thinking out loud . . .

I’ll go ahead and say it:

I’ve become gradually more and more frightened at the prospect of America being overtaken by  violent anarchy.

There is a brand of hyper-libertarianism whose approach to politics and political evangelism I’ve never quite grasped until now. Actually, I’m not completely sure I’ve grasped it. Or rather, I hope I haven’t grasped it.

The question keeps popping in my mind: Why do these people seem (at least to me) to actually prefer someone like Obama to win elections than they do any Republican not named Ron Paul?

And why are they more hostile to Republicans, Reagan conservatives, and neocons than they are to progressive Democrats? Much more hostile.

The other day on Facebook, someone unfriended me with these words:

You’re a warmonger, a fraud, and you are horribly deceived by a bunch of criminal bastards that claim to be “conservative Christians”. You really should stop fooling yourself and others. The only thing that you’re “fanatical” about is your fake religion that claims to be about love, but it’s really about attacking and destroying anyone that doesn’t agree with your religion of hate. Maybe you can join up with George Bushie and his other New World Order cronies like Bill Clinton and Henry Kissinger when they go participate in pagan rituals and homosexual orgies at Bohemian Grove. I bet you’d love that. Don’t worry, your wife doesn’t have to know. Or who knows, maybe she would know about it and support it like the wives of the criminals in our government do. They love their power, and they love (and depend on) sheep like yourself who go along with their arrogance, their deception, their warmongering, and their war on the third world that you support wholeheartedly. You are guilty of murder, Charles. Hope that makes you feel warm and fuzzy inside that you support such wickedness. There’s a nice place in hell for hypocrites like you and those that you support with your vote and words.

Odd thing is, a month ago, when this gentleman—a Ron Paul acolyte—invited me to be his “friend,” I sent him a message.

______, I’m going to affirm friendship, and I appreciate the invite.

I do have to warn you that I am far from being a Ron Paul follower, as Steve Gresh can affirm.

I am a conservative with a strong libertarian streak, but I’m very much in favor of a strong—and large—military. And I don’t believe defending just America’s own yard will succeed.

With all that, I’ll confirm.

Thanks again.

His reply?

Thank you, sir. I look forward to communicating with you.

My, how things change in a month.

I wish I could tell you that the things this man believes—the all-encompassing power of organizations like the Council on Foreign Relations, The Bilderberg Group, The Bohemian Grove (even the Skull & Crossbones!), and AIPAC; the plot to form a North American Union; 9/11 as an inside job; really, the list goes on on…—were outside the “mainstream” of the movement to which belongs. But it’s not. Almost everyone I’ve encountered online who supports Ron Paul also believes in these conspiracies, and many more besides.

Admittedly, none of the other Paulites with whom I’ve conversed have ever been this rude to me, or this unhinged in condemnation of me in such a personal way. But the “facts” of the case on which this young man hangs his violent words are identical to those of all the hundreds of Ron Paul followers I’ve encountered online.

Not all, but a great many of them have posted and commented on the most outlandish theories of taxation, for instance. Some of them labeling all taxes as “theft.” Finding supposed loopholes in the 16th Amendment (an amendment, by the way, I would like to see repealed) or in the Tax Code itself. There is a huge network of hyper-libertarians and anarchists “educating” as many as they can on how to avoid tax liability and basically stick it to the revenooers. One Facebook friend of mine even posted a link to a booklet claiming that Christ himself was a tax-dodger!

Then there are the seemingly inevitable Jewish bankers conspiracies, which, when combined with a virulent (and willfully inaccurate) anti-Israel mindset, seems to me to look suspiciously like anti-semitism. The kind of anti-semitism—and the kind of lies—that historically have resulted in great violence against Jews.

Even that, though, is not what worries me most at the moment.

What worries most is what seems, in my mind, anyway, to be an accelerating trend of posting links to articles and YouTube videos purporting to show examples of police brutality.

Let me say right off the bat that I believe there is both genuine police brutality and breathtaking examples of stupidity on the part of individual police while performing their duties. No doubt about it. And when that occurs—and it occurs far more often than I can understand—I am glad there are dashcams and camera-wielding citizens nearby to document it.

What I don’t understand, though, are three things that always seem to accompany these revelations.

First of all, there is a growing assumption (how sincere I can’t always tell) that, no matter what the actual situation is, the cop is always as fault. Always. Which would be fine in those cases where the fault is obvious. But that isn’t always the case.

Take this video, for example, posted by the guy who “unfriended” me on Facebook:

72-year-old woman Tasered by a deputy constable after speeding and resisting. Nobody outside of the police have seen the dashcam video. And yet the vast majority of YouTube and Facebook comments might lead you to believe their writers were present and saw the whole thing.

Some of the comments:

The government is training the police to be good little nazi’s.

America is the new communism

I just have 1 word for the whole police department:

FAIL!

They do .. each and every day ..

Put on our thinking caps people, how do we deal with psycho cops? Had grandma pulled out a gauge from between her lovely thighs and blown that blue boy to hell, she may have been sparred a tasering but would now have to face a jury Had two nut bag cops banging on our front door the other day for what they claimed was a “911 assault in progress” kicked the door (as that’s what they were threatening to do), it would have gotten ugly. Chill out already cops!

well she could of over powered the cop and beat him to a pulp. He was well witin his rights, and it was neccessary to condition the rest of you that old days of USA are over, and that you better get in line for your Russian Style ID. Because a small handful of criminal trash have taken control of some offices of power, and you’re too doped on Fluoride to just kick their ass.

Police the world and terrorize everyone for the elite, I hope she sues the hell out of thses pathetic police

americans are such suckers and sheeple!

So are Canadians…it’s all the way from Texas to Alaka and all points in between that they’ve let things get to this point.

HOPEFULLY hen the people in the US finally start fighting back against this sort of things, Canadians will, in their typical “monkey see, monkey do” manner, finally start following ome POSITIVE leads for a change.

We’ll be having ANOTHER federal election by fall if things keep on the way they are, too!!! That’ll be 4 elections in 4 years! 1.2 BILLION wasted!!!

he makes it easy to hate cops .he is one useless fat piglet too ,how can a fat cop chase anyone ,how can the cop taze a 72 year old women,it is the blue wall of silence that has destroyed every country in the world ,i am very ashamed to be a american

Fact is, once she accepts an ATTORNEY, she admits to the STATUS of “Ward” of the STATE, & is then subject to the Jurisdiction thereof. ALL CRIMES ARE COMMERCIAL hence GOLD TRIMMED Admiralty.

Speeding is CODE breaking ONLY, NOT law breaking. CODE & ACTS are ONLY enforcible by your consent. Did she consent YES with her D/L “DRIVER” denotes a commercial action. At this time she was Traveling. a Right.

You are born w/ Rights! you CONTRACT w/ the STATE, this subjugates constitutional protections!

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Anybody understand where that last guy’s coming from? Where do we even begin? Apparently, assuming—as every one of our posters above does—that the cop is guilty, it’s not just him. It’s the whole system. It deliberately builds compliant rogue cops who beat the “sheeple” into submission so the big wigs can keep running their nice little oppressive, make buckets of money from fomenting wars and controlling everything scams.

Do you see the danger here?

People are stoking each other up, ratcheting their rhetoric and their emotions—toward what? They’re finding release in describing vengeance fantasies, “our day will come and we’ll make you pay” scenarios.

It’s this that makes me worry that a large of number of Paulites aren’t actually interested in winning the argument (and elections) and rolling things back to their constitutional moorings.

No, what they want is for things to get so bad, so repressive, that there will be a huge—and violent—blowback.

They’re working toward chaos.