Dancing Corpses

First, the standard disclaimer: I am no activist of any stripe, and thus not a member of the Liberty Movement or anything similar. I am an observer. While I am sympathetic to some of the ideals, I was sure America was dead and irrevocably damned as a nation before the year 2000.
I read eclectically across the political spectrum, but the Liberty Movement, which overlaps with the Patriot Underground and some other things like that, is an ongoing project of study. Were I an activist, I would probably be a part of this thing, somewhere, but I know better.
Here’s what interests me: Consistently over the years, some folks gain status among the readers and activists of this thing. Then, at some point they betray themselves as astro-turf. That is, something they say makes it clear they most certainly do not belong to the movement. Maybe they don’t even pretend they belong to it, but their writings are eagerly reposted in the forums until somewhere they reveal their true colors and suddenly their names disappear. I’ve watched it time and time again. Way back in the late 1990s it was a guy who blew it when he insisted Lincoln’s policies of turning the Constitution on its head were necessary because saving the union was too important. People who were well educated about history realized he was a plant and his stuff disappeared. You rarely see his name any more.
Today we have rabid denunciation of those petitioning for secession by a few guys who were once well regarded in the Liberty Movement. You can be sure their videos and articles will cease appearing on the forums and news aggregation sites. “We see your true colors, shining through.” Anyone who believes keeping the current system is more important than liberty is astro-turf, a fake, someone who is trying to sell something shiny, but it’s just chrome plating on the chains.
Don’t make the mistake of thinking this is some racist hick southerner stripe within the Liberty Movement calling for secession. Lincoln was a far bigger racist than any of them; he seriously tried to raise money to repatriate the Africans. People who actually study the details of history, not just the civic propaganda from the official church of the state, will recognize all of this as true. The people filing these petitions on the White House website include people of all colors, and the only organized Klan type groups in existence today are all fakes run by the FBI and their pals at SPLC, etc. True racists don’t organize like that and wear funny uniforms, etc. They’re too cynical and realistic for that kind of thing, or they are utterly fake and mainstream with the mask of being carefully anti-racist.
On the other hand, I’m quite certain precious few states have anywhere near enough folks living there who would be willing to actually go it alone. All the pronunciations about it being legal or not makes not a dime’s worth of difference, since almost everything every federal employee does these days is technically illegal. Same goes for a lot of state and local employees, often defying their own regulations and laws. The point is, there is so very much astro-turfing it’s just about comical to see who finally tips their hand — it’s almost always someone who has a TV show or lots of money and influence. It’s the same thing which is just about to kill the Republican Party here in the US. The leadership, the folks who get to make all the noise and get their faces in front of the camera, are not even on the same planet as the folks they claim to lead.
I’m laughing the whole time as I watch this stuff. And is anyone the least bit surprised the victims of Sandy are getting the same, if not worse treatment, as those of Katrina? Once FEMA shows up, you might as well kiss help goodbye. With FEMA it’s all about control, and especially keeping their “clients” away from any means to report to the outside world how it’s going in their prison camp. The people in charge of any bureaucracy are so completely out of touch with genuine human need, it’s as if they are pathologically incapable of doing good of any sort. “We aren’t authorized to be nice!”
I’m not laughing at the victims, but there isn’t squat you are permitted to do for them now.