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CaseyJones
06-22-2010, 06:53 AM
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/537967/201006211813/Is-US-Now-On-Slippery-Slope-To-Tyranny-.aspx

Anti Federalist
06-22-2010, 06:59 AM
Tom, where have you been?

Slippery slope? We've already slid.

When the central government can strip you of citizenship, charge and detain you in secret and send you overseas for a military kangaroo court "trial" and then, if it so chooses, execute you, all with no judicial review whatsoever, then you are, officially, in tyranny.

That's not to mention the thousand other tyrannical endeavors that the system engages in every single day.

The only reason that people are still talking about any sort of slope or road to tyranny is simply because the system has not started flexing it's muscles yet.

But the weight set is already here, right smack dab in the living room.

Aratus
06-22-2010, 12:28 PM
the article is about the indirect and new technicality underneath & behind what has traspired concerning BP and its liabilities...

speciallyblend
06-22-2010, 12:30 PM
Tom, where have you been?

Slippery slope? We've already slid.

When the central government can strip you of citizenship, charge and detain you in secret and send you overseas for a military kangaroo court "trial" and then, if it so chooses, execute you, all with no judicial review whatsoever, then you are, officially, in tyranny.

That's not to mention the thousand other tyrannical endeavors that the system engages in every single day.

The only reason that people are still talking about any sort of slope or road to tyranny is simply because the system has not started flexing it's muscles yet.

But the weight set is already here, right smack dab in the living room.

exactly what i was thinking. we already slid. lost both cars and house. banks,insurance,lawyers make satan look like jesus!!!

osan
06-22-2010, 04:04 PM
Tom, where have you been?

Slippery slope? We've already slid.

Seems 9/11 was the tipping point. The interval since then has shown a clear acceleration into the abyss. Are we having fun yet?



The only reason that people are still talking about any sort of slope or road to tyranny is simply because the system has not started flexing it's muscles yet.

This is precisely so. Just how blind do people have to be not to see a setup in the works? Has Congress passed all these laws for no reason? For amusement? Their health?

Just wait until they start using what they have provided themselves. Of course, when they do, the mob will be standing there in slack-jawed dumbfoundedness, wondering why and how this could have happened. By that time it will likely be too late to do anything substantive about it.

You have to love lazy, willfully stupid people.

osan
06-29-2010, 12:54 PM
the article is about the indirect and new technicality underneath & behind what has traspired concerning BP and its liabilities...

Not really. It uses the BP example to expose the deeper and more troubling trend in question.

heavenlyboy34
06-29-2010, 12:56 PM
RPFers need to stop paying heed to the likes of Establishment clowns like Sowell (except to counter his arguments). If you keep listening to such dorks, it will just make you mad-and anger will cloud your logic. Just calm down and plan your counter attack to these goons. :cool: