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Posted on 01/07/2013 6:54:35 AM PST by Travis McGee
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Many, many thanks, Sir, for posting this.
Assuming they "resist you with force of arms" pro-actively and openly with even generic hunting rifles at 200+ yard distances, law enforcement as we currently know it would evaporate by decimation or intimidation. "First responders" would no longer be responding: a call to 911 would yield nothing, you are on your own.
Existing and would-be criminals would run rampant resulting in chaos (flash mob lootings, rapes, murders) and eventually all-out anarchy, likely resulting in the loss of the most basic services such re-supplying supermarkets, gas stations, the power grid, water, etc.
Gun control would be the least of anyone's concern, including LEOs and FLEAs AWOL at home protecting their own, as basic survival would take precedence: food, shelter, protection.
Tens if not hundreds of thousands will perish before any assemblence of civilization is restored. Swell.
Thanks for posting the whole article here - the printout from the link is too small for these old eyes!
Pretty much spot on, Travis.
Sent out through “The Vast Right Wing Network”.
Thank you.
"Law Enforcement Officers" and "Federal Law Enforcement Agents" should ponder carefully whether they really want to unleash societal chaos by attempting to enforce the unconstitutional dictates of oath-breaking politicians.
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What Matt is describing here in vivid details can be read as the actualization of a “Society of Control,” a termed coined by William Burroughs to describe our immediate future.
http://www.nadir.org/nadir/archiv/netzkritik/societyofcontrol.html
Society becomes an open field composed of thresholds or gateways, it becomes a continuous space of passage. Power is tripped into action at key points along the way, at key thresholds. The exercise of power bears on your movement - not so much you as a person. You’re checked in passing. The process is largely automatic, and it doesn’t really matter what you think or who you are deep down. Machines do the detecting and ‘judging’. The check just bears on a little detail - do you have enough in your bank account, do you not have a gun? It’s a highly localised, partial exercise of power that feeds up to higher levels, bottom up.
In a way the real power starts after you’ve passed, in the feed, because you’ve left a trace. Something has registered. Those registrations can be gathered to piece together a profile of your movement, or they can be compared to other people’s inputs. They can be processed en masse and systematised, synthesised. Very convenient for surveillance or crime investigation, and marketing. The checkpoint system allows information to be gathered at every step you take.
Think of how cookies work on the internet. Every time you click a link, you’re registering your tastes and patterns, which are then processed and thrown back at you in the form of flip-up ads that try to get you to go to particular links and hopefully buy something. It’s a feedback loop, and the object is to modulate your online movement.
Now policing works more and more through gatekeeping - detection, registration and feedback. Police action, in the sense of an arrest, comes out of this movement-processing loop as a particular kind of feedback. Instead of passing through the gate, a gun is detected by the machine, and a police response is triggered, and someone gets arrested. Police power becomes a function of that other kind of power, that we were calling control, or movement-based power. It’s a local stop-action that arises out of the flow and is aimed at safeguarding it.
It becomes one big, self-propelling feedback machine. It turns into a kind of automatism, and we register collectively as individuals through the way we feed that automatism, by our participation in it, just by virtue of being alive and moving. Socially, that’s what the individual is now: a checkpoint trigger. Power is now distributed. It trickles down to the most local, most partial checkpoint. There is no distance anymore between us, our movements and the operations of power
The constant security concerns insinuate themselves into our lives at such a basic, habitual level that you’re barely aware how it’s changing the tenor of everyday living. You start ‘instinctively’ to limit your movements and contact with people.
As Luther nailed his 95 Theses to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, this needs to be nailed to the the doors of the offices of BATFE, DHS, TSA, etc.
Well done, Sir! I stand with you!
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Matt, thank you.
You are a treasure.
Excellent article.
Ohhh Rahh! Take heed LEO’s and FLEA’s.
Since Heidi Heitkamp (D-sen N Dak) has stated that the portending legislation is so draconian that it won’t pass we have to consider this. So much stuff will be included that it could lead the republicans to a compromise position on fewer (but grossly invasive) rules and regs. If the reps have any cojones left (if barney frank is holding them for everybody) they will refuse to sign on and if smart (oxymoronic I know) they will attach all sorts of things to the bill(s) that there is no way the dems could possibly sign on to them. We just have to wait and see how it plays out. Meantime, inundate your rep and sens so they get the message. Don’t think I’ll be hearing back from mr.reid.
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Freedom requires that an individual has around himself a circle of privacy into which governments do not intrude. Sadly, people seem determined to give up that circle of privacy in return for supposed government benefits or security.
One issue is whether or not you are armed. We are seeing where gun registration can be used to violate that circle of privacy. Register legally and public pressure can be brought to bear, and down the road even confiscation. Fail to register and ipso facto you are a felon.
I see something similar in the registration of your financial assets. If all your assets are “registered” with the IRS or the various banking agencies, you are subject to pressure and manipulation; confiscation by means of lawsuits or simply legal pressure that bankrupts you. If you have bank accounts you don’t tell them about, you may find yourself a felon. We are seeing how the long arm of the law is making it difficult for American citizens to operate financially abroad to the point that overseas banks refuse to open accounts for Americans. Some have gone to the extreme of abandoning their US passports as the only means of getting around this legally.
Steps you might take to lower your financial profile and avoid triggering automatic surveillance of your finances can itself be considered a felony. So we are in the situation that any effort to keep your assets private can lead to those assets being stripped from you. Everyone must have permission from the beast to buy and sell, it seems.
You are 100% correct.Of course this inclusdes the last census in which GPS locations of every household were taken along with the name of the head of household, now a descrete data base KEPT by the White House itself ( the last census was removed from the Commerce Dept and placed under the White House directly.).
Also few understand why FEMA is equipped the way it is with large regional concerrtina wire secured camps and thousands of box cars designed to transport humans.
Also if you research some of the stimulus spending you will see that even the most remote of US Canada border crossings now can be closed and secured to keep American Citizens in , with huge girder beam steel gates, concrete bunkers,
and prison ground style illumination for small arms night sighting.
See here:
A new law prohibits the use of video or camera equipment at border crossings.Try to take any pictures and if you are caught border agents will confiscate your camera equipment.
Americans freedom of movement on the ground in and out of the country now can be halted with the signature of one presidential executive order, the hardware to lock America IN is now in place.
If a citizen becomes a threat to Obama, he can have a drone over that persons home in a matter of minutes, inputting the GPS data he has on every US household from the 2008 census, and with no one even knowing that the data base is being used in that way ( the real danger). (You have already seen how the left has used data bases and the internet to map out gun owners in New York State).
The government and the left are at war with America. Only a few realize this fact, because the war has been coming and tightening on America gradually.
What we really need are committees of safety organized in every county across the country:
See here:
http://constitution.org/mil/cos/cos_setup.htm
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