A friend and co-worker sent me this government surveillance analysis and asked me what I thought. Analyzing data has never been my strong suit so I thought I'd give it a different approach.....Well, he had to ask!
I looked at the file you sent and gave it some thought, then did a little research:
I would add that each of the top 10 (at least) countries on this list have ambitious authoritarian agendas that they are pursuing actively and aggressively, up to and including a one-world government and central bank. In the US, constitutional guarantees no longer have any legal standing. The push to enhance the regulating powers of the FED with greater government oversight, socialized medicine, nationalization of major industries and government financial control of State legislatures is another step towards an openly fascist state apparatus. In China, government control over what would be an essentially free market (if left alone) is being enhanced by the unprecedented printing of money for regional banks in the form of loans to real estate and stock market speculators. This amounts to 25% of GDP in the first half of this year. They're blowing their own real estate and stock market bubbles and they know it. Why? I wouldn't know where to start in N. Korea. In Israel, the fear factor of muslims under the bed has greatly enhanced the fascist leanings of the government and empowered the IDF beyond anything envisioned in 1946. Look for 'pre-emptive' Israeli strikes against Iran in the next few months as the rest of the Arab world looks the other way. The most immediate effect of an Israeli war with Iran would be for them to use money given to them by the US government to buy US armaments - a sort of backdoor military/industrial stimulus package. After all, we can't deny Israel the right to 'defend itself', can we? And by the way, never let a good crisis go to waste?(play the video). Across Europe, the European Union central government is emboldened by each new crisis, safe in the knowledge that the populace is disarmed and has no means of resistance. In these countries, those who voice opposition will most certainly be persecuted by the information gathered both legally and otherwise, all it takes is to be the right person, ask the right question and incriminating evidence will be forthcoming.
Let's say that you buy something using your credit card and that transaction finds its way into some central searchable database. Years later you appear to possess something that some powerful government bureaucrat covets. But you won't part with your private property. It turns out that the company you bought the goods from all those years ago has financial ties with some shady overseas business and the government has since designated them a terrorist organization. In swings the SWAT team at 4AM like Spiderman on steroids and you find your wife, kids and yourself lying on the kitchen floor next to your freshly killed dogs awaiting detention under the PATRIOT act whilst they thoroughly search every inch of your house for more incriminating evidence and turn up something - anything - that you can't explain to THEIR satisfaction. Under current conditions, you and your wife may well be detained indefinitely without trail, possibly for the rest of your life with no outside contact whatsoever. No legal rights, no trial, no charges, no lawyer, nothing. Gone. Disappeared. Poof! Your kids are passed off to some openly gay foster home in New York to 'relearn' the American way and all of your possessions are seized and sold at government auction. Except, of course, whatever it is that 'they' wanted in the first place. Effectively, because you pissed off some government bureaucrat you get to spend the rest of your life in solitary enjoying daily waterboarding sessions. Don't even ask how they 'interrogate' women.
The short answer is that Big Brother is not just Bad, it is EVIL beyond the comprehension of workaday Americans and their Chinese, Israeli and European counterparts. Every day I hear how somebody has come up with some new way to fight this monster and I shake my head and ask what is wrong with asserting the highest law of the land, right here.? The problem is not defined by how to counter this rush to fascism, it is in looking for those who have the will to get out of their nice comfortable armchairs and assert their natural (God-given) and constitutional rights against an enemy who literally has the power to make them 'disappear', as if they never existed. Where's the will to risk life, limb and treasure for freedom? What happened to 'give me Liberty or give me death'? Since when did that "Damned piece of paper" (George Bush, 2005) we call our constitution, the same "horse and buggy government"(FD Roosevelt, 1933) many fought and died for lose it's force du jour - we the people? Why are people wasting their energies coming up with ways for OTHERS to do their fighting for them?
There are only 2 types of stable government. Forget this left-right paradigm, it is only a device designed to confuse the mind and muddy the waters, an illusion that there is 'balance' in our political system. The fact is that left and right both advocate greater government interference in our lives through both legislation and fiscal policy. The 'left' wants bigger government, so does the 'right'. They both want to control the means of production. The real issue is about slavery against freedom. On the one hand, government oligarchy owns or controls all means of production (capital) and those subject to this system live or die at the whim of government, because they too are considered part of the means of production and therefore are under ownership of the State (think communism, fascism, socialism, etc, or the 'at whim' rule of the few), and the State can do what it likes with its property. On the other?end is private ownership of the means of production whereby each person is free to contract and use or dispose their property and capital as they see fit, or as market forces determine (think Constitutional Republicanism, Libertarianism, or the rule of law). All of these other forms of government are transitory conditions leading to one or the other form of stable government. You decide. Here's what it feels like to be me.
That's right, day in, day out, that's how it feels. I fight this monster every day, in practice and in print, because I will not allow some faceless government bureaucrat to take ownership of me, my capital or my family. I call my senator and congressman opposing this or that bill, not because I like talking to their staffers, but because if I do not speak, then I have no voice. I go to TEA parties, not because I prefer the heat of a 4th of July afternoon to the comfort of my living room, but because I need to know that I am not alone. So do others. I publish articles and comment on blogs, not because I really enjoy spending hours researching facts and topics, but because I need to spread the word, to educate and persuade whomever will listen. I spend my weekends out in the swamp with the militia, both providing training and being trained to fight this monster with every tool at my disposal, not because I like sweating and mosquitoes, or because I enjoy 'playing soldiers', but because I know I need to prepare for the worst. Mentally and physically. I will be on the steps of the Capitol on September 12th, demanding my constitutional rights to a limited government and a free market society, not because I have some perverted agenda or 'authority complex', but because I oppose theirs, and am prepared to fight for my constitutional form of government, my rightful inheritance, right then and there if necessary. So will thousands of others.
I am asked what it will take to mobilize the 'silent majority' who know we are 'off track' but won't get off the fence. It will take effort. Monumental effort and the spilling of blood. 3% of colonists took an active role in the war for independence, how many do you suppose are actively resisting these government outrages now? Does America have the courage? I doubt it. You won't see any of this on the government controlled 'mainstream media'. You have to go out and look for it. Wanna know what I was doing on June 4th, 1989? Kate was shot in the elbow at Tiananmen Square. Because of her heroism, we were able to tell the world of that awful night and fundamentally change the international basis for rule of the communist oligarchy in China, leading to the current US - Chinese economic detente and raising the standard of living for millions, if not billions. Dangerous work, this freedom stuff. And they weren't even Americans. PS, the BBC is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the British government.
I want freedom and Liberty. I want to own private property, free of government interference and taxation (here's pt2). I want to be free to contract with whomever I want, however it suits me, and don't need a nanny state telling me what is fair or morally just. I want to be left alone, to work or play on my own dime, free of a burdensome government. I have asked God for these things, and I know He sees how much I am willing to put at risk to achieve this with or without His help. I truly hope He's as willing as I am......
Those are my thoughts.
Thanks for asking.
Larry
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Reader Comments:
Posted By: Jahfre Fire Eater
Date: 2009-07-12 06:23:58
Hi Larry,
Good article. Write On! Some people have the attitude that "you can't fight The Man". The way I look at things, fighting The Man is the only possible course of action left to me.
-Jahfre Fire Eater
Posted By: Larry
Date: 2009-07-12 18:37:22
Thanks Jahfre, for more info go to http://www.iammilitia.com
Posted By: Jake Towne, the Champion of the Constitution
Date: 2009-07-13 08:50:10
Larry - See you in 2 months. :) Jake
Posted By: Larry
Date: 2009-07-13 12:48:46
Attaboy Jake! You betcha!