Don't be too concerned about the sheeple out there, who have no concern over the coming events.

Very few believed we would be draw into WWII until Pearl Harbor, and then miraculously all the previous signs became clear. The same is true of the crash in twenty nine.

The sheeple want to believe WILLE even if they do not trust him, its easier and more comfortable in the short run.

Hey, if nothing happen we can all go back to letting the government take more and more of our freedoms away until we are all sheeple or those looking out from behind the barbed wire.

Y2k has aroused many to the insanity of a run away goverment that has no accountability to The Constitution or the people, but we may lose what little is left in January or continue to march in slavery as we have for the last fifty years led by elites that serve themselves and give the sheeple bread and circuses.

-- FRODO BAGGINS (FRODO@MIDDLEEARTH.com), December 27, 1999

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FRODO,

My most fervant prayers hope you are wrong.

God forbid, if I am!

Have enough on my mind right now to stress about that, may we all chat after this "character testing" event in front of us.

I'd much prefer to be ridiculed and laughed at, than what I anticipate.

-- Michael (michaelteever@buffalo.com), December 27, 1999.

You got that right Frodo - One small freedom at a time, incrementally, step-by-step so there is no outcry or uprising (accompanied by lots of spin of course) and voila. We are where we are today but the process hasn't stopped, step-by-step, inch by inch, whittle here, a nip there.

-- Guy Daley (guydaley@bwn.net), December 27, 1999.

FRODO:

As slimy,lecherous, treasonous and treacherous I believe Clinton is, what would you think of him if he pulled the same stunt under an E.O. as FDR did in 1933--confiscation of private assets from common citizens?.

Except this time, to make it more interesting, suppose Klintoon orders the confiscation not of gold assets, but of all guns/firearms from citizens. What would the reaction be ?

Would the sheeple meekly comply, as they did to FDR's edict in 1933?

Would you foresee massive resistance?

Could you see outright mutiny in certain members of the military, when ordered to carry out these orders, in those who realize that they have taken an oath to uphold THE CONSTIUTION, not the word of an IMPEACHED president?

-- profit of doom (doom@helltopay.ca), December 27, 1999.

Sorry, I should proofread my responses. I meant, "God help me if I am right" Certainly, more than anything, A "Bump in the Road" would work out GREAT for me. I'd prefer to totally, totally wrong.

-- Michael (michaelteever@buffalo.com), December 27, 1999.

You will get no defense of FDR from me. While he did get us through the war, he was one of the prime movers in the race to grant more and more power to the state.

As to the reaction of the sheeple, there has been no reaction and will be no reaction whether we die the death of a thousand cuts or Y2K hastens the process.

The state will sieze our liberties, whether that is gun control, making all parking tickets felonies or mass arrests. It will all be done to "save the children", "protect the markets", and expand global enlightenment through the power of the state.

The history of human freedom is full of example of the people willingly giving up the freedoms others fought and died for.Man seeks pleasure and avoids pain, and big goverment will offer you all the pleasure you can handle, just do as we say.

-- FRODO BAGGINS (FRODO@MIDDLEEARTH.com), December 27, 1999.

...gollum, gollum...

-- StanTheMan (heidrich@presys.com), December 27, 1999.

This my friends is a lose, lose situation, if Y2K errupts as predicted it will be TEOTWAWKI. If it is a "Non-event," or just mild winter storm as the spin masters say, we lose either way. The first will be immediate. The second is slower, but both have the same result, we become slaves to the state. About 70% of your money is spent in taxes, 50% is considered a communistic state. Therefore, they have already confiscated your estate and wealth through the tax structure. With the gradual lose of freedoms, you will soon be governed on how many sheets of toilet paper to use, how to close your front and back door. If you say "hi," to a female, that will be sexual harrasment. The list goes on till there is no more, and we all wind up in concentration camps, that is those who happen to still be alive. Laugh and scoff, and tear those apart who warn of this, it is on the same level as the warning about Y2K, you will ignore it and say HaHa, you are a nut. But when you stand before a world court and sentenced to ten years hard labor for the mear act of asking a person to go to church, then you will have a whole new attitude.

-- Notforlong (Fsur439@aol.com), December 28, 1999.