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There Is A Disturbing Anti-Freedom Trend Sweeping Across The West
Submitted by Simon Black via Sovereign Man blog,
I came across an interesting story from India recently. In a landmark animal rights case, the High Court there ruled that birds can no longer be kept in cages. The judges asserted that birds have a fundamental right to live with dignity and be free.
Incredible. If only we humans had the same fundamental right.
Many of us come from a country that claims to be free. We grow up singing songs about our freedom, and we are told by our governments that evil men in caves hate us because we are so free. This is powerful propaganda that starts practically from birth and stays with us for our entire lives. Even Hollywood does its part with heroic action movies portraying the homeland as strong and free, with evil villains who invariably have foreign accents.
But it’s all a ruse.
Most of us don’t even have the most basic freedom to choose what we can / cannot put in our own bodies, or decide how to educate our children.
The volume of rules, regulations, and laws is so vast now that you can hardly breathe without committing a crime.
And when they’re not busy confiscating private property through ‘civil asset forfeiture’ or shooting defenseless citizens, police now drive around shutting down children’s lemonade stands for failing to have the appropriate permit.
Just this morning the US government’s publication of all the new rules, laws, and regulations totaled 313 pages.
And that’s just for today. Tomorrow there will be more.
Each of these new rules covers the most ridiculous topics – like regulating the way that dishwashers can be sold. I’m sure we can’t even begin to imagine how horrifying life would be with a rogue dishwasher salesman on the loose.
And many of them come with severe penalties for non-compliance. You can’t even apply for a passport in the Land of the Free anymore without being threatened with fines and imprisonment.
That’s not freedom. Not even close.
Nowhere is this more clear than with the USA PATRIOT Act, the freedom-destroying law from 2001 that authorized all sorts of unconstitutional government powers.
Some of the worst provisions from the USA PATRIOT Act are set to expire this weekend. But the Obama administration doesn’t want that. And they’ve channeled their inner-Cheney to roll out the same fear-mongering tactics that got this law passed 14 years ago.
Without sweeping powers to spy on Americans, the administration claims that the country would be left utterly defenseless against terrorists.
They have suggested that any dissent to the provisions is “playing national security Russian roulette”, and that the opposition will be blamed *when* there’s another terrorist attack in America.
What’s incredible is how many people believe them… how many people are so afraid of the boogeyman that they support extending the most destructive legislation of their time.
This was a huge litmus test for liberty in America. And I’m dismayed at how little people seem to care about privacy and freedom anymore.
Across the Atlantic, things aren’t looking much better.
In the UK, Prime Minister David Cameron recently stated:
“For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens: as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone.”
Apparently leaving law-abiding citizens alone is being ‘too tolerant’.
Cameron then unveiled a number of new measures to combat “extremism”, including putting people on a government watch list to have their Tweets approved by the police before being posted.
We’re no longer talking about actual terrorist activity, but so-called extremist thought.
It took 31 years, but it appears that the origins of 1984 are finally upon us. It’s happening all across the West at an alarming pace, and people are willing to allow it.
That’s the funny thing about freedom.
True freedom means that you are free to be an idiot. That people are free to make the greatest mistake of all and trade their liberty for security.
And that’s their choice. But they’re not free to trade mine.
What I do with my liberty is my choice. Not anyone else’s. And I have no desire to trade it away for excessive government power masquerading as fake security.
Each of us has that choice.
Unfortunately most people in the West are caged birds. It might be a nice cage with plenty of Starbucks and Bed, Bath, and Beyond megastores.
But it’s a cage… filled with clueless birds chirping away about how free they are.
The truth is that there’s still freedom to be found in the world. No one is going to give it to you. You have to break your own chains, seek it out, and plan for it.
But it’s there. It’s still possible to deliberately live free.
So if you’re one of the few people who still cares about personal liberty and living with dignity, never forget that the cage door is wide open for anyone paying attention.
And that you can fly.
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Nothing means nothing
People in trailer parks have freedom, people living in covenants communities, not so much. There are trade-offs.
It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything.
Tyler Durden, Fight Club
Lossing your soul because of deception is worse than losing everything.
M'erica lost it sold for the cheaper, faster, more. It was deceived to believe more, bigger was better.
Bible quote? "And in the end times, they will sell their souls for a mess of pottage" (trinkets, gewjaws and plastic men from Mars, Baubles)
America is hard to police. The country is also impossible to defeat in a war. So cheer-up, you little munchkins. Things aren't all bad.
Tell the Vietnamese that.
From that article I learned that Bernie Sanders wrote pornography in the 70's. Which I think is pretty cool.
Of course, his porn probably sucks, cause he's a guy. Guys can't write good porn...you need a woman for that.
Btw, did you know that most gay porn is written by women? Just an interesting little factoid...
Great quote, so real too... :D
"disturbing trend" = a bunch of f-ups on Wall St and
in Fed.gov are starting to see a potential French Revolution moment on the horizon.
Of course they're gonna TRY to clamp down harder.
the harder they do so tho, the more obvious it becomes their reach exceeds their grasp
After the first one the rest are free.
Forward (over the cliff)!
I have wonderful news. There be a leprechaun up in the tree. Peace.
Did he say that before or after he was re-elected? Money it was after.
Bullshit. Of all the places I visit, the west is the most "pro-freedom/liberty". You want to experience a bunch of fucking socialist cry-babies, visit any fucking state in new england. The average schmuck there most certainly has the government they deserve.
I think he's referring to 'Western Nations" not the western u.s.a
yes, chip under skin is next thing
Good luck with that.
http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/swedish-company-offers-empl...
i expect that you take your words back
When i was a lad male peers would always point to Swedish girls as the epitome of sex, goddesses.
Truth is 90% of Swedes are brain-dead. How the fuck can asswipe cocksucker wtfud whose probably met only a handful of swedes make such a bold statement?
Well, i have been to sveeeDen on at least 25 occasions , meeting several hundred swedes from all walks of life , and the best comparison/description i could give of a swede is they've got the personality of a german whose had 3/4 of his brain removed.
Thankfully i got lucky in meeting a handful of exceptions and they agree with me wholeheartedly.
The swiss are equally dull and stupid because they actually believe they have a voice; masterful illusion by the cabal. Allowing executives of a global merchandise to be arrested on the say so of Vichy DC, the most corrupt organisation on the planet. LET THEM MOTHERFUCKERS HAND ME A WARRANT WITH UNCLE SAMS SIGNATURE ON IT AND WELL I MIGHT NOT BE HERE TOMORROW BUT SEVERAL OF THEM WONT EITHER.
lol...Swedish Sheep.
I will never accept it, nor will untold millions of people.
You’ll be hung. Jade Helm. LOL
Hah. Won't make any difference to me. I'm quite well-hung already, thank you very much; Jade Helm or Purple or whatever you prefer.
Wrong. With the deliberate misapplication of lethal injection and inavailablity of "proper" drugs, the only form of execution deemed humane will be the return of a neck severing device.
It's OK - they'll feel nothing....
Feday, do you have a credit card? the new ones have a chip. Do you have a drivers license? Do you have a social security number? If you do, that has been your chip. in your arm is just more for your convienience.
The pendulum swings... We are arriving at the very same destination, it's just that Russia and China are coming at it from a different direction...
< yawn >
Simon Black is a complete asshat with a big fucking chip on his shoulder.
again, < yawn >
Prolly an Ex-Pat with a chip on the shoulder.
Wawaa.
"Not the western U.S." What difference does it make, as H.Clinton so famously exclaimed! The "West" is a state of mind.
and they tell you what to eat, what to buy, you can't teach your kids,basically you can't do anything except what government permitted
Maybe in your house, not mine.
so you are living in the different planet or nuthouse have internet
If you crack open Edward Bernay's seminal "Propaganda" (1928, available free via the Library of Congress, has never gone out of print because it is just as valid today as it was then, if not more so), you'll see they have been doing just what Kowali says for generations.
" “The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of.”
Boston Strong and don't forget that Connecticut gave us Sandy Hoax and Gene Rosen.
"The average schmuck there most certainly has the government they deserve." Amen to that.
banksters doesn't need free people, they wanted to have "human resources"
We are all meat for them, war meat or meat meat, or slavers workers or consumption pigs
debt meat
Human capital is all.
It's a real eye opener when you discover the truth.
"Tweet-tweet." And Facebook, and cat videos, and a hamburger and fries.
The only "Angry Birds" are on the spy phones of the Millenials and A.O. generations.
Freedoms just another word for being above the Law.
Freedoms just another word for not getting caught.
...or nothing left to lose.
(per Joplin)
It's amazing how most freely admit they are food for the money men and industrialists, while simultaneously doing nothing to protect themselves, just blandly go along with any stupid thing they come up with.
many people too weak to demand their freedom and rights, so they prefer to do nothing.
Rejected,
What can we do? It’s complicated beyond jail.
I shouted to euthanize the Detroit pensioners and General Motor’s pensioners who as poor stewards BK’d their meal tickets. Nobody went along with euthanasia. Instead they build stadiums.
I remember one law professor stating there are so many laws there isn't anyone over the age of 18 years he can not indict for something. I forgot his name and don't have a link but the quote stands out in my mind.
You just broke the law.
*
three felonies a day - harvery silverglate
Free DVD included?
Land of the Slaves.
Home of the Pussies.
The Neocon Zio Bolshevik Gangbangksters don't believe in freedom, or the concept of natural rights, or the US constitution.
They believe in iron fisted totalitarian rule over a world of plebs put here on earth solely for their amusement and pleasure, while they live like the gods on earth they are.
'It’s still possible to deliberately live free. No one is going to give it to you. You have to break your own chains, seek it out, and plan for it.'
Plan for it? You have to kill for it. But there is too much comfort provided to you by your Federal Reserve joobucks.
Comfort vs. freedom and everyone chooses the couch.
Gotta love the especially duplicitous doublespeak of the Progressives.
"Gotta love the especially duplicitous doublespeak of the Progressives."
Like slavery in the United States never existed. Like segregation in the United States never existed. Like morals laws in the United States never existed.
When is a politician lying? Their lips are moving. Doesn't matter which political party or which political wing.
It must be important with all them italics, bold type and underlines. How about some upper-case!
YOU ARE DEMOCRACY
(Macho Madness indeed)
We're a consumer society. People believe that because they can still buy stuff that makes them free. Simple illusion with no consequences.
well, after all, Freedom means being able to buy "Brands A,B,&C in pink yellow or blue"
Pharmaceutical company make big bugs forcing your children to be vaccinated for this and that disease. And the Pharmaceutical companies are paying off the Congressmen and Senators as well as Doctors to push vaccinations on all of us. Before all these so called good vaccinations, we didn't see so many children with Attention Deficit Disorders. Dr. Russell Blaylock is the man to talk to if you want to know the true evils of all these vaccinations your forcing your children to get. Old folks are told they need to get a flu shot and a pneumonia shot and this and that shot. You might as well tell them to take the blue pill and die quickly.
"The volume of rules, regulations, and laws is so vast now that you can hardly breathe without committing a crime."
Hello Citizen, you do realize you're killing the planet by breathing don't you? I'm going to have to write you a ticket ;-)
That being the case, I probably deserve the death penalty. Just ate Mexican and what I am doing to the environment would make dupont blush !!!
What did Janis Joplin say?
Take another piece of my heart baby.
Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose. . .
One time, I have it on good authority, Janis Joplin enjoyed a plate of very good tacos. She said, "Man, these are some really good tacos."
Interestingly enough, under very nearly identical circumstances, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King said almost exactly the same thing. As did both Waylon Flowers and Madame.
Coincidence? I think not...
Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz?
There's no more apt title to the sheepalite's condition than Floyd's ' Comfortably Numb '.
HELLO HELLO HELLO
Is there anybody in there?
Just nod if you can hear me
Is there anyone at home?
Prohibiting freedom of speech a la Jewish Thought Control is one of the biggest concerns. I guess the part about shooting defenseless citizens is a sop to excuse the violence of the Negro - but the denizens of the large cities will pay the price for beating down the police.
Wow, a Nazi two-fer.
Yes, friends, every single thing in the universe is some sort of Jewish plot.
Yeah, it's just like the Jews to try to convince us they control everything.
The traitors can only play their game until the military refuses to back them.
Trend? It is called marxism or the NWO whatever your term and it has been here for decades..
Mainstreaming of Islam and Teh Faggots at the forefront.
Freedumb...
Freedumb to say what I want (except if BIG BROTHER hears it via his snooping tools),
Freedumb to do what I want (except if BIG BROTHER sees it on one of his cams),
Freedumb to think as I please (and hope to hell I don't talk in my sleep and the secret alarm clock mic picks it up).
FREEDUMB - that's what it's all about. Ain't freedumb wunnerful?
May your nihilism slaughter you silently while you sleep.
"What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise; to receiving decisions deliberated in secret; to believing that the situation was so complicated that the government had to act on information which the people could not understand, or so dangerous that, even if the people could not understand it, it could not be released because of national security. And their sense of identification with Hitler, their trust in him, made it easier to widen this gap and reassured those who would otherwise have worried about it.......... "This separation of government from people, this widening of the gap, took place so gradually and so insensibly, each step disguised (perhaps not even intentionally) as a temporary emergency measure or associated with true patriotic allegiance or with real social purposes. And all the crises and reforms (real reforms, too) so occupied the people that they did not see the slow motion underneath, of the whole process of government growing remoter and remoter.
http://press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/511928.html
They Thought They Were Free The Germans, 1933-45 Milton Mayer"Many of us come from a country that claims to be free. We grow up singing songs about our freedom, and we are told by our governments that evil men in caves hate us because we are so free. This is powerful propaganda that starts practically from birth and stays with us for our entire lives. Even Hollywood does its part with heroic action movies portraying the homeland as strong and free, with evil villains who invariably have foreign accents.
But it’s all a ruse."
This is the best take on America's fake freedom I have read for a long time. And it is all true. So many lies, in Public Schools, in Chruches, in the Media, everywhere in the good old USA. The president wages unlimited war against our freedom and privacy, all the while claiming to be earth's saviour. Using a massive military to spread freedom. That big fucking lie, it's all about spreading US corporate Power and opening more resources and cheap labor to the 1% to become rent collectors on.
Convince the people they're under attack and that's all it takes to get them to agree to their wars and protection...
The so-called trend has been there from the beginning, at least in the USA.
In practice, "freedom" was defined in 1776-1789 as the freedom to have slaves,
to take land from the natives, and for the rich to rule over the poor.
Little has changed as evidenced by such as
TPP, full-spectrum dominance militarism,
and the asserted right of corporations to buy politicians.
Can you appreciate how you ' sup up your grub ' in prison? Quickly and with one arm folded across your plate like you're holding a baby. Would most like me gouge out someone's eye with a fork who tried nicking your banger? You wake up in a cold sweat on hearing the screaming until you realise it's you holding a fresh piece of meat's face against the shower wall ready to pop his cherry. Have got no idea why people don't make a fuss or complain. If enough folks don't stand up for even whistleblowers then ordinary folks are less inclined and those are the fears the cabal instill.
Ok so i've never been in prison but does watching Shawshank Redemption twice count?
I dont know who has been jailed because of Patriot act but concerning actual real life violations against freedom look at California. Despite judicial rulings CA still forbids certain type of harmless dredging for gold ie. prohibits FREE WEALTH from being taken out of the ground. A gay kid who wants to be straight is not allowed to seek counseling. In the midst of a draught CA diverts trillions of gallons of water to protect a Smelt. Desalination plants next to ocean are verboten because of improbable major harm to fish - IN THE MIDST OF A DRAUGHT! The list goes on and on and on of examples of libs over governing everything. There's your interference with liberty and it has trouble more people than the Pateiot Act ever will.
We become the enemy,
When freedom dies for security
-- Nuclear Assault
Human labour is the Prime Asset.
Coal mines become exhausted.
Oil wells dry up.
Buuut, if you control human labour, you will always live comparatively well, whatever the economic conditions that prevail.
Talking about George Orwell and 1984, we should also remember animal farm.
Everyone is equal in the eyes of the law
Has been amended to:
Everyone is equal in the eyes of the law, but some are more equal than others.
As fraud is no longer considered a crime for bankers.
All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
George Orwell
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
George OrwellEvery war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
George OrwellIt is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.
George OrwellRead more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/g/george_orwell_3.html#rUhxEEe...
Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
George Orwell
Think Putin, Saddam, Assad, Gaddafi ........
Look no further than the push to make the growing list of Givernment "recommended" vaccines mandatory , this has no place in any society, let alone one is allegedly free.