Tyranny on the Potomac.Folks,
I mentioned this poll to the producer who conducted my interview with WVTM yesterday morning. She at first didn't believe me, but I told her to search for it and have since sent her the link. Read below and I will have more comments on the other side.
February 26, 2010
CNN Poll: Majority says government a threat to citizens' rights
Posted: February 26th, 2010 09:00 AM ET
Washington (CNN) – A majority of Americans think the federal government poses a threat to rights of Americans, according to a new national poll.
Fifty-six percent of people questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Friday say they think the federal government's become so large and powerful that it poses an immediate threat to the rights and freedoms of ordinary citizens. Forty-four percent of those polled disagree.
The survey indicates a partisan divide on the question: only 37 percent of Democrats, 63 percent of Independents and nearly 7 in 10 Republicans say the federal government poses a threat to the rights of Americans.
According to CNN poll numbers released Sunday, Americans overwhelmingly think that the U.S. government is broken - though the public overwhelmingly holds out hope that what's broken can be fixed.
The CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll was conducted February 12-15, with 1,023 adult Americans questioned by telephone. The survey's sampling error is plus or minus 3 percentage points for the overall survey.
There are a couple things about this poll that I find astonishing. First and foremost is the fact that the polling was done by CNN and that once they got their result -- which must also have astonished them -- they went ahead and reported it instead of burying it.
The second is that the divide is 56 to 44 WITH NO UNDECIDEDS. Every poll in the world I've ever seen has an undecided column in it. Not this one. This bolsters my contention that we are now, and have been for some time, two peoples sharing nothing but a border, a common language and an argument over which is to be the master -- the federal government or the citizenry.
We are in truth more alienated from one another than the Tidewater planter and the Maine lobsterman were in days before the firing on Fort Sumter.
No matter how the final scenario plays out in real life, we are not getting out of this without violence. If nothing else, the experience of human history tells us that. Events have gone too far.
Continue your preparations, ladies and gentlemen, for the ball WILL open. It is just a matter of when and how. Y'all better be ready to dance, for the orchestra is tuning up, and the other side gets to decide the timing of the first waltz.
Mike
III
PS: And I don't mean this kind of ball.LATER:
As I most always do, I sent this post to my short mailing list, which includes a number of ATF executives and agents. I prefaced it with this:
Note to the ATF personnel on this mailing list: Just in case you wondered if you really were a despised minority, instead of the other way around.
You are.
And they don't even know you as well as I do.
Mike Vanderboegh
III
PS to Little Jimmy: How's that buzzing from the bees living in your head? Anytime you want to chuck the burden of it all, go on the record and confess your multitudinous sins, just give me a call. Confession is good for the soul. "Ego te absolvo."
15 comments:
Yeah and no need to "RSVP" cause this "Ball" is mandatory attendance, were all invited and we will ALL attend ! Wake Up!
Chris
III
"63% of Independents think the federal government poses a threat to rights of Americans."
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."
-TJ and friends
Well well the people are truly waking up.
China
III
Mandatory indeed! Not what I want. Not what any of us want. We didn't plan this party but are dressed for the ball and the dance card is already full. Time to tango. Dead tango that is.
Wild speculation: Maybe they ran the poll with an 'undecided' column, and it came out 80% undecided. That result would be too truthful and thought-inducing, so they ran it again as a false dichotomy to encourage black/white thinking. These sorts of polls are for manufacturing consent. There's no checkbox for "No, what I want instead is..."
Andrew here...
"According to CNN poll numbers released Sunday, Americans overwhelmingly think that the U.S. government is broken - though the public overwhelmingly holds out hope that what's broken can be fixed."
Of course we would all hope what's broken can be fixed. But do these folks still believe it is fixable within the political process? To hope so at this point is a wasteful distraction.
Have to admit to being a little surprised at the percentages... Hope it's true, but am beginning to think maybe it really doesn't matter to the elitist scum one bit. All those stories and rumors about FEMA detention camps being built around the country never made sense to me as it has never been a workable plan to round up and imprison hundreds of thousands of folk, much less millions. However, perhaps pieces of the puzzle are coming together when the rumors are looked at from the perspective that these places are really intended as security centers for the elite when they attempt the eradication of the rest of us. It explains the gigantic increases in security at airports, since one of the main centers is speculated as being at the new Denver airport. Not only are heightened control measures to handle the masses being developed right in plain sight, but the ability to transport and handle tens of thousands of people are right there as well - clever, eh? And let's not forget such strange and expense endeavors such as the... what's the term.. the Big Dig or Big Hole, in I think Boston which is supposedly for water drainage... there are similar ones, such as in Chicago, as well, but none of the rationale given for these activities have ever made any sense.
It's no secret that secure living facilities, such as converted hardened missile silos, have been and are being built by the wealthy, under the guise of silly paranoia related to the Maya prophecies and natural disasters. Perhaps 2012 is zero day not so much for natural disasters but for the elite to put into play the unleashing of biological weapons, or things like minimal radiation residue neutron bombs, against the masses, along with the unleashing of their dogs of war. The dogs are of course expendable, but they might as well be sent out to divert the ignorant III-pers and their long range warfare tactics until both are laid to waste by those little bugs dumped in the water or dumped from the air...
Perhaps the Dutchman and his merry band should be investigating how to take down hardened secure facilities instead of popping targets at 500 meters. This really calls for making contacts with all the plumbers, electricians, and other common working folk who are building these places and making sure you have numerous back doors into these places when the time comes, or at least you know what the air and water reserves are along with other things such as filtration capabilities, etc. It might be that the way to prevent the rather sudden reduction of our population can best be accomplished by a few guns to the heads of a few elitists who suddenly have an opportunity to evaluate their life's choices and make the appropriate phone calls...
De Oppresso Liber
bacsi
The 44% are those who depend on said Government for 100% of their food, clothing and shelter.
Of course they trust their Daddy...
DD
Read some of the comments under the survey. Lot of Bush and repub bashing going on along withthe patriot act and rightly so. But none of them mention that the dimmycrats have had complete control for over a year now and have failed to reverse any of this. All they have done is to try and consolidate power.
Well, as the musician said while the Titanic sank, "Gentlemen, its been an honor playing with you."
I hope to see you safe and sound during reconstruction.
When the day finally arrives for the "big dance" can we please finally shut off the Mexican border too????
Doug
Newark, Ohio
In his book, Guerrilla Strategies, Gerard Chaliland wrote that only two conditions need be present for a nation to be ripe for revolution; (I will have to paraphrase a bit, since I don't have the book at hand):
1. That the government be weakened due to a loss of faith by the people.
2. That there be a credible, external threat to the safety of the people.
I think both criteria are well fulfilled at this time...
The Rule of the Ball has always been:
Those who call the tune must pay the piper.
Tovarish:
How is the government weakened? It is at its largest, most militarized, most pervasive, most blatantly rapacious configuration yet.
We worry not about their inability to repel a surprise invasion by the ruthless Canadian National Hockey Team, but about their resolve to strangle us and our progeny.
The greatest threat by far to ordinary Americans, in decades past and in the present, has been the perfidy and lawlessness of our own plutocrats and the mandarin class that serves them.
Thus, Tovarish, I am on board with your conclusion of revolution, but not at all on board with respect to the premises.
-S
III
If you haven't already done so, read the book "Unintended Consequences" by John Ross. No need for firefights in the streets. Target the exact ones that are targeting our freedom. They know who they are and so do we. It's really that simple in my mind. No need for innocent lives to be jeopardized. Targeted justice by the people is the answer.
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