Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Obama Wants People Who Speak of Government Tyranny Silenced

 Barack Obama actually said that young people should "Oppose all who speak of government tyranny." Now, not to put too fine a point on this, but that would mean that we should oppose everything the men who founded this nation said. That would mean we would need to cease being Americans- Willingly, and without question. Imagine Bush saying something like this: Everyone but Fox News would be screaming "Fascist" and "Nazi," and for those who disagree- Everyone but Fox News WAS screaming those terms about him with a whole lot less credibility during his Presidency. Bush did not revoke basic rights like Habeas Corpus for Americans like Obama; Bush did not purchase billions of rounds of ammunition for FEMA (FEMA!) and other non-military, non-police bureaucracies.

This is what happens when people who think "democracy" is the best form of government- Politicians pander to the public, and implement policies that benefit only their well moneyed benefactors.


 The reason politicians get away with this is people have forgot that democracy is an easy thing to corrupt. I know many people think democracy is "the way things should be," but think about this- The quality of the decision made by "majority rules" is dependant on the accuracy of the information the majority possess, and the recognition by the masses that every American has a (now theoretical, sadly) right to do whatever they desire so long as it is not a real burden on others. 

 Now reflect on this- 4 corporations control everything you hear, see, or read in mainstream media. All governments lie to their people about how things really are in their respective countries in the name of self preservation (they have dubbed it "the common good," but really it's to prevent mass outrage directed at themselves). Just because a majority of people have been convinced to believe a thing, does not make that thing true or "good," let alone a wise or benevolent course of action. Perhaps a brief tour of history s in order: 

 Popular notions held by the vast majority of people at one time or another:
People of different races were "inferior" (still held in some parts of the world)
Jews caused the (insert whatever bad thing happened here). This belief is still held in many parts of the world, and is one that has prompted the most vile acts of Western Civilization's history.
*USA* Blacks are the color they are as a mark of damnation, and can only attain Salvation through slavery. This was widely popular, particularly in the US South.

 I can go on- Especially with the ones based in misogyny, bigotry, and homophobia- But the point is clear. 

Some Gun Fact Observations

Anyone who thinks the second amendment is to cover hunting rights needs to take a civics and/ or US History class. The US Supreme court has ruled already on this (twice if memory serves, once in the 19th and once in the late mid 20th centuries) stating w/o ambiguity that the 2nd amendment is in place so that every legal adult citizen has his own arms to defend the Constitution from any threat it faces, not murder Bambi. Anyone who thinks the term "assault weapon" is valid beyond it's use as a propaganda tool knows almost nothing about firearms. Anyone who thinks "gun control" will eliminate gun crime, or that gun crime is even the most common type of crime in the nation, needs to a) see how well the drug control laws are doing and b) notice that of all crimes committed with guns, very few of them (along the lines of 1/4, actually it's only 16% of the recovered guns used in crimes are not stolen, so I am rounding up to the nearest quarter percent  for the sake of the anti gun people to not feel as stupid as they ought) were committed by people who legally obtained and possessed their weapons.
In other words, of the 260,000,000 guns legally owned in the us, 8,000 crimes (not just murders, but all crimes, including those resulting in nothing more than bent feelings, and derived from 32k total crimes multiplied by 1/4) were committed with guns legally obtained and possessed. The number of murders, then, committed by persons who legally obtained/ possessed their "assault weapons" then would stand at approx. 110 (1/4 of 438). That means you are more likely to die from a vaccination than you are from a legally obtained/ possessed "assault weapon," you are almost 200x more likely to die from government subsidized tobacco, and you are almost 200x more likely to die as a result of your health care.

Facts- Things people keen on destroying the US Constitution tend to ignore on favor of their agenda.
Sources

http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/region/united-states (cited report, follow the links on that page to the cited material)