{"id":1571,"date":"2013-01-23T00:32:57","date_gmt":"2013-01-23T06:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=1571"},"modified":"2013-01-23T00:34:32","modified_gmt":"2013-01-23T06:34:32","slug":"violence-in-america-futile-or-productive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=1571","title":{"rendered":"VIOLENCE IN AMERICA—FUTILE? – OR PRODUCTIVE?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Attitude without Catalyst = Stalemate<\/p>\n

Passion without Action = Frustration<\/p>\n

Frustration without Release = Violence<\/p>\n

Violence without Focus = Anarchy<\/p>\n

Question:\u00a0 Will the coming violence in the streets of America be productive to restore our freedom, or will it be futile like Tiananmen Square or the Arab \u201cSpring\u201d?<\/p>\n

Our own government is up and armed with five rounds apiece for every one of us.<\/p>\n

The Resistance urgently needs to get organized before they start using it.<\/p>\n

“One if by land, and two if by sea;
\nAnd I on the opposite shore will be,
\nReady to ride and spread the alarm
\nThrough every Middlesex village and farm,
\nFor the country folk to be up and to arm.”<\/p>\n

—–from Paul Revere\u2019s Ride (read the entire poem aloud and see if it fires you up—as it should)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Attitude without Catalyst = Stalemate Passion without Action = Frustration Frustration without Release = Violence Violence without Focus = Anarchy Question:\u00a0 Will the coming violence in the streets of America be productive to restore our freedom, or will it be futile like Tiananmen Square or the Arab \u201cSpring\u201d? Our own government is up and armed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspire_lifter","category-political-cultural"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1571"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1571"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1573,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1571\/revisions\/1573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}