Posted on 12/27/2009 7:46:00 AM PST by RobinMasters
There's a new "chill" that has nothing to do with claims of global warming or climate change and everything to do with the failing confidence Americans feel in their own freedoms, according to a new poll.
"More Americans this month felt that there was more of a climate of fear over their freedom of association – with more than one in three – 36 percent – saying that they believed Americans had reason to fear punishment or retribution based on who their friends were or who they met with. This is chilling stuff!" said Fritz Wenzel of Wenzel Strategies.
The WND/Wenzel telephone survey was conducted Dec. 18-21 using an automated telephone technology calling a random sampling of listed telephone numbers. The survey included 26 questions and carries a 95 percent confidence interval. It included 823 likely voters. It carries a margin of error of 3.4 percentage points.
His survey revealed that the WorldNetDaily Freedom Index took a huge plunge in December, dropping to its lowest ever mark of 46.4 on a 100-point scale. The assessment is based on respondents' answers to a series of monthly questions about how they feel about a basketful of liberties they enjoy as Americans.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
Ping.
I know I have felt fear of speaking freely, even among some friends. It is a frightful feeling, too.
Yes, Americans (1 in 3) see it coming.
Our Congress critters are not included in this group.
I fear that our First Amendment rights will be eroded bit by bit until we have no right of free speech. Obama and his FCC will reimpose some type of “fairness doctrine” that will all but kill talk radio. Internet censorship will be next...look at what has now been done in Australia. Free press will become meaningless when in exchange for massive bailouts of floundering newspapers there is a government takeover. The major TV networks are already virtually state controlled. Before the end of 2012 the only source of uncensored or news that is not government controlled sources will be by short wave radio from foreign countries.
I mean, if you bought all of that, you would probably think that the gubmint was monitoring this website or something.
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Dems and their hateful minions are doing this on purpose. Eff the dem totalitarians. Eff ‘em.
I believe it. I was thinking about joining OathKeepers but now the ADL and SPLC have them listed as a subversive organization with anti-governmental themes.
In other words potential terrorists. Active duty and retired military folk and law enforcement who believe in the Constitution unperverted.
Two bit tin pot wanna bee alert ...
A blast from the past:
” ... Silence in the face of evil is evil itself. God will not hold us guiltless, not to speak is to speak, not to act is to act.” — Dietrich Boenhoffer, a German pastor who stood against the Nazis.
“To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards out of men.” -— Abraham Lincoln
Then you'll REALLY have something to worry about. It's not an unfounded fear in the LEAST that we've lost this war against our God-given freedoms!
"Harvey Silverglate does an extraordinary job analyzing the erosion of rights and the risks it carries to liberty in America in his book, Three Felonies a Day, How the Feds Target the Innocent.
This book is a must read for anyone who cares about the preservation of liberty and putting a check on the encroachment of the federal government in the every day lives of citizens.
He shows how the Department of Justice has led a steady march to expand their reach into the lives of ordinary Americans. The result? Panoply of laws giving them the right to prosecute just about anyone for anything at will.
Their broad application of the Deprivation of Honest Services Statutes in White Collar Crime and a host of other legal gymnastics give them a club every bit as powerful as the Soviet Union at the height of its power. In the Soviet Union and other dictatorships the tools of federalization of all crimes and trampling liberties usually reside in what is commonly called "Defamation Statutes."
Mr. Silverglate identifies numerous laws and Department of Justice interpretations and applications that give them authority rivaling the Soviet Union in its heyday. This boils down to a scandalous use of the federal instruments of powers residing in the executive branch at the Department of Justice that go unchecked.
For anyone who cares about liberty I recommend this book. It is makes a powerful contribution to the cause of justice and freedom and ranks as a modern day call to action equal to Thomas Paine's pamphlet, Common Sense published in 1776.
Mr. Siverglate brings current day threats to our liberties into focus just as Mr. Paine brought the need for the American Revolution into focus in 1776. For Mr. Paine liberty and freedom's enemy resided in King George of England; to Mr. Silverglate it can be found in a runaway Department of Justice intent on expanding its power to intrude and reach into the life of every American."
http://www.amazon.com/Three-Felonies-Day-Target-Innocent/dp/1594032556
It is even more troubling that 64% of the population is not concerned!
We are all on some kind of list the government can use to implicate us, for whatever reason.
Keep your powder dry and your shelves stocked.
But not to worry. Liberals will see to it that those blue-nosed fascists will never destroy the right to use the "f-word." That's all that really matters . . . isn't it? [/sarcasm]
Husband was filling up the car and a state trooper walked up to him and mentioned the “Who is John Gault” sticker on the bumper. Turns out he was like minded and had a chat on current events. He told my husband that he didn’t like what he saw coming. Wished hubby well and told him to be prepped.
Libs against subversion? What's next . . . loyalty oaths? An "Un-American Activities Committee?"
The world has turned upside down.
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