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Happy Independence Day as America celebrates with a military parade in the capital city.If vigilance is the price of freedom, Americans need to wake up and stand up as the vise jaws close.This Can't Be HappeningUS is a Classic Empire and Is Becoming a Repressive Police State at Home Dave LindorffSee alsoThe Rutherford InsitituteIt’s Time to Declare Your Independence from Tyranny, America John W. WhiteheadAlsoAlterNetTrue patriots are rebels, not bootlickers Meteor Blades

"Look over there — Venezuela, Syria."21st Century WireGILETS JAUNES: Civilians in Police Crosshairs as Macron Adopts Totalitarian State-Practices to Suppress Dissent Vanessa Beeley

Martin Armstrong mentions the increasing tax burden on workers in Europe. He doesn't mention that the increasing tax burden results from the institutional structure of the EZ, where the member countries have ceded currency sovereignty to the ECB. As a result, these countries are no longer sovereign currency issuers and cannot self-fund. Like US states, they have to tax or borrow to spend and there are institutional limits on borrowing (deficit spending) imposed by treaty.The key point in...

A majority of the American public believe that the U.S. government engages in widespread monitoring of its own citizens and worry that the U.S. government could be invading their own privacy. The Monmouth University Poll also finds a large bipartisan majority who feel that national policy is being manipulated or directed by a “Deep State” of unelected government officials. Americans of color on the center and left and NRA members on the right are among those most worried about the reach of...

Land of the free and home of the brave, or police state?Only the judiciary stands between the government and the people in a constitutional oligarchy republic. Subversion of the judiciary is a high priority of the establishment in maintaining and extending control.FAIRJudge Tells Jury: Informing Public May Be Criminal Conspiracy Jim Naureckas

Whitehead founded The Rutherford Institute to preserve and defend human rights and civil liberties in a non-partisan way. He issues a stark warning to Americans. Unless we can learn to live together as brothers and sisters and fellow citizens, we will perish as tools and prisoners of the American police state. CounterpunchAmerica Breaks Down: The Anatomy of a National Psychosis John W. Whitehead | President, The Rutherford Institute

Krieger is correct here. Peaceful protest and nonviolent resistance are one thing, while violence and rebellion are another. Governments lawfully suppress the later.  But in present conditions, using violence to express resistance just feeds the ramping up of restrictions on civil liberties "in extremis" and growing the police/surveillance state. It's a strategic blunder unless one thinks that further imposition of a policy state will result in the public rising up to resist. That is...