While most Americans refuse to see it; the sorry truth is we don’t live in a very free country. Furthermore, we are becoming less free every day. Our elections are rigged, our phones are tapped without warrant, we can be secretly arrested and held indefinitely without bail or legal representation, and now we are in very real danger of being labeled as terrorists if we so much as complain about the situation.
How’s that you ask?
Last fall the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 1955 - The Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorist Prevention Act of 2007, and it currently resides in the U.S. Senate as S.B. 1959. In this act “homegrown terrorism” is defined so loosely that merely voicing opinions contrary to government policies and proclamations, such as the official bullshit theory about the collapse of the World Trade Center buildings, opens individuals and organizations to being labeled as terrorists.
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This sort of legislation constitutes barreling down the fast lane on the road to tyranny. It’s a road America has been on for a long time, but we’ve been moving increasingly faster since WWII. Unfortunately, the road leads to a cliff and passage of this legislation will leave us, like Wile E. Coyote, momentarily suspended in disbelief before we, and our supposedly cherished freedoms, go crashing into a tiny puff of smoke on the valley floor below. Unlike the cartoon character however, we and our freedoms won’t miraculously bounce back to chase the roadrunner again.
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Imagine, if you will, a scenario in which high government officials were in the business of acquiring and selling the secrets of the U.S. nuclear arsenal to foreign governments. These foreign governments then passed the information to other, more dangerous regimes and, possibly, even to Al-Qaeda.
