For a people to be free, they must first be honest with themselves,
their government, and the world at large. History is filled with
stories of free nations that fell under the spell cast by their
governments who exploited the threat of terror.
In fact, numerous
presidents in American history already have used various specific
threats to sidestep their Constitutional restraints. Today we are
entering a nebulous world where our “enemy” cannot be defined, has no
particular allegiance to one country, and is able to adopt new leaders
at will.
Rather than encourage a sense of resilience and independence
in its citizens, America has chosen to amplify the terror threat in
order to concentrate power in the hands of the State. The very first
signpost on this historically familiar road to tyranny is an atmosphere
of hate, suspicion, and vindictiveness. It first begins as an outwardly
directed aggression and then rather abruptly turns inward upon itself.
The
good news is that freedom is won and lost in the hearts and minds of
men. It is for this reason that we must state the obvious: we have
clearly passed through the first “atmospheric” stage of approaching
dictatorship, and have now entered the second — the open behavior of a
dictatorship in the United States.
It will never be announced on the
evening news, and it is not li… >>>
