By The Subway Philosopher™ - December 24, 2021
Despite the epidemic-that-couldn’t dominating news cycles, other pressing issues ought to occupy a larger share of public awareness. Courts in the USA appear to be supporting the Second Amendment, to the delirious cheers of the guns’n’ammo crowd. Yet there remains an ever-present effort to apply more onerous regulatory requirements adjunct to the rights of Americans possessing firearms and similar items of ill-repute. Such abridgement of rights directly contradicts the clearly-stated mandates of the U.S. Constitution, but the Biden administration has signaled its determination to escalate such abridgements by increasing the financial and other burdens on gun owners. All this is a prelude to the long-term goal; inevitably, and perhaps sooner rather than later, gov.com is going to disarm Americans.
– Has any citizenry in history successfully resisted disarmament by its own government?
It goes without saying: you will almost certainly give your weapons up, never mind any tough-talking armchair rebel bullshit. Why? Technological progress coupled with the pendulums of history leaves no other options, and if citizens in fact do decide to fight, the history books will record a new world record (number of people slaughtered by their own government) as a result. Gov.com will never give up its own weapons, particularly the weapons aimed at citizens, and those weapons were always intended to be used. Plus, their budget is unlimited. Yours? Not so much.
Proud 2A fanbois and sofa shooters declaim with genuine sincerity “They’ll have to pry my guns from my cold dead hands,” but thus demonstrate either a lack of appreciation for the intelligence and mechanisms by which the bureaucratic deep state imposes its will, or a stark, honest realization that said guns will indeed be prised from cold dead hands, most likely without ever having actually been fired.
– Gov.com, often stupid, corrupt and incompetent, excels at mass murder. Check the records for yourself.
Government may be stupid and incompetent, but it has historically and periodically over-achieved at one thing – supervising the demise of human beings in vast numbers. And the term intelligence, as used above, does not refer to mental or intellectual acuity but rather to information, as in the intelligence community (spooks, networks, assassins, the CIA, fusion centers, bureaucracies of every stripe, and assorted other dark entities and individuals). Did you really think that applying for a gun permit was only about demonstrating fitness to possess a firearm?
We live anew at the intersection of an unholy alliance, one which the world has seen before with horrific results. In the current incarnation, the tech revolution has birthed management, surveillance and connectivity systems far beyond anything previously imagined, combined with vast databases which store every bit and byte of information conceivable. The next death toll will reflect these advances. Progress! Government is participatory, enthusiastic, and wholly responsible – tech monopoly corporations are the Sons of (Uncle) Sam, after all.
– It’s the new mother nature techno-fascism taking over.
Once again corporate wealth has allied with bureaucracy’s monopoly on violence. It’s the new techno-fascism, taking over again. The visible, outward manifestations of that power have changed (and increased dramatically), but the fundamental alliance is the same as it ever was. Ideology, the great bugbear of history, is essentially irrelevant. Republican, democrat, socialism, communism, Nazi, monarchy, feminism and all other political perspectives require only an alignment of purpose among the duality at the top: namely those who make the rules and those with a chokehold on the world’s means of production and wealth, which in the current zeitgeist equates to modern tech monopolies.
As Solzhenitsyn reminds us, people in his era legitimately had the opportunity to ensure that any AGW (armed government worker) feared for his life when he went about his evil business. In those times it was possible, technically at least, for a relatively small number of people to have changed the course of events through modest, local, albeit violent means. Unfortunately, history records that people did not rise to the occasion, perhaps out of fear, perhaps out of common decency, or perhaps out of normalcy bias, meaning they couldn’t quite believe what was happening to them. Such opportunity will not be available in future.
– A polite email will be enough.
The current techno-fascist nightmare ensures that virtually every single law-abiding person who owns a weapon is recorded in a database or many, information easily available to those with access. For rugged individualists fantasizing about a personal Alamo, ask yourself a question: is gov.com really going to send sheriffs/police/guardsmen/military et al to physically seize the weapons of every American? Not bloody likely.
What’s more likely, in fact probable, is that a not-so-friendly bureaucrat will send you a polite email or letter of confiscation requesting that you transport your weapons to a location of their choice and surrender them, voluntarily. Should you decline, you will find yourself on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s list of ‘extremists’ and living under government ‘no-fly’ rules. Twitter, Facebook, Chrome, Youtube and others will ban or block you. Virtually all of your social media access will be suspended, in the interests of public safety of course. Financial penalties will apply.
– You may be required to wear special insignia, such as a red hat or star.
Should you continue to decline, your bank account will suffer automatic withdrawal of accrued penalties. Should you continue to continue to decline, your employer will be notified, your passport and driving privileges revoked, your credit cards, debit cards and health insurance canceled, your tax returns audited . . .
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