Ten Indications the United States is a Dictatorship...

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"Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely" -- Lord Acton

(Portions of article excerpted)

For a people to be free, they must first be honest with themselves, their
government, and the world at large.  History is filled with stories of free
nations that fell under the spell cast by their governments who exploited
the threat of terror.

In fact, numerous presidents in American history already have used various
specific threats to sidestep their Constitutional restraints.  Today we are
entering a nebulous world where our "enemy" cannot be defined, has no
particular allegiance to one country, and is able to adopt new leaders at
will.  Rather than encourage a sense of resilience and independence in its
citizens, America has chosen to amplify the terror threat in order to
concentrate power in the hands of the State.  The very first signpost on
this historically familiar road to tyranny is an atmosphere of hate,
suspicion, and vindictiveness.  It first begins as an outwardly directed
aggression and then rather abruptly turns inward upon itself. 

The good news is that freedom is won and lost in the hearts and minds of
men.  It is for this reason that we must state the obvious:  we have clearly
passed through the first "atmospheric" stage of approaching dictatorship,
and have now entered the second -- the open behavior of a dictatorship in
the United States.
It will never be announced on the evening news, and it is not likely to
continue under an authoritarian leader in the mold of a Stalin, Hitler, or
Mao. 

Likewise, it is not to say that Barack Obama is the first dictator of the
United States, but rather is part of a continued expansion of executive
power that is now so great that by all measures America can no longer be
called a Land of the Free ruled by We the People. 

We stand no chance of reversing this forced march by false democracy until
we understand where we are headed, who is leading us there, and for what
purpose.

1. Rule by force, not by law;

2. Crushing peaceful protest;

3. Checkpoints;

4. Citizen spy network;

5. Executive Orders;

6. Control of regulatory agencies;

7. President declares war unilaterally;

8. Torture;

9. Forced labor camps (gulags);

10. Control over all communications (propaganda);


It would appear that the United States should be a called a dictatorship
based on the above criteria.


Once the atmosphere is established, average participants need not be part of
a conspiracy, as they tend to unquestioningly go with the flow.  However, we
must acknowledge that the U.S. is in a vastly different position than
totalitarian regimes of the past, as well as her contemporaries. America has
a history that is built upon the foundation of resistance to dictators.
This memory needs to be invoked by following the protections outlined in our
founding documents, particularly the power of the states to resist Federal
tyranny.  The protections therein can be restored once we have the courage
to admit how much freedom we have lost, then refuse to succumb to a
fear-based perception of reality.  Only then will Liberty, Love and Peace
prevail!

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