Hanford, Imploding Cities, Derivatives, The NSA And The End Game

Source: Hanford, Imploding Cities, Derivatives, The NSA And The End Game | Video Rebel’s Blog

With permission from

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by horse237

May 15, 2017

That railroad tunnel filled with barrels of leaking radiation was an accident waiting to happen. Eugene Wigner was a mathematician who worked on the Manhattan project. He noted that radiation discomposes metal. That deterioration brought down the tunnel supports at Hanford. The government and the corporate media have said no radiation was released though private citizens to south with monitors had radiation counts as high as 99 cpm.

The Wigner Effect is why we are told that nuclear power plants are supposed to be replaced after 30 to 40 years. The US has 99 nuclear power generators. Their average age is 36 years. About a dozen are near known earthquake fault zones in California and New Madrid, Missouri.  The government and the corporate media have said no radiation was released at the Hanford tunnel collapse. Private citizens to the south with monitors had radiation counts as high as 99 cpm but those high counts have since stabilized at a lower level.

The deterioration of piping at nuclear power plants is a known issue. This has to date not been acted upon even at the planning stage.

The US has an infrastructure debt measured in the trillions. If we do nothing to reverse this deficit, America will cease to function as a developed nation. If America is not to die, we must decommission 99 nuclear power plants over the next several years.

This lack of concern should convince you how little your government cares for you. Neither political party has a plan for the survival of your nation.

They don’t care if there is a Fukushima or two near you.  They don’t care if you get caught in a radioactive rain shower or eat food that glows in the dark.

These are the people who let Wall Street steal $50 trillion from you and will cancel our pensions and cut our wages in half on the Day the Dollar Dies.

There are fewer than 12,000 police officers in Chicago.  There are 150,000 gang members in Cook county according to FBI numbers. President Obama, his political party, most of the corporate press and quite a few Republicans thought it would be a great idea to send out to Mexico, Central America and other parts of the globe to dramatically increase the number of gang members. Border Patrol officers were forced to admit confessed murderers and juvenile members of cop killing gangs to cross our border to join forces with those gangs who are destroying our cities. Chicago is not the most violent city in America even though their homicide rate is 4 times grater than New York’s. Detroit and Baltimore are not as safe as Chicago.

Yet thepoliticians add to the burdens of our cities. Children live in terror. One Chicago girl with good grades has decided to become a mortician. They have a guaranteed future. She lives in a city where our political class are unwilling to protect nine year-olds from being executed in the streets during the best of times. So what will happen to our cities the Day After the Dollar Dies and Food Stamps are cancelled? Washington doesn’t seem to care.

By design we are sitting on hundreds of trillions of dollars in Unpayable Debts. Dr Michael Hudson said Unpayable Debts are never paid. Oh! Does that mean that hundreds of trillions in Unpayable Debts will be canceled either in bankruptcy court or through inflation? Doesn’t that mean we are in for far worse times than the Great Depression when 3 million Americans starved to death.

Donald Rumsfeld admitted on 9-10-2001 to CBS Evening News that he had no way of knowing where $2.3 trillion in Pentagon spending actually went. But he did promise that some day in the future the government would adopt modern accounting procedures. That promise was never kept. Both political parties and the corporate media continue to let those men who own our government rob us by the tens of trillions.

Do you remember Edward Snowden saying how criminally irresponsible the NSA was? The NSA insisted on opening all those backdoors into our computers while designing advanced tools to hack them. Somehow those tools were released to cyber criminals who have exploited our mandatory backdoors. Some of us believe that elements within the NSA did the Ransomware hack. And they might be trying to take down Bitcoin.

The corporate media has missed the whole point of the story which is the criminally irresponsible behavior of the NSA and the who are allowed to rob the US government. But the media is owned by the same people so they are paid to not report the news.

This government absolutely despises you and wants you dead. Disagree? Watch Dr Seneff.

I have not written for a while. I am preparing for my future. I live in what many would consider to be a small town. At least, it used to be. I might be moving to a more rural location. We need to be making serious preparations. We need to be creating our own sources of food production instead of relying on canned beans and shotguns to see us through a 90 day collapse of the government and the loss of every city in the US. I do expect Nationwide Food Riots.

The coming economic debacle could get a lot more than 10 million Americans killed.

The people who own the government decided to give us an interest bearing currency at a cost of $850 billion a year. They decided we needed a fractional reserve currency so we would have a wild ride on the way up and devastating times on the way down when those loans are cancelled.

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Venezuela: Protesters fling faeces at soldiers in ‘Shit March’

Source: Protesters fling faeces at soldiers in ‘Shit March’ | Venezuela News | Al Jazeera

http://www.aljazeera.com

May 10, 2017

Anti-government rally in Caracas turns messy while two people are killed in separate incidents.Protesters used sling shots to throw ‘Poopootov’ cocktails, bottles filled with feces [Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters]

Protesters in Venezuela have lobbed bottles and bags of faeces at soldiers who fought back with tear gas to block the latest march in more than a month of nationwide protests against President Nicolas Maduro.

The so-called “Shit March” was held on Wednesday on the main highway through Caracas came as thousands of opposition supporters again poured onto the streets decrying Venezuela’s economic crisis and demanding elections.

“These kids live in a dictatorship, they have no other option but to protest however they see fit,” said Maria Montilla, 49, behind lines of youths with masks, slingshots and makeshift wooden shields.

Many carried stones and so-called “Poopootov cocktails” – faeces stuffed into small glass bottles – which they threw when National Guard troops blocked their path, firing gas and turning water cannons on the crowds.

“There’s nothing explosive here. It’s our way of saying ‘get lost Maduro, you’re useless!’,” said one young protester, who asked not to be named, between tossing bottles of faeces.

READ MORE: Venezuela’s crisis, explained

Messages giving step-by-step instructions and advice on putting together the Poopootov cocktails went viral on Venezuelan WhatsApp groups before the protest.

Some opposition sympathisers were appalled at the use of faeces, both animal and human, calling it an unsanitary and inappropriate tactic even in the face of a government they despise.

They noted that throwing faeces could increase cases of infectious diseases which are soaring due to the lack of medicine as well as basic cleaning materials such as soaps and disinfectant.

Two deaths

Wednesday’s chaos in Caracas claimed another life, with 27-year-old Miguel Castillo killed during the protests, the state prosecutor’s office said without giving more details.

With trouble flaring in various parts of Venezuela, there was also another death in the Andean city of Merida.

Motorbike taxi driver Anderson Dugarte, 32, died on Wednesday after being injured in a protest, the state prosecutor’s office said.

Local media said he was shot in the head.

The unrest has killed at least 39 people since early April, including protesters, government sympathisers, bystanders, and security forces. Hundreds have also been hurt and arrested.

Maduro says foes are seeking a coup with US encouragement.

The opposition, which enjoys majority support after years in the shadow of the ruling Socialist Party, says authorities are denying a solution to Venezuela’s crisis by thwarting a referendum, delaying local elections and refusing to bring forward the 2018 presidential vote.

They are seeking to vary tactics to keep momentum going and supporters energised.

The government accused the opposition of breaking international treaties on biological and chemical weapons by throwing faeces.

Maduro is seeking to create a new super body called a “constituent assembly,” with authority to rewrite the constitution and shake up public powers. Foes dismiss it as an attempt to keep the socialists in power by establishing a biased new assembly.

IN PICTURES: Hardship and political theatre in Venezuela

In downtown Caracas, government supporters also rallied, dancing salsa and waving pictures of Maduro’s predecessor Hugo Chavez who remains venerated by many, especially the poor.

“I’m here to support the constituent process, which brings opportunities to resolve the crisis,” said agriculture worker Ilian Leon, 40. “We’re faithful to Chavez’s legacy.”

The protests so far have failed to garner massive support from poorer, traditionally pro-Chavez sectors of Venezuela’s 30 million people.

But a bigger cross-section of society has been apparent at recent marches, some of which drew hundreds of thousands.

Looting has been breaking out in some cities, especially at night.

Chavez’s former spy-master Miguel Torres has broken with Maduro’s government, despite having served as interior minister and fighting against protests in 2014. He warned on Wednesday that the violence in Venezuela may be getting out of control.

“What is happening may be the starting point for a huge armed confrontation between Venezuelans,” he told Reuters.

“Nobody wants that.”

http://players.brightcove.net/665003303001/SJg0bzqkZ_default/index.html?videoId=5423297314001

Will people power force change in Venezuela?

Source: News agencies

Murder in Baltimore is “out of control” says mayor who has called on FBI for help

Baltimore has as many homicides in one year as the entire UK.

Source: Murder in Baltimore is “out of control” says mayor who has called on FBI for help

http://www.newstarget.com

By: Frances Bloomfield

Date: May 08, 2017

The Democrat-run city of Balitmore, Md., has seen better days. At a news briefing, Mayor Catherine Pugh told the press that she went to the FBI’s Baltimore office to sit down with the special agent in charge. The reason for the meeting: to request assistance in bringing down the murder rate of the city. As reported by the GantDaily.com, Mayor Pugh was quoted saying: “Murder is out of control. There are too many guns on the streets. We’re looking for all the help we can get.”

Anthony McCarthy, spokesman to the Baltimore official, supported Mayor Pugh’s statement. According to McCarthy, Mayor Pugh did indeed ask for additional agents to help fight the violent crimes besieging the city. He explained that it could mean bringing in more FBI agents, or reassigning agents to work more closely with local police. “The summers in Baltimore tend to be very violent. And the mayor wants to get a handle on all the murders, the flood of guns on the streets and the gang activity,” McCarthy stated before adding that Mayor Pugh hoped to make an announcement about federal officers cooperating with the force very soon.

The news has brought relief to civilians and officials alike. City Councilman Brandon Scott, who is also chairman of the council’s Public Safety Committee, told the BaltimoreSun.com that he welcomed federal resources, saying: “Every little bit helps. It’s clear we have to do things differently. What we’re doing currently isn’t working. The strategy isn’t working.”

In a move to help the city even further, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) has gone on record to state that the agency plans on using gun-tracing vans to solve gun crimes. The gun-tracing technology and the national database the technology links to have been called a “critical piece to solving and preventing gun violence in Baltimore” by Daniel L. Board Jr., ATF Baltimore Field Division special agent in charge. Furthermore, Federal officials have said that the vans will be deployed in the city beginning early May.

The rapidly growing murder rate in Baltimore has reached an all-time high. For the first time since 1993, the city of Baltimore had witnessed over 100 homicides by the end of April. In the last year alone, Baltimore experienced a record 353 homicides, the highest number in the city’s history. Although Baltimore’s population of residents has decreased by the thousands in recent years, the murder rate per capita is at its highest ever: 51.2 per 100,000 residents. Violent crime had risen by 23 percent, while the rate of homicides, shootings, and robberies have gone up by the double digits as well.

(Related: Baltimore today, America tomorrow: Why “utter chaos” will soon erupt across more U.S. Cities)

These harrowing statistics have put the city in the same league as Chicago, Ill., a city notorious for its violence. Within the first four months of 2017, over 1,000 people had been shot and 193 homicides had been reported. Last year, there were 762 recorded murders. Reverend Michael Pfleger, an anti-violence activist and pastor in Chicago, has nicknamed the city as “the poster boy of violence in America.”

Baltimore might just be poised to take that title from The Windy City. According to TheTrace.org, Baltimore’s homicide surge was the second highest in 2016, just behind St. Louis, Miss. Of its five-year (2011 to 2016) average of per-capita homicide rates, Baltimore claimed the fourth spot at 40.7 percent.

What the rest of the year has in store for Baltimore is anyone’s guess.

Keep up to date with crime in America and the world by visiting Violence.news.

Sources include:

GantDaily.com

BaltimoreSun.com

RT.com

TheTrace.org

Environmental journalist suggests domestic terrorism to blow up oil and gas wells is justifiable

“If the oil and gas industry puts fracking wells in our neighborhoods, threatening our lives and our children’s lives, then don’t we have a moral responsibility to blow up wells and eliminate fracking and workers?” Kevin Kaufman

Source: Environmental journalist suggests domestic terrorism to blow up oil and gas wells is justifiable – NaturalNews.com

With permission from

http://www.naturalnews.com

by: Isabelle Z.

May 08, 2017

 

(Natural News) Hearing about serious environmental abuse like fracking can incite explosive feelings among those of us who care about the environment, but one environmental journalist has taken this sentiment too far.

In a glaring example of poor logic, the executive editor of the Boulder Daily Camera, Kevin Kaufman, said that those who support the decision of President Trump to bomb Syria must therefore agree that anti-fracking activists would be justified in blowing up gas and oil wells in our country.

His statement came in response to questions about his paper publishing a letter that promotes violence against the fracking industry. The letter, which was published on April 19, says that Coloradoans have a moral obligation to demolish pipelines and get rid of oil jobs.

It read: “If the oil and gas industry puts fracking wells in our neighborhoods, threatening our lives and our children’s lives, then don’t we have a moral responsibility to blow up wells and eliminate fracking and workers?”

While editors ultimately changed the piece after it was published, the main sentiment that violence is the only solution to preventing pipeline construction was kept intact. The paper added a note saying it does not endorse or condone property destruction or violence.

Editorial Page Editor Dave Krieger issued an apology on Monday, saying that the wording of the letter left it open to multiple interpretations and that he had not considered that some might view it as a call to commit violence when he first read and approved it.

“It could be construed as advocating destroying oil wells, thereby eliminating the fracking and workers that come with them. But it was immediately clear when I read the published version it could also be construed as advocating violence against oil and gas workers. I would not have let that go through if it had registered, but it didn’t,” he wrote.

However, not everyone at the paper was as willing to concede that publishing the comment was a bad idea. In fact, when confronted about the situation, one of the paper’s editors was quick to use the opportunity to get in some digs against the Trump administration.

When contacted by the Daily Caller News Foundation’s Chris White, Kevin Kaufman responded via email that the issues of bombing Syria and blowing up the wells were essentially the same, and those who can justify the former must theoretically support the latter. The full text of his email can be seen on the Daily Caller‘s website.

Free speech is one of the fundamental rights that makes America great, but it’s also important for journalists to use their platform responsibly. There are better ways to encourage the debate about a very real and concerning issue than by implying that domestic terrorism is a solution.

Outrage over fracking is justified; violence isn’t

Fracking is a dangerous and deeply disturbing practice that devastates the land, water and air near the sites where dangerous chemicals are injected into the earth, leaving people vulnerable to a horrific list of problems like cancer, birth defects, autoimmune disorders, and autism. People in Colorado are justifiably outraged about this practice taking place in their neighborhoods, but it is not quite on the level of a chemical weapons attack.

Moreover, it’s a slippery slope; you could then argue that anyone is justified in committing violence for any cause that they personally deem righteous. Is it also okay to blow up abortion clinics if you are pro-life? Nevermind the fact that such an act would only lead to an escalation of violence, just like many believe the U.S. bombing of Syria – justified or not – is setting us on the fast track to war.

Sources include:

DailyCaller.com

DailyCamera.com

NaturalNews.com

Thousands Flee Chicago For Safer Areas Of The Country As America’s Third Largest City Becomes A Gang-Infested Wasteland

In 2016, the number of murders in the city jumped nearly 60 percent to over 760, more than New York and Los Angeles combined. There were more than 4,300 shooting victims in the city last year, according to police.

Source: Thousands Flee Chicago For Safer Areas Of The Country As America’s Third Largest City Becomes A Gang-Infested Wasteland

theeconomiccollapseblog.com

By Michael Snyder

on May 8th, 2017

 

Did you know that the number of murders increased by almost 60 percent in the city of Chicago last year?  And as you will see below, this year gang violence in the Windy City has risen to a new level of viciousness.  A staggering 9.5 million people live in the Chicago metropolitan area, and it was once known primarily for great pizza, bitter cold and some of the best sports fans on the entire planet.  But now the number one thing that comes to mind for many when they think about the city of Chicago is gang violence.  As it becomes clear that things are not going to turn around any time soon, thousands of residents are leaving the city for safer areas of the nation.  In fact, Cook County lost more people than any other county in America last year by a very wide margin.

When your murder rate goes up by double digits in a single year, you have got a problem.

But when it goes up by close to 60 percent, you have got a catastrophe on your hands…

In 2016, the number of murders in the city jumped nearly 60 percent to over 760, more than New York and Los Angeles combined. There were more than 4,300 shooting victims in the city last year, according to police.

Of course we aren’t supposed to talk about the fact that this is quietly happening in communities all over America.  This is one of the reasons why there is such a disparity in real estate prices these days.  The wealthy are willing to pay a substantial premium to live with other wealthy people in areas that are far away from all the violence.

And the gang violence in Chicago continues to escalate.  For example, check out what happened just yesterday…

Two people were killed and eight others were wounded in an attack at the site of a memorial for a man who was slain earlier Sunday in the Brighton Park neighborhood, police said.

Chicago police First Deputy Superintendent Kevin Navarro told reporters at the Southwest Side scene in the 2600 block of West 46th Place that the attack was “another brazen act of gang violence.”

Navarro said the victims, a mix of men and women, were taking part in a memorial for a man, identified by the Cook County medical examiner’s office as Daniel Cardova, who had been killed at that location earlier in the day when two people fired rifles from a nearby alleyway.

Would you want to raise your children in an area where this was going on?

Thanks to decades of open borders and unrestrained illegal immigration, gang membership has been absolutely soaring in major cities such as Chicago.  Five years ago the Chicago Crime Commission estimated that there were 150,000 gang members living in the metropolitan area, and by this point that number is certainly far higher.

According to Wikipedia, there are currently only 12,244 police officers in Chicago.  That means that the police are outnumbered by at least a 12 to 1 margin.

And according to an article published by the Chicago Sun-Times, some of these gangs have agreed to start using automatic weapons against the police…

The meeting took place Thursday between higher-ups from the Vice Lords, Black Disciples and Four Corner Hustlers, according to an alert issued to department members the day after the meeting.

The Four Corner Hustlers “provided guns” and have “a sniper in place” though authorities do not know where, according to the alert. The Four Corner Hustlers also are supplying the other two gangs with automatic weapons, which all three factions also have agreed to use against police, the alert states.

No wonder the police suicide rate in Chicago is 60 percent higher than the national average.

If I was living in the Chicago metropolitan area, I would be making every effort to relocate, and apparently there are lots and lots of people that see things the same way that I do.

In fact, net domestic migration for the Chicago metropolitan area was a staggering -89,000 during 2016…

One particularly stunning figure: net domestic migration, with an estimated 89,000 more people moving from the Chicago area to other portions of the country in the past year than those who moved in.

Liz Schuh, principal policy analyst for the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning, said the figures are “of concern for the region’s continued economic success.”

“Residents often choose to stay in or migrate to a region because of economic opportunity and quality of life,” she added.

In particular, wealthy people are living the city in droves.  It has been reported that 3,000 millionaires left the city of Chicago in 2015 alone.  Certainly the ridiculously high taxes are one factor why so many wealthy people are leaving, but of course gang violence is also a major reason for the mass exodus.

If violence in our major cities is starting to spiral out of control while the economy is still relatively stable, what are things going to look like when a complete economic meltdown happens?

It is only a matter of time before widespread rioting, looting and civil unrest becomes commonplace in major cities all over the country.  With Donald Trump in the White House, the deep frustration that has been simmering in our inner cities is now reaching a boiling point.  It certainly isn’t going to take much of a spark to set off a tremendous explosion.

In anticipation of what is coming, large numbers of Americans have already been relocating to less populated portions of the country.  And the good news is that there are lots of areas to pick from.  According to Survival Dan, about half of the U.S. population lives in just 146 counties…

Recent U.S. census data indicates that out of the 3000 counties in the United States, fully 50% of the population lives in just 146. If you want to have any chance of surviving a widespread catastrophic event by avoiding the hordes that will be searching for critical resources in its aftermath, then check out the following map to get a visual reference of the areas you want to stay away from.

Of course it can be quite difficult to find a good job in an area that is not heavily populated, and there are a lot of expenses involved in relocating to a totally different part of the country.

And there is certainly a lot to consider when picking out a new place to live, and so you would want to do a lot of research before making such a move.

But my wife and I did step out in faith and made a decision to relocate to a new area nearly six years ago, and it was one of the best decisions that we have ever made.

A Message From Bill Williamson (4 min)

This is a scene from the Uwe Bolls movie Rampage 2, Capital Punishment. Bill massacres hundreds of innocent people and he is a monster, I guess, but his message is real. He expresses the anger and frustration we feel some times, when we feel powerless because everything is corrupted, it’s all a game of mind control, a world of illusions where the evil ones succeed.

His message? You’ll have to watch it. ( it involves extreme changes brought on by historical revolutions.)

Run for Your Life: The American Police State Is Coming to Get You

Source: Run for Your Life: The American Police State Is Coming to Get You – Darkmoon

With permission from Lasha Darkmoon at

darkmoon.me

By John W. Whitehead

April 24, 2017

“This is what happens when you allow the government to call the shots.”

Daily, all across America, individuals who dare to resist—or even question—a police order are being subjected to all sorts of government-sanctioned abuse ranging from forced catheterization, forced blood draws, roadside strip searches and cavity searches, and other foul and debasing acts that degrade their bodily integrity and leave them bloodied and bruised.

Americans as young as 4 years old are being leg shackled, handcuffed, tasered and held at gun point for not being quiet, not being orderly and just being childlike—i.e., not being compliant enough.

Government social workers actually subjected a 3-year-old boy to a forced catheterization after he was unable to provide them with a urine sample on demand (the boy still wasn’t potty trained). The boy was held down, screaming in pain, while nurses forcibly inserted a tube into his penis to drain his bladder—all of this done because the boy’s mother’s boyfriend had failed a urine analysis for drugs.

Americans as old as 95 are being beaten, shot and killed for questioning an order, hesitating in the face of a directive, and mistaking a policeman crashing through their door for a criminal breaking into their home—i.e., not being submissive enough.

Consider what happened to David Dao, the United Airlines passenger who was accosted by three police, forcibly wrenched from his seat across the armrest, bloodying his face in the process, and dragged down the aisle by the arms merely for refusing to relinquish his paid seat after the airline chose him randomly to be bumped from the flight—after being checked in and allowed to board—so that airline workers could make a connecting flight.

Those with ADHD, autism, hearing impairments, dementia or some other disability that can hinder communication in the slightest way are in even greater danger of having their actions misconstrued by police.

Police shot a 73-year-old-man with dementia seven times after he allegedly failed to respond to orders to stop approaching and remove his hands from his jacket. The man was unarmed and had been holding a crucifix.

Clearly, it no longer matters where you live.

Big city or small town: it’s the same scenario being played out over and over again in which government agents, hyped up on their own authority and the power of their uniform, ride roughshod over the citizenry who—in the eyes of the government—are viewed as having no rights.

Our freedoms—especially the Fourth Amendment—continue to be torn asunder by the prevailing view among government bureaucrats that they have the right to search, seize, strip, scan, spy on, probe, pat down, taser, and arrest any individual at any time and for the slightest provocation.

Forced cavity searches, forced colonoscopies, forced blood draws, forced breath-alcohol tests, forced DNA extractions, forced eye scans, forced inclusion in biometric databases—these are just a few ways in which Americans continue to be reminded that we have no control over what happens to our bodies during an encounter with government officials.

For instance, during a “routine” traffic stop for allegedly “rolling” through a stop sign, Charnesia Corley was thrown to the ground, stripped of her clothes, and forced to spread her legs while Texas police officers subjected her to a roadside cavity probe, all because they claimed to have smelled marijuana in her car.

Angel Dobbs and her 24-year-old niece, Ashley, were pulled over by a Texas state trooper for allegedly flicking cigarette butts out of the car window. Insisting that he smelled marijuana, the trooper proceeded to interrogate them and search the car. Despite the fact that both women denied smoking or possessing any marijuana, the police officer then called in a female trooper, who carried out a roadside cavity search, sticking her fingers into the older woman’s anus and vagina, then performing the same procedure on the younger woman, wearing the same pair of gloves. No marijuana was found.

LD :   KIMBERLEY CARBONE (pictured) stopped her car at traffic lights. The cops liked the look of her, so they pulled her over. She’d done nothing wrong. She was a model citizen. They forced her to take off her panties and open her legs. Then they stuck their fingers up her vagina and rectum, supposedly looking for drugs. Kimberley was subjected to five hours of sexual humiliation. The cops could find nothing. Kimberley was told she could go. No apologies. No compensation. No punishment for the cops. The  cops are still pulling attractive women over for forcible rectal and vaginal examinations whenever they feel like it. (See here) This is Police State America. [LD]

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Leila Tarantino was subjected to two roadside strip searches in plain view of passing traffic during a routine traffic stop, while her two children—ages 1 and 4—waited inside her car. During the second strip search, presumably in an effort to ferret out drugs, a female officer “forcibly removed” a tampon from Tarantino.

Nothing illegal was found.

David Eckert was forced to undergo an anal cavity search, three enemas, and a colonoscopy after allegedly failing to yield to a stop sign at a Wal-Mart parking lot. Cops justified the searches on the grounds that they suspected Eckert was carrying drugs because his “posture [was] erect” and “he kept his legs together.”

No drugs were found.

Meanwhile, four Milwaukee police officers were charged with carrying out rectal searches of suspects on the street and in police district stations over the course of several years. One of the officers was accused of conducting searches of men’s anal and scrotal areas, often inserting his fingers into their rectums and leaving some of his victims with bleeding rectums.

Incidents like these—sanctioned by the courts and conveniently overlooked by the legislatures—teach Americans of every age and skin color the painful lesson that there are no limits to what the government can do in its so-called “pursuit” of law and order.

If this is a war, then “we the people” are the enemy.

As Radley Balko notes in The Washington Post, “When you’re at war, it’s important to dehumanize your enemy. And there’s nothing more dehumanizing than forcibly and painfully invading someone’s body — all the better if you can involve the sex organs.”

The message being beaten, shot, tasered, probed and slammed into our collective consciousness is simply this: it doesn’t matter if you’re in the right, it doesn’t matter if a cop is in the wrong, it doesn’t matter if you’re being treated with less than the respect you deserve or the law demands.

The only thing that matters to the American police state is that you comply, submit, respect authority and generally obey without question whatever a government official (anyone who wears a government uniform, be it a police officer, social worker, petty bureaucrat or zoning official) tells you to do.

This is what happens when you allow the government to call the shots: it becomes a bully.

As history shows, this recipe for disaster works every time: take police officers hyped up on their own authority and the power of the badge, throw in a few court rulings suggesting that security takes precedence over individual rights, set it against a backdrop of endless wars and militarized law enforcement, and then add to the mix a populace distracted by entertainment, out of touch with the workings of their government, and more inclined to let a few sorry souls suffer injustice than to challenge the status quo.

“It is not only under Nazi rule that police excesses are inimical to freedom,” warned former Supreme Court justice Felix Frankfurter in a 1946 ruling in Davis v. United States: “It is easy to make light of insistence on scrupulous regard for the safeguards of civil liberties when invoked on behalf of the unworthy. It is too easy. History bears testimony that by such disregard are the rights of liberty extinguished, heedlessly at first, then stealthily, and brazenly in the end.”

In other words, if it could happen in Nazi Germany, it can just as easily happen here.

It is happening here.

Unfortunately, we’ve been marching in lockstep with the police state for so long that we’ve forgotten how to march to the tune of our own revolutionary drummer. In fact, we’ve even forgotten the words to the tune.

We’ve learned the lessons of compliance too well.

For too long, “we the people” have allowed the government to ride roughshod over the Constitution, equating patriotism with blind obedience to the government’s dictates, no matter how unconstitutional or immoral those actions might be.

As historian Howard Zinn recognized:

Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is the numbers of people all over the world who have obeyed the dictates of the leaders of their government and have gone to war, and millions have been killed because of this obedience… Our problem is that people are obedient all over the world, in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves, and all the while the grand thieves are running the country. That’s our problem… people are obedient, all these herdlike people.

What can you do?

It’s simple but as I detail in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, the consequences may be deadly.

Stop being so obedient. Stop being so compliant and herdlike. Stop kowtowing to anyone and everyone in uniform. Stop perpetuating the false notion that those who work for the government—the president, Congress, the courts, the military, the police—are in any way superior to the rest of the citizenry. Stop playing politics with your principles. Stop making excuses for the government’s growing list of human rights abuses and crimes. Stop turning a blind eye to the government’s corruption and wrongdoing and theft and murder. Stop tolerating ineptitude and incompetence by government workers. Stop allowing the government to treat you like a second-class citizen. Stop censoring what you say and do for fear that you might be labeled an extremist or worse, unpatriotic. Stop sitting silently on the sidelines while the police state kills, plunders and maims your fellow citizens.

Stop being a slave.

As anti-war activist Rosa Luxemburg concluded, “Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.”

You may not realize it yet, but you are not free.

If you believe otherwise, it is only because you have made no real attempt to exercise your freedoms.

Had you attempted to exercise your freedoms before now by questioning a police officer’s authority, challenging an unjust tax or fine, protesting the government’s endless wars, defending your right to privacy against the intrusion of surveillance cameras, or any other effort that challenges the government’s power grabs and the generally lopsided status quo, you would have already learned the hard way that the police state has no appetite for freedom and it does not tolerate resistance.

This is called authoritarianism, a.k.a. totalitarianism, a.k.a. oppression.

As Glenn Greenwald notes for the Guardian:

Oppression is designed to compel obedience and submission to authority. Those who voluntarily put themselves in that state – by believing that their institutions of authority are just and good and should be followed rather than subverted – render oppression redundant, unnecessary. Of course people who think and behave this way encounter no oppression. That’s their reward for good, submissive behavior. They are left alone by institutions of power because they comport with the desired behavior of complacency and obedience without further compulsion. But the fact that good, obedient citizens do not themselves perceive oppression does not mean that oppression does not exist.

Get ready to stand your ground or run for your life, because the American police state is coming to get you.

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