Despite being a prominent transgender, Chelsea Manning is still showing more balls than most people as the conservative wave sweeps across the world. In liberal societies, government is godvernment. What it says goes, period. Or else. Liberal government has no problem keeping you incarcerated for any offense indefinitely simply because it can do so using massive force. Liberal government is unaccountable bully government, you know, just like Antifa bully gangs.
But liberal government cannot stand on its own. Like all big institutions, it's a con job. It works as long as the herd has confidence in it and supports it, and such support is always cyclical. It works as long as liberal citizens value their career, money, freedom and in some cases their very lives more than their principles.
Liberal citizens sell out to the highest bidder whereas conservative citizens have moral limits they will not cross and they don't care what the consequences will be. Reference earlier stories about the bakers who would not bake gay wedding cakes, etc. They accepted the big government shutdown of their business rather than comply with shit they did not agree with.
In my personal case I am quite vocal, despite the growing presence of so called "red flag laws" (which should be named to "red fag laws" IMO to properly represent their basis in liberal communist ideology), that I am not going to be forcibly disarmed by government for any reason whatsoever. I will not start trouble and I will continue to work, pay taxes and perform all other societal norms up until the day that men with guns come to my house demanding my guns under credible threat of murdering me unless I comply. At least some part of the group that tries this will not live through the day. Some readers, and perhaps even self righteous government will find my expression of 1st amendment rights to be "extremism" but being disarmed by an armed force is my personal line of tyranny which will not be crossed without a fight. Besides, if someone comes at you with a gun, the proper response is to defend yourself with like force. Why government dicks think they should live by different rules than the people has always been beyond me.
And so in like kind, Manning is telling big government to fuck off with their demands upon her to sit before a grand jury even though non-compliance means going back to jail. While I think the transgender move by Manning was misguided, I'm quite impressed by this person's willingness to stand tall in front of the cameras and tell the nation that she simply will not comply with unwarranted government demands upon her.
It's one thing if you commit a crime and are caught. The word "crime" really means you took or infringed on someone else's rights. The US Government was put in place by the founders in order to stop one person or party from stealing the unalienable rights of another. As mentioned before, it was kind of a NATO pact between citizens to organize and self protect against the wolves in society which are always sniffing around for weakness and ways to exploit their fellow humans. Government is NOT the grantor of rights but rather the PROTECTOR of G_d given unalienable rights. I wonder how many Americans actually understand this important fact. If you are unsure, go read the preamble to the declaration of independence for yourself right now and you will certainly realize that I am correct in this matter.
But Manning is not infringing upon anyone's rights simply because she does not want to talk to a grand jury. In fact, the 5th amendment specifically tells government that it may not force a person to self incriminate. Given that, what a ridiculous outrage to consider silence a crime! It's fucking tyranny and many who rolled their eyes at Manning before are going to be paying a bit more respect now that they see the strength of her convictions.
This may sound crazy to some but if the vote for next president were between someone like Pocahontas Warren and Chelsea Manning, I'd vote for the person with honor and conviction over the lying fool who used the system to enhance their career. Manning would get the vote. In fact, if she continues this fight with government and eventually beats them at their own game it would surprise me ZERO if she considered running for political office and in fact won a congressional seat somewhere. I mean if ditzy ass Ocasio-Cortez can win then Manning should have an easy go of it.
As a matter of fact, Manning did run in the Democratic primaries for a US Senate seat for MD in 2017. The result was a distant second to the incumbent senator, but also far ahead of all the other contenders.
ReplyDeleteTrue, but that was "criminal manning" at the time. People might not like the fact that government uses national security to lie cheat steal and murder but what manning did was still illegal. So her sacrifice was not given its full due. Most people will simply say a criminal who was caught tried to subsequently run for office. Why vote for that?
ReplyDeleteThe difference is that today we are seeing "conservative, principled manning" who has not committed any new crime but is simply telling big_government@swamp.org to fuck off and damn the consequences. That's a whole different image IMO. That's a martyr. And its happening at a time when people are caring less and less what the government thinks simply because current government is completely out of touch and has not represented the people for a long, long time. I think her chances will be much higher of getting elected if she serves more jail time as a martyr but then she must win her case as well. The herd loves winners. Just being a tranny martyr is probably not enough to get elected.
I disagree. Given the number of people employed by the DoD, not counting its minions in the military industrial complex, virtually a third of Americans has a relative making a career out of criminal wars. Manning is letting the whole world know that their wars and careers are not righteous, but murderous. They'd rather see him rot in prison or dead, so that America could continue its posture and profits.
ReplyDeleteIt's my long standing belief that what you described is liberal behavior - profit over principle, whereas I believe that the pendulum is swinging conservative leading to more and more people beginning to value principles over profits. What you said is true of the past but life is not linear and pure extrapolations work until they don't. JMO and time will tell.
ReplyDeleteAgain, I disagree that liberals turn conservative and vice versa. The pendulum swings as the generational cycle replaces one generation with another.
ReplyDeleteThose profiting from military careers and in the armament industry will not convert to conservatism if it means losing their livelihood. When was the last time you saw crime syndicates have a change of heart? Rather, they are eliminated by those who have never been a part of it. Likewise, the military will go kicking and screaming and gunning their own people down before they let go of the tits of the military industrial congressional complex.