Yea, I mean I don't think you're bad guy or a retard, I just think you troll and you follow some bad information. Nothing wrong with the trolling though and I don't blame you for listening to your TV. We've been trained to do that, some of us just see the bigger picture.
lol I've been given the "You watch too much network TV" insult so many times, and it always confuses me. About 2 months ago I bought a small TV to put on my desk and run CNN/FOX/MSNBC/CNBC all day
to see what information the media is conveying, not to give it any credit. Prior to that, I watched 0 news networks.
I try to get most of my information from international sources or any unbiased blog/forum/etc. The media is a joke, I definitely get that.
If we follow Jefferson's definition of tyranny we made it there a long time ago. Ummm, their trying to give the prez the power to do that, did you read NDAA? Red flag dude.
Like with this instance, NDAA is just a piece of paper that got people riled up over. Obama isn't assassinating innocent Americans and he doesn't need a piece of paper to do that. The red flags are too speculative, I haven't heard a single case where innocent Americans were legally slaughtered under NDAA.
In the OP, they are referencing the presidents ability to assassinate someone even if they don't necessarily represent a clear and imminent threat. That's the difference.
It's been said here a few times before, but Obama could assassinate anybody he wants to regardless of what bullshit bill is in the constitution "allowing" it. That, and he hasn't done it at all. I don't think Obama is inherently evil and craves innocent bloodshed.
There seems to be 2 extremes to the view of the gov't: the media/masses side that will listen to whatever they're told and believe it's all done for the better of the country, and this internet/hatred side that thinks every single person in the government is evil and out to lie, kill, and scheme.
I'd like to think there's some sort of happy middle-ground to be in. NDAA is an example, the bill is clearly too loose and would
potentially allow for Obama to start detaining random civvies, but it wasn't put in place for that. It was put in place as a counter-terrorism effort that's intended to keep things more secure for us. Now overall, I still disagree with NDAA because it simply doesn't seem fair to be detained without any chance of rebuttal, but I think it was designed for instances in which there is clearly no rebuttal for the person conspiring.
In reality, it does look like a power-play, but I don't think Americans would allow anybody to severely abuse it.
There are plenty of groups that focus on this. I've been part of a group that got an house rep. incumbent of 1X years thrown out office in exchange for a much better one, and got many liberty friendly local and state men/women elected.
Perhaps I'll see if there are any liberty groups in my area.
Oh and protesting works if you actually have a cause, unlike the OWS guys. Talking about it on the internet isn't bad for raising awareness, but you do have to get off your ass and act, or at least contribute financially.
While I do think it's beneficial for people to help where they can locally, the entire establishment is such a behemoth at this point that I think it'll take some sort of violent protest like the civil rights movement. The OWS people were complete pussy hipsters that simply stood in the street until they were told to leave, and then got scared away by a couple cans of pepper spray. They should have been marching outside the congress building lobbing molotov cocktails at it.
And I also agree that it's good to raise awareness about issues, but it's still annoying to see so many people acting like these bills are going to be the end of the world and the start of a Hitler regime that's set on killing innocent people. Although we are doing that in other countries. Still, I don't think you're going to see any innocent Americans killed over NDAA law.
I think the biggest problem people have is that they participate and don't see instant results so they give up.
Such is the case with most things in life.
