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Rule by Fiat: National Crises, Fake Emergencies and Other Dangerous Presidential Powers
Rule by Fiat: National Crises, Fake Emergencies and Other Dangerous Presidential Powers “When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal.”—Richard Nixon Who pays the price for the dissolution of the constitutional covenant that holds the government and its agents accountable to the will of the people? We all do. This ill-advised […]
I’m Not Breaking Up with America This Valentine’s Day, and Neither Should You
I’m Not Breaking Up with America This Valentine’s Day, and Neither Should You “There’s absolutely no evidence to support the statement that [America is] the greatest country in the world. We’re 7th in literacy, 27th in math, 22nd in science, 49th in life expectancy, 178th in infant mortality, 3rd in median household income, number 4 […]
Uncle Sam Wants Your DNA: The FBI’s Diabolical Plan to Create a Nation of Suspects
Uncle Sam Wants Your DNA: The FBI’s Diabolical Plan to Create a Nation of Suspects “As more and more data flows from your body and brain to the smart machines via the biometric sensors, it will become easy for corporations and government agencies to know you, manipulate you, and make decisions on your behalf. Even […]
Yes, You Have the Right to Talk Back to the Government, But It Could Get You Killed
Yes, You Have the Right to Talk Back to the Government, But It Could Get You Killed “The freedom of individuals verbally to oppose or challenge police action without thereby risking arrest is one of the principal characteristics by which we distinguish a free nation from a police state.”— Justice William J. Brennan, City of Houston […]
Creating a Suspect Society: The Scary Side of the Technological Police State
Creating a Suspect Society: The Scary Side of the Technological Police State “If, as it seems, we are in the process of becoming a totalitarian society in which the state apparatus is all-powerful, the ethics most important for the survival of the true, free, human individual would be: cheat, lie, evade, fake it, be elsewhere, forge […]
Empire of Lies: Are ‘We the People’ Useful Idiots in the Digital Age?
Empire of Lies: Are ‘We the People’ Useful Idiots in the Digital Age? “Back in the heyday of the old Soviet Union, a phrase evolved to describe gullible western intellectuals who came to visit Russia and failed to notice the human and other costs of building a communist utopia. The phrase was “useful idiots” and it […]
What I Don’t Like About Life in Post-9/11 America
What I Don’t Like About Life in Post-9/11 America “A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.”―Edward Abbey, American author Life in a post-9/11 America increasingly feels like an endless free fall down a rabbit hole into a terrifying, dystopian alternative reality in which the citizenry has no rights, the […]
Enough Is Enough: If You Really Want to Save Lives, Take Aim at Government Violence [SHORT]
Enough Is Enough: If You Really Want to Save Lives, Take Aim at Government Violence [SHORT] Enough is enough. That was the refrain chanted over and over by the thousands of demonstrators who gathered to protest gun violence in America. On March 24, 2018, more than 200,000 young people took the time to march on […]
Things Are Getting Worse, Not Better: Round Ups, Checkpoints and National ID Cards [SHORT]
Things Are Getting Worse, Not Better: Round Ups, Checkpoints and National ID Cards [SHORT] Here in Amerika, things are getting worse—not better—as the nation inches ever closer towards totalitarianism, that goose-stepping form of tyranny in which the government has all of the power and “we the people” have none. Take what happened recently in Ft. […]
Freedom Is a Myth: We Are All Prisoners of the Police State’s Panopticon Village
Freedom Is a Myth: We Are All Prisoners of the Police State’s Panopticon Village “We’re run by the Pentagon, we’re run by Madison Avenue, we’re run by television, and as long as we accept those things and don’t revolt we’ll have to go along with the stream to the eventual avalanche…. As long as we […]
You Want a Picture of the Future? Imagine a Boot Stamping on Your Face
You Want a Picture of the Future? Imagine a Boot Stamping on Your Face We have arrived, way ahead of schedule, into the dystopian future dreamed up by such science fiction writers as George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, Margaret Atwood and Philip K. Dick. Much like Orwell’s Big Brother in 1984, the government and its corporate […]
The Age of No Privacy: The Surveillance State Shifts Into High Gear [SHORT]
The Age of No Privacy: The Surveillance State Shifts Into High Gear [SHORT] “We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government.” ― William O. Douglas, Supreme Court Justice (1966) The government has become an expert in finding ways […]
When Government Evil Triumphs, Freedom Falls
When Government Evil Triumphs, Freedom Falls “Government is said to be a necessary evil. The saying appears to be without merit. For can anything be at once necessary and evil? True, all governments have had a history of evil-doing, more or less. However, it does not follow from this experience that their good is […]
Censored, Surveilled, Watch Listed and Jailed: The Absurdity of Being a Citizen in the American Police State
Censored, Surveilled, Watch Listed and Jailed: The Absurdity of Being a Citizen in the American Police State “You had to live—did live, from habit that became instinct—in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.”—George Orwell, 1984 In past ages, those who dared to speak out against tyranny—viewed […]
From Democracy to Pathocracy: The Rise of the Political Psychopath
From Democracy to Pathocracy: The Rise of the Political Psychopath “Politicians are more likely than people in the general population to be sociopaths. I think you would find no expert in the field of sociopathy/psychopathy/antisocial personality disorder who would dispute this… That a small minority of human beings literally have no conscience was and is […]
