“More stringent security measures. Universal electronic surveillance. No-knock laws. Stop and frisk laws. Government inspection of first-class mail. Automatic fingerprinting, photographing, blood tests, and urinalysis of any person arrested before he is charged with a crime. A law making it unlawful to resist even unlawful arrest. Laws establishing detention camps for potential subversives. Gun control laws. Restrictions on travel. The assassinations, you see, establish the need for such laws in the public mind. Instead of realizing that there is a conspiracy, conducted by a handful of men, the people reason—or are manipulated into reasoning—that the entire populace must have its freedom restricted in order to protect the leaders. The people agree that they themselves can’t be trusted.”
^^^This was my redpill, way back when. We would have been called conspiracy theorists if we said "What if...?".
Read it late 80s just after the import gun restrictions in '86. Book given to me as a gift, I think it was listed as sci-fi. As a newbie gun owner I sat straight up when I got to this passage. Honestly had never even considered the possibility of .gov doing things like this. Started looking at everything differently from then on.
Yes as did The Illuminatus Trilogy, also 1975 -
^^^This was my redpill, way back when. We would have been called conspiracy theorists if we said "What if...?".
Robert Anton Wilson was a very interesting thinker and writer.
Sick and twisted
Read it late 80s just after the import gun restrictions in '86. Book given to me as a gift, I think it was listed as sci-fi. As a newbie gun owner I sat straight up when I got to this passage. Honestly had never even considered the possibility of .gov doing things like this. Started looking at everything differently from then on.