PREPONDERANCE OF EVIDENCE

From time to time I am reminded of how difficult it is to bring people to a point of unbiased objectivity. To "remove" themselves from "self", take a step back, look at all the evidence, and re-examine their core beliefs. To look at an issue with a fresh perspective and ask themselves "could I possibly have been wrong about this all these years?"
I constantly run into the "it can't happen here" attitude. The "all this stuff is faked and / or spun by right wing conspiracy fanatics" idea. And not only that, but that the vast majority of "Tea Party" type people are stupid, uneducated, bigoted, fools who are easily duped. Meanwhile, they dismiss  anything that doesn't agree with their worldview, or even worse, in the course of a debate they eventually concede that every piece of evidence you present, every point you make is true, but their last statement is "well, I don't care, this is how I feel (or this is what I think) about it.

(Yes, I know the same thing happens on the "right". All blacks and Hispanics are lazy welfare sucking criminals. Obama is the cause of everything wrong with our economy and country, etc. Stupid is not confined to one political viewpoint.)

Yes, there are a lot of total b.s. reports out there. Anyone can write anything on the Internet. That doesn't mean you ignore the thousands of well researched articles with unimpeachable documentation.  


Our current national gun control bruhaha is a perfect example. People are denying that the end goal of the gun control advocates is to outlaw the personal ownership of all firearms. Denying that the long term agenda is confiscation of Americans weapons. They completely ignore or are ignorant of recent history. You can cite Nazi Germany, the USSR, China, Cuba, and EVEN MORE RECENTLY, England, Australia, and Canada. People, get your heads out of the sand! First they fingerprint owners and register every weapon. Then, some years later when everyone has relaxed and accepted this as the norm, another incident like Sandy Hook will be used as the impetus for confiscation. Oh yes, it starts as a voluntary "turning in". But guess what folks? If you don't bring them in, they'll come and get them.

This is from right next door : Canada    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_52pMg8qQcc

I concede liberals are correct that the chances of bills containing those kinds of measures don't stand much of a chance of being enacted by Congress AT THIS TIME. Even the majority of Democrats realize that would be political suicide right now. But these people are not going to abandon their agenda. It's been going on for the last 30 years or so, and they are not going to quit now. How about the next Congress, after the next poor bugger driven insane by doctor prescribed psychotropic drugs kills a bunch more?  After the Democrats succeed in allowing a million more illegal aliens, (oh, excuse me that's undocumented workers) who never even paid taxes, vote in the next election?

Someone recently asked me "what freedoms have we lost in this country?" Avoiding endless repetition, here is the latest to hit the news. http://www.allgov.com/news/top-stories/homeland-security-approves-seizure-of-cell-phones-and-laptops-within-100-miles-of-border-report-remains-secret-130211?news=847030
Verified here:
http://www.aclu.org/blog/technology-and-liberty-immigrants-rights-national-security/aclu-files-foia-request-unreleased

Remember, piece by piece, one small step at a time, is how they do it.

We have certain standards in our Justice system. One is THE PREPONDERANCE OF EVIDENCE. If the preponderance of evidence says the accused is guilty, then you must vote to convict. If you are one of the people referenced in the beginning of this post, can you honestly say that you have thoroughly examined the evidence?

Dumb Farmer

EXPLAIN THIS PLEASE?

More news on the massive DHS ammo purchases has just come out. They are now buying an additional 21.6 million hollow point rounds. Folks, that makes 1.625 Billion - yes that's Billion with a B - rounds they have ordered IN THE LAST 10 MONTHS. At the height of combat operations in Iraq, the U.S. military was using 5.5 million rounds per month. Do the math, Homeland Security has now ordered enough ammo to conduct a small war for 30 years!

I won't bore you with repetition here, see earlier posts and this :

A study funded by the Department of Homeland Security that was leaked last year characterizes Americans who are “suspicious of centralized federal authority,” and “reverent of individual liberty” as “extreme right-wing” terrorists.

 This is an open challenge for anyone to satisfactorily explain just what is going on here. Because the only rational explanation I can come up with is that OUR federal government is planning for a mass uprising in this country. I can envision 2 scenarios.

1. The collapse of the U.S. dollar from overwhelming debt, making everyone a pauper overnight. When people can't feed their children, there will be rioting in the streets everywhere.
See previous posts here : http://commonsenseandcircumstance.blogspot.com/2010/10/two-weeks.html and here : http://commonsenseandcircumstance.blogspot.com/2011/03/dc-fiddles-while-america-burns.html
2. That the current push for registering / fingerprinting every lawful gun owner is the planned first step to confiscation of all privately owned weapons. And that is just one step removed from a totalitarian government that can do whatever it pleases. Like doing away with term limits, for example.

So click on "post a comment" below and prove me wrong people. Because I truly hope I never have the opportunity to say "I told you so" about this.

Dumb Farmer