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fascist police state…….

“Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.” — President Harry S. Truman

Militarized police. Riot squads. Camouflage gear. Black uniforms. Armored vehicles. Mass arrests. Pepper spray. Tear gas. Batons. Strip searches. Surveillance cameras. Kevlar vests. Drones. Lethal weapons. Less-than-lethal weapons unleashed with deadly force. Rubber bullets. Water cannons. Stun grenades. Arrests of journalists. Crowd control tactics. Intimidation tactics. Brutality. Lockdowns.

BY JOHN W. WHITEHEAD

 

This is not the language of freedom. This is not even the language of law and order.

This is the language of force.

This is how the government at all levels—federal, state and local—now responds to those who speak out against government corruption, misconduct and abuse.

These overreaching, heavy-handed lessons in how to rule by force have become standard operating procedure for a government that communicates with its citizenry primarily through the language of brutality, intimidation and fear.

We didn’t know it then, but what happened five years ago in Charlottesville, Va., was a foretaste of what was to come.

At the time, Charlottesville was at the center of a growing struggle over how to reconcile the right to think and speak freely, especially about controversial ideas, with the push to sanitize the environment of anything—words and images—that might cause offense. That fear of offense prompted the Charlottesville City Council to get rid of a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee that had graced one of its public parks for 82 years.

In attempting to err on the side of political correctness by placating one group while muzzling critics of the city’s actions, Charlottesville attracted the unwanted attention of the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis and the alt-Right, all of whom descended on the little college town with the intention of exercising their First Amendment right to be disagreeable, to assemble, and to protest.

That’s when everything went haywire.

When put to the test, Charlottesville did not handle things well at all.

On August 12, 2017, government officials took what should have been a legitimate exercise in constitutional principles (free speech, assembly and protest) and turned it into a lesson in authoritarianism by manipulating warring factions and engineering events in such a way as to foment unrest, lockdown the city, and justify further power grabs.

On the day of scheduled protests, police deliberately engineered a situation in which two opposing camps of protesters would confront each other, tensions would bubble over, and things would turn just violent enough to justify allowing the government to shut everything down.

This is not much different from what is happening on the present-day national scene.

Indeed, there’s a pattern emerging if you pay close enough attention.

Civil discontent leads to civil unrest, which leads to protests and counterprotests. Tensions rise, violence escalates, police stand down, and federal armies move in. Meanwhile, despite the protests and the outrage, the government’s abuses continue unabated.

It’s all part of an elaborate setup by the architects of the police state. The government wants a reason to crack down and lock down and bring in its biggest guns.

They want us divided. They want us to turn on one another.

They want us powerless in the face of their artillery and armed forces.

They want us silent, servile and compliant.

They certainly do not want us to remember that we have rights, let alone attempting to exercise those rights peaceably and lawfully, whether it’s protesting politically correct efforts to whitewash the past, challenging COVID-19 mandates, questioning election outcomes, or listening to alternate viewpoints—even conspiratorial ones—in order to form our own opinions about the true nature of government.  

And they definitely do not want us to engage in First Amendment activities that challenge the government’s power, reveal the government’s corruption, expose the government’s lies, and encourage the citizenry to push back against the government’s many injustices.

Why else do you think Wikileaks founder Julian Assange continues to molder in jail for daring to blow the whistle about the U.S. government’s war crimes, while government officials who rape, plunder and kill walk away with little more than a slap on the wrist?

This is how it begins.

We are moving fast down that slippery slope to an authoritarian society in which the only opinions, ideas and speech expressed are the ones permitted by the government and its corporate cohorts.

Watch and see: we are all about to become enemies of the state.

As I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People and in its fictional counterpart The Erik Blair Diaries, anytime you have a government that operates in the shadows, speaks in a language of force, and rules by fiat, you’d better beware.

So what’s the answer?

For starters, we need to remember that we’ve all got rights, and we need to exercise them.

Most of all, we need to protect the rights of the people to speak truth to power, whatever that truth might be. Either “we the people” believe in free speech or we don’t.

Fifty years ago, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas asked:

“Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us? The constitutional theory is that we the people are the sovereigns, the state and federal officials only our agents. We who have the final word can speak softly or angrily. We can seek to challenge and annoy, as we need not stay docile and quiet… [A]t the constitutional level, speech need not be a sedative; it can be disruptive… [A] function of free speech under our system of government is to invite dispute. It may indeed best serve its high purpose when it induces a condition of unrest, creates dissatisfaction with conditions as they are, or even stirs people to anger.”

In other words, the Constitution does not require Americans to be servile or even civil to government officials. Neither does the Constitution require obedience (although it does insist on nonviolence).

Somehow, the government keeps overlooking this important element in the equation.

 

 

ABOUT JOHN W. WHITEHEAD

 

Constitutional attorney and author John W. Whitehead is founder and president of The Rutherford Institute. His most recent books are the best-selling Battlefield America: The War on the American People, the award-winning A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State, and a debut dystopian fiction novel, The Erik Blair Diaries. Whitehead can be contacted at staff@rutherford.org. Nisha Whitehead is the Executive Director of The Rutherford Institute. Information about The Rutherford Institute is available at www.rutherford.org.

 

 

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(THE UK IS A SERVANT OF THE US FASCIST POLICE STATE.)

the big guy…….

 

BY Phil Butler

 

The Biden administration has to be the most arrogant and homicidal bunch of useless politicians planet Earth has ever witnessed. They’re also the most corrupt, in my opinion. And I complained about Donald Trump’s few questionable moves. Looking at recent events, I see only the Russian people’s good nature as having rescued us all from annihilation. Now that this is out let’s look at a few of Biden’s “genius” minions at work around the world.

 

Africa Handouts

Let’s start with the US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield, who just tweeted a humdinger which read:

“Today, I’m proud to announce nearly $150 million in new, additional humanitarian funding and development assistance, pending congressional notification, for Africa.”

In Africa, following Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s visit, the former senior vice president at Albright Stonebridge Group probably thought nothing of the irony of her announcement. A whole $150 million to help millions of starving Africans with tens of billions flowing to the proxy war in Ukraine. What a tentative commitment! I’ll just let you stew over the Biden captain who has ties to Merck, Pfizer, Amazon, Lyft, Microsoft, and many others.

As if Africa has not known for some time that USAID and business deals with the United States do not always end with American businesses winning and Africans losing. The people of this continent have been used and abused relative to what they provide, as compared to what their legacy should be, for centuries now. And I’m not just talking about Google, Apple, Dell, Glencore, and Microsoft complicit in kids mining cobalt in the Democratic Republic of Congo. I’d be ashamed to show my face in Africa if I were a US diplomat.

Finally, Secretary of State Antony Blinken is in Africa too, and he says the US wants to work with Africa as “equal partners.” Funny thing is, the United States has never looked on any other nation as “equal” when it came to anything. Heck, look at the whole west-Russia mess, all the Rusians wanted was a say about their own security, and Blinken’s boss spit in their face. Moving on.

 

Biden’s Love-Hate Affair With China

Moving onward and up or down, depending on your perspective, what about the liberal lunatics and their China policy? I am sure nobody knows what to make of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi flying her broom into Taiwan the other day. Even the staunchest Biden supporters were left with their heads wobbling over that insanity.

As if declaring the Chinese enemy number one of America was not enough, my country watches as the president’s son, Hunter, makes deals on the one hand and smokes crack with the other. Then, to make matters even more confusing, the 7th Fleet accompanies Pelosi to Taipei and wastes enough gas to give every American another incentive check. I guess the “big guy” is looking for a larger cut the next time his crazy son heads to Shanghai looking for companionship. Holy cow! Caligula is jealous in hell or wherever he is now.

 

Green Is the New Black?

Or, is Biden’s much-publicized Inflation Reduction Act going to put American taxpayers further into the red? The Atlantic Council is using this decarbonization nonsense as a political lever to make Europe, Japan, and Australia feel better about the coming deep freeze this winter. Now get this. With alternative energy light years away, given current possibilities, Biden is proposing $370 billion in tax incentives to the same corporate pirates who got us in this climate fix. And you know Exxon is going to start capping off wells to get some of that green. Only us taxpayers down here at the gas pumps are the ones paying at both ends.

Look. 80% of the energy produced on Earth comes from fossil fuels right now. We are talking about hundreds of trillions, not billions. The investors and executives who run these industries have no interest whatsoever in weaning us off oil, gas, and coal until it’s all gone. Then, when the emergency is so acute, they’ll make us pay even more to rescue us, and end up the heroes. This is how the game works. Every taxi driver in every capital on Earth knows this. And we see where net-zero ambitions in the EU are. The Germans are ready to bomb London again if the Brits and Americans cut off the Russian gas taps. BMW is about to grind to a screeching halt when the Rhineland-Pfalz winemaker’s teeth start chattering. Net zero, indeed. Biden’s been seen in Saudi Arabia on bended knee begging for more juice, remember? Green is the new red, trust me.

 

The “Big Guy” Never Rests

Meanwhile, as the world burns down around hundreds of millions, President Biden and his family, including disgraced first son Hunter, are vacationing on Kiawah Island in South Carolina. I must admit his free stay at a $20 million dollar mansion there irks me since the barrier island was once a favorite golfing spot for yours truly. Now America’s fumbling mafia is using the place as a hangout. The mansion owned by the widow of famous hedge fund founder James Allwin, is another perk “the big guy” gets from his position.

Interestingly, or perhaps poetically, Aetos Capital has a climate change fund that should benefit nicely from Biden’s spanking new inflation plan. No, I am not joking. The US President and his nincompoop son are staying with the people most likely to win big from recent legislation proposed by him. This is from the hedge fund’s site:

“Aetos is committed to using capital markets to solve climate change. We are active in carbon markets and believe that there are significant opportunities for investors to generate outsized returns. We believe that markets will be increasingly used to incentivize entities to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.”

That’s the level of empowerment, the level of arrogance, and the degree of senility running my country these days. After using the Department of Justice and the FBI to harass and invade the home of a former president, which is unprecedented in US history, our jackass in chief heads off to be wined and dined by the financial crooks who always milk us dry. Few realize, but companies like Aetos Capital make huge profits from something known as Trade Claims, which essentially means buying up distressed debt.

I guess I don’t have to point out how a sitting president with two years left in his term might negatively or positively impact huge corporate debt. Again, the “big guy” stands to profit substantially. Or, Hunter does. What a vacation.

 

 

Phil Butler, is a policy investigator and analyst, a political scientist and expert on Eastern Europe, he’s an author of the recent bestseller “Putin’s Praetorians” and other books. He writes exclusively for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook”.

 

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