Tag: government violence

Abusive Relationships

Guest Post by Eric Peters

If you’ve ever read about abusive relationships, you already know one of the top five criteria defining such:

If you try to leave me . . . I’ll kill you.

The relationship, in other words, isn’t consensual and thus by definition violent. More precisely, it is one-sidedly violent. The violent party uses threats of violence (and if those aren’t sufficient, actual violence) to force the other party to remain when she – or he – would rather go.

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Government Belligerence

Submitted by Keith B.

Guest Post by T.L. Davis

And the extremism if fosters

You see now that it’s the information that must be banned. It doesn’t matter whether that’s information on UFOs (UAPs), Biden, crime statistics, Epstein’s client list, etc. You simply cannot be trusted, because if you knew all of these things, things about the WHO, Ukraine, corruption, sex and drug trafficking and who’s behind it, you might become justifiably upset and the Western powers guilty of withholding the information want an unjustified reaction, something they can punish.

The Western powers, especially the US Government, is built around the idea that you can know nothing about what they’re doing, where they’re spending tax dollars, how they’re robbing the Middle Class of wealth through regulation and inflation, but they demand, pass laws to know, every single aspect of your lives, right down to what you bought for lunch, or at the mall, how you got there and what sort of fuel you used to get there.

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Yes, You Have the Right to Talk Back to the Government, But It Could Get You Killed

Guest Post by John W. Whitehead

“The freedom of individuals verbally to oppose or challenge police action without thereby risking arrest is one of the principal characteristics by which we distinguish a free nation from a police state.”— Justice William J. Brennan, City of Houston v. Hill

What the architects of the police state want are submissive, compliant, cooperative, obedient, meek citizens who don’t talk back, don’t challenge government authority, don’t speak out against government misconduct, and don’t step out of line.

What the First Amendment protects—and a healthy constitutional republic requires—are citizens who routinely exercise their right to speak truth to power.

It’s not an easy undertaking.

Weaponized by police, prosecutors, courts and legislatures, “disorderly conduct” charges have become a convenient means by which to punish those individuals who refuse to be muzzled.

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Enough Is Enough: If You Really Want to Save Lives, Take Aim at Government Violence

Guest Post by John W. Whitehead

Enough is enough.

That was the refrain chanted over and over by the thousands of demonstrators who gathered to protest gun violence in America.

On March 24, 2018, more than 200,000 young people took the time to march on Washington DC and other cities across the country to demand that their concerns about gun violence be heard.

More power to them.

I’m all for activism, especially if it motivates people who have been sitting silently on the sidelines for too long to get up and try to reclaim control over a runaway government.

Curiously, however, although these young activists were vocal in calling for gun control legislation that requires stricter background checks and limits the kinds of weapons being bought and sold by members of the public, they were remarkably silent about the gun violence perpetrated by their own government.

Why is no one taking aim at the U.S. government as the greatest purveyor of violence in American society and around the world?

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