That wasn't non-sequitur, it was a perfect argument rebuffing your comment. No taxes (money taking by force) means no government, means anarchy.

Lack of compassion is the exact problem of the - everybody for themselves, I'll give to charity if I want to help - crowd, they are usually well off and do not understand and relate to the plights of people who are not. It is not about advocating against violence, just violence against them. They are perfectly willing to use violence to keep people hungry, poorly educated and without adequate shelter.

So you mean like unix pipe. Where you have those wonderful transformations like sed, grep, cut, sort, etc ? Youngsters.

Modded Funny? Where is the +1. Scary mod?

It takes 40+ days in Oakland, just to get a police report number after a non-violent crime has been committed. The insurance people thought that I am kidding, until I mentioned the crime happened in Oakland. Oh well. This is one of the problems with property taxes paying for police. If the value of properties is not high, you don't get police, the crime goes up, the property values go further down and so on. Fun cycle.

Not only are your teachers from Reagan era, but their information is obviously as well. RMB has not be pegged to dollar since 2005. Almost a decade. It is currently floating in 1% band around a basket of currencies composed moslty of USD, EUR, JPY, KRW and in smaller quantities the pound, rubble and others. This is not going to create any significant problems in any event, since China has almost full control over RMB trading and in the case I describe, all currencies would lose meaning temporarily, but China would be holding the basket of goods everyone wants and means of production.

Also Fed is very limited in what it can do compared to the Chinesse. For a larger currency / trade wars you would need Act of Congress. Fat chance there.
 

China is completely self-sufficient except for food. In case of such crash, it can pick and choose who it will get the food from, because they will have what matters, the means of production of everyday necessary consumer goods. The central planing government will help them navigate through any crises much more smoothly, because they can do things that other governments won't be able to easily. What are we exporting that they really need? Boeings? Missiles? Rockets? Movies? Professional Services? Hehe. Yeah, right. While we won't be able to even wipe our asses. I've been through one toilet paper shortage in my life, don't want to go through another :)

If the markets melt down, I would bet my money on BRIC to recover from it as the world collection of superpowers. That's unless US will go the military route I described.

1) You assume that there is some unified entity called "US" that is able to act in its best interest. Clearly not the case.
2) You assume China's won't learn about the plan and if they learn they will not act.

In fact, very likely some Congresscritter would learn about such plan before it could even be executed, use it to criticize the president in public forum. As a response, China would immediately and quietly start to get rid of US dollars en masse, probably using some sort of derivative schema, which would hide it for some time. This would happen before US could even agree on any sort of plan. As it would become apparent in a couple months that China is dumping US dollars, it would simply dump the rest of them in bulk, causing the dollar to lose all the remaining value. Now all the US allies, those who didn't dump US dollars as well, are left holding useless currency and they lost on all the debt they were owed. They will demand US to repurchase all of the US dollars dumped on market to drive the currency back up. This is not gonna happen. US will be facing a lot of angry countries demanding some sort of reparations. All the US foreign trade will cease immediatelly. The fact that US is not self-sufficient in almost any area and the US dollar being worthless will start draining the country of all its natural resources, because that is the only thing they can use to pay for what they need by now. In another 10 years, US would be a shell of a country. At this point US will use their only remaining option and declare war on China and use their military to shore themselves up economically. But at this point US has no allies and no goodwill at the UN. The result is a war of US against the rest of the world.

So good luck with your brilliant economic plan. Your advisers had to be some brilliant thinkers.

You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say, or ever said, can and will be used against you in the court of law, or at any other time at our will.

Please make the calculations like I did and redraw every federal election (president, house, senate) in the past 50 years without counting Texas. Remove its electoral votes from total and remove them from each side. Remove 2 Texas senators. Remove Texas house representatives. Then recalculate results of votes on key laws. Redo votes and nominations on Supreme Court Justices based on the above changes. Review the SC decisions based on this new composition of the court.

Look at the results. Really I urge you, look at them.

Then go and sign the damn petition for Texas to secede from Union based on your own interests.

You should read what I wrote. There is no reason to suspend habeas corpus.They got plenty to bring you in front of judge. But even that won't happen. You will simply be too intimidated by sentence in decades that you will plead down to 2-3 years. Judge will just rubber-stamp it.

You really don't understand the extent to which surveilance suspends all your other rights. Nobody is perfect. Everyone is guilty.They just pick who they prosecute.

Your 4-year old will stick around the home most of the time anyway. Get him a WiFi iPad. Lock it down, put some games on it, call through Facetime.
Avoid that Android stuff, it is way too hackable and not nearly as easy to lock down. 4-year olds are crafty IT demi-gods.

You don't seem to understand the purpose of martial law. It is a very obsolete low tech technique used to control population movements at times where the humans with guns need to take a rest and your human informers are largely not around. It is to limit the human resources needed to surveil the population. Martial law is only instituted when the positive effects are outweighing the negative effects of angering and radicalizing the society on which it is applied. For example when a suitable justification can be used to placate 95% of the people it applies to.

Now ask yourself, why would they ever again need to institute martial law, when they can perfectly track and control your movements, spending, associations, through electronic means. Martial law would have only its negative effects and serve none of the positive ones, which are now 1000% more effectively served by total information awareness programs.

Your guns are absolutely meaningless, because nobody will come at you with force. They will come during day, with arrest warrant, since there are enough laws on books for everyone to break one here or there, and enough surveilance for them to know about it. Your guns will be absolutely useless, because they pick you one by one with the direct approval of your neighbors and convict you with some randomly selected 12 non-peers of yours, who will have only carefully selected and filtered 10% of the information about you.

You naive gun guys make me laugh so hard sometimes.

and nobody was at all suspicious? Right!

No.

Working for NSA is like working for SD6 :)