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Monday, March 30, 2009

Signs That You Live Under Tyranny

This is a decent article, written by Jon Roland, that gives some indications of signs to look for to indicate you live under tyranny.

I have a simple sign:

When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. Of course, I merely paraphrased that from Jefferson.

Jon's 4th sign is easily put into American specific terms by knowing that our government has ignored the Constitution by implementing laws that directly conflict with it, "The Patriot Act" and all the Stimulus/Bailout bills being such material. Jon's number 10 is brought to light since none of these "laws" have been challenged by the Judicial branch.

Unfortunately some of these signs are nearly unprovable - unless the opposition to Tyranny prevails and can reveal the injustices afterwards. During Hitler's rule over Germany it was only conspiracy theorists who believed that people where being killed by the millions - and until the Allies arrived and saw first hand what was going on it was unproven. Just because something can't be proven, doesn't mean it isn't real. When a question isn't answered that doesn't prove that what it indicates is true, but ignoring the question and defaming the questioners sure makes it worth considering. I regard the government like an entity. In the United States of America, it is a corporate institution, thanks to Lincoln. That entity lies to us consistently, and like anyone who lies to you, even a few times, you find that you can no longer believe them on anything.

The shroud of national security needs to be repealed and pulled back permanently - the only thing that can keep our nation secure is for everyone to know everything that is written about past events, hiding no one. There is no reason for a plan of action, information gleaned under the guise of public realm, or lists of suspected people to remain under secrecy for more than a few months. Military technology details kept under secrecy for years? Sure! As long as we don't decide to share that information with other countries. The people of this country are what make it powerful and great, not the government or the government employees. [okay, off my soapbox, now!]

16 Signs That You Live Under Tyranny

by Jon Roland

Tyranny is an important phenomenon that operates by principles by which it can be recognized in its early emerging stages, and, if the people are vigilant, prepared, and committed to liberty, countered before it becomes entrenched. The methods used to overthrow a constitutional order and establish a tyranny are well-known. However, despite this awareness, it is surprising how those who have no intention of perpetrating a tyranny can slip into these methods and bring about a tyranny despite their best intentions. Tyranny does not have to be deliberate. Tyrants can fool themselves as thoroughly as they fool everyone else. Here are the top 16 signs that you are living in a tyranny or heading that way.

1 Signs 1 - 5

1. Control of public information and opinion: It begins with withholding information, and leads to putting out false or misleading information. A government can develop ministries of propaganda under many guises. They typically call it "public information" or "marketing."

2. Vote fraud used to prevent the election of reformers: It doesn't matter which of the two major party candidates are elected if no real reformer can get nominated, and when news services start knowing the outcomes of elections before it is possible for them to know, then the votes are not being honestly counted.

3. Undue official influence on trials and juries: Non-random selection of jury panels, exclusion of those opposed to the law, exclusion of the jury from hearing argument on the law, exclusion of private prosecutors from access to the grand jury, and prevention of parties and their counsels from making effective arguments or challenging the government.

4. Usurpation of undelegated powers: This is usually done with popular support for solving some problem, or to redistribute wealth to the advantage of the supporters of the dominant faction, but it soon leads to the deprivation of rights of minorities and individuals.

5. Seeking a government monopoly on the capability and use of armed force: The first signs are efforts to register or restrict the possession and use of firearms, initially under the guise of "protecting" the public, which, when it actually results in increased crime, provides a basis for further disarmament efforts affecting more people and more weapons.

Just paying the bill:¦

2 Signs 6 - 10

6. Militarization of law enforcement: Declaring a "war on crime" that becomes a war on civil liberties. Preparation of military forces for internal policing duties.

7. Infiltration and subversion of citizen groups that could be forces for reform: Internal spying and surveillance is the beginning. A sign is false prosecutions of their leaders.

8. Suppression of investigators and whistleblowers: When people who try to uncover high level wrongdoing are threatened, that is a sign the system is not only riddled with corruption, but that the corruption has passed the threshold into active tyranny.

9. Use of the law for competition suppression: It begins with the dominant faction winning support by paying off their supporters and suppressing their supporters' competitors, but leads to public officials themselves engaging in illegal activities and using the law to suppress independent competitors. A good example of this is narcotics trafficking.

10. Subversion of internal checks and balances: This involves the appointment to key positions of persons who can be controlled by their sponsors, and who are then induced to do illegal things. The worst way in which this occurs is in the appointment of judges that will go along with unconstitutional acts by the other branches.

3 Signs 11 - 16

11. Creation of a class of officials who are above the law: This is indicated by dismissal of charges for wrongdoing against persons who are "following orders."

12. Increasing dependency of the people on government: The classic approach to domination of the people is to first take everything they have away from them, then make them compliant with the demands of the rulers to get anything back again.

13. Increasing public ignorance of their civic duties and reluctance to perform them: When the people avoid doing things like voting and serving in militias and juries, tyranny is not far behind.

14. Use of staged events to produce popular support: Acts of terrorism, blamed on political opponents, followed immediately with well-prepared proposals for increased powers and budgets for suppressive agencies. Sometimes called a Reichstag plot.

15. Conversion of rights into privileges: Requiring licenses and permits for doing things that the government does not have the delegated power to restrict, except by due process in which the burden of proof is on the petitioner.

16. Political correctness: Many if not most people are susceptible to being recruited to engage in repressive actions against disfavored views or behaviors, and led to pave the way for the dominance of tyrannical government.

Sunday, March 29, 2009

Unconstitutional therefore illegal.

The Patriot act is unconstitutional - it nullifies the 4th, 5th, 6th, 8th, 9th and 10th amendments. It also completely removes the judicial branch from involvement in a condemned citizens plight. A government that does not follow the law it was created under is a government of anarchy. Without rule of law we have nothing. Who is to obey the rules/laws when the group that makes them obeys nothing? The Patriot Act and *all* unconstitutional laws must be repealed! Defend the Supreme Law of the Land or live in a land of the whim that is law.

Safety is found in Liberty, not slavery. Everyone must wake up and take on the responsibility of their lives and the safety of the others around them or it will never work. A strong government "protecting" its citizens can never work as well as all citizens protecting each other. Criminals love a government that has disarmed the people of the country, because it makes it much easier for them to pull off crimes and get away unscathed. Just look at recent history in England. They have disarmed the citizenry and violent crime is up 40%.