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Reality Check: No Matter Who Wins the White House, the New
Boss Will Be the Same as the Old Boss

02/29/2016

John
W. Whitehead

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“The main problem in any democracy is that
crowd-pleasers are generally brainless swine who can go out on a stage &
whup their supporters into an orgiastic frenzy—then go back to the office &
sell every one of the poor bastards down the tube for a nickel apiece.” ― Hunter
S. Thompson

Politics today is not about Republicans and
Democrats.

Nor is it about healthcare, abortion, higher taxes, free
college tuition, or any of the other buzzwords that have become campaign slogans
for individuals who have mastered the art of telling Americans exactly what they
want to hear.

Politics today is about one thing and one thing only:
maintaining the status quo between the Controllers (the politicians, the
bureaucrats, and the corporate elite) and the Controlled (the
taxpayers).

Hillary will not save the nation. Nor will Bernie, Trump,
Rubio, or Cruz.

The only ones who can save the nation are “we the
people,” and yet the American people remain eager to be persuaded that a new
president in the White House can solve the problems that plague us.

No
matter who wins this next presidential election, you can rest assured that the
new boss will be the same as the old boss, and we—the permanent underclass in
America—will continue to be forced to march in lockstep with the police state in
all matters, public and private.

Indeed, as I point out in my
book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, it really doesn’t
matter what you call them—the 1%, the elite, the controllers, the masterminds,
the shadow government, the police state, the surveillance state, the military
industrial complex—so long as you understand that no matter which party occupies
the White House in 2017, the unelected bureaucracy that actually calls the shots
will continue to do so.

Consider the following a much-needed reality
check, an antidote if you will, against an overdose of overhyped campaign
announcements, lofty electoral promises and meaningless patriotic sentiments
that land us right back in the same prison cell.

FACT: According to a
scientific study by Princeton researchers, the United States of America is
not the democracy that it purports to be, but rather an oligarchy, in which
“economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have
substantial independent impacts on U.S. government policy.”

FACT: Despite
the fact that the number of violent crimes in the country is down
substantially, the lowest rate in forty years, the number of Americans
being jailed for nonviolent crimes such as driving with a suspended
license is skyrocketing.

FACT: Thanks to an overabundance of
4,500-plus federal crimes and 400,000-plus rules and regulations, it is
estimated that the average American actually commits three felonies a
day without knowing it. In fact, according to law professor John Baker,
“There is no one in the United States over the age of 18 who cannot be indicted
for some federal crime. That is not an exaggeration.”

FACT: Despite the
fact that we have 46 million Americans living at or below the poverty
line, 16 million children living in households without adequate access to
food, and at least 900,000 veterans relying on food stamps, enormous sums
of taxpayer money continue to be doled out for presidential vacations ($16
million for trips to Africa and Hawaii), overtime fraud at the Department
of Homeland Security (nearly $9 million in improper overtime claims,
and that’s just in six of the DHS’ many offices)HurricaHur, and Hollywood movie
productions ($10 million in taxpayer money was spent by the Army National
Guard on Superman movie tie-ins aimed at increasing awareness about
the National Guard).

FACT: Since 2001 Americans have spent $10.5
million every hour for numerous foreign military occupations,
including in Iraq and Afghanistan. There’s also the $2.2 million spent
every hour on maintaining the United States’ nuclear stockpile, and
the $35,000 spent every hour to produce and maintain our collection of
Tomahawk missiles. And then there’s the money the government exports to other
countries to support their arsenals, at the cost of $1.61 million every
hour for the American taxpayers.

FACT: It is estimated that 2.7
million children in the United States have at least one parent in prison,
whether it be a local jail or a state or federal penitentiary, due to a wide
range of factors ranging from overcriminalization and surprise raids at family
homes to roadside traffic stops.

FACT: According to a Gallup
poll, Americans place greater faith in the military and the
police than in any of the three branches of government.

FACT:
“Today, 17,000 local police forces are equipped with such military
equipment as Blackhawk helicopters, machine guns, grenade launchers, battering
rams, explosives, chemical sprays, body armor, night vision, rappelling gear and
armored vehicles,” reports Paul Craig Roberts, former Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury. “Some have tanks.”

FACT: At least 400 to 500 innocent
people are killed by police officers every year. Indeed, Americans are
now eight times more likely to die in a police confrontation than
they are to be killed by a terrorist. Americans are 110 times more likely
to die of foodborne illness than in a terrorist attack.

FACT: Police officers are more likely to be struck by lightning than be
made financially liable for their wrongdoing.

FACT: On an average day in
America, over 100 Americans have their homes raided by SWAT teams.
Most of those SWAT team raids are for a mere warrant service. There has been
a notable buildup in recent years of heavily armed SWAT teams within
non-security-related federal agencies such as the Department of
Agriculture, the Railroad Retirement Board, the Tennessee Valley Authority, the
Office of Personnel Management, the Consumer Product Safety Commission, the U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Education Department.

FACT: The FBI’s
Next Generation Identification (NGI) facial recognition system, which
is set to hold data on millions of Americans, will include a variety of
biometric data, including palm prints, iris scans, and face recognition data.
The NGI will be capable of uploading 55,000 images a day, and conducting
tens of thousands of photo searches daily.

FACT: Comprising an $82
billion industry, at least 30,000 drones are expected to occupy U.S. airspace by
2020.

FACT: Everything we do will eventually be connected to
the Internet. By 2030 it is estimated there will be 100 trillion sensor
devices connecting human electronic devices (cell phones, laptops, etc.) to
the Internet. Much, if not all, of our electronic devices will be connected to
Google, which openly works with government intelligence agencies. Virtually
everything we do now—no matter how innocent—is being collected by the spying
American police state.

FACT: Americans know virtually nothing about their
history or how their government works. In fact, according to a study by the
National Constitution Center, 41 percent of Americans “are not aware that
there are three branches of government, and 62 percent couldn’t name them; 33
percent couldn’t even name one.”

FACT: Only six out of every one
hundred Americans know that they actually have a constitutional right to
hold the government accountable for wrongdoing, as guaranteed by the right to
petition clause of the First Amendment.

Perhaps the most troubling fact
of all is this: we have handed over control of our government and our lives to
faceless bureaucrats who view us as little more than cattle to be bred, branded,
butchered and sold for profit.

If there is to be any hope of restoring
our freedoms and reclaiming control over our government, it will rest not with
the politicians but with the people themselves.

When all is said and
done, each American will have to decide for themselves whether they prefer
dangerous freedom to peaceful slavery. One thing is for sure: the reassurance
ritual of voting is not going to advance freedom one iota.

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