I once had someone tell me that I seemed virtually obsessed with the 2nd Amendment Rights and its implications upon a civilian population. This "obsession" if you will is possibly what separates me from the masses who couldn't possibly give a damn less.
You see "obsession" when dealing with political outlooks is virtually necessary to stir up any kind of social movement - whether that be a few individuals that share a view, recruiting others - or a full blown grass-roots movement involving people contacting their congressmen and women, and making waves in Washington. So as we are beginning to see, this obsession leads people to make traction in long term and wide scale bipartisan issues.
Now I'm not saying that you need to burn tires, bras, or midgets in the streets to get attention. Sometimes its a matter of one man/woman standing for a cause, wholeheartedly, and unabashed. Granted once you begin gaining political traction, you will need to guard yourself against aggressive smear campaigns (look at any presidential election). This is where the concept of the elite comes in.
Now - you have to first understand how the US Government views you, the average citizen. This is may come as a shock to some of you... others will say, "No shit Jon, tell me something I don't know" - the latter - this isn't written for you.
You see, the US Government with the elites in Congress, the Senate, the Executive branch and those in the Judiciary branch view you as uneducated, unopinionated, completely apathetic, and lazy. Cue the outrage. Wake up. They're right. Those of you that curse the government under your breaths are the same ones sitting on the side lines - you can't even think freely because you've been in the box for so fucking long. This is the problem. You've been indoctrinated since birth, from social media, to presidents that feel comfortable doing comedy skits, pushing their agenda, with fat middle aged awkward men helping their limping campaign along.
With this said, the elites aren't focused on the concept of you. Frankly, you are a no body, a statistic, a possible risk or benefit factor when it comes to their pre-rigged elections. You see, this is the irony of US Democracy. The people placed in power are placed there by an electoral college made up of individuals that are more often than not, bound to vote for you along their party lines. Under many circumstances, a state that has voted republican, has seen their vote turned to democrat by the electoral college (or the inverse). The only votes that truly matter are the ones that fall to popular vote - because even if everyone were to simply not vote for presidential elections - there would still be one elected. Crazy thought. So what happens is people simply accept it, without so much as an inkling of outrage for a corrupt and damaged system - these are the same individuals that are more than happy to give up their rights in the name of health and safety.
So lets talk about privacy a bit... a very little bit.
Throw it out the window. It doesn't exist. The government is in your home, your bedrooms, your computers, your work, even in your daily conversations. I believe the project was referred to as Mystic... a recording software that is able to simultaneously record ALL phone calls across a country and store them for up to a month. That is a massive database dedicated to prying into YOUR privacy. Of course... we need to have our privacy broken right... I mean that shifty guy down the street that has skin a couple shades darker than yours, and prays to the east on his front porch every day... that guy HAS to be a terrorist... so lets let them listen in on everything. Get real. All throughout history there have been terrorists of every skin color, creed, and religion.
Hell, just a decade ago we were going off about right-wing extremists blowing up abortion clinics, a few years before that, there was blood running through the streets because of those damn Colombian drug runners, and of course can't forget the basis of like every fucking Kung Fu movie known to man - in those mean streets of Chinatown.
The Patriot Act is a load of shit. I know it, you know it, and those dastardly bastards in the Gov know it, but once you have a taste of power - like licking the top of a sugar cube - you have to have it all... every... last... sweet... taste. Yet we support it, because we need to protect ourselves. Frankly in the 2006 risk assessment there was little to no risk of wide-scale domestic terrorism, and yet we supported giving up our rights since 2001...
This goes back to the mindset you mindless self-indulgent head-nodding flock of sheep... Wake the fuck up. It's high time to turn the elitist mentality upside down and give it a shakedown - the likes of which will echo into the annals of history.
Stop cursing under your breath. Get obsessed. Make a move.
-JE
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