axe wrote:
For some strange reason, I've been feeling very optimistic lately about our cause. Not necessarily because of any great news I've gotten, although the above is awesome. For me, it's an intuitive thing, and I feel we're on the brink of a major development of some sort. I'll keep my fingers crossed!
Respectfully,
axe
I think you're right, Axe. When it goes, it'll be like a huge wall just suddenly crumbling into dust: all at once. It's been the problem all along that in a police state or an aspiring one like the U.S., cops are essentially human attack dogs - they see Drugs+people=criminal activity, and it's like an attack dog seeing someone dressed in black at a window at night. It doesn't think, "Well, it might be his window, so maybe I'd better check first"; it just attacks. The cops aren't given any more info than that, thinking is discouraged, and the ones at the top like the political clout that claiming all those "successful drug busts" give them even when they were actually innocent people. With a compliant, cowardly, toadying press, folks never get to hear about all the mistakes and "collateral damage" that actually makes up the bulk of the 'statistics' in the War On Drugs. Attack dogs can't count, so it doesn't matter to them if they hurt or even kill a thousand innocents for every real illegal drug dealer they actually bust (and the illegality of of the personal choice to use drugs is another construct that shouldn't exist in a "free country"). It doesn't matter to their masters either, though they can count, because anyone busted like that or just caught in the gears is not an 'elite' but just another 'peon', so they don't matter either, as long as they're useful. That's what peons are for, and if a few get used up, well, there are always more. Keep contraception, sexual self-care information and abortion away from them too, and everybody knows they'll breed like rats, right?
That right there is the single, real difference between the America the RadRight wants to make of the U.S. and the America envisioned by the Founders: in the original vision, to paraphrase Mark Twain, every individual should be an aristocrat. That's what education and cultural conditioning should be aiming at. Instead though, we are sliding - or being slid by greedy corporatists, our self-proclaimed 'elites' - into a caste system where if you're not born to money, or mean and sociopathic enough to do whatever it takes to get sums of money large enough to translate into power, or backed by such power, then you're a resource, and resources are there to use. You don't ask a tree you need to chop down to make a house or to sell the wood if it's happy, and you don't ask a peon you're using to bulk up your kill/bust stats if he's happy about that either. It's that 'thinking' that we have to change - in the media, in the population, and in the wannabe "American Royals". Otherwise, the American Revolution may as well never happened. This is one reason I support the same interpretation of the Second Amendment as the NRA, though I'm not fond of them for other reasons. A disarmed population is just another pile of victims; an armed populace can, and does, make would-be conquerors cautious. Maybe cautious enough to fail.
Luckily for us, the attack dogs never learned the First Rule of Holes: "When you're in one, stop digging!". And it's so easy to hand them another shovel...
Ian
