Peter B. Collins Presents Rep. Mark Pocan With the USA Patriot Act expiring in a few months, Rep. Mark Pocan has introduced the “Surveillance State Repeal Act”, which would completely repeal the 2001 Patriot Act, the 2008 FISA amendments and put limits on Executive Order 12333. We discuss the failure of the weak “USA Freedom […]
We’ve had more than enough Revelations …and the American Majority has spoken
The American Majority & Its Deadly Chronic Disease Called Apathy They say we need more revelations. I say we have had more than enough revelations on synthetic wars, atrocities, surveillance and torture. They wonder when the majority of Americans are going to speak up. And I say: The American Majority has already spoken—loud and clear. […]
The EyeOpener- National Security Letters
Eviscerating the Constitution Since 1978 The passage of the Patriot Act in October 2001 is by now an all-too-familiar story. The American people, already suffering from the trauma of 9/11, were pushed into outright panic by the anthrax attacks, a series of anthrax-laced mailings that killed five, injured 17 and shut down Congress for the […]
The EyeOpener- Resisting the Police State: Solutions & Answers
Leveling the Playing Field between the Oppressor & the Oppressed With TSA abuses back in the headlines, continued concern over the NDAA and other legislation codifying martial law, President Obama’s unchallenged use of his self-proclaimed authority to assassinate American citizens without trial, and an increasingly bewildering array of tracking, tracing and pain-compliance technology being used […]
The EyeOpener- Police State International: The globalization of Control
Consolidation & Leveraging of Power in the Hands of a Select Few With the National Defense Authorization Act, the Enemy Expatriation Act, and other startling measures by the US government to crack down on their own population making headlines around the world at the moment, the idea of an American police state is becoming an […]
The EyeOpener- Police State 2012: No Need to Wait, It’s Already Here
The Real Key to Dismantling Our Police State One of the greatest problems in talking about the police state is that all such discussion of the subject is hampered by the lack of a clear-cut definition. Given the public’s own ignorance of the true nature and function of a police state, story after story after […]
A Major Fallacy in Liberty Advocates’ Argument
It is not Give & Take: It is Take-Take & Give-Give I cringe every time I read or hear this self-defeating fallacy repeatedly used in almost all arguments and advocacies intended to counter our government’s assault on our liberties. I know those who use this fallacy, whether a lone-wolf noble politician, enlightened commentators, or civil […]
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