When dad called to tell me that the cops broke down his fence the first thought I had was they shot my folks dog. How sad is it that a situation like this where cops DON’T shoot the dog is an incredible story? Cop shoots dog stories are so frequent that I felt compelled to send a letter of thanks for the officers using good judgment when they were already obviously amped up a bit. Until people start paying attention to this and making their voices heard on the local level this is not going to stop.

People are starting to get angry. It may take some time for fat, lazy America to get off its’ ass, but there could be some demonstrations in early 2009. Next couple of years may be interesting.

You aren’t the only one that is thinking this. Queue the basing of troops within the US to… help out in case of terrorist attacks or other national emergencies. Oh yeah and to quell civil disorder.

I make a prediction that within the next four years, martial law will be declared somewhere within the US.

Or, as recorded in the Annals of Congress in 1794:
“Mr. Madison wished to relieve the sufferers, but was afraid of establishing a dangerous precedent, which might hereafter be perverted to the countenance of purposes very different from those of charity. He acknowledged, for his own part, that he could not undertake to lay his finger on that article in the Federal Constitution which granted a right of Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.”

Dangerous precedent, indeed.

Last time I checked, the truth was a valid defense, Jake.

You statists are kinda funny, exonerating the government for everything. Such an easy idol.

Those 3 million jobs are a waste of labor resources. The U.S. auto industry is a complete misallocation of resources propped up by the fraud of the finance industry for at least the last 20 years. The automakers need to be forced into bankruptcy so the capital and labor can be reallocated to productive uses instead of having more money thrown down a black hole, assuming that there is a demand for 3 million new jobs in ANY industry in the world now.

The State, via its muscle the government, has created a bubble in PEOPLE. There are simply too many people on Earth to be provided for in the manner in which humans would like to live. The American way of life since at least 1971 has been a complete fraud — embezzlement from future generations who are not even alive to scrutinize the books or defend themselves.

It would be fantastically amusing, your bemoaning the loss of 3 million useless jobs, if it weren’t so ominous what the near future portends as a result of the evil machinations of the State and its dominion over all individuals.

Your self-interest would be better served by educating yourself and others as to the logic and sense of libertarianism (or my favorite strand free-market anarchism) than clinging to the obsolete and incredibly dangerous delusions of statist ideology.

Who here mentioned blaming government for everything, except you?

Billy Beck, years ago:
…”they use the things we love — families, careers, possessions, etc. — against us. This is the fundamental principle on which it all works.”
http://www.two–four.net/weblog.php?id=P1202

Our entire lives are being held for ransom.

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