Free Market Rebellion Dispatch # 1


Chuck Norris misses the point but helps stir things up anyway
There are people I track.

Oh, nothing illegal. It's all done using publicly available information. Just as there are some people who I think have the right idea, there are others who I do not trust. I like to know which public figures are likely to speak and what they have supported in the past. A few years back, Chuck Norris and his wife started pushing for prayer in public schools. They're entitled to their opinion, but they aren't entitled to do anything about it. So he earned a spot on my Watch List.

Actually there shouldn't be public schools, but that is another entry.

So on Friday, I started laying the groundwork to explain the Free Market Rebellion and why I think it's different from what has passed before.

Trust Chuck Norris to complicate things.

Armed rebellion is an incredibly dangerous thing. Given American history (Whiskey Rebellion, American Civil War, Bonus Army) I give Norris's plan about a seven percent chance of success, assuming that a majority of Texans agree and the public reaction of Oklahoma and Arkansas.

More to the point, armed rebellion will just get people killed.

Norris is missing the point though. Short of armed rebellion, he would be happy with getting the "right" guy in the White House.

It's the top down solution, and it's destined to failure.

Instead we should go with distributed networks.

In a top down hierarchy, orders and instructions flow from the top.

A distributed network is fault tolerant, self-correcting, and adaptable.

And there isn't one leader or one group of leaders that can be taken out.

Look at what's happening now. We have Norris of course.

We have Rush Limbaugh chortling at all the publicity that the Obama administration has handed him, not to mention the chance to give "his" message.

We have Rick Santelli.

We have the tea party protests. The really interesting thing here is that unlike some of the liberal protests over the last couple of decades, the people in this protests won't be satisfied with good intentions.

And there is rumbling Obama buyer's remorse.

These are just some of the things I have been tracking since the election.

Add Obama's penchant to say the "feel good" phrases while expanding the state and diminishing freedom, and that nasty little habit he has of adopting the Bush policies and changing the names.

Make no mistake here.

The problem is not Obama, the Grand and Glorious Imperious Leader.

It's government.

It's not enough to get Obama out of office.

Government has to fail. There is no other way to get freedom and liberty back.

Armed confrontations will just give the government the excuse to suppress it's critics. And a frightened populace will support that.

We can't give the FedGovs a legitimate target to focus on. That is why the information flow is so vital. If one node is crushed mercilessly, three others will pass the word and four new ones will sprout forth.

Meanwhile, taxes are already drying up. Which means that there won't be money to pay the various FedGov agents.

And the Stainless Steel Rat bit is taking root. People are burrowing out from inside the system itself.

It's a rebellion that the Federal government is ill-equipped to confront.

It's built on choice and individual liberty.

KYFHO now and forever.

— NeoWayland

Posted: Mon - March 16, 2009 at 01:35 PM  Tag


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