Let's talk about supporting Liberty...

 

OH MY GOODNESS - A walled community in California!!!  The HORROR!  Hellfire's at the ready!

In posts below I recounted that roughly 1/3 of Colonists in America supported the III Patriots in the field.  But the reality is that of that 1/3 of the populace who "supported" yet chose to permit others stand in Harm's Way, let soldiers and militiamen freeze and starve in Valley Forge and all over the Colonies as they continued to conduct business, grow crops, make boots, et cetera. 

The men in the field had moral support, when they needed chickens and boots and powder and the other necessities of fighting tyranny and birthing a nation into a republic premised upon Liberty of the individual.  That 1/3 of supporters had very few people in their ranks who suffered hardships to feed the men fighting and killing and dying for them.

Also noted below is the fact that our modern III have a much smaller base of supporters who will help feed, clothe, hide and arm the Patriots who pick up a rifle, when the time comes.

Yet in our ranks of supporters today, we have men and women who know their history as well as you and I.  They know of the hardships at Valley Forge, and they have decided that they will not send others into Harm's Way without real, tangible support.  They know they can help in their own way.  They intend to fight for Liberty just as hard as any man with a rifle in his hands, even if that fighting is to be found by making certain the fighters have boots, and chicken to eat, vegetables, ammo, safe houses, intel from local sources, and in the case of WiscoDave - armor plate to protect your vital organs against enemy rifle fire.

Americans who identify with our original III Patriots are a proud and individualist people.

If you intend to go into Harm's Way and this modern American thievery system/economy has prevented you from getting all the gear you need, and your knee-jerk reaction is to decline an offer from a fellow Patriot who offers you food, boots, ammo, a better rifle, or body armor, instead of letting your pride answer, consider: You have a Patriot who wants to help win Liberty.  He knows YOU will be going into Harm's Way, into peril, to fight for the principles you and he share.  He wants to help you live and prevail - because if you live and prevail, he benefits as well.

If you deny the offer - you have denied a Patriot the ability to contribute to Liberty.

That is selfish of you.

This fight for Liberty is bigger than any single person.  Set aside whatever pride may be leading you to reject what you need to fight better and safer, and be big enough to let another Patriot help you.  Isn't this EXACTLY what we are all bitching about - that the Community is fragmented, too many are "Every man for himself..."?

In this specific case of plate for your carriers, ask yourself how many people at Valley Forge would have appreciated the people and merchants of Philadelphia showing up at camp with a few wagons of food, blankets, and such.  Do not allow some mis-guided sense of pride minimize the suffering endured by those men at Valley Forge.  You owe those men a victory today, because they provided a victory long ago that brought Liberty into the world.  Your responsibility is to keep that Liberty, by any means necessary.

Let others help you as they are able.  To decline that help is an insult to a Patriot.

Here are two links that help explain the III to III concept that we are discussing.

Wirecutter, here.

Angel, here.

Kerodin
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