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They Will Turn On You
townhall.com ^ | 6/12/2023 | Kurt Schlichter

Posted on 06/12/2023 9:28:33 AM PDT by bitt

Chairman Mao, the unspoken hero of our garbage ruling caste, understood that power flows from the barrel of a gun, and it’s not unreasonable to wonder whether the institutions in America that carry guns – law enforcement and the military – and who are supposed to protect us will turn those guns on us if commanded to by the ruling elite.

Stop wondering.

Their answer is that to a greater extent than those of us who grew up in America, when it was a free country before it became our present crypto-leftist tyranny, want to admit, they will. Right now, they are hiding news that undermines their rule. They are censoring opponents. They are locking up political dissidents. And eventually, when the current junta feels truly threatened by the emerging backlash from patriotic citizens, too many of these alleged protectors will kill for their masters – and I mean more than just the occasional and totally unpunished massacres of unapproved dissidents like at Waco and Ruby Ridge.

Pretty harsh? It is harsh, but it’s not wrong. Explain why that is the red line they suddenly stop at when they have blasted through the red lines of lying, of censorship, and of framing the opposition using a two-tier justice system. “Yeah, those things are fine, but we won’t go all the way. Oh no, never.” Where’s the guardrail that is going to block the trend that is now sending SWAT teams out to bust people for praying at abortion clinics from accelerating into actually using those big, scary assault rifles?

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: despotism; military; police; schlichter; tyranny; whitesupremacists
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1 posted on 06/12/2023 9:28:33 AM PDT by bitt
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2 posted on 06/12/2023 9:28:46 AM PDT by bitt (<img src=' 'width=40%>)
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To: bitt

The police and military showed us their ass on Covid and January 6th. Yes, they will turn on us. In fact, they already have.


3 posted on 06/12/2023 9:32:26 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: bitt

This has been known for a very long time and is true of any country. Read the essay called “Who Goes Nazi.”

The facts are most would turn in or at a minimum look away when others are being terrorized on a large scale. This is the human condition of our sinful nature.


4 posted on 06/12/2023 9:32:45 AM PDT by Skwor
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To: bitt

These PURE EVIL people will KILL REPUTATIONS and BAN ACCOUNTS also!!


5 posted on 06/12/2023 9:34:06 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Skwor

The Milgrams Experiment proved this.


6 posted on 06/12/2023 9:34:37 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: bitt

for many, a whole bunch comes before Country.

Unit, Corps, G-d, Country is but one.

Your local Cops are Cops first.
You, lowly Citizen, are way down the list.

Most other Public Servants, in many states, are Union Members first.

The good part about it?

“Lives, Fortunes and Sacred Honor” beat folks brought together by greed, or force.

You can look that one up.


7 posted on 06/12/2023 9:37:58 AM PDT by Macoozie (Handcuffs and Orange Jumpsuits)
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To: bitt

We’ll know it’s the end when they demand our guns. They are pushing for that now. One spark will start the fire.


8 posted on 06/12/2023 9:48:20 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: bitt

Cops and sheriffs have families….


9 posted on 06/12/2023 9:49:44 AM PDT by kaktuskid
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To: bitt

Give a loser position, money, and power and you can get him to do anything. The Nazis and Communists proved that over and over.


10 posted on 06/12/2023 9:49:49 AM PDT by TTFlyer (Lenin: that by the infliction of terror, a well-organized minority can conquer a nation.)
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To: DesertRhino
"...And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward..."

Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

11 posted on 06/12/2023 10:02:31 AM PDT by rlmorel ("If you think tough men are dangerous, just wait until you see what weak men are capable of." JBP)
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To: Ann Archy; bitt
***They are censoring opponents. They are locking up political dissidents. And eventually, when the current junta feels truly threatened by the emerging backlash from patriotic citizens, too many of these alleged protectors will kill for their masters***

We need to consider the possibility that the Chinese are beginning to run our country! Study the Hong Kong model and consider the $10 million question.

God save the Republic!

12 posted on 06/12/2023 10:04:58 AM PDT by Bob Ireland (The Democrap Party is the enemy of freedom.They use all the seductions and deceits of the Bolshevics)
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To: bitt

The military will be disarmed, as they are most of the time in this country.

The police are who will be compromised and turned. Make no mistake - it’s happened many times before.


13 posted on 06/12/2023 10:05:43 AM PDT by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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To: Skwor
"Ich schwöre Dir, Joseph Biden, als Führer und Präsident des Amerikanische Republik Treue und Tapferkeit. Wir geloben Dir und den von Dir bestimmten Vorgesetzten Gehorsam bis in den Tod. So wahr mir Gott helfe."
14 posted on 06/12/2023 10:10:16 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: bitt
Not true. It has been Free Republic Dogma since I have been on the Forum that the Police and Military are on our side. When the balloon goes up, they will be on our side. When the SHTF, the Police will side with us.

During the 2016 Presidential campaign, when Trump supporters were chased down and had the hell beat out of them and the Police watched and did nothing [I saw videos of that], the Police were on our side. During BLM Demonstrations when buildings and cars were set ablaze and people had the hell beat out of them by ANTIFA and the Police did nothing. The Police were on our side.

15 posted on 06/12/2023 10:19:45 AM PDT by sport
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To: bitt
Good for Kurt - he's already on their "naughty" list.

Most of us, though, can't talk like that for the record - one would not want to disappear during the initial round-up.

Not that I would, because I'm fully on-board the woke train.

16 posted on 06/12/2023 10:19:55 AM PDT by Psalm 73 ("You'll never hear surf music again" - J. Hendrix)
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To: bitt

Mao was right, of course.

The government has the power to kill, kidnap, and steal. It uses guns to do these things. Otherwise it couldn’t execute people, arrest and jail them, or confiscate unpaid taxes.

The government is a protection racket. The ideal situation is to have one, small, weak protection racket.

If the government becomes too weak, then there arise multiple protection rackets — which define a failed state.


17 posted on 06/12/2023 10:21:16 AM PDT by FarCenter
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To: DesertRhino

Everyone is aware of that but the sheep. The sheep will not have to be driven into the gas chambers. When the doors are open, they willingly enter.


18 posted on 06/12/2023 10:22:33 AM PDT by sport
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To: FarCenter

Might will always be right.

The Founding Fathers were only right, because they had the might to make it stick.


19 posted on 06/12/2023 10:23:20 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Macoozie

Unions for the win.


20 posted on 06/12/2023 10:30:36 AM PDT by Karliner (Heb 4:12 Rom 8:28 Rev 3, "...This is the end of the beginning." Churchill)
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