The other day CA linked to a discussion on a concept labeled "The Orkin Man".
We have discussed the same concept on our blogs many times, usually with sufficiently nuanced language as to avoid a Stack. If you browsed the comments at Orkin Man you found a great deal of reluctance by many, many folks who claim to be Patriots. In our community the same hand-wringing turns nearly every conversation on the topic into a flame war by those who are morally offended at the concept of hunting Bad People and those who are not so encumbered with guilt.
If you are a Patriot who considers it morally acceptable to hunt Enemies of Liberty who are not directly and personally holding guns at your head, I hope you have realized just how many people will stand against you, label you a murderer, even from within the III. Many, many in the III community consider it a moral crime if you were to grab a blade and drag it across the neck of every Democrat donor in your AO.
Let me clarify that a bit: I think many people hide behind the moral argument to avoid having to go to work themselves.
Remember Scott Roeder? He walked into a church and put a bullet into the brain of George Tiller, ending the career of an abortionist. Yet every pro-life group raced and stumbled and tripped over themselves to condemn Roeder as a murderer, and they beat the pro-choice groups to the microphones! Even in the III community, supposedly filled with hardcore Patriots of religious fiber and a willingness to kill for moral reasons, not one single person ever defended Roeders actions as a necessary evil that benefitted the world by eliminating a man who butchered babies under color of law. Who has sent money to his prison commissary account so the man can at least buy a few packets of mackeral to get a break from the kitchen mess?
I find that fascinating. I find that lonely.
And for you folks who preach incessantly about the immorality of abortion, I find your lack of direct action to end it to be the very definition of hypocrisy. If you think abortion is murder and you do not have the balls to kill a murderer, just STFU about it because you are an embarassment, an intellectual midget, and worse, you lack the courage to act on your convictions.
And when I apply that knowledge to the Orkin Man strategy of leaving your sofa and hunting Enemies of Liberty in your AO, I am comfortable to conclude that if any Patriot ever does go hunting, he'll be abandoned by all of the tough talkers on these boards faster than the Merry Leader abandoned the Geriatric Militia and the Hutaree.
I know I am now talking to a very small minority of people in the III community, I am talking to that very small group of men and women who actually have the grit to do Hard Things without waiting for others. (If you are one of those III Patriots who constantly asks "Is it time yet" and looks left and right to see if anyone will go with you, a bit of introspection is in order)
We are now in a time of action. The words we type here will not contribute one whit to the restoration of Liberty. I am not saying leave the porch and start hunting Bad People. I am saying that action should be part of every single day of every single Patriot, in addition to words.
Whining, crying, moaning, wailing, hand-wringing, moral quibbling while Bad People are out there taking your Liberty as trophies is pointless. Think Nero.
When will the first Enemy of Liberty be found duct taped to the flag pole at City Hall with a III sticker stapled to his forehead? Hell, when will one of us even find the balls to egg his house?
It is time for Sons of Liberty to do Hard Things.
Kerodin
III
