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America is Gone. Welcome to Police State Amerika

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This isn't all of what we are going through. It's now illegal to protest on in certain cases. If a person is arrested for this innocuous act, IT'S A FELONY.

HR 347 is a modification from Senate bill S. 1794, which restricted people from entering or blocking public areas that have been closed off by Secret Service while a person under their protection is passing through. The law also included major public events, such as the Inauguration and Presidential campaigns.

"The bill expands current law to make it a crime to enter or remain in an area where an official is visiting even if the person does not know it's illegal to be in that area and has no reason to suspect its illegal."

This is really getting creepy. This new law violates our First Amendment rights. It states there;

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

 

Can you see where we are going here? This phony "War on Terrorism" is just a way to strip Americans of their civil liberties. We can sit idly by as they create a police state, they meaning those in this corrupt government and those that are not elected but have been in government behind the scenes, that do the will of the rich and corporate America, including the military-industrial- complex that President Eisenhower warned us about.

 

Yes, all of this is happening. Today I talked to a man named Dave here in South Carolina, a member of the Tea Party. I told him that I'm way to the left and he then told me that he doesn't care about left or right, he's worried about the government taking away our rights. He said that he's tired of labels and that we should just consider ourselves American. We talked for a while, and at the end of the conversation I asked him what we could do about all of this. He looked at me with quite an angry face. "They won't listen; the only thing that they will understand is this". Then he put his hand up and had his thumb cocked and his index finger pointing straight out.

Maybe he is right, maybe not; I really don't know how this will all end. All that I know is that if the government and all of their allies can't defeat the few thousand ragtag Taliban in Afghanistan, how would they contain an insurrection in the third most populous nation on Earth? According to records, this is the nation with more privately owned weapons than any nation on the planet.

 

The Government needs to back off. The nation is simmering. Every day more and more people see through all the smoke and mirrors and see exactly what path we are heading for and most Americans don't want it. According to a Fox News Poll, 78% of Americans are against the war in Afghanistan, but our government persists against the will of its own people!

 

We as a nation are heading down the wrong road. I'm tired of couching my words; most Americans are sick and tired of the crap coming out of Washington DC. Many don't give a flying f**k about this election. Most people despise both candidates. The numbers rise every day.

 

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Tim Gatto is Ret. US Army and has been writing against the Duopoly for the last decade. He has two books on Amazon, Kimchee Days or Stoned Colds Warriors and Complicity to Contempt.

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