Saturday, September 2, 2017

A Word To The Wise

h/t Kenny


Floating around on Facebook for the last few weeks...
“If you are paid $25.00 an hour to show up to a rally to “counter” the other party using physical force and violence, you are not a “counter protestor.” You are a mercenary.There is no need for further debate on this. You were paid to attack someone you don’t know for reasons that you couldn’t care enough about to go there for free. You did your “job” and collected your check and your reimbursement of expenses. You’re a mercenary. 
Not a Patriot. Not a Social Justice Warrior. Not a Defender of Freedom or Liberty. Not an upholder of Truth or Justice. None of those things you claim to be. You are a mercenary. 
And mercenaries are not lawful combatants and deserve whatever comes their way at the hands of the people they are attacking. 
You have no 1st Amendment rights when you’re a mercenary. 
Doesn’t matter what side you’re on. Doesn’t matter what cause you’re showing up to disrupt. If you can’t express yourself peacefully through diplomatic means, then you better be prepared to meet your maker at the hands of someone who is only barely keeping their own violent tendencies at bay through a massive exercise of self-control. 
I know it sounds romantic to attend these rallies and get shit started with the other side. And when you’re young and passionate, it’s really easy to get whipped up into a frenzy of raw emotions. There is a reason why young people are preferred when it comes to warfare. They are easy to manipulate and control and set off. 
But I’m telling you all this right now. You’ve got no idea what road you are starting down. Romance and idealism wears off really fast when you’re laying in a pool of your own blood trying to stuff your intestines back into your torn abdomen. 
I’ve been lucky enough to go forty-two years without having to put the skills I learned in the Marines to use. I continue to train and keep those skills up to date because I see the madness that is happening all across this country. I don’t train to attack others like you do. I train to defend others FROM you. I’m not alone either. 
There are thousands of men and women in this country who have seen war and death and don’t want any more to do with it. They want to live in peace. They want to forget the things they’ve had to do in the service of their country. They want to raise their kids and have family BBQs and build tree houses and soap box derby cars and have tea parties. 
They don’t want this shit that you’re selling. 
You have the extremist left and the extremist right that are doing their best to get something started. To force us into a Civil War. Even in the 1860’s, the violence between the North and South was nowhere near what we see today. Nowhere. Even. Close. 
And yet we still had a war of ideology that consumed hundreds of thousands of lives.
All you young and naive kids on both sides of this equation who think that having a Civil War will advance your agenda or restore your vision of what you think is America, just remember this… Those of us older generations aren’t having any of this shit. And if you jump off, you better be prepared to deal with US. We don’t care what color you’re wearing or what sign you’re holding if you come after us, our friends, our family, our co-workers, our neighbors, etc., WE will kill you. 
So remember that when you’re thinking that it’s just Left vs Right, or Liberal vs Conservative, or Commie vs. Fascist. We are the variable you’re not considering.
That “Silent Majority” that you pretend does not exist is getting really sick and tired of your bullshit.

Geoffrey B. Higginbotham
Major General, USMC (Ret.)

As there's no refutation of the actual guy (age 73, vet of both VN War and Desert Storm) as the source after some weeks in circulation, I suspect he actually wrote it. My only response is "Oohrah!"

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

"That “Silent Majority” that you pretend does not exist is getting really sick and tired of your bullshit."

No joke either. I keep being told by these stupid kids (and some idiotic adults.. and I use the term adult loosely, even if they're in their 50's) that I HAVE TO "take sides" between a bunch of racist assholes, and a bunch of stupid asshole communistic paid agitators and their cohorts.

No. Sorry. Not taking either side except the side of my family and friends (all of them smart enough not to play in the streets) - and like the writer of this piece, if THEY'RE messed with, or my farm, or anything that is my personal property by these little punk-assed street actors, they're going to find out EXACTLY who the majority in this country are, and they're NOT going to be happy with the results.

For any spare Millenial activist type who might be reading - the generation immediately following you, Z? is LARGER than you, and hates your guts with a seething passion. They think you're a bunch of whining stupid dipshits. They're not wrong. Poll after poll shows them leaning moderate to slightly right, socially liberal, fiscally conservative. They're the largest generation this country has ever seen... and they're NOT on your side.

Figure it out. Sooner rather than later.

Anonymous said...

"That “Silent Majority” that you pretend does not exist is getting really sick and tired of your bullshit."

Amen.

See: "Tipping point"; also, "pogrom."

So far it's been Frat Party Road Trip, Kids Will Be Kids, etc. However.....there will come a point when those tens of thousands who have seen, and been a part of, extreme violence up close and personal and who very strongly prefer not to do it again will reach the inescapable conclusion that extreme violence pressed to its conclusion is the sole solution because the other side has made it so.

When that day comes It Will Be Epic. Smart people on both sides will do nearly anything to avoid that day. Take heed.

Anonymous said...

Been a 'shooter' all my life (it was a dad thing - who grew up hard scrabble, was in WWII and made something of himself). Now at 71 and living in a very out of the way place by choice (small ranch/farm operation) I watch all that is going on - the few times I have actually commented on the BS that now is happening I have got the, "...yea well, what are you (that would be me) going to do about it? Ever killed anyone?". The two times I did respond in the affirmative (something like, "... yes many times over - men, women and probably some children"). Almost three years in VN with the USMC I get the cold look back - enough said. Don't like the idea but if it comes to that, no problem. As others have commented, there are a great many of 'us' out there - keep up the shit and see what happens ......
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