{"id":2774,"date":"2014-12-10T21:23:31","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T02:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2774"},"modified":"2014-12-10T21:23:31","modified_gmt":"2014-12-11T02:23:31","slug":"the-rutherford-institute-the-game-is-rigged-why-americans-keep-losing-to-the-police-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2774","title":{"rendered":"The Rutherford Institute :: The Game Is Rigged: Why Americans Keep Losing to the Police State"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Rutherford Institute :: The Game Is Rigged: Why Americans Keep Losing to the Police State<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe truth is that the State is a conspiracy designed not only to exploit, but above all to corrupt its citizens.\u201d\u2014Leo Tolstoy<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

My 7-year-old granddaughter has suddenly developed a keen interest in card games: Go Fish, Crazy Eights, Old Maid, Blackjack, and War. We\u2019ve fallen into a set pattern now: every time we play, she deals the cards, and I pretend not to see her stacking the deck in her favor. And of course, I always lose.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t mind losing to my granddaughter at Old Maid, knowing full well the game is rigged. For now, it\u2019s fun and games, and she\u2019s winning. Where the rub comes in is in knowing that someday she\u2019ll be old enough to realize that being a citizen in the American police state is much like playing against a stacked deck: you\u2019re always going to lose.<\/p>\n

The game is rigged, and \u201cwe the people\u201d keep getting dealt the same losing hand. Even so, we stay in the game, against all odds, trusting that our luck will change.<\/p>\n

The problem, of course, is that luck will not save us. The people dealing the cards\u2014the politicians, the corporations, the judges, the prosecutors, the police, the bureaucrats, the military, the media, etc.\u2014have only one prevailing concern, and that is to maintain their power and control over the country and us.<\/p>\n

It really doesn\u2019t matter what you call them\u2014the 1%, the elite, the controllers, the masterminds, the shadow government, the police state, the surveillance state, the military industrial complex\u2014so long as you understand that while they are dealing the cards, the deck will always be stacked in their favor.<\/p>\n

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The Rutherford Institute :: The Game Is Rigged: Why Americans Keep Losing to the Police State. \u201cThe truth is that the State is a conspiracy designed not only to exploit, but above all to corrupt its citizens.\u201d\u2014Leo Tolstoy My 7-year-old granddaughter has suddenly developed a keen interest in card games: Go Fish, Crazy Eights, Old […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[135,259,379,635,1831,1309],"class_list":["post-2774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-cia","tag-empire","tag-government","tag-police-state","tag-rigged-game","tag-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2775,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2774\/revisions\/2775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}