"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

Vieira on "martial law"

With all the talk about "martial law" coming to America, it is important for every American to understand what it is and then realize that there is absolutely no legal authority, state or federal, for this "form of government" to be imposed or implemented. To educate people about this extremely important matter, Edwin Vieira has written By Tyranny Out of Necessity: The Bastardy of “Martial Law”, which explains all of this and more. Edwin offers a short explanation of this book here.

It is available on Amazon.

On the above page, Edwin writes:

All too many Americans today accept the notions that, should a "national emergency" occur, only "martial law" could maintain "law and order" and secure the continuation of vital public services, and that therefore "martial law" is not only desirable but even inevitable in an era so fraught with threats from "terrorism" and other dangers against which ordinary citizens are hopelessly unprepared to defend themselves. By Tyranny Out of Necessity: The Bastardy of "Martial Law" does what the proponents of "martial law" will never do, what "patriot leaders" should have done long ago but continue to avoid doing, and what ordinary Americans need to do as soon as possible: namely, to scrutinize "martial law" with a jaundiced eye, and to dissect it piece by piece by asking-
•Exactly what are the salient characteristics of the varieties of "martial law" most relevant to this country today?
•Why is "martial law" to be feared at all if, as its proponents assert, it is fully consistent with the Constitution? On the other hand, if "martial law" is not consistent with the Constitution, why do public officials promote it, many average Americans seem to welcome it, and self-styled "patriot leaders"say that nothing can be done to stop it from being imposed in the event of a nationwide crisis?
•What, if any, constitutional basis can any form of "martial law" claim-as applied to whom, under what circumstances, and to what degree?
And finally,
•What is the one and only form of "martial law" fully consistent with the Constitution-which, because of that consistency, poses no threat to Americans' freedoms? And, perhaps most importantly, why are Americans neither conversant with this form of "martial law", nor prepared to invoke and execute it in times of national emergency?

Everybody should read this very understandable book.

Larry