(03-19-2018, 11:09 AM)Wallfire Wrote: Once again the old "woods runner" has got it right. One has only to look at all the rules that have been passed in GB give massive surveillance rights to the Government, paying of people to spy on friends and people near, the list just goes on.
GB has become the new USSR.
It's not just the UK - I honestly don't have a good finger on the political pulse of the UK, but I imagine they are at least as far along, possibly a bit farther, and maybe just taking a parallel path with the US. I do know that the UK government has defacto outlawed encryption for private citizens, and it can't be a good thing when only the governemnt is allowed privacy. Oh, they haven't outlawed it outright as far as I know - that would break the internet - BUT they have passed laws requiring citizens to give up their encryption keys on demand, effectively nullifying the benefits of encryption. In a climate like that, the only possible defense is an encryption program called "Rubber Hose", or VeraCrypt with it's "plausible deniability" function. Those programs were tailor made for use under totalitarian regimes, and have been used to good effect - field tested, one might say.
In the US, the "Progressives" were all set to take over, and felt their victory was assured... which is why it came as such a shock when Hillary Clinton lost. That's why they went into convulsions when Trump won. it threw a wrench in the works. There was much weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth here in the good ol' USA when the Progressives got jerked up short, just when they were on a roll and could see the finish line. Just one more Progressive term would have been enough to put the US under, I believe.
Trump has thrown a wrench in the works, for the time being. It won't last, of course, but with any luck at all he may have bought enough time for some of the citizens to heed the wake-up call. It's still gonna get worse before it gets better, but I'm hoping we've been given a fighting chance... the key word there is "fighting". There is gonna be some. Commu-gressives don't give up without one, and they generally trot out the guns when the chips are down for them and their backs against the wall.
They are still fighting now, although in the shadows and not openly. A prime example is the current craze among high school students to ban guns. I don't believe for a moment that is a spontaneous uprising. it's scripted and directed - and financed - for certain. Witness the thousands of high school students from around the nation that converged on DC on March 14th. I don't believe for an instant that those students dug into their weekly allowances to pay for their own transportation, room, and board for that event. That money came from somewhere else, and that somewhere else is heavily involved in the Progressive agenda. Even the words came from somewhere on high - I watched student after student falter in their speaking, only to be "prompted" and coached by their handlers, openly. It's despicable to use youngsters, kids who don't know any better, to eliminate their own future rights. I would say "deplorable", but I think the totalitarians have trademarked that word for use against the rest of us.
When Commu-gressives lose at the ballot box, they invariably dust off the cartridge box. I don't see the coming war as the citizens against the government - it appears to me that the government is as divided into the two factions as the citizenry is. I think it will be more of a free-for-all, with the two factions facing off against one another at whatever level they find themselves at, and with whatever means they have at hand to prosecute the fight.
Guns aren't always the right answer.
I don't believe the Amtrack train wreck in Virginia, the one carrying only not-progressive government leaders, was any sort of "accident" either. Not for an instant. That was, at best, a warning shot... and at worst, a failed coup attempt.
When it comes to a shooting war, the Progressive leadership will be nowhere to be found. I saw it time and time again in Nicaragua, among other places. They just go in, stir up a bunch of crap, then throw pre-positioned "useful idiots" into the guns of their opponents, all the while remaining safely cocooned elsewhere. Now that some folks are on to their modus operandi, those cocoons might not be as safe as they thought... but I digress.
The best way to kill a snake it to take it's head off. How one chooses to do that is his own affair, best left up to the individual.
Make no mistake, a shooting war is coming - that's why they have a hard-on for folks' weapons - "assault weapons" in particular - at the moment. Oh, they'll let folks keep their pop-guns in an attempt to pacify them, but when it comes to fighting weapons, they think they should have a monopoly on those, and that they should be outlawed for the rest. Remember this: a "deer rifle" is just a sniper rifle with a flashy paint job. One man, with one of those, can arm entire squads of his buddies with "assault weapons" if he has a mind to.
Saw that in Bosnia. I had a friend that was there at the beginning. One day, he and 4 of his buddies went off for a walk entirely and utterly unarmed. By the end of the day they had two guns. By the end of the next day, they had 7 guns. By the end of the week, they had a whole ammo depot, and were arming entire companies. Never underestimate a determined man.
I probably need to shut up at this point, stop drinking, and go to sleep. Night, y'all!
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’