Banners for Constitutionalists
from The Sly Tyrant's Handbook
  

Δ  Citizens who are not outraged have not grasped the scale of their disaster — nor its intentionality.
  

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Δ  Envy is a hardy perennial: the well-structured Republic expects and utilizes envy, other systems succumb to it.

Δ  There hardly could be a simpler assault on the concept of, and potential for, true Nobility in American statesmanship, than the casual downgrading of Washington's Birthday and Lincoln's Birthday into Presidents' Day, where these best are like the worst.

Δ  Managers of a covertly controlled Democracy lull the masses into self-congratulation for merely voting. Pioneers of an openly structured Republic shift the ground so it is a matter of conscience for citizens to inform themselves and vote thoughtfully on principle, but shameful to vote casually or uninformed.

Δ  A prudently structured Republic is not designed primarily to propel the Best of men to power, but to prevent the Worst of men from establishing themselves in Absolute power.

Δ  Big Bore politicians are no substitute for high-caliber Statesmen.
  

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Δ  As Politics is the Artfully Possible, too often we have done the Regrettable; but (in a Free Republic) we retain the Constitutional opportunity to re-do it aright.

Δ  Constitutional debates in the Supreme Court, so far as they stray afield from the precision of Originalism and Strict Construction, necessarily must be about how much further will the Constitution be distorted and redirected via the case before them.

Δ  Citizens who believe that teaching American Patriotism is stupid and old-fashioned, have not anticipated the baleful Consequences of what we will be given in its place.
  

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Δ  Domestic weaponry of both offense and defense is mostly psychological; keep your wits about you.

Δ  Arms Control is a clever strategy to disarm the naive while strengthening the clever. Reference the military buildups of Imperial Japan, Nazi Germany, and the Soviet Union — while disarmament treaties hampered their intended target nations.

Δ  Define the Battlefield to your advantage. If the enemy be strong by Land, hem their forces by Sea; if they excel Militarily upon your territory, thwart them with Sabotage, or with Propaganda in their own country. Conversely, in whatever places or aspects you are the stronger, do not let the nature of the Battlefield go by default, but Shape it yourselves.
  

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Δ  The Hummingbird's unique flight earns it great Self-Confidence; but when we have seen our Cat rouse from her watchful repose to catch hummingbirds on the Wing, we learn how avian Audacity may be clawed down by the feline's Prudent Leap.

Δ  Inspiration and Optimism are foes to Control.

— the Sly Tyrant

© 2012 Robert Wilfred Franson