The broad awakening is upon us.

While the credit was expanding and everyone had a full tummy, government could tell the people "hey, we are going to do all manner of crazy things against you but we are doing it for your own good so please comply".  Now that the credit growth is slowing and the canaries of the coal mine (the declining middle class, persistent 9-12% unemployment, etc.) are falling over dead, the sheeple are awakening.  They suddenly understand that the concentration of power, the attempts to disarm people who have done no crime, etc., the militarization of police forces, the purchases or "federal gifting" of MRAPs and even tanks to local police departments and the confiscation by the federal government of all modern attack helicopters from the state national guards are not just coincidences.

Gone are the days when you could safely outsource your personal security and the defense of the constitution to someone else, whether that someone be local police or the US military.  Corruption has completely contaminated the military industrial complex.  The sleeping sheeple were such easy targets, so gullible in so many ways, that in the famous words of Bill Clinton, "I did it because I could".  Yes folks, that's what it really comes down to: it is human nature never to give a sucker an even break.  It is human nature to lie cheat and steal.  Whether or not you are religious, you have to agree that the Bible is an excellent technical reference on the nature of man.  The Bible is clear on the subject of temptation: man is wide open to it to the degree that a portion of the Lord's prayer is dedicated to asking for help against it.  It's genetic.  And so when nobody is monitoring such a large number of humans as now work in the military industrial complex, well, how can it end any way but badly?

Things are now getting to the point where even the most gullible among us are waking up and they are beginning to fight back.  The activities at the Bundy ranch of late were a fine example of overt resistance using the credible threat of force.  But there are many other ways.  Take the case of a MD gun shop owner who was going to start selling "smart" guns (smart for the government, dumb for anyone who needs the protection of a gun that cannot be disabled by the government at long range).  Yeah, he was going to be the first to begin selling them.  He thought he was going to get in front of the trend.  Instead, he found himself in front of an angry pack of pissed off water buffalo.  Why?  Because corrupt NJ lawmakers, with their camel's nose under the tent approach to fucking the people of the state over, had declared that the first commercial sales of such weapons anywhere in the country would begin a 3 year countdown clock which, when timed out, would require ALL NJ gun sales to have government approved electronic leashes on them.

I don't know about you, but if I need to pull the trigger in a "it's either him or me" situation, I want the damned gun to shoot first time, every time.  I do not want to wonder if government has set up a jamming field (which I myself could build a jammer for...) that would stop the gun from firing.  You see, these new "smart guns" have a default operation: they don't fire by default.  You have to enable them to fire by wearing a special "watch" that sends a signal to the gun.  Without that signal, the gun is a paperweight.  Government wants the people to invest in protection that only works if the government says it can.

In any case, the MD gun shop owner in question quickly got the horns from pissed off, shaken-awake herd members from NJ and probably all over the USA who then began to threaten his life and property.  Now, threats like this in the past were spun in the media as "hate crimes", etc. and the "intolerant" people doing the threatening were called domestic terrorists, blah blah blah.  That was while the credit was flowing.  Now that it is being pinched off, re-read the article.  The important points are:

• None of the typical labeling of those doing the threatening.
• The state tried to make a deal with the NRA to allow the smart guns.  The NRA said "no deal".
• The "brains" behind the creation of the law suddenly believes that government should not force it down our throats but rather that the free market should decide.
• The MD gun shop owner issued a public apology and promised not to sell the guns.  Not a left handed apology but one that is very direct and targeted at an angry mob:

"I did not know I would be screwing you over," Raymond said. “I’m terribly sorry  . . . You don’t have anything to worry about from me.”

Tell me you don't see the sudden and dramatic change in tone here.  Liberalism has peaked.  Outsourcing our personal security and finances to others has peaked.  It means big government and Wall St. have peaked as well.  Their debt Ponzi is completely dependent on the participation of willing patsies.  And so I will repeat what I have written so many times before, all of which were long before there was any sign of patsies waking up:  When the Ponzi is running you can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time but when a Ponzi is in the collapse stages there comes a point where you suddenly can't fool anyone ever. 

The politicians will see this very quickly and they will rush to get on the right side of it lest they be killed in the streets as many of them actually deserve for being traitors against the American people.  Mind you, I am not advocating violence.  A murderer might deserve death but that doesn't mean I'm looking for blood on my hands.  But the crimes against the American people are extreme, far beyond what most people know or even can imagine and they will be exposed during the collapse phase of the Ponzi as the new leaders try to buy our confidence for the next run using a bit of truth as the bait.  There will be a percentage of the population that demand that heads roll for this.  Nothing is going to be settled until heads roll folks.