This article originally appeared at The Rutherford Institute
“Big Brother does not watch us, by his choice. We watch him, by ours. There is no need for wardens or gates or Ministries of Truth. When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become an audience and their public business a vaudeville act, then a nation finds itself at risk; a culture-death is a clear possibility.” — Professor Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Discourse in the Age of Show Business
What characterizes American government today is not so much dysfunctional politics as it is ruthlessly contrived governance carried out behind the entertaining, distracting and disingenuous curtain of political theater. And what political theater it is, diabolically Shakespearean at times, full of sound and fury, yet in the end, signifying nothing.
Played out on the national stage and eagerly broadcast to a captive audience by media sponsors, this farcical exercise in political theater can, at times, seem riveting, life-changing and suspenseful, even for those who know better.
Week after week, the script changes—Donald Trump’s Tweets, Robert Mueller’s Russia probe, Michael Cohen’s legal troubles, porn star Stormy Daniels’ lawsuit over an alleged past affair with Trump, Michelle Wolf’s tasteless stand-up routine at the White House correspondents’ dinner, North and South Korea’s détente, the ongoing staff shakeups within the Trump administration—with each new script following on the heels of the last, never any let-up, never any relief from the constant melodrama.
The players come and go, the protagonists and antagonists trade places, and the audience members are forgiving to a fault, quick to forget past mistakes and move on to the next spectacle.
All the while, a different kind of drama is unfolding in the dark backstage, hidden from view by the heavy curtain, the elaborate stage sets, colored lights and parading actors.
Such that it is, the realm of political theater with all of its drama, vitriol and scripted theatrics is what passes for “transparent” government today, with elected officials, entrusted to act in the best interests of their constituents, routinely performing for their audiences and playing up to the cameras, while doing very little to move the country forward.
Yet behind the footlights, those who really run the show are putting into place policies which erode our freedoms and undermine our attempts at contributing to the workings of our government, leaving us none the wiser and bereft of any opportunity to voice our discontent or engage in any kind of discourse until it’s too late.
It’s the oldest con game in the books, the magician’s sleight of hand that keeps you focused on the shell game in front of you while your wallet is being picked clean by ruffians in your midst.
Indeed, while mainstream America has been fixated on the drama-filled reality show being televised from the White House, the American Police State has moved steadily forward.
Set against a backdrop of government surveillance, militarized police, SWAT team raids, asset forfeiture, eminent domain, overcriminalization, armed surveillance drones, whole body scanners, stop and frisk searches, roving VIPR raids and the like—all of which have been sanctioned by Congress, the White House and the courts—our constitutional freedoms have been steadily chipped away at, undermined, eroded, whittled down, and generally discarded.
Our losses are mounting with every passing day.
Free speech, the right to protest, the right to challenge government wrongdoing, due process, a presumption of innocence, the right to self-defense, accountability and transparency in government, privacy, press, sovereignty, assembly, bodily integrity, representative government: all of these and more have become casualties in the government’s war on the American people.
All the while, the American people have been treated like enemy combatants, to be spied on, tracked, scanned, frisked, searched, subjected to all manner of intrusions, intimidated, invaded, raided, manhandled, censored, silenced, shot at, locked up, and denied due process.
None of these dangers have dissipated.
They have merely disappeared from our televised news streams.
The new boss has proven to be the same as the old boss, and the American people, the permanent underclass in America, has allowed itself to be so distracted and divided that they have failed to notice the building blocks of tyranny being laid down right under their noses by the architects of the Deep State.
Frankly, it really doesn’t matter what you call the old/new boss—the Deep State, the Controllers, the masterminds, the shadow government, the police state, the surveillance state, the military industrial complex—so long as you understand that no matter who occupies the White House, it is a profit-driven, an unelected bureaucracy that is actually calling the shots.
In the interest of liberty and truth, here’s an A-to-Z primer to spell out the grim realities of life in the American Police State that no one is talking about anymore.
A is for the AMERICAN POLICE STATE. A police state “is characterized by bureaucracy, secrecy, perpetual wars, a nation of suspects, militarization, surveillance, widespread police presence, and a citizenry with little recourse against police actions.”
B is for our battered BILL OF RIGHTS. In the cop culture that is America today, where you can be kicked, punched, tasered, shot, intimidated, harassed, stripped, searched, brutalized, terrorized, wrongfully arrested, and even killed by a police officer, and that officer is rarely held accountable for violating your rights, the Bill of Rights doesn’t amount to much.
C is for CIVIL ASSET FORFEITURE. This governmental scheme to deprive Americans of their liberties—namely, the right to property—is being carried out under the guise of civil asset forfeiture, a government practice wherein government agents (usually the police) seize private property they “suspect” may be connected to criminal activity. Then, whether or not any crime is actually proven to have taken place, the government keeps the citizen’s property.
D is for DRONES. It is estimated that at least 30,000 drones will be airborne in American airspace by 2020, part of an $80 billion industry. Although some drones will be used for benevolent purposes, many will also be equipped with lasers, tasers and scanning devices, among other weapons—all aimed at “we the people.”
E is for ELECTRONIC CONCENTRATION CAMP. In the electronic concentration camp, as I have dubbed the surveillance state, all aspects of a person’s life are policed by government agents and all citizens are suspects, their activities monitored and regulated, their movements tracked, their communications spied upon, and their lives, liberties and pursuit of happiness dependent on the government’s say-so.
F is for FUSION CENTERS. Fusion centers, data collecting agencies spread throughout the country and aided by the National Security Agency, serve as aclearinghouse for information shared between state, local and federal agencies. These fusion centers constantly monitor our communications, everything from our internet activity and web searches to text messages, phone calls and emails. This data is then fed to government agencies, which are now interconnected: the CIA to the FBI, the FBI to local police.
G is for GRENADE LAUNCHERS and GLOBAL POLICE. The federal government has distributed more than $18 billion worth of battlefield-appropriate military weapons, vehicles and equipment such as drones, tanks, and grenade launchers to domestic police departments across the country. As a result, most small-town police forces now have enough firepower to render any citizen resistance futile. Now take those small-town police forces, train them to look and act like the military, and then enlist them to be part of the United Nations’ Strong Cities Network program, and you not only have a standing army that operates beyond the reach of the Constitution but one that is part of a global police force.
H is for HOLLOW-POINT BULLETS. The government’s efforts to militarize and weaponize its agencies and employees is reaching epic proportions, with federal agencies as varied as the Department of Homeland Security and the Social Security Administration stockpiling millions of lethal hollow-point bullets, which violate international law. Ironically, while the government continues to push for stricter gun laws for the general populace, the U.S. military’s arsenal of weapons makes the average American’s handgun look like a Tinker Toy.
I is for the INTERNET OF THINGS, in which internet-connected “things” will monitor your home, your health and your habits in order to keep your pantry stocked, your utilities regulated and your life under control and relatively worry-free. The key word here, however, is control. This “connected” industry propels us closer to a future where police agencies apprehend virtually anyone if the government “thinks” they may commit a crime, driverless cars populate the highways, and a person’s biometrics are constantly scanned and used to track their movements, target them for advertising, and keep them under perpetual surveillance.
J is for JAILING FOR PROFIT. Having outsourced their inmate population to private prisons run by private corporations, this profit-driven form of mass punishment has given rise to a $70 billion private prison industry that relies on the complicity of state governments to keep their privately run prisons full by jailing large numbers of Americans for inane crimes.
K is for KENTUCKY V. KING. In an 8-1 ruling, the Supreme Court ruled that police officers can break into homes, without a warrant, even if it’s the wrong home as long as they think they have a reason to do so. Despite the fact that the police in question ended up pursuing the wrong suspect, invaded the wrong apartment and violated just about every tenet that stands between us and a police state, the Court sanctioned the warrantless raid, leaving Americans with little real protection in the face of all manner of abuses by law enforcement officials.
L is for LICENSE PLATE READERS, which enable law enforcement and private agencies to track the whereabouts of vehicles, and their occupants, all across the country. This data collected on tens of thousands of innocent people is also being shared between police agencies, as well as with fusion centers and private companies. This puts Big Brother in the driver’s seat.
M is for MAIN CORE. Since the 1980s, the U.S. government has acquired and maintained, without warrant or court order, a database of names and information on Americans considered to be threats to the nation. As Salon reports, this database, reportedly dubbed “Main Core,” is to be used by the Army and FEMA in times of national emergency or under martial law to locate and round up Americans seen as threats to national security. As of 2008, there were some 8 million Americans in the Main Core database.
N is for NO-KNOCK RAIDS. Owing to the militarization of the nation’s police forces, SWAT teams are now increasingly being deployed for routine police matters. In fact, more than 80,000 of these paramilitary raids are carried out every year. That translates to more than 200 SWAT team raids every day in which police crash through doors, damage private property, terrorize adults and children alike, kill family pets, assault or shoot anyone that is perceived as threatening—and all in the pursuit of someone merely suspected of a crime, usually possession of some small amount of drugs.
O is for OVERCRIMINALIZATION and OVERREGULATION. Thanks to an overabundance of 4500-plus federal crimes and 400,000 plus rules and regulations, it’s estimated that the average American actually commits three felonies a day without knowing it. As a result of this overcriminalization, we’re seeing an uptick in Americans being arrested and jailed for such absurd “violations” as letting their kids play at a park unsupervised, collecting rainwater and snow runoff on their own property, growing vegetables in their yard, and holding Bible studies in their living room.
P is for PATHOCRACY and PRECRIME. When our own government treats us as things to be manipulated, maneuvered, mined for data, manhandled by police, mistreated, and then jailed in profit-driven private prisons if we dare step out of line, we are no longer operating under a constitutional republic. Instead, what we are experiencing is a pathocracy: tyranny at the hands of a psychopathic government, which “operates against the interests of its own people except for favoring certain groups.” Couple that with the government’s burgeoning precrime programs, which will use fusion centers, data collection agencies, behavioral scientists, corporations, social media, and community organizers and by relying on cutting-edge technology for surveillance, facial recognition, predictive policing, biometrics, and behavioral epigenetics in order to identify and deter so-called potential “extremists,” dissidents or rabble-rousers. Bear in mind that anyone seen as opposing the government—whether they’re Left, Right or somewhere in between—is now viewed as an extremist.
Q is for QUALIFIED IMMUNITY. Qualified immunity allows officers to walk away without paying a dime for their wrongdoing. Conveniently, those deciding whether a police officer should be immune from having to personally pay for misbehavior on the job all belong to the same system, all cronies with a vested interest in protecting the police and their infamous code of silence: city and county attorneys, police commissioners, city councils and judges.
R is for ROADSIDE STRIP SEARCHES and BLOOD DRAWS. The courts have increasingly erred on the side of giving government officials—especially the police—vast discretion in carrying out strip searches, blood draws and even anal probes for a broad range of violations, no matter how minor the offense. In the past, strip searches were resorted to only in exceptional circumstances where police were confident that a serious crime was in progress. In recent years, however, strip searches have become routine operating procedures in which everyone is rendered a suspect and, as such, is subjected to treatment once reserved for only the most serious of criminals.
S is for the SURVEILLANCE STATE. On any given day, the average American going about his daily business will be monitored, surveilled, spied on and tracked in more than 20 different ways, by both government and corporate eyes and ears. A byproduct of this new age in which we live, whether you’re walking through a store, driving your car, checking email, or talking to friends and family on the phone, you can be sure that some government agency, whether the NSA or some other entity, is listening in and tracking your behavior. This doesn’t even begin to touch on the corporate trackers that monitor your purchases, web browsing, Facebook posts and other activities taking place in the cyber sphere.
T is for TASERS. Nonlethal weapons such as tasers, stun guns, rubber pellets and the like have been used by police as weapons of compliance more often and with less restraint—even against women and children—and in some instances, even causing death. These “nonlethal” weapons also enable police to aggress with the push of a button, making the potential for overblown confrontations over minor incidents that much more likely. A Taser Shockwave, for instance, can electrocute a crowd of people at the touch of a button.
U is for UNARMED CITIZENS SHOT BY POLICE. No longer is it unusual to hear about incidents in which police shoot unarmed individuals first and ask questions later, often attributed to a fear for their safety. Yet the fatality rate of on-duty patrol officers is reportedly far lower than many other professions, including construction, logging, fishing, truck driving, and even trash collection.
V is for VIPR SQUADS. So-called “soft target” security inspections, carried out by roving VIPR task forces, comprised of federal air marshals, surface transportation security inspectors, transportation security officers, behavior detection officers and explosive detection canine teams, are taking place whenever and wherever the government deems appropriate, at random times and places, and without needing the justification of a particular threat.
W is for WHOLE-BODY SCANNERS. Using either x-ray radiation or radio waves, scanning devices and government mobile units are being used not only to “see” through your clothes but to spy on you within the privacy of your home. While these mobile scanners are being sold to the American public as necessary security and safety measures, we can ill afford to forget that such systems are rife with the potential for abuse, not only by government bureaucrats but by the technicians employed to operate them.
X is for X-KEYSCORE, one of the many spying programs carried out by the National Security Agency that targets every person in the United States who uses a computer or phone. This top-secret program “allows analysts to search with no prior authorization through vast databases containing emails, online chats and the browsing histories of millions of individuals.”
Y is for YOU-NESS. Using your face, mannerisms, social media and “you-ness” against you, you can now be tracked based on what you buy, where you go, what you do in public, and how you do what you do. Facial recognition software promises to create a society in which every individual who steps out into public is tracked and recorded as they go about their daily business. The goal is for government agents to be able to scan a crowd of people and instantaneously identify all of the individuals present. Facial recognition programs are being rolled out in states all across the country.
Z is for ZERO TOLERANCE. We have moved into a new paradigm in which young people are increasingly viewed as suspects and treated as criminals by school officials and law enforcement alike, often for engaging in little more than childish behavior. In some jurisdictions, students have also been penalized under school zero tolerance policies for such inane “crimes” as carrying cough drops, wearing black lipstick, bringing nail clippers to school, using Listerine or Scope, and carrying fold-out combs that resemble switchblades. The lesson being taught to our youngest—and most impressionable—citizens is this: in the American police state, you’re either a prisoner (shackled, controlled, monitored, ordered about, limited in what you can do and say, your life not your own) or a prison bureaucrat (politician, police officer, judge, jailer, spy, profiteer, etc.).
As I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, the reality we must come to terms with is that in the post-9/11 America we live in today, the government does whatever it wants, freedom be damned.
We have moved beyond the era of representative government and entered a new age.
You can call it the age of authoritarianism. Or fascism. Or oligarchy. Or the American police state.
Whatever label you want to put on it, the end result is the same: tyranny.
ABOUT JOHN W. WHITEHEAD
Constitutional attorney and author John W. Whitehead is founder and president of The Rutherford Institute.
His new book Battlefield America: The War on the American People
(SelectBooks, 2015) is available online at www.amazon.com. Whitehead can be contacted at johnw@rutherford.org.
Even though it’s early and my coffee hasn’t kicked in yet, I can see this is an important article. Thank you to whoever found it and put it right in front of me. We have a tendency to keep on believing what we always used to believe, but once in awhile something snaps us out of our normalcy bias. This article is one such thing.
Mr. Whitehead’s articles can often be found on http://www.lewrockwell.com along with articles by such as Judge Andrew Napolitano, Eric Peters, and true Libertarian/Americans.
This is a salad of some actual issues and a whole lot of paranoid crap. To what point? Let’s fix things that are wrong and do not get distracted by the bizarre thinking. It’s like listening to George Noory radio and then going out looking for little green men who landed in our backyard. I’m in favor of common sense approach to problems. There is no need to lump a bunch of stuff together and hype phony stories to try to make it all look far worse than it is.
What’s paranoid? I see a bunch of things that are already in existence and in use against us. You ignore that at your peril. History is full of folks who rode cattle cars and worse, never willing to believe that they were going to their deaths. People who allowed themselves to be disarmed, never admitting to themselves that there was a reason why the government of the time wanted them disarmed. Governments have killed their own citizens by the millions since they were able to do so. You think ours won’t? You are a trusting soul if you believe that. Of course, these folks dont want to kill us, just farm us for profit. So they are better, I suppose. In some way or other. Maybe. But rest assured, they will try to kill you, me and anyone else they think will be a problem for them. They have already proved it.
There are real threats to our freedoms. However of the A-Z threats listed 90% of them were fake threats and require paranoia to believe in. That is my point, pure and simple. Some years ago I listened to a radio show where the host insisted there were black helicopters. I listened for three years before he went off the air (a good story in that). Over that time all the stories of black helicopters were fake. He used to claim that airline pilots would tell hem they could see government concentration camps being built out in the boonies (from 33,000 feet). Another fake story. All of these things appeal to us, but understand they are appealing to our paranoia. Don’t conflate them all with the real issue of gun control and certainly don’t try to tell me because there is a threat that we will get more gun control that is proof all the other fake threats are real too. Let’s concentrate on what is real.
Is all lost? Is there a way to resist and reclaim? Are we left without hope? Write an A to Z on how to defend and defeat. Please.
sadly i dont feel there is a way to defend and defeat when the local leos are armed with grenade launchers.
That is defeatist thinking and so wrong it is hard to tell you all the reasons why. A grenade launcher is pretty terrifying when it is pointed at you in your home. But then, so is a suppressed 9mm pistol or a sawn down shotgun, especially when it is mere inches from your still-sleepy eyes. And everyone sleeps. Even the guy packing a grenade launcher in his day job. All you gotta do is make sure the war comes to his house before he brings it to yours. And there are nearly unlimited ways to make that happen. You can’t start telling yourself all is lost when the ball hasn’t yet been put into play. All the military hardware and training, the drones and gadgets, none of it is enough to kill liberty in America. What will kill liberty in America, and has pretty much done so already, are the myriad emasculated serfs telling themselves and the rest of us that all is lost rather than standing up together and refusing to be abused. Not pleading for the abuse to stop, but making it clear by any means necessary that this will no longer be tolerated. We are done being tyrannized. Your move. Two sentences every American needs to take to heart and mean it when they say them. There are things worse than dying. Living in slavery to people who have no interest in your happiness is one of them. Not only have Americans apparently lost their balls, their brains appear to have been pacified as well.
Old Gray Wolf:
One set of big brass balls here and more than ready to go down range brother, I got your back, name the time and place!
The sentiment is appreciated. The time may come for that to be tested. For now, we study, we train, we watch, we gather intel, we deepen logistics. We wait for that proper time and place. You would be remiss in your own security and interests if you allowed me, a stranger to you, to draw you into a fight of my choosing at a time and place not vetted by you as being appropriate. We should have “balls”, as we are men, but as we are not children, we should also have brains. To run to a fight without a clear and effective strategy for victory is simply suicidal, and detrimental to liberty. To do it on the say so of a person not extremely well known to you and trusted by you is asking for education in the form of hard knocks.
Hopefully you have already a group of trusted longterm friends of similar mindset. You need them, and it is getting really late in the game to create something like that in the time we have left. I have a clan of people I have known for at least 20 years, some more. I trust a few others that I have known for less time, but nobody I have known less than ten years. It takes time to build relationships and respect that one can trust in the fight that is coming. Such friendships may be forged as a result of that fight, but we are at a place right now where one must be careful where they place trust. The opponent has eyes and ears everywhere. Even here, especially here. Beware of those who would pledge their lives, fortunes and sacred honor to you if you are not a longtime friend of theirs they are at best naive, at worst an agent of the oppositon. I assure you, the founders of this nation did not place their necks on the block with one another after a mere meeting at a tea house. They had known one another for years, sometimes decades. The fight deepened their friendships in some cases. But they already valued and respected one another when the fight started, because they had known and observed one another for years before.
Piney,
Local LEOs use grenade launchers to deploy CS and other non-lethal gases. You’re making a big jump here. LE has used them for 50 plus years. Local LE doesn’t have access to military grade munitions for their grenade launcher. Oh, wait you can own one too, if you complete the NFA paperwork. More paranoia by twisting the facts to create a fake store where there isn’t one.
piney has already waved the white flag. Matt Bracken’s ‘Enemies Foreign and Domestic’ trilogy is awesome. Bracken is a real man, real American. While it is fictional, here is a FREE blueprint for action by Bracken:
https://westernrifleshooters.wordpress.com/2012/09/11/what-i-saw-at-the-coup/
Nice story, would God it were that easy. I wonder, if such s reaction to a “plan” were to take place, would it outlast the effects of weaponized bacteria or viruses? Or other “incentives” to quit? Do we really think these psychopaths would not use any and all means at their disposal to maintain control and avoid the gallows they so richly deserve? Is our resolve strong enough to fight through that to the ending scenes of this story? I am game, and I understand the risks and potential costs. But how many of us understand these things and still stand ready to face the whirlwind and fight through to a better day?
Old Gray Wolf:
Thanks for getting back to me.
I agree with everything you said, just letting you know there are others, if/when, that CAN be counted on!
I admit I am late to the prepper/survivalist community, but I gotta start some were.
I look forward to talking with you more.
Semper Fi!
Mr. John Whitehead:
Outstanding Essay!
I look forward to reading all of your books. The above essay is great companion To Mr. JWR’s essay ‘The Mathematics of Countering Tyranny’ and Mr. Georgiaboy61’s essay/post to Mr. JWR’s above mentioned essay.
Thanx
Very true and very depressing. What can we do?
So where is the place that isn’t like this? Part serious question & part to make a point.
John 14:6 King James Version (KJV)
6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
It isn’t so much about where is the place that isn’t like this but where are the people and institutions that used to resist and abolish governments that trampled on our God given rights. We traded away liberty for temporary security.
they joined the other side….
Events will take a hand in what transpires (due mostly to all the horrible mistakes and choices) and then reality will be the norm again. Think we’re all so dependent on the grid and all our tenuous holds on modern civilization? FedGov is twenty times more dependent. Something will happen, planned or unplanned, and when the ride stops, look for the return of feudal lords, brutal and nasty conditions, and a lot fewer “celebrity” worship people. Frankly, I’d like to see an end to the ceaseless distractions of no importance or value, and go just one place where everyone wasn’t on their phone. The outdoors beckon, and that’s where I’m going. I can’t clean this whole mess up and I didn’t make it. Trust in the Lord. In Him is my only Hope.
Well now, Mr. Whitehead is certainly not someone that would be called “a man of few words”. Unfortunately most of them are adjectives chosen to evoke fear, anxiety, anger, and other emotions that tend to interfere with logical analysis and cloud thoughtful consideration. That makes me suspicious of his motives, but I will click on the links and hope to find detailed information about his various concerns. I will probably even buy his book — which I suspect might be at least one of the primary reasons for this article. Not that there is anything wrong with that; I am very much in favor of the profit motive. I just hope that my emotions have not been whipped into a frenzy without good cause and that his information will benefit us all!
We need to elect a Sheriff that knows he works for the people. If you ask a deputy who he works for, he will answer “The police department”. He works for us, until that is realized cops are useless. The Federal Government can only enforce Federal Laws. The states have no obligation to enforce Federal Law.
California is a great example. Trump wants local support on immigration, They do not have to enforce Federal Law, but they will pick and choose which laws to enforce. The liberal State they are
Thanks for your article. I was recently unsettled this past spring upon going to Disney World for the first time since I was a kid. Fingerprint scanners to enter! Since we had traveled from far and away and pre-paid for our tickets, I basically felt compelled to go with the flow and scan my fingerprint to enter.
My guess is that Disney now owns the largest voluntary collective of fingerprints in the world. Fingerprints that can easily be accessed by the police for any number of reasons.
I’m a police officer and I do agree with almost everything you wrote. At least where I live though, The amount of paperwork necessary to conduct investigations is so massive that it nearly grinds the machine to a halt. Our state crime lab is so backlogged that they are no longer processing fingerprints for property crimes.
The courts in our county are so overloaded with pending criminal cases, submitted by police officers, that they routinely get forgotten about unless both the police officer and the victim become the squeaky wheel.
I agree that all of those spy capabilities you mentioned exist but I think the machine is so overloaded that the system seems to be grinding to a slow halt. Or maybe the machine will just become more selective on who it targets.
Our local city and county recently agreed to spend $30 million on homelessness. The population is around 650,000 people. That’s $46 for every man woman and child. If you take away the kids, the retired and other non-working citizens I’d bet you’re looking at at least $100 per working citizen for only one societal problem.
Anyhow I will quit ranting! I just thought The fingerprint issue would be useful info to share.
Thank you
Thank you for the information about Disney World. I had no idea.
When you put all the things that you read and view, it really brings to light the reality of our government. Nice write. This coming from an x military, school teacher, police officer. Our rights and values are so far gone and have been eroded slowly and right under our noses. America better wake up and take control of their small towns and cities.
We understand things are bad. They will improve if enough people are paying attention to vote correctly while Trump is president. Support the people who are fighting for us. Freedom isn’t free.
I wonder how the author of this article gets up in the morning.
I mean his every word is monitored, every keystroke of his computer logged and sent to the Deep State.
He cannot travel anywhere that he is not tracked.
All of his wealth in whatever form is known by government and can be seized at anytime.
Every weapon down to a pocket knife is known, probably photographed and on file with the ATF.
No doubt his food has certain chemicals in it for behavior modification to induce even more paranoia.
Question, what to do?
Nothing
For me I have freedom to travel and I do not care if some government rube is tracking my every move, who cares. I can spend my money on anything I want, again who cares if it’s tracked.
I can carry whatever self defense system I want, totally legal.
I do not stay up at night wondering how the Deep State is going to get me. What a colossal waste of time and energy.
I have lived many decades and never seen the black helicopters over my backyard and the men in Black are not outside my door.
Just trust in Christ and be saved. I know how things end, Christ wins against the whole evil world system.
With a stroke of a pen the Republican’s NDAA destroyed most of our Bill of Rights and what action did we take? Like Samuel Adams stated, if we are not willing to literally put skin in the game we don’t deserve liberty.
Wake me up if patriots ever declare their independence and are ready to literally refresh the tree of liberty.
This is an awesome article by John Whitehead! What more does one need to know about the Police State?
Sadly I have to ask, of what value is this information if it is not acted upon?
Hmm, this article sounds familiar, like I’ve read similar here in just the past few days. Now where was it I saw that…
Maybe some of us here need to re-read “Atlas Shrugged”, and maybe “1984”.
It’s clear, these letters add up to a lot of four letter words….. the truth hurts, this is a very prime example. The move to world government has been marching along for decades, with emphasis on exponential growth coupled to technologies. They really can digitally catalogue all the data they generate…and then reference any one individutal or local as desired.
(I wonder if the processors for BItcoin are actually doing a lot of their work for them? Eating up the power they do just to run mathematical algorithm’s seems so 1980. Just saying.)
The camera’s and facial recognition certainly support crime fighting, yet abused it is absolute control. We see the move to make water as expensive as gas. Food prices set to skyrocket with inflation, after the deflation ends it’s erosion on our society, making the rich richer and the poor poorer.
We see a few trolls post above. What would you expect, they have programs for this, actual paid trolls by our government. A government that made lying to it’s population legal in the NDAA of 2013. Propaganda is non stop, 100% in all forms of media and entertainment, including sports………
Man caused global warming debunked, yet still promoted heavily due to it’s role in stripping people of their money, controls. The march to electic everything, making fossil fuels, oil, coal, propane, fire wood, illegal. They can tax your electric meter. imagine the control generated by this? It’s huge, it’s diabolical really, knowing there is no shortage of fossil fuels, little environmental issues found in true science.
We are in a world of hurt, as the Prophetic word of God is played out in the nightly news, or at least found on the internet…as Damascus is being destroyed, as the Pope is calling for world religion embracing Islam, Satan’s minions. As we march to a digital world economy so the powers that be, the slave masters, can squeeze every penny of your work for their benefits, via taxes.
World government, world economic system, world religion, seven years of Great Tribulation. That is our future, yet we are called to spread the Gospel of Christ, love our brothers and sisters, turn the other cheek etc…. we are also told to put on the armor of God, grab his Sword, and fight for truth and justice…the real kind.
Onward Christian Soldiers, marching as to war. Extremely appropriate today. Never surrender. Plenty of Americans understand this, and there will be serious battles in the future, win some lose some…but the final battle leads to total victory. So don’t be weak, stand against the evil with Jesus the Christ as your absolute motivation. He likes that. It is the path to victory, there is no other. A realization that is clear to those with eye’s to see, and ear’s to hear. Great article.
We are at war with the left, and muslims, that’s a fact. We being the people, the very strongest fighting force on the planet. That’s why you better prepare for weapons of mass destruction. I’ll stop now.
Is this an ACLU screed ? Lot of silly stuff.