Jeff Thomas in LRC:

The Patriot Act (Passed in 2001 and extended in in 2011 with additional controls) expands law enforcement powers and removes civil liberties and constitutionally guaranteed rights. www.renewamerica.com/columns/webster/090419

The National Defense Authorization Act, passed on 31st December, 2011, allows the indefinite imprisonment by the military of any “suspects” (including American citizens on American soil) without allowing due process of law. www.en.wikipedia.org/nationaldefenseauthorisationact

The MAP-21 Bill, which allows the Internal Revenue Service to suspend the passport rights of Americans, based on the premise that their tax obligations may be unfulfilled. www.losangeles.cbslocal.com/2012/IRSbill

The National Defense Resources Preparedness order, created in March, 2012, allows the President to take over control of all food, water, labour and industry in the US, “to promote national defense.” www.naturalnews.com/035301/Obamaexecutiveorders 30,000

Drones to fly over the US allowed by executive order, February, 2012, providing the government with an Orwellian surveillance ability and a killing capacity ranging from selected individuals to entire communities. www.wsws.org/articles/2012/jun2012/pers-j21.shtml

FEMA Interment Camps, to be constructed in every state, with 3 – 15 in each state, for an undisclosed purpose. www.americanthinker.com

Compounds to store “disposable coffins,” each with hundreds of thousands of 4-5 person coffins stored near city centres around the country. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERaw6AW7Zec

450 million hollow point bullets ordered by the Department of Homeland Security To be used domestically. (The DHS is not responsible for addressing national invasions or overseas wars; it exists solely for the control of internal disorder. Hollow point bullets are not intended for sharpshooting – they are designed specifically to maximize tissue damage.) www.articles.businessinsider.com

Comment:

If this doesn’t wake up people, I don’t know what will.

Print it out. Plaster it everywhere you can. Pass it to people who don’t read the papers, or people who only listen to Mark Levin (grrr-rrr).

I am emailing it to friends in India, who think of me with amused benevolence as some kind of  harmless loco, like one of those rural preachers scaring their flock about the second coming.

If it’s so bad, they tell me, why does everyone want to go to America? Why are people falling over themselves for a green card?

[In the last decade of liberalization, India has become one of the most pro-American countries in the world.  Pro-capitalist too, from the soaring  sales of Ayn Rand’s books there.]

So this is for all of you ammas and appas, thaathas and  paatis, annas, thambis, thangachis,  bhaiyyas who are always saying things like –

“Why do you want to blog about such things?”

“Arrey, you’re asking for  big trouble.”

“They are not going to like some foreigner writing about their government. Just stop it.”

“Probably there’s a reason if the government is doing it.”

Here’s my answer to all of you:

Green cards are not everything.  Yes, the Indian passport is one of the most restrictive in the world. Yes, the rupee has fallen recently like no other currency. Yes, there are  current cuts for hours,  continual carnage on the roads,   filth on the streets,  bureaucratic muddles that put Kafka to shame, and whole-sale corruption.  But poverty and inefficiency has its uses. The Indian government hasn’t got the resources to police the entire country as they do here. The black economy there is too powerful to be destroyed. The criminals out of power keep the criminals in power in check.  It is a murky compromise. But it is a compromise.

Here, there is no compromise.

Here, there is only the razor-edge uncompromising division between us and them,  true and false, good and evil.

Here, we cannot compromise with evil, because we cannot find it within us, only outside, out there, in the other fellow.

And so we have given evil a name and a place, and we have made an appointment to meet it. We have loaded the bullets and sharpened the knives.

We have dug the grave in which we will bury it.

Now nothing will stop us from keeping our appointment.

Even though that grave may  become our own.