It seems like just yesterday that if something
happened to you that should not ever happen, and a government agency was
behind it people either got thrown into a mental health facility or
with a gag order on you, or you would just ‘disappear’ and nobody would
be the wiser as to why and if they were, they either kept quiet or met
the same type of ends. Oh how one man’s courage to stand up shaped our
present. People are so much more aware and such agencies can no longer
rely on the ‘nobody will believe you even if you tell them’ tactics.
Some agencies still get away with it however things are changing and a
lot of people have been pushing for these changes for a long time.
Snowden is a true American hero to the people though apparently the
government wants his head on a silver platter. I won’t boor you with
these things however, this is not the purpose. It simply came up as
years ago a shop that was raided in the type of situation one gun shop
was recently raided under wouldn’t even be able to speak up and in fact
would be called liars right off the bat without anyone looking closer at
it. So this is where I say, I just want to say a thank you to snowden
for giving people the courage to speak out when something happens.
May
America one day be what it was founded to be, for the people by the
people and if not, I hope the fallout of our nations collapse doesn’t do
too much damage to the world economy because unless things shape up, we
go one of two ways. Our government will plummet like so many of the
ancients and we will all as Rome and so many other ancients
civilizations did, or we will crash and burn after our government pisses
the entire world off which id say its safe to say many countries, the
only reason we don’t have all out war is most likely the same reason
people in other countries now say things like ‘we love you, but not your
government’, when once they did say ‘we hate America’. Truth is, we got
painted as pretty differently than we really are, and our government
kinda forgot what they do effected how others saw us as a whole. If you
go way back id have to say props to whoever invented the internet and
props to those who work so hard to keep the information super highway
open and uncensored, because in perfect honesty, it makes it easier for
us to spread news and events and harder for our government to lie if you
learn where and how to search up stuff. Even when mainstream media
fails us, the internet is a place where you can find blogs and first
hand renditions, ways for your voice to be heard and other people
raising theirs as well. Hell, without such a thing the fact many
officials who enforce the law in some states are now required to wear
recording devices, wouldn’t have been made possible without the
whistle-blowers, the people who stood up and said something. I salute
the whistle blowers, my utmost respect to you for your bravery, and your
integrity.
That
being said, a shop was recently raided. This shop sold gun parts and
from what ive been able to glean thus far guns. Despite a restraining
order that was supposed to protect the customers of the store, they also
took the customer lists as well. Some links to the stories written can
be found here: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/03/19/feds-seize-customer-list-from-california-gun-parts-store-in-atf-raid/
And Here:
However
this is not the FIRST time there has been such issues and I doubt it
will be the last unless something is done. Back in last year there was
another incident, one that was much more low key, in which a store that
sold guns had their license revoked and their establishment raided after
someone had stolen a gun. They were not aware of the investigation nor
were they aware of the eleven guns stolen previously by the same
person(I will point out, it took him a year to steal eleven guns from
them so it can’t be the worst place security wise, had they been made
aware it could have been stopped and handled without all the messy power
arming the feds did to them). They were further targeted Because ONE of
the guns used in a shooting perpetrated by a gun collectors teenager
who enacted the sandy hook shooting, was bought at this particular gun
shop. I do feel the need to point out, the woman spent years collecting
guns and the boy could have grabbed any one of them, and it was not the
gun shops responsibility what the woman that the woman didn’t keep her
guns safely locked up when she knew her son was a risk and it wasn’t
their responsibility to know what they weren’t told or required to ask
when they were not even aware of any issue either with the gun thief or
with the parent who bought the guns and didn’t keep them properly locked
up. It was not said if client lists were taken however I would assume
so as they pinpointed who bought what guns so well. I know there are
other ways but that was kind of tossed in as an afterthought. A
link to the story as written as an article can be found Here:
www.wfsb.com/story/20497633/sources-gun-store-had-federal-firearms-license-pulled-after-raid
Similar
issues have arisen in the past as well, recent past has it more
frequent at an alarming rate. Vets have had their guns ‘confiscated”
which is just a fancy way to make the fact they were stolen under color
of the ‘law’ sound better. There has been great pressure
to unarm individuals as well as shut down distributors. One of the
reasons I asked a friend of mine who likes to shoot at the range what he
would do if he was disarmed. I know what’s coming, always have. Just
way back then, nobody listened to me. I watched friends destroy
themselves in a war they didn’t believe in the cause of simply because
they were mislead to make the enlisting ‘willing’ or at least make them
feel like it. Can you really call it willing if they were lied to? I
wonder, it’s a big reason I made my little brother promise to wait six
months during ‘the war on terror’, before he joined. My brother isn’t a
complete idiot, and by then he had looked close enough at the facts the
shine of the lie wore off and revealed the ugly truth. I have a problem
with my little brother dying for a cause he doesn’t even believe in. I
knew it would kill him inside just like it did to a dear friend of mine
who didn’t listen and got caught up in all the propaganda.
There
is an old saying I like, which ironically I found in a song that I now
like as well. My mother used to say it, and she once told me my dad had
said it as well, and she kinda just never forgot it. “If you’re gonna
start a war, you better know what you’re fighting for” For those of you
who are a lil disheartened by the evils being spoke of I want you to
know, if snowden hadn’t spoken up like he did, a lot of things would
still be kept under the rug and would still happen while your
perceptions and your impressions of things were knowingly being
exploited to hide such horrors right under your nose, all snowden did
was tell you the truth that has terrifyingly enough, been under our
noses for a very long time and did so in such a way that his voice could
not be silenced and I salute him with the deepest respect, and I salute
those who came before him and who were silenced in one way or another,
those who spoke out knowing even just the chance of being heard was
worth it. Those are America’s hero’s, not to disrespect my parents who
served or anyone else who served in the armed forces but this takes a
lot more balls to step forward with. They have neither the training nor
the comrades to back them up and stand with side by side so in all
honesty, I think they are even braver than my parents who served were
and that is honestly saying a lot since I hold nothing but respect and
love for my parents and am in fact very proud of them both. I will
forever miss them no matter how much time passes or has passed since
they died. I just have to admit, it takes a lot more balls and a lot
more nerve to stand up when you know what will happen to you. Snowden
not only stood up and said it but left his fiancé and his family behind
and all he knew, just to make sure word got out as much as possible,
knowing the chances of him being caught were likely and not ending up
caught was next to impossible. I salute him with the utmost respect. If I
could have served, I would have served proudly next to a man of honor
even the in face of so much to lose, who would stand up for what was
right even knowing what was to happen to him if he was found out.
Snowden, is what it means to be an American, and the kind of person who
gives you hope that it can be done. I think that’s the biggest reason
our government wants to get a hold of him to be honest. He reminded
people it could be done, reminded people what it means to be an American
as our founding fathers meant it to be.
The wall of silence that hides
so much pain and sorrow built on so much bigotry and manipulation and
propaganda and… its slowly but surely breaking and bending, as people
are reminded it can happen and it has, the illusion is broken. We don’t
have to accept it, we can do something about it. I think that is
something people forgot. I mean when you talk about politicians lying
for instance, people just accept it but they still vote for someone they
know lied simply because ‘all politicians lie’… but we don’t have to
accept things like that. We CAN stand for what we the people want and if
we really want it, an honest leader who doesn’t hide things from us and
puts us first, is one of those things. We don’t have to accept people
who lack in integrity and it is possible for those with it to make it,
and snowmen has shown us this, which is why our government does whatever
they can to make him look bad. Personally if the worst thing you can
tell me is that his fiancé is a stripper well… ok. Personally that’s her
job, she is just dancing on a stage in a thong(top or no top doesn’t
matter, the profession is a solely adult entertainment genre for a
reason). Not really something you could take the children to see but I
fail to see how that makes either of them horrible people. Ive
definitely heard worse about the people who sit in positions of power
in this country, such as stealing, drunk driving, accusations of rape
and other such occurrences so in reality, the fact his fiancé parades
around half naked on stage for other peoples entertainment really
doesn’t concern me. That is her business, not mine and certainly not
that of the rest of the country. If that is the only thing someone can
focus on then they are just being led by the nose to be distracted from
the all too important facts that have absolutely nothing to do with the
personal life of snowden or his fiancé. Either way, I hope she is proud
of him, because that definitely took a lot of guts. When I heard about
that it was the first time in a long time I actually felt any sort of
pride in anything even remotely to do with my country, mostly because I
know too much having grown up hearing about things from my elders I
shouldn’t have really been privy to but was and was smart enough to not
go around talking to everyone about. As a child, there are just some
things you feel in the way the adults act and whisper or the way they
act when finding you standing there as if they had been burned just by
speaking about such things and were scared to death that you heard…
about things like that. Children aren’t exactly given enough credit for
just how perceptive they can be. They don’t understand it the same way
an adult does, however that doesn’t mean they don’t understand it at
all.
If anyone has any information they would
like to add, let me know and I will make sure to cross reference and
insert facts as well as links so others who read it can clearly know
places they too can find the same things. I did this in more of a rush
than I usually do so if you know of any references I didn’t use, please
let me know so I can add them promptly for a more complete and solid
honest truth that can’t so easily be brushed off. We the people who have
been victimized under color of the law in situations that should never
happen will be heard. Someday, may the truth take flight freely and
openly as the eagle that once flew freely in our skies once so open.
-Luna
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