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The Dire State Of Our Nation (What You Won’t Hear From The Politicians)
Submitted by John Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute,
“As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air – however slight – lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness.” ? Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas
No matter what the politicians say about how great America is and how we, as a people, will always triumph, the fact is that the nation seems to be imploding.
Despite the dire state of our nation, however, you can rest assured that none of the problems that continue to plague our lives and undermine our freedoms will be addressed by our so-called elected representatives in any credible, helpful way, and certainly not during a State of the Union address.
Consider the following facts:
Our government is massively in debt. Currently, the national debt is somewhere in the vicinity of $18 trillion. More than a third of our debt is owned by foreign countries, namely China and Japan.
Our education system is abysmal. Despite the fact that we spend more than most of the world on education ($115,000 per student), we rank 36th in the world when it comes to math, reading and science, far below most of our Asian counterparts. Even so, we continue to insist on standardized programs such as Common Core, which teach students to be test-takers rather than thinkers.
Our homes provide little protection against government intrusions. Police agencies, already empowered to crash through your door if they suspect you’re up to no good, now have radars that allow them to “see” through the walls of your home.
Our prisons, housing the largest number of inmates in the world and still growing, have become money-making enterprises for private corporations that rely on the inmates for cheap labor.
We are no longer a representative republic. The U.S. has become a corporate oligarchy. As a recent survey indicates, our elected officials, especially those in the nation’s capital, represent the interests of the rich and powerful rather than the average citizen.
We’ve got the most expensive, least effective health care system in the world compared to other western, industrialized nations.
The air pollution levels are dangerously high for almost half of the U.S. population, putting Americans at greater risk of premature death, aggravated asthma, difficulty breathing and future cardiovascular problems.
Despite outlandish amounts of money being spent on the nation’s “infrastructure,” there are more than 63,000 bridges—one out of every 10 bridges in the country—in urgent need of repair. Some of these bridges are used 250 million times a day by trucks, school buses, passenger cars and other vehicles.
Americans know little to nothing about their rights or how the government is supposed to operate. This includes educators and politicians. For example, 27 percent of elected officials cannot name even one right or freedom guaranteed by the First Amendment, while 54 percent do not know the Constitution gives Congress the power to declare war.
Nearly one out of every three American children live in poverty, ranking us among the worst in the developed world.
Patrolled by police, our schools have become little more than quasi-prisons in which kids as young as age 4 are being handcuffed for “acting up,” subjected to body searches and lockdowns, and suspended for childish behavior.
We’re no longer innocent until proven guilty. In our present surveillance state, that burden of proof has now been shifted so that we are all suspects to be spied on, searched, scanned, frisked, monitored, tracked and treated as if we’re potentially guilty of some wrongdoing or other.
Parents, no longer viewed as having an inherent right to raise their children as they see fit, are increasingly being arrested for letting their kids walk to the playground alone, or play outside alone. Similarly, parents who challenge a doctor’s finding or request a second opinion regarding their children’s health care needs are being charged with medical child abuse and, in a growing number of cases, losing custody of their children to the government.
Private property means little at a time when SWAT teams and other government agents can invade your home, break down your doors, kill your dog, wound or kill you, damage your furnishings and terrorize your family. Likewise, if government officials can fine and arrest you for growing vegetables in your front yard, praying with friends in your living room, installing solar panels on your roof, and raising chickens in your backyard, you’re no longer the owner of your property.
Court rulings undermining the Fourth Amendment and justifying invasive strip searches have left us powerless against police empowered to forcefully draw our blood, forcibly take our DNA, strip search us, and probe us intimately. Accounts are on the rise of individuals—men and women alike—being subjected to what is essentially government-sanctioned rape by police in the course of “routine” traffic stops.
Americans can no longer rely on the courts to mete out justice. The courts were established to intervene and protect the people against the government and its agents when they overstep their bounds. Yet the courts increasingly march in lockstep with the police state, while concerned themselves primarily with advancing the government’s agenda, no matter how unjust or illegal.
Americans have no protection against police abuse. It is no longer unusual to hear about incidents in which police shoot unarmed individuals first and ask questions later. What is increasingly common, however, is the news that the officers involved in these incidents get off with little more than a slap on the hands.
If there is any absolute maxim by which the federal government seems to operate, it is that the American taxpayer always gets ripped off. This is true, whether you’re talking about taxpayers being forced to fund high-priced weaponry that will be used against us, endless wars that do little for our safety or our freedoms, or bloated government agencies such as the National Security Agency with its secret budgets, covert agendas and clandestine activities. Rubbing salt in the wound, even monetary awards in lawsuits against government officials who are found guilty of wrongdoing are paid by the taxpayer.
Americans are powerless in the face of militarized police. In early America, government agents were not permitted to enter one’s home without permission or in a deceitful manner. And citizens could resist arrest when a police officer tried to restrain them without proper justification or a warrant. Daring to dispute a warrant with a police official today who is armed with high-tech military weapons would be nothing short of suicidal. Moreover, as police forces across the country continue to be transformed into extensions of the military, Americans are finding their once-peaceful communities transformed into military outposts, complete with tanks, weaponry, and other equipment designed for the battlefield.
Now these are not problems that you can just throw money at, as most politicians are inclined to do. As I point out in my book A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State, these are problems that will continue to plague our nation unless and until Americans wake up to the fact that we’re the only ones who can change things.
For starters, we’ll need to actually pay attention to what’s going on around us, and I don’t mean by turning on the TV news, which is little more than government propaganda. Pay attention to what your local city councils are enacting. Pay attention to what your school officials are teaching and not teaching. Pay attention to whom your elected officials are allowing to wine and dine them.
Most of all, stop acting like it really matters whether you vote for a Republican or Democrat, because it doesn’t, and start acting like citizens who expect the government to work for them, rather than the other way around.
While that bloated beast called the federal government may not listen to you, you can have a great impact on your local governing bodies. This will mean gathering together with your friends and neighbors and, for example, forcing your local city council to start opposing state and federal programs that are ripping you off. And if need be, your local city council can refuse to abide by the dictates that continue to flow from Washington, DC.
All of the signs point to something nasty up ahead. The time to act is now.
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Ebbs and flows, and nothing more. If you have a basic set of collapse supplies then you can relax and enjoy life. A thousand rounds, a couple rolls of pm's and a good water filter put you far ahead of your neighbors on the eagle scout path of preparedness. These negative articles are just click bait.
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If these articles are nothing more than click bait then why are you here? You have just given them what they wamted.
What on earth is "ebbs and flows" referencing? Is it the police state, freedoms, I don't quite know where you are going with this.
Finally your simplistic plan of collapse supplies may hold you for awhile but when everyone in the neighborhood has dropped twenty pounds and your family has barely changed they will figure out you have food in there. A thousand rounds might take you a few days but do you really want to traumatize yourself and your family by killing neighbors?
I believe the article is trying to get people to take action before we head down this road and to me that seems the smarter thing to do.
Older Ann on the heist, gets into 401k ponzie and inflation slavery.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpF1N_SaefU&list=UU_z1-SiJKvvBsFb95eT9Jw...
I may done a stupid thing to buy a house but it might be a form of diversification,
The cash to close money has left the 401k, it was only a little more than 1/3 of balance
allowed. Oh, there is no irs rules against 401k withdrawal, it is the company policy around
"in-service" withdrawals. That may even be available to some, just not publicized, hidden.
This 401k scam is a complete ponzie. Here's how.
2nd year of whole life I got a $2000 dividend, it will get faster compounding,
now I know what Nelson Nash means when he said
he was not paying enough premiums and ultimately 100% of net income should go through whole life.
If all these little piggie federali math slaves had put that money into whole life for a lifetime,
they could be spitting out $10k-20k annual tax free dividends by now. But the ponzie has it that some top
tax bracket w2's labor {bleeeep} have to seek the tax deferral to feed mouths today, and a generation of clinton mob
nafta income suppression forces them into needing the company match, thats the little piggie hook.
All because they were told they were too stupid to manage their own money, but most certainly NOT because it is illegal
by irs "rules" for private mutual companies to advertise the whole life. They dont want the slaves in their sand box.
How does irs get into anti-commerce anti-trust mob business?
But of course its still an insurance company, still the same paper.
I still think they can attack gold once this year to July, and that is the immediate saving priority to back up the truck,
and still think I need another insurance policy
but form 433a forces me into convertible term for now, as long as I am a commercial contract district corporation slave,
for several years until the carcasses are buried and we see what comes out the other side.
I'll probably end up squatting in this house along with all the slave property-tax renters,
when the whole piggie ponzie breaks up, and need a lot of gold for that,
until the property rights and constitutional money is reset, but I doubt that is what they planned for little piggies,
constitutional law? good luck.
Who gives a Flying Fuck what our politicians say? We are way past fixing this at the polls. Prepare now.
Do you know where your "some point" is? https://shutupnsing.wordpress.com/2015/01/24/the-question-of-resistance/
Caterpillar closing two plants near me, one in NC and one in Ga. Let the good times roll.
"Americans are powerless in the face of militarized police."
This shoud be viewed as a short-term problem. The Bundy ranch proved this out. There will be a tipping point when those 300 million firearms will be locked and loaded.
Well, as much as I would love to join in an uprising against our government, there is no way to win unless they have internal conflicts and take themselves down. I'm sorry but there is no way even 300 million of us with guns, grenades and any other hardware available, can do anything at all when they have thousands (tens of thousands?) of drones that are already watching and monitoring everything we do, piloted in storage containers all over the fucking place. Not to mention a lot of them are weapons ready and can blow our asses sky high from five miles above ground. Please stop trying to argue that you need your guns to defend yourself from the government. It is a piss poor, unresearched arguement. For starters, try watching "Rise of the Drones." After that, get back to me.
We don't have constitutional rights anyway. So they can do whatever the hell they please.
On a happy note, the Range-R thru the wall radar system, that the article links to, is a great safety invention. Any burglar will tell you that it is the greatest burglar tool ever. A perfect way to see if anyone is home so you can break in without worrying about some grumpy resident with a gun.
All these sniveling little amerikan piggies will die off clinking to every prwellian word from their
industrial infotainment disney pedophile psyops tv legs.
I almost cant wait to see them get everything they are chanting for, they got some and keep coming
back for more.
I found a great guy, passing this along because he broke through the disney occult firewall around one of my
libtard ill sisters brain frequency. That was quite a feat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3D4-yh4_kE
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All of the signs point to something nasty up ahead. The time to act is now.
How?
Nothing will happen until the vast majority of people realize what is going on and are being subjected in a meaningful way, by the system, such that they will rise up to change it.
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You first, I'll wait to see who joins you.
Doomed
As a father of five shool-aged children, I can tell you that while I do agree that our public school systems do need some work, I think it is more a combination of two factors. The first is too much meddling by big government. There is nothing worse than a bunch of twenty-pound brain think-tankers in DC deciding what is best for our kids' education without taking any input from local school teachers as far as what they, the educators, feel are areas which need improvement. Second, I feel that the kids themselves, and also the parents, need to have some accountability as well. Kids these days seem more interested in the latest iPhone, video game or Air Jordans than they do in actually learning anything which just may prove to be useful one day. The biggest mistake public schools has ever made was allowing these young kids to bring their phones into the classroom. Kids have enough distractions these days, they don't need to bring those same sources of distractions into the classroom.
Parents also need to be enforcers of education at home. If my kids had it their way they would do nothing but play video games or watch YouTube or Netflix all day from the moment they get home until they have to go to bed. We limit our kids' electronics time to one hour a night on school nights, and any homework they have must be done as soon as they get home, and before their one hour of electronics time. Of course, one of my sons in particular likes to try and argue the fact that some of his friends get to play video games all night if they want to. So I know that there are parents out there who are taking the easy way out and allowing their kids to be parented by the internet and X-Box instead of being parents themselves. And people wonder why kids are so undisciplined and disrespectful these days?