Crime will go up.
    I could stop here, for in truth, reported crimes will go down. In other words, crime will go up because you will sense that it has gone up. It will go up by word of mouth. Nobody goes to south Philly who doesn't have to, but there will be new places you have felt free to go to before but have now been warned off, sort of like old speed-trap towns in the days before the interstates.
    There is no Euro model, or even Soviet model to guide us here, although the fascist models may provide some insights as to how this might happen.
    To put this into context, America has a greater crime rate than Europe because of three major reasons; 1) average Americans have more things worth stealing than Europeans do, 2) Americans live in more single-dwelling houses than in Europe, who mostly live in multi-dwelling complexes, and 3) much of what comprises crime in America, such as drugs, prostitution and pornography, are legal in Europe. So, we can't really find a Euro-based situation that mirrors crime (and so-called poverty) in America.
    Moreover, middle classness runs much, much more deeply in America than in Europe, as witnessed by the fact that the "poverty class" in America physically live much better then the lower working classes of Europe; cars, television, home entertainment, etc. Also, as reported to me by an importer who buys in Europe and sells on eBay, there are all sorts of collectibles to be had in Europe at garage sale prices simply because the lower working classes there can't afford to do things such as collect. Even the most menial wage earner in America can afford to collect something; porcelain figurines, ball caps, NASCAR memorabilia, you name it.
    You might want to add that we have a a type of underclass also not found in Europe, despite the fact the Euros began importing foreign workers to sweep their streets and wash their cars about thirty years ago. Our underclass are full-fledged citizens but have lived on state-created "reservations of poverty" for over 40 years now. With the possible exception of North African youth in France, there is nothing comparable. And their underclass can't vote. The good news, these reservations will begin to disappear in a very short while. The bad news, not necessarily in the manner constitutionalists may have hoped, by an end to state paternalism and better education and opportunity for the poor. Many street youth will find themselves wearing uniforms, or at least Obama has suggested that. Unlike the faint-hearted liberals of the Carter era, when they threw open the asylums, chronic drug addicts, old folks without families to tend to them, the chronically disabled will begin to disappear...behind the walls of institutions or just disappear. As we've been watching with assisted suicide programs in various states (Oregon, Washington) the state will more and more get involved in the decision making process of what is and what is not a quality life, and when it is best to "let go". (States in general will lose much of their sovereignty, about which we will write more later.) It is no leap at all to jump from assisted suicide to euthanasia to eugenics, which incidentally, was always a founding principle at Planned Parenthood, particularly in the black under-classes. We found this thinking, by the way, in the Indian Wars day when Phil Sheridan and Custer informally adopted a program to "eradicate" Indians by killing off their birthing machines. The so-called "battle" at the Washita in Indian territory in 1868 was just such a massacre, causing Johnny Cash to write, "With victories he was swimmin', he killed, children, dogs and women, but the General, the don't ride well anymore."
    The point of this aside is to note than it is easy to "redefine" a massacre into a battle, or later, at Little Big Horn, a battle into a massacre, when it suits the government's purposes, and if the people are more or less willing to go along with the outcome. Ending the purposeless life of the slums is just such an outcome.
    With so many apples in the air at once, this is where the Swedish Lites of the Congress will be wading into uncharted waters...but where Socialist Ambers, like hardcore Marxists, can afford to be indifferent, since they will achieve their end no matter what; a compliant populace and a quiet, unpublic way to dispose of many chronic urban eyesores, from the homeless, to the retarded, to the drug afflicted and chronically unemployed.
    Crime will go up all because the internal security mechanisms among citizens will be heightened, not because of government reports. Not able to rely on the reports of government, people will begin to re-evaluate crime only in terms of what the see in their personal lives, which will actually achieve a socialist end by causing people to stay closer to home. Government will be totally disbelieved in every matter within 10 years, ironically the result of the past 10 years' efforts by the Left to destroy credibility only of the GOP. It will reach back to bite them. Cynicism will be replaced by something even deeper and darker, utter disbelief. Even in Sweden the government is more or less ignored for after 50 years, it has little to tell them they care about...this is how small their lives have become.
    Moreover, the nature of crime will change. Crimes against property will decrease by citizen versus citizen. The same with crimes of violence. Remember the two old competing lines that "if you out outlaw guns, only criminals will have guns" and the alternate, "only government will have guns." When government takes guns away from the people, they will eventually take them away from criminals as well. Only government wins in the gun wars.
    Crime rates will be made to appear to go near zero, the government keeping its own set of internal books as to what's really going on. As I said, you will not go to certain places because of word of mouth, not because the government warned you of any danger. The only danger they will warn you about is the weather, whose 24/7 service will most likely replace cable news in a few short years.
    What crimes that will be reported, albeit always under-reported, will be a new class of crime, "crimes against the state". We don't know how that will play out just yet, i.e., just what a crime against the state, or public order, or decency, may actually be, but there will be many..and again, emanating from Washington, not from Helena or Hartford.
    I don't mean to harp, but yes, with the creation of a national police force, much of what is now "illegal" will simply become legal, especially in those kinds of crimes the population have always considered to be universally criminal, such as thuggery, rape and theft. I don't have to go back to the SA and Ernst Roehm to prove this, for it is true of every national police force. All one need do is look at UN peace keepers in Africa. Bullying will be their leitmotif, so some young Wagner might want to come up with a catchy march. The state class will be outside crime, so to speak, although they will take care of their own, just as the Vegas mafia did in the 60's.
    What is worse, as legal thuggery goes up, the people's ability to defend themselves will go down. Again, no one will care about the Bronx or south central LA, but thuggery will also show up in rural, small town fly-over America. Every small town has some rent-a-cop or third shift night watchman who wants to get even for not being on the police force. He'll be the first to enroll. Only this won't get out on the local or regional news. As we already reported, controlling the information will be very very important...to make sure no one in Hometown, Nebraska ever knows what's happening in Pleasantville, Indiana.
    At this point, the issues begs for a discussion on the Second Amendment, which we may address later.
    But really folks, don't you think you can figure it out for yourself? If you own a weapon, any weapon, and there is a piece of paper in government control that says you own it, they can come get it. Right? The only questions are when, and how.
    Just don't think that your NRA brothers in Iowa will necessarily know it. This is why we led this series with the Information segment, (Part III). With Rush and talk radio gone, with Drudge gone, with Fox either gone or co-opted, with internet/email communication narrowed significantly, you may never know. Don't you still wish you'd kept those hard lines? And with gas at 5.00 a gallon, you just won't be able to drive to Iowa to report it. Pigeons anyone?
    We of course can hold back much of these coming attractions with a fillibuster-secure Senate, but that prospect is drawing nigh as they are about to steal one in Minnesota and Alaska and don't be surprised at the surprising Democrat turnout in Georgia. Vote stealing fingerprints were all over the 2004 election. In the 2006 election everyone just yawned, saying the Republicans had it coming. "Let the Justice Department handle it. It wasn't our Secretary of State," (which, by the way, is our opinion as to how the 2006 and and this election may have seriously been compromised. The numbers just don't add up.) With that history, 2008 was really a shoo-in. Moses Sands told me a long time ago that if I thought teat-fits were a product only of the spoiled Left, "Think agin".
    Now it's time to reap the whirlwind...or get off your duffs and go save Minnesota.
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