polisci wrote:For the better part of my life, I've heard "Patriots" talk about defending America from tyrants.. Huh, bull! From what I know of Americans, they are generally spineless and cowering. I'd bet my left one, that if the time should come, all these Cowboys and freedom fighters would run like a bunch of twelve year old schoolgirls. Without an orderly plan of defense against the tyrants, somebody tell me how that works. If there is no "signal", how do all the "patriots" know when to start defending? Cause I don't think it'll be like war of the worlds when you definitely know when its time, no. It will be gradual, and by time we all make the big decision to step up, guess what? yep, we're screwed. Too late.. A pipe dream.. We're sheep now. Get use to it..
Devils advocate here. Settle down.
I am not sure who you are or where you are coming from... frankly, I do not care. That is a blanket statement about Americans being spineless and cowering. You should first look yourself in the mirror and determine if YOU, my friend, are in that category?
I believe that the same spirit that made 186 men cross that line in the sand in San Antonio at the Alamo in 1836, is still in us today. I am here as a FREE man and I will do everything I can to protect and defend my Freedom and my Liberties.
As Bum Phillips wrote --
"When William Barrettt Travis wrote in 1836 that he would never surrender and he would have Victory or Death, what he was really saying was that he and his men were forged of a hotter fire. They weren't your average everyday men. Well, that is what it means to be a Texan. It meant it then, and that's why it means it today. It means just what all those people North of the Red River accuse us of thinking it means. It means there's no mountain that we can't climb. It means that we can swim the Gulf in the winter. It means that Earl Campbell ran harder and Houston is bigger and Dallas is richer and Alpine is hotter and Stevie Ray was smoother and God vacations in Texas. It means that come *Heck*or high water, when the chips are down and the Good Lord is watching, we're Texans by *darned*, and just like in 1836, that counts for something."
I personally know many of my friends that feel the same! Most of those on this forum feel the same way!
