America's Greatest Threat
It Doesn’t Come from a Foreign Government ...
The patriots who founded the United States understood the biggest threat to America didn’t come from overseas. It didn’t come from invading armies, or giant naval ship canons, or marauding pirates for that matter.
America’s greatest potential threat came from America itself. The greatest threat to America came from the American government.
This is why these wise founding Americans created the Constitution. The Constitution doesn’t protect Americans from foreign adversaries directly; it protects Americans from an American Government that is infiltrated by said enemies.
In a modern era where average Americans now have access to unlimited information in their back pocket, they see themselves as being smarter and better informed than their parents, or grandparents … or the American Revolutionists. In reality, many Americans are probably more like the kid who plays the banjo on the porch in the 1972 Burt Reynolds movie The Deliverance.
As a nation, many Americans seem to lack all discernment, and while discernment and self-awareness have reached unprecedented lows, a sense of self-importance and entitlement has never been higher.
Too many Americans are like the abused wife who fights with the police as they try to take away her abusive husband. She doesn’t fight with her left arm because it was broken by her husband, but she throws haymakers with her right arm to keep him from being taken away. After he is arrested, she starts to make excuses for why she deserved the abuse she received, and tries to scrape together the money to bail him out of jail.
Americans in general suffer from Stockholm Syndrome, where one empathizes with and defends the people who are holding them captive.
Americans vote for the people who want more control over them. They see this control as not only being necessary, but good for the nation. When people question the controllers or the level of control, or the means of control, they are ostracized and ridiculed, fined, jailed, killed or censored—removed from society, from all positions of power and influence. They can’t tolerate any dissenting views. No one can question these controllers’ motives or hold them accountable.
As an example of this, the Federal Reserve has never been audited … not once, and it’s been around for over 100 years.
The Constitution was written to protect Americans’ rights—the right to be heard, to protect oneself and family. The Constitution protects the rights that are given to every man, woman and child by God above. The Constitution protects Americans’ basic rights, the things their forefathers deemed baseline—life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Nothing and no one should stand in the way of any American pursuing these basic rights.
The Constitution was written to protect Americans’ inalienable rights—again, not from outsiders directly, but from conspiring Americans within.
Why would the early Americans deem it so necessary to protect Americans from themselves?
I suppose the founding fathers were aware that foreigners would influence the American political system, infiltrating America from within. Two great oceans protect the United States, so something needed to be put in place to protect America from itself. It makes me think of the epic Stanley Kubrick movie The Shining, which features a family isolated from everyone by impassable, snow-covered roads … and yet, the threat to the family came from the family itself.
America’s founding members fully understood, if given the opportunity, the American Government would steal from the American people. The Constitution was later amended and ratified on February 3, 1913, to do just this; this occurred very close to the time the Federal Reserve was formed. And no, this is not a coincidence.
The Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution granted Congress the authority to issue an income tax without having to determine it based on population. In other words, the people wouldn’t be allowed to vote on it.
American politicians fully understood the American people would never vote for a federal income tax, and they would never vote in a Federal Reserve System run by the corrupt bankers themselves. So, they simply took that power away from the people. The politicians voted these things in against their constituents best wishes. This may have meant these politicians wouldn’t be re-elected, but who cares? They were paid handsomely for their treasonous actions, and America would never be the same again.
The American founders specifically stated in the Constitution that a federal income tax was unconstitutional. In reality, not having a federal income tax kept government small, exactly how the founding fathers thought it should be. An income tax meant the government could grow, and taxpayers’ money could be siphoned off to the government officials and the people who control them.
American government positions were never meant to be full-time jobs, as the concept of career politicians was appalling to America’s founding fathers. The Federal Government was supposed to be like local government today—you would have a few full-time politicians, but most would do part-time work for the government and go back to their real job as a farmer, a lawyer or a small business owner. Today, Federal politicians still work part time for the government, but they now spend the rest of their time lobbying and cutting deals with whoever will pay them the most to push forth their agendas.
A federal income tax means an American’s income is taxed by the Federal government, and in many states, the state government taxes it as well. The purchase of goods and services can generate a sales tax, property is taxed, investments and savings are taxed. A dollar is taxed when you earn it, when you spend it and when you save it. The same dollar is taxed multiple times.
Let’s not forget the biggest tax of all—inflation, the tax that comes from the Federal Reserve printing money out of nothing, backed by nothing, diluting down the purchasing power of existing money.
Some have asked, if the American Government can print money out of nothing any time they want, why do they need to tax Americans? The answer is they don’t need to. Any time the government needs money, they can print it and pass on the inflation to the American people. The truth is taxes are a key component of creating and maintaining debt slaves.
Control, control, control.
If I make the assumption that real inflation since Biden took office is actually much higher than what’s reported, which could top up at around 30%, then that would average out to 10% a year.
If I earned a dollar this year, what is left of it after taxes and inflation have come out?
If the income tax on a dollar earned and all the other taxes the government takes out of a paycheck amounts to around 30%, inflation is 10%, property tax is 10%, and sales tax is 10%, that leaves 40 cents. Obviously, all these taxes don’t come out at the same time, which makes them easier to hide, to tolerate. Let’s subtract another 5% for miscellaneous taxes—things like car taxes, gas taxes and other taxes that fly under the radar.
That leaves 35 cents to pay for living expenses, and this doesn’t include the interest on things like mortgages, student loans, car loans or business loans. If I save 10% so that I can someday stop working before I die, that will leave 25 cents. 25 cents of the dollar is left to pay for food, shelter, health insurance, car insurance, clothes, gas, electricity, internet—everything one needs to survive, and hopefully something left over to enjoy life.
Again, I fully understand I didn’t run these numbers perfectly, but one has to get the point that Americans are debt slaves. The majority of the money Americans earn is taken from them by the government. The system is designed to make Americans debt slaves. This debt servitude keeps the population in line; it keeps them from pushing back.
Let’s face it—I fully believe that taxes are theft, yet I file and pay my taxes before the tax deadline. I am not willing to risk everything I have to go to jail and leave my family destitute, therefore, I pay my taxes.
I can pound my chest all I want, I can refuse to get jabbed, I can refuse to believe the media’s lies, I can speak out against the system, but at the end of the day, I’m afraid to leave the plantation. The government has complete control over me through debt slavery.
Imagine, if you will, not having to pay Federal income tax, or any taxes for that matter. An American would be freer to make choices. As it is, how much one works and what they do for a living is greatly impacted by the need to keep one’s head afloat financially. Imagine if one’s dollar was really a dollar.
If not for the threat of the IRS, who would continue to stay in line?
If not for the funding of the system, there would be no system.
Americans are propagandized to fear external threats. Americans have been programed and conditioned to fear foreign countries, foreign governments and foreign leaders when the biggest threat to American’s safety and way of life is located in Washington DC, in State Capitals and local mayor’s offices.
Who forced Americans to stay home from work and school in 2020? Who forced many Americans to take an experimental drug or risk losing their jobs? Who told Americans they couldn’t participate in society if they didn’t have proof of taking that experimental drug? Who censored dissenting Americans through social media?
It wasn’t Putin. It wasn’t Xi. It wasn’t Iran.
China didn’t lock Americans down. Putin didn’t force them to get jabbed. ISIS wasn’t checking vaccine cards at the local restaurants.
Not only did the American government do these things, but they brainwashed Americans into doing their dirty work for them. American business owners fired loyal and productive employees for not being vaccinated—some were even conditioned to believe it was the right thing to do. Americans administered the jabs, and many Americans insisted that unvaccinated people could not and should not be allowed to be a part of society. Americans decided that other Americans didn’t deserve their Constitutional Rights.
There’s a saying that ‘the greatest lie the Devil ever told was that he didn’t exist.’ The American Government has Satan beat hands down. The American Government has convinced the American people that they need to and should give the government the majority of their income to protect them from foreign enemies when in reality, the American Government is their greatest enemy. In fact, many of these foreign enemies have been created by the American Government and its agencies. The American Government has convinced Americans that the Constitution should be abolished, free speech is bad, and the right to bear arms makes one less safe.
As I mentioned earlier, Americans suffer from Stockholm Syndrome. In the case of Stockholm Syndrome, the captives, the prisoners still fear their captors, but they make excuses for them, and they empathize and appreciate them. They tell their captors if any of the other prisoners are planning an escape.
Americans fear the American Government, which is why they abide by their unconstitutionality, but at the same time, many Americans support and defend their government captors—their debt slave masters.
Until enough Americans can see through the fog of lies, until the American political system has a complete overhaul, until the criminals are removed from power and failsafes are put in place, nothing will change. Until the Constitution is upheld and respected and is in authority over the American Government, nothing will change. Until the government is reduced down and represents and works for the people, nothing will change.
As we’ve seen, you can change the majority in Congress, and you can change the Speaker of the House, but until the members of Congress actually work for the people and not the lobbyists and our foreign enemies, nothing will change.
All that being said, I have faith the American political system can be fixed, and it can go back to representing the American people and serve to protect Americans’ best interests under the Constitution.
In the 1989 Batman movie, the Joker says, “this town needs an enema.”
I do believe Donald Trump is the man who can properly administer that enema—to drain the swamp, to exterminate the rats that live in the sewer system and the cockroaches that live between the walls. But unless he removes all the cancer, no permanent change will occur.
When Trump takes office in 2025, this is when the real work begins. This is when the hoarder’s trash will begin to be thrown out. This is not the finish line. The hoarder must be cured of the mental disorder that causes them to hoard, otherwise the house will just be filled up again.
America has a long road ahead of it to get to where it needs to be, but I for one couldn’t be more excited to be on this journey.
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In fact, the United States, located in the District of Columbia, is a foreign government. It is foreign to the 50 states, the 50 American republics.
Replace ‘America’ with any other country’s name and these problems exist in every government throughout the world. President Trump stated “America First” and it will be America that the world looks to for guidance and direction through its transition from tyrannical power house to a free and prosperous republic like has never been seen in our lifetime.
One day, I truly believe the whole world WILL experience a new beginning where every man, woman and child are free, but before all that can happen, we ALL must go through a very, very dark period of awakening and acceptance and revolution, none of which will be remotely comfortable. Buckle up buttercups, that time is almost upon us. Love, hope and prayers from 🏴