Posted on 06/28/2023 6:34:40 AM PDT by Heartlander
“What country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?”—Thomas Jefferson
The government is goosestepping all over our freedoms.
Case in point: America’s founders did not want a military government ruled by force. Rather, they opted for a republic bound by the rule of law: the U.S. Constitution.
Yet sometime over the course of the past 240-plus years that constitutional republic has been transformed into a military dictatorship disguised as a democracy.
Most Americans seem relatively untroubled by this state of martial law.
Incredibly, when President Biden bragged about how the average citizen doesn’t stand a chance against the government’s massive arsenal of militarized firepower, it barely caused a ripple.
As Biden remarked at a fundraising event in California, “I love these guys who say the Second Amendment is—you know, the tree of liberty is water with the blood of patriots. Well, if [you] want to do that, you want to work against the government, you need an F-16. You need something else than just an AR-15.”
The message being sent to the citizenry is clear: there is no place in our nation today for the kind of revolution our forefathers mounted against a tyrannical government.
For that matter, the government has declared an all-out war on any resistance whatsoever by the citizenry to its mandates, power grabs and abuses.
By this standard, had the Declaration of Independence been written today, it would have rendered its signers extremists or terrorists, resulting in them being placed on a government watch list, targeted for surveillance of their activities and correspondence, and potentially arrested, held indefinitely, stripped of their rights and labeled enemy combatants.
This is no longer the stuff of speculation and warning.
For years, the government has been warning against the dangers of domestic terrorism, erecting surveillance systems to monitor its own citizens, creating classification systems to label any viewpoints that challenge the status quo as extremist, and training law enforcement agencies to equate anyone possessing anti-government views as a domestic terrorist.
A 2008 Army War College report revealed that “widespread civil violence inside the United States would force the defense establishment to reorient priorities in extremis to defend basic domestic order and human security.” The 44-page report goes on to warn that potential causes for such civil unrest could include another terrorist attack, “unforeseen economic collapse, loss of functioning political and legal order, purposeful domestic resistance or insurgency, pervasive public health emergencies, and catastrophic natural and human disasters.”
Subsequent reports by the Department of Homeland Security to identify, monitor and label right-wing and left-wing activists and military veterans as extremists (a.k.a. terrorists) have manifested into full-fledged pre-crime surveillance programs. Almost a decade later, after locking down the nation and spending billions to fight terrorism, the DHS concluded that the greater threat is not ISIS but domestic right-wing extremism.
Rounding out this profit-driven campaign to turn American citizens into enemy combatants (and America into a battlefield) is a technology sector that is colluding with the government to create a Big Brother that is all-knowing, all-seeing and inescapable. It’s not just the drones, fusion centers, license plate readers, stingray devices and the NSA that you have to worry about. You’re also being tracked by the black boxes in your cars, your cell phone, smart devices in your home, grocery loyalty cards, social media accounts, credit cards, streaming services such as Netflix, Amazon, and e-book reader accounts.
The events of recent years have all been part of a master plan to shut us up and preemptively shut us down: by making peaceful revolution impossible and violent revolution inevitable.
The powers-that-be want an excuse to lockdown the nation and throw the switch to all-out martial law.
This is how it begins.
As John Lennon warned, “When it gets down to having to use violence, then you are playing the system’s game. The establishment will irritate you—pull your beard, flick your face—to make you fight. Because once they’ve got you violent, then they know how to handle you.”
Already, discontent is growing.
According to a USA TODAY/Suffolk University poll, 7 out of 10 Americans believe that American democracy is “imperiled.”
Americans are worried about the state of their country, afraid of an increasingly violent and oppressive federal government, and tired of being treated like suspects and criminals.
What we’ll see more of before long is a growing dissatisfaction with the government and its heavy-handed tactics by people who are tired of being used and abused and are ready to say “enough is enough.”
This is what happens when a parasitical government muzzles the citizenry, fences them in, herds them, brands them, whips them into submission, forces them to ante up the sweat of their brows while giving them little in return, and then provides them with little to no outlet for voicing their discontent.
Our backs are against the proverbial wall.
We’ve been losing our freedoms so incrementally for so long—sold to us in the name of national security and global peace, maintained by way of martial law disguised as law and order, and enforced by a standing army of militarized police and a political elite determined to maintain their powers at all costs—that it’s hard to pinpoint exactly when it all started going downhill, but we’ve been on that fast-moving, downward trajectory for some time now.
When the government views itself as superior to the citizenry, when it no longer operates for the benefit of the people, when the people are no longer able to peacefully reform their government, when government officials cease to act like public servants, when elected officials no longer represent the will of the people, when the government routinely violates the rights of the people and perpetrates more violence against the citizenry than the criminal class, when government spending is unaccountable and unaccounted for, when the judiciary act as courts of order rather than justice, and when the government is no longer bound by the laws of the Constitution, then you no longer have a government “of the people, by the people and for the people.”
Brace yourselves.
There is something being concocted in the dens of power, far beyond the public eye, and it doesn’t bode well for the future of this country.
Anytime you have an entire nation so mesmerized by political theater and public spectacle that they are oblivious to all else, you’d better beware.
Anytime you have a government that operates in the shadows, speaks in a language of force, and rules by fiat, you’d better beware.
And anytime you have a government so far removed from its people as to ensure that they are never seen, heard or heeded by those elected to represent them, you’d better beware.
The architects of the police state have us exactly where they want us: under their stamping boot, gasping for breath, desperate for freedom, grappling for some semblance of a future that does not resemble the totalitarian prison being erected around us.
The government and its cohorts have conspired to ensure that the only real recourse the American people have to express their displeasure with the government is through voting, yet that is no real recourse at all.
Yet as I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People and in its fictional counterpart The Erik Blair Diaries, what is unfolding before us is not a revolution. This is an anti-revolution.
We are at our most vulnerable right now.
BTTT
The question is, who is the military working for?
Hazarding a guess: whose spy balloon was allowed to fly untouched over CONUS? Who was Milley vowing to give a ‘heads up’ to?
But, but we have "elections"!!
/sarc
And we have at least as many armed citizens as Afghanistan's entire population.
“America Is a Military Dictatorship Disguised as a Democracy”
Agreed
Act accordingly.
Look up COG (Continuance of Government) and devolution (good series of articles by Patel Patriot), consider ALL the goings on from 1/20/2021, and be pleasantly surprised.
The founding fathers did not like the idea of having a “standing army”. They were not against having a military or navy at all, but the kind of army they faced prior to the revolution - red coats on every corner which were a general harassment to the public (to include the quartering of soldiers).
The standing army we have today is effected through the police. Police are fine when it comes to maintaining order and fighting crime. Everybody rightly salutes them for that. The problem is their second job - enforcing the will of the state.
If you were surprised by the lack of push back against the government during the COVID shutdowns, know that it was due to the fact that we effectively have a standing army preventing us from thwarting the government’s yoke.
Know too that we are currently under a fascist system. Ignore the left’s claims of fascism, where they largely focus on race. This is a diversion from their own fascism. The racial stuff was a hitler thing and not fundamental to fascism.
Fascism not only involves totalitarianism through force (which requires a standing army), it involves close collusion between government and business. What the government doesn’t enforce directly, is enforced indirectly through business. E.g., forcing everyone into electric vehicles won’t require legislation when manufacturers simply stop selling the other kinds of cars.
“..that it’s hard to pinpoint exactly when it all started going downhill..”
Not hard at all...1865.
So people are telling you that this is your leader, you must comply with his dictates without question, and somehow he isn’t dispatched before dinner? I don’t think so. Our founding documents prescribe in detail, the proper response to tyranny. We all must respond as prescribed.
...As Biden remarked at a fundraising event in California, “I love these guys who say the Second Amendment is—you know, the tree of liberty is water with the blood of patriots...
tyrants...he forgot the tyrants part.
Furthermore, the quote was orignally addressing the tree of liberty, not the second amendment.
Leave it to a leftist to distort history with lies and then sprinkling a wee bit of truth in attempts to distort the facts.
AKA propaganda
...with some dementia sprinkled in
They are there to defend our constitution. They should have stopped the 2020 election when it was clear that votes were being dumped, at 3 in the morning. Then investigate! Pence left this country down .
“And we have at least as many armed citizens as Afghanistan’s entire population.”
Precisely...that’s why democrats are so keen to ban guns. Diabolical from top to bottom.
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“Darth Idi”…
“Well, if [you] want to do that, you want to work against the government, you need an F-16. You need something else than just an AR-15.”
Gandhi didn’t have a single F-16, or AR-15. And yet, the British are no longer running India...
Resolve is the most powerful weapon of all. Unfortunately, modern day Americans have a lot more AR-15s than they have resolve.
Whoever signs their paychecks.
Willful self-delusion is not going to magically get us out of this.
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