Title: What This Creepy Rest Area and Voting for President in America Have in Common Source:
Truthstream Media URL Source:http://truthstreammedia.com/2015/10 ... ent-in-america-have-in-common/ Published:Oct 22, 2015 Author:Aaron and Melissa Dykes Post Date:2015-10-28 09:07:09 by Deckard Keywords:None Views:767 Comments:11
(Truthstream Media) You know, Mark Twain once said that if voting made any difference, they wouldn’t let us do it.
It’s probably even more true today than when he first said it. Nevertheless, every four years this phony façade persists that someone’s listening to the voice of the people, that this is a Constitutional Republic where someone, somewhere cares about who We the People want to run things even though we’re to the point that a scientific study which considered 20 years of data showed that it simply isn’t true.
We stopped in the middle of the night in nowhere New Mexico on a road trip a few weeks ago and found this bizarre, creepy rest stop to be a lot like voting for president in America every four years.
The facilities were filthy. The windows had wire grids on them, like the kind you’d expect to find in a mental facility where they are worried people might try to escape. Everything smelled. The toilet seats were missing. Scary people were hanging out in the shadows. It’s the kind of place your mom warned you as a kid never to go to, especially after dark.
Under the glaring orange lights and amid numerous signs informing us we were under constant video surveillance, a large sign read, “WE APPROVE OF THIS REST AREA” — not really a question — next to two buttons — one for “yes” and one for “no”.
Just like voting for president in America: It’s a broken, dirty, reeking, filthy, totalitarian system where they watch you pointlessly flush your vote down the toilet choosing between two bullshit options that everyone knows deep down inside will ultimately never… change… anything.
Just how freaking clueless do you have to be to realize that rest areas are monitored by video because they are high crime areas,and video monitoring them makes you safer?
The facilities were filthy. The windows had wire grids on them, like the kind you’d expect to find in a mental facility where they are worried people might try to escape. Everything smelled. The toilet seats were missing. Scary people were hanging out in the shadows. It’s the kind of place your mom warned you as a kid never to go to, especially after dark.
Under the glaring orange lights and amid numerous signs informing us we were under constant video surveillance, a large sign read, “WE APPROVE OF THIS REST AREA” — not really a question — next to two buttons — one for “yes” and one for “no”.
Just like voting for president in America: It’s a broken, dirty, reeking, filthy, totalitarian system where they watch you pointlessly flush your vote down the toilet choosing between two bullshit options that everyone knows deep down inside will ultimately never… change… anything.
The windows had wire grids on them, like the kind you’d expect to find in a mental facility where they are worried people might try to escape. Everything smelled. The toilet seats were missing. Scary people were hanging out in the shadows. It’s the kind of place your mom warned you as a kid never to go to, especially after dark.
Which are all reasons they have video cameras.
Highway rest areas are one of the most dangerous places you can stop at after dark. The local criminals know that most people that stop there live in another state and are just stopping by,and if they rob you and get caught chances are they can beat the rap by getting trial delays until you stop coming to testify against them.
Assuming of course that you are even in a position to take off of work even once to travel out of state to testify.
Highway rest areas are one of the most dangerous places you can stop at after dark.
Yeah, and I would never stop in a place like this. I'll stop and piss on the side of some deserted road. I only stop at rest stops that are well lit and well populated.
I remember a number of years back, i was sleeping in a rest stop and left my lights on. my battery was dead. I asked a number of people who came by for a jump. They were driving Cadillacs and BMWs and such. They avoided me like I was Jack the Ripper. Finally one guy in some beat up old van stopped and dumped a bunch of empty beer cans in the trash. I asked him for a jump, and he said "no problem."
Yeah, and I would never stop in a place like this. I'll stop and piss on the side of some deserted road. I only stop at rest stops that are well lit and well populated.
Maybe it is just my nature,but when I see a state rest stop with burned out lights,my very first thought is "Somebody put out the lights and disabled the video cameras because they are waiting for a victim to show up."
