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In the Great Depression, when the bankers foreclosed on farms and tried to sell them at auction, all the neighbors would show up and make noise - somebody bidding "One cent!" And then after being scolded by the Sheriff, somebody else bids "Two cents!" It went on and on, making it impossible for the bankers' auctions to function.
Today we'd call it a "distributed denial of service attack," DDoS, but it's the same story: clog up the bureaucracy and send them packing, with no damage done except to a few egos.
If a jackbooted SWAT squad is really going to kick down doors and teargas all of us neighbors surrounding them, then so be it. I don't believe that the Feds are so stupid as to trigger a revolution that would surely sweep them all out of power, but if it happened...
...there's no putting the genie back in the bottle.
Today we'd call it a "distributed denial of service attack," DDoS, but it's the same story: clog up the bureaucracy and send them packing, with no damage done except to a few egos.
If a jackbooted SWAT squad is really going to kick down doors and teargas all of us neighbors surrounding them, then so be it. I don't believe that the Feds are so stupid as to trigger a revolution that would surely sweep them all out of power, but if it happened...
...there's no putting the genie back in the bottle.