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Jun 17, 2013

The Making of a Totalitarian State

The U.S. government has been caught red-handed spying on the American people. Edward Snowden, who worked as a federal contractor revealed in an interview with The Guardian that the National Security Agency has a program that allows it to access the phone and Internet records of over 100 million accounts.

The NSA had set-up a program called PRISM, which allows officials to collect material including search history, the content of emails, file transfers and live chats. Companies like Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo, Skype, YouTube, and Apple are all participating in this top-secret spying program.

Barack Obama tried to defend the program but his argument seemed more like an ominous prediction than a reassurance: “If people can’t trust not only the executive branch but also don’t trust Congress, and don’t trust federal judges to make sure that we’re abiding by the Constitution with due process and rule of law, then we’re going to have some problems here.” Perhaps, Senator Barack Obama of 2007 had it right when he warned that the gross surveillance policy of President Bush: “Puts forward a false choice between the liberties we cherish and the security we provide.”

What troubles me the most about this latest attack on our civil liberties is that it was all done secretly. The firms that are having their data intercepted are gagged by law from warning their customers that they being watched. We’ve also had two clear cases where government officials lied to Congress about spying. Attorney General, Eric Holder, said the Department of Justice was not spying on reporters, and NSA head James Clapper said his agency does not intercept phone calls or online information of Americans.

More than half a century ago, Dwight D. Eisenhower in his Farewell Address, warned Americans of the dangers posed by the country’s growing “military-industrial complex” – a phrase that has come to represent the lobbying groups that seeks to continue or increase military spending by the national government. Today we face a greater danger from the intelligence-industrial complex.

The U.S. spends at least $80 billion a year on intelligence gathering, which is more than the defense budgets of all but a handful of countries. Every day, 854,000 U.S. civil servants, military personnel and private contractors go about the task of mining data. With the military-industrial complex we normally end-up with military hardware we don’t need. With the intelligence-industrial complex we run the risk of losing our freedom.

The government claims that all the data it focused on foreign nationals, but how can we trust them in the face of recent spying scandals. The IRS’s targeting of conservatives groups should alone show the importance of keeping tight controls on the government. The blanket claims by Washington leaders that all is well and we can trust them in this matter is not good enough. I would compare this situation to someone who has been convicted in the past of child molestation, telling his parole officer he plans to open a daycare center.

Another credibility problem for the government is the huge data center the NSA is building in Utah. This center will be so massive in its capabilities that it will be able to record all the phone conversations of average Americans. If the government is only focused on terrorists, why do they need this amount of data storage?

Most people in America are apathetic about the government’s snooping into their personal data. A good representation of this general view can found in a late night comedian responded to the scandal. Jay Leno joked, “We wanted a president that listens to all Americans - now we have one.” Leno then added, “Well, this has become a huge controversy after it was revealed that the National Security Agency seized millions of Verizon phone records, and of course this has caused panic among civil libertarians, constitutional scholars and cheating husbands everywhere.”

For someone who understands Bible prophecy, there is nothing humorous about our government acting like Big Brother. The Bible warns that in that last days the Antichrist will have total control of the citizens of planet Earth. If the NSA PRISM program is not part of the Beast’s 666-mark system, it will at least be a prototype of the network he sets-up.

“And he causes all, the small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the free men and slaves, to be given a mark on their right hand or on their forehead, and he provides that no one can buy or to sell, except the one who has the mark, either the name of the beast or the number of his name” (Revelation 13:16-17).

--Todd

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Enslavement Evolving
Today’s liberals, like progressives since the time of Woodrow Wilson, have most often viewed the U.S. Constitution contrary to the way it was held by America’s founding fathers. “Truths” in the document that has made the nation the most envied ever to exist are not so “self-evident” to those who would take it apart and reconstruct it to fit their every ideological wind of doctrine.

The Constitution is, to them, not a solid pillar of security to which to tether the ship of state on the exceedingly dangerous waters of the times. It is a living, breathing organism─or, at least in their thinking should be -- that changes–or should do so─with the changing morality and social mores of any given period in the country’s history.

Shaped by entertainment media of our time and pushed along by the propagandist mainstream news media of the past half century, the assaults on our founding documents have been made in ways not unlike the assault these same entities have inflicted on our culture─through the pseudo-science they champion. I refer to, of course, their religion─evolution.

Their audience, the American people, is not without fault in the societal dissipation. We are all at fault for allowing the persistent undoing of the Judaeo-Christian model within which Jefferson, Franklin, Madison, Washington and the rest framed this republic. Like the Reverand Jeremiah Wright correctly stated (even though in a totally skewed context), “America’s chickens have come home to roost.”

We are now on the fast track to enslavement foretold in fiction by British writer George Orwell in his famous novel 1984. Over the years, this column and many others have presented biblical prophetic truth about the eventual coming of Big Brother, the fictional dictator of Orwell’s story.

We now see the evolution of that character as he comes to life on our front pages. As a matter-of-fact, “evolution” is the very term the most recent chief architect of the Orwell, Big Brother construct uses to shmooze us with his political rhetoric. He explained to us his changing coming of age in his thinking upon the issue of homosexual marriage, as but one example:

As “a presidential candidate, Mr. Obama’s position hardened. In 2008, he visited the Saddleback Church in Orange County, Calif., where the pastor Rick Warren asked him to define marriage. ‘I believe that marriage is between a man and a woman,’ Mr. Obama said. ‘For me, as a Christian, it is also a sacred union.’” (Gay Stolberg, “Obama’s Views on Gay Marriage,” New York Times June 18, 2011)

The president’s “evolving” has brought him since that 2011 declaration, of course, to full support for “gay marriage”─which, in God’s economy must be considered an oxymoron, at the very least. It should now be increasingly obvious to even the most casual observer that this president, and many of both major political parties have “evolved” in their understanding of the Constitution of the United States of America. There is simply so little pushback on the overt intrusions into the citizens’ rights and privacy as to be the equivalent of a complete lack of resistance.

The exposure of IRS vile intimidation of the Tea Party and others who opposed the president’s re-election would have, had it been a conservative core of IRS operatives working against a Democrat candidate, brought any Republican president down. The media propagandists would have been non-stop in the diatribes, as they were in the case of Richard Nixon and the Watergate break-in. Nixon’s cover-up and involvement never came close to this grab for power and influence over America’s political process.

Likewise, the Benghazi matter, with the subsequent lying and cover-up far exceeded any political evil in Nixon’s day. Nobody died in the Watergate scandal. At least four Americans serving our nation honorably died as a result of ineptitude, deliberate refusal to intervene, or both, in the Libyan massacre.

The Big Brother-like data collection apparatus and process used against U.S. citizens, recently exposed by National Security Agency (NSA) consultant Edward Snowden should have every U.S. Senator and congressman up in arms. But, with few exceptions, our government is in lockstep with the obfuscation of the facts.

We are told by the administration and by the slavish national mainstream news media that all three branches, executive, legislative, and judicial were well briefed on the fact that NSA gathered such data. Trouble is, none of us knew about it. It was done all in the name of the war on terrorism we are told–an enemy the Obama Administration refuses to identify–the Jihadist-Islamists world.

And, yes, George W. Bush and his administration’s culpability in all of the liberty-destruction involved with the Patriot Act deserve a proper part of the shame. Deer Fuehrer could have provided the manual for the march toward the installation of Antichrist that we see happening in America and the world at the present hour.

The best way to take control over a people and control them utterly is to take a little of their freedom at a time, to erode rights by a thousand tiny and almost imperceptible reductions. In this way the people will not see those rights and freedoms being removed until past the point at which these changes can be reversed. (Adolf Hitler, from a speech delivered on 6 November 1933)

I’m in agreement with Hal Lindsey, that point of non-recoverability has been reached and America’s demise is likely irreversible. But, we who name the name of Christ have “hope” that is not a gamble, but a sure thing. “Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Savior Jesus Christ” (Titus 2:13).

--Terry

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Zechariah 12:3,9:
And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people; And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.
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