People’s Republik
Recently
by Scott Lazarowitz: America’s
Self-Contradictory Constitution and Bureaucrats’ Illegitimate Monopolies
That was Ronald
Reagan’s 1984 reelection campaign slogan, which manipulated the
voters to give Reagan a second term of deficit-spending, expanding
the welfare/warfare state, and further
enlarging Big Government.
Barack Obama
will do similar manipulating of the masses.
For many decades
it has not been “morning in America,” given America’s
extreme decline, economically and culturally. Many Americans today
are dependent and ignorant, and more and more aspects of daily life
have been politicized and centralized into an increasingly frightening
and totalitarian Washington, D.C.
Many Americans
are impatient, intolerant, short-sighted, self-centered, and our
irresponsible, spend-happy Congress merely reflects the general
population.
Last Fall’s
Black
Friday shopping frenzy was a clear example of what Americans
have become.
In Washington,
Congress has continuously, selfishly and irresponsibly been voting
to raise the debt ceiling to pay for all its goodies to please the
lobbyists and in their own push for reelection. “Let my constituents’
grandchildren pay for my extravagance!” say the selfish congressmen.
The Republicans
are no different from the Democrats.
And the government
has been encouraging Americans to overspend on their credit cards,
buy homes they can’t afford, and encouraging
students to go
into debt already at age 18.
Meanwhile,
if the Republicans actually do repeal Obama’s Soviet health care
plan, they want to replace it with a Republican
version of SovietCare.
With conservatives
like this, who needs liberals?
The reckless,
clueless
Congress voted to give the President the power to have the military
arrest and detain indefinitely anyone he feels is a “terrorist”
or otherwise criminal, without being required to show evidence against
the accused. The real reason for this may very well be as a preemptive
action when America’s predictable economic
collapse and civil unrest occur.
After all,
why then did the Department of Homeland Security order hundreds
of millions of rounds of ammunition? That’s for a domestic
agency, not the military.
Because of
the War on Drugs that Obama is prosecuting,
and the sick obsession with drug users that local police neanderthals
seems to have these days, innocent middle-aged women who never harmed
anyone are being arrested and tortured for buying
Sudafed at the store.
In America
today, the progressives and liberals celebrate Barack
Obama as
a “warrior” President, by continuing to be in denial
of Obama’s daily drone bomb murders of innocent civilians overseas.
Meanwhile, the left’s Messiah cracks down on medical
marijuana users and whistleblowers
like a remorseless beast while simultaneously protecting
torturers and government agents spying on Americans.
With liberals
like this, who needs conservatives?
And the
schools now are prisons.
Many of them have police patrolling hallways.
In America
today, according to the American
Dream Blog, little pre-teen kids are being arrested and handcuffed
from school for giving another kid a wedgie, for bringing a plastic
butter knife to school, for using
perfume, and for burping
in class. A 6-year-old boy was charged with sexual
assault when playing tag.
Whatever happened
to common sense in America? What kind of teacher or school administrator
would call police on these children? When I was growing up,
no cop I ever heard of would even think of arresting a child, and
for those things.
In the government
schools, the teachers
unions want smaller class sizes and higher pay and more benefits,
for a nine-month school year. As Elizabeth Warren might say, “Good
for them!”
But teachers
don’t want to be tested and promoted based on merit and ability.
Many teachers today are themselves
poorly educated. America’s international educational ranking
has gradually sunk especially since Jimma Carter imposed the federal
Department of Education on us.
When I was
in school, we had large classes, and teachers were in control. We
didn’t have teachers and school administrators and parents drugging
their kids up on Ritalin and SSRIs, and other poisonous, mind-altering,
behavior-altering drugs back in the dark ages of civility, respect
for others and an encouragement to learn.
And now there
are anti-bullying
and zero tolerance policies, pushed by ignoramuses and control freaks
who have no common sense at all.
But some school
districts and state legislatures are trying to reform
their “Zero Tolerance” policies. Here’s my way of
reform: Abolish government schools completely!
And so many
people now seem to be paranoid and think that any stranger is a
potential child molester, and people are so sensitive now that if
you say the wrong thing, you’ll be accused of harassment or worse.
I would never be a teacher now out of fear of false accusations
or lawsuits. Much of the idiocy in today’s America is due to the
politicization and centralization of education. There is no more
freedom of thought, freedom of conscience or freedom of expression.
And God forbid
one might walk down a neighborhood street alone where there are
kids, our of fear of being viewed as “suspicious.” With
the DHS “If
You See Something, Say Something” campaign, everyone is
suspicious of everyone else, and you can’t trust your neighbors
anymore. Not because they might molest your children or steal your
lawn furniture, but because they might report you to local government
bureaucrats as “suspicious,” or for doing something on
your own property without
a government-bureaucrat’s permission.
And these days
with the growth of government and its intrusions into every intimate
aspect of our everyday lives, one is viewed as “suspicious”
for wanting to homeschool one’s kids or for refusing vaccines. Government
Child Protective Services (sic) social workers and the police
own your children. If a neighbor thinks something in your
home is “suspicious,” watch out! Based on false accusations,
your kids can be taken
away and abused by government bureaucrats. Was there always
a little Hitler or Stalin in these government bureaus
all across America?
Just a few
decades ago, we never would have thought that a “Child Protective
Service” could be so corrupt that it would involve itself in
child sex trafficking. The late Georgia state senator Nancy
Schaeffer’s investigation into these things may have cost her
her life.
America’s popular
culture and Hollywood have also contributed to the decline of our
society, and the elites have targeted the children. It is the cultural
and political elites who are the biggest threats to the children,
certainly not everyday parents and average Joes.
And when
did so many things in America become so sexualized? Why do so many
parents these days seem to allow their little pre-teen girls to
wear those skimpy little clothes, revealing a lot of skin and making
them look like sluts? And at the same time, kids get arrested for
merely hugging a friend in school! What a sick, backwards, demented
society America has become!
In America
today, police are strip
searching people who have been arrested for overdue parking
tickets, for walking a dog without a leash, and other minor “offenses,”
and the Supreme
Court said this kind of treatment by perv-cops toward innocent
civilians is okay.
The
TSA is now well known for its workers’ sexual molesting of little
children and disabled elderly Americans. The TSA has been committing
sex-related crimes against innocent civilians for several years
now at the airports, and are now moving on to commuter
rail and buses, and local bus routes where the misfits
and hooligans harass innocent commuters.
The U.S., as
Naomi Wolf has
asserted, now uses sexual humiliation as a political tool to
control the masses. I can’t believe that there would have been one
Supreme Court justice just 30 or 40 years ago who would have approved
of strip searching innocent civilians arrested for minor offenses.
Perhaps those justices who lived through the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s,
and who knew of Hitler and Stalin’s sick abuses of the civilian
population, would have seen the handwriting on the wall if such
a strip search case appeared before them.
If Obama declares
martial
law and directs the military to arrest and detain protesters
and critics of the government (a.k.a. “terrorists”) –
an order sure to be approved by those lettered imbeciles of the
Supreme Court – how safe will we and our children be when many members
of the military have no problem with sexually
assaulting their own
comrades?
Supreme
Court justices in times past were well educated and informed
in history. But it is very hard to believe that today’s Supreme
Court who claim to believe in “original intent” would
actually know original intent if they fell over it.
“The Fourth
Amendment? What’s that?”
“The Fifth
Amendment? Never heard of it.”
“Inalienable?”
(Crickets.)
In America
today, many good cops who protect innocent civilians from the bad
cops’ barbaric violence are punished. As William Grigg observed,
the good cops are “targeted for the unforgiveable offense of
‘crossing the Blue Line’ by taking the side of a Mundane being attacked
by a member of the Brotherhood.” Was it always this way? (No,
because in times past, most people had a sense of morality.
But not today, alas.)
Cops used to
be protective of innocent civilians. But nowadays, so many of them
seem to enjoy harassing and bullying innocent civilians, male and
female. The neanderthals seem to get off on it. Many cops these
days are getting away with actual crimes, while their comrades come
to their defense.
These
University of California, Davis campus police officers just
nonchalantly pepper-sprayed protesters sitting peacefully on the
ground. I can’t see how anyone could do that to people. In the old
days, I don’t think that cops or university police would have done
that. If protesters were asked to leave and they didn’t leave, then
usually the cops physically removed them (and usually without
causing too much harm). But spraying pepper spray in their faces?
What kind of sick sadist would do that?
On
May Day 2012, some Occupy protesters, observing May Day with protests
and occupying, had already experienced just how much like the Soviet
Union and Nazi Germany America has become, especially
in New York.
This “Us
vs. Them,” government
vs. civilians attitude has become quite prominent, especially since
9/11. People with government and police authority have been given
such artificial authority, and it seems to go to their heads. Many
of them act like Nazis now.
“It’s
morning in America” for the power-grabbing
politicians, bureaucrats and armed police, especially now that
they are getting their FEMA
camps in place, and have ordered their hundreds
of millions of rounds of ammunition for DHS.
America is
a banana republic basket case, and the real psychopaths and lunatics
are the rulers and their minions and brownshirts.
Can innocent,
peace-loving, freedom-loving civilians survive in this People’s
Republik of Amerika in the case of total economic collapse, food
shortages, civil unrest, and martial law?
Or is there
some sort of alternative
way to handle the societal
and cultural decline and totalitarian centralization
that are taking us down?
May
3, 2012
Scott
Lazarowitz [send him
mail] is a commentator and cartoonist, visit his
blog.
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