Will Americans continue to happily cooperate with their own enslavement?

Question

Many Americans seem to be mostly unaware that we are losing our freedoms and rights. Things such as seat belt laws, and random road side check points that allow unwarrented searches and the laws put into place that allow police to do pretty much anything if they claim it is the name of the war on terrorism. A hundred years from now, Americans will have almost no freedom if the trend continues. You will be told how to think and almost every aspect of your life will be under government control. Freedom as it was known 100 years ago may not exists at all anywhere in the world 100 years from now. We cannot continue to forsake the personal rights that every person deserves if we wish to maintain any level of freedom. Will Americans continue to allow the erosion of freedoms until it's too late to turn back?

Answer 1

I believe people have become too lazy, ignorant, and apathetic to care about much of anything, as long as they can have their reality TV, their SUV that gets eight miles to a gallon, and a sh!tty dead-end job that belongs in a third-world nation.

We have no true freedom now. Freedom means as long as you follow 70,000 pages of tax laws and 114,000 pages of civil and criminals laws, you're "free."

Of course, if you're a politician, big land-owner, real estate tycoon, corporate swine, or any garden variety elitist, you can break every law in the country, and even admit to snorting rails if you're the president. The law does not even pretend that it applies to these Scum.

Today, to apply for a minimum wage job with no insurance or benefits, you fill out an eight-page application, undergo a complete background check, submit to a urine and/or hair follicle test, give permission to pry into your medical history, your family history, your ethnic/racial background, and your credit history. Then you fill out an eight-page "ethical" survey that asks your PERSONAL OPINION about political philosophies, stance on marijuana and marijuana laws (whether you use it or not,) and if you consider countless things to be immoral, unethical, or just plain wrong. Then you get to take a physical and take a finger up the butt, so that maybe you can start a nowhere dead-end job a month from now, fifty miles from home.

We've sure come a long way from slavery, where you had your feet and teeth checked before a plantation owner deemed you fit, haven't we?

And then the job sucks and pays nothing. The Mexicans didn't sneak under the fence to America. We were all shanghaied under the fence TO Mexico.

And then there's the Martial Law after dark every night where any dimwitted public servant in a blue or black suit can pull you over for no reason, search your car, your person, and your passengers, including babies, with no probable cause implied or given. Pretty soon you'll need papers to get past checkpoint charlie to buy milk for your kids after dark.

They didn't defeat communism. They just tweaked it and fine-tuned it and brought it home to us. You have your priviledged class, your elite, and you have your poor class, us. There is no middle class anymore.

I see now why the peasants of eastern Europe always trudge so slowly on the news clips. They have no place to go and no hurry to get anywhere because it's just the same crap everywhere you go. Americans won't be happy to cooperate with their own enslavement, but then, as far as the Powers-That-Be are concerned, who cares if we're happy, as long as we cooperate?

And then they wonder, after they've stolen our lives and livelihoods and freedoms and liberties and our ability to pursue happiness, why don't they get as much production as they used to? To them, the more they sh!t on us, the more they should get. They've completely forgotten that to get a little, you have to occasionally give a little.

Greed is King and that's the only thing that counts anymore.

Answer 2

Aaron, I agree with your view, though I don't think at the rate we're going it takes 100 years to be totally enslaved. We'll see it in the next 20 years. We've become a capitalist police state, where the individual has no rights, no representation, no voice, and pretty soon the only recourse we wil have is to rise up and start a revolution, since our democratic process of going through proper channels - speaking with your representatives, voting, etc. is ineffective and rigged. Hopefully sooner rather than later those who can still think for themselves (and don't let Fox News et al do it for them) will put the pieces of the puzzle together, formulate a plan and organize. The sad part is, just by saying this here I stand a chance of being watched, censored, reported to and whisked off somewhere out of harms way. Am I paranoid? Yup, and your question above is why.

Answer 3

What an incredibly sly question but one needs asking...

Yes, why are our fellow citizens allowing themselves to allow governments both local and federal to have more say over our individual lives?

Seatbelts and the soft dashboard added expense to the cost of a vehicle but far to many people thought it was the greedy auto executives looking for (dirty word coming up) more, "PROFITS"...

Random road checks are a direct reflection of what local citizens elect to their local and state governments...

The same goes for the questionable, the very questionable search & sizeures that accompany the random road checks...

It should be noted that driving a vehicle isn't a right as far as the Constitution goes though... Driving laws are also a reflection of foolish voters thinking that resons offered for the laws are actually good reasons...

It may already be to late... Note how that Ponzi scheme called Social Security is part and parcel of our lives and look at just how many people don't realize it was a Democrat party, "vote buying scam" that was foisted off as part of a, "caring government"...

Answer 4

It's really sad that, every time our rights are taken away, we never get them back again. The Patriot Act was a horrible law, passed extremely fast, by our worthless politicians. I'm surprised that Americans haven't resisted losing our freedom, but the way the government "scared" everyone into believing we needed this, I suppose I shouldn't be surprised. Isn't it ironic how communist nations such as Russia and Vietnam have become more democratic, while here in the United States we are losing our freedoms? I'm not one to believe in conspiracies, but I would not be surprised to find that our own government was behind 9/11 in order to justify attacking Iraq and Afghanistan, and to push the Patriot Act thru congress.

Answer 5

I really see your point but I think you have to consider the reason we're being checked. I totally agree with you about issues such as wire tapping and random checks, but the seatbelt laws are enforced to ensure that idiots who don't use them are protected from themselves. I think you're making a good point though--my fear is the President's stance on this issue--he seems to think he's entitled to rewrite the laws. If the American people weren't so damned scared of terrorism, I don't think they would let him get away with much of what he does. I understand the thinking of the public, however, I'm from New York and live near Ground Zero.

Answer 6

Interesting you ask such a question , there has been a subtle erosion of rights with in the workplace as the standard of living slowly goes down in Australia as well . We are all concerned yet apathetic all at once . but how apathetic are we to watch the world slowly die as we consume like termites or smoke cigarettes as our bodies rot before our eyes . There are not enough soap boxers in the world to move people . They are seen as trouble makers or disturbed . Activists suffer much the same scrutiny .
The people are products of of institutionalisation they are programmed from pre school to accept " THE MAN " , for example consider the hierarchy with in a school , in comparison to a company such as Ford .
As a whole a Democratic government poses much the same model making decisions from the top of the Hierarchy for the masses . Little is contested because it is all seen as part of a democratic process .
Gandhi moved a nation though peaceful process but the people were not so educated , and easier to move . than a nation of so called educated westerners who have rendered themselves complacent swagging there achievements as a capitalist nation . to the rest of the world .

Answer 7

The Government has everyone so busy trying to keep their heads above water and just pay their bills and get by that people don't bother to do anything to keep the Govt. in line anymore and instead of us running the Govt., they are running us.Until people are willing to protest and be counted again like they were years ago, nothing will change.You have a better chance if you just go to another country, I am really sorry to say.This used to be the best country in the world. Do you still think it is ?

Answer 8

I beg to differ. Most americans are too, too, busy out there is the stressful working world trying to earn a living to make ends meet. They are not unaware, but law abiding citizens who don't mess with the law, they follow the rules. The country changed on 9/11, and the fix it solution is not perfect, who ever said it was permanent. I believe we cannot fight terrorism but why keep the door wide open for it. There has got to be boundaries and guidelines. When they start dropping bombs on our back yards, the first ones to complain that the govt is doing nothing will be the complainers who are so vocal now.Besides in america there will always be another electio to address issues...strangely not every eligible goes otu to vote. .A real phenomena.

Answer 9

What are the cures for these problems:
- over 40,000 highway deaths in America annually
- over 20,000 youth suicides in America annually
- over increasing drug and alcohol abuse

It seems to me that we do not have an over abundance of Police protection or abuse prevention programs.

For more freedom, Americans should bond together to begin to obey these many safety laws. Speeding, Seatbelts, Abusive driving habits. Just maybe the police will have time to enforce immigration issues and border patrols and stick to the business of fighting real crime and prevent terrorism inside our borders.

You know, the ten commandments could have been enough law.

Answer 10

there is not really much we can do about it, hey ya know I voted, but what good does it do? for the people that are smart enough they must realize that George Bush didn't get elected into office, money power and greed got him in there, what power do any of us have over that? true enough I have said it before and I will say it again, for what it takes for evil to prevail is for good men to sit by and do nothing, well I am quite sure there are a lot of good people out there, that would be more than willing to do something, but the question is what would we do? and with what resources? we are screwed, and true enough I can see that future that you speak of as well, all phones tapped at all times by the government, 10 o'clock curfews for everything, all areas being declared as demilitarized zones or whatever it would be if we all had all military police all the time, billions upon billions of security cameras every where and any where, in our own homes under constant surveilance, check in times with big brother, anyways yeah I can see that all happening as well, I will die before that happens