Sunday, August 12, 2012
Simple, lofty beginnings
Saturday, May 12th, Oklahoma State GOP Convention. I had joined the hundreds of lovers of liberty in support of Ron Paul. This group had been working tirelessly since 2008 to spread the message of individual liberty, culminating in an apparent showdown with the establishment at the state convention. The tension was palpable as soon as I joined the registration line. This tension boiled over when the chairman called for a voice vote rather than the standard role call vote to determine what kind of support would come from the 25 delegates and 25 alternatives from Oklahoma http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/ad-lib/2012/may/14/ron-paul-and-mitt-romney-supporters-brawl-oklahoma/. Instead of following their own rules and acknowledging every delegate's right to cast an individual ballot, the GOP asserted their tyrannical power over the preceedings and made sure their slate was passed.
This experience capped off years of searching, questioning, theorizing, pondering this overarching question: How do I, as a God-fearing Christian and believer in individual liberty in this world, relate to the culture at hand and ultimately affect change for the good of those around me? And more specifically, how does this play out in the politcal arena?
This blog is an effort to wrestle with the concept of in the world but not of it, to bring the intangible to the tangible; to use ideas and theories as building materials for concrete structures.
Question everything, for Truth will prove itself. Alongside my good friend and co-blogger Lukus Collins, I endeavor to find Truth where it can be had; and for this end a revolution is in order.
Brenden Gateley
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Liberty activists tend to be very conscientious people. What they often don't understand is that their opponents are not. As long as attempts keep being made to appeal to senses of conscience that are non-existent, the only result will be failure. It doesn't matter what you were told in the children's books or BATMAN comics you've read, or sitcoms or John Wayne movies you've seen, the fact is, when you are bound by the rules of the game but your opponents can play as they please, they have the advantage, and will come out ahead.
ReplyDeleteLiberty activists currently have a gun pointed directly at them, but are refusing to take it away out of some sense of ethics regarding property rights. Time (past time, really...) to re-evaluate the strategy to adopt one that shows signs of being effective. I have a few ideas to that end, myself--and they're even peaceful, though the window for them remaining so is sliding shut pretty quickly.