Yes, almost every federal agency has heavily armed police (even the post office) and together the police have enough bullets to kill every American many times over.
Are they protecting us from relatively a few numbers of real criminals, or are the police readying themselves to protect the government from us?
"— but the Biden regime has everything else. They’ve got control of the CIA — and the FBI. They have the NSA. They have DHS too — and the Pentagon. They’ve got the legacy media — and most of the courts. The Democrats have kept an iron grip on the federal bureaucracy since before I was born — and the NGOs for most of my life. They’ve got Hollywood. They’ve got Big Tech. They’ve got the schools and the universities.
...That’s not just my opinion by the way — it’s the sober assessment of quite a few security analysts and ex-military types who have appeared on my television show in the last few years.
Meanwhile, when your elected representatives in Congress (like Anna Paulina Luna) publicly admit on social media that America's secret police now consider ordinary GOP voters to be “violent extremists” and “terrorists” then it’s time to ask yourself: do you still think you're voting the Biden regime out of power in November?"
an immediate and very superficial dive into Simone Weil, fostered by the submission of your quote above finds this (part) of a biographic essay:
"Her social-political writings in London are markedly different from her early writings as an anarchist informed principally by Descartes, Marx, and Kant. While those influences remain, her later writings must be read through the lens of her Christian Platonism. She suggests that we must draw our spiritual life from our social environment. That is, while spirituality is individual vis-à-vis God, this spirituality occurs within a social context, namely, the collectivity, and principally, the nation. This is a reversal from the critical distance she had maintained from the collectivity, especially in her early emphasis on the individual’s methodical thinking."
No criticism, or even, yet, a basis for it; just trying to understand the perspective.
OK, so now let's imagine that there was no name attached to the quote so that we could dig into the person's back ground. What would the result be of just the quote? I think it is clear. Being that I'm not the same as I was 40 years ago and that quotes made by myself back then might not match up to a current one, I'm inclined to take at face value what I read rather than digging into someone's past. Apparently the writers perspective changed dramatically. Like Dr. Naomi Wolfe on the 2nd amendment.
Anybody have suggestions on armor? How about night vision? I would like to last as long as my ammo supply. Prep for night attacks is essential (except for the FBI, that prefer the crack of dawn).
That is a good way to describe it. I call it a kleptocracy. A bunch of well protected thieves.
Kleptocracy (from Greek κλέπτης kléptēs, "thief", or κλέπτω kléptō, "I steal", and -κρατία -kratía from κράτος krátos, "power, rule"), also referred to as thievocracy, is a government whose corrupt leaders (kleptocrats) use political power to expropriate the wealth of the people and land they govern, typically by embezzling or misappropriating government funds at the expense of the wider population. One feature of political-based socioeconomic thievery is that there is often no public announcement explaining or apologizing for misappropriations, nor any legal charges or punishment levied against the offenders.
Courageous Lion, I know you know I am well equipped for home defense, except for 1 issue, shotguns. I used to have a double barrel shotgun, sawed off and fitted with a pistol grip (1973). That gun however was in the possession of a friend, Bobby, who died (at 17) and I never attempted to get it back.
If you like a pump...a Keltec KSG It holds 16 rounds of 2 3/4 and I believe 14 of 3".https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxNrX-9P--0 I keep #4 buck for home defense. If you like a semi, I'd get one of those Turkish shotguns like a "Black Aces" bull pup. It has a 5 round magazine and a 20 round drum can be purchased for it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYkkENthJvs The Black Aces is very fairly priced.
Yes, almost every federal agency has heavily armed police (even the post office) and together the police have enough bullets to kill every American many times over.
Are they protecting us from relatively a few numbers of real criminals, or are the police readying themselves to protect the government from us?
"— but the Biden regime has everything else. They’ve got control of the CIA — and the FBI. They have the NSA. They have DHS too — and the Pentagon. They’ve got the legacy media — and most of the courts. The Democrats have kept an iron grip on the federal bureaucracy since before I was born — and the NGOs for most of my life. They’ve got Hollywood. They’ve got Big Tech. They’ve got the schools and the universities.
...That’s not just my opinion by the way — it’s the sober assessment of quite a few security analysts and ex-military types who have appeared on my television show in the last few years.
Meanwhile, when your elected representatives in Congress (like Anna Paulina Luna) publicly admit on social media that America's secret police now consider ordinary GOP voters to be “violent extremists” and “terrorists” then it’s time to ask yourself: do you still think you're voting the Biden regime out of power in November?"
- from Emerald Robinson's The Right Way
https://www.emerald.tv/p/welcome-to-2024-the-last-year-of?r=j7uyi&triedRedirect=true
an immediate and very superficial dive into Simone Weil, fostered by the submission of your quote above finds this (part) of a biographic essay:
"Her social-political writings in London are markedly different from her early writings as an anarchist informed principally by Descartes, Marx, and Kant. While those influences remain, her later writings must be read through the lens of her Christian Platonism. She suggests that we must draw our spiritual life from our social environment. That is, while spirituality is individual vis-à-vis God, this spirituality occurs within a social context, namely, the collectivity, and principally, the nation. This is a reversal from the critical distance she had maintained from the collectivity, especially in her early emphasis on the individual’s methodical thinking."
No criticism, or even, yet, a basis for it; just trying to understand the perspective.
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/simone-weil/#SociPoliPhil
OK, so now let's imagine that there was no name attached to the quote so that we could dig into the person's back ground. What would the result be of just the quote? I think it is clear. Being that I'm not the same as I was 40 years ago and that quotes made by myself back then might not match up to a current one, I'm inclined to take at face value what I read rather than digging into someone's past. Apparently the writers perspective changed dramatically. Like Dr. Naomi Wolfe on the 2nd amendment.
"...Apparently the writers perspective changed dramatically..."
Like the former 'Never Trump'er JD Vance.
Like I said, wasn't meant to sound critical, but as a starting point to understand the perspective and find some context. That's all.
Her views on the importance of God in societal morality were sound. IMO.
Anybody have suggestions on armor? How about night vision? I would like to last as long as my ammo supply. Prep for night attacks is essential (except for the FBI, that prefer the crack of dawn).
The US is neither a democracy nor a constitutional republic: It's a thugocracy.
That is a good way to describe it. I call it a kleptocracy. A bunch of well protected thieves.
Kleptocracy (from Greek κλέπτης kléptēs, "thief", or κλέπτω kléptō, "I steal", and -κρατία -kratía from κράτος krátos, "power, rule"), also referred to as thievocracy, is a government whose corrupt leaders (kleptocrats) use political power to expropriate the wealth of the people and land they govern, typically by embezzling or misappropriating government funds at the expense of the wider population. One feature of political-based socioeconomic thievery is that there is often no public announcement explaining or apologizing for misappropriations, nor any legal charges or punishment levied against the offenders.
Courageous Lion, I know you know I am well equipped for home defense, except for 1 issue, shotguns. I used to have a double barrel shotgun, sawed off and fitted with a pistol grip (1973). That gun however was in the possession of a friend, Bobby, who died (at 17) and I never attempted to get it back.
What can you advise.
If you like a pump...a Keltec KSG It holds 16 rounds of 2 3/4 and I believe 14 of 3".https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxNrX-9P--0 I keep #4 buck for home defense. If you like a semi, I'd get one of those Turkish shotguns like a "Black Aces" bull pup. It has a 5 round magazine and a 20 round drum can be purchased for it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYkkENthJvs The Black Aces is very fairly priced.
The Keltec sounds wonderful. Thank, good buddy.