Quote from: Serena ♡ on April 18, 2015, 11:02:44 PM
Well that was another time/era.
Yes....
Before they had smart bombs, fuel-air explosives, cluster bombs (grapeshot doesn't count, you can see clusterbombs on Youtube), the Cornershot, shaped-charge explosives, drones delivering munitions, police armed with .50 caliber sniper rifles, SWAT delivering warrants to non-violent offenders at O-Dark-Thirty with no-knock warrants, or walking around with submachine guns, like the MP5s the cops had here in Boston for "personal defense weapons."
Not to mention 24/7 surveillance, with people WILLINGLY carrying tracking devices (Cell phones?) and everyone being told, like the Germans pre-WW2, "If you see something, SAY SOMETHING..."
There was no such thing as a main battle tank. Not even a HumVee. Horse is as close as it got. No such thing as shooting someone a mile away. No such thing as incinerating a village in the blink of an eye (FAE). No body armor to withstand rifles (which is also supposedly to be made illegal for civillians to own.)
Problem is, ALL governments turn on their citizens. It's a matter of WHEN, not IF. The founders said as much at the time.
Example: Try to buy a car without a backup camera. Not many left, and getting scarcer - 2016 models ALL have them, I understand. Why?
Because you can't see out of the windows! Why?
Because the car MIGHT roll over in an accident! MUST be able to withstand the weight of the car, even with deformations of the accident, and rollovers MIGHT happen.
On the other hand, if you could SEE out the windows, MAYBE YOU WOULDN'T HAVE THE ACCIDENT because you could SEE the other car... but "For your own safety," we now need a beeper for the seatbelt... A buzzer for the backup... Whoop-whoop for lane departure, and a tweeter for when you're "going to: hit someone in front of you, and the car will decide FOR you to slow down, stop, and whether or not the engine should be running.
But it's illegal to have your cell phone in your hand while driving, because the beeps and lights are distracting.
You want an interesting comparison to loop it all back: See how popular the EU government REALLY is. We have members there; should be easy.
As I understand, Brussels is on a par with, or lower than, the Congress here. Less than 30%.
Because they do things "for your own good," (E.G., Codex Alimentarius) that make living a PITA. they impose laws and restrictions on what you would do in your own time, which hurts no one - and imposes costs to you, even if you stay home.
For instance, those backup cameras in the US cars? Those are MANDATORY safety items.
So guess who pays for the repair when it goes wrong.
$20 for a mirror if you need to replace that. Install yourself.
I've read up to $2000 to replace the backup camera systems. Because you CANNOT do the repairs yourself; you MUST get the repairs done; and the vehicle must be disassembled for the repairs, and the repairs are necessary so you can drive it - to work, for example.
Computer-controlled ABS. Black Box electronics, like on a plane, which are also going to start telling you (and the police) when you're "speeding" - which is essential when you need to get out of the way of a MACK truck riding your bumper, for example. Or the LED lights - also essential for "safety", even though they're not headlights. How about headlights, period? $200/bulb. (More for the pretty LEDs that are there as "accents" but part of the "safety" regs now.) Checked the price compared to your expendable income yet? Approximate cost increase, 100%. IE, what used to be $15,000 is now $30-35,000. Essentially the same car. Just more distractions and alarms and big-brother stuff added. (OnStar, for example, is ALWAYS on, ALWAYS tracking you, even without a subscription. And it DOES send that data "home," and it IS shared with the mandatory Insurance Mafia.)
How many times we go over the same dog and pony show, when all it amounts to is, "Give more power to Big Brother"?
After all, it's not like governments murder their citizens. (Russia, China, Germany).
Nor perform medical experiments on them. (US: Tuskegee airmen; Germany, China)
Nor poison them (Alcohol was the method of choice in the US, as the Feds flooded the Chicago market with wood alcohol and blamed it on the moonshiners during Prohibition)
Nor do they create so many laws it's impossible to comply (prophesied in Atlas Shrugged; part of China's history; examined in "three felonies a day", available on Amazon; there are 10,000 pages of FEDERAL law alone, let alone state and local - and most are statutory, meaning your intent doesn't matter; yet the police commit crimes every day without a thought, as do MOST of our leaders of any party.)
Basic deal is: If I stick a gun in your ribs, and demand 1/3 of your income on April 15th, it's THEFT, right?
The government does that EVERY YEAR, and calls it "taxation" - and the sheep go gladly to the slaughter, while our soldiers go to kill and die on foreign shores to "spread democracy" (some of you will recall, "Make the world SAFE for democracy...")
All the while, the "elites" (E.G., G.E., Ford, McDonnel-Douglas, etc) get rich off our blood, sweat and tears - and make it harder and harder to be free.
Gatekeepers does come to mind.
And ultimately, when push comes to shove, Mao was correct: "Political power comes from the barrel of a gun." Because there's GOT to be an, "Or Else."
Example: Love him or hate him, Obama recently said he would be a shoo-in for a third term as president.
It CAN happen - he can suspend elections if there's a "crisis." I don't think he will, but play out the logic here: There's a crisis, whether a financial issue, or an EMP, or a food shortage or a plague. Elections are suspended.
When, and how, do things go back to "normal"?
Because New Orleans and the Jersey Shore are STILL sorting things out, years later.
So who will enforce the "transition" back to normal, and when? The Military? will there be a clamor of unarmed citizens, that the no-longer-elected will listen to?
Ultimately, it comes down to US. Regardless of the drones, and the FAEs, and the snipers - standing up and saying, You'll kill a lot of us, but we'll get to you eventually.
See, in the EU...? They CANNOT do that. No matter how bad it gets (Ex, firing a worthless employee) - they are already living on their knees.
Most people here don't realize - we've ALREADY been knee-capped.
Not just our right to change our bodies. Our right to own our vehicles (registration, mandatory insurance, license fees, plus the hidden taxes of speeding tickets, red light cameras - the yellow lights are shortened, BTW - and a whole BUNCH of statutory violations they can use as pretext to search the car, confiscate your assets, like the car or your cash or jewelry).
Think you own your home? Try not paying the property tax "rent" to your owners. See what happens.
Most people just aren't aware, I hope.
Because the alternative is, they're sheep - and deserve no sympathy when they get SWATed, fined, executed, or their children are arrested on trumped-up or manufactured charges, or executed.
Copblock is a biased site, but compare it to Police1 and think it over. Police1 has cops on it, celebrating the execution of restrained suspects by the cops. Same case as on CopBlock.
My question is, when the law is corrupt and inadequate, why do we still kneel to that "authority"?
Because it's shown it is the same as having NO law at all, anyway.
Same with the national government.
WE, more than most except maybe the Jews of WW2, should be able to read the writing on the wall.
Better to die on your feet, than live on your knees.
