have current regime policies caused you to assume a more covert lifestyle?

You either truly don't understand a statistic like what you quoted, or you are yet again twisting things to support your worldview.

You aren't 8 times more likely to be killed by police than terorists because police are more dangerous than terrorists. Not even close. It's because there are OVER A MILLION POLICE OFFICERS in the country, and they deal with people who sometimes shoot at them, or other people, and who they sometimes have to shoot.

So I was pointing out that your statistic is completely meaningless.

 

I disagree; there are many, many times people are killed unfairly by police. A kid was shot with a candy bar cause the police "thought it was a gun." Police are known for violence, and it's ironic you think those bullies should have guns, but not law abiding citizens. Unfortunately, people like you pardon government for whatever violence, and wont realize the terror you support, until that far away rebellion, is here at home, and the government kills, brutalizes and, arrest any citizens who go against them- that IS America today, and the Government that Liberals want to pump more money into!

 

Going slightly off topic. My reasoning for this post was much like Germany under an inferior dictator ; successful folks in the US have either "dropped out" , joined the "underground economy" , or just become ex-pats. Why? barry has made life financially unbearable for anyone with any savvy. The 47 percent will soon be a majority. Seriously, would any self respecting individual wish to live in a society that gives non producers more rewards than producers? When will these parasites evolve to predators?

 

Apart from Mr Writer, who actually presented a thoughtful argument.. why do so many posters outside of the US seem to troll this forum? This is the libertarian forum, shouldn't you people be hanging out in the socialism or communism forums?

On topic, I've been collecting more guns and ammunition than I normally do.

 

Prices on guns and ammo have skyrocketed. Very high demand. Interesting , Homeland Security puchased huge amounts of both a few months ago. Hmmmmm

 

Well, not me. I was very paranoid late 60s, and some of the 70s and later. I even bought a house and put it in someone elses name. It seemed much more dangerous back then than it does now. People were put in jail for life---for MJ. In Texas! Beat the hell out of then too.

But it's all relative and I can see why you-all might feel as you do.

Edit: The 90s and I decided to get my contractors license and some other required papers--business papers---and when they started checking on me, the usual question was = "Who are you"???

Edit again: Now I don't give a shit what they want to pull on me. I've lived my life.

 

You're in Florida? I would get to higher ground if I were you, the American dream drowning in rising sea levels and all.

 

What is key about that point? Reality can't be harmed. Who is getting away with what things? We all have an opportunity to create temporary conditions for ourselves keeping in mind that the spheres of influence we are born into happen quite by accident. If the man down the street wins the lottery that fact doesn't make you poorer. You make your own deals with life.

Politic is by definition shrewdness, tact, and cunning. Hopefully it is used to advance the greatest causes we share.

 

My neighbors vague suspicions are enough to cause me to maintain a certain level of quiet.

 

Good post. Since this post began , balkanization has been progressing at a break neck speed. Currently , 100 million are "unemployed". LOL. A thriving underground economy. Taxation , supporting the current regime , has become suicidal.

 

I hate the interconnected increasingly big brother surveillance panopticon.In days gone by you could always disappear and stay under the radar,now it's virtually impossible unless you become a homeless bum and walk the Earth.The thought police are in full swing trying to control what we think,the hypnagogic brainwashing techniques of advanced consumer capitalism has essentially done away with the chances of a more positively socialist and green political conversation,but still the people rise.You can fool some of the people all of the time,and all of the people some of the time,but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.I believe we are in danger of entering a form of quasi-fascist anarcho-capitalism which will only benefit the rich and powerful.Personally I try to keep my head and profile low,which is why my creative projects are to a greater extent largely anonymous.But some of the things I want to say are pretty incendiary,and I'm looking forward to trying to penetrate the audio visual and textual medias on whatever level I can,and fuck their shit up with some deviously engineered situationist strategic mind games and communicative social praxis,without ever anyone knowing who I really am.Now is the time to speak your truth and defeat and shame the moronic harbingers of war and corrupt money grabbers into permanent submission.I will try and protest however I can and never submit to this sickening agenda.

 

Today Apple and Google and 140 other companies have written to Obama to urge him to reject current proposals to create a backdoor for law enforcement to break strong encryption.

 

Sorry. The move is on to a "sovietization" or federalization of the police forces. The DOJ has been trying to seize the moment ever since obongo was crowned. Soon , if "encrption" does not tow the government line of islamo/negrofication "gubmint" edict via executive order will all but eliminate free speech and association. Such draconian obamunism has been the cause of an unprecedented underground society.

 

It's not worth it to pay attention to what's really going on if that means you have to live in fear. The fear doesn't decrease as you build walls up around you; it increases because you can't see what's out there. The real challenge to the system is to refuse a life based around it. Stop and smell the roses.

 

Your words sound crazy.

 

No , just to the point.