Seriously missing the point
Seen via ZeroHedge, an essay on a very old topic. The author completely misses the NEW aspects of our current hypertyranny.

For that matter, just try reciting the Declaration of Independence, which rejects tyranny, establishes Americans as sovereign beings, recognizes God as a Supreme power, portrays the government as evil, and provides a detailed laundry list of abuses that are as relevant today as they were 240 years ago. My guess is that you won’t last long before you get thrown out, shut up, threatened with arrest or at the very least accused of being a radical, a troublemaker, a sovereign citizen, a conspiratorialist or an extremist.

Nothing new about that, and in fact nothing unusual or outrageous. The Declaration was a call to revolution. After the revolution is over, the government doesn't want to hear people calling for revolution. Plain logic.

The logic was applied IMMEDIATELY with the Alien and Sedition Act of 1798, and has been constant ever since. Unusually psychotic presidents like Madman Lincoln and Madman Wilson enforced the preference more fiercely than others, but every administration has found a way to punish calls for revolution. AND THEY SHOULD. Governments, like any other entity, need to defend themselves.

We have a vastly harsher and completely unprecedented tyranny now.

EVERY STATEMENT OF FACT IS EXPLICITLY ILLEGAL.

Using the wrong PRONOUN when addressing a Person Of Gender is illegal in NYC. Earlier versions of aristocracy had similar laws, but there was an important difference. In the days of Dukes and Earls and Baronets, you could SEE that the duke was a duke, and you knew the correct set of words and gestures for the commoner-to-duke relation. Now you can't tell if a Trans Thing is a Trans Thing, unless it's an especially sloppy and incompetent Trans Thing. You can't see, you can't ask. You just have to KNOW by some mysterious process of mind-reading. Is it an actual he? An actual she? A he who looks like a she and wants to be called she? Or a he who looks like a she and wants to be called he? Or a she who looks like a he and wants to be called he? Or an in-between thing who looks like a ve and wants to be called r567ngo296sgn? YOU DON'T KNOW UNTIL YOU'RE IN JAIL.

THIS IS WORSE THAN COMRADE O'BRIEN. Poor old 6079 Smith W had to accommodate the instant switchbacks of Party Truth, but in that case the Party provided notification of the switchbacks. The information was available if you were nimble enough to track it. Now you're up the creek no matter which way you paddle.

Labels: swishover, switchover

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