Showing posts with label Tyranny. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tyranny. Show all posts

Thursday, May 23, 2013

DEFEAT TYRANNY – ABOLISH THE IRS

Tyranny is no longer ‘Lurking’
Townhall – Cal Thomas – 5/21/2013

The testimony that came out of the recent House Ways and Means Committee hearing is just a part of what constitutional attorney John W. Whitehead writes about in his new book, "A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State." It sounds alarmist, but reading it should sound an alarm for every American.

The summary on the book jacket says Whitehead "paints a chilling portrait of a nation in the final stages of transformation into a police state." Examples include the growing number of "surveillance cameras, drug-sniffing dogs, SWAT raids, roadside strip searches, blood draws at DUI checkpoints, drones, GPS tracking devices, zero tolerance policies, over-criminalization, and free speech zones."
In his introduction to the book, writer and First Amendment authority Nat Hentoff says: "...I believe we are in a worse state now than ever before in this country. With the surveillance state closing in on us, we are fighting to keep our country free from our own government."

Like most tyrannies, this one is being ushered in with a smile. The public is told it is for our "security" and that it's good for us. With taxation, we are told the government "needs" our money and if we complain they are taking too much and wasting it, we're thought to be "greedy" and "unfair."

Thomas Jefferson foresaw what can happen when power corrupts: "Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny."

Jefferson would see the IRS scandal and Whitehead's warnings as prime examples. Repeal the 16th Amendment, eliminate the IRS, put the government back within its constitutional boundaries and tyranny will be defeated.


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Sunday, April 28, 2013

TYRANNY IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL


How the Boston bombing is already being exploited to introduce tyranny
Before it’s news – John Rolls – 4/24/2013

For a few days, Boston became an Orwellian nightmare.  The city lockdown and subsequent militarization was swift, though any intelligent and guilty suspect could have easily left the area before hand. 

It was an exercise designed to test the malleability of the American people during a crisis scenario.  In Watertown, residents were not only forced into lockdown; they were also subjected to house-to-house searches without warrant, pat downs, and numerous other violations of their 4th Amendment rights.  Take note that almost everything below is an illegal and unconstitutional action on the part of Boston authorities:

Martial Law Conditioning

Finally, we get to the “heroes”   The point of a false flag is to frighten the population of any given nation into relinquishing freedom in the name of safety, which in the process gives the central government even more control. 

As this was occurring, officials were consistently pushing media cameras away from the area in the name of “safety”, even though media cameramen are sent into domestic shootouts and foreign warzones on a regular basis.  The only real purpose that I can see to removing them from the scene was to reduce the amount of video footage depicting these illegal searches and seizures:

The dynamics of liberty have just been erased.  This kind of behavior on the part of government will not be limited to disasters like Boston, or New Orleans during Katrina; a precedence is being set to use martial law-style tactics anywhere for any reason at anytime.  The “national security argument” is being used as a free license to institute any measure regardless of law to achieve a particular combat objective.  The environment we saw in the dark days of Boston is an environment we’ll soon see all over the country, and here is why…

Free Speech Is Next

During the height of the civil rights marches of the 50’s and 60’s, tactics were used to silence dissent.  Black protesters were told that they could not obtain proper permits for peaceful marches because their “own safety” and the safety of the public could not be ensured.  This matter of using broad hypothetical dangers as a catalyst for censorship was finally argued before the Supreme Court in Shuttlesworth v. BirminghamThe court sided with the protestors, pointing out that the use of undefined safety concerns and “prior restraint” to silence speech was unconstitutional.  Unfortunately, the decision has not prevented the U.S. government from slowly undermining public protest rights ever since. 

The fascinating thing about incremental tyranny is the way in which naïve members of our society try to rationalize it.  They debate using logical fallacies like:

How have your rights been violated in particular?  If your rights haven’t been violated, what right do you have to complain?”

And how about this gem…

“Yeah, there are problems in this country, but at least we have some freedom.  In many countries, you wouldn’t be allowed to complain the way you are…”

This is statist psychology at work.  Freedom, in their minds, is a privilege doled out by governments, rather than an inborn attribute outside of the realm of law.  They do not understand that the violation of the rights of one American is a violation of the rights of ALL Americans.  They do not understand that the destruction of some constitutional protections will one day lead to the destruction of ALL constitutional protections.  

THE BOTTOM LINE?  OUR CIVIL LIBERTIES ARE NOT UP FOR COMPROMISE.  PERIOD.  SHOOTINGS, BOMBS, NUKES, NOTHING!  THERE IS NO RATIONALIZATION THAT WILL EVER MAKE TYRANNY A MORAL ENTERPRISE.  I, LIKE MANY OTHER AMERICANS, DO NOT CARE WHAT BOOGEYMAN FANTASY IS PARADED IN FRONT OF ME.  WE ARE NOT FRIGHTENED, AND WE ARE NOT IGNORANT.  NO ATTACK, NO MATTER HOW HEINOUS, WILL EVER CONVINCE US TO HAND OVER OUR FREEDOM.


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