The American Gulag: Brick by Brick, Our Prison Walls Get More Oppressive by the Day
Quote:
“The exile of prisoners to a distant place, where they can ‘pay their debt to society,†make themselves useful, and not contaminate others with their ideas or their criminal acts, is a practice as old as civilization itself. The rulers of ancient Rome and Greece sent their dissidents off to distant colonies. Socrates chose death over the torment of exile from Athens. The poet Ovid was exiled to a fetid port on the Black Sea.â€â€” Anne Applebaum, Gulag: A History
This is how freedom dies.
This is how you condition a populace to life as prisoners in a police state: by brainwashing them into believing they are free so that they will march in lockstep with the state and be incapable of recognizing the prison walls that surround them.
Face the facts: we are no longer free.
We in the American Police State may enjoy the illusion of freedom, but that is all it is: an elaborate deception, rooted in denial and delusion, that hides the grasping, greedy, power-hungry, megalomaniacal force that lurks beneath the surface.
Brick by brick, the prison walls being erected around us by the government and its corporate partners-in-crime grow more oppressive and more pervasive by the day.
Brick by brick, we are finding there is nowhere to run and nowhere to hide.
Brick by brick, we are being walled in, locked down and locked up.
Thatâ€s the curious thing about walls: they not only keep those on the outside from getting in, they also keep those on the inside from getting out.
Consider, if you will, some of the “bricks†in the police stateâ€s wall that serve to imprison the citizenry: Red flag gun laws that strip citizens of their rights based on the flimsiest of pretexts concocted by self-serving politicians. Overcriminalization resulting in jail time for nonviolent offenses such as feeding stray cats and buying foreign honey. Military training drills—showy exercises in armed intimidation—and live action “role playing†between soldiers and “freedom fightersâ€Â staged in small rural communities throughout the country. Profit-driven speed and red light cameras that do little for safety while padding the pockets of government agencies. Overt surveillance that turns citizens into suspects.
Police-run facial recognition software that mistakenly labels law-abiding citizens as criminals. Punitive programs that strip citizens of their passports and right to travel over unpaid taxes. Government agents that view segments of the populace as “subhumanâ€Â and treat them accordingly. A social credit system (similar to Chinaâ€s) that rewards behavior deemed “acceptable†and punishes behavior the government and its corporate allies find offensive, illegal or inappropriate.
These are just a small sampling of the oppressive measures used by the government to control and constrict the American people.
What these despotic tactics add up to is an authoritarian prison in every sense of the word.
More:
https://www.rutherford.org/publications_...by_the_day
Study: Average American Breaks 3 Laws A Day...
http://thinkaboutnow.com/2018/01/2442/
You Commit Three Felonies a Day: Laws have become too vague and the concept of intent has disappeared.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014240...0830760842
Decriminalize the Average Man: If you reside in America and it is dinnertime, you have almost certainly broken the law.
https://mises.org/library/decriminalize-average-man
Between 2.3m and 2.4m Americans are behind bars, roughly one in every 100 adults. If those on parole or probation are included, one adult in 31 is under "correctional" supervision... by contrast, in 1970, less than one in 400 Americans was incarcerated. Why? A constant flood of new and broadly interpreted laws are criminalizing entire categories of daily life while, at the same time, the standards required for arrest and conviction have been severely diluted.
Posts: 29,008
Threads: 690
Joined: Feb 2019
Reputation:
48
(09-05-2019, 08:30 AM)P1tchblack Wrote: The American Gulag: Brick by Brick, Our Prison Walls Get More Oppressive by the Day
Quote:
“The exile of prisoners to a distant place, where they can ‘pay their debt to society,†make themselves useful, and not contaminate others with their ideas or their criminal acts, is a practice as old as civilization itself. The rulers of ancient Rome and Greece sent their dissidents off to distant colonies. Socrates chose death over the torment of exile from Athens. The poet Ovid was exiled to a fetid port on the Black Sea.â€â€” Anne Applebaum, Gulag: A History
This is how freedom dies.
This is how you condition a populace to life as prisoners in a police state: by brainwashing them into believing they are free so that they will march in lockstep with the state and be incapable of recognizing the prison walls that surround them.
Face the facts: we are no longer free.
We in the American Police State may enjoy the illusion of freedom, but that is all it is: an elaborate deception, rooted in denial and delusion, that hides the grasping, greedy, power-hungry, megalomaniacal force that lurks beneath the surface.
Brick by brick, the prison walls being erected around us by the government and its corporate partners-in-crime grow more oppressive and more pervasive by the day.
Brick by brick, we are finding there is nowhere to run and nowhere to hide.
Brick by brick, we are being walled in, locked down and locked up.
Thatâ€s the curious thing about walls: they not only keep those on the outside from getting in, they also keep those on the inside from getting out.
Consider, if you will, some of the “bricks†in the police stateâ€s wall that serve to imprison the citizenry: Red flag gun laws that strip citizens of their rights based on the flimsiest of pretexts concocted by self-serving politicians. Overcriminalization resulting in jail time for nonviolent offenses such as feeding stray cats and buying foreign honey. Military training drills—showy exercises in armed intimidation—and live action “role playing†between soldiers and “freedom fightersâ€Â staged in small rural communities throughout the country. Profit-driven speed and red light cameras that do little for safety while padding the pockets of government agencies. Overt surveillance that turns citizens into suspects.
Police-run facial recognition software that mistakenly labels law-abiding citizens as criminals. Punitive programs that strip citizens of their passports and right to travel over unpaid taxes. Government agents that view segments of the populace as “subhumanâ€Â and treat them accordingly. A social credit system (similar to Chinaâ€s) that rewards behavior deemed “acceptable†and punishes behavior the government and its corporate allies find offensive, illegal or inappropriate.
These are just a small sampling of the oppressive measures used by the government to control and constrict the American people.
What these despotic tactics add up to is an authoritarian prison in every sense of the word.
More:
https://www.rutherford.org/publications_...by_the_day
I tend to agree with the gist of this, but could you provide some examples of govt agents that view segments of the population as subhuman? The "Deplorables" comment perhaps? Other?
Posts: 21,357
Threads: 250
Joined: Feb 2019
Reputation:
81
I agree somewhat with the gist as well, but holy hyperbole batman....that was alot of fluff and little meat.
Posts: 27,053
Threads: 476
Joined: Feb 2019
Reputation:
70
Strange that the OP laments the loss of liberty yet he supports special rights for particular classes and groups and would put severe limits on constitution based religious freedom.
"Hightop can reduce an entire message board of men to mudsharks. It's actually pretty funny to watch."
Posts: 21,357
Threads: 250
Joined: Feb 2019
Reputation:
81
(09-05-2019, 09:01 AM)Hightop77 Wrote: Strange that the OP laments the loss of liberty yet he supports special rights for particular classes and groups and would put severe limits on constitution based religious freedom. well, that's different. That's not important.
Brutus Buckeye
Unregistered
It is almost as though Pitch is a wildly inconsistent hypocrite.
Posts: 27,053
Threads: 476
Joined: Feb 2019
Reputation:
70
(09-05-2019, 10:42 AM)Brutus Buckeye Wrote: It is almost as though Pitch is a wildly inconsistent hypocrite.
Which defines social justice and social justice warriors.
"Hightop can reduce an entire message board of men to mudsharks. It's actually pretty funny to watch."
(09-05-2019, 10:42 AM)Brutus Buckeye Wrote: It is almost as though Pitch is a wildly inconsistent hypocrite.
Almost...
(09-05-2019, 08:43 AM)ScarletHayes Wrote: (09-05-2019, 08:30 AM)P1tchblack Wrote: The American Gulag: Brick by Brick, Our Prison Walls Get More Oppressive by the Day
Quote:
“The exile of prisoners to a distant place, where they can ‘pay their debt to society,†make themselves useful, and not contaminate others with their ideas or their criminal acts, is a practice as old as civilization itself. The rulers of ancient Rome and Greece sent their dissidents off to distant colonies. Socrates chose death over the torment of exile from Athens. The poet Ovid was exiled to a fetid port on the Black Sea.â€â€” Anne Applebaum, Gulag: A History
This is how freedom dies.
This is how you condition a populace to life as prisoners in a police state: by brainwashing them into believing they are free so that they will march in lockstep with the state and be incapable of recognizing the prison walls that surround them.
Face the facts: we are no longer free.
We in the American Police State may enjoy the illusion of freedom, but that is all it is: an elaborate deception, rooted in denial and delusion, that hides the grasping, greedy, power-hungry, megalomaniacal force that lurks beneath the surface.
Brick by brick, the prison walls being erected around us by the government and its corporate partners-in-crime grow more oppressive and more pervasive by the day.
Brick by brick, we are finding there is nowhere to run and nowhere to hide.
Brick by brick, we are being walled in, locked down and locked up.
Thatâ€s the curious thing about walls: they not only keep those on the outside from getting in, they also keep those on the inside from getting out.
Consider, if you will, some of the “bricks†in the police stateâ€s wall that serve to imprison the citizenry: Red flag gun laws that strip citizens of their rights based on the flimsiest of pretexts concocted by self-serving politicians. Overcriminalization resulting in jail time for nonviolent offenses such as feeding stray cats and buying foreign honey. Military training drills—showy exercises in armed intimidation—and live action “role playing†between soldiers and “freedom fightersâ€Â staged in small rural communities throughout the country. Profit-driven speed and red light cameras that do little for safety while padding the pockets of government agencies. Overt surveillance that turns citizens into suspects.
Police-run facial recognition software that mistakenly labels law-abiding citizens as criminals. Punitive programs that strip citizens of their passports and right to travel over unpaid taxes. Government agents that view segments of the populace as “subhumanâ€Â and treat them accordingly. A social credit system (similar to Chinaâ€s) that rewards behavior deemed “acceptable†and punishes behavior the government and its corporate allies find offensive, illegal or inappropriate.
These are just a small sampling of the oppressive measures used by the government to control and constrict the American people.
What these despotic tactics add up to is an authoritarian prison in every sense of the word.
More:
https://www.rutherford.org/publications_...by_the_day
I tend to agree with the gist of this, but could you provide some examples of govt agents that view segments of the population as subhuman? The "Deplorables" comment perhaps? Other?
I'm not really able to read the mind of the author, but it could probably be translated to mean anyone who opposes law enforcement.
(09-05-2019, 09:01 AM)Hightop77 Wrote: Strange that the OP laments the loss of liberty yet he supports special rights for particular classes and groups and would put severe limits on constitution based religious freedom.
Lol.... again, how do you want to practice your religion that you're unable to?
Posts: 27,053
Threads: 476
Joined: Feb 2019
Reputation:
70
(09-05-2019, 11:02 AM)P1tchblack Wrote: (09-05-2019, 09:01 AM)Hightop77 Wrote: Strange that the OP laments the loss of liberty yet he supports special rights for particular classes and groups and would put severe limits on constitution based religious freedom.
Lol.... again, how do you want to practice your religion that you're unable to?
I think it is very clear how a corrupt Leftist Supreme Court misused their power to destroy the religious liberty that the Framers wrote into our Bill of Rights.
"Hightop can reduce an entire message board of men to mudsharks. It's actually pretty funny to watch."
|