The Sheeple

A dog is nothing but a wolf that never grows out of being a puppy. This is the project of the [Great Corporate Cornucopia] – to have a planet of mental children over whom they can lord. Wolves were domesticated by being dependent on the yummy meaty scraps and kibbles and bits of cavemen. That is happening to us, too.

Is it too scary to even think about? We are being turned into livestock and pets. Fuck that shit. This is why the world sucks and is run so stupidly. They didn’t just castrate us by putting women in the workplace and making our families small or nonexistent; they castrated us of our practical folkish knowledges and good folkish commonsense.

Link: 8 Reasons Young Americans Don't Fight Back: How the US Crushed Youth Resistance

http://www.alternet.org/vision/151850/8_reasons_young_americans_don't_fight_back:_how_the_us_crushed_youth_resistance/?page=entire

We are a people who live in fear of jail for merely walking outside. When you see a cop, you don't think "he's there to protect me", you think "fuck, is he going to pull me over and harass me for some bullshit reason and give me a fucking ticket? I just want to get home." Yeah, fear is control.

Federal government seized Pokerstars.com? Asshats.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2383667,00.asp

Link: URGENT: Congress Pushing Broad New Internet Snooping Bill

http://act.demandprogress.org/letter/snooping_bill/

Stupid Texas vice laws

Texas presents itself as against big government but they have a lot of stupid laws restricting vices in the name of morality (religion, see blue laws).

One example, the Texas Beer Laws: http://www.brewtiful.com/?p=219

Not to mention dry counties and that you can't buy liquor on Sundays. Fuck arbitrary religious "morality".

And Texas, too, has an arbitrary blood alcohol limit of .08 for driving even though they state explicitly in the Texas Driver's Handbook that different people may have different tolerances to alcohol - in other words, some people are not actually impaired enough to affect driving ability even if their BAC is above .08, and that's a fact.

They also have strict laws against "minors" - under 21 - drinking. It's called extended adolescence. So although you can be drafted to die in a profiteering war before you're 21, and you can go to jail for having sex with your 17 girlfriend when you're 18, God help you if you have a swig of beer or smoke a joint!

And of course, any cop can throw you in jail using public intox as an excuse if he doesn't like you if he claims he smells alcohol on your breath, even if you aren't harming anyone.

*Cough* police state.

Man fighting government control and intrusion in our lives indicted by the feds for downloading too many files

http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/support_aaron

Tell the FDA their Draft Guidance on NDIs is Bad for Consumers

On July 1, the US Food and Drug Administration issued draft guidance for complying with the New Dietary Ingredient (NDI) notification protocols required by the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA)—seventeen years late.

The biggest problem is that this guidance will create such huge barriers for supplement manufacturers that it will be much more difficult and expensive to produce them. But of course, that means consumers would either have to pay much more for nutritional supplements, or else risk not being able to buy them at all if the manufacturer deems them too expensive to produce.

No, we don't need more government control regarding the things we put in our bodies that actually help us, especially when they the FDA allows dangerous drugs like Ciprofloxacin on the market unchecked.

Sign the petition against this foolishness here.

Drug abuse is a symptom of our society's dysfunction, not a cause

http://www.inmalafide.com/blog/2011/05/09/the-true-nature-of-drug-abuse/

The second is that drug abuse is a symptom of our society’s dysfunction, not a cause. While there will always be a minority of addicts in any population, widespread substance abuse is due to the fact that reality for most people is so awful that they’d rather construct their own artificial realities with the aid of illicit substances. Spare me the lectures about how our quality of life is higher than our parents’ generation – the truth is that most people are aimless, lost and unsatisfied with their lives. For a populace with no purpose for living, no hope for having good friends or a meaningful job or a significant other to love, any reality is better than the one they’re condemned to. Basically, those who become addicted to alcohol, or marijuana, or heroin are addicted for the same reasons that people get addicted to Facebook, or World of Warcraft, or playing Angry Birds on their iPhones – reality avoidance.

More Doug Stanhope

Summary: We are NOT free. Liberty is dead.

"You want to fix the Pledge of Allegiance, put a disclaimer at the end: With liberty and justice for all (must be 18, void where prohibited, some restrictions may apply, not available in all states)."

And many more quips about government intrusion into our lives.

He also mentions the power of jury nullification, such as in cases of non-violent crimes and .09 BAC DUIs. Bravo.

"You're not free. You need a diploma in this country to cut hair." And it gets better.

Thanks again Tony.

edit: More on freedom from Remorhaz at Inmalafide:

I was born in America and lived there 38 years and now live in Asia. China is better than America. Japan is better than America. Thailand, Cambodia and even Laos are better than America and so is South Korea. Can’t speak for India. People who think America is the shit are usually poorly traveled and/or do not know what freedom is and deliberately wish remain ignorant and stupid (hint: freedom isn’t getting groped by morbidly obese TSA types). Funny that I have never had to endure those TSA monsters anywhere but the “land of the free”. America sucks and needs to die with whatever pieces that come out hopefully making it a great place again. Throw a dart at world map and chances are the place the dart hits is freer in real terms than is the U.S. provided you actually define freedom as being able to mind your own fucking business without constant interference by government types.

Misandry kills (thanks government/media)

Misandry and feminism kill many innocents, including men, women, and children. From the families it has destroyed, to the war deaths it has caused, to the men who have committed suicide after losing their livehihoods, to the children growing up in single mom homes leading to a life of crime, and the men and women who are victims of hostility from the opposite sex due to feminism's gender war.

So government/media, please shut the fuck up about tobacco deaths (so you can tax smokers and fill your pockets), drunk driving deaths (rare as hell compared to death's from misandry, and it's not really "drunk"/impaired driving anymore, it's "the cops are going to try to nail you in any way they can whether you're impaired or not" driving), and pretty much anything else until you pay attention to the greatest problem the western world faces.

Misandry.

I don't want to hear another fucking word about Casey Anthony unless it's an analysis of the reasons why a woman very likely just got away with murdering a child and falsely accusing her father and brother of child sexual abuse, highlighting the chivalry and misandry still present in the American courts.

I rarely pay attention to the mainstream media these days because they continue to babble on incessantly about meaningless drivel while ignoring the real fucking problems. And that's just the way the government likes it - keeping us ignorant and easy to control.

"You are subsidizing people to fail in their own private lives and become more dependent on the handouts"

From the video here: Latest Feminist Triumph: Black Family Finally Destroyed A good read, too.

Yes, the government incentivizes and subsidizes the destruction of the family (and therefore society as we know it). And what happened to the black family is happening to everyone now.

Internet DUIs

From DemandProgress:

The MPAA and RIAA have convinced companies like Comcast, AT&T, and others to voluntarily create a "Three Strikes" policy -- yes, that's really what they are calling it. CNET reports that your Internet service provider will respond to online file sharing with censorship tools like:

"Throttling down" your Internet bandwidth and speed;
Limiting your access to the Web;
Controlling what websites you are allowed to visit;
And requiring you to attend pirate school to be educated on copyright law.

Well, we already do the same sort of things with DUIs - which don't require that you are actually intoxicated, only that a faulty breath test shows your blood alcohol concentration may be at an arbitrary level that is deemed illegal. You get your license taken away or restricted, and you're required to attend a session to cure you, because it's assumed everyone who's had a beer or two and driven is an alcoholic, and psych majors need jobs.

Because the government will continue to seek more and more control unless and until it all collapses, the passing of such laws as the "Three Strikes" policy to restrict people's freedoms is inevitable.