A long train of abuses and usurpations...add yours in the comments
💥 Crime & Democrats 💥
- Property taxes starting in the colonies in the 1700's
- Indian Treaty Removal Act in 1830
- Taxation of US citizens living abroad in 1894
- Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896
- Invention of Birthright Citizenship by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1898
- Creation of the Income Tax and Federal Reserve in 1913
- Prohibition in 1920
- Gold Confiscation Act in 1934
- National Firearms Act in 1934
- Internment of Japanese Americans in 1942-1946
- Engel v. Vitale in 1962
- Assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963
- Gun Control Act in 1968
- Nixon taking the Dollar off the Gold Standard in 1971
- Creation of the ATF in 1972
- Roe v. Wade in 1973
- Expansion of Civil Asset Forfeiture in 1984
- Ruby Ridge by the US Marshalls, FBI, and ATF in 1992
- Waco Massacre by the ATF and FBI in 1993
- Implosions and collapse of 8 buildings and the murder of 2,996 people on 9/11/2001
- The Patriot Act and unconstitutional searches and seizures at airports every day starting in 2001
- George W. Bush invading Afghanistan in 2001 and Iraq in 2003
- Requirement for all cell phones to have GPS tracking starting in 2004
- The NSA's warrantless dragnet wiretapping at Room 641A at 611 Folsom Street in 2006
- Obamacare Individual Mandate in 2010
- Obama and DACA in 2012
- "Russia Collusion" in 2017
- Las Vegas Shooting and murder of 58 people in 2017
- 3am ballot dump for Biden and theft of the election in 2020
- Arrest and unconstitutional detainment of peaceful demonstrators from January 6th 2021
- Conviction of Ghislane Maxwell without prosecution or naming of perpetrators in 2021
- Theft of the Arizona election in 2022
- Local, State, and Federal Government Employee Vaccine Mandates in 2022-2023
- Open Borders in 2023
- Current national debt of $31 Trillion in 2023
Even with all of these abuses and usurpations - and more - the United States of America is still genuinely the best country in the world and YOU have the power to make it better. Local action = national impact.
What abuses and usurpations would you add to the list?
And how are you planning to take action on a local level?
It can all be summed up as the obliteration of life on planet Earth (mass deforestation, brutal destruction of the global indigenous) over the past 500 years as the result of European monarchical capitalism.
The capitalists pounded their communist and other anti-capitalist enemies into the sand in the United States and elsewhere in the 20th century, paving the way for mass brainwashing to get the common folk to identify with their capitalist overlords.
The Russian revolution was a genuine popular uprising that resulted in the deposition of the capitalist Russian monarchy, right on the doorsteps of capitalist Europe. This utterly terrified the industrial financiers, & thus all-out war was waged to bring Russia (and anti-capitalists in general) to heel.
I believe this may have something to do with why they continue to be obsessed with regime change in Russia.
Here is anarchist Emma Goldman in her last written communication before being deported in the aftermath of World War I:
"Now reaction is in full swing. The actual reality is even darker than our worst predictions. Liberty is dead, and terror dominates the country. Free speech is a thing of the past. Not a city in the whole wide land but that forbids the least expression of an unpopular opinion. It is descriptive of the whole situation that after thirty years’ activity in New York, we are unable — upon our return from prison-to secure any hall, large or small, to lecture even on the subject of prison life or to speak on the question of amnesty for political and industrial prisoners. The doors of every meeting place are closed to us, as well as to other revolutionists, by order of the powers that be.
Free press has been abolished, and every radical paper that dares speak out, is summarily suppressed. Raids of public gatherings, of offices, and private dwelling places, accomplished with utmost brutality and uncalled for violence, are of daily occurrence throughout the United States. The headquarters of Anarchists, of Socialists, of I. W. W.s, of the Union of Russian Workers, and numerous other progressive and educational organizations, have been raided by the local police and Federal agents in practically every city of this country. Men and women are beaten up indiscriminately, fearfully clubbed and blackjacked without any provocation, frequently to be released afterwards because no offence whatever could be charged against them. Books and whole libraries of “radical centers” are confiscated, even text books of arithmetic or geography torn to shreds, furniture destroyed, pianos and victrolas smashed to kindling wood-all in the name of the new Democracy and for the safety of the glorious, free Republic of these United States.
The half-baked radicals, their hearts as soft as their heads, now stand aghast at this terrible sight. They had helped to win the war. Some had sacrificed fathers, brothers, husbands — all of them had suffered an agony of misery and tears, to help the cause of humanity, to make the world safe for democracy. Is this what we fought and bled for? they are asking. Have we been misled by the fine-sounding phrases of a Professor [Woodrow Wilson], and have we in turn helped to delude the people, the suffering masses of the world? Is the great prophet of the New Democracy strong only in rhetoric?"
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/alexander-berkman-and-emma-goldman-deportation-its-meaning-and-menace-last-message-to-the-peopl
The Russian Revolution was funded by Western Central bankers.
I dunno. When I read about how the financial and aristocratic powers at that time were behaving, it certainly seems to mirror a lot of what we saw with Trump's 2016 win. They seemed to be genuinely panicking, which would make sense given that the Russian monarchy was arrested and subsequently executed. They responded with all-out war against soviet (small s) Russia, including blockades and massive domestic propaganda campaigns.