"Violence never solves anything" is one of the great canards. The reality is that many, if not most great questions have been resolved through violence - the rise of rights of free men; the independence of the United States; the freedom of the slaves; the deliverance of Europe and Asia from dictatorial, murderous tyranny; even the redemption of man on Calvary's cross - all came about through violence. Evil doesn't yield to negotiation or reason, and we are blessed that the Founders recognized that.
While we should not rush to violence, we must be prepared for it, and reject the fairy-tale that it is always wrong.
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.It is your misfortune
@HoustonSam , to have poked at a particular point which, under the inspiration of a recent patriotic sermon by David Barton, has been bubbling away close to the surface ever since... So I apologize for the tome that this post is likely to be:
Laws of Nature and Nature's God...
These timeless principles that are the founding of this nation, as written above, are purposefully set in an higher court than the courts of Man. Modern scholarship does everything it can to muddy these laws and the God that made them - accusing Jefferson of a deist God, when really, the Laws of Nature (and Nature's God) is a direct appeal to Blackstone and the Common Law that governed Man for time immemorial. These principles extend beyond all history, so deep into the past that the record fails. They are not brought forth in enlightenment - Quite the opposite. Anyone with an eye toward history knows exactly whom Jefferson appeals to, without a single doubt.
The interesting bit in Barton's lecture is the idea, at least alluded to, that the governing of Man sours when it denies the Laws of Nature, and Nature's God... This is a massive idea that I doubt you will be able to deny, anymore than I can...
Yahovah has said he has made himself evident in nature - That without the Book, and without 'enlightenment', even beyond the discontinuity of the curse that burdens all the earth, you can recognize the character of God in the Creation... That it goes without saying that a society so broken that it no longer understands the very laws of Nature is necessarily doomed - And I find that in our hubris, our unmitigated gall in identifying ourselves as Homo Sapiens Sapiens, having unfortunately eschewed our very basic nature, we have indeed sealed our fate, having so abridged the image of Yah found within us that our fate is accomplished in our own absurdities, and by our own hand....
To wit: Where in all of life are creatures so confused that they do not recognize the basic biology of male and female - That which, by and large, governs nearly everything in Nature? Where else in all nature does a female long to kill the child in her womb?
And to the point: Where in all nature is a male NOT a warrior? where is he not made, every bone and sinew, to defend his territory and his pack? Where does he NOT guard that which is his - HIS OWN?
This whole preposterous idea of toxic masculinity GOES AWAY COMPLETELY exactly where the gravel road ends. There isn't a woman alive that would deny a man his manhood just a half a mile inside that deep dark wood. It is entirely laughable. I mean knee-slapping and guffawing. Even accomplished women made for the forest and steady on the trail would laugh hysterically... She will gladly cede every option possible to the man as the griz rears up. Every woman thanks God Almighty for the strength and ingenuity of the man that hauls her back from the maw of death, which may be that griz, or may be a raging river, or a headlong plunge off a cliff, landing in an impossible place that would seal her fate. She knows soon enough that her very life, and the life of her children, each and every one are in his hand, and he had better damn well be capable. THAT is rugged individualism. That is a man, self-contained. That is what a man SHOULD be.
And all the more against another man, set on murder, pillage, and rape... The very condition that is running as a plague through cities of modernized men who no longer possess the steel that is the only cure. This will be put down by good men being violent. Of course that is its end.
And of COURSE man is violent. he is supposed to be. It is nothing but the inebriated spouting of modernity that declares otherwise in its astonishing ignorance.
It is ever the violence of the good man that puts down evil, as you say. And it always has been, without exception... A Republic if you can keep it... Give me liberty or give me death. The tree of liberty watered with the blood of patriots and tyrants... These things are not made by a milksop.
**Addendum if of interest:
Lecture: David Barton on The Philosophy Of Early Education
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilnsw3odRI4A brilliant lecture that everyone should hear. This ol cowboy has something to say.
