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Why Is It Necessary For The Federal Government To Turn The United States Into A Prison Camp?
Why Is It Necessary For The Federal Government To Turn The United States Into A Prison Camp?
Courtesy of Michael Snyder of Economic Collapse
There has been no society in the history of the world that has ever been 100% safe. No matter how much money the federal government spends on "homeland security", the truth is that bad things will still happen. Our world is a very dangerous place and it is becoming increasingly unstable. The federal government could turn the entire country into one giant prison camp, but that would still not keep us safe. It is inevitable that bad stuff will happen in life. But we have a choice. We can choose to live in fear or we can choose to live as free men and women. Our forefathers intended to establish a nation where liberty and freedom would be maximized.
But today we are told that we have to give up our liberties and our freedoms and our privacy for increased security. But is such a trade really worth it? Just think of the various totalitarian societies that we have seen down throughout history. Have any of them ever really thrived? Have their people been happy? Unfortunately, the U.S. federal government has decided that the entire country needs to be put on lock down. Nearly everything that we do today is watched and tracked, and personal privacy is rapidly becoming a thing of the past. Many of the things that George Orwell wrote about in 1984 are becoming a reality, and that is a very frightening thing. The United States is supposed to be the land of the free and the home of the brave. Sadly, we are rapidly becoming the exact opposite of that.
I don't know about you, but I never signed up to live in North Korea. When I was growing up I was taught that repressive regimes such as North Korea are "the bad guys" and that America is where "the good guys" live.
So why do we want to be just like North Korea?
When they put in the naked body scanners at U.S. airports and started having TSA agents conduct "enhanced pat-downs" of travelers, I decided that I was not going to fly anymore unless absolutely necessary.
Then I heard about how "random bag checks" were being conducted at Metro train stations in the Washington D.C. area, and I was glad that I was no longer taking the train into D.C. anymore.
But now the TSA is showing up everywhere. Down in Houston, undercover TSA agents and police officers will now "ride buses, perform random bag checks, and conduct K-9 sweeps, as well as place uniformed and plainclothes officers at Transit Centers and rail platforms to detect, prevent and address latent criminal activity or behavior."
So now I have another thing to add to my list of things that I can't do anymore.
No more riding buses for me.
But the truth is that you can't escape this expanding security grid no matter how hard you try.
In fact, TSA "VIPR teams" conduct approximately 8,000 "unannounced security screenings" every year at bus terminals, train stations, ports and highway rest stops throughout the United States.
Look, every society needs some level of security. There are always bad guys out there that want to harm innocent people.
But in the United States we must demand that those in charge of our security do their jobs in a way that does not compromise our dignity, our liberties or our freedoms.
Does having TSA thugs touch the private parts of old women and young children before they get on their flights keep us any safer?
Of course not.
But it does move our country in a very dangerous direction.
The reality is that this "Big Brother control grid" that is being constructed all around us is expanding in a thousand different ways.
For example, a new bill before the U.S. Congress would require black box data recorders to be installed in all new vehicles starting in 2015. These black box data recorders will be able to constantly transmit data about everything that your car is doing to the government and to the insurance companies. The following is from a recent article by Eric Peters....
And naturally, they – the government, insurance companies – will be able to track your every move, noting (and recording) where you’ve been and when. This will create a surveillance net beyond anything that ever existed previously. Some will not sweat this: After all, if you’ve got nothing to hide, why worry? Except for the fact that, courtesy of almost everything we do being either “illegal” or at least “suspicious” we all have a great deal to hide. The naivety of the Don’t Worry, it’s No Big Deal crowd is breathtaking. Did the average Soviet citizen also “not have anything to hide,” and hence why worry?
But the last possibility is probably the creepiest possibility: EDRs tied into your car’s GPS will give them – the government and its corporate **** ******* (edited for language) – literal physical control over (hack) “your” vehicle. This is not conspiracy theorizing. It is technological fact. Current GM vehicles equipped with the same technology about to be mandated for every vehicle can be disabled remotely. Just turned off. All the OnStar operator has to do is send the appropriate command over the GPS to your car’s computer, which controls the engine. It is one of the features touted by OnStar – of course, as a “safety” feature.
In the future, it will be used to limit your driving – for the sake of “energy conservation” or perhaps, “the environment.” It will be the perfect, er, vehicle, for implementing U.N. Agenda 21 – the plan to herd all of us formerly free-range tax cattle into urban feedlots. So much easier to control us this way. No more bailing out to the country or living off the grid – unless you get there (and to your work) by walking.
Even when you are sitting at home you are still being watched and monitored in countless ways.
For example, every single call you make on your cell phone is intercepted and monitored by the government.
Your Internet activity is tracked and monitored by a whole host of government agencies as well. If you doubt this, just read this article.
Now CISPA would expand government surveillance of the Internet even further. The following description of CISPA comes from the Electronic Frontier Foundation website....
CISPA creates an exception to all privacy laws to permit companies to share our information with each other and with the government in the name of cybersecurity…. CISPA’s ‘information sharing’ regime allows the transfer of vast amounts of data, including sensitive information like internet use history or the content of emails, to any agency in the government including military and intelligence agencies like the National Security Agency or the Department of Defense Cyber Command. Once in government hands, this information can be used for any non-regulatory purpose so long as one significant purpose is for cybersecurity or to protect national security.
Frightening stuff, eh?
I want you to imagine a scenario for a moment. Imagine that the government assigned two "watchers" to you that followed you everywhere you went and stared directly into your face the entire time.
Would you feel comfortable?
Why not?
You don't have anything to hide, do you?
Well, of course the truth is that none of us would like having our privacy constantly invaded. It is not pleasant to constantly feel like you are being watched.
That is why all of these new "security measures" are so alarming. A system is being set up where all of us are being constantly watched and monitored 24 hours a day.
And most Americans have no idea how fast the transition to full martial law could potentially be.
Barack Obama recently updated an old executive order that has been around for decades that would enable him to take charge of all food, all energy, all health resources and all transportation resources in the United States with the stroke of a pen. This new update would allow him to do it even in "non-emergency" situations.
The following is what U.S. Representative Kay Granger recently had to say about this executive order....
This means all of our water resources, construction services and materials (steel, concrete, etc.), our civil transportation system, food and health resources, our energy supplies including oil and natural gas – even farm equipment – can be taken over by the President and his cabinet secretaries. The Government can also draft U.S. citizens into the military and force U.S. citizens to fulfill "labor requirements" for the purposes of "national defense." There is not even any Congressional oversight, only briefings are required.
Later on in her letter, Representative Granger even used the phrases "martial law" and "government takeover" to describe the power that Barack Obama potentially has under this executive order....
It is still unclear why this order was signed now, and what the consequences are for our nation – especially during times of peace. This type of Martial Law imposes a government takeover on U.S. citizens that is typically reserved for national emergencies, not in a time of relative peace.
Do you trust Barack Obama with that kind of power?
Unfortunately, considering the really bad decisions that all of our government officials regularly make, it is really hard to trust any of them to do the right thing at this point.
The American people need to let their voices be heard on these issues. If not, the federal government will continue to strip away our privacy, our liberties and our freedoms until everything is gone.
Do you want your children to grow up in a country that has been turned into a giant prison camp and that more closely resembles North Korea than it does the nation that our forefathers originally founded?
If not, please do what you can to speak out against these abuses.
The truth is that the federal government does not really even care about our national security anyway.
If they did, they would secure our borders. Just today I read that the National Guard is withdrawing 900 troops from the U.S.-Mexico border. Our border security is already a total joke and now it is going to be even worse.
Over the past several decades, tens of millions of people have crossed that border illegally. Every single day, terrorists, drug dealers, gang members, sexual predators and a whole host of other "bad guys" could be crossing that border and we would never even know about it because we aren't doing anything to stop it.
For nearly 60 years, the U.S. government has successfully protected the border between South Korea and North Korea, but the U.S. government flatly refuses to protect our own borders.
Until the federal government decides to do what the U.S. Constitution requires them to do and start protecting our borders, then the federal government should not be asking any of us to make a single sacrifice in the name of "security".
The truth is that we can have a reasonable level of security in this nation without giving up the liberties and the freedoms that millions of Americans have shed their blood to protect.
We do not need to turn the United States into a giant prison camp. America is supposed to be the land of the free, and we need to work hard to get that dream back.
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there are also female ascetics, but the males are most often written about historically. an example might be,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_Mothers
(from the link: The Desert Fathers are much more well known because of the many early texts written by and about them. There are no writings directly attributed to the Desert Mothers—the stories about them come from the early Desert Fathers and their biographers.)
also many female shaman, bruja, healers, etc. lived on the edge of village-reality, forgoing their cultural gender norms, just being. . .
Sure he's "not using money"...of his own. Nor is he contributing to society in any way more meaningful than a porn actress.
GMadScientist
I would say his example is a vast contribution to society.
He pioneers the idea and more people will follow.
He is also walking public sidewalks and roadways, which all those don't tax me anymore I'm a greedy little fuck with gold and guns people also forget about.
I think it wise to revisit the whole "contributing to society" idea. Who is to judge what actually contributes and what doesn't? We can not observe nor comprehend all the links that factor into the growth of a society. It is impossible to follow every nuance and inflection which allows a society to grow and evolve.
When you comment that someone isn't contirbuting to society, it suggests your own myopia, your own limitation.
One of my many concerns about what may happen in the USSA is this: When things get truly bad - how many people will lose their civility?
Yes, it is one thing to be an isolationist but when people are desperate enough, they may do anything to survive or obtain food for their families, etc. Isolationists will have to fight 'em off alone. Without some sort of connection to a group of people within one's given area - there may be no hope for rebulding. I admire those who decide to step out of the "matrix" but you may also need others to help sustain - e.g., for trade, cooperative efforts, etc.
I would venture to say that most will lose civility. The thing is though, people in rural areas already have a pretty tight social network and are habituated to helping and depending on each other. If things get bad and we went through a total breakdown, starving urbanites arent going to encounter lone farmers, they will find heavily armed bands at chokepoints holding the roads while others deal with the animals and crops.
If someone decides they are going to somehow make it entirely alone, it will be as you say- they are toast.
In my darkest nightmares thats how I see it too.
The advantage to the defender is and has always been interior lines, knowing the choke points and the weak points long before the confrontation ever happens. The offense must contend with long supply lines or living off the land, if there is anything to be had. Any hope for success is in its quickness...I don't see that happening now, everyone is stocked.
The lone "independent" will be shot down like a stray dog under these circumstances, by either side.
I have a simple question for you Gully. As you seem fond of increasingly whiny leftist rants complaining about "greed" and eveything non-collectivist, I have to ask- why the hell did you ever come here? Why did you not remain in your own nation? Why migrate to an area that has in its very DNA everything you seem to have a problem with, then just bitch and moan that it doesnt agree with your alien coercive mindset?
When someone wants to be patted on the back for playing figurative "Vulture", I'm inclined to examine the what they produce and consume and judge their jive accordingly; a natural skeptic's bad habit, I suppose.
On reading more of the article, it looks like the guy contributed plenty (in the real, not fiscal sense) earlier in life. I completely agree that there's value in being reminded exactly how little of what we want actually qualifies as "need".
Thanks for posting that. It is highly relevant and deserves periodic reposting. (It was first posted here about a year ago).
Not to detract from your message of disorganised resistance -- but in fact to reinforce it -- this passage should strike a familiar chord in any believer in free enterprise and competitive innovation:
It is the reason that Central Planning and monopolies will always fail to compete against free enterprise capitalism and entrepreneurs ... except through maintaining the coercion of the guns of government.
It will also be the only way to defeat the Luciferian oligarchy.
Vive la [disorganised] resistance!!
+1. Exactly. Each person must think of a way to wrench up the nazi system.
In Germany, the Gauleiters became very corrupt and bribeable. Hitler allowed this, since they still had control via the secret state police. However, when the allies were closing on both sides, Germans began resisting more openly and successfully. The SS and Gestapo began to go awol as they were closed in on.
Each patriot's resistance must first be a state of mind. Go from there.
"The Government can also draft U.S. citizens into the military and force U.S. citizens to fulfill "labor requirements" for the purposes of "national defense."
That's an easy one, especially as is misquoted (but the full text has mostly vanished from the net). "National defense" is just one point there and the (vanishing)documents also contained a practical example: Drafting the (already contaminated) citizens into cleaning up exploded nuclear power plants or missile sites or places that have been attacked using dirty bombs. Makes clean up cheaper immediately (because you don't have to protect the meat robots) and later (because you don't have to support survivors whose numbe you reduced – remember who had that ("atrition by working them to death") idea last time?).
Sounds like a good and honorable plan, doesn't it?
I suspect that should this occur and if conditions are difficult enough, the USSA would have little trouble recuiting people who will become desperate for a way to feed their loved ones, etc.
The question is: Can we (as a society) be broken? How much pain can we as a society before most will succumb to the tyranny?
I suspect many on public assistance programs will almost immediately turn themselves over for the work....and with the number of households on public assistance of some sort - that is quite a workforce.
Now, for those of us who will refuse to comply - will that workforce + the military pile on in the effort to sweep up the non-compliant population? Yikes.
Good point. When I was in the US military, I made sure they were happy to get rid of me. However, I knew too much and had to sue the federal government for the return of my rights of habeus corpus. Obama has removed your rights of habeus corpus. What are you going to do about it?
"But the truth is that you can't escape this expanding security grid no matter how hard you try".
Escape is easy. Convert your assets to cash, buy a one way plane ticket, rebuild your life in a country that respects human rights, become a citizen of that country(it is not difficult but takes a bit of time) and then renounce US citizenship.
Then, when you read of the new atrocities the USgov puts on the sheeple, every week, you will wonder why you could ever think of visiting and be grateful for the best decision of your life.
I know; I chose Switzerland... not perfect but a true participative democracy.
etresoi
Read the Suelo article I linked to or just Google Daniel Suelo.
Home of the control center BANK of international Settlements. Good choice as that will be the last bastion of the Jewish Gangsters, unless the Swiss wake up.
Hah! I have been making a very good living on a pair trade of USDEUR futures vs gold futures. The BIS defends th below 1.31 of the euroand the US treasury steps in when gold gets to $1764. Within those ranges, I trade the daily noise and have taken a $400,000 pot up to $31,000,000 ytd. There is no need to fight the BIS or the US.
Unless you know differently I believe Switzerland is just about the hardest country in Europe to live in without a Swiss passport. Even getting a work visa for an American is difficult. The visaless tourist entry only allows a stay of 90 days.
Get rid of your mobile/cell phone. "They" have yet been able to hack landlines effectively.
Get rid of your Facebook account ... not easy, but farly simple to erase personal data and take advantage of a once-only-allowed change of name.
Never agree to any Google offer to make your life easier, e.g. by making it easy to visit previous sites visitted.
Never go "wireless".
Never get convinced that there is anything better than a PC, Microsoft, IE9 and Microsoft Security Essentials for virus and Trojan detection.
I have no love for Microsoft per se, but it is in their monopolistic interests to keep the system clean.
Play around with that at your peril - as I once did - but since I obtained a fully integrated MS system, I have had no problems.
The same can no longer be said about Mac/Apple, since it became sufficiently popular to be worthy of attack.
Do not bother to attack me for seeming to promote Microsoft. I would like to live in a world in which the internet had never been invented.
I would prefer a world in which we all still had personal, face to face contact.
It has always been the ambition of the sociopath, not the psychologically well adjusted being, to rule over others. What we witness in America today is a natural consequence of unchecked power and concentrated wealth accumulated during the past 30 years by the amoral. As George Carlin noted "a system that threw the people overboard 30 fucking years ago". It's a story as old as time itself.
There is science that studies this. The science of understanding the psychopath is well on its way to complete understanding. So much more is understood today, than even 10 years ago. We can only hope that this science will one day provide society with a solution. At this point, psychology/psychiatry has gotten to the point that they can readily identify psychopaths incarcerated within the criminal justice system. How to identify them in life and specifically what to do about the problem, is not even on the horizon, especially when the psychopath has risen to highest levels of power and influence.
Unfortunately, that portion of dna or gene that gives us the psychopath does not select for intelligence. When the psychopathic personality also is exceptionally intelligent, all of society suffers. When they take over and run the government and the criminal justice system, the end of the culture is very near.
It has always been the question of our age, the question never really understood before. And that question was "What is wrong?" why do cultures always collapse? What is wrong with humanity? We now have the answer, and the question now becomes "What can we do about it?" Unfortunately we are on the verge of the biggest collapse in the history of man. It's too late to do anything this time around. Or so it seems. Will this knowledge make it through to the other side?
the listed traits for a sociopath/psychopath dovetail nicely with the desired traits of CEO & leadership role-players.
until this is thoroughly acknowledged and remedied, nothing will change - and this is a centuries old story. . .
act accordingly.
Its legal crime, money equals power and once you have the power and the money why would you give it up? Nuke Internatinaol Bank of Settlements. Piss off the swiss but save the planet. A fair exchange?
True.
cheap labor, duh.
Better question:
Why is the federal government necessary?
Why do herds of livestock need herders? So the owners of the herds can increase their wealth and harvest their bounty. It ain't for the livestock's benefit.
Answer: The federal government doesn't exist. The only reason for the "federal government" is as a fictional cover story for the most egregious bunch of theories in the history of mankind.
As for the predators... we definitely don't need them!
Cognitive dissonnance.
The Federal Government DOES exist. Never heard of Washington DC?
You are delusional if you believe that, for instance, the PTB in Washington never authorized native American genocide and the genocide in Iraq, for example.
The Federal Government DOES exist.
You are in irrational denial ... even Ron Paul has never worked for anything else than Washington, e.g. he could have quit decades ago and actually worked as a GP.
No, intellectual clarity. How many people buy evergreens to put in their homes and businesses for SantaClaus to put presents under? How many kids in this world wake up at dawn on December 25 every year and look for gifts from SantaClaus? How many presents under evergreen trees say "from SantaClaus" every year? How many kids believe this?
Does all these people believing and/or acting-like-they-believe SantaClaus exists make SantaClaus exist? Do all the presents "from SantaClaus" make SantaClaus exist? Answer: No.
When a bunch of people sit at a table and decide to "create" an organization like "SugarHigh Bakery", does something real POP into existence? If you believe so, tell us what pops into existence, exactly? If you say "ideas in the heads of those men", well, please understand that this is EXACTLY what happens when people start to believe in "SantaClaus" or any other fiction. There is a slight change of configuration within the brain, but nothing POPs into existence. This is true whether the new idea (brain configuration) is "SantaClaus" or "SugarHigh Bakery" or "federal government of the USA".
Without a doubt, there are REAL buildings in Washington DC. Without a doubt there are real books produced by real people that refer to a supposed "federal government of the USA". Without a doubt there are real human predators who spend their time screwing over other humans and claiming they are doing so on behalf of the federal government of the USA.
There are also plenty of real, physical people who spend untold quantities of money on real, physical christmas presents and christmas trees and decorative lights and bling-bling.
Neither makes those fiction real. NOTHING pops into existence when someone creates a story about an old fat man in red suit at his toy factory at the north pole who rides reindeer on December 25 to leave toys for boys and girls all over the world. This is true even though --- old fat men exist, red suits exist, toy factories exist, the north pole exists, reindeer exist, December 25th exists, toys exist, chrismas trees and decorations exist, and people believe all sorts of totally insane things.
Humans used to be a bit less overtly insane. That's why all organizations in fundamental law are called "fictitious entities" (just like "SantaClaus"). Those who wrote to old-time fundamental law could not make mostly grounded humans sucker for the kind of blatant nonsense that humans willingly accept today. This is probably partly because most people in less modern times worked on a farm or on real, physical goods in the real, physical world. They understood that distinguishing real from fiction was a life or death ability. Today, people sit around in offices pushing buttons or paper, and they are close to completely incapable of distinguishing real from fiction.
If you and your friends sit around a table today and "create" an entity called "the setarcos galactic empire", then go around and steal money from people and abuse them and cage them and kill them "to provide security for the empire"... then what exactly exists? The answer is clear:
predators DBA "setarcos galactic empire"
The predators are real. Their guns and bullets are real. But no matter how much you huff and puff and write books about your supposed empire, your supposed "setarcos galactic empire" is pure fiction, and does not exist.
Anyone who doesn't follow and understand the above is utterly, completely and usually willingly insane. And yes, that means the vast majority of mankind is quite insane - technically, clinically insane. And this explains why mankind is finished.
how you can write of "fictitious beliefs" - particularly with respect to such fictions as "nationstates" and those who hide behind their flags while performing the most egregious acts humans can imagine, and then some - and still advocate participating in this system by voting. . .
. . . is beyond me.
but +1 for a great rant on the fiction most call reality!
I have never voted. Not once. And I do not advocate voting. However, I freely admit that IF anyone refuses my advice and decides to vote anyway, they will cause much less damage if they vote for the likes of RonPaul. Unless the USSA vanishes into nothingness in the next few months, I do prefer RonPaul is the fictional leader of the fictional government of the fictional country.
life-long member of the republican party, as is his son - despite what those who want to believe otherwise tell themselves. . .
The truth is that the best security is the population.
Everyone has a cellphone, no one wants to be blown up, we will say something if we see something.
It doesn't take a PhD or any education to recognize when something is out of order or not quite right.
Why pay all the agents to snoop and monitor when the population eseentially does it for you?
Because it is about watching and controlling the population - not stopping crime or terrorists.
People who get off on control and have too much testosterone will argue but...truth.
Never heard of the Bystander Apathy Experiment from the 60s huh?
"Everyone has a cellphone".
Actually not yet true, but if you are fool enough to have one, then your every move is easily traced.
It does not take a PhD to realize that your premis - about having a cellphone - is exactly the opposite of being able to counter the PTB.
Obviously(?) the best way to to resist would be NOT to have any electronic communication whatsoever, let alone cellphones which are easily hacked.
>>>Actually not yet true, but if you are fool enough to have one, then your every move is easily traced.<<<
Geezus Freakin' Chryst...I hear this all the damn time.
Turn the fucker off and pullout the goddamned battery (if you are completely paranoid)...and when you want to make a call or check messages, turn in on. Go sit in the middle of the damn woods when you do it.
What is so hard about this???
Try to pull the battery out of your iphone
try to pull the iphone out of your hands. . .
made by slaves, used by slaves.
Hmmm...I don't have icrap...Now that I know you can't pull the battery out of an iphone easily, I never will.
Had "Apple" products in the past...No more...I ain't gonna work on Jobs' farm no more.
I haven't thought about Dylan's Maggie's Farm in a long time, substitute Job's Farm and it works!
"I ain’t gonna work on Maggie’s farm no more
No, I ain’t gonna work on Maggie’s farm no more
Well, I wake in the morning
Fold my hands and pray for rain
I got a head full of ideas
That are drivin’ me insane
It’s a shame the way she makes me scrub the floor
I ain’t gonna work on Maggie’s farm no more"
Copyright © 1965 by Warner Bros. Inc.; renewed 1993 by Special Rider Music
That one use of your cellphone in the middle of the woods gives your location away, your phone is in an identifiable cell. OK they can't just send a missile at you but you'd soon be found, most specially if you're in the woods away from anybody else (heat sensing on a helicopter).
Try to pull the battery out of your iphone
Can be done, and if by a experienced phone dude, it will not affect the working of same.( voids warranty)
My opinion on 4G/iPhones,are the amount of data one spews out, and recieves,may as well consider the ptb live with them.
They could be listening; better to have no communication whatsoever.
Yeah, I was getting tired of standing in the supermarket and yakking about what I was going to wear to that party tonight anyway.
The Obama administration is getting desperate. As part of the federal-aid highway bill, Senator Barbara Boxer (D-California) has added a provision that allows for anyone who owes the IRS more than $50,000 to be denied a passport. (Senate Bill 1813 is now in the House.)
http://thedailybell.com/3831/Where-Do-We-Go-From-Here-in-the-Freedom-Movement
It looks like they are about to start denying people Exit from the U.S.
Soviet Union style U.S.?
Yes, it was one of the very first hard moves Hitler made after obtaining the Chancellorship.
Part of it was to keep joos from taking $$ out of Germany.
However, that is one benchmark to judge a nation-state's intial descent into Complete Tyranny.
I've been calling the USA the USSA since 1968. People used to ask why. I don't get asked that question any more.
When I arrived in Geneva, years ago, I told everyone that I was a political refugee from a fascist tyranny. All thought I was joking. Now, I am regarded as prescient.
Has a lot to do with the prison-industrial complex. The US incarcerates 7 times as many people per capita as Australia and 10 times as many as France, but ends up with a society that is less safe. Prison corporations lobby hard for the war on drugs (the latest Prohibition). More balanced distribution of wealth would help alot (oh I can hear the readers crying "Socialism!". But 8 of the top 10 performing economies right now are socialists in some degree). Raise the minimum wage fer chrissakes, the *median* wage is $8.75.
But Americans have only themselves to blame I'm afraid. When was the last time you let your voice be heard, about anything? Candian students know how to get in the streets when they raise rates, 180,000 last week. Politicians may seem to do nothing about things, but they do track their emails. If nobody writes in they figure the people can be squeezed just that little bit more.