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“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” ~Ron Paul

Dr. Ron Paul

On TV I heard a question from a reporter, a question sounding more like a demand than a question, asking why the State should not prosecute Julian Assange for treason under the Espionage Act. That question along with calls for his assassination by politicians and reporters is more than alarming; it’s frightening; … it’s terrifying.

I have written in the past of my concern over the growing police state in the US. Laws making it difficult to leave the country with one’s wealth, the TSA’s scanners and pat downs at airports and now bus and train stations, and TSA screens telling people to spy on their neighbors at more than 9,000 stores around the country confirm the tightening grasp of the State. But the Espionage Act, The Espionage Act of 1917, a law so shameful, so tyrannical and unconstitutional is again being invoked.

Under President Wilson, people were prosecuted and jailed for publicly and privately speaking against the war, such as one man who publicly read The First Amendment and another man who spoke against the war at a dinner party.

Under the pretext of law, the United States government trampled on the inalienable right of free speech. It appears that some politicians and, unbelievably, some reporters and commentators want to suppress that right again. More alarming are the citizens who agree with these tyrants. Then sadly, there are the more than fifty percent of the American people who despite believing the government is unconstitutional and overreaching its bounds remain silent and do nothing.

“Most men do not desire liberty; most only wish for a master that doesn’t beat them.” ~Sallust (86-34BC)

What has happened to America? What has happened to the American people? Do they really love freedom, or do they only wish for a gentle master?

I am disgusted by these cowards who accept the TSA scanners and pat downs in the same of security. I don’t care if they are willing to accept them. That’s not the point! They have no right to make the rest of us go through the charade because they fear for their safety. They have no right to make a teenage girl be felt up in order for some adult to feel safer on a plane. They have no right to subject an 80 year old diabetic to poking and prodding. The have no right to grope and hold down a screaming little boy to see if he’s a terrorist.

Julian Assange (3 July 1971) Spokesperson and editor in chief for WikiLeaks

We don’t need to spy on each other. WE are not a threat to each other, but the government is a threat to us, and The Espionage Act makes that clear. It does not matter if Julian Assange is good or bad. What matters is the Truth. How can anyone stand for the idea that the State may lie, and to reveal that lie, to reveal the truth, is a crime? What has happened to our morality and ethics? How can we accept that an American president has a hit list? How can we accept the spying, the torturing, the bailouts, the taxes, the wars? How can we accept, how can we allow, these assaults on our persons, our dignities, and our liberties?

How dare they say we cannot speak the truth! How dare they say we must believe and repeat lies! Now we must remain silent in the face of evil? That is what it means to be a good American? They have turned patriotism, the love of country and people, into blind rabid nationalism. Instead of loving our country, our culture, our people we are to love the American State. We are to revere it as God. It can do no wrong. We must submit to it. It alone provides for us, protects us, teaches us, feeds us, heals us, and punishes us. To reject that is a damnable crime.

Make no mistake, anyone who calls for enforcing the Espionage Act is a threat to you, your rights, and your liberties. Listen to no one who calls for prosecution or assassinations for revealing State crimes. Anyone who favors using the Espionage to protect the State is your enemy, an enemy of The Constitution and the Bill of Rights, an enemy of Freedom. It is not the messenger that puts people in harms way. It is the State. It is the State that lies, steals, and kills, and whoever reveals State crimes deserves our thanks and protection.

At the very least, shun the people who invoke the Espionage Act for State Security. Shun them, reject them, despise them, hold them in utter contempt. They are demagogues of the State. You mean nothing to them. You are merely a tool for them or an enemy. Give them no allegiance.

“Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.”

“The coldest of all cold monsters is known by the name, State. Coldly it lies, and this lie creeps from its mouth: ‘I, the State, am the people.’”

~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Recommended:

The Espionage Act and the Death of Freedom Lew Rockwell and Naomi Wolf Discussing The Espionage Act

The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude by Etienne de La Boetie

Our Enemy The State by Albert J. Nock

Anatomy of The State by Murray N. Rothbard

The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot by Naomi Wolf

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