Other Stuff 2

This is a very informative piece.  Strongly suggest reading. Title: "This Is How Tyranny Rises and Freedom Falls: The Experiment in Freedom Is Failing."  Quote: "It is easy to be distracted right now by the circus politics that have dominated the news headlines for the past year, but don’t be distracted. Don’t be fooled, not even a little. We’re being subjected to the oldest con game in the books, the magician’s sleight of hand that keeps you focused on the shell game in front of you while your wallet is being picked clean by ruffians in your midst. This is how tyranny rises and freedom falls. What characterizes American government today is not so much dysfunctional politics as it is ruthlessly contrived governance carried out behind the entertaining, distracting and disingenuous curtain of political theater. And what political theater it is, diabolically Shakespearean at times, full of sound and fury, yet in the end, signifying nothing. We are being ruled by a government of scoundrels, spies, thugs, thieves, gangsters, ruffians, rapists, extortionists, bounty hunters, battle-ready warriors and cold-blooded killers who communicate using a language of force and oppression. The U.S. government now poses the greatest threat to our freedoms."  And, "As I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, you cannot have a republican form of government—nor a democratic one, for that matter—when the government views itself as superior to the citizenry, when it no longer operates for the benefit of the people, when the people are no longer able to peacefully reform their government, when government officials cease to act like public servants, when elected officials no longer represent the will of the people, when the government routinely violates the rights of the people and perpetrates more violence against the citizenry than the criminal class, when government spending is unaccountable and unaccounted for, when the judiciary act as courts of order rather than justice, and when the government is no longer bound by the laws of the Constitution."    https://www.theburningplatform.com/2017/10/17/this-is-how-tyranny-rises-and-freedom-falls-the-experiment-in-freedom-is-failing/ 

This item addresses the horrendous consequences of government bad management of our national forests at the behest of radical leftist environmentalists. Quote: "Many successful methods of mitigating wildfires employed by U.S. Forest Service in the early 20th century were abandoned largely because of efforts by environmental activists, argued Rep. Tom Clintock on the House floor Oct. 3. McClintock, the Heritage Foundation’s Daily Signal reported, contends 1970s laws such as the National Environmental Policy Act and the Endangered Species Act in particular have led to poor forest management. Like the reporting you see here? Sign up for free news alerts from WND.com, America’s independent news network. The congressman said the laws “have resulted in endlessly time-consuming and cost-prohibitive restrictions and requirements that have made the scientific management of our forests virtually impossible.” More than a dozen wildfires in Northern California’s wine country have burned hundreds of thousands of acres, killing dozens of people with hundreds more missing. In addition, thousands of homes and businesses have been destroyed. In a May congressional hearing, McClintock argued that 45 years ago, the U.S. began “imposing laws that have made the management of our forests all but impossible.”Private landowners clearly have done a better job of managing forests, he insisted.   http://www.wnd.com/2017/10/mega-wildfires-caused-by-bad-government-management/9

What does free speech mean anyway?  Quote: "America cannot  have an intelligent conversation about anything because no one agrees on the basic meaning of words.  People will keep talking in circles as long as the media convinces them that they can simultaneously believe two contradictory ideas. An environment now exists where people will just say and believe whatever they think will get them in the least trouble with social enforcers all around them. No one will grow intellectually when the media tells them to use their emotions to decide on issues. How can you make informed decisions when you can’t even comprehend an argument? And that is double-plus ungood."     https://www.theburningplatform.com/2017/10/16/free-speech-and-the-idiocy-of-too-many-americans/