You Are Being Probed
Jan 10, 2013 9:52:28 GMT -5
Post by Michael Downing on Jan 10, 2013 9:52:28 GMT -5
Via WRSA...
westernrifleshooters.wordpress.com/2013/01/10/you-are-being-probed/
From Silicon Graybeard...
thesilicongraybeard.blogspot.com/2013/01/you-are-being-probed.html
Former blogger GardenSerf, who used to have a blog of the same name, spoke once about being a child in small town America somewhere that was chosen as a test market for the McDonald's McRib sandwich. He used the term "McRib test" to describe how large groups of people may be tested without the testing group actually committing to anything. If too few people buy the McRib, maybe they never market the thing nationally, or they change a recipe and try again. Similarly, in DC, they call it "floating a trial balloon"; a leak from an "unnamed source" so those in power can see the response of other lawmakers, the chattering pundits and the general public.
I'm convinced that at least some of the things we're hearing about proposed gun control laws are McRib tests. I'm not sure whom they're watching or whom they're testing, but I think we are being probed. Look at just this collection pulled from Drudge:
WHITE HOUSE THREATENS 'EXECUTIVE ORDERS' ON GUNS...
'The president is going to act'...
BANG BANG: CUOMO TO ANNOUNCE SWEEPING GUN LAWS...
Shouting governor expects rest of country to follow his lead...
'No One Needs 10 Bullets To Kill A Deer'...
Clinton Turns Tech Speech Into Gun Rant...
Iowa lawmaker calls for confiscation...
CT lawmaker calls for background checks to buy ammo...
Gun sales soar in Atlanta...
'Folks are grabbing just about any gun they can get hands on'...
Utah town to encourage arming households...
Ted Nugent unloads...
PANIC: One Million AR-15 Magazines on Backorder...
Within the last two weeks, another CT lawmaker was calling for confiscation. Governor Cuomo called gun confiscation "an option" two weeks ago. These calls are popping up all over.
If the goal of these "lawmakers" is to plunge the US into bloody civil war, that ought to work. As I've said before, I'm not sure Obama is trying to destroy the US, I just don't see what he'd be doing differently if he was. Others can give more details on what's likely to happen and how it might go down, but as someone I ran across put it: the last one took 620,000 Americans; I wonder how many this one will take? Every report we can come across, anecdotal or sourced, says that since the Sandy Hook massacre, gun sales are at all time record levels. As commenter perlhaqr said in response to my piece two Sundays ago, "Has it Started?"
"I don't think all those people are buying all that stuff just to have one to turn in, pal."
I think there's a feeling in the air that everyone is sharing. A feeling that something bad is coming. Maybe they're buying one in hopes of being grandfathered and maybe they're expecting trouble....
Comment:
AnonymousJanuary 10, 2013 6:49 AM
A while back, years prior to our current troubles, I had a discussion on this topic with someone in law enforcement: "880K in LE, 80 to 90 million gun owners. Do the math. Do you think all of those 80 million plus will sit meekly at home waiting for you to knock on their doors? Every one of your neighbors know in which house a government agent lives; John and Mary from across the street won't burn your house down at 3AM with you and your family in it, but I guarantee a number of their co-workers and friends know they live across the street from you. Today you're a cop they call on for help; tomorrow you'll be a government agent that has to be eliminated to protect themselves."
If something like this ever starts there's no reason for it to end before it's completely over; cops, government bureaucrats, TSA agents, all will be on the list. You know that sweet little old lady who works part-time 3 days a week in the county tax office? Somewhere, there's an angry taxpayer who had to pay $150 more in taxes that he didn't think he owed, and that $150 was the difference between new clothes for the kids and eating spaghetti for a month.
It won't be the U.S. Army against the Germans in WWII - one side won't have Sgts, Lts, and Captains who can give orders to troops and expect them to be obeyed. It'll be Ralph and maybe his cousin Chuck, or Harry across town, operating completely independently, each with a network of wives, girlfriends, kids, neighbors, friends, providing intelligence about the enemy. Guns? Sure, some. Gasoline, too. Hacksaws and chains as well - cut water lines and rip power meters off walls, pull transformers out of the ground, chop poles down. Government vehicles don't move well with all 4 tires slashed. New ones? Sorry, Fred's Tire and Auto is closed this month. Don't know where Fred is, haven't seen him, and he only takes cash anyway, no purchase orders. No quarter asked, or given.
If you think you know ugly, you haven't seen ugly yet. And I hope we never do. No sane person would ever consider doing something that could possibly lead to such events. What we're seeing now is a mixture of trial balloons to see what the response such statements produce, and preparing the battlespace for whatever action they think they can get away with.
I really, really, hope sanity surfaces and Some People begin to understand how reality works
westernrifleshooters.wordpress.com/2013/01/10/you-are-being-probed/
From Silicon Graybeard...
thesilicongraybeard.blogspot.com/2013/01/you-are-being-probed.html
Former blogger GardenSerf, who used to have a blog of the same name, spoke once about being a child in small town America somewhere that was chosen as a test market for the McDonald's McRib sandwich. He used the term "McRib test" to describe how large groups of people may be tested without the testing group actually committing to anything. If too few people buy the McRib, maybe they never market the thing nationally, or they change a recipe and try again. Similarly, in DC, they call it "floating a trial balloon"; a leak from an "unnamed source" so those in power can see the response of other lawmakers, the chattering pundits and the general public.
I'm convinced that at least some of the things we're hearing about proposed gun control laws are McRib tests. I'm not sure whom they're watching or whom they're testing, but I think we are being probed. Look at just this collection pulled from Drudge:
WHITE HOUSE THREATENS 'EXECUTIVE ORDERS' ON GUNS...
'The president is going to act'...
BANG BANG: CUOMO TO ANNOUNCE SWEEPING GUN LAWS...
Shouting governor expects rest of country to follow his lead...
'No One Needs 10 Bullets To Kill A Deer'...
Clinton Turns Tech Speech Into Gun Rant...
Iowa lawmaker calls for confiscation...
CT lawmaker calls for background checks to buy ammo...
Gun sales soar in Atlanta...
'Folks are grabbing just about any gun they can get hands on'...
Utah town to encourage arming households...
Ted Nugent unloads...
PANIC: One Million AR-15 Magazines on Backorder...
Within the last two weeks, another CT lawmaker was calling for confiscation. Governor Cuomo called gun confiscation "an option" two weeks ago. These calls are popping up all over.
If the goal of these "lawmakers" is to plunge the US into bloody civil war, that ought to work. As I've said before, I'm not sure Obama is trying to destroy the US, I just don't see what he'd be doing differently if he was. Others can give more details on what's likely to happen and how it might go down, but as someone I ran across put it: the last one took 620,000 Americans; I wonder how many this one will take? Every report we can come across, anecdotal or sourced, says that since the Sandy Hook massacre, gun sales are at all time record levels. As commenter perlhaqr said in response to my piece two Sundays ago, "Has it Started?"
"I don't think all those people are buying all that stuff just to have one to turn in, pal."
I think there's a feeling in the air that everyone is sharing. A feeling that something bad is coming. Maybe they're buying one in hopes of being grandfathered and maybe they're expecting trouble....
Comment:
AnonymousJanuary 10, 2013 6:49 AM
A while back, years prior to our current troubles, I had a discussion on this topic with someone in law enforcement: "880K in LE, 80 to 90 million gun owners. Do the math. Do you think all of those 80 million plus will sit meekly at home waiting for you to knock on their doors? Every one of your neighbors know in which house a government agent lives; John and Mary from across the street won't burn your house down at 3AM with you and your family in it, but I guarantee a number of their co-workers and friends know they live across the street from you. Today you're a cop they call on for help; tomorrow you'll be a government agent that has to be eliminated to protect themselves."
If something like this ever starts there's no reason for it to end before it's completely over; cops, government bureaucrats, TSA agents, all will be on the list. You know that sweet little old lady who works part-time 3 days a week in the county tax office? Somewhere, there's an angry taxpayer who had to pay $150 more in taxes that he didn't think he owed, and that $150 was the difference between new clothes for the kids and eating spaghetti for a month.
It won't be the U.S. Army against the Germans in WWII - one side won't have Sgts, Lts, and Captains who can give orders to troops and expect them to be obeyed. It'll be Ralph and maybe his cousin Chuck, or Harry across town, operating completely independently, each with a network of wives, girlfriends, kids, neighbors, friends, providing intelligence about the enemy. Guns? Sure, some. Gasoline, too. Hacksaws and chains as well - cut water lines and rip power meters off walls, pull transformers out of the ground, chop poles down. Government vehicles don't move well with all 4 tires slashed. New ones? Sorry, Fred's Tire and Auto is closed this month. Don't know where Fred is, haven't seen him, and he only takes cash anyway, no purchase orders. No quarter asked, or given.
If you think you know ugly, you haven't seen ugly yet. And I hope we never do. No sane person would ever consider doing something that could possibly lead to such events. What we're seeing now is a mixture of trial balloons to see what the response such statements produce, and preparing the battlespace for whatever action they think they can get away with.
I really, really, hope sanity surfaces and Some People begin to understand how reality works