By John & Nisha Whitehead
The American kleptocracy, a government ruled by thieves, continues to suck the American people down a rabbit hole into a parallel universe in which the U.S. Constitution is meaningless, the government is all-powerful, and the citizenry is powerless to defend itself against government agents who steal, spy, lie, plunder, kill, abuse, and generally inflict mayhem and sow madness on everyone and everything in their sphere.
Think about it.
Almost every tyranny being perpetrated by the U.S. government against the citizenry, purportedly to keep us safe and the Nation secure, has come about as a result of some threat manufactured in one way or another by our own government.
Cyberwarfare. Terrorism. Bio-chemical attacks. The nuclear arms race. Surveillance. The drug wars. Domestic extremism. The COVID-19 pandemic.
In almost every instance, the U.S. government, often spearheaded by the FBI, has in its typical Machiavellian fashion sown the seeds of terror domestically and internationally in order to expand its own totalitarian powers.
You see, the U.S. government isn’t protecting us from terrorism.
The U.S. government is creating the terror. It is, in fact, the source of terror.
Consider that this same government has taken every bit of technology sold to us as being in our best interests, GPS devices, surveillance, nonlethal weapons, and used it against us, to track, control, and trap us.
So why is the government doing this? Money, power, and domination.
We’re not dealing with a government that exists to serve its people, protect their liberties and ensure their happiness. Rather, these are the diabolical machinations of a make-works program carried out on an epic scale whose only purpose is to keep the powers-that-be permanently, and profitably, employed.
Case in point: The FBI.
The government’s henchmen have become the embodiment of how power, once acquired, can be so easily corrupted and abused. Indeed, far from being tough on crime, FBI agents are among the nation’s most notorious lawbreakers.
Whether the FBI is planting undercover agents in churches, synagogues and mosques; issuing fake emergency letters to gain access to Americans’ phone records; using intimidation tactics to silence Americans who are critical of the government, or persuading impressionable individuals to plot acts of terror and then entrapping them, the overall impression of the Nation’s secret police force is that of a well-dressed thug, flexing its muscles and doing the boss’ dirty work.
This government does not appears to understand, let alone respect, the limits of the Constitution.
To go after terrorists, they become terrorists. To go after drug smugglers, they become drug smugglers. To go after thieves, they become thieves.
It’s hard to say whether we’re dealing with a kleptocracy, a government ruled by thieves, a kakistocracy, a government run by unprincipled career politicians, corporations, and thieves that panders to the worst vices in our nature and has little regard for the rights of American citizens, or if we’ve gone straight to an idiocracy.
Certainly we are not in a constitutional republic, however.
Some days, it feels as though the government is running its own crime syndicate complete with mob rule and mafia-style justice.
In addition to creating certain crimes in order to then co-called solve them, the FBI, the government’s law enforcement agency, gives certain informants permission to break the law, including everything from buying and selling illegal drugs to bribing government officials and plotting robberies, in exchange for cooperation on other fronts.
USA Today estimates that government agents have authorized criminals to engage in as many as 15 crimes a day (5600 crimes a year). Some of these informants are getting paid astronomical sums: one unsavory fellow, later arrested for attempting to run over a police officer, was paid $85,000 for his help laying the trap for an entrapment scheme.
In addition to procedural misconduct, trespassing, enabling criminal activity, and damaging private property, the FBI’s laundry list of crimes against the American people includes surveillance, disinformation, blackmail, entrapment, intimidation tactics, and harassment.
This has become the shadow government’s modus operandi regardless of which party controls the White House: the government creates a menace, knowing full well the ramifications such a danger might pose to the public, then without ever owning up to the part it played in unleashing that menace on an unsuspecting populace, it demands additional powers in order to protect “we the people” from the threat.
Suffice it to say that when and if a true history of the United States is ever written, it will not only track the rise of the American police state but it will chart the decline of freedom in America: how a nation that once abided by the rule of law and held the government accountable for its actions has steadily devolved into a police state where justice is one-sided, a corporate elite runs the show, representative government is a mockery, police are extensions of the military, surveillance is rampant, privacy is extinct, and the law is little more than a tool for the government to browbeat the people into compliance.
Somewhere over the course of the past 240-plus years, democracy has given way to kleptocracy, and representative government has been rejected in favor of rule by career politicians, corporations, and thieves, individuals, and entities with little regard for the rights of American citizens.
This dissolution of that sacred covenant between the citizenry and the government, establishing “we the people” as the masters and the government as the servant—didn’t happen overnight. It didn’t happen because of one incident or one president. It is a process, one that began long ago and continues in the present day, aided and abetted by politicians who have mastered the polarizing art of how to divide and conquer.
I point out in my book, “Battlefield America: The War on the American People” and in its fictional counterpart, “The Erik Blair Diaries,” our freedoms have become casualties in an all-out war on the American people.
—The Rutherford Institute