Monday, June 5th., 2017
Slavery is Freedom: Submit to the State and be Free from Terrorism
by TDB
Jun 5, 2017 8:29 AM
Clearly,
the only sane thing to do after a terrorist attack is to take rights
away. Maybe if we build a prison around society, we will all be safe.
Maybe it is just a matter of the government having more power over the
citizens, and they will finally rid the world of terrorism.
Or
maybe the UK’s priorities are all wrong. For instance, did you know
that in the United Kingdom, you are required to pay a tax to acquire a
TV License in order to watch broadcast and online media? And they are
not messing around. Look at these posters and billboards.
The BBC is watching.
Yet
Prime Minister Theresa May seems to think the UK is simply not invasive
enough of their citizen’s personal lives. They are going full-on “Big
Brother” over TV licenses; they know who you are.
But
they don’t know who the terrorists are. The government identifies in a
database every last home without a TV license, but they cannot track and
stop terrorists.
Theresa May is now calling for stricter regulations regarding
the internet, in the wake of the most recent terrorist attack. She
wants to force internet providers and websites to remove any loosely
defined “extremist” or “radicalizing” content, and she wants to
internationally outlaw end to end encryption.
“We cannot allow this ideology the safe space it needs to breed – yet that is precisely what the internet, and the big companies that provide internet-based services provide,” Ms May said.“We need to work with allies democratic governments to reach international agreements to regulate cyberspace to prevent the spread of extremist and terrorism planning.”
Already
the Prime Minister has expanded internet surveillance to Orwellian
levels, allowing police to snoop around in anyone’s search history,
fishing for a crime.
The [Investigatory Power] Act, championed by Ms May, requires internet service providers to maintain a list of visited websites for all internet users for a year and gives intelligence agencies more powers to intercept online communications. Police can access the stored browsing history without any warrant or court order.
They want to stop the spread of “extremism”. But as we see with the Scottish police arresting a YouTuber over a joke video, and governments investigating comedians, what the government considers extreme on the internet has nothing to do with terrorists.
They
can regulate the internet until the cows come home, and the only thing
that will happen is innocent people will lose their rights, and get
caught up in government punishment for perfectly normal free speech.
And
anyway, they will probably just use their snooping powers to make sure
people paid their TV license fee, and forget all about the terrorists.
So
yet again, governments are selling more control as a way to keep people
safe, when in reality, it threatens privacy and therefore liberty.
Clearly, the British government cares more about collecting taxes than
keeping the public safe.
The
government is less concerned about stopping real terrorism than they
are about making sure the masses won’t rebel against their failure to
address real issues, and their unwillingness to stop preventing the
people from protecting themselves.
But
hey, who can blame May, she’s already out of ideas! After all, guns are
already banned in Great Britain. And it totally worked, all these
people were killed with vans, knives, and bombs, not guns.
Protect Yourself. The Government Cannot and Will Not.
Even the police are defenseless in jolly old England. They ran away from the terrorists,
forcing the citizens they help keep disarmed to throw chairs and pint
glasses in defense. The first officer on the scene was armed only with a
baton.
Witnesses said they saw two men stabbing people outside the well-known Roast restaurant in Borough market. A chef from the nearby Fish restaurant said: “I saw two guys with big knives downstairs outside Roast. They were stabbing people. The police were running away, they were community police. They were normal officers, they were running away.“The guy with the knife was killing two people. We were shouting ‘stop, stop’ and people threw chairs at them.”
We would rather see citizens spray some hot lead towards a terrorist, but maybe we are the strange ones. And actually, some governments are responding by empowering their citizens instead of tightening the chain.
A couple of months ago, Czech President Milos Zeman made an unusual request: He urged citizens to arm themselves against a possible “super-Holocaust” carried out by Muslim terrorists.Never mind that there are fewer than 4,000 Muslims in this country of 10 million people — gun purchases spiked. One shop owner in East Bohemia, a region in the northern center of the Czech Republic, told a local paper that people were scared of a “wave of Islamists.”Now the country’s interior ministry is pushing a constitutional change that would let citizens use guns against terrorists. Proponents say this could save lives if an attack occurs and police are delayed or unable to make their way to the scene. To become law, Parliament must approve the proposal; they’ll vote in the coming months.
Okay,
great job, but really, they need to pass a law allowing people to shoot
terrorists? Natural rights dictate that when you are unjustly attacked,
you should fight back.
But
still, we will give the Czech Republic credit. When it comes to
relatively small countries, a high rate of gun ownership is the most
effective homeland defense.
It’s
still not right to be paranoid about a terrorist attack or to stop
going out in public because of them. The chances of being caught up in
this type of thing are still very low.
But that is no reason to leave yourself defenseless. As they say, hope for the best, prepare for the worst.
Get
yourself a gun or two if you haven’t already. Then buy lots of ammo, or
better yet, ammo making/ reloading equipment. Then practice, and hope
you never need the skill. But if history repeats itself, you will have
an option other than being a helpless pleading victim.
To
be even safer, get the whole community involved. Start a club. Maybe
once a week you can all muster for some training and group physical
training.
Get cell411,
an app that allows you to connect with your friends and neighbors in
case anyone needs help. Build the network of people you trust to come to
your aid if you set off an alert on the app, and be ready to respond
when they send out an alert. Alerts can be for general danger, medical
issues, or even police brutality and illegal searches. Press a button,
and your team will be alerted to respond to whatever threat.
At
the end of the day, we can trust that the military will keep us safe,
and we can hope that the cops show up when we need them (and hope they
don’t shoot us instead of the attacker), but the only way to truly be
safe is to take responsibility into your own hands.
That
way, you will also have the ability to protect yourself against the
truly biggest threat to life, liberty, and property, instead of relying
on them to protect you.