Sliding towards tyranny:

13 Responses to Sliding towards tyranny:

1. The Gantt Guy says:

   January 28, 2012 at 07:56

   Yes but it’s for our own protection, KG. they’ll only use these tools against ‘terrorists’, won’t they?
   • KG says:

     January 28, 2012 at 08:38

     Oh yes. And then they’ll re-define “terrorist” to include everybody who isn’t a government apparatchik.
     • The Gantt Guy says:

       January 28, 2012 at 09:24

       Didn’t they already do that?
       • KG says:

         January 28, 2012 at 09:32

         More or less, yes. But they’ll keep widening the definition, Gantt. In Germany, homeschooling is already considered something like a crime against the State….the possibilities are endless.
         The jackboot stamping on a face isn’t so far away, and grumpy old bastards like me are always “paranoid”.
         Until it actually happens.
2. Redbaiter says:

   January 28, 2012 at 08:03

   The results of years of dysfunctional socialist education.

   The people enacting these measures do not have a clue.
   • KG says:

     January 28, 2012 at 08:39

     And that socialist indoctrination is now all but impossible to wind back, RB.
3. The Gantt Guy says:

   January 28, 2012 at 18:25

   Slightly O/T, but this epistle from Breaking Views NZ gives a very accurate, succinct summary of the problems faced by the West in general and the US in particular.
4. KG says:

   January 28, 2012 at 18:53

   Good article, Gantt. And this is both spot-on deeply worrying:
   “..The present Republican leaders will not initiate the radical steps which are required. A Republican administration which does not understand and desire capitalism if elected will preside over a worsening situation which the Democrats will blame them for, paving the way for further Democrat onslaughts on the vestiges of capitalism which remain…”
   • The Gantt Guy says:

     January 28, 2012 at 20:03

     I’d like to say “that’s why it is so damned important for the TEA Party movement to do with the Senate in 2012 what they did with Congress in 2010” … but given the debt continues to spiral and The One has decided Congress can be nullified by the sheer force of his intellect, I’m not sure controlling both houses will do a heckofalot.
     • KG says:

       January 28, 2012 at 20:06

       I don’t think anything will do a heck of a lot. Short of complete financial meltdown, that is.
       • The Gantt Guy says:

         January 28, 2012 at 20:16

         Well brace yourself, coz it’s a-comin…

         http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/chinas_coming_crash/

         What we’ve seen the past 3 years or so is just the entree. The main course comes when the EUSSR dominoes tumble, China tanks and Americans realize Their debt is just coming up on 17 million, million dollars.

         Stocking up on tinned food, bottled water and friends with guns!
         • The Gantt Guy says:

           January 28, 2012 at 20:19

           Oh, and popcorn. And beer. Can’t have a good show without beer & popcorn.
5. KG says:

   January 28, 2012 at 20:25

   Too right. Although I can manage without the popcorn.
   The one sure thing is that nobody can predict how this is going to play out. These events take on a life of their own and as the pace of unravelling cranks up so the directions it can take, multiply.
   We figure here in the wabbit burrow that it may be approaching a good time to head off to a small town far out West of here, hunker down and watch what happens. I suspect that a lot of people who are counting on their super and their possessions to see them through may be in for a nasty surprise. Without wanting to sound like a survivalist, I think we’ll all find out what things really are valuable and which aren’t.