In Harold Ramis’ classic 1993 comedy Groundhog Day, TV weatherman Phil Connors (played by Bill Murray) is forced to live the same day over and over again until he not only gains some insight into his life but changes his priorities. Similarly, as I illustrate in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, we in the emerging American police state find ourselves reliving the same set of circumstances over and over again—egregious surveillance, strip searches, police shootings of unarmed citizens, government spying, the criminalization of lawful activities, warmongering, etc.—although with far fewer moments of comic hilarity.
What remains to be seen is whether 2016 will bring more of the same or whether “we the people” will wake up from our somnambulant states. Indeed, when it comes to civil liberties and freedom, 2015 was far from a banner year.
The following is just a sampling of what we can look forward to repeating if we don’t find some way to push back against the menace of an overreaching, aggressive, invasive, militarized surveillance state.
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You recommend the just-barely-to-the-right-of-the-ACLU Rutherford Institute? They say terrorist attacks are no threat at all.
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They say terrorist attacks are no threat at all.
Do you have a link?
https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/whats_in_store_for_our_freedoms_in_2016_more_of_everything_we_dont_want
DeleteSpecifically see "More so-calledterrorist attacks."
They say terrorist attacks are no threat at all.
DeleteHe doesn't say that at all.
Despite the government’s endless propaganda about the threat of terrorism and even in the wake of the shootings in San Bernardino and Paris, statistics show that you are 17,600 times more likely to die from heart disease than from a terrorist attack. You are 11,000 times more likely to die from an airplane accident than from a terrorist plot involving an airplane. You are 1,048 times more likely to die from a car accident than a terrorist attack. You are 404 times more likely to die in a fall than from a terrorist attack. And you are 8 times more likely to be killed by a police officer than by a terrorist.
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http://www.wnd.com/2015/12/ex-feminist-apologizes-to-christians-shocked-at-forgiveness/
Thanks. Gee, miracles never cease. :)
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