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The Stealing Of America By The Cops, The Courts, The Corporations And Congress
Submitted by John Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute,
“What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It’s not good at much else.” —Author Tom Clancy
Call it what you will—taxes, penalties, fees, fines, regulations, tariffs, tickets, permits, surcharges, tolls, asset forfeitures, foreclosures, etc.—but the only word that truly describes the constant bilking of the American taxpayer by the government and its corporate partners is theft.
We’re operating in a topsy-turvy Sherwood Forest where instead of Robin Hood and his merry band of thieves stealing from the rich to feed the poor, you’ve got the government and its merry band of corporate thieves stealing from the poor to fatten the wallets of the rich. In this way, the poor get poorer and the rich get richer. All the while, the American Dream of peace, prosperity, and liberty has turned into a nightmare of endless wars, debilitating debt, and outright tyranny.
What Americans don’t seem to comprehend is that if the government can arbitrarily take away your property, without your having much say about it, you have no true rights. You’re nothing more than a serf or a slave.
In this way, the police state with all of its trappings—from surveillance cameras, militarized police, SWAT team raids, truancy and zero tolerance policies, asset forfeiture laws, privatized prisons and red light cameras to Sting Ray guns, fusion centers, drones, black boxes, hollow-point bullets, detention centers, speed traps and abundance of laws criminalizing otherwise legitimate conduct—is little more than a front for a high-dollar covert operation aimed at laundering as much money as possible through government agencies and into the bank accounts of corporations.
The rationalizations for the American police state are many. There’s the so-called threat of terrorism, the ongoing Drug War, the influx of illegal immigrants, the threat of civil unrest in the face of economic collapse, etc. However, these rationalizations are merely excuses for the growth of a government behemoth, one which works hand in hand with corporations to profit from a society kept under lockdown and in fear at all times.
Indeed, as I point out in my book A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State, the real motivating factor behind erecting a police state is not to protect the people, but to further enrich the powerful. Consider the following costly line items, all part of the government’s so-called quest to keep us safe and fight terrorism while entrenching the police state, enriching the elite, and further shredding our constitutional rights:
$4.2 billion for militarized police. Almost 13,000 agencies in all 50 states and four U.S. territories participate in a military “recycling” program which allows the Defense Department to transfer surplus military hardware to local and state police. In 2012 alone, $546 million worth of military equipment was distributed to law enforcement agencies throughout the country.
$34 billion for police departments to add to their arsenals of weapons and equipment. Since President Obama took office, police departments across the country “have received tens of thousands of machine guns; nearly 200,000 ammunition magazines; thousands of pieces of camouflage and night-vision equipment; and hundreds of silencers, armored cars and aircraft.” While police departments like to frame the acquisition of military surplus as a money-saving method, in a twisted sort of double jeopardy, the taxpayer ends up footing a bigger bill. First, taxpayers are forced to pay millions of dollars for equipment which the Defense Department purchases from megacorporations only to abandon after a few years. Then taxpayers find themselves footing the bill to maintain the costly equipment once it has been acquired by the local police.
$6 billion in assets seized by the federal government in one year alone. Relying on the topsy-turvy legal theory that one’s property can not only be guilty of a crime but is also guilty until proven innocent, government agencies have eagerly cashed in on the civil asset forfeiture revenue scheme, which allows police to seize private property they “suspect” may be connected to criminal activity. Then whether or not any crime is actually proven to have taken place, the cops keeps the citizen’s property. Eighty percent of these asset forfeiture cases result in no charge against the property owner. Some states are actually considering expanding the use of asset forfeiture laws to include petty misdemeanors. This would mean that property could be seized in cases of minor crimes such as harassment, possession of small amounts of marijuana, and trespassing in a public park after dark.
$11,000 per hour for a SWAT team raid on a government dissident. The raid was carried out against Terry Porter, a Maryland resident who runs a welding business, is married with three kids, is outspoken about his views of the government, and has been labeled a prepper because he has an underground bunker and food supplies in case things turn apocalyptic. The raiding team included “150 Maryland State Police, FBI, State Fire Marshal’s bomb squad and County SWAT teams, complete with two police helicopters, two Bearcat ‘special response’ vehicles, mobile command posts, snipers, police dogs, bomb disposal truck, bomb sniffing robots and a huge excavator. They even brought in food trucks.”
$3.8 billion requested by the Obama administration to send more immigration judges to the southern border, build additional detention camps and add border patrol agents. Border Patrol agents are already allowed to search people’s homes, intimately probe their bodies, and rifle through their belongings, all without a warrant. As one journalist put it, “The surveillance apparatus is in your face. The high-powered cameras are pointed at you; the drones are above you; you’re stopped regularly at checkpoints and interrogated.” For example, an American citizen entering the U.S. from Mexico was subjected to a full-body cavity search in which she was subjected to a variety of invasive procedures, including an observed bowel movement and a CT scan, all because a drug dog jumped on her when she was going through border security. Physicians found no drugs hidden in her body.
$61 billion for the Department of Homeland Security, one of the most notoriously bloated government agencies ever created. The third largest federal agency behind the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Defense, the DHS—with its 240,000 full-time workers and sub-agencies—has been aptly dubbed a “runaway train.”
$80 billion spent on incarceration by the states and the federal government in 2010. While providing security, housing, food, medical care, etc., for six million Americans is a hardship for cash-strapped states, it’s a gold mine to profit-hungry corporations such as Corrections Corp of America and GEO Group, the leaders in the partnership corrections industry. Thus, with an eye toward increasing its bottom line, CCA has floated a proposal to prison officials in 48 states offering to buy and manage public prisons at a substantial cost savings to the states. In exchange, the prisons would have to contain at least 1,000 beds and states would have to maintain a 90% occupancy rate for at least 20 years. This has led to the phenomenon of overcriminalization of everyday activities, in which mundane activities such as growing vegetables in your yard or collecting rainwater on your property are criminalized, resulting in jail sentences for individuals who might otherwise have never seen the inside of a jail cell.
$6.4 billion a year for the Bureau of Prisons and $30,000 a year to house an inmate. There are over 3,000 people in America serving life sentences for non-violent crimes. These include theft of a jacket, siphoning gasoline from a truck, stealing tools, and attempting to cash a stolen check. Most of the non-violent offenses which triggered life sentences were drug crimes involving trace amounts of heroin and cocaine. One person imprisoned for life was merely a go-between for an undercover officer buying ten dollars’ worth of marijuana. California has more money devoted to its prison system than its system of education. State spending on incarceration is the fastest growing budget item besides Medicaid.
93 cents an hour for forced, prison labor in service to for-profit corporations such as Starbucks, Microsoft, Walmart, and Victoria’s Secret. What this forced labor scheme has created, indirectly or not, is a financial incentive for both the corporations and government agencies to keep the prisons full to capacity. A good portion of the 2 million prisoners in public facilities are forced to work for corporations, making products on the cheap, undermining free laborers, and increasing the bottom line for many of America’s most popular brands. “Prison labor reportedly produces 100 percent of military helmets, shirts, pants, tents, bags, canteens, and a variety of other equipment. Prison labor makes circuit boards for IBM, Texas Instruments, and Dell. Many McDonald's uniforms are sewn by inmates. Other corporations—Microsoft, Victoria's Secret, Boeing, Motorola, Compaq, Revlon, and Kmart—also benefit from prison labor.”
$2.6 million pocketed by Pennsylvania judges who were paid to jail youths and send them to private prison facilities. The judges, paid off by the Mid Atlantic Youth Service Corporation, which specializes in private prisons for juvenile offenders, had more than 5,000 kids come through their courtrooms and sent many of them to prison for petty crimes such as stealing DVDs from Wal-Mart and trespassing in vacant buildings.
$1.4 billion per year reportedly lost to truancy by California school districts, which receive government funding based on student attendance. The so-called “solution” to student absences from school has proven to be a financial windfall for cash-strapped schools, enabling them to rake in millions, fine parents up to $500 for each unexcused absence, with the potential for jail time, and has given rise to a whole new track in the criminal justice system devoted to creating new revenue streams for communities. For example, Eileen DiNino, a woman serving a two-day jail sentence for her children’s truancy violations, died while in custody. She is one of hundreds of people jailed in Pennsylvania over their inability to pay fines related to truancy, which include a variety of arbitrary fees meant to rack up money for the courts. For example, “[DiNino’s] bill included a laundry list of routine fees: $8 for a “judicial computer project”; $60 for Berks constables; $40 for “summary costs” for several court offices; and $10 for postage.” So even if one is charged with a $20 fine, they may end up finding themselves on the hook for $150 in court fees.
$84.9 million collected in one year by the District of Columbia as a result of tickets issued by speeding and traffic light cameras stationed around the city. Multiply that income hundreds of times over to account for the growing number of localities latching onto these revenue-generating, photo-enforced camera schemes, and you’ll understand why community governments and police agencies are lining up in droves to install them, despite reports of wide scale corruption by the companies operating the cameras. Although nine states have banned the cameras, they’re in 24 states already and rising.
$1.4 billion for fusion centers. These fusion centers, which represent the combined surveillance and intelligence efforts of federal, state and local law enforcement, have proven to be exercises in incompetence, often producing irrelevant, useless or inappropriate intelligence, while spending millions of dollars on “flat-screen televisions, sport utility vehicles, hidden cameras and other gadgets.”
In sum, the American police state is a multi-billion dollar boondoggle, meant to keep the property and the resources of the American people flowing into corrupt government agencies and their corporate partners. For those with any accounting ability, it’s clear that the total sum of the expenses being charged to the American taxpayer’s account by the government add up to only one thing: the loss of our freedoms. It’s time to seriously consider a plan to begin de-funding this beast and keeping our resources where they belong: in our communities, working for us.
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Agreed the 'oathkeepres' really showed their COLORS when Boston was on lockdown now didn't they. Not saying they should have fired shots, but damn why weren't they out in FORCE in their little shirts and hats Shaming the thug merc cops who were going door to door looking for a couple of kids??? Just my 2c
Yup. In my mind this all boils down to this: no one is coming to "save us."
When it hits the fan you will be surprised at what communties gear up to defend their homes and freedom...you just gotta hope you are accepted in one of those communites as a contributing member.
Yes I hear you. But this notion that any part of the government employees are going to suddenly rise up and do the right thing is fucking childish.
Cops are given orders to raid homes and arrest people every day. Do you think they stop, look at the paperwork and say, "this is a patriot, I'm not attacking this guy?" Of course not. They don't know who you are, they don't care. They will follow orders.
Just like the Pharaoh's soldiers: "Go hack to death all of the first born male children."
"Ok."
Everyone wants to lolly gag.
Which victim does the tax go to?
RIPS
Whenever my city’s sheriffs dept needs more funding for its pension plan you can bet on being pulled over for not using your blinker, not wearing your seat belt, tinting your windows a tad too dark, chewing gum on the wrong side of your mouth, etc. Too bad some poor slug is being gunned down in a nearby convenience store or some little person is shot dead walking into his apt complex while these overweight sheriffs are busy funding their pensions by writing citation after citation for the real violent broken-blinker driver or the tearrist non-seat belt driver..
Luckily we have a top notch city police dept but not much would be lost if they abolished the sheriffs dept.
Wow that is exactly backwards from what most people experience. In most cases it is the unanswerable police force and union that flexes muscles while the Sheriff must be concerned about re-election. I think you guys do things backwards there.
With respect to the author...
after reading your article at least four times, I don't believe you understand the fundamental forces in play, but you certainly do a good job of describing the fallout, when those forces are neglected for too long.
I agree with the whole article. I'm also a victim of it indirectly. My wife got 2 tickets for driving over 20 MPH over the speed limit in one area of town (same street). She doesn't even know how to drive the posted limit by at least 10 MPH, which I keep on reminding her to drive at least the limit. When she asked for the the radar printout, the he bull cop put his hand on on his gun and intimidated her. I may show up at court myself to refute this. If I don't get justice, then they'll soon have openings in the sheriff's dept. I'm fucking tired of all this bullshit. Keep your eyes on the headlines.
Can't drive slow, but can't drive too fast (depending on area). LA, Cali was wierd for me (midwesterner). Cops would pull over for no seat belt, but tend to let you go for 10-15mph over. Now that I'm back in the midwest, could probably get by without the belt, but anything much over 5mph over will get your ass a ticket. I'm truly anal these days about making sure all lights work and that all pasengers in my vhehicle are belted. Give the copfucks no excuse.
Little bro got pulled over for an out head light (issue with the retention clip on that bulb), ended up getting the drug dog paying him a visit. Dog scratched the hell out of the car, and yet the cops found no evidence of drugs in the car. Funny thing is, lil bro is studying to become a cop, and has NEVER TOUCHED DRUGS (his friends don't either). I think he realized something that night, that gov will eat their own.
I've found you're actually better off doing a few mph over the limit, no matter what. Plus testing your vehic with an independant GPS is a good idea as well. One of my first cars, vastly overestimated my speed. Had a cop follow me in that for over 20 mi, just beacuse I thought I was doing 55 in a 55, but once being tested with a GPS, was only doing 50. Doing 50 in a 55 will get you followed. Most American makes over-report speed at least a few MPH. So speed by 2-3mph, unless you have specifically tested your vehicle over a distance with a semi-accurate GPS.
I hear ya. My right front headlight went out at dusk tonight...noticed it in the ass-end of the car in front of me..DAMMIT MAN!!!!
NOT driving until tomorrow morning...and getting it fixed asap....cops here pull you over for a stank fart if they smell it....
I hear ya, I'm driving an 18-19 year old Ford, and Fords love their electrical issues. I actually bought new bulbs to replace the pair of 3rd brake light bulbs in my ford knowning one was out, by the time i went to change them/it, both were back to working (so the new bulbs are in my glovebox).
Had similar issues with the windows on the passenger side, had quit working mid winter, now seem to be working fine (found out yesterday). Things like that tho, I don't worry about the cops.
Wisconsin requires working windshield wipers, yet does not require one to actually have a windshield. Get a laugh at that one.
Btw +1 for that, my lil bro had driven around for months not realizing one of his headlights was not working. A couple of times one of his passengers had asked him about it and he'd shrugged it off. Took the cop pointing it out for him to finalaly realize. (And when you look like an idiot in front of a cop, expect a ticket.)
But then again, thats what he gets. Free auto repair has its costs. I had been telling him for months to buy a Chilton/Hanes maintence manual for his old Nissan.... Only after getting that ticket (for no insurance) did he listen to me. Dropping that $20 earlier might have saved him a few hundred $.
Please tell me, freedom lover - what CRIME was commited by your lil bro?
And, are you feeling safer now?
Dat's ma boy. Your talking my language. I'm not leaving this mortal soil with a doze of the shits and the birdie song.
ready the blade w/intrepitude.
What Americans don’t seem to comprehend is that if the government can arbitrarily take away your property, without your having much say about it, you have no true rights. You’re nothing more than a serf or a slave.
But it's the governments property, I thought everyone knew that. You get to borrow it till they want it back.
What 'americans' seem to remember that their governemnt has taken away property from many people to be transfered to 'americans', and that transfer has made 'americans' rich.
That is what they remember.
Now, as Indians are a scarcity these days, the only way to keep maintaining the 'american' scheme, is to take from other 'americans'.
Some 'americans' salivate in anticipation while other 'americans' soil their pants in anticipation.
Not everybody will be on the right side of the fence and not having your hands on the government-state is a bad start.
Cops will continue to be assholes until their paycheck/retirement checks stop.
They'll up their game at that point.
Think the fuckers are bad now?
Wait untill they aren't getting paid by .gov
Interesting times.
Notice there's no laws legalizing the militarization of law enforcement. Saul Alinsky would be proud.
There is no free lunch. There is no free government protection. Who protects us from our protectors? Who protects from crooked judges and their lawyer cronies? It's the nature of sheeple to want to be safe and protected. It's the craving for this safety, which becomes the sheeple's destructive vice and addiction.
"Power corrupts; Absolute power corrupts absolutely," was said about the Pope. And, we hope that lesser men can be trusted with power. Trust is a destructive human flaw.
You are only at risk of dying when you are alive.
No one is safe.
Enjoy the ride!
And I might get arrested for replying to this article.
Or, even up voting it.
Thank you for pointing this out, Captain Obvious.
Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.”
? Frédéric Bastiat, The Law
“It is not true that the legislator has absolute power over our persons and property. The existence of persons and property preceded the existence of the legislator, and his function is only to guarantee their safety.”
? Frédéric Bastiat, The Law
“But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime.”
? Frédéric Bastiat, The Law
Bassist was a badass.
Which one?
Stanley Clarke?
Geddy Lee!
the chess board of american control : to whit..the question many ask is why are their neighbors not standing up to .gov, well the guys down the street just got here on a h1b visa, or is over staying on a temp visa, or got across the border- one prime weapon .gov has is to dilute the population and replace those that loved america with third world invaders who owe no allegiance to america, it makes popular up rising that much more difficult and is why neither party has taken any step to secure our borders..just saying.
I try to keep in mind what happened during the Hungarian uprising against the Russians. One story related North Korean guest students helping to fill bottles with gasoline to use as Molotov cocktails against Russian tanks.
We can always hope.
Think about it. Property is pretty much never yours to begin with. If the property is subject to a direct annual tax, you do NOT own it. The government owns it. Your shit that is not subject to direct tax is always a heartbeat away from being sold off to others by, yes you guessed it, the government.
The American people really need to realize that a choice is coming whether they like it or not: They can wither away in poverty and misery with everyday a fight to just survive or fight to take back the county, the American country, from these treasonous criminals and murderers.
The choice is coming: Persecution or Revolution.
The Four Rs
Rejection: Quit paying, quit obeying, quit playing
Revolution: It is inevitable, so prepare, as they are.
Retribution: The guilty must answer for their crimes against the American people and the Constitution.
Restoration: Restore the American people, country and Constitutional republic.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn -
“Oh how we burned in the prison camps, later thinking: what would things have been like if every police operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive? If, during periods of mass arrests, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood that they had nothing to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers or whatever was at hand? The organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt.”
Tuco
Precisely. The treasonous and murderous thugs and their families should not be permitted to live peacefully amongst us.
Note: It is almost hilarious the lengths that the gun and badge thugs will go to in order to convince children, in the schools, etc., that they are your friend. Then of course those poor brainwashed sods grows up and learns very quickly that the gun and badge thugs are nothing more than treasonous and murderous highway men out to rob them of their property, dignity freedom and/or life.
Yeah but here's the trick - you establish reasonable taxes for schools and roads. Then you steal all the money, use it for welfare and retirement. Now the schools are closed and the roads potholed. So you raise taxes "voluntarily" for these specific purposes.
Then you steal it again. Then you go back and raise taxes AGAIN for the exact same purpose.
Repeat until they call you Jerry Brown.
Issue bonds for schools and things taxpayers want, then apply the tax revenue for the things the voters do not want. Not kidding, this is how it works in all local government. DC is worse.
The general rule of government is that all of their actions are ALWAYS about stealing money and power from us and ALL utterances by them are cover and lies for that fact.
Following that, one then can observe that government ALWAYS accomplishes the opposite of the stated goal because your money and power is actually flowing to them and not to the stated goal.
As a consequence, government is known to produce only poverty, misery and death. This fact is born out by history, past and current, as any trip to an inner-city ghetto or VA hospital will confirm.
"Guillotines are the only cure for pol, crat and bankster criminality."
Unabashed the FILTH have been preparing for decades for this eventuality and all the while US citizens have been hit hard only recently, living largely at the ROW's expense and so have a soft belly (in the main).
Possibly the way things could pan out is that Europe( where the filth is not as brutal for the most part ) RIOTS forcing BANKSTERS back to the USSA where they bunker down and quell unrest.
You can imagine that the Hired Thugs ( unashamedly financed by the taxpayer ) who corral the pen have been awarded high incentive to maintain the status quo and just like the english did will send their thugs north with the thugs in the north sent south etc etc dismantling kinship.
With Europe's New Order of highly devolved smaller communities this will spread in kind to the USSA but not before many many DRONE PARTIES.
EXERT FROM MY NEW NOVEL ' FUCK THIS FOR A GAME OF SOLDIERS ' OR ' OLD BANKERS NEVER DIE THEY JUST LOSE THEIR CREDIT LINES '
this is news?
not to me.....
Correction: The police state is a multi-trillion dollar atrocity.
Just over a year ago I stumbled upon a blog on WordPress .com written by Gerry Spence who was born and educated in the small towns of Wyoming where he has practiced law for almost fifty-five years. As a nationally known figure in the legal system Spence has spent his lifetime representing and protecting victims of the legal system from what he calls The New Slave Master: big corporations and big government. Below is a disturbing take on society put out there by Gerry Spence and the idea that we have become no more than slaves.
http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2012/02/we-are-all-slaves-interesting-tho...
no shit
This is an alarming article. However, it is also one-sided. It would be nice to hear the rest of these stories.
Here's a small bit more on the jacket thief. It is due to a four strikes law in LA. It's obvious that life for a jacket is ridiculous. It's also true that this person was determined to commit crime, and society cannot survive if too many people choose that path.
http://rt.com/usa/life-prison-without-parole-694/
Both sides are not quite seeing the results of their own actions.
The thief talks as though doing time for the crime is a form of payment. It's not. Losing years of freedom does not compensate the jacket owner for the jacket and it does not compensate society for having to deal with a culture of crime. Society is harmed when the theft occurs. Doing time might be a deterrent and it might reduce the level of crime. It is not a payment.
The life sentence for repetitive crime is a quick fix. It also treats people like things, a number, a statistic. If society loses compassion, then society loses itself.
How should a thief, particularly a repetitive one, pay for his crime?
....by sewing a shitload of McDs shirts to undermine Tauk Ting and his friends in Asian swampland labor centers. Saves on shipping. BACK TO WORK SLAVE!
This website indicates a life sentence occurs when "results in death" is involved in addition to a prior felony drug conviction. Without the prior felony, a "results in death" is only 20 years.
http://www.newsforage.com/2013/11/23-petty-crimes-that-have-landed-peopl...
I view the war on drugs as similar to prohibition. It's pointless and causes corruption.
Then again, I also would not want to jail a parent or drug victim who shot a pusher.
Why should I pay for this creep to get 3 hots & a cot for life? Kill her dumb ass.
Cigarette and blindfold?
I am so glad I do not live in Russia. Political Corruption is so disorganized there.
You cannot control a nation of 350 million with brute force alone. It simply will not work.
Those who say "Oh yes you can...look at history...", well, history has no examples of a nation of 350 million being controlled by brute force.
Things are just too damn 'big' anymore for the old ways to work. We are in new territory, in many ways.
The police-state will fail. That isn't to say that it will simply dry up and go away...there WILL be resistance. But it WILL ultimately fail.
Except to say that it is only a small minority of people who resist tyranny and its evil tactics.
The vast majority either suffer and comply with it for a peaceful life or actually agree with it because they are beneficiaries of it or quite like having their lives ordered by The State. That means The State only has to focus on the minority and to make examples of them - by imposing draconian punishments - to keep the masses in order and on message.
And if The State is really clever with its tactics it can actually manipulate (aka "divide and rule") the masses to blame the minority and fight them in some sort of civil war, while The State sits it out and re-asserts itself afterwards.
Think of what your sayin' folks, Has it come to this? I like order and i get fucking annoyed when the bartender is at the opposite end of the bar.
Am hoping all this sentiment is not bravado and when youz wake up in the morning you pick up your packed lunch box then return home and sit at the computer with your wife deciding which bills you'll skip this month, with a we may be in the gutter but we're looking at the stars dazed expression.
ONE SMALL STEP FOR MAN ONE GIANT LEAP FOR MANKIND
I realize I am getting to be a crank about this, but I have become amazed at all the articles on this site and others, wondering just how the hell this police state got going. And it's always on websites that are read primarily by men. The futility of it is that you are preaching to the choir. Men, by and large, are not voting for the redistributive state, the draconian laws, or the militarized police.
It's the WOMEN.
Women vote for the redistributive state, because it primarily redistributes from men to women. So you need to realize that democracy, when women comprise a majority of the electorate, inevitably leads to the Leviathan state. Most of the money goes to little old ladies, not SWAT teams, as we all know. Little old ladies know this quite well, and they vote their interests. Also, don't forget feminists:
“Feminism, Socialism, and Communism are one in the same, and Socialist/Communist government is the goal of feminism” - Catharine MacKinnon
I don't have any brilliant solution to this problem. I am just astounded at the number of articles that I read, expressing major butthurt over totalitarian government, and not one of these articles ever mentions the obvious contribution of feminism, and female voters in general.
The women, really? Maybe its time you pull your head out of your ass & get a clue.
In general it has been the men who have done the raping and the robbing and the killing and the war-mongering for the last two thousand years, ...and it's been the men who have done the pillaging and the beheading and the subjugating of whole races into slavery. It has been the men who have done the law making and the money making and most of the mischief making! So if the world isn't quite what you had in mind you have only yourselves to thank!!
(Julia from Designing Women)
But, but, but...women made us do it!
If it wasn't for women, men would be happily still be living in caves telling fart jokes. Women are the only thing keeping the economy alive. Women buy stuff and men buy stuff to impress women.
No, the old saying is "If women ran the world, we'd still be living in caves, but with really nice curtains."
Women, in general, (yes, there are always exceptions to the rule) don't have the minds or discipline to apply themselves to the tough stuff, like math, physics, and chemistry. They don't have the physical skills to cut down trees, mill stones, build buildings, etc. Men have been, and will always be, the drivers of new technology and learning. Women have been, and will always be, the ones who say "don't rock the boat", "are you sure?", and "nobody else is doing it".
That's not saying women are not necessary or useful. As the old Chinese yin/yang motif symbolizes, we are equal but different, and you need both parts for the wheel to run smoothly. (And I'm not saying women should be barefoot, pregnant, and in the kitchen, either - there are a ton of successful businesswomen out there, like both my ex- and current wives. I have two daughters, and I expect them to be successful at their fields, but even though one is studying math/chem/physics at U of Toronto, she has no desire to go into research or engineering; she's going to be an actuary.)
She quotes a Jewish Hollywierd writer to make her point. Here is reality - once women got the vote, the end was already written. Women voted us into feel good socialism and a broken society. Those are the facts.
Right, everything was just fine until women's suffrage. Idiot!
yeah, I call BS on women blaming men for all the killing. What's the single greatest cause of death in the US since 1973?
Hint: it ain't war, car crashes, lung cancer, heart attacks, obesity, or anything else.
It's abortion (approx. 1.25 million PER YEAR in the US since Roe v Wade was decided).
The number of deaths from ALL other causes is about 2.5 million/yr, meaning abortion is the cause of 30% of US deaths.
so bull-f***king-sh*t that women are kinder and gentler; they're freakin' bloodthirsty if it gets in the way of them having a good time.
Interesting idea. The women I work with all support protective, redistributive government. They like single payer healthcare, higher guaranteed wages, salary equalization, more government services, childcare support, elderly support, all of the massively expansionist, never-ending programs that are debt-funded.
OTOH, men generally like the burgeoning military and police state to protect their "things" from the invisible threats of crime and terrorism.
Which is worse? Both seek government as THE solution. Once you start feeding a wild animal, you have captured it.
That's why when SHTF my wife will be sentry because I know she would shoot before I would. Women are socialists at heart, their compassion usually stops at other people's money, but start getting into their stash and god help you.
Wow, I always wondered why the majority of government heads, parliament/CONgress members, Fortune 1000 corporations, banks, and the like were men - they're secretly WOMEN !!! Argggg, we're DOOMED !!
What an ass. You look at the likes of Bush, Obama, Biden, Cheney, Paulsen, Chertoff etc etc and then you blame women ? Yeah, on second thought, maybe we should - obviously their mothers should have had abortions instead of giving birth.
skip jackyy my girl, women vs men the pols know how to divide and control, that's why we have black gettos as any adult knows in the schools or military or sports and at work, all those places I have been, when the game is over, the workday is done, blacks - spanish speakers -asians-whites all segregate themselves ..women are just easy to buy off, some men are just too hard headed and have that hunter gene ...so hard to see who pulls the strings that cause us to not see our life is at the bottom of the pile and those on top see to it we stay divided..just saying..
Politicians seek power. Power comes with the right balance of views that gain the most votes. Women are far more easily targeted under the redistribution theme almost to the exclusion of everything else. Has nothing to do with the gender of the politicians but the gender that can more easily be sucked into your camp.
Be careful Skip! You have happened upon a giant circle jerk and everybody is tugging real hard.
Feminism has definitely played a part. I think it falls more in the divide and conquer category. Us vs them, when reality is We.
Honest conversation is the key. That requires considering all perspectives.
I agree, the STATE is the servant of women. They are voting it in.
Offer a woman "free healthcare". She won't think about "There is no free lunch". Because of course her whole life she has gotten a "free lunch" that a man provides for the promise of "maybe" a shot at that snatch. Don't believe me? Let a man get a flat tire, he will have to change it himself. A pretty women? There will be many men stopping to change it for her.
Then, when they get what they want, they wonder why it all went to shit. Example: single motherhood. Who needs a man, after all, when Uncle Sam will pay the bills. Then they find out how grim a life single motherhood is.
Women are natural socialists, in the large. When they got the vote, the socialism started. We are at the end of that cycle. What goes around, comes around.
More specifically, its single women and women married to redistributive men.
So now it's becoming a circle jerk?
Right, you are probably an old crank and I might add, a dumbass. While you have been getting hard thinking about communists, socialists and feminists, MEN transferred $23 trillion of wealth to the big banks, corporations and the financial services industry. All of whom have leadership structures dominated by males.
Thinking (or lack thereof) like you have demonstrated is exactly why we are economically doomed. Blaming 87 year old grandmothers for economic collapse??? You just can't fix stupid.
I'm all sorts of surprised the feds haven't legalized weed. Yeah there's that DEA contingent and Big Pharma, but more than made up for by tax revenue and skim, and pays for itself when the summer is hot and a mob would ordinarily be forecast... you eliminate a good 15, 20% of your potential fuckwit headaches right off the top... too demotivated, too happy playing GTA or getting their knobs polished... just so long as there's plenty of cheap carbohydrates and fiat to fund the ebt cards -but when there is not... I expect TPTB will not, in fact, hold the line at the city center but let a goodly portion escape with some buses to the suburbs.
Just spitballing... the problem with doom porn is sooner or later you don't get that tingle from it.... but Gaza and Ukraine and Syria and Iraq just need another big push or two... they're building a fire, boys and girls, already got the base logs going... they aren't going to waste all this raw kinetic energy... more fuckery, significant, to follow soon, meaning days or weeks... the chaos can't become too normal or the threshold drops and a new event loses the impact it had to trigger an action potential, down the line, something to unite all the little fires...
But, the more plates you spin, the more actions you engender, the more the tendency will be for an increasing number of the consequences to be unintended.
What if, just... what if.... the Shia and Shite are united by some charismatic religious leader? What if he asked all eyes to look to Jerusalem?
Am I the only one who thought the illustration for this piece was Uncle Sam goosing the be-thonged cheeks of Bill Clinton while he's getting head from the Statue of Liberty chick?
In the case of an 'american' government, one might add that the government is only good at stealing resources to transfer them to their citizenry.
'American' governments have stolen entire continents to give them away to their citizenry. It shows their proficiency in the doing.
This is why i have said before that to escape you need to have balls.
Enough balls to scare the fucking shit of these people.
These are low lvel fucking complicit criminals, prison staff, school bureacrats, local town hall petty bureaucrats.
You ned to have the balls to secretly gather thier names and addresss and store them on a memory card and a place to hide the data. There is enough room on one tny memory card to hold hundreds of thousands of names.
Swap them around, wth friends who are fully behind this, and add each other data bases so it grows very quickly.
Then the hard part.
WEhen the time comes you need to go out there, and late at night, whatever it takes, walk there park far enough away, plan a afe house to get to quickly near by but at least 10 blocks, and then you need to butcher those petty hitlers.
Butcher them, all of them, the whole family, in a horrible violent way and let someone else leave messages that this the fate of all the fucking thieving scum bureacrats.
If you can bag a bigwig so much the better, Mak feel so afraid they will quit, they will shit themslves if the so much a hear a telephone ring, you have to put stark staring fear in them.
When they quit, and these are the very soft underbelly of all central planning, then their system collapses like a house of cards.
Coordinated attacks will get massive publicity.
then the warnings come out.
They might be the next.
game over
Ok so what? Nobody is going to do anything about the escalating tyranny in America. Millions of Americans are armed? So what?
Govt doesn't have to eliminate 2nd amendment. Just make everybody to complacent to exercise it.
Nobody talks about "taking America back" anymore because deep down they know it won't happen.
We don't need the second amendment. We actually subcontracted that right to our government. Now instead of having to buy guns and learn how to use them, we have hired guns. Of course if you watch the old westerns, the hired gun usually ends up shooting his employer, but it sure seemed like a good idea at the time
One day a giant load Karma will bite them in the ass.
Welcome to the Pink Police State.
http://thefederalist.com/2014/07/17/welcome-to-the-pink-police-state-reg...
This isnt about money,, its about children.... Mayor Rahm, says red light camera's save tens of thousands childrens lives in Chicago alone, every year...
The Government of the United States of America is presently going
through a plan to defund the beast that is BIG Gubberment. This 'plan'
was initiated around 11:00am on March 10th 2008 Bear Stearns time.
Since March 10th 2008 @11:00am Americans have collectively lost
their shirts, pants, coats, shoes, food, fuel, and savings. The Gubberment is living on debt that average Americans are on the hook for and the petro-dollar you base the global ponzi on is being attacked left, right, and center. The prospects for an improved economy are
nil for all intents and purposes, and the Gubberment is about to 'bail in' the corporations and banks that collectively control the lives you lead. In brief, American civilians are imprisoned in a Police State with
no freedom or any means to escape the imprisonment. If you live in Detroit and you are working class you will find that the state has likely turned your water off and is cutting back services to residents so that
the state can reclaim the territory for themselves. Clearly, the 'state'
wants what is left of your personal wealth and they will angle for that wealth until they have what you own in their possession. Like Hitler's
brown shirts the American Gubberment is slowly taking everything you own and starving you and your loved ones out of existence while you
spend the last remaining fiat petro-dollars on ISP service charges so that you can complain about it to the National Security Agency and the CIA.
Good luck with that, America.
The article's cover art at http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/fp_thumb/images/... had me initially thinking that Uncle Sam was copping a quick feel while purloining the goods.
Then I remembered that, for now, you have to go to the airport for that. The rest is done remotely.
Our chains our voluntary. Just ask the Founding Fathers.
If you like your slavery, you can keep your slavery...
Stealing isn't the word. There are exactly three F's that every US citizen worships - Fascism, fraud and fags.
All of which nourish the abolition of anything that isn't "theirs."
So, more like a giveaway or forfeiture dripping with guvvamint propaganda.
Fascism + Fraud + Fags = Failure (rewarded)
I vote from my heart=
I don't vote because I'm afraid of the govt (NSA, CIA, govt, etc)=
You still have a choice at this point in thyme
He forgot the lawyers. Any lawyer supports the use of force by government. Civil, criminal, defense, it doesn't matter.
We really are nothing more than serfs in a feudal system. We are still stuck in the middle ages in many ways.
What's worse is that we've Govt entities (Police/Military) involved in or condoning Cyberstalking and Hacking. In SoCal - Los Angeles SouthBay/Beach Cities/Long Beach, I've had many problems not only with the neighbors (JW, Mormons, Catholics, Soka, Scientology, Baptists, etc.) who came up with some slandering scheme when I moved into the neighborhood.
The main culprits have been at the Foul Play for years (since the same surname pops up) during my time in the Navy; but these morons apparently wanted to proselytize to me, my Mother, to the "Japanese People" (as one mormon who stalked me to the FBI Office in Wilshire and the LA Air Force Base claimed - everything done in the name of their Cult or Christianity appears to be their mantra). They're Govt Employees and Contractors (especially Military/Police) encroaching upon the general public.
They already accused me of crimes I never committed (one co-worker came up and hinted that several incidents occured while I was deployed with the Fleet or on the road (hence why no Law Enforcement never approached me in the first place), called me some Terrorist/Treasonist (note the delusional neocon mindset), and had me listed as a Person of Interest. Some Catholic, Druze, Filipino morons - especially those who hang out at my Mother's Physicians Offices and during hospital Visits (Little Company of Mary and Providence Medical - along with Mt St. Mary/Loyola Marymount Students there), seem to be fixated by parties who wish to label me as "Insane", on Drugs, etc, along with those engaged in some kind of Kangaroo Court.
Even CBI types were monitoring (one gave himself out at a Job Fair to force a stalking harraser to return a stolen business cardholder I placed on a table while talking to a Recruiter at at Veterans Job Fair up in Westlake Village. (we all saw her take it)
It's started here already folks - people with "Color of Law" access and community organizers enaging in Foul Play to loot, sabotage, and defame Law abiders; and I'm actually a Veteran Officer (the treachery/cover-up among the Officer Corps and the Academy Alumni Network (presuming Cult/Catholics) is alarming), an ex-Federal Employee and Whistleblower (to Govt Authorities), an FBI informant (on these matters), and a ex-US Treasury Agent.
The icing on the cake? They (scientology is taking a blatant role here) are trying to spin this as as parts of a boondoggle ESP / Criminology - Interrogation / Family Therapy Anger Management Fear Mgmt / Super Soldier (kid you not, some morons at an Applebees near Los Alamitos (Army National Guard) were touting it) / Tough Love / Black Culture Reindocrination (some stalkers included fat&ugly black women who wanted me to jointheirfubaredcult-to flirt-get noticed-got rejected-and started to call me an oreo-coconut / Community Building / Innovation / "Christian" Deprogramming of ex-adherents / "Pro Democracy" Anarchy / Social Justice / Filipino-Vietnamese-Taiwanese-SouthKorean-Armenian-Iranian(Jewish/Christian)-Ashkenazi-Masorti-Freemason-Caribbean-Australian-SouthAfrian- solidarity / School Tech Magnet / Brain Drain Prevention "Schemes".
Spinning yarns of Bullshit for years. All to plagiarize my work and hijack my projects - with Taxpayer $$$ well wasted. They even pulled of some University Studies and Banking Interest (a Taiwanese Bank is allegedly funding the latest rounds) as well. Ony reason I'm still here is due to the fact that the Cult Monkeys have wiretapped my phone/hacked my emails, and pulled Contractor/Police/NSA-DoD-FBI strings (I was even interviewed, w/no feedbacks aside of being told of certain things being out of the FBI's jurisdiction - ^_^) to suppress and hinder every effort I've made to leave and Sue these bastards.
The Scum have Risen; and it's causing the productive, (non-rent seeking) wealthy, and the upright to leave or take shelter, and other Nation-States to divest from the Imperial Systems. In other words, a Societal Collapse at all levels of the Empire. A perfect storm of Dominonism, Exceptionalism, Ignorance, Greed, Incompetence, and Moral Degeneration.
Ochlarchy, Anarchy, and Oligarchy merging in Idiocy - accelerating the Social Entropy. Kinda a like, a phase-shift into a scenario which is aptly described in The Marching Morons.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Marching_Morons
http://mysite.du.edu/~treddell/3780/Kornbluth_The-Marching-Morons.pdf (nice reference to Russia and Kiev in the actual Novella).
According to the Novella, taking shelter didn't work - ^_^.
Am I being alarmist? I don't think so , since many of this Empire Nation-State's Systems (hijacked by the sociopaths) are built on Houses of Cards and self-serving Ponzi Schemes (e.g., Debt Based Money feeding the Fed's Master Banks).