Brace Yourselves: A Tsunami Approaches
John & Nisha Whitehead
“What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise; to receiving decisions deliberated in secret; to believing that the situation was so complicated that the government had to act on information which the people could not understand, or so dangerous that, even if the people could understand it, it could not be released because of national security… And all the crises and reforms (real reforms, too) so occupied the people that they did not see the slow motion underneath, of the whole process of government growing remoter and remoter.”
Milton Mayer, They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45
Brace yourself: a tsunami approaches. While we squabble over which side is winning this losing battle to lead the country, there is something being concocted in the dens of power, far beyond the public eye, and it doesn’t bode well for the future of this country.
Anytime you have an entire nation so mesmerized by the antics of the political ruling class that they are oblivious to all else, you’d better beware.
Anytime you have a government that operates in the shadows, speaks in a language of force, and rules by fiat, you’d better beware.
And anytime you have a government so far removed from its people as to ensure that they are never seen, heard or heeded by those elected to represent them, you’d better beware.
We’ve got to get our priorities straight if we are to ever have any hope of maintaining any sense of freedom in America.
As long as we allow ourselves to be distracted, diverted, occasionally outraged, always polarized and content to view each other—rather than the government—as the enemy, we’ll never manage to present a unified front against tyranny (or government corruption and ineptitude) in any form.
Mind you, by “government,” I’m not referring to the highly partisan, two-party bureaucracy of the Republicans and Democrats. Rather, I’m referring to “government” with a capital “G,” the entrenched Deep State that is unaffected by elections, unaltered by populist movements, and has set itself beyond the reach of the law.
This is the hidden face of a government that has no respect for the freedoms of its citizenry.
So, stop with all of the excuses and the hedging and the finger-pointing and the pissing contests to see which side can out-shout, out-blame and out-spew the other.
Enough already with the short- and long-term amnesia that allows political sycophants to conveniently forget the duplicity, complicity and mendacity of their own party while casting blame on everyone else.
This is how evil wins.
This is how freedom falls and tyranny rises.
This is how good, generally decent people—having allowed themselves to be distracted with manufactured crises, polarizing politics, and fighting that divides the populace into warring us vs. them camps—fail to take note of the looming danger that threatens to wipe freedom from the map and place us all in chains.
The world has been down this road before, as historian Milton Mayer recounts in his seminal book on Hitler’s rise to power, They Thought They Were Free.
We are at our most vulnerable right now.
The gravest threat facing us as a nation is not extremism but despotism, exercised by a ruling class whose only allegiance is to power and money.
We’re in a national state of denial, yet no amount of escapism can shield us from the harsh reality that the danger in our midst is posed by an entrenched government bureaucracy that has no regard for the Constitution, Congress, the courts or the citizenry.
No matter how often the team colors change, the playbook remains the same. The leopard does not change its spots.
Scrape off the surface layers and you will find that nothing has changed.
The police state is still winning. We the people are still losing.
In fact, the American police state has continued to advance at the same costly, intrusive, privacy-sapping, Constitution-defying, heartbreaking, soul-scorching, relentless pace under the current Tyrant-in-Chief as it did under those who occupied the White House before him (Trump, Obama, Bush, Clinton, etc.).
Consider for yourselves:
- Police haven’t stopped disregarding the rights of citizens.
- SWAT teams haven’t stopped crashing through doors and terrorizing families.
- The Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security haven’t stopped militarizing and federalizing local police.
- Schools haven’t stopped treating young people like hard-core prisoners.
- For-profit private prisons haven’t stopped locking up Americans and immigrants alike at taxpayer expense.
- Censorship hasn’t stopped.
- The courts haven’t stopped marching in lockstep with the police state.
- Government bureaucrats haven’t stopped turning American citizens into criminals.
- The surveillance state hasn’t stopped spying on Americans’ communications, transactions or movements.
- The TSA hasn’t stopped groping or ogling travelers.
- Congress hasn’t stopped enacting draconian laws.
- The Department of Homeland Security hasn’t stopped being a “wasteful, growing, fear-mongering beast.”
- The military industrial complex hasn’t stopped profiting from endless wars abroad.
- The Deep State’s shadow government hasn’t stopped calling the shots behind the scenes.
- And the American people haven’t stopped acting like gullible sheep.
So you can try to persuade yourself that you are free, that you still live in a country that values freedom, and that it is not too late to make America great again, but to anyone who has been paying attention to America’s decline over the past century, it will be just another lie.
The German people chose to ignore the truth and believe the lie.
They were not oblivious to the horrors taking place around them. The warning signs were definitely there, blinking incessantly like large neon signs.
“Still,” historian Robert Gellately writes, “the vast majority voted in favor of Nazism, and in spite of what they could read in the press and hear by word of mouth about the secret police, the concentration camps, official anti-Semitism, and so on.”
The German people backed Hitler because for the majority of them, life was good.
In a nutshell, life was good because their creature comforts remained undiminished, their bank accounts remained flush, and they weren’t being discriminated against, persecuted, starved, beaten, shot, stripped, jailed and turned into slave labor.
Life is good in America, too.
Life is good in America as long as you’re able to keep sleep-walking through life, cocooning yourself in political fantasies that depict a world in which your party is always right and everyone else is wrong, and distracting yourself with bread-and-circus entertainment that bears no resemblance to reality.
Life is good in America as long as you don’t mind being made to pay through the nose for the government’s endless wars, subsidization of foreign nations, bloated workforce, secret agencies, fusion centers, private prisons, biometric databases, invasive technologies, arsenal of weapons, and every other budgetary line item that is contributing to the fast-growing wealth of the corporate elite at the expense of those who are barely making ends meet—that is, we the 99%.
Life is good in America for the privileged few, but as I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People and in its fictional counterpart The Erik Blair Diaries, it’s getting worse by the day for the rest of us.
So, please spare me the media hysterics and the outrage and the hypocritical double standards of those whose moral conscience appears to be largely dictated by their political loyalties.
Anyone who believes that the injustices, cruelties and vicious callousness of the U.S. government are unique to any one particular administration has not been paying attention.
Originally published via The Rutherford Institute
Constitutional attorney and author John W. Whitehead is founder and president of The Rutherford Institute. His book Battlefield America: The War on the American People (SelectBooks, 2015) is available online at www.amazon.com. Whitehead can be contacted at [email protected]. Nisha Whitehead is the Executive Director of The Rutherford Institute. Information about The Rutherford Institute is available at www.rutherford.org.
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And in the never ending tradition of American lemmings, like their British cousins, they all join in and say, “please sir, I want some more”. That’s exactly what’s happening. And I guess, that could have been easily foreseen. 180 million plus are going to vote for it.
Why isn’t Hezbullah fighting back?
Because they are also in the same boiling soup. They are all in it.
It’s not in their script.😔👍
(Please refer to “Wag The Dog)
Apart from U$ – not us:
UNIFIL soldiers admitted to Israel they took bribes from Hezbullah.
0:48 / 3:20
“Sarah Vaughan – Black Coffee (Columbia Records 1949)”
Today I had the unfortunate event of bumping into one of the jabbed I know and was asked if I was still into conspiracy theories? My reply, have you ever considered reading history or doing a little research into current events instead of consuming junk media. I didn’t get a verbal response only a blank stare.
We really are surrounded by thick bastards
What I wouldn’t do for the bliss of ignorance right now. Alas, it is not that way for some of us. Thank you for the article. Well said.
Problem is Syl. , You’re in the club now.
You’ve crossed the Rubicon.
There ain’t no going back.
“This is how evil wins. This is how freedom falls and tyranny rises”. “The police state is winning, we the people are losing.
“The American police state has continued to advance. Police haven’t stopped disregarding the rights of citizens”.
“Police SWAT teams haven’t stopped crashing through doors and terrorizing families”.
“The Government haven’t stopped militarizing and federalizing local police”.
Sincerely, I hope the Whiteheads some day will live and experience a society without the police.
Gestapo, Azov Nasis, ISIS with machine guns on every corner for all Liberals. Go for it Whiteheads. You can do it!
No more black uniforms and blue blink cars driving around:
Jonathan Howard, a member of the Florida State Guard and volunteer for the nonprofit group Aerial Recovery, discussed how the government took credit for the rescue of an 11-day-old baby even though the rescue was done totally by volunteers. Mr. Howard stated that when he goes on a search and rescue mission he sees around forty other private helicopters and just two military helicopters.
The federal government doesn’t provide adequate aid to Helene and Milton victims while it’s sending billions in military aid to Ukraine and Israel. Over 700 members of the Tennessee National Guard are deploying to the Middle East as people in the state deal with damage from Hurricane Helene!
The government allowed civilians to save this 11-day old baby. They gave permission. It was an authorised act approved by the United State’s government. Dont forget that.
honestly can we have a moratorium on the Nazi analogies? they’ve been done to death and distract from substantive discussion of the very real contemporary concerns listed
these days words like “fascism”, “genocide” etc have just become a shorthand for demonizing, a sensationalistic ploy to provoke knee-jerk reactions and dumb down debates
as I understand the historical record, multi-party elections were not held in Germany between 1933 and 1945, the period during which German voters might have known about concentration camps and secret police, while before 1933 the camps had not yet been set up and the Gestapo etc did not exist
the “overwhelming majority” had no other option on the ballot and was naturally fearful of doing anything that could be construed as disloyalty in the face of severe political repression
the last days of the Weimar Republic meanwhile saw a peak in the popularity of the NSDAP around 1932, though the party never gained an absolute majority on the national level, after which enthusiasm for the Nazis waned, so that in 1933 they were only able to enter the government as a relatively weak junior partner
…you forgot the “Reichstag fire” psyop, executed by the usual suspects. That was definitively the beginning of the end for the German people.
But they enjoyed global popularity among the Royal and Financial Elite at the time. This is what matters.
Why would the writer pick on the accusations against Germany, when (a) most of it has been exposed as lies and (b) the Rabid Terrorist Empire has done far worse. The writer has revealed his true allegiance.
Agreed, the Nazi analogies on the site are not only tired, but they stink of propaganda
Have you seen the convoluted names of some of the other “bad” groups lately? Nazi is nice and neat, easy to remember, everyone can spell it, everyone knows its “meaning.” It’s an editor’s dream name.
“Don’t give me a FERC or a CONTRA or an ISIS or an Al Qaeda – just make it plain old Nazi!” a budding young editor might tell his political writer.
They have authorised military support for US civil unrest
https://miriambelknap.substack.com/?utm_source=recommendations_page&utm_campaign=1943931
Those of man, and womankind, have forgotten who they are. God, the creator, creation – whatever you, believe that to be, did create man, and woman, the highest form of creation. Man, and woman, create the legal society. The legal society oversees the government. The government, are public servants to man, and woman, but as man, and woman, did forget they are man, and woman, so government have not seen man, and woman, in a long time. Government act as agents. As agents in the courts, the judge oversees the prosecutors and attorneys and or lawyers. The prosecutors and attorneys and or lawyers oversee the plaintiffs and or claimants and or defendants. The plaintiffs and or claimants and or defendants are re-presented as the clients. All those titles are a diminishment of the status from simply that of a man, or woman, are several levels below man, and woman, and come with duties and obligations.
j.d. A court is a place of the dead (black robes), As the dead cannot think or speak they need representation. Just like BP cannot think or talk it needs a responsible man or woman to act on its behalf.
When your dead fiction has received a NOTICE to appear in court. The simple man or woman not realising their true name is not on the NOTICE turns up like a fool and takes responsibility from the trustee of your dead fiction i.e., the Crown and takes the hit.
Its all a fkn joke created by our superiors whose reign is coming to an end once people realise this fraud.
This endless Sovereign Citizen pseudolaw BS magical thinking, . so instead read:
https://freemandelusion.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/a-rebellion-of-furious-paper-pseudolaw-as-a-revolutionary-legal-system.pdf
Thats why I represented over 100 clients accepted their charge and counterclaimed fraud against the court notice. In all cases where my clients stood their ground we won. Warrants were put out but nothing transpired and no-one was arrested. So unless you have any more to add…….Anyone invited to attend court contact me and as long as there is no injured party. We will win.
Please don’t advertise services on here. Thanks, A2
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There is a long history, readable on the Net, both of pseudolaw acolytes lying about the legal grounds on which cases were “won”and of cases being thrown out of court due to being legal gibberish.
I recently heard one of your Sheriffs claiming at a Common Law spruiking event that a case had been “won” but on looking it up, I found that he had utterly lied about what had transpired in court. The “win” was on grounds of normal Law not pseudolaw.
Legalese, maritime law. You’re in the dock!, rickypop.
The real world is not created.
The brainwashing by the mind control hydra has induced mass amnesia, a permanent somnambulance, lethargy and cowardice in the American people. We are sleepwalking into disaster and the accelerated moral and societal implosion of this country. Our failure to acknowledge our history as a war loving, imperialist, apartheid nation based upon racism, color, gender and class oppression will be the undoing of America.
Sadly the populism percolating under the surface and the disjointed underground resistance are not enough to turn this nation around and save it from itself. The miscreants’ divide and rule campaign is working! The ruling plutocrats, overlords and their minion are rushing to advance America’s demise as they over-extend the empire, bankrupted it to the point it can not be salvaged and worst case scenarios will inevitably play out; societal collapse and imperial ruination due to ruling class’ overreach and hubris. Mathias Chang’s predictions are playing in real time. https://www.thriftbooks.com/a/matthias-chang/340582/
No different in the UK and everywhere else.
We all need to understand. The government, police, military and the injustice system are all puppets of the financial system. To create the world we find ourselves takes money and plenty of it. Money buys control of everything. Democracy is an illusion and even if not then the peoples heads are so scrambled that that the majority decision is most likely the wrong one.
Chaos was always the plan. And chaos we have. The new generation of kids when they reach adulthood are so out of touch with reality, that there is no hope.
Too many people dont get it and thats the problem. Even yet I listen to the majority talking about their next covid jab. God help us.
It will be different this time….
this Mp Pm is different.
💤
Standing ovation!!! Thunderous applause! As the saying goes the truth hurts, absolutely!
Your courage is a welcomed breath of fresh air! 😎👍
Gotta hand it to those Turds at the top.
Gotta hand it because they want your prints.
Your retina image.
Your voice ‘print’.
Your medical records.
Your DNA.
And most important of all:
Your undying patriotism, subservience and suckerism.
It is important to state where we are, and I do not disagree with the authors’ summary.
More important, though, is what to do about it .
So how do we stop the runaway train ?
I’m not sure we can. Not yet anyway.
I think things will have to get a lot worse before the real resistance starts.
As the authors’ say, the people who could change things are too comfortable.
When that changes, everything changes.
Sadly, and VERY well, said. 💯😔👍💯
“More important, though, is what to do about it “
Don’t panic Carry on as Normal – Prepare For Winter, in case it gets Really Cold as it has previously in London
We still have our Frost Fairs and the Milkman always turns up.
My Mum was born in London, and so were our kids and grandkids
We would all totally love if it snowed for Christmas
Keep on dreamin’!
Awareness. The solution is awareness. We are some way off.
Ah, you optimist, you!
Still,” historian Robert Gellately writes, “the vast majority voted in favor of Nazism, and in spite of what they could read in the press and hear by word of mouth about the secret police, the concentration camps, official anti-Semitism, and so on.”
The vast majority of Germans didn’t vote for Hitler. His party received well short of 50% of the votes about 43.9%.
Thats if you believe the covid inquiry and how many people died of covid.
same M.O as above. BULLSHIT..
Prime I.e is.. The rehabilitation of Boris beginnings with His latest heavily promoted Book
Billed as offering the unfiltered truth about Brexit, Covid, partygate and more
which says………..
From the same script writers who sold you history.
Interesting rather than produce evidence, it’s that word again, to support your assertion regarding the thesis that the majority of the Germans overwhelming supported Hitler, you go off on a rant.
Now, if you have evidence to the contrary, please produce it.
Yep. Hitler was INSTALLED by a
TECHNICALITY involving the PARTY.
That WAS, of course, by DESIGN and NOT
by accident OR odd COINCIDENCE.
The ASSHOLES that be, wanted HIM…
in THAT Position. If you really want
a better idea of the truth and bigger
picture games being played, DIG for
the ANSWER to THIS question…
WHY Hitler? 🤔
Why?
Oratory skills at the right moment.
Unemployment, misery, exploited by WWI defeat of too heavy debt burden by France, UK and US. You can see it on the serious faces of the Nasi Government i this Nasi Party Speech. https://yandex.ru/video/preview/10044877875002007936
He has an interesting genealogy as well, if you dig enough. 😎👍
Conjuring Hitler
Wall Street and the rise of Hitler – Antony C. Sutton
I’m sorry to say I haven’t seen the video or read that book yet they both look very interesting. I should be able to check them out over the next day or so. Thanks a lot for sharing the links for these. 👍
There’s also this from Global Research last week.
“Adolph Hitler was Financed by Wall Street, The US Federal Reserve and the Bank of England”
Global Research has done away with their “copy link” option so I cannot link it here.
Well worth the read.
Thank you. 💯
History: Adolph Hitler was Financed by Wall Street, the U.S. Federal Reserve and the Bank of England
Conclusion: This world is mainly lead by societies in London, Washington and NYC. Simple as that.
Thanks! Tried to copy and paste but obviously did not work.
I wish Global Research had not eliminated the copy link option.
You can copy the link to any page you visit using your browser. just click on the address to select it, then right click and select Copy.
I’ll try that. Thanks!