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Welcome to Australia...
Barricaded shopping precincts, extreme gun control, prolific speed camera and radar traps up to 3 kmh over, every major road network featuring very costly tolls, multiple tiered beuracrcy channels for anything to everything. Taxation used as a deterrent for cigarette/alcohol and even to farmers using their own dams. The list grows.
We here in Australia compare ourselves to you Americans but only 20 years behind. Is this same pattern happening to you guys who might be infact 20 years behind us?
Where does one move to escape this, the Isle of Man?
Barricaded shopping precincts, extreme gun control, prolific speed camera and radar traps up to 3 kmh over, every major road network featuring very costly tolls, multiple tiered beuracrcy channels for anything to everything. Taxation used as a deterrent for cigarette/alcohol and even to farmers using their own dams. The list grows.
We here in Australia compare ourselves to you Americans but only 20 years behind. Is this same pattern happening to you guys who might be infact 20 years behind us?
Where does one move to escape this, the Isle of Man?
The Shop
Outlaw Rhinos
Prosecute crooked mortgage salesfolk to the fullest extent of the law..........
Privatisation of state assetts. Certain gun laws. Introduction of private toll roads.
I'll take my chances against a nutter with a knife over one with a gun anyday
But, look at the alternative. Look at the aussies.
One of the biggest and worse traits about any government is it never stops growing.
They are never satisfied.
There are always a few that think, well, would it not be good if we did this, or that.
So, it never stops.
I saw somewhere it's gotten to the point here,in the states, numbers wise, that for every working guy, there is a government employee. WTF is that?
I dunno what the answer is.
Make all laws Sunset laws, that is they must have a certain lifespan and then be revoted in, I dunno.
How do you put a cap on government?
The founding fathers, one of them anyway, said something to the effect that freedom, and liberty, must be fed now
and then with the blood of revolution,
Imo. That's the reason we all must have the option to be armed.
Not only to hunt, to protect ourselves and our families, but to overthrow any group of people that become just too overbearing, too controlling, to effin big.
That's what I think anyway.
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I’m with you on the speed cameras tho , ours are bad enough but the level of the fines you Have for being just above the speed limit is nuts
But I agree with motogrady. Cutting the size of the parts of government that aren’t protecting sovereignty, producing infrastructure, high school education, care for the elderly is a good place to start. It just getting out of control.
Roads, military, basic education, Medicare (true Medicare not scammed Medicare ) That’s it.
We not only accept 24-7 surveillance, we pay for it. Next up is facial recognition, drones and other technology that will utterly remove anonymity and freedom. People are now putting Amazon-linked cameras and microphones in their homes.
Google, Amazon, and Apple are quickly merging with the government. Imagine a police robot showing up at your door, that has downloaded your past 20 years of Internet activity and knows more about you than your probably know about yourself. And nobody is running for office without being blackmailed- it's worth noting that Chief Reptilian Fascist Gangster George H. W. Bush was responsible for making the Internet public, expanding it beyond a military intelligence system (which it still is).
Pit Row
You could say it was just stupid, reckless incompetence, or you could accept the reality that the federal government has no issue with killing its own people and never has. As far as nukes, we are just monkeys playing with fire.
https://qz.com/1163140/us-nuclear-tests-killed-american-civilians-on-a-…
https://youtu.be/BlE1BdOAfVc
I may sound like a right wing nut job, but I am far from that. I just strongly believe in the constitution and in my opinion, it's becoming more and more diluted every year.
So grabbing a baseball bat and using "reasonable force" in the scenario of a home invader coming at you with a screw driver etc is legal. Having that baseball bat on standby for such a scenario, isn't... Why can't law abiding people with a clean record carry pepper spray? Because it goes against this BS feminine nanny state ideology we find ourselves under. As far as I'm aware it's roughly the same situation in Australia and much of Europe.
I kind of agree with Void.
To a certain extent.
If, the reason to bear arms was given to us, the citizens, as a check to match the government when they get out of line,
then yes, common sense would dictate an even balance of firepower.
But, to let everyone that wanted to make a mini, dirty atom bomb that would fit in a backpack, I dunno about that,
In theory, if you could afford a German Panzer tank with live ammo, or an A 10 warthog, you should be able to have one.
It was Al Capone and the Thompson machine gun, that seems to have become the line in the sand.
Did The St. Valentine's Day massacre, help us, the citizens, or the government more?
Castro in Cuba, Ho Che Ming in Vietnam, showed, light weapons, in numbers, can be instrumental in overthrowing a government.
I say put a freeze on it as it is, maybe roll back the registration a bit, so they don't know how many and who have them.
Keep em guessin.
The days of a private militia overthrowing the us government are long gone , only a coup in the military would do it
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