The Future of Freedom
Protecting Rights in a World Ruled by Rogue Governments
In an era where "we the people" are incessantly subjected to the government's heavy hand—bullied in our streets, deceived in our dealings, tracked like prey, our rights repressed, our wealth siphoned, our liberties curtailed, and our very lives endangered—how can one possibly justify entrusting this same entity with our privacy, our possessions, or indeed, our very existence?
Entrusting your privacy to the government, particularly in this digital age, is akin to handing over the keys to your personal life to a known burglar. Since the cataclysm of 9/11, what has unfolded is not a mere increase in security measures but the construction of an Orwellian digital fortress. Here, every move is watched, every byte of data scrutinized by AI, with privacy and anonymity rendered obsolete.
This isn't protection; it's imprisonment by algorithm, funded by a Homeland Security behemoth that has turned emergency response into a lucrative industry for surveillance capitalism.
Now, ponder your property: If the sanctity of your home can be violated on mere suspicion, if your possessions can be ransacked or outright stolen under the guise of law enforcement, then ownership is an illusion. Your home, your car, your savings—they're not yours. They're on loan from the government, ready to be repossessed at the slightest pretext. This isn't security; it's state-sanctioned robbery, where the presumption of innocence is replaced by the presumption of guilt.
And your finances? Here's where the government's audacity truly shines. Spending what it does not have, on what it cannot afford, and expecting you, the taxpayer, to endlessly finance this folly. The national debt soars past $35 trillion, a testament not to economic strategy but to fiscal recklessness.
Congress, with its repetitive dance of raising the debt ceiling, isn't managing finances; it's perpetuating a Ponzi scheme where future generations are left holding the bag. This isn't governance; it's an economic hostage situation where the ransom is your future, paid in the currency of unsustainable debt.
History has cast "we the people" as unwitting subjects in a plethora of clandestine government experiments. From the mind-bending horrors of MK ULTRA to the racially charged mustard gas tests on over 60,000 servicemen, the government's track record is a chilling testament to its disregard for human sanctity.
One needn't excavate deeply into America's past to unearth instances where the populace was unknowingly drafted into experiments, transformed into test subjects for chemical agents, infectious diseases, and toxic aerosols. Yet, the populace remains entranced by the political theater in Washington, D.C., blissfully unaware or willfully ignorant of the government's legacy of grotesque experimentation and cruelty, both on humans and animals.
In an era where the simple act of standing or moving can be misconstrued as a lethal threat, leading to fatal encounters with law enforcement, the veneer of safety under government protection is thinner than ever. Police shootings have escalated, with many victims guilty only of minor infractions or none at all, caught in the crosshairs of a system where fear trumps reason.
According to reports like those from Mapping Police Violence, 2022 marked a grim peak in police killings, with an overwhelming majority of these incidents resulting in no legal repercussions for the officers involved. This statistic isn't just a number; it's an indicator of a systemic failure, where the guardians of law become the harbingers of death under the guise of maintaining order.
This narrative isn't about oversight or a few bad apples; it's about a systemic ethos where the value of life is negotiable, where freedom is an illusion maintained by the spectacle of politics, distracting from the ongoing erosion of basic human rights and dignity.
For too long, the government has played a duplicitous game with the American populace, granting just enough liberty to foster an illusion of freedom while meticulously stripping away the core of what it means to be truly free.
The essence of freedom has been diluted; it's no longer about the unalienable rights to criticize, to live without surveillance, or to enjoy the sanctity of one's home against unwarranted searches. These rights, once the cornerstone of a government "of the people, by the people, for the people," are now mere privileges, dispensed or withheld at the discretion of those in power.
The government, far from being a guardian of our interests or freedoms, has morphed into something more akin to an adversary—a looming threat to the very principles it was meant to uphold. The founding purpose of government—to safeguard the lives and liberties of its citizens—has been perverted into its antithesis, an entity that consistently undermines these values through deception, coercion, and overreach.
So, what's the answer? It begins with a return to fundamentals. Engage with your community; know your neighbors and local officials. This grassroots engagement forms the first bulwark against encroaching tyranny.
Understand your rights and the structure of your local governance. Who sits on your city council? Who oversees your schools and jails? Is your local media truly local, or is it another arm of broader control? Awareness is your shield; use it to question, challenge, and influence.
Know who you're empowering. Are those leading your police force from your community, understanding its unique needs, or are they external appointees? Are your elected representatives actually representing you, or are they mere figureheads?
Lastly, never become complacent. The erosion of our governmental checks and balances as the essence of American democracy requires vigilant citizens. Democracy isn't just a system; it's a practice, demanding continuous participation and accountability.
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Bang on again Lily. Government “spending what it does not have, on what it cannot afford, and expecting you, the taxpayer, to endlessly finance this folly”. If it weren’t so manifestly true, the immense fiscal incontinence of the elected and unelected panjandrums showering with gold their controllers and cronies would be unbelievable. Yet as we are being distracted by tales of the degenerate behaviour of the movers and shakers in the upper echelons of the entertainment industry the truly impactful damaging conduct of our "public servants" is going unnoticed by the masses.
There are four options at the federal level. The first is what we have now, essentially a corporatocracy or an aristocracy made up of power elites who keep the population in the illusion that we have some choice in the matter. The second is communism like they practice in China. No personal rights whatsoever. The third is liberal anarchy, assuming there was a way to achieve it, where we would trust social media and other other companies to keep our data safe because supposedly the free market would reward them for doing so. As we've witnessed, the opposite is true. None of these will protect us in any way. The 4th is a Collaborative Democracy where the people ruled themselves through a new new type of democratic process that scales to a national level. The major parts of this have been used around the world successfully at all levels. It has not only achieved better results for the people, but it ended the political divide. It inoculates government against special interests such as political parties and the power elite. The details are in the book End Politics Now with links at EndPoliticsNow.com.