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    Silence Is Betrayal: Get Up, Stand Up, Speak Up for Your Rights [SHORT]

    By John W. Whitehead
    January 16, 2018

    I’m tired of liars, scoundrels and cheats.
    I’m sick of circus politics, sex scandals and partisan hypocrisy.

    I’ve reached the limits of my tolerance for individuals who have bartered their morality, consciences, integrity, religious beliefs and liberty for political gain.
    Enough already.

    This is not a reality show. It is not an experiment in political theories or a contest over who generates the biggest laughs, or the highest ratings, or the best polling numbers.

    Enough with the deafening silence in the face of outright corruption, base immorality, denigrating language, demoralizing greed, abject cruelty, derision, cynicism, violence, oppression and tyranny.

    The United States of America is run by a cabal of racist, classist, sexist, militaristic, misogynistic, greedy, heartless thugs who are obviously satisfied that their latest CEO—Donald Trump—is doing such a great job of keeping the nation polarized and pole-axed by his reality show antics.

    After all, why hire a statesman when you can hire a buffoon who will entertain, enrage and incite a nation to the brink of madness.

    They—the powers-that-be, the Deep State, the controllers, the financiers, the war hawks—want us in a state of civil unrest. They want the riots and the mob violence and the political discord and the state of panic. They want us to fight each other and be incapable of taking a united stand against tyranny.

    They want us silent and subservient.

    We have been silent too long. We have been silent for all the wrong reasons.

    We have been silent when the universe demanded that we get up, stand up, and speak out.

    There comes a time when silence is betrayal, warned Martin Luther King, Jr.

    We didn’t listen.

    We ignored King’s warning about the triple evils of poverty, racism and militarism, and look where it’s gotten us: mounting national debt, impoverished communities, racial unrest, endless wars abroad and a military industrial complex that has turned its greedy sights on America.

    We can no longer afford to ignore the warnings about where this is all leading.

    The clock is ticking us down to doomsday.

    Remember that dystopian Pentagon training video being used to prepare armed forces to solve future domestic political and social problems? The Pentagon is anticipating that all hell will break loose by 2030. That’s only 12 short years away.

    We can no longer afford to pretend that we are just playing a game. The stakes are too high. In this particular game, winners take everything, and losers lose their lives.

    This is life in the American people state and it is increasingly becoming desperate, dangerous and heart-breaking for everyone who doesn’t belong to the elite class of corporate/government operatives that are really in charge.

    We’re all in this together.

    It doesn’t matter what your politics are, where you worship, whom you love, where you live, how much money you make, what language you speak, what color your skin is, whether you’re a high school dropout or a college graduate, what kind of car you drive, or any other “differences” that are used to divide us into opposing factions: what unites us is that we’re all traveling this road together.

    Right now, we’re so focused on what divides us that we can’t see the danger looming ahead.

    While Congress is debating whether the president is racist for referring to African nations as “shithole countries,” no one is talking about the racist government policies that will ensure that “1 of every 4 African American males born this decade can expect to go to prison in his lifetime.”

    Take the criminal justice system, for example—one of the most racist institutions around. It is a fact that crime happens. It happens whether you’re white, black, brown or some shade in between. However, while white Americans make up 76% of the population, African Americans and people of color are the ones who are disproportionately being singled out for police stops, searches, use of force during arrests, prison terms for drugs, and longer jail terms.

    America is a racist nation, but the racists are on the government payroll.

    While the media swarms all over accusations of sexual misconduct against prominent men in Hollywood, few are addressing the devastating scope of sexual misconduct within the nation’s police forces. According to Newsweek, “At the national level, 990 officers had their licenses revoked between 2009 and 2014 because of rape, sodomy or other sexual misconduct, an Associated Press investigation found. Some of the victims had just been victims of a crime. One-third were juveniles.” That doesn’t include the numbers that go unreported because the victims were scared to speak out.

    America is a nation of sexual predators, but the predators are pulling government salaries.

    While the government continues to wage its misguided war on drugs, helped along by Jeff Sessions and his gang of militarized, battle-ready SWAT teams that shoot first and ask questions later, not enough is being done to root out those government agents who are padding their pockets by trafficking drugs and sex. For instance, a Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy was recently charged with selling drugs and offering the protection of other cops to dealers. The Huffington Post reports on a long list of police officers who have been arrested for pimping young girls.

    It turns out that America is also a nation of drug and sex traffickers using their government jobs for cover.

    Those are just a few examples of the many injustices being perpetrated against the American people by government agents and agencies who don’t care whether “we the people” live or die.

    Remember this the next time you find yourself drawn into a heated debate over the antics of this president and his inhumane policies and his outlandish reality show.

    The next time you hear any government shill talk about the need to keep America safe, remember that the people of the United States continue to be robbed, cheated, tasered, stripped, searched, bullied, threatened, jailed, shot and killed by the very government agents entrusted with protecting their rights. As I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, the U.S. government has become a greater menace to the life, liberty and property of its citizens than any of the so-called dangers from which the government claims to protect us.

    So enough with the lies. Enough with the fast-talking, foul-mouthed, slick politicians. Enough with the silence.

    The time has come for truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

    As George Orwell noted, “In times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”

    https://www.rutherford.org/publicati...r_rights_short
    ”The trouble with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.” - Margaret Thatcher

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    stay on the line with your congressmen; stay on the line to your senators; email them without end; make the staffers send letter after letter to you on whatever legitimate issue is before them; yes, i know congress is about as good as stepping in a pile of manure, but for now, its all we've got. btw, do likewise to your state/local officials. yes, you will be marked and maybe even targeted. so what. just be prepared to do battle--keyboard, in person, via e-mail or literally. our time is short. prep and pray, the end has arrived.

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    We've been hearing this chant for quite some time now. The problem is that we are in decline because the culture is broken. Want an illustration? Just go into your local Walmart. Look at what is on the shelves, in peoples carts, and what reading material is at the checkout aisle. Robert Bourke stated it best in his book "Slouching Towards Gomorrah".

    It's a chicken versus egg dilemma. Our leaders are so corrupt and trashy because we accept the standard. If we had the moral backbone of our ancestors, we would not be in this situation. Unlikely that will change anytime soon, so until the pendulemn swings back, things will not change.

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    “Because of racist government policies, 1 in 4 African Americans will go to prison”

    Er, bizarro much?

    Must be referring to the government Great Society policies that have turned blacks into fatherless families, sired by multiple black males, who thanks to government give always, relieve black males of all responsibilities of supporting and nurturing their offspring. Lack of which nurturing which has created a race of wild in the streets rappers and rapists and hos and drug pushers which are raised by gangs instead of “fathers”. Which race of rappers and rapists who have no respect for laws, others rights, or a sense of right and wrong.

    Or maybe he’s referring to the racist government that forces universities and companies to give opportunities and jobs to blacks because they are black rather than “better prospects” than the smarter or more able non-blacks.

    Or maybe he just hates Trump because Trump is dismantling the deep state and is about to incarcerate thousands of sexually deviant child molesters involved in the Congress, senate, and big corporations that have been his buddies now and then?

    Btw, I bet those 1in 4 blacks that will do time in prison will all actually be caught doing a crime, and many more that were also caught doing a crime will be let go as leftist judges lean over backwards to slap them on the wrist and tell them not to do that again.

    You won’t ever get any more of my money mr. Rutherford.
    Prov. 3
    5 Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
    6 In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.

    When the sun goes nova, better have your Psalm 91 arrangements made.

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