The American Dream
Thursday, December 15, 2011
Should we just get it over with and change the spelling of America to “Amerika”?  Every single day, the United States of America is becoming more like North Korea.  In North Korea, the citizens are told that everything that they do needs to be monitored, tracked, recorded and very tightly controlled so that everyone can be kept safe.  No dissent is allowed at all.  If government officials in North Korea even suspect that you are thinking the wrong thing, your entire extended family can be shipped off to a prison camp.  And you know what?  North Korea is a pretty safe place.

There is not much terrorism in North Korea.  But why in the world would anyone ever want to live like that?  America is supposed to be a bastion of liberty and freedom, but now we are falling for the same totalitarian lies that so many other societies have fallen for throughout human history.  We are witnessing the rise of the beast system – a system of control more pervasive than anything that the world has ever seen.  We are constantly being told that the emerging “Big Brother” control grid is being put into place for “our safety”, but someday we are going to wake up in a dystopian nightmare where government tyrants have absolutely unlimited control over our lives.
Those that approve of the “Big Brother” police state control grids being constructed all over the world should really study North Korea.  That country is what the end result looks like.
North Korea is a totalitarian police state hellhole.  No rational human being would ever want to live there.  You can see an absolutely amazing National Geographic documentary on what life is like inside North Korea on YouTube right here.  If you have never seen that documentary before, it is definitely worth the time that it takes to watch it.  If we stay on our current path, our country is going to become just like North Korea.
America does not have to go down this road.  Right now nearly every nation on earth is implementing “Big Brother” security measures, but we could choose to be different if we wanted to.
Unfortunately, right now we seem to be leading the charge toward a world where liberty and freedom are absolutely dead.
The following are 11 ways that Amerika is becoming more like North Korea….
#1 It has been revealed that Predator drones are now being used inside of the United States to spy on American citizens.  These Predator drones are equipped with the latest high-resolution cameras, very sophisticated heat sensors and incredibly advanced surveillance equipment.
Predator drones can sit up in the sky and watch you for 20 hours without stopping.  If one was watching you right now you probably wouldn’t even know it.
We are accustomed to Predator drones being used in the “war on terror”, but now they are being used to watch American citizens.  The following comes from a recent article in the Los Angeles Times….
The previously unreported use of its drones to assist local, state and federal law enforcement has occurred without any public acknowledgment or debate.
Congress first authorized Customs and Border Protection to buy unarmed Predators in 2005. Officials in charge of the fleet cite broad authority to work with police from budget requests to Congress that cite “interior law enforcement support” as part of their mission.
In an interview, Michael C. Kostelnik, a retired Air Force general who heads the office that supervises the drones, said Predators are flown “in many areas around the country, not only for federal operators, but also for state and local law enforcement and emergency responders in times of crisis.”
You can see mainstream video news reports about how authorities are using Predator drones to spy on American citizens right here and right here.
#2 The Department of Homeland Security says that paying for your hotel room in cash is a sign that you could be a potential terrorist. If you do not believe this, just watch this shocking DHS video.
#3 As I have written about previously, authorities in Tennessee are going door to door conducting “assessments” of how “prepared” residents are.  The following comes from a recent news article about this new program….
The Metro Public Health and the Tennessee Department of Health will be using a tool designed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to go door to door and check to see how disaster ready you are.
The door to door assessment will take place from 3:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Thursday and from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday. It will be in 30 neighborhoods in Davidson County that have been randomly selected to be the target of a door to door assessment.
#4 Today, government authorities track nearly everything that we do.  For example, one woman in Washington D.C. has been fined $2000 for not properly recycling homemade cat litter made out of old newspapers and junk mail.
#5 Just like in the movie “Minority Report”, face tracking technology is now being used in advertising billboards all over the nation.  This type of technology is also increasingly being used for law enforcement purposes.
#6 Police are not just using tasers on hardened criminals anymore.  Now tasers are even being used on young school girls.  The following comes from a report about an incident that recently happened in Pennsylvania….
The mother of a 14-year-old Dieruff High School student has filed a federal lawsuit claiming an Allentown police officer used excessive force when he shot her daughter in the groin with a stun gun during class dismissal in September.
Victoria Geist says her daughter, Keshana Wilson, had her arms raised high to indicate she surrendered when officer Jason Ammary pointed a Taser at her on Sept. 29 outside the high school and fired, according to the lawsuit filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court by attorney Richard J. Orloski.
The suit claims Ammary fired the Taser directly at the teen’s groin and he then filed retaliatory charges against the girl to justify using the Taser.
#7 A number of very elderly women have come forward with stories of being strip-searched by TSA agents at U.S. airports.  Not even North Korea treats their elderly women like this.
#8 Americans are being watched in hundreds of different ways each day, and most of them have no idea what is happening.  For example, in Washington D.C. the movements of every single car are tracked using automated license plate readers (ALPRs).  The following comes from a recent Washington Post article….
More than 250 cameras in the District and its suburbs scan license plates in real time, helping police pinpoint stolen cars and fleeing killers. But the program quietly has expanded beyond what anyone had imagined even a few years ago.
With virtually no public debate, police agencies have begun storing the information from the cameras, building databases that document the travels of millions of vehicles.
Nowhere is that more prevalent than in the District, which has more than one plate-reader per square mile, the highest concentration in the nation. Police in the Washington suburbs have dozens of them as well, and local agencies plan to add many more in coming months, creating a comprehensive dragnet that will include all the approaches into the District.
#9 The FBI is now admittedly recording Internet talk radio programs all over the United States.  The following comes from a recent article by Mark Weaver of WMAL.com….
If you call a radio talk show and get on the air, you might be recorded by the FBI.
The FBI has awarded a $524,927 contract to a Virginia company to record as much radio news and talk programming as it can find on the Internet.
The FBI says it is not playing big brother by policing the airwaves, but rather seeking access to what airs as potential evidence.
#10 As I have mentioned previously, new high-tech street lights that are being funded by the federal government and that are being installed all over the nation can also be used as surveillance cameras, can be used by the DHS to make “security announcements” and can even be used to record personal conversations.  The following is from a recent article by Paul Joseph Watson for Infowars.com….
Federally-funded high-tech street lights now being installed in American cities are not only set to aid the DHS in making “security announcements” and acting as talking surveillance cameras, they are also capable of “recording conversations,” bringing the potential privacy threat posed by ‘Intellistreets’ to a whole new level.
#11 Congress has been debating a new bill that would officially designate the United States as part of the “battleground” on the “war on terror” and would allow the U.S. military to arrest American citizens and hold them indefinitely without trial.  According to U.S. Senator Carl Levin, it was actually Barack Obama that was pushing for the indefinite detention of American citizens to be included in the National Defense Authorization Act….
Senator Levin told Congress recently that under the original wording of the National Defense Authorization Act, American citizens were excluded from the provision that allowed for detention. Once Obama’s officials saw the text though, says Levin, “the administration asked us to remove the language which says that US citizens and lawful residents would not be subject to this section.”
The Obama administration has been attacking our civil liberties even more than the Bush administration did.
Unless something dramatic happens, at some point all of our liberties and all of our freedoms will be gone.
Thankfully we can still share information like this on the Internet, but that will not last forever.  Eventually, “hate crime laws” will be used to greatly restrict what we are able to say on the Internet.
If you don’t that that is possible, guess again.  Our northern neighbor, Canada,already has a very strict law against “hate speech” on the Internet.
So what is “hate speech”?  Well, it turns out that the people almost always targeted for their speech are libertarians, true conservatives and Bible-believing Christians.
In the United States, not too many people are being put into prison for what they say or what they believe yet, but law enforcement authorities all over the nationare being instructed to be on the look out for certain kinds of bumper stickers and certain kinds of literature.  If you do not believe that the government is specifically targeting libertarians, true conservatives and Bible-believing Christians just watch this video.
Amerika is not as bad as North Korea yet, but we are well on the way.
In a recent article for News with Views, author Paul McGuire described what the future could be like if we stay on our current path as a nation….
Low flying helicopters flew above us, aiming surveillance devices at us. Everywhere I looked, people stared vacantly like soulless zombies. Very few people could think, most just walked about in a trance. The drugs in the water supply, vaccinations and the endless bombardment of EMF waves, along with hypnotic suggestions through the media kept people in a trance-like state. I, like a few others, managed to retain my mind, by forcing myself to think critically. I discovered early on that you could choose not to enter the trance-like state. But, you had to always maintain that dead and vacant look in your eyes. If somebody thought you were thinking, they would report you and you would disappear.

Not only that, but apparently Lindsay Lohan's life is in danger, too.

Ok fine, it's a joke. Then so is your freedom lol

America stopped being free when they passed the Patriot Act, and i said so at the time. Since then, it's just been getting worse.

So what is “hate speech”?  Well, it turns out that the people almost always targeted for their speech are libertarians, true conservatives and Bible-believing Christians.

Yes, there is a double standard on university campuses and in very liberal cities, such as my hometown of Amherst, Mass.  I have spent most of my adult life around colleges and leftists and I say these places have a definite bias against the Right when it comes to "free speech."  Ann Coulter or Newt Gingrich could not give a speech at UMass even if the Republican Club could come up with the scratch.  There would be too much civil unrest.  I'm a staunch left-winger and I say "free speech" means free for everybody and not just the people you agree with.  My compatriots don't seem to understand this when they go protest a right-wing commentator or politician.

However...

In the United States in general, right-wingers say whatever they want and say it with impunity.

Rush Limbaugh called poor children "Wanton little waifs and serfs dependent on the state, pure and simple."  He made this remark on his December 13 radio program in a tirade against food aid to needy families

Only a few media watchdogs reported on it because this comment is unremarkable among despicable Limbaugh comments.

Mr. Limbaugh has his freedom of speech and I don't know what he'd have to say to make it more hateful!

(Mr. Limbaugh apparently does not know what a serf is.)

(Mr. Limbaugh apparently does not know what a serf is.)


That's OK.  

Dear Princess Celestia.  100 years ago, someone painted this...

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...and I like capitalism, but I gotta admit that the present day version of the poster is still pretty neat.

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No, really.  Let's all put on our overthinking caps...

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...and go back to Feburary 2011, when somebody considered Solidarity is Illusion: The Political Economy of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic and compare and contrast that essay (and the meme I posted) both of which date back to almost a year ago)...

with this week's episode, which just aired today (December 2011).  

I rest my case.

(Warning: If you thought that was a non-sequitur, brace yourself, because this thread's about to change direction so fast you'll get whiplash)...

More collolquially, "Tin Case!  Rested!"  

And since I can't find our canonical B-52s thread, but I was able to dig up this little thing from our board and from more than a decade ago:


Can anyone explain the phrase "Tin roof-rusted" in "Love Shack" by the B-52s? If so, you rule.

Thanks, The Princess


Dear Princess Leah,

The canonical answer to your question about the B-52s line "Tin Roof! Rusted!" in Love Shack is that it involves pregancy, based largely on Fred's exclamation of "You're what?!" at the end of the track.  We're ten years late, we're really sorry, and you're welcome :)

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The original Bill Of Rights^

The government sucks.

Oh! Look at that! I still have my freedom and the Alex Jones nuts are wrong again!!!

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We have that framed and hanging on our wall.



Cat

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Maybe its cool to hate capitalism nowadays. But trust me, communism is a lot worse. 8-P

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The original Bill Of Rights^


You might as well strike out speedy trial, witnesses, and accusations with the 1867 bill(you know, indefinite detention of "suspected" terrorists without trial, .....get this, until they declare the end of the hostilities.....whenever that's going to be). It just passed both the senate AND house of representatives(awwww, look how well the democrats and replubicians get along when it comes to spitting on the constitution). Obama said he was going to veto it but flip flopped and it is likely he will sign it into law, this guy actually suggested that the bill not contain limits for detention of US citizens. OBAMA HAVE YOU LOST YOUR GODDAMN MIND!!!!!

The government sucks.

Oh! Look at that! I still have my freedom and the Alex Jones nuts are wrong again!!!


So you believe in Freedom of Speech? ???

Maybe its cool to hate capitalism nowadays. But trust me, communism is a lot worse. 8-P


Problem is, I can't tell the difference anymore.  The Chinese have turned out to be better at capitalism than we are, and the only thing moving the markets these days is an ever-increasing series of bailouts from both Washington and Berlin.  Talk of more, and/or bigger bailouts?  Stocks go up.  Someone threatens to cut spending or funding the bailouts, stocks crash. 

(Actually, I can tell the difference.  It's just that as a capitalist, I just don't care as long as I'm on the right side of the trade :)

Problem is, I can't tell the difference anymore.  The Chinese have turned out to be better at capitalism than we are, and the only thing moving the markets these days is an ever-increasing series of bailouts from both Washington and Berlin.  Talk of more, and/or bigger bailouts?  Stocks go up.  Someone threatens to cut spending or funding the bailouts, stocks crash. 

(Actually, I can tell the difference.  It's just that as a capitalist, I just don't care as long as I'm on the right side of the trade :)
China isn't better. They have a HUGE property bubble that is just waiting to be burst.

Problem is, I can't tell the difference anymore.  The Chinese have turned out to be better at capitalism than we are, and the only thing moving the markets these days is an ever-increasing series of bailouts from both Washington and Berlin.  Talk of more, and/or bigger bailouts?  Stocks go up.  Someone threatens to cut spending or funding the bailouts, stocks crash. 

(Actually, I can tell the difference.  It's just that as a capitalist, I just don't care as long as I'm on the right side of the trade :)


Free markets not free people.  Capitalism works best when the 99% don't get a vote.  The 99% in this country have yet to realize that the 1% understand this and they no longer need your consent.  No more Will Rogers glad-handinig sugar-tit, sonny.  What's mine is mine and what's yours in mine.  Get back to the grindstone!
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China isn't better. They have a HUGE property bubble that is just waiting to be burst.


Yeah, I know.  I just wanna know when it bursts.  They might be good at capitalism, but they sure suck at fraud :)

The government sucks.

Oh! Look at that! I still have my freedom and the Alex Jones nuts are wrong again!!!


I wish this was true, I personally don't take Alex Jones or most conspiracy theories seriously but the US government really is getting more out of control with this s***, they are passing a indefinite detention bill, militarizing the police, putting robot drones in our back yard and trying to heavily censor the internet with SOPA, all these bills seem very unnecessary. If that SOPA bill passes then I think that could actually lead to a full scale revolt against the US government, that bill is sooo bad I don't know why they'd even consider it. It will surely be the end of the internet, most websites on the internet contain at least some pirated material.

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This is sooooo true! There's people who want to do nothing but live-off the Government and they show it too!

Either you work for the government...or you live on the government.

If you don't do either...you're fudgeed! Okay...I'm done ranting.

Obama has already signed the NDAA indefinite detention bill(on December 31, 2011) and it is effectively into law as of January 1, 2012.
Obama is the first president to do this(not even Bush Jr. did something like THIS but he did lay the foundation).
Obama needs to be impeached for treason.

Obama needs to be impeached for treason.


I can't think of a president since WWII that should not have been impeached for treason.
::)

I can't think of a president since WWII that should not have been impeached for treason.
::)


Even Jimmie Carter? ???