“The most dangerous man to any
government is the man who is able to think things out for himself,
without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost
inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under
is dishonest, insane and intolerable.”—H. L. Mencken
The American kleptocracy (a government ruled by thieves)
continues to suck the American people down a rabbit hole into a parallel
universe in which the Constitution is meaningless, the government is
all-powerful, and the citizenry is powerless to defend itself against
government agents who steal, spy, lie, plunder, kill, abuse and
generally inflict mayhem and sow madness on everyone and everything in
their sphere.
Think about it.
Almost every tyranny being perpetrated by the U.S. government against
the citizenry—purportedly to keep us safe and the nation secure—has
come about as a result of some threat manufactured in one way or another
by our own government.
Cyberwarfare. Terrorism. Bio-chemical attacks. The nuclear arms race.
Surveillance. The drug wars. Domestic extremism. The COVID-19 pandemic.
In almost every instance, the U.S. government (often spearheaded by
the FBI) has in its typical Machiavellian fashion sown the seeds of
terror domestically and internationally in order to expand its own
totalitarian powers.
Who is the biggest black market buyer and stockpiler of cyberweapons (weaponized
malware that can be used to hack into computer systems, spy on
citizens, and destabilize vast computer networks)? The U.S. government.
Who is the largest weapons manufacturer and exporter in the world, such that they are literally arming the world? The U.S. government.
Which country has a history of secretly testing out dangerous weapons and technologies on its own citizens? The U.S. government.
Which country has conducted secret experiments on an unsuspecting populace—citizens
and noncitizens alike—making healthy people sick by spraying them with
chemicals, injecting them with infectious diseases and exposing them to
airborne toxins? The U.S. government.
What country has a pattern and practice of entrapment that
involves targeting vulnerable individuals, feeding them with the
propaganda, know-how and weapons intended to turn them into terrorists,
and then arresting them as part of an elaborately orchestrated
counterterrorism sting? The U.S. government.
Are you getting the picture yet?
The U.S. government isn’t protecting us from terrorism.
The U.S. government is creating the terror. It is, in fact, the source of the terror.
Consider that this very same government has taken every bit of
technology sold to us as being in our best interests—GPS devices,
surveillance, nonlethal weapons, etc.—and used it against us, to track,
control and trap us.
So why is the government doing this? Money, power and total domination.
We’re not dealing with a government that exists to serve its people,
protect their liberties and ensure their happiness. Rather, these are
the diabolical machinations of a make-works program carried out on an
epic scale whose only purpose is to keep the powers-that-be permanently
(and profitably) employed.
Case in point: the FBI.
The government’s henchmen have become the embodiment of how power,
once acquired, can be so easily corrupted and abused. Indeed, far from
being tough on crime, FBI agents are also among the nation’s most
notorious lawbreakers.
Whether the FBI is planting undercover agents in churches, synagogues
and mosques; issuing fake emergency letters to gain access to
Americans’ phone records; using intimidation tactics to silence Americans who are critical of the government, or persuading impressionable individuals to plot acts of terror and then entrapping them,
the overall impression of the nation’s secret police force is that of a
well-dressed thug, flexing its muscles and doing the boss’ dirty work.
It’s a diabolical plot with far-reaching consequences for every
segment of the population, no matter what one’s political leanings.
As Rozina Ali writes for The New York Times Magazine, “The
government’s approach to counterterrorism erodes constitutional
protections for everyone, by blurring the lines between speech and
action and by broadening the scope of who is classified as a threat.”
This is not an agency that appears to understand, let alone respect, the limits of the Constitution.
For instance, the FBI has been secretly carrying out an entrapment scheme in
which it used a front company, ANOM, to sell purportedly hack-proof
phones to organized crime syndicates and then used those phones to spy
on them as they planned illegal drug shipments, plotted robberies and
put out contracts for killings using those boobytrapped phones.
All told, the FBI intercepted 27 million messages over the course of 18 months.
What this means is that the FBI was also illegally spying on
individuals using those encrypted phones who may not have been involved
in any criminal activity whatsoever.
Even reading a newspaper article is now enough to get you flagged for surveillance by the FBI. The agency served a subpoena on USA Today /
Gannett to provide the internet addresses and mobile phone information
for everyone who read a news story online on a particular day and time
about the deadly shooting of FBI agents.
This is the danger of allowing the government to carry out widespread
surveillance, sting and entrapment operations using dubious tactics
that sidestep the rule of law: “we the people” become suspects and
potential criminals, while government agents, empowered to fight crime
using all means at their disposal, become indistinguishable from the
corrupt forces they seek to vanquish.
To go after terrorists, they become terrorists. To go after drug
smugglers, they become drug smugglers. To go after thieves, they become
thieves.
It’s hard to say whether we’re dealing with a kleptocracy (a government ruled by thieves), a kakistocracy (a
government run by unprincipled career politicians, corporations and
thieves that panders to the worst vices in our nature and has little
regard for the rights of American citizens), or if we’ve gone straight
to an idiocracy.
This certainly isn’t a constitutional republic, however.
Some days, it feels like the government is running its own crime syndicate complete with mob rule and mafia-style justice.
In addition to creating certain crimes in order to then “solve” them,
the FBI—the government’s law enforcement agency—also gives certain
informants permission to break the law,
“including everything from buying and selling illegal drugs to bribing
government officials and plotting robberies,” in exchange for their
cooperation on other fronts.
USA Today estimates that government agents have authorized criminals to engage in as many as 15 crimes a day (5600
crimes a year). Some of these informants are getting paid astronomical
sums: one particularly unsavory fellow, later arrested for attempting to
run over a police officer, was actually paid $85,000 for his help laying the trap for an entrapment scheme.
In addition to procedural misconduct, trespassing, enabling criminal
activity, and damaging private property, the FBI’s laundry list of
crimes against the American people includes surveillance,
disinformation, blackmail, entrapment, intimidation tactics, and
harassment.
For example, the Associated Press lodged a complaint with the Dept. of Justice after learning that FBI agents created a fake AP news story and
emailed it, along with a clickable link, to a bomb threat suspect in
order to implant tracking technology onto his computer and identify his
location. Lambasting the agency, AP attorney Karen Kaiser railed, “The
FBI may have intended this false story as a trap for only one person.
However, the individual could easily have reposted this story to social
networks, distributing to thousands of people, under our name, what was
essentially a piece of government disinformation.”
Then again, to those familiar with COINTELPRO,
an FBI program created to “disrupt, misdirect, discredit, and
neutralize” groups and individuals the government considers politically
objectionable, it should come as no surprise that the agency has
mastered the art of government disinformation.
The FBI has been particularly criticized in the wake of the 9/11
terrorist attacks for targeting vulnerable individuals and not only
luring them into fake terror plots but actually equipping them with the
organization, money, weapons and motivation to carry out the
plots—entrapment—and then jailing them for their so-called terrorist
plotting. This is what the FBI characterizes as “forward leaning—preventative—prosecutions.”
Another fallout from 9/11, National Security Letters, one of the many illicit powers authorized
by the USA Patriot Act, allows the FBI to secretly demand that banks,
phone companies, and other businesses provide them with customer
information and not disclose the demands. An internal audit of the
agency found that the FBI practice of issuing tens of thousands of NSLs
every year for sensitive information such as phone and financial
records, often in non-emergency cases, is riddled with widespread violations.
The FBI’s surveillance capabilities, on a par with the National Security Agency, boast a nasty collection of spy tools ranging
from Stingray devices that can track the location of cell phones to
Triggerfish devices which allow agents to eavesdrop on phone calls.
In one case, the FBI actually managed to remotely reprogram a “suspect’s” wireless internet card so that it would send “real-time cell-site location data to Verizon, which forwarded the data to the FBI.”
The FBI has also repeatedly sought to expand its invasive hacking powers to allow agents to hack into any computer, anywhere in the world.
Indeed, for years now, the U.S. government has been creating what one
intelligence insider referred to as a cyber-army capable of offensive
attacks. As part of this cyberweapons programs, government agencies such
as the NSA have been stockpiling all kinds of nasty malware, viruses
and hacking tools that can “steal
financial account passwords, turn an iPhone into a listening device,
or, in the case of Stuxnet, sabotage a nuclear facility.”
In fact, the NSA was responsible for the threat posed
by the “WannaCry” or “Wanna Decryptor” malware worm which—as a result
of hackers accessing the government’s arsenal—hijacked more than 57,000
computers and crippled health care, communications infrastructure,
logistics, and government entities in more than 70 countries.
Mind you, the government was repeatedly warned about the dangers of
using criminal tactics to wage its own cyberwars. It was warned about
the consequences of blowback should its cyberweapons get into the wrong
hands.
The government chose to ignore the warnings.
That’s exactly how the 9/11 attacks unfolded.
First, the government helped to create the menace that was al-Qaida
and then, when bin Laden had left the nation reeling in shock (despite countless warnings that fell on tone-deaf ears),
it demanded—and was given—immense new powers in the form of the USA
Patriot Act in order to fight the very danger it had created.
This has become the shadow government’s modus operandi regardless
of which party controls the White House: the government creates a
menace—knowing full well the ramifications such a danger might pose to
the public—then without ever owning up to the part it played in
unleashing that particular menace on an unsuspecting populace, it
demands additional powers in order to protect “we the people” from the
threat.
Yet the powers-that-be don’t really want us to feel safe.
They want us cowering and afraid and willing to relinquish every last
one of our freedoms in exchange for their phantom promises of security.
As a result, it’s the American people who pay the price for the government’s insatiable greed and quest for power.
Suffice it to say that when and if a true history of the United
States is ever written, it will not only track the rise of the American
police state but it will also chart the decline of freedom in America:
how a nation that once abided by the rule of law and held the government
accountable for its actions has steadily devolved into a police state
where justice is one-sided, a corporate elite runs the show,
representative government is a mockery, police are extensions of the
military, surveillance is rampant, privacy is extinct, and the law is
little more than a tool for the government to browbeat the people into
compliance.
Somewhere over the course of the past 240-plus years, democracy has
given way to kleptocracy, and representative government has been
rejected in favor of rule by career politicians, corporations and
thieves—individuals and entities with little regard for the rights of
American citizens.
This dissolution of that sacred covenant between the citizenry and
the government—establishing “we the people” as the masters and the
government as the servant—didn’t happen overnight. It didn’t happen
because of one particular incident or one particular president. It is a
process, one that began long ago and continues in the present day, aided
and abetted by politicians who have mastered the polarizing art of how
to “divide and conquer.”
As I point out in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People and in its fictional counterpart The Erik Blair Diaries, our freedoms have become casualties in an all-out war on the American people.
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