The stealing of America by
Cops, Courts, Corporations and Congress
Freedom Outpost – John Whitehead
– 7/24/2014
"What the government is
good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It's
not good at much else." —Author
Tom Clancy
Call it what you will—taxes,
penalties, fees, fines, regulations, tariffs, tickets, permits, surcharges,
tolls, asset forfeitures, foreclosures, etc.—but the only word that truly
describes the constant bilking of the American taxpayer by the government and
its corporate partners is theft.
We're operating in a
topsy-turvy Sherwood Forest where instead of Robin
Hood and his merry band of thieves stealing from the rich to feed the poor,
you've got the government and its merry band of corporate thieves stealing from
the poor to fatten the wallets of the rich. In this way, the poor get poorer
and the rich get richer. All the while, the American Dream of peace,
prosperity, and liberty has turned
into a nightmare of endless wars, debilitating
debt, and outright
tyranny.
What Americans don't seem to
comprehend is that if the government can arbitrarily take away your property,
without your having much say about it, you have no true rights. You're nothing
more than a serf or a slave.
In this way, the police
state with all of its trappings—from surveillance
cameras, militarized
police, SWAT
team raids, truancy and zero
tolerance policies, asset
forfeiture laws, privatized prisons and red
light cameras to Sting Ray guns,
fusion centers, drones,
black
boxes, hollow-point
bullets, detention
centers, speed traps and abundance of laws criminalizing otherwise
legitimate conduct—is little more than a front for a high-dollar covert
operation aimed at laundering as much money as possible through government
agencies and into the bank accounts of corporations.
The rationalizations for the
American police state are many. There's the so-called threat of terrorism, the
ongoing Drug War, the influx of illegal immigrants, the threat of civil
unrest in the face of economic collapse, etc. However, these rationalizations
are merely excuses for the growth of a government behemoth, one which works
hand in hand with corporations to profit from a society kept under lockdown and
in fear at all times.
Indeed, as I point out in my
book A
Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State, the real
motivating factor behind erecting a police state is not to protect the people,
but to further enrich the powerful.
In sum, the American police
state is a multi-billion dollar boondoggle, meant to keep the property and the
resources of the American people flowing into corrupt government agencies and
their corporate partners. For those with any accounting ability, it's clear
that the total sum of the expenses being charged to the American taxpayer's
account by the government add up to only one thing: the loss of our freedoms.
It's time to seriously consider a plan to begin de-funding this beast and
keeping our resources where they belong: in our communities, working for us.
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