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Wednesday, October 29, 2014

15 Signs That We Live During A Time Of Rampant Government Paranoia

How does it feel to live under a government that is getting even more paranoid with each passing day? Yes, we live in a world that is becoming increasingly unstable, but that is no excuse for how ultra-paranoid the federal government has become. Today, every single one of us is viewed as a “potential threat” by the government. As a result, the government feels the need to intercept our emails, record our phone calls and track our expenditures. But they aren’t just spying on individuals. The government keeps tabs on thousands of organizations all over the planet, it spies on our enemies and our allies, and it even spies on itself. The American people are told that the emerging Big Brother police state is for our safety, but the truth is that it isn’t there to protect us. It is there to protect them. Our government has become kind of like a crazy rich uncle that is constantly spying on everyone else in the family because he believes that they are “out to get him”. The following are 15 signs that we live during a time of rampant government paranoia…

#1 Former CBS News reporter Sharyl Attkisson says that the federal government was so concerned about her reporting on Benghazi, Fast and Furious and other Obama scandals that they hacked her computer, monitored every keystroke and even planted classified material in an apparent attempt to potentially frame her.

#2 The United States has become the nation of the “permanent emergency”. In fact, there has been at least one “state of emergency” in effect in this country since 1979.

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Once you realize this, you understand how the President gets away with actions you might consider unconstitutional. During times of an emergency, the constitution is suspended, per the document!

ginn said...

Yet, 5:14PM, who is to decide what an emergency is? Just because someone, even a POS president, says there's an emergency doesn't define a scenario as an emergency. One could also expand this argument to include national security. Who should decide what constitutes classifying documents because of national security? Certainly not a single individual, makes no difference who that one person is.
I submit that these very two items are used by the federal gov't far, far out of context. A case in point would be video being held, as classified for national security, that would clearly show WTF hit the Pentagon. Who says this is a national security issue? It surely isn't, it's classified because it would incriminate someone in a high place.
So, this all goes back to gov't using emergency and national security as a screen for criminal activity.