July 4th and the End of America

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July 4th and the end of America, land of the free

Mike Adams | July 4 2005

Happy July 4th. On this, the 229th birthday of our nation, we find the very foundation of our nation in grave danger as our (elected?) leaders continue to destroy many of the rights and freedoms our forefathers worked so hard to put in place. It is no coincidence that, this very week, our President has created a domestic spy service called the National Security Service. That's the NSS, not to be confused with the SS of Nazi Germany, which had much the same function in pre-war Germany.

Amendment IV: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

Not to be outdone in the race to a police state, the Supreme Court lobotomized the 4th Amendment last week. There is no longer anything resembling "private property" in this country. There is only the illusion of ownership, as long as it is allowed by your government. At the stroke of a pen, any government (city, state, federal) can seize your land and your home, for any reason.

In other words, the State is now the true owner of all land and all property. The very term "owner" refers to the person or organization that controls the use of that land. If you don't control its use, you are not the owner. The State is. You just pay rent. And if you don't cooperate with government takeover of your land, they can always declare you a terrorist and seize your land under The Patriot Act.

Speaking of The Patriot Act, this misguided act allows the U.S. government to secretly tap your phone lines without a court order. It also allows the feds to rifle through library records in order to spot "terrorist readers" who apparently frequent these institutions of knowledge. Libraries are terrorist training camps, didn't you know?

Amendment VI: In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense.

Think the Bill of Rights still applies in this country? The 6th Amendment has been nullified by the practices taking place at Guantanamo Bay. The U.S. government simply kidnaps anyone they want, ships them off to Gitmo, then leaves them there to rot, without being charged, without a trial, and without legal representation. By calling them "enemy combatants," the Bush Administration seemingly avoids having to abide by the Geneva Convention as well, which requires certain standards of treatment for prisoners of war

Amendment XIV: ...nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
As the Bush Administration runs rampant over the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights, do you feel any safer from terrorists? Do you feel like this administration is protecting your life, liberty and property? Are you any freer or safer today than you were five years ago?

Of course not. We're all in far more danger, and we're all less free. Our Constitution and its Bill of Rights lie in shambles. The very fact that this is happening reckons back to the purpose of the Bill of Rights in the first place: to ensure that no government tramples on its people.

You see, our nation's forefathers understood that the greatest threat to freedom was not an enemy nation, but rather a nation's own government. The Bill of Rights was created for the sole purpose of limiting the power of government over the people. Our forefathers knew that all governments eventually get out of control and become oppressive regimes. So they purposefully created the Bill of Rights in an effort to guarantee that no government could deprive its citizens of free speech, freedom to bear arms, the right to own land, and other rights necessary for the prosperity of a free nation.

That our own government is systematically destroying the Bill of Rights is proof that our forefathers were correct.

I wonder: when will all the Bush-supporting people in this country realize they're driving us head-first into a police state? No administration in the history of this country has done more to take away our personal freedoms than this one. And yet half the country is rallying behind this President.

The people have no idea what they've done. They've sent this country spiraling down the dark path of a police state. They've looked the other way while our rights and freedoms were stolen. They've supported an unjustified attack on a foreign state that will only serve to breed more terrorists who understandably hate this country and its people. The Bush Administration has created a terrorist breeding ground that will haunt this nation for a hundred years or more.

So happy 4th of July. It's a national holiday that celebrates the founding of a great nation. But this 4th of July, that great nation no longer exists. Instead, we have a police state, operated under the illusion of freedom. The illusion of Democracy. The illusion that your vote counts. The illusion that by giving up your freedoms, you'll gain security.

This July 4th, I'm not watching any fireworks displays. Why? Because I know what they stand for, and I can't stand to witness such blatant hypocrisy in the night sky. Don't people realize they're watching a fireworks display that symbolizes all the very freedoms and rights that are right now being taken away from them?

To watch a fireworks display and smile is to live in utter ignorance of what is happening to our nation. It's an apt distraction, however. What better time to pull the rug of freedom out from under peoples' feet than to catch them staring blankly into the sky?
If you truly watch a July 4th fireworks display this year, friends, watch it and weep. Weep for the memory of a once-great nation that used to cherish the freedoms of its citizens. Weep for the damned souls of those leaders who have misled us. Weep for our children who will never know a free America.

Weep for the lost dreams of our forefathers who tried an experiment called Democracy, where governments were run for the benefit of the people; where elected leaders represented the interests and needs of the common folk; where our rights and freedoms were guaranteed under rule of law.

This July 4th, that experiment has run its course, and it has failed. Goodbye, America, land of the free. Make way for Amerika, land of Homeland Security.

 

Great article, Rat. Time for Reposting Action!

 

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So Rat can you tell us what form of government you would bring in?


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Balbus, if you even paid attention to what Rat said on these forums and didn't spend all your time flaming him, you would understand that he is a supporter of capitalism and for a republic, he is for what this country FIRST started off as, he isn't complaining about the form of government we have now, but more of the Skull and Bones, Trilateral Commission, CFR, treasonists who have infiltrated our government and turned it in the direction of tyranny.

Peace and Love,
Dan

 

Understood.

 

that's about what i did. i watched the fireworks where i live and watched the ones on tv too but couldn't finish watching them cause i was just pissing me off. so i went outside and burned a flag, cause basically what you said-the country is going down in flames and the flag is supposed to stand for feedom and those are all dead so i burnt the flag. and they are trying to take away our right to do that to. anybody hear anything about that recently?

then i got drunk and cried for a while for the sake of this country and what it has become and the fact that i can't love the country that i am from or anything. what a fucking great holiday....

 

Dan

Rat is a self-confessed libertarian and a well documented conspiracy theorist.

Libertarian policies would as, I’ve explained many times, would hand even more power to the wealthy and powerful of the US. In many peoples opinion however dire Americans might think the present situation is it would be a lot worse with a libertarian government in charge. I have put to Rat these criticisms on a number of occasions and he seems unable to refute them.

Those that believe Jewish bankers are trying to take over the world (or have) are in my opinion not the best kind of people to have power. As Pointbreak and I have shown on a number of occasions this viewpoint is very similar to those pushed used by the Nazis to scapegoat the Jews and we all know where that ended.

I dread to think what security measure someone like Rat would feel were needed to find the ‘conspirators’, ‘treasonists’ and ‘infiltrators’.

 

Balbus you don't listen, every time you claim rat is a libertarian he always tells you he isn't, he agrees with a few libertarian policies and ideas but is far from being an actual libertarian.

Peace and Love,
Dan

 

An ignorant response from an ignoramus, who understands neither politics/geopolitics nor economics, aside from what is brainwashed into him by the establishment. A typical mind-controlled peon. A pawn for World Government and the enslavement of humanity.

Anybody who is REMOTELY versed in economics, that isn't a product of establishment indoctrination (ie: Balbus), knows that modern socialism -- what liberalism has become, thanks to dupes like Balbus -- was a creation of the central banks, designed to trick the ignorant masses (like Balbus) into believing that the placement of one's personal wealth (hence, power) into the hands of an all-powerful government, results in the benefit of all. Nothing could be further from the truth.

As of yet, Balbus has not addressed this.

I believe in true capitalism, which places power in the hands of the many. Socialism -- as I have stated numerous times -- is nothing more than monopoly capitalism controlled by the central banks and administered by the state (ie: the few and powerful). In a socialist society, personal wealth is transferred from the common man to the all-powerful state, who then decide what will be done with that money. That is not freedom. But Balbus does not know what freedom is. I also doubt he has even read the US Constitution. He is simply a blow-hard and a know-it-all.

There is no such thing as true capitalism, free trade or free market in America (or the entire world for that matter). What we are seeing is essentially communism. "Capitalism" is becoming a reality for only the rich and powerful, while those below that level are becoming poorer and poorer. The Elite and powerful few keep getting more and more powerful, while everyone else slowly falls to the wayside (including the fastly dissolving Middle Class). If you think this is "free market", you don't know what free market is.

 

are u on with pr or something?

 

i'm a libertarian socialist or a socialist libertarian pr, and i actually do relate quite strongly 2 some of what u say. i don't understand tho' what u mean re the above quote. ru talking about a mixed economy or a welfare state, not sure. imho, the banks control people through supplying virtually unlimited levels of credit 2 them when they clearly can't afford it. this entraps people in an abusive style relationship with the bank who bleeds them 4 all they have in interest and charges while all the time tempting them to go even further into the quagmire of debt. mortgage repayments 4 instance keep people enslaved 2 their masters for a lifetime. this is how ordinary people's power is transferred to the banks in australia.

yes. that has been the experience in russia and china. have u seen what is going on in venezuela? look @ this with an open mind. they r attempting 2 create a different economic system within a socially libertarian model. could be good.

i realise u don't think that this is truly a free market but the economists tell everyone it is. many ppl falling by the wayside have legit fears that more 'free market' = more punishment.

ur analogy between capitalism and communism is a tad obscure, mate. can u pls clarify ?

 

Dear Dan

Here is a direct quote from Rat

"I am a libertarian, but that doesn't mean that I -- or any other libertarian-minded person for that matter -- believe that people who are in need should go without."
http://www.hipforums.com/forums/sho...59&page=2&pp=10
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In fact he seemed to stop calling himself a libertarian about the time he found he was unable to defend any libertarian or libertarian type policies.

He tried to call himself an ‘independent’ but by and large the policies he did champion were libertarian.

As I said if it looks like a duck walks like a duck and quacks like a duck….