The Four Boxes
Freedom By Ammo
Popular among 2A supporters is the idea of the four boxes. The idea is that the protections to liberty contained in the Bill of Rights consist of the ballot box, the jury box, the soap box and the cartridge box. Upon inspection one notices that only the last consists of real, physical objects. A tyrannical government may simply do away with voting, corrupt the court system and eliminate freedom of speech. They would no doubt declare the private possession of arms to be illegal, but collecting them would be a monumental task.
"A man's rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box." ~ Frederick Douglass. I think he left one out, but I forgive him.
Many people would reply to this with “so what.” They would maintain that the chance of the first three boxes disappearing is nil, and that the fourth box is both dangerous and unimportant. I aim to disagree.
The Ballot Box
How many people believe that the 2020 election was honest? The confidence in the election process is now very low, with only partisans believing in it's veracity. Mail in voting was instituted in most states without the input of the state legislatures as required by the constitution, and without proper safeguards, including the sudden arrival of ballot drop boxes all over your city. People are deeply suspicious of electronic voting machines, and have heard stories ballots being unloaded en-mass in the middle of the night, during which the counting of votes was suspended, with massive increases in Democrat votes shortly thereafter. Even if these things could be explained away and voting shown to be secure people would not believe that it is.
The Jury Box
A short time ago a court in New York fined former President Trump $355,000,000 for supposedly overstating the value of his Mara Lago property, despite the reasonable assumption that the bank, with that amount of money involved, would do their own estimating. When businessmen expressed concern about the danger of continuing to do business on New York State the governor said not to worry, we were just going after Trump. (That must have put them at ease.)
The above is just one example of the subversion of the jury box as a safeguard of liberty, all of you can point to many others. The powers that be are determined to subvert the jury box to keep Trump from returning to the presidency.
The J6 thing is frightening, with a truly staggering double standard. It would appear to be an effort to stop anyone from questioning or opposing the Club, as in “it's a big club, and you ain't in it.”
On May 29, 2020 rioters attacked the White House and set fire to St. John's church next door. (And if you really believe it was about George Floyd I have a bridge to sell you.)
https://pjmedia.com/paula-bolyard/2020/06/01/breaking-rioters-burn-historic-st-johns-church-in-d-c-deface-monuments-across-the-city-n474820
Even the left wing Wikipedia called them rioters, but somehow they are not being pursued by the FBI and locked up without trial. The media has downplayed the event to such an extent that many people are clueless when you bring it up. The disparity between the treatment of the principles in the two cases highlights the terrible breakdown of the jury box as a protector of liberty, and the soap box as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Floyd_protests_in_Washington,_D.C.
The Soap Box
The soap box has been under similar attack, I suggest listening to this interview of Mike Benz by Tucker Carlson:
https://tuckercarlson.com/uncensored-the-national-security-state-the-inversion-of-democracy/
Shadow banning, deleting videos and posts and a main stream media reporting half truths and biased, opinionated reporting. Why can't they just tell us what happened? And what happened to a reporter's duty to not let them snow him in interviews?
The Cartridge Box
The beauty of the cartridge box is that the weapons owned by the people are real, physical objects, and cannot simple disappear at the whim of a bureaucrat, but that doesn't mean they don't want to disarm us. If you listen to any report on the national news on the issue you'll note that they mention only the bad, with no investigation into crimes prevented by civilians with weapons, or statistics showing that gun control may have bad outcomes. They make great use of the first two rules of propaganda:
The rule of simplification - reducing all data to a simple confrontation between 'Good and Bad', 'Friend and Foe'.
The rule of disfiguration - discrediting the opposition by crude smears and parodies.
The reporting is emotional rather than informative. Often the term “gun violence” is used, as though knife violence would be all right. (I daresay that there was no “gun violence” in London, England in the year 1,000 A.D., but that doesn't mean you would have been safe.)
I think from the point of view of any would be totalitarian one does not have true control until the intimidation factor is very large. It's important to have the fear of the knock on the door in the middle of the night, the fear of the gulag, and that one may be simply “disappeared.” In the twentieth century some 100 to 200 million people were killed by their own governments in their quests for power, more than were killed in open warfare. I urge all and sundry to peruse the website of the University of Hawaii Democide Project, the work of Professor R. J. Rumell who studied this phenomenon. The website address is here:
https://hawaii.edu/powerkills/MURDER.HTM
"Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them." ~ Thomas Paine
In summary, we can see that the first three boxes of liberty may be easily done away with, and indeed that that process is ongoing. We do have hope due to the fourth box, which is not so easily gotten rid of. Former leftist Naomi Wolf had this to say on the Second Amendment, it gives insight into the mindset of the liberal elites:
"Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as the basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom." ~ John F. Kennedy
More thoughts on the Second Amendment:
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Taking up arms against abusive powers of confiscation.....
"The Ballot Box" Even if the 2020 election was not fixed, does that matter much if we have a 1-partry system, and all the candidates are Uniparty candidates?