A while back I read a comment in the Libertarian Facebook group where a person basically said ‘I call myself a Libertarian because I would rather, and it is easier, to be for Liberty then to call myself an Anarchist which is against Government.’
Now this did not get me thinking at the time but in thinking about this blog, I realized that it is all apart of a point.
A little later a quote had suddenly shot into my head, it was for one of my Novel projects, but it was about two types of people.
Now for a pseudo sort-of good guy but maybe not a nice dude with a really dark background, the quote in question makes sense. But for the purpose of a blog trying to make a point, oh well I do not want to get into trouble now do I? *shivers*
But I still realized, with the basic point raised in the initial statement in the blog, that you can still make the blog work. Just take out any generalizations and just roll with it.
It is better to fight for something, then to fight against it.
And oh have I realized how I have been trying to live my life this way.
You see fighting against something is a path to hate and anger. You are fighting against the forces of X or the group of Y.
You are fighting against a specific thing and that unites you.
But its sort of meaningless.
Like the Whig Party of old. They were against Andrew Jackson.
Sure they may have had their platforms, their ideals, and their principles. But the one unifying feature of the party was a want to fight against Jackson, that was the only thing holding them together. And oh I probably would have been one.
But no wonder the party did not last long. This is just a microcosim of the point actually. In this case once the enemy vanished, they quickly dissolved.
Which of course leads us to today, and to me.
I am not the enemy of anyone. Heck I do not want to hate, I do not want to exclude someone from my circle because they are of one ideology or another, I do not want to be against anyone and fight against them, I want to be friends with all and judge you based on your own personal character.
Heck I have even had an…uh…crushes on liberals. Well probably more than one.
It does not matter to me.
People make a big deal about a defensive war, about just waiting around and waiting for your enemy to act. And in life and death wars that can be a point, sometimes to prevent being nuked you want to strike first. (oh I wish I could blog about that.)
But the point is for liberty, and standing on principle that is exactly what you must do.
Because you often do not have to act to defend your Government, your principles, and your freedoms until after they try and take them.
After all I would not be ‘woken up’ if they did not try to take our rights, if the last two administrations were not messing with us so much, if we did not need to get the Government off of our backs in so many cases, then this blog probably would not exist and I could watch me some Doctor Who and worry about my date. (I find as I edit this that is exactly what I am doing.)
I would not want to, have the desire to be, a radio host, or be a political writer or write novels with such political and social points about our times in Galaxies far far away.
At the best I would be a Conservative and at the worse I would have been a progressive to get along. I would most certainly not be a Libertarian.
And I would not care so much, or be so concerned about others and my liberal…uh…crushes.
If they did not come after us. After all I hold sacred and dear.
Even the founders said it, Thomas Jefferson himself said this about the second amendment.
“The beauty of the second amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it.”
It is better to know where you stand, to know what you stand for.
What principles and morals, what documents and foundations, your sense of honor and sticking to your guns in the best of your ability. To know where you stand, for your God, your Government, your Liberties.
To know where the line is so that they must never cross it.
Because fighting for something, whether it is a woman, a country, or an ideology is a statement of love. Because that is so sacred for it that you are willing to live, to die for, that you are willing to sacrifice your life, your time, your wealth, your what ever in its defense.
And if you are fighting against something that is a statement of hate about it. Whether it is a woman, a country, or a political ideology. That you hate it enough where you want to tear it down, transform it, control it, and then enforce your will on others.
I mean we see it all the time even in our movies and throughout human history.
You have people fighting against the dirty huns, the ragheads, but is it not better that you are fighting for something?
For freedom, to set other people’s lives free and give them a better life.
I do think restoring this principle is one of the most important of them.
After all in the quote above we are the defendersof our own freedom when Governments and people get out of control.
We are not the attackers, we are not the enforcers we are the people who needs to say, ‘hold on, time out, what? What do you want to do to me?’.
And it is one of the fundamental ways when you can tell if someone is a friend of liberty and principle and morality, and if someone is hateful and mistrustful of groups and people.
That is one of the most fundamental ways to tell the good, from the bad.
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