Posted on 12/24/2011 5:25:40 AM PST by RightSideNews
Since my first deployment to South East Asia, I have seen this great country gradually slip away. America has gone from being the world's greatest creditor nation, standing as a beacon of hope for the world, to the world's biggest debtor nation, where 42 million Americans rely on food stamps to survive...it is happening right now in front of us. Like it or not, America is a Totalitarian Dictatorship, and this article will help you understand why. After the Oklahoma City Bombing, my job required that I attend a two-day briefing on counter terrorism. At that meeting, several people from the DoD, NSA, and FBI repeatedly stated that the biggest threat to National Security was domestic terrorism. The specific examples they provided were members of the National Rifle Association, Right to Life Organizations, Military Veterans, and others who were merely exercising their constitutional rights, or in some cases, doing nothing at all. Myself and others were encouraged to engage in a program where we would report on coworkers, employees, and neighbors about such things as “subversive” bumper stickers. Since it’s the role of the government to protect constitutional rights, including the freedom of speech, I understood this was no longer a country dedicated to liberty and the rule of law – since none of these activities are illegal. Obama’s Marxist mentor, Zbigniew Brzezinski, and his associate, Carl Friedrich, equated socialism and totalitarianism saying, “[It] is a system of revolution, which seeks to destroy the existing political order so it can be changed economically, socially, and culturally.” so as to comply with socialist ideology. “Totalitarian movements, motivated by the general goals which their ideologies outline, have thus not stopped at the seizure of power.”
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Thanks for the link about VIPRE.
...Good on yer for this thread, booked.
>>> Instead, what we have is a passive-aggressive nanny state.<<<
This is what I see, too.
I’ve written about this in other places, but I’m going to repeat myself here. I think that the cultural Marxists had one thing correct - the culture of a place determines the appearance of socialism (or lack of it) in certain places. Yes, the author is correct that the machinery of totalitarianism are in place and waiting for the right person or party to implement it. But I don’t think that we’re going down the route of Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, or Hitler. We’re Americans.
I like your term “passive-aggressive nanny state.” It fits what I’ve been thinking about our culture.
I think we’ll preserve all of the trappings of a republic with limited government. School boards will meet and city councils will convene. Everything will be done according to law and precedent. However, the laws and accompanying regulations and administrative rules will become so dense and so personal that we will be living in a totalitarian state anyway. I’ve seen this in everything from land use planners ruling about the size of my garage to health officials telling me where I can smoke a cigarette to school administrators telling teachers how to greet children on Christmas. It’ll all have the veneer of republican virtue - public comments, open meetings, thick reports, a chance for appeal. However, it will have the actual effect of putting each person under the thumb of the state.
And it’s actually quite brilliant. Under national socialism, you might think that killing Hitler would end the madness. In the evolving American system, who are you going to shoot? The guy in a cubicle writing a letter based on a ruling from another guy in a cubicle based on administrative decisions found in the federal register created by a 4,000-page law? No one has responsibility; everyone has responsibility.
In fact, keep your guns. Go to church. Listen to Rush and Levin and Savage. Write that letter to the editor. Some bored-looking bureaucrat will listen kindly and convene a hearing. Maybe you’ll change a little here and little there. The structure will remain.
There’s no need for mass terror, either. Malcontents will be quietly called into the office and told to attend a weekend retreat to “re-educate” themselves about proper conduct, in the same way that we currently treat sexual harassment and diversity training. It’ll be at a swank hotel with a continental breakfast. You’ll sign a promise not to do it again. The presenters will smile. Your boss will put you on a plan of improvement. That should be enough for everyone else to notice.
What about those who really fight? A well-publicized show trial should do the trick, perhaps a few each decade, enough to make it known that the state has the power to quell discontent. Why kick in every 100 doors one night in the tradition of Stalin when you can broadcast a show trial to 10 million?
And don’t get the idea that we’ll be dealing with grim ideologues. We’re Americans. I saw this with my greenhouse project, supplied by the USDA last summer. A whole platoon of agriculture experts descended on my property, studied this and that, gave me “recommendations” that are really directives, and did it will politeness and a smile. Your health care bureaucrats will be that way, too. Like your kid’s teacher. If someone is rude, they’ll be reprimanded. They’re here to help.
And slowly, slowly, slowly, like cancer, the memory of a truly free United States will fade away as the old die and the young grow up. Eventually, I guess the whole thing will look like Byzantine Rome, with folks going through the actions while the elite try to direct every movement. The Byzantines survived for a thousand years, too.
I hope that this is a tin-foil hat fantasy. God help us.
sfl
IF true, goodbye America.
True.
Scary, huh? Pisses me off!
Nfl.
Thanks for ruining my day, brother. What you’ve described is exactly what I see happening every day.
In that case, it would take wide-scale Armageddon-level event to “reboot”.
Or, get into a special interest group that shows wicked solidarity and intimidates the nannies. This is easier for minorities than whites these days, but if some other axis is found which allows groups to coordinate, there is power to wield there. That is the Achilles’ heel of the modern right - that the various factions cannot seem to put aside their differences and agree on some things that really matter.
Or, some of us could do a non-violent form of asymmetrical warfare that amounts to throwing pebbles amongst the bandits and getting them to blame each other. Time to study up on social sabotage, they’ve been doing it to us for years.
Oh wow. Thanks. By God’s grace, they won’t get their way unchallenged.
I don't disagree with your analysis, I just think it has a more violent reality to it.
Wow! What a brilliant and chilling post. I see government at ALL levels acting as you describe. People no longer have any understanding of true Liberty. We are quickly entering a dark period. Your post is a keeper.
There are a large bunch of judges,politicians, and bureaucrats who already exist not only for their own enablemenet but also to recruit others into their perfidious group.
I call it the Matrix. We walk through our everyday lives thinking WE are in control. We don’t even know, or don’t want to know, that someone else controls EVERYTHING. All we see is this phony world around us, thinking it is reality, yet the Matrix is the true reality.
Yet the Nanny State reaches its tentacles into the entire totality of your life - that’s what totalitarianism means (as I’m sure you know, since your handle is of a philosophical bent). But seriously, a lot of it seems ridiculous, but they control so much and do nothing but grasp for more and more and more.
Feh. The question is, are we being ruled by the ideologues, or are we being ruled by the mafia? I’m not sure - it seems like by both. But mainly by the mafia. Great. I think the whole f’ing gooberment is bought and paid for, lock stock and barrel.
We need to have rally points for if the S ever HTF.
There’s A Sucker Born Every Minute
I’d always thought about that in terms of, there’s always another mark coming down the block, but now I see it differently. There’s always another GENERATION coming up, and they all have skulls full of mush, and they fall for the same line of BS that the last cohort did. Until we can root the leftists out of the institutions, the institutions will remain corrupt national wealth sinks, and they will continue to destroy the lives of millions of people every year.
I read Gibbon back in the 1970s during the Carter Administration. I wondered how it would happen. Now I know.
bttt
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