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Title: What This Creepy Rest Area and Voting for President in America Have in Common
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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: 1017
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.
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#1. To: Deckard (#0)
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? Has this girl never left her home before? Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
Guess you missed the point of the article. 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. In a Cop Culture, the Bill of Rights Doesn’t Amount to Much New Mexico is a crappy Blue state with lots of scumbags in it. In my state, the rest stops are sensibly located so you don't attract very much riffraff to trash them or use them for sex hangouts. Usually when you have an area like that one in NM, it is located too close to an urban area and the locals use it for cruising and other mischief.
When I was an OTR driver, I was in a few bad Rest Areas, but none that were as bad as this one sounds. For the most part, most were OK.
Si vis pacem, para bellum Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
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. Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
True,and it is a damn shame. Beautiful state,with scenery that will take your breath away. Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
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." Obama has played at being a president while enjoying the perks … golf, insanely expensive vacations at tax-payer expense. He has ignored the responsibilities of the job; no plans, no budgets, no alternatives … just finger pointing; making him a complete failure as a president
So how long were you in the hospital?
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." Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
Box of rocks, sometimes it seems like the average Joe has that much perception. I thought the analogy was perfect. Like posting on a forum and hoping to reach and change the mind of one person....or hitting the no button at the rest stop....same o same o.
I guess it's more important to address the issues of clean safe rest stops than to discuss actual premise of the article. In a Cop Culture, the Bill of Rights Doesn’t Amount to Much
#2. To: sneakypete (#1)
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
Paul Craig Roberts
#3. To: sneakypete (#1)
#4. To: Deckard (#0)
#5. To: Deckard (#2)
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.
#6. To: TooConservative (#3)
New Mexico is a crappy Blue state with lots of scumbags in it.
#7. To: sneakypete (#5)
Highway rest areas are one of the most dangerous places you can stop at after dark.
#8. To: no gnu taxes (#7)
"I asked him for a jump, and he said "no problem."
#9. To: no gnu taxes (#7)
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.
#10. To: Deckard (#2)
#11. To: jeremiad (#10)
Box of rocks, sometimes it seems like the average Joe has that much perception. I thought the analogy was perfect.
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
Paul Craig Roberts
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