A Difficult Question

James poses the age old question…

At what point is it legitimate for a patriot to set in train a series of events which would remove the decimator of the society? Also, is the head of state actually the main culprit? He may be just a pawn. Maybe the EU itself should be the target. That both are morally bankrupt and have done great damage to the society is beyond doubt in the minds of the majority of pundits.

The same thing could be said about non-President Obama. At what point would removing him be a legitimate act in defence of the peoples of the United States?

One remaining question is at what point someone would have the nerve to be labelled “insurgent”, “terrorist” and be set upon by the very forces which he/she would consider it was being done for. Who would appreciate the action?

Naturally, anyone who took to the streets in open revolution would be labelled a terrorist by the government. Strictly speaking, they would have a point. Such a person would be in open revolt against a legitimately elected administration. Perhaps the question should be; at which point does an elected government cease to be legitimate? Certainly having systematically eroded our civil liberties, this one has reduced its claim on legitimacy. Having unthinkingly and against the interests and wishes of the people who elected it, it has ratified the Lisbon treaty – sorry, constitution – despite specifically promising a referendum in its manifesto.

This is a government that treats the electorate as the enemy, that spies on us, that desires to remove our privacy, that treats us like criminals, that nannys us, that sees the state as the answer to all our needs, and has eroded the minds of the young, creating a client class of voters who, it believes, will equally unthinkingly return it to power. The traitor is not the man with a pitchfork, the traitors are the men and women who fill Westminster palace with hot air.

The history books have been surprisingly kind to Guy Fawkes – after all, he did want to overthrow the administration in favour of a foreign power, so was, indeed, a traitor. For the most part, though, the news reporting systems will take the government line; they are traitors. The history books will do likewise.

Our modern insurgent, if successful, could write the history books, then he would not be a traitor, he would be the hero who saved the day – a bit like Gordon Brown, then…

The answer to the question? The winner decides. This deeply misanthropic government does need to go. Hopefully, the electorate will close Pandora’s box sometime during the next eighteen months and bolt the beast inside, before locking it and casting away the key where it may never be found.