{"id":59256,"date":"2021-09-10T06:56:57","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T11:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=59256"},"modified":"2021-09-10T06:56:57","modified_gmt":"2021-09-10T11:56:57","slug":"20-years-of-government-sponsored-tyranny-the-rise-of-the-security-industrial-complex-from-9-11-to-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=59256","title":{"rendered":"20 Years of Government-Sponsored Tyranny: The Rise of the Security-Industrial Complex from 9\/11 to COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mediaObject\">\n<div class=\"mediaObjectPrimary\">\n<h3 class=\"articleTitle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rutherford.org\/publications_resources\/john_whiteheads_commentary\/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<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI tell you, freedom and human rights in America are doomed. The U.S. government will lead the American people in \u2014 and the West in general \u2014 into an unbearable hell and a choking life.\u201d\u2014Osama bin Laden (October 2001),\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2002\/US\/01\/31\/gen.binladen.interview\/index.html\">as reported by CNN<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What a strange and harrowing road we\u2019ve walked since September 11, 2001, littered with the debris of our once-vaunted liberties. We have gone from a nation that took great pride in being a model of a representative democracy to being a model of how to persuade a freedom-loving people to march in lockstep with a police state.<\/p>\n<p>Our losses are mounting with every passing day.<\/p>\n<p>What began with the\u00a0post-9\/11\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.justice.gov\/archive\/ll\/highlights.htm\">passage of the USA Patriot Act<\/a>\u00a0 has snowballed into the eradication of every vital safeguard against government overreach, corruption and abuse.<\/p>\n<p>The citizenry\u2019s unquestioning acquiescence to anything the government wants to do in exchange for the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-fix\/wp\/2014\/09\/11\/welcome-to-the-post-edward-snowden-era\/\">phantom promise of safety and security<\/a>\u00a0has resulted in a society where the nation has been locked down into a militarized, mechanized, hypersensitive, legalistic, self-righteous, goose-stepping antithesis of every principle upon which this nation was founded.<\/p>\n<p>Set against a backdrop of government surveillance, militarized police, SWAT team raids, asset forfeiture, eminent domain, overcriminalization, armed surveillance drones, whole body scanners, stop and frisk searches, police violence and the like\u2014all of which have been sanctioned by Congress, the White House and the courts\u2014our constitutional freedoms have been steadily chipped away at, undermined, eroded, whittled down, and generally discarded.<\/p>\n<p>The rights embodied in the Constitution, if not already eviscerated, are on life support.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>20 Years of Government-Sponsored Tyranny: The Rise of the Security-Industrial Complex from 9\/11 to COVID-19 \u201cI tell you, freedom and human rights in America are doomed. The U.S. government will lead the American people in \u2014 and the West in general \u2014 into an unbearable hell and a choking life.\u201d\u2014Osama bin Laden (October 2001),\u00a0as reported [&hellip;]<\/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":[10,6420,5570,31177,31745,6300,1492,5262],"class_list":["post-59256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-10","tag-john-whitehead","tag-mass-surveillance","tag-nisha-whitehead","tag-security-industrial-complex","tag-the-rutherford-institute","tag-tyranny","tag-usa-patriot-act"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59256","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=59256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59257,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59256\/revisions\/59257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}