There’s not much left of America’s liberties. From John W. Whitehead at rutherford.org:
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”—George Orwell
In the interest of liberty and truth, here are a few uncomfortable truths about life in the American police state that we will not be hearing from either of the two leading presidential candidates.
- The government is not our friend. Nor does it work for “we the people.”
- Our so-called government representatives do not actually represent us, the citizenry. We are now ruled by an oligarchic elite of governmental and corporate interests whose main interest is in perpetuating power and control.
- Republicans and Democrats are not sworn enemies so much as they are partners in crime, united in a common goal, which is to maintain the status quo.
- Presidential elections are not exercises in self-government. They are merely business forums for selecting the next CEO of the United States of America, Inc.
- No matter which candidate wins this election, the police state will continue to grow. In other words, it will win and “we the people” will lose.
- The lesser of two evils is still evil.
- There is virtually no difference between psychopaths and politicians.
- Americans only think they’re choosing the next president. In truth, however, they’re engaging in the illusion of participation culminating in the reassurance ritual of voting.
- The U.S. government has become a greater menace to the life, liberty and property of its citizens than any of the so-called dangers from which the government claims to protect us.
- The government knows exactly which buttons to push in order to manipulate the populace and gain the public’s cooperation and compliance.
- Fear, which now permeates the populace, leads to fascism.
- If voting made any difference, they wouldn’t let us do it.
- America’s shadow government—which is comprised of unelected government bureaucrats who operate beyond the reach of the Constitution—is the real reason why “we the people” have no control over our government.
- The government does whatever it wants.
- You no longer have to be poor, black or guilty to be treated like a criminal in America. All that is required is that you belong to the suspect class—that is, the citizenry—of the American police state.
- Whether instigated by the government or the citizenry, violence will only lead to more violence. Anyone who believes that they can wage—and win—an armed revolt against the American police state is playing right into the government’s hands.
- “We the people” are no longer shielded by the rule of law.
- Government eyes are watching you. Every move you make is being monitored, mined for data, crunched, and tabulated in order to form a picture of who you are, what makes you tick, and how best to control you when and if it becomes necessary to bring you in line.
- Private property means nothing if the government can take your home, car or money under the flimsiest of pretexts, whether it be asset forfeiture schemes, eminent domain or overdue property taxes. Likewise, private property means little at a time when SWAT teams and other government agents can invade your home, break down your doors, kill your dog, wound or kill you, damage your furnishings and terrorize your family.
- If there is an absolute maxim by which the federal government seems to operate, it is that the American taxpayer always gets ripped off.
To continue reading: A Few Uncomfortable Truths You Won’t Hear from the 2016 Presidential Candidates
