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It's not about the civilians being able to overthrow the government, it's about the government not being able to overthrow the civilians. When wrongthink starts
by jakear 7y ago
It's not about the civilians being able to overthrow the government, it's about the government not being able to overthrow the civilians. When wrongthink starts being criminalized, would you prefer to be defenseless in your home, or have some - feeble sure, but some - means of protecting yourself? Or would you rather just prefer to think wrongthink will never be criminalized?
I believe The Clash puts it best:
When they kick at your front door
How you gonna come?
With your hands on your head
Or on the trigger of your gun
When the law break in
How you gonna go?
Shot down on the pavement
Or waiting in death row
You can crush us
You can bruise us
But you'll have to answer to
Oh, guns of Brixton
The Clash - The Guns of Brixton
- inscionent 7y agoDeath by cop. That's one way to go. P.S. Wrongthink has always been criminalized
- jakear 7y agoTrue. War on drugs was really a war on anti-Vietnam mentalities, but 1A means you can't say that's what you're doing (yet).
- xxpor 7y agoDo you want every police encounter to turn into Ruby Ridge? A non-insignificant number of people would consider criminalizing drugs criminalizing wrongthink.
- jakear 7y agoThe criminalization of drugs was put in place to target hippies and minorities. So... yes. "We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did." - John Ehrlichman, Nixon's Aide during time of the war on drugs. https://harpers.org/archive/2016/04/legalize-it-all/ https://harpers.org/archive/2016/04/legalize-it-all/ Aside: Liberty - the state of being free within society from oppressive restrictions imposed by authority on one's way of life, behavior, or political views. What the hell ever happened to "give me liberty or give me death"?
- samizdis 7y agoCracking track, so may as well listen to it, too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcW8VNwYvL0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcW8VNwYvL0