Tyranny vs. Freedom

The long slow consistent erosion of our civil liberties has been going on for decades and seems to have accelerated in recent years. The article describes an excellent example of the government’s lack of accountability to the people for its actions. The problem is not a superficial aberration but the result of the exacerbation of a fundamental tension in our society which will eventually destroy the United States as we know it.

Historically, that tension has been between the progressive and traditional elements in our society. When viewed in light of political currents worldwide, they both seemed fairly centrist, capitalist, democratic, and libertarian. In fact they need to be centrist to avoid the tyrannical practices of the far right - Fascism - and the far left - Communist dictatorship.

In reaction to the alleged hypocrisy of their parents’ generation, the baby boomers coming of age in the 60’s presented a hyper-progressive alternative to the status quo. The anti-establishment movement personified by the “hippies” relied heavily on the thinking of Rousseau and Marx and declared a new independence based on the three cornerstones of an enlightened society, “Atheism, Communism, and Free Love.” This “counter-culture” movement extolled the virtues of communal life; getting “back to the garden” was idolized and encouraged.

Having made a powerful and profound statement through both peaceful and violent civil disobedience, many hippies decided that their efforts might be more fruitful by working for change within the system than against it. They went on with their lives, got law degrees and found a path into the establishment. Many of the New Left have finally risen to positions of authority. Good for them. They haven’t forgotten their original ideological tendencies.

In the meantime, the neo-conservative movement was quietly building its forces and infiltrating government, business and academia with a Globalist agenda...

Tyranny vs. Freedom

The long slow consistent erosion of our civil liberties has been going on for decades and seems to have accelerated in recent years. The article describes an excellent example of the government’s lack of accountability to the people for its actions. The problem is not a superficial aberration but the result of the exacerbation of a fundamental tension in our society which will eventually destroy the United States as we know it.

Historically, that tension has been between the progressive and traditional elements in our society. When viewed in light of political currents worldwide, they both seemed fairly centrist, capitalist, democratic, and libertarian. In fact they need to be centrist to avoid the tyrannical practices of the far right - Fascism - and the far left - Communist dictatorship.

In reaction to the alleged hypocrisy of their parents’ generation, the baby boomers coming of age in the 60’s presented a hyper-progressive alternative to the status quo. The anti-establishment movement personified by the “hippies” relied heavily on the thinking of Rousseau and Marx and declared a new independence based on the three cornerstones of an enlightened society, “Atheism, Communism, and Free Love.” This “counter-culture” movement extolled the virtues of communal life; getting “back to the garden” was idolized and encouraged.

Having made a powerful and profound statement through both peaceful and violent civil disobedience, many hippies decided that their efforts might be more fruitful by working for change within the system than against it. They went on with their lives, got law degrees and found a path into the establishment. Many of the New Left have finally risen to positions of authority. Good for them. They haven’t forgotten their original ideological tendencies.

In the meantime, the neo-conservative movement was quietly building its forces and infiltrating government, business and academia with a Globalist agenda in an antidisestablishmentarian reaction to the ground-shaking effect of the counter-culture movement. Encouraging globalization of markets, communications, and trade they have partially succeeded in creating a global community that supersedes political boundaries and is overseen by a super-wealthy oligarchy of overlord/benefactors.

The traditional roles of the Republican and Democratic parties have been quietly usurped by the Globalist and the New-Left agendas. The Republican party used to be the protector of individual liberty and traditional values, and proponents of less government and lower taxes. Today they have become the patsies for the Globalist oligarchy in its pursuit of maximizing shareholder wealth and control of markets and labor.

The Democratic party used to be the protector of the common man, the worker, labor unions, and civil liberties, even if this meant larger government and social programs. Today it has become the launching pad for the New-Left international socialist agenda of one-world government, redefinition of what constitutes a family, abolition of traditional religion, redistribution of wealth, and social engineering.

The irony of the inevitable result of the essential tension between progressive and traditional elements in society is that both the Republicans and Democrats have become advocates for authoritative global power and repression of individual freedom resulting in the disintegration of the middle class, repression of the poor, dissolution of national sovereignty, control of the media, and the maximization of power in the hands of the few at the top.

As the tabloid mentality of the American media-consuming public continues to be fed hysteria and panic through orchestrated crises, (terrorism 9-11 Fraud, immigration, epidemics, drug abuse, domestic spying, etc.) and as the moral and social fabric of our society continues to unravel, thread by thread, the increasingly dictatorial powers will justify their actions in the name of the common good and national security.

The disintegration of the traditional family, widespread recreational drug use, the burgeoning of alternative religions, disenfranchisement of the working class, redefinition of the appropriate use of our bodies, irrational xenophobia, exportation of manufacturing industries, and the disengagement of the populous from the political process combine to further the authoritarian agendas of both parties by providing a pretext for government intervention into our lives.

As each new crisis unfolds and we hand over our freedoms for the perception of security, we abandon the principles of self-determination and liberty our nation was founded on. Eventually, the authoritarian powers (of the Right or the Left) which we ourselves will have condoned, will use the extensive powers at their command to reshape society, by force if necessary, to satisfy their one-world objective of global socialism, military hegemony, social engineering, and economic dominance. The losers will be every one of us who did nothing while watching it all come to pass. It’s not a question of which party or which candidate. It is a question of tyranny vs. freedom.