Posted on 04/30/2014 5:56:24 AM PDT by EBH
My Full Agreement. The chinese saying or curse of may you live in interesting times is fully on display. We Are There.
The few who resist will be easily picked off and made public examples of, and the climate of fear that such red revolutions install will be realized right here.
Until recently I would have agreed. I'm not so sure now.
The response at the Bundy ranch could be a game changer in the way the despots see conservatives, particularly armed ones. It certainly was more than I ever expected.
I don't want to be overly dramatic, but I found it a little inspiring and heartening. I imagine many others did also.
The Ruling Class will not allow that to stand.
You are going to see the ruthlessness of the regime yet displayed in that instance. Bundy and those who stood with him WILL be punished.
And very publicly.
Such is the history of Marxists/Maoists/Fascists, Socialists and Leftists towards those who dare defy them.
And maybe am listening to the wrong music or something this day for the picture I painted (above) is not a picture anyone of us should ever have to face yet one day that day may come.
I don’t doubt what you say will happen. However now a little more than in the past I am coming to believe that if they get too carried away with the repression you may see more resistance than you expect. That’s what I took away from the Bundy incident.I understand that the more we resist the more brutal the repression will become but is possible that brutality may engender an even greater and more dynamic resistance.
It has often played out that way in other countries when the despots have pushed too hard. The right spark is out there.
Look at the Sterling case if you want to see how the zeitgeist can totally destroy a person’s rights in the face of totalitarianism, and instill a precedent for institutionalized repression that is rarely resisted or overcome.
When this people see the public punishment of those targeted, few are going to be willing to risk what is necessary. Hell, look at how quickly the churches are folding to the mob pressures to marry homosexuals.
The long war is not something I think this people are willing to endure given how soft we have become in our prosperity and how quickly we expect gratification.
Just an observation we need to be mindful of for our own survival.
I agree. We are losing the social end of the culture war with the fascists. And losing it faster and more completely than I believed possible at one time.
No, I’m thinking more of the iron (and armed) fist repression of the official government. That is where the overstepping *may* light the fuse of *serious* resistance.
The culture war? We abdicated that long ago. We can’t even publicly criticize crap like transgendered military personnel. What is transgendered besides just deviant behavior of mentally ill people?
I’m getting old. I’m doing what I can to protect my family and if they come for me? Well F ‘em, I am willing to try taking company with me when I leave the mortal plane.
First, I'll note this came to light from an illegal recording of a private conversation with his mistress. In itself, in no way an action suggesting criminality. Absent legitimate accusations of illegal discrimination in the conduct of his business, the Clipper business. None of the government's business.
He's clearly worthy of condemnation, which he's getting plenty of, but that's about it.
His relationship with the NBA is a private one as well, governed by his contractual obligations. The ban is a private issue which he clearly agreed to in the context of his business. A common issue in the private sector, I've no problems with it.
Selling the team, I suspect there are some problems there. If he agreed to those terms, let the lawyers sort it out, but I'll bet that penalty isn't spelled out all that specifically. But he's not much different with any employee or franchisee who had signed a contract with conduct or morals clauses, which are common.
But it's not a speech issue, rather a contractural issue.
Wonder what the media would say if Monica didn't just saved the dress, but recorded their sessions. She'd be a wealthy woman, that's for sure. But the tapes would be rejected as worthy of discussion as a private matter, discussions between a President and his mistress. Could come up with plenty of examples, both parties. Aren't cell phones wonderful.
The mob, the zeitgeist, the Political Correctness, makes no distinction.
The government and it's Praetorian Media stoke the mob, and the end result is the Beast and it's mark being imposed.
Even if the government itself appears plausibly deniable.
I don’t disagree with you on the legal merits.
But I may not have made myself clear as wanting to put the Freedom of Speech issue to the side for the moment and to look at what is really going on and to raise up this idea of “social justice,” and how it is being applied.
Nobody, but nobody is asking why this old bigot was being recorded in the first place. I understand now, there are even more recordings of him in private. If it wasn’t for blackmail or extortion...what was it for? To bring social justice to an 80 year old man?
Why did Joe Biden call the league prior to Silver handing out this social justice punishment on the man’s morality? The press has us believe it was to give support for the strongest of punishments and to stand behind the players on this. Really? Can we get of FOIA on that phone call? When the government relies on ‘social justice’ to move its agenda forward how can we be protected from it then?
The similarities to Mao’s Red Guard and how Mao supported their illegal action and human right’s violations are there. If you haven’t taken the time to watch the linked video at the end of my initial post, please do so. The regime is following the ‘soft version’ of the Mao template.
We can't. The Mob at that point can only be directed by the Ruling Class and it's media/propaganda machine, until the misery is so widespread that some have nothing left to lose and will act. By then usually there is no saving what is left of a country.
For all the talk among Christians about the 'mark of the Beast', I marvel at the fact that so many do not recognize this zeitgeist for what it truly is. That very mark they have feared for so long in myriad discussions, is upon us - and so many willing participants in it's application. If one does not think and act as the Beast demands - one cannot buy, sell or make a living. What you have will be taken away from you. Here we are. Precedent set.
We are no longer free to believe what we want, even private conversations will be actionable if one does not conform to the spirit motivating the mob. Look for the homosexual mafia to capitalize on this precedent along with the militant Muslims and Climate Change Nazis.
Once fear takes over and few to none will risk liberty to defy the mob - it's over but for the suffering and death.
What is surprising to me is the blindness. Even as new calls for social justice rise up today, no one notices we are falling into the pit, you are correct about the rest of the agenda being brought to hellish fruition,
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