It's NOT too scary, it is PAR FOR THE COURSE....that's why i moved up here to the middle of nowhere, thinking our chances of surviving the totalitarian rule would be greater....and now i read that the small homeboy ain't safer either....even here, where no real big agriculture exists that would want to squash the local's business....As I suspected though, most posters stayed out of this discussion. Most of the ones who posted in this thread, I expected. I think maybe two who posted here were unexpected.
This kind of story is too scary for most people to deal with the reality of. It's better to just ignore it and pretend we're still living in a free country.
I have recognized for years that the Big Agri business uses congress to kill the small businesses all in the name of Food Safety or some other reasonably named "excuse" for the "good" of the people....
The same thing with Wall Street, and Bankers and Oil Corps, etc....laws and regulations are writen to favor them, which kills off the little guy.
And as far as using a swat team, and terrorizing these people, I hope they sue the hell out of them for abusing their power and get millions for it...
And I am fully aware that our government has assumed so much more power since 911 thru the patriot act and thru homeland security yahdeedah....most dems and even some repubs and libertarians have been screaming about this for years now....
What do you suggest we do that will truely have an impact....the cards are FIXED against us....even the degregulation of the media has hurt us greatly in this mess, because too few people own it, and all of our news, comes from one source, the AP/reuters and their investigative reporters... and it is not the way it used to be, when there were true, investigative reporters in each and every town, with the small city town newspapers....
have i given up, on thinking we can actually do something to change this fate of doom that seems to be just right around the corner....yeah, i probaby have given up....but i have hope that you younger guys and gals have the strength to continue to fight the good fight!

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