The Year’s Big Stories
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It’s time to put a cap on 2013. It’s a year that, for liberty’s sake, would have best been thrown into the crapper.
The U.S. system is a totalitarianism that has over the past year
begun to lose even its veneer of benevolence. This is typical of
governments, which naturally grow, increasingly centralize power and
become more corrupt.
As countries have more and more centralized power (fascist state),
the people have less and less freedom. Propaganda is intensified, vital
information is withheld, and peoples’ expectations are manipulated.
In
reality this mind manipulation and control are nothing less than an
assault upon the mental and physical body. It is all accepted gradually —
so gradually that most of the people never become alerted to lost
freedoms.
It is this gradual, insipid assault on the people and freedom that we battle every day. That is our purpose here at
Personal Liberty Digest™.
It’s customary as each year draws to a close for media organizations
to cover the year’s big stories.
Those decisions are usually quite
subjective and are made by people living in an insular bubble of their
own design. Their ideas are generally an echo chamber of groupthink.
The wonders of the Internet allow us to use a different metric in
determining the big stories. It is you, the readers, who determined for
us what was important and what was controversial. You did so by your
responses.
What follows are the top stories based upon input you didn’t realize
you were providing. They are the stories written by me that had the
highest number of viewers. You think this isn’t the best way to list
them? Wait until you read them to decide. Most of them deal directly
with the growing fascist state.
No. 1: Viewed 53,832 Times
Proof Of A U.S. Police State
America has fast descended into a police state. The trouble is that
we want to believe in the rule of law and the system that alleges to
support and enforce it. But when reality collides with illusion, it is
too late. No matter how bad things seem, we always think that times will
get better and that government will do the right thing.
Only a few people left Germany in the early 1930s. They could clearly
see the evolving tyranny. Many who stayed thought that things would not
get so bad or that times would get better. They suffered from normalcy
bias, a form of cognitive dissonance. They paid.
The wisdom today is in being able to see what is happening and having
the vision to discern what is going to happen. Sorry. Anyone who still
believes in the illusion of the rule of law will not see reality until
it’s too late to do what is necessary to survive and keep their assets.
Today, the rule of law is what the 1 percent (the government) says it
is. The government holds the police power and the military power. Its
main purpose is to be the silent force to contain the population.
The population in the United States is well-armed. That fact does not
escape the 1 percent. That is why the 1 percent is so eager to find a
basis upon which to justify disarming the people. The armed populace is
all that stands between the people and full-blown tyranny.
To read the rest of the article, go here.
No. 2: Viewed 35,776 Times
Is Government Readying For A Shooting War Against Gun Owners?
Gun grabbing lawmakers at both the State and Federal level continue to push forward with their anti-American, anti-2
nd
Amendment, anti-gun agendas, even as more individuals, State
legislatures and manufacturers of weapons, weapons accessories and
ammunition push back. It almost seems as if the elected class is itching
for a fight.
And when one considers that the Department of Homeland Security has
contracted for 1.6 billion rounds of ammunition — much of it hollow
points or for use in sniper rifles — for its 55,000 armed agents, plus
2,717 armored personnel carriers and 7,000 select fire “personal defense
weapons,” it seems even more apparent that’s the goal. For perspective,
1.6 billion rounds is enough to fight the Iraq war for 20 years. It’s
enough to shoot every American five times. It’s 28,000 tons, or the
equivalent of three guided missile destroyers. It’s almost 30,000 target
practice rounds per armed agent — but of course, because they are more
expensive, hollow points are not used for target practice.
These purchases have long concerned many of those who pay attention.
But only the alternative media talked about it — to derision and
catcalls — until Feb. 15. That’s when
The Denver Post ran an article by
The Associated Press about the purchases. That prompted a column by Ralph Benko at
Forbes.com in which he said it’s time for a national conversation about the purchases.
More than that, it’s time for a national conversation on the link
between the purchases and the ongoing push by the elected class to
collapse the economy and pass legislation against the will of the
people.
To read the rest of the article, go here.
No. 3: Viewed 31,083 Times
Prepare For A Grid-Down Scenario
On Nov. 13-14, America’s major electricity generating companies along
with the FBI, Department of Homeland Security and government agencies
in Canada and Mexico will conduct a drill to test system responses to
cyberattacks and physical attacks on the North American electrical grid
that cause its widespread failure.
The drill is called GridEx II, and it moves the threat of a total electrical blackout that sends the country back into the 19
th century from the stuff of science fiction and/or tinfoil hattery to the mainstream. According to
The New York Times, the drill is designed to:
practice for a crisis unlike anything the real grid has
ever seen, and more than 150 companies and organizations have signed up
to participate.
“This is different from a hurricane that hits X, Y and Z counties in
the Southeast and they have a loss of power for three or four days,”
said the official in charge of the drill, Brian M. Harrell of the North
American Electric Reliability Corporation, known as NERC.
“We really
want to go beyond that.”
One goal of the drill… is to explore how governments would react as
the loss of the grid crippled the supply chain for everyday necessities.
Should the grid collapse, those with medical conditions requiring
machines to keep them alive or stable could be in trouble quickly, but
most people could easily survive without power for two or three days.
It’s not unusual for major storms to knock out power for that long. But
longer-term power outages turn into desperate situations as water and
food run low and/or generators run out of fuel. Google Hurricane Katrina
and Superstorm Sandy to see how some people fared during long-term
localized outages.
To read the rest of the article, go here.
No. 4: Viewed 31,036 Times
An Open Letter To The Elected Class Regarding Gun Control
Dear ______________:
I realize it is customary to begin missives to elected
representatives with the words Honorable Senator ______________ or
Honorable Representative ______________, but I believe that title must
be earned. Frankly, you (I am referring to you individually and to
Congress as a whole) have not done so and, therefore, do not deserve to
be addressed that way. However, the purpose of this letter is not to
criticize you, but to inform you about what is happening in the country
you were elected to serve.
According to a recent poll, Congress’ favorability ranks below lice,
cockroaches, colonoscopies and root canals. Have you for a moment
stopped to wonder why? It’s because a vast majority of Americans believe
that Congress no longer represents them, but instead represents big
corporations and, mostly, themselves and their cronies. The recent
“fiscal cliff” deal is a perfect example. It socked a tax increase on 80
percent of American workers while doling out $76 billion in government
money (which means my money) through special tax favors to large
corporations, such as General Electric, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, Morgan
Stanley and DIAGEO, and to Hollywood and green energy companies.
According to a recent column in
The Washington Examiner, Senator
Max Baucus’ (Fascist-Mont.) former staffers who are now lobbyists all
got their clients millions of dollars in special benefits from the
fiscal cliff deal. In return, Baucus received thousands of dollars in
political contributions from those companies’ political action
committees. Americans, myself included, believe this is standard
operating procedure in Washington, D.C. And there is talk that
additional tax increases on the middle class are on the way.
Upon your inauguration, you swore an oath, with your hand on a Bible,
to uphold and defend the Constitution. You have repeatedly violated
that oath by passing unConstitutional laws like the USA Patriot Act (and
subsequent extensions) and the National Defense Authorization Act,
which grants the President the authority to indefinitely detain American
citizens and suspends habeas corpus. If I’m not mistaken, these
unConstitutional laws contain provisions that in some way violate
Amendments 1, 4, 5, 6, 8 and 9. That’s quite a feat for two laws.
To read the rest of the article, go here.
No. 5: Viewed 29,619 Times
More Blood On Obama’s Hands
The overhyped and superfluous George Zimmerman trial is winding down,
and Florida’s law enforcers are growing antsy. That’s because they’re
seeing in social media and hearing from the streets that if Zimmerman is
acquitted in a trial that never should have been held to begin with,
blacks will riot and kill whites.
If there are riots and people are injured and property is damaged,
President Barack Obama and his Department of Justice will be to blame.
The blood will be on their hands.
In the wake of the Trayvon Martin shooting, Obama claimed that if he
had a son, Trayvon Martin is what he’d look like. Then the DOJ
dispatched its Community Relations Service (CRS) team to Florida to hold
“marches, demonstrations, and rallies” on Martin’s behalf. According to
documents obtained by Judicial Watch, the DOJ spent more than $3,800 to
incite racial tensions in Sanford, Fla., and oust the police chief
because Zimmerman was not charged immediately in Martin’s death. One of
the rallies sponsored by CSR was headlined by the notorious race-baiter
Al Sharpton. CSR-sponsored rallies went on for a couple of weeks; and if
sparking unrest was the goal, the money was well-spent.
To read the rest of the article, go here.
2013 
