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 But the proposal was suddenly withdrawn last week, with the unconvincing explanation that it was all a mistake.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.”
November 2014….people begin to plan your ride to the polls because we have to get all these traitors out of office. You either stand with us or you are against us!
SALUTE
Tere, you got that right
come and get them gang they are no good none of them
Our Government under BO is out of Control !!
dismantle homeland security before its already too late…
they assume disobedience will be massive riots and senseless killing.oh no there are only 550 people at risk. we don’t need a civil war all we need is to make examples.
All we need to do is get rid of the top trash in our government and restate the constitution of our great country.
IT IS ABOUT FRIGGIN’ TIME SHEEPLE TO DO THE SAME!!!
Cory Caromano I couldn’t agree more. The “people” that actually call the shots, the ones that tell congress what to do want exactly that. They want chaos and killing in the streets. Their new world order philosophy is order out of chaos. After that, they have truly won. Congress acts the way they do because they’re all feeding on the money printers teet. The decisions congress makes are already made for them, by the money printers. That is why social security and military benefits are violated while welfare is increased. When everyone in our beloved country realizes that what they want is to eliminate the middle class and when everyone is dependent upon government subsidies, they will then pull the plug on it all and watch the country implode in upon itself. Then they will literally have all the money in this country to themselves and in their hopes, we all kill each other. We MUST stop fighting with each other. Democrat vs republican, black vs white, and UNITE against these inbred elite families and their puppets (congress). If everyone knew what they have in store for us, we the people would of already overthrown them. For those who think we’ll just vote Obama out. I am going to let you in on a secret, there isn’t going to be a 2016 presidential “election”.