With all the mandates we've been getting, do you think it impossible that the federal government might not one day say, "Hand over your guns and your gold?" And if that day came, what are you going to do? Hand over your gold (which might be your only method of buying scarce food) and starve? Shoot it out while trying to protect your family? No, you are likely going to try and leave the country -- or at least most people would.
Ron Paul believes that we haven't seen the worst of this economic mess yet -- that there is a real possibility of a dollar collapse. If that happens, there will be chaos and all bets will be off. Given his track record of predicting the direction of the economy so far, an economic collapse isn't as far fetched as it sounds.
I used to be for the border fence, too -- until someone brought up, "What if it was used to keep you in?" It made me stop and think. I've changed my mind. There are much better ways to deal with border.
RE: “What if it was used to keep you in?”
The border fence is for the Mexican border, not the Canadian border.
Well, if Ron Paul makes sense to you, I have to ask...What did you change it into, A cheese cake?
Sabotage, IEDs, ambushes, oh my!
Sabotage, IEDs, ambushes, oh my!
Sabotage, IEDs, ambushes, oh my!
Tell me when they start talking about fencing off Canada and the east and west coasts, then I'll start to worry.
Indeed. Fences control people - in both directions. People who want to control other people may make use of the tool in ways it was not intended. As the parasites grow in number, they may object to the sustaining host leaving and insist he stay, enacting laws ensuring nobody leaves without permission and with “taxable” (confiscatable) wealth.
Doctor: “I wish to not be compelled to provide un-compensated services, so I shall leave.”
Dictator: “We need your kind here. You’re not leaving.”
Doctor: “No, I shall gather my remaining wealth into compact form and walk out.”
Dictator: “You’re not going thru a gate in the fence without permission and without giving up that wealth which we hereby confiscate per your dissension.”
It’s happened before, people. Fences intended to keep people out have also been used to keep people in. Governments need subjects, especially wealthy/capable ones, and when they start leaving in significant numbers fences are used to retain them.
Yeah, it sounds stupid at first. A lot of people escaping have died trying to cross the tyrant’s fence.
Do you know the difference? We have guns. And we’ll use them.
And you damn right I’ll shoot it out if that is what it takes. Just like millions upon millions of others. And no military is going to shoot at us.
If anything, they’ll join us.