Everyone - take a breath, now sack up

[Ponder_MD]

Originally Posted by mdlowrider

Check out a secure text messaging app called Signal. It is very good and I mean that from the technical perspective. It works by cell number, so collect the cell numbers of like-minded people you trust and communicate with them via Signal.
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Is Signal encrypted?

[jc1240]

Originally Posted by Ponder_MD

Is Signal encrypted?

Yes

[mdlowrider]

And Signal's code is open source, so no special features for snoopers, government or otherwise.

[welder516]

Can someone fill me in on how we went from take a deep breath to signals , i am over here breathing easy and following some sage advice . Does anyone thing we are in control . I don't like violence for the most part , i think everyone agrees that if someone is about to hurt you then you have a right to protect yourself .

You don't have a right to seek out people that you think may hurt you down the road .

[Ponder_MD]

Huh? Signal is just a communications app for your smartphone. I don't see the harm.

i think everyone agrees that if someone is about to hurt you then you have a right to protect yourself.

From what I've seen, politicians do not agree. Apparently it's your obligation to retreat and exit your home where possible when someone invades it (in some states). That person might be looking "looking for bread" or something.

[welder516]

Originally Posted by Ponder_MD

Huh? Signal is just a communications app for your smartphone. I don't see the harm.



From what I've seen, politicians do not agree. Apparently it's your obligation to retreat and exit your home where possible when someone invades it (in some states). That person might be looking "looking for bread" or something.

I think you have the right to defend yourself in Maryland , it is a huge crap-hole yes and the politicians are clueless and they try to fix things until they break them .


We all have tried to fix something that was not broke , then while we are fixing it we broke it ...That is what Liberals on the MGA do every year .

[2AUSA]

This is a sad and embarrassing sight for the country. Planning on up to 20,000 or so national guard. What will they say when inauguration comes and goes and nothing happened? Mission accomplished, we repelled the deplorables?




D.C. Guard: Troops Sleeping at U.S. Capitol ‘Resting,’ Not Lodged There
https://www.usnews.com/news/national...t-lodged-there

Washington DC braces as thousands of National Guard move in for inauguration day
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...auguration-day

[JChris]

Its certainly not very comforting to observe how frightened our so called leaders are of the men & women The President claims to speak for.

[Ponder_MD]

Information is coming out about the so-called insurrectionists. For sure, there were social misfits and morons in that group but it's also coming to light that most of these people have never been issued so much as a parking ticket. No history whatsoever of misbehavior.

- Police officers
- Military enlisted (honorably discharged)
- Military officers (honorably separated)

A Colonel Brock, of 20 years in the Air Force, A-10 Warthog pilot, sticks in my mind. The press is calling them all "dangerous, extreme, alt-right wingers."

These are men and women who've attended some of our most prestigious academies and universities. You will NEVER convince me that their minds are so weak and malleable as to be manipulated by any person or conspiracy theory. These people attacked the capitol for a reason. They must truly believe that the Constitution is in grave jeopardy.

[Mr.Culper]

Congress's reaction of the "storming" of their place of work,, vs their reaction to the "Burning to the ground" of private citizens places of work should tell you all you need to know.
In my opinion, they are not scared enough.

Originally Posted by Ponder_MD

Information is coming out about the so-called insurrectionists. For sure, there were social misfits and morons in that group but it's also coming to light that most of these people have never been issued so much as a parking ticket. No history whatsoever of misbehavior.

- Police officers
- Military enlisted (honorably discharged)
- Military officers (honorably separated)

A Colonel Brock, of 20 years in the Air Force, A-10 Warthog pilot, sticks in my mind. The press is calling them all "dangerous, extreme, alt-right wingers."

These are men and women who've attended some of our most prestigious academies and universities. You will NEVER convince me that their minds are so weak and malleable as to be manipulated by any person or conspiracy theory. These people attacked the capitol for a reason. They must truly believe that the Constitution is in grave jeopardy.