{"id":10929,"date":"2012-08-08T20:55:10","date_gmt":"2012-08-09T03:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=10929"},"modified":"2012-08-08T20:55:10","modified_gmt":"2012-08-09T03:55:10","slug":"the-war-on-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/08\/the-war-on-us\/","title":{"rendered":"The War on Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everybody&#8217;s up in arms about <a href=\"http:\/\/smallwarsjournal.com\/jrnl\/art\/full-spectrum-operations-in-the-homeland-a-%E2%80%9Cvision%E2%80%9D-of-the-future\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a>. They&#8217;re <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/article\/army-colonel-ignites-firestorm-with-article-on-crushing-a-tea-party-insurgency\" target=\"_blank\">commenting up a storm<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>And we dare not let this event pass without giving it a hard, though quick, kick where it hurts.<\/p>\n<p>But c&#8217;mon. A) The article is just one idiot&#8217;s ill-informed concept of insurgency. (The <i>Tea<\/i> Party; oh please!) B) Is there one, single person here who doesn&#8217;t already know, who hasn&#8217;t known for <i>years<\/i> (and years!), that the U.S. military is gearing up for a War on Us? Heck, their shock troops &#8212; the militarized cops, the intimidators of the TSA, and all their verminous their ilk &#8212; have already been treating us as the enemy for decades.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>BTW, on an only semi-related, but somewhat lighter note of tyranny &#8230; A friend (who prefers to be known only as my &#8220;anonymous source&#8221;) is headed for Tampa later this month as a Ron Paul delegate. <\/p>\n<p>He (or perhaps she; I&#8217;m supposed to be very coy about this) quotes that &#8220;this is not the Republican National Committee&#8217;s party &#8212; this is the Department of Homeland Security&#8217;s party.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>No great surprise there, either.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently the delegates have all been given extensive lists of Mandatory-or-Forbidden. Among other things, whole fruits are <i>verboten<\/i>. They must be sliced before they can be brought within the Sacred Circle of Government. Seriously, people. Orange bombs? Kiwis of mass destruction? You have too much time on your hands.*<\/p>\n<p>The slicing requirement could get very interesting with, say, grapes. Think about raisins, for that matter &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>* Or perhaps they just want to avoid the embarrassment of thousands of fed-up Americans suddenly, en masse, deciding to pitch rotten apples into the smug faces of politicians?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everybody&#8217;s up in arms about this. They&#8217;re commenting up a storm. And we dare not let this event pass without giving it a hard, though quick, kick where it hurts. But c&#8217;mon. A) The article is just one idiot&#8217;s ill-informed concept of insurgency. (The Tea Party; oh please!) B) Is there one, single person here who doesn&#8217;t already know, who hasn&#8217;t known for years (and years!), that the U.S. military is gearing up for a War on Us? Heck, their shock troops &#8212; the militarized cops, the intimidators of the TSA, and all their verminous their ilk &#8212; have already&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/08\/the-war-on-us\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The War on Us<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,23,25,30,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-poly-ticks","category-resistance","category-war","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}