Beating the Bully State
February 29, 2016
Read the following posting with caution. If you choose to read it you may be placed on a watch list.
I
am on a flight from the West Coast to New York City, writing at 35,000
feet in the sky. I have been passing the time on a 4.5-hour flight
reading John W. Whitehead’s book Battlefield America. Maybe here at this high altitude, the keystrokes on my laptop computer cannot be monitored by the National Security Agency.
I
am only synopsizing part of Whitehead’s book because you, like me, are
likely to be so distracted you have little time to read its entire text.
However, you should really purchase a copy of this book if for nothing
else but to hide it in your attic before all remembrance of freedom and
liberty in the U.S. has vanished.
You,
like me, have been lulled into the complacency of illusory democracy,
of reveling over historical but not present freedoms. You can’t imagine
your right to bear arms, your right to free speech, the checks, and
balances of three branches of government, the role the news media plays
in making government accountable as the “fourth estate,” have been
drastically diminished, all by something called fascism.
Buy
all the guns you want. Americans are. But if you intend to physically
protect your home in self-defense from unconstitutional invasion by
government agents, it will now be equivalent to holding a squirt gun up
against a heavily armed SWAT team at your front doorstep, with silent
black helicopters hovering overhead, with the firepower and technology
to block all outside communication, cut off electricity and water,
suffocate you with smoke bombs, and pulverize your body with bullets
shot from a robot if it even looks like you are reaching for a weapon to
defend yourself.
The
American public cannot liken the fascism practiced by Mussolini and
Hitler in WWII to that of modern American presidents like Bush and
Obama. Why this is America, the land of the free! Americans abhor any
likenesses of its current politicians to that of Hitler and the
jack-boot Gestapo. Yet Hitler had his concentration camps and gas
chambers and the past two American presidents had their Guantanamo and
water boarding. The vacant barbed-wire detention camps spotted across
America don’t need to be filled to serve as a deterrent to any group
that suggests opposition to the current regime.
Is opposition to taxes un-American?
It was film producer Aaron Russo
(deceased) who took to the streets and asked passersby if they knew of
any law that mandates they must pay taxes. While none could recall or
cite a law, most responders felt there need not be any law as it should
be our civic duty to pay taxes. Forget that the Boston Tea Party (the
dumping of tea in Boston harbor) was a protest over taxes. It is also
ironic that while many Americans consider payment of taxes a civic duty,
we live in an era when 45% of Americans don’t pay any income taxes. [CBS Marketwatch]
In 2010, I wrote about creationist Kent Hovind who was sent to jail for 10 years for not paying his taxes. [LewRockwell.com]
Well that was the reported charge. It was actually his employees’
taxes – FICA payments for Medicare and Social Security. But after a
raid on his home and offices at gunpoint and confiscation of money, it
later became apparent in the courtroom that his employees had paid their
own taxes as they were obligated to do if their employer didn’t. The
government’s case collapsed so the IRS, federal prosecutors, and a
federal judge had to come up with a new charge, that of “structuring” –
making bank deposits under the $10,000 reporting limit to hide money
from the government.
A decade later the IRS admits its
structuring convictions were mistaken and it was revealed that Lois
Lerner, whose signature was all over court documents in the Hovind case
in Florida, had targeted conservative groups like Hovind’s Creation
Science Evangelism. A largely southern Christian jury was misled, fed
the scriptural line of “rendering unto Caesar what is Caesar’s” that
mandates Christians pay taxes. Hovind and 200-plus other victims of a
bad law have yet to be compensated and IRS agents have yet to be
penalized for the egregious crime of confiscation.
Fascism: when industry buys off government
We as Americans cannot see the
Affordable Care Act as a fascist sell-out to American health insurance
companies. We must now, by law, purchase health insurance when we are
young and healthy with little chance we will need to utilize health care
except for rare emergencies and common coughs and colds which we will
pay for out of our own pockets anyway due to high deductibles.
Government crafted a law to cater to the insurance industry that could
not sell insurance to those who could afford it but chose not to buy
it. And the young must also incur paycheck deductions for future
medical care (Medicare) in their retirement years.
The
whole scheme was covered over by a giant public giveaway in the
expansion of health services to the poorer masses via MediCaid to reduce
the ranks of the uninsured. The U.S. did this with borrowed money that
further increased the national debt.
There are still 33 million Americans
who are uninsured. The insurance companies largely made their money on
management fees for new Medicaid enrollees. While the current
administration takes credit for reducing the number of uninsured, it was
Ronald Reagan who once said: “We should measure welfare’s success by
how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.” [HotAir.com]
Whitehead quotes Adolph Hitler to say:
“Private enterprise cannot be maintained in a democracy. A business
magnate of the time was quoted to say: “We hired Hitler.” Fascism is
when industry buys off government who then crafts laws that mandate the
use of products and services rather than industry having to incur the
cost of advertising and marketing. Think mandatory vaccination in
public schools as an example.
Just not incarcerated
Towards the end of Whitehead’s book he
quotes Aldous Huxley who said: “It is perfectly possible for a man to
be out of prison and yet not free – to be under no physical constraint
and yet be a psychological captive, compelled to think and feel and act
as the representatives of a national state or of some private interest
within the nation wants him to think, feel and act. To him the walls of
his prison are invisible and he believes himself to be free.” Yes, we
are all slaves living in America today.
How do you beat the bully state? Whitehead offers ten principles upon which to restore freedom in America.
1. The present system does not foster freedom.
2. Voting is practically worthless.
3. Question everything
4. Materialism is the death knell of freedom.
5. There is little hope for any true resistance if you are mindlessly connected to the electronic concentration camp.
6. Armed revolt will not work. (Think of those protestors who stood up to the Bureau of Land Management in Oregon.)
7. Be wise and realize there is power in numbers.
8. Act locally but think nationally.
9. Local towns, cities, and states can say no.
10. Who were the first people to realize the value of freedom? The slaves.
You may put yourself on a watch list
by reading this article or by buying a copy of Whitehead’s book. But if
you buy 12 copies and spread them throughout your community, and donate
a copy to your library, those actions may be beyond the state’s
watchful eye.
Once you realize you
are a slave to the state that is now controlled by oligarchs that have
taken control of the country, a government that has literally handed the
financial classes most of the wealth in the country via the nation’s
central bank, you may begin to realize you have no choice but to fight
for freedom. Don’t reach for your squirt guns. Start by controlling
your city council. Dismantle militarization of your police force.
Think secession at the State level. And watch for infiltration by
government monitors.
Imagine
if the British in the 1700s bought off the colonists, promised them
free health care, food, homes and child care. Would the colonists have
had the muster to oppose the British? That is what the American state
is doing today. How can America have limited government when its masses
rely on the government for their very survival?
The government no
longer exists to serve the people. The people exist to serve the
government. Pay homage to the god of government or else. And it’s a
false god because it is funded by debt, debt that can never be repaid.
The next generation will not pay that debt, it will be repudiated says
Gary North. That means a day of reckoning lies ahead.
The
largesse of America’s military, the pensions paid from the social
security trust fund, the Medicare payments for retirees is all funded by
debt. The greatness of America as having a Gross Domestic Product of
$16.77 trillion is a false prop. Appease the masses, expand their
indebtedness and hide the negative numbers.
Haven’t
you ever wondered how the American news media, on election night,
already knows the outcome of most elections before the polls are
closed? They call it the predicted outcome. The purpose of the TV
reporting is to give Americans the false illusion voting matters. You’re
a slave to the state, it’s just that you have power over that TV
clicker and a bag of potato chips in your hand while you watch the
pre-produced political theater.
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