Well, America is in the middle of the COVID-19 viral emergency. Due to incompetence at all levels of the various American governments, there has been a complete failure of handling this event and it has manifested into an outright fiasco. With things as they stand today, and what we know about the corrupt American government, what is next?

Already States, and local governments are placing restrictions on liberty and behaviors. Stores are being ordered to close and assembly can get you arrested.

• Suspending the Constitution: Police State Uses Crises to Expand Its Lockdown Powers
• ‘War-time’ coronavirus powers hurt our democracy – and won’t keep us safe
• Democrat Senator says virus is “a tremendous opportunity to restructure things to fit our vision” days before voting down the stimulus package.

No one stated it better than Remus in the Woodpile Report…

These are your choices. They always were and they always will be. 
                           
Prepare when no one else is preparing.
Panic when everyone else is panicking.         
         
Got food? Ammo? Meds? 
It's too late now to prepare adequately  for the pandemic much less the impending derailment of civilization  itself. Preppers were calmly topping off their stashes in early January,  at regular prices, in any quantity with lots-o'-choices. They saw the    foreshadow of this emergency and acted appropriately. Prepping always  looks crazy until the rug gets pulled.  Paranoia is a survival tool,  panic is not.
         
Systems are visibly collapsing.  
The stock market is  out-crashing the 1929 debacle in both speed and depth. "No Admittance"  signs are posted at hospitals and needed surgeries are being cancelled.  Police aren't responding to anything less then a murder in progress.  Cities are opening the prison doors and chasing off the inmates. Food  wholesalers were cleaned out in a fortnight and many can't restock  enough to matter. Others have stopped answering their phones.  
         
Guns and ammo  are selling at a record rate. 
Dealers say even   anti-gun leftists are buying 'em. No one will say it, but it won't  take much  scarcity for the perpetual EBT Diversity to go where  the  food and supplies are.    It's just there they'll  meet real resistance  for the first time in their lives. The suburbs  have learned their  family freezers are worth more than  social posing. Unlike the stock  market, price discovery will be utterly reliable when it comes to fried  chicken and a six pack.
         
Emergency Rooms
Our Open Borders Diversities already clog the ER and get it  all for free because you're paying their bills. Activists will choose  the most deserving victims and it won't be the Deplorables.  Compulsory  charity can't be any other way. Tribal loyalty or redemption will be  served. Either way, traditional Americans are a problem to be solved and  inaction leaves no fingerprints. 
         
The Center for Disease Control
The CDC had one job. Virology. Other countries had reliable  test kits ready to go, in sufficient quantity to be useful. The  technology is decades old yet the "renowned" CDC managed to botch it.  The  CDC distributed excuses and promises. N95 masks? Ventilators? Um,  no. Maybe eventually, their Top Men are working on it. Somehow they    always have  plenty of everything to "fight the epidemic of obesity and  racism" but not enough  to perform their mandate.   The CDC is  useless  and incompetent, an 11 billion dollar scam, benefiting no one except  otherwise unemployable social activists.
         
Meanwhile, Russia is shipping nine planeloads of medics and surplus equipment and supplies to Italy, including ventilators. 
         
Natural News reports:
                      
The battle for Los Angeles is lost. LA County announces no more testing  for coronavirus, containment now impossible, 100,000+ may die in LA,  prepare for chaos
           
The tipping point of containment has long since passed.  That’s not even the goal anymore, and the number of infections being  reported out of LA will no longer even come close to describing the real  situation on the ground there...
            
Expect chaos. Expect looting and violence. It's LA, after all, and the gangs are barely kept in check even during good times.          

America is right now in the midst of a full-scale SHTF event.

This is the thing that preppers have been readying for all these many, many years. And as all preppers know, there is a point in time when you are in the middle of “it”…

With all this in mind, lets take a look at what will follow next…

For the oligarchy (PTB) have well prepared for this. And make no mistake, they will use this event to consolidate their power and implement sweeping changes to America… to your families and… your way of life.

Let’s dust off this document of horror…

The following is an article titled “The Next American Revolution? Anticipated Civil Unrest”By Larry Romanoff in Global Research, November 27, 2019. Edited to fit this venue and all credit tot he author.

The Next American Revolution? Anticipated Civil Unrest

Preparing For Civil War?

US authorities have for decades become increasingly prepared for  mass civil disturbances resulting from government and corporate attacks  on American society. 

We can recall that in the early 1980s the Hidden State launched its open war on the middle class by the savage  FED-induced recession and the unilateral revocation of the social contract that had existed since 1946.

At that time, the US government  had already anticipated widespread public unrest, fully expecting mass protests and riots, and had made preparations to deal with them in the form of internment camps. 

In a real sense, the government had prepared  for another civil war.

REX-84

Like most of the “Great Transformation”, it began during Reagan’s reign with what was called “Rex 84”, an abbreviation for Readiness Exercise 1984.

It is a plan by the US government to detain large numbers of American citizens in case of civil unrest.

This master plan involved the FBI, Department of Defense, the Emergency Measures group, the Secret Service, the CIA and altogether 34 government agencies.

It was presented as an exercise to test military assistance in civil defense in times of national emergency, but in fact the plan was anticipating civil disturbances, major demonstrations and labor strikes that would affect continuity of government.

The anticipated civil unrest from the FED-induced financial crisis that devastated the middle class was considered “subversive”.

And, REX-84 is an authorization for the US military to implement government-controlled movements of civilian populations at both state and regional levels. Including the arrest of many segments of the American population, and the imposition of martial law. (1) (2)

Initially, the Rex-84 program was created under the pretense of a possible mass exodus of illegal aliens attempting to cross into the US from Mexico.

However, when the program accidentally became public during the Iran-Contra Congressional hearings in 1987, it was revealed that it was in fact a secret federal government program…

“to suspend the Constitution, declare martial law, assign  military commanders to take over state and local governments, and  detain large numbers of American citizens determined by the government  to be ‘national security threats’.”

Ah. That good ‘ol “National Security” reason.

An Actual Program.

This was part of a master contingency plan.

It is a plan for which the FBI today has a primary list of more than 100,000 Americans, and a secondary list ten times larger, who are targeted to be rounded up as subversives.

This list includes labor leaders, scholars and public figures. With the incarceration designed to isolate political dissidents and to contain civil unrest.

And these are prison camps, ringed with fences, barbed wire and armed guards, not places from which escape would be likely, and they were designed to hold Americans, not Mexicans. (3)

There is no question the US government is prepared for the possibility of widespread and uncontrollable domestic disorder.  

This program in place and building for years was encouraged by fears of a massive public uprising in the wake of the 2008 banking fraud.

US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said some years ago that [1] concentration camps were a likely future reality for Americans and [2] that the Supreme Court would not do anything about the tyranny should the executive branch think it necessary.

He mentioned the World War II internment of Japanese in the US and said of these camps,

“you are kidding yourself if you think the same thing will not happen again”. (4) (5)

“Internment specialists”

In 2009, as the US financial crisis deepened and concern about public unrest was increasing, the US National Guard was posting job opportunities for “Internment/Resettlement Specialists” to work in “civilian internee camps”. These camps were within the United States. With Halliburton subsidiary KBR actively seeking subcontractors to staff “emergency environment” camps located in five regions of the US.

Earlier, in 2006, KBR was contracted by Homeland Security to build detention centers designed to deal with “the rapid development of unspecified “new programs” that would require large numbers of people to be interned.” (6) (7)

The US has for many years been dangerously close to a situation where, if the American people take to the streets in protest, these internments can be easily carried out.

By 2004, there were more than 800 of these internment camps in the US, all empty, but all fully operational, staffed, and surrounded by full-time guards, ready to receive prisoners.

I have seen photos.

As well, many military bases are slated to be closed down and used as extra civilian prisons if the need arises, all intended for the internment of dissidents and others deemed “potentially harmful to the state”.

Some camps can each hold 20,000 or more prisoners, a massive effort at civilian population control, and the program is still expanding.

America is at this point today.

The US is very near the point today where political dissidents questioning the actions of their government will risk being rounded up. And then forced into these prison camps,. This is essentially a government plan to forcibly suppress political dissent under the guise of rooting out domestic “terrorism”.

The US government defines many Americans as having become “pre-revolutionary” from their outrage at the 2008 government-approved housing collapse. They have increasing concern that massive civil unrest would emerge from both the poverty-stricken lower classes and the eviscerated middle class. They believe that this would lead to what would become an internal civil war.

This is the reason that the FBI and DHS increasingly focus their “anti-terror” apparatus on white middle-class Americans like the Occupy Wall Street protestors who were categorized as “low-level terrorists”.

“Domestic Security”

In 2008, the Washington Post reported government plans to station many tens of thousands of troops inside the country for purposes referred to as “domestic security”. They did this in the light of massive civil unrest that would follow an economic collapse or serious financial crisis, perhaps stemming from 2008.

According to the government document,

“Widespread civil violence inside the United States would  force the defense establishment to reorient priorities in extremis to  defend basic domestic order and human security”,

stating that the military may be needed to quell “purposeful domestic resistance”.

To prepare for this quelling of resistance, the US has resorted to demonizing its own citizens.

A recent study funded by DHS conveniently identifying those Americans who are “suspicious of centralized federal authority” and who exhibit signs of being “reverent of individual liberty”, and re-categorizing them as “extreme right-wing” terrorists. (8) (9) (10)

The program is designed to “reduce and eliminate” all domestic resistance to the US government.

“Crowd control agents” will be used for this purpose, and government agencies will be involved in “gathering information on dissidents” to identify all those who have either “threatened or are creating disturbances”.

Manuals and Policies.

The US military produced a manual on what it termed “Civil Disturbance Operations” that outlines how military assets will be used to “help local and state authorities to restore and maintain law and order” in the event of mass riots and civil unrest.

Military and other law-enforcement will be tasked with “breaking up unauthorized gatherings” and restoring order by

“presenting a show of force, establishing roadblocks,  breaking up crowds, employing crowd control agents, and other operations  as required”.

The same government manual describes how prisoners will be processed through these internment camps, and outlines how these internees would be “re-educated” while detained in prison camps inside their own country by their own government.

FM 3-39.40 Internment and Resettlement Operations

A leaked military document titled ‘FM 3-39.40 Internment and Resettlement Operations’, outlined a program for “re-education camps” in the US which contained plans for “political activists” to be “pacified” by various psychological officers.

They would be re-programmed into “sympathizing” with the government and into “developing an appreciation of US policies” while detained in prison camps inside the US.

The document was restricted to Department of Defense personnel but was been leaked and posted online.

It outlined policies for “processing detainees into internment camps” and made clear these operations would be used for domestic civilian situations. (11) (12) The full document is available here: (13)

“Once the detainees have been processed into the  internment camp, the manual explains how they will be “indoctrinated”,  with a particular focus on coercing political dissidents into expressing  support for U.S. policies.”

Part of the stated role of the psychological officers would be to identify political activists, political leaders, ‘malcontents’, and other agitators, and to develop and execute appropriate

“indoctrination programs to reduce or remove antagonistic attitudes”.

However, their first task would be to “pacify and acclimate detainees to accept the internment facility’s authority and regulations”.

Approved use of violence against Americans.

There are also disturbing insights into the government’s intention to use brutal force to violently quell any civil political unrest.

The manual includes a long list of weapons meant to be used against protesting American civilians, including anti-riot grenades.

Page 20 of the manual authorities the use of “deadly force” in confronting these peaceful political “dissidents”, the murderous intent made disturbingly clear with the directive that “Warning shots will not be fired” first.

Northcom itself, in a September 8, 2008 Army Times article, said the first wave of the deployment, which was put in place on October 1st at Fort Stewart and at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, would be aimed at tackling “civil unrest and crowd control”.

In November of 2013, Forbes Magazine ran an article based on the AP newswire, detailing that DHS had been assembling a massive weapons arsenal since 2011 or 2012. (14)

The AP reported that Homeland Security had been stockpiling ammunition by buying more than 1.6 billion rounds of ammunition in addition to a prior purchase of 1.5 billion rounds, for a staggering total of more than three billion rounds.

This is more ammunition than the US military used collectively in all its wars in the last decade, and represents about ten shots for every man, woman and child in America.

There were also confirmed purchases by various government agencies, of hundreds of millions of hollow-point rounds to be delivered to dozens of locations around the US.

These bullets are so lethal they are banned for battlefield use during wars because they mushroom and fragment on impact, their only purpose being to cause the maximum possible damage to internal organs.

Also purchased were large numbers of magnum rounds with the power to penetrate walls, and a frightening hundreds of millions more rounds of specialty sniper ammunition.

Friendly Weapons

Even more, it was reported in early 2015 that DHS had placed orders for massive amounts of other kinds of anti-civilian weaponry termed “Less Lethal Specialty Munitions”, which were described as “an arsenal of specialized weaponry for training and deployment against crowds”.

These included flash grenades, light bursts, gas and chemical grenades, riot rounds, rubber bullets, and much more.

These are all heavy-duty crowd control and civilian intimidation weapons.

They have no other purpose and, in the volume in which they are being purchased, it is clear the US government is expecting some very serious civil disturbances, possibly a revolution, and soon.

As recently as 2018, Forbes was reporting more of the same, that these purchases have reached an astonishing ubiquity.

It isn’t only Homeland Security who is arming to the teeth. Thousands of agents at the IRS now have tactical assault rifles and heavy weaponry.

• The Small Business Administration and the Department of Veterans Affairs have purchased thousands of Glock handguns.
• The Health Services agencies purchased millions of dollars worth of Glock handguns – equipped with silencers.
• The US Geological Survey, which is a weather bureau, purchased millions of dollars worth of Winchester Black Shadow shotguns with large bulk ammunition orders in addition to Glock handguns.
• Even the Department of Education purchased millions of dollars worth of Glock handguns, shotguns and body armor.

I am unaware of any nation in the world where the income tax department or the departments of education and health care require huge amounts of military-grade weapons, much less body armor and gun silencers.

Armed to the teeth

In June of 2016, RT reported that non-military federal agencies had more firepower than the entire US Marine Corps.

This including agencies like education, health and income tax. (15) RT documented, a new report where 67 non-military federal US agencies spent $1.50 billion purchasing guns, ammunition and military-style equipment.

The details came from the Militarization of America: non-military federal agencies purchases of guns, ammo, and military-style equipment, published by the non-profit good government group OpentheBooks.com. (16) (17)

In addition to the massive purchase of ammunition, DHS was showing off its acquisition of heavily armored and mine-resistant personnel carriers.

These have been seen on streets all across America and verified with photos and video.

Forbes noted that these vehicles are equipped with gun ports and are “designed to withstand IEDs, mine blasts and 50 caliber hits to bullet-proof glass”, and asked why they would be necessary on American streets.

The DHS also purchased large amounts of riot gear and bullet-proof checkpoint booths, as well as a purchase of 7000 automatic rifles, and 2700 armored vehicles, and the deployment of drones with allowance for their use on US citizens.

The DHS is becoming a massive domestic army to handle domestic conflict. In the words of Ellen Brown,

“somebody in government is expecting some serious civil unrest …”

False Claims of utility.

DHS chief Janet Napolitano claimed this was to prepare for a mass influx of immigrants into the United States that would require the “shelter and processing” of large numbers of people, but this is nonsense.

By whom will the US be attacked that Homeland Security would be responsible for defense, and from where would arise a mass of peaceful immigrants so large as to require more than three billion bullets to repel them?

This is the same government that recently shut down many of its operations including most of the National Parks, for lack of funds, yet had sufficient money to purchase billions of bullets for a non-existent civilian army.

A spokesperson was quoted as justifying this massive purchase to “help the government get a low price for a big purchase”, and claimed DHS used “as many as 15 million rounds every year in training exercises”.

Someone should ask DHS to divide 3 billion by 15 million, which tells us the ammunition purchase will supply DHS needs for the next 200 years.

The authorities naturally attribute criticism and hard questions to mentally-unbalanced ‘conspiracy theorists’, but this is one more instance where actions appear irrational and the official story is so full of holes that it makes no sense.

‘Unconventional’ paper targets.

Another DHS purchase that produced a firestorm of anger when its news went viral, was the supply of what we might call ‘unconventional’ paper targets which were used as practice shooting targets in ‘training exercises’.

These targets consisted of figures of American civilians in residential settings. They included small children. They include a young pregnant mother, and old women in robes. They include grandmothers and grandfathers in their kitchens and front yards. They include teenagers in parks, little girls and more.

Perhaps the most frightening part being that all these were termed “no hesitation targets”, meaning to fire without hesitation at the sight of these enemies.

What could possibly justify the supply of such targets to a military force, with such an instruction? The US fedbiz.op website took down the solicitation after Infowars broke the story, and eventually apologized publicly for creating these targets of small children.

A Fake City

In early 2014 it was reported that the US military had built a $100 million fake city of about 300 acres in Virginia, for use in training.

This was for the training of troops for the occupation of cities, complete with a sports stadium, bank, school, and an underground subway in order to train for future combat scenarios in American urban areas.

The subway carriages even carry the same logo as those in Washington DC. More disturbingly, it was reported that

“soldiers are being taught that Christians, Tea Party  supporters and anti-abortion activists represent a radical terror threat, mirroring rhetoric backed by the Department of Homeland Security  which frames “liberty lovers” as domestic extremists.”

The DHS is also building a 176-acre secure compound in the lowest-income area of Washington, DC, which seems almost certainly a preparation for civil war. (18) (19)

The Trigger Event

The trigger could be an economic collapse that causes angry Americans to flood the streets similar to the Occupy Wall Street and other scenes witnessed across both the US and Europe during the last FED-induced economic crisis.

Or it could be COVID-19.

It is worth noting that the Occupy Wall Street protest had the right idea but the wrong target.

Wall Street is just an idea, and a bit player. The ultimate cause is the FED, and that should have been their focus. But the FED, the bankers and the FBI saw this coming and infiltrated and financed the protest groups as a way to take control and deflect them from any useful action or focus.

The “top secret” exercises

In the middle of 2013 several US local media reported the DHS was conducting widely public but still “top secret” exercises categorized as “full scale terrorism drills” across the entire nation.

All of this was with the stated purpose of making citizens “feel safe”, but which resulted in thousands of terrified people not knowing how to respond to what appeared as a domestic invasion by the US military.

People were capriciously apprehended and released after having their belongings searched, but nevertheless urged to celebrate their “independence” from tyranny.

These drills were presented as readiness training for potential terrorist incursions, though DHS failed to mention the New York Times observation that all the domestic terror plots in the United States over the last decade were “hatched by the FBI”.

One other worrying development …

One other worrying development was the appearance of US military C-130 cargo planes apparently spraying “mosquitoes” over various Florida cities at an altitude of less than 50 meters.

Pest control is hardly a military duty, these events immediately reminding me of the US military spraying bacterial and other pathogens over many parts of the US in various CIA-related experiments on the domestic population.

These low-altitude overflights are almost certainly practice runs for potential crowd control in the future, for dispensing tear gas or other non-lethal (or lethal) material that would disperse or disorient protestors.

I cannot imagine all the possibilities, but the US military most certainly is not going into the mosquito-spraying business. (19) (20)

US Major General Curry was quoted as stating,

“We have local police, backed up by each state’s National  Guard, backed up by the Department of Defense. So in addition to all  these forces why does Homeland Security need its own private army? Why  do the SSA, NOAA and other government agencies need to create their own  civilian security forces armed with hollow nose bullets?”

Some may want to dismiss this as just another conspiracy theory, but we might recall the words of Senator Daniel Inouye in 1987,

“There exists a shadowy Government with its own Air  Force, its own Navy, its own fundraising mechanism, and the ability to  pursue its own ideas of national interest, free from all checks and  balances, and free from the law itself.”

The threats to civil liberties

The threats to civil liberties go much farther and are much more ominous than I’ve related so far.

Another factor is the spate of secret Executive Orders that Obama signed without Congressional approval, observers claiming those orders violated existing laws and were therefore illegal, but that the powers behind the White House considered themselves above all law.

One of the most sinister was Executive Order 13603 which granted authorization to seize possession of every possible resource, including property and “all food storage facilities”.

One author wrote that…

“This extremist, maniacal edict is designed to enforce  our submission, rendering us totally dependent on Big Brother  government or face the obvious – starvation and extermination.”

What could possibly have instigated such an order, unless the government is preparing for an all-out war against the American people?

What possible excuse, during peace-time, would a “democratic” government have, for the initiation of a program to seize all the “food, water and food storage facilities” of a nation?

If we add these to the internment camps and the bullets, what conclusions are possible?

Another Threat

Another ominous threat is that much of the NSA’s illegal intelligence-gathering activities were transferred to the Department of Homeland Security.

This is the same people with the 800 internment camps and the 3 billion bullets.

The apparent reason is that the NSA can collect information on domestic political dissidents but has no police powers to act on them, whereas DHS has legislative authority to gather, arrest and incarcerate anyone on their watch lists.

DHS is apparently creating a “graded list” of these targeted so-called “security threats”. Those at the top of this list assessed according to how widely disseminated are their anti-establishment views, the followers they appear to have. These will be the first to disappear into the internment maze.

This new policy gives Homeland Security full authority to effectively terrorize the American people under a pretense of controlling domestic terrorism. When we consider these two items, Executive Order 13603 and the new powers granted to DHS, the only possible response can be fear.

Secret Procedures

If all this isn’t enough, DHS was revealed to have a secret procedure for the instant shutting down of all private communications in America. This includes mobile phone networks. It is a program that was accidentally revealed when government officials in San Francisco disabled all mobile phone calls during a peaceful protest.

The administration insisted it had the legal authority to control these communications “during times of national crisis”, and “for the purpose of ensuring public safety”. It has also given DHS the power to actually “seize” all privately-owned communications facilities in order to prevent any civilian communications occurring.

Some individuals applied to the courts for further information on these new procedures and policies, but DHS claimed it was “unable to locate or identify any records” in relation to the matter.

Nothing more to be said, but it’s difficult to avoid the conclusion that the US government is quickly becoming fully prepared for war against its civilian population.

No Fourth Amendment.

With the NSA revelations by Edward Snowdon, there is no longer any question that many US government agencies have been monitoring and gathering information on large numbers of known American political dissidents.

These many agencies include the NSA, FBI, CIA, DHS, various military groups and another 70 or 80 so-called “public-private fusion centers” scattered around the US.

Former NSA Technical Director William Binney claimed in an interview that the NSA had a list of 500,000 to one million people in the US who were closely watched and whose every communication and bit of personal data were recorded.

These are not terrorists in any sense, but potential leaders of political dissension and therefore potential suspects in the event of civil disturbances.

Americans are on “lists”…

There also exists a database known as “Main Core”, containing names of Americans who might be considered troublesome.

Knowledgeable sources claim these lists contains the names and communication information of more than eight million Americans who would be potential suspects of political activism.

“Political Activism” would include “national opposition to US military invasion abroad”.

It includes political dissidents, environmental and other activists, political and tax protesters, lawyers and professors, publishers and journalists, and many more who are most likely harmless, average people.

The database apparently contains all to and from email addresses, all email content, all in and out phone numbers plus duration of calls, the amounts and locations of ATM withdrawals, all credit card purchases and much more.

It appears that this dissident surveillance program dates back to the early 1980s, the time of our Great Transformation.

When it was revealed that Oliver North, operating from a secure White House site, had been using a database called PROMIS which was part of the REX-84 plan, to track dissidents and potential troublemakers within the United States.

This database was meant to identify and immediately locate perceived “enemies of the state” if mass civil disturbances were to break out. (21) (22)

The Middle-Class Revolt

In late 2008 a leaked internal memo from Tom Fitzpatrick, Citibank’s chief technical strategist, contained ominous predictions for American civil society after the vicious financial crisis. He wrote,

“The world is not going back to normal ‘after the magnitude of what they have done'”.

Fitzpatrick claimed that [1] the massive destruction of the middle class, [2] the draining of all the wealth from the population, and [3] the QE money creation by the FED would either bring about a resurgence of inflation…

… or that the US would fall into “depression, civil disorder and possibly war”.

He claimed that with the passing of each week and month there was a growing danger that could lead to political instability, a risk of domestic unrest because people were becoming increasingly disenfranchised and impoverished.

Lest we succumb to the temptation of accepting the 2008 financial crisis and the resulting loss of homes as an accident of fate, it would be wise to consider these quotes by Montagu Norman, Governor of The Bank of England prior to the crash of 1929, addressing the United States Bankers’ Association, New York, Idaho Leader, 26 August 1924.

“Capital must protect itself in every possible way, both  by combination and legislation. Debts must be collected, mortgages  foreclosed as rapidly as possible. When, through process of law, the  common people lose their homes, they will become more docile and more  easily governed through the strong arm of the government applied by a  central power of wealth under leading financiers. These truths are well  known among our principal men, who are now engaged in forming an  imperialism to govern the world.”

And his thoughts on democracy:

“By dividing the voters through the political party  system, we can get them to expend their energies in fighting for questions of no importance.” 

“It is thus, by discrete action, we can secure for ourselves that which has been so well planned and so successfully accomplished.”

The US government has developed an increasing fear of its own middle class.

Armed Citizens

A middle class that is wide awake to the protests and uprisings in other nations where governments have colluded with the international bankers.

And where large multi-nationals to gut their middle classes and effect the same transfer of wealth to the top 1% as occurred in America.

People in many Western societies have become disgruntled and bitter at the increasing evidence that their vaunted democracies have been usurped by the unrestrained capitalists, creating intolerable situations where the people are sacrificed for the increasing wealth of that same top 1%.

At first, the US government exhibited a grim and rather reprehensible kind of satisfaction at watching the misery in other nations where the FED and IMF and the International Bankers had succeeded in their aims of wealth transference, but it also realized that the same boiling rage existed in America and perhaps much less controllable.

US citizens were protesting against a government that was no longer democratic in any sense…

… and was both unwilling and unable to repair a hopelessly corrupt and inefficient system.

They finally awoke en masse and objected to ingrained corruption, shoddy public services, high taxes, homelessness, unemployment, rising inflation, the development of a police state, and more.

Public Rage

It is public rage at the realization of having been betrayed by a “democratic” government that converts civil unrest into political activism and revolution…

… and it is this that lies at the heart of the FBI’s categorization of US political dissent as “domestic terrorism”.

This terminology is important because the US, in all its hypocrisy for democracy, free speech and freedom of assembly, cannot face the world with open and apparent suppression of political dissent.

Therefore, US citizens protesting against their own government cannot be exercising free speech but rather anarchy and terrorism, thereby justifying the use of deadly force to control dissension.

The powers that control America (PTB) have no interest in fairy-tales of freedom. They are interested in wealth and control, and the people in any country are irrelevant – including those in the US.

Americans have experienced first-hand the destruction of their quality of life; they see clearly the disappearance of future opportunity for their children, and they recognize better than most the loss of their freedom of expression which they have so valued.

And they know it is precisely the retraction of that expression that is necessary for their no-longer-democratic government to maintain control.

This is where their economic and social dissatisfaction mutate into political activism – revolution, in fact – and it is this realization among the authorities that has spawned the internship camps, the billions of bullets purchased, and the “shoot to kill” orders.

Revolution – The Struggle for Class Power

Buried in the litany of troubles the US is facing today is the primary fact that the nation is engaged in a brutal class war, a struggle for class power that the bottom 99% are losing.

This war was declared in the late 1970s, gained great momentum in the 1980s and 1990s, and is still accelerating toward its final desperate conclusion.

There are few signs on the horizon that cause hope for a change in direction, and I fear it may be too late.

There is still power with the people themselves, and indeed without the both active cooperation and silent complicity of the people, none of the pathological descent into despair would have been possible.

Probably the only force in America that can change what is happening is the combined force of labor.

This isn’t so easy today, since the government killed most labor organizations and there is now little if any leadership.

A total withdrawal of labor succeeded in forcing a new social contract in 1946 and may be the only power remaining today, but times have changed and tactics must change too. If all unions withdrew their services with the full cooperation of unorganized labor, change might be possible.

But realistically, there is no hope that such a mass protest could be organized even though it is the only possible way to get the attention of whatever remains of a conscientious government and force through a reversal of the tide.

In any case, taking to the streets is unlikely to produce pleasant results. If the police don’t have enough bodies to beat up and arrest everyone, DHS has its internment camps, its 3 billion bullets, its years of practice with “no-hesitation” human targets, and it will use all of them.

The only safe way for Americans to go on strike today is to stay at home. On this topic, one internet commenter wrote,

“Just don’t go to work. There is no need to picket in the  streets to be on strike, and the factories and offices will be just as  quiet and empty, and the profits just as non-existent. The police cannot  possibly conduct home-by-home visits to beat up strikers one by one,  and no military, even the DHS, is efficient when trying to blow up  houses scattered all over the county, one by one. Strikers are probably  safe if they stay at home and lock their door.”

Another wrote,

“Another tactic is for Americans to simply quit shopping.  They don’t have the money anyway, and don’t need all that useless junk.  Don’t buy anything you don’t actually need, and delay even those  purchases as long as possible, especially the big-ticket items like cars  and furniture. If at all possible, delay every purchase for at least  one year. As much as is practicable, stop driving your car. Cancel your  cable TV and read a book.” Your grandmother gave you advice 100 years  ago that is still valid today: “Use it up, wear it out. Make it do. Do  without.”

A third commenter gave this advice:

“One thing you can do to get their attention is to stop  paying your bills. VISA and MasterCard can’t cancel 800 million credit  cards at the same time, and no bank can process 100 million mortgage  defaults. No system can cope with massive non-payment of debt. You are  their only source of money and you can ensure they don’t get any of it.  That will wake them up. Tell them you’ll begin paying when the overseas  corporate tax holiday is over, when high income taxes are reinstated for  the rich, when the individual bankers are in prison and when the lost  jobs begin returning. This isn’t foolproof, but it’s the best I can do.”

And finally, a more ambitious poster offered these comments:

“Today, the US State Department, the CIA and the FBI  pride themselves on their ability to use Twitter and Facebook to cause  civil unrest, chaos, violence, and even revolutions, in other countries.  It may not have occurred to them that the same tools they use against  everyone else can be just as easily used against them. The CIA used Gene  Sharp and his Einstein Institute to prepare the Otpor civil  disobedience manuals that our government used as the gunpowder to  destroy Jugoslavia, and as the template for a dozen other “color  revolutions” of which it was so proud. Copies are freely available on  the internet.”

William Blum again:

“As I’ve said before: Inasmuch as I can’t see violent  revolution succeeding in the United States (something deep inside tells  me that we couldn’t quite match the government’s firepower, not to  mention its viciousness), I can offer no solution to stopping the  imperial beast other than this: Educate yourself and as many others as  you can, raising their political and ideological consciousness,  providing them with the factual ammunition and arguments needed to sway  others, increasing the number of those in the opposition until it raises  the political price for those in power, until it reaches a critical  mass, at which point … I can’t predict the form the explosion will take  or what might be the trigger … But you have to have faith. And courage.”

Isn’t this exactly what is happening today?

Isn’t all these suggestions what is occurring today? People are staying inside. They are not buying anything. They are sheltering in place, and cowering in fear.

This translates into one of two things.

• Advantage for the PTB to implement drastic change.
• Advantage for the grassroots American citizenry to implement drastic change.

Both of which are truly frightening in the “powder keg” that America is today.

Author

Larry Romanoff is a retired management consultant and businessman. He has held executive positions in international consulting firms, and owned an international import-export business. He lives in Shanghai and is currently writing a series of ten books generally related to China and the West. He can be contacted at: 2186604556@qq.com

Notes

(1) Rex 84: FEMA’s Blueprint for Martial Law in America

(2) Rex 84 – Your Internment Camp Awaits You

(3) U.S. Concentration Camps: FEMA and the REX 84

(4) https://www.dcclothesline.com/2019/04/03/before-his-suspicious-death-justice-scalia-predicted-the-return-of-internment-camps/

(5) https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/feb/3/justice-scalia-to-lecture-at-univ-of-hawaii/

(6) Army National Guard Advertises for “Internment Specialists”

(7) Video: Become a FEMA Camp Internment/Resettlement Specialist

(8) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/30/AR2008113002217_2.html?hpid=topnews

(9) Pentagon Plans To Keep 20,000 Troops Inside US To Bolster domestic security

(10) Washington Post: 20,000 More U.S. Troops To Be Deployed

(11) FM 3-39.40 INTERNMENT AND RESETTLEMENT

(12) FM 3-39.40 INTERNMENT AND RESETTLEMENT OPERATIONS

(13) https://www.infowars.com/yes-the-re-education-camp-manual-does-apply-domestically-to-u-s-citizens/

(14) Why Are Federal Bureaucrats Buying Guns And Ammo? $158 Million Spent By Non-Military Agencies

(15) 24 Jun, 2016; Non-military federal agencies have more firearm authority than entire US Marine Corps

(16) https://www.openthebooks.com/the-militarization-of-america–open-the-books-oversight-report/

(17) https://www.openthebooks.com/openthebooks_oversight_report_-_the_militarization_of_america/

(17) Asymmetric Warfare Group Built a Fake City in Virginia

(18) US army builds fake city to shoot at during training

(19) https://www.cbsnews.com/news/texas-enlists-u-s-air-force-to-spray-for-mosquitoes-after-harvey/

(20) Pentagon Misinformation Ops Target Press and Public

(21) Main Core – Wikipedia

(22) https://www.infowars.com/main-core-a-list-of-millions-of-americans-that-will-be-subject-to-detention-during-martial-law/

(23) http://calendar.northeastern.edu/event/political_economy_forum_presents_chris_hedges The original source of this article is Global Research Copyright © Larry Romanoff, Global Research, 2019

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