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A Distributed Capacity for Violence: A Brief History of Weapons Technology and Political Power -- ZeroHedge
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Posted by: Russ Walden ®

11/05/2021, 12:01:24

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A Distributed Capacity for Violence: A Brief History of Weapons Technology and Political Power

A long and sometimes difficult read, as the author has a tendency to get fixated, as with nuclear bombs.

This is an excellent excerpt:

"The American citizenry is one thing most of the rest of the world
isn't: A threat to the American empire. The massive reaction by
globalist elites to Donald Trump shows just how particularly
thin-skinned they are about peasant rebellions at home. And constant
attacks on Second Amendment have failed to disarm the American middle
class.

It is instructive to compare the United States to Australia
and Canada in the time of COVID: The latter two are among the most
repressive medical regimes in the world. America remains relatively
free. The capacity for meaningful force, ownership of the reigns of
power, and ownership of capital remains more distributed here – and our
rulers know it. They know there is only so far they can go.

But
maybe the global elites don't need such stern measures against American
citizens. The story of 2020 was largely that of concentrated attacks on
the American middle class in the form of COVID lockdowns and riots aimed
at immiserating and terrorizing them. COVID lockdowns attacked small
businesses and "non-essential" workers in one of the biggest wealth transfers in human history. The riots likewise terrorized average Americans into a state of shock and silence.

The
foot soldiers of the elites can do anything they want to you. Raising
your hand against them, however, comes with extreme consequences. This
is another example of the centralization of force, not using the
military or armaments, but economic leverage and an asymmetrical
application of the courts -- anarchy for them, tyranny for you.

And
who needs nukes when you're ruling over a nation of renter-class serfs?
The elites wouldn't need anything approaching nuclear weapons to keep
in line a population who own nothing and are totally reliant upon
government handouts. This is the aim of the attacks on small businesses
and the War on the Suburbs.

Perhaps
the model for the future is not the totalitarian regimes of the 20th
Century, but the feudal estates of the middle ages – now armed with
intrusive surveillance technologies and Godlike military hardware.

Remember: The Constitution means nothing without the means to protect and defend it."

Russ









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