Authored by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
I heartily accept the motto, “That government is best which governs least”; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe — “That government is best which governs not at all”; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.
– Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience
As we head into 2018, I believe governments around the world will become increasingly insecure about their positions of power and control, which will result in increased paranoia about whether or not they have the consent of the governed.
Being a global empire in decline, the U.S. power structure has the most to lose, making it particularly vulnerable to such panic. I suspect forces within the U.S. government are likely to engage in various attempts to reestablish authority via desperate and authoritarian moves as 2018 unfolds. I don’t say this to spread fear; rather, I think such moves will result in considerable pushback from the population at large, particularly from younger generations who are intimately aware of how spectacularity the status quo has failed them. Panic and desperation from those in control shouldn’t be feared, it should be expected and contemplated ahead of time. That’s why I’m writing this series. I want as many people as possible to start thinking about this now so we aren’t caught off guard.
The areas I’ll be diving into with these pieces consist of cannabis, Bitcoin, and war against Iran. I’m sure there are plenty of other areas government will target in its last ditch effort to exert control over a populace sick and tired of these busybody, corrupt authoritarians, but these are issues I follow closely and have a certain degree of familiarity with. As such, they’ll be the focus of this series.
Today’s topic is cannabis. This seems the least likely area for government action, specifically because it would be such a monumentally stupid move. That said, just because something’s idiotic doesn’t mean we should simply discount it, particularly with human fossil Jeff Sessions continuing to chirp on the issue every chance he gets.
Although Sessions has been threatening to stomp on states’ rights and freedom of choice when it comes to cannabis ever since he became Attorney General, he hasn’t done anything yet. Nevertheless, he continues to issue threats.
As Axios reported yesterday:
That looks like the chart of Bitcoin.
More significantly, we live in an era in which basically no issue issue successfully crosses partisan political lines. Except cannabis. Also from Gallup:
Democrats and independents have historically been much more likely than Republicans to say marijuana should be legalized. In 2009, Democrats were the first partisan group to see majority support for legalization, followed by independents in 2010.
This year for the first time, a majority of Republicans express support for legalizing marijuana; the current 51% is up nine percentage points from last year.
Moreover, many of those against legal cannabis in their particular state still accept the right of people in other states to decide for themselves. The idea of the federal government going into states and denying the will of the citizens who voted to legalize it would be extraordinarily unpopular across the board. It’ll be completely obvious to everyone that if the feds think they can tell people their votes don’t matter on that issue, there’s zero freedom of choice for anything in this country. It’s the ultimate canary in the coal mine.
In fact, I’ll take this one step further and say if Sessions dares to make this move, it’ll accelerate secessionist movements across the country and delegitimize government credibility more than any other single act in the forty years since I’ve been alive.
The clowns in D.C. have no conception of how fragile this nation is right now.
One more gigantic policy disaster and the whole thing could fall apart.— Michael Krieger (@LibertyBlitz) November 30, 2017
If the Trump administration actually moves on this issue, we’ll know for sure how completely inept and desperate it is. Part of me almost wants to see them try, because the resulting monumental fail will demonstrate the power of the people and give a gigantic black eye to authoritarians in government.
Stuff like this is all part of the process we’ll be going through over the next few years, and we need to be mentally prepared for it. We the people will increasingly move to take sovereignty back in a variety of ways, and government will respond with panic. The good news is they’ll be reacting from a position of weakness, not strength.
Which brings us to the topic of Bitcoin. As the price crossed $10,000 recently, I noticed increased squeamishness and fear on behalf of various banksters, economists and other assorted statists.
Monday’s post will dig into what all of that means.
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The British own America.
Decolonization is happening now, hence immigration, & America's end will be like it's beginning.
And the Vatican owns Britain..
And the Anunnaki pass the Queen around like a woman down south.
and that is the ultimate resolution of karma and free will.
heard that "karma is a bitch", literally no.
Mother will be restored!
More accurate
dup.
Actually, the king stepped down to the church when Britain took power, well, that's what history says, but the vatican owns the other pieces...
Still, Britain owns the most.
Can't wait for Monday's installment as this one was so obvious
I'd like to see Sessions go after MEDICAL marijuana. That's a non-starter in court, because then the schedule one status is going to be directly challenged.
The government should actually encourage marjijuana use. A bunch of stoned out citizens won't give a shit that they are being taken to the cleaners.
Hell, give it away free and the millenial douchbags would elect Stalin & Marx. So you can look for democrats to support the issue in 2018 and 2020.
.....another fluff piece. The hook is in the title. No meat.
Yes, exactly. It will be legal in 10 to 12 states in a few years. Maybe more. States need the revenue.
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Yes, Neo.
The Vatican is the lord of the rings, the Vatican itself is infiltrated by a parasitic virus called the hazarlar (Jesuits IHS) . They own Britain, Britain owns the commonwealth + USA (Act of 1871) and their court jews (Rotschild) owns Israel.
So who owns all of them?
Me.
sieg heil
Go find out in Antarctica.
And the "jews" own the Vatican. Just look how they have totally turned the Catholic church upside down since the zio Vatican II.
"..turned the Catholic church upside down.."
I think the Marxist Pope Francis is doing a pretty good job of that all on his own.
Francis is Jesuit. Vatican has two black popes now
Yep they have created the Jesuits...and who is the black pope?
Cannibis? He thinks Cannibis matters?? Smoke or don't smoke, neither will change a dang thing in government. Get on to the next topic, this one is silly.
They work in tandem with each other. It's the triad devil: Vatican, City of London (banksters) and Pentagon vs. the Holy Trinity.
Britain owns us ... or at least they consider our bodies to be their property. They cannot possess our consciousness or soul ... we have to give it freely and that bothers them to no end.
There must be something in the water in the US. Trying to blame imaginary third parties is in tinfoil territory. It is the elites of the US that decide policy.
"The British own America."
So that is why Trump is not going to visit?
Gubmnt is always the enemy of working tax paying U.S. citizens. Fukem
No, it's the money printers, & with hundreds of quadrillions of US dollars already printed, you'd think somebody would "Understand."
The British hold the #1 currency, they were the first to go fiat backed by nothing, then permitted the US to do it. If you want to understand economics, then you have to understand the correlation between the British Pound & USD & how it causes inflation or market turmoil.
Fake Money, Fake News, Fake History, fake leaders, fake events, fake terror, fake everything....
https://plus.google.com/collection/QorNbB
can we just get to fake fake to get real?
"Gubmnt is always the enemy of working tax paying U.S. citizens."
My brother in law came over today and told me that the US government has been sexually harrassing him for years.
I asked how so?
He said " theyve been fucking me with taxes for soooo long. I work and they collect"
Such a sweet gig that tax collection protection racket and they still can't keep it in the black.
Imperial March: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bzWSJG93P8
I hear this tune in my head whenever I see or hear of goings on in D.C.
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that implies brains and organization.. i just hear this at every press conference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZ572yLH9sc
You must mean the past Obama administration press conferences, no?
Or do you mean the Press asking questions of the current administration?
heh.. i was thinking of central bank press conferences, but could apply equally to the ones you mentioned ..
Oh yes, for certain, Yellen, Bernanke, Greenspan - and soon Powell.
The economic alchemists will chant and ring their bells.
"Lead into Gold" and all that. ;-)
' hear this tune in my head whenever I see or hear of goings on in D.C."
I hear that too. The diference is that they dont know how to use a light sabre, and I do.
I hear little beeping sounds, clicking, a camera begins to whirl and then this, "The red chair is against the wall. The red chair is against the wall."
Shade to silence.
https://youtu.be/LIgurTFaq6U
Most people get along pretty well, regardless of color or culture.
Biggest problem is the sociopaths on the extreme left and extreme right and the overly religeous who think they need control to direct things their way and too much power has been handed to them already.
there is no problem in the world of fiat.
central banks just need to buy all government debt and cancel it, then print money to cover all fiscal deficits (just like Japan does now) ... forever
what's the difference between the government printing money via debt and deficits and the central bank printing money via fiat?
this is an entirely circular argument - there is no difference - and if we go cashless, all the world is just one's and zeros and we all know they only matter to algos..
so... whats the fucking point? IT JUST DOESN'T MATTER!
/s?
dude, i have posted that many times. you are correct. why? because nothing really changes cept the amts. it is called command economy. ask china, they perfected it along with japan. world template of complete control of citizenry. then along came bitcoin...
"whether or not they have the consent of the governed"
I don't think there's a politician alive who labors under the illusion that he has the consent of the governed for everything s/he does. What they suffer from is the belief that they have the innate right to tell us what's best for us because they have a superior philosophy. An idea that will bear strange fruit in the not too distant future.
What they suffer from is the belief that they have the innate right to tell us what's best for us because they have a superior philosophy.
and a militarized police state to back it up
Well, you can't just ask people nicely..
..what if they said No? ;)
The most dangerous aspect are the people most insured to the system. Federal agents, policemen, firefighters [sic], university professors, public school “teachers,” DMV clerks, and so on.
The end of empire is highly desirable, and should be embraced with relief and rejoicing.
But the people beholden to the Death Machine will rationalize every last atrocity they commit: against co-workers, neighbors, friends, even their own family members - abusing, injuring, torturing, and murdering - all to ensure that their privileged lifestyle, continues.
They will call themselves “patriotic Americans” and say they’re “doing God’s work,” while impugning those who dare to dissent as “domestic terrorists.”
Goddamn right on there!
the marijuana thing is just stupid but another thing that bothers me about it are the local ,gov trying to make driving while high a punishable offense when they can't establish an unsafe level of intoxication and studies by the uinsurance industry and the ntsb have found that potheads aren't dangerous drivers.
Exactly
This just goes to show what I've said for years: Republicans pay lip service to their constituents about their belief in state's rights, small govt., supporting small businesses, etc., lower taxes, etc. etc. But they never actually do anything to push their agenda forward - not since Reagan, anyway, and even Reagan ended up raising taxes considerably after he dropped them initially (for the wealthy, of course).
The pot issue where these Republicans want to infiltrate states who've voted to legalize marijuana in any form of consumption simply proves they don't care about the Constitution or the separation of powers. They care about control and that's it.
I'm not saying the Democrats are any better, but I'm just pointing out to all you Republicans out there that you shouldn't be rah-rah'ing these bastards because they're liars, just like the Dems, and just like most everyone else in govt.