Hey, Chris, I’ve read a good many of your posts now, and I pretty much invariably appreciate them. This evening, having grown tired of reading way the hell too much, “There’s COCKROACHES in the KITCHEN!!!” whinging from way the hell too many sources, I decided to go way back in the Way Back Machine and see what my some of fav authors were writing 2-3 years ago, and see if their style and focus had changed, or had been changed.
Anyway, here I am in 2021. Excellent piece, I think. The YouTube dude was brilliant.
I think you are spot-on in your perspective of the Colonialists’ “gentlemanly patience”. That they endured fairly significant, Kingly, oppression for 12-15 years before they took the gloves off, has always fascinated me. They were truly Gentlemen Revolutionaries. (With Washington arguably being THE quintessential Gentleman Revolutionary.) And you can argue that they really didn’t take their gloves off; their gloves were taken off by the events of Lexington and Concord. They may have continued to be gentlemen for many more years—perhaps—had the events of that day-evening-morning not occurred. We’ll never know.
You describe in no uncertain terms our double-bind, catch-22 situation. I now find myself considering any piece of legislation coming out of DC with suspicion - how can “they” turn whatever it is against us? They have criminalized our 1st Amendment if not our entire Bill of Rights, but worse, applicable only against patriots. (Oh and love that “bastard child of Margaret Thatcher”.)
Hey, Chris, I’ve read a good many of your posts now, and I pretty much invariably appreciate them. This evening, having grown tired of reading way the hell too much, “There’s COCKROACHES in the KITCHEN!!!” whinging from way the hell too many sources, I decided to go way back in the Way Back Machine and see what my some of fav authors were writing 2-3 years ago, and see if their style and focus had changed, or had been changed.
Anyway, here I am in 2021. Excellent piece, I think. The YouTube dude was brilliant.
I think you are spot-on in your perspective of the Colonialists’ “gentlemanly patience”. That they endured fairly significant, Kingly, oppression for 12-15 years before they took the gloves off, has always fascinated me. They were truly Gentlemen Revolutionaries. (With Washington arguably being THE quintessential Gentleman Revolutionary.) And you can argue that they really didn’t take their gloves off; their gloves were taken off by the events of Lexington and Concord. They may have continued to be gentlemen for many more years—perhaps—had the events of that day-evening-morning not occurred. We’ll never know.
So, you get a 5/5 for staying the course, sir.
Godspeed.
You describe in no uncertain terms our double-bind, catch-22 situation. I now find myself considering any piece of legislation coming out of DC with suspicion - how can “they” turn whatever it is against us? They have criminalized our 1st Amendment if not our entire Bill of Rights, but worse, applicable only against patriots. (Oh and love that “bastard child of Margaret Thatcher”.)
See?
https://www.theepochtimes.com/garland-attempts-to-silence-opponents-but-they-will-vote_4080672.html
Awesome
This is really wonderful. Thank you so much for the essay and its concluding clip. The comments to the clip apply equally to your great message.
Keep at it. Writing of this quality will get recognised in due course. Bon courage!