This article by Teodrose Fikre appeared in The Ghion Journal on, December 30th, 2018.
Imagine your reaction if twenty years ago I shared with you that the following developments would take place and readily accepted by Americans as normal facets of everyday life:
- Pervasive intrusion by the Federal government and private corporations alike in our lives and a capacity to sift through our private conversations without search warrants
- Journalists and whistle blowers being prosecuted and harassed for the crime of doing their jobs
- Habeas corpus effectively nullified at the behest of an executive order that sanctions extralegal assassinations of American citizens and foreign combatants alike
- An 18 year “conflict” that is being fought without a declaration of war or the consent of the American people
- Government paying media companies and “journalists” to purvey propaganda and practice military style PSYOPS against the American public
I’m sure you would immediately call me a conspiracy theorist and dismiss me as a lunatic in desperate need of help. Yet, what I detailed above is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the freedoms we have relinquished and the massive breach of our rights that is endemic of our time. The internet and the age of information that once promised to deliver freedoms and allow a free exchange of ideas has instead become a giant web that entangled Americans in the dystopian tentacles of Big Brotherism. MORE…
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