Anticipate a surge of immigrants and worse — dual citizenship voting.
Anticipate a ramping up of hate speech laws.
In other words — we’d be in one heck of a mess.
The Soviet free speech hawks used xerox machines illegally.
That’s about how we would end up.
Some people would report their guns stolen and prefer shotguns — no rifling to track shootings.
Some people would buy a lot of cool looking metalshop machines for ‘no reason in particular’.
But bottom line — keep your head down. Others will act rashly — try to find out how it goes when they do.
It also depends on your talents and resources.
We should all learn to make IEDs.
Thus, save your old cellphones and used plastic containers, like for bleach.
My tagline has been unchanged for about a year now. It remains relevant.
We could do the samizidat, but modern copiers and printers have hard drives to record what was copied for forensic purposes.
If you mean the samizdat, realize that those news/opinion flyers were reproduced by hand. Most were copied on manaual typewriters with carbons. Some hand written. There were no “Xerox” type copiers in the USSR at that time, back when trade restrictions actually meat something.
In Czechoslovakia, as late as the mid 80’s copier access was strictly and rigidly controlled. In a government engineering office the sole copier was in a locked room with a political officer having the keys. Who inspected every page brought in for copying. Related to me by a Czech architect emigre.
During the Shah’s regime in Iran, the Ayatollah Khomeini from exile in Paris had hundreds of tape cassettes smuggled into the country which contained his exhortations to depose the Shah. France is reaping what they sowed.
There are tens of thousands of home printers available in garage sales, consignment shops and else that are sold for cash, no receipts or ID required. Anonymous.
Fact is no western government can controll the flow of private information without first having to resort to Soviet era restrictions.
Think about phone and camera memory chips from equipment that has become obsolete or out of style. Easy to store huge chunks of text and pass them on, destroying the identifiable source instrument.
I’m Canadian but take a keen interest in US politics. Wife is American and kids are dual. Canada is no picnic with daddy’s boy Trudeau in charge, but I can imagine things being actually worse in the US than Canada if Hillary wins. Maybe I’m hysterical but I see it as the end of the Republic.