Topic: Inertia

[AmericanPatriot]

We discuss lines in the sand and when people will have enough and stand up for themselves..
Got this email and it makes sense to me

www.sovereignman.com

Date: January 8, 2013
Reporting From: Fundo Los Soberanos, Chile

In 1687, English mathematician and natural philosopher Isaac Newton published a groundbreaking scientific work about the three basic axioms which govern the mechanics of the world around us. Today we call them the Laws of Motion.

Colloquially, the first Law of Motion states that an object at rest (or in motion) will stay at rest (or in motion) unless acted upon by an external force.

In physics, this is known as inertia. It's a physical property that exists in all matter-- rocks, trees, air molecules, etc. will all maintain their current states of being until something else comes along to force a change.

People too, I suppose.

I was thinking about this yesterday evening after a rather disturbing conversation with a friend of mine from the US. He told me a story about how he had recently been walking his dog in a local park. The dog managed to get itself tangled up, so he paused and briefly removed the leash to fix it.

Thankfully, a courageous city worker witnessed this act of criminal terrorism and wrote my friend a citation. The fine is just shy of $100. The kicker is that, if he doesn't pay, animal control will show up to his house and confiscate the dog.

I was floored. Since when did pets become chattels of one's estate... assets on a balance sheet to be seized by the state?

Ironically, my friend and his wife are expecting their first child. I remember thinking to myself 'what makes you think the same thing won't happen with your child one of these days...?'

Of course, we know this happens too. Governments have entire departments of to take children away from their parents, not to mention court systems to devastate families. How strange a system of 'justice' where a man sitting behind a bench can rule in his sole discretion that a father cannot see his daughter...

It doesn't stop there. We've seen cops in full Gestapo gear going after criminal masterminds who choose to drink raw milk... or jailing dastardly villains who collect rainwater. All while those who legislate the system debate the merits of trillion dollar coins.

It really makes me wonder sometimes why people put up with it all. Is it the plethora of vapid shopping malls and cookie cutter chain restaurants? Is it the endless stream of mind-numbing entertainment? Is it all the great deals on car insurance?

No. It's the inertia.

After a lifetime of steady propaganda, the citizen is now like an object at rest... subordinate to the state. And the citizen will remain that way until acted upon by an external force. A change agent. It's easier, normal, and natural to just keep things as they are, no matter how bizarre or risky the future outlook.

The state, meanwhile, is like an object in motion... a deep, downward spiraling motion, representing terminal social and civil decline.

Is there an external force that can change this? You bet. Like Wyle E. Coyote who runs off the edge of the cliff, it's the force of the canyon floor below that will finally stop the downward motion of the state. Anything else is so small, it would be like trying to hold up the Titanic with a pair of toddler swimming pool floaties.

These major themes, like the economic decline of the West, the restructuring of the nation state, and the unraveling of the fiat money system, are the major trends of our day. And they are of historical significance.

The world is changing. Not coming to an end. Changing. But the social, financial, and geopolitical ramifications of these trends are far too great for anyone to ignore. Or to remain at rest.
Until tomorrow,
 

[Pandora]

I do not know what is going to get us all up off our asses and in the streets .... or otherwise.  This latest gun grab might do it -- might not.  We're waiting for the "other side" to make the first move, but they've *been* moving, only slowly and incrementally ... and then we have the voices urging NON-VIOLENCENON-VIOLENCENON-VIOLENCE, so I guess we're just waiting for the paddy wagons.

[IronDioPriest]

"Believe me, dear Sir: there is not in the British empire a man who more cordially loves a union with Great Britain than I do. But, by the God that made me, I will cease to exist before I yield to a connection on such terms as the British Parliament propose; and in this, I think I speak the sentiments of America."
—Thomas Jefferson, November 29, 1775

[IronDioPriest]

"...Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security...."

Inertia, and catalyst.

[benb61]

During the Revolutionary War there were encampments where the Americans that were fed up with the existing ruling government (the Brits) could go and amass.  If I knew that if I walked out my front door, armed and headed to DC, that as I walked my neighbors or other people fed up with this government would join me and walk with me, I would start my walk to DC tomorrow.  The fact that one man can not bring down this abomination of a government is the thing keeping me from doing so.  Where is our Tun Tavern.  How do we enlist or encourage the 49% that have had enough to gather and start this process.

[LadyVirginia]

Lazy.

Sheep.

[Glock32]

Here’s what is particularly insidious about the new tyranny: it maintains a patina of credibility because of so-called elections. They do all these things, and their apologists simply say “Well, they’re just conducting the People’s business. They were elected after all.” Heck, the Communist Party always won elections in the USSR too.

Right now we have the superficial trappings of a once-representative government. Elections are held, but are increasingly meaningless. They are meaningless either because they are the result of fraud, or the bribing of a dependent class, or even because legislative bodies have handed over their own authority to an unelected quasi-4th branch of government known as the regulatory bureaucracy.

The result is the same. We have an out of control government that is absolutely contemptuous of the people it supposedly serves. Presently their apologists in the media, their dependent clients, and even many nominal conservatives, argue that all this treachery is legitimate just because they were supposedly elected to do it.

One of the big things that will have to change is this idea that something is ok as long as "the people" vote for it.

[AlanS]

My problem seems to be I'm too busy being producing.

[Libertas]

...long train of abuses and usurpations...

I guess the train isn't long enough yet, the contrast of what an American was made of at our Founding or even of just 75 years ago compared to today is...stark.

I am not sure if "we" as a people (even 50% of us) will ever "get there"...

It will likely have to fall to a quarter of the population at best that has to act on their "right" their "duty" and throw off the chains of our oppressors and "provide new Guards for our future security" or die trying!