News flash for wannabe revolutionaries, paramilitaries, militias, etc., etc.

“To go to war is something even the most ignorant savage does with relish; but to start a revolution requires the ability for calm, rational thought and a manly courage to risk it all that does not currently exist in this country. Where once our forefathers shot at government troops marching through the Massachusetts countryside towards Lexington and Concord, today we are a frightened little flock that goes to pieces at the thought of Goldman Sachs suffering a well-deserved bankruptcy. 2010 America does not possess what successful revolutions are made of.”

—  C. J. Maloney at Lew Rockwell

Hmm. I think Mr. Maloney underestimates human beings. But a sober appraisal of the possibility and the consequences of violence is in order.

Or, to make a slogan out of this:

Make Sense, Not War…