This is a thread for discussion of all those ways the big government types try to herd us into their corrals by making us fear some overhyped threat that only they can save us all from. I suppose we could have opened this with Anthropogenic Global Warming, but it’s kind of late for that now.
So…
When they talk like this, you know they know they’re starting to lose the argument.
Now, as to actual present dangers, give me civil liberties or give me (a remote probability of) death.
Oh, did you know people are being forced to wear armbands in Montana? And they’ve been shutting down church services in Mississippi. More local than state in both cases, but tyranny all the same.
But there are plenty of states crossing the line in the US. I’ll say it again: I prefer individual rights to states’ rights.
The subjects of New York City are getting what they voted for, good and hard. There are people who say the rest of the country can get along just fine without the Big Rotten Apple. We may see that theory tested soon.
I’ve been referring to my current location as “Elbonia”, (a) for its uncanny resemblance to that fictional country and (b) because I want to avoid being shot and dumped in the river.
So, here in Elbonia, it’s pretty interesting. All of the rules, by some curious coincidence, seem designed to deliver a gut punch to the middle classes, and to those who aspire to get there (ie., those who have a job and a modicum of brains).
Much as they are in Nineteen Eighty-Four, the plebs are largely left alone by the uniformed drones patrolling the streets (they look like utter twats, incidentally, strutting around in jungle camo and bandannas like they’re off on a black ops mission instead of doing traffic duty).
There are various sops given to the perennially down-and-out (food, cash, and suchlike) for which they are pathetically grateful, posting “I love my politicians” messages on facebook.
The whole of the legit economy has been shut down, which by definition leaves the grey economy untouched; that’s where the poor exist, and they carry on with life regardless.
Everyone who actually does things by the book is being royally screwed over; one assumes the intention is to send them a message: “you’d better keep doing things by the book because we can hurt you real bad when we want to”. I think TPTB have not read much history: revolutions always come from the middle classes.
I’ve blocked the BBC on my ISP filter. its the only website that’s blocked.
I duno exactly what agenda they’re pushing but I don’t trust it. Any organisation that has a different site for inside a country to outside can’t be trusted, in my opinion.
I’d rather be afraid of China than Russia. Each to his own fear, I say. But there are those who want to impose specific fears on everyone, and that’s what this thread is about.
We must take back the freedom to choose our own fears.
