Posted on 01/16/2021 4:39:20 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Following the 9/11 attacks, Congress passed the Patriot Act in an attempt to keep us safe. While there have been no other mass-casualty attacks by terrorists, at what cost was this “safety” achieved. The government can now get access with relative ease to our personal and private information. They can surveil us even though we’re completely innocent.
Yes, but you might argue that those same laws have made it much harder for terrorists to plot an attack in the shadows and have probably deterred or interrupted many such attacks. And therein lies the dilemma. Civil liberties advocates believe the Patriot Act goes too far in its ability to keep tabs on Americans. And there’s no doubt that there have been many occasions where the intelligence communities and law enforcement have not been as careful with our liberty as they should be. Just ask Carter Page.
But there’s always a danger after a terrible event that those eager to take advantage of the people’s fear will pass laws that intrude on our rights as Americans. Already there have been rumblings in Congress of new laws that will prevent the dissemination of “disinformation” and force social media companies to become thought police and prevent unapproved ideas from being widely disseminated.
Who will be the new commissar of propaganda and disinformation? My bet is on Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez who seems to be auditioning for the job. She recently said in an Instagram post, “We’re going to have to figure out how we rein in our media environment so you can’t just spew disinformation and misinformation.
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It’s not just ‘Democrats’, it’s the commercial and business world. We are truly entering Dark Times, and the silence from the Republican political “leaders” is deafening.
If everyone REFUSES TO COMPLY, they have no power.
Good luck with that.
The Antifa/BLM LARPer-generation dream of living in Walking Dead Land.
Turn the whole thing around —
BLM and ANTIFA rampage in Portland. A cop shoots a trespassing rioter. Suddenly, local, state and federal government, as well as the media and all other businesses exclaim, “That’s it! We’re done! This whole PC and Progressive agenda thing has gone too far! We need to crack down! No tolerance for anything Left now! Those rioters are out of control! And Biden absolutely cannot be president!”
It wouldn’t make any sense at all. But it’s what they’ve done to patriots.
We out number them so far.
And WE are the ones paying taxes.
They already started that with the virus. Now they’ll just finish the job.
You might want to inventory your firepower to see which ones were bought before 1968 or from private sellers, just in case the confiscators come calling.
They know which ones I have from the CMP.
These people clearly have kinda of a romantic nostalgia about some aspects of the past, something I thought was not likely.
They yearn for the leftist ideological Sixties, the Black Panthers, the Weather Underground, Marxist revolutionary rhetoric and propaganda.
And think of what events ultimately came of these romantic delusions. Pol Pot’s killing fields, North Vietnamese reeducation/death camps, years of Soviet oppression in eastern Europe and worldwide.
Add to that spoiled rich kid terrorism, assassinations and bombings, like the Baader-Meinhof gang committed . Bill Ayers, Bernadine Dorn. Ah, the kind of fantasies that spawn political oppression, executions, and massacres... in the 3rd World of course.
The new wrinkle, is that with the theft of elections, we now join the 3rd World, and all its authoritarian/one party social, political, economic, and human rights decline.
Will Minister of Truth AOC be reigning in the WAPO and NY times? I think not.
No dissent. Resistance is futile.
See you in the camps.
Captain Obvious knew this was coming the moment it happened.
We am realigning our Finances to insure we do not pay one red cent in Federal Income Taxes.
We will live on less, but that’s fine and dandy. My love of Freedom outweighs my love of Possessions. It’s now need versus want.
Krystal night.
Another fake crisis put to their use.
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