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Why Write About Foreign Policy? – Antiwar.com Original

Posted by M. C. on April 12, 2018

“War is the health of the State” said the great liberal Randolph Bourne: what’s telling is that his statement is totally unintelligible to today’s “liberals,” who glory in the health of the State. That’s how far we have come down the road to serfdom.

https://original.antiwar.com/justin/2018/04/11/why-write-about-foreign-policy/

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After all, why write about foreign policy at all? Why is it so important? And what does it have to do with libertarianism, the philosophy of limited government, free markets, and individual freedom?

The answer is fairly simple: we can’t have an empire and a republic at the same time. It is one or the other. Read the rest of this entry »

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Spy Court Finds Surveillance Operating Outside The Law – PaulCraigRoberts.org

Posted by M. C. on January 23, 2018

Whether the Republicans on the Intelligence Committee will use the facts to bring the police state under control or wimp out on “national security” concerns, as Republicans tend to do, remains to be seen

What is your guess?

https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2018/01/22/spy-court-finds-survelliance-operating-outside-law/

The NSA, CIA, and FBI are criminal organizations that should be abolished and their leaderships imprisoned. Here is proof from the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court that security agencies have been operating outside the law:https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/icotr/51117/2016_Cert_FISC_Memo_Opin_Order_Apr_2017.pdf Read the rest of this entry »

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Macy’s Parade Security Used to Promote Surveillance and Police State | The Daily Bell

Posted by M. C. on November 28, 2017

What the article does not mention is that all this government efficiency was present at the Boston Marathon a few years ago.

Actually training for the disaster they were trying to prevent…or accommodate depending on your point of view.

http://www.thedailybell.com/news-analysis/macys-parade-security-used-to-promote-surveillance-and-police-state/

There are plenty of bad laws that these hidden officers and surveillance might enforce. But apart from that, this is just getting people used to the idea of being watched. We don’t know what kind of crazy laws the government might make down the road. And at that point, it will be too late to do anything about the police state. The cameras will see the crime, no matter how trivial. The police will enforce the laws however oppressive. Read the rest of this entry »

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The Growing Surveillance State

Posted by M. C. on August 22, 2011

Glenn Greenwald, the lone beacon of light at Salon.com, talks about the increasing government suppression of dissent.  For another example see here.

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