Will leftists and globalists successfully disarm Americans?

 From Brandon Smith of Bob Livingston's Personal Liberty

The reasons why leftists and globalists will never successfully disarm Americans

Gun confiscation has always been the Holy Grail of totalitarian regimes.  And though it is true that not every regime seeks to disarm every single citizen, they always disarm the people they specifically intend to hurt the most.

For example, gun control advocates today like to point out that the Third Reich in Germany did not disarm the entire German population. This is a rather bizarre position for leftists as they continually wail and scream about Nazis around every corner and behind every tree, but they will still defend their gun-grabbing policies by arguing that the Nazis were not as bad as conservatives assume. Of course, what they never mention is that the Nazis DID disarm millions of people; most of them Jewish under 1938 German gun laws.

The National Socialists disarmed the people they planned to destroy. It's not hard to figure out why; they didn't want their target to be able to fight back. They allowed their political supporter to keep their weapons legally; this is not a relaxation of gun laws, in fact, it's the reverse — it is selective enforcement of gun confiscation based on ideological loyalty.

Hilariously, leftists in the U.S. when confronted with this fact double down on their gun control arguments instead of admitting their foolish error. They will say: "Yes, the Nazis disarmed the Jews and others, but having guns would have made no difference in saving their lives..." And there you have it — the most backward circular logic of all time. If Jews and others owning guns was not a deterrent to their slaughter, then why would the Nazis bother disarming them in the first place?  Leftists have no answer to this question.

Not to mention they are trying to argue against facts using a hypothetical; how would they know? Maybe owning guns might have saved the lives of millions of people the Nazis had deemed enemies of the state?  Maybe it would have acted as a deterrent to the Holocaust? Maybe the Nazis would have been afraid to expand tyranny into Europe if they had to worry about their own population fighting back?  Maybe, WWII would have never happened?  We could argue hypotheticals all day long...

What we do know for certain is that disarmament is always one of the first steps by totalitarians in cementing their control of a population, and this most common among the biggest political killers in modern history — no, it's not the Nazis; it's the communists.

While a debate rages over the exact number of deaths attributed to communist governments, it is estimated that they are responsible for approximately 65 million to 100 million murders over the course of the last century, a genocide beyond anything history has ever seen before. These deaths were caused by direct means, such as shooting dissidents, or indirect means, such as imprisoning dissidents until they died from complications or stealing food supplies from rural farming communities and allowing them to starve en masse.

Stalin, in particular, declared any theft of state property a crime punishable by death. He then also declared that all production including food production was state property. So, if you eat food that was not granted to you by the state, you are stealing and could therefore be shot. See how that works?

None of this would have been possible without gun control and confiscation laws put in place before the larger genocide was enacted. In 1918 the Bolsheviks and the Council of the People's Commissar mandated that Russian citizens turn in their firearms under penalty of prosecution. Gun restrictions and penalties were increased over the years until WWII, when the Soviets were loath to arm their own population in response to Nazi invasion. In fact, the ease by which the Nazi army rolled through the Eastern front was partly due to the disarmament of the Russian population.

Communist governments only allow people to have firearms in their hands when they are fighting against the ideological and foreign foes of the regime. You are allowed to be cannon fodder for the elites, you are not allowed the means to defend yourself from those same elites.

Americans (primarily conservative Americans) have an in-depth understanding of this dynamic. While leftists are more concerned with rewriting history to their benefit, we are more concerned with learning from it. We know where gun control leads, and so did the Founding Fathers of our nation, which is why they codified gun ownership into the U.S. Constitution as an inalienable right under the 2nd Amendment. Here are the reasons why elitists, globalists and communists will never be able to disarm the American population as they have done in previous nations...

We know the history of gun control

As noted above, we have studied the history of tyrants. There is no tyranny that has ever existed that did not try to disarm the population or disarm the portion of the population the government intended to enslave or destroy. Leftists froth at the mouth trying to re-imagine history in a way that circumvents or ignores the tyranny issue when it comes to gun control. They are wasting their time.

They are never going to convince conservatives and moderates that gun confiscation was not a key step in the establishment of various tyrannies in modern history. All the mental gymnastics and manipulation, all the energy they spend trying to rationalize away genocide as somehow "inevitable" regardless of gun rights — it's all for nothing. We are far smarter than they are. We are well versed in the legacy of gun control, and this makes their tactics useless.

We know all the tricks

The level of dishonesty involved in gun control advocacy is astonishing. Leftists use lies as a means to gain political capital; if they were completely honest about their intentions they would not receive much support from the general population for their efforts. Gun grabbers are very careful in most cases to use phrases like "common sense" when talking about new restrictions. They try to refrain from admitting what they really want is complete disarmament, at least, until recently.

Incrementalism was the name of the game, but the past year they are going for broke. Some leftist politicians are openly admitting their true goals because frankly the song and dance weren't working, and they know conservatives aren't going to allow any further encroachment on their rights. Kamala Harris, now vice president of the U.S., was one of the Democrats openly seeking mandatory government buybacks of firearms.

Joe Biden is famous for his statements admonishing military-grade weapons in civilian hands and telling people that a "double-barreled shotgun" is "superior" to the AR-15 for home defense. Obviously, a two-shot weapon with a limited effective range of around 50 yards or less makes it very difficult to fight back against government tyranny. And we all know that eventually even the shotguns would be taken away.

There is a reason why leftists and globalists are so obsessed with taking away combat-ready firearms from Americans, and it's not about "saving lives."  These weapons act as a deterrent to full-blown tyranny. As long as they exist, our ability to take back our other rights and freedoms exist.

BLM race riots

Despite the false claims of the mainstream media, we have seen firsthand the destruction and insanity perpetrated by Marxist groups like Black Lives Matter. They are anything but "peaceful." They are dangerous in their lack of intelligence and logic, and their social justice ideology is cancer that infects and debilitates every vital organ of Western civilization.

In his movie Platoon, Oliver Stone's character Chris Taylor says: "Hell is the impossibility of reason." If this doesn't describe the social justice movement today then I don't know what does. If a group of people is determined to make every single tragedy about racism and "white supremacy" despite all facts to the contrary, and then use those tragedies as an excuse for mass violence, then they are zealots, and zealots are dangerous. They are cultists with a mission, and they will do anything to accomplish that mission.

In this case, the mission of Marxists within BLM is to destroy the very fabric of America, burn it to the ground, and then rebuild it into an unrecognizable husk devoid of principles or freedom. Yeah, I don't think conservative gun owners are going to go along with that. Burning down their own neighborhoods is one thing, but I have little doubt they will ultimately try to spread beyond the borders of their own garbage cities. And, when they do, we will be there to put an end to it.

The control agenda is out in the open

If anything has convinced gun owners of the need for firearms, it has been the past year of pandemic fear-mongering. What have we learned so far?  Well, we are now fully aware of the "Great Reset" agenda, which has been promoted nonstop by the World Economic Forum and various political leaders. This agenda calls for years of economic lockdowns and medical mandates, forced vaccination, medical passports without which a person might be completely removed from the economy, a new cashless society, a shared economy in which you will "own nothing and like it."

The medical or vaccine "passports" are particularly disconcerting. For one, governments don't necessarily have to enforce them right away. Rather, they can simply allow their corporate partners to demand said passports from anyone that wants to get a job or buy a shop in their stores. Once this system is ingrained into the consumer world, governments can then step in and make them a legal requirement. Eventually, the passports give the establishment the ability to control and micro-manage every aspect of every individual life. Without compliance to every whim, the technocrats can simply void your passport, and then you die from poverty and starvation.

This would be impossible to do in a country where a majority of the population is armed. I think it's safe to say most Americans do not want to live in the dystopian world that the globalists at the WEF envision, and we will fight to ensure it does not happen.

Tyranny is enforced by armed men on the ground 

My favorite mantra of gun grabbers is the claim that "Your AR-15 isn't going to help you against an Abrams tank or a predator drone."  These people don't understand how totalitarian systems function. In order to control a population, you have to have loyal troops on the ground... everywhere. Not only that, but you also need loyal civilians, a large percentage of the population, to act as your eyes and ears and sometimes brute force. And finally, you need anyone who might oppose you to be afraid to take action to defend themselves. You need them docile and passive.

There are a lot of moving parts to tyranny, and tanks and planes are secondary to basic manpower. And where there are troops and others enforcing tyranny, there are numerous targets. Where there are firearms, there is a means to eliminate a tyrant at the top of the pyramid with a single well-placed bullet. Furthermore, you don't need armored vehicles and stealth jets to fight tyranny; what you need is a good firearm to remove the people driving and flying those machines. You might even take those weapons for your own arsenal.

A lot of gun owners are also military veterans, and they have seen how things played out in places like Afghanistan, where all the military might in the world was ineffective against tribesman with old AK-47s and roadside IEDs. It's about the force of will, and a minimal ability to attack when necessary. Guerrilla wars are not fought in terms of battles, they are fought in terms of attrition. Americans understand this better than most.

For all these reasons and more, the gun grabber ethos is essentially pointless. They can have total dominance in the federal government, they could have every state government on their side and pass hundreds of laws and executive orders making every gun owner a criminal, and it still would not matter. We will not budge; we would rather fight.

Elitists and leftists just don't seem to get it. Maybe it's the way their brains work. Maybe they just can't comprehend the idea that some people will not compromise certain freedoms no matter the cost. They think everyone has a limit; that everyone has a price. They think anyone can be bought, or that anyone can be leveraged into submission. The truth is some of can't. Some of us have no price, and we cannot be compelled to comply.

We are the people that keep freedom alive, and totalitarians are terrified of us; gun-grabbing is merely a natural extension of their fear and doubt. Wherever a government is seeking to disarm the population, this is a sure sign they are afraid that the population might take away their power.

To truth and knowledge,

Brandon Smith

Thanks to Western Corporations in League with China, MINORITY-REPORT PRE-CRIME Tech is Already Here!

Spies, spies everywhere — here's what to do 

Almost anything can be sold to the American public in the interest of personal safety. People will seemingly surrender all their rights if someone in authority can convince them it will keep them safe.

Politicians and bureaucrats use crime as an excuse for its massive surveillance apparatus. Video surveillance is a fact of modern life. In China, they are even using video to clue in to your emotional state as part of your "social credit score" there.

Worse, as China Digital Times reports, "A new report from The Intercept's Mara Hvistendahl uncovers how U.S. software giant Oracle worked with Chinese law enforcement to supply analytics software for China's burgeoning surveillance state. At the same time, other reports have revealed how Chinese manufacturers of surveillance equipment are widely supplying governments and companies in the West."

Cameras are more prevalent in Europe than in the U.S., but even here, your activities are likely being recorded by somebody, somewhere dozens of times every day. Estimates are there are more than 30 million surveillance cameras deployed in the U.S. shooting more than 4 billion hours of footage every week.

Every time you use an ATM machine, go into any government building, drive the streets, go through a toll booth, buy a snack at a convenience store, purchase certain over-the-counter medications at a drugstore, try your luck at a casino, browse at a shopping mall or even just stroll down the sidewalk, your picture is being taken and/or your actions are being recorded in a database. Stores are capturing your visage as you shop, pairing your face with your email address and your computer browser, and then sending you ads for the items you looked at in the stores.

Some surveillance cameras are so powerful they can read your text messages from more than 800 feet away. And they record not just your image but everything you say.

Governments justify video surveillance as a tool to prevent crime, improve traffic safety, deter fraud and catch terrorists. Companies and employers justify video spying for security reasons and to keep an eye on employee activities. Private individuals install spycams to see who's at the door and to monitor their property.

Amazon, which is partially funded by the government and collects data for the government, took it one step further via its Ring doorbell division. This is a smart doorbell that uses the camera to monitor a user's neighborhood with facial recognition technology and report suspicious activity to authorities. Amazon even wants to license this "Rekognition" technology to government for mass surveillance — to spy on people simply walking down the street. After all, Keith Alexander — a retired four-star U.S. Army general and former National Security Agency director who infamously lied about the federal government's mass surveillance program — joined the board of Amazon.

Certainly, personal cameras make excellent deterrents to keep criminals from your property. And they serve as great weapons to secure convictions in cases of criminal activity. But should citizens partner with government to grow the massive spying apparatus?

That's exactly what's happening in a number of cities across the country through a program called SafeCam. Participants in the program select cameras and monitoring systems from certain vendors and opt for their "public-facing cameras" into the program. The live video feeds then automatically go to the city's central monitoring center.

In essence, people are setting up a system that allows government to spy on them and their neighbors 24/7. People used to fear the idea of "Big Brother" watching whatever they do. Now they are inviting Big Brother onto their property.

And since we live in a massive welfare state, anyone who can't afford his own cameras and doesn't want to be left out of view of the government's prying eyes can get a "free" government camera.

The idea of government using its massive surveillance apparatus to solve crimes can seem palatable if we trusted that the government has our best interests at heart and there weren't ne'er-do-wells and sociopaths inhabiting the halls of power.

Meanwhile, technology is being advanced that purports to be able to make a risk assessment of someone based on his eyes or the sound of his voice. This is the essence of pre-crime: Making a person a criminal before he commits a criminal act based on the possibility he may commit a crime as determined by algorithms. It certainly spells the end of any pretense at due process.

We know from experience that government is at war with us. The fact that most Americans are totally oblivious to all-out war against them doesn't change a thing. Governments always silently make war on their own citizens behind a propaganda front so as to alert as few people as possible. The less resistance the better.

Benevolent totalitarianism is not an inherent contradiction or an oxymoron. It is a political system of persuasion in which the people are manipulated against their self-interest.

Every action of government is psychological coercion, however concealed, to transfer more and more wealth and authority to the system.

Crime is a means or excuse for regimentation. Law and order is the pretense. Regimentation of honest working people is the result.

For years I have been warning about the growing police state and the rise of benevolent totalitarianism, and those warnings have often been greeted with charges of fear-mongering or tin foil-hattery.

But America is on life support, and government men know this. Unless the leviathan government is torn down to its Constitutional foundation, the country will rip itself apart. It may well be too late to prevent it.

The government, through its alphabet soup agencies and its surveillance apparatus, are terrorizing the American people. Terrorizing by government cannot survive against a well-armed citizenry. That is why the elected class has pushed so hard to disarm the populace and why the surveillance state is being expanded at breakneck speed.

It's part of the globalists' plans. According to the projections of the WEF's "Global Future Councils," privacy will be abolished during the next decade.

Be sure that you understand that the government thinks that you and your property are their business. Often those in power think they are entitled to what you have. Bureaucrats don't like the word privacy. Can you guess why? 

Information on citizens is absolutely essential to governments. The business of government is information on its citizens. Read this over and over. You must understand the implications.

Low-profile living should be your rule. You must already know not to drive a Mercedes on a Chevrolet income. The reason is that the IRS sometimes computes a "net worth" assessment of taxes if they think your standard of living (i.e., what you display) is greater than your income.

Don't disclose any more than you need to, ever. All government agencies are tied directly to the IRS through their computer.

You must also know that although cash is private, the government is trying to do away with cash so that you and your income and spending can be tracked precisely. Credit cards are convenient, and you are offered endless "rewards" to use them, but information about your credit is scattered around the world with total disregard for your privacy. Many people receive several solicitations a week to apply for a new credit card. How do you think the credit card company discovered you might be a good prospect for a new credit card?

When you want to do a transaction and keep it private and out of bank records, consider doing it in cash despite how inconvenient the government wants to make it. Also consider bartering or trade of goods and services, with no record except your handshake. The reason? Governments don't like cash. They are suspicious of cash transactions. Their excuse is the drug trade. What they really want is to control you. So as long as what you are doing is not illegal, you can still do small, private cash transactions and not violate any Treasury reporting rules.

There is no privacy on the Internet! The world's most popular websites are tracking and recording your keystrokes, mouse movements, scrolling behaviors and the pages you visit. This puts your most sensitive information at risk.

A study conducted by Princeton University's Web Transparency and Accountability Project discovered that popular sites like Microsoft, Adobe, WordPress, Godaddy, Spotify, Skype, Samsung and Rotten Tomatoes are using scripts that capture the data and send it to third parties. All told, 482 of the 50,000 most-viewed sites are using the session replay scripts. Among the information grabbed includes passwords, credit card information and medical information.

Researcher Steven Englehardt, a Ph.D. candidate at Princeton, told DailyMail.com, "Unlike typical analytics services that provide aggregate statistics, these scripts are intended for the recording and playback of individual browsing sessions, as if someone is looking over your shoulder... This may expose users to identity theft, online scams and other unwanted behavior."

Although this is a scary situation, to say the least, you can do something more about it. There is no such thing as freedom without privacy. There is no such thing as privacy unless you use your freedom to make it happen. Privacy and freedom are inseparable concepts. We live in an information society. It follows that we have no freedom left if we do not restrict, impede and stop creating that information by freely giving out information.

"Our" congress has legislated our privacy away. They have thus legislated our freedom away. If you are to have any privacy, it will be up to you and you alone. Admittedly, being private is not convenient nor easy.

Try your best to keep your records private. If you must show a document to your lawyer or accountant, you go personally with the papers and return with the papers.

Stay away from lawyers, accountants, and courts as much as possible. If you can settle out of court, try to do so every time, whether as a plaintiff or defendant. Use private or even public arbitration services and arbitration judges instead.

Get prepared forms and do your own legal work. Most lawyers have their secretaries fill out these forms anyway and charge for "professional" legal work.

As long as most people don't feel any direct threat, they relax and let the system run their lives. But if something happens, such as a lawsuit or a serious IRS field audit or even a criminal investigation, your life can become a nightmare overnight. In this way, the government destroys people and families one by one, like sitting ducks. It can strip you of everything you have ever worked for and own. It is true that everything that you say or otherwise reveal about yourself can and will be used against you. Learn low-profile living!

Yours for the truth,

Bob Livingston
Editor, The Bob Livingston Letter®

P.S. — My staff and I have created a way to alert you as to just how far the government has gone to steal your privacy and compiled some of the best ways to get it back and counter government surveillance operations. You can get the eBook The Ultimate Privacy Guide here.