{"id":160686,"date":"2023-03-21T15:14:09","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T19:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=160686"},"modified":"2023-03-21T15:14:09","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T19:14:09","slug":"the-rise-of-tyranny-in-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=160686","title":{"rendered":"<h1>The Rise of Tyranny in the United States<\/h1>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->Paul Craig Roberts<\/p>\n<p>This website is committed to the defense of your freedom. \u00a0If you value your freedom, support this website. \u00a0People trapped in the Matrix of Lies that are the Official Narratives have no prospect of self-government. \u00a0They become nothing but clogs in the wheels of elite agendas.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Rise of Tyranny in the United States and the Western world<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Paul Craig Roberts<\/p>\n<p>In every country of the Western world freedom and civil liberty are being destroyed by governments, none of which represents the people.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 One of America\u2019s last remaining journalists, Glenn\u00a0<\/span>Greenwald, sees hope that people are catching on and the process can be stopped.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>My fear is that Western peoples are too weak and uninvolved to reclaim their freedom and that they will accept tyranny with minimal opposition, thus committing all future generations to life under tyranny. \u00a0In contrast, the elite are determined and have demonstrated the power to discredit, to remove, and, it seems, to indict an elected President of the United States who attempted to represent the people against the elite. \u00a0Moreover, with control of the media, the elite were successful in turning Donald Trump into a hate figure for roughly half of the US population. The same will happen to anyone who attempts to restore government accountable to law, the Constitution, and the people.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the most important lesson in Greenwald\u2019s report, essentially a history of the development of the national security police state in the 21st century, is that no President regardless of political party or ideology, neither Bush nor Trump, Obama nor Biden, can refuse legislation that builds a police state in the name of national security.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0Those Democrats who once opposed police state measures now favor them because they are useful in getting rid of Donald Trump. In Congress,\u00a0<\/span>Republican patriots and leftwing Democrats rush to the support of legislation that destroys their own freedom and turns the US Constitution into a dead letter document.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cNo matter how much you hate the corporate media, it\u2019s not enough. It is literally impossible to overstate not only the damage that they do but the malice with which they do it. And by malice, I don\u2019t mean that they\u2019re evil masterminds. I mean malice in the sense of the \u201cbanality of evil.\u201d The people who go and punch the clock every day, never question what they\u2019re doing, but whose work is nonetheless incredibly toxic and harmful. They\u2019re just basically sociopathic careerists. But no matter sometimes those people can be the most destructive. \u201c<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i>\u00a0\u2014<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Glenn Greenwald<\/p>\n<p>Glenn Greenwald is a rare honest media voice of our time.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span>Edward Snowden understood this and entrusted Greenwald with the documents that proved the Nazi National Security Agency was spying on all Americans in violation both of law and the US Constitution.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>It was Snowden who was punished for telling us the truth about how far we were down the road to tyranny.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>The NSA\u2019s crimes were defended and covered up by the Corporate Media.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Congress and the White House did nothing to stop the NSA\u2019s disregard for law and the US Constitution.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Indeed, they facilitated the NSA\u2019s transgressions.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In this long article, which is more than worth every minute it takes to read it, Greenwald shows the complete disrespect for truth constantly demonstrated by \u201cour government\u201d and the media whores who cover up for the rise of tyranny in the United States.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/greenwald.locals.com\/upost\/3701904\/left-right-alliance-could-end-massive-domestic-spying-program-tucker-carlson-admits-errors-more\">https:\/\/greenwald.locals.com\/upost\/3701904\/left-right-alliance-could-end-massive-domestic-spying-program-tucker-carlson-admits-errors-more<\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Greenwald, of course, is not perfect. In his transgender section at the end, he doesn\u2019t point out the discrimination inherent in permitting women\u2019s colleges but not men\u2019s colleges, and he doesn\u2019t note that women are permitted women\u2019s spaces but men are not permitted men\u2019s spaces. \u00a0Boy Scouts must have female members, and pro-football locker rooms are open to female reporters. \u00a0The real discrimination in American society is against men, especially white heterosexual men.<\/p>\n<div class=\"heateorSssClear\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"heateor_sss_sharing_container heateor_sss_horizontal_sharing\" data-heateor-sss-href=\"https:\/\/www.paulcraigroberts.org\/2023\/03\/20\/the-rise-of-tyranny-in-the-united-states\/\"><\/div>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.paulcraigroberts.org\/2023\/03\/20\/the-rise-of-tyranny-in-the-united-states\/\">https:\/\/www.paulcraigroberts.org\/2023\/03\/20\/the-rise-of-tyranny-in-the-united-states\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=160686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=160686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=160686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=160686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}