I do agree it will be more about lead than gold at that time though. If you have no currency, something will substitute for barter purposes. Otherwise it's anarchy and murder. No one will watch their family starve when you have the ability to take what you need.
As far as Obama confiscating gold, I give him a month to have half and 3 months to have 90% of it. He will have his personal army of knuckle draggers to inform on you or just break your leggs to get the info. North Korea pretty much gets what they want with no back talk, I don't see America any different after about 2-3 weeks of bloodshed. They have tanks, night vision, drones and stuff we don't even know about. To pretend a .308 will defeat the finest military on earth is a bit much. 200 patriots hole up in a compound somewhere will be met with an A-10 and a couple of 500 pounders. Just watch a few film clips on Afghanistan and see what the rags have to put up with. One could almost feel pity for them as they last about 45 seconds in a battle with the US. I have to wonder how many even complete 2 missions before they are pink mist.
Needless to say your vote is the most powerful possession a citizen has. Second to our voting properly would be educating our military and police about posse comitatus.
Well we agree that voting and educating fellow citizens is important. But we disagree on much else.
Substitute “heroin” for “gold” and it’s my point that’s made, not yours, isn’t it. Despite the umpteen trillion worldwide war on heroin over the last 50 years it’s everywhere. And of course those with heroin who come into the governments sights are either pathetic junkies or many low level dealers without much education, ethics or experience.
Gold owners are by in large neither junkies nor low level street criminals, so will be an altogether more difficult group to deal with should push come to shove. There are many advantages to being righteous - from public opinion to inner strength that go with this fact.
I think we also agree that confiscation of gold would be an obvious symbol to everyone that we are living in a fascist state. Perhaps *the* obvious symbol if done in conjunction with a massive gun confiscation.
Once it is clearly seen by a majority, or even a sizable minority of citizens that FedGov are the new Nazis then everything gets much harder for them. There are a million little ways to make life hard for them. Ask the rulers of the USSR, which certainly had every fascist control mechanism you can think of, but still lost.
I’m not sure who “Obama’s personal army of knuckle draggers” are, but I’m pretty sure they are not the commissioned officers of the US Army and Marines and the many volunteers serving under them. If Obama want’s to deputize his ACORN scum to go house-to-house searching for gold, well all I can say is millions of Americans would be gleefully happy with that.
Despite all the tanks, night-vision and what not the “rags” as you call them control most of the country on the ground. In a year or two we’ll leave and they will have essentially won. Yes, some have been killed by drones or special forces, but apparently not near enough to bring the thing to the conclusion we’d like. There are probably 100 American patriots willing to fight fascism in America for every active Taliban member, maybe 1000.
And that’s before you even begin to consider the many “disloyal” officers, oath-keepers, sabatours, turn-coat spec-ops units, and cells within the army that will drastically reduce it’s efficiency. It’s hard to fight a war with an Army that is in rebellion (Vietnam).
Many of us live in urban areas. Obama is not going to drop a “500 pounder” on some suburb or city.
So, I stand by my prediction that gold confiscation is not going to happen and if in some misguided moment of channeling FDR it is tried it will be a complete and utter failure. Just like heroin confiscation has proven to be, as you say.
Anyway, disagreeing is part of what makes FR interesting. Have a nice day. I’m off to work.