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Founding Felons: Jefferson Would Be on a Watch List Today—You Might Be Next

John & Nisha Whitehead

“Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freedom of speech.”
Benjamin Franklin

Everything this nation once stood for is being turned on its head.

We are being asked—no, told—to believe that the greatest threat to America today is not government overreach, endless war, corruption, surveillance, or the steady erosion of constitutional rights.

No, the real threat, it seems, is speech.

Dangerous speech. Hateful speech. Critical speech. Speech that dares to challenge power.

In the wake of the reported assassination attempt on President Trump, the Trump administration has wasted no time advancing a dangerous narrative: that criticism of the president—especially criticism labeling him authoritarian or fascist—is not just wrong, but responsible for violence.

The implication is as chilling as it is unconstitutional: if you criticize the government too harshly, you may be to blame for what happens next.

Taken to its logical conclusion, the government’s argument is this: criticism fuels anger, and anger leads to violence against the Trump administration.

Which means the solution, in the government’s eyes, is simple: silence the criticism—but only when it is leveled at the Trump administration.

When White House officials suggest that calling a president a fascist may constitute libel or slander, they are not merely defending reputations—they are laying the groundwork for criminalizing dissent.

This is how it begins.

This is how republics become regimes.

First, criticism is labeled dangerous. Then it is labeled harmful. Then it is labeled illegal. And before long, it is gone.

Beware of those who want to monitor, muzzle, catalogue and censor speech—especially when the justification is “safety.” Because every time the government claims it must limit freedom to protect the public, what it is really doing is expanding its own power.

The irony is almost too glaring to ignore.

By the standards now being floated by those in power, America’s founders themselves would be considered extremists.

Seditionists. Radicals. Domestic threats.

Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, Marquis De Lafayette, and John Adams would certainly have been placed on an anti-government watch list for suggesting that Americans should not only take up arms but be prepared to protect their liberties and defend themselves against the government should it violate their rights.

“What country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance. Let them take arms,” declared Jefferson. He also concluded that “the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”

Observed Franklin: “Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!”

“It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government,” insisted Paine.

“When the government violates the people’s rights,” Lafayette warned, “insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensable of duties.”

Adams cautioned, “A settled plan to deprive the people of all the benefits, blessings and ends of the contract, to subvert the fundamentals of the constitution, to deprive them of all share in making and executing laws, will justify a revolution.”

And who could forget Patrick Henry with his ultimatum: “Give me liberty or give me death!”

By today’s standards, these are not the words of patriots.

They are the words of people who would be surveilled, flagged, censored—and likely arrested.

Had the government of their day succeeded in suppressing their “dangerous speech,” there would have been no Revolution. No Declaration of Independence. No Constitution. No Bill of Rights.

You see, the right to criticize the government is not a side issue.

It is the foundation of a free society. And yet, that foundation is already cracking.

Conduct your own experiment in how much dissent is tolerated: stand on a street corner—or in a courtroom, at a city council meeting, or on a university campus—and try denouncing the government using the founders’ rhetoric.

You won’t last long.

At best, you’ll be dismissed. At worst, you’ll be labeled a threat.

So much for a nation built on dissent.

That principle of free speech is supposed to be non-negotiable. Increasingly, it is treated as optional. Which is precisely why it is under attack.

Anti-government speech has become a four-letter word.

More and more, any speech that challenges authority—exposes corruption, questions policy, or calls out abuses of power—is being recast as dangerous, extremist, or even violent.

The categories keep expanding: Hate speech. Misinformation. Disinformation. Conspiratorial speech. Radical speech. Anti-government speech.

Different labels, same goal: control the narrative.

What has changed is not the tactic—it’s the target.

Under the previous administration, “dangerous speech” meant election denial, COVID dissent, and those who challenged official narratives about public health and national security.

Now, under the Trump administration, “dangerous speech” means media outlets that report unfavorably on the government, comedians who mock those in power, and citizens who dare to call authoritarianism by its name.

The script keeps flipping depending on who is in power, but the ending never changes: censorship.

If the government can control speech, it can control thought. And if it can control thought, it can control you.

As comedian Lenny Bruce once observed, “If you can’t say ‘F@#k,’ you can’t say, ‘F@#k the government.’”

Bruce understood what those in power have always known: language is power. That’s why he was prosecuted.

That’s why dissenters are always targeted first.

And that’s why the government’s growing obsession with policing speech should alarm every American—regardless of political affiliation.

Here is where the hypocrisy becomes impossible to ignore.

When conservative commentator Charlie Kirk was assassinated, the Trump administration and its allies demanded consequences not just for the assassin but for anyone who dared to criticize Kirk.

Public figures were targeted. Jobs were threatened. Comedians were singled out. Among them: late-night host Jimmy Kimmel, who faced calls to be fired for voicing criticism of Kirk.

Now, the same playbook is being used again—this time against those who mock or criticize President Trump and his family.

The message is unmistakable: criticize the wrong people, and your livelihood may be next—not because you committed a crime, but because your words were treated as one.

The latest example: the Trump administration is once again targeting former FBI director James Comey—this time for posting a photo of seashells spelling out “8647,” a slang expression of opposition to Trump, the nation’s 47th president.

A social media post. Treated like a threat.

This is how dissent is being redefined—not as a constitutional right but as a threat.

Yet while the government wrings its hands over so-called dangerous rhetoric, it continues to wield—and expand—its own machinery of violence.

Most recently, the Justice Department has signaled its intent to expand the use of the death penalty, including execution by firing squad.

Let that sink in.

Criticism is being treated as a threat to public safety, while the police state openly embraces more brutal forms of punishment.

This is the same government that claims speech must be curtailed to prevent violence, even as it institutionalizes violence as a matter of policy.

This is not about safety.

It is about control. Because once speech is treated as violence, it becomes easy to justify real violence by the government in response.

History makes one thing clear: governments do not fear violence nearly as much as they fear dissent. That is why the first target of any regime drifting toward authoritarianism is not the gun. It is the voice.

What we are witnessing now is the slow but steady normalization of censorship. A creeping acceptance that some ideas are too dangerous to be heard.

We’ve seen this before. As George Orwell warned, “In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”

We are dangerously close to that point.

The First Amendment was not designed to protect polite speech.

It was designed to protect political speech—uncomfortable speech, provocative speech, dissenting speech, anti-government speech.

Speech that challenges power.

Because once that speech is gone, everything else goes with it.

And if we allow the government to decide which words are too dangerous to be spoken, it won’t be long before we discover that the most dangerous words of all are the ones that speak truth to power.

We are further down that road than most Americans realize.

This is the part of the story Americans should recognize.

First, the government tells you certain speech is dangerous. Then it tells you those who engage in it are dangerous. Then it tells you those people must be monitored, silenced, and, eventually, punished. And all the while, it wraps these measures in the language of safety, unity, and national security.

This is not new. It is as old as tyranny itself.

What we’re dealing with today is a government that wants to suppress dangerous words—words about its warring empire, words about its land grabs, words about its militarized police, words about its killing, its poisoning and its corruption—in order to keep its lies going.

What we are witnessing is a nation undergoing a nervous breakdown over this growing tension between our increasingly untenable reality and the lies being perpetrated by a government that has grown too power-hungry, egotistical, militaristic and disconnected from its revolutionary birthright.

As we warned in Battlefield America: The War on the American People and its fictional counterpart The Erik Blair Diaries, the road to authoritarianism is paved with small compromises—especially when it comes to speech, dissent, and the willingness of the citizenry to push back.

And the only antidote is the truth.

If the government censors get their way, there will be no more First Amendment.

There will be no more Bill of Rights.

And there will be no more freedom in America as we have known it.

This is how freedom rises or falls.

The government’s tolerance for dissent is shrinking. And as that tolerance disappears, the danger is no longer theoretical.

Anti-government speech is becoming a liability.

Speech that exposes corruption, challenges authority, or questions official narratives is being flagged, monitored, and, in some cases, punished.

The list of “dangerous” speech keeps growing. The space for dissent keeps shrinking.

And for those who still believe in exercising their First Amendment rights, the risks are becoming harder to ignore.

With every passing day, the line between a free society and a controlled one is being erased—replaced by a system where speech is monitored, dissent is punished, and truth itself is treated as a threat.

And once that happens, freedom doesn’t just fade—it dies, one silenced voice at a time.

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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Republicofscotland
Republicofscotland
May 10, 2026 5:39 PM

“French President Emmanuel Macron has begun a multi-country East Africa tour, visiting Egypt, Kenya, and Ethiopia in an effort to strengthen France’s economic and strategic ties with the region.

Macron started the visit from Egypt, where he met President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi for talks on bilateral cooperation and economic relations.

He is expected to travel to Kenya and Ethiopia, where discussions will focus on trade, investment, and regional cooperation.”

How the French really see Africa.

“France gathered 400 Muslim scholars and beheaded them. In 1917 AD, during the occupation of Chad. In 1852, when France entered the city of Laghouat in Algeria, it killed two-thirds of its population in a single night and burned them alive.

France occupied Algeria for 132 years. In the first 7 years after their arrival, the French eliminated 1 million Muslims, and in the last 7 years before their departure, they eliminated 1.5 million Muslims. The French historian Jacques Gorky estimated that the total number of Muslims killed in Algeria from France’s arrival in 1830 to its departure in 1962 was 10 million.

France occupied Tunisia for 75 years, Algeria for 132 years, Morocco for 44 years, and Mauritania for 60 years.

When France entered Egypt during its famous campaign, French soldiers on horseback entered mosques and raped free women in front of their families. They drank wine in the mosques and turned them into stables for their horses.

It is strange to see some people boasting about and defending French civilization, forgetting all its dark history. This is France; remind them of its history.

https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/svg/1f53b.svg When France entered the city of Aghwat (Laghouat) in Algeria in 1852, it burned two-thirds of its inhabitants to death in just one night.

https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/svg/1f53b.svg France conducted 17 nuclear tests in Algeria between 1960 and 1966, resulting in an unknown number of deaths estimated between 27,000 and 100,000 and the effects persist to this day.

https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/svg/1f53b.svg When France left Algeria in 1962, it left behind 11 million landmines more than the total population of Algeria at the time.

https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/svg/1f53b.svg France occupied Algeria for 132 years. In just the first seven years of their occupation, they massacred one million Muslims, and in the last seven years, they martyred another 1.5 million Muslims.

https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/svg/1f53b.svg France is the fourth largest holder of gold reserves in the world, with 2,436 tons of gold stored at the Bank of France, even though France has no active gold mines.

https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/svg/1f53b.svg In contrast, Mali one of the world’s largest gold producers with 14 official gold mines has no gold reserves of its own.

https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/svg/1f53b.svg Similarly, the Republic of Congo, which ranks seventh among gold-producing countries, also has no gold reserves in its central bank.”

Republicofscotland
Republicofscotland
May 8, 2026 6:47 PM

The Zio-Nazi’s MUST be held to account at some point – they cannot be allowed to get away with this and much more.

“The Global Sumud Flotilla has confirmed that international activists abducted by Israeli forces during the troops’ raid on the Gaza-bound aid ships in international waters have been subjected to sexual violence, physical assaults and degrading treatment while in Israeli custody.

Israeli naval forces targeted vessels from the Global Sumud Flotilla’s Spring 2026 mission, which aimed to break Israel’s blockade on Gaza and deliver essential aid, off the coast of Greece in the Mediterranean Sea late last month. Dozens of activists were kidnapped during the attack.

In a statement on Thursday, the Global Sumud Flotilla said testimonies gathered from released activists indicated “a pattern of severe physical and sexual violence and systematic degradation” following the attack.

According to the humanitarian aid flotilla, at least four activists were sexually assaulted while in Israeli custody, with two of them subjected to severe abuse by touching their private parts.

Other participants reported repeated assaults on their private parts alongside verbal sexual abuse and humiliating treatment.”

Republicofscotland
Republicofscotland
May 8, 2026 3:51 PM

Totalitarian England is in the making.

“More than 3,200 lawyers including 300 top barristers and retired judges have called on @Keir_Starmer to drop his plan to restrict the right to trial by jury.

30 organisations representing victims of violence against women and girls have written to the Justice Secretary urging him against curtailing the right to jury trials.

Trial by jury is a cornerstone of our democracy and an essential safeguard against authoritarianism. The government has no mandate to restrict it – a move which will put us on a path toward authoritarian justice.”

Mark
Mark
May 7, 2026 7:23 PM

The USA has been anti-Thomas Jefferson, anti-James Madison and pro Hamilton for awhile. https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/2016/07/you-should-be-terrified-that-people-who-like-hamilton-run-our-country

Republicofscotland
Republicofscotland
May 7, 2026 3:28 PM

Cutting ties altogether with Perfidious Albion.

“Antigua and Barbuda has sworn in a new government under revised constitutional rules that for the first time removed allegiance to the British monarch from the official oath of office.

The twin-island Caribbean state gained independence from Britain in 1981 but remained a constitutional monarchy within the Commonwealth, with the British sovereign serving as head of state.”

Munk
Munk
May 7, 2026 11:08 AM

Do hashtags still work?

#DonaldTrumpLovesGenocide
#KingCharlesLovesGenocide
#USCongressSupportsGenocide
#UKParliamentSupportsGenocide

FukTheseFukinFukers… every last one of ‘em!

Penelope
Penelope
May 6, 2026 8:44 PM

COUPLE NEW RULES FOR THE STRAIT
Pay in Iranian rials or yuan. Those countries which participated in the war by permitting US or Israel to use their territory can also use the Strait. But they have to first pay for the war damages attributed to their particular faux pas.

Penelope
Penelope
May 6, 2026 8:32 PM

Israelis just bombed Beirut 100 bombs in 10 minutes. First time since April 17.
There’ already 1 million people homeless in Lebanon but the Israelis have given evacuation orders for more villages so they can bulldoze everything & prevent the people from returning.

Lebanese govt entirely in the pocket of Islael/US. Word is they’ll be given better arms & told to go kill the Hezbollah– the only ones trying to protect the people.

Iran says “No”. Refuses to normalize the Strait until there’s a ceasefire in Lebanon.

Erik Nielsen
Erik Nielsen
May 7, 2026 1:33 AM
Reply to  Penelope

Do you know anything about Iran’s ‘shooting’? Last time I heard about it, Iran was bombed condemned areas in the outskirts of Israeli cities.

Penelope
Penelope
May 7, 2026 4:48 AM
Reply to  Erik Nielsen

Nobody knows what areas Iran bombed cuz Israelis are enforcing “no photos out.” This isn’t entirely convincing, but who knows.

Republicofscotland
Republicofscotland
May 6, 2026 8:12 PM

This reminds me of the Rothschilds balls, where they wear deer heads.

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Stooge
Stooge
May 6, 2026 8:03 PM

I have long suspected that “systems” are not really the thing.

People are.

Like the Russians used to say: “Good Tsar, Good Government Bad Tsar, Bad Government.”

If you’ve got a few decent intelligent people at the helm, then they make whatever system it is work. Usually you don’t, and they don’t. And so it goes.

Republicofscotland
Republicofscotland
May 6, 2026 5:07 PM

The MSM has been quick to rally around this – and deny its true.

“Acetaminophen, more popularly known as paracetamol (Common brand names include TylenolExcedrinCalpol, and Panadol.), may increase the risk of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in children when mothers use the drug during pregnancy, according to a new study.”

Widely Used Painkiller Paracetamol Linked to Autism and ADHD Risk in Children, New Study Suggests – Autism Asha

Penelope
Penelope
May 6, 2026 8:34 PM

I think it was RFK jr’s first campaign.

Erik Nielsen
Erik Nielsen
May 7, 2026 1:16 AM

I have tried all 3 types of pain killers:

Paracetamol, they do not take the pain, I only felt weird the few times I tried them.
Ibuprofen, feeling empty but actually helps a little for pain in teeth. Used some times.
Acetylsalicylic, Aspirin, the best, tested for a century and just works, without any sides.

If you read any bad things about Aspirin its because they desperately try to sell the other two shit products.

Penelope
Penelope
May 6, 2026 4:57 PM

WAR BITS
I guess everybody knows by now that the Iranians have double-confirmed that they did NOT strike UAE in recent days. So UAE, as an Israeli proxy, now says the false flag must’ve been committed by the Saudis. But I guess we all know who engineers false flags– the Mossad.

btw Iran has been hit by some mysterious fires– one was boats in the Daya harbor & the other was an immense blaze in a shopping center outside Teheran. Couple weeks back it was their port on the Caspian.

Trump cancelled his Project Freedom to “guide” ships out of the Strait; it lasted less than 48 hours cuz nobody took him up on it.

Iranians deny that US killed 6 speedboats, but note that the US DID kill a couple civilian small Omani boats & their occupants.

Trump’s China trip is scheduled for Friday the 15th.

btw Russians are experiencing determined attacks on their refineries. There’s been some threat that if May 9 Victory Day parade is disturbed that Kiev w/b “levelled.”

Observe
Observe
May 6, 2026 5:05 PM
Reply to  Penelope

There’s probably some interested party that might consider a false flag attack on the parade. Ukraine gets the blame, Russia reacts very strongly… More funding needed for Ukraine’s defense from the evil one! Perhaps I’m overly suspicious 😏

Penelope
Penelope
May 7, 2026 9:58 PM
Reply to  Observe

I’m not sure there’s any such thing as “overly suspicious” w regard to political news or incidents.

eeokwy
eeokwy
May 6, 2026 6:41 PM
Reply to  Penelope

Major airlines have suspended or reduced flights to the Middle East—specifically Tel Aviv, Beirut, Dubai, and Doha—through at least late May and June 2026 due to regional conflict, causing widespread disruption. Key carriers like Lufthansa, British Airways, and Air France are impacted, with some cancellations lasting into July or September.

Problem reaction solution.

Erik Nielsen
Erik Nielsen
May 7, 2026 1:22 AM
Reply to  Penelope

Putin will enter into a dialogue and talk it over with his ‘equal western partners’.
Kremlin’s 4 year zombie passivity is a joke.

Penelope
Penelope
May 7, 2026 10:01 PM
Reply to  Erik Nielsen

I think the strategy is to let the crazy US nation continue to destroy itself w/o provoking it. May be if they don’t provoke it, it can eventually be persuaded to be rational.

Erik Nielsen
Erik Nielsen
May 9, 2026 12:29 AM
Reply to  Penelope

May be. The less of two evils. Yeah, why not.

Republicofscotland
Republicofscotland
May 6, 2026 3:45 PM

Never forget – what this man David Lammy said in 2023 about Palestinian refugees living in a tented camp.

“Israeli strike on refugee camp can be justified.”

( Labour Deputy Prime Minister, Lord Chancellor, and Secretary of State for Justice.)

viber
viber
May 6, 2026 2:11 PM

When conservative commentator Charlie Kirk was assassinated, the Trump administration and its allies demanded consequences not just for the assassin but for anyone who dared to criticize Kirk.

Yes they did;

Penelope
Penelope
May 6, 2026 8:39 PM
Reply to  viber

The also STOPPED the investigation– got too close to his mega-donors who regarded his new criticisms of Israel as betrayal.

Erik Nielsen
Erik Nielsen
May 7, 2026 1:25 AM
Reply to  viber

When the MAGA crowd found out which country had funded the assassination they immediately pulled out of the case.

Republicofscotland
Republicofscotland
May 6, 2026 10:58 AM

The PTB’s virus aboard the cruise liner has now escaped the confinements of the ship, and into Europe (Switzerland) – the British MSM are bigging up the fear card on the matter, once it spreads a bit further around Europe, then talk will begin to switch towards vaccination again.

Watch this space.

Republicofscotland
Republicofscotland
May 6, 2026 10:30 AM

Iran has created The Persian Gulf Strait Authority, any ship wishing to traverse the Hormuz Straits – must contact this government body first, fill out a form, and then pay a fee, only then will they be allowed to pass through the straits.

I’d imagine some nations ships – will not be allowed to pass no matter what.

shaydeegrove
shaydeegrove
May 6, 2026 8:01 AM

Was it really all about the 1st Amendment

The outlook of people like Benjamin Franklin, speculator in Ohio lands, was that of the nabob. Such rising upper-class colonials assumed they would ultimately inherit the British empire; in the meantime they sought to further their economic and social welfare by making alliances with various groups in English society and in the British government. The great majority of colonists shared the basic assumptions of the nabob and aspired to emulate him. Like their leaders, most of them were hesitant or indifferent toward independence until the morning of the break with England. And many of them never bothered to fight after the war began. As for Franklin and his fellow nabobs, it was only with great reluctance that they joined Adams and his revolutionary allies in Virginia in making a bid for an independent empire.

 The idea of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams to use “happiness” as a more felicitous synonym for “property” was clearly in the context of Tudor mercantilism. Specifically, the recipe for happiness included a call to improve “the breed of sheep”; to charge “only reasonable prices”; to manufacture nails, steel, tin-plate, salt-peter, paper, guns, powder, glass, buttons, and dyes, and to refine salt.

 When he was only 20 (in 1775), John Adams thought it “likely” that “the great seat of empire” would soon be in the American colonies and called for the Second Continental Congress to get on with the business of writing “a constitution to form for a great empire.”
[William Appleman Williams, “Countours of American History”]

janUs
janUs
May 6, 2026 5:51 AM

Hantavirus brought renewed attention to this ”new” disease just before the summer vacation season. 
The great question is does the story hold up?

colintheiltrate
colintheiltrate
May 5, 2026 9:18 PM

they cant stop people saying it if enough people say it anyway speech rightes dont come from law they come from speaking

Erik Nielsen
Erik Nielsen
May 5, 2026 6:04 PM

In relation to “You may be next”:

Philippines study shows infant mortality surged 37% since 2020, congenital abnormality deaths jumped 46%, and registered live births collapsed by 24%.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/infant-mortality-surged-birth-defect-deaths-jumped-covid-19-vaccine/5924684 .

First Philippines vaxxed everybody without a question. Afterwards they make a study of it, ……and cry WOLF???

Edwige
Edwige
May 5, 2026 4:40 PM
Robert Merrill
Robert Merrill
May 5, 2026 4:07 PM

Since the Whiteheads invoke the legacy of Thomas Jefferson, it is well to cite and study his most important writing, since we are today at the exact moment in history he describes in the opening paragraphs of the Declaration of Independence

“When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”

As the Whiteheads and many other have shown, the government we have now — the Washington Regime — has become destructive of the ends to which government was established in the first place. Everything it does violates inalienable human rights. At this point, people have the right and duty to throw off such a government and institute a new one.

This is where we are today. And the great question is what to do. Armed insurrection or revolution is probably the worst idea. The Washington Regime has been prepared for this for a very long time. It would respond to such action in just the way it did when the Confederate States rebelled. It would release overwhelming violent force. While about 150 million Americans own guns and if they were organized as a people’s militia could easily overwhelm the Washington Regime and it military forces, there is just no way to organize people in this way.

The better policy is to support the dissolution of the Union. The US will follow the sort of “perestroika” that characterized the USSR in the late 1980s. Perestroika means “restructuring.” The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was restructured into some independent states and other republics into a commonwealth. The central government was dramatically weakened. There has been some previews of this in the US since the 1980s. Parallel to Soviet perestroika was the New Federalism first announced in the 1980s under Reagan. This would devolve power from the Washington Regime to the states. It never went anywhere but there was great interest.

Already Texas, California, Alaska, Hawaii, Louisiana, Florida, Oregon, Washington, New Hampshire, and Colorado have secessionist movements. Other states have movements designed to re-structure themselves. These all suggest that the Washington Regime is now dysfunctional and an inhibition to the essential human rights of people. The Washington Regime is useless in securing the things that people really want and need.

The US will end not by means of a revolution but rather by the real collapse of the Washington Regime. It will no longer provide any of the goals governments were originally created to insure. It will wither away from fighting its idiotic wars all over the earth.

We need someone like Jefferson today who could powerfully articulate the conditions we face today and the directions to move in the future. Jefferson was a complex person with a lot of personal short comings. But that is how all people are, especially his primary influence in Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

Observe
Observe
May 5, 2026 4:52 PM
Reply to  Robert Merrill

So, you’re suggestion is that it’s better to go from a faux-democratic mafia setup of states of the union with overall central control, to one of faux-democratic setup of states of individual mafia control? Because if you’re suggesting that somehow this will bring power to the people – and not to corrupt gangsters with militaristic/intel control, directed as ever by transnational capital interests (as is the case now, as will be the case in any replacement setup in a capitalist-centred power system) – then that is ridiculous.

What is required – and unlikely in the west unless livelihoods are so squeezed in the masses as to cause it – is a mass rejection of the system itself. The overarching, elite run economic and political system that squeezes the life out of everything it can in order to seek accumulation for the beneficiaries of the system – clue: its not the masses.

Every other type of setup that exists in connection with and in subordination to this parasitic model of power, will succumb to it, be used by it, and the outcomes for people will eventually be the same.

Robert Merrill
Robert Merrill
May 6, 2026 12:34 PM
Reply to  Observe

Yeah, if the US were to be broken up into 30 or so smaller nations, there would be no “American Empire” dominating the world. None of the small nations could afford to have the sort of foreign policy the Washington Regime has had since the end of WW II.

Some new nations would actually be very good and responsible. Others not so good. That’s pretty much how it is among nations. There would still be a migration from the crappy nations to the better ones. The worst or our corporations have been created and exist because of Federal Government funding. This is google, facebook, Palantir, and hundreds more started with CIA funding.

For much of my earlier life, I was a “mass rejection” activist. I encouraged and helped people to avoid the draft or just walk away from the military. I supported the refusal to pay taxes, which would be the best of all “mass rejections.” Just don’t pay. But it will never happen that enough people will refuse to pay taxes.

I’m a follower of the principle that democracy works best in smaller configurations. States would inevitably be more under popular control than the Washington Regime.

Observe
Observe
May 6, 2026 4:34 PM
Reply to  Robert Merrill

I understand your point on this. However, I still feel like you’re leaving out what happens to the MIC/Intel/Deep State setup. ‘Popular’ control is still just the stage. You can’t believe the underlying bureaucracy (and the funding and associated networks) disappears because the U.S. becomes ‘broken up’? So, my point was that regardless, the foundations and concentration of TRUE power remain – and their agenda and outcomes still play out. Reconfiguration of the stage means sweet FA in reality. Perhaps it feels closer to home and therefore people feel like power is more fairly distributed and managed, but it’s surely illusory given the behemoth that lies behind the grand stage.

Observe
Observe
May 6, 2026 4:38 PM
Reply to  Robert Merrill

Sorry @ Admin – I noticed just as I pressed ‘post comment’ on my reply here that I misspelled my email yet again. I’m a clumsy thumbed fool!

Erik Nielsen
Erik Nielsen
May 5, 2026 10:05 PM
Reply to  Robert Merrill

Putin has also splendid oratory abilities in the ideological historical political area.
But victories in real life can be counted on one hand (with all respect to the situation given).

Johnny
Johnny
May 6, 2026 2:09 AM
Reply to  Robert Merrill

‘self- evident’
Only to those with a heart and no agenda.

Stooge
Stooge
May 6, 2026 9:45 PM
Reply to  Robert Merrill

Hang together or hang separately.

Republicofscotland
Republicofscotland
May 5, 2026 3:49 PM

I’m sure American taxpayers would love to pay for this, then again maybe not, just think of how good the infrastructure in the States could be – if all the monies stolen from the taxpayers by consecutive US admins had been ploughed into America, and its people’s wellbeing.

“Republicans want to spend $1 billion in taxpayer money on Trump’s $400 million ballroom”

Republicans want to spend $1 billion in taxpayer money on Trump’s $400 million ballroom

Robert Merrill
Robert Merrill
May 5, 2026 1:58 PM

Once again, I have to say that John and Nisha Whitehead are getting it exactly right. While the US was never founded as a “democracy,” there was always a substantial commitment to the rights of an individual. Gradually over time, these rights have expanded to include people who originally had no rights at all — African Americans, Native Americans, immigrants, and so on.
 
But now we seemed to have reached a turning point at which the individual is now openly “the enemy of the state.” It is no longer “we the people.”
 
Google news is reporting today that Palantir is fastest growing company in the US and may soon be the largest —
 
“As of May 2026, Palantir Technologies (PLTR) is being recognized as one of the fastest growing and most dominant AI companies, particularly in the enterprise software sector. The company reported an 85% year-over-year revenue increase in Q1 2026, its fastest growth rate as a public company.”
 
Palantir is a good “marker” for the government’s — and all governments around the world — war against individuals. It is essentially an AI “murder for hire” corporation. The Israelis use it to kill people in Gaza, Iran, Lebanon, Syria, and so on. The Trump administration is increasingly using Palantir to “manage” the US population.
 
So, what does Palantir do? Palantir was originally developed for the CIA as a “predictive policing” software for terrorists and terrorist movements all over the earth. This was in 2003. It remains one of the CIA’s main system for identifying people it should watch or even kill. Palantir relies on Data Centers which are repositories for all the information collected on every human on earth.
 
It was originally part of the US government’s Total Information Awareness program, a mass detection program by the United States Information Awareness Office. Based on the concept of predictive policing, TIA was meant to correlate detailed information about people in order to anticipate and prevent terrorist incidents before execution. The program modeled specific information sets in the hunt for terrorists around the globe.
 
But now it includes everyone, not just suspected terrorists. Everyone is given a categorization which ranges from “safe” to “kill on sight.” These categories were developing it the first full scale application in Iraq following the US invasion in 2003. All Iraqis were “potential criminals or terrorists,” and the Bremmer regime needed to sort out the population to see who could live in the “New” Iraq and who could not.
 
The same things are going on now in the US. Of course it is not as dramatic as what happened in Iraq. But the principles and the technology are just the same — every individual is a potential enemy of the state.
 
Alex Karp, the CEO of Palantir, has a new book — The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West. While it is revolting to read even one page of this, I think it should be read by everyone so that they know what they are up against.
 
Take a look at this MOFO, Alex Karp. He is a vicious psychopath, and he is out to get you.
 
https://youtu.be/G5gC_fParbY
 
 
 

Observe
Observe
May 5, 2026 5:17 PM
Reply to  Robert Merrill

Let’s not focus on the individual actors – though they be psychopaths – who do the work of much bigger fish. Whether it’s Musk, or Karp, or whoever, they are beholden to interests with far greater power than their individual reach. If they were to drop dead today, a new actor would emerge, beholden to the same interests. Palantir would not disappear nor change its course. We should focus any ire and any disgust at the actions and outcomes of Palantir on the big fish, and see clearly that one man is not the problem:

  • Palantir’s highly unusual Class F “founder shares” guarantee that Alex Karp, Peter Thiel, and Stephen Cohen perpetually hold roughly half of the company’s total voting power, fully insulating them from Wall Street pressure and ensuring they are legally beholden only to one another.
  • This impenetrable structure shields the trio from normal shareholder accountability, and it frequently fuels speculation regarding the company’s original seed funding from the CIA’s venture capital arm, In-Q-Tel.
  • From this setup, one might infer that this absolute, locked-in control was deliberately engineered to protect Palantir’s deep ties to the U.S. intelligence apparatus, theoretically allowing the founders to operate as a secure extension of the CIA that can quietly prioritise classified national security directives without ever being forced by public investors to alter or compromise their mission.
Erik Nielsen
Erik Nielsen
May 5, 2026 5:43 PM
Reply to  Observe

Yes. The Digital death cult is corrupt military rooted.

Robert Merrill
Robert Merrill
May 5, 2026 7:57 PM
Reply to  Observe

I agree with you. Palantir is only a marker or an instance of the system that runs the world. The bigger system is hard to describe without losing people. Undoubtedly it is what is meant by the Deep State — the collection of global banks, billionaires, intelligence agencies, media moguls, and some more. And I agree that we should focus on the Big Fish. But even so, there are many who deny that these Big Fish even exist. For example, who really runs the CIA. For sure it is not the appointees of the president. Trump has appointed John Ratcliff, a mere member of congress from some rural Texas district. Or Tulsi Gabbard, also just a member of congress. They really don’t have any idea about what the CIA is doing. We know that the CIA was created by Wall Street bankers and lawyers. But who really comes up with its planning? Though Total Information Awareness was actually conceptualized by DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), it was implemented by the CIA and NSA. Who made the decision to begin collecting all possible information on every human on earth?

Observe
Observe
May 6, 2026 1:18 AM
Reply to  Robert Merrill

It’s an interesting talking point. You’re right of course – the political appointees can be seen as figureheads and as temporary political overseers – conduits and cover for the deeper regime. They’re certainly not the decision-makers. The intelligence community (IC) operates on a timescale of decades, with a strategic depth that clearly exceeds a four/eight year political term.

No doubt you recognise that the questions you pose are practically impossible to answer – ‘But who really comes up with its planning?… Who made the decision to begin collecting all possible information on every human on earth?’. Profound, critical, unanswerable – at least if you’re trying to pin it down to a single entity/person.

We can, at least, safely say that it’s a combination/symbiosis of interests and institutions. There’s the permanent bureaucracy – the internal thinkers if you like. You have the individuals (30 or 40 year career people) within the NSA/CIA and others; but more broadly there’s an interconnected web – at least what is publicly known. You mentioned Total Information Awareness – that was killed in the public light, but it’s known that its projects were essentially reclassified and became stronger in the dark. There’s the CIA’s Directorate of Digital Innovation, the NSA’s Research Directorate, the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) – a quick check shows part of IARPA’s mission statement is “To envision and lead high-risk, high-payoff research that delivers innovative technology for future overwhelming intelligence advantage.” – a pretty good bet this is where much of the technical requirements are laid for “collecting all possible information.” And there’s too many others to list that are also woven into the fabric of this massive web.

Then there’s the Think tanks and Financial Networks – the workshops and funders: Off the top of my head the well-known names: Rand Corporation, CFR, Booz Allen, Bilderberg, Palantir, Alphabet Inc, Dataminr, In-Q-Tel, and of course the usual suspects that often own the largest shareholdings in the biggest fish: The Vanguard Group, BlackRock, State Street (among others)… and on and on… The true decision maker is a sprawling mass of institutions and corporations whose interests align and for whom self-preservation means ultimate, absolute control. Threats are identified, discussions held, funding sourced – more specifically, on your questions, the conclusion of some discussions at sometime, somewhere in this great web might have been: ‘Our only path to survival in the information age is a posture of total, preemptive data collection…’ And then it’s on.

The scale and depth both in resource and time is immense, mind-boggling. I guess that’s what ‘they’ believe is required to manage a population of often unpredictable, impulsive and skeptical people and to prevent us from bringing it all down in spite of ourselves.

Robert Merrill
Robert Merrill
May 6, 2026 12:40 PM
Reply to  Observe

Yes, I agree with all you say. I’ve also read all of Carroll Quigley’s work. He claims to have been an “insider” who was given permission to tell the story of the rise of the Anglo-American elites — how the British aristocracy or the Rhodes/Rothschilds merged with the American elites in the early 1900s create the successor to the British Empire. His work is dated. It is now the Anglo-American-Israeli Elites. But what he says is good history.

Observe
Observe
May 6, 2026 4:56 PM
Reply to  Robert Merrill

I’ve read Quigley’s Tragedy and Hope: A History of The World in Our Time – possibly the biggest slog of anything I’ve ever read. Dry as a bone, no narrative flow to speak of. The skeptic in me kept pulling me back to the fact that he wouldn’t have been allowed on the inside if it was a neutral, honest deep dive; and whilst it was relatively interesting overall, I was unconvinced of his positive slant on the elite networks – essentially they do what they do because they truly believe it’s in the very best interests of humanity. To preserve civilisation. They just care so much. I believe there’d be some more open debate about alternative systems or changes to the fundamentals of the system if this were remotely true. Instead, it’s consolidation of power and theft of the commons all the way. Saving civilisation is laudable, less so if it means only for a self-chosen few.

Johnny
Johnny
May 6, 2026 2:17 AM
Reply to  Robert Merrill

‘Drop dead today’. Mmm_ _ _

What we need is a mad scientist who can come up with a virus that kills off all the really $ick Turd$.

Any takers?

Stooge
Stooge
May 6, 2026 7:59 PM
Reply to  Observe

Karp. Thiel. Cohen.

Erik Nielsen
Erik Nielsen
May 5, 2026 5:45 PM
Reply to  Robert Merrill

I only need to look at their appearance, stinks 5 km away of weirdos all of them.

May Hem
May Hem
May 6, 2026 6:46 AM
Reply to  Robert Merrill

Palantir, an Israeli tech/spying company, has infiltrated into all levels of the US Government.
How many people in the US are aware of this?

It also has access to the (formerly) private information of millions of UK citizens via their National Health Service.

The Chairman, Peter Thiel, is the boyfriend of J.D. Vance. Palantir’s main investors are the Vanguard Group and Blackrock.

This video is from two independent journalists I trust – Vanessa in Lebanon and Isabel in Peru.
Listen to Isabel discuss Palantir at 33 minutes into this video.

https://beeley.substack.com/p/gambling-on-war-israel-behind-release
https://champsignal.com/ownership/palantir.com

Rhys Jaggar
Rhys Jaggar
May 5, 2026 1:24 PM

The USA does not have the right to free speech if any one of the following are proscribed:

  1. Stating that Jewish people are capable of being racist.
  2. Stating that Jewish people are capable of being criminals.
  3. Stating that Jewish people are capable of imperialism through land theft, genocide, mass murder and organised crime.
  4. Stating the above three for all other sects, religions, ethnicities and sexes on earth.
  5. Stating that US public officials are capable of criminality, corruption, insider trading, receiving kickbacks and operating on behalf not of their electorate but on behalf of unaccountable kick-back-paying masters.
  6. Stating that non-US human beings have equal value in the eyes of God, if not in the eyes of fascist US MIGA cult members.
  7. Stating that obeying orders in the military is not a defence if you commit war crimes.
  8. Stating that not knowing the rules of war is no defence for any US military conscript if they have committed war crimes.
  9. Saying that black athletes who take performance-enhancing drugs are not part of any ‘victimhood’ minority.
  10. Saying that Jews represent such a small minority of the US electorate that no truly representative US government could possibly put the views of Jews before those of the overwhelming majority of non-Jews.
  11. Saying that Jews who wish to buy elections should have their citizenships revoked.
  12. Saying that funding the State of Israel is absolutely not an obligation of the people of the USA.

None of those statements are remotely controversial. None.

They are of course dangerous to those who know they hold unpopular power through subversion of genuinely democratic electoral processes.

Observe
Observe
May 5, 2026 3:53 PM
Reply to  Rhys Jaggar

The issue I’d take with your comment is that none of those things is ‘proscribed’ in the U.S. Every point you made is 100% legally protected speech under the First Amendment. Not a single one is legally forbidden by any federal or state statute. You can say any of them on a street corner, in a book, on a personal website, on a podcast, in a university lecture hall, or in Congress itself and the government can’t arrest you, fine you, or jail you for it.

Someone uttering those things may face private-sector or social consequences, however that would be true of a million things a person could say, legally, that might be taken as offence by another person, group, business or institution.

Not the same thing as speech being “proscribed” or that the U.S. “does not have the right to free speech.” So, what was your point? The word “if” in your first sentence appears to be doing a lot of heavy lifting. Was the point to conflate free speech with non-forbidden speech? Or, to say that if these things eventually become proscribed then the U.S. would not have free speech rights? Well, obviously. Your comment seems a little obsessed with specific types of people.

Stooge
Stooge
May 6, 2026 9:48 PM
Reply to  Observe

Oh, bullshit. You get the shit cancelled out of you with extreme prejudice when you say those things publicly.

Observe
Observe
May 7, 2026 2:11 AM
Reply to  Stooge

What’s bullshit? I just said it isn’t illegal. Stone cold fact.

Penelope
Penelope
May 5, 2026 8:49 PM
Reply to  Rhys Jaggar

Rhys, I’m not well-informed on this topic, but look at this:
“The legislation — officially H.R. 6090 — would require the Department of Education to consider the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) Working Definition of Antisemitism when determining whether alleged harassment is motivated by antisemitic animus. . . .”
This House bill passed 320 to 91.
https://truthout.org/articles/house-passes-bill-that-defines-criticism-of-israel-as-antisemitism/

“Over 30 states have laws restricting boycotts of Israel, affecting contractors and businesses. Here’s what those laws require and where legal challenges stand today.”
https://legalclarity.org/are-there-states-where-its-illegal-to-boycott-israel/ 

I want to emphasize that Jews are in the forefront of OPPOSING these policies. Sometimes I think that the policies of Israel purposely motivate anti-Jewish judgements in order to force more Jews to immigrate to Israel.

Erik Nielsen
Erik Nielsen
May 6, 2026 12:46 AM
Reply to  Penelope

https://yandex.ru/video/preview/12614957844672298961 3 standing ovations.
A Congress of wagging poodles.

May Hem
May Hem
May 6, 2026 6:51 AM
Reply to  Erik Nielsen

Or were they oi-vations?

Antonym
Antonym
May 6, 2026 5:29 AM
Reply to  Rhys Jaggar

Is Jewobsession listed in DSM-5 ?

Strange for a guy from an Ishlam overrun island with barely any Juice leftover.

judith
judith
May 5, 2026 12:31 PM

56 years ago yesterday, May 4, 1970, four students at Kent State University, in Ohio were shot to death, and several others badly wounded (one paralyzed), by United States National Guardsmen.

I was reminded of that horrible tragedy and murder, not on the front page of the New York Times, the LA Times, the Wall Street Journal. But on facebook. Facebook.

As I was fifteen years old at the time of the murders, I did not fully comprehend the atrocity. And I am ashamed to say, other than a very few reminders over the years, have not given that day a second thought.

Why is this event not mentioned when questioning the truth about Pearl Harbor, the sixties assassinations, 9/11/, Waco, Oklahoma bombing, and Charlie Kirk’s alleged death?.

Perhaps there has been independent research (James Corbett?) but I have not seen it.

Nothing was done. No one was held accountable. The parents were given paltry compensation.

These were college kids. Protesting the Viet Nam war.

Imagine being a parent getting that phone call. Shot dead by the National Guard.

Guarding what?

Republicofscotland
Republicofscotland
May 5, 2026 12:59 PM
Reply to  judith

This utter injustice has been going on much longer but I take onboard your points, now Australia bends over backwards for the Zionists.

“Headline in the Sydney Daily Telegraph, 1948.

This passage stands out:

Jews saw their opportunity. Men of the army of Zion attacked Deir Yassin at 10 a.m. that day.

They easily overcame the opposition. They killed 20 Arab defenders, and entered the village, tossing grenades into houses.

They killed old men, women, and children with bayonets. For three hours the slaughter went on.

Babies were killed in front of their mothers. Mothers’ throats were slit. Some were beheaded.

A group of men and women—some of the women obviously pregnant—were lined up and shot. The bloodlusting Jewish soldiery desecrated the bodies of pregnant mothers with knives.

When they had murdered 264 villagers, the Jews called a halt. They rounded up four truckloads of survivors of all ages and both sexes, tossed the bodies of the dead into the village well, and drove off with the survivors.


The victorious Jews drove the survivors through Jewish areas as exhibits of victory while Jews spat upon them. The parade continued, with breaks, for two days. “

Observe
Observe
May 5, 2026 4:14 PM

Some historians argue that the barbarity was a deliberate strategy to strike horror and fear into the people to expedite them leaving their land. There is disagreement on whether it was a direct order, or whether it was tolerated by commanders and exploited for the same effect. Either way, unconscionable, despicable and sub-human actions.

Similar atrocities are happening currently in various parts of the world where conflict is rife – fighters raping women and men, cutting out and eating the organs of their victims, and horrific torture. Barely a whisper in media about much of it – we are all kept comfortable and ignorant, the better to keep us from raising mass objection against the powerful interests that these conflicts often serve.

Republicofscotland
Republicofscotland
May 5, 2026 4:35 PM
Reply to  Observe

Good points, we are like mushrooms – kept in the dark and fed shit.

Anyway 4 of the Filton Six were found guilty today in England, these principled young people will now be sentenced under terrorism laws – the English courts are as corrupt as the English government.

judith
judith
May 6, 2026 1:06 PM
Reply to  Observe

yup

Johnny
Johnny
May 6, 2026 2:23 AM

The Telegraph is a Murdoch muck rag.
Good for two things:
Lining bird cages and lighting fires.

Rhys Jaggar
Rhys Jaggar
May 5, 2026 1:26 PM
Reply to  judith

Guarding the interests of the MIC shareholders?

Guarding the political legacy of Lyndon Baines Johnson?

Robert Merrill
Robert Merrill
May 5, 2026 1:27 PM
Reply to  judith

Thanks for bringing this up. I know why the Kent State shootings have vanished from people’s minds. The official story of Kent State killings was always a white wash. In truth, the shootings were a deliberate plan by the FBI to send a message to all anti-war protesters that the gloves were coming off and protesters would be shot.

About 15 years ago, the FBI released all of its files and materials from the Kent State shooting. The gave all the materials — about 20 big plastic tubs full — to a journalist who worked for CNN and who was a friend of mine. He was also a journalism major at Kent State at the time and covered the story for the campus news paper. He was an eye-witness to the events. We spent time going through it all. A lot of it was clothes and stuff from the protesters picked up by the FBI. But most interesting were FBI internal memos on their previous infiltrators and covert operators on the Kent State campus.

The long standing stories about shots being fired from the crowd at the National Guard were proven true in the documents. The shooter posing as a student protester was named in the documents. His actions were designed by the FBI to provoke an open fire by the National Guard. My friend from CNN wanted to do a documentary on what the FBI materials revealed, including reports from the covert operator to the FBI. There were also many notes showing that my friend as a student journalist as well as others he knew were under surveillance by the FBI. Many other students were too. In fact, it is reasonable to say that all of Kent State had been sort of taken over by the FBI as a project. I would assert as a message to be sent to all anti-war activists.

The shooter was placed into the government witness protection program with a new name. But my friend tracked down his sister who claimed she had not seen him in decades and knew nothing about his whereabouts. In fact, she did. They were in communication. He found the shooter but the shooter refused to talk or to admit to anything.

In short, when the bosses at CNN saw the proposal for the documentary, they said “No. Bury the story.” I’ve always thought that news organizations like CNN know that their job is to protect the crimes of government agencies like the FBI. It is likely that the FBI gave this material to a CNN reporter because it had already had assurances from CNN that none of it would see the light of day.

My friend is long retired from CNN and as far as I know has not done anything with the bombshell he still has. You can see some brief reflections on his experience at Kent State here (note this is a CNN webpage and it would control what is written there) —

https://www.cnn.com/2010/US/05/04/kent.state.anniversary/index.html

judith
judith
May 6, 2026 12:53 PM
Reply to  Robert Merrill

How interesting. Thank you. Yes, in one post I read that indeed the FBI had an asset who worked in security and who, alledgedly, fired shot from a pistol which triggered National Guard to open fire.

It does not surprise me that CNN dropped that ball. It’s too bad that we don’t learn in high school and college, not only about these atrocities, but as important, learn about the cover-ups.

I am aware of how naive this sounds, but to come to terms with the reality of the country you grew up thinking was the beacon of light, is gut-wrenching.

Not that other countries are not corrupt (pretty sad learning that, also), but we were raised to think we are the harbinger of all things good.

judith
judith
May 6, 2026 1:09 PM
Reply to  Robert Merrill

Imagine how frustrated your friend must feel. I feel certain there are many other real investigative reporters who unlocked the same type of evidence about the same type of murder and had to sit on it.

Or you ended up like Danny Casoloro and Gary Webb.

Erik Nielsen
Erik Nielsen
May 5, 2026 2:14 PM
Reply to  judith

Excuse me, but inside these cases I again see innocents being crucified/murdered because they were on an innocent mission.

Provocative to the perverts who were obsessed with massacres, agent orange, torture tools, bombing small villages in Vietnam.

Penelope
Penelope
May 5, 2026 10:06 PM
Reply to  judith

Judith, I went to Kent State briefly. My brother was present at the shooting incident you mention. He was very active against the war; he was even accused of “masterminding” the shooting. AFAIK some nervous guardsman imagined himself at risk and this is what started the shooting.

(I was extremely fortunate to grow up as an Ohio farmgirl in Stow.)

judith
judith
May 6, 2026 4:06 AM
Reply to  Penelope

Wow. It’s been so interesting, and moving, to read all of the comments on the facebook posts about this. Many comments from students who were there.

A sister of one of the women killed started an organization in her honor. Can’t remember the name right now, but it was designed to find the truth about what happened. Investigations did take place independently, but as with many of these intended tragedies, the investigations went nowhere.

One discovery were bullets found that came from a handgun, not a rifle. A forensic sound test was done. It seems there were shots fired (by the pistol) before the National Guard fired. It is suspected that a three letter agency informant, who was also a security person at Kent State, fired the pistol that caused the Guard to open fire. I have to do more reading on it.

(I was in Ohio once many years ago. Chagrin Falls, at Christmas. Lovely)

janUs
janUs
May 6, 2026 5:53 AM
Reply to  judith

Thanks for bringing this memory back.
I remember this.

Stooge
Stooge
May 6, 2026 9:51 PM
Reply to  judith
Thom
Thom
May 5, 2026 10:09 AM
Rhys Jaggar
Rhys Jaggar
May 5, 2026 1:28 PM
Reply to  Thom

One of these days a hypersonic missile will rain down on Tel Aviv and Washington and the people who send messages like that will find themselves buried under rubble.

les online
les online
May 5, 2026 8:43 AM
les online
les online
May 5, 2026 8:49 AM
Reply to  les online
Erik Nielsen
Erik Nielsen
May 6, 2026 12:51 AM
Reply to  les online

Is that going on right now?

Johnny
Johnny
May 5, 2026 4:35 AM
Noddy
Noddy
May 5, 2026 4:02 AM

America (The USA part) has never been a democracy. The ‘Founding Fathers’ were nothing more than tax evaders who traitorously set up a state and system that benefited them alone. It hasn’t changed much.

Johnny
Johnny
May 5, 2026 9:13 AM
Reply to  Noddy

Yep.

les online
les online
May 5, 2026 2:46 AM

Breaking NEWS: UK government does not plan to celebrate the centenary of
1926 UK General Strike !

Erik Nielsen
Erik Nielsen
May 5, 2026 3:35 AM
Reply to  les online

Why? Because Labor lost!
The workers demanded free food without work. Lunch time 8 hrs a day, free clothing and holiday season every day the sun was shining.

The UK Government refused to keep up the too high wages to an increasing lazy, dirty and decadent working class who got their new ideas of a new Global Worker government from the Sovjet Union Stalin Communist Regime.comment image

Johnny
Johnny
May 5, 2026 6:48 AM
Reply to  Erik Nielsen

So the bosses, under the control of their Corparasitic Overlords, exploited, pillaged, plundered, raped, screwed, injured and murdered the workers.

The Users and the Used.

Erik Nielsen
Erik Nielsen
May 5, 2026 2:20 PM
Reply to  Johnny

“A working class hero is something to be, but you are still fokking peasants as far as I can see”, (John Lennon).

Johnny
Johnny
May 6, 2026 2:26 AM
Reply to  Erik Nielsen

Lennon’s subtlety evades you.

Rhys Jaggar
Rhys Jaggar
May 5, 2026 1:30 PM
Reply to  Erik Nielsen

It’s always a dead giveaway when someone uses US spelling for Labour.

Erik Nielsen
Erik Nielsen
May 5, 2026 5:40 PM
Reply to  Rhys Jaggar

Depends on the case.

Rhys Jaggar
Rhys Jaggar
May 5, 2026 1:29 PM
Reply to  les online

Why should workers of the UK expect Government to honour something which was ‘the workers against the government’?

If people want to celebrate it, they should make their own arrangements.

It’s not hard.

Antonym
Antonym
May 5, 2026 2:29 AM

the Trump administration is once again targeting former FBI director James Comey

Horrible! Atlantic cabal tool Comey of Steele dossier “fame” can’t smear or accuse freely. Trying to impeach an unwanted US president on false “Russia!!” fears is being hampered. Public, official group lying supported by the whole SM & MSM is being opposed an inchy little bit, the woke can’t sleep anymore.

Freedom of mass official smear is at stake! The Pravda’s and HMVs are howling, and so are the Whiteheads.

Lizzyh7
Lizzyh7
May 5, 2026 4:17 PM
Reply to  Antonym

Yeah, using Comey of all people as some kind of symbol of “resistance” in an article about watch lists and surveillance is rich, isn’t it? A man who helped gin up the sentiment for a war with Russia using a completely bullshit “dossier” paid for by one of his favorite handlers, Hillary Clinton. Millions utterly wasted on an “investigation” of a lie. Divide and rule tactics used to feed his followers the idea he was going to clean up the swamp by “getting Trump.” We know the Clinton’s have never, ever been involved in anything as shady as working to censor Americans criticizing government, nor have they themselves helped gin up any of their own wars or criminal activities. Comey is now a hero for dissing Trump.

Remember when liberals started worshipping GWB because he “didn’t like Trump?” All of a sudden, the “worst president ever” was seen as a benevolent truth teller for merely spewing some criticism of the Rumper. And forget about all that covid authoritarianism, along with blatant censorship out of the “other side” 5 years ago or so, let’s just focus on Trump while the other half of the predatory beast continues on, waiting in the wings for its big chance to clamp down again as well as provide bread and circuses with a few specious prosecutions thrown in for thrills. They’ll get up there and assure the American public that they are there to restore our freedom from the big scary Orange Man, who was the only corrupt POTUS in the history of the Republic. This time it’ll be different, they swear, just trust them.

Johnny
Johnny
May 5, 2026 1:27 AM

Up until the late 1960s, most of the people could be fooled most of the time.
Following the war in Vietnam media control was consolidated, and the fooling continued.

The chaotic nature of the WWW has undermined that consolidation.
Free speech sticks its head above the parapet and upsets the Lords of Mammon.

We can’t have that.

Rhys Jaggar
Rhys Jaggar
May 5, 2026 1:32 PM
Reply to  Johnny

Indeed, no. That’s why AI is swamping the internet with drivel, to make it harder and harder to find the gems that the internet provided so easily in 2001/2.

The internet has become the victim of fascists.

Unfortunately to create a parallel internet, a lot of infrastructure will need to be set up.

Erik Nielsen
Erik Nielsen
May 5, 2026 1:18 AM

Rumours about an avalanche still occur frequently in Alt media while people are concerned about their free speech and Jefferson. $500/barrel oil is the bet.

The Avalance has started: Why……. Financial Armageddon https://www.sott.net/

Penelope
Penelope
May 5, 2026 12:59 AM

REFUELING AIRCRAFT ARE IN THE AIR –Larry Wilkerson, ret CIA
so it’s already resumed, if he’s right.

Cowardly Congress wouldn’t approve or disapprove continuance of the war as required @ 60 days. Instead they pretend that Trump’s renaming of the operation “Project Freedom” is a new operation, starting over at Day 1.

This is obviously dishonest since the count begins, by statute, with mobilization. By definition since mobilization continues it’s the SAME operation. Cowardly Congress refuses to fulfill its constitutional role.

PS Iran denies the commercial attacks on the Cargo ships. (so probably didn’t occur; there were no fotos.)

les online
les online
May 5, 2026 1:06 AM
Reply to  Penelope

Well, Fujairah is essential to IMEC, and Trump’s ME business interests, so it’s expected
he’ll protect his interests, even by using US defence forces…

Robert Merrill
Robert Merrill
May 5, 2026 2:12 PM
Reply to  Penelope

The US congress is as controlled by the Israelis and their US billionaires and lobbyists as Trump is. No in the US government will go against the wishes of the psychopaths and war mongers in Israel. The current war against Iran will go on until Israel is destroyed. That’s how it will end. Otherwise it will never end.

Veri Tas
Veri Tas
May 5, 2026 12:33 AM

Our Western countries and their governments are completely controlled by Zionist lobby groups.

In America:

“Through its 31 offices across the country, the Anti-defamation League (ADL) monitors school curricula, library acquisition lists, and public conferences and symposiums, working behind the scenes to stifle intellectual freedom.”
(Robert Friedman, The Jewish Thought Police: How the Anti- Defamation League Censors Books, Intimidates Librarians, and Spies on Citizens, The Village Voice, July 27, 1993).

The ADL also monitors every conceivable source of information available to the public, at- tempting to suppress anything it sees as harmful to Jewish public re- lations. One of the more recent enterprises was the development of an internet filter for individuals, libraries and educational institutions. (David Duke, Jewish Supremacism).

Increasingly, only one version of the ‘truth’ is permitted. “We are a global production company. We write the screenplay, we’re the directors, we’re the producers, we’re the main actors. And the world is our stage.” (former Mossad agents speaking on US CBS 60 Minutes in Dec. 2024)

Johnny
Johnny
May 5, 2026 6:49 AM
Reply to  Veri Tas

Horrorwood writ large.

PilgrimShadow
PilgrimShadow
May 4, 2026 11:52 PM

Had the government of their day succeeded in suppressing their “dangerous speech,” there would have been no Revolution. No Declaration of Independence. No Constitution. No Bill of Rights.

The Government of its day — Great Britain — did indeed make efforts to squash the “dangerous speech” of the rebels, which is why many of them practiced anonymity when writing their pamphlets and other screeds.

https://csac.history.wisc.edu/2022/07/22/pseudonyms-and-the-debate-over-the-constitution/

The founders were well aware of the consequences of their words and deeds; Franklin put it thus: “We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately,” while Patrick Henry was even more blunt: “Give me Liberty, or give me death!”

Naturally enough, since governments always strive to perpetuate themselves.

Much projection, as usual, from the Whiteheads.

les online
les online
May 4, 2026 10:50 PM

Of course he’d be on a Watch List, wouldnt he ! The damn guy was conspiring against
the government, encouraging dis-obedience and dis-loyalty. He needed watching as
he was agitating for an uprising against, or a revolution to overthrow The Authorities…

john
john
May 4, 2026 10:33 PM

“Everything this nation once stood for is being turned on its head.”

Everything this nation has stood for is coming to a head. Founding fathers, excluding figures like Paine, were indeed felons. They were ruling class predators upon people, and their organized crime was consolidated by the constitution. 

They first declared their independence from British empire because they wanted to control and extend their own. Curtailment of colonization by the Crown west of the Appalachians (1763) to prevent further conflict with Native Americans following the Seven Years’ War prevented that. The Declaration’s final grievance turns that on its head as “domestic insurrection” promoted by the monarchy’s alliance with “merciless Indian savages” waging scorched-earth warfare against colonists of “all ages, sexes, and conditions.” An upside-down claim when you consider ruthless rules of engagement by colonizers, from scalping made into business to General George Washington’s reputation among Native Americans as Town Destroyer, which had a lot to do with Native Americans forming alliances with French and Spanish interests. 

Add to such offense the legal abolition of slave trade in England (1772) to provoke the worst fears of colonial rulers making their fortunes off the plantation economy. Accordingly, the Declaration’s claims of equality, unalienable rights, and life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness were noble lies to recruit working class colonists to their cause, promising them compensation for lost cash crops. But when payment came due at war’s end, the ‘revolutionary’ government reneged, only to have propertied elites buy up the IOUs next to nothing and turn around to transact laws guaranteeing they get paid more with interest off taxes upon commoners, including the defrauded (so much for no taxation without representation).

Shays’ Rebellion (1786-87) was the most prominent point of resistance by the many who had been betrayed by the few new powers that be, contributing to a state of emergency among them with the constitutional convention (1787) that usurped the established Articles of Confederation and amounted to a coup to centralize their power in a federal government. As John Jay simply put it, those who own the country ought to govern it. The rest is history, and why ‘we the people’ will never be free of ruling class corruption without a real revolution to establish human society on a more truly egalitarian foundation.

Penelope
Penelope
May 5, 2026 1:05 AM
Reply to  john

Yeah, they’re outlaws. Stupid Trump giggles as he says, “We’re like pirates. Ha ha ha.”
He says he can do whatever he wants with Cuba.

Stooge
Stooge
May 6, 2026 10:02 PM
Reply to  john

Don’t forget the War of Northern Aggression. The only real attempt at substantive resistance.

Shipinthenight
Shipinthenight
May 4, 2026 10:11 PM

Did they just try to support Comey? The man’s a reptile.

Manfred Johann Schmuckers
Manfred Johann Schmuckers
May 4, 2026 10:08 PM

Addendum.

Operation Lock Step
https://unbekoming.substack.com/p/operation-lock-step
Understanding The Rockefeller Foundation’s Operation Lock Step through Neema Parvini’s lecture, The Octopus.
Unbekoming – Nov 17, 2024

“Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.”— Primo Levi
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/102341-monsters-exist-but-they-are-too-few-in-number-to

Lucky us.

Rob
Rob
May 4, 2026 10:53 PM

And in the past the common people were so stupid they would comply…. Women got suffrage in the UK and then humiliated men who didn’t want to go to war.
People were selfish idiots.

Try that today.,

PilgrimShadow
PilgrimShadow
May 4, 2026 11:18 PM

Can Sauron be Sauron without his orcs?

Erik Nielsen
Erik Nielsen
May 5, 2026 12:38 AM
Reply to  PilgrimShadow

Yes. Next question.

Pilgrim Shadow
Pilgrim Shadow
May 5, 2026 2:06 AM
Reply to  Erik Nielsen

Wrong answer.

Erik Nielsen
Erik Nielsen
May 5, 2026 2:27 PM
Reply to  Pilgrim Shadow

Its obvious. Off course Sauron is still himself without orcs. Wake up.comment image .

Pilgrim Shadow
Pilgrim Shadow
May 5, 2026 6:52 PM
Reply to  Erik Nielsen

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Erik Nielsen
Erik Nielsen
May 6, 2026 12:58 AM
Reply to  Pilgrim Shadow

Sauron dont need these lunatics. Sheeple is enough. A bunch of human sheeple is enough to destroy our planet. Just look at the CO2 story. Global warming. comment image

mgeo
mgeo
May 5, 2026 5:02 AM

Intellectuals rise up the ranks by being good apologists. The “common men” including the bulk of todsy’s military are acting out of desperation. The name Levi should provide a clue.

Republicofscotland
Republicofscotland
May 4, 2026 7:57 PM

When there’s no way to express criticism of a government for fear of arrest and persecution – the only route left to the masses is one of violence – Americans are well armed – so this route which would be the only real route left to them, and it would probably descend into civil war.

Jerry Alatalo
Jerry Alatalo
May 4, 2026 7:41 PM

What we are witnessing is a nation undergoing a nervous breakdown over this growing tension between our increasingly untenable reality and the lies being perpetrated by a government that has grown too power-hungry, egotistical, militaristic and disconnected from its revolutionary birthright.

*

Amen.

Symptoms of America’s nervous breakdown are most powerfully illustrated by the increasingly-troubling words and increasingly reckless, desperate, dangerous actions of the clinically and criminally insane war pig/mass murderer Donald Trump

Rob
Rob
May 4, 2026 10:56 PM
Reply to  Jerry Alatalo

The nervous breakdown is because we are being shown that everything is a farce. Only the dumbest who still think that politics isn’t scripted are frightened by the chaos.
Isn’t it weird that during Bush in Iraq gas went up to $5… Which would be like $8-9 today..
But now somehow we are in a “huge” war with Iran and gas is still at 4?

Manfred Johann Schmuckers
Manfred Johann Schmuckers
May 4, 2026 7:02 PM

Let me add some “scripts” in place already …

A Digital World Orderhttps://escapekey.substack.com/p/a-digital-world-orderStargate, Palantir, and the road to algorithmic authoritarianismesc – Oct 08, 2025

Checkmate: The Triumph of Technocracy
https://www.erikwikstrom.com/p/checkmate-the-triumph-of-technocracy
“How Trump, Elon & the Tech Elite are paving the way for a Brave New World – And what it means for all of us”
Erik Wikström – Feb 16, 2025

Scenarios for the Future of Technology and International Development
https://archive.org/details/scenarios-for-the-future-of-technology-and-international-development
“This report was produced by The Rockefeller Foundation and Global Business Network.”
May 2010
… with the “Lockstep” as one four “very different futures” already “designed”.
( … page 16 )

THX 1138
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/THX_1138
George Lucas – 1971
“The events depicted in this movie are fictitious. …”

What are their motives, we might ask.
Total control over life in general by an AI-System ( The Matrix ) with automatons replacing all biological forms of life.
And “Blade Runners” searching for us as disturbing the peace of the graveyard.

WORLDCOIN: AI Requires Proof That You Are Human
https://off-guardian.org/2023/08/05/worldcoin-ai-requires-proof-that-you-are-human/
Karen Hunt – Aug. 5, 2023

Ray Kurzweil and the Singularity – Lew Keilar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9iYEUq9Vgo
26.01.2013

The good news finallly – we see their scripts now.

mgeo
mgeo
May 5, 2026 5:06 AM

AI is willing and able to help the very sickest to kill us all:
https://www.globalresearch.ca/ai-chatbots-chilling-instructions-biological-weapons/5924675

Penelope
Penelope
May 4, 2026 6:59 PM

BREAKING Iran just struck UAE’s oil facilities @ primary port outside the Strait, at Fujairah. They also hit oil storage which is now on fire. Just this morning Iran publishd map showing the exact area which Iran regards as “closed” except w their permission, and Fujairah is w/in that area.
–Reuters
For more info
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVEXo1MhVvc

Also report Iran’s fired warning shots on US ships, see the link. Not likely; it’s unconfirmed.

Penelope
Penelope
May 4, 2026 7:42 PM
Reply to  Penelope

OK, Iran’s confirming they DID fire warning shots on two US ships. But till now we have only UAE’s word that Iran is the one who struck their oil-loading facilities @ Fujaira. Obviously SOMEONE struck two oil storage silos there, but it’s not yet confirmed by Iran that they did it.

Erik Nielsen
Erik Nielsen
May 5, 2026 12:44 AM
Reply to  Penelope

Israel controlled news has confirmed that Iran did it.

Rhys Jaggar
Rhys Jaggar
May 5, 2026 1:39 PM
Reply to  Erik Nielsen

And you believe Israeli news uncritically?

Erik Nielsen
Erik Nielsen
May 5, 2026 2:29 PM
Reply to  Rhys Jaggar

The comment was ‘sarc’. Only for sophisticated readers.

les online
les online
May 4, 2026 11:10 PM
Reply to  Penelope

Iran’s not waiting for President Trump to decide. ? Showing initiative, but as UAE is not neutral, is a provocateur for USreal, most likely retaliation…

https://www.sott.net/article/506088-not-neutral-inside-the-uaes-shadow-role-in-the-us-israel-war-on-iran/

Penelope
Penelope
May 4, 2026 11:59 PM
Reply to  les online

Thanks for the summary: UAE’s even worse than I thought.
When US said it wd “guide” ships out of the Persion Gulf past the Striat that’s not the same as “escort” in military parlance. Apparently talking them thru w satellite imagery, pretending to know where the mines are, etc. is “guiding.”

However, apparently 2 US frigates attempted to approach a little more closely than usual & Iran at least fired warning shots. However it considered this as good enough to qualify as violating the ceasefire (as if the blockade wasn’t enough) and fired on two cargo ships at Fujairah in addition to hitting the oil silos.

CBS says the cargo ships were ablaze and that Dubai airport was hit.

les online
les online
May 5, 2026 12:55 AM
Reply to  Penelope

This guy is a lawyer:
‘It’s a legal loophole. If Iran fires on the escorted ships or our fleet, that would be Iran starting a new conflict. Our military can then respond defensively. Technically, it would not be attacking, so no new War Powers clock would start, because the USA did not start hostilities – Iran did. The Present is clearly allowed to take whatever defensive actions he feels appropriate.’

https://http://www.coffeeandcovid.com/virtue-signals-monday-may-4-2026

‘Technically’ – i must be female because i have two nipples.

Penelope
Penelope
May 6, 2026 12:17 AM
Reply to  les online

It’s weird, Les, but Iran says they DID NOT strike UAE in recent days. False flag? I wonder if the oil silos could’ve been the same sabotage of refineries, etc. we’ve been seein lately? A S. Korean ship moored of UAE was mysteriously set ablaze, then 2 barges moored at Dayan Port in Iran.
Mossad?

les online
les online
May 6, 2026 12:56 AM
Reply to  Penelope

Mossad ? Mossad works like God, in strange and mysterious ways !
All the analyses* of The Next Round in The USrael War Against Iran, the focus is entirely on what the US forces might be preparing for. There’s a strange silence about Israhell’s preparations – it’s as if everyone seems to think Israhell is gonna sit out the anticipated Grand Finale.. That’s grounds for Conspiracy Thinking ?

** speculations…

Penelope
Penelope
May 7, 2026 10:44 PM
Reply to  les online

Israel seems to be busy, hurriedly taking over as much of Lebanon as possible– and killing people at random: policemen, water-truck drivers, emergency healthcare– just PEOPLE.

mgeo
mgeo
May 5, 2026 5:11 AM
Reply to  Penelope

UAE has secret agreements with Israhell.

mgeo
mgeo
May 5, 2026 5:09 AM
Reply to  les online

Iran said US response to its 14 points forwarded through Pakistan was unacceptable.

les online
les online
May 5, 2026 12:22 AM
Reply to  Penelope

Fujairah is the core oil dispatch hub for Trump-UAE’s IMEC, so it’s another shot fired in the IMEC – BRI war…

les online
les online
May 5, 2026 2:04 PM
Reply to  Penelope

Larry C Johnson, ex-CIA, says a friend-in-the-know says Thursday 7 May is when
Iran will experience the US’s latest Shock n Awe… Nearly all analysts believe the
US mid-terms have quite an influence on Trump’s decision making. I dont… They
also think the possibility of US servicemen being killed weighs on him… I dont…

Penelope
Penelope
May 6, 2026 12:17 AM
Reply to  les online

If he’s not actually nuts, he deserves an Oscar. They’re giving him cognitive tests and he prattles on & on about it– the dummy.
But he’s still able to be obsessed about his image and his investment wallet.

But not the welfare of US servicemen– he was NEVER able to consider anyone but himself.

May Hem
May Hem
May 6, 2026 7:08 AM
Reply to  Penelope

Trump is merely an actor, reading a script.

Penelope
Penelope
May 7, 2026 10:09 PM
Reply to  May Hem

Certainly, but he also acts in support of his ego & his wallet– provided it doesn’t contradict the agenda of his puppeteers.

bohdi
bohdi
May 4, 2026 6:35 PM

Bravo! well said, thanks from ZA

Erik Nielsen
Erik Nielsen
May 6, 2026 1:16 AM
Reply to  bohdi

You are welcome from Zambia. No problem.

bohdi
bohdi
May 4, 2026 6:34 PM

Well SAID! thanks from south africa!