Don’t be livestock; take a stand against government violence

In today’s America, violent revolutionary actions are not necessary to uphold our civil rights.

Martin Luther King Jr. understood this, and refused to resort to violence at all cost, because he knew the power, the stock, that is put into the people of a democracy.

His refusal of violence is what made his mission of civil rights successful. He was great because he fought illegal acts of violence with legal acts of non-violence. Because of our system of government, he was able to accomplish his civil rights movement with reason, and not force.

As long as the American government remains a democracy, violence isn’t needed to establish the people’s rights within our government.

In fact, the only time I would ever advocate revolutionary violence would be if our government refused to listen to the voices of the people, therefore ceasing to be a democracy.

The founding fathers proved, by crafting the Second Amendment, that they understood that even a democracy such as ours is capable of devolving into an entity that would exhaust a population’s civil ability to stop its government from infringing upon their god-given rights.

A government like this would give its people no other choice but to revolt.

To be democratic is to be human. Violence is not needed to reason with another human. Violence is only acceptable when dealing with a beast, an entity that doesn’t acknowledge or accept your natural rights as a human being.

A government that lets itself become corrupted is a flock of sheep headed by a wolf which was once under the protection of a tired shepherd.

In the beginning the wolf was too weak to kill a grown sheep so he started with the lambs. One by one, under the lazy eye of the shepherd, he took them.

He stripped those citizens of their rights one at a time, starting with the rights they cared the least about and were the easiest to let go.

Through his consumption, he became stronger.

Soon, not only could he kill the full grown sheep, robbing the people of their most innate rights, but he killed the very shepherd that through his negligence, brought about the ruin of himself and his flock.

A corrupt government is a flock shepherded by a wolf. The sheep’s needs are reflected under the rule of the shepherd; the wolf doesn’t acknowledge the needs of his sheep, he only understands his own needs and that is to feed and survive, and he will allow the sheep the right to live, to eat, but only so that he doesn’t run out of food all at once.

What course of action should our people take if we were to allow our government to decay into this kind of beast? We have no other option: we must be our own shepherds. We must be active, attentive, conscious.

If our guard was to slip, if we turn a blind eye, and let the wolf thrive under our upturned noses, we leave ourselves with no other choice but to revolt.

Invoke the animal in man, bite, tear, and claw our rights back out of the gripping hands of corruption and avarice, the rights that separate men from sheep.

King mastered non-violent rebellion, and he was effective.

But in current times, if we choose non-violence, we would be no better than cattle, for we would have as much freedom as they do.

As we slaughter cattle, for to profit from their bounty, so does a corrupt government slaughter its people’s rights, it maims and disfigures them until they no longer resemble a human.

It is better to fight and die free, than it is to live as cattle, passive and disfigured.