"We the People" need to address the reality of what is going on in America today. Partisanship completely misses the point. "Democrats are bad," "Republicans are bad" ... BFD. You're both right!
America is no longer free. Police now terrorize innocent citizens, the TSA behaves like Hitler's Nazis, innocent Americans are under constant surveillance, the Ruling Class operates above the law, and the corporatist Federal Reserve is robbing us blind.
Is this the America you wish to leave to your kids?
TSA’s Nazi-like tactics should be rejected by Americans
My parents were the only members of their respective families who survived the Holocaust. Dad was a partisan commander in his native Poland, where he and more than 230 heroic fighters killed untold German soldiers, laid mines and attacked convoys. In 1949, my parents decided to immigrate to America so they and their children (including yours truly) would live in their new homeland — the beacon for all oppressed peoples for two hundred years — in peace and freedom.
Mom and Dad had one overriding wish in choosing to come to America; they would never have to fight Nazism ever again, especially in a land that values individual liberty. Unfortunately, despite all the constitutional protections the American people are supposed to have, the Nazification of the United States, a nation I swore to defend against all enemies foreign and domestic, when I became a citizen in 1959, is occurring because the political elites keep telling us the federal government has to use all the means at its disposal to keep our homeland safe and wage a global war against terrorism.
By law, Jews were forced to sit in designated areas on buses, trains, and park benches. The 1935 Nuremberg Laws abolished the Jews' German citizenship and prohibited marriage between Jews and non-Jews. Soon thereafter violence against Jews spread. Jews who could pay an exit fee were able to flee Germany. The Jews who remained in their homeland faced incredible economic hardship until the Final Solution.
In Nazi Germany and then occupied Europe, Jews became the object of one of the most virulent hate campaigns in the history of the world, and victims of a systematic attempt to wipe them off the face of the Earth.
In sum, when the Hitler regime demonized, dehumanized and demeaned one of the most productive groups in German society because of a collectivist ideology — Antisemitism, all the social, political, and psychological ingredients fell in place paving the way for the Holocaust.
The introduction of so-called porno scanners at America's airports and the egregious pat downs of airline travelers have turned every American into a German Jew. Instead of dehumanizing and demeaning one segment of the population in order to pave the way for the Holocaust, all airline travelers are being treated like German Jews by our government for our own good — to keep us safe from terrorists on airplanes.
The TSA now considers every American a potential "enemy of the state," because any one of us may be carrying a bomb aboard an airplane, despite the fact that young men from the Middle East perpetrated the 9/11 attacks.
Hold on say TSA officials and their lackeys in Congress and in the media. Our federal government is not out to harm us let alone kill us like the Nazis did to the Jews; our government needs to conduct "aggressive measures" to "protect" us on all commercial flights from potential terrorists. That is the party line.
Nonsense. We are witnessing a great leap forward in the creation of an American version of Nazism.
Backed Into A Corner
Freedom is a joke when I think of the instructions I get from my government, federal, state, local. They tell me how to arrange my garbage so they will pick it up. They tell me when to put on a seat belt, when to chain up my car, when to mow my lawn, when to start my car, where to put my grass clippings and branches and what sort of container to use. They tell me where my kids will go to school, what they will think about, what they will think of me if I don’t follow the liberal line. It is the Kmher Rouge method of instruction going on in the schools. I recall a video asking the children: “Did you tell your parents to vote for Barack Obama?”
The fact is, there are a million new instructions, a million new ways to think that go against everything I have been taught and have learned through experience. Now, they say if I want to fly on an airplane I have to expose myself to the TSA agents or risk jail for decking one of them who lays a hand on my genitals.
Unemployment benefits have got to end, or they will bankrupt us with a permanently unemployed welfare system we can’t sustain. Medicare is going to start paying doctors something less than minimum wage by the time all of the accounting is done. The mortgage crisis is not only not over, it is actually a crime scene with people’s homes being foreclosed by banks that didn’t even own the property. Property laws are a joke to the same bankers and politicians who helped to rape the people the first time out. GM is now owned 33% by the U.S. government and 16% by China and boldly talks about having “repaid” their loans. BS.
The fact is, the government and the bankers are running a con game on all of us and we’re just standing around in disbelief and hoping that they don’t come for us for burning an incandescent bulb. Holy crap, are we AMERICANS or RUSSIANS?
The False Argument of Liberty versus Security.
Who are we? Are we freemen? Or are we sheeple?
The time for "pragmatism" is long past. That boat has sailed. Nothing short of radical cuts in state and federal budgets, taxes, regulations, and legal code will save this country now. It's time to choose ... Will you choose feedom?
It really bothers me that more people aren't upset with this. This is good old fashioned Eastern Bloc tactics, and many Americans are snoozing.
[...] the fact our country is fast become an overbearing police state, there remains popular support for the invasive screening procedures. In an ABC News/Washington [...]