'Extremists' beware

We live in Orwellian times. Dangerous times. The government has now, apparently, embarked on a war against those who feel it should adhere to the principles and limitations on which this nation was founded. Principles that elevated individual rights above the serfdom of countries from which its founders originated. Principles that removed heresy from the pillory, and discourse from the political prisons.

Last month, we became aware of the "Missouri Report" – a document distributed to law enforcement that attributes "terrorist mentality" to those who would dare to support a candidate outside of the "two party" system. A belief that the best interest of the American citizen is not being faithfully championed by the "politics as usual" organizations and parties is now being given as a reason to be "watched" by law enforcement, as if it presents a threat to the security of the nation.

Now, we're faced with a similar document on a national level as the Department of Homeland Security announces its position that "right-wing" politics constitutes a danger to the nation worthy of being monitored and considered "extremism" on it's face. It states individuals concerned with their constitutional rights – or the failure of government to uphold them – present a threat worthy of distraction from the actual task government is granted by its citizens: their protections, well-being and the guarantees given them by the founders and documents created upon which to base such a government. Our government.

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No less than the president hobnobs with admitted violent terrorists – who are elevated to positions of comradeship – yet it is the citizen concerned with this who is to be considered a threat. To question the legal qualifications of the man who rules us is treasonous. It will be treated as an issue of radical racism, as the warnings come with the dire codifier, "white extremists."

Our government has long refused to protect our southern border from hordes of illegal immigrants, many of whom are violent and criminal in nature, yet considers restricting our rights to self-defense in order to placate the country from which this violence flows, even as the liberals in government threaten those in a position to enforce our immigration laws. They argue that upholding the rights of our own nation are secondary to allowing a "failed state"' elsewhere.

Our government abandons the "war on terror" as if such did not exist – or as if a kinder, gentler label alters its nature – while jihadist and totalitarian regimes flaunt international restrictions on nuclear weapons acquisition, only to be chastised with useless and toothless resolutions as they arm themselves and loudly mutter threats.

It seeks discourse with "moderates" who quickly scoff at the notion that they will ever embrace dialogue in place of extremism.

And as an affront to make even the Ministry of Truth look farcical, it turns its attention inward to citizens who would dare point these lunacies out in no manner other than their freedom of speech. Such suspect speech must now be monitored or quelled.

The brown shirts are here. Walt Kelly famously noted via cartoon, which would no doubt be currently viewed as an un-American threat to national security, that "We have seen the enemy – and he is us." Indeed.

Watch closely. The left is creating the new demons and the new McCarthyism with which to label them and ferret them out. The new enemy is the patriot who embraces actual constitutional laws and restrictions on those who would eviscerate our country and countrymen for any embrace of the actual values of the nation dear to their hearts and minds. They are not the ones employing the double-speak of totalitarianism. They are the ones keeping the truth alive, and the government now makes it plain that it will not tolerate any "truth" besides what it chooses to manufacture.

Should I sign this statement or opinion, I would do so under the name "Citizen Nemo," for as Jules Verne's captain of old, it now becomes not only an act of self-preservation to hold to the identity of "no one," but representative of the value now given the individual voice, in a country where simply speaking out is now the venue in which law enforcement is told it must seek the dangerous among us.

And so I do so …

Citizen Nemo