Rand Paul hadde rett.

For noen dager siden postet jeg filmen som viste Rand Paul kjempe imot National Defence Authorization act i senatet. Hans ankepunkt var at loven ville gjøre det mulig for amerikanere å bli innesperret på ubestemt tid uten lov og dom av det amerikanske forsvaret.

I talen sa han at Department of Justice (DOJ) klassifiserer alle amerikanere som har lagret mer enn 7 dager med mat som potensielle terrorister.

Nå er det kommet frem at føderale agenter samler inn informasjon om amerikanere som kjøper mat på bulk. Les saken hos oathkeepers.

Utdrag:

“A fellow veteran contacted me concerning a new and disturbing development. He had been utilizing a Mormon cannery near his home to purchase bulk food supplies. The man that manages the facility relayed to him that federal agents had visited the facility and demanded a list of individuals that had been purchasing bulk food. The manager informed the agents that the facility kept no such records and that all transactions were conducted on a cash-and-carry basis. The agents pressed for any record of personal checks, credit card transactions, etc., but the manager could provide no such record. The agents appeared to become very agitated and after several minutes of questioning finally left with no information. I contacted the manager and personally confirmed this information.

And here in Tennessee, we just learned that Nashville Metro Public Health and the Tennessee Department of Health are conducting “door-to-door assessment of disaster preparedness … using a tool designed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to go door to door and check to see how disaster ready you are. .. in 30 neighborhoods in Davidson County [TN] that have been randomly selected to be the target of a door to door assessment.” I have confirmed that that is a state run effort.

Under kathrina-katastrofen overkjørte den amerikanske staten amerikaneres 2.amendment, og brukte militæret til å samle inn våpen fra lokalbefolkningen i New Orleans. At det er under slike kriser man virkelig trenger å kunne beskytte seg selv, sin familie og sin eiendom brydde ikke staten seg noe om.

Dette var selvfølgelig i strid med grunnloven (rettigheter blir ikke gitt av staten og kan derfor ikke tas vekk av staten), men stater har aldri brydd seg om sine egne lover. Lover gjelder bare for oss andre.

Med dette som bakgrunn kommer Oathkeepers med noen teorier om hvorfor den amerikanske staten driver med systematisk innhenting av informasjon om matlagrene til sine innbyggere.

1. DHS/FEMA wants to know which Americans have food storage so the federal government can at some future point confiscate that food. Just as with lists of gun owners, compiling such lists is the first step toward future confiscation.

2. DHS wants to identify those Americans who are “switched on” and squared away enough to actually store food for coming hard times (such as during an economic collapse). That population of awake, aware, and prepared Americans poses a “threat” to whatever DHS and its masters have in store for the American people, and as Joseph Stalin so ably demonstrated, one of the easiest ways to subjugate defiant people is to confiscate their food and starve them into submission.

Som jeg har skrevet om før: friheter blir tatt vekk i ørsmå porsjoner om gangen.