A State Of Martial Law: America Is A Military Dictatorship Disguised As A Democracy
_Authored by John and Nisha Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute,_ (https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/a_state_of_martial_law_america_is_a_military_dictatorship_disguised_as_a_democracy)
> **_“What country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?”_**
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> _\- Thomas Jefferson_
**The government is goosestepping all over our freedoms.**
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)Case in point: America’s founders did not want a military government ruled by force. Rather, **they opted for a republic bound by the rule of law: the U.S. Constitution.**
Yet sometime over the course of the past 240-plus years that constitutional republic has been transformed into a military dictatorship disguised as a democracy.
**Most Americans seem relatively untroubled by this state of martial law.**
Incredibly, when President Biden bragged (https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2023/06/20/remarks-by-president-biden-at-a-campaign-reception/) about how the average citizen doesn’t stand a chance against the government’s massive arsenal of militarized firepower, it barely caused a ripple.
As Biden remarked at a fundraising event in California, _“I love these guys who say the Second Amendment is—you know, the tree of liberty is water with the blood of patriots. Well, if \[you\] want to do that, **you want to work against the government, you need an F-16 (https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2023/06/20/remarks-by-president-biden-at-a-campaign-reception/). You need something else than just an AR-15**.”_
The message being sent to the citizenry is clear: there is no place in our nation today for the kind of revolution our forefathers mounted against a tyrannical government.
**For that matter, the government has declared an all-out war on _any_ resistance whatsoever by the citizenry to its mandates, power grabs and abuses.**
By this standard, 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.
**This is no longer the stuff of speculation and warning.**
For years, the government has been warning against the dangers of domestic terrorism (http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/19/politics/terror-threat-homeland-security/), erecting surveillance systems (http://www.cbsnews.com/feature/nsa-surveillance-exposed/) to monitor its own citizens, creating classification systems (https://theintercept.com/2014/07/23/blacklisted/) to label any viewpoints that challenge the status quo as extremist, and training law enforcement agencies (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/16/opinion/the-other-terror-threat.html) to equate anyone possessing anti-government views as a domestic terrorist.
A 2008 Army War College (http://www.rawstory.com/news/2008/Report_Military_may_have_to_quell_1229.html) report revealed that “widespread civil violence inside the United States would force the defense establishment to reorient priorities in extremis to defend basic domestic order and human security.” The 44-page report goes on to warn that potential causes for such civil unrest could include another terrorist attack, “unforeseen economic collapse, loss of functioning political and legal order (http://www.rawstory.com/news/2008/Report_Military_may_have_to_quell_1229.html), purposeful domestic resistance or insurgency, pervasive public health emergencies, and catastrophic natural and human disasters.”
Subsequent reports by the Department of Homeland Security to identify, monitor and label right-wing and left-wing activists and military veterans (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/8/6/1117242/-Remember-the-DHS-Right-Wing-Extremist-Report) as extremists (a.k.a. terrorists) have manifested into full-fledged pre-crime surveillance programs. Almost a decade later, after locking down the nation and spending billions to fight terrorism, the DHS concluded that the greater threat is not ISIS (http://insider.foxnews.com/2015/02/21/leaked-dhs-reports-greatest-threat-us-national-security-domestic-right-wing-extremists) but domestic right-wing extremism.
Rounding out this profit-driven campaign to turn American citizens into enemy combatants (and America into a battlefield) is a technology sector that is colluding with the government to create a Bi…
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