by Joseph Rittenhouse —
What befuddles me is that so many people cannot see the coming darkness about to shroud our country.
Inch by inch our civil liberties are being obliterated by a force that cannot be resisted or diverted.
America is being turned into a police state, with surveillance a way of life and an acceptance of the creation of a faux army that answers to no one but themselves. They now walk through our communities, masked, fully armed in riot gear, stopping anyone they wish, communicating their dominance over us and the fact that they could do what they wish with the full authority of the law behind them.
They are being offered $50 grand a pop to become one of these elite overseers with unbelievable benefits and salaries up to $110 grand with prior experience. They are not soldiers. They are not police. They are agents with special powers and privileges, and the sway they have over us common citizens will only expand to the point where no American citizen has anything to say about it and can be detained at will.
The occupying force in our country, now being expanded at breakneck speed, will soon have the ability to shut down and arrest anyone in the media—including social media—that dares to criticize the current administration.
The giant detention centers being built across the country are not just for the unfortunate illegal immigrants, but for any one of us that dares in the future to complain about what is happening.
It’s down on the ground if you are brown, and this is only the beginning.
How easily we have been convinced that our country is under siege by criminals and even communists. Trembling, we sit in front of our devices, being fed the lies that will lead us like sheep to the shearing factories and the butchering. Weep, America, because in the not-too-distant future our freedoms will be as extinct as the dinosaurs.
And yet, there are signs already here that the machine is grinding faster. Cameras on every corner, drones overhead, algorithms reading our every word, and files quietly being built on ordinary citizens who have done nothing but speak their mind. The walls are closing in, and when we finally realize it, it will be too late.
What will it take for people to awaken? Do they not see the road ahead? Families torn apart, neighbors whispering against neighbors, livelihoods destroyed because someone dared to question authority. It begins in shadows, in silence, and ends in chains. History has shown us this pattern over and over, but we seem determined to repeat it.
The question is not if—it is when. When will we finally admit that freedom is being strangled before our eyes? When will we remember that liberty is not granted by governments but defended by people willing to stand, to speak, to resist?
The time is short, the warnings clear, and still so many choose not to look.
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Right on Joseph! ICE and DHS have become nothing more and nothing less than King Trumps personal Gestapo. One only need look no further than the Abrego Garcia case. His lawyers proved he was wrongfully deported just for being brown and now they are so infuriated that actual law took precedence in his case that they are threatening and terrorizing he and his family with his imminent illegal deportation to Uganda solely out of punishment for his wrongful and illegal first deportation to El Salvador’s gulag becoming a public outcry that brought attention to what is really going on with the Administration’s unconstitutional and illegal detention and deportation of people based solely upon skepticism upon color.
Yes they have managed to deport some bad dudes who happen to be of color but what about the many many more bad dudes who are anti government heavily armed and extremely violent White Supremacist, Biker gangs and historically violent anti government militias? Is it because they align with the Administrations White Nationalist agenda? You bet your bippy it is!
That dark cloud you mentioned has been lingering since the inception of our country where White Nationalists committed violent and horrific genocide against America’s rightful owners, enslaved tortured and beat blacks and Hispanics to build their Wealthy White empire like the Egyptians and Romans did with their slave laborers. We’ve permitted Neo Nazi’s and Klan members great latitude when it comes to investigating and prosecuting them as the old FBI and ATF attempted to do in the 90’s which is precisely why they all voted for King Trump! Because they know under his Criminal Administration they will basically have immunity from any crimes they commit against minorities. Just as M’erica’s wealthy Oligarchs did in order to protect the wealth they have acquired off of the backs of modern day minimum wage no rights granted employees who are predominantly of color.
Our country has become the laughing stock of the world since Dump destroyed any semblance of Democracy and legitimate government that we used as a weapon for decades against tyrants and DICKtators like Dump who oppressed its own citizens or their neighboring countries by military force as Dump has begun doing in LA, DC and now Chicago. It violates the constitution as well as state sovereignty to use Federal Troops as a political weapon. They know this full and well but since they have a majority in the very corrupt and lying MAGA judges of the SCOTUS and have been granted an unprecedented privilege of full immunity, they don’t give a damn what the constitution says so long as it is to their benefit.
It is un American un Democratic and absolutely appalling to see our country go down the same road as the Confederacy and Nazi Germany did!
Shame on every single one of these criminals!
Keep on Keeping on Joseph! They all need to be reminded on a daily basis about what they have done and are doing being insanely wrong and criminal regardless of their lame “alternative facts” defense of their crimes!