Back in the day, it was a known that if push came to shove, all it took was a few po-lice waiting down the road from your place, to get the nod from someone else, that someone else having just broken in to your place and planted a pound of smack.
It was a known that nobody worried about, because you had to piss “the man” off a great deal before it became worth while to fit you up, and while we may all have been legends in our own area, in reality we were just nobodies.
My own experience lifetimes later when I discovered that all it took was a few po-lice waiting down the road while the wimminz you used to fuck decided to drop an FRA on your ass was unsettling to say the least, unlike the first scenario above, this really was fucking personal, as well as total bullshit, but the motivation was the same, twisting the system to eliminate someone awkward from your life.
Now in 2013 all it takes is an open data connection or a window open literally a crack wide enough to poke a micro sd card through, and the po-lice waiting down the road to arrest the “paedo”, and the motivation is the same, twisting the system to eliminate someone awkward.
Fuck economic collapse and fuck social collapse and fuck political collapse, by far the greatest thing that people are unaware off, but which I see keenly wherever I look, is legal collapse.
By legal collapse I mean the systematic destruction and removal of all the legal barriers to “the man” fucking with your person, property or liberty.
It is NOT trivial shit when suddenly facts and photographic evidence and the requirement for innocent until guilty by preponderance of evidence is thrown away, and po-liceman says you did run the red light, and you get fined a days wages, and get your licence marked, and fuck you very much.
It is incredibly serious shit, because it means that “the man” has moved from pulling that shit only for national class pains in the ass, to pulling that shit on anyone and everyone.
“Capital controls” are two words you may or may not be hearing more of, depending on the MSM, but it is coming to a bank and a high street near you.
Go to Zerohedge any time until last week and nobody at all was talking about “back when I were a lad, and the problem is, most of you lot are too young to get this….” anecdotes, go to ZH now and suddenly two or three articles have comment threads filled with this stuff.
People are waking up to the fact that the social contract between themselves and “the man” is no longer being honoured, and that shit soon becomes a self fulfilling prophecy, and “the man’s” reaction to the proles no longer knowing their place is always, always, always the same, it’s more control.
In Cyprus, which is by any metric “a part of the EU” and therefore “if it can happen there…” capital controls are a reality, the banks ARE shut, and the people HAVE lost faith in them, and there WOULD have been bank runs and collapses if they were open, hence them being shut.
“We are taking 10% of your bank deposits” is just another way of also hinting that “the other 90% of your deposits are safe, for now, shame if anything happened to it, now get back in line prole”
But, trying to analyse this is doomed if you are simplistic and think one game is afoot, like Wall St vs City of Lodon, or Gazprom grabbing resources, there are as many different games afoot as there are players… go to a party and you never see only the person holding the plastic duck speaking until they pass the duck on so the next one can say something, everyone is talking to everyone else, the common goal is to party hearty.
Osborne’s 130 billion Uk pound budget ploy was nothing more that an attempt to keep the housing bubble from bursting, and it is working, and the point y’all don’t get is IT DOESN’T HAVE TO WORK FOR EVER, like all these games, they have a half life, and if it succeeds in postponing the housing bubble burst until AFTER another event, instead of before it, then it fucking worked.
If the banks in cyprus are shut and capital controls are hammered in, then what does it matter about the alleged fiscal value of your property, is it worth 200k or 20k, who gives a fuck, your (and your buyer’s) access to both sums is now subject to control.
Suddenly the DHS‘s 450 million rounds of hollowpoint ammo makes a whole heap of sense.
You can’t fucking fly under the radar in a system where the system controls the terrain.
Arguably “the man” can say fiscal controls don’t matter, day to day, you are paid electronically, and your plastic still works to buy your smokes and Sky TV and horseburgers, what the fuck do you need access to banks or actual cash for?
Unless of course y’all are drug dealers or terr-rists…
The sum total of all my debt is always contained within my £1,000 overdraft limit, similarly I am never significantly in credit, what’s the point, it is not wealth, it is bitcoin.
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You know, lots of people whined about MS, yadda yadda it’s closed source code, who knows what back doors the three letter acronyms have into winders etc etc.
Yet 100% of all internet traffic sooner or later goes through a cisco box, and IOS is guess what, closed source code.
I am, I freely admit, fucking lucky to have secured a gig tending to and installing and maintaining all those remotely managed cisco boxes that allow all the businesses to externalise their IT and sack their IT staff and save money, but if you think I did not start seriously LOOKING to get such a gig about two years ago, you would be sadly fucking mistaken.
The money may not be great, see above, a surplus in my bank account is stupid, but it is good enough, and as the social contract unravels, well, this new state absolutely fucking requires a working large scale network infrastructure, so can you say “exempt profession”?
Think of me as one of the guys tending the IBM punched card machines used by the Nazis.
