Three Choices...One is Gone, the Second is Hanging by a Thread...

As free people, "free" is a bit nebulous and deserves some anchoring context, as least as it applies here.

Free is simply to live life, as you decide, unmolested by onerous governance.  Live and let live is one way to put it.  Libertarianism (capital L) boils down to no government, and that is as much a pipe dream utopia as the rainbow-dream utopia of liberals.  Such things have never worked, and can never work, because they do not mesh with human nature.

Capitalism (nb: not corporatism) works, and is superior because it works with human nature...it pits greed and selfishness against greed and selfishness.  It does not entertain fantasy; it embraces the dark reality that our nature is selfish, evil.

Back to the topic...three choices.  Those choices, in our federal republic, are simply stated: ballot box, jury box and ammo box.

The ballot box option, our first and most civil choice, is largely irrelevant in this modern time, due to past subtle, and presently blatant efforts to subvert the honesty of the process.  Mass (manipulated by the media) attempts to force the populace to accept the necessity of mail-in voting, in spite of its vulnerability to being hijacked by dishonesty, is being widely accepted by most, who are kept in fear of this virus.  Talk about a win for those who are counting on a dishonest process!  So this process, option one of three, has been on life-support for some time...but now it is dead.  By all means, vote!  But know it may not count as much as you hoped.

Our second choice, jury box, refers to jury nullification.  That is the power of a jury to overlook the evidence and to judge the law itself.  It is their absolute right...a right which NOBODY in the legal community dare discuss.  It is the giant elephant in the courtroom, whom the judge and court officers hope and pray you do not know about.  This choice is still, and always will be an option.  But it is suppressed, almost to the point of non-existence.  Telling people about this idea can be construed as a crime.  If this does not wake you up to the idea that the system is rigged against you, I wonder what would.

The final option, the ugliest of all, is the ammo box.  This is not subtle, but obviously brutal, and one which every sane man finds the most detestable.  But the fact is, when one runs out of all the sane options, only the insane remains.  Our founding fathers understood this well.  Read the Declaration of Independence.  It is not some laundry list of adolescent gripes.  It enumerates the many failures of the British Monarchy.  It was, as the signers knew, a death sentence for them, should they fail.  After the Declaration, there was no "plan B."

This is where we are now.  Voting is nearly meaningless.  Juries are filled with regular people who, for the most part, do not understand our present situation and its threat to liberty, nor do they understand their power to judge the law.

This only leaves option three, the ugliest and bloodiest of all.

History doesn't really repeat, but it rhymes.  We are on the cusp of a fourth turning, which will rhyme in some way with all the fourth turnings prior.  It is human nature, after all.

Be ready to hunker down.  Escape and evade is relevant.  And if you have to, reach for the ammo box.