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Divide and Conquer: The Government’s Propaganda of Fear and Fake News
Divide and Conquer: The Government’s Propaganda of Fear and Fake News “It is the function of mass agitation to exploit all the grievances, hopes, aspirations, prejudices, fears, and ideals of all the special groups that make up our society, social, religious, economic, racial, political. Stir them up. Set one against the other. Divide and conquer. That’s […]
Down with Big Brother: Warrantless Surveillance Makes a Mockery of the Constitution
Down with Big Brother: Warrantless Surveillance Makes a Mockery of the Constitution “Whether he wrote DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER, or whether he refrained from writing it, made no difference … The Thought Police would get him just the same … the arrests invariably happened at night … In the vast majority of cases there was […]
Digital Kill Switches: How Tyrannical Governments Stifle Political Dissent
Digital Kill Switches: How Tyrannical Governments Stifle Political Dissent “No president from either party should have the sole power to shut down or take control of the internet or any other of our communication channels during an emergency.”—Senator Rand Paul What’s to stop the U.S. government from throwing the kill switch and shutting down phone and internet […]
Fake News Curated by the Deep State: Government Spin Doctors Control the News Cycle
Fake News Curated by the Deep State: Government Spin Doctors Control the News Cycle “We Americans are the ultimate innocents. We are forever desperate to believe that this time the government is telling us the truth.”—Former New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg Let’s talk about fake news stories, shall we? There’s the garden variety fake news that is […]
2022’s Danger Signs: From Totalitarian Paranoia to Authoritarian Madness
2022’s Danger Signs: From Totalitarian Paranoia to Authoritarian Madness The danger signs were everywhere in 2022. With every new law enacted by federal and state legislatures, every new ruling handed down by government courts, and every new military weapon, invasive tactic and egregious protocol employed by government agents, we were reminded that in the eyes […]
You’d Better Watch Out: The Surveillance State Is Making a List, and You’re On It
You’d Better Watch Out: The Surveillance State Is Making a List, and You’re On It “He sees you when you’re sleeping He knows when you’re awake He knows when you’ve been bad or good So be good for goodness’ sake!” —“Santa Claus Is Coming to Town” You’d better watch out—you’d better not pout—you’d better not […]
All of Us Are in Danger: When Anti-Government Speech Becomes Sedition
All of Us Are in Danger: When Anti-Government Speech Becomes Sedition “If you can’t say ‘F@#k’ you can’t say, ‘F@#k’ the government.’”— Lenny Bruce, comedian Anti-government speech has become a four-letter word. In more and more cases, the government is declaring war on what should be protected political speech whenever it challenges the government’s power, […]
Authoritarian Madness: The Slippery Slope from Lockdowns to Concentration Camps
Authoritarian Madness: The Slippery Slope from Lockdowns to Concentration Camps “All the Dachaus must remain standing. The Dachaus, the Belsens, the Buchenwald, the Auschwitzes—all of them. They must remain standing because they are a monument to a moment in time when some men decided to turn the Earth into a graveyard. Into it they shoveled […]
20 Years of Government-Sponsored Tyranny: The Rise of the Security-Industrial Complex from 9/11 to COVID-19
20 Years of Government-Sponsored Tyranny: The Rise of the Security-Industrial Complex from 9/11 to COVID-19 “I tell you, freedom and human rights in America are doomed. The U.S. government will lead the American people in — and the West in general — into an unbearable hell and a choking life.”—Osama bin Laden (October 2001), as reported […]
Contact Tracing, Immunity Cards and Mass Testing: Are We on The Fast Track to a National ID?
Contact Tracing, Immunity Cards and Mass Testing: Are We on The Fast Track to a National ID? If you can’t read the writing on the wall, you need to pay better attention. CHARLOTTESVILLE (Rutherford) –– No one is safe. No one is immune. No one gets spared the anguish, fear and heartache of living under the shadow of […]
A New Kind of Tyranny: The Global State’s War on Those Who Speak Truth to Power
A New Kind of Tyranny: The Global State’s War on Those Who Speak Truth to Power “What happens to Julian Assange and to Chelsea Manning is meant to intimidate us, to frighten us into silence. By defending Julian Assange, we defend our most sacred rights. Speak up now or wake up one morning to the silence […]
Monsters with Human Faces: The Tyranny of the Police State Disguised as Law-and-Order
Monsters with Human Faces: The Tyranny of the Police State Disguised as Law-and-Order “But these weren’t the kind of monsters that had tentacles and rotting skin, the kind a seven-year-old might be able to wrap his mind around—they were monsters with human faces, in crisp uniforms, marching in lockstep, so banal you don’t recognize them […]
The Jackboots Are Coming: Mass Arrests, Power Grabs and the Politics of Fear
The Jackboots Are Coming: Mass Arrests, Power Grabs and the Politics of Fear “Never has our future been more unpredictable, never have we depended so much on political forces that cannot be trusted to follow the rules of common sense and self-interest—forces that look like sheer insanity, if judged by the standards of other centuries.” […]
You’re Under Arrest: How the Police State Muzzles Our Right to Speak Truth to Power
You’re Under Arrest: How the Police State Muzzles Our Right to Speak Truth to Power “History shows that governments sometimes seek to regulate our lives finely, acutely, thoroughly, and exhaustively. In our own time and place, criminal laws have grown so exuberantly and come to cover so much previously innocent conduct that almost anyone can […]
From Jesus Christ to Julian Assange: When Dissidents Become Enemies of the State
From Jesus Christ to Julian Assange: When Dissidents Become Enemies of the State “In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” — George Orwell When exposing a crime is treated as committing a crime, you are being ruled by criminals. In the current governmental climate, where laws that run counter […]
