(07-03-2024, 06:19 PM)NightskyeB4Dawn Wrote: Wow!
Some folk are thinking outside of the box.
I never thought about it, but does it really mean that the President has the ability to just kill us, with impunity?
I know our government is corrupt and they don't give a damn about the people, but did they just give them the authority to "Purge" us?
Tell me it isn't so.
Kind of. They have always had that authority, they have only codified and clarified it now.
What they have to do first is declare a person or a movement to be an "enemy" of the ruling Party - something like labeling a mere riot as an "insurrection", a "danger to our democracy", or the like, and convince the greater number of people that is "truth"... but they'd never do anything like that, now would they?
Then, once they have a sufficient plurality convinced of that, they can proceed to make war on the "insurgents" with impunity in their "official capacity", as an "official act"., and they will have immunity for it.
It's not the first time it has been done, even by our own government, and it won't be the last. Purging the opposition has a long and storied history in America, going all the way back to "The Whiskey Rebellion" in western Pennsylvania under that paragon of virtue, George Washington. The American Civil War, in it's entirety, was more of the same - just purging the opposition, folks who don't think like the Ruling Elites.
More recent examples are the Battle of Blair Mountain, where bombs were actually dropped from airplanes onto towns in southern West Virginia to curb their insurrectionist tendencies, and machineguns were brought in and set up to shoot the ones the bombs missed. There is still brass from the machineguns to be found in the dirt of Blair Mountain as evidence of that purge.
Wasn't the military brought in to clear out the "Hoovervilles", occupied by poor destitute victims of a screwed up economy? Didn't people die in those operations too?
There are many more examples, but that sampling serves to show that it has always been so. It's only been clarified now, as we fast approach another declaration of insurgency.
Of course, they'd never actually act on it, not in a million years, right?
The folks around Blair Mountain thought that, too. They were very shocked and surprised when the bombs actually started falling.
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