Death of the Republic

America had a good run. It was a nice Republic while it lasted, but now it is turning to empire at a rate that is unprecedented. The Roman Republic at least took a few generations to fully collapse! But within a few months we are seeing laws proposed in our Congress that absolutely tear the Constitution and human rights apart!

I won’t get into what caused all of this, but simply show how bad off we are now.

Observe two pieces of legislation.

The first is this, as I hope you’ve seen around. It’s the new internet legislation bill:

http://vimeo.com/31100268

The video explains it much better than I could. I will summarize briefly the impact it would make, taking this line from what I just linked to: “Under this bill, sharing a video with anything copyrighted in it, or what sites like Youtube and Twitter do, would be considered illegal behavior according to this bill.”

Not to mention the public is overwhelmingly against this, both in personal interactions with people and in an online poll at the nonpartisan opencongress.org: 23 in favor / 1006 opposed
The overwhelming majority is against this.

BUT THIS ISSUE IS MOOT, NEXT TO THIS ONE:

http://breakthematrix.com/constitution/bill-military-detain-citizens-indefinitely/

I will summarize this one, in story form:

1. Your name has been confused with a terrorist. There needs to be an excuse, of course.
2. The Government then breaks into your house at night, which is blatantly against the Constitution but the Government currently thinks is alright unless your property is ‘secure’ which it defines as some sort of fence with a gate. Meaning, of course, The Government just can’t do this stuff to rich people! But back on topic.
3. They can haul you away to some place eerily familiar to Guantanamo Bay, which you perhaps felt badly about existing but thought necessary.
4. They will never tell you why they took you[1].
5. They will never give you a lawyer.
6. They will never assist you.
7. If it’s anything like Gitmo, they will perhaps torture you. This is all well within the realm of possibilities. We just killed an American citizen recently, without due process and completely trusting the Government’s claim that he was a terrorist. And now already the Government wants to expand that power. It took less than a year for things to devolve to this. How quickly can it keep falling? Historically, it falls fast!

The end goal, of course, is to reduce the average American’s rights against the government to zero. Sound absurd? I will quote Senator Lindsey Graham:

“The homeland is part of the battlefield and people can be held without trial whether an American citizen or not.”

YOU. An American citizen. We won our independence from the British in a bloody struggle for human rights that then lit up across the globe, perhaps making the world as obsessed with human rights as it is now. Now, the country that has been proclaimed as a light upon a hill is renouncing it all.

Our country has a fatal disease, and we must address it!
We’ve been so willing to fight for others freedoms recently, but what about our own? Will we stand up for ourselves? Will we stand for a better tomorrow?

This is the height of absurdity. We are Americans, we are supposed to stand for freedom, justice and the American way. Our “leaders” are saying the American way perverts freedom and abolishes justice.

• WAKE UP! Stop being distracted, playing dumb.
• Yes being aware is hard.
• Yes, Fighting back is hard! But it wouldn’t be hard if all of us stood together!
• Democrat, Republic. Atheist, Christian. Poor or Rich. Stop listening to the games that divide us.
• We must stand together, as Americans. We must stand now. I suggest forming groups with friends, in which you share political things. Me and some of my friends have one on facebook and it is extremely effective and better than just checking the news alone.
• Paying attention is necessary, otherwise our freedom will be taken from us. Pay attention to the news, find good sources. I will link to some at the bottom of this.

And lobby your Congressman about this! If he votes/voted for it, remember that and vote him out next election cycle.
You can contact your Congressman here: http://www.contactingthecongress.org/
Or, you can sign this petition to impeach any Congressman who voted for it:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/892/petition-to-impeach-all-senators-who-voted-for-us-is-a-battlefield-and-to-detain-us-citizens-without/

I don’t know what you will choose my friend, but for me and my house I say:    Give me Liberty, or give me death.

I’ll end with this quotation of Martin Niemöller[2]:

First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out —
Because I was not a Socialist.

Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out —
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out —
Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me — and there was no one left to speak for me.

Our last hope: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8I4EsfnUGrI

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Sources:

1. http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/04/26/some-gitmo-prisoners-held-without-any-evidence-wikileaks-reveals/
2. http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007392
3. Military Bill: http://www.opencongress.org/articles/view/2438-Read-the-Military-Detention-Bill-
4. Internet Bill: http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-s968/show

Additional videos/articles:

The Road to Serfdom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkz9AQhQFNY
They Thought They Were Free: http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/511928.html
The Roots of our Economic Troubles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGk5ioEXlIM
Whatever Happened to the Constitution? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sNWbiAMf80
Why the Meltdown Should have Surprised No one:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgMclXX5msc
Morale Boosting music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bitxwy6okn4&list=PLBC20A19D1E4AB0B9&index=11&feature=plpp_video