Expect Desperate, Insane Behavior From Government In 2018 – Part 1

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Authored by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,

I heartily accept the motto, “That government is best which governs least”; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe — “That government is best which governs not at all”; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.

– Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience

As we head into 2018, I believe governments around the world will become increasingly insecure about their positions of power and control, which will result in increased paranoia about whether or not they have the consent of the governed.

Being a global empire in decline, the U.S. power structure has the most to lose, making it particularly vulnerable to such panic. I suspect forces within the U.S. government are likely to engage in various attempts to reestablish authority via desperate and authoritarian moves as 2018 unfolds. I don’t say this to spread fear; rather, I think such moves will result in considerable pushback from the population at large, particularly from younger generations who are intimately aware of how spectacularity the status quo has failed them. Panic and desperation from those in control shouldn’t be feared, it should be expected and contemplated ahead of time. That’s why I’m writing this series. I want as many people as possible to start thinking about this now so we aren’t caught off guard.

The areas I’ll be diving into with these pieces consist of cannabis, Bitcoin, and war against Iran. I’m sure there are plenty of other areas government will target in its last ditch effort to exert control over a populace sick and tired of these busybody, corrupt authoritarians, but these are issues I follow closely and have a certain degree of familiarity with. As such, they’ll be the focus of this series.

Today’s topic is cannabis. This seems the least likely area for government action, specifically because it would be such a monumentally stupid move. That said, just because something’s idiotic doesn’t mean we should simply discount it, particularly with human fossil Jeff Sessions continuing to chirp on the issue every chance he gets.

Although Sessions has been threatening to stomp on states’ rights and freedom of choice when it comes to cannabis ever since he became Attorney General, he hasn’t done anything yet. Nevertheless, he continues to issue threats.

As Axios reported yesterday:

Attorney General Jeff Sessions suggested in a press conference on Wedenesday that the Department of Justice is looking at changing Obama-era policies that allowed states to decide what to do about marijuana despite the drug remaining illegal under federal law, according to McClatchy DC.

 

Why it matters: This could have a huge impact on the 6 states and D.C. which will have legalized marijuana by January, 2018. Places that have already legalized marijuana and have seen the marijuana industry boom in their states could face particularly tricky legal situations.

 

Key quote: “In fact, we’re looking at that very hard right now, we had a meeting yesterday and talked about it at some length. It’s my view that the use of marijuana is detrimental, and we should not give encouragement in any way to it, and it represents a federal violation, which is in the law and is subject to being enforced.”

 

Meanwhile, bipartisan groups of Senators and House members have been pushing for criminal justice reform bills, which would lower minimum mandatory sentences for non-violent drug crimes. A crackdown on drug crimes is not what they’re looking for from Sessions. 

If Sessions decides to do something, I predict he’ll have his ass handed to him in spectacular fashion. First of all, I can’t think of a single issue that unites Americans at this time more than the belief cannabis should be legalized. A recent Gallup poll proved this in spades. We learned:

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans continue to warm to legalizing marijuana, with 64% now saying its use should be made legal. This is the highest level of public support Gallup has found for the proposal in nearly a half-century of measurement.

 

Gallup first asked national adults about their views on the topic in 1969, when 12% supported legalization. Support had more than doubled by the end of the next decade but changed little throughout the 1980s and 1990s. By 2001, however, about a third of Americans favored legalizing marijuana, and support has steadily increased since. A majority of Americans have consistently supported legalizing marijuana since 2013.

 

That looks like the chart of Bitcoin.

More significantly, we live in an era in which basically no issue issue successfully crosses partisan political lines. Except cannabis. Also from Gallup:

Democrats and independents have historically been much more likely than Republicans to say marijuana should be legalized. In 2009, Democrats were the first partisan group to see majority support for legalization, followed by independents in 2010.

 

This year for the first time, a majority of Republicans express support for legalizing marijuana; the current 51% is up nine percentage points from last year.

Moreover, many of those against legal cannabis in their particular state still accept the right of people in other states to decide for themselves. The idea of the federal government going into states and denying the will of the citizens who voted to legalize it would be extraordinarily unpopular across the board. It’ll be completely obvious to everyone that if the feds think they can tell people their votes don’t matter on that issue, there’s zero freedom of choice for anything in this country. It’s the ultimate canary in the coal mine.

In fact, I’ll take this one step further and say if Sessions dares to make this move, it’ll accelerate secessionist movements across the country and delegitimize government credibility more than any other single act in the forty years since I’ve been alive.

If the Trump administration actually moves on this issue, we’ll know for sure how completely inept and desperate it is. Part of me almost wants to see them try, because the resulting monumental fail will demonstrate the power of the people and give a gigantic black eye to authoritarians in government.

Stuff like this is all part of the process we’ll be going through over the next few years, and we need to be mentally prepared for it. We the people will increasingly move to take sovereignty back in a variety of ways, and government will respond with panic. The good news is they’ll be reacting from a position of weakness, not strength.

Which brings us to the topic of Bitcoin. As the price crossed $10,000 recently, I noticed increased squeamishness and fear on behalf of various banksters, economists and other assorted statists.

Monday’s post will dig into what all of that means.

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MonetaryApostate's picture

The British own America.

Decolonization is happening now, hence immigration, & America's end will be like it's beginning.

Mr. Kwikky's picture

And the Vatican owns Britain..

TeamDepends's picture

And the Anunnaki pass the Queen around like a woman down south.

old naughty's picture

and that is the ultimate resolution of karma and free will.

heard that "karma is a bitch", literally no.
Mother will be restored!

BennyBoy's picture

 

Expect MORE Desperate, Insane Behavior....

More accurate

MonetaryApostate's picture

Actually, the king stepped down to the church when Britain took power, well, that's what history says, but the vatican owns the other pieces...

Still, Britain owns the most.

JRobby's picture

Can't wait for Monday's installment as this one was so obvious

El Vaquero's picture

I'd like to see Sessions go after MEDICAL marijuana.  That's a non-starter in court, because then the schedule one status is going to be directly challenged.  

HockeyFool's picture

The government should actually encourage marjijuana use. A bunch of stoned out citizens won't give a shit that they are being taken to the cleaners.

Hell, give it away free and the millenial douchbags would elect Stalin & Marx. So you can look for democrats to support the issue in 2018 and 2020.

buttmint's picture

.....another fluff piece. The hook is in the title. No meat.

JRobby's picture

Yes, exactly. It will be legal in 10 to 12 states in a few years. Maybe more. States need the revenue.

Took Red Pill's picture

Don't forget to donate by becoming a monthly patron so he can write more of this.

Mr. Kwikky's picture

The Vatican is the lord of the rings, the Vatican itself is infiltrated by a parasitic virus called the hazarlar (Jesuits IHS) . They own Britain, Britain owns the commonwealth + USA (Act of 1871) and their court jews (Rotschild) owns Israel.

So who owns all of them?

historian40's picture

And the "jews" own the Vatican.  Just look how they have totally turned the Catholic church upside down since the zio Vatican II.

IH8OBAMA's picture

"..turned the Catholic church upside down.."

I think the Marxist Pope Francis is doing a pretty good job of that all on his own.

 

kochevnik's picture

Francis is Jesuit. Vatican has two black popes now

Mr. Kwikky's picture

Yep they have created the Jesuits...and who is the black pope?

karenm's picture

Cannibis? He thinks Cannibis matters?? Smoke or don't smoke, neither will change a dang thing in government. Get on to the next topic, this one is silly.

The Wizard's picture

They work in tandem with each other. It's the triad devil: Vatican, City of London (banksters) and Pentagon vs. the Holy Trinity.

Grandad Grumps's picture

Britain owns us ... or at least they consider our bodies to be their property. They cannot possess our consciousness or soul ... we have to give it freely and that bothers them to no end.

Nexus789's picture

There must be something in the water in the US. Trying to blame imaginary third parties is in tinfoil territory. It is the elites of the US that decide policy. 

Mustafa Kemal's picture

"The British own America."

So that is why Trump is not going to visit?

drendebe10's picture

Gubmnt is always the enemy of working tax paying U.S. citizens. Fukem

MonetaryApostate's picture

No, it's the money printers, & with hundreds of quadrillions of US dollars already printed, you'd think somebody would "Understand."

The British hold the #1 currency, they were the first to go fiat backed by nothing, then permitted the US to do it.  If you want to understand economics, then you have to understand the correlation between the British Pound & USD & how it causes inflation or market turmoil.

Fake Money, Fake News, Fake History, fake leaders, fake events, fake terror, fake everything....

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new game's picture

can we just get to fake fake to get real?

Mustafa Kemal's picture

"Gubmnt is always the enemy of working tax paying U.S. citizens."

My brother in law came over today and told me that the US government has been sexually harrassing him for years.

I asked how so?

He said " theyve been fucking me with taxes for soooo long. I work and they collect"

DownWithYogaPants's picture

Such a sweet gig that tax collection protection racket and they still can't keep it in the black. 

ebworthen's picture

Imperial March:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bzWSJG93P8

I hear this tune in my head whenever I see or hear of goings on in D.C.

(link opens in new window/tab)

hooligan2009's picture

that implies brains and organization.. i just hear this at every press conference

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZ572yLH9sc

ebworthen's picture

You must mean the past Obama administration press conferences, no?

Or do you mean the Press asking questions of the current administration?

hooligan2009's picture

heh.. i was thinking of central bank press conferences, but could apply equally to the ones you mentioned ..

ebworthen's picture

Oh yes, for certain, Yellen, Bernanke, Greenspan - and soon Powell.

The economic alchemists will chant and ring their bells.

"Lead into Gold" and all that.  ;-)

Mustafa Kemal's picture

' hear this tune in my head whenever I see or hear of goings on in D.C."

I hear that too. The diference is that they dont know how to use a light sabre, and I do.

HRH of Aquitaine 2.0's picture

I hear little beeping sounds, clicking, a camera begins to whirl and then this, "The red chair is against the wall. The red chair is against the wall."

Shade to silence.

https://youtu.be/LIgurTFaq6U

cherry picker's picture

Most people get along pretty well, regardless of color or culture.

Biggest problem is the sociopaths on the extreme left and extreme right and the overly religeous who think they need control to direct things their way and too much power has been handed to them already.

 

hooligan2009's picture

there is no problem in the world of fiat.

central banks just need to buy all government debt and cancel it, then print money to cover all fiscal deficits (just like Japan does now) ... forever

what's the difference between the government printing money via debt and deficits and the central bank printing money via fiat?

this is an entirely circular argument - there is no difference - and if we go cashless, all the world is just one's and zeros and we all know they only matter to algos..

so... whats the fucking point? IT JUST DOESN'T MATTER!

/s?

new game's picture

dude, i have posted that many times. you are correct. why? because nothing really changes cept the amts. it is called command economy. ask china, they perfected it along with japan. world template of complete control of citizenry. then along came bitcoin...

CRM114's picture

"whether or not they have the consent of the governed"

I don't think there's a politician alive who labors under the illusion that he has the consent of the governed for everything s/he does. What they suffer from is the belief that they have the innate right to tell us what's best for us because they have a superior philosophy. An idea that will bear strange fruit in the not too distant future.

fbazzrea's picture

What they suffer from is the belief that they have the innate right to tell us what's best for us because they have a superior philosophy.

and a militarized police state to back it up

CRM114's picture

Well, you can't just ask people nicely..

 

..what if they said No? ;)

Lost in translation's picture

The most dangerous aspect are the people most insured to the system. Federal agents, policemen, firefighters [sic], university professors, public school “teachers,” DMV clerks, and so on.

The end of empire is highly desirable, and should be embraced with relief and rejoicing.

But the people beholden to the Death Machine will rationalize every last atrocity they commit: against co-workers, neighbors, friends, even their own family members - abusing, injuring, torturing, and murdering - all to ensure that their privileged lifestyle, continues.

They will call themselves “patriotic Americans” and say they’re “doing God’s work,” while impugning those who dare to dissent as “domestic terrorists.”

besnook's picture

the marijuana thing is just stupid but another thing that bothers me about it are the local ,gov trying to make driving while high a punishable offense when they can't establish an unsafe level of intoxication and studies by the uinsurance industry and the ntsb have found that potheads aren't dangerous drivers.

BigPunny's picture

This just goes to show what I've said for years: Republicans pay lip service to their constituents about their belief in state's rights, small govt., supporting small businesses, etc., lower taxes, etc. etc. But they never actually do anything to push their agenda forward - not since Reagan, anyway, and even Reagan ended up raising taxes considerably after he dropped them initially (for the wealthy, of course). 

The pot issue where these Republicans want to infiltrate states who've voted to legalize marijuana in any form of consumption simply proves they don't care about the Constitution or the separation of powers. They care about control and that's it. 

I'm not saying the Democrats are any better, but I'm just pointing out to all you Republicans out there that you shouldn't be rah-rah'ing these bastards because they're liars, just like the Dems, and just like most everyone else in govt.