Needs repeating

 1 Samuel 8


1 When Samuel grew old, he appointed his sons as judges for Israel. 2 The name of his firstborn was Joel and the name of his second was Abijah, and they served at Beersheba. 3 But his sons did not walk in his ways. They turned aside after dishonest gain and accepted bribes and perverted justice.

 4 So all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah. 5 They said to him, “You are old, and your sons do not walk in your ways; now appoint a king to lead us, such as all the other nations have.”

 6 But when they said, “Give us a king to lead us,” this displeased Samuel; so he prayed to the LORD. 7 And the LORD told him: “Listen to all that the people are saying to you; it is not you they have rejected, but they have rejected me as their king. 8 As they have done from the day I brought them up out of Egypt until this day, forsaking me and serving other gods, so they are doing to you. 9 Now listen to them; but warn them solemnly and let them know what the king who will reign over them will do.”

 10 Samuel told all the words of the LORD to the people who were asking him for a king. 11 He said, “This is what the king who will reign over you will do: He will take your sons and make them serve with his chariots and horses, and they will run in front of his chariots. 12 Some he will assign to be commanders of thousands and commanders of fifties, and others to plow his ground and reap his harvest, and still others to make weapons of war and equipment for his chariots. 13 He will take your daughters to be perfumers and cooks and bakers. 14 He will take the best of your fields and vineyards and olive groves and give them to his attendants. 15 He will take a tenth of your grain and of your vintage and give it to his officials and attendants. 16 Your menservants and maidservants and the best of your cattle and donkeys he will take for his own use. 17 He will take a tenth of your flocks, and you yourselves will become his slaves. 18 When that day comes, you will cry out for relief from the king you have chosen, and the LORD will not answer you in that day.”

 19 But the people refused to listen to Samuel. “No!” they said. “We want a king over us. 20 Then we will be like all the other nations, with a king to lead us and to go out before us and fight our battles.”

 21 When Samuel heard all that the people said, he repeated it before the LORD. 22 The LORD answered, “Listen to them and give them a king.”

   Then Samuel said to the men of Israel, “Everyone go back to his town.”

AAAARRGH

It's like Carter times eleventy.

And this hostage crisis has gone on for 1335 days.

Hostage America, Day 1257

Independence Day comes early next week.  Many don't feel like celebrating this year, after the open tyranny this administration has displayed.

May I suggest that instead of getting drunk on a lake somewhere, you gather with your friends and family and declare your independence?

Read the Declaration.  Remember that the Founders were not freed from Britain's yoke by this document -- the DoI simply declared that we are free, and if a government shows, repeatedly, that it will not honor that, we have not only a right, but a DUTY to get rid of it.

Actually gaining a government that respected liberty required bloodshed.

Remember that tyranny itself is very bloody.  The last three and a half years have given us a body count already-- two border agents, murders and overdoses at Occupy encampments, and God alone knows how many foreigners dead by F&F guns and drone strikes.  That's not counting the rapes, assaults, vandalism, theft from Occupies, flash mobs, and union thuggery.

America has put the decision off too long for an easy way forward.  Every path we could take will be ugly, and painful, whether it be austerity, or collapse, or reform, or civil disobedience, or withdrawal.  All our options suck. 

Choose this day.  Draw a line in the sand, and mark it well.  What will you do when that line is crossed?  Has it been crossed already?

Stop wringing your hands.  Stop lying to yourself.

Flip a coin, if you must.

But make a stand.

Screw you, Roberts.

I am a free woman.

My body is not the property of the United States Government.

I will not comply.

And those of you who persist in chasing 'how this benefits my team' rather than facing the ramifications of this ruling,  then crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.