"...do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic..."

"For the good of the Air Force, for the good of the armed services and for the good of our country, I urge you to reject convention and careerism..."
- Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, Maxwell AFB, April 21, 2008

"You will need to challenge conventional wisdom and call things like you see them to subordinates and superiors alike."
- Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, United States Air Force Academy, March 4, 2011

Tuesday, November 14, 2023

Photo of Pawnman Posting on BaseOps

 


In case it's not obvious, Pawnman is the nav in this photo who doesn't have a green head.

Monday, November 13, 2023

The United States of America - a Tyranny Beyond Measure


 

Imagine a huge apple orchard with a couple dozen people in it.  Millions of apples and only a few stomachs to feed.  The people in the orchard are fond of saying "no place on earth has as much freedom to eat apples as our orchard."

A few people in the group set up guard towers around the orchard with machine guns.  They say it's to protect the orchard.  They then mandate the population wear bio-metric devices that can temporarily paralyze their bodies if the devices sense that a person is about to fall out of a tree while collecting apples, and sending out an alert for others to rescue the individual.

Now a couple people in the group point out that this is a very dangerous development and cite historical examples of other orchard communities throughout history that have had a rough go from similar measures.  The others in the group, however, call these people "conspiracy theorists" and point out that everybody is going about their business eating as many apples as they want.  

"Just look around, it might not be perfect here but there is no place better!"

This simple little analogy pales in comparison to what has happened in the United States of America.  In our nation, the vast majority of our communications are surveilled, analyzed, and saved.  The weapons of warfare are far beyond machine guns with cheap drones, satellites, and other robotic devices obliterating any chance of an American population defending itself from a tyrannical government.  Appeals to the Second Amendment right to own AR-15s are even less useful than had the Incans demanded the Spaniards respect their right to own spears.

And now, the United States government has passed a law requiring private auto industries install technology in newly made vehicles that will allow the government to surveil a vehicle's location and movements so that it can detect if an individual is driving under the influence and then disable their vehicle.  One representative offered an amendment to strip this dystopian power from the bill, but it was defeated.  In a House of Representatives where the Republican party has the majority.  People must be safe from falling out of trees while picking apples!

Since September 11th, 2001 this nation has become an undeniable overt tyranny.  Absolutely undeniably.  No hyperbole.

Americans have been murdered without charge or trial by the federal government.  All Americans are spied on in their communications.  The government decides who can say what and when in their communications online.  The media is almost entirely owned (both "sides") and is the number one purveyor of falsehoods to the American people while protecting the dishonest in power.  Alternative media is also not immune to nefarious forces and if your journalism reports truthful things the tyrants want hidden, you might find the same fate as Julian Assange.  Every citizen is a journalist when they speak to an audience, and even if your comment is humorous and not particularly noteworthy, if it angers the wrong tyrant you may find yourself sentenced to a decade in a cage as Douglas Mackey recently discovered.  If you protest your government on public property you may be put in prison after a kangaroo court proceeding by a government that has labeled you an enemy of the state for your political views.  If you try to exercise your right to vote, you may find the government intelligence community launches an unprecedented lie campaign while a water main breaks in the middle of the night followed by a shocking last minute political victory, or you may not experience such if your candidate is arrested and taken off the ballot after a political prosecution.

If you refuse an injection into your body your government may require you to stay in your home; a mandate more easily enforced when your vehicle refuses to start.

An American citizen in the 1940s living in Manzanar, California could have stayed in the rustic barracks set up for them, played cards, and convinced themselves that they were free people doing as they pleased.  So long as they didn't look outside and see the guard towers and the machine guns pointed inward at them.

All these steps are purposeful and have nothing to do with safety while picking apples.  They are evidence that the end state will not simply be more status quo of politicians being liars and thieves that we are used to and which we delude ourselves won't affect us, but rather it will be a nightmare that cannot be measured by other examples from history because no other nation has ever had a population more surveilled and more easily controlled than the American populace of today.  Unable to defend itself even close to adequately against an increasingly militarized and technologically unstoppable government, unable to communicate with other citizens, and even unable to travel.  These steps are not being taken by the Devil we know for the Devil we know.

The shaping operations that are taking place in our nation today indicate the physical fall of the Unites States after those, paid off inside the castle walls, open the doors to the enemy outside which employs them.

The nightmare coming to our nation will be unprecedented, just as the steps taken to bring about our nation's destruction have been.  It is accelerating.  This is not something far off in the distance.  It's happening now.

God help us all.

Friday, November 3, 2023

Negative Their Negatory - There is No "Hate Speech" Exception to the First Amendment

 


The judiciary has been steadfast in knocking down this fascist talking point that somehow free speech is limited when dealing with "hate speech."  So called hate speech is, of course, any speech that somebody doesn't like.  Too bad, lump it, avert your eyes, people have a right to express views that you might idiotically label "hate speech" even though that makes you angry that you can't muzzle your neighbors you disagree with.

Perhaps before you run your yap online in the future, you'll do a little research into the topic.  That may have led you to a great many Supreme Court rulings that have all made clear that there is no "hate speech" exception to the First Amendment.  For example, Matal v. Tam might be worth a gander:

[The idea that the government may restrict] speech expressing ideas that offend … strikes at the heart of the First Amendment. Speech that demeans on the basis of race, ethnicity, gender, religion, age, disability, or any other similar ground is hateful; but the proudest boast of our free speech jurisprudence is that we protect the freedom to express “the thought that we hate.”


As somebody who has taken an oath to support the Constitution, you might want to stop lying to denigrate the rights enshrined in it.  Technique only.

P.S.  The fact that you edited your post but still left in "ethnical standards" along with your false factual claims, might be reason for you to stop internetting.  You're not very good at it.