The police-state has been nurtured along by Democrats and Republicans alike…and I think they’re just about ready to spring the trap…Barack Hussein Obama! It will be the magic negro who will knowingly preside over the inauguration of the full blown totalitarian police-state! Hopefully this will spark a Civil War, because a Civil War is our last chance to wrest control of our nation from the grip of the Jew bankers that Thomas Jefferson warned us about.

–Marcus Tullius Cicero

I suspect that those who believe that Friedman’s theories are somehow responsible for the emerging police state fascism do not regard the Fed and fractional reserve banking as the “brains” behind this horror. Nor do they see see both the Fed and payroll withholding as relatively painless means for redistributing wealth from the middle and lower classes to the political class and its supporters. I am even willing to bet that such Friedman detractors are hostile to a gold backed currency and eagerly embrace both the Fed and the national income tax. They see such institutions as useful central planning tools but only in the right hands, of course.

It has been observed that sewage is 95% pure water. Such is the make up of Friedman’s theories. His critics are tossing out the pure water and guzzling down the toxins. They then blame their ensuing sickness on the pure water.

I believe that very few good (pro-freedom) people in the US understand the nature of that is happening over last 50 years.

The truth is that there is one fundamental difference between an island (or mountain) state and a continental state, especially when we think about the biggest continent of EuroAsia.

For the state that is located on an island, or a state that is located in the mountains there are strong natural barriers for external invasion. Therefore, it’s enough to have less powerful Army , and such Army can be professional as opposed to draft based.

For a continental state it MUST have strong Army, and it MUST have draft, and it MUST have much stronger central power. Since if these rules are not obeyed, such state will cease to exist.

In the past technology was used sometimes to emulate “island state” situation for a continental one – for example the Great Wall of China is one example.

The US initially had started as a) an extension of UK political and European culture b) as an island state – since it stretched from ocean to ocean, and threats from North and South were not significant. That allowed for a political culture with very limited central Government to emerge.

Even 2nd WW was a war of choice for the US. The war did not spread to US soil and direct military losses very very small (500K) compared to European (7M for Germany, 10M for the USSR etc.)

But the technology progressed and nuclear weapons, ICBM, aviation, cruise missiles – all that resulted in the erosion position of the “island state”. Although nuclear weapon prevented future wars for Russia (thus resulting is much milder political regime over the 60 years that passed since The War) and the US, the very need to develop modern strategic army, and the ability to get involved all over the globe resulted in the US becoming more of a “continental state” as opposed to times 200 years ago.

Therefore the evolution from the original forms for “freedom” in the US, towards totalitarian state was inevitable. People in the US don’t have the historical experience of strong central Govt., don’t have the traditions that allow to combine strong Govt with ability to reflect popular opinions and respect citizens, even having the tools to suppress and harass them.

Unfortunately it is no possible to get back to US “island”. Unfortunately the US Empire has to collapse, and combined with lack of political culture for handling strong Govt., combined with infestation of the US with 3rd World 3rd class population (since the BEST people of the 3rd World stay at home and will not move the the US to get to the bottom of social hierarchy) – all these factors make the future of the US very uncertain.

On the other hand Russia, has managed the unmanageable – combining much higher degree of freedom, with strong central Govt, with adequate Army, as well as active acquisition of better technologies for economics, politics, technology proper and low rate of migration from the 3rd world – the only real migration in Russia is from former USSR territories, which were part of one country anyways.

So, if Russia manages to maintain very strong nuclear forces that would prevent the US from even thinking about resolving the above mentioned problem and taking away our hard earned freedom by force, the outlook for Russia is very good.

p.s. Europe? Europe is dead, Europe is dead.

That’s already happening in Amerika, with horrifying regularity. A cursory Google search on “police shooting” will confirm this.

More than we can afford – and probably worldwide.

Not that its going to make a damned bit of difference. The corporatist-fascist state is already here in all but name.

Actually, its been here for awhile. Generations, in fact – arguably since it’s establishment. America is a plutocracy that maintains the institutions of a republic in order to buy the support of the bourgiesie. Anyone who maintains distance from the political consensus, Left or Right, can see this.

“The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it’s profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.”
- Frank Zappa

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