🛢️ I. EMPIRE RUNS ON OIL (NOT RAILS)
The U.S. transportation system was designed by and for fossil fuel interests.
• 🚗 Automotive Supremacy: GM and Standard Oil systematically dismantled streetcar networks to force car dependency.
• ✈️ Aviation as Control: The 1978 airline deregulation created a perfect corporate-state surveillance partnership.
• 💰 Lobby-Led Paralysis: Auto and airline industries spend $100M annually to strangle rail funding in its crib.
🔍 II. SURVEILLANCE NEEDS CHOKEPOINTS
Mass transit freedom threatens the security state’s grip.
• 📸 TSA = Facial Recognition Lab: Every airport scanner feeds the biometric surveillance machine.
• ✋ No-Fly List = Digital Exile: Over 100,000 Americans can be disappeared from travel networks without due process.
• 🚆 Rail’s Fatal Flaw: Decentralized stations don’t provide the same control as airport kill-switches.
🌍 III. MOBILITY = REVOLUTION RISK
Elites fear populations that can assemble rapidly.
• 🏛️ D.C.’s Anti-Protest Design: The capital’s sprawling highways were built to prevent another 1968 anti-Vietnam War protest.
• 🚍 Jan 6 Logistics: Insurrectionists needed days to organize buses. Trains would have made it easier.
• 🇫🇷 France vs. USA: French workers shut down Paris by metro; Americans need $4/gallon gas to protest.
🚧 IV. CALIFORNIA: A $135B SABOTAGE MANUAL
The state proved HSR is possible – and why it must be stopped.
• 🐌 Delay Until Death: 15 years of environmental reviews buried the project in paperwork.
• ⚖️ Lawsuit as Strategy: Every landowner along the route became a potential veto point.
• 🎯 Goal Achieved: After 20 years, even progressives now mock “train to nowhere.”
🔥 V. 🚄🇺🇸 THE TRAIN WAS NEVER MEANT TO BE
The empty rails tell the real American story.
• 🛢️ Oil Wins Again: Exxon spends more on lobbying than Amtrak’s entire budget.
• 🛂 Conditional Freedom: You’re free to move – through TSA checkpoints and toll plazas.
• ⚡ The Unspoken Threat: Connected cities would create connected resistance.