You are being lied to.  Every day it mounts.  It drives me crazy at times to see what is going on and for so many others to be so unable to see or accept the same.  At the same time the unfortunate reality is that only a small percentage of the population will ever be able to see, far too many people simply lack the mental capacity for it.  They may sound like a snotty, arrogant, and snobbish thing to say but unfortunately it is all too true.

Woody Harrelson on lies.

The bulk of the population has never been geniuses but after 80 years of being dumbed down, it's far worse than it's ever been. Each day more and more Americans seem to lose the ability to think for themselves, to make logical decisions, or for that matter even to separate fact from fiction.

A nice read on dumbing down America.



It's a nice article because not only does it relate to dumbing us down, but also the overall creation of a police state and the total collapse of our freedom.

It's curious really.  The President told us on 9/11/01 that "they" hate us for our freedom.  So the President had to make sure that our freedom was reduced.

The following is an excerpt from:

America Two Years after 9/11:
25 Things We Now Know

21. We know that the Patriot Act -- which was rushed through Congress in the days right after 9/11, with few legislators having had a chance to read the final draft -- has generated a huge groundswell of public opposition. More than 130 towns and cities have passed resolutions opposing it in part or in whole. The main objections center around the removal of all sorts of constitutional guarantees of due process of law, such as lawyer-client confidentiality and the sanctity of home privacy, and which authorizes wiretapping and snooping into personal computer files without you ever knowing about it. Even though Ashcroft already has thrown U.S. citizens into military prisons, thus removing them from judicial review, he appears to be desirous of even more outrages in Patriot Act II, including the exiling and deporting of American citizens deemed to be "terrorists." 

We know that the Bush neocons were able to get these and similar bills passed by invoking the patriotic buzzwords "national security" and "homeland defense." Most members of Congress went along so that they wouldn't be tarred with the "unpatriotic" brush. And, in general, the Administration constantly has manipulated post-9/11 fears in the population, because it serves their electoral/policy purposes to keep folks jittery and looking to the central government for assurance and stability. (There ARE bad guys out there who wish us harm, but it's possible to deal with that reality without all the Constitution-shredding and psychological manipulation.)





Ever wonder how an organization as efficient as the Federal Government managed to put together a document the size of the Patriot Act and get it all done and approved with 45 days of the event that supposedly caused its creation?  Perhaps in the age old debate of the chicken or the egg, the egg could have come first?

Then again we have a President that thinks America is a Democracy.  Even worse, assuming most people could even give you an answer, they'd think we had a democracy to.  Which of course is wrong.  America was eastablished as a Republic.

Today we have police that dress up is assault gear with battering rams to go and arrest people.  There was a time when assault and battery was a crime, not a state sponsored and sanctioned event.






I sometimes wonder, had our Founding Fathers known what would become of their dream, would they have gone to the effort?  I think the answer is yes, not because they wouldn't have been miserably disappointed in us, but because they got to live out their lives in freedom.  Their children had better lives.  Andrew Jackson was able to abolish the Bank of the United States and set us back on the road of freedom.

But unfortunately the Civil War started a chain of events that continues to evolve today.  What our Founders created couldn't be torn down over night.  No it's taken almost 150 years to bring it to the brink of destruction.  But make no mistake, the Civil War was not about slavery.  It was about State's Rights.  It was about an ideal that was a cornerstone of America.  Slavery was wrong and while there were those that fought purely for that issue, that isn't what the "war" was about.

After the Civil War the 14th Amendment drove a stake into the heart of what America was structured to be.  You became a citizen of the United States first and a citizen of your state second.  That was not what was intended and America lost many of the protections inherrently built into the model as a result.

1913 brought the Federal Reserve and the Income Tax to bear which was really nothing more than the double punch required to push us further down the road to tyranny.  Worst of all is that through it all, most Americans believe that they are free. 

Americans now seem to believe they don't have to think for themselves, after all CNN, FoxNews, MSNBC, those organizations will keep them informed, will tell them what to think.

CNN lies!  FoxNews lies!  MSNBC lies!

They engage in lying by ommission.  The President talks about a "war on terror" while the US border remains totally unsecured.  The Mexican border is a war zone.  Take a look at ranchrescue.com sometime.  Why aren't CNN, FoxNews, and MSNBC covering what is happening at the border?



Echoes of the Wild West in one man's border war.

That's what goes on at the border.  Read it.  Understand it.

Take a look at www.ranchrescue.com.

Look around you!  Wake up!