A recent column in USA Today illustrates how Americans are finally rising up against federal government tyranny, but instead of calling it ‘government’ tyranny, they use the words ‘Americans ruling class’.
They cite 3 examples where Americas successfully pushed back tyrannical measures:
– Department of Homeland Security canceled plans to build a nationwide license plate database.
– The FCC withdrew a plan to “monitor” news coverage at broadcast stations and at print publications (that the FCC didn’t even have authority to regulate)
– Massive civil disobedience in Connecticut as hundreds of thousands of people refuse to register their firearms in accordance with new laws
Of course, “America’s ruling class” has already anticipated pushback and are experienced dealing with it. So long as we act only in reaction to them, instead of creating problems for them to deal with, I seriously doubt they have much concern for our ‘pushback’.
America’s ruling class has been experiencing more pushback than usual lately. It just might be a harbinger of things to come.
First, in response to widespread protests last week, the Department of Homeland Security canceled plans to build a nationwide license plate database. Many local police departments already use license-plate readers that track every car as it passes traffic signals or pole-mounted cameras. Specially equipped police cars even track cars parked on the street or even in driveways.
The DHS put out a bid request for a system that would have gone national, letting the federal government track millions of people’s comings and goings just as it tracks data about every phone call we make. But the proposal was suddenly withdrawn last week, with the unconvincing explanation that it was all a mistake. I’m inclined to agree with TechDirt’s Tim Cushing, who wrote: “The most plausible explanation is that someone up top at the DHS or ICE suddenly realized that publicly calling for bids on a nationwide surveillance system while nationwide surveillance systems are being hotly debated was … a horrible idea.”
On Friday, after more public outrage, the Federal Communications Commission withdrew a plan to “monitor” news coverage at not only broadcast stations, but also at print publications that the FCC has no authority to regulate. The “Multi-Market Study of Critical Information Needs,” or CIN (pronounced “sin”) involved the FCC sending people to question reporters and editors about why they chose to run particular stories. Many folks in and out of the media found it Orwellian.
How this program appeared was, like the DHS program, a bit of a mystery: FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai said: “This has never been put to an FCC vote; it was just announced.” But the blowback was sufficient to stop it for now.
Meanwhile, in Connecticut a massive new gun-registration scheme is also facing civil disobedience. As J.D. Tuccille reports: “Three years ago, the Connecticut legislature estimated there were 372,000 rifles in the state of the sort that might be classified as ‘assault weapons,’ and 2 million plus high-capacity magazines. … But by the close of registration at the end of 2013, state officials received around 50,000 applications for ‘assault weapon’ registrations, and 38,000 applications for magazines.”
Time for a second Revolution..
We the people need to stand up against this criminal government
Count me in!
WHERE DO I SIGN UP ????
me too
About time
stand up for our constitutional rights !!
USA today afraid to call it what it is – government tyranny.
I railed against this man being elected President and have been shocked at how willing people were to put their trust in a demagogue who was clearly a card carrying marxist.He is blatantly and openly sinking the ship of state.I have always admired Alexander Hamilton and disdained Thomas Jefferson,but Jefferson did get one thing right…”the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time,with the blood of patriots and tyrants alike…it is it’s natural manure”…It’s time we prepare to cull the herd.
I am sick to death of this crooked corrupt American Government that is trying to control all of humanity which is leading to the utter. Destruction of so many lives…they even control how we are to be treated when sick and even dying…they banned a drug called Laetrile back in 1980 that was helping cancer patients beat the disease killing them and if it weren’t for my father’s perseverance and determination…this gov. Would have killed my mother who lives today 35 years later…now the gov. wants to take our pain pills and put us through all kinds of other s**t…poking and probing large ass needles into our spines and think the problem is solved by burning nerves ..I am 57 yrs old and I worked my whole life in this country and had many family members fighting in their damned wars and I fought and suffered horribly for 4 and 1/2 years to get disability when I had serious medical problems that forced me out of work…anyone thinking to rise up against this US gov…count me in as long as I can stand and walk and I’m a marksman with a gun…this gov for the past 16 years done nothing but create hell on earth…we are poor and struggling..no decent jobs…they just take our children out of our homes with their dirty tricks cuz they get a nice commission for each child and I am so fed up with all the b******t here seeing my grandfather fought in WW1 losing an eye and having to walk with a cane the rest of his life…and we are no longer free…we are used as lab rats for their research and we are killing babies who haven’t a choice…this land is cursed as far as I see it and I have always fought with letters and unharmful tools but to get points across and all to no avail…this gov was originally formed to be For the people…Of the people…backed by the people and we dont matter at all until these senseless politicians with a hunger for power and control over everything want and need our vote promising us a great change and how they will make America great again..but they forget all about the one thing that can make anything better and thats We The People…