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 But the proposal was suddenly withdrawn last week, with the unconvincing explanation that it was all a mistake.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.”
It might be a little to late.
It is time ………… RISE UP!
I don’t know who wrote this article for USA Today; but he is in dire need of a remedial course in American government. We are not supposed to have a “ruling class” in our country. We have allowed, by means of our appalling apathy and our estrangement from the process and practice of governance, our central government to devolve into a sewer of crony capitalism and corruption in which the members of Congress openly sell their votes to the highest special interest bidders in return for campaign contributions. They have become by default, our de facto ruling class; a political elite that believes themselves above and apart from their constituents in all possible ways. Until we begin to take proactive steps and give these unprincipled thugs something to react to nothing is going to change.
tHERE WILL BE MANY MORE TO COME.
ABOUT TIME ………LET’S DO IT !
One major problem with congress is WE THE PEOPLE, we all complain about congress but come election time we thing out senator or congress person is OK, and it is the same everywhere, so where do we end up, with the same idiots . Get rid of them all.
Amen to that
You need to be registered to vote and do so go to your towns meetings and voice your opinion you will find once you are heard you are not alone! The liberal the progressive has through it’s dominance of the media lead you to believe that the conservative voice is the minority opinion. I am here to tell you it is the majority opinion it’s just being silenced by our very own government and the so called establishment conservatives in Washington. What makes a conservative is not simply spending less on government than the other side. Government is to big to powerful. The founding documents created a country of sovereign citizens and ever since the end of the civil war witch was actually the second revolution the democrats have been slowly attacking your individual sovereignty
It’s about time we started to do something before it is totally to late, it is almost to late now, so get going people don’t stop now.
When Push comes to Shove ,Who’s going to get pushed and Shoved.