families, our churches and our freedom.
No, I won't sign Glenn Beck's pledge. I won't be a mere martyr. If I have to go to my death because I oppose the onslaught of tyranny, then once attacked (and "they" will attack, rest assured), let me go defending what is most precious and noble: my family (such as it is), my church and my freedom to worship God.
I do pledge however to NEVER EVER bend my knee to the Obamination of Desolation and his demonic legions of putrid liberalism and rancid wicked progressivism from very depths of satan's hell."
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"You go boy!
Look, I agree that the attack will come and in the end we will have to fight, if a nonviolent witness proves ineffective. However, I think the nonviolent witness must be tried first.
My reason is that when the attacks come they will use the media against us. They will try to paint us as the aggressors and themselves as the defenders of all that is good and holy.
If we respond to their violence with violence we will play into their hands. It will be all to easy for a skilled technician to cut and paste defensive fighting and turn it into aggression.
We must show the world that we are the sensible ones, the ones on the side of the angels. It is this peaceful approach that is causing Obama's forces trouble now.
They have tried to paint the Tea Party as a group of wild eyed revolutionaries bent on the destruction of the Republic. Boy have they tried. The full force of the government propaganda machine has been brought to bear, from Saturday Night Live to most of the major newspapers to MSNBC and CNN and even the snide and inane remarks made during sit coms.
And it's not working. Why? Because the Tea Parties haven't given them anything to work with. No arrests, no beatings, no rock throwing; nothing but peaceful assembly to ask the government for redress of our grievances.
This peaceful witness has been our best weapon and it will continue to be because the American people see it for what it is and they see the Progressives and their union thugs for what they are.
At some point the people may have to pick up their guns once again to defend our natural rights. If that time comes, and I pray it doesn't, there will be no turning back and no end until one side or the other emerges the clear victor.
Americans are a peaceful people and a peaceful approach must be our first response. We must try to remain peaceful, even in the face of violence, asking for the protection of God in our times of trouble. We must allow God the time to change hearts. If the time comes that we must take up arms, let God make the decision. By acting in peace we leave it in His hands. We will act as His instruments of justice, not our own."
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