2. Firewall the entire internet to prevent opposing view points from being heard.
3. Require a permit for all inter-county travel. "Troublemakers" can't get a permit.
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6. Reality TV shows that splashily showcase 'ordinary people like you!' becoming overnight celebrities and millionaires, to give the oppressed citizenry locked into an unchanging socioeconomic caste system a fluffy fantasy that they might someday escape their inequal situation and join the wealthy elite children of priviledge.
7. Lotteries, for the exact same reason. Give them hope that they can better their station without doing anything *crazy* like storming the Bastille and chopping off a bunch of their social better's heads!
8. Establish a Ministry of Truth. This will be an enormous pyramidal structure of glittering white concrete rising 300 meters into the air, containing over 3000 rooms above ground. On the outside wall are the three slogans of the Police State Party: "War is Peace," "Freedom is Slavery," "Ignorance is Strength." There is also a large part underground, which contains huge incinerators where documents are destroyed after they are put down "memory holes"...
You guys are amatures :D
9. They use nanites introduced through vacinations to build an enhanced reality interface into the optic and auditory nerves. This way the elite has turned most people into cyborgs who's perceptions they can edit. The is why i can see the black helecopters and the truth of the elites control, and you smucks who got vacinated cannot. The truth has literally been air brushed out for you.
You guys are amatures :D
9. They use nanites introduced through vacinations to build an enhanced reality interface into the optic and auditory nerves. This way the elite has turned most people into cyborgs who's perceptions they can edit. The is why i can see the black helecopters and the truth of the elites control, and you smucks who got vacinated cannot. The truth has literally been air brushed out for you.
John Carpenter already did it without the nanites.
10. State controlled education that isn't free.
11. State controlled television that is free
12. Government issued permits required to operate any website
13. Secret police
14. Total opacity of all government functions
John Carpenter already did it without the nanites.You guys are amatures :D
9. They use nanites introduced through vacinations to build an enhanced reality interface into the optic and auditory nerves. This way the elite has turned most people into cyborgs who's perceptions they can edit. The is why i can see the black helecopters and the truth of the elites control, and you smucks who got vacinated cannot. The truth has literally been air brushed out for you.
I don't really do john carpenter...what did he do it in?
They Live
15. All printing houses and publishers require government permits.
16. All publishers must be members of the state 'party'.
I don't really do john carpenter...what did he do it in?
Oh... you must already live in a Police State...
I don't really do john carpenter...what did he do it in?Oh... you must already live in a Police State...
Just watched it. It was okay.
19. attack dingoes.
Would you settle for attack poodles?
No. They're not marsupials.19. attack dingoes.Would you settle for attack poodles?
Are dingoes? really?
No! Dingos are not marsupials. Bad werepoodle! Bad!
22. Remove legal prohibitions against stationing battle-ready military formations within the nation to use as police forces.
23. Use them.
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21. Speakeasys, underground jazz/fight clubs, rumrunning and smuggling liquor, good old boys operating stills; freedomfighters with tommy guns, The Lone Republic of the Brave secedes from aforesaid Police State.
25. Covert action teams sent to burn down succesionist filth to pursuade them of the importance of being subject to the rule of better laws.
27. Appoint Kruelaid as your leader.
28. Recognize Kruelaid as the embodiment of God on Earth.
29. Kill yellowdingo and imprison all Texans.
30. Ensure that there is an important competative sports match on every night.
32. Secretly replace the Legislature with circus clowns. Wait, already done. Just without the balloon animals.
33. Replace the Supreme Court with American Idol judges, and let the citizens 'vote' and delude themselves that someone actually is counting them. (to play off an earlier post)
EDIT: Change 32 to 'Require the Legislature to be able to make ballon animals.'
34. Declare waterboarding to be necessary and thus "not torture".
35. Convince people that there is an immediate threat to them that can only be solved by acts of barbarism.
36. Declare critics of barbarous acts to be unpatriotic.
35. Convince people that there is an immediate threat to them that can only be solved by acts of barbarism.
36. Declare critics of barbarous acts to be unpatriotic.
Worked for FDR.....
37. Allow a small unelected group, say 9 people or so, to have the absolute last word on any law.
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39. Create a polarized political atmosphere where both major political parties spend more time attacking each other then solving problems.
40. Enforce in peoples mind that some things are just not right to say, even with freedom of speech.
41. Have people begin arguing over what is and is not correct to say.
42. Utilize the internet and have a few covert agents infiltrate internet messageboards and have them distract people with loony conspiracy theories.
44. Write new and rewrite existing law through executive order.
Good lord...is it POSSIBLE to have a discussion that doesn't turn toward politics?
It would be nice if we could keep this thoroughly in the realm of helping out someone's game setting, and away from thinly-veiled political sniping.
45.Nationalize the banking, auto, and medical industries.
I guess not.
45.Nationalize the banking, auto, and medical industries.I guess not.
What, we can't steal ideas from real life?
Next you'll have shadowrunners who don't bootleg software or music.
1. Mind control via media and internet, causing you to do illicit activities, then blackmail
2. MK U l t r a....
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The thread was based upon a real patent application bugley...
And those ideas can be used for a game...
Life is a game anyway..it's just a game, lose your life, that's OK, you'll get a new body soon...choose your parents, and then we'll reincarnate you...ready....GO! ah crap, they aborted you, let's try again! =D
45.Nationalize the banking, auto, and medical industries.I guess not.What, we can't steal ideas from real life?
Next you'll have shadowrunners who don't bootleg software or music.
Of course you "can." But let's head off the cries of "censorship," since that isn't really what's going on here...there is a unpleasant political back and forth developing that will kill this thread, which sucks, because it has the potential to be cool.
The thread was based upon a real patent application bugley...
I did see that the aplication was real, but perhaps I completely missed the point of the thread. I thought someone was trying to gather ideas for a setting, using that article as a springboard. If this really was intended as a political thread, I'll excuse myself, as I've had enough of those.
Have fun storming the castle. :)
29. Kill yellowdingo and imprison all Texans.
You have a facility that can maintain that prison gang?