Michael LeMieux publishes a blog called News with Views. Yesterday, he published a letter from an 80-year-old lady who had immigrated from Europe as a child; and like many who came over in those days, she was relieved and very proud of her adopted homeland. However, she has a long memory -- and sees that the trend toward tyranny occurring in the United States today is horrifyingly similar to what her parents saw (and communicated to her) in Europe of the 1930s. The letter is beautifully written and a clear warning to all of us.
Mr. LeMieux then follows with four options that Americans can take to deal with the crisis:
(1) Do nothing, which he describes as desirable only for those who want to be enslaved.
(2) Work within the system. Mr. LeMieux's comments on that option are worth reproducing here: (I have broken up some long paragraphs)
In an ideal world this may work however in reality the system is broke and in its current condition is designed to withstand such a contrivance from succeeding. Power and the ability to effect change in Washington resides in the hands of the upper leadership. Any new representative (Senate or House) that arrives in Washington will be vetted by those in power. If the representative is deemed a threat to the “system” that individual will not be given any position that will allow them to upset the status quo.
If the new representative is deemed a “player,” someone they can work with and mold, then they will be put into the right committees and mentored by the elite. There are those that argue that at times like this (election years) we have the opportunity to replace massive amounts of the Washington elite in a single election. This is true and you also have the chance to become a millionaire on the poker tables of Las Vegas, but what are the odds? Those in power have in their favor incumbency, party backing, money, corporate sponsorship, main stream media, and a flock of zombies that pull the lever at every election based on a D or an R.
Compound this with politicians like Senator Elect Brown from MA who ran on a platform of anti-healthcare and the day after winning the election stated that some of the healthcare bill was good and that he was not going to be the 41st vote against healthcare. We can NEVER be truly assured of who and how strong the people we send to Washington will be until they are there and then it too late.
(3) Nullification. One or two of Mr. LeMieux's suggestions seem a bit too extreme to me; others support concepts that I have preached in the last few months. He especially likes the approach of placing personal federal income tax funds in escrow, which is part of The Ohio Republic's legislative program.
(4) Rebellion. He acknowledges that considerable amounts of what I will rephrase as "raw courage" will be required to execute either of the last two options -- but he stresses that they are the only options left for those who desire liberty. Mr. LeMieux makes no reference at all to peaceful secession, as The Ohio Republic and others have advocated as a last resort. From his context, I suspect that he thinks peaceful secession is an impossibility. His failure to address secession as a possibility was my only disappointment with an otherwise excellent article.
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