The US doesn't seem to be improving.
The USA was the last free country, but now that the US is a police state, the world is rapidly becoming a very dark place.
All the lines have been crossed.
Americans seem to be reacting to the collapse in different ways. Some are ignoring the decay by US by sticking their heads in the sand and focusing instead on bread and circuses, celebrities, sports, movies, music, alcohol, drugs, and sex. Some are going postal and shooting up schools, movie theatres, concerts, and churches instead of government buildings.
Everyone seems to know that there is a problem, but no one can agree what the problem is or what to do about it.
The USA might only have 5 Libertarians, but they must much more to to educate people. Patriotic Americans must decide to make promoting freedom their obsession by giving up their lives, using every minute, and spending their savings fighting for liberty. Patriots should just give up their plans to remodel their kitchens, take a vacation to Miami, or go to college.
There is nothing more important than freedom. You cannot have a family, money, plans, or a life without freedom. How do North Koreans live now? What's the point of life if you just live in a prison and cannot improve, own property, think, invent, or have fun?
Why should only Manning, Snowden, and Assange sacrifice their lives by resisting tyranny?
People here might be awake, but we must get out of our echo chamber, get out into the streets, and talk to everyone to get the word out.
Patriots may waste their lives trying to wake people up, but when the US collapses they can say they tried.
Saving the USA is probably not possible now, but we must try to wake up people so that they can be allies when the US Ponzi economy collapses.
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to say nothing.
You have to live with your conscience.
Freedoms? More sophisticated readers abroad know of our intensifying censorship, the words that can get you fired, the controlled press, the surveillance. Americans know what you canât say and who you canât say it about. We know the police are militarized and out of control. We see the cell-cam videos of beatings. So does the world.
Americaâs foreign policy makes it hated in most of the world. It seems murderous, thuggish, brutal, a menace to everyone. For example, the U.S. killed over a million people in Iraq. This does not bother Americans. Since 2000 it has destroyed Iraq, Syria, Libya, enters its eighteenth year of butchering Afghans, bombs Somalia, sends troops to Africa. It militarily threatens North Korea, Venezuela, Iran, seeks to destroy the economies of Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, Russia, China. It sanctions Europe. No other country does this.
This is not the griping of Fred. It is what the whole world sees, daily, in detail.
Number of wars started since 2000 by Iran: 0r. Russia: 0. China: 0. North Korea: 0. America� Number of countries openly running torture sites while talking of human rights? 1. The country with the largest prison population? The answer is left to the reader as an exercise.
Even today, many Americans speak of American Values, of the countryâs devotion to democracy and human rights and freedom. Maybe Americans believe it. No one else does. The United States has a horrendous history of installing or supporting hideous dictators, supporting repressive regimes, overthrowing elected governments. Human rights? In Saudi Arabia? Israel? The world is not blind.
Americans, self-absorbed, perhaps the most historically ignorant of First-World peoples, shrugs such things off. âOh, get over it.â Whatever it was. The nations involved do not shrug them off. You can bet the Chinese know about Legation days, Americaâs role in forcing the opium trade on China, extraterritoriality.
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The US used to have few laws, but you would go to jail if you violated them.
Now the USA is a hell like China where everything is illegal and everyone is a criminal, but not everyone will be arrested for every crime because there are not enough prisons. The government today just kills the chicken to scare the monkeys. You never know when the axe will fall.
The elites have turned everyone into criminals, liars, hypocrites, and cowards. The only good thing about living in a police state is that no one can take the moral high ground on anything.
The US might have been a little dangerous in the past, but Americans had personal responsibility. Now everyone is a criminal and a slave and Americans must fear the Gestapo. Everything is illegal, but the government doesn't obey the law and wiretaps, tracks, and watches you 24/7. The good and bad who murder, steal, own a gun, pray, protest, remain silent, start a business, swear, wear yoga pants, smoke, use a straw, take a photo, deposit less than $10,000 into their own bank accounts, report the news, or feed the homeless will all end up in jail eventually.
What will you do when they come for you?
The US used to have few laws, but you would go to jail if you violated them.
Now the USA is a hell like China where everything is illegal and everyone is a criminal, but not everyone will be arrested for every crime because there are not enough prisons. The government today just kills the chicken to scare the monkeys. You never know when the axe will fall.
The elites have turned everyone into criminals, liars, hypocrites, and cowards. The only good thing about living in a police state is that no one can take the moral high ground on anything.
The US might have been a little dangerous in the past, but Americans had personal responsibility. Now everyone is a criminal and a slave and Americans must fear the Gestapo. Everything is illegal, but the government doesn't obey the law and wiretaps, tracks, and watches you 24/7. The good and bad who murder, steal, own a gun, pray, protest, remain silent, start a business, swear, wear yoga pants, smoke, use a straw, take a photo, deposit less than $10,000 into their own bank accounts, report the news, or feed the homeless will all end up in jail eventually.
What will you do when they come for you?
Get ready, folks, because the government â helped along by Congress (which adopted legislation allowing police to collect and test DNA immediately following arrests), President Trump (who signed the Rapid DNA Act into law), the courts (which have ruled that police can routinely take DNA samples from people who are arrested but not yet convicted of a crime), and local police agencies (which are chomping at the bit to acquire this new crime-fighting gadget) âis embarking on a diabolical campaign to create a nation of suspects predicated on a massive national DNA database.
As the New York Times reports:
âThe science-fiction future, in which police can swiftly identify robbers and murderers from discarded soda cans and cigarette butts, has arrived. In 2017, President Trump signed into law the Rapid DNA Act, which, starting this year, will enable approved police booking stations in several states to connect their Rapid DNA machines to Codis, the national DNA database. Genetic fingerprinting is set to become as routine as the old-fashioned kind.â
Referred to as âmagic boxes,â these Rapid DNA machines â portable, about the size of a desktop printer, highly unregulated, far from fool-proof, and so fast that they can produce DNA profiles in less than two hours â allow police to go on fishing expeditions for any hint of possible misconduct using DNA samples.
Journalist Heather Murphy explains: âAs police agencies build out their local DNA databases, they are collecting DNA not only from people who have been charged with major crimes but also, increasingly, from people who are merely deemed suspicious, permanently linking their genetic identities to criminal databases.â
Suspect Society, meet the American police state.
Every dystopian sci-fi film weâve ever seen is suddenly converging into this present moment in a dangerous trifecta between science, technology and a government that wants to be all-seeing, all-knowing and all-powerful.
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