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Last Week In The Land Of The Free
Sovereign Valley Farm, Chile
It’s a pretty sad state of affairs in the Land of the Free when they have to pass a law making it illegal for the government to assassinate its own citizens.
Yet that’s exactly what’s happening.
Late last week, US Senator Ted Cruz introduced Senate bill S.505, “A bill to prohibit the use of drones to kill citizens of the United States within the United States.”
More than likely, this bill isn’t going to go anywhere. It’ll get shuffled around to various committees and be largely forgotten. But the fact that it was introduced shows just how far things have fallen in the US.
Again, do they really have to create a law to prevent the government from killing its own people?
Curiously, it’s interesting that this particular legislation stops at outlawing the assassination of US citizens on US soil… as if the Griswolds on their European vacation are acceptable targets…
Or that the bill specifically prohibits using drones to kill US citizens… but nothing else.
This is really amazing. But it’s just the tip of the iceberg.
Also last week, for example, Senator Dianne Feinstein from California introduced S.482, a bill “to provide protections for consumers against excessive, unjustified, or unfairly discriminatory increases in premium rates.”
This sounds mysteriously like a form of price controls.
Then there was H.R. 307, the Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Reauthorization Act of 2013. This 37-page bill awards the government with all sorts of additional powers in the event of what they deem to be a ‘public health emergency.’
This includes quite a number of Big Brother tactics like national vaccine tracking and initiating BIOSURVEILLANCE operations.
Then there was H.R. 951, a bill “to promote the economic self-sufficiency of low-income women through their increased participation in high-wage, high-demand occupations where they currently represent 25 percent or less of the workforce.”
This is a quota system, plain and simple… using government funds to induce private companies to hire from a particular demographic pool.
So, in just a week’s time, the political elite in the Land of the Free gave us bills which:
1) ensure the government cannot assassinate its own citizens with drones
2) impose price controls with insurance premiums
3) award the government with more power to initiate biosurveillance operations
4) create a quota system in the labor market
It really makes me wonder… how much more will it take for people to notice how rapidly they’re losing freedom, or how destructive the political leadership is?
Until tomorrow,
Simon Black
Senior Editor, SovereignMan.com
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So amazing, where is the public outrage? Beat the Shamun drums on this…
http://medwyngoodall.net/2011/04/shaman-the-healing-drum-cd/ take a listen, I have a few of the tabs open, I say the more drums the better…helps with the influx of horrific news, its so oppressing. Our own government killers of innocent people not only outside our borders, now inside….Zen, keep on beat the Shuman drums, this is HUGE! NATO in the street from coast to coast, and what is FEMA really for….those wire fences say it all……Wake Up America!
I remember the sign in New York when they had the horrible storm damage, the sign that read FEMA is closed due to bad weather, while the “tea party” had trucks and were organized and helped people in distress with food water and dry goods…People helping people….WAY TO GO AMERICA, we help each other….thanks Zen, as always a GREAT post!
That was Occupy passing out food and supplies, not the Tea Party.
While traitors and politically criminal people like Feinstein are trying to weaken the 2nd amendment, Rand Paul was finally demonstrating that the left, you know those people that endlessy talked about Bush being a dictator, are phonies and cowards. It took a Republican Senator, ALL BY HIMSELF, to stand up to the administration and question them on the rights and safety of Americans. I am ashamed of ever voting democrat and will never do it again.
Although I agree with a lot of what Simon Black has to say, he’s completely off base regarding the price controls California is proposing on the insurance companies. These thieves keep gauging the public with exorbitant price increases while their CEO’s make multi-million dollar salaries. California is doing what should be done and reigning these abuses in. This is what government is supposed to do: represent the people. So, Simon needs to re-evaluate some of his pro-business stances. As much as I despise most of what our government does, this act is not one of them.
Nice cat.
The 90% want to be told what to do and think. They are as much the enemy as the controlling 1%.
So we’re the 9%?
At 10% they say the ideas go viral and the change happens…just a few more monkeys and we’re there?. 