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History Warns – All Governments are the Same!
A man pawns himself off as a baby Kangaroo’s mother. Politicians have LEARNED that they too can pretend that they are your parent and are solely interested in taking care of you when their objective is really raw power.
Government presents itself as if it truly cares about “We the People” when behind closed doors it has nothing but contempt for the people, who they view as easily manipulated and too stupid to know what is best for them.
Everything they do is couched as pretending to protect society when they have no respect for the people or our liberty.
Not only has Snowden exposed that they have collected a dossier on every single person just in case they need to look at your life, but they spy on everything we do, say, or even think. Our government is following the very same path as the most notorious Communist Secret Police in Germany — the Stazi. They are collecting data on everyone. As Amnesty International reported, the Stasi’s massive archive held files on millions.
Once more, we have the government telling us to report family members to the government.
History Repeats Because the Passions of Man Never Change – All governments act the same.
Upon The Next Crisis, The Rules Will Suddenly Change
Upon The Next Crisis, The Rules Will Suddenly Change
We can add a third certainty to the two standard ones (death and taxes): The rules will suddenly change when a financial crisis strikes.
Why is this a certainty? The answer is complex, as it draws on human nature, politics and the structure of societies/economies ruled by centralized states (governments).
The Core Imperative of the State: Expand Control
As I explain in my book, Resistance, Revolution, Liberation, the core (i.e. ontological) imperative of every central state is to expand its reach and control. This isn’t just the result of individuals within the state seeking more power; every centralized state views whatever is outside its control as a threat. The way to reduce or neutralize a threat is to take control of the mechanisms that generated it.
Once the state has gained control of these mechanisms, it is loath to relinquish them; to relinquish control is to invite chaos.
There is of course an intensely self-serving dynamic to extending state control: those being paid to enforce this state control have an immense vested interest in the state retaining (or even extending) this control, as their livelihoods now depend on the state doing so.
The higher-ups in the state also have a vested interest in retaining these new controls, as more control means more wealth and power accrue to those at the top of the centralized power pyramid: this extension of state control means private enterprise must now lobby the state for favors, and it gives the higher-ups more perquisites and favors to dispense—for a price, of course.
This vested interest arises throughout the power pyramid, from the bottom functionary with newfound power over common citizens to the managers of the departmental bureaucracy tasked with enforcing the new control to the apex of state authority.
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Nanny State: Cops Stop Teens from Shoveling Snow Without Their Government Issued Permit
Nanny State: Cops Stop Teens from Shoveling Snow Without Their Government Issued Permit
Toss this one on the list right next to the ridiculousness of government-targeted lemonade stands.
There’s a war against making any money the government can’t take a cut of these days.
In Louisiana, for example, a law was passed in 2011 making it illegal to use cash to purchase anything secondhand even though our Fed notes clearly state, “This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private.” How many people who hold garage sales take credit cards, anyway? Bye bye almost all Louisiana garage sales.
Well now teens who want to make a few extra bucks shoveling snow-covered driveways for old ladies are out of luck unless they apply for, pay for, and are granted the permission of the all mighty government.
Via Watchdog.org:
Matt Molinari and Eric Schnepf, both 18-year-olds from Bound Brook, N.J., were going door-to-door in their neighborhood Jan. 27, handing out homemade flyers that offered snow-shoveling services. School had already been canceled for the next day, when a winter storm was expected to bury their portion of the Garden State under several inches of cold white powder…
According to local news reports, the cops told the kids they weren’t allowed to solicit business by going door-to-door without a permit from the local government.
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Sledging bans – coming to a town near you?
Sledging bans – coming to a town near you?
Children take note. As winter sets in, a growing number of US cities are banning sledging – or sledding, as Americans say – on public property.
The Associated Press reports that municipal officials in places like Iowa, New Jersey, Nebraska and Indiana are worried about lawsuits when children are injured in sledging accidents. They often cite a 2000 incident in which the family of a girl in Omaha, Nebraska, won a $2m (£1.32m) judgement against the city after she was paralysed while sledding in a local park.
According to research by Nationwide Children’s Hospital at Ohio State University, each year from 1997 to 2007 more than 20,000 children under the age of 17 required emergency room trips after sledging accidents, and 4.1% of the cases required hospitalisation.
The article quotes Kenneth Bond, a New York lawyer who works with municipal governments, as saying the “Wild West philosophy” of individual responsibility is a thing of the past, and governments are now expected to take measures to prevent dangerous activities where possible.
Conservative and libertarian writers have latched onto the story as evidence of the growing threat of big government and the rise of the “nanny state”.
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