The Fantasy of Peace & Safety!

[ImminentDanger]

The Fantasy of Peace & Safety!

(The battle for the hearts and minds of the American People.)

There's been a battle raging in America for quite some time. For the last 40 years it has been particularly heated. The battlefield has changed from time to time depending on the particular combatant leading the charge, or the nature of the latest national tragedy in the news, or when there is a perceived weakness in the opponent’s positions.

One side of the conflict has enjoyed a favored status with the mass media. With very little urging, the national media outlets have fallen in line by determinedly culling news sources in order to run stories that support their cause. By adding innuendo to otherwise non-supporting stories, they attempt to continuously discredit their opponents.

The battle I'm referring to is the assault on the Rights of the American People, specifically those Rights recognized by the 1st Ten Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, otherwise known as, The Bill of Rights.

While the 3rd Amendment (regarding quartering of soldiers in citizen's homes) has not been hotly debated, lately, almost all the other rights so enumerated have come under attack; and many of them have been severely bruised and bloodied during this ongoing battle.

To a great degree, the battle has been waged with emotions and promises - Emotions to appeal to the heart and promises to appeal to the mind. While the methodology has been psychological, the goal is to gain the victory through the opponent's self-immolation. The natural desire for Peace and Safety has been hung as a carrot just beyond our reach, with promises of satisfaction with just a little more sacrifice. The duplicity of our leading politicians (and would-be Presidents) has never been more destructive of our national principles.

Through determined psychological means, the assault on the hearts and minds of the American People is intended to cause them to give up their Rights willingly, even with a sense of martyrdom, in the name of Peace and Safety. To a significant degree, the strategy has worked, as more and more citizens fail to recognize or value the Rights they willingly cede, even while the actuality of the promised peace and safety eludes us. The expanded surveillance that is now acceptable is a death blow to the very heart of Personal Privacy, Property Rights and the necessary Trust of One Another that creates a successful, Free and Open society. (Edit: the great Coronavirus PANIC started in 2019 perfectly demonstrates this assault and the martyrdom that people embrace. See PA Counties Locked Down for a history lesson.)

But not to be denied, most people go about their daily activities with an immunized internal sense of peace and safety. Their perception of the vast expanse of the ongoing assault on the American Way of Life (both small and great, both criminal and simply immoral) has been dulled over many years by the emotional appeals to 'getting along' and promises that the criminals are mostly good hearted and simply 'misunderstood'. If the dupes were exposed (by choice or by circumstance) to the vastness of the efforts to destroy the American Way of Life, they might actually loose their immunity -- but this possibility is also well controlled by the mass media.

The mass media spreads the bad news onto our consciousness only sufficiently thick as to juxtapose their latest solution of giving up even more of our rights, which will surely minimize our risk. If they were to report all the assaults that are occurring against our way of life in every nook and cranny of our society, including in the legislatures and judiciary, the citizenry would be jarred out of their stupor and rise up in great numbers. But the media's methods have been well honed to prevent such enlightenment.

One of the battle regiments opposing these assaults on our Rights is composed of those who particularly value the 2nd Amendment - The Right to Keep and Bear Arms.

Like many others, this right has been under constant and severe attack for decades. It has been successfully bruised and beaten, so much so, that there are some places in America it is almost impossible to exercise this right by the average citizen. Without outright denial of this Right, those opposed to it have convinced enough of their local citizens that willingly giving up this right is the only 'right thing to do' in order to increase the peace and safety of the community.

In spite of not being able to convince the criminals to give up their weapons, they have convinced the community it is better to give up their Rights, and, instead, stay off the streets at night, lock their doors and cower in the corner until police arrive, should they become scared. They are taught to cough up the money for 'alternative youth activities' with the promise that these will prevent the creation of new criminals, as though proficiency at some sport or other distracting activity could rightly replace the teaching of values. The mantra is: it's better to 'pay now' than 'pay later' - A clear case of extortion.

It is exactly this focus on prevention that has caused so many to willingly sacrifice their Rights in an attempt to gain Peace and Safety from others. They believe by self-immolation (sacrificing themselves) they will convert those who have never been taught the moral values that actually generate Peace, and which, through strength, assures Safety. But they have been duped. Peace and Safety will never be attained by negotiating with evil. "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."

The Cost of Freedom has always been high. It requires eternal vigilance, the willingness to confront evil and the means to do so. Those assaulting the American Way of Life have tried to minimize the citizen's ability to properly address these issues by their myriad of assaults.

Freedom is not only secured and maintained by patriots on a battlefield - not only the physical battlefields, but also the societal battlefields - where the Rights of the People are assailed by those that would seek to appease evil – foreign or domestic. History has proven time and again that appeasement does not produce Peace and Safety.

For those who value Freedom, most crime prevention measures are nothing more than misguided efforts or intended means of assaulting our Rights. Whether it's assurances that the great society is working and crime is less than ever (with gerrymandered statistics), or assurances that self-protection is unnecessary when we have a large police force (who responds in minutes when seconds count), or the assurances that guns kill more innocents than bad guys (like innocent 14-year-old drug dealers), the real message is 'give up your Rights' because we have everything under control. That is the real ultimate goal: for these folks to have EVERYTHING UNDER THEIR CONTROL. It reminds me of the Peace and Safety that freedom-less citizens know from the old USSR and current communist / socialist / dictatorial countries - the kind of safety that evaporates if you disagree with the government.

We still have opportunities every day to fight for Freedom! Don't squander those opportunities. Don't be duped by the media elite. Don't cede your Rights for a little more (promised) Peace and Safety.

Stand up and be counted - Contact your representatives and demand that they PROTECT YOUR RIGHTS - Talk with your neighbors and friends about your willingness (and hopefully their's) to pay the price to keep Freedom Alive in America, even at the expense of some Peace and Safety.

. . EXERCISE YOUR RIGHTS . .
. . BE SURE TO VOTE . .
. . BE A PROUD AMERICAN! . .

[Pilot321]

Our government, the media, our educational systems, and mega billionaires like Bloomberg and Soros want our freedoms, especially our natural gun rights. The useful idiots that compose the "gun safety" groups they use are made up of angry, jealous, dissatisfied people with little to no other purpose in life. They use more gun control of the law abiding to give meaning to an otherwise empty life. We've all seen them at rallies. Often, ex hippie type baby boomer, ugly women with their neutered husbands in tow. They are shrill, just like Hillary, and just as disgusting.

[ImminentDanger]

The violence that has been introduced into our democratic, domestic politics is a reflection of the destructive nature of socialism. Contrary to their mantra, it is liberal socialists that are intolerent and anti-pluralism. Most conservatives simply want to be able to live their own lives, with their own means, as they see fit, allowing others to do the same.

However, progressive, liberal socialism has pushed us into a war of Singular Control, where one governmental decision is made for every single person. We are now in a political battle to determine 'whose point of view' will be implemented by government. Those who believe in limited government (mostly conservatives) never wanted this for our country, but the progressive, liberal socialists have forced conservatives into this battle. Since the socialists will never let conservatives live their own lives, conservatives must now fight to take over the big government created by the progressives in order to preserve any part of the conservative way of life. (Unfortunately, the old adage is very true - power corrupts and absolute power, corrupts absolutely - and the conservatives who take over big government are likely to be corrupted by its powers!)

We are now seeing the social destruction of a nation due to big government, implemented by progressive, liberal socialism. At one time, if you lived in New Orleans, you didn't have to worry what the folks of New York City thought was best for themselves - because it didn't reach into New Orleans - and they need not care what New Orleans thought or did there. What happened in San Francisco never impinged on the social & governmental preferences in Kansas City. That kind of pluralism has disappeared.

The federal government has imposed so many regulations on national life - businesses, schools, personal activity, group meetings, etc. - that the live-and-let-live undertone of the American Way of Life has been rudely replaced with do-as-we-say-or-else overtone, with threats of violence, either social or governmental, as the 'or-else' alternative.

The technical capabilities of the surveillence organizations, along with the worldwide, violent religion, has imposed even more stress on the question of Liberty and Privacy. In the pursuit of potential crime, the result has been that the PRINCIPLES OF FREEDOM are being traded away for the promise of EFFICIENCY OF ENFORCEMENT.. It turns the old adage on it's head --- now we have come to express that "IT'S BETTER THAT 99 INNOCENT PEOPLE LOSE THEIR PRIVACY RIGHTS THAN THAT ONE POTENTIAL CRIMINAL BE UNCAUGHT" (cameras justified for speeding, red light violation, auto registration, etc.)...

People (even within the gun owning community) are willing to trade freedom for convenience or accept that hassling those who exercise their rights may be OK some times. We are heading for the Hi-Tech Socialism that the Soviets could only dream about. We are charging ahead, perhaps in a race with China, to be the first country to implement every form of orifice exams possible in every circumstance possible on every citizen possible! ! ! (Can you say, TSA or DHS?)

ETA 2018: Beijing bets on facial recognition in a big drive for total surveillance
"Facial recognition is the new hot tech topic in China. Banks, airports, hotels and even public toilets are all trying to verify people*s identities by analyzing their faces. But the police and security state have been the most enthusiastic about embracing this new technology."


Freedom as the Founder's envisioned will continue to recede into lost history, never to be implemented better than has already occured in our past. I fear we have already passed the point of no return regarding Freedom - The only effort, now available, is to minimize the extremes to which people in power will push technology in implementing Liberal Socialism against the citizens....

Unless a concerted effort is made to fight these violations of our freedoms in America, the opportunity to salvage any true freedom will be irrevocably eliminated.

Very few seem willing to accept that some innocent casualties will occur if we maintain freedom. Freedom can be a very messy business. Most people are of the attitude that if only one life is saved by giving up our freedoms (with more surveillence, more searches, treatment of everyone like a criminal, guilty until proven innocent) then it is worth it.

But the Founding Fathers, and the principles upon which this country was created, promoted the idea that Risky Individual Freedom Was Better Than Safe Governmental Servitude. (Founders Intention for Government - Constitutional Carry)

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[ImminentDanger]

Another example that taking away rights (RKBA in Britain) does not produce safety:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...t-16-days.html

London murder rate is HIGHER than New York's for the first time ever after TWELVE killings in just 19 days!
A man has died after being stabbed to death on Sunday morning
The victim, thought to be 20, was stabbed after leaving a bar in Wandsworth
This marks the 12th murder in 19 days as London overtakes NYC's murder rates

By Cheyenne Roundtree For Mailonline
Published: 04:10 EDT, 1 April 2018

And another example of harassing the victims of crime when they fight back:

ttps://www.thesun.co.uk/news/5918750/homeowner-arrested-stabbing-burglar-death-pictured

BURGLAR STABBING First pic of homeowner, 78, arrested after armed burglar ‘stabbed to death in house raid’

A 78-YEAR-OLD homeowner is being quizzed on suspicion of murder after a suspected burglar was stabbed to death. The pensioner, named locally as Richard Osborn-Brooks, was forced into his kitchen by one of two men who broke into his home armed with a screwdriver.
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Met Police said they were continuing their investigations into the death, and were still quizzing the 78-year-old homeowner. Met Police said: "The homeowner suffered bruising to his arms. His injuries are not life threatening.

"He was arrested on suspicion of grievous bodily harm and further arrested on suspicion of murder."

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[ImminentDanger]

Eternal Vigilence is required to preserve the foundational principles of our country. Irrelevant of the actual source, this axiom is true: "The Only Thing Necessary for the Triumph of Evil is that Good Men Do Nothing"

Our nation is under assault by those who believe THE GOVERNMENT is the solution for all problems of dispute. Socialism is promoted as a means of Peace and Safety. If we do not stand up and promote the principles upon which this nation was founded, we will certainly lose those freedoms that were acknowledged and protected by the Constitution.

Freedom & Self-Determination is based on Unalienable Rights, Tolerance of Differences, Personal Responsibility, Self-Control, Pursuit of the Truth, Innocent Until Proven Guilty, Punishment of Violence (NOT Simply Thoughts), etc.

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But AI technically-enhanced socialism is being implemented already and coming to America:

China's new propaganda music video celebrates trustworthiness and the Social Credit System
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-05-...ystem/11088402

"The system is designed to value and engineer better individual behaviour by assigning scores to 1.4 billion citizens, in order to "award the trustworthy" and "punish the disobedient"."

"Citizens deemed "untrustworthy" have so far been banned from boarding flights, riding high-speed trains and booking hotels among other restrictions on services."


China Is Exporting AI Surveillance Technology to Countries Around the World
https://www.newsweek.com/china-ai-su...-world-1403762

"U.S. technology giant Microsoft has teamed up with a Chinese military university to develop artificial intelligence systems that could potentially enhance government surveillance and censorship capabilities."

"Surveillance systems in Xinjiang and Tibet have been described as 'Orwellian.' These efforts have included mandatory DNA samples, Wi-Fi network monitoring and widespread facial recognition cameras, all connected to integrated data analysis platforms. With the aid of these systems, Chinese authorities have, according to the U.S. State Department, 'arbitrarily detained' between 1 and 2 million people."

"AI also underpins the technology commonly called 'deepfake,' in which algorithms create realistic video and audio forgeries. Muddying the waters between truth and fiction may become useful in a tight election, when one candidate could create fake videos showing an opponent doing and saying things that never actually happened."

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[Gunsnwater]

Wait for the 9ft tall running AI face recognition killer robot is on your ass with the swarm of miniature AI drones to back (him?) up.

And still...



...No girl robots!

Or flying cars.

Gypted. We got gypted I tell you.