Starve the beast.
Been saying it for 12 years. Tom Baugh has been saying it for longer and even published a book on the very thing called Starving the Monkeys.
Bro, the idea IS NOT stupid. But as you mentioned, and as a few of your commenters mentioned, getting 80 million people to go the same direction is herding cats. Even if they all know that IF SUCCESSFUL, the herd will protect them, more than half are going to waffle about it and endanger the rest.
Thats the problem that most all of our best ideas for defeating this FRAUD run into. Its getting the majority to rise up, instead of waiting for someone else to step off the porch. The FRAUD knows it, and that is the key to the Surveillance State. They don’t have to hit all of us, they only need to spot the Proud Nail and WHACK IT with the Media giving full blown bullshit back up. The cameras are everywhere, just look at your phone or your laptop and you will see big brothers potential for keeping you in view. Think they don’t? Start texting a friend about some new product you want to check out; something that actually exists, but is so far out of your interests that it would never occur during normal conversation. Watch what pops up on the advertising in your phone when you open amazon or a webpage. That may not be Big Brother, but the implications are profound as to what your phone is doing without your knowledge. And while it may not be 24/7 its often enough. And its completely legal since you agreed to it when you hit that “agree” button in the EULA that no one ever reads when setting up your phone.
But the idea is sound, though the effects would be drawn out over a year or two before the backlash began. That may be the part that could help the cat herd. IF they knew in advance that the hammer drop would be delayed until way too late,,, I dunno, there are several options to go here, and Tom covers several in his book. (Speaking of which, who ever borrowed my copy, I would sure like it back. ITs the one book that I don’t recall lending out but is most definitely NOT on my shelf now!)
And before people go saying that I am harping about nothing because I ‘won’t go there’, HA! Been there, doing it ass-wipe! There is a reason I never received the Bribe money for CoVid,,, Can you say the same? Not ONE DIME OF BRIBE MONEY. Not one. No regrets either. I have a clear conscious.
Keep in mind one thing. Being an outlaw assumes that there is LAW. Maybe the courts and what not have these rules and regs in place, but that they apply them arbitrarily as punishment for those that don’t play THEIR game,,,, We are all outlaws already, go one step further by all means and if enough of us do it, then their laws are meaningless (BUT, they are already so why not take the plunge.). How many of you have seen LE Blazing down the highway with lights and sirens going, then catch the very same vehicle and a couple of his buds parked at the local burger hut, grabbing a lunch. No crime or accident needing speed and lights, just wanting to make a lunch date with the buds. (I see it at least once a month here.) OR, the Soccer Mom with a LE supporter plate on her ‘hicle plowing the road at 90 and not one cop giving her a second glance. Because she is “One of their own” and they know her car. This shit is common enough I know more than a few of you are nodding your heads in agreement. ‘LAWS FOR THEE, BUT NOT FOR ME’ is the law of the land these days. Just like the Mandate exemptions bull, making it so that postal workers WHO VISIT EVERY DAMNED HOUSE IN A ZIP CODE AND HANDLE ALL THE MAIL OF SUCH getting the wave from the Vice Emperor Poopie-pants. Nothing there saying they ‘care about Grandma, and wanna protect her” huh? But we all know it’s not about a cold bug, its about control, pure and simple. You need only look at the Prison State of Australia to see it.
I know the idea is not stupid, even though I go about it in the most stoopid of ways; all by myself hoping the idea will spread wide and far. Right now, my protection is that I have so little influence. If I were hitting 10K readers a day, I’d already be serving time.( or dead n buried because of my background in EOD. They likely wouldn’t even bother with a stack at 4 am. Just toss in some incendiaries and say “Oops”.).
Totally legit idea, but like many of our legit ideas, Ain’t gonna happen because far too many WANT the glory of a war without realizing there is NO GLORY in any war. Its a shit storm that leaves scars far and wide, and the only ‘winners’ are the ones that make money off the supplies needed. And I am not peace-nik, I have been in the two way shooting gallery, and expect to be again before very long, but that does not mean I WANT it. I get nervous when I hear asshats talking about the high ground and moral justifications and such. The only thing ‘virtuous’ about what’s upcoming is it will be a cleansing of vermin, but only ONLY if people keep their heads and target the vermin in need of eradication. Collateral damage happens, but the targets need clearly defined by the executioner. Read Unintended Consequences for an idea of how to target. Maybe even an idea of how a lone wolf could have a larger effect.
Not that I think this little shindig would have the clean cut war as described in that novel. I think its going to be much closer (or worse) to what Bracken describes in his Enemies Trilogy.
I’ll have more up later, I am sure. I wish that BC’s idea would spread far and wide as something more than the token effort I supply myself. Token because they sure aren’t losing all that much revenue from one little broke ass blogger,,, (I ain’t broke, but I sure as hell ain’t wealthy financially)
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