Why such overt vicious militaristic controls? Why “go after control points, such as rail lines, telecom, ports, etc.” when all those control points are already subject to intense scrutiny & control? You are already complying. Dissent is impotent, thus tolerated. Recall Apple’s 1984 commercial’s scene depicting Big Brother declaring to the gaping subordinate hordes “Our enemies shall talk themselves to death.” So go ahead: talk, prepare, whatever - you will do nothing, so better to let you thrash in peace than waste resources enforcing what already is, in practice, compliance. All such threads invariably declare “but whatever you do, comply.” So...what opposition? What’s to inflict troops on when all comply?
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As you say,
“So...what opposition? What’s to inflict troops on when all comply?”
The most graphic daily example the TSA in action.
Otherwise unemployable want wits command us to stand in line with eyes averted as grandmothers, wives and daughters are groped and molested in public and whose basic human dignity is assaulted in a manner which the Geneva Conventions prohibits against uniformed combatants. Yet we have allowed and tolerated this daily humiliation for more than ten years, about the duration of the Third Reich without the justifiable and righteous rage that is called for and even demanded of free men.
Even at the peak of the Third Reich’s power there was organized and armed resistance within Germany and in every occupied country by men, women, and children, who knowing their chances almost, still fought to the end.
From 1945 to 1956 even the iron fisted and brutal Soviet juggernaut had to put down up-risings in East Germany, Poland, Hungary, and the Baltic countries.
So who are we really?
As you closed, “So...what opposition? What?s to inflict troops on when all comply?”
All I know is that I watched a video of a TSA agent molesting a child in his wheel chair and daddy thanking him when the thug finally released his family from the search. Pretty sick. It was like, “Thank you Mr. thug, for molesting my son because he’s in a body cast.”
Americans would jump off a cliff if authority figures, “agents”, told them to do it. They would murder each other at the drop of a hat if told to do so.
“Dissent is impotent, thus tolerated.”
True enough. Even the boundaries for dissent are kindly made clear. Stay inside the boundaries and you can thrash and yell all you want. For most, that’s enough.