How to profit from a 'police state' - Wow, is this the future of America?

 I would recommend that you read this article, not from the perspective of investing, but just to see what is happening in our country.  As you see in this article, a 19.9% of total population is working as security workers, that is amazing!  And this figure doesn't even include  police or armed forces!

What does this mean to you and I, the one either being protected or protected against?  I could actually travel from point A. where I was protected to point B. where I was the one they were protecting someone else against me because I was unknown.  Talking about a police state.

For years I have said that Americans were a lot like the Romans in the time of Caesar.  Where somewhere's around 50% of the population at that time were slaves.  Now I understand those slaves were more like the working population of the U. S. today, rather than the negative idea we have from our own dark history.  Never the less, when you consider how much we pay in taxes, you see my point.

What do we have in store for us in the future?  Where are we going?  If our past has any light to shed on our future, its obviously not too bright.  If more and more Americans are choosing to protect them selves from what they consider to be a serious threat to themselves and their property.  Who is to govern?  Who decides who is friend or foe?

Let me leave you with some scripture from the Bible so that you can see that God still has everything in His Perfect Control.  I would recommend that you read Matthew chapters 24 and 25 to get the full context of what Jesus is saying:

And Jesus answered and said to them, "See to it that no one misleads you.  "For many will come in My name, saying, 'I am the Christ,' and will mislead many.  "You will be hearing of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not frightened, for those things must take place, but that is not yet the end.   "For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and in various places there will be famines and earthquakes.   "But all these things are merely the beginning of birth pangs.   Mat 24:4-8

"Now learn the parable from the fig tree: when its branch has already become tender and puts forth its leaves, you know that summer is near;  so, you too, when you see all these things, recognize that He is near, right at the door.    "Truly I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things take place.   "Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will not pass away.   "But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone.   "For the coming of the Son of Man will be just like the days of Noah.   "For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and they did not understand until the flood came and took them all away; so will the coming of the Son of Man be.  Mat 24:32-39  (New American Standard Bible Translation) 

For an audio discussion of this topic:

http://mindworthy.mypodcast.com/

 

 

How to profit from a 'police state' - MSN Money

Cannabis Thrives in an Afghan Province - New York Times

The reason I decided to blog about this article is basically because of the interesting way things are changing in our own country.  In California, even at the college I am employed at, the presence of prescribed cannabis is increasing continually.

Our school newspaper just had a full two page article complete with color pictures of this ready to harvest crop of huge buds.  Buds are what they harvest, dry, and smoke.  This article not only communicated that right in our community, but all over California there were stores where you can freely go in and buy your weed, that is if you have a prescription.  You even can sample the different varieties of cannabis for sale, sort of like wine tasting.

There is a new breed of doctors out there that are writing prescriptions for the use of cannabis for a seemingly increasing list of ailments.  The list I saw even qualified me for the use of this so called prescribed medicine. 

Fifteen years ago I would have been excitedly waiting in line for my prescription.  Especially when I would be allowed to posses multiple ounces of weed.  Wow, you basically would have to be pretty ignorant today if you don't have a prescription.

Of course the statement always comes up that we might as well legalize it and maybe it will cut our taxes or something.  Duh, legalizing cannabis would be a huge nightmare for our society if that were to happen.  You think people talking of cell phones while driving is a problem, imagine a bunch of stupid stoners driving.  

Yes, I am an X stupid stoner, I used over two ounces a month when I was getting high.  I stayed high continually, I got to the point, in order to maintain my chronic cope, I was blazing about every thirty minuets just to stay boinked.  That is the high I liked to stay in, maybe others prefer a lesser high, but I never met those others in my circles. 

When I quit smoking cannabis it took right around six months for the effects to disappear.  You see, this drug doesn't so much effect you with a physical addiction as it does a physiological addiction.  For me it even went far enough to change my personality, from an extrovert to an introvert.

I have to say now that I have been free from cannabis for fifteen years, even still remembering being high, doesn't even compare with experiencing life sober and free from anything that would alter my state of consciousness.  This is the best high of all, and I have realized that I believed a lie and was damned as a stoner.

For those of you that use cannabis honestly for an ailment and it honestly helps.  The only thing left for you is to weigh the cost to you personally.  Just as we do with every kind of medication we use. 

God Bless YOU

Bill Collier

 

 

Cannabis Thrives in an Afghan Province - New York Times