You are in good company....
At least from a literary standpoint.
If you want to get the attention of the masses, ........ knock out the TV, especially during a major sports game or event.
Tom Clancy used this idea in his book The Sum of All Fears. Muslim terrorists explode a nuclear bomb at Mile High Stadium during the Superbowl (the President is supposed to be at the game). They get help smuggling it across the US and into the stadium parking lot, disguised as TV equipment, from an Indian (Native American), who is ticked at the govt for a number of things, the latest the killing of his brother during a hostage situation. He thinks it is just a bomb and that they are going to bring attention to their cause by knocking out the TV during the Superbowl. And, of course, they murder him after the bomb is planted. There is a lot more to the book, it, like many of Clancy's novels, is a good read.
As to a line in the sand? Well, I hope to be able to recognize the handcuffs, but I draw the line at voluntarily putting them on. We discuss this often, and more often around election time, or when new gun control legislation looms in the halls of Congress. Most of us are too involved with our lives to drop everything and march in DC, but that doesn't mean that there is nothing for us to do.
It is a fact, but a little publicised one today, that not all the colonists were in favor of the Revolution. Today we seem to believe that everyone was against the Crown, except for a handful of Tories. The reality was that only about a third of the colonists were for revolution, and about a third were fro the Crown (Tories), and the remaining third just wanted to live their lives and be left alone. Support for independence remained perilously thin until the revolutionary forces had won a few victories, then, as people will, more and more supported the cause.
The Founding Fathers and those who joined with them risked all, and some lost all for a cause and an ideal. Some denigrate these men (and women) because they were only human, and were not able to achieve all the liberty and equality for all that was the ideal at the time of the Revolution. It took many years afterward to make further steps in this direction, and indeed, we are not fully there even today, but we are closer than ever before in man's history.
The path still lies before us, unless we falter and allow ourselves to become complacent serfs in all but name, led and ruled by an elitist class. Hereditary or not, it matters but little to those on the bottom. And a ruling elite is something we nearly have today. The only real differences between the ruling elite today and the old nobility system is that today, the elite are less blatant in their uses of personal power, constantly mouth platitudes about how they care for the lesser folk, and that they allow newcomers to join them, if they are successfull enough to garner the wealth and influence that is needed.
Against rule by a "nobility" (whether determined by blood, schooling, political belief or any other criteria) our Founding Fathers and those who stood with them pledged their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor. When the time comes, and you recognize it as such, are you going to do less?
I pray it does not happen in my lifetime, but if it comes to pass, I will do what I can, as I can, so my children and grandchildren will be as well prepared to face the future as I can make them.
