America At War: Internal and External

America faces a crossroads at this moment in time as we face threats internal and external. Many of these threats are obvious such as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and many more fly under the radar for the vast majority of people such as the invasion of our country across our southern border. Recently we are witnessing a renewed threat of hostilities on the Korean peninsula and the internal threat of terrorism within our borders and strife and violence being ginned up by radicals on the far left and far right. We have groups in this country attempting to create division through class warfare and racial apathy so that the divide and differences can be exploited.

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The heavy hand domestically to control the population and to "nudge" peoples regard of individual freedoms and the liberties entrusted within the Constitution has slowly begun to clamp down all in the name of "safety". It was once said by Benjamin Franklin,

"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

Today Americans are being forced to give up those essential liberty's at an alarming pace. We can cite things from the recent TSA measures at the airports to the emergence of cameras on our streets filming our day to day lives. Through Political Correctness we have slowly given up our rights to voice grievances to things that in the past might be considered common sense, and have slowly allowed ourselves to be intimidated to the point that we question to what extent we can voice those grievances. Through these intimidation tactics Americans have been forced to submit to the basic infringement of personal privacy and the basic guarantees that the Constitution afforded such as; the protection from invasion by those of a foreign country, freedom of the press to report offences by local or federal officials, and the right to move freely about without censure from the government to name but a few. Over time we have slowly allowed ourselves to be conditioned to not question the establishment or voice opposition to authority. Many examples can be cited, one of these is the Patriot Act, when this was first established some of the same people that stood in opposition to this are now the same people that are the loudest voices to enact further intrusions upon the Constitution and our personal freedoms. Likewise the opposite hold true some of the same people that were calling for this to be enacted are now those who have realized giving up small pieces of freedom in the name of safety only opens the doors to the free flow of further measures that chips away at the essential liberties that we hold dear. The same can be said that through the intimidation of political correctness we are unable to address the true threats such as the policy of open borders and terrorism from the hands of a well defined enemy. Instead in the name of "safety" and political correctness we have allowed those of power to slowly erode our freedoms and move in the direction of totalitarian rule. In the Constitution it states that those elected officials that we allow limited authority to have, are first and foremost designated to protecting our rights guaranteed within the Constitution and threats from those who wish to cause harm and invasion both foreign and domestic. Today this has been so bastardized through political ideology that those who hold the reins of power have decided to target not those who are invading this country or those who clearly have declared war upon our population just because we exist, but to instead target those that stand in opposition to the ideology and agenda that they would like to bring forth. With this Presidents consent the DOJ and DHS are the two driving forces behind this assault on you the American citizen. Instead of addressing the clear and present dangers that are obvious to the public at large, they instead have targeted through broad based measures and specifically targeted campaigns to making you the enemy instead of those who pose the threat to this country. Recently we have begun to witness these assaults with the DHS attempting to persuade people that those who affiliate themselves with the growing Tea Party Movement or those who point out that the war and invasion by those across our southern border need to be classified as possible domestic terrorists. We have the DOJ filing lawsuits in the name of these invaders, and we have an administration that instead of looking out for the rights of American citizens are more concerned about the "rights" of those who have invaded our country. We have a DOJ that instead of protecting the rights of citizens in the one essential act of freedom to be allowed to vote without intimidation, to instead protect the "right" of those who clearly and documented attempted to establish the sense of intimidation that those in totalitarian states deal with when voting for representation. When you have an agency such as the DHS targeting the public at large instead of centering in on the real threats you have an agency that may have grown to large and to powerful that they are allowed to "nudge" you into a false sense of security at the expense of your rights guaranteed within the Constitution. You have a sister agency protecting this agency in these endeavors at the same time failing uphold the basic reason for this agency to exist and that is to protect you the citizen. As we face these many crossroads one might question that we are not only faced with war from external threats, but also by threats internally and that those threats are not only coming from the most obvious but from those that we have entrusted with our security. Many forces are at work in the background that are working to erode our liberties and freedoms, from the emergence of the Socialists and Labor Movement allied together with those groups that advocate on behalf of those who wish to fundamentally transform this country from an independent nation that protects its borders and the right of citizens to address grievances upon their liberties. We have elements of our government that fail to uphold the basic principles that they are assigned to uphold, and in all of this we have a world that is moving closer to the brink of all-out war, with America at the center with the largest target placed upon its back. One has to question just how far we as citizens will allow for our liberties and freedoms to be encroached upon and the fundamental transformation in the name of "safety" that we allow internal threats by those less obvious to trump those by the most obvious.