"Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free." John 8:32... and also chiseled into the marble entrance of the CIA Central Intellegience Agency... how's that for irony!
Most of what you believe about your government is a lie, an elaborate illusion to keep you ignorant of the truth. To the extent to which you buy their lies and the propaganda of the major media you are deluding yourself. "None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
So, citizen, are you going to take the blue pill or the red pill ? As Morpheus said, "all I offer is the truth and nothing more".
In great empires the people who live in the capital, and in the provinces remote from the scene of action, feel, many of them, scarce any inconveniency from the war; but enjoy, at their ease, the amusement of reading in the newspapers the exploits of their own fleets and armies.... They are commonly dissatisfied with the return of peace, which puts an end to their amusement, and to a thousand visionary hopes of conquest and national glory from a longer continuance of the war. Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations
The general rule is that an unconstitutional statute, though having the form and the name of law, is in reality no law, but is wholly void and ineffective for any purpose since unconstitutionality dates from the time of its enactment and not merely from the date of the decision so branding it; an unconstitutional law, in legal contemplation, is as inoperative as if it had never been passed... An unconstitutional law is void. (16 Am. Jur. 2d, Sec. 178)
“Nationalism does nothing but teach you to hate people you never met, and to take pride in accomplishments you had no part in.” Doug Stanhope
There's a fine line between the American dream and the American nightmare. Don Henley
You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality. - Ayn Rand
Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important. ~ T. S. Eliot
Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism when hate for people other than your own comes first. Charles De Gaulle
The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable. - H. L. Mencken

Who Are We?

While this could be a very profound question, the simple answer in this case is that the Piercing the Illusion website is owned and operated by Michael Nixson who operates a video and web services business under the name of Talos4 Enterprises.  Mr. Nixson has been a libertarian since before the Libertarian Party existed and has been active in local, state and national libertarian politics since the 1990's.

If there is one thing holding back the reestablishment of freedom in the United States (if you haven't looked lately, you are no longer free), it is the inability of people to look beyond their narrow tribalistic views and affiliations to understand the greater goal of establishing communities where cooperation replaces coersion and understanding replaces intolerance.  Every group I know from libertarians, patriots of various types, Christians, Democrats and Republicans display a shocking lack of skepticism when a member of their tribe commits an act that they would condemn when committed by a member of another tribe.  It is time to end the tribal paradigm and embrace a different point of view.  You are not members of your particular group.  You are members of the human race.  Start acting like it!

We have and will continue to work with a wide variety of people who's objective is the reestablishment of the American Republic.  This site is dedicated to that purpose and to pierce the illusion that most of what you believe about your government and even your society is false.  It is time for America to wake up before it is too late.

As Franklin so aptly said of another time, "we had better hang together or we shall surely hang separately."

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