Quote Originally Posted by cptcannabis
There's a typical progression to how a free society becomes enslaved. First, they tell you that you can't say certain things or voice certain opinions. We see that today with political correctness. You are not allowed to criticize your leaders and the authorities. In our country today, you're called a racist or a terrorist or a right-wing extremist. Then you have the false-flag attack against the homeland: Pearl Harbor, the Reichstag fire, and 9-11. The people respond and just hand over their freedom to the government in exchange for protection. The government sets up the agencies and infrastructure to lock down the state in martial law. The Dept. of Homeland Security is now being turned inward on the real "terrorists", the American people. The government can then take the youth away from their parents just as Mao and Hitler did. Mao had the little kids running around with their books and turning in their parents. Everyone knows about the Hitler youth. Now we have compulsory government service coming to fruition with the Obama Youth Corps. It's all right there in the pages of history, and it's happened time and again.
you forgot the gulf of tanka