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Never mind who poked at the hive and stirred up an angry storm. Those are lessons of blowback for those with memory and perspective.

Right now the reactionary fervor is all that matters. Indeed, it is difficult to focus on much else.

In hindsight, the nation became sick and tired of the wars and the fear over terrorism under the reign of Bush 43. But in the moment, people embraced it – and that’s the danger again.

There is no clear or rational thought under fear of attack.

Under the auspices of retribution for 9/11, George W. Bush and his neocon advisors launched a roaming War on Terror that brought conflict to entire regions, and didn’t blink at bending the rules or trampling on constitutional rights. Spying, surveillance, intimidation, snitching, databasing, airport pat-downs, stop and frisk on the streets and more were all tolerated and even embraced. It was rule by fear.

The narrative didn’t add up, but that didn’t matter until later for most. People began to regret the powers granted via the PATRIOT Act to the NSA and to the executive branch to indefinitely detain anyone they declared an enemy combatant. The slide down the slippery slope was accelerating at a queasy pace.

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And though the policies of opening the doors to these “refugees” is deeply flawed – and indeed invites attack from jihadists or foreign enemies – the destruction of civil rights for this group will soon harm those of every American.

It seems that someone, from one party or another, is eager to finish what Bush started, and Obama has quietly continued.

If the ‘terrorists hated us for our freedoms’ then, they should have little reason to target us now…

It is no exaggeration to say that the response by the U.S. government to the acts of terrorism, including those on September 11, have done far more destruction to its system of freedom and prosperity than bin Laden, 19 hijackers with box cutters, or drama queens from ISIS ever could.

Today, the people of the U.S. are less prosperous in real wealth, in income and in opportunities than at any other time in history. Nearly half of the country is directly dependent on the federal government benefits for day-to-day survival, and the disaster of foreign policy continues to eviscerate the Constitution and bring decline to the American empire – all while the population lives in fear and abject terror of what may come tomorrow.

A new darkness could be closing in.

No jobs, no independence, no freedom, no future – but if the government doesn’t get more power… well, conventional wisdom says it would be better to be enslaved than dead. Others know the wisdom and the strength of Liberty or death.

https://archive.is/yEVAw

http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/candidates-ready-to-trash-constitution-to-fight-isis-time-to-put-life-ahead-of-civil-liberties_11202015

Trump & Carson Ignore 4th Amendment, Want Human Databases For ALL Americans

This past Friday while filing for the New Hampshire Republican Primary Ben Carson exclaimed: “I think we should have a database on everybody who comes into this country, and hopefully, we already have a database on every citizen who is already here. If we don’t, we are doing a very poor job.”

Donald Trump said earlier in the week at a campaign rally in Idaho that “security is going to rule” if he gets in the White House.

He was asked if he would go against the Constitution and permit the use of warrantless searches. He Responded with “We’re going to have to do things that we never did before, and some people are going to be upset about it, but I think that now everybody is feeling that security is going to rule and certain things will be done that we never thought would happen in this country in terms of information and learning about the enemy. And so we’re going to have to do certain things that were frankly unthinkable a year ago.”

The media claims Trump also said about a database to track humans who happen to be of the Muslim religion “I would certainly implement that, Absolutely.” Although his supporters claim that was taken out of context in a edited video and that Trump was referring to the wall on our southern border that he wants to build.

Carson chimed in after being questioned by a reporter to comment on Trump’s remark. “I hope that we have a database on everybody! If we don’t have a database on every foreigner who comes into the country, we’re being negligent. I want us to be able to know who they are; I want us to know where they came from; I want us to know where they’re going and why they’re here.”

Time and time again the politicians answers to all these tragedies, whether it be 9/11, Mass Shootings, or the attacks in Paris is always clamp down and spy and track all the citizens, putting everybody under intense scrutiny. The solution is a very simple one, lift all the stupid self-defense restrictions on the American people. By simply returning to the original 2nd Amendment and abolishing ALL the gun, knife, and body armor laws in this country, it would instantaneously provide the security that is sought by every individual. Like Ben Franklin said ‘Those who give up Liberty for Security deserve neither” and Robert Heinlein “An Armed Society is a Polite Society”. The Founding Fathers included the 2nd and 4th Amendments for these very specific reasons, just give us back our Rights and we can defend ourselves, we don’t need to be further recorded and tracked.

https://archive.is/1vUOE

http://www.dontcomply.com/trump-carson-ignore-4th-amendment-want-human-databases-for-all-americans/

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has some pretty radical plans for the U.S. should he ever get into the White House, and it appears that one of those plans is to block access to the Internet. To get this done, he is planning to go and talk to Bill Gates.

The co-founder of Microsoft is one of the most iconic figures in the history of the PC revolution, helping put computers in hundreds of millions of homes around the world, but Gates is not in charge of the Internet and has absolutely no say in the way it is run.

In a statement released Monday, Trump said he wanted a “total and complete shutdown” of the country’s borders to Muslims following the San Bernardino terrorist attack last week. Later in the day, at a rally on board the U.S.S. Yorktown, a Second World War aircraft carrier docked near Charleston, South Carolina, Trump outlined another facet to his plan to fight the Islamic State group.

“We are losing a lot of people to the Internet. We have to do something. We have to go see Bill Gates and a lot of different people that really understand what's happening. We have to talk to them [about], maybe in certain areas, closing that internet up in some way.”

It is unclear what Trump meant by going "to see Bill Gates," though it appears to suggest that Trump believes the Microsoft co-founder may be in charge of the fabled Internet kill switch – something that the inventor of the world wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, says doesn't exist. Trump could be talking about disrupting the online communications of the extremist group – also known as ISIS, IS, ISIL or Daesh – which is an issue President Barack Obama addressed Sunday.

Trump then went on to predict a negative reaction to his calls for a shutdown of the Internet, and in the same breath completely dismissed such complaints: “Some people will say, 'Freedom of speech, Freedom of speech,'” Trump added, before saying “These are foolish people. We have a lot of foolish people.”

Despite a lot of controversial views about how to deal with immigrants – including the possibility of maintaining a database of all American Muslims, deporting 11 million Hispanics and building a wall along the Mexican border – Trump remains the front-runner to win the Republican nomination for president in 2016.

https://archive.is/rhGjH

http://www.ibtimes.com/donald-trump-wants-bill-gates-turn-internet-stop-isis-2215683

BOTH Donald Trump AND Hitlary Clinton Support Restricting Freedom of Speech

If you still don’t get how anti-Constitution and disdainful of liberty Donald Trump truly is, let’s take a look a portion from one of his speeches yesterday.

“We’re losing a lot of people because of the Internet. We have to see Bill Gates and a lot of different people who really understand what’s happening and maybe, in some ways, closing that Internet up in some ways. Somebody will say, ‘Oh, freedom of speech, freedom of speech.’ These are foolish people, we have a lot of foolish people. We’ve got to maybe do something with the Internet because they’re recruiting by the thousands, they’re leaving our country, and then when they come back, we take them back.”

He is downright dismissive of free of speech and calls First Amendment defenders “foolish people.” He is clearly troubled by the notion that free speech could come in the way of King Trump’s vision for “Making America Great,” and there’s nothing more anti-American than that.

This, of course, is not to say that any of the other leading candidates are better. For example, Hillary Clinton was just heard saying the following:

“We’re going to have to have more support from our friends in the technology world to deny online space. Just as we have to destroy [ISIS’s] would-be caliphate, we have to deny them online space. And this is complicated. You’re going to hear all of the usual complaints, you know, freedom of speech, et cetera. But if we truly are in a war against terrorism and we are truly looking for ways to shut off their funding, shut off the flow of foreign fighters, then we’ve got to shut off their means of communicating. It’s more complicated with some of what they do on encrypted apps, and I’m well aware of that, and that requires even more thinking about how to do it.”

https://archive.is/Ywjul

http://www.silverdoctors.com/donald-trump-vs-hillary-clinton-on-freedom-of-speech-a-side-by-side-comparison/

>>1012

This is very frightening to publicly say this. I better get a passport now for i believe in a few years this nations borders will be closed. No coming in, no coming out.

>>1195

>I better get a passport now for i believe in a few years this nations borders will be closed. No coming in, no coming out.

There is a right way to fix this manufactured crisis and the wrong way. The wrong way to go about it would be trusting the government to fix all of these problems as government policy has been the root cause of all these problems we face today.

On one hand, we do need secure borders and demand immigrants be vetted who come into this country (simply because some really do have ties to violent criminal activity). But this is not happening today because complete amnesty has been declared through an Executive Order. This executive order created yet another crisis, similar to the crisis created by neo-cons in the Middle East; killing over 1,000,000 innocent civilians and destabilization of their Eastern nations. Now we see a massive increase in Jihadists who hate America (can you really blame them?), and yes many of them are fleeing into the United States to commit terror attacks (again, all because of horrifically stupid and criminal governmental policy under two administrations, under Bush-Cheney and under Obama-Kerry).

On the other hand, reform in government is needed because we cannot rely on just civilians to repair this once-great nation and fix all these problems. Now you have a bigger problem, criminals do not reform by themselves, it takes a hardcore smackdown by the Judicial system (via the courts) and arrests being made at the higher ranks for Treason. What's the chance of that happening? Slim to none.

Under Bush our foreign policy was a disaster, but under Obama it has spread like disease to effecting our domestic policy as well.

Now we have a fully criminal, fully rogue, fascistic, broken political system as well an executive branch that will no longer protect America's interests - only its own. An Empire. And guess what? History shows without a doubt that ALL Empires inevitably collapse!

You have three options:

(1) Expatriate from the United States, get out and start a new life abroad somewhere far away. This will not be easy to do, you may have to learn another language and takes time to adjust.

(2) Stay here and prepare for the worst. Its bound to get very very ugly, soon. I'm talking about being prepared for a systemic collapse of the country; from the economy to societal breakdowns to full blown tyranny, mass murder and perhaps another civil war.

(3) Ignore all of the above … or just kill yourself now and get it over with (not recommended, but its still an option).

I have though very hard about all three options, and I have chosen the second. And yes, I am prepared to meet my fate at some point in time. Its time to chose NOW because we are late in the game.