Betcha Barry coughs it up

Control of the internet, that is.

It’ll be good for us, ya know.

Take an essentially unfettered system and give it to a bunch  of authoritarian folks who want control of the last free means of communication in the world? Who envies the productivity and freedom of the country which invented (and controls) it? A system that frightens them because they have no control over a means of disseminating information at (essentially) the speed of light?

Yeah, that is a good idea.

It’ll work out well in the end, I am sure….

yep

Just like that.

“Boil the frog slowly” and all that…..

Incrementalism.

It has worked so far.

Why not in the future?

“The price of freedom is eternal vigilance”. And we are getting lazy. We are conceding the ground without a fight, daily. We will lose only because we choose not to fight.

H/t Feral Irishman

even more

Now they are finding evidence of fraud in Florida.

Voter fraud, that is. Apparently massive amounts of voter fraud.

Again, how much of this is necessary to turn the tide of an election?

Look: It isn’t the “will of the people” if there is massive fraud. On the one hand, I accepted that enough people voted for Barry Soretoro Barack Obama that he was, indeed, the legitimate president of the United States, even if only marginally more than halfway. But now I cannot help but wonder. How many people didn’t vote for him, yet were counted as voting for him? How many people voted more than once, or fraudulently, in key states?

Enough, maybe, to make those states give him the electoral votes?

How much fraud is too much before we begin to believe that the election was, indeed, stolen? How much before we decide that this government is not a legitimate government and choose not to work under it’s rules? How long before we elect our own government and break the United States into something else?

You might think that that is all rhetorical, but I assure you, it isn’t.

Until these questions are answered, and until people caught cheating on elections and election officials who are caught cheating or facilitating fraud are arrested, tried, and imprisoned, we will never have a belief that the government we have is a legitimate one.

And if out government is not legitimate, do they really have any say over us? Have they a mandate to govern? To make rules which are supposed to be, after all, the “will of the people”?

ETA: Plus THIS …(These people belong in jail… after being horewhipped)

Margin of cheat

How much is too much?

Is 1,286.6% too much?

Look: I am sure that this didn’t happen everywhere. But really, how many precincts does this sort of thing have to happen in to greatly change the political makeup in our country ? How many states did this happen in, how many precincts? How much DID it change the electoral votes?   How much is too much?

Perhaps we DO need the UN Inspectors..

Why not criminal investigations and CHARGES for anyone caught in such a scheme?Perhaps mandatory hard prison time for anyone caught and convicted of vote fraud…Like 10 years.

We gotta get a handle on this shit..and very soon. If we cannot depend on the election results to represent the true wishes of the citizens of this country, then we are just another “banana republic”, albeit a larger than average one….(see also Argentina).

The other choice is the battle of Athens writ very large. And bloody. I’m not advocating that yet but I wonder if it would not be a better alternative than the theft of the country? Would the damage an armed citizen’s revolt do be more than what is currently being done slowly?

I am thankful

I am thankful that I live in a country where power is passed from administration to administration in a peaceful manner, no matter what the philosophy of the party coming or going is. 

I am thankful that I live in a nation which is, for the most part, a nation of laws, giving me and my fellow citizens stability in our lives.

I am thankful that I live in country where those laws are enforced by police who are, if far from perfect, for the most part honest and decent and uphold our laws in a lawful and (mostly) constitutional manner.

I am thankful that I and my fellow citizens and my country are protected by good men and women willing to do violence to protect same. Who are willing to endure conditions and hardships and ask only for the support of their fellow citizens, and who (most of the time) get that same support.

I am thankful that I have friends and family who are for me, watch out for me, and aid me when needed. Who are not afraid to be honest and forthright with me when it is called for, and who know me well and yet still like and respect me.

I am thankful that I have a partner who cares for me and who truly loves me for who I am, warts, hairs, and all.

I am thankful that I live in a country which, while very imperfect, is still the shining beacon to most others in the world. I am blessed to have the citizenship of that country granted to me by my birthplace, and the protections that that citizenship implies.

I am thankful that I live in a country where I can earn a living without having to bribe or pay protection money, nor where I must have I have great fear of my government officials.

Another reason why the ballot box

is likely not the answer anymore. Our very way of life is being destroyed. Slowly, but inexorably.

And the urban portion of this country (click on counties for a real view) has made choices that will change the direction of the country forever…

So what are we left with? 

The soapbox has been stolen by the liberals in the MSM. You can’t get anything out there except their agenda.

The cartridge box is certainly a viable (although unpalatable) alternative.

So which box do we open to fix this?

I am open to suggestions.