On liberty.

Barking at the wrong threat?
I detest islam, for reasons no reader of Crusader Rabbit needs me to list.
But islam, the “religion” is as useful to our own enemies of freedom here in the West as it is to the mullahs of Tehran and the murderous fanatics of Somalia and Yemen and Saudi Arabia.
The threat of islamists has been used to subvert our liberties, to introduce repressive measures which no free man would have accepted thirty years ago.
It’s not that the threats to life and limb from these primitives don’t exist, they do.
But look around – while politicians mouth platitudes about security, they’re busy importing the threat in large and ineffectually vetted numbers. Even though some “security measures” do nothing to deter the bombers and head loppers, they remain in place and are used enthusiastically against citizens who very obviously pose no threat whatsoever. (the elderly nun being frisked by a TSA asshole in a burqa springs to mind).
The intention of most domestic security measures is not to guard against islamists. The intention is to impose iron control over what once were – irritatingly and inconveniently – relatively free people.
Travelling? Then you must submit to the humiliations of being frisked, sniffed at, groped and treated as a suspect.
Communicating? Your communications are no longer private.
Simply sending a Christmas parcel overseas? Then you must provide photo identification.
Banking? Your private transactions aren’t. They can be accessed and the information shared by numerous government agencies.
A totalitarian’s dream.
Privacy is dead, and it sure as hell didn’t die of natural causes.
I could go on. These routines to which we have become numbed and accustomed to have turned us, as a people, into a compliant herd. As they are meant to. Rich pickings indeed for the bureaucrats who inflict vast numbers of regulations on us, regulations which carry the force of law yet are seldom debated and never voted on.
Think you’re free? Some people know better, most people sense otherwise, yet still we’re powerless.
It’s high time to look at what islam has enabled the power-mongers here in the West to inflict on us. Our politicians and bureaucrats are as much – more – the enemies of liberty as some head-lopping, self-detonating thicko followers of a 14th century ideology.

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19 Responses to On liberty.

  1. Jamie says:

    Here Here!!! Hey ladies you do know GCSB ‘full take’ approach includes all your naughty nudie pxts – for your protection ofcourse

    Mass spying on citizens personal correspondence is not going to protect them!!!

    Read the report – Interpol Secretary General Patrick Brennan gets it right for once when he says if you want to counter the threat of terrorism citizens must arm themselves globally

    http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/361917/interpol-chief-armed-citizenry-might-be-answer-terrorism-patrick-brennan

    “Societies have to think about how they’re going to approach the problem. One is to say we want an armed citizenry; you can see the reason for that”

    • KG says:

      From your link, Jamie:
      ‘..Speaking to ABC News, the American law-enforcement veteran went further: “Ask yourself: If that was Denver, Colorado, if that was Texas, would those guys have been able to spend hours, days, shooting people randomly?” Noble said, referring to states with pro-gun traditions. “What I’m saying is it makes police around the world question their views on gun control. It makes citizens question their views on gun control. You have to ask yourself, ‘Is an armed citizenry more necessary now than it was in the past with an evolving threat of terrorism?’ This is something that has to be discussed.”..’

      But of course, our lords and masters regard a certain level of civilian casualties as acceptable, part of the price of enforcing their totalitarian vision.
      Especially since they themselves are unlikely to become casualties….

    • rivoniaboy says:

      “Australia has enough home grown dolts that they have no need to import any.

      Any people who willingly give up their guns and the right to defend their homes and families not only deserve to become extinct, but probably will be, soon enough.”
      This was a comment I read several years ago and it keeps playing on my mind.

      • KG says:

        Mine too. But there’s another side to the gun buy-back, Rivoniaboy.
        There’s a lot of evidence that many of the guns were rubbish and that people bought better weapons with the money. :lol:

        • rivoniaboy says:

          My faith has thus been restored!

          • Wombat says:

            While I’m too you to understand the blow by blow details of the buyback, all evidence suggests that it was engineered well before a shot was fired in Port Arthur.

            • Darin says:

              It’s what happens here everytime the cops do a buyback in an urban city.All the non-functioning junk comes out the closet and gets sold to the cops and the money gets used to buy ammo and better guns.

              Occasionally some good deals can be made in the buy back lines though,there are always a few rubes who turn in something good.

              https://youtu.be/jqMxM0pHAmA

              The Commie gun grabbers just don’t understand capitalism http://falfn.com/CrusaderRabbit/wp-content/plugins/wp-monalisa/icons/wpml_yahoo.gif

  2. Pascal says:

    Exactly correct, KG.

    Back when I first read Orwell’s 1984 (about 1960), it never laid out the actual source of the terrorist bombings. Only that Big Brother blamed them on the opposition and used them to crack down on all liberties. (Orwell only lets the reader suspect that it was highly likely that Oceania had some hand in them.)

    And it was worse than that.

    That opposition was ostensibly led by Emanuel Goldstein. It is not revealed until near the end of the book that the head of the state police (O’Brien) was the author of Goldstein’s book. In other words, whether or not Goldstein had ever been the original leader of the opposition was cast in doubt. What WAS clear was that Oceania was orchestrating its own internal opposition as bait to trap real dissidents.

    In our world it is not yet clear how many on our side are working for the tyranny, but as you point out, the tyranny is indeed using the threat of terrorism to crack down on what used to be free citizens and turn them into subjects.

    What is remarkable, and this ties into your thesis, is that our versions of Big Brother are more clearly allied with the source of the terrorism than was Big Brother. This because they are indeed importing the source of the terrorists all the while denying that there is any possible connection of terrorism to that source. This makes them party to it and is all by itself casus belli, as their sort of politics has them engaging in war by other means.

  3. Ronbo says:

    @KG: GREAT MINDS THINK ALIKE :!: http://falfn.com/CrusaderRabbit/wp-content/plugins/wp-monalisa/icons/wpml_yahoo.gif

    I’ve said the same thing for years, THE MAIN ENEMY IS THE LEFT IN ALL OUR ANGLOSPHERE COUNTRIES :!:

    The Islamists are simply being ENABLED by our Leftists :!:

    “We have met the enemy and he is us :!: ” –Pogo

  4. Darin says:

    Recently we have been seeing news articles and snippets here about this new so called “Arab army”that is shaping up to go after Isis and the like.Many in the MSM are heralding this as a good development.,but I’ll come back to that in a minute.

    I believe you are right KG,it’s not the first time our respective governments have used an evil as a tool to strip our freedoms and I believe that is how our western social prog masters see islam,as a tool to increase their control over us.

    But it’s not us they should be worried about,it’s those tools that will very soon turn on them.Before,really always up till now the arab/muslim world was divided and heavily fractured between nations and tribes.Now we are seeing different splitter groups swearing allegiance to each other as was the case of Boko haram and AAP last week.

    They are starting to link up and if I am right will soon enough start to coalesce around a central leadership probably focused in Iran.We will wake up in total war with them one morning and all the while the war rages our idiot leadership will still insist on importing into our homes in droves.

  5. Robert says:

    Big Government and Liberty don’t go together. Like a Cancer Big Government will kill the body it needs to survive. If you don’t cut the blood supply (central banks, IMF etc) the question is not if but when they will take you to war again as a distraction so Big Government can survive a little longer. We The People are just cannon fodder.

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    We only had Liberty when it was in the interest of those in power.

    http://www.mountvernon.org/research-collections/digital-encyclopedia/article/whiskey-rebellion/

    By 1791 the United States suffered from significant debt incurred during the Revolutionary War. Secretary Hamilton, a Federalist supporting increased federal authority, intended to use the excise tax to lessen this financial burden. Despite resistance from Anti-Federalists like Thomas Jefferson, Congress passed the legislation. When news of the tax spread to Western Pennsylvania, individuals immediately voiced their displeasure by refusing to pay the tax. Residents viewed this tax as yet another instance of unfair policies dictated by the eastern elite that negatively affected American citizens on the frontier.

    Western farmers felt the tax was an abuse of federal authority wrongly targeting a demographic that relied on crops such as corn, rye, and grain to earn a profit. However, shipping this harvest east was dangerous because of poor storage and dangerous roads. As a result, farmers frequently distilled their grain into liquor which was easier to ship and preserve. While large-scale farmers easily incurred the financial strain of an additional tax, indigent farmers were less able to do so without falling into dire financial straits.

  6. Robert says:

    We only had Liberty when it was in the interest of those in power.

    ‘By 1791 the United States suffered from significant debt incurred during the Revolutionary War. Secretary Hamilton, a Federalist supporting increased federal authority, intended to use the excise tax to lessen this financial burden. Despite resistance from Anti-Federalists like Thomas Jefferson, Congress passed the legislation. When news of the tax spread to Western Pennsylvania, individuals immediately voiced their displeasure by refusing to pay the tax. Residents viewed this tax as yet another instance of unfair policies dictated by the eastern elite that negatively affected American citizens on the frontier.

    Western farmers felt the tax was an abuse of federal authority wrongly targeting a demographic that relied on crops such as corn, rye, and grain to earn a profit. However, shipping this harvest east was dangerous because of poor storage and dangerous roads. As a result, farmers frequently distilled their grain into liquor which was easier to ship and preserve. While large-scale farmers easily incurred the financial strain of an additional tax, indigent farmers were less able to do so without falling into dire financial straits.’

    http://www.mountvernon.org/research-collections/digital-encyclopedia/article/whiskey-rebellion/

  7. Robertv says:

    The Whiskey Rebellion, or Whiskey Insurrection, was a tax protest in the United States beginning in 1791, during the presidency of George Washington. The so-called “whiskey tax” was the first tax imposed on a domestic product by the newly formed federal government. It became law in 1791, and was intended to generate revenue to help reduce the national debt.[3] Although the tax applied to all distilled spirits, whiskey was by far the most popular distilled beverage in 18th-century America. Because of this, the excise became widely known as a “whiskey tax.” The new excise was a part of treasury secretary Alexander Hamilton’s program to fund war debt incurred during the Revolutionary War.

    The tax was resisted by farmers in the western frontier regions who were long accustomed to distilling their surplus grain and corn into whiskey. In these regions, whiskey was sufficiently popular that it often served as a medium of exchange. Many of the resisters were war veterans who believed that they were fighting for the principles of the American Revolution, in particular against taxation without local representation, while the Federal government maintained the taxes were the legal expression of the taxation powers of Congress.
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  8. G P says:

    ‘Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.’

    Franklin was right, the appeasers of islam buy a bit of peace and quiet for a while until they’re called to pay the piper. Nice is gonna get us killed

  9. Yokel says:

    KG said: “These routines to which we have become numbed and accustomed to have turned us, as a people, into a compliant herd. As they are meant to.”

    The same abject subservience is the intention behind the smoking ban, and the emerging ban on ‘vaping’, and the pressure to reduce salt consumption, and the pressure to reduce sugar consumption, and red meat consumption, and travel unless you are a member of the elite, and the pressure to reduce the influence of Christians in the churches (many pastors/priests do not believe, it seems), and the list already goes on almost endlessly.

    Whilst islam has some pretty obnoxious attributes, its followers didn’t infest our societies on their own; they needed help. The enemy are those enabling islam’s move to the West; for they also the ones pulling the strings on all the other Leftist schemes/scams.

    • KG says:

      Exactly so, Yokel. Will the herd wake up in time? I doubt it.

      • Wombat says:

        As islam leads the herd through the abattoir they will be mooing “if only the rednecks had been more tolerant it would never have come to this”.

        When islam reaches a saturation point they will start butchering the progressives. They can’t help it. It’s just who they are. Meanwhile they will studiously avoid folks like me and my redneck buddies.

        What stragglers survive the slaughter will be far more amenable to us “prejudiced” folk than they once were.

        But the herd? Screw the herd. I’ll be glad to be rid of them.