PIRACY, SECURITY, PEACE, & PROSPERITY
Whether it is in Iraq, Afghanistan, the U.S. southern border, Timbuktu, or in the high seas, there are some basic rules of Life and Living that are sometimes too obvious to mention, and unfortunately those details do not get addressed. Please allow me to present a remedy.
You cannot have Life and Living; that is, "survival," and prosperity, without first establishing security. Indulge me for a moment for the analogy. Let's say you are out in the wilderness somewhere in a "frontier" area, you and your tribe.
Your family is one of a group of families brought together by some common purpose, even if that purpose is just that you are in the same location.
You proceed to hunt together, plant some crops, build some huts, occasionally have a community feast, and handle survival problems such as shelter, food, basic hygiene, etc.
One day the "outlaw barbarians" appear out of nowhere on horseback, to plunder, pillage, rape, and kill.
They make off with your daughters and wives and kill a number of your fellows.
After some wound licking the survivors put things back together as well as possible and with the passage of time, get the small tribe going again, at which point the violent outlaws on horseback appear again, only to plunder and pillage, etc., and leave the village in ruins once again.
Taking note of this, one of the survivors decides that enough is enough, and so he orders a meeting of the survivors, and leads them to train in defense and fighting. More members then set traps to capture or kill the intruders. They drill having raids, and what they will do with the intruders once they enter the village. They get proficient at it, all the while re-building and getting on with Life and Living.
The outlaws show up again one day to plunder and pillage, and although the villagers suffer some casualties, they nevertheless kill or capture the culprits. They justly lop off the heads of the surviving intruders and place them on spears at the entrance of the village to warn other potential plunderers and pillagers.
Then with captured weapons they augment their arsenal and vow never to allow anything like that to ever happen again, and they adopt a policy of "Security is necessary in order to have Peace in which to prosper."
And so they do.
While this may seem an oversimplification, there are plenty of examples in history, and indeed in current events that exemplify these principles. Security in Iraq is allowing the populace there to begin to achieve survival and prosperity, however, fragile that may be.
But the people there were not able to advance to the current status without first getting to the point that "enough was enough," routing the miscreants (terrorists), beefing up their military and police, and now advancing into enough Peace so that they can prosper. Granted, they had some help, no?
The same needs to occur in Afghanistan, by whatever measure or method necessary.
The same applies to piracy and the high seas.
In your own neighborhoods, should the police happen to ignore, turn a deaf ear to your security ( and this does happen in some neighborhoods) you have a responsibility to make the police establish the security necessary for the protection of you and yours, or develop the means necessary to make it happen, i.e. neighborhood watch, security volunteers.
Perhaps you know of communities that have done this.
Without question the sequence is this: Establish security. Create the Peace, so that you can then get on with the business of Life and Living. Maintain that order and enhance it so you can flourish and progress.
It may be harder and more complex than however simple it may sound, but this is what is necessary in order to prevail. It is true for an individual, a group, a tribe or a nation, or for the transport or commerce at sea.
The patty-caking with pirates at sea appears to have ended with the recent rescue of hostages and their captain by our Vanguards of Freedom, this time the U.S. Navy.
Additional acts of piracy and kidnappings indicate, however, that the message has not been sent loudly enough nor clearly enough, but a vital precedent has been set with the actions of our Navy.
The pirates (plunderers and pillagers) regardless of their age or deprived childhoods need to be neutralized by whatever means, else piracy will not cease.
Here at home, the piracy of socialism, must also meet the same fate, so that the plunderers and pillagers, those that seek to seize and confiscate wealth that you produce for you and your family. The pirates must be expelled from their elected office and replaced with representatives that will establish the security and peace in which you can prosper and progress.
This requires a shoulder to shoulder effort locally, regionally and nationally, with the additional aim of establishing and maintaining as policy that it never occur again that pirates achieve or acquire the office and means of pillaging and plundering the fruit of your endeavors.
Such a movement has taken root and the broad manifestation of tea parties across the country is testimonial to this fact.
And as a note, feel not insulted by the reactions to our grass root efforts, the "pirates'" attempts to ridicule and belittle the prairie fire that will soon consume them. Take heed of their reactions, but grant them only the value of dogs barking at the wheels and the exhaust of fire engines transsporting the fire-men and women speeding to extinguish a blazing conflagration.
Measure their objections as a validation of a job well done, and continue with the successful actons. Such actions have brave and noble precedent, as ordained by the preamble of our Constitution.
We, the People, must once and forever, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our posterity...
The steps are these. From chaos you create and establish SECURITY. From that SECURITY you create and establish PEACE. From that PEACE you create and establish SURVIVAL. From that SURVIVAL you create and establish PROGRESS. All the while you enhance each step, acquiring affluence and expanding each.
SECURITY > PEACE > SURVIVAL > PROGRESS > AFFLUENCE > EXPANSION/GROWTH
VAN