We are nowhere near a civil war. And if there were such an event, we would never return to the freedoms that we have today.
Ultimately, the cure for a bad court decision is for that decision to be overturned. The courts are open every day. In briefs, well thought out cases, and subsequent rulings is where the real battles for liberty will take place.
John
With every ruling we win, we lose three or four others and liberty dies even more. The 4th Amendment for all intent and purposes is dead. The first amendment is no longer a right, but a privilege to be applied for to your local, State and Federal governments (you need a permit to protest, to start a church, to run a newspaper, to speak on a street corner). The 2nd Amendment has been under assault for quite sometime, and in spite of recent rulings, the overall firearm freedoms are maintaining some quasi equilibrium between total bans and some heavy level of regulations in spite of the totally obvious violation of the Constitution.
Our economic freedoms are worse. I don't know about you, but my tax burden, when figured for all levels of taxation is closing in on 60%. This means, from January 1 to August 6 or 7, I am an indentured servant. My labor belongs to the government... yet indentured servitude was supposedly outlawed by the 13th Amendment. Our rights under the 9th and 10th Amendments are also routinely ignored and our general ignorance of this fact is openly exploited. The courts haven't been operating Constitutionally since probably the late 1920s early 1930s which means that your whole idea of resolving these issues in the courts is invalid since they rarely if ever base their decisions on the Constitution but rather rely on precedent and Stare Decisis.
As I said previously... civil war will not happen by some army attacking a modern Fort Sumter, no, it will happen slowly and disastrously because the American people are ignorant of Liberty and of the Republic that was created as a framework to protect it. What has been happening is that our government is out of control. They refuse to spend wisely and continue to bribe their constituents with grab bag type entitlements which is going to drive us to having a debt to GDP ratio of over 1 to 1 (e.g. a debt greater than 100% of GDP). There are already talks of leaving the US dollar as reserve currency and Russia and China are already doing business together in local currencies. The ONLY reason our dollar still has anywhere close to a reasonable value is because it is still being used as the reserve currency for many countries AND is used exclusively by OPEC for oil transactions. OPEC is discussing switching to the Euro, and many countries are purchasing large volumes of gold for their eventual switch to gold as a reserve rather than US dollars. All these events have been playing out now for nearly a decade... and we're nearing the tipping point. The IMF has a date now for when the Chinese economy surpasses the US economy... and between now and then is when countries, central banks and OPEC will retreat from US dollar reserves.
When that retreat happens (within a few short years), hyperinflation will hit this country. A gallon of gas will cost 25 dollars rather than 5, a gallon of milk 30 dollars.... a loaf of bread 10 to 20 dollars and one can of frozen orange juice will cost nearly 15 dollars. This will be in just the first year of real hyper inflation. Our treasury department and the Fed's projections of inflation are all based on the US dollar remaining the reserve currency of the world... it will not.
We have nearly 44 million people in America on food stamps or food assistance. What happens when their allotment of money does not change enough to offset the inflation? What happens when what used to buy a months worth of food now only buys a weeks worth? This will come to a supermarket near you sooner than you think. We've been shipping our inflation overseas now for years. In Egypt, food used to take 40% of the average workers salary. Now it takes nearly 80%. It is the same in most poor countries. It is a major reason for unrest in the Middle East.
Now, unlike people like Alex Jones, I don't believe this is a conspiracy to control the world... I just think it is really bad judgment, a whole lot of hubris mixed in with arrogance and ignorance... a dangerous combination and one that will prove to be quite deadly in the US.
