"I Support an Orwellian Police State in America" - How About You?

[BluesStringer]

While the following is intended by its author to be satirical cranking on the blithering idiots who willingly give their names and (at least) birth-dates to a total stranger spewing gibberish, it demonstrates how far devolved the collective American psyche has descended into absolute sheepledom. How many times per day do we see right here on this forum support expressed for ever-expanding police powers, including, but certainly not limited to, harassment for OC, or submission to cops by spontaneously disclosing the contents of your waistband and on and on and on?

For those of you who subscribe to the notion that all-encompassing police powers is the right way to rule a "free" country, here's what you can do about it - circulate a petition! From the looks of it, you'll have plenty of support!

 

[sdprof]

This guy just keeps on finding a big collections of gullibles.

Love how he has a hard time keeping a straight face at times.

 

[SR40c]

Bunch of tools.

 

[wolf_fire]

This guy is hilarious, but what he shows us is just how ignorant and oblivious the general public is in this country.

<--- beats head repeatedly against wall

 

[ezkl2230]

"In the real world, security surrounds us, from security cameras to police…"

Am I the only one who doesn't find this comforting?

[video=youtube;4vQoBTnnc44]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=4vQoBTnnc44[/video]

"The aspect of our politics has wonderfully changed since you left us. In place of that noble love of liberty and republican government which carried us triumphantly thro' the war, an Anglican, monarchical and aristocratical party has sprung up, whose avowed object is to draw over us the substance as they have already done the forms of the British government. The main body of our citizens however remain true to their republican principles, the whole landed interest is with them, and so is a great mass of talents. Against us are the Executive, the Judiciary, two out of three branches of the legislature, all of the officers of the government, all who want to be officers, all timid men who prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty, British merchants and Americans trading on British capitals, speculators and holders in the banks and public funds a contrivance invented for the purposes of corruption and for assimilating us in all things, to the rotten as well as the sound parts of the British model. It would give you a fever were I to name to you the apostates who have gone over to these heresies, men who were Samsons in the field and Solomons in the council, but who have had their heads shorn by the harlot England. In short we are likely to preserve the liberty we have obtained only by unremitting labors and perils. But we shall preserve them, and our mass of weight and wealth on the good side is so great as to leave no danger that force will ever be attempted against us. We have only to awake and snap the Lilliputian cords with which they have been entangling us during the first sleep which succeeded our labors," Thomas Jefferson in a letter to Philip Mazzei

Does this description sound in any way familiar? Give me less "security" and more liberty!

 

[CR Williams]

The fun part is, it was George Orwell who said this:

[h=1]“That rifle on the wall of the labourer's cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.” [/h]

 

[Warrior1256]

This guy is hilarious, but what he shows us is just how ignorant and oblivious the general public is in this country.

<--- beats head repeatedly against wall

As well as being a bunch of sheeple.

 

[telpinaro]

Sadly, people will sign a petition to do pretty much anything... Ban hydrogen dioxide, add birth control to public water supply, and they strongly prefer the Affordable Care Act to Obamacare.

 

[MI .45]

"In the real world, security surrounds us, from security cameras to police…"

Am I the only one who doesn't find this comforting?

Does this description sound in any way familiar? Give me less "security" and more liberty!

I noticed this little piece of subliminal propaganda when I first saw it as well. Amazing how we're being indoctrinated - almost as much as we're be surveilled.

 

[sdprof]

Regarding the AMEX ad - has a security camera ever actually provided security? Ever saved anyone from harm?

 

[ezkl2230]

Regarding the AMEX ad - has a security camera ever actually provided security? Ever saved anyone from harm?

That is the point. Surveillance and government intrusion is being packaged and sold as security. It prevents nothing, it gives the government access to everything, and people mistakenly believe themselves to be safer as a result.

 

[wolf_fire]

Sadly, people will sign a petition to do pretty much anything... Ban hydrogen dioxide, add birth control to public water supply, and they strongly prefer the Affordable Care Act to Obamacare.

You forgot the ones that sign the petition to end Women's Suffrage! LOL

 

[wolf_fire]

Regarding the AMEX ad - has a security camera ever actually provided security? Ever saved anyone from harm?

No, but they are damned good witnesses for the trial.

 

[telpinaro]

You forgot the ones that sign the petition to end Women's Suffrage! LOL

I hadn't seen that one! That's insane! LMAO

 

[S&W645]

Regarding the AMEX ad - has a security camera ever actually provided security? Ever saved anyone from harm?

A security camera has prevented theft. Along with the cops that came when called.

 

[wolf_fire]

I hadn't seen that one! That's insane! LMAO

There are many of them, but this is a good one:

 

[dogshawred]

Saw this awhile back, but is still so relevant. People don't know what is going on around them and don't listen to people when they speak to them. After all anyone who is going to take the time to get signatures on a petition has to be doing good work, right! BS