Actually a 50 caliber in the right hands can be pretty effective against a drone, and only a moron would be caught sitting in his house during a military coup. In total numbers, no other civilian populace in the world is as heavily armed as Americans. No other civilian populace in the world is as willing to fight to the death defending their way of life. Those brave Americans, not your corporate-controlled military, are the reason you are free.
That's like saying you don't want Mixum to screw your wife, you'd much rather have some Portland cop do her. I'd rather see the Constitution and Bill of Rights still have some relevance, and not have a government ABOVE and OVER the people.
I find it disturbing that the government--that works for me--won't allow me to supervise people that I help pay for. WE run the government, not the other way around.
We used to run the government. Not anymore. The US government became self-aware.... what.... sixty years ago? seventy years ago? Now it's just all about sustaining the government. I swear, I've never seen a more lazy, unmotivated, and overpaid group of individuals. Nobody in government wants to change anything, nobody wants to improve anything, and nobody damn sure wants to save money. All the government cares about is keeping things as they are. Maintain the status quo. Get re-elected. Stay in office. It makes me sick.
And your post is why--although I'm not a member of any party--I most closely align with Tea Partiers. We no longer have a government that is of, by and for the people. We have a Leviathan.
It is, sort of. But red lights exist for a reason. I want people to NOT RUN THEM. If they do, I want them to pay the price... in terms of a ticket, not in terms of t-boning some innocent driver or killing a pedestrian. Having the state take pictures of offenders (a) acts as a deterrent, and (b) punishes people who are breaking the law. That is utility from my perspective, unlike with your hypothetical, where none is created for me. If we don't like the red light laws? Repeal them. But if they're there, I think we should enforce them by catching the people who break them. Ed O.
