The news from the Ukraine is grim. The people are assembled to redress
grievances with their government and the government is gunning them down. What’s going on here?
Discontent began bubbling up towards the end of last year
over trade alliances. The government is
cozying up to Putin’s Russia while the dissenters preferred alignment with the
European Union. As the controversy wore
on additional issues, domestic concerns came to the fore. Issues that have been mentioned in the press include(state
run) “healthcare and education systems
that do not operate on bribes” as well as the chief executive’s “ ‘dictatorial’ powers, particularly his control of
the economy and the security forces” not to mention “perceived sleaze and
corruption within” the government.
Really? How different
is this then America in 2014?
Our government is in bed with all sorts of creeps
internationally while many of our young men and women sacrifice life and limb
to protect thugs, crooks and dictators.
America’s state run schools exist to enrich bureaucrats and
unions while failing our kids and filling their heads with nonsense. Years of counterproductive regulation has
slowly killed the world’s best healthcare system. The ACA promises to eviscerate it completely
for the sole benefit big insurance companies, big pharma, the IRS and other
governmental toadies.
The economy is run by the shadow government at the Fed and
security state has been turned upon the citizens that it was supposed to
protect.
What is the one big difference between the U.S. and the
Ukraine? Why is it that our leaders do
not gun us down when we assemble to protest?
The answer is one word.
Firearms.
According to the Daily Beast, “Ukraine’s government is in possession of more than seven million
guns, a larger stockpile than every other post-Soviet state combined.” This compares to about 3 million in private
hands. This gives the government a 2.5:
1 advantage in fire power over the governed.
In the U.S. the odds are much better. According to the same Beast article, American citizens possess some 310 million firearms versus
a mere 3.9 million by military and police forces. Of course the citizens do not possess tanks,
armored vehicles, artillery, ordinance, land mines, fighter planes, bombers,
gun boats, chemical weapons, ballistic missiles or nukes. So the comparison is a bit misleading.
Nonetheless, our elected keepers understand that when they
shoot at libertarians, conservatives and Tea Partiers we are likely return
fire. Therefore it is understandable
that they want to disarm us.
This also explains why civilian agencies are arming up. Everyone from the Social Security
Administration to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to
the National Marine Fisheries Service to the
Post Office and to the Department of Education is stockpiling
ammunition and assault vehicles. Snopes
verifies the quantity of munitions that these seemingly harmless government
agencies are stockpiling but paints a happy face
on it but I‘m not buying it. They would
like us to swallow the government line – hook, line and sinker.
Just as the post Civil War Union government turned its war
making machine on the Native Americans out West, our government is poised to
turn its empire sustaining weaponry on us.
According
to the ACLU,
“Through federal grant programs, state and local police departments have
virtually unlimited access to military equipment and training at no cost.” This
is surplus or obsolete weaponry from America’s foreign adventures. Thus,
policing is becoming ever more aggressive, gratuitously violent and
intimidating.
One must wonder why.
In a country that boasts the world’s most powerful armed forces as well
as heavily armed state and local police, our mailmen, educators and Social
Security employees need to wield lethal force?
Which brings us back to the title question, “Are we
Kiev?” Not quite yet, but our Lords of
State can dream, can’t they? Be afraid. Be very afraid.
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