The other day I read about a handful of disgruntled amateur military men, a couple of EMs and a JNCO planning some sort of half-arsed attack on Fort Sumter or some other small unit action that might spark off a revolution. These idiots were down south someplace, MS or GA I believe, maybe AL, it matters not. These four fellows were so well qualified to lead such a revolution that they had to murder civilians close to them, a girlfriend or something, to keep anyone else from learning about it. So their grand design amounted to a murder and a conspiracy to cover up something impossible.
This got me thinking. I've been chewing on this continually and today I'm going to announce as a public service to everyone - a warning to any others who are angry with the gov't or Washington or whatever a summary of the blueprint you should be following to create positive change that apparently the public schools have failed to communicate to you.
But first if you're planning some kind of violence to make your point or change the gov't:
Step 1: STOP IT! Visit a museum like the Gettysburg National Military Park and spend a few hours learning about what war on our soil was really like. It wasn't glamorous or pretty or fun or easy.
You are a moron if you think you're going to take a bag full of guns and ammo and take over the government or conquer any territory by force with your midnight rugby team. You gonna run out of red bull and testosterone at some point and need to surrender just to get pizza delivered okay? It will not end well.
Step 2: get a civics 101 course under your belt, know what the heck you're actually angry about. Then with a basic understanding of gov't you'll know that you pretty much need an MBA or JD to do anything in gov't. Study for LSAT, go to grad school then
Step 3: get involved in a political party at the local level. It doesn't matter which one they're all garbage, don't surrender your ability to reason to them but use their organization, their brand and trusted label. Or join and work for a not-for profit that suits your ideology and work through the non-government channels all the while
Step 4: be open to learning that you might not know everything and much of your anger could be misdirected. A lot of frustration and anger is caused by ignorance and unrealistic expectations. Politics and argument, debate, voting and compromise is how we play king of the hill in this country. We are not Pakistan, Libya or Egypt! We don't burn each others stuff down or kill each other over domestic policy items.
Step 5: once you start to figure out that a large part of the problem is everyone and so you just can't have enough ammo to be the dictator of everything go get a drink and laugh with some buddies. Relax.
Step 6: you are now on your way to being the change you want to see in the world. Don't forget to treat people with respect.
Step 7: if for some reason you are convinced that you have to actually resort to violence, you need a territory to sanction it in the international relations arena - something like a three state area at least, three would work if you have Texas as one of them it has resources, an international border, room to breathe and a coast for trade. You can't do this with Kansas, Kentucky and South Dakota. Not enough people. No way to reach allies, France helped us in the first American revolution after all.
Step 8: you have to have a chunk of the Army behind you, the real professional military - guys with keys to nuclear submarines and the like who can keep opportunistic powers from interfering to take advantage of your tiny axis of stupid.
Step 9: assuming you've survived to this point you might realise that we have revolutions all the time, every few years as the nations political milieu turns over under new regimes. The pace isn't steady and it isn't always obvious as its happening but you'll have lots of time to consider it from your prison cell since it's not likely a tiny revolution that might occur in the future would be something the Feds would tolerate, you won't be as lucky as the CSA leaders and forces who received pardons for the most part. You'll probably face execution, and fleeing to take up residence in a non-extradition country isn't a realistic possibility.
Step 10: back to the beginning STOP IT! Talk, reason and build on the work of those civilizing forces who have gone before you and sacrificed much. Resorting to violence to achieve your domestic aims is to erase the sacrifice and insult all who had suffered to heal this nation after the first civil war. If you don't like whats happening out there, get your butt off that couch and get involved trying to make it a better place for everyone, not just you and those who agree with you - who the hell are you to tell the rest of us how to live?
P.S. don't worry when I'm king, it'll be different ha!
