Guest Post by John W. Whitehead
“What country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?”—Thomas Jefferson
The government is goosestepping all over our freedoms.
Case in point: America’s founders did not want a military government ruled by force. Rather, they opted for a republic bound by the rule of law: the U.S. Constitution.
Yet sometime over the course of the past 240-plus years that constitutional republic has been transformed into a military dictatorship disguised as a democracy.
Most Americans seem relatively untroubled by this state of martial law.
Incredibly, when President Biden bragged about how the average citizen doesn’t stand a chance against the government’s massive arsenal of militarized firepower, it barely caused a ripple.
As Biden remarked at a fundraising event in California, “I love these guys who say the Second Amendment is—you know, the tree of liberty is water with the blood of patriots. Well, if [you] want to do that, you want to work against the government, you need an F-16. You need something else than just an AR-15.”
The message being sent to the citizenry is clear: there is no place in our nation today for the kind of revolution our forefathers mounted against a tyrannical government.
For that matter, the government has declared an all-out war on any resistance whatsoever by the citizenry to its mandates, power grabs and abuses.
By this standard, had the Declaration of Independence been written today, it would have rendered its signers extremists or terrorists, resulting in them being placed on a government watch list, targeted for surveillance of their activities and correspondence, and potentially arrested, held indefinitely, stripped of their rights and labeled enemy combatants.
This is no longer the stuff of speculation and warning.
For years, the government has been warning against the dangers of domestic terrorism, erecting surveillance systems to monitor its own citizens, creating classification systems to label any viewpoints that challenge the status quo as extremist, and training law enforcement agencies to equate anyone possessing anti-government views as a domestic terrorist.
A 2008 Army War College report revealed that “widespread civil violence inside the United States would force the defense establishment to reorient priorities in extremis to defend basic domestic order and human security.” The 44-page report goes on to warn that potential causes for such civil unrest could include another terrorist attack, “unforeseen economic collapse, loss of functioning political and legal order, purposeful domestic resistance or insurgency, pervasive public health emergencies, and catastrophic natural and human disasters.”
Subsequent reports by the Department of Homeland Security to identify, monitor and label right-wing and left-wing activists and military veterans as extremists (a.k.a. terrorists) have manifested into full-fledged pre-crime surveillance programs. Almost a decade later, after locking down the nation and spending billions to fight terrorism, the DHS concluded that the greater threat is not ISIS but domestic right-wing extremism.
Rounding out this profit-driven campaign to turn American citizens into enemy combatants (and America into a battlefield) is a technology sector that is colluding with the government to create a Big Brother that is all-knowing, all-seeing and inescapable. It’s not just the drones, fusion centers, license plate readers, stingray devices and the NSA that you have to worry about. You’re also being tracked by the black boxes in your cars, your cell phone, smart devices in your home, grocery loyalty cards, social media accounts, credit cards, streaming services such as Netflix, Amazon, and e-book reader accounts.
The events of recent years have all been part of a master plan to shut us up and preemptively shut us down: by making peaceful revolution impossible and violent revolution inevitable.
The powers-that-be want an excuse to lockdown the nation and throw the switch to all-out martial law.
This is how it begins.
As John Lennon warned, “When it gets down to having to use violence, then you are playing the system’s game. The establishment will irritate you—pull your beard, flick your face—to make you fight. Because once they’ve got you violent, then they know how to handle you.”
Already, discontent is growing.
According to a USA TODAY/Suffolk University poll, 7 out of 10 Americans believe that American democracy is “imperiled.”
Americans are worried about the state of their country, afraid of an increasingly violent and oppressive federal government, and tired of being treated like suspects and criminals.
What we’ll see more of before long is a growing dissatisfaction with the government and its heavy-handed tactics by people who are tired of being used and abused and are ready to say “enough is enough.”
This is what happens when a parasitical government muzzles the citizenry, fences them in, herds them, brands them, whips them into submission, forces them to ante up the sweat of their brows while giving them little in return, and then provides them with little to no outlet for voicing their discontent.
Our backs are against the proverbial wall.
We’ve been losing our freedoms so incrementally for so long—sold to us in the name of national security and global peace, maintained by way of martial law disguised as law and order, and enforced by a standing army of militarized police and a political elite determined to maintain their powers at all costs—that it’s hard to pinpoint exactly when it all started going downhill, but we’ve been on that fast-moving, downward trajectory for some time now.
When the government views itself as superior to the citizenry, when it no longer operates for the benefit of the people, when the people are no longer able to peacefully reform their government, when government officials cease to act like public servants, when elected officials no longer represent the will of the people, when the government routinely violates the rights of the people and perpetrates more violence against the citizenry than the criminal class, when government spending is unaccountable and unaccounted for, when the judiciary act as courts of order rather than justice, and when the government is no longer bound by the laws of the Constitution, then you no longer have a government “of the people, by the people and for the people.”
Brace yourselves.
There is something being concocted in the dens of power, far beyond the public eye, and it doesn’t bode well for the future of this country.
Anytime you have an entire nation so mesmerized by political theater and public spectacle that they are oblivious to all else, you’d better beware.
Anytime you have a government that operates in the shadows, speaks in a language of force, and rules by fiat, you’d better beware.
And anytime you have a government so far removed from its people as to ensure that they are never seen, heard or heeded by those elected to represent them, you’d better beware.
The architects of the police state have us exactly where they want us: under their stamping boot, gasping for breath, desperate for freedom, grappling for some semblance of a future that does not resemble the totalitarian prison being erected around us.
The government and its cohorts have conspired to ensure that the only real recourse the American people have to express their displeasure with the government is through voting, yet that is no real recourse at all.
Yet as I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People and in its fictional counterpart The Erik Blair Diaries, what is unfolding before us is not a revolution. This is an anti-revolution.
We are at our most vulnerable right now.
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How many active ” States of Emergency ” are in play right now ?
Check out what Executive Order 11490 does.
Check out what Executive Order 11490 does.
Wow, a homework assignment.
Apparently sharing a link?
Too much for some people.
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/executive-order-11490-assigning-emergency-preparedness-functions-federal-departments-and
Gawd damn I hate articles who refer to the daughter-raping piece of shit joe biden as POTUS.
PARASITE biden is the puppet of NIGGERFAGGOT barry soetero.
Resident Biden
Most people (on this sort of site) already know much of what is said in this article, but it is good starter material for the lost sheep separated from the herd, and a reminder never hurts for the rest of us.
I notice most people tend to think of the deep state, bank mafia, political cabal, satanist corporations, etc.. As being wolves hiding in sheep’s cloth. I tend to remind myself that it is more of the reverse, a sheep hiding in a a wolf’s outfit. All of these actors only have the power your beliefs give to them, If they were actually competent ‘king-pigs’ in our clown world serf system, then open public criticism would not frighten them so much, would it not?
When a declaration of martial law goes into effect you’ll know it. What we have right now is not martial law. When the poeple decide they’ve had enough and begin to physically resist in so much that civilian law enforcment can no longer control the situation and government authority is threatened , then you’ll have martial law. That day is quickly approaching, it is then when we will understand the true meaning of the term “martial law”
Well, no worries then…..
Societal Break
This is the message of the American government: “We are going to lie to you, deny the truth wherever it presents itself and you are going to believe the lies, shout the lies with all your breath or you are going to be punished.”
How can such a system remain? Why should the people accept this dictate of a rabble so thoroughly distanced from reality? Is it just the threat of punishment by the police, the military? I don’t believe that…
And, it will not change until there is a societal break, a moment when these revulsions have accumulated, choked us with the magnitude of them and then something happens, a war, an economic collapse, when those who have always stood before us strong and resilient appear weak, when their overwhelming power is seen for the façade that it is.
It is true now that all of governmental power, their implacable strength is a lie propped up by symbolism and targeted victims, enough to terrify the masses. It’s a herd mentality that grips the populace and outliers, like those who read these posts, know it, but are gripped by their unwillingness to see or act. But once that sentiment turns and the masses no longer fear the projected strength of the state it will be brutal.
My toughest chore comes in waiting for that societal break.
https://tldavis.substack.com/p/societal-break
The USA has been a military dictatorship since the War of Northern Oppression ended in 1865. Since then it has been all tyrrany.
And as far as Bribem’s continual quote about F16’s….why is he so afraid of AR15’s if they are so harmless and useless and unable to counteract a F16?
Oh, great, another retarded evil regime controlled-opposition shill pointing at the problem, while lying to us about the cause.
Downvoters are retarded niggers:
A State of Martial Law: America Is a Military Dictatorship Disguised as a Democracy
…where two thirds of the population lives in a Constitution Free Zone.
‘Roughly two-thirds of the United States’ population lives within the 100-mile zone—that is, within 100 miles of a U.S. land or coastal border. That’s about 200 million people.’:
The American Revolution was a long hard fought war. To the consternation of a significant number of so called American landed gentry the true warriors who participated in the liberation of America were not going to walk away without a Bill of Rights that the Declaration of Independence appears to imply is due free men. Thus we did get a Bill of Rights. It outlines the basis the rights necessary to be free rather than slave and is also the fulcrum providing any sort of upward mobility. However, if we look at the benefit of the Crown gained from the war we see France became bankrupt. Thus it may be appropriate to ask if England really lost or if it simply invested wisely to defeat a fearful long term enemy? For shortly after the establishment of the United States a central bank was established, a tax on a competing currency was imposed with 30,000 troops marked upon the citizens to enforce it and relations with England were normalized. The whiting away of the Bill of Rights has continued ever since. Meanwhile by all appearances the government is nothing but tool owned lock, stock and barrel by the super rich. Our political candidates are pre selected by them and then at best we are allowed to vote a winner. And this is sold to the public as democracy.