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Posted on 10/06/2024 4:32:42 AM PDT by MtnClimber
How ready will any of us be to resist government tyranny when the guns are right outside our doors?
If Western nations replaced their respective fiat currencies with digital versions (as many advocates for individual liberty fear they will soon do), would organized crime disappear?
If the answer is, “No,” why not? Don’t human traffickers and international drug cartels depend upon a supply of paper currency that they can move back and forth across borders and launder through unrelated businesses for future use? If there were no money except for the digital ones and zeroes created and monitored by national governments, surely major criminal organizations would have no way to operate and nowhere to hide.
How could prostitution and corner drug sales survive within a system that traces all digital transactions in real time? How could black market trades in illicit commerce or between sanctioned nations continue if Western central banks actively surveil each digital dollar that changes hands? Surely the imposition of government-mandated digital currencies would usher in a more peaceful planet that is relatively free of crime…right?
If you’re still not convinced, let me suggest what might be tripping you up: your instincts tell you that criminals will find a way to skirt any future digital surveillance. Somehow, human ingenuity will succeed in creating effective workarounds to government-imposed central bank digital currencies. The sale of illegal narcotics, weapons, and other banned materials will continue around the world because, at the end of the day, humans adapt and overcome whatever obstacles stand in their way. Crime will continue to exist because criminals will continue to exist, and criminals will continue to exist because in every generation some faction of the human race behaves immorally, disregards social mores, or flat out refuses to obey.
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The left does not seem to care about controlling criminals. They seem interested in controlling honest people.
There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What’s there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted - and you create a nation of law-breakers - and then you cash in on guilt.
The govt is part of the crime/corruption problem.
The government IS organized crime. It is the job of organized crime to take advantage of the suckers who work for a living.
The reason why government wants a government-controlled digital currency system is so it will be able to know how much money you have and to take whatever it wants from you whenever it wants. It is NOT to stop crime! That’s what they will tell you, but it’s a lie.
No. Look at Covid. Very, VERY few enforcers were killed.
Handyman, will work for food & board
That’s because the Democrat party IS a criminal enterprise.
“Don’t need no stinking job.”
Bidenville tent dweller
The left does not seem to care about controlling criminals. They seem interested in controlling honest people.
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Yes, they start like Hitlery did by called us “Deplorables,” which is a pregnant term just short of calling all of us criminals. Once you are labeled a criminal, then they will find a crime that fits like they did for the J-6 victims, and then they will lock your ass up in the Gulag. Was it just yesterday that Hitler said social media need state policing to control ‘misinformation,’ which she no doubts wants criminalized.
Ayn Rand. A fortune teller extraordinaire.
later.
Yeah, I think I will watch one or all three of the Atlas Shrugged movies again today...
Tell me, Jose, how do are you able to charge such low prices for pick-up truck repair?
Please keep your voice down, there are hombres sleeping on the beds of the pick-up trucks.
Most of us couldn't even cancel our TV subscriptions when the media went full propaganda mode against Trump, or find alternatives to the tech companies that were actively working against us. How are we going to stand up against real oppression, the kind that is actually forced on us, if we couldn't even do that?
That will be two gold Putins and three silver Putins.
Vlad will be glad to cheat the IRS.
Where do the Putins come from?
Sanctions busting.
This. The Mob wasn't put out of business because of prosecutions and arrests. They simply could not compete against government, who took the Mob's MO and perfected it.
Losing “total control” as hillree put it.
Censor speech censor your money censor your guns censor your freedom.
Let no crisis go to waste as jan vones boasted, bottom up top down, swap places with anybody and just be happy.
Sound utopian? They can go there now in this world. People have been trying to flee it longer than our broken borders have been open.
Whatever border filters may be in effect now probably include the repelling of patriot refugees.
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