10-01-2023, 10:34 AM
The New Abnormal: Authoritarian Control Freaks Want to Micromanage Our Lives
The Liberty Beacon
John & Nisha Whitehead | The Rutherford Institute
“Man is born free but everywhere is in chains.”—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Authoritarian control freaks out to micromanage our lives have become the new normal or, to be more accurate, the new abnormal when it comes to how the government relates to the citizenry.
This overbearing despotism, which pre-dates the COVID-19 hysteria, is the very definition of a Nanny State, where government representatives (those elected and appointed to work for us) adopt the authoritarian notion that the government knows best and therefore must control, regulate and dictate almost everything about the citizenry’s public, private and professional lives.
Indeed, it’s a dangerous time for anyone who still clings to the idea that freedom means the right to think for yourself and act responsibly according to your best judgment.
This tug-of-war for control and sovereignty over our selves impacts almost every aspect of our lives, whether you’re talking about decisions relating to our health, our homes, how we raise our children, what we consume, what we drive, what we wear, how we spend our money, how we protect ourselves and our loved ones, and even who we associate with and what we think.
As Liz Wolfe writes for Reason, “Little things that make people’s lives better, tastier, and less tedious are being cracked down on by big government typesin federal and state governments.”
You can’t even buy a stove, a dishwasher, a showerhead, a leaf blower, or a lightbulb anymore without running afoul of the Nanny State.
In this way, under the guise of pseudo-benevolence, the government has meted out this bureaucratic tyranny in such a way as to nullify the inalienable rights of the individual and limit our choices to those few that the government deems safe enough.
Yet limited choice is no choice at all. Likewise, regulated freedom is no freedom at all.
Indeed, as a study by the Cato Institute concludes, for the average American, freedom has declined generally over the past 20 years. As researchers William Ruger and Jason Sorens explain, “We ground our conception of freedom on an individual rights framework. In our view, individuals should be allowed to dispose of their lives, liberties, and property as they see fit, so long as they do not infringe on the rights of others.”
The overt signs of the despotism exercised by the increasingly authoritarian regime that passes itself off as the United States government (and its corporate partners in crime) are all around us: censorship, criminalizing, shadow banning and de-platforming of individuals who express ideas that are politically incorrect or unpopular; warrantless surveillance of Americans’ movements and communications; SWAT team raids of Americans’ homes; shootings of unarmed citizens by police; harsh punishments meted out to schoolchildren in the name of zero tolerance; community-wide lockdowns and health mandates that strip Americans of their freedom of movement and bodily integrity; armed drones taking to the skies domestically; endless wars; out-of-control spending; militarized police; roadside strip searches; privatized prisons with a profit incentive for jailing Americans; fusion centers that spy on, collect and disseminate data on Americans’ private transactions; and militarized agencies with stockpiles of ammunition, to name some of the most appalling.
Yet as egregious as these incursions on our rights may be, it’s the endless, petty tyrannies—the heavy-handed, punitive-laden dictates inflicted by a self-righteous, Big-Brother-Knows-Best bureaucracy on an overtaxed, overregulated, and underrepresented populace—that illustrate so clearly the degree to which “we the people” are viewed as incapable of common sense, moral judgment, fairness, and intelligence, not to mention lacking a basic understanding of how to stay alive, raise a family, or be part of a functioning community.
When the dictates of petty bureaucrats carry greater weight than the individual rights of the citizenry, we’re in trouble, folks.
Federal and state governments have used the law as a bludgeon to litigate, legislate and micromanage our lives through overregulation and overcriminalization.
This is what happens when bureaucrats run the show, and the rule of law becomes little more than a cattle prod for forcing the citizenry to march in lockstep with the government.
Overregulation is just the other side of the coin to overcriminalization, that phenomenon in which everything is rendered illegal, and everyone becomes a lawbreaker.
You don’t have to look far to find abundant examples of Nanny State laws that infantilize individuals and strip them of their ability to decide things for themselves. Back in 2012, then-New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg infamously proposed a ban on the sale of sodas and large sugary drinks in order to guard against obesity. Other localities enacted bans on texting while jaywalking, wearing saggy pants, having too much mud on your car, smoking outdoors, storing trash in your car, improperly sorting your trash, cursing within earshot of others, or screeching your tires.
Yet while there are endless ways for the Nanny State to micromanage our lives, things become truly ominous when the government adopts mechanisms enabling it to monitor us for violations in order to enforce its many laws.
Nanny State, meet the all-seeing, all-knowing Surveillance State and its sidekick, the muscle-flexing Police State.
You see, in an age of overcriminalization—when the law is wielded like a hammer to force compliance to the government’s dictates whatever they might be—you don’t have to do anything “wrong” to be fined, arrested or subjected to raids and seizures and surveillance.
You just have to refuse to march in lockstep with the government.
As policy analyst Michael Van Beek warns, the problem with overcriminalization is that there are so many laws at the federal, state and local levels—that we can’t possibly know them all.
“It’s also impossible to enforce all these laws. Instead, law enforcement officials must choose which ones are important and which are not. The result is that they pick the laws Americans really must follow, because they’re the ones deciding which laws really matter,” concludes Van Beek. “Federal, state and local regulations — rules created by unelected government bureaucrats — carry the same force of law and can turn you into a criminal if you violate any one of them… if we violate these rules, we could be prosecuted as criminals. No matter how antiquated or ridiculous, they still carry the full force of the law. By letting so many of these sit around, just waiting to be used against us, we increase the power of law enforcement, which has lots of options to charge people with legal and regulatory violations.”
This is the police state’s superpower: empowered by the Nanny State, it has been vested with the authority to make our lives a bureaucratic hell.
Indeed, if you were unnerved by the rapid deterioration of privacy under the Surveillance State, prepare to be terrified by the surveillance matrix that will be ushered in by the Nanny State working in tandem with the Police State.
The government’s response to COVID-19 saddled us with a Nanny State inclined to use its draconian pandemic powers to protect us from ourselves.
The groundwork laid with COVID-19 is a prologue to what will become the police state’s conquest of a new, relatively uncharted, frontier: inner space, specifically, the inner workings (genetic, biological, biometric, mental, emotional) of the human race.
Consider how many more ways the government could “protect us” from ourselves under the guise of public health and safety.
For instance, under the guise of public health and safety, the government could use mental health care as a pretext for targeting and locking up dissidents, activists and anyone unfortunate enough to be placed on a government watch list.
When combined with advances in mass surveillance technologies, artificial intelligence-powered programs that can track people by their biometrics and behavior, mental health sensor data (tracked by wearable data and monitored by government agencies such as HARPA), threat assessments, behavioral sensing warnings, precrime initiatives, red flag gun laws, and mental health first-aid programs aimed at training gatekeepers to identify who might pose a threat to public safety, these preemptive mental health programs could well signal a tipping point in the government’s efforts to penalize those engaging in so-called “thought crimes.”
This is how it begins.
On a daily basis, Americans are already relinquishing (in many cases, voluntarily) the most intimate details of who we are—their 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.
Having conditioned the population to the idea that being part of society is a privilege and not a right, such access could easily be predicated on social credit scores, the worthiness of one’s political views, or the extent to which one is willing to comply with the government’s dictates, no matter what they might be.
COVID-19 with its talk of mass testing, screening checkpoints, contact tracing, immunity passports, and snitch tip lines for reporting “rule breakers” to the authorities was a preview of what’s to come.
We should all be leery and afraid.
At a time when the government has a growing list—shared with fusion centers and law enforcement agencies—of ideologies, behaviors, affiliations and other characteristics that could flag someone as suspicious and result in their being labeled potential enemies of the state, it won’t take much for any of us to be considered outlaws or terrorists.
After all, the government likes to use the words “anti-government,” “extremist” and “terrorist” interchangeably. The Department of Homeland Security broadly defines extremists as individuals “that are mainly antigovernment, rejecting federal authority in favor of state or local authority, or rejecting government authority entirely.”
At some point, being an individualist will be considered as dangerous as being a terrorist.
When anything goes when it’s done in the name of national security, crime fighting and terrorism, “we the people” have little to no protection against SWAT team raids, domestic surveillance, police shootings of unarmed citizens, indefinite detentions, and the like, whether or not you’ve done anything wrong.
In an age of overcriminalization, you’re already a criminal.
All the government needs is proof of your law-breaking. They’ll get it, too.
Whether it’s through the use of surveillance software such as ShadowDragonthat allows police to watch people’s social media activity, or technology that uses a home’s WiFi router and smart appliances to allow those on the outside to “see” throughout your home, it’s just a matter of time.
As I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People and in its fictional counterpart The Erik Blair Diaries, it’s no longer a question of whether the government will lock up Americans for defying one of its numerous mandates but when.
https://www.thelibertybeacon.com/the-new...our-lives/
Total World Connections and Actions Expose the Evil Agenda of the One World Governance Plot
By Gary D. Barnett
September 30, 2023
“We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost 40 years……It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supernational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries.”
~ David Rockefeller
Divide and rule–Divide and rule–Divide and rule. Are you beginning to see what is going on in this country and the world? Can you possibly understand that you are digging your own graves by allowing yourselves to be lied to, manipulated, and controlled en masse? Is your perception so narrowly focused that your only reality is sheer darkness? That certainly appears to be the case when discussing the plight of the masses today. In order to see, one must be willing to look and to find the truth, and then act on that truth. Anything less is cowardice in the face of tyranny.
Once eyes are open, it becomes ridiculously obvious that everything going on today is a calculated plot; one that has been active for decades, but that has recently accelerated dramatically as the new world order and its global government scheme is getting closer to fruition. Keep in mind, that this world is being run by the very few, while hundreds of millions here, and billions on earth, are supporting and accepting their own enslavement at the hands of a tiny minority of what is a ruling conspiratorial cabal.
Consider just some of the atrocities happening, and how they are all tied together in what is referred to by the ruling class, governments, and the controlled media, as consequential. Consider that most of these horrendous events, and the response to these nefarious acts, are across many boundaries, geographical areas, nation-states, and continents; all acting in a similar manner at the same time. This of course is not possible, unless all this is coordinated among a ruling class of evil monsters, whose victims are all the common people on earth.
For purposes here, the concentration can be limited just to the past four years, as the biggest push toward total globalism has occurred during this recent period of time. Beginning with the ‘fake ‘covid’ fraud, this false threat was accepted as real, treated as a one-world narrative, where virtually every single country in the world acted in concert simultaneously. All these countries prior to this manufactured ’emergency,’ were somewhat independent, sovereign in some regards, and many were enemies of one another, but they all came together as one to address this obvious bogus risk that had been telegraphed for years before it was foisted on us all. This is not feasible in any regard, unless coordinated worldwide in advance.
Consider the consequences of this fraud in its mandates, orders. new laws, and restrictions, and how they were universally accepted by every county on earth all at once. Lockdowns were universal, as was mask-wearing, fake testing, ‘social distancing,’ quarantines, stoppage to travel, and eventually the acceptance and mass-injection worldwide of completely untested, dangerous, and deadly poisons called ‘vaccines,’ which have caused massive sickness and death which continues to this day.
Consider the immigration plight and global governing push for mass migration, that has destroyed many countries and devastated economies everywhere. Again, this was widespread across all boundaries in the same time period. This is still happening every day, and is causing havoc worldwide.
Consider the ‘racism’ ploy that has been manufactured, manipulated, lied about, and created and stoked, by all the same players who control the world. This new illegitimate racism is a complete fraud meant only to divide, but any inspection of the motives destroy the entire basis of this fraudulent plot to cause unrest. In essence, this has become real racism against all white people, especially white males, but the entire ruling class and its media whores who perpetuate this lie, are mostly white males. Does this make any sense whatsoever if real racism is the problem? Of course not, as this is just another way to cause hatred and panic, It is in no way valid, but is being used as a weapon in many areas of the world concurrently.
Consider that unnatural fires, fires of such extreme heat and devastation, that entire towns, cities, natural treasures, timber lands, sought-after geographic locations, and human fodder are being targeted. Once again, these are not isolated terror attacks, it is happening worldwide, and in concert. The devastation is occurring in California, Hawaii, New York, most of the western U.S., Canada, Greece, Spain, Turkey, many other parts of Europe, China, Australia; this just to name a few. Most all these fires are much hotter and more deadly than any natural wildfire could be, and again, this is widespread around the world at the same time.
The main blame for much of this terroristic devastation is based on the lie and fraud called ‘man-made climate change,’ and that in my opinion is the lynchpin of all efforts to destroy this planet, economies, and the bulk of people who make up the masses at large. Again, this is an agenda that is being pursued worldwide, and in a concerted effort together as one.
Also, there seems to be a gigantic push, fake of course, toward this insane transgender idiocy, and again this is happening in many different countries around the world together. Transgenders make up only a fraction of 1% of populations, but the exposure given this fraud is again universal. If one were to watch television, sporting events, advertising, and staged events, he would think that ‘transgenders’ made up the bulk of populations. Schools across this entire country, and others as well, are being inundated with this transgender nonsense. It is completely immoral, and to allow children to be exposed to this madness is evil exemplified. But then, control the children, and control the world. It is just a waiting game. Brainwashing and indoctrinating the young will guarantee that when the old no longer inhabit this world, the rulers will have won by default; having a totally dumbed down, compliant, and ignorant population accepting of a supreme authority to manage and control their lives.
Is all of this, and obviously so much more, coincidental? Is it all accidental? Can everything going on in this world happen most everywhere, and all simultaneously, by all different types of people and cultures, and still be considered natural? Or is it ordained by some grand cabal that has a plan for the rest of humanity that only leads to total rule? If most all these atrocities are happening at once, and universally in many cases, is it not obvious that all this is orchestrated, and therefore a pre-determined plot against freedom and individuality? I suggest, that this is exactly what is happening, and the saddest part of it, is that most all of you are blinded by your own desire to hide from truth and reality, by your ‘beliefs’ fed to you by government, and by accepting kings and rulers who you have voluntarily chosen to be your masters.
Our world today is one of secret societies, of NGOs, of governments, of hidden oligarchs, of technocrats, of ‘health masters’ called pharmaceuticals, of the media, and of central banks and corporate heads, all who are collaborating, and working toward the same exact agenda, while the lowly masses stand by and watch without lifting a finger. This is our real problem.
“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.”
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2023/09/gary...ance-plot/
This Is Why Globalism MUST BE Destroyed - This Obvious Attempt By World Government Terrorists To Destroy The USA And Kill Off What's Left Of Freedom And Americans Must Be Stopped
- America's Founding Fathers Created The 2nd Amendment For Moments Like This
October 1, 2023
By J.B. Shurk for All News Pipeline
Americans are pessimistic about the future. They also view past decades more favorably than they do the present one. The "land of opportunity" is gone. The "American dream" is gone. What remains is a fading memory of what America used to be without an underlying promise that its erstwhile preeminence can be restored.
This pessimism is not peculiar to those living inside the United States. A growing body of research shows that national populations around the world are depressed about the future. Billions of smartphones, exponentially multiplying digital entertainments, and social media platforms connecting millions each minute are evidently not creating sufficient conditions for human optimism or happiness.
Diagnosing why eight billion people are miserable is no easy task, but there is an obvious culprit that has surely contributed to our global malaise. Globalism, as the increasingly dominant governing philosophy — if not pseudo-religion — of the planet, is inherently antagonistic to both individual self-determination and the natural bonds formed within families and tribes. When every human is encouraged — if not mandated — to act strictly for the "common good" of the global population, then those preferences that advance an individual's, family's, or nation's unique interests must be undermined.
Powerful institutions as varied as the United Nations, World Economic Forum, BlackRock, and even the Vatican all demand an essentially borderless world, in which the peoples of any nation are encouraged to migrate freely into others. Decades of mass migration, primarily in the West, have resulted in not only an explosion of ethnic enclaves existing somewhat autonomously inside host nation-states, but also the fracturing of common civic bonds that once loosely united those nations' native peoples.
When citizens or political parties have fought back against policies of uncontrolled immigration, globalist-minded authorities have been quick to demonize their own citizens as racists; xenophobes; or, more recently, purveyors of "hate." Even more devastating for afflicted populations, assimilation is now scorned. Rather than encouraging new residents to adopt the language, customs, and traditions of their adoptive land, governments have chosen to prioritize the cultural identities of recent transplants over the historic identities of the nation states they now call home.
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Nationalism is derisively equated with the worst atrocities of last century's German Nazism or Italian fascism, while its Enlightenment Age achievements in organizing similar peoples into self-sustaining regions peaceful enough to encourage technological innovation, economic growth, and relative political stability are entirely ignored. Westerners are browbeaten with globalism's sister philosophies of "multiculturalism" and "diversity for diversity's sake" to the point that even declaring oneself a proud Englishman, Dutchman, German, or — Heaven forefend! — Russian can quickly lead to the "offender" being branded a "racist" who must be "retrained" to reject "hate." Is it any wonder, then, why the Olympic Games are waning in popularity, when Westerners are regularly conditioned to believe that love for one's nation must be expunged from the human race?
Even more fundamental than membership in national tribes that foster meaning and identity, it is the familial tribe that gives humans a natural support network for dealing with the dangers of the outside world. Parents, siblings, and immediate relatives provide young family members with the skills and knowledge to navigate life's wilderness. The bonds of kinship reinforce instinctual drives to protect and strengthen the group. Families maintain organic divisions of labor and a shared sense of duty that instill innate purpose within each member.
Globalism and State supremacy, on the other hand, are diametrically opposed to the family. By elevating a loyalty to the "common good" and the State's "expertise" over the private decision-making of families, the State has weakened the most natural engine for creating and sustaining a human being's identity and purpose. Government agents now insert themselves between parents and their children in matters as personal as religious conviction, sexual morality, and psychological well-being. Should parents reject any of the State's radical ideologies — such as "transgenderism" — their natural rights as parents are threatened. Just as during China's Cultural Revolution, Western governments now dominate the family's private sphere.
It is this form of government superiority — intolerant of kinship traditions and hostile to personal agency — that actually birthed last century's totalitarian regimes. What distinguishes our present era is that globalist authorities seek citizens' absolute obedience not only to their national governments but also to the pantheon of globalist gods to whom those governments claim to pray. People are ordered to obey in the name of COVID, "climate change," "democracy," "fighting hate," or any other deity that the State produces for the public's supplication. People who worship these false gods are rewarded with government-sanctioned atonement; those who refuse are punished as heretics. No matter how faithfully the converts publicly devote themselves to the globalist theology, though, they truly serve only the small class of oligarchs who use their quasi-divine authority to amass greater wealth and power for themselves.
Good parents will sacrifice themselves for their children; they are not inclined to watch their children be butchered and brainwashed. Warriors will sacrifice themselves when their communities come under attack; they are not inclined to die for pretentious pronouns and carbon emissions. As relentless as the State's propaganda continues to be, no centered person sees the government as family or wants to fight a war for globalism. The more the State insists that people act against their natures, the more people become aware that they must reject the authority of the State. The prospect of imminent conflict breeds deep pessimism about the future.
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In my experience, human suffering arises when people feel that they have no control over their own lives. That suffering can often be stemmed when they seek some kind of relationship with God, take personal responsibility for their own actions, use their labor to create something of their own, and openly express their thoughts. This journey toward happiness requires the individual to do the heavy lifting, but it also empowers the mind to create and think freely. Humans who confidently accept their own agency inside a world not of their making eventually find peace. How do you create happy societies? Encourage citizens to embrace God, private property, and free speech.
Globalism does just the opposite. It requires total dependency on government. When COVID struck, the State closed churches, bankrupted small businesses, and silenced dissent. The cult of "climate change" insists that you own nothing, produce nothing, and pray to Mother Earth. The State's preposterous "War on Disinformation and Hate" seeks to enslave the mind and criminalize thoughts. And the individual is expected to make all these sacrifices for the glory of the "multicultural," "inclusive," "equitable," "green"-energy-obsessed, globalist State. Unsurprisingly, most humans have no interest in praying at the church of the United Nations or obeying the World Health Organization's coercive mandates as if they were the Ten Commandments.
Globalism can succeed only in a terribly pessimistic world. It thrives on racism. It depends upon an apocalyptic vision of a dying planet. It needs to divide people against one another, so that they are too busy to unite and resist those who cause them actual harm. Under globalist government, happiness is smothered with misery, fear, and hate.
Even in humanity's darkest hours, optimism has prevailed. After WWI, Americans fell in love with the automobile. After WWII, Americans bought homes and televisions. During the Vietnam War, Americans put a man on the moon. Now globalists push public transportation and small apartments. Televisions are just instruments for State propaganda. And American astronauts have spent the last fifty years orbiting Earth.
After two decades of war, this generation's warriors return home to find the PATRIOT Act used against them, the government claiming ownership over their children, unaffordable gasoline, and the prospect of renting for life. Globalism is where optimism goes to die. Happiness will require its demolition.
https://allnewspipeline.com/This_Is_Why_...troyed.php
The Liberty Beacon
John & Nisha Whitehead | The Rutherford Institute
“Man is born free but everywhere is in chains.”—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Authoritarian control freaks out to micromanage our lives have become the new normal or, to be more accurate, the new abnormal when it comes to how the government relates to the citizenry.
This overbearing despotism, which pre-dates the COVID-19 hysteria, is the very definition of a Nanny State, where government representatives (those elected and appointed to work for us) adopt the authoritarian notion that the government knows best and therefore must control, regulate and dictate almost everything about the citizenry’s public, private and professional lives.
Indeed, it’s a dangerous time for anyone who still clings to the idea that freedom means the right to think for yourself and act responsibly according to your best judgment.
This tug-of-war for control and sovereignty over our selves impacts almost every aspect of our lives, whether you’re talking about decisions relating to our health, our homes, how we raise our children, what we consume, what we drive, what we wear, how we spend our money, how we protect ourselves and our loved ones, and even who we associate with and what we think.
As Liz Wolfe writes for Reason, “Little things that make people’s lives better, tastier, and less tedious are being cracked down on by big government typesin federal and state governments.”
You can’t even buy a stove, a dishwasher, a showerhead, a leaf blower, or a lightbulb anymore without running afoul of the Nanny State.
In this way, under the guise of pseudo-benevolence, the government has meted out this bureaucratic tyranny in such a way as to nullify the inalienable rights of the individual and limit our choices to those few that the government deems safe enough.
Yet limited choice is no choice at all. Likewise, regulated freedom is no freedom at all.
Indeed, as a study by the Cato Institute concludes, for the average American, freedom has declined generally over the past 20 years. As researchers William Ruger and Jason Sorens explain, “We ground our conception of freedom on an individual rights framework. In our view, individuals should be allowed to dispose of their lives, liberties, and property as they see fit, so long as they do not infringe on the rights of others.”
The overt signs of the despotism exercised by the increasingly authoritarian regime that passes itself off as the United States government (and its corporate partners in crime) are all around us: censorship, criminalizing, shadow banning and de-platforming of individuals who express ideas that are politically incorrect or unpopular; warrantless surveillance of Americans’ movements and communications; SWAT team raids of Americans’ homes; shootings of unarmed citizens by police; harsh punishments meted out to schoolchildren in the name of zero tolerance; community-wide lockdowns and health mandates that strip Americans of their freedom of movement and bodily integrity; armed drones taking to the skies domestically; endless wars; out-of-control spending; militarized police; roadside strip searches; privatized prisons with a profit incentive for jailing Americans; fusion centers that spy on, collect and disseminate data on Americans’ private transactions; and militarized agencies with stockpiles of ammunition, to name some of the most appalling.
Yet as egregious as these incursions on our rights may be, it’s the endless, petty tyrannies—the heavy-handed, punitive-laden dictates inflicted by a self-righteous, Big-Brother-Knows-Best bureaucracy on an overtaxed, overregulated, and underrepresented populace—that illustrate so clearly the degree to which “we the people” are viewed as incapable of common sense, moral judgment, fairness, and intelligence, not to mention lacking a basic understanding of how to stay alive, raise a family, or be part of a functioning community.
When the dictates of petty bureaucrats carry greater weight than the individual rights of the citizenry, we’re in trouble, folks.
Federal and state governments have used the law as a bludgeon to litigate, legislate and micromanage our lives through overregulation and overcriminalization.
This is what happens when bureaucrats run the show, and the rule of law becomes little more than a cattle prod for forcing the citizenry to march in lockstep with the government.
Overregulation is just the other side of the coin to overcriminalization, that phenomenon in which everything is rendered illegal, and everyone becomes a lawbreaker.
You don’t have to look far to find abundant examples of Nanny State laws that infantilize individuals and strip them of their ability to decide things for themselves. Back in 2012, then-New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg infamously proposed a ban on the sale of sodas and large sugary drinks in order to guard against obesity. Other localities enacted bans on texting while jaywalking, wearing saggy pants, having too much mud on your car, smoking outdoors, storing trash in your car, improperly sorting your trash, cursing within earshot of others, or screeching your tires.
Yet while there are endless ways for the Nanny State to micromanage our lives, things become truly ominous when the government adopts mechanisms enabling it to monitor us for violations in order to enforce its many laws.
Nanny State, meet the all-seeing, all-knowing Surveillance State and its sidekick, the muscle-flexing Police State.
You see, in an age of overcriminalization—when the law is wielded like a hammer to force compliance to the government’s dictates whatever they might be—you don’t have to do anything “wrong” to be fined, arrested or subjected to raids and seizures and surveillance.
You just have to refuse to march in lockstep with the government.
As policy analyst Michael Van Beek warns, the problem with overcriminalization is that there are so many laws at the federal, state and local levels—that we can’t possibly know them all.
“It’s also impossible to enforce all these laws. Instead, law enforcement officials must choose which ones are important and which are not. The result is that they pick the laws Americans really must follow, because they’re the ones deciding which laws really matter,” concludes Van Beek. “Federal, state and local regulations — rules created by unelected government bureaucrats — carry the same force of law and can turn you into a criminal if you violate any one of them… if we violate these rules, we could be prosecuted as criminals. No matter how antiquated or ridiculous, they still carry the full force of the law. By letting so many of these sit around, just waiting to be used against us, we increase the power of law enforcement, which has lots of options to charge people with legal and regulatory violations.”
This is the police state’s superpower: empowered by the Nanny State, it has been vested with the authority to make our lives a bureaucratic hell.
Indeed, if you were unnerved by the rapid deterioration of privacy under the Surveillance State, prepare to be terrified by the surveillance matrix that will be ushered in by the Nanny State working in tandem with the Police State.
The government’s response to COVID-19 saddled us with a Nanny State inclined to use its draconian pandemic powers to protect us from ourselves.
The groundwork laid with COVID-19 is a prologue to what will become the police state’s conquest of a new, relatively uncharted, frontier: inner space, specifically, the inner workings (genetic, biological, biometric, mental, emotional) of the human race.
Consider how many more ways the government could “protect us” from ourselves under the guise of public health and safety.
For instance, under the guise of public health and safety, the government could use mental health care as a pretext for targeting and locking up dissidents, activists and anyone unfortunate enough to be placed on a government watch list.
When combined with advances in mass surveillance technologies, artificial intelligence-powered programs that can track people by their biometrics and behavior, mental health sensor data (tracked by wearable data and monitored by government agencies such as HARPA), threat assessments, behavioral sensing warnings, precrime initiatives, red flag gun laws, and mental health first-aid programs aimed at training gatekeepers to identify who might pose a threat to public safety, these preemptive mental health programs could well signal a tipping point in the government’s efforts to penalize those engaging in so-called “thought crimes.”
This is how it begins.
On a daily basis, Americans are already relinquishing (in many cases, voluntarily) the most intimate details of who we are—their 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.
Having conditioned the population to the idea that being part of society is a privilege and not a right, such access could easily be predicated on social credit scores, the worthiness of one’s political views, or the extent to which one is willing to comply with the government’s dictates, no matter what they might be.
COVID-19 with its talk of mass testing, screening checkpoints, contact tracing, immunity passports, and snitch tip lines for reporting “rule breakers” to the authorities was a preview of what’s to come.
We should all be leery and afraid.
At a time when the government has a growing list—shared with fusion centers and law enforcement agencies—of ideologies, behaviors, affiliations and other characteristics that could flag someone as suspicious and result in their being labeled potential enemies of the state, it won’t take much for any of us to be considered outlaws or terrorists.
After all, the government likes to use the words “anti-government,” “extremist” and “terrorist” interchangeably. The Department of Homeland Security broadly defines extremists as individuals “that are mainly antigovernment, rejecting federal authority in favor of state or local authority, or rejecting government authority entirely.”
At some point, being an individualist will be considered as dangerous as being a terrorist.
When anything goes when it’s done in the name of national security, crime fighting and terrorism, “we the people” have little to no protection against SWAT team raids, domestic surveillance, police shootings of unarmed citizens, indefinite detentions, and the like, whether or not you’ve done anything wrong.
In an age of overcriminalization, you’re already a criminal.
All the government needs is proof of your law-breaking. They’ll get it, too.
Whether it’s through the use of surveillance software such as ShadowDragonthat allows police to watch people’s social media activity, or technology that uses a home’s WiFi router and smart appliances to allow those on the outside to “see” throughout your home, it’s just a matter of time.
As I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People and in its fictional counterpart The Erik Blair Diaries, it’s no longer a question of whether the government will lock up Americans for defying one of its numerous mandates but when.
https://www.thelibertybeacon.com/the-new...our-lives/
Total World Connections and Actions Expose the Evil Agenda of the One World Governance Plot
By Gary D. Barnett
September 30, 2023
“We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost 40 years……It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supernational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries.”
~ David Rockefeller
Divide and rule–Divide and rule–Divide and rule. Are you beginning to see what is going on in this country and the world? Can you possibly understand that you are digging your own graves by allowing yourselves to be lied to, manipulated, and controlled en masse? Is your perception so narrowly focused that your only reality is sheer darkness? That certainly appears to be the case when discussing the plight of the masses today. In order to see, one must be willing to look and to find the truth, and then act on that truth. Anything less is cowardice in the face of tyranny.
Once eyes are open, it becomes ridiculously obvious that everything going on today is a calculated plot; one that has been active for decades, but that has recently accelerated dramatically as the new world order and its global government scheme is getting closer to fruition. Keep in mind, that this world is being run by the very few, while hundreds of millions here, and billions on earth, are supporting and accepting their own enslavement at the hands of a tiny minority of what is a ruling conspiratorial cabal.
Consider just some of the atrocities happening, and how they are all tied together in what is referred to by the ruling class, governments, and the controlled media, as consequential. Consider that most of these horrendous events, and the response to these nefarious acts, are across many boundaries, geographical areas, nation-states, and continents; all acting in a similar manner at the same time. This of course is not possible, unless all this is coordinated among a ruling class of evil monsters, whose victims are all the common people on earth.
For purposes here, the concentration can be limited just to the past four years, as the biggest push toward total globalism has occurred during this recent period of time. Beginning with the ‘fake ‘covid’ fraud, this false threat was accepted as real, treated as a one-world narrative, where virtually every single country in the world acted in concert simultaneously. All these countries prior to this manufactured ’emergency,’ were somewhat independent, sovereign in some regards, and many were enemies of one another, but they all came together as one to address this obvious bogus risk that had been telegraphed for years before it was foisted on us all. This is not feasible in any regard, unless coordinated worldwide in advance.
Consider the consequences of this fraud in its mandates, orders. new laws, and restrictions, and how they were universally accepted by every county on earth all at once. Lockdowns were universal, as was mask-wearing, fake testing, ‘social distancing,’ quarantines, stoppage to travel, and eventually the acceptance and mass-injection worldwide of completely untested, dangerous, and deadly poisons called ‘vaccines,’ which have caused massive sickness and death which continues to this day.
Consider the immigration plight and global governing push for mass migration, that has destroyed many countries and devastated economies everywhere. Again, this was widespread across all boundaries in the same time period. This is still happening every day, and is causing havoc worldwide.
Consider the ‘racism’ ploy that has been manufactured, manipulated, lied about, and created and stoked, by all the same players who control the world. This new illegitimate racism is a complete fraud meant only to divide, but any inspection of the motives destroy the entire basis of this fraudulent plot to cause unrest. In essence, this has become real racism against all white people, especially white males, but the entire ruling class and its media whores who perpetuate this lie, are mostly white males. Does this make any sense whatsoever if real racism is the problem? Of course not, as this is just another way to cause hatred and panic, It is in no way valid, but is being used as a weapon in many areas of the world concurrently.
Consider that unnatural fires, fires of such extreme heat and devastation, that entire towns, cities, natural treasures, timber lands, sought-after geographic locations, and human fodder are being targeted. Once again, these are not isolated terror attacks, it is happening worldwide, and in concert. The devastation is occurring in California, Hawaii, New York, most of the western U.S., Canada, Greece, Spain, Turkey, many other parts of Europe, China, Australia; this just to name a few. Most all these fires are much hotter and more deadly than any natural wildfire could be, and again, this is widespread around the world at the same time.
The main blame for much of this terroristic devastation is based on the lie and fraud called ‘man-made climate change,’ and that in my opinion is the lynchpin of all efforts to destroy this planet, economies, and the bulk of people who make up the masses at large. Again, this is an agenda that is being pursued worldwide, and in a concerted effort together as one.
Also, there seems to be a gigantic push, fake of course, toward this insane transgender idiocy, and again this is happening in many different countries around the world together. Transgenders make up only a fraction of 1% of populations, but the exposure given this fraud is again universal. If one were to watch television, sporting events, advertising, and staged events, he would think that ‘transgenders’ made up the bulk of populations. Schools across this entire country, and others as well, are being inundated with this transgender nonsense. It is completely immoral, and to allow children to be exposed to this madness is evil exemplified. But then, control the children, and control the world. It is just a waiting game. Brainwashing and indoctrinating the young will guarantee that when the old no longer inhabit this world, the rulers will have won by default; having a totally dumbed down, compliant, and ignorant population accepting of a supreme authority to manage and control their lives.
Is all of this, and obviously so much more, coincidental? Is it all accidental? Can everything going on in this world happen most everywhere, and all simultaneously, by all different types of people and cultures, and still be considered natural? Or is it ordained by some grand cabal that has a plan for the rest of humanity that only leads to total rule? If most all these atrocities are happening at once, and universally in many cases, is it not obvious that all this is orchestrated, and therefore a pre-determined plot against freedom and individuality? I suggest, that this is exactly what is happening, and the saddest part of it, is that most all of you are blinded by your own desire to hide from truth and reality, by your ‘beliefs’ fed to you by government, and by accepting kings and rulers who you have voluntarily chosen to be your masters.
Our world today is one of secret societies, of NGOs, of governments, of hidden oligarchs, of technocrats, of ‘health masters’ called pharmaceuticals, of the media, and of central banks and corporate heads, all who are collaborating, and working toward the same exact agenda, while the lowly masses stand by and watch without lifting a finger. This is our real problem.
“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.”
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2023/09/gary...ance-plot/
This Is Why Globalism MUST BE Destroyed - This Obvious Attempt By World Government Terrorists To Destroy The USA And Kill Off What's Left Of Freedom And Americans Must Be Stopped
- America's Founding Fathers Created The 2nd Amendment For Moments Like This
October 1, 2023
By J.B. Shurk for All News Pipeline
Americans are pessimistic about the future. They also view past decades more favorably than they do the present one. The "land of opportunity" is gone. The "American dream" is gone. What remains is a fading memory of what America used to be without an underlying promise that its erstwhile preeminence can be restored.
This pessimism is not peculiar to those living inside the United States. A growing body of research shows that national populations around the world are depressed about the future. Billions of smartphones, exponentially multiplying digital entertainments, and social media platforms connecting millions each minute are evidently not creating sufficient conditions for human optimism or happiness.
Diagnosing why eight billion people are miserable is no easy task, but there is an obvious culprit that has surely contributed to our global malaise. Globalism, as the increasingly dominant governing philosophy — if not pseudo-religion — of the planet, is inherently antagonistic to both individual self-determination and the natural bonds formed within families and tribes. When every human is encouraged — if not mandated — to act strictly for the "common good" of the global population, then those preferences that advance an individual's, family's, or nation's unique interests must be undermined.
Powerful institutions as varied as the United Nations, World Economic Forum, BlackRock, and even the Vatican all demand an essentially borderless world, in which the peoples of any nation are encouraged to migrate freely into others. Decades of mass migration, primarily in the West, have resulted in not only an explosion of ethnic enclaves existing somewhat autonomously inside host nation-states, but also the fracturing of common civic bonds that once loosely united those nations' native peoples.
When citizens or political parties have fought back against policies of uncontrolled immigration, globalist-minded authorities have been quick to demonize their own citizens as racists; xenophobes; or, more recently, purveyors of "hate." Even more devastating for afflicted populations, assimilation is now scorned. Rather than encouraging new residents to adopt the language, customs, and traditions of their adoptive land, governments have chosen to prioritize the cultural identities of recent transplants over the historic identities of the nation states they now call home.
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Nationalism is derisively equated with the worst atrocities of last century's German Nazism or Italian fascism, while its Enlightenment Age achievements in organizing similar peoples into self-sustaining regions peaceful enough to encourage technological innovation, economic growth, and relative political stability are entirely ignored. Westerners are browbeaten with globalism's sister philosophies of "multiculturalism" and "diversity for diversity's sake" to the point that even declaring oneself a proud Englishman, Dutchman, German, or — Heaven forefend! — Russian can quickly lead to the "offender" being branded a "racist" who must be "retrained" to reject "hate." Is it any wonder, then, why the Olympic Games are waning in popularity, when Westerners are regularly conditioned to believe that love for one's nation must be expunged from the human race?
Even more fundamental than membership in national tribes that foster meaning and identity, it is the familial tribe that gives humans a natural support network for dealing with the dangers of the outside world. Parents, siblings, and immediate relatives provide young family members with the skills and knowledge to navigate life's wilderness. The bonds of kinship reinforce instinctual drives to protect and strengthen the group. Families maintain organic divisions of labor and a shared sense of duty that instill innate purpose within each member.
Globalism and State supremacy, on the other hand, are diametrically opposed to the family. By elevating a loyalty to the "common good" and the State's "expertise" over the private decision-making of families, the State has weakened the most natural engine for creating and sustaining a human being's identity and purpose. Government agents now insert themselves between parents and their children in matters as personal as religious conviction, sexual morality, and psychological well-being. Should parents reject any of the State's radical ideologies — such as "transgenderism" — their natural rights as parents are threatened. Just as during China's Cultural Revolution, Western governments now dominate the family's private sphere.
It is this form of government superiority — intolerant of kinship traditions and hostile to personal agency — that actually birthed last century's totalitarian regimes. What distinguishes our present era is that globalist authorities seek citizens' absolute obedience not only to their national governments but also to the pantheon of globalist gods to whom those governments claim to pray. People are ordered to obey in the name of COVID, "climate change," "democracy," "fighting hate," or any other deity that the State produces for the public's supplication. People who worship these false gods are rewarded with government-sanctioned atonement; those who refuse are punished as heretics. No matter how faithfully the converts publicly devote themselves to the globalist theology, though, they truly serve only the small class of oligarchs who use their quasi-divine authority to amass greater wealth and power for themselves.
Good parents will sacrifice themselves for their children; they are not inclined to watch their children be butchered and brainwashed. Warriors will sacrifice themselves when their communities come under attack; they are not inclined to die for pretentious pronouns and carbon emissions. As relentless as the State's propaganda continues to be, no centered person sees the government as family or wants to fight a war for globalism. The more the State insists that people act against their natures, the more people become aware that they must reject the authority of the State. The prospect of imminent conflict breeds deep pessimism about the future.
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In my experience, human suffering arises when people feel that they have no control over their own lives. That suffering can often be stemmed when they seek some kind of relationship with God, take personal responsibility for their own actions, use their labor to create something of their own, and openly express their thoughts. This journey toward happiness requires the individual to do the heavy lifting, but it also empowers the mind to create and think freely. Humans who confidently accept their own agency inside a world not of their making eventually find peace. How do you create happy societies? Encourage citizens to embrace God, private property, and free speech.
Globalism does just the opposite. It requires total dependency on government. When COVID struck, the State closed churches, bankrupted small businesses, and silenced dissent. The cult of "climate change" insists that you own nothing, produce nothing, and pray to Mother Earth. The State's preposterous "War on Disinformation and Hate" seeks to enslave the mind and criminalize thoughts. And the individual is expected to make all these sacrifices for the glory of the "multicultural," "inclusive," "equitable," "green"-energy-obsessed, globalist State. Unsurprisingly, most humans have no interest in praying at the church of the United Nations or obeying the World Health Organization's coercive mandates as if they were the Ten Commandments.
Globalism can succeed only in a terribly pessimistic world. It thrives on racism. It depends upon an apocalyptic vision of a dying planet. It needs to divide people against one another, so that they are too busy to unite and resist those who cause them actual harm. Under globalist government, happiness is smothered with misery, fear, and hate.
Even in humanity's darkest hours, optimism has prevailed. After WWI, Americans fell in love with the automobile. After WWII, Americans bought homes and televisions. During the Vietnam War, Americans put a man on the moon. Now globalists push public transportation and small apartments. Televisions are just instruments for State propaganda. And American astronauts have spent the last fifty years orbiting Earth.
After two decades of war, this generation's warriors return home to find the PATRIOT Act used against them, the government claiming ownership over their children, unaffordable gasoline, and the prospect of renting for life. Globalism is where optimism goes to die. Happiness will require its demolition.
https://allnewspipeline.com/This_Is_Why_...troyed.php