A plan like this would only work if the voters have dramatically demonstrated they will tolerate no further abuse of power by either elected politicians or the sprawl of so-far unaccountable civil servants, judges, and other bureaucrats.

As much as I hate the thought of this country plunged into a bloody era of political strife, the Left has for more than a decade already been using low-level violence to intimidate dissenters. The most conspicuous recent examples are widely distributed photographs of SEIU thugs assaulting a black conservative who pissed them off by attending his Congressional Rep’s “Town Hall Meeting” to protest the terms and bullying techniques used to pass ObamaCare.

But over the past decades, it’s the Democrats who have in a number of recent elections found carloads of ballots which miraculously “elect” their candidates, approved without challenge by Democratically appointed election officials. It’s Democrat political appointees to the Department of Justice who refuse to pursue the most blatant instance of voter intimidation by the so-called New Black Panther Party. It was a Democrat campaign worker who in August 2009 vandalized the Democrat Party offices in Denver, which event the Democrats attempted to blame on Republicans and conservatives. It’s Democrat – appointed federal judges who so frequently nullify overwhelming referendum results by voters attempting to decide issues within their states. In 2005, five Democrat “activists” including the sons of a Democrat Congressional Rep and the former acting mayor of Milwaukee, were arrested for slashing the tires of almost 30 rented vans the Republican party intended to use to help get voters to the polls on 2004 Election Day. They plea bargained from felony charges to misdemeanor convictions.

A newsmax.com article from January of 2006 reminds that John Kerry carried Wisconsin on that day by only 11,384 votes, in a mostly Democrat controlled state which allows same-day voter registration. Over 84,000 voters were allowed to register at the polling places on the day of the election. After the election, Milwaukee officials acknowledged that some 10,000 of the “same-day” registrations could not be verified as valid. (The Wall Street Journal has published an article by John Fund pointing out that the Democrat-dominated Wisconsin state legislature has been attempting THIS YEAR to ram through bills that would allow even easier election fraud.)

The partially taxpayer funded activist group ACORN — which for years paid Obama for his services — was under investigation for hundreds of well-documented cases of fraudulent voter registration in a number of states long before videotapes showed their employees willingly coaching and encouraging felony bank and tax fraud. Despite moves to cut federal funding for the criminal organization, they changed names, and still operate unrestricted and continue to receive federal funds, thanks to the efforts of a mostly Democrat Congress.

Is this how we want things to be done in our country?

These power-mad bastards have shown they don’t give a sh*t about what voters want. Even life-long registered Democrats have finally begun to understand that the people they have repeatedly returned to office have transformed into monsters. Tea Party rallies and meetings draw a broad spectrum of America’s citizens

I listened a couple of nights back to Nancy Pelosi, Stenny Hoyer, Chris van Hollen, and House majority whip James Clyburn in their Democratic weekly press conference. It was a prolonged exercise in cognitive dissonance. One has to admire the con artist who despite being caught lying, soldiers onward, spewing more and more outrageous lies heaped upon counter-factual assertions followed by fantasies and more lies.

These folks are very good at their act.

I can understand how a person who only passively watches the Mainstream Media and seeks no independent verification, would perceive these folks as just regular folks, pleasant, guileless, sincere, trustworthy.

So, while I salute Mr. Linbeck for an excellent idea, I despair that the people in power are not looking for any change that in any way threatens to reduce their dominance. They have shown emphatically that they are perfectly willing to violate the U.S. Constitution, federal and state law, and their own stated principles in order to further their grip on the country.

Rationality means nothing to these people. These are after all the same folks who applauded William Jefferson Clinton’s use of INS paramilitary agents with submachine guns to burst in the early morning hours into a apartment to abduct Elian Gonzales and deport him back to Cuba, after his mother had drowned in her attempt to bring him to freedom in the U.S. They now insist in the same breath that law enforcement officers have no right to ask any person for confirmation of U.S. citizenship, but that an employer should be fined and jailed for failure to do exactly that to determine whether an applicant for a job is a U.S. citizen.

I do not think for an instant that these people will peacefully yield the control that they have accumulated by criminal abuse of the system.

Buy more AMMO.

Plant a garden. Learn Canning. Learn first aid. If you’re hemmed in by typical zoning laws, learn to raise chickens and rabbits. Sheep and goats, if you live in a rural area. Self-reliance is a great set of skills to learn, even if the results of the present governmental idiocies turn out to be less drastic than the pessimists warn. (Think “marauders.”)

And it should be a good thing to engage with your neighbors before the next election.

p.s. L3, Japan is a fine example, so long as you keep in mind the extreme methods which were required to convince the Japanese to give our ideas a try.