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Title: Where We're Headed...Become an outlaw – or submit
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ICH--Lew Rockwell
URL Source: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27225.htm
Published: Jan 8, 2011
Author: Eric Peters
Post Date: 2011-01-08 20:12:49 by abraxas
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Views: 241
Comments: 14
Where We're Headed...Become an outlaw – or submit By Eric Peters January 08, 2011 "Lew Rockwell" -- I have a feeling that Refusenik types like me will be the next crop to be harvested. (The first being overt "threats" to the government.) Everything's already in place; the circle is closing. Soon it will be impossible to pretend we still live in an even semi-free country. I try to practice avoidance – for example, not flying anymore to avoid being scanned/felt up. But I know that eventually, it will be impossible – illegal – to avoid being scanned (and much else, besides). For example, they are going to require us all to carry a biometric National ID card – not merely a driver's license. Without it, you will be unable to function (legally) and be subject to arrest merely for going about your peaceful, harming no one else business without it. Just wait. The choice will be: Become an outlaw – or submit. We got a taste of this with gun control laws. The choice was: Comply with "the law" and render yourself defenseless, or become a Felon Walking for daring to refuse to comply by retaining a gun for self-defense. People who were harming no one – and exercising their basic human right to self-defense – were criminalized at the stroke of a pen. It was an easier choice to make, though, because as a practical matter your chances of being caught in defiance of "the law" were very slim and your illicit possession of a gun would probably only become an issue if you were forced to use the gun – in which case, better to be alive and dealing with "breaking the law" than dead but "law-abiding." But what happens when "the law" requires everyday, inescapable evidence of submission and compliance? When you have to submit to a scan/grope before entering a public building, such as the DMV or a courthouse, say? "The law" already requires submission to random roadblocks. Is it a stretch to imagine "the law" will take the next logical step and require us to submit to scans/gropes at these random roadblocks? What possible argument – based on existing legal precedent – can be made against it? Everything that matters has already been conceded. You, as an individual, no longer have any meaningful 4th Amendment rights when you are in your vehicle or on public roads. The Supremes have said so. You have given "implied consent" to random stops, interrogations and de facto searches. Oh yes, there is still the fiction of probable cause prior to an actual search. But it is just that – fiction. "Probable cause" amounts to I want to search your vehicle. Virtually any pretext given after the fact will be sustained by the Volksgerichthof. Refuse the search and the cops will likely detain you anyhow – then search you anyway. Ask around. Check out YouTube. See for yourself. All it takes is being "uncooperative" – which amounts to such things as declining to answer the cop's questions, or – much more dangerous – daring to question anything he does or demands of you. Do that, and expect the modern equivalent of a wood shampoo via Tazering. Imagine what will happen when they scale down the airport scanners and can mount them in a vehicle – like a cop car. There won't be any "opting out," then. The point is, we (the lowing, beef-headed, football and celebrity obsessed oblivions who now constitute a working majority of the American public) have already conceded the point. Everything that matters has been given up and gone for years – long before 9/11. In the name of the "war" on drugs, we accepted outrageous invasions of our private lives. For the sake of "getting drunks off the road" and "seatbelt safety checkpoints," we cheered random dragnets that subject every motorist on the road to an East German Stasi-like once-over and ihre papierien, bitte! Safety, safety – always more safety. In exchange for less and less freedom – and human dignity, too. No longer can you enter the world as a man (or for that matter, a woman). As captains of our destinies, masters of our fates – beholden to none, free to go in peace. And even more important, able to talk back, to refuse, to question – and to demand to be left in peace if we're not doing anything to cause harm to anyone else. We are all children now – fearful, obedient – and to be punished, if we're not. No freedom to make our own way and depend upon our own good judgment. We will be told what to do – and how and when. The "why" no longer concerns us. No more live – and let live. Submit. Obey. That is the New American – and the New America. Eric Peters - Visit his website. Copyright © 2011 Eric Peters
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#1. To: abraxas, *Black Ops - Psyops* (#0)
No freedom to make our own way and depend upon our own good judgment. We will be told what to do – and how and when. The "why" no longer concerns us. No more live – and let live. Submit. Obey. Not necessarily. Transcend. Rise above. Be in this world, but not of this world. Where there's a will, there's a way.
Where there's a will, there's a way. Absolutely the response to the world in which we find outselves.
Where there's a will, there's a way. Oh sure, I'd be saying that too......if I were in CANADA. : )
"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. ... We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of." Edward Bernays, Father of Public Relations
:D
LOL It's what you make it. The challenge is to be able to subject ourselves to the overwhelming amount of data available..... the knowledge of good and evil, if you will... to discern fact from fiction, accept the facts and function... as harmoniously and efficiently as we can. I get philosophical at times like this. Not to get too flakey on ya ;)
"Any society that would give up liberty to gain security will deserve neither and lose both." Benny was bright. : ) I'm thinking more ammo might be prudent at this juncture. If I have to make a choice.......it's outlaw.
"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. ... We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of." Edward Bernays, Father of Public Relations
Yeah, I felt that way more when I was in Montana, of course, that was much closer to CANADA. : ) lol
"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. ... We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of." Edward Bernays, Father of Public Relations
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one. "Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." - Ben Franklin
I lived in the best and one of the freest countries before it started becoming it started on its path of becoming one of the most oppressive. Nothing I can do about it, but I don't have that much time remaining.
How do you know? Are you ill? Is so, I'm sorry to hear that.
"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. ... We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of." Edward Bernays, Father of Public Relations
No! I am not ill so don't be sorry for me. However, my life expectancy is probably that of my parents, upper 80s to low 90s.
Whew!! Who knows? You could beat those expectancy odds.
"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. ... We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of." Edward Bernays, Father of Public Relations
We are all children now – fearful, obedient – and to be punished, if we're not.
No Planes. Think about it. ................. Guaranteed Penetration (no it's not porn)
#2. To: wudidiz (#1)
Transcend. Rise above. Be in this world, but not of this world.
#3. To: wudidiz (#1)
Transcend. Rise above. Be in this world, but not of this world.
#4. To: Phant2000 (#2)
No Planes. Think about it. ................. Guaranteed Penetration (no it's not porn)
#5. To: abraxas (#3)
Oh sure, I'd be saying that too......if I were in CANADA. : )
No Planes. Think about it. ................. Guaranteed Penetration (no it's not porn)
#6. To: abraxas (#0)
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Seems Benjamin Franklin was right.
#7. To: Armadillo (#6)
#8. To: wudidiz (#5)
as harmoniously and efficiently as we can.
#9. To: abraxas (#8)
No Planes. Think about it. ................. Guaranteed Penetration (no it's not porn)
#10. To: abraxas (#0)
#11. To: abraxas (#0)
#12. To: DWornock (#11)
Nothing I can do about it, but I don't have that much time remaining.
#13. To: abraxas (#12)
#14. To: DWornock (#13)
No! I am not ill so don't be sorry for me. However, my life expectancy is probably that of my parents, upper 80s to low 90s.
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