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The Empire Of Lies Breaks Down: Ugly Truths The Deep State Wants To Keep Hidden

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    “The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil,
but because of those who look on and do nothing.”

    - Albert Einstein

America is breaking down.

This breakdown - triggered by polarizing circus politics, media-fed
mass hysteria, racism, classism, fascism, fear-mongering, political
correctness, cultural sanitation, virtue signaling, a sense of
hopelessness and powerlessness in the face of growing government
corruption and brutality, a growing economic divide that has much of
the population struggling to get by, and militarization and
militainment (the selling of war and violence as entertainment) - is
manifesting itself in madness, mayhem and an utter disregard for the
very principles and liberties that have kept us out of the clutches of
totalitarianism for so long.

In New York City, for example, a 200-year-old statue of Thomas
Jefferson holding the Declaration of Independence will be removed from
the City Council’s chambers where it has presided since 1915. Despite
Jefferson’s many significant accomplishments, without which we might
not have the rights we do today, he will be banished for having been,
like many of his day, a slaveowner. Curiously, that same brutal
expectation of infallibility has yet to be applied to many other
politically correct yet equally imperfect and fallible role models of
the day.

In Washington, DC, a tribunal of nine men and women spoke with one
voice to affirm that the government and its henchmen can literally get
away with murder and not be held accountable for their wrongdoing. The
Supreme Court’s latest rulings are yet another painful lesson in
compliance, a reminder that in the American police state, “we the
people” are at the mercy of law enforcement officers who have almost
absolute discretion to decide who is a threat, what constitutes
resistance, and how harshly they can deal with the citizens they were
appointed to ‘serve and protect.”

All across the country, from California to Connecticut and every point
in between, men and women who have worked faithfully and diligently at
their jobs for years are being terminated for daring to believe that
they have a right to bodily integrity; that they should not be forced,
against their conscience or better judgment, to choose between
individual liberty and economic survival; and that they—and not the
government, or the FDA, or the CDC, or the Corporate State—have
dominion over their bodies. Conveniently enough, this COVID-19
pandemic has created yet another double standard in how “we the
people” navigate this country: while “we the middling classes” are
subjected to vaccine mandates and denied even the right to be
skeptical about the origins of the COVID virus, let alone the efficacy
of the so-called cure, the government, corporations and pharmaceutical
companies have been shielded from liability with blanket immunity laws
that ensure we are little more than guinea pigs for their questionable
experiments.

And then in Pennsylvania, a man traveling on a commuter train
harassed, assaulted and then raped a woman over the course of 40
minutes and more than two dozen train stops while fellow travelers,
watching and filming the attack, did nothing. Not a single witness
called 911. Not a single bystander intervened to help the woman.
Despite the fact that the man was outnumbered and could have been
overwhelmed by those on the train, no collective effort was made to
ward off the attack. Only when it was too late, when the damage had
been done and the train had pulled into its last stop, did police show
up to intervene.

There is an allegory here for what is happening to our country and its
citizens, who have also been waylaid by a madman (the Deep State),
stripped of their safety nets (their rights undermined and eroded),
and savaged out in the open by a fiend (the American Police State and
its many operatives—the courts, the legislatures and their various
armies) that is devoid of humanity while those not in the immediate
crosshairs watch safely from a distance without making a move to help.

This is madness, yet there is a method to this madness.

This is how freedom falls and tyranny rises.

Remember, authoritarian regimes begin with incremental steps:
overcriminalization, surveillance of innocent citizens, imprisonment
for nonviolent—victimless—crimes, etc. Bit by bit, the citizenry finds
its freedoms being curtailed and undermined for the sake of national
security. And slowly the populace begins to submit.

No one speaks up for those being targeted.

No one resists these minor acts of oppression.

No one recognizes the indoctrination into tyranny for what it is.

Historically this failure to speak truth to power has resulted in
whole populations being conditioned to tolerate unspoken cruelty
toward their fellow human beings, a bystander syndrome in which people
remain silent and disengaged—mere onlookers—in the face of abject
horrors and injustice.

Time has insulated us from the violence perpetrated by past regimes in
their pursuit of power: the crucifixion and slaughter of innocents by
the Romans, the torture of the Inquisition, the atrocities of the
Nazis, the butchery of the Fascists, the bloodshed by the Communists,
and the cold-blooded war machines run by the military industrial
complex.

We can disassociate from such violence. We can convince ourselves that
we are somehow different from the victims of government abuse. We can
continue to spout empty political rhetoric about how great America is,
despite the evidence to the contrary.

We can avoid responsibility for holding the government accountable.

We can zip our lips and bind our hands and shut our eyes.

In other words, we can continue to exist in a state of denial. Yet
there is no denying the ugly, hard truths that become more evident
with every passing day.

        The government is not our friend. Nor does it work for “we the people.”

        Our so-called government representatives do not actually
represent us, the citizenry. We are now ruled by an oligarchic elite
of governmental and corporate interests whose main interest is in
perpetuating power and control.

        Republicans and Democrats like to act as if there’s a huge
difference between them and their policies. However, they are not
sworn enemies so much as they are partners in crime, united in a
common goal, which is to maintain the status quo.

        The lesser of two evils is still evil.

        Some years ago, a newspaper headline asked the question:
“What’s the difference between a politician and a psychopath?” The
answer, then and now, remains the same: None. There is virtually no
difference between psychopaths and politicians.

        More than terrorism, more than domestic extremism, more than
gun violence and organized crime, the U.S. government has become a
greater menace to the life, liberty and property of its citizens than
any of the so-called dangers from which the government claims to
protect us

        The government knows exactly which buttons to push in order to
manipulate the populace and gain the public’s cooperation and
compliance.

        If voting made any difference, they wouldn’t let us do it.

        America’s shadow government—which is comprised of unelected
government bureaucrats, corporations, contractors, paper-pushers, and
button-pushers who are actually calling the shots behind the scenes
right now and operates beyond the reach of the Constitution with no
real accountability to the citizenry—is the real reason why “we the
people” have no control over our government.

        You no longer have to be poor, black or guilty to be treated
like a criminal in America. All that is required is that you belong to
the suspect class—that is, the citizenry—of the American police state.
As a de facto member of this so-called criminal class, every U.S.
citizen is now guilty until proven innocent.

        “We the people” are no longer shielded by the rule of law. By
gradually whittling away at our freedoms—free speech, assembly, due
process, privacy, etc.—the government has, in effect, liberated itself
from its contractual agreement to respect our constitutional rights
while resetting the calendar back to a time when we had no Bill of
Rights to protect us from the long arm of the government.

        Private property means nothing if the government can take your
home, car or money under the flimsiest of pretexts, whether it be
asset forfeiture schemes, eminent domain or overdue property taxes.
Likewise, private property means little at a time when SWAT teams and
other government agents can invade your home, break down your doors,
kill your dog, wound or kill you, damage your furnishings and
terrorize your family.

        We now find ourselves caught in the crosshairs of a showdown
between the rights of the individual and the so-called “emergency”
state, and “we the people” are losing.

        All of those freedoms we cherish—the ones enshrined in the
Constitution, the ones that affirm our right to free speech and
assembly, due process, privacy, bodily integrity, the right to not
have police seize our property without a warrant, or search and detain
us without probable cause—amount to nothing when the government and
its agents are allowed to disregard those prohibitions on government
overreach at will.

        If there is an absolute maxim by which the federal government
seems to operate, it is that the American taxpayer always gets ripped
off.

        Our freedoms—especially the Fourth Amendment—continue to be
choked out by a prevailing view among government bureaucrats that they
have the right to search, seize, strip, scan, spy on, probe, pat down,
taser, and arrest any individual at any time and for the slightest
provocation.

        Forced vaccinations, forced cavity searches, forced
colonoscopies, forced blood draws, forced breath-alcohol tests, forced
DNA extractions, forced eye scans, forced inclusion in biometric
databases: these are just a few ways in which Americans continue to be
reminded that we have no control over what happens to our bodies
during an encounter with government officials.

        Finally, freedom is never free. There is always a price—always
a sacrifice—that must be made in order to safeguard one’s freedoms.

We cannot remain silent in the face of the government’s ongoing
overreaches, power grabs, and crimes against humanity.

Evil disguised as bureaucracy is still evil. Indeed, this is what
Hannah Arendt referred to as the banality of evil.

As I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the
American People and in its fictional counterpart The Erik Blair
Diaries, such evil happens when bureaucrats (governmental and
corporate) unquestioningly carry out orders that are immoral and
inhumane; obey immoral instructions unthinkingly; march in lockstep
with tyrants; mindlessly perpetuate acts of terror and inhumanity; and
justify it all as just “doing one’s job.”

Such evil prevails when good men and women do nothing.

By doing nothing, by remaining silent, by being bystanders to
injustice, hate and wrongdoing, good people become as guilty as the
perpetrator.

There’s a term for this phenomenon where people stand by, watch and do
nothing—even when there is no risk to their safety—while some horrific
act takes place (someone is mugged or raped or bullied or left to
die): it’s called the bystander effect.

It works the same whether you’re talking about kids watching bullies
torment a fellow student on a playground, bystanders watching someone
dying on a sidewalk, passengers on a train filming a fellow traveler
be raped without intervening to help, or citizens remaining silent in
the face of government atrocities.

We need to stop being silent bystanders.

It’s time to stand up for truth—for justice—for freedom—not just for
ourselves but for all humanity. Tomorrow may be too late.