The CIA’s Assassination of Rene Schneider by Jacob G. Hornberger September 18, 2020 It is commonly believed by many Americans that the CIA would never forcibly remove an American president from office even if he posed a grave threat to national security. But one thing is undeniable: the CIA would not hesitate to remove a foreign leader from office if he posed a threat to U.S. national security. Just ask the family of Rene Schneider. He was the commanding general of Chile’s armed forces under Salvador Allende, the socialist who was democratically elected president of Chile 50 years ago. The CIA and President Richard Nixon concluded that Allende posed a grave threat to U.S. “national security” and decided to remove him from office. One option that the CIA could have exercised against Allende was, of course, assassination. Ever since the CIA was established in 1947, it has wielded the ultimate power to kill people with impunity, making a mockery, of course, of the notion that ...
No, the U.S. Supreme Court Will Not Save Us by John W. Whitehead September 24, 2020 The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of the people. — Justice William O. Douglas The U.S. Supreme Court will not save us. It doesn’t matter which party gets to pick the replacement to fill Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg’s seat on the U.S. Supreme Court. The battle that is gearing up right now is yet more distraction and spin to keep us oblivious to the steady encroachment on our rights by the architects of the American Police State. Americans can no longer rely on the courts to mete out justice. Although the courts were established to serve as Courts of Justice, what we have been saddled with, instead, are Courts of Order. This is true at all levels of the judiciary, but especially so in the highest court of the land, the U.S. Supreme Court, which is seemingly more concerned with establishing order and protecting government interests than with upholding the ...
A Four-Point Plan for Government by Laurence M. Vance September 1, 2020 In July 2010, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Justice’s Nationwide Suspicious Activity Reporting (SAR) Initiative (NSI), launched the “If You See Something, Say Something” national campaign to raise “public awareness of the indicators of terrorism and terrorism-related crime, as well as the importance of reporting suspicious activity to state and local law enforcement.” The national campaign was originally “implemented and trademarked” by the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) and is licensed to the DHS “for the purpose of creating a nationwide campaign.” The DHS campaign is limited, and therefore “cannot be used for any purposes besides those related to terrorism and indicators/behaviors that may be reasonably indicative of terrorism-related crime.” It cannot even “be used by schools for anti-bullying purposes and communities cannot use it to combat an increase in local drug use.” The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is the division of the DHS that conducts the security theater at airports across ...
No Debate Over the Welfare-Warfare State by Jacob G. Hornberger October 30, 2020 Unfortunately, there has been no debate and discussion in the 2020 presidential race over the two greatest infringements on the liberty and well-being of the American people — the welfare state and the national-security state. That shouldn’t surprise us though given that both Republicans and Democrats, along with the mainstream press, are so wedded to the New ...
What If the Christ Child Had Been Born in the American Police State? by John W. Whitehead December 23, 2020 “When the song of the angels is stilled, when the star in the sky is gone, when the kings and princes are home, when the shepherds are back with their flocks, the work of Christmas begins: to find the lost, to heal the broken, to feed the hungry, to release the prisoner, to rebuild the nations, to bring peace ...
Conservative Hypocrisy on Foreign Aid by Laurence M. Vance January 5, 2021 After initially threatening to veto it, Donald Trump signed into law a $2.3 trillion, 5,593-page spending bill that no member of Congress had read. The “Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021” (H.R.133), which is a combination of twelve annual funding bills, COVID-19 relief, and pounds and pounds of pork, passed the House in two separate votes ...
The Real Constitutional Crisis by Laurence M. Vance November 1, 2020 According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, a crisis (plural: crises) is: 1a: the turning point for better or worse in an acute disease or fever b: a paroxysmal attack of pain, distress, or disordered function c: an emotionally significant event or radical change of status in a person’s life; a midlife crisis 2: the decisive moment (as in a literary plot); The crisis of ...
The Biggest Scam in History by Jacob G. Hornberger January 11, 2021 Soon after U.S. officials declared their “war on terrorism” some 20 years ago, I wrote that this new war was likely to last longer than the “war on drugs.” There is a simple reason for that: the supply of “terrorists” would be endless, for two reasons: (1) the U.S. government’s deadly foreign policy of interventionism to kill ...
Needed: A New System by Jacob G. Hornberger February 10, 2021 Hope springs eternal for statists. When President Trump was coming into office four years ago, conservatives were filled with hope and optimism that Trump would save America from its deep morass of crises and chaos. Alas, it didn’t happen. American society is just as dysfunctional as it was when Trump became president. Now, ...
Salvador Allende and the JFK Assassination, Part 2 by Jacob G. Hornberger February 1, 2021 Part 1 John Kennedy came into the presidency as pretty much a standard Cold Warrior. Like most Americans in 1961, he believed that there was an international communist conspiracy to take over the world, a conspiracy that was based in Moscow. America, it was believed, was in a life-or-death struggle for survival as a free nation. The communists were ...
JFK Conference Update by Jacob G. Hornberger May 17, 2021 Last week, I delivered the concluding presentation in our conference “The National Security State and the Kennedy Assassination.” It should be posted today or tomorrow on FFF’s website. This week, we wrap up the conference with a Q&A session devoted to the political context of the assassination. When we put this conference together, it was with ...
Will Treason Mania Destroy America? by James Bovard April 1, 2021 At the start of the Biden era, America is being torn apart by more allegations of treason than at any time since the Civil War. Historian Henry Adams observed a century ago that politics “has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.” And few things spur hatred more effectively than tarring all political opponents as traitors. The Founding Fathers carved ...
