The longer the federal government fights its "war on terror," the more our liberties continue to erode. Go figure. So much for "fighting for our freedoms," huh? And I thought it was the "terrorists" who "hated our freedom" ...

Going back merely to January, 2001, legions of Executive Orders and "signing statements" have created hundreds of new laws and greatly expanded the powers of government. President Obama continues to expand his predecessors idea of an extrajudicial "unitary executive." Vast new government departments have been created to track, hassle and spy on U.S. citizens. Now, Republican Mitch McConnell and Democrat Harry Reid are even pushing for a "Super Congress" ...

Where is it, exactly, you think America is heading again?

If I were dictator, which I always aspire to be, I would write it a little bit differently. -- Sen. John McCain

No one is scrutinizing Hu Jintao’s words in Tahrir Square. -- President Barack Obama

If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator. -- President George W. Bush

And you actually think any of those weasels are "protecting your freedom?" Give me a break.

Stepping up their scare tactics, DC politicos are warning of "homegrown terrorism."

Threat of homegrown terrorists real and growing

Serving on the Homeland Security Committee since 2005, one of the questions I am constantly asked back in East Alabama is "where the next terrorist attack will be?" I have to respond to my constituents with the hard truth that it’s not a matter of if the attack will occur, but when it will happen.

The Department of Homeland Security was created following the cowardly 9/11 terrorist attacks. The House Committee on Homeland Security was created thereafter to provide strong oversight of the Department, its activities and the threats facing our nation. The United States has been vigilant in keeping our homeland safe since 9/11, but over the past several years, we've seen a new type of terrorist threat emerge, one that comes from within, which in my opinion is a grave threat to our homeland security.

Just like in one's family, you know the people, their strengths and weaknesses and their routines. So, having someone from within our own country, our large and diverse family, plot an attack on our family makes the possibilities so much more harmful.

Are you scared? Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Ala.) certainly hopes so. Because he and his cronies need more power.

What just about everyone on both the political "left" and "right" in America has forgotten in their quest for "Government As Savior" is, the true nature of the state. From "Anatomy of the State" by Murray N. Rothbard:

The State, in the words of Oppenheimer, is the "organization of the political means"; it is the systematization of the predatory process over a given territory. For crime, at best, is sporadic and uncertain; the parasitism is ephemeral, and the coercive, parasitic lifeline may be cut off at any time by the resistance of the victims. The State provides a legal, orderly, systematic channel for the predation of private property; it renders certain, secure, and relatively "peaceful" the lifeline of the parasitic caste in society. Since production must always precede predation, the free market is anterior to the State. The State has never been created by a "social contract"; it has always been born in conquest and exploitation. The classic paradigm was a conquering tribe pausing in its time-honored method of looting and murdering a conquered tribe, to realize that the time-span of plunder would be longer and more secure, and the situation more pleasant, if the conquered tribe were allowed to live and produce, with the conquerors settling among them as rulers exacting a steady annual tribute.

With that in mind, let's take a closer look at America's most dangerous "homegrown terrorists."

America's Homegrown Terrorism:

In no particular order and in no way exhaustive, the following list should give you a good look at "freedom" in America today.

• Senators meeting behind closed doors considers renewing a controversial law permitting widespread government surveillance of Americans’ communications
• Thomas Sawyer, Cancer Survivor, Gets Soaked By His Own Urine Again By TSA
• Tennessee Police Strip Man In Snow, Beat And Tase Him On Video
• Police beat and taser 'gentle' mentally-ill homeless man to death
• Forced DNA Collection Without Search Warrant
• Bill Harming Online Privacy Moving Through Congress
• Navy vet arrested after taping police on cell phone
• TSA Screener Brings Woman To Tears
• Fingerprint analysis tech aims to revolutionize drug testing
• The Government Just Admitted For The First Time It Is Using Cell Phone Data To Track Your Location
• No More Privacy: Smart Meters Are Surveillance Devices That Monitor The Behavior In Your Home Every Single Minute Of Every Single Day
• *VIDEO* Jerry Day Explains Smart Meters
• Threat Of Right-Wing Extremism In U.S. Debated By Feds, Analysts
• CIA Manipulation of the U.S. News Media
• How the U.S. government uses its media servants to attack real journalism
• CIA Links to the Ground Zero Mosque
• Karzai's brother was trusted CIA asset
• Another Poppy Seed-Based Child Abduction
• Town Prosecutor On Job Despite Two DWI Arrests In Two Weeks
• Utah Park Ranger Pulls Woman Over for Driving Slow, Arrests Her for Trying to Film the Stop
• Cop Buries Dog Alive After Beating It
• Newark Cop: "I Can Do Whatever the Hell I Want"
• Sheriffs threaten to kill paraplegic man's dog
• FBI raids Anonymous homes
• Allen Kephart Taser Death Evidence Shuffle
• DHS Video Characterizes White Americans as Most Likely Terrorists
• Building an Army of Thought Police
• Another ATF Arms Sales Scandal: 'Operation Castaway'
• 'You Fu** With Me!': Cop Threatens to Kill Concealed Carry Gun Owner During Traffic Stop
• Homeschool, Anti-vaccine Family Ripped Apart by CPS: Chronology of a Kidnapping
• Big Brother's doing a bit more than just watching you these days
• Costumed Assailants Are Never to Blame
• Police Across the Nation Will Roll Out Face-Recognizing iPhone Tech This Year
• Allen Kephart Taser Death Evidence Shuffle
• Document: FBI Surveillance Geeks Fear, Love New Gadgets

Need more? See my police state archives.

At America's founding, the idea was that government exists to protect the natural rights of man. You know, our freedom. But obviously they got it wrong, because each item listed above has jack to do with defending our freedom, and everything to do with crushing our freedom under the jackboot of an all-controlling state.

To protect the state. To perpetuate the state. To grow the state's power. The state exists to serve the state. Period. Always and everywhere, the state puts its own interests above and beyond anything else, and like a parasitic slave master, demands you serve it, protect it, feed it, and perpetuate it too.

I fear we're at a great turning point in America. The hammer and sickle is coming down. Between the welfare state on the left, and war, "Oh, Glorious War!" on the right ... the already gravely weakened Spirit of Freedom in America is slowly (not so slowly anymore) being snuffed out.

Homegrown Terrorism is a post from: The Classic Liberal Blog