PERSON: Everything isn't a conspiracy! There would be laws in place to protect people and their money. It would be against the law to deny someone access to their money without due process.
Sigh. I know of so many people who might read my post and say that it is overheated drama queen material.
I could almost see the conversation:
ME: What do you think of all this? Do you think it won't happen?
PERSON: No! It saves money not printing currency, it is convenient, you don't have dirty physical currency, it is more orderly, you have better record-keeping, you have access to your money all the time...
ME: Wait! What do you mean, "access to your money all the time"?
PERSON: I mean if you don't get to an ATM or a bank, you can still buy things, it...
ME: What if someone, for some reason, decides you shouldn't have access to your money?
PERSON: Everything isn't a conspiracy! There would be laws in place to protect people and their money. It would be against the law to deny someone access to their money without due process.
I feel like I would have to ask them if they had ever heard of Alexandr Solzhenitsyn or read his account of a heartless, lazy, bureaucratical, tyrannical government whose only national joy seemed to be plumbing ever deeper depths of injustice or faceless sadistic cruelty.
The fact that I can even conceive of this tyranny indicates to me it is inevitable. This is awful, because I just know that this is where they intend to take us. I feel it in my bones.
I am sure that the same rationalizations were made by people who got carted away to concentration camps and gulags, or just plain shot in the back of the head.
Laws? As an attorney, I understand very well how they are made, the theory behind them, how they should be enforced, etc. But as a human being who had a great grandfather murdered by the NKVD (when in his mid-70s and suffering from cancer, no less), and who had over 70 distant relatives murdered by Hitler’s thugs and their collaborators, I know that laws intended to protect rights only mean something if those with the power to enforce those laws decide that it is in their interest to do so; otherwise, they are tools of deception that are used against the complacent.
Besides, even paranoids have enemies. :>)