{"id":119333,"date":"2022-06-07T14:46:28","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T18:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=119333"},"modified":"2022-06-07T14:46:28","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T18:46:28","slug":"its-very-sad-but-totally-true-all-of-u-s-have-been-living-in-the-belly-of-the-beast-our-entire-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=119333","title":{"rendered":"

It’s very sad but totally true: All of U.S. have been living in the BELLY OF THE BEAST our entire lives!<\/b><\/h3>"},"content":{"rendered":"

An Unparalleled Menace<\/strong><\/h1>\n

The Stephen Lendman Blog<\/p>\n

Hegemon USA unmasked threatens everyone everywhere.<\/p>\n

A fantasy democracy from inception \u2014abhorrent and intolerant of the real thing \u2014 the business of America is state terror and forever wars on invented enemies, including at home against nonbelievers.<\/p>\n

Justifiable dissent against what no one should tolerate is considered domestic terrorism.<\/p>\n

Totalitarian rule isn\u2019t good enough for the empire of lies.<\/p>\n

Heading toward becoming full-blown, tyranny is the law of the land.<\/p>\n

Enemies are invented at home and abroad to enforce it.<\/p>\n

Big Brother increasingly watches everyone.<\/p>\n

The dominant fourth estate operates as a virtual ministry of truth.<\/p>\n

The FBI and other parts of the national security state comprise a modern-day Gestapo.<\/p>\n

Operating globally, CIA assassins make mafia hitmen look tame by comparison.<\/p>\n

A former CIA consultant, the late Chalmers Johnson stressed that as long as the agency exists, the US \u201cwill never again know peace, nor in all probability survive as a nation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Along with forever wars on nations threatening no one, the American way includes state terror at home and abroad, gulag imprisonment worldwide, domestic mass incarceration, torture and other atrocities under one party rule with two right wings.<\/p>\n

Johnson warned about things heading toward military dictatorship or its civilian equivalent.<\/p>\n

The rule of law was hijacked by the US ruling class, notably post-9\/11, the mother of all state-sponsored false flags until all things flu\/covid surpassed its pure evil.<\/p>\n

Along with perpetual war on invented enemies, hegemon USA is run secretly, intrusively, repressively and illegally by an illegitimate regime, nominally headed by an unelected imposter.<\/p>\n

Johnson stressed that the US is plagued by the same dynamic that doomed other empires unwilling to change \u2013 \u201cisolation, overstretch, the uniting of local and global forces opposed to imperialism, and in the end bankruptcy\u201d \u2014 combined with increasingly tyrannical rule and loss of personal freedom.<\/p>\n

The rule of law in the US no longer exists.<\/p>\n

Extrajudicial rule replaced it.<\/p>\n

Called \u201crules-based order,\u201d it\u2019s in flagrant breach of international and constitutional law.<\/p>\n

Bad as things are already, the worst of times likely lie ahead.<\/p>\n

Increasing numbers of Americans are illegally detained short or longer-term and harshly interrogated, their property seized with little or no explanation \u2014 including travelers coming into and leaving the US.<\/p>\n

No matter that warrantless searches breach Fourth Amendment rights \u201cto be secure in (our) persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures.\u201d<\/p>\n

Unjustifiably justifying what\u2019s going on to protect national security is a red herring.<\/p>\n

Hegemon USA\u2019s only domestic or foreign threats are invented. No real ones exist.<\/p>\n

The motive behind what\u2019s happening is to institutionalize submissiveness to the power of the state \u2014 to create a nation of lemmings.<\/p>\n

War on dissent aims to erode and eliminate speech, press and academic freedoms.<\/p>\n

During the Obama\/Biden regime\u2019s tenure, the Center for Constitutional Rights said the following:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe growing threat to the right to dissent has been demonstrated (by regime) efforts to silence speech, and criminalize and target peaceful movements,\u201d adding:<\/p>\n

\u201cThese efforts are becoming more aggressive, emboldened further by the Supreme Court\u2019s increasingly conservative decisions, for instance regarding material support in the form of humanitarian aid to so-called terrorist organizations.\u201d<\/p>\n

Activism and dissent are increasingly threatened in the US \u2013 for expressing constitutionally guaranteed views its dark forces want suppressed.<\/p>\n

Earlier Supreme Court rulings upholding First Amendment rights don\u2019t matter, including Justice William Brennan\u2019s majority opinion in Texas v. Johnson (1989), saying:<\/p>\n

\u201c(I)f there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment, it is that government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea offensive or disagreeable.\u201d<\/p>\n

Justice Thurgood Marshall once stressed the following:<\/p>\n

\u201c(A)bove all else, the First Amendment means that government has no power to restrict expression because of its message, its ideas, its subject matter, or its content.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nor does anyone else.<\/p>\n

Separately Marshall said:<\/p>\n

\u201cIf the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling (anyone) what books (they) may read or what films (they) may watch.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOur whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control\u201d the public mind.<\/p>\n

No one on the US High Court today remotely approaches the stature and character of a Brennan or Marshall.<\/p>\n

Their advocacy for equal justice under law was replaced by increasingly harsh police state rule \u2014 how tyranny operates.<\/p>\n

What conflicts with the fabricated official narrative is threatened.<\/p>\n

Will digital democracy truth-telling, the last frontier of press freedom, be criminalized and banned ahead?<\/p>\n

Speech, press and academic freedoms are fundamental.<\/p>\n

Without them all other rights are at risk of eroding and disappearing altogether.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s where things are heading in the decadent, depraved US-dominated West.<\/p>\n

The self-styled indispensable state is an unparalleled menace to everyone yearning to breathe free.<\/p>\n

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