I listen cautiously to these kinds of public speakers because most of their opinions are laced with fear instigated from the basic premise of social antagonism. They are insulted to learn that there are elements of global politics from finance to actual office holders who wish to end American sovereignty and the Constitutional Rights of its citizens. Their reaction is often extreme when they run across this information and their number is growing. When people lose their trust in government, the natural reaction are people like Sgt. Page.
Oath Keepers and Tea Party types are considered by the hard left and even the moderate middle grounders in politics to be radical because they consider as progressives adherence to traditional values, Christianity, or Constitutional purity, to be terrorism. So people who adhere to traditional values in America are considered terrorists to those who wish to change it and a war is on the horizon. Sgt. Dan Page was correct in his speech when he said that in such a future confrontation only 3% of the population will actually resist and anybody considered in that 3% is targeted for assassination before the actual violence transpires due to economic crises, global incident, or other subversive measures.
Currently, which has been more than adequately discussed by me, government education is heading down the exact path that Sgt. Page discussed. Today’s school levy supporter is tomorrow’s distressed parent wondering why their public school wants their 2 and 3-year-old children to stay at a pre-school campus under the constant care of a teacher. Most school teachers today have no idea of the possibilities designed for their future, but it will not be a long time before states declare such things as legal necessity for national security driven by global competition. And once a law is created police and teachers will enforce those laws and parents will wonder how they lost control of their children so quickly. The needs of the state will superseded the needs of the individual. China’s GDP is surpassing the GDP of America and the blame will be placed on the poor education of American children—leading to earlier education start times dictated by the state—because that’s how things are done in China—the current driver of world economic standards.
Where I disagree with Sgt. Page is that he is a blind supporter of taxation—where I am absolutely not. He is a federal employee and as he says—he is still owned by the United States military. He believes that contractors like him will be hired to hunt down people like me and that he will win. Nope. Won’t happen, it doesn’t matter how many sniper shots a trained killer has taken or heads they have cut off. The bottom line is that they are by their very nature creations of the state and they will go down by the state as well. If I had to report how many meetings I have been in where bureaucrats came up with some kind of plan that quickly fell apart the moment everyone left the conference room, I’d give the ratio of success at zero. The more people involved, the greater the tendency of failure and in an operation like what Sgt Page is discussing I believe the intentions are real, but I do not believe that anybody in government is competent to pull it off. I believe they will try, but they will fail just as they fail at everything government does. Ultimately when they send people like Sgt. Page to my doorstep with his Green Beret trained antics the government will fail because it needs people like me to be productive and continue feeding it. So they are the ones caught in a Catch 22. They may not want people like me around, but they can’t live without me either.
There have been a few who have tried to “sway” me away from my task over the last couple of years with “force.” Their mistake, and foolishly, they won’t be the last. But most of the time—probably 90% of the time the people involved are completely incompetent and unable to achieve their objectives and that ratio won’t alleviate just because of a desire on behalf of the insurgents supporting progressivism. They are doomed to fail and unable to do much behind hiring contractual killers and holding meetings to talk about doing things. Of the given pool of contractual killers out there in the world, only a few will actually attempt to perform the task because most are on my side of things and hate the governments trying to employ them. Those who have no real convictions and can take money to kill a good person are bad people and in the rock, paper, and scissor game of life good beats bad because value destroys those who lack value. The only way that poor value beats value is by surprise and deceit which significantly lowers the opportunities for success of mission objectives.
More powerful than any weapon in Sgt. Page’s arsenal is the written word. Millions of people have read by this point in their lives the novel The Great Gatsby by F.S. Fitzgerald which is a favorite of mine. Most people read that novel and think that it is about American excess in capitalism and how the evils of old money need to be leveled off for fairness to all. The villain in the novel was after all an Ivy League wealthy polo player who believed that he was born superior to everyone else and in the end he got the girl. But I understand the Great Gatsby, I get his innovation, I understand his passion, and I understand deeply his tenacity—his single minded determination to stare at the green light across the harbor and get what he wants. I learn from such stories and I won’t be making the same mistakes as to let old money beat the new—or to let scandal and love blind the opportunities for success—my green light is not an unappreciative lover living a dual life in scandal but an ideal of Constitutional purity. The schemes of the old world will not find a weakness that will be brought down by a car accident. It might be said that I was so inspired by Fitzgerald that I use the written word as my weapon as opposed to meeting the contracted Sgt. Pages out on the battlefield where their military trained minds only think one way and are sluts to their dollars given to them by bureaucrats to remove that 3% opposition to their objectives.
The Great Gatsby has been available to millions of people for over 100 years yet 97% of those readers think the novel is a cautionary tale about the American Dream. It is not. It is about the ability of one man to completely dominate New York society and Long Island politics in a short 5 year period. Yet Gatsby never cared about the money so much, only about the woman he loved who did love money and in the end, she picked the cheating husband of old money over the loyal charisma of new money. The new money is America the old money is Europe. On the battlefield the old money is Sgt. Dan Page and I am the Great Gatsby—only I haven’t dedicated my life to making money for women, but to using the power of the written word to appeal to the 3% out there in the world who understand The Great Gatsby without explanation and will join me on the battlefield when the time comes to fight in a way that the contracted killers can’t understand against an enemy that is the purer version of their former selves. In the end, guilt will rob them of their wits, and their trigger finger.
Rich Hoffman
The Overmanwarrior 