This was just posted this weekend (Saturday, 12 OCT 2024) by a trusted correspondent.
Given other reports, this may be true. If readers have any more info, please share it:
The ‘net is filled with ideas of exactly why FEMA and the FedGov are seemingly playing games with the people of the Carolinas, Tennessee, and those on the Gulf Coast. Who is right? Playing politics to keep Trump out and Harris moving into the White House? Punishment for failure to kowtow properly to DC? Getting rid of the deplorables? Just sheer incompetence?
The reasons may be many, and we will almost certainly never know all (or any) of he real reasons.
But we can still learn many lessons from what we are seeing. Government is not the solution to life’s problems. Including natural and manmade disasters. In fact, governments almost always make things worse. The governments’ actions over 150 years have set up conditions to be truly horrific for natural events like Helene and Milton.
But we did it to ourselves, for far too many people have put their faith into governments and the laws and rules and aid in time of distress. Faith that has been betrayed time and time again.
In the past, governments accepted – even encouraged – people and private, voluntary organizations to help out in responding to and recovering from natural disasters. Today, on the surface, they still do: look up information on “Community Emergency Response Teams” (CERT), and all the glowing information about “voluntary organizations” found on FEMA and State websites. But that is now being revealed as eyewash. Government agencies (not just FEMA) do everything they can to keep volunteers and their aid out – and failing that, seek to micromanage their activities. They demand permits and plans and even things like background checks and safety inspections. These all can be justified in the bureaucratic (and often public) mind, but they are tools of control and oppression.
Why? The long-term game, no matter what the reasons, is to expand control over every aspect of life. (Yes, that is totalitarianism, we know.) And that means destroying the ability of people: individuals, families, businesses, communities; to resist. And make everyone more and more dependent on government control.
Does it seem to be working? Tell us your thoughts.
Again, please share anything you can about these ongoing efforts.
We usually don’t wait until early in the morning…
… to get the trash out to the curb, do we? If you can and want to vote, do it before the last day (Tuesday 5 November 2024).
Thanks to the Day-by-Day folks from a way back when, but still worth thinking about in 2024. While DbyD is pushing for Orange Man (The Donald), this isn’t for anyone, but against the thugs we keep in power year after year, including those put into office (or retained there) in 2018, 2020, and 2022.
A few thoughts on the 2024 election, 16 days before the official finale (but if you think everything will be settled on 5 November, please think again!):
Does voting encourage them? That is an argument and an interesting question. Voting against them and the ballot issues they put up for the electorate to vote on is very much a discouragement, in the eyes of many.
Does voting legitimize the system? It can so explain why you are (or are not) voting! And why you are voting the way you are, if you choose to vote.
Does voting somehow morally commit you to supporting the outcome of the vote? Absolutely not: it is often a matter of self-defense.
Done right, even candidates with absolutely no chance to win an election can use the election and the campaign as an opportunity to educate. If you have someone who has already wasted their money in running a campaign, take advantage of these last few days to educate people.
Not even the smallest soda machine or most pitiful store offers only two flavors and brands of soda (or beer): so why do we have a system that trains people to think there are only two choices when it comes to electing a Massa or a “representative” of our State or our district?
Does voting do any good? When it comes to electing “leaders” and “representatives,” it is hard to argue that it does. When it comes to ballot issues (both initiatives and referendums), yes, it can do good. Even if that good consists in just rejecting ideas and laws that are really very much against liberty. Just remember, all the candidates on the ballot are statists to some degree, and enemies of liberty in at least some parts of life.
Oh, and one last thought: are you prepared for what may happen this year on and after Election Day? Things ready to go deal with really bad – or somewhat good happenings?