Are you drawing the connection yourself or can you cite the source of the connection?
I thought that up by myself. I was thinking about potential impediments to a national, central government restructuring the country into a command-and-control situation like marxist or fascist states we have seen.
I think the impediments to making this work run the gamut from disarming citizens to immobilizing them physically and mentally, controlling where and what healthcare they get and what they can do at a bank.
Physical immobility? "Coerce" (Ray La Hood's announced mission) them out of their cars and onto government controlled transit. Do it long and deep enough and people stop thinking about having much physical mobility, which changes their world view.
Disarmament makes repression that much safer and easier for the government.
A regulatory state in which everyone is some kind of criminal, even when the laws are haphazardly enforced, has to breed common distrust, which makes a citizen militia less likely to form and/or be effective. If you live in NY, don't turn your guns in, it's unlikely to be something you are going to confide in people you don't know well, even from a couple of blocks away.
A centralized state finds its rule easier if citizens feel "guilty" and isolated from each other.
Glenn Reynolds' essay
Due Process When Everything is a Crime (
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2203713) got me thinking about all the little ways people get cowed into "compliance".
I doubt this is any great central plot, more likely a lot of fellow travelers pushing toward complimentary goals. I see the current disarmament push as another facet which compliments other agenda items. The facets may not be connected in a central plan but they tend to support the same end scenario.
Of course, George Soros' glee at the vision of riots in our streets, gives me a little pause. It is a cinch a number of people like that same vision and figure they can profit from it.
What
won't they do to see it happen, is the question I think needs to be asked. That is another subject, another part of "common distrust".
That some people think others are too stupid to select the size of soda they "should"...and can proscribe a remedy for such failure...is a measure of how far we are toward citizen passivity.
Excuse my digression, but I don't know how to explain what I meant simply.
