27-Jun-13 World View -- Gun sales explode, thanks to Obama

[John]

27-Jun-13 World View -- Gun sales explode, thanks to Obama's anti-gun campaign


Wall Street stocks gain on bad U.S. economic news

** 27-Jun-13 World View -- Gun sales explode, thanks to Obama's anti-gun campaign
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Contents:
Gun sales explode, thanks to Obama's anti-gun campaign
Violence flares again in China's Xinjiang province
Israel approves new West Bank settlements on eve of John Kerry visit
Wall Street stocks gain on bad U.S. economic news


Keys:
Generational Dynamics, gun control, Smith & Wesson,
Charlton Heston, NRA, 3D printer, Cody Wilson, Staples,
China, Uighurs, Xinjiang, Han Chinese,
Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Israel, John Kerry,
Wall Street, quantitative easing

[Guest]

I listened to a conversation you had with Warren Pollock over a year ago.

Warren was interviewed a few days ago and said that soon America will be an NSA police state and that young people should renounce their citizenship and flee the United States. Do you agree with Pollock? I also have serious concerns about the police state which I believe already exists in America (and is rapidly strengthening). Your opinion is important to me.

[John]

> I listened to a conversation you had with Warren Pollock over a
> year ago.

> Warren was interviewed a few days ago and said that soon America
> will be an NSA police state and that young people should
> renounce their citizenship and flee the United States. Do you
> agree with Pollock? I also have serious concerns about the
> police state which I believe already exists in America (and is
> rapidly strengthening). Your opinion is important to me.

Well, if you're going to flee the United States, where are you going
to go? Perhaps join Vince in Anguilla, I guess.

From the point of view of Generational Dynamics, these kinds of things
have an ebb and flow. During a generational Crisis era, then
individual rights erode, as the people become more concerned about the
survival of the country and their way of life. So during the Civil
War, habeas corpus was suspended, which allowed anyone to be arrested
and locked up at any time, for any reason or no reason. During WW II,
Japanese Americans were locked up for any reason or no reason.

However, once the crisis era ends, then individual rights become more
important again, and the restrictive measures disappear.

So, as the current crisis era deepens, there will undoubtedly be more
restrictions on individual rights. However, they will disappear when
the crisis era ends.

China, Russia, Europe, and other countries are doing exactly the same
things that the NSA did. All Snowden did is betray and embarrass the
United States. He's no hero. He's a traitor.

Furthermore, what the NSA is doing is a tiny fraction of the "police
state" issue. The IRS is compiling a massive data base of all
financial and health records of every American, and that information
will be available to tens of thousands of IRS and Obamacare employees,
who will be able to use the information against political or personal
enemies. It will also be available to local and federal police
authorities, which is the "police state" issue. The NSA is adding
only a tiny bit more to that massive data base.

So Pollock has a point, but I don't believe that fleeing the country
is the answer for most people.

[Evan]

True, It is not worth fleeing the country, but as an extreme of the generational crisis period arrives, it may be that it will not be safe to blog whatever you feel or choose to believe. Right now engaging in that behavioral activity may or may not put you on a watch list of some kind, or at least categorize you by whomever is watching. But there could come a time when free blogging may result in consequences more grave than being categorized and watched - depending upon what views you are freely espousing.

[gerald]

True, It is not worth fleeing the country, but as an extreme of the generational crisis period arrives, it may be that it will not be safe to blog whatever you feel or choose to believe. Right now engaging in that behavioral activity may or may not put you on a watch list of some kind, or at least categorize you by whomever is watching. But there could come a time when free blogging may result in consequences more grave than being categorized and watched - depending upon what views you are freely espousing.

Very true --- Self censorship the age old way to control people and thought used throughout the ages by religion and government.

[John]

One thing that I completely forgot when I suggested that you might
flee to Anguilla along with Vince. Actually, Vince himself plans to
flee from Anguilla with his family in -- as I recall -- a
self-sustaining floating ship of some kind, in the middle of the
ocean, where they can grow their own food.