The Brink or The Line in the Sand

From the comments.

CBMar 7, 2012 03:03 AM

There will come a day, probably sooner than later, when freedom loving Americans arrive at the same conclusion realized by the passengers of United Airlines Flight 93. All one needs to do is read blogs like this one, multiplied by the hundreds across the internet, to realize that the passengers of Flight 2012 have had their fill and are about to take action.

We are not yet doomed like Flight 93, but we are in the same death spiral. In the same way that the passengers evaluated with excruciating pain their decision to take action, Americans everywhere are evaluating and re-evaluating to make sure they are right about their situation so as not to make the wrong decision.
There are many "Todd Beamers" among us thinking, "If we sit here we die. There are more of us, than there are of them."

It feels and sounds like we are very near to hearing a concerted, "Let's Roll!"

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Via Ol' Remus

1. What "brink?"
2. What could push us over?
3. If we go over the edge, what might pull us back?
4. Most important of all: What measure(s) might pull us back from the brink?

The brink is the dividing line between two conditions of society: one that has at least some possibility of freeing itself by non-violent means, and one that can only reclaim its freedom by bloody revolution.

America will go "over the brink" if ever the following set of conditions should come to pass:

• The right of free expression is suspended;
• The writ of habeas corpus is no longer honored;
• Elections are suspended, or are rendered inherently untrustworthy;
• The preponderance of coercive force lies with institutions wholly subservient to the federal government.

All four of these nightmarish possibilities are required to plunge us into totalitarianism.

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