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Gotcha is a game played by almost everyone. Whether its the neighborhood teens shooting paintballs around, college kids throwing water balloons at each other, weekend warriors involved in war games or tech lovers playing lazar tag, the game never seems to go out of style. Hardcore Gotcha fans know that the best way to win is to fake out the competition. This is a lesson that the U.S. Government seems to have learned and put to good use.

As a person who still holds the record for the highest score on a Civics Exam in the State of Florida, I think I know a bit about politics and government. Ive tried to share what I know and have observed over the years with mixed results. Few listened when I wrote my first article about how the government was playing both political sides against the middle in the late 1980s. Some were beside themselves with anger after I wrote an early 1990s article stating that people like Rush Limbaugh (conservative) and Mario Cuomo (liberal) were delivering the same message. That message was to stay preoccupied with side issues while the Republicans and Democrats in Washington lunched together on our dime, laughed about the elimination of our freedoms and consolidated their power over us.

Just before the 1994 Congressional Election, I wrote a series of essays detailing how it didnt matter whether you voted for Republicans or Democrats. That really angered people, but the proof of my points came when the Democrats were swept from power and nothing happened. Apart from not having to watch Henry Waxman drone on about tobacco in endless hearings, or listen to Ted Kennedy play up to the TV cameras by harassing congressional witnesses that hadnt killed anyone while drunk driving, what changed after that election? Were our rights restored? Did we suddenly feel any safer than we did before?

Instead of changing things for the better, Republicans immediately voted to give more power to federal agents and local police so that little things like search warrants wouldnt get in their way. Their argument was that agents and other law enforcement officers needed these new police powers to stop the flow of drugs in federally funded low-income housing units. And although it sounds noble, what the heck does that have to do with the vast majority of U.S. Citizens that do NOT live in federally funded low-income housing units? Has it stopped or even lessened the flow of drugs anywhere? Since drug abuse has spread like wildfire over the past decade in major cities and now infects most rural areas as well, Im guessing the answer is NO.

For as long as I can remember, Politicians have tried to find excuses to consolidate federal powers and limit liberty. Its like a crusade for them. Why? Because despite their own political preferences, both conservatives and liberals believe that Americans are just too stupid to make important political decisions for themselves. They are part of a generation indoctrinated (or I should say infected) with the notion that our Country should be run by those intellectually capable of doing so. These are theories that have been pressed at every major college and university in America and elsewhere for the past one hundred years.

The ideas that fuel the removal of our freedoms involve more than intellectual snobbery. Candidates placed on the inside track to political stardom have deep connections with secret societies that control the military and industrial complex we were cautioned about by President Eisenhower. He offered this warning in a speech given in 1961:

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

The recent excuses for taking away our freedoms have ranged from protecting children to thwarting terrorists. Despite all the legal limitations placed on us, children are less safe and terrorists are still killing Americans in America. Despite all the spin placed on mall and school shootings, car attacks and small plane crashes, terrorists are very active within our borders. And why not? We practically throw out the WELCOME mat for them to come and kill us. While tens of thousands cross the southern border of the United States without legal permissions and defy us to stop them, Uncle Sam is too busy targeting U.S. Citizens that refuse to accept his Big Brother mindset to stop them. The case of Ed and Elaine Brown is a good example.

The Browns are tax protestors from Plainfield, New Hampshire, that have been on the federal government radar for some time. Apart from refusing to pay their taxes, Im guessing that the targets painted on their backs by the feds are there because they spoke out against tyranny and made successful arguments against taxation without representation. Regardless of the cause, there are now hundreds of local, state and federal law enforcement officers camped out near their property.

Its obvious that what was supposed to be a simple seizure of their property for the value of unpaid taxes was always meant to be something more and an object lesson to anyone that decides to defy government on any level. The first signs of trouble were noticed by Danny Riley. He was walking Ed Browns dog when confronted by Federal Marshals. After shooting several rounds at him, cooler heads must have prevailed as Danny was Tasered and arrested.

Shifted between law enforcement agencies, the task force threatened and harassed but failed to get Riley to act as a decoy while heavily armed forces surrounded Browns property and tried to make an incursion. Instead, they released him and temporarily backed off from the planned assault. Despite grave danger to himself, Riley came forward and spread the news of his experience as best he could. At he same time, the few national news gathering organizations that have bothered to cover this event have characterized the Browns typical suburban house as a fortified concrete compound.

The CBS News take on this event seems to be their concern for the safety of the hundreds of law enforcement agents ready to attack the Browns with everything from submachine guns to tanks. That spin is reminiscent of the unbelievably slanted coverage offered to the public in 1993 when the feds attacked the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas. At that time no one seemed especially interested in the safety of the children that were about to be murdered there. Instead, the media described them as the illegitimate offspring of David Koresh, the Davidian Leader, leaving us with the impression that they had no right to live.

While the feds have had lots of success when it comes to finding Americans who JUST SAY NO to tyranny, they seem unable or unwilling to locate and detain illegal aliens that represent a grave threat to national security and the safety of U.S. Citizens. Instead, they create threats allegedly posed by elderly American Moslems who came here legally and are more likely to be Driving Miss Daisy around in a taxicab than blowing up fuel depots at JFK Airport.

The recent arrests of a few elderly men said to be part of a larger scheme to blow up fuel tanks at JFK Airport in New York City was accompanied by an over-the-phone press conference that seemed more than a bit out of the ordinary. Im guessing that no one involved with that embarrassment wanted their faces on TV at the time. As more details came out, their lack of desire for media exposure was easily understood. It seems that a government informant that was promised relief from some drug charges all but talked the accused men into planning an attack out at JFK.

With few funds, no plan or even so much as a firecracker to carry the act, the entire event has become an embarrassment to law enforcement and rightfully so. If were unwilling to seal our borders and admit that we are unable to keep crazy people from being hired for positions that allow them access to the innards of our airports, WHAT THE HELL IS THE POINT??? I am the only sane person left in this nation that sees the huge gulf of pointless effort that endlessly oozes out from Washington as mere window dressing? Lets face it, the future of this Country was written long ago by George Orwell.

A quick read of his novel, 1984, will give you an amazing look into predictions made by Eric Arthur Blair (Orwell was his pen name) in the late 1940s. These included the creation of a politically-correct language, population control brought about by warnings against having sex and contracting deadly diseases, thought police, the revision of history, constant surveillance by authorities and an endless feed of audio-video information designed to brainwash people into believing that government had their best interests at heart.

As a British Author at odds with the University Thought Factories in the UK that were turning out socialist scholars like the Cambridge Five Soviet Spy Ring, Eric Blair was firmly anti-Stalinist. More importantly, he foresaw the horrendous and abusive tactics of Stalinism as being a bit too attractive to Western Democracies. If we begin to use the tactics of our enemies on our own people in the name of freedom, we become the enemy of liberty and the distributor of tyranny.

The primary lesson learned from 1984 is a simple one. Never allow a small group of power brokers to gain control by changing a stable constitution created to promote democracy into an ever-changing document that supports alleged social progress. Power is as addictive as any dangerous drug and those that have it are likely to do almost anything to keep it. Meanwhile, well continue to see these raids like those on the Brown Property, the arrest of a few mindless idiots labeled as dangerous terrorists and the rebirth of various immigration amnesty bills until one passes as evidence that the Cowards of the Congress are doing their job.

Most of us will never be lucky enough to enjoy the advantages that the political elite and their cronies do; well just be expected to pay for those benefits with our blood, sweat and tears. And all the while our elected representatives will vote for laws that support their own agenda, ignore the will of the people and make a mockery of the democratic birth of this nation. They will also expect us to thank them for these services which (in their minds) are saving us all from ourselves.

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Author: Bill Knell
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