\u2026working together to destroy your liberty while scaring you about the bogeyman.<\/a> You can jigger Americans into buying almost any intrusion on their rights and privacy\u2013up to and including handing the Tyrant-in-Chief the power to torture, indefinitely jail and murder you on a whim\u2013just so long as you tell people it\u2019s to defeat \u201cterror\u201d.<\/p>\nAnd the beauty of it for our Ruling Class? It will never, ever, end.<\/p>\n
Until we wise up.<\/p>\n
Why keep choosing between tyrants?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u2026working together to destroy your liberty while scaring you about the bogeyman. You can jigger Americans into buying almost any intrusion on their rights and privacy\u2013up to and including handing the Tyrant-in-Chief the power to torture, indefinitely jail and murder you on a whim\u2013just so long as you tell people it\u2019s to defeat \u201cterror\u201d. And […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[60],"class_list":["post-39578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-the-growing-police-state"],"yoast_head":"\n
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