silversardine said:However, it is true that most of us here in Australia don't really have any expectation that the gov't will come knocking on our doors looking for shiny stuff to take away. Having dealt with a few govt depts recently I honestly don't think they could organise themselves to get the right person to the right door anyway!
I have never said I believe in door to door confiscation. Too much trouble, and blood.
Though if I were them I would put every registered PM owner in a sanatorium and the local shop would be selling good food only for PM. They did similar thing in Russia. They called those stores "TORGSIN". They just made all the country as a huge sanatorium. If one wanted to eat good he had to go there and volunteer his stash.
Considering computerization nowadays all of us are on file. Except may be for the most careful few. So maybe this time they just collect "those evil hoarders who are trying to suck the people's blood" for a reeducation. The way they had tested it out in China.
But with the depositories it is very big difference. They are as if custom made to be had by the socialists.
Very few who frequent forums like this are not common at all. Those are smart kind. Rest, the majority of the people, are very ready for commissars and will embrace their religion with enthusiasm.