Failing to obey a Commissar (unelected, unvetted) also makes for a precrime.
The only ones forever free of precrimes are criminals,
illegal aliens, terrorists, and Obama appointees.
Posted on 04/28/2010 11:00:45 AM PDT by pabianice
In his 1956 story, published in Fantastic Universe Magazine, science fiction writer Phillip K. Dick (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_K._Dick) envisioned a dystopian future in which murders were prevented before they happened. Three mutant humans, known as “precogs,” see the murders in the future and warn the police. The police then arrive in SWAT Teams and take-away the bewildered “pre-murderer,” thus stopping the murder in question and creating a changed timeline (the film 2002 version of the story changes many of the original’s details).
Yet in another example of life imitating fiction, the U.S. Congress and President Obama are running full-bore to force “precrime technology” upon the United States.
The key common element in all of the Obama-Reid-Pelosi legislation is the determination to punish “precriminals” before they break the law, while using the power of government to damn them publicly and destroy them in the press. Wall Street? Car builders? Banks? Conservatives? Lawful gun owners? Veterans? Millions of Tea Partiers? White men? All are evil and must be destroyed by legislation that pre-punishes them while destroying their reputations and their leaders. On the other hand, Violent Black Panthers? Career congressional criminals? Homicidal union thugs? Billionaire career friends of the White House? Then they must be made “preinnocent” and their glaringly criminal behavior ignored, hidden, or forgiven.
In Dick’s story, the precrime concept is shown to be faulty and the entire entity is dissolved. Here in the real world of 2010, Pelosi-Reid-Obama and their minions are moving towards their well-earned status of “predefeated.”
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Minority Report was based on this book...
Failing to obey a Commissar (unelected, unvetted) also makes for a precrime.
The only ones forever free of precrimes are criminals,
illegal aliens, terrorists, and Obama appointees.
You know that there is only one way this can end.
Well, I don’t know for sure on this one..., but I would think that anyone could consider “policy” to be a form of “pre-crime” too...
I mean, it establishes ways and procedures for dealing with certain things (whatever the subject of that “policy” is) and if you deviate from it, it’s a sort of “pre-crime” ... doncha know.
So, in that sense, we’ve always had “pre-crime” around in our political establishments... just not the “advance technology kind” of that movie where they could “see a murder” before it happened and arrest you ahead of time (before the person was killed).
“Policy” is a form of “pre-crime” and what government does to prevent the “crime” from happening... :-)
I think most Freepers were trying to prevent a pre-crime. We were voting for McCain, tho.
In his 1956 story, published in Fantastic Universe Magazine, science fiction writer Phillip K. Dick (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_K._Dick) envisioned a dystopian future in which murders were prevented before they happened. Three mutant humans, known as “precogs,” see the murders in the future and warn the police. The police then arrive in SWAT Teams and take-away the bewildered “pre-murderer,” thus stopping the murder in question and creating a changed timeline (the film 2002 version of the story changes many of the original’s details).
Here's the popular movie "Minority Report" with Tom Cruise starring...
Minority Report is a 2002 science fiction film directed by Steven Spielberg and loosely based on the short story "The Minority Report" by Philip K. Dick. It is set primarily in Washington, D.C. and Northern Virginia in the year 2054, where "Precrime", a specialized police department, apprehends criminals based on foreknowledge provided by three psychics called "precogs". The cast includes Tom Cruise as Precrime officer John Anderton, Colin Farrell as Department of Justice agent Danny Witwer, Samantha Morton as the senior precog Agatha, and Max von Sydow as Anderton's superior Lamar Burgess. The film has a distinctive look, featuring high contrast for dark colors and shadows, resembling film noir.
That's a pre-misdemeanor as the only alternative to stop a pre-felony.
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