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This grant is the epitome of this quote:

The illusion of freedom in America will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater. -Frank Zappa

The gloves have come off. The stage-play has concluded. The government is coming for us.

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The most infuriating part is they are using the tax dollars citizens pay to oppress those same citizens.

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I look forward to meeting all of you in the waiting area for Room 101.

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Sep 15·edited Sep 17

I am not now, nor have I ever been a 9/11 Truther or similar, but I will say that 9/11 proved hella convenient.

Before 9/11, anything like the so-called "Patriot Act" would have been a non-starter. Biden proposed something similar in the 1990s and his proposal sank like a stone.

On 9/12, Americans could not surrender their civil liberties quickly enough.

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Our rulers no longer fear us. That's why they're letting us see what they're doing to us.

The display is meant to frighten us into submission.

Sadly many of us have already succumbed, some quite eagerly.

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Minority Report 2: Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention

You will be arrested if precogs detect Wrongthink Precrime

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Thank you, everyone who thought Reagan was a great President and who didn't manage to notice he was just another happy helper guiding America along the road we find ourselves trapped on now.

I was only a tot when Eisenhower was elected and too young, by the end of his term, to understand that he was the greatest President of my lifetime in his understanding of the world and of his nation and what forces were gathering themselves to ensure no political party would ever matter again.

Of course, he wasn't entirely all-seeing. He signed the National Highway Act and that was the beginning of the destruction of neighborhoods, small towns and local food production anchoring the strength of communities. But at least he was an honest man.

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That kind of monitoring and control never ends well. Stasi? Cheka? So many to choose from, and they all end the same.

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I realized how far down the road to serfdom that we have traveled when Edward Snowden made his disclosures and he wasn’t immediately recognized as a hero and protector of our Constitutional rights.

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I'm sure I'd wind up on that list for suggesting that we do what the mainstream left and democrat politicians do to us: moralize and racialize current events. Like vaccine injuries for instance - you know, "These were Tuskegee experiments 2.0. No justice no peace."

Apparently this is why I pay taxes. So that I can finance relentless "two legs good, four legs bad" politics, then be censored and surveilled for advocating reciprocity.

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They're planning to plant chips in your little pet pussycat...... so they can monitor your 'extreme' conversations in your living room. You heard it here first.

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We have similar idiocy in the UK too, an organisation called "Prevent", which, although the vast majority of terrorist problems are caused by the good old "Religion of Peace", have somehow concluded that the problem is mainly due to Right wingers.

They have a list of "indicators" which include reading C S Lewis' "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" and watching ex-MP Michael Portillo's TV series of "Great British Railway Journeys".

Meanwhile they gave one of the top stars of their much-vaunted de-radicalisation program Usman Khan a trip down to London as reward for his sterling performance, and he promptly stabbed the two top de-radicalisers to death.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usman_Khan_(terrorist)

You couldn't make this stuff up.

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tuckers chat with the argentine fella really showed up whats going on in the US and the democrats

if you havent seen it yet, its been seen a lot. 343m views so far

https://x.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1702442099814342725?s=20

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Monitoring EGM will be its own separate funding stream.

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Lol, Gato, they're looking for me! And most of your readership, and Jeff Childers' readers, and Dr. McCullough's, and Mike Yeadon's, and Naomi Wolf's, and and and.

And most especially those people who support Children's Health Defense or ICAN or Millions Against Mandates or #ExitTheWHO, or read EPOC Times or listen to OMG or "The Resistance" in all its various forms......

😁

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The obsession with safety and doing something about "extremism" is getting old...

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