Cry as the Republic dies – Fabius Maximus website

Summary: As 2019 ends, lets look at the condition of the Republic. Lets cry for its decrepit condition. Then we can dedicate 2020 to reforming it.

It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt. John Philpot Currans Speech On the Right of Election (1790).

Its the holiday season! Americans gather in their homes, whining about irresponsible and incompetent government while watching TV and consuming their favorite drugs. Citizens on the political extremes wander lost in their minds, amidst delusions. Those on the Right fondle their guns, dream of insurrection, and vote straight-line GOP. Those on the Left read esoteric theological and philosophical tracts; they dream of Gaia oppressing the proles so they can rebuild Eden.

But a few citizens act against the regime daring odds no sane man would attempt. Revolutions, even non-violent ones, are not begun by cool considerate men, but by those who live outside the envelope of rationally ordered lives.Revolutions take root when they later attract people of property and calculation.

I remember Glenn Greenwalds analysis of these events in 2012.

Whatever one thinks of WikiLeaks, it is an indisputable fact that the group has never been charged by any government with any crime, let alone convicted of one. Despite that crucial fact, WikiLeaks has been crippled by a staggering array of extra-judicial punishment imposed either directly by the US and allied governments or with their clear acquiescence.

In December 2010, after WikiLeaks began publishing US diplomatic cables, it was hit with cyber-attacks so massivethatthe group was forced to change its web address after the company providing its domain name cut off service. After public demandsandprivate pressurefrom US Senate Homeland Security Chairman Joe Lieberman, Amazon thencut off all hosting services to WikiLeaks. Sophisticated cyber-attacks shortly thereafterforced the group entirely off all US website serviceswhen its California-basedinternet hosting provider, Everydns, terminated service, saying it did so to prevent its other 500,000 customers of being affected by the intense cyber-attacks targeted at WikiLeaks.Meanwhile, Chairman Liebermans public pressure, by design, also led to the destruction of WikiLeaks ability to collect funds from supporters.

Over the past 2 years, then, this group convicted of no crime but engaged in pathbreaking journalism that produced more scoopsthan all other media outlets combined andreceived numerous journalism awards has been effectively prevented from functioning, receiving funds, or even maintaining a presence on US internet servers.

The ominous implications of all this have been never been fully appreciated. Recall that all the way back in 2008, the Pentagon prepared a secret report(ultimately leaked to WikiLeaks) thatdecreed WikiLeaks to be a threat to the US Army and an enemy of the US. That reportplotted tactics that would damage and potentially destroy its ability to function. That is exactly what came to pass. {T}he US government through affirmative steps and/or approving acquiescence to criminal, sophisticated cyber-attacks all but destroyed the ability of an adversarial group, convicted of no crime, to function on the internet.

But what makes all of this even more significant is the vastly disparate treatment of those who launched far less sophisticated and damaging attacks at those corporations which complied with US demands and cut off all funding and other services to WikiLeaks. Acting in the name of Anonymous, a handful of activists targeted those companies with simple denial of service attacks, ones that impeded the operations of those corporate websites for a few hours.

In stark contrast to the far more significant attacks aimed at WikiLeaks, these attacks, designed to protest the treatment of WikiLeaks, spawned a global manhunt by western nations and, ultimately, the arrest of dozens of mostly young alleged hackers, four of whom arenow on trial in London

Every nation has the government it deserves. Dark words said byJoseph de Maistre(lawyer, diplomat, philosopher) in a letter dated 13 August 1811, published inLettres et Opuscules.

Conditions in America have grown much worse since Greenwald wrote that in 2012. See where we are today.

People sneer and laugh at Wikileaks and Anonymous as quixotic, at their foolish and vain efforts. But the government knows better, and devotes great effort to stamp out these sparks. Without wider support for them, our ruling elites will successfully suppress these movements. With our support, these can mature into powerful engines of reform.

The government crushed these rebels. I hope that more rebels will appear. With them lies our only remaining hope for reform. The Republics fate is their fate. What we do now, and during the next few years, will decide its future. Thats the meaning of Democracy. Its survival lies in our hands, as it should be.

Reclaiming the reins of America will require a small revolution. The longer we wait, the larger the revolution needed.

{A} revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. Mao tse-tung in Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan, March 1927.

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