New Pithy Quote - On Totalitarianism

“I believe one of the most serious misunderstandings about totalitarianism is that it arrives as a full package that requires no assembly. That it is put on the people, like a winter coat. All at one time, and in full view for all to see.
This is a grave misunderstanding.” - Robert Wenzel

From this article http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2010/11/am-i-on-crazy-fringe.html

Bowling Alley Bra Ban Lifted (and Separated)

http://anthroblogogy.blogspot.com/2013/05/milwaukee-bra-ban.html

Apparently after the bras on the ceiling were hanging for 40 years there, some boob of an inspector thought they were a fire hazard. 

But the bowling alley prevailed.

Land-Mine Legislation

I saw this Claire Wolfe article recommended in comments beneath someone else's political screed.  It's around 20 years old, and complains about the 104th Congress.  All we would have to do to update it would be to substitute various things that the current or most recent Congress passed .

http://deoxy.org/landmine.htm

It points out that a lot of onerous laws get passed because they are added to a larger bill that is totally unrelated.  Most Congressmen don't actually read these laws, they just succumb to special interest group and voter pressure and then vote however those people tell them to.

Like the Obamacare bill that got passed, many of these bills are as tall as a man when you get them printed out and stacked up.  Who has time to read all that?  The onerous nuggets get snuck in at various points, but one of the favorite ones is when the House and Senate are haggling over "minor" differences in committee.

Even if Congress were to impeach the President, would it help in the long run, unless this legislative lurgy gets fixed too?  They are complicit in our oppression.  They are the ones who voted for the tyranny.

Yet, I think impeachment is necessary.  One does not simply stand down at Benghazi.

Gun Control Won't Work

Here's why:
http://lewrockwell.com/crovelli/crovelli77.1.html

He says it better than I ever could.  Gun control won't work for the same reason drug control doesn't work and gun control in other countries doesn't work: people disobey the law.  Not just the usual criminals who disobey the law anyway now, but ordinary gun owners who are otherwise law-abiding will disobey a gun ban.

The only difference between here and Palestine where all guns are illegal yet they are everywhere, is that here perhaps there might be a little more surveillance.  But maybe not, since the Israelis are so good at surveillance.  One might imagine they've got their own country under a total surveillance grid, but maybe not.  Our helots have cell phones, maybe the Palestinian helots don't have as many cell phones to track?  Or maybe even the most paranoid surveillance state can't prevent all resistance to itself.

You wanna turn this place into a big fat Palestine?  Try to take people's guns.  Try to run them off their land, out of their homes with fraudulent foreclosures and Agenda 21 bullcrap.  Keep on accentuating racial differences in the media with sock puppets spewing hate both ways.  You'll get your New Palestine all right.

Why would the elites of this country want to make it like that?  Either they have a warped version of reality they're working off of, and don't realize that's where they're taking this, or they're trying to kill us slowly enough that they don't get blamed for it/get us to kill each other off so they can mop up the aftermath and have the place to themselves.

They're gonna lose.  The answer isn't just guns, although the right to defend ourselves is a large feature of the struggle.  The answer is keep saying NO to the encroachment on our rights.  Use the infrastructure we have now to resist peacefully, to support each other and not get baited into civil war or other stupidity that would give TPTB an opening to impose martial law.  And use the time now to become more resilient.  We outnumber those elites who are making a mess of things, by like a thousand to one.  All we have to do is work around their BS, and they become irrelevant.

The key to warding off the attempts at a top-down, Central Scrutinizer kind of deal, is to make local, personal versions of all the centralized stuff we're used to just getting from the store, the power company, big manufacturers, etc.  If we can decentralize the things that we're so afraid of terrorists hitting - the power grid, the food supply chain, medicine, the internet, then we won't have to be so afraid of a black swan event, and we won't need Big Brother either.

Socialist "Paradise" Venezuela Runs Out of Toilet Paper

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-05-17/venezuela-runs-out-toilet-paper
They're blaming it on the Venezuela equivalent of the Republicans, even though the socialists are still in charge. 

(Seems typical, doesn't it?  We're getting a lot of that here too in the US.  People in charge pretending they aren't responsible.  They still need to leave office if they're that unaware of things being done in their name.  In other words, s**t or get off the pot.)

So, back to your own s**t, one of the things you can buy extra if you are prepping is toilet paper.  It keeps pretty much indefinitely, you can insulate with it by stacking it up against the wall, you can turn it into cushions or whatever, if you're going to stack it that high and deep.

If you run out of toilet paper, what can you do?  Get a pile of rags and a bucket of soapy bleach water with a lid, when done wiping, put the used rag in the bucket, and then you'll have to do laundry at least once a day.  Like having cloth diapers for your baby.  (One hopes one doesn't run out of water, bleach, and toilet paper simultaneously.)

Names of Cops Who Beat David Dal Silva To Death While He Begged For His Life for 8 Minutes

Deputies Ryan Greer

 Tanner Miller

 Jeffrey Kelly

 Luis Almanza

 Brian Brock

David Stephens 

and

Sgt. Douglas Sword

Six Kern County sheriff's deputies and a sergeant, who last week were involved in a violent confrontation with a man who was struck numerous times with batons before he died, have returned to their regular jobs, officials said Tuesday.

David Sal Silva, 33, a father of four, was pronounced dead  Wednesday less than an hour after eyewitnesses reported seeing several deputies repeatedly strike the man in the head with batons as he lay on the pavement.

This is an excerpt from http://freenorthcarolina.blogspot.com/2013/05/names-of-police-who-beat-father-to-death.html

So Much For Sweet Lil' Dzokhar

http://www.cryptogon.com/?p=35180
According to this "leak", Dzokhar Tsarnaev scrawled a "manifesto suicide note" with a marker on the inside of the boat he was hiding in.  Not sure why it wasn't visible in the pictures of the police escorting him out of the boat, maybe it was on the other side the camera couldn't see.

Anyway, if he actually did write it, the article says it said his excuse for the bombing was to reciprocate "collateral damage" from the wars in the Middle East.

Maybe that'll stop all the teenage girls from crushing on this little punk.  But maybe not.  They crush on fictitious vampires, this is the real thing.