2020 het jaar dat de vrijheidsboom in brand werd gestoken

John
Whitehead heeft een artikel geschreven waarin hij betoogt dat 2020
het jaar is waarin de overheid (beter: overheden) de definitieve stap
heeft gezet om onze vrijheid af te nemen. Hij begint met een mooie
uitspraak van John Lennon waarin deze betoogt dat mensen niet bewust
leven, niet opgeleid zijn om te beseffen dat ze macht hebben. Het
systeem werkt zo dat iedereen gelooft dat de overheid alles zal
oplossen. Eindigend met : “Wij zijn de regering” (als we dat willen,
Ap).

Nog even
het volgende : vergeet niet dat de situatie in de VS, waarover
Whitehead spreekt, in feite nog een stuk erger is dan hier, hoewel we
in sneltreinvaart achter de VS aangaan en en paar zaken die Whitehead
aanhaalt zal je ongetwijfeld zelf al hebben bemerkt in ons land, of
welk land dan ook waar je woont, waar je leeft.

Volkomen
terecht merkt Whitehead op dat 2020 ‘een vreselijk, verschrikkelijk
slecht jaar was voor vrijheid’, waar dit jaar ‘een optelsom was van het
laatste vreselijke, verschrikkelijk slechte decennium voor
ons aller vrijheid…….’

Corruptie
op regeringsniveau (hier beter verborgen, maar aanwijsbaar bestaand), tirannie en misbruik, gemixt met een Big Brother weet
alles mentaliteit, samen met de COVID-19 ‘pandemie’ hebben deze zaken ons op
‘warpsnelheid’* gebracht in de richting van een politiestaat, aldus
Whitehead. Daarna noemt hij een aantal zaken die nu al als normaal
worden gezien in de VS: hele staten die op slot zijn gegaan middels
een lockdown, enorm uitgebreide bewaking (van alles en iedereen),
veel fouilleringen langs de kant van de weg, politiemoorden op
meerdere ongewapende burgers, censuur, arrestaties als vergelding,
het criminaliseren van tot nu toe gewoon geoorloofde zaken,
oorlogshitserij, het ‘oneindig vasthouden’ van mensen (bijvoorbeeld
ook in Nederland als het gaat om vluchtelingen), overvallen door arrestatieteams, het in beslag
nemen van zaken (door de politie en/of deurwaarder ), politiegeweld,
winstmakende privé gevangenissen (die in de VS zelfs aan de beurs
zijn genoteerd….) en alom aanwezige corruptie, zelfs in het Witte Huis……

Terecht
is volgens Whitehead het voorgaande een waslijst aan vergrijpen >>
die wreed, brutaal, immoreel, ongrondwettig en onacceptabel zijn.
Zaken waarmee de regering de laatste 2 decennia en zeker het laatste
jaar het volk heeft belast……

Door
de Coronacrisis zijn een aantal van onze burgerrechten gesneuveld, we zouden die terugkrijgen zo werd beloofd, echter de geschiedenis laat zien dat
regeringen, ook in ons land, zaken van dergelijke omvang (ook qua
lengte in tijd) niet snel of helemaal niet terugdraaien. Immers zaken
als ons recht op privacy waren we al bijna kwijt voor de Coronacrisis
en daar blijft nu bijna helemaal niets van over en uiteraard is dat
een geschenk
voor
diezelfde overheid, politie en geheime diensten
waarmee de schending van ook andere burgerrechten heel makkelijk wordt gemaakt**.

Verder
is het ons een stuk moeilijker gemaakt om ons voor één doel te
verenigen, niet alleen dat: zelfs als zou je daadwerkelijk
verzetsdaden willen verrichten is dat door de enorme controle en de
meer dan schandelijke spoedwet een heel stuk moeilijker geworden en
voor velen zelfs onmogelijk…….

Whitehead
gaat uitvoerig in op een aantal onderwerpen, zoals het onvermogen van
de overheid om ons leven, onze vrijheid en ons geluk te beschermen.
Ook schenkt hij aandacht aan het feit dat de opvolgende presidenten in de VS zich meer en
meer gedragen als een keizer van een imperium (nu moet ik zeggen dat
dit al heel lang het geval is in het hysterische VS, het geschreeuw,
gefluit en applaus alsof de president van de VS een beroemde popster
is, hier zie je dat trouwens ook bij een figuur als de GroenLinks
oplichter Jessias Klaver……). En vergeet niet dat de VS in feite als het Vierde Rijk kan worden gezien…… Verder noemt Whitehead de
gemilitariseerde politie in de VS, een macht op zich, die de bevolking terroriseert en beschikt over wapentuig dat op het
slagveld thuishoort…… Ook lijkt het wel of de politie in de VS
willekeurig mensen neerschiet, willekeurige arrestaties uitvoert en mensen fouilleert waarbij ‘de zoektocht’ zelfs doorgaat tot in
het lichaam……..

Lees
het schrijven van John Whitehead, overgenomen van Information
Clearing House
en zegt het voort, de zaken die Whitehead noemt kunnen
hier zomaar over een paar jaar worden doorgevoerd en een paar van die
zaken kennen we hier al…. In een volledige politiestaat leven is
allesbehalve een pretje, zoals je je waarschijnlijk wel kan
voorstellen……

2020:
The Year the Tree of Liberty Was Torched

By
John W. Whitehead

The people
are unaware. They’re not educated to realize that they have power.
The system is so geared that everyone believes the government will
fix everything. We
are the government
.”—John Lennon

December 29, 2020
Information
Clearing House

–  No doubt about it: 2020—a terrible, horrible, no good, very
bad year for freedom—was the culmination of a terrible, horrible,
no good, very bad decade for freedom.

Government corruption,
tyranny, and abuse coupled with a Big Brother-knows-best mindset and
the COVID-19 pandemic propelled us at warp speed towards a full-blown
police state in which nationwide lockdowns, egregious surveillance,
roadside strip searches, police shootings of unarmed citizens,
censorship, retaliatory arrests, the criminalization of lawful
activities, warmongering, indefinite detentions, SWAT team raids,
asset forfeiture, police brutality, profit-driven prisons, and
pay-to-play politicians were accepted as the norm.

Here’s just a small
sampling of the laundry list of abuses—cruel, brutal, immoral,
unconstitutional and unacceptable—that have been heaped upon us by
the government over the past two decades and in the past year, in
particular.

The government
failed to protect our lives, liberty and happiness.

The predators of the police state wreaked havoc on our freedoms, our
communities, and our lives. The government didn’t listen to the
citizenry, refused to abide by the Constitution, and treated the
citizenry as a source of funding and little else. Police officers
shot unarmed citizens and their household pets. Government
agents—including local police—were armed to the teeth and
encouraged to act like soldiers on a battlefield. Bloated government
agencies were allowed to fleece taxpayers. Government technicians
spied on our emails and phone calls. And government contractors made
a killing by waging endless wars abroad.

The American
President became more imperial.

Although the Constitution invests the President with very specific,
limited powers, in recent years, American presidents (Trump, Obama,
Bush, Clinton, etc.) claimed the power to completely and almost
unilaterally alter the landscape of this country for good or for ill.
The powers that have been amassed by each successive president
through the negligence of Congress and the courts—powers which add
up to a toolbox of terror for an imperial ruler—empower whoever
occupies the Oval Office to act as a dictator, above the law and
beyond any real accountability. The presidency itself has become an
imperial one with permanent powers.

Militarized
police became a power unto themselves, 911 calls turned deadly, and
traffic stops took a turn for the worse.
Lacking
in transparency and accountability, protected by the courts and
legislators, and rife with misconduct, America’s police forces
continued to be a menace to the citizenry and the rule of law.
Despite concerns about the government’s steady transformation of
local police into a standing military army, local police agencies
acquired
even more weaponry
, training and equipment suited for the
battlefield. Police officers were also given free range to pull
anyone over for a variety of reasons and subject them to forced
cavity searches, forced colonoscopies, forced blood draws, forced
breath-alcohol tests, forced DNA extractions, forced eye scans,
forced inclusion in biometric databases.

The courts
failed to uphold justice.

With every ruling handed down, it becomes more apparent that we live
in an age of hollow justice, with government courts more concerned
with protecting government agents than upholding the rights of “we
the people.” This is true at all levels of the judiciary, but
especially so in the highest court of the land, the U.S. Supreme
Court, which is seemingly more concerned with establishing order and
protecting government agents than with upholding the rights enshrined
in the Constitution. A review of critical court rulings over the past
two decades, including some ominous ones by the U.S. Supreme Court,
reveals a startling and steady trend towards pro-police state rulings
by an institution concerned more with establishing order and
protecting the ruling class and government agents than with upholding
the rights enshrined in the Constitution.

COVID-19
allowed the Emergency State to expand its powers.

What started out as an apparent effort to prevent a novel coronavirus
from sickening the nation (and the world) became yet another means by
which world governments (including our own) could expand their
powers, abuse their authority, and further oppress their
constituents. While COVID-19 took a significant toll on the nation
emotionally, physically, and economically, it also allowed the
government to trample our rights in the so-called name of national
security, with talk of mass testing for COVID-19 antibodies,
screening checkpoints, contact tracing, immunity passports, forced
vaccinations, snitch tip lines and onerous lockdowns.

The
Surveillance State rendered Americans vulnerable to threats from
government spies, police, hackers and power failures.
Thanks
to the government’s ongoing efforts to build massive databases
using emerging surveillance, DNA and biometrics technologies,
Americans have become sitting ducks for hackers and government spies
alike. Billions
of people have been affected by data breaches and cyberattacks.

On a daily basis, Americans have been made to relinquish the most
intimate details of who we are—our biological makeup, our genetic
blueprints, and our biometrics (facial characteristics and structure,
fingerprints, iris scans, etc.)—in order to navigate
an increasingly technologically-enabled world
.

America became
a red flag nation.

Red flag laws, specifically, and pre-crime laws generally push us
that much closer towards a suspect society where everyone is
potentially guilty of some crime or another and must be preemptively
rendered harmless. Where many Americans go wrong is in naively
assuming that you have to be doing something illegal or harmful in
order to be flagged and targeted for some form of intervention or
detention. In fact, all you need to do these days to end up on a
government watch list or be subjected to heightened scrutiny is use
certain trigger words
(like cloud, pork and pirates), surf the
internet, communicate using a cell phone, limp
or stutter
, drive
a car
, stay at a hotel, attend a political rally, express
yourself on social media
, appear
mentally ill
, serve in the military,
disagree
with a law enforcement official
, call
in sick to work
, purchase materials at a hardware store, take
flying or boating lessons, appear
suspicious
, appear confused or nervous, fidget or whistle or
smell bad, be seen in public waving a toy gun or anything remotely
resembling a gun (such as a water nozzle or a remote control or a
walking cane), stare
at a police officer
, question government authority, appear
to be pro-gun or pro-freedom
, or generally live in the United
States. Be warned: once you get on such a government watch
list—whether it’s a terrorist watch list, a mental health watch
list, a dissident watch list, or a red flag gun watch list—there’s
no clear-cut way to get off, whether or not you should actually be on
there.

The cost of
policing the globe drove the nation deeper into debt.

America’s
war spending has 
already bankrupted
the nation
 to
the tune of more than $20 trillion dollars. Policing the globe and
waging endless wars abroad hasn’t made America—or the rest of the
world—any safer, but it has made the military industrial complex
rich at taxpayer expense. The U.S. military reportedly has more than
1.3
million

men and women on active duty, with more
than 200,000 of them stationed overseas
in nearly every country
in the world. Yet America’s military forces aren’t being deployed
abroad to protect our freedoms here at home. Rather, they’re being
used to guard oil fields, build foreign infrastructure and protect
the financial interests of the corporate elite. In fact, the United
States military spends about $81
billion a year just to protect oil supplies around the world
.
This is how a military empire occupies the globe. Meanwhile,
America’s infrastructure is falling apart.

Free speech
was dealt one knock-out punch after another.

Protest
laws
, free speech zones, bubble zones, trespass zones,
anti-bullying legislation, zero tolerance policies, hate crime laws,
shadow banning on the Internet, and a host of other legalistic
maladies dreamed up by politicians and prosecutors (and championed by
those who want to suppress speech with which they might disagree)
conspired to corrode our core freedoms, purportedly for our own good.
On paper—at least according to the U.S. Constitution—we are
technically free to speak. In reality, however, we are only as free
to speak as a government official—or corporate entities such as
Facebook, Google or YouTube—may allow. The reasons for such
censorship
varied widely from political correctness, so-called safety concerns
and bullying to national security and hate crimes but the end result
remained the same: the complete eradication of free speech.

The Deep State
took over.

The American system of representative government has been overthrown
by the Deep State—a.k.a. the police state a.k.a. the
military/corporate industrial complex—a profit-driven, militaristic
corporate state bent on total control and global domination through
the imposition of martial law here at home and by fomenting wars
abroad. The “government of the people, by the people, for the
people” has perished. In its place is a shadow government, a
corporatized, militarized, entrenched bureaucracy that is fully
operational and staffed by unelected officials who are, in essence,
running the country and calling the shots in Washington DC, no matter
who sits in the White House. Mind you, by “government,” I’m not
referring to the highly partisan, two-party bureaucracy of the
Republicans and Democrats. Rather, I’m referring to “government”
with a capital “G,” the entrenched Deep State that is unaffected
by elections, unaltered by populist movements, and has set itself
beyond the reach of the law. This is the hidden face of a government
that has no respect for the freedom of its citizenry. This shadow
government
, which “operates
according to its own compass heading regardless of who is formally in
power
,” makes a mockery of elections and the entire concept of
a representative government.

The takeaway:
Everything the founders of this country feared has come to dominate
in modern America. “We the people” have been saddled with a
government that is no longer friendly to freedom and is working
overtime to trample the Constitution underfoot and render the
citizenry powerless in the face of the government’s power grabs,
corruption and abusive tactics.

So how do you balance
the scales of justice at a time when Americans are being tasered,
tear-gassed, pepper-sprayed, hit with batons, shot with rubber
bullets and real bullets, blasted with sound cannons, detained
in cages and kennels
, sicced by police dogs, arrested and jailed
for challenging the government’s excesses, abuses and power-grabs,
and then locked down and stripped of any semblance of personal
freedom?

No matter who sits in
the White House, politics won’t fix a system that is broken beyond
repair.

For that matter,
protests and populist movements also haven’t done much to push back
against an authoritarian regime that is deaf to our cries, dumb to
our troubles, blind to our needs, and accountable to no one.

So how do you not only
push back against the government’s bureaucracy, corruption and
cruelty but also launch a counterrevolution aimed at reclaiming
control over the government using nonviolent means?

You start by changing
the rules and engaging in some (nonviolent) guerilla tactics.

Take your cue from the
Tenth Amendment and nullify everything the government does that flies
in the face of the principles on which this nation was founded. If
there is any means left to us for thwarting the government in its
relentless march towards outright dictatorship, it may rest with the
power of juries and local governments to invalidate governmental
laws, tactics and policies that are illegitimate, egregious or
blatantly unconstitutional.

In an age in which
government officials accused of wrongdoing—police officers, elected
officials, etc.—are treated with general leniency, while the
average citizen is prosecuted to the full extent of the law,
nullification is a powerful reminder that, as the Constitution tells
us, “we the people” are the government.

For too long we’ve
allowed our so-called “representatives” to call the shots. Now
it’s time to restore the citizenry to their rightful place in the
republic: as the masters, not the servants.

Nullification is one
way of doing so.

America was meant to
be primarily a system of local governments, which is a far cry from
the colossal federal bureaucracy we have today. Yet if our freedoms
are to be restored, understanding what is transpiring practically in
your own backyard—in one’s home, neighborhood, school district,
town council—and taking action at that local level must be the
starting point.

Responding to unmet
local needs and reacting to injustices is what grassroots activism is
all about. Attend local city council meetings, speak up at town hall
meetings, organize protests and letter-writing campaigns, employ
“militant nonviolent resistance” and civil disobedience, which
Martin Luther King Jr. used to great effect through the use of
sit-ins, boycotts and marches.

The power to change
things for the better rests with us, not the politicians.

As long as we continue
to allow callousness, cruelty, meanness, immorality, ignorance,
hatred, intolerance, racism, militarism, materialism, meanness and
injustice—magnified by an echo chamber of nasty tweets and
government-sanctioned brutality—to trump justice, fairness and
equality, there can be no hope of prevailing against the police
state.

We could transform
this nation if only Americans would work together to harness the
power of their discontent and push back against the government’s
overreach, excesses and abuse.

As I make clear in my
book 
Battlefield
America: The War on the American People
,
the police state is marching forward, more powerful than ever.

If there is to be any
hope for freedom in 2021, it rests with “we the people.”

Constitutional
attorney and author John W. Whitehead is founder and president of 
The
Rutherford Institute
.
His new book 
Battlefield
America: The War on the American People
 
is
available at
www.amazon.com.
Whitehead can be contacted at johnw@rutherford.org.

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*  Warpsnelheid een term uit de science fiction: veel sneller dan het licht gaan en daarmee ‘in feite’ tijdreizen.

** En vergeet vooral niet dat de aantasting van het recht op privacy en andere burgerrechten ook ten voordele is van de grote bedrijven!! Bedrijven die al door de reguliere media worden geholpen, neem palmolie waar ten behoeve van palmolieplantages oerwoud in brand wordt gestoken, de reguliere media houden daarbij bedrijven als Unilever uit de wind, immers zij zouden alleen gebruikmaken van duurzame palmolie, terwijl de vraag naar palmolie al zorgt voor het nog meer in brand steken van oerwoud (waarover die media met geen woord spreken…..) Deze media houden verder hun mond over het feit dat palmolie, wat in zoveel etenswaren is verwerkt, uitermate slecht is voor het lichaam…. Overheden houden bedrijven als Unilever de hand boven het hoofd, hoe vroom ze ook spreken over het stoppen van de klimaatverandering….. (wat jammer genoeg niet eens mogelijk is!!!) Het wachten is dan ook op wetgeving zoals die in de VS al wordt gebruikt, waar het aan de paal nagelen van grote bedrijven voor dit soort zware misdaden, kan zorgen dat je strafrechtelijk wordt vervolgd……

Zie ook: ‘Demonisering in (Duitse) media van mensen die zich verzetten tegen de Coronamaatregelen zelfs een terreur expert sprak zich uit….’

‘Coronavirus en schending mensenrechten

Luchtvaart voert Coronapaspoort in

VS vs. Black Lives Matter en links: de federale staatsgreep tegen afzonderlijke staten‘ (en zie de links in dat bericht)

LIMC (leger) nu pas door minister van Defensie Bijleveld op non actief gesteld, na ernstige inbreuk op privacy en schending mensenrechten‘ 

LIMC (landmacht) gaat haar boek wel heel ver te buiten, misdadig en mensenrechtenschendend ver!!

‘Operatie
Zebra Sword van start in Nederland, een militaire oefening op het snel
verplaatsen van militair materieel naar de grenzen van kernmacht Rusland
‘ (en uiteraard het in de hand houden van ‘subversieve krachten’ in Nederland)

RIVM mag locatiegegevens van smartphones inzien i.v.m. het Coronavirus en deze gegevens een jaar lang bewaren‘ (!!!!)

Censuur in Nederland rukt op: de weg naar een nieuwe fascistische wereldorde

Arrestatie Julian Assange: een aanfluiting voor internationale regels en een enorme aanval op onafhankelijke journalistiek
(op de echte journalistiek wel te verstaan, helaas is die bijna geheel
uitgerangeerd in de reguliere westerse media) >> (en zie de links
in dat bericht, naar meer artikelen over Assange)

Ausweis bitte! COVI-PASS ‘noodzakelijk’ bij aantonen ‘immuniteit’ voor Coronavirus‘ 

Zeg nee tegen de Corona spoedwet!‘ (een bericht met daaraan verbonden ‘een petitie tegen die ‘nood-spoedwet’.

Rutte 3 wil ongrondwettelijke noodmaatregelen legitimeren met spoedwet‘ 

The Science of Fear: How The Elitists Use it to Control Us & How to Break Free

Transport nucleair afval via Amsterdam naar uitermate gevaarlijke opslag
(met aandacht voor de aantasting van burgerrechten tijdens de
Coronacrisis, zo mochten in Duitsland maar 35 mensen protesteren tegen
dit transport….)

Coronavirus: we worden behandeld als een kind met een tere ziel dat niet te veel mag weten

Coronavirus: vluchtelingen zonder verblijfsvergunning blijven opgesloten ondanks grote kans op besmetting  

Privacy en vrijheid van meningsuiting slachtoffer van het Coronavirus: neem de verplichte volg-app

Trump vraagt om absolute macht tijdens de Coronacrisis‘ 

 

Coronacrisis: de grootste internationale oefening ooit van politie, geheime diensten en de landstrijdkrachten‘ 

Wereldbevolking moet afhankelijk worden gemaakt van vaccins in combinatie met een ‘vaccinatiepaspoort’‘ (zie ook de video’s in dat bericht, waarvan de hieronder getoonde er één is)

Forced vaccinations for all. And that means you. A triumph for authoritarians (een video uit 2018, zeker zien mensen!):

Politie schiet 13 jarige jongen dood bij handhaven avondklok i.v.m. Coronavirus

Viktor Orbán misbruikt Coronacrisis om het Hongaarse parlement en daarmee de democratie buitenspel te zetten

Ton Wilthagen (universiteit Tilburg) wil dat de verkiezingen voor de Tweede Kamer worden uitgesteld

VS: niet de politie bellen als je geliefden oud of invalide zijn, dan wel aan geestelijke aandoeningen lijden……..

Walter Wallace jr., een gekleurde man van 27 met psychische aandoeningen en een criminele geschiedenis, hoewel minder toerekeningsvatbaar, was bepaald geen heilige, maar de 2 agenten die hem met een regen aan kogels vermoorden, waren duidelijk niet voorbereid op de omgang met iemand die leed aan geestelijke aandoeningen…… (trouwens al behoorlijk bevreemdend dat zo’n man niet al lang in een speciaal programma werd geplaatst om hem leren om te gaan met de maatschappij, waarbij men hem ook nog eens had moeten begeleiden in de maatschappij…. ach ja de VS het land van de vele mogelijkheden, in negatieve zin wel te verstaan……) 14 kogels maakten een eind aan het leven van Wallace…..*

John Whitehead, de schrijver van het hieronder opgenomen artikel, stelt dan ook volkomen terecht dat je je wel 2 keer moet bedenken als je de politie belt om welzijnscontrole te doen bij een familielid of andere geliefde persoon (omdat je ongerust bent)…….

Whitehead noemt een aantal zaken die gevaarlijk zijn als je de politie een geliefde laat controleren. Bijvoorbeeld als die persoon autistisch is, een gehoorstoornis heeft, lijdt aan een geestelijke aandoening, dement is (uiteraard ook een geestelijke aandoening), invalide is, of een aandoening heeft waarbij deze persoon niet begrijpt wat er gevraagd wordt en/of op een andere manier moeite heeft met communiceren, dan wel niet onmiddellijk in staat is om te reageren op een bevel (van een veelal psychopathische (trigger-happy) politieagent…… (want vergeet niet dat je echt wel een psychopaat moet zijn om iemand dood te schieten, zeker als je dit al vaker hebt gedaan…..) 

Al moet daar nog wel bij vermeld worden, zoals ook Whitehead stelt: de politie in de VS wordt geleerd dat de eigen veiligheid en van een eventuele collega belangrijker is dan de dood van een burger, ‘better be safe than sorry….’ Bovendien als je stelt dat het leven van agenten boven dat van een ander gaat, je het niet gek moet vinden dat men eerst schiet alvorens vragen te stellen……

Als je de meeste gevallen van politiemoorden ziet in de VS is er maar heel weinig voor nodig om doodgeschoten te worden. Zo moest ook Gay Plack, een 57 jarige vrouw met een bipolaire stoornis fataal bemerken. 2 agenten gingen een welzijnscontrole bij haar uitvoeren, ongevraagd gingen ze het huis in, schreeuwden haar naam, tot ze haar vonden in een donkere badkamer waar ze in een hoekje zat (bang, Ap) en ter zelf verdediging een klein soort bijl voor zich hield….. Vier seconden later werd ze in haar buik geschoten…….. De agenten schoten beiden op haar, niet om haar te immobiliseren maar duidelijk om te doden, immers gezien de plek waar ze werd geraakt……. Whitehead stelt nog dat één van de agenten een taser had, echter die kan behoorlijk dodelijk zijn, zeker voor mensen met aandoeningen….. Alsof 2 agenten niet bij machte zouden zijn geweest om de vrouw te ontwapenen………. Volgens de chef van deze agenten niet, die stelde dat de agenten geen andere keus hadden dan te schieten op deze vrouw, die ook nog eens klein van formaat was…….. Whitehead noemt het niet, maar als de persoon  in kwestie ook nog eens een gekleurde is, is de kans op een fatale afloop nog groter, zoals ik al menig keer in verslagen heb gelezen……. 

The American Dream? The American Nightmare!!

Het artikel van Whitehead werd gepubliceerd op Information Clearing House, onder het artikel kan je klikken voor een ‘Dutch vertaling’, dit neemt wel een tiental seconden in beslag (let op: ook de andere de beschreven situaties in het artikel getuigen van uiterst gewelddadig politieoptreden):

Don’t Call the
Cops. Especially if Your Loved Ones Are Old, Disabled or Have Special
Needs

By
John W. Whitehead

The protests in Philadelphia were the latest in a series of demonstrations against racism that have been playing out across the United States since the spring. The protests in Philadelphia were the latest in a series of demonstrations against racism that have been playing out across the United States since the spring.Credit…Victor J. Blue for The New York Times

November 16, 2020
Information
Clearing House

– They shot at him fourteen
times
.

Walter Wallace Jr.—a
troubled 27-year-old black man with a criminal history and mental
health issues
—was no saint. Still, he didn’t deserve to die
in a hail of bullets fired by police officers who clearly had not
been adequately trained in how to de-escalate encounters with special
needs individuals.

Wallace’s death is a
powerful reminder to think twice before you call the cops to carry
out a welfare check on a loved one.

Especially if that
person is autistic, hearing impaired, mentally ill, elderly,
suffering from dementia, disabled or might have a condition that
hinders their ability to understand, communicate or immediately
comply with an order.

Particularly if you
value that person’s life.

There are some things
that don’t change. Even as the nation grapples with the twin
distractions of political theater and a viral pandemic, there are
still deadlier forces at play.

This is one of them.

At a time when growing
numbers of unarmed people have been shot and killed for just standing
a certain way, or moving a certain way, or holding
something—anything—that police could misinterpret to be a gun, or
igniting some trigger-centric fear in a police officer’s mind that
has nothing to do with an actual threat to their safety, even the
most benign encounters with police can have fatal consequences.

Unfortunately,
police—trained in the worst case scenario and thus ready to shoot
first and ask questions later—increasingly
pose a risk to anyone undergoing a mental health crisis or with
special needs whose disabilities may not be immediately apparent

or require more finesse than the typical freeze-or-I’ll-shoot
tactics employed by America’s police forces.

For instance, Gay
Plack, a 57-year-old Virginia woman with bipolar disorder, was killed
after two police officers—sent to do a welfare check on her—entered
her home uninvited, wandered through the house shouting her name,
kicked open her locked bedroom door, discovered the terrified woman
hiding in a dark bathroom and wielding a small axe, and four seconds
later, shot her in the stomach
.

Four seconds.

That’s all the time
it took for the two police officers assigned to check on Plack to
decide to use lethal force against her (both cops opened fire on the
woman), rather than using non-lethal options (one
cop had a Taser, which he made no attempt to use
) or attempting
to de-escalate the situation.

The police chief
defended his officers’ actions, claiming they had “no
other option
” but to shoot the 5 foot 4 inch woman.

This is what happens
when you empower the police to act as judge, jury and executioner.

This is what happens
when you indoctrinate the police into believing that
their
lives and
their
safety are paramount to anyone else’s.

Suddenly, everyone and
everything else is a threat that must be neutralized or eliminated.

In light of the
government’s ongoing efforts
to predict who might pose a threat to public safety based on mental
health sensor data
(tracked by wearable data such as FitBits and
Apple Watches and monitored by government agencies such as HARPA, the
“Health Advanced Research Projects Agency”), encounters with the
police could get even more deadly, especially if those involved have
a mental illness or disability.

Indeed, disabled
individuals make up a third to half of all people killed by law
enforcement officers.

For example, in South
Carolina, police tasered an 86-year-old grandfather reportedly in the
early stages of dementia, while
he was jogging backwards away from them
.

In Oklahoma, police
shot
and killed a 35-year-old deaf man
seen holding a two-foot metal
pipe on his front porch (he used the pipe to fend off stray dogs
while walking). Despite the fact that witnesses warned police that
Magdiel Sanchez couldn’t hear—and thus comply—with their
shouted orders to drop the pipe and get on the ground, police shot
the man when he was about 15 feet away from them.

In Maryland, police
(moonlighting as security guards) used extreme force to eject a
26-year-old man with Downs Syndrome and a low IQ
from a movie
theater after the man insisted on sitting through a second screening
of a film. Autopsy results indicate that Ethan Saylor died of
complications arising from asphyxiation, likely caused by a
chokehold.

In Florida, police
armed with assault rifles fired three shots at a 27-year-old
nonverbal, autistic man
who was sitting on the ground, playing
with a toy truck. Police missed the autistic man and instead shot his
behavioral therapist, Charles Kinsey, who had been trying to get him
back to his group home. The therapist, bleeding
from a gunshot wound
, was then handcuffed and left lying face
down on the ground for 20 minutes.

These cases, and the
hundreds—if not thousands—more that go undocumented every year
speak to a crisis in policing when it comes to law enforcement’s
failure to adequately assess, de-escalate and manage encounters with
special needs or disabled individuals.

While the research is
relatively scant, what has been happening is telling.

Over the course of six
months, police
shot and killed someone who was in mental crisis every 36 hours
.

Where does this leave
us?

For starters, we need
better police training across the board, but especially when it comes
to de-escalation tactics and crisis intervention.

A study by the
National Institute of Mental Health found that CIT (Crisis
Intervention Team)-trained
officers made fewer arrests, used less force, and connected more
people with mental-health services
than their non-trained peers.

Second, police need to
learn
how to slow confrontations down
, instead of ramping up the
tension (and the noise).

Maryland police
recruits are now required to take a four-hour course in which they
learn “de-escalation tactics” for dealing with disabled
individuals: speak
calmly, give space, be patient
.

One officer in charge
of the LAPD’s “mental response teams” suggests that instead of
rushing to take someone into custody, police
should try to slow things down and persuade
the
person to come with them
.

Third, with all the
questionable funds flowing to police departments these days, why not
use some of those funds to establish what one disability-rights
activist describes as “a
911-type number dedicated to handling mental-health emergencies
,
with community crisis-response teams at the ready rather than police
officers.”

In the end, while we
need to make encounters with police officers safer for people with
suffering from mental illness or with disabilities, what we really
need—as I point out in my book
Battlefield
America: The War on the American People
—is
to make encounters with police safer for
all
individuals
all across the board.

Constitutional
attorney and author John W. Whitehead is founder and president of 
The
Rutherford Institute
.
His new book 
Battlefield
America: The War on the American People
 
is
available at
www.amazon.com.
Whitehead can be contacted at johnw@rutherford.org.

See
also

Bodycam
video released in Walter Wallace Jr. shooting
(video was in originele artikel alleen afgeschermd te zien met een leeftijdswaarschuwing, let op het is walgelijk te zien wat de politie flikt…..)

 

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* Zie: ‘Politieagenten VS schoten verwarde zwarte man dood waar zijn moeder bij stond en om diens leven smeekte‘ 

Voorts zie: ‘Antifa activist Michael Reinoehl zonder enige vorm van proces geëxecuteerd door federale agenten‘ 

Lacino
Hamilton zat 26 jaar onterecht vast in Michigan, nu is er schandelijk
genoeg een bedelactie nodig om zijn leven op de rails te krijgen……
‘ 

Martin Luther King: vrede en gelijkheid is mogelijk‘ (zie de links in dat bericht o.a. voor meer artikelen over Martin Luther King)

Alabama 15 september 1963: vier zwarte meisjes vermoord, met een herdenking door Martin Luther King en John Coltrane‘ 

Politie VS arresteerde 3 zwarte misdaadslachtoffers, 3 tieners…..

Witte geschiedvervalsing in de VS: niet alleen wat betreft de ‘founding fathers’, maar ook als het gaat over ‘freedom fighters’

Cancel
culture is volgens Raisa Blommenstijn (docent/onderzoeker universiteit
Leiden) een hellend vlak en uitholling van de vrijheid van
meningsuiting…….

Slavernij in VS nog steeds toegestaan in de grondwet: inzet slaven bij bosbranden Californië‘  

Black Lives Matter: in Brazilië wordt elke 23 minuten een zwarte jongen of man doodgeschoten door de politie……..‘ 

VS vs. Black Lives Matter en links: de federale staatsgreep tegen afzonderlijke staten

De militarisering van de VS gaat ten koste van de eigen bevolking, van sociale rechtvaardigheid en van gelijkheid

#ADEMBENEMEND: Nederlandse hiphopscene laat zich horen tegen racisme

Politieracisme en -geweld tegen oorspronkelijke volkeren van Canada‘  

Black
Lives Matter in de VS: nog een politiemoord op een zwart gekleurde man
vanwege diens kleur, zonder dat de daders werden gestraft

New Jersey police shooting: Bodycam video released in killing of unarmed black man
(nog een zwarte man die werd vermoord door de politie en dan durft men
in de VS onder leiding van de psychopathische fascist Trump, de niet
centraal geleide organisatie Black Lives Matter, als een
terreurorganisatie neer te zetten…..) 

Black Lives Matter: toestemming vergroting van politiegeweld in Nederland moet worden gestopt

Black Lives Matter: 3 zwarte mannen gelyncht in de VS en de doodsbedreiging tegen coureur Bubba Wallace

BLM:
Politie VS schiet, vermoordt en zet meer mensen gevangen dan andere
ontwikkelde landen: ‘de cijfers’ van CNN, vooral schrikbarend als het om
gekleurde mensen gaat

Trump en Fox zijn uit op een militaire coup‘ (o.a. over de bemoeienissen van Trump met de demonstraties tegen racistisch politie geweld)

Rayshard Brooks: weer een gekleurde VS burger die om niets werd vermoord door de politie

Black Lives Matter, maar niet voor BBC First: Midsomer Murders met racist John Nettles wordt gewoon uitgezonden

Leopold
II en wit geweld in Congo: Geert Jan Hahn (BNR) weer eens uit de bocht:
een beeld van 150 jaar geleden is het oudste beeld in België
‘ 

Vriendschappelijke en handelsrelaties met landen die minderheden vervolgen moeten worden gekapt

Militairen op de straten van Washington: VS op weg naar een burgeroorlog

Obama en ‘change’ n.a.v. de moord op George Floyd: een ongelofelijke hypocriet aan het woord 

Brekend nieuws: militairen op straat in Washington!! 

‘Donald Trump geeft gekleurde burgers een schop na, mensen die al extra worden getroffen door COVID-19

VS politiegeweld tegen demonstranten is illegaal volgens internationale wetten: VN veroordeel dit geweld!!‘ 

Black Lives Matter: een cartoon

Trump
poseert met bijbel, waarvoor hij een vreedzame demonstratie met grof
geweld middels traangas en rubberkogels uit elkaar heeft laten jagen

Politiemoord
op George Floyd: de druppel die de emmer deed overlopen, waar tevens
sociale achterstand een motivering is, zoals in Frankrijk, Chili en
andere landen
‘ 

Anti-racisme demonstratie in Amsterdam reden voor hysterische ophef

Uitrusting Politie VS versus die van medisch hulpverleners‘ 

Politie VS infiltreert protesten n.a.v. de dood van George Floyd en zet aan tot geweld‘ 

George Floyd: de voortdurende politiemoorden op gekleurden in de VS: de witte overheersing met vervolging van gekleurden…..

Trump wil sociale media ontdoen van factcheckers die de Republikeinen de bel aanbinden vanwege nepnieuws en andere bagger

—————————————————————————

Zie wat betreft de ‘Coronachantage’ tijdens de BLM protesten van Curaçao, Aruba en Sint Maarten:

Frankrijk
stal 21 miljard dollar van voormalige slaven als schadeloosstelling
voor de ex-slavenhouders, zoals ook Nederland dat toestond

EU
sancties tegen Venezuela aangescherpt, waar Nederland de voormalige
Antilliaanse slaveneilanden, slachtoffers van die sancties, tijdens de
anti-racistische demonstraties durft te chanteren
‘ 

Rutte (VVD premier) maakt zich schuldig aan racistische leugens en bedrog‘ (en deze hufter-figuur mag les geven aan het voorgezet onderwijs……)

Black Lives Matter maar niet voor neokoloniaal Rutte 3: Coronahulp voor Antilliaanse slaveneilanden alleen na hervormingen
(en zie de links in dat bericht, o.a. over orkaaan Irma die Sint
Maarten zo hard trof en waar Nederland eiste dat de regering opstapte,
voordat Nederland verdere hulp zou leveren, ofwel schunnige chantage
waarvan het volk het slachtoffer was…..)

Rellen op Curaçao, de verantwoordelijken: Raymond Knops (CDA staatssecretaris) en Kajsa Ollongren (D66 minister)

Nederland chanteert alweer Antilliaanse eilanden: nu voor hulp bij Coronacrisis‘ 

Het label ‘BLM’ direct onder dit bericht staat voor Black Lives Matter.

VS vs. Black Lives Matter en links: de federale staatsgreep tegen afzonderlijke staten

De
federale agenten die willekeurig mensen van de straat plukken en die rondrijden in
‘anonieme auto’s’ zijn gekleed als commando’s waarop als enige
herkenbaar woord ‘Police’ is te zien…… Ik dacht eerder dom genoeg dat
het hier om agenten in burger ging, daar er gewag van werd gemaakt
dat ze niet te herkennen waren, bedoeld werd echter dat deze agenten
geen nummer of naam dragen, zodat je ze later niet ter verantwoording kan
roepen als ze zich te buiten gaan aan ‘ongefundeerd geweld’. (iets dat ‘nogal eens gebeurt’ in de VS als de overheid tekeergaat tegen haar burgers…..)

En dat
gaan deze anonieme federale troepen: tekeer tegen vreedzame demonstranten of gewoon mensen die hen op
straat verdacht voorkomen, daarvoor hoef je bijvoorbeeld alleen maar geheel in zwart gekleed te gaan…… Een veteraan die een
paar van die agenten aansprak daar hij verontrust was over het optreden van deze anonieme troepen, werd ‘behandeld’ met pepperspray
en wapenstok, waarna hij werd afgevoerd in zo’n anoniem voertuig…….. De opgepakte mensen worden naar plekken gebracht waar ze onder bewaking
staan en waar hen verder niets ten laste wordt gelegd en waar ze niet te woord worden gestaan……. En dan
durven de psychopathische oorlogsmisdadigers Trump, Pompeo en andere schoften van Trump’s administratie een
grote bek te hebben over China en Rusland, terwijl de VS hard op weg
is om de grootste politiestaat ter wereld te worden……

John
Whitehead van The Rutherford Institute waarschuwt dan ook dat Trump
en zijn legertje agenten, personeel van o.a. ICE, DEA en van
de grensbewaking, tegen het tiende amendement van de VS grondwet ingaan
en in feite een staatsgreep plegen tegen de staten waarin deze
‘federale agenten’ tekeergaan…….

Whitehead
waarschuwt tegen het gevaar dat dit de voorloper is van een
politiestaat….. Als Whitehead wat beter had opgelet had hij gezien
dat de fundamenten voor zo’n staat al onder George W. Bush werden
gelegd en dat na 9/11……. De VS is in feite allang een
politiestaat, zie de bevoegdheden van de geheime diensten die nu
zelfs VS burgers kunnen oppakken en vasthouden zonder vorm van
proces, inderdaad hetzelfde als de ‘federales’ (federaal personeel) van Trump nu
doen….. Voorts mogen deze diensten iedereen in de gaten houden
zonder daar toestemming voor te vragen, alsmede hun telefoon
afluisteren en de computer van afstand hacken om daar in
rond te pluizen…… Me dunkt, een fiks deel van George Orwells 1984 is
al in vervulling gegaan…… Vergeet daarbij niet dat de Trump administratie al weer teostemming heeft gegeven om verdachten te martelen…..

Zwaar
lullig dat Whitehead voor dit alles met de beschuldigende vinger
wijst naar de zwarten die winkels plunderden tijdens de demonstraties
waar de politie op inhakte….. Als je nagaat dat de gekleurde
bevolking 30% minder betaald krijgt voor dezelfde baan die een witte
vervult, is het niet vreemd dat de nieuwe werklozen hun kans hebben
gegrepen en voedsel en apparatuur hebben gestolen die ze nodig
hebben daar ze geen geld hebben om nieuw te kopen (dat percentage van
30% kan overigens nog hoger zijn, het is een raar gemiddelde waarvan
de ondergrens 30% is, ofwel hoogstwaarschijnlijk ligt het werkelijke
gemiddelde op dik meer dan 30%…) Voorts zou Whitehead moeten weten dat een flink deel van de plunderingen, zeker in aanvang van de demonstraties werden georganiseerd door infiltranten van politie en geheime diensten……..

Trump
was al lang voor de Black Lives Matter (BLM) protesten doende een
burgeroorlog op te stoken met zijn uitlatingen over zijn
tegenstanders: zwarten, latino’s, ‘linksen’ en anarchisten, mensen die hij bij zijn achterban aanduidt als vijanden van het Amerikaanse volk…. Daarbij heeft Trump die achterban, vooral de
plattelandsbevolking in zijn zak, mensen die hij beterschap
beloofde na zijn aantreden, maar waarvan een heel groot deel dat na
meer dan 3 jaar nog steeds niet ziet…… Ach het maakt die mensen
niets uit en als hij ze zou oproepen om de genoemde groepen aan te
vallen, zullen ze dat op zeker doen!! (bovendien: voor hun blijvende ellende wijzen Trump c.s. maar al te graag naar de Democraten als de schuldigen…..)

Lees het
artikel van Whitehead (dat ik overnam van het rechtse Zero Hedge) en zegt het voort, immers ook wij moeten
waakzaam zijn, zeker nu men steeds harder van de toren blaast dat het
aantal besmettingen toeneemt, terwijl dat logisch is gezien het
veel grotere aantal testen, waarvan de uitkomsten zelfs een wachttijd kennen van een paar dagen (testen die overigens waardeloos zouden zijn…..)…. Weer schreeuwen zogenaamde deskundigen om inperking van vrijheden, waarbij men ook
daadkrachtiger wil optreden tegen mensen die er wat betreft het
Coronavirus andere denkbeelden op na houden en die op de sociale
media forse kritiek leveren op het waardeloze hap snap beleid van
Rutte 3 en het meer dan disfunctionerende RIVM…..

Whitehead:
The Federal Coup To Overthrow The States And Nix The 10th Amendment
Is Underway

Authored
by John Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute,

I
don’t need invitations by the state, state mayors, or state
governors, to do our job. We’re going to do that, whether they like
us there or not.

– Acting
Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf’s defense of the Trump
Administration’s deployment of militarized federal police to
address civil unrest in the states

This
is a wake-up call.

What is unfolding before
our very eyes
with
police agencies defying local governments in order to tap into the
power of federal militarized troops in order to put down domestic
unrest
could
very quickly snowball into an act of aggression against the states, a
coup by armed, militarized agents of the federal government.

At a minimum, this is an attack on
the Tenth
Amendment
, which affirms the sovereignty of the states and the
citizenry, and the right of the states to stand as a bulwark
against overreach
and power grabs by the federal government
.

If you’re still deluding yourself
into believing that this thinly-veiled exercise in martial law is
anything other than an attempt to bulldoze what remains of the
Constitution and reinforce 

the iron-fisted rule of the police state,
you need to stop drinking the Kool-Aid.

This is no longer about
partisan politics or civil unrest or even authoritarian impulses.

This
is a turning point.

Unless we take back the reins—and
soon—looking back on this time years from now, historians may well
point to the events of 2020 as the death blow to America’s
short-lived experiment in self-government.  

The government’s recent
actions in Portland, Oregon
when
unidentified federal agents (believed to be border police, ICE and
DHS agents), wearing military fatigues with patches that just say
“Police” and sporting all kinds of weapons, descended
uninvited on the city in unmarked vehicles, snatching protesters off
the streets
 and detaining them without formally arresting
them or offering any explanation of why they’re being held
is
just a foretaste of what’s to come.

One of those detainees was a
53-year-old disabled Navy veteran who was in downtown Portland during
the protests but not a participant. Concerned about the tactics being
used by government agents who had taken an oath of office to protect
and defend the Constitution, Christopher David tried to speak the
“secret” police. Almost immediately, he was assaulted
by federal agents, beaten with batons and pepper sprayed

Another peaceful protester
was reportedly
shot in the head with an impact weapon
 by this federal goon
squad.

The Trump Administration has
already announced its plans to deploy
these border patrol agents to other cities across the
country
 (Chicago is supposedly next) in an apparent bid to
put down civil unrest. Yet the overriding
concerns by state and local government officials
 to Trump’s
plans suggest that weaponizing the DHS as an occupying army will only
provoke more violence and unrest.

We’ve
been set up.

Under the guise of protecting
federal properties against civil unrest, the Trump Administration has
formed a task
force of secret agents who look, dress and act like military
stormtroopers on a raid and have been empowered to roam cities in
unmarked vehicles
, snatching citizens off the streets, whether or
not they’ve been engaged in illegal activities.

As the Guardian reports,
The
incidents being described sound eerily reminiscent of the CIA’s
post-9/11 rendition program under George W Bush
, where
intelligence agents would roll up in unmarked vans in foreign
countries, blindfold terrorism suspects (many of whom turned to be
innocent) and kidnap them without explanation. Only instead of
occurring on the streets of Italy or the Middle East, it’s
happening in downtown Portland.”

The so-called racial
justice activists who have made looting, violence, vandalism and
intimidation tactics the hallmarks of their protests have played
right into the government’s hands

They have delivered all of us into
the police state’s hands.

There’s a reason Trump has tapped
the Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Customs and Border
Protection for this dirty business: these agencies are notorious for
their lawlessness, routinely sidestepping the Constitution and
trampling on the rights of anyone who gets in their way, including
legal citizens.

Indeed, it was only a matter of
time before these roving
bands of border patrol agents began flexing their muscles far beyond
the nation’s borders and exercising their right to disregard the
Constitution at every turn
.

Except these border patrol cops
aren’t just disregarding the Constitution.

They’re trampling
all over the Constitution
, especially the Fourth Amendment, which
prohibits the government from carrying out egregious warrantless
searches and seizures without probable cause.

As part of the government’s
so-called crackdown on illegal immigration, drugs and trafficking,
its border patrol cops have been expanding their reach, roaming
further afield
 and subjecting greater numbers of Americans
to warrantless searches, ID checkpoints, transportation checks, and
even surveillance on private property far beyond the boundaries of
the borderlands.

That so-called border, once a thin
borderline, has become an ever-thickening band spreading deeper and
deeper inside the country.

Now, with this latest salvo by the
Trump administration in its so-called crackdown on rioting and civil
unrest, America itself is about to become a Constitution-free zone
where freedom is off-limits and government agents have all the power
and “we the people” have none.

The Customs and Border Protection
(CBP), with its more than 60,000
employees
, supplemented by the National Guard and the U.S.
military, is an arm of the Department of Homeland Security, a
national police force imbued with all the brutality, ineptitude and
corruption such a role implies.

As journalist Todd Miller explains:

In these vast domains,
Homeland Security authorities can institute roving
patrols with broad, extra-constitutional powers backed by national
security, immigration enforcement and drug interdiction mandates
.
There, the Border Patrol can set up traffic checkpoints and fly
surveillance drones overhead with high-powered cameras and radar that
can track your movements. Within twenty-five miles of the
international boundary, CBP agents can enter a person’s private
property without a warrant.

Just about every nefarious
deed, tactic or thuggish policy advanced by the government today can
be traced back to the DHS, its police state mindset, and the billions
of dollars it distributes
 to local police agencies in the
form of grants to transform them into extensions of the military.

As Miller points out, the
government has turned the nation’s expanding border regions into “a
ripe place to experiment with tearing apart the Constitution
, a
place where not just undocumented border-crossers, but millions of
borderland residents have become the targets of continual
surveillance.”

In much the same way that
police across the country have been schooled in the art of
sidestepping the Constitution, border cops have also been drilled in
the art of “anything goes” in the name of national security.

In fact, according to FOIA
documents shared with 
The
Intercept
border
cops even have a checklist of “possible behaviors” that warrant
overriding the Constitution
 and subjecting
individuals—including American citizens—to stops, searches,
seizures, interrogations and even arrests.

For instance, if you’re driving
a vehicle that to a border cop looks unusual
 in some way,
you can be stopped. If your passengers
look dirty
 or unusual, you can be stopped. If you or
your passengers
avoid looking at a cop
, you can be stopped. If you or
your passengers
look too long at a cop
, you can be stopped.

If you’re anywhere
near a border
 (near being within 100 miles of a border, or
in a city, or on a bus, or at an airport), you can be stopped and
asked to prove you’re legally allowed to be in the country. If
you’re traveling
on a public road
 that smugglers and other criminals may have
traveled, you can be stopped.

If you’re not
driving in the same direction as other cars
, you can be stopped.
If you appear
to be avoiding a police checkpoint
, you can be stopped. If
your car
appears to be weighed down
, you can be stopped. If your vehicle
is from out of town
, wherever that might be, you can be stopped.
If you’re driving
a make of car that criminal-types have also driven
, you can be
stopped.

If your car
appears to have been altered or modified
, you can be stopped. If
the cargo
area in your vehicle is covered
, you can be stopped.

If you’re driving
during a time of day or night that border cops find suspicious
,
you can be stopped. If you’re driving
when border cops are changing shifts
, you can be stopped. If
you’re driving
in a motorcade
 or with another vehicle, you can be stopped.
If your car
appears dusty
, you can be stopped.

If people
with you are trying to avoid being seen
, or exhibiting “unusual”
behavior, you can be stopped. If you slow
down after seeing a cop
, you can be stopped.

In Portland, which is 400 miles
from the border, protesters didn’t even have to be near federal
buildings to be targeted. Some claimed to be targeted for
simply wearing black clothing
 in the area of the
demonstration.

Are
you starting to get the picture yet?

This was never about illegal aliens
and border crossings at all. It’s been a test to see how far “we
the people” will allow the government to push the limits of the
Constitution.

We’ve
been failing this particular test for
a long time
 now.

It was 1798
when Americans, their fears stoked by rumblings of a Quasi-War with
France, failed to protest the Alien
and Sedition Acts
, which criminalized anti-government speech,
empowered the government to deport “dangerous” non-citizens and
made it harder for immigrants to vote.

During the Civil
War,
Americans
went along when Abraham Lincoln suspended
the writ of habeas corpus
 (the right to a speedy trial) and
authorized government officials to spy on Americans’ mail.

During World
War I
, Americans
took it in stride when  President Woodrow Wilson and Congress
adopted the Espionage and Sedition Acts, which made it a crime to
interfere with the war effort and criminalized
any speech critical of war
.

By World
War II
, Americans
were marching in lockstep with the government’s expanding war
powers to imprison Japanese-American citizens in detainment camps,
censor mail, and lay
the groundwork for the future surveillance state
.

Fast-forward to the Cold
War’s Red Scares
,
the McCarthy era’s hearings on un-American activities, and the
government’s surveillance of Civil Rights activists
 such
as Martin Luther King Jr.—all done in the name of national
security.

By the time 9/11
rolled around, all George W. Bush had to do was claim the country was
being invaded by terrorists, and the government was given greater
powers to spy, search, detain and arrest
 American
citizens 
in order to
keep America safe
.

The terrorist invasion never really
happened, but the government kept its newly acquired police powers
made possible by the nefarious USA Patriot Act.

Barack Obama
continued Bush’s trend of undermining the Constitution, going so
far as to give the
military the power to strip Americans of their constitutional rights,
label them extremists, and detain them indefinitely without
trial
all in the
name of
 keeping
America safe
.

Despite the fact that the breadth
of the military’s power to detain American citizens violates not
only U.S. law and the Constitution but also international laws, the
government has refused to relinquish its detention powers made
possible by the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).

Then Donald
Trump
took office,
claiming the country was being invaded by dangerous immigrants and
insisting that the only way to keep America safe was to build an
expensive border wall, expand the reach of border patrol, and empower
the military to “assist” with border control
.

That so-called immigration crisis
has now morphed into multiple crises (domestic extremism, the
COVID-19 pandemic, race wars, civil unrest, etc.) that the government
is eager to use in order to expand its powers.

Yet as we’ve learned the hard
way, once the government acquires—and uses—additional powers (to
spy on its citizens, to carry out surveillance, to transform its
police forces into extensions of the police, to seize taxpayer funds,
to wage endless wars, to censor and silence dissidents, to identify
potential troublemakers, to detain citizens without due process), it
does not voluntarily relinquish them

This
is the slippery slope on which we’ve been traveling for far too
long.

As Yale historian Timothy Snyder
explains, “This is a classic way that violence happens in
authoritarian regimes, whether it’s Franco’s Spain or whether
it’s the Russian Empire. The
people who are getting used to committing violence on the border are
then brought in to commit violence against people in the interior.

Sure, it’s the Trump
Administration calling the shots 
right
now
, but it’s government
agents
 armed with
totalitarian powers and beholden to the bureaucratic Deep State who
are carrying out these orders in defiance of the U.S. Constitution
and all it represents.

Whether it’s Trump or
Biden or someone else altogether, this year or a dozen years from
now, the damage has been done:

as I make clear in my book 
Battlefield
America: The War on the American People
,
we have allowed the
president to acquire dictatorial powers that can be unleashed at any
moment.

There’s a reason the Trump
Administration is consulting
with John Yoo
, the Bush-era attorney notorious for justifying
waterboarding torture tactics against detainees. They’re not
looking to understand how to follow the law and abide by the
Constitution. Rather, they’re desperately seeking ways to thwart
the Constitution.

As Harvard constitutional law
professor Laurence Tribe recognizes,

The
dictatorial hunger for power is insatiable.

This is how it begins.

This is how it always begins.

Don’t
be fooled into thinking any of this will change when the next
election rolls around.

===============================

* DHS, ofwel Department of Homeland Security. 

Zie ook:

Cancel
culture is volgens Raisa Blommenstijn (docent/onderzoeker universiteit
Leiden) een hellend vlak en uitholling van de vrijheid van
meningsuiting…….

Slavernij in VS nog steeds toegestaan in de grondwet: inzet slaven bij bosbranden Californië‘ 

Rutte (VVD premier) maakt zich schuldig aan racistische leugens en bedrog‘(en deze hufter-figuur mag les geven aan het voorgezet onderwijs……)

De militarisering van de VS gaat ten koste van de eigen bevolking, van sociale rechtvaardigheid en van gelijkheid

#ADEMBENEMEND: Nederlandse hiphopscene laat zich horen tegen racisme

Politieracisme en -geweld tegen oorspronkelijke volkeren van Canada‘ 

Black
Lives Matter in de VS: nog een politiemoord op een zwart gekleurde man
vanwege diens kleur, zonder dat de daders werden gestraft

New Jersey police shooting: Bodycam video released in killing of unarmed black man
(nog een zwarte man die werd vermoord door de politie en dan durft men
in de VS onder leiding van de psychopathische fascist Trump, de niet
centraal geleide organisatie Black Lives Matter, als een
terreurorganisatie neer te zetten…..) 

Black Lives Matter: toestemming vergroting van politiegeweld in Nederland moet worden gestopt

Black Lives Matter: 3 zwarte mannen gelyncht in de VS en de doodsbedreiging tegen coureur Bubba Wallace

BLM:
Politie VS schiet, vermoordt en zet meer mensen gevangen dan andere
ontwikkelde landen: ‘de cijfers’ van CNN, vooral schrikbarend als het om
gekleurde mensen gaat

Trump en Fox zijn uit op een militaire coup‘ (o.a. over de bemoeienissen van Trump met de demonstraties tegen racistisch politie geweld)

Rayshard Brooks: weer een gekleurde VS burger die om niets werd vermoord door de politie

Black Lives Matter, maar niet voor BBC First: Midsomer Murders met racist John Nettles wordt gewoon uitgezonden

Leopold
II en wit geweld in Congo: Geert Jan Hahn (BNR) weer eens uit de bocht:
een beeld van 150 jaar geleden is het oudste beeld in België
‘ 

Vriendschappelijke en handelsrelaties met landen die minderheden vervolgen moeten worden gekapt

Militairen op de straten van Washington: VS op weg naar een burgeroorlog

Obama en ‘change’ n.a.v. de moord op George Floyd: een ongelofelijke hypocriet aan het woord 

Brekend nieuws: militairen op straat in Washington!! 

‘Donald Trump geeft gekleurde burgers een schop na, mensen die al extra worden getroffen door COVID-19

VS politiegeweld tegen demonstranten is illegaal volgens internationale wetten: VN veroordeel dit geweld!!‘ 

Black Lives Matter: een cartoon

Trump
poseert met bijbel, waarvoor hij een vreedzame demonstratie met grof
geweld middels traangas en rubberkogels uit elkaar heeft laten jagen

Politiemoord
op George Floyd: de druppel die de emmer deed overlopen, waar tevens
sociale achterstand een motivering is, zoals in Frankrijk, Chili en
andere landen
‘ 

Anti-racisme demonstratie in Amsterdam reden voor hysterische ophef

Uitrusting Politie VS versus die van medisch hulpverleners‘ 

Politie VS infiltreert protesten n.a.v. de dood van George Floyd en zet aan tot geweld‘ 

George Floyd: de voortdurende politiemoorden op gekleurden in de VS: de witte overheersing met vervolging van gekleurden…..

Trump wil sociale media ontdoen van factcheckers die de Republikeinen de bel aanbinden vanwege nepnieuws en andere bagger

Zie wat betreft de ‘Coronachantage’ tijdens de BLM protesten van Curaçao, Aruba en Sint Maarten: ‘Black Lives Matter maar niet voor neokoloniaal Rutte 3: Coronahulp voor Antilliaanse slaveneilanden alleen na hervormingen‘ (en zie de links in dat bericht)

Rellen op Curaçao, de verantwoordelijken: Raymond Knops (CDA staatssecretaris) en Kajsa Ollongren (D66 minister)

Nederland chanteert alweer Antilliaanse eilanden: nu voor hulp bij Coronacrisis

Groeiend kwaad, al slapend zien we niet wat er werkelijk gebeurt, ofwel The Matrix in afgezwakte vorm

Tyler
Durden heeft op Zero Hedge een artikel geplaatst van John Whitehead,
eerder gepubliceerd op de site van The Rutherford Institute.

In het
artikel schrijft Whitehead over de films van John Carpenter, waar hij
zijn schrijven m.n. baseert op de film ‘They Live’, een film van meer dan
30 jaar geleden. Hoewel 30 jaar oud, ziet Whitehead in de film
opvallende overeenkomsten met de huidige politiestaat die men VS
pleegt te noemen. Met gebruik van media als de tv prent men de bevolking zaken in als gehoorzaam te zijn en bang te zijn, dit door boodschappen die je normaal niet ziet, maar die de hoofdpersoon met een speciale bril wel kan zien. Voorts heeft de tv dan ook nog het effect op mensen hun zorgen even opzij te zetten, iets dat zonder meer gebeurt met de argeloze kijker….

Men jaagt de mens angst aan voor ‘het onbekende’, ofwel voor bijvoorbeeld terroristen in een ver land, aanvallen op publiek door éénlingen, of zelfs angst voor buren die men niet kent. Alles gevoed met series, films en programma’s over daadwerkelijke misdaad, zoals Opsporing Verzocht (fopsnorren verkocht*). Let wel het gaat hier om de bevolking van de VS, de manier waarop de maatschappij daar is ingericht en hoe de reguliere massamedia worden beheerst door plutocraten en grote investeringsmaatschappijen, hoe Hollywood middels films en series het volk angst aanjaagt middels wat je niet anders kan zien dan een vorm van hersenspoelen….. 

De VS is maar al te vaak het slachtoffer in deze films en series, terwijl de VS een paar keer is aangevallen: Pearl Harbour, in feite niet behorend tot de VS en een aanval die voorkomen had kunnen worden, maar die men expres liet gebeuren zodat de VS zich in WOII kon mengen….. Verder uiteraard 9/11, waarvan intussen meer dan duidelijk is dat deze terroristische aanslagen werden georganiseerd en geregisseerd door de VS zelf…. Niet moeilijk te bedenken dat we in Nederland en de rest van het westen dezelfde kant opgaan, zie alleen al al het fake news en manipulaties in onze reguliere media, voorafgaand en tijdens de illegale oorlogen die de VS deze eeuw begon, waarbij meer dan 2,5 miljoen mensen zijn omgekomen, ofwel feitelijk vermoord door de VS en haar hielenlikkende NAVO-partners, waaronder Nederland (en ja daar betalen we met z’n allen aan mee…)…..

Hoe is het mogelijk dat er zoveel films en series zijn die zogenaamd aantonen dat het westen slachtoffer is van terreur en het onbekende, zodat het terecht lijkt dat het westen met grootschalige terreur ingrijpt in landen waar we niets, maar dan ook helemaal niets te zoeken hebben…??? De werkelijkheid is volkomen omgedraaid, de VS en haar NAVO-partners gebruiken grootschalige terreur in het Midden-Oosten, Afrika en Latijns-Amerika (sinds kort ook met NAVO troepen uit Europa), deze terreur roept logischerwijs agressie op bij de nabestaanden van het enorme aantal slachtoffers…  Hoe meer van deze films en series vertoond worden, hoe meer de mens angst krijgt voor het bestaan en achter de ongebreidelde westerse agressie gaat staan, terwijl geen hond nog ziet dat de terreur die we zelf uitoefenen van een grootte is, waarbij aanslagen in het westen in het niet vallen…… Gevolg van die westerse terreur: het kweken van aanslagen in het westen en enorme vluchtelingenstromen (waar dan schunnig genoeg zelfs angst wordt gekweekt voor die vluchtelingen)…… 

Kortom we laten ons leven en beseffen niet dat e.e.a. zich voltrekt over ons bestaan, we dromen vrij te zijn, maar zijn dat in werkelijkheid allesbehalve…..

Carpenter
is in zijn films altijd sterk anti-autoritair en hij laat de kijker
zien hoe de mens in feite slaapt terwijl onzichtbare machten zich het leven van de slapenden toe-eigenen, dit geldt des te meer voor de
film ‘They Live’.

Vanmorgen hoorde ik dat een geschifte generaal het internet van Nederland wil bewaken, lees: zuiveren van kritiek, waarvoor hij dan het sprookje aanhaalt dat ‘men’ (lees: Rusland) ons manipuleert via de sociale media….. Als iets dergelijks doorgang zou vinden, kunnen we het laatste restje echt objectieve journalistiek vaarwel zeggen en worden we alleen nog volgepropt met neoliberale leugens…….

Lees het volgende uitstekende artikel en de rillingen zullen je over de rug lopen (ach ja, het is het hele jaar Halloween):

They
Live, We Sleep: Beware The Growing Evil In Our Midst

by Tyler
Durden

Wed,
10/30/2019 – 00:05

Authored
by John Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute,

You
see them on the street. You watch them on TV.
 You
might even vote for one this fall. 
You
think they’re people just like you. 
You’re
wrong.
 Dead
wrong.”


They Live

We’re
living in two worlds, you and I.

There’s
the world we see (or are made to see) and then there’s the one we
sense (and occasionally catch a glimpse of), the latter of which is a
far cry from the propaganda-driven reality manufactured by the
government and its corporate sponsors, including the media.

Indeed,
what most Americans perceive as life in America—privileged,
progressive and free—is a far cry from reality,
 where
economic inequality is growing, real agendas and real power are
buried beneath layers of Orwellian doublespeak and corporate
obfuscation, and “freedom,” such that it is, is meted out in
small, legalistic doses by militarized police armed to the teeth.

All
is not as it seems.

This
is the premise of 
John
Carpenter’s film 
They
Live
,
which was released more than 30 years ago, and remains unnervingly,
chillingly appropriate for our modern age.

Best
known for his horror film 
Halloween,
which assumes that there is a form of evil so dark that it can’t be
killed, Carpenter’s larger body of work is infused with a strong
anti-authoritarian, anti-establishment, laconic bent that speaks to
the filmmaker’s concerns about the unraveling of our society,
particularly our government.

Time
and again, Carpenter portrays the government working against its own
citizens, 
a
populace out of touch with reality
,
technology run amok, and a future more horrific than any horror film.


In Escape
from New York
,
Carpenter presents fascism as the future of America.


In The
Thing
, a
remake of the 1951 sci-fi classic of the same name, Carpenter
presupposes that increasingly we are all becoming dehumanized.


In Christine,
the film adaptation of Stephen King’s novel about a demon-possessed
car, technology exhibits a will and consciousness of its own and goes
on a murderous rampage.


In In
the Mouth of Madness
,
Carpenter notes that evil grows when people lose “the ability to
know the difference between reality and fantasy.”


And
then there is Carpenter’s 
They
Live
,
in which two migrant workers discover that the world is not as it
seems. In fact, the population is actually being controlled and
exploited by aliens working in partnership with an oligarchic elite.
All the while, the populace—blissfully unaware of the real agenda
at work in their lives—has been lulled into complacency,
indoctrinated into compliance, bombarded with media distractions, and
hypnotized by subliminal messages beamed out of television and
various electronic devices, billboards and the like.


It
is only when homeless drifter John Nada (played to the hilt by
the 
late
Roddy Piper
)
discovers a pair of doctored sunglasses—Hoffman lenses—that Nada
sees what lies beneath the elite’s fabricated reality: control and
bondage.


When
viewed through the lens of truth, the elite, who appear human until
stripped of their disguises, are shown to be monsters who have
enslaved the citizenry in order to prey on them.


Likewise, billboards
blare out hidden, authoritative messages
:
a bikini-clad woman in one ad is actually ordering viewers to “MARRY
AND REPRODUCE.” Magazine racks scream “CONSUME” and “OBEY.”
A wad of dollar bills in a vendor’s hand proclaims, “THIS IS YOUR
GOD.”


When
viewed through Nada’s Hoffman lenses, some of the other hidden
messages being drummed into the people’s subconscious include: NO
INDEPENDENT THOUGHT, CONFORM, SUBMIT, STAY ASLEEP, BUY, WATCH TV, NO
IMAGINATION, and DO NOT QUESTION AUTHORITY.

This
indoctrination campaign engineered by the elite in 
They
Live
 is
painfully familiar to anyone who has studied the decline of American
culture.


A
citizenry that does not think for themselves, obeys without question,
is submissive, does not challenge authority, does not think outside
the box, and is content to sit back and be entertained is a citizenry
that can be easily controlled.

In
this way, the subtle message of 
They
Live
 provides
an apt analogy of our own distorted vision of life in the American
police state, what philosopher Slavoj Žižek refers to
as 
dictatorship
in democracy
,
“the invisible order which sustains your apparent freedom.”


We’re
being fed a series of carefully contrived fictions that bear no
resemblance to reality.

The
powers-that-be want us to feel threatened by forces beyond our
control (terrorists, 
shootersbombers).



They
want us afraid and dependent on the government and its militarized
armies for our safety and well-being.



They
want us distrustful of each other, divided by our prejudices, and at
each other’s throats.



Most
of all, they want us to continue to march in lockstep with their
dictates.


Tune
out the government’s attempts to distract, divert and befuddle us
and tune into what’s really going on in this country, and you’ll
run headlong into an unmistakable, unpalatable truth: the moneyed
elite who rule us view us as expendable resources to be used, abused
and discarded.

In
fact, a study conducted by Princeton and Northwestern University
concluded that the 
U.S.
government does not represent the majority of American citizens
.
Instead, the study found that the government is ruled by the rich and
powerful, or the so-called “economic elite.”
 Moreover,
the researchers concluded that policies enacted by this governmental
elite nearly always favor special interests and lobbying groups.


In
other words, we are being 
ruled
by an oligarchy
 disguised
as a democracy, and arguably on our way towards fascism—a form of
government where private corporate interests rule, money calls the
shots, and the people are seen as mere subjects to be controlled.


Not
only do you have to be rich—or beholden to the rich—to get
elected these days, but 
getting
elected is also a surefire way to get rich
.
As 
CBS
News
 reports,
“Once in office, members of Congress enjoy access to connections
and information they can use to increase their wealth, in ways that
are unparalleled in the private sector. And once politicians leave
office, their connections allow them to profit even further.”


In
denouncing this blatant corruption of America’s political system,
former president Jimmy Carter blasted the process of getting
elected—to the White House, governor’s mansion, Congress or state
legislatures—as “
unlimited
political bribery

a subversion of our political system as a payoff to major
contributors, who want and expect, and sometimes get, favors for
themselves after the election is over.”


Rest
assured that when and if fascism finally takes hold in America, the
basic forms of government will remain: Fascism will appear to be
friendly. 
The
legislators will be in session. 

There will be elections, and the news
media will continue to cover the entertainment and political trivia.
Consent of the governed, however, will no longer apply. Actual
control will have finally passed to the oligarchic elite controlling
the government behind the scenes.

Sound
familiar?

Clearly,
we are now ruled by an oligarchic elite of governmental and corporate
interests.

We
have moved into “corporatism” (
favored
by Benito Mussolini
),
which is a halfway point on the road to full-blown fascism.


Corporatism
is where the few moneyed interests—not elected by the
citizenry—rule over the many. In this way, it is not a democracy or
a republican form of government, which is what the American
government was established to be. It is a top-down form of government
and one which has a terrifying history typified by the developments
that occurred in totalitarian regimes of the past: police states
where everyone is watched and spied on, rounded up for minor
infractions by government agents, placed under police control, and
placed in detention (a.k.a. concentration) camps.

For
the final hammer of fascism to fall, it will require the most crucial
ingredient: the majority of the people will have to agree that it’s
not only expedient but necessary.

But
why would a people agree to such an oppressive regime?


The
answer is the same in every age: fear.


Fear
makes people stupid
.


Fear
is the method most often used by politicians to increase the power of
government. And, as most social commentators recognize, an atmosphere
of fear permeates modern America: fear of terrorism, fear of the
police, fear of our neighbors and so on.

The
propaganda of fear has been used quite effectively by those who want
to gain control, and it is working on the American populace.

Despite
the fact that we are 17,600 times more likely to die from heart
disease than from a terrorist attack; 11,000 times more likely to die
from an airplane accident than from a terrorist plot involving an
airplane; 1,048 times more likely to die from a car accident than a
terrorist attack, and 
8
times more likely to be killed by a police officer than by a
terrorist
 ,
we have handed over control of our lives to government officials who
treat us as a means to an end—the source of money and power.


As
the Bearded Man in 
They
Live
 warns, “They
are dismantling the sleeping middle class. 

More and more people are
becoming poor. We are their cattle. We are being bred for slavery.”


In
this regard, we’re not so different from the oppressed citizens
in 
They
Live
.


From
the moment we are born until we die, we are indoctrinated into
believing that those who rule us do it for our own good. The truth is
far different.

Despite
the truth staring us in the face, we have allowed ourselves to become
fearful, controlled, pacified zombies.

We
live in a perpetual state of denial, insulated from the painful
reality of the American police state by wall-to-wall entertainment
news and screen devices.


Most
everyone keeps their heads down these days while staring zombie-like
into an electronic screen, even when they’re crossing the street.
Families sit in restaurants with their heads down, separated by their
screen devices and unaware of what’s going on around them. Young
people especially seem dominated by the devices they hold in their
hands, oblivious to the fact that they can simply push a button, turn
the thing off and walk away.

Indeed,
there is no larger group activity than that connected with those who
watch screens—that is, television, lap tops, personal computers,
cell phones and so on. In fact, a Nielsen study reports that American
screen viewing is at an all-time high. For example, the 
average
American watches approximately 151 hours of television per month
.



The
question, of course, is what effect does such screen consumption have
on one’s mind?


Psychologically
it is 
similar
to drug addiction
.
Researchers found that “almost immediately after turning on the
TV, 
subjects
reported feeling more relaxed
,
and because this occurs so quickly and the tension returns so rapidly
after the TV is turned off, people are conditioned to associate TV
viewing with a lack of tension.” Research also shows that
regardless of the programming, viewers’ brain waves slow down, thus
transforming them into a more passive, nonresistant state.


Historically,
television has been used by those in authority to quiet discontent
and pacify disruptive people. “Faced with severe overcrowding and
limited budgets for rehabilitation and counseling, 
more
and more prison officials are using TV to keep inmates quiet
,”
according to 
Newsweek.


Given
that the majority of what Americans watch on television is provided
through 
channels
controlled by six mega corporations
,
what we watch is now controlled by a corporate elite and, if that
elite needs to foster a particular viewpoint or pacify its viewers,
it can do so on a large scale.

If
we’re watching, we’re not doing.


The
powers-that-be understand this. As television journalist Edward R.
Murrow warned in a 1958 speech:

We
are currently wealthy, fat, comfortable and complacent
.
We have currently a built-in allergy to unpleasant or disturbing
information. Our mass media reflect this.
 But
unless we get up off our fat surpluses and recognize that television
in the main is being used to distract, delude, amuse, and insulate
us, then television and those who finance it, those who look at it,
and those who work at it, may see a totally different picture too
late.

This
brings me back to 
They
Live
,
in which the real zombies are not the aliens calling the shots but
the populace who are content to remain controlled.


When
all is said and done, the world of 
They
Live 
is
not so different from our own. As one of the characters points out,
“The poor and the underclass are growing. Racial justice and human
rights are nonexistent. They have created a repressive society and we
are their unwitting accomplices. 

Their intention to rule rests with
the annihilation of consciousness. We have been lulled into a trance.
They have made us indifferent to ourselves, to others. We are focused
only on our own gain.”


We,
too, are focused only on our own pleasures, prejudices and gains. Our
poor and underclasses are also growing. Racial injustice is growing.
Human rights is nearly nonexistent. We too have been lulled into a
trance, indifferent to others.

Oblivious
to what lies ahead, we’ve been manipulated into believing that if
we continue to consume, obey, and have faith, things will work out.
But that’s never been true of emerging regimes. And by the time we
feel the hammer coming down upon us, it will be too late.


So
where does that leave us?

The
characters who populate Carpenter’s films provide some insight.

Underneath
their machismo, they still believe in the ideals of liberty and equal
opportunity. Their beliefs place them in constant opposition with the
law and the establishment, but they are nonetheless freedom fighters.

When,
for example, John Nada destroys the alien hyno-transmitter in 
They
Live
,
he restores hope by delivering America a wake-up call for freedom.

That’s
the key right there: 
we
need to wake up.


Stop
allowing yourselves to be easily distracted by pointless political
spectacles and pay attention to what’s really going on in the
country.

The
real battle for control of this nation is not being waged between
Republicans and Democrats in the ballot box.

As
I make clear in my book 
Battlefield
America: The War on the American People
the
real battle for control of this nation is taking place on roadsides,
in police cars, on witness stands, over phone lines, in government
offices, in corporate offices, in public school hallways and
classrooms, in parks and city council meetings, and in towns and
cities across this country.


The
real battle between freedom and tyranny is taking place right in
front of our eyes, if we would only open them.

All
the trappings of the American police state are now in plain sight.

Wake
up, America.


If
they live (the tyrants, the oppressors, the invaders, the overlords),
it is only because “we the people” sleep.

Tag:
Politics

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* Uitspraak van en met dank aan Dave de Borst.

Jeffrey Epstein: seksueel wangedrag van welgestelden veelal onder de pet gehouden

Het
mag als algemeen bekend worden geacht dat CEO’s van bedrijven,
politici en hoge ambtenaren voor een groot deel psychopaten/sociopaten
zijn. Niet vreemd dus te zien dat een pedofiel als Epstein een
kindermisbruik netwerk heeft geleid waar met name de machtigen van de
aarde gebruik van maakten….
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Naast
het voorgaande is er nog het cliché dat macht corrumpeert (geen spelt tussen te krijgen), niet
vreemd dus dat deze psychopaten en sociopaten (de laatsten zijn
veelal machtige poltici) denken recht te hebben op alles wat ze
denken nodig te hebben, zelfs als dat betekent een kind misbruiken……

In
de VS worden kinderen op jaarbasis 2,5 miljoen keer misbruikt o.a.
door deze seksueel gewelddadige rotschoften….. Dat ‘o.a.’ daar
zoals je begrijpt niet alleen de machtige welgestelden kinderen
misbruiken, neem alleen al het enorme aantal rk geestelijken dat
kinderen heeft misbruikt (en wat waarschijnlijk nog steeds gebeurt,
zij het op nog meer stiekeme manier)…. Oh nee een beetje dom van mij,
immers ook rk geestelijken behoren voor veel mensen nog steeds tot de
machtigen op aarde en dat geldt al helemaal voor de kinderen van deze
mensen….

John
W. Whitehead heeft op The Mind Unleashed (TMU) een uitgebreid
artikel over deze zaak geschreven, waarin hij uitlegt hoe e.e.a werkt
en hoe men op veel manieren probeert om de machtige en welgestelde
daders te beschermen voor schandalen in de media…. Alweer niet zo
vreemd, daar het volk anders wel eens in opstand zou kunnen komen,
zeker als blijkt dat de machtigen op onze aarde, die als politici ons
dagelijks voorhouden dat we waarden en normen in acht moeten nemen en een grote bek opzetten over zaken waar ze zichzelf schuldig aan
maken…..

Deze zaak is niet typisch is voor de
VS, gegarandeerd dat e.e.a ook in Europa en zelfs in Nederland
plaatsvindt….. Neem onze politieke elite: een groep mensen die voor
het grootste deel zonder meer als sociopaten kunnen worden aangemerkt (neem de smerige omgang met vluchtelingen, of het steunen van de illegale oorlogen die de VS voert)….. Wat betreft de ondernemers: zie alleen al een figuur als Hans de
Boer van VNO-NCW, gezien zijn uitlatingen door de jaren heen, is het
duidelijk dat we hier met een psychopaat te maken hebben….. 

Lullig
genoeg geldt hetzelfde voor ‘onze’ sociopaten en psychopaten als het gaat om het geen probleem hebben met wel heel smerige zaken als kindermisbruik: ook zij
denken recht te hebben op zaken die een ander niet eens in het hoofd zou halen…….. (klik voor de gein op het label met de naam
van de Boer en zie wat een enorme rotschoft deze vent werkelijk is)
Waarmee ik uiteraard niet zeg dat de Boer kinderen misbruikt, echter
het gevaar dat figuren als de Boer zich hier schuldig aan maken is
levensgroot….. 

Een ander voorbeeld is VVD psychopaat Bolkestein,
die als minister in de 80er jaren van de vorige eeuw, tegen advies van
ambtenaren en deskundigen in exportvergunningen afgaf voor
onderdelen waarmee het bewind Hoessein in Irak chemische wapens
maakte…. De VVD opperschoft Bolkestein werd met deze zaak tevens oorlogsmisdadiger, kwam daar mee weg en verdient zich al jaren geheel en al scheel
in Brussel, waar hij lobbyt voor het bedrijfsleven, zo is hij verantwoordelijk voor de uitbuiting van Oost-Europese arbeiders in het westen van de EU, zoals in ‘ons land…..’ 

CORRUPTION  |  OPINION

   JUL
14, 2019 AT 12:07 AM.

Sexual
Predators Within America’s Power Elite: What You’re Not Being
Told

Power
corrupts. Anyone who believes differently hasn’t been paying
attention.

JOHN
W. WHITEHEAD

Sexual Predators Within America’s Power Elite

As
political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends
compensating to increase. And the dictator (unless he needs cannon
fodder and families with which to colonize empty or conquered
territories) will do well to encourage that freedom.” — Aldous
Huxley, 
Brave
New World

(RI Opinion) —
Power corrupts. Anyone who believes differently hasn’t been paying
attention.

Politics,
religion, sports, government, entertainment, business, armed forces:
it doesn’t matter what arena you’re talking about, they are all
riddled with the kind of seedy, sleazy, decadent, dodgy, depraved,
immoral, corrupt behavior that somehow gets a free pass when it
involves the wealthy and powerful elite in America.

In
this age of partisan politics and a deeply polarized populace,
corruption — especially when it involves sexual debauchery,
depravity and predatory behavior — has become the great equalizer.

Take
Jeffrey Epstein, the hedge fund billionaire / convicted serial
pedophile 
recently
arrested on charges of molesting, raping and sex trafficking dozens
of young girls
.

It
is believed that Epstein operated his own personal sex trafficking
ring not only for his personal pleasure but also 
for
the pleasure of his friends and business associates
.

According
to 
The
Washington Post
,
“several of the young women…say they were 
offered
to the rich and famous as sex partners
 at
Epstein’s parties.” At various times, Epstein ferried his friends
about on his private plane, 
nicknamed
the “Lolita Express.”

This
is part of America’s seedy underbelly.

As
I documented in the 
in-depth
piece
 I
wrote earlier this year, child sex trafficking — the buying and
selling of women, young girls and boys for sex, 
some
as young as 9 years old
 —
has become big business in America. It is the 
fastest
growing business
 in
organized crime and the 
second
most-lucrative commodity traded
 illegally
after drugs and guns.

Adults
purchase children for sex at least 2.5 million times a year
 in
the United States.

It’s
not just young girls who are vulnerable to these predators, either.

According
to a 2016 investigative report, “
boys
make up about 36% of children caught up in the U.S. sex
industry
 (about
60% are female and less than 5% are transgender males and females).”

Who
buys a child for sex?

Otherwise
ordinary men
 from
all walks of life. “
They
could be your co-worker, doctor, pastor or spouse
,”
writes journalist Tim Swarens, who spent more than a year
investigating the sex trade in America.

Ordinary
men, yes.

But
then there are the 
extra-ordinary men,
such as Jeffrey Epstein, who belong to a 
powerful,
wealthy, elite segment of society
 that
operates according to their own rules or, rather, who are allowed to
sidestep the rules that are used like a bludgeon on the rest of us.

These
men skate free of accountability by taking advantage of a 
criminal
justice system that panders to the powerful, the wealthy and the
elite
.

Over
a decade ago, when Epstein was first charged with raping and
molesting young girls, he was gifted a secret plea deal with
then-U.S. Attorney Alexander Acosta, President Trump’s former Labor
Secretary, that 
allowed
him to evade federal charges and be given the equivalent of a slap on
the wrist
:
allowed to 
“work”
at home six days a week
 before
returning to jail to sleep. That secret plea deal has 
since
been ruled illegal
 by
a federal judge.

Yet
here’s the thing: Epstein 
did
not act alone
.

I
refer not only to Epstein’s accomplices, 
who
recruited and groomed the young girls
 he
is accused of raping and molesting, many of them homeless or
vulnerable, but his 
circle
of influential friends and colleagues
 that
at one time included Bill Clinton and Donald Trump. Both Clinton and
Trump, renowned womanizers who have also been accused of sexual
impropriety by a significant number of women, 
were
at one time passengers on the Lolita Express
.

As
the Associated Press points out, “The arrest of the billionaire
financier on child sex trafficking charges is raising questions about
how much his high-powered associates knew about the hedge fund
manager’s interactions with underage girls, and 
whether
they turned a blind eye to potentially illegal conduct
.”

In
fact, a recent decision by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals
allowing a 2,000-page document linked to the Epstein case to be
unsealed references allegations of sexual abuse involving “
numerous
prominent American politicians, powerful business executives, foreign
presidents, a well-known Prime Minister, and other world leaders
.”

This
is 
not
a minor incident involving minor players
.

This
is the heart of darkness.

Sex
slaves. 
Sex
trafficking
.
Secret societies. Powerful elites. Government corruption. Judicial
cover-ups.

Once
again, fact and fiction mirror each other.

Twenty
years ago, 
Stanley
Kubrick’s final film 
Eyes
Wide Shut
 provided
viewing audiences with a sordid glimpse into a secret sex society
that indulged the basest urges of its affluent members while preying
on vulnerable young women. It is not so different from the real
world, where 
powerful
men, insulated from accountability, indulge their base urges
.

These secret
societies flourish, implied Kubrick, because the rest of us are
content to navigate life with our eyes wide shut
,
in denial about the ugly, obvious truths in our midst.

In
so doing, we become accomplices to abusive behavior in our midst.

This
is how corruption by the power elite flourishes.

every
Epstein who is — finally — called to account for his illegal
sexual exploits after 
years
of being given a free pass by those in power
,
there are hundreds (perhaps thousands) more in the halls of power and
wealth whose 
predation
of those most vulnerable among us continues
 unabated.

While
Epstein’s 
alleged
crimes are heinous
 enough
on their own, he is part of a larger narrative of how a culture of
entitlement becomes 
a
cesspool and a breeding ground for despots and predators
.

Remember
the 
“DC
Madam” who was charged with operating a phone-order sex business
?
Her clients included 
thousands
of White House officials, lobbyists, and Pentagon, FBI, and IRS
employees, as well as prominent lawyers
,
none of whom were ever exposed or held accountable.

Power
corrupts.

Worse,
as 19th-century historian Lord Acton concluded, 
absolute
power corrupts absolutely
.

It
doesn’t matter whether you’re talking about a politician, an
entertainment mogul, a 
corporate
CEO
 or
a police officer: give any one person (or government agency) too much
power and allow him or her or it to believe that they are entitled,
untouchable and will not be held accountable for their actions, and
those powers will eventually be abused.

We’re
seeing this dynamic play out every day in communities across America.

A
cop shoots an unarmed citizen for no credible reason and gets away
with it. A president employs executive orders to sidestep the
Constitution and gets away with it. A government agency spies on its
citizens’ communications and gets away with it. An entertainment
mogul sexually harasses aspiring actresses and gets away with it. The
U.S. military bombs a civilian hospital and gets away with it.

Abuse
of power — and the ambition-fueled hypocrisy and deliberate
disregard for misconduct that make those abuses possible — works
the same whether you’re talking about sex crimes, government
corruption, or the rule of law.

It’s
the same old story all over again: man rises to power, man abuses
power abominably, man intimidates and threatens anyone who challenges
him with retaliation or worse, and man gets away with it because of 
a
culture of compliance
 in
which no one speaks up because they don’t want to lose their job or
their money or their place among the elite.

It’s
not just sexual predators that we have to worry about.

For
every Jeffrey Epstein (or Bill Clinton or Harvey Weinstein or Roger
Ailes or Bill Cosby or Donald Trump) who eventually gets called out
for his sexual misbehavior, there are hundreds — thousands — of
others in the American police state who are getting away with murder
— in many cases, literally — simply because they can.

The
cop who shoots the unarmed citizen first and asks questions later
might get put on paid leave for a while or take a job with another
police department, but that’s just a slap on the wrist. The
shootings and SWAT team raids and excessive use of force will
continue, because the police unions and the politicians and the
courts won’t do a thing to stop it.

The
war hawks who are making a profit by waging endless wars abroad,
killing innocent civilians in hospitals and schools, and turning the
American homeland into a domestic battlefield will continue to do so
because neither the president nor the politicians will dare to
challenge the military industrial complex.

The
National Security Agency that carries out warrantless surveillance on
Americans’ internet and phone communications will continue to do
so, because the government doesn’t want to relinquish any of its
ill-gotten powers and its total control of the populace.

Unless
something changes in the way we deal with these ongoing, egregious
abuses of power, the predators of the police state will continue to
wreak havoc on our freedoms, our communities, and our lives.

Police
officers will continue to shoot and kill unarmed citizens. Government
agents — including local police — will continue to dress and act
like soldiers on a battlefield. Bloated government agencies will
continue to fleece taxpayers while eroding our liberties. Government
technicians will continue to spy on our emails and phone calls.
Government contractors will continue to make a killing by waging
endless wars abroad.

And
powerful men (and women) will continue to abuse the powers of their
office by treating those around them as underlings and second-class
citizens who are unworthy of dignity and respect and undeserving of
the legal rights and protections that should be afforded to all
Americans.

As
Dacher Keltner, professor of psychology at the at the University of
California, Berkeley, observed in the 
Harvard
Business Review
,
“While people usually gain power through traits and actions that
advance the interests of others, such as empathy, collaboration,
openness, fairness, and sharing; when they start to feel powerful or
enjoy a position of privilege, those qualities begin to fade. 
The
powerful are more likely than other people to engage in rude,
selfish, and unethical behavior
.”

After
conducting a series of experiments into the phenomenon of how power
corrupts, Keltner concluded: “Just the random assignment of power,
and all kinds of mischief ensues, and people will become impulsive.
They eat more resources than is their fair share. They take more
money. 
People
become more unethical.
They
think unethical behavior is okay if they engage in it. People are
more likely to stereotype.

They’re
more likely to stop attending to other people carefully.”

Power
corrupts.

And
absolute power corrupts absolutely.

However,
it takes a culture of entitlement and a nation of compliant,
willfully ignorant, politically divided citizens to provide the
foundations of tyranny.

As
researchers Joris Lammers and Adam Galinsky found, those in power not
only tend to abuse that power but they also feel 
entitled to
abuse it: “People with power that they think is justified break
rules not only because they can get away with it, but also
because 
they
feel at some intuitive level that they are entitled to take what they
want
.”

As
I point out in my book 
Battlefield
America: The War on the American People
,
for too long now, Americans have tolerated an oligarchy in which 
a
powerful, elite group of wealthy donors is calling the shots
.
They have paid homage to patriotism while allowing the military
industrial complex to spread death and destruction abroad. And they
have turned a blind eye to all manner of wrongdoing when it was
politically expedient.

We
need to restore the rule of law for 
all people,
no exceptions.

Here’s
what the rule of law means in a nutshell: it means that everyone is
treated the same under the law, everyone is held equally accountable
to abiding by the law, and no one is given a free pass based on their
politics, their connections, their wealth, their status or any other
bright line test used to confer special treatment on the elite.

This
culture of compliance must stop.

The
empowerment of petty tyrants and political gods must end.

The
state of denial must cease.

Let’s
not allow this Epstein sex scandal to become just another blip in the
news cycle that goes away all too soon, only to be forgotten when
another titillating news headline takes its place.

Sex
trafficking, like so many of the evils in our midst, is a cultural
disease that is rooted in the American police state’s heart of
darkness. It speaks to a far-reaching corruption that stretches from
the highest seats of power down to the most hidden corners and relies
on our silence and our complicity to turn a blind eye to wrongdoing.

If
we want to put an end to these wrongs, we must keep our eyes wide
open.


By John
W. Whitehead
 | The
Rutherford Institute

The
views in this article may not reflect editorial policy of The Mind
Unleashed.

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Zie: 
Jeffrey Epstein en Ghislaine Maxwell werkten mede voor de militaire geheime dienst van Israël

en: Epstein vermoord volgens patholoog-anatoom

en: Kindermisbruikers beschermd door overheden‘ 

en: Donald Trump – Jeffey Epstein: you’ve got to grab them by the pussy

en: Russiagate, ‘couppoging tegen Trump’ en kindermisbruik netwerk Epstein zijn gekoppeld´ 

en: Prince Andrew ontkent kennis kindermisbruiknetwerk Epstein, maar……..‘ 

en: Jeffrey Epstein waarschijnlijk op ‘loonlijst’ Mossad, de Israëlische geheime dienst‘ en: Jeffrey Epstein (exploitant kindermisbruik netwerk) ‘overleden aan suïcide’

en: ‘Jeffrey Epstein, beheerder van een kindermisbruiknetwerk ‘is gesuïcideerd’ ofwel vermoord

en: Jeffrey Epsteins kleine zwarte pedo-boek met namen als Bill Clinton, David Koch, Courtney Love, prins Andrew en Tony Blair‘ 

Zie ook:

Psychopaten maken de dienst uit, de hoogste tijd om daar verandering in te brengen!

De psychopaten achter de schermen van de agressieve VS buitenlandpolitiek…..

Psychopathic Behavior and Leaders By James G. Long

The Disturbing Link Between Psychopathy And Leadership By Victor Lipman

Neoliberalisme, ofwel de inhumane, keiharde maatschappij anno 2015

Rutte’s commentaar op Hans de Boer, wat een hypocriet!!

Hans de Boer vindt uitkeringsgerechtigden luie labbekakkers…….

NAVO verder op oorlogspad, dat noemen Rob de Wijk en een groot aantal politici: ‘slapen…’ ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Rob de Wijk verklaart met veel oorlogsretoriek de oorlog aan Kremlintrollen in Europa, ofwel haatzaaien tegen mensen die nadenken!!……….

Milieusceptici zijn gevaarlijke psychopaten

De evolutie van politiestaat VS o.a. te zien in het buitenspel zetten van burgerrechten in steden als Boston en Charlottesville

Gisteren
bracht John Whitehead een opiniestuk op de site van The Rutherford
Institute, waarin hij aangeeft ‘hoe makkelijk’ hele steden op slot
kunnen worden gedaan…..

In zijn
woonplaats Charlottesville maakte hij het zelf mee: een jaar geleden
waren er rellen in Charlottesville waarbij een fascist een moord
pleegde op een demonstrant die zich tegen de fascistisch parade in
Charlottesville keerde*. Dezelfde dag een jaar later werd voorafgegaan door het met veel bombarie op slot gooien van de stad, waarbij de bewoners werden geacht zoveel mogelijk in huis te blijven. De noodtoestand en de staat van beleg werden afgekondigd, zonder dat daar ook maar één aanwijsbare reden voor was (bijvoorbeeld de aankondiging van de neonazi’s dat ze weer een parade zouden houden in Charlottesville…)…. 

De
politie in de VS is in hoge mate gemilitariseerd, inclusief
automatische wapens die de VS o.a. gebruikt in haar illegale
oorlogen in het Midden-Oosten en Afrika…… Hetzelfde geldt voor
een deel van het rollend materieel van de politie: pantserwagens en
zelfs een klein soort tank….. Dit nog naast de National Guard, in feite een paramilitaire organisatie met reservisten, die bij grote rellen e.d. regelmatig te zien is in de straten van de
VS en de beschikking heeft over een veel groter deel van het oorlogstuig dat de VS in het buitenland gebruikt (zoals gezegd in illegale oorlogen), dus ook tanks en ‘oorlogshelikopters…….’ 

Al moet aan het voorgaande worden toegevoegd dat de ‘gewone’ politie meer en meer wordt gemilitariseerd en daarmee de beschikking krijgt over steeds meer oorlogsmaterieel en er steeds minder verschil is te zien tussen de politie en de National Guard….. Uiteraard ‘met dank’ aan de lobby van de wapenfabrikanten…………

De VS is
dan ook verworden tot een politiestaat en dat al enige jaren, het
ontbreekt nog net aan volledige censuur, al wordt daar met hulp van
Facebook en Google hard aan gewerkt…..** Hoewel de VS keer op keer als excuus voor militair ingrijpen aanvoert dat het democratie wil brengen, terwijl in eigen land ‘de democratie’ wordt gekocht met enorme bakken geld en het buitenspel zetten van grote groepen (arme en veelal gekleurde) kiezers……

De
schrijver van het hieronder opgenomen artikel van The Rutherford Institute, John Whitehead, is het ‘niet helemaal eens’ met het
voorgaande, hij ziet de VS transformeren in een politiestaat. Whitehead gaat o.a. in op de manier waarop de bevolking monddood wordt gemaakt en op bepaalde momenten zelfs geen vrijheid van bewegen heeft in de eigen stad…… Voorts noemt hij o.a. Göring die na WOII op het proces van Neurenberg aangaf wat er nodig is om een bevolking te manipuleren. 

Lees en
oordeel zelf:

From
Boston to Ferguson to Charlottesville: The Evolution of a Police
State Lockdown

August
17, 2018 at 8:17 am

Written
by 
John
Whitehead

It
takes a remarkable force to keep nearly a million people quietly
indoors for an entire day, home from work and school, from
neighborhood errands and out-of-town travel. It takes a remarkable
force to keep businesses closed and cars off the road, to keep
playgrounds empty and porches unused across a densely populated place
125 square miles in size. This happened … not because armed
officers went door-to-door, or imposed a curfew, or threatened
martial law. All around the region, for 13 hours, people locked up
their businesses and ‘sheltered in place’ out of a kind of
collective will. The force that kept them there wasn’t external –
there was virtually no active enforcement across the city of the
governor’s plea that people stay indoors. 
Rather,
the pressure was an internal one – expressed as concern, or
helpfulness, or in some cases, fear – felt in thousands of
individual homes.
 —
Journalist Emily Badger, “The Psychology of a Citywide Lockdown”

(RI) — It
has become way too easy to lockdown this nation.

Five
years ago, 
the
city of Boston was locked down
 while
police carried out a military-style manhunt for suspects in the 2013
Boston Marathon explosion.

Four
years ago, the city of Ferguson, Missouri, was locked down, with
government officials deploying a massive SWAT team, an armored
personnel carrier, men in camouflage pointing heavy artillery at the
crowd, smoke bombs and tear gas 
to
quell citizen unrest
 over
a police shooting of a young, unarmed black man.

Three
years ago, 
the
city of Baltimore was put under a military-enforced lockdown
 after
civil unrest over police brutality erupted into rioting. More than
1,500 national guard troops were deployed while residents were
ordered to stay inside their homes and put under a 10 pm curfew.

This
year, it was my 
hometown
of Charlottesville, Va., population 50,000, that was locked
down
 while
government officials declared a state of emergency and enacted
heightened security measures tantamount to martial law, despite the
absence of any publicized information about credible threats to
public safety.

As
Tess Owen 
reports for Vice:

One
year after white supremacists paraded through the streets, the face
of downtown Charlottesville was transformed once again – 
this
time with checkpoints, military-style camps for National Guard, and
state police on every corner.
 When
residents woke up Saturday, all entrances to the downtown mall were
blocked off, apart from two checkpoints, where police looked through
people’s bags for lighters, knives or any other weapons. Up above,
standing atop a building site, two national guard members
photographed the individuals coming in and out… A National Guard
encampment was set up in McGuffey Park, between the children’s
playground and the basketball court, where about 20 military police
officers in camouflage were snoozing in the shade of some trees. A
similar encampment was set up a few blocks away.

More
details from journalist Ned Oliver:

Downtown
Charlottesville felt like the green zone of a war-torn city
Saturday.
 More
than a thousand local and state police officers barricaded 10 blocks
of the city’s popular pedestrian district, the Downtown Mall, to
prepare for the one-year anniversary of the white supremacist rally
last year that left dozens injured and one dead. To enter, people had
to submit to bag checks and searches at one of two checkpoints…
Preparations aside, unlike last year, no white supremacist groups had
said they were going to visit the city, and, by week’s end, none
had. Instead, it was a normal day on the mall except for the heavy
security, a military helicopter constantly circling overhead, and
hundreds of police officers milling around.

Make
no mistake, this was a militarized exercise in intimidation, and it
worked only too well.

For
the most part, the residents of this city—once home to Thomas
Jefferson, the nation’s third president, author of the Declaration
of Independence, and champion of the Bill of Rights—welcomed the
city-wide lockdown, the invasion of their privacy, and the
dismantling of every constitutional right intended to serve as a
bulwark against government abuses.

Yet
for those like myself who have studied emerging police states, the
sight of any American city placed under martial law—its citizens
essentially under 
house
arrest
 (officials
used the Orwellian phrase “shelter in place” in Boston to
describe the 
mandatory
lockdown
), military-style
helicopters equipped with thermal imaging devices
 buzzing
the skies, 
tanks
and armored vehicles
 on
the streets, and 
snipers perched
on rooftops, while thousands 
of
black-garbed police swarmed the streets
 and
SWAT teams carried out house-to-house searches—leaves us in a
growing state of unease.

Watching
the events of the lockdown unfold, I couldn’t help but think of
Nazi Field Marshal Hermann Goering’s remarks during the Nuremberg
trials. As Goering noted:

It
is always a simple matter to drag people along whether it is a
democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist
dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to
the bidding of the leaders. This is easy. All you have to do is tell
them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of
patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in
every country.
(Goering was een vuile fascistische ploert, maar dit is wel een waarheid als een koe!!!)

As
the events in Charlottesville have made clear, it does indeed work
the same in every country.

Whatever
the threat to so-called security—whether it’s civil unrest,
school shootings, or alleged acts of terrorism—government officials
will capitalize on the nation’s heightened emotions, confusion and
fear as a means of extending the reach of the police state.

These
troubling developments are the outward manifestations of an inner,
philosophical shift underway in how the government views not only the
Constitution and the Bill of Rights, but “we the people,” as
well.

What
this reflects is a move away from a government bound by the rule of
law to one that seeks total control through the imposition of its own
self-serving laws on the populace.

Unfortunately,
it doesn’t take much for the American people to march in lockstep
with the government’s dictates, even if it means submitting to
martial law, having their homes searched, and being stripped of one’s
constitutional rights at a moment’s notice.

In
Charlottesville, most of the community fell in line, 
except
for one gun-toting, disabled, 71-year-old war veteran
 who
was arrested for purchasing cans of Arizona iced tea, a can of bug
spray and razor blades, all of which were on the City’s list of
temporarily prohibited, potentially “dangerous” items.
Incidentally, the veteran’s guns (not among the list of prohibited
items) caused no alarm.

Talk
about draconian.

This
continual undermining of the rules that protect civil liberties will
inevitably have far-reaching consequences on a populace that not only
remains ignorant about their rights but is inclined to sacrifice
their liberties for phantom promises of safety.

Be
warned: these lockdowns are just a precursor to full-blown martial
law.

The
powers-that-be want us acclimated to the sights and sounds of a
city-wide lockdown with tanks in the streets, military encampments in
cities, Blackhawk helicopters and armed drones patrolling overhead.

They
want us to accept the fact that in the American police state, we are
all potentially guilty, all potential criminals, all suspects waiting
to be accused of a crime.

They
want us to be meek and submissive.

They
want us to report on each other.

They
want us to be grateful to the standing armies for their so-called
protection.

They
want us to self-censor our speech, self-limit our movements, and
police ourselves.

As
Glenn Greenwald notes in 
The
Intercept
:

Americans
are now so accustomed to seeing police officers decked in camouflage
and Robocop-style costumes, riding in armored vehicles and carrying
automatic weapons first introduced during the U.S. occupation of
Baghdad, that it has become normalized… The dangers of domestic
militarization are both numerous and manifest. To begin with… it
degrades the mentality of police forces in virtually every negative
way and subjects their targeted communities to rampant brutality and
unaccountable abuse… 
Police
militarization also poses grave and direct dangers to basic political
liberties, including rights of free speech, press and assembly.

(!!!)

Make
no mistake: these are the hallmarks of a military occupation.

Militarized
police. Riot squads. Camouflage gear. Black uniforms. Armored
vehicles. Mass arrests.

Pepper
spray. Tear gas. Batons. Strip searches. Surveillance cameras. 
Kevlar vests. Drones. Lethal
weapons.
 Less-than-lethal
weapons unleashed with deadly force.
 Rubber
bullets. Water cannons. Stun grenades. Arrests of journalists. 
Crowd
control tactics
. Intimidation
tactics. Brutality.


We
are already under martial law, held at gunpoint by a standing army.

Take
a look at the pictures from Charlottesville, from Baltimore, from
Ferguson and from Boston, and then try to persuade yourself that this
is what freedom in America is supposed to look like.

A
standing army—something that propelled the early colonists into
revolution—strips the American people of any vestige of freedom.

It
was for this reason that those who established America vested control
of the military in a civilian government, with a civilian
commander-in-chief. They 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.

Unfortunately,
with the Constitution under constant attack, the military’s power,
influence and authority have grown dramatically. Even the 
Posse
Comitatus Act of 1878
,
which makes it a crime for the government to use the military to
carry out arrests, searches, seizure of evidence and other activities
normally handled by a civilian police force, was greatly weakened by
both Barack Obama and George W. Bush, who ushered in 
exemptions
allowing troops to deploy domestically and arrest civilians
 in
the wake of alleged terrorist acts.

Now
we find ourselves struggling to retain some semblance of freedom in
the face of police and law enforcement agencies that 
look
and act like the military
 and
have just as little regard for the Fourth Amendment, laws such as the
NDAA that allow the military to arrest and indefinitely detain
American citizens, and military drills that acclimate the American
people to the sight of armored tanks in the streets, military
encampments in cities, and combat aircraft patrolling overhead.

We’ve
already gone too far down this road.

Add
these lockdowns onto the list of other troubling developments that
have taken place over the past 30 years or more, and the picture
grows even more troubling: the expansion of the military industrial
complex and its influence in Washington DC, the rampant surveillance,
the corporate-funded elections and revolving door between lobbyists
and elected officials, the militarized police, the loss of our
freedoms, the injustice of the courts, the privatized prisons, the
school lockdowns, the roadside strip searches, the military drills on
domestic soil, the fusion centers and the simultaneous fusing of
every branch of law enforcement (federal, state and local), the
stockpiling of ammunition by various government agencies, the active
shooter drills that are indistinguishable from actual crises, the
economy flirting with near collapse, etc.

Suddenly,
the overall picture seems that much more sinister.

The
lesson for the rest of us is this: once a free people allows the
government to make inroads into their freedoms or uses those same
freedoms as bargaining chips for security, it quickly becomes a
slippery slope to outright tyranny. And it doesn’t really matter
whether it’s a Democrat or a Republican at the helm, because the
bureaucratic mindset on both sides of the aisle now seems to embody
the same philosophy of authoritarian government.

Remember,
a police state does not come about overnight.

It
starts small, perhaps with a revenue-generating red light camera at
an intersection.

When
that is implemented without opposition, perhaps next will be
surveillance cameras on public streets. License plate readers on
police cruisers. More police officers on the beat. Free military
equipment from the federal government. Free speech zones and zero
tolerance policies and curfews. SWAT team raids. Drones flying
overhead. City-wide lockdowns.

No
matter how it starts, however, it always ends the same.

Remember,
it’s a slippery slope from a questionable infringement justified in
the name of safety to all-out tyranny.

These
are no longer warning signs of a steadily encroaching police state.

As
I make clear in my book 
Battlefield
America: The War on the American People
, the
police state has arrived.

By John
Whitehead / Republished with permission / 
Rutherford
Institute
 / Report
a typo

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* Zie: 

FBI ‘legt link’ tussen links-radicalen en islamistische terroristen, de tijden van McCarthy zijn terug……..

Among the Racists‘ (met mogelijkheid tot vertaling)

Before Trump, Clinton Democrats Invoked the Term ‘Alt-Left’ to Demonize Critics

Charlottesville: wat er fout ging voor de verzamelde gewelddadige en bewapende fascisten……….

Charlottesville: twee schuldigen? Of is het de taak van eenieder te vechten tegen fascisme?‘ 


Charlottesville: Trump haalt antifascisten toch onderuit………

Neonazi terreuraanslag in VS, westerse media spreken ‘op hun best’ over ‘een daad van agressie……’


** Met deze censuur wordt tevens de berichtgeving van de reguliere media als enig zaligmakend neergezet en daarmee wordt de hersenspoeling van het volk geïnstitutionaliseerd…. Zie wat dat betreft ook: 

Censuur op het internet met vliegende start in de VS, ‘het land van het vrije woord….


Eis een nee tegen censuur op het internet!‘ 


Facebook wil samen met door Saoedi-Arabië gesubsidieerde denktank censureren…. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!


Trump wijst elke bezuiniging af op de hulp van de VS voor de genocide die Saoedi-Arabië uitvoert in Jemen

Kind van 4 getaserd en één van 3 onder dwang gekatheteriseerd……. Dagelijkse terreurpraktijk in politiestaat VS……

Dat de VS de laatste decennia is veranderd in een politiestaat zal velen niet verbazen. Echter waar dit mee gepaard gaat, doet je de haren ten berge stijgen.

Het volgende artikel van Information Clearing House ontving ik afgelopen woensdag en hierin een aantal voorbeelden, van wat je als burger in de VS kan overkomen en hoe je daar tegen te verzetten (indien mogelijk). De leeftijden van de mensen in de voorbeelden, lopen uiteen van 3 jaar tot 95 jaar oud……..

Zo kan het kinderen van 4 jaar overkomen, dat ze door de politie of andere overheidsambtenaren worden geboeid (van handen en/of voeten) of getaserd (dat is een grove marteling!), ook kan het voorkomen, dat ze onder schot worden gehouden……… Dit omdat ze niet gehoorzamen en/of kinderachtig gedrag vertonen…….

Een 3 jarige jongen, die nog niet zindelijk was en dus niet in staat was een urine monster af te geven, werd door sociaal werkers tegen de grond gehouden, waarna een ‘verpleger’ hem schreeuwend van de pijn een katheter in de penis aangebracht………

Wat u ervan vindt weet ik niet, maar voor mij is dit alles een heel smerige vorm van overheidsterreur!!.

Zoals al vaak op deze plek gezegd: aan zo’n ‘land’ levert Nederland niet alleen haar burgers uit, maar ook burgers uit andere landen…….. Dezelfde VS waar men het ‘plea bargain’ hanteert: je kan in veel gevallen beter schuld bekennen, zelfs al heb je niet gedaan, waarvan je wordt verdacht, daar je anders grote kans loopt een fiks hogere straf te krijgen (nogmaals: ook al ben je onschuldig…)……

Lees en huiver (onder het artikel kan u voor een ‘Dutch vertaling’ klikken, dit neemt wel enige tijd in beslag):

Run
for Your Life: The American Police State Is Coming to Get You



By
John W. Whitehead



We’ve
reached the point where state actors can penetrate rectums and
vaginas, where judges can order forced catheterizations, and where
police and medical personnel can perform scans, enemas and
colonoscopies without the suspect’s consent. And these procedures
aren’t to nab kingpins or cartels, but people who at worst are
hiding an amount of drugs that can fit into a body cavity. In most of
these cases, they were suspected only of possession or ingestion.
Many of them were innocent… But these tactics aren’t about
getting drugs off the street… 
These
tactics are instead about degrading and humiliating a class of people
that politicians and law enforcement have deemed the enemy.
” – Radley
Balko
The
Washington Post

April
19, 2017 “Information
Clearing House
” –  Daily, all across America,
individuals who dare to resist—or even question—a police order
are being subjected to all sorts of government-sanctioned abuse
ranging from forced catheterization, forced blood draws, roadside
strip searches and cavity searches, and other foul and debasing acts
that degrade their bodily integrity and leave them 
bloodied and
bruised.

Americans
as young as 4 years old are being 
leg
shackled
handcuffedtasered and held
at gun point
 for
not being quiet, not being orderly and just being childlike—i.e.,
not being compliant enough.

Government
social workers actually 
subjected
a 3-year-old boy to a forced catheterization
 after
he was unable to provide them with a urine sample on demand (the boy
still wasn’t potty trained). The boy was held down, 
screaming
in pain
,
while nurses forcibly inserted a tube into his penis to drain his
bladder—all of this done because the boy’s mother’s boyfriend
had failed a urine analysis for drugs.

Americans
as old as 95 are being beaten, shot and killed for questioning an
order, 
hesitating
in the face of a directive
,
and 
mistaking
a policeman crashing through their door for a criminal
 breaking
into their home—i.e., not being submissive enough.

Consider
what happened to David Dao, the United Airlines passenger who was
accosted by three police, forcibly wrenched from his seat across the
armrest, bloodying his face in the process, and dragged down the
aisle by the arms 
merely
for refusing to relinquish his paid seat
 after
the airline chose him randomly to be bumped from the flight—after
being checked in and allowed to board—so that airline workers could
make a connecting flight.

Those
with ADHD, autism, hearing impairments, dementia or some other
disability that can hinder communication in the slightest way are in
even greater danger of having their actions misconstrued by police.
Police 
shot
a 73-year-old-man with dementia seven times
 after
he allegedly failed to respond to orders to stop approaching and
remove his hands from his jacket. The man was unarmed and had been
holding a crucifix.

Clearly,
it no longer matters where you live.

Big
city or small town: it’s the same scenario being played out over
and over again in which government agents, hyped up on their own
authority and the power of their uniform, ride roughshod over the
citizenry who—in the eyes of the government—are viewed as having
no rights.

Our
freedoms—especially the Fourth Amendment—continue to be torn
asunder by the 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
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.

For
instance, during a “routine” traffic stop for allegedly “rolling”
through a stop sign, Charnesia Corley was thrown to the ground,
stripped of her clothes, and forced to spread her legs while Texas
police officers subjected her to a 
roadside
cavity probe
,
all because they claimed to have smelled marijuana in her car.

Angel
Dobbs and her 24-year-old niece, Ashley, were pulled over by a Texas
state trooper for allegedly flicking cigarette butts out of the car
window. Insisting that he smelled marijuana, the trooper proceeded to
interrogate them and search the car. Despite the fact that both women
denied smoking or possessing any marijuana, the police officer then
called in a female trooper, who carried out a roadside cavity
search, 
sticking
her fingers into the older woman’s anus and vagina
,
then performing the same procedure on the younger woman, wearing the
same pair of gloves. No marijuana was found.

Leila
Tarantino was subjected to two roadside strip searches in plain view
of passing traffic during a routine traffic stop, while her two
children—ages 1 and 4—waited inside her car. During the second
strip search, presumably in an effort to ferret out drugs, a 
female
officer “forcibly removed” a tampon from Tarantino
.
Nothing illegal was found.

David
Eckert was forced to undergo 
an
anal cavity search, three enemas, and a colonoscopy
 after
allegedly failing to yield to a stop sign at a Wal-Mart parking lot.
Cops justified the searches on the grounds that they suspected Eckert
was carrying drugs because his “posture [was] erect” and “he
kept his legs together.” No drugs were found.

Meanwhile,
four Milwaukee police officers were charged with carrying out rectal
searches of suspects on the street and in police district stations
over the course of several years. One of the officers was accused of
conducting searches of men’s anal and scrotal areas,
often 
inserting
his fingers into their rectums
 and
leaving some of his victims with bleeding rectums.

Incidents
like these—sanctioned by the courts and conveniently overlooked by
the legislatures—teach Americans of every age and skin color the
painful lesson that there are no limits to what the government can do
in its so-called “pursuit” of law and order.

If
this is a war, then “we the people” are the enemy.

As
Radley Balko notes in 
The
Washington Post
,
“When you’re at war, it’s important to dehumanize your enemy.
And there’s nothing more dehumanizing than forcibly and painfully
invading someone’s body — 
all
the better if you can involve the sex organs
.”

The
message being beaten, shot, tasered, probed and slammed into our
collective consciousness is simply this: it doesn’t matter if
you’re in the right, it doesn’t matter if a cop is in the wrong,
it doesn’t matter if you’re being treated with less than the
respect you deserve or the law demands.

The
only thing that matters to the American police state is that you
comply, submit, respect authority and generally obey without question
whatever a government official (anyone who wears a government
uniform, be it a police officer, social worker, petty bureaucrat or
zoning official) tells you to do.

This
is what happens when you allow the government to call the shots: it
becomes a bully.

As
history shows, this recipe for disaster works every time: take police
officers hyped up on their own authority and the power of the badge,
throw in a few court rulings suggesting that security takes
precedence over individual rights, set it against a backdrop of
endless wars and militarized law enforcement, and then add to the mix
a populace distracted by entertainment, out of touch with the
workings of their government, and more inclined to let a few sorry
souls suffer injustice than to challenge the status quo.

It
is not only under Nazi rule that 
police
excesses are inimical to freedom
,”
warned former Supreme Court justice Felix Frankfurter in a 1946
ruling in 
Davis
v. United States
:
“It is easy to make light of insistence on scrupulous regard for
the safeguards of civil liberties when invoked on behalf of the
unworthy. It is too easy. History bears testimony that by such
disregard are the rights of liberty extinguished, heedlessly at
first, then stealthily, and brazenly in the end.”

In
other words, if it could happen in Nazi Germany, it can just as
easily happen here.

It is happening
here.

Unfortunately,
we’ve been marching in lockstep with the police state for so long
that we’ve forgotten how to march to the tune of our own
revolutionary drummer. In fact, we’ve even forgotten the words to
the tune.

We’ve
learned the lessons of compliance too well.

For
too long, “we the people” have allowed the government to ride
roughshod over the Constitution, equating patriotism with blind
obedience to the government’s dictates, no matter how
unconstitutional or immoral those actions might be.

As
historian Howard Zinn recognized:

Our
problem is civil obedience. Our problem is the numbers of people all
over the world who have obeyed the dictates of the leaders of their
government and have gone to war, and millions have been killed
because of this obedience… Our problem is that people are obedient
all over the world, in the face of poverty and starvation and
stupidity, and war and cruelty. Our problem is that people are
obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves, and all the while
the grand thieves are running the country. That’s our problem…
people are obedient, all these herdlike people.

What
can you do?

It’s
simple but as I detail in my book 
Battlefield
America: The War on the American People
,
the consequences may be deadly.

Stop
being so obedient. 
Stop being so compliant and herdlike. Stop
kowtowing to anyone and everyone in uniform. Stop perpetuating the
false notion that those who work for the government—the president,
Congress, the courts, the military, the police—are in any way
superior to the rest of the citizenry. Stop playing politics with
your principles. Stop making excuses for the government’s growing
list of human rights abuses and crimes. Stop turning a blind eye to
the government’s corruption and wrongdoing and theft and murder.
Stop tolerating ineptitude and incompetence by government workers.
Stop allowing the government to treat you like a second-class
citizen. Stop censoring what you say and do for fear that you might
be labeled an extremist or worse, unpatriotic. Stop sitting silently
on the sidelines while the police state kills, plunders and maims
your fellow citizens.

Stop
being a slave.

As
anti-war activist Rosa Luxemburg concluded, “Those who do not move,
do not notice their chains.”

You
may not realize it yet, but you are not free.

If
you believe otherwise, it is only because you have made no real
attempt to exercise your freedoms.

Had
you attempted to exercise your freedoms before now by questioning a
police officer’s authority, challenging an unjust tax or fine,
protesting the government’s endless wars, defending your right to
privacy against the intrusion of surveillance cameras, or any other
effort that challenges the government’s power grabs and the
generally lopsided status quo, you would have already learned the
hard way that the police state has no appetite for freedom and it
does not tolerate resistance.

This
is called authoritarianism, a.k.a. totalitarianism, a.k.a.
oppression.

As
Glenn Greenwald 
notes for
the 
Guardian:

Oppression
is designed to compel obedience and submission to authority. Those
who voluntarily put themselves in that state – by believing that
their institutions of authority are just and good and should be
followed rather than subverted – render oppression redundant,
unnecessary. Of course people who think and behave this way encounter
no oppression. That’s their reward for good, submissive behavior.
They are left alone by institutions of power because they comport
with the desired behavior of complacency and obedience without
further compulsion. But the fact that good, obedient citizens do not
themselves perceive oppression does not mean that oppression does not
exist.

Get
ready to stand your ground or run for your life, because the American
police state is coming to get you.

Constitutional
attorney and author John W. Whitehead is founder and president of 
The
Rutherford Institute
.
His new book 
Battlefield
America: The War on the American People
 (SelectBooks,
2015) is available online at www.amazon.com. Whitehead can be
contacted at 
johnw@rutherford.org.

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Nog één opmerking: mensen we moeten oppassen, dat we hier niet dezelfde kant opgaan….. Onder het mom van de strijd tegen terreur, worden onze rechten in groot tempo afgebroken en voor we het weten, zitten we hier ook in een politiestaat, één waarvan Hitler had kunnen dromen toen hij ons land binnenviel…….. Dit terwijl de geheime diensten en politie in binnen en buitenland hun werk niet doen. Neem de aanslag van gisteravond in Parijs, de dader was al een paar jaar in het vizier van de geheime dienst en de politie (voor de zoveelste keer)………. Reken maar dat men niet alleen in Frankrijk om nog meer antiterreurmaatregelen zal schreeuwen, maatregelen die een politiestaat in wording ten goede komen……….

Zie ook:

Taser pilot project mislukt en toch mag de politie dit dodelijke martelwapen blijven gebruiken……..

Demente bejaarde van 73 getaserd: politie en verplegend personeel wisten niet dat dit tegen de regels is…….

Taser martelwerktuig maakt zoveelste slachtoffer, politie NL werkt gewoon door met dit barbaarse onding…….

Hans Schoones (politievakbond) wil het stroomstootwapen, niet de verlengde wapenstok…….. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Taser wapen onschadelijk? Een enorme leugen!

Segers, god’s eigen rentmeester wil martelen met stroomstootwapens

Teeven tasert softdrugsgebruikers

Opstelten en Teeven bestrijden de door henzelf veroorzaakte ellende

Voor meer berichten n.a.v. het bovenstaande, klik op één van de labels, die u onder dit bericht terug kan vinden, dit geldt (nog) niet voor de labels: Balko en Zinn. .

Mijn excuus voor de vormgeving, kreeg e.e.a. niet op orde.

John Lennon 9 oktober 1940 – 8 december 1980 Power to the People!

Gisteren was het 36 jaar geleden dat John Lennon werd vermoord en zoals dit bij meerdere vooraanstaande personen in de VS het geval was, ook bij deze moord zijn grote vraagtekens te stellen.

Lennon was een groot denker, daar zal niemand met een gezond verstand nog aan twijfelen. Terecht stelt o.a.John W. Whitehead op Information Clearing House, dat de strijd die John Lennon tegen de instituties voerde, nog steeds actueel is en misschien wel meer actueel dan ooit tevoren…….

Hier het artikel van Whitehead (onder dit artikel kan u klikken voor een ‘Dutch’ vertaling) , daaronder nog een video van Brasscheck over deze zaak:

Power
to the People: John Lennon’s Legacy Lives On

By
John W. Whitehead

You
gotta remember, establishment,
it’s just a name for evil
. The monster doesn’t care whether
it kills all the students or whether there’s a revolution. It’s
not thinking logically, it’s out of control.”
– John
Lennon
 (1969)

December
08, 2016 “
Information
Clearing House

– Militant nonviolent resistance works.

Peaceful,
prolonged protests work.

Mass
movements with huge numbers of participants work.

Yes,
America, it is possible to use occupations and civil disobedience to
oppose government policies, counter injustice and bring about change
outside the confines of the ballot box.

It
has been done before. It is being done now. It can be done again.

For
example, in May of 1932, more than 43,000 people, dubbed the Bonus
Army—World War I veterans and their families—marched on
Washington. Out of work, destitute and with families to feed, more
than 10,000 veterans set up tent cities in the nation’s capital and
refused to leave until the government agreed to pay the bonuses they
had been promised as a reward for their services.

The
Senate voted against paying them immediately, but the protesters
didn’t budge. Congress adjourned for the summer, and still the
protesters remained encamped. Finally, on July 28, under orders from
President Herbert Hoover, the military descended with tanks and
cavalry and drove the protesters out, setting their makeshift camps
on fire. Still, the protesters returned the following year, and
eventually their efforts not only succeeded in securing payment of
the bonuses but contributed to the passage of the G.I. Bill of
Rights.


Similarly, the Civil Rights Movement mobilized hundreds of thousands
of people to strike at the core of an unjust and discriminatory
society. Likewise, while the 1960s anti-war movement began with a few
thousand perceived radicals, it ended with hundreds of thousands of
protesters, spanning all walks of life, demanding the end of American
military aggression abroad.

Most
recently, after months of protests over the construction of a
pipeline that members of the Sioux tribe insisted would harm their
water supply, 
the
Army Corp of Engineers has agreed to look for an alternate route for
the Dakota Access Pipeline
 to cross under Lake Oahe in North
Dakota.

This
kind of “power to the people” activism—grassroots, populist and
potent—is exactly the brand of civic engagement John Lennon
advocated throughout his career as a musician and anti-war activist.

It’s
been 36 years since Lennon was 
gunned
down by an assassin’s bullet
 on December 8, 1980, but his
legacy and the lessons he imparted in his music and his activism have
not diminished over the years.

Afbeeldingsresultaat voor john lennon

All
of the many complaints we have about government today—surveillance,
militarism, corruption, harassment, SWAT team raids, political
persecution, spying, overcriminalization, etc.—were present in
Lennon’s day and formed the basis of his call for social justice,
peace and a populist revolution.

Little
wonder, then, that the U.S. government saw him as enemy number one.


Because
he never refrained from speaking truth to power, Lennon became a
prime example of the lengths to which the U.S. government will go to
persecute those who dare to challenge its authority.

Lennon
was the subject of a four-year campaign of surveillance and
harassment by the U.S. government (spearheaded by FBI Director J.
Edgar Hoover), an attempt by President Richard Nixon to have him
“neutralized” and deported. As Adam Cohen of the 
New
York Times
 points
out, “The F.B.I.’s surveillance of

Lennon
is a reminder of how easily
domestic
spying can become unmoored from any legitimate law enforcement
purpose
. What is more surprising, and ultimately more unsettling,
is the degree to which the surveillance turns out to have been
intertwined with electoral politics.”

Years
after Lennon’s assassination, it would be revealed that the FBI had
collected 281 pages
of surveillance files
 on him. As the 
New
York Times
 notes,
“Critics of today’s domestic surveillance object largely on
privacy grounds. They have focused far less on how easily government
surveillance can become an instrument for the people in power to try
to hold on to power. ‘The U.S. vs. John Lennon’ … is the story
not only of one man being harassed, but of a democracy being
undermined.”

Such
government-directed harassment was nothing new.

The
FBI has had a long history of persecuting, prosecuting and generally
harassing activists, politicians, and cultural figures, most notably
among the latter such 
celebrated
names
 as folk singer Pete Seeger, painter Pablo Picasso,
comic actor and filmmaker Charlie Chaplin, comedian Lenny Bruce and
poet Allen Ginsberg. Among those most closely watched by the FBI was
Martin Luther King Jr., a man labeled by the FBI as “the most
dangerous and effective Negro leader in the country.”

In
Lennon’s case, the ex-Beatle had learned early on that rock music
could serve a political end by proclaiming a radical message. More
importantly, Lennon saw that his music could mobilize the public and
help to bring about change.

For
instance, in 1971 at a concert in Ann Arbor, Mich., Lennon took to
the stage and in his usual confrontational style belted out “John
Sinclair,” a song he had written about a man sentenced to 
10
years in prison for possessing two marijuana cigarettes
. Within
days of Lennon’s call for action, the Michigan Supreme Court
ordered Sinclair released.

While
Lennon believed in the power of the people, he also understood the
danger of a power-hungry government. “The trouble with government
as it is, is that it doesn’t represent the people,” observed
Lennon. “
It
controls them
.”

By
March 1971, when his “Power to the People” single was released,
it was clear where Lennon stood. Having moved to New York City that
same year, Lennon was ready to participate in political activism
against the U. S. government, the “monster” that was financing
the war in Vietnam.

The
release of Lennon’s 
Sometime
in New York City
 album,
which contained a radical anti-government message in virtually every
song and depicted President Richard Nixon and Chinese Chairman Mao
Tse-tung dancing together nude on the cover, only fanned the flames
of the conflict to come.

However,
the official U.S. war against Lennon began in earnest in 1972 after
rumors surfaced that Lennon planned to embark on a U.S. concert tour
that would combine rock music with antiwar organizing and voter
registration. Nixon, fearing Lennon’s influence on about 11 million
new voters (1972 was the first year that 18-year-olds could vote),
had the ex-Beatle served with deportation orders “in an 
effort
to silence him as a voice of the peace movement
.”

As
Lennon’s FBI file shows, memos and reports about the FBI’s
surveillance of the anti-war activist had been flying back and forth
between Hoover, the Nixon White House, various senators, the FBI and
the U.S. Immigration Office.

Nixon’s
pursuit of Lennon was relentless and misplaced.

Despite
the fact that Lennon was not plotting to bring down the Nixon
Administration, as the government feared, the government persisted in
its efforts to have him deported. Equally determined to resist,
Lennon dug in and fought back. Every time he was ordered out of the
country, his lawyers delayed the process by filing an appeal.

Finally,
in 1976, Lennon won the battle to stay in the country and by 1980, he
had re-emerged with a new album and plans to become politically
active again. The old radical was back and ready to cause trouble.

Unfortunately,
Lennon’s time as a troublemaker was short-lived.

Mark
David Chapman was waiting in the shadows
 on Dec. 8, 1980,
just as Lennon was returning to his New York apartment building.

As
Lennon stepped outside the car to greet the fans congregating
outside, Chapman, in an eerie echo of the FBI’s moniker for Lennon,
called out, “Mr. Lennon!”

Lennon
turned and was met with a barrage of gunfire as Chapman—dropping
into a two-handed combat stance—emptied his .38-caliber pistol and
pumped four hollow-point bullets into his back and left arm. Lennon
stumbled, staggered forward and, with blood pouring from his mouth
and chest, collapsed to the ground.

John
Lennon was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital.

Much
like Martin Luther King Jr., John F. Kennedy, Malcolm X, Robert
Kennedy and others who have died attempting to challenge the
powers-that-be, Lennon had finally been “neutralized.”   

Still,
you can’t murder a movement with a bullet and a madman: Lennon’s
legacy lives on in his words, his music and his efforts to speak
truth to power.

As
Yoko Ono shared in a 2014 letter to the parole board tasked with
determining whether Chapman should be released: “A man of humble
origin, [John Lennon] brought light and hope to the whole world with
his words and music. He tried to be a 
good
power for the world
, and he was. He gave encouragement,
inspiration and dreams to people regardless of their race, creed and
gender.”

Lennon’s
work to change the world for the better is far from done.

Peace
remains out of reach. Activism and whistleblowers continue to be
prosecuted for challenging the government’s authority. Militarism
is on the rise, all the while the governmental war machine continues
to wreak havoc on innocent lives.

For
those of us who joined with John Lennon to imagine a world of peace,
it’s getting harder to reconcile that dream with the reality of the
American police state. And as I point out in my book 
Battlefield
America: The War on the American People
,
those who do dare to speak up are labeled dissidents, troublemakers,
terrorists, lunatics, or mentally ill and tagged for surveillance,
censorship or, worse, involuntary detention.

As
Lennon shared in a 1968 interview:

I
think all our society is run by insane people for insane objectives…
I think we’re being run by maniacs for maniacal means. If anybody
can put on paper what our government and the American government and
the Russian… Chinese… what they are actually trying to do, and
what they think they’re doing, I’d be very pleased to know what
they think they’re doing. I think they’re all insane. But 
I’m
liable to be put away as insane for expressing that
. That’s
what’s insane about it.”

So
what’s the answer?

Lennon
had a multitude of suggestions.

If
everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then
there’d be peace.”

Produce
your own dream. If you want to save Peru, go save Peru. It’s quite
possible to do anything, but not to put it on the leaders….You have
to do it yourself.”

Peace
is not something you wish for; It’s something you make, Something
you do, Something you are, And something you give away.”

If
you want peace, you won’t get it with violence.”

Say
you want a revolution / We better get on right away / Well you get on
your feet / And out on the street / Singing power to the people.”

And
my favorite advice of all: “All you need is love. Love is all you
need.”

Constitutional
attorney and author John W. Whitehead is founder and president of 
The
Rutherford Institute
.
His new book 
Battlefield
America: The War on the American People
 (SelectBooks,
2015) is available online at www.amazon.com. Whitehead can be
contacted at 
johnw@rutherford.org.

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The
mysterious death of John Lennon

When
John Lennon was shot and killed

the
news media went into “lone nut with

a
gun” mode.

They
left out the “lone nut with intelligence

connections,
endless financial resources,

and
obvious signs of having been brainwashed” part.

Here’s
the untold story.

 Zie ook: ‘Nam Kurt Cobain zijn eigen leven? Niet volgens een flink aantal mensen‘ (en de links onder dat bericht naar o.a. de moord op M.L. King en J.F. Kennedy)

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