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Originally Posted by host
Since Halx is prohibited from alerting us to any intrusion on this site by
government investigators (and you can assume that a thread like this one
will be at least passively monitored), I've wondered, if he decided to shut this
website down abruptly to protect himself and his forum membership from
further risk of privacy invasion from our own government "thought police",
if the occupying powers would coerce him into continuing to "operate as
usual" so that they can pursue their investigation of the forum membership,
or wrest control of the forums from him and.......hmmm......maybe they
already have........(librarians have refused to cooperate in providing titles
of books that their customers take out on loan, to the government.)
I don't see how so many seem to have no problem with these new affronts
to our formerly guaranteed liberties and rights!
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Trust me on this one: if the thought police come for TFP, most of the staff will be among the first against the wall. After that, our few foreign people will let you all know what's going on.
As for revolution, it's too late at night for me to give a full analysis, but our political system is designed in such a way that it cannot become so corrupt that it no longer resembles a democracy. The simple fact is that, like it or not, there arre more guns than people in this country, and if anti-government sentiment became widespread enough to lay the foundation for revolution, the government would have no choice but to change or be destroyed. This reality is what first inspired me to consider my extreme anti-gun stance, consider the potential outcomes of an unarmed country, and say, "This is stupid."
Simply stated, if a significant portion of the population feels that revolution is an acceptable means of fixing the political situation, it cannot be stopped. Until then, it is just a pipe dream and the fantasy of a bunch of idealistic extremists who are most likely suffering from a messianic complex.