The Slide toward “Velvet Glove” Fascism Continues
By Pater Tenebrarum
June 07, 2015 "Information
Clearing House" -
Sometimes we get the feeling the ruling elites are
investing the laws they enact with a kind of impertinent, slap-in-your-face
black humor. How else to explain the Orwellian names given to the
liberty-crushing laws that have been put in place since the “war on terror”
started?The latest example is the misnamed “Freedom
Act”, the purpose of which appears to be to make legal what was hitherto plainly
illegal – inter alia whole-sale spying by the government on the
citizenry. The legislation has been sold to the serfs as absolutely necessary to
“prevent terror attacks”. As we have previously pointed out, the average US
citizen is statistically far more likely to die from drowning in a bathtub or
simply by falling from a chair rather than from a terror attack. No special laws
have been proposed yet to save us from the evil of bathtubs and chairs, in spite
of the danger evidently emanating from these deadly household furnishings.
Cartoon via Terrence Nowicki
Many people indeed begin to watch what they are saying once
they are aware of being under constant surveillance. As we have previously
argued, this undermines an important pillar of civilization.
Apart from the vanishingly small statistical likelihood of
actually being harmed by terrorists, it is noteworthy that such laws – the true
purpose of which is highly unlikely to be congruent with their stated purpose –
are enacted even while the government engages in activities that are bound to
worsen these statistics in the future. The so-called “war on terror” so far
actually seems to be similarly successful as the “war on poverty” and the “war
on drugs”. In fact, it appears to be ranking quite high on the list of the
biggest government boondoggles.
Since the “war on terror” started, terrorism has grown like
never before. One should expect such outcomes to some extent, but this one is
actually putting quite a few other failed government schemes to shame … via
Washington Post, click to enlarge.
To call a law the “Freedom Act” makes it sound as if freedom
were something the government generously grants to its serfs. This is not so.
Not surprisingly, upon closer inspection it looks like the new law hasn’t
improved the previous state of affairs in the slightest. Instead it has probably
made it even worse.
Just keeping in touch with the newly liberated
citizens – now and forever.
Cartoon by Walt Handelsman
Via
http://www.acting-man.com