The need for Action - Demosthenes: Speech Against Philip of Macedon (351 B.C.), tells his people "Quit watching the news, get off the Internet, and do somethig" My brother Patriots, History teaches us that at some point the "knowing of things" must translate to action. We can learn from History. It's all happened before. Thomas Hobbes writes in his online novel, Victoria: A Novel of Fourth Generation War: Satan, like God, has a sense of humor. His joke on us was that most of the stuff we thought was new, wasn’t. Especially the errors, blunders, and heresies; they had all been tried, and failed, and understood as mistakes long, long before. But we had lost our past, so we didn’t know. We were too busy passing around “information” with our computers to study any history. So it was all new to us, and we had to make the same mistakes over again. The price was high. This is just one example below. Here Demosthenes way back in 351 B.C. is telling the Athenians to quite watching the news, get off the internet, and do something. In this speech Demosthenes is reminding the Athenians that they were once strong. He is telling them that Philip would not have gained his present successes, never acquired his present power if Athenians had remained attentive to their duties. He is saying that Philip did not gain his power because of his strength, but because of the Athenians fell asleep at the wheel.  (I think there were wheels in 351 B.C.) "But, men of Athens, Philip saw clearly that all these outposts were but the open prizes of war, that by natural right the property of the absent belongs to those who are on the spot, and the property of the careless to those who can face toil and danger." Demosthenes tells his fellow citizens that if they are willing to take prompt action, "if each citizen is ready to throw off his diffidence and serve the state as he ought and as he best may, and if each man will cease to expect that, while he does nothing himself, his neighbor will do everything for him, then, God willing, you will recover your own, you will restore what has been frittered away, and you will turn the tables upon Philip." This part of the speech below is where I hear Demosthenes telling the Athenians, "Why wait until someone comes to your door and forces you to give up your rights, before you start fighting". And he seems to be saying, Quit listening to the friggin news and get out and do something. That if yesterdays news does not motivate you to action, tomorrow news certainly will not, and besides he says, so what if Hillary goes to prison, unless you are "On the Spot", another Hillary will rise up in her place, and you will be right back where you stated because you do nothing. When, Athenians, will you take the necessary action? What are you waiting for? Until you are compelled, I presume. Or tell me, are you content to run round and ask one another, "Is there any news today?" Could there be any news more startling than that a Macedonian is triumphing over Athenians and settling the destiny of Hellas? "Is Philip dead?" you ask. "No, indeed; but he is ill." And what is that to you? Even if something happens to him, you will soon raise up a second Philip, if that is the way you attend to your affairs; for even this Philip has not grown great through his own unaided strength so much as through our carelessness." http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/imperialism/readings/demosthenes.html You may enjoy the online novel Victoria linked above: On April 30, 1995, William S. Lind published an op ed in The Washington Post that foresaw a future breakup of the United States, driven by multiculturalism. The piece described not only America’s second civil war, but also a recovery of our traditional, Western, Christian culture. That cultural and moral recovery was led by a new country located in the northeast, which named itself Victoria because it had returned to Victorian values. Mr. Lind’s op ed has since been turned into a book, Victoria: A Novel of Fourth Generation War, by “Thomas Hobbes,”