boutons_deux
06-02-2020, 07:25 AM
“When it gets down to having to use violence, then you are playing the system’s game (https://youtu.be/_oJ9w0x_dzo). The establishment will irritate you—pull your beard, flick your face—to make you fight. Because once they’ve got you violent, then they know how to handle you.”
—John Lennon
Brace yourselves.
There is something being concocted in the dens of power, far beyond the public eye, and it doesn’t bode well for the future of this country.
Anytime you have an entire nation so mesmerized by political theater and public spectacle that they are oblivious to all else, you’d better beware.
Anytime you have a government that operates in the shadows, speaks in a language of force, and rules by fiat, you’d better beware.
And anytime you have a government so far removed from its people as to ensure that they are never seen, heard or heeded by those elected to represent them, you’d better beware.
What is unfolding before us is not a revolution.
The looting, the burning, the rioting, the violence: this is an anti-revolution.
The protesters are playing right into the government’s hands, because the powers-that-be want this. They want an excuse to lockdown the nation and throw the switch to all-out martial law. They want a reason to make the police state stronger.
It’s happening faster than we can keep up.
The Justice Department is deploying federal prison riot teams (https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/06/01/george-floyd-protests-ag-barr-deploying-riot-teams-dc-miami/5308052002/) to various cities.
More than half of the nation’s governors are calling on the National Guard (https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/06/01/george-floyd-protests-live-updates/) to quell civil unrest.
Growing numbers of cities, having just barely emerged from a coronavirus lockdown,
are once again being locked down, this time in response to the growing upheaval.
This is how it begins.
It’s that dystopian 2030 Pentagon training video (https://theintercept.com/2016/10/13/pentagon-video-warns-of-unavoidable-dystopian-future-for-worlds-biggest-cities/) all over again,
which anticipates the need for the government to institute martial law (use armed forces to solve domestic political and social problems) in order to navigate
a world bedeviled by “criminal networks,”
“substandard infrastructure,”
“religious and ethnic tensions,”
“impoverishment, slums,”
“open landfills, over-burdened sewers,” a
“growing mass of unemployed,”
and an urban landscape in which the prosperous economic elite must be protected from the impoverishment of the have nots.
We’re way ahead of schedule.
The architects of the police state have us exactly where they want us:
under their stamping boot, gasping for breath, desperate for freedom, grappling for some semblance of a future that does not resemble the totalitarian prison being erected around us.
This way lies certain tyranny.
For just one fleeting moment, “we the people” seemed united in our outrage over this latest killing (https://news.yahoo.com/warning-graphic-content-restrained-man-165106938.html) of an unarmed man by a cop hyped up on his own authority and the power of his uniform.
That unity didn’t last.
Indeed, it didn’t take long—no surprise there—for us to quickly become divided again, polarized by the misguided fury and senseless violence of mobs taking to the streets, reeking of madness and mayhem.
Deliberately or not, the rioters have directed our attention away from the government’s crimes and onto their own.
This is a distraction.
Don’t allow yourself to be so distracted.
Let’s not lose sight of what started all of this in the first place: the U.S. government.
More than terrorism, more than domestic extremism, more than gun violence and organized crime,
the systemic violence being perpetrated by agents of the government constitutes a greater menace to the life, liberty and property of its citizens than any of the so-called dangers from which the government claims to protect us.
Case in point: George Floyd died at the hands of the American police state.
The callous, cold-blooded murder of the unarmed, 46-year-old black man by police (https://news.yahoo.com/warning-graphic-content-restrained-man-165106938.html) is nothing new:
for 8 minutes and 46 seconds, police knelt on Floyd’s neck while the man pleaded for his life,
struggled to breathe,
cried out for his dead mother, and
finally passed out and died.
Floyd is yet another victim of a broken system of policing that has placed “we the people” at the mercy of militarized cops who have almost absolute discretion to decide who is a threat, what constitutes resistance, and how harshly they can deal with the citizens they were appointed to “serve and protect.”
Daily, Americans are being shot, stripped, searched, choked, beaten and tasered by police for little more than daring to frown, smile, question, challenge an order or just exist.
I’m talking about the growing numbers of
unarmed people are who being shot and killed for just standing a certain way, or moving a certain way, or holding something—anything
—that police could misinterpret to be a gun, or igniting some trigger-centric fear in a police officer’s mind that has nothing to do with an actual threat to their safety.
Killed by police for standing (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/09/28/police-shoot-black-man-in-san-diego-suburb-sparking-protests-circumstances-remain-unclear/) in a “shooting stance.”
Killed for holding a cell phone (http://lasvegassun.com/news/2015/dec/31/metro-police-investigating-officer-involved-shooti/).
Killed for holding a baseball bat (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/27/us/chicago-police-fatally-shoot-2-raising-new-questions-for-a-force-under-scrutiny.html).
Killed for opening the front door (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/27/us/chicago-police-fatally-shoot-2-raising-new-questions-for-a-force-under-scrutiny.html).
Killed for being a child in a car pursued by police (http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2015/11/the-death-of-jeremy-mardis-and-trustworthy-police/415437/).
Killed for approaching police while holding a metal spoon (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/alabama-man-rushed-officer-spoon-fatally-shot-article-1.2336281).
Killed for running in an aggressive manner (http://patch.com/georgia/cartersville/new-details-released-bartow-officer-involved-shooting-0) while holding a tree branch.
Killed for crawling around naked (http://www.cbs46.com/story/28301956/naked-man-shot-by-police-officer-at-dekalb-county-apartments).
Killed for hunching over in a defensive posture (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/man-injured-in-police-involved-shooting-in-baltimore-suburb/2015/06/25/84be9f36-1b26-11e5-ab92-c75ae6ab94b5_story.html).
Killed because a police officer accidentally fired his gun (http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/12/us/tulsa-police-shooting-video/) instead of his taser.
Killed for wearing dark pants and a basketball jersey (http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-sheriff-shooting-20160809-snap-story.html).
Killed for reaching for his license and registration (http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2016/07/06/police-officer-involved-shooting-in-falcon-heights/) during a traffic stop.
Killed for driving while deaf (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/25/us/nc-trooper-being-investigated-for-shooting-of-deaf-man.html).
Killed for being homeless (http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-castic-deputy-shooting-20160803-snap-story.html).
Killed for brandishing a shoehorn (http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/kass/ct-john-wrana-textbook-police-force-case-kass-0111-20150111-column.html).
Killed for peeing outdoors (http://www.laprogressive.com/police-shoot-unarmed-black-man/).
Killed for having his car break down (http://abc7.com/news/tulsa-police-shoot-kill-unarmed-black-man-doj-investigating/1517880/) on the road.
Killed for holding a garden hose (http://articles.latimes.com/2013/apr/04/local/la-me-ln-water-nozzle-shooting-20130404).
the only truly compliant, submissive and obedient citizen in a police state is a dead one.
Sad, isn’t it, how quickly we have gone from a nation of laws—where the least among us had just as much right to be treated with dignity and respect as the next person (in principle, at least)—to
a nation of law enforcers (revenue collectors with weapons) who treat us all like suspects and criminals?
This is not how you keep the peace.
This is not justice.
This is not even law and order.
This is certainly not freedom.
This is the illusion of freedom.
Unfortunately, we are now being ruled by a government of psychopaths, scoundrels, spies, thugs, thieves, gangsters, ruffians, rapists, extortionists, bounty hunters, battle-ready warriors and cold-blooded killers who communicate using a language of force and oppression.
The facts speak for themselves.
We’re being ravaged by a government of ruffians, rapists and killers.
It’s not just the police shootings of unarmed citizens (https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/police-shootings-2016/) that are worrisome.
It’s the SWAT team raids gone wrong (http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/10/swat-raid-casualties) that are leaving innocent citizens wounded, children terrorized and family pets killed.
It’s the roadside strip searches (https://www.rt.com/usa/355602-baltimore-police-illegal-strip-searches/)—in some cases, cavity searches of men and women alike carried out in full view of the public—in pursuit of drugs that are never found.
It’s the potentially lethal—and unwarranted—use of so-called “nonlethal” weapons such as tasers on children (http://data.huffingtonpost.com/2016/school-police/tasers) for “mouthing off to a police officer (http://www.kansas.com/news/article1090931.html).
For trying to run from the principal’s office (http://www.mlive.com/news/flint/index.ssf/2015/03/deputies_use_taser_to_stop_stu.html).
For, at the age of 12, getting into a fight with another girl (http://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/mom-upset-after-officer-uses-taser-child-during-fi/242588106).”
We’re being held at gunpoint by a government of soldiers—a standing army.
While Americans are being made to jump through an increasing number of hoops in order to exercise their Second Amendment right to own a gun, the government is arming its own civilian employees to the hilt (http://www.wsj.com/articles/why-does-the-irs-need-guns-1466117176) with guns, ammunition and military-style equipment, authorizing them to make arrests, and training them in military tactics.
Among the agencies being supplied with night-vision equipment, body armor, hollow-point bullets, shotguns, drones, assault rifles and LP gas cannons are
the Smithsonian,
U.S. Mint,
Health and Human Services,
IRS,
FDA,
Small Business Administration,
Social Security Administration,
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,
Education Department,
Energy Department,
Bureau of Engraving and Printing and
an assortment of public universities.
There are now reportedly more bureaucratic (non-military) government civilians armed with high-tech, deadly weapons than U.S. Marines.
That doesn’t even begin to touch on the government’s arsenal, the transformation of local police into extensions of the military, and the speed with which the nation could be locked down under martial law depending on the circumstances. Clearly, the government is preparing for war—and a civil war, at that—and “we the people” are the perceived enemy.
We’re being taken advantage of by a government of scoundrels, idiots and cowards.
—John Lennon
Brace yourselves.
There is something being concocted in the dens of power, far beyond the public eye, and it doesn’t bode well for the future of this country.
Anytime you have an entire nation so mesmerized by political theater and public spectacle that they are oblivious to all else, you’d better beware.
Anytime you have a government that operates in the shadows, speaks in a language of force, and rules by fiat, you’d better beware.
And anytime you have a government so far removed from its people as to ensure that they are never seen, heard or heeded by those elected to represent them, you’d better beware.
What is unfolding before us is not a revolution.
The looting, the burning, the rioting, the violence: this is an anti-revolution.
The protesters are playing right into the government’s hands, because the powers-that-be want this. They want an excuse to lockdown the nation and throw the switch to all-out martial law. They want a reason to make the police state stronger.
It’s happening faster than we can keep up.
The Justice Department is deploying federal prison riot teams (https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/06/01/george-floyd-protests-ag-barr-deploying-riot-teams-dc-miami/5308052002/) to various cities.
More than half of the nation’s governors are calling on the National Guard (https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/06/01/george-floyd-protests-live-updates/) to quell civil unrest.
Growing numbers of cities, having just barely emerged from a coronavirus lockdown,
are once again being locked down, this time in response to the growing upheaval.
This is how it begins.
It’s that dystopian 2030 Pentagon training video (https://theintercept.com/2016/10/13/pentagon-video-warns-of-unavoidable-dystopian-future-for-worlds-biggest-cities/) all over again,
which anticipates the need for the government to institute martial law (use armed forces to solve domestic political and social problems) in order to navigate
a world bedeviled by “criminal networks,”
“substandard infrastructure,”
“religious and ethnic tensions,”
“impoverishment, slums,”
“open landfills, over-burdened sewers,” a
“growing mass of unemployed,”
and an urban landscape in which the prosperous economic elite must be protected from the impoverishment of the have nots.
We’re way ahead of schedule.
The architects of the police state have us exactly where they want us:
under their stamping boot, gasping for breath, desperate for freedom, grappling for some semblance of a future that does not resemble the totalitarian prison being erected around us.
This way lies certain tyranny.
For just one fleeting moment, “we the people” seemed united in our outrage over this latest killing (https://news.yahoo.com/warning-graphic-content-restrained-man-165106938.html) of an unarmed man by a cop hyped up on his own authority and the power of his uniform.
That unity didn’t last.
Indeed, it didn’t take long—no surprise there—for us to quickly become divided again, polarized by the misguided fury and senseless violence of mobs taking to the streets, reeking of madness and mayhem.
Deliberately or not, the rioters have directed our attention away from the government’s crimes and onto their own.
This is a distraction.
Don’t allow yourself to be so distracted.
Let’s not lose sight of what started all of this in the first place: the U.S. government.
More than terrorism, more than domestic extremism, more than gun violence and organized crime,
the systemic violence being perpetrated by agents of the government constitutes a greater menace to the life, liberty and property of its citizens than any of the so-called dangers from which the government claims to protect us.
Case in point: George Floyd died at the hands of the American police state.
The callous, cold-blooded murder of the unarmed, 46-year-old black man by police (https://news.yahoo.com/warning-graphic-content-restrained-man-165106938.html) is nothing new:
for 8 minutes and 46 seconds, police knelt on Floyd’s neck while the man pleaded for his life,
struggled to breathe,
cried out for his dead mother, and
finally passed out and died.
Floyd is yet another victim of a broken system of policing that has placed “we the people” at the mercy of militarized cops who have almost absolute discretion to decide who is a threat, what constitutes resistance, and how harshly they can deal with the citizens they were appointed to “serve and protect.”
Daily, Americans are being shot, stripped, searched, choked, beaten and tasered by police for little more than daring to frown, smile, question, challenge an order or just exist.
I’m talking about the growing numbers of
unarmed people are who being shot and killed for just standing a certain way, or moving a certain way, or holding something—anything
—that police could misinterpret to be a gun, or igniting some trigger-centric fear in a police officer’s mind that has nothing to do with an actual threat to their safety.
Killed by police for standing (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/09/28/police-shoot-black-man-in-san-diego-suburb-sparking-protests-circumstances-remain-unclear/) in a “shooting stance.”
Killed for holding a cell phone (http://lasvegassun.com/news/2015/dec/31/metro-police-investigating-officer-involved-shooti/).
Killed for holding a baseball bat (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/27/us/chicago-police-fatally-shoot-2-raising-new-questions-for-a-force-under-scrutiny.html).
Killed for opening the front door (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/27/us/chicago-police-fatally-shoot-2-raising-new-questions-for-a-force-under-scrutiny.html).
Killed for being a child in a car pursued by police (http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2015/11/the-death-of-jeremy-mardis-and-trustworthy-police/415437/).
Killed for approaching police while holding a metal spoon (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/alabama-man-rushed-officer-spoon-fatally-shot-article-1.2336281).
Killed for running in an aggressive manner (http://patch.com/georgia/cartersville/new-details-released-bartow-officer-involved-shooting-0) while holding a tree branch.
Killed for crawling around naked (http://www.cbs46.com/story/28301956/naked-man-shot-by-police-officer-at-dekalb-county-apartments).
Killed for hunching over in a defensive posture (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/man-injured-in-police-involved-shooting-in-baltimore-suburb/2015/06/25/84be9f36-1b26-11e5-ab92-c75ae6ab94b5_story.html).
Killed because a police officer accidentally fired his gun (http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/12/us/tulsa-police-shooting-video/) instead of his taser.
Killed for wearing dark pants and a basketball jersey (http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-sheriff-shooting-20160809-snap-story.html).
Killed for reaching for his license and registration (http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2016/07/06/police-officer-involved-shooting-in-falcon-heights/) during a traffic stop.
Killed for driving while deaf (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/25/us/nc-trooper-being-investigated-for-shooting-of-deaf-man.html).
Killed for being homeless (http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-castic-deputy-shooting-20160803-snap-story.html).
Killed for brandishing a shoehorn (http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/kass/ct-john-wrana-textbook-police-force-case-kass-0111-20150111-column.html).
Killed for peeing outdoors (http://www.laprogressive.com/police-shoot-unarmed-black-man/).
Killed for having his car break down (http://abc7.com/news/tulsa-police-shoot-kill-unarmed-black-man-doj-investigating/1517880/) on the road.
Killed for holding a garden hose (http://articles.latimes.com/2013/apr/04/local/la-me-ln-water-nozzle-shooting-20130404).
the only truly compliant, submissive and obedient citizen in a police state is a dead one.
Sad, isn’t it, how quickly we have gone from a nation of laws—where the least among us had just as much right to be treated with dignity and respect as the next person (in principle, at least)—to
a nation of law enforcers (revenue collectors with weapons) who treat us all like suspects and criminals?
This is not how you keep the peace.
This is not justice.
This is not even law and order.
This is certainly not freedom.
This is the illusion of freedom.
Unfortunately, we are now being ruled by a government of psychopaths, scoundrels, spies, thugs, thieves, gangsters, ruffians, rapists, extortionists, bounty hunters, battle-ready warriors and cold-blooded killers who communicate using a language of force and oppression.
The facts speak for themselves.
We’re being ravaged by a government of ruffians, rapists and killers.
It’s not just the police shootings of unarmed citizens (https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/police-shootings-2016/) that are worrisome.
It’s the SWAT team raids gone wrong (http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/10/swat-raid-casualties) that are leaving innocent citizens wounded, children terrorized and family pets killed.
It’s the roadside strip searches (https://www.rt.com/usa/355602-baltimore-police-illegal-strip-searches/)—in some cases, cavity searches of men and women alike carried out in full view of the public—in pursuit of drugs that are never found.
It’s the potentially lethal—and unwarranted—use of so-called “nonlethal” weapons such as tasers on children (http://data.huffingtonpost.com/2016/school-police/tasers) for “mouthing off to a police officer (http://www.kansas.com/news/article1090931.html).
For trying to run from the principal’s office (http://www.mlive.com/news/flint/index.ssf/2015/03/deputies_use_taser_to_stop_stu.html).
For, at the age of 12, getting into a fight with another girl (http://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/mom-upset-after-officer-uses-taser-child-during-fi/242588106).”
We’re being held at gunpoint by a government of soldiers—a standing army.
While Americans are being made to jump through an increasing number of hoops in order to exercise their Second Amendment right to own a gun, the government is arming its own civilian employees to the hilt (http://www.wsj.com/articles/why-does-the-irs-need-guns-1466117176) with guns, ammunition and military-style equipment, authorizing them to make arrests, and training them in military tactics.
Among the agencies being supplied with night-vision equipment, body armor, hollow-point bullets, shotguns, drones, assault rifles and LP gas cannons are
the Smithsonian,
U.S. Mint,
Health and Human Services,
IRS,
FDA,
Small Business Administration,
Social Security Administration,
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,
Education Department,
Energy Department,
Bureau of Engraving and Printing and
an assortment of public universities.
There are now reportedly more bureaucratic (non-military) government civilians armed with high-tech, deadly weapons than U.S. Marines.
That doesn’t even begin to touch on the government’s arsenal, the transformation of local police into extensions of the military, and the speed with which the nation could be locked down under martial law depending on the circumstances. Clearly, the government is preparing for war—and a civil war, at that—and “we the people” are the perceived enemy.
We’re being taken advantage of by a government of scoundrels, idiots and cowards.