John R. Houk, Blog Editor
© June 29, 2022
I Telegram. My Telegram Channel: https://t.me/slantrigh2.
I subscribe to what I describe as a plethora (because I don’t
want to count) of Telegram channels.
One of those channels (sorry, can’t remember which one)
shared a Tik Tok video which I put on my Bitchute Channel under the name, “LADY
SPEAKS TRUTH NOT NEWSPEAK.” I literally have no idea who she is but it
was one of the most awesome two-minutes & 50-seconds I’ve watched in a long
time. Here is that video with the description to it:
Bitchute VIDEO: LADY SPEAKS TRUTH NOT
NEWSPEAK
Posted by SlantRight2
First published June 29th, 2022 14:44
UTC
I forwarded this to myself from
Telegram. I forgot to write which Telegram Channel. But whichever one it was,
they got it from Tik Tok. I don’t Tik Tok because of the CCP tentacles all over
that social platform. NEVERTHELESS, the young lady in this video nails the
societal hypocrisy infecting the USA and the one-time free world.
Next with Independence Day (aka The 4th of
July to the fireworks, hotdogs, apple pie, baseball clueless crowd)
looming, I’m sharing John Whitehead’s post on The Rutherford Institute
website which essentially speaks the TRUTH: Our Founding Fathers rebelled over
less tyranny from Great Britain than Americans are experiencing TODAY from
Globalist-minded Dem-Marxists. The Whitehead post elaborates much better
than I.
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Declare Your Independence from Tyranny, America
By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead
June 28, 2022
Imagine living in a country where armed soldiers crash
through doors to arrest and imprison citizens merely for criticizing government
officials.
Imagine that in this very same country, you’re watched all
the time, and if you look even a little bit suspicious, the police stop and
frisk you or pull you over to search you on the off chance you’re doing
something illegal.
Keep in mind that if you have a firearm of any kind (or
anything that resembled a firearm) while in this country, it may get you
arrested and, in some circumstances, shot by police.
If you’re thinking this sounds like America today, you
wouldn’t be far wrong.
However, the scenario described above took place more than
200 years ago, when American colonists suffered under Great Britain’s version
of an early police state. It was only when the colonists finally got fed up
with being silenced, censored, searched, frisked, threatened, and arrested that
they finally revolted against the tyrant’s fetters.
No document better states their grievances than the
Declaration of Independence, drafted by Thomas Jefferson.
A document seething with outrage over a government which had
betrayed its citizens, the Declaration of Independence was signed on July 4,
1776, by 56 men who laid everything on the line, pledged it all—“our Lives, our
Fortunes, and our sacred Honor”—because they believed in a radical idea: that
all people are created to be free.
Labeled traitors, these men were charged with treason, a
crime punishable by death. For some, their acts of rebellion would cost them
their homes and their fortunes. For others, it would be the ultimate
price—their lives.
Yet even knowing the heavy price they might have to pay,
these men dared to speak up when silence could not be tolerated. Even after
they had won their independence from Great Britain, these new Americans worked
to ensure that the rights they had risked their lives to secure would remain
secure for future generations.
The result: our Bill of Rights, the first ten amendments to
the Constitution.
Imagine the shock and outrage these 56 men would feel
were they to discover that 246 years later, the government they had risked their
lives to create has been transformed into a militaristic police state in which
exercising one’s freedoms—at a minimum, merely questioning a government
agent—is often viewed as a flagrant act of defiance. [Blog Editor Emphasis]
In fact, had the Declaration of Independence been written
today, it would have rendered its signers extremists or terrorists, resulting
in them being placed on a government watch list, targeted for surveillance of
their activities and correspondence, and potentially arrested, held
indefinitely, stripped of their rights and labeled enemy combatants.
Read the Declaration
of Independence again, and ask yourself if the list of
complaints tallied by Jefferson don’t bear a startling resemblance to the
abuses “we the people” are suffering at the hands of the American police state.
Here’s what the Declaration of Independence might look and
sound like if it were written in the modern vernacular:
There comes a time when a
populace must stand united and say “enough is enough” to the government’s
abuses, even if it means getting rid of the political parties in power.
Believing that “we the people”
have a natural and divine right to direct our own lives, here are truths about
the power of the people and how we arrived at the decision to sever our ties to
the government:
All people are created equal.
All people possess certain
innate rights that no government or agency or individual can take away from
them. Among these are the right to Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
The government’s job is to
protect the people’s innate rights to Life, Liberty and the pursuit of
Happiness. The government’s power comes from the will of the people.
Whenever any government abuses
its power, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish that government
and replace it with a new government that will respect and protect the rights
of the people.
It is not wise to get rid of a
government for minor transgressions. In fact, as history has shown, people resist
change and are inclined to suffer all manner of abuses to which they have
become accustomed.
However, when the people have
been subjected to repeated abuses and power grabs, carried out with the purpose
of establishing a tyrannical government, people have a right and duty to do
away with that tyrannical government and to replace it with a new government
that will protect and preserve their innate rights for their future wellbeing.
This is exactly the state of
affairs we are under suffering under right now, which is why it is necessary
that we change this imperial system of government.
The history of the present
Imperial Government is a history of repeated abuses and power grabs, carried
out with the intention of establishing absolute tyranny over the country.
To prove this, consider the
following:
The government has, through its
own negligence and arrogance, refused to adopt urgent and necessary laws for
the good of the people.
The government has threatened to
hold up critical laws unless the people agree to relinquish their right to be
fully represented in the Legislature.
In order to expand its power and
bring about compliance with its dictates, the government has made it nearly
impossible for the people to make their views and needs heard by their representatives.
The government has repeatedly
suppressed protests arising in response to its actions.
The government has obstructed
justice by refusing to appoint judges who respect the Constitution and has
instead made the courts march in lockstep with the government’s dictates.
The government has allowed its
agents to harass the people, steal from them, jail them and even execute them.
The government has directed
militarized government agents—a.k.a., a standing army—to police domestic
affairs in peacetime.
The government has turned the
country into a militarized police state.
The government has conspired to
undermine the rule of law and the constitution in order to expand its own
powers.
The government has allowed its
militarized police to invade our homes and inflict violence on homeowners.
The government has failed to
hold its agents accountable for wrongdoing and murder under the guise of
“qualified immunity.”
The government has jeopardized
our international trade agreements.
The government has overtaxed us
without our permission.
The government has denied us due
process and the right to a fair trial.
The government has engaged in
extraordinary rendition.
The government has continued to
expand its military empire in collusion with its corporate partners-in-crime
and occupy foreign nations.
The government has eroded
fundamental legal protections and destabilized the structure of government.
The government has not only
declared its federal powers superior to those of the states but has also
asserted its sovereign power over the rights of “we the people.”
The government has ceased to
protect the people and instead waged domestic war against the people.
The government has plundered our
seas, ravaged our coasts, and destroyed the lives of the people.
The government has employed
private contractors and mercenaries to carry out acts of death, desolation and
tyranny, totally unworthy of a civilized nation.
The government through its
political propaganda has pitted its citizens against each other.
The government has stirred up
civil unrest and laid the groundwork for martial law.
Repeatedly, we have asked the
government to cease its abuses. Each time, the government has responded with
more abuse.
An Imperial Ruler who acts like
a tyrant is not fit to govern a free people.
We have repeatedly sounded the
alarm to our fellow citizens about the government’s abuses. We have warned them
about the government’s power grabs. We have appealed to their sense of justice.
We have reminded them of our common bonds.
They have rejected our plea for
justice and brotherhood. They are equally at fault for the injustices being
carried out by the government.
Thus, for the reasons mentioned
above, we the people of the united States of America declare ourselves free
from the chains of an abusive government. Relying on God’s protection, we
pledge to stand by this Declaration of Independence with our lives, our
fortunes and our honor.
In the 246 years since early Americans first declared and
eventually won their independence from Great Britain, “we the people” have
managed to work ourselves right back under the tyrant’s thumb.
Only this time, the tyrant is one of our own making: the American
Police State.
The abuses meted out by an imperial government and endured
by the American people have not ended. They have merely evolved.
“We the people” are still being robbed blind by a government
of thieves.
We are still being taken advantage of by a government of
scoundrels, idiots and monsters.
We are still being locked up by a government of greedy
jailers.
We are still being spied on by a government of Peeping Toms.
We are still being ravaged by a government of ruffians,
rapists and killers.
We are still being forced to surrender our freedoms—and
those of our children—to a government of extortionists, money launderers and
corporate pirates.
And we are still being held at gunpoint by a government of
soldiers: a standing army in the form of a militarized police.
Given the fact that we are a relatively young nation, it
hasn’t taken very long for an authoritarian regime to creep into power.
Unfortunately, the bipartisan coup that laid siege to our
nation did not happen overnight.
It snuck in under our radar, hiding behind the guise of
national security, the war on drugs, the war on terror, the war on immigration,
political correctness, hate crimes and a host of other official-sounding
programs aimed at expanding the government’s power at the expense of individual
freedoms.
The building blocks for the bleak future we’re just now
getting a foretaste of—police shootings of unarmed citizens, profit-driven
prisons, weapons of compliance, a wall-to-wall surveillance state, pre-crime
programs, a suspect society, school-to-prison pipelines, militarized police,
overcriminalization, SWAT team raids, endless wars, etc.—were put in place by
government officials we trusted to look out for our best interests.
As I make clear in my book Battlefield
America: The War on the American People and in its
fictional counterpart The
Erik Blair Diaries, the problems we are facing will not be
fixed overnight: that is the grim reality with which we must contend.
Yet that does not mean we should give up or give in or tune
out. What we need to do is declare our independence from the tyranny of the
American police state.
ABOUT JOHN W. WHITEHEAD
Constitutional attorney and
author John W. Whitehead is founder and president of The Rutherford Institute. His
most recent books are the best-selling Battlefield America: The War on the American People,
the award-winning A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State,
and a debut dystopian fiction novel, The Erik Blair Diaries. Whitehead can be contacted
at staff@rutherford.org.
Nisha Whitehead is the Executive Director of The Rutherford Institute.
Information about The Rutherford Institute is available at www.rutherford.org.
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