Pay-to-play schemes. Protection rackets. Extortion. Corruption. Self-enrichment. Graft. Grift. Brutality. Roaming bands of thugs smashing car windows and terrorizing communities. Immunity for criminal behavior coupled with prosecutions of whistleblowers.
America today would terrify the Founding Fathers. Armed troops roam the streets of major cities, masked government agents arrest people without probable cause and disrupt the public speech that the president hates and fears, and the president kills foreigners on the high seas whom he says might commit crimes should their small speedboats miraculously make it 1,500 miles to the United States.
Yesterday, November 12, the same day I published my article about the threat AI poses to humanity, Peter Koenig reached the same conclusion, “The Digital Gulag Is the Guillotine for a Sovereign Humanity.”
“The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don’t. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything... It’s called the American Dream, ‘cause you have to be asleep to believe it.”—George Carlin
Gen Z protesters played a central role on Saturday in protests that broke out across Mexico to reject the government’s lackluster effort to crack down on crime and corruption inside the country.
America has been backsliding into kleptocratic territory for years now, but this may finally be it.
Monsters don’t always come wrapped in the trappings of horror or myth. Most often, monsters in the real world look like ordinary people.
In the aftermath of the murder of Charlie Kirk, many folks who dared to express views of him and his work outside the mainstream lost their jobs, professional standing and State Department visas as they were fired or otherwise disciplined by employers or bureaucrats who concluded that anti-Kirk views could harm the employers’ businesses or were inconsistent with institutional values.
“Brother, I am American. You are twisting my arm.”— Man shouts “I am American” while ICE agents detain him
For most Americans, and certainly for baby boomers, we remember the first major exposé before Congress during the Church Committee hearings, when William Colby, the head of the CIA admitted under oath that the agency had its tentacles in much of the American mainstream media and promulgated bogus stories for citizens to consume.