Starvin Larry

“You had to live—did live, from habit that became instinct—in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.”—George Orwell, 1984

In past ages, those who dared to speak out against tyranny—viewed as an act of treason—were blinded, castrated, disfigured, mutilated, rendered mute by having their tongues cut out of their heads, and ultimately crucified.

In the American police state, the price to be paid for speaking truth to power (also increasingly viewed as an act of treason) is surveillance, censorship, jail and ultimately death.

It’s a diabolically ingenious tactic for muzzling, disarming and ultimately eliminating one’s critics or potential adversaries.

However, where many Americans go wrong is in assuming that you have to be doing something illegal or challenging the government’s authority in order to be flagged as a suspicious character, labeled an enemy of the state and locked up like a…

The rule of law is based on a strict adherence to a set of known laws, the purpose of which is usually explained by those who created the law.  A central tenant of the rule of law is that the law applies equally to all people, and that no one is to be above the law.  In short: people are to be governed by the law, not the other way around.  However, in America today, the rule of law is dead.  Today, we live under the rule of men, and that means that ;the law’ is whatever they say it is on any given day, or worse, according to who you are and to what group(s) you belong at any given time.  If you doubt this, I would draw your attention to this story:

Chelsea Clinton: With Scalia Gone, Gun Control an Opportunity on Supreme Court

OK, let’s apply a…