Tempting Samson. "ThinkProgress" replays the moldy oldie Borgian favorite "Resistance Is Futile" tune on their collectivist gramophone.

First read this: "Georgia Candidate Says 2nd Amendment Includes Right To ‘Take Up Arms Against The Government’" -- the comments are clueless but priceless.

It’s doubtful that, should an American dictator somehow try to consolidate power, citizens armed with firearms would actually be able to halt that dictator’s rise through violent resistance. The United States is a nuclear power, and our military has the most sophisticated weapons of war in the world. Ordinary gun owners do not. Nor do they have a constitutional right to possess such weaponry. As Justice Antonin Scalia explained in District of Columbia v. Heller “dangerous and unusual weapons” are not protected by the Second Amendment. . .

As if that means a damn thing in a 4GW civil war. These folks are so without a clue, which is what makes them dangerous.

I would like to refer these self-inflicted blind and deaf fools -- tap dancing in a minefield that they fail to comprehend -- to my piece from last December: "Why Barack Obama and his collectivist minions should be reading Ender's Shadow. The elites that aren't and the fatal arrogance of tyrants."

I quoted, among other paragraphs, this from Ender's Shadow:

There was no way, at the beginning of this battle, to predict that the Buggers would make such a mistake. Yet throughout history, great victories had come as much because of the losing army's errors as because of the winner's brilliance in battle. The Bugger's have finally, finally learned that we humans value each and every individual human life. We don't throw our forces away because every soldier is the queen of a one-member hive. But they've learned this lesson just in time for it to be hopelessly wrong -- for we humans do, when the cause is sufficient, spend our own lives. We throw ourselves onto the grenade to save our buddies in the foxhole. We rise out of the trenches and charge the entrenched enemy and die like maggots under a blowtorch. We strap bombs on our bodies and blow ourselves up in the midst of our enemies. We are, when the cause is sufficient, insane.

They don't believe we'll use Dr. Device because the only way to use it is to destroy our own ships in the process. . . Win or lose, there'd be no human survivors from this battle.

They've never seen us make a move like that. They don't understand that, yes, humans will always act to preserve their own lives -- except for the times that they don't. In the Bugger's experience, autonomous beings do not sacrifice themselves. Once they understood our autonomy, the seed of their defeat was sown. . . They had no way of knowing the story of blind Samson, who pulled down the temple on his own head to slay his enemies.

I concluded with this:

The domestic enemies of the Constitution, those who would rule as tyrants over us, whose appetites for our liberty, our property and our lives seem insatiable, do not understand this. As I have written before, they extrapolate their intended victims' expected behavior from their own cowardice, knowing that THEY would not risk imprisonment or death in standing up to the imperial federal government over something as unimportant to them as liberty or property. Their lives and comfort are the most important things to them. They have no true principles beyond that and the accumulation of power. Thus they do not understand, truly understand, that there are in fact people who would die for their principles. More importantly from their point of view, there are not only people who are willing to die for their principles but to kill in righteous defense of them as well. And, not to put too fine a point on it, such people are willing to kill THEM as well -- these proto-tyrants who would rob our children of their traditional, God-given and inalienable rights to liberty, property and life.

This is why the hive collectivists of Obama and Company should be reading Ender's Shadow. We will not act the way they expect us to act -- the way our previous patience and forbearance has led them to believe that we will act -- and their next depredation, no matter how minor it may seem to them, could lead to their utter destruction just as it did to the fictional Bugger queen and all her race. And they will be, just as the Bugger queen, utterly astonished when it happens.

These are words that Harry Reid should contemplate as he promises us that "This is not over." They are words that should be considered by all the Mandarin class who seek to rule us and the "intellectuals" of the collectivist press who try to justify it. When their tyrannical bad behavior finally hits the tripwire, they will be utterly astonished at what the resulting explosion will be, and more importantly to their self-obsessed, self-important ways, just exactly who will be laid low when it happens. They will be utterly astonished. And it is all so predictable.