by The_Toecutter » Sat 22 Oct 2005, 01:40:20
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'Y')ou will know who you are owned by when the conscription papers drop through your door.
That's what the second amendment is for.
If I get drafted, I will make this government MY bitch to the best of my ability, no matter the certainty of my death. They want to draft me? They'll lose at least 5 of their men should said men not leave the property which I dwell post warning.
You're only a slave in so far as you are willing to be a slave. Are you willing to die to be free? Are you willing to sacrifice the lives of other slaves attempting to make you join them in order to stay free? Are you willing to be considered a traitor, and perhaps hunted down like an animal should you kill to be free, and not be killed yourself?
The right to bear arms exists for a reason. But it is worthless if it goes unused come time that totalitarianism finally comes to affect your life in a much more major manner. Hell, considering that all around us others are being affected by totalitarianism today and have been for decades, it may be too late. But the sad truth is, most(including myself), will do nothing until they are affected. At the present, most of us have goals and dreams we hope to fulfill. I want to get through college and become an engineer, for instance. But should that dream be threatened via conscription or other enslavement?
Show those seeking to conscript you the barrel of a gun. They don't leave you alone? Hope you kill them before they take you down. You live? Consider yourself lucky and get the fuck away from civilization for good. Maybe start over and try to achieve those goals you have, or even make new ones to accomodate the changed circumstances.
Back on topic, peak oil could cause more blatant forms of slavery to return. We have the possibility of indentured servitude returning, and the beginning steps are underway with this new bankruptcy reform that illegally changes theframework of existing contracts. As earlier mentioned, there is the threat of conscription. Should we see a hard crash that collapes our government, the first world nations will see slavery akin to the third world of today, with corporations trafficking slaves of all sorts, be they sex slaves or cheap labor(Hell, said slaves are often transferred over American soil!). We will see increased calls for the government to give handouts to the masses, but in return the government will grow larger and further its control over the population. In an effort to keep society from collapsing during and after peak, the government will further slide to totalitarianism as well in an effort to keep tabs on the population and quell dissent. We are again already seeing this in a post 911 world where our constitutional freedoms are being eroded to maximize corporate profits and government revenue. Once peak's effects start to show, said corporationas and government won't want to lose control and will further consolidate their power at everyone else's expense. Less rights, longer working hours, less pay, more taxes, and if you speak up, the square peg will be smashed and split so that it fits into the round hole.
As mentioned ealier, slavery is already in the form of the prison system in this country. A Criminal Justice professor at the University I attend(St. Louis Univeristy), Dr. Chuck Terry, has spent many years in prison for posession and use of heroin. In the late 70s and early 80s, many a time has he tried to participate in labor strikes in which the prisoners were paid pennies on the hour, but FORCED to work. The strike was quelled with lethal force, including gunfire with live ammunition by the prison gaurds. IIRC, a few prisoners were even killed. Brief mention was made in the media, but it was quickly forgotten since the media claimed it was a prison riot. This occurs quite often, apparently, and too often for comfort prisoners in America wind up dead this way. He also told me of a time in which a mentally handicapped man was in pain and needed his medication, which the prison was refusing to provide at the time. This handicapped man was apparently unable to sleep for approxamately 10 days straight from intense pain, and eventually started banging on the walls to get attention. Guess what the prison gaurds did? They came in, beat the man until he was nearly dead, and let him lay there in his own blood. The prisoners got angry at seeing such abuse and they too were beaten, shot with pepperballs, and otherwise assaulted while they were in their cells.
Abu Gharib is in our own backyard and has been for a few decades. It's just getting worse today. Peak oil? Better know how to use a fucking gun, and be prepared to choose between enslavement or death if it comes to it. Don't worry about those slaves willing to carry out their orders to conscript you. Recognize they have lives, friends, and family like you do, respect that, but realize they are making the choice to put their life on the line when they step onto your property and refuse to leave lest you join them. If you think about it rationally, their choice should be easy: get the fuck off your property so they can be garunteed to live, or face the possibility of death trying to carry out someone else's issued orders that has no significant benefit, immediate or otherwise, to those carrying out the orders. They are making the decision that their orders are more important than their own lives and the freedoms and rights of others. Insolent fools they are, yet sadly so much more capable of reason but unwilling to excersize it. Too bad people aren't rational. Some are willing to kill and die for circus peanuts not knowing any better, just because they are told to, and if they are that stupid should they ever attempt to conscript me, in which they will be given ample warning to leave, perhaps it will just be Darwinism at work. Chances are, I'd receive a Darwin award as well, but better than becoming a slave, imo. If not? Yippie! Mount their heads on my front porch like trophies and get the fuck outta' dodge!
The best case scenario is I be left the fuck alone. No conscription for me means no fuss for those seeking to conscript me. Best of both worlds, at least as far as
I'm concerned. In the grand scheme of things, the individual is best able to look out for himself, while although highly noble to look out for others, enacting large scale positive change is virtually impossible on a grand scale. On an individual scale, one is more likely to be able to shape the results as they pertain to them. One that attempts to do both is worthy of praise and is a very rare character. Such a person usually stands out in history and is recognized should they succeed in making change, yet is often assassinated by the powers that be. The vast majority fail on a large scale but succeed on a smaller, immediate scale(ie. volunteer workers) and are just as worthy of praise, but only differentiated by their overall impact upon the greater society.
The unnecessary felling of a tree, perhaps the old growth of centuries, seems to me a crime little short of murder. ~Thomas Jefferson
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