If You Worship the Flag of the State, You Are Worshiping the State
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By: Shane Radliff
May 8th, 2015
Let me start by saying, I despise most everything that people my age do on a daily basis. All of these idiotic, mindless “challenges”, “trends”, and the daily dipshit hour really show me how well the indoctrination and propaganda programs have worked.
Well, the new “challenge” is here, and it’s surely bringing out the statists in full force. For those who have their head buried in the sand, someone started a “challenge” of stomping on the American flag, for some unknown, probably mentally inept reason.
It is my opinion that the people propagating this “challenge” are dumbed-down lemmings. It is also my opinion that those who are condemning this challenge for their love of America and “freedom” are socially and mentally incapable of breaking through this detrimental phenomenon known as collective patriotism.
Anyone who studies history and the current state of America today, would surely reject that flag with every ounce of their being.
Today, I will show you what that American flag TRULY stands for—and it’s NOT freedom.
The current United States flag we see today was adopted in 1960. That was long after the anti-freedom, communist seed was planted in America.
To support my assertion, I will provide a few examples. The Federal Reserve Act in 1913 which gave the United States a central bank, is number five in the ten planks of the Communist Manifesto. After signing the Federal Reserve Act, Woodrow Wilson understood the gravity of the mistake that he made just a few years earlier.
“A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated [in the Federal Reserve System]. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men…. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated governments in the civilized world-no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and duress of small groups of dominant men.”
The next important example is the graduated income tax, number two of the Communist Manifesto. That is the 16th Amendment to the Constitution. For the sake of time, I will begin with the first introduction of the graduated income tax after the creation of the Federal Reserve. The Revenue Act of 1916 redistributed tax burdens up the income scale and also increased taxes for all tax brackets. The most well-known Communist Revolutionaries also mention the importance of the graduated income tax in the communizing of a country.
The next crucial example is number six on the Communist Manifesto, which is the centralization of all means of communication and transportation in the hands of the State. That would be the creation of the Federal Communications Commission by the Communications Act of 1934. Since 1934, the FCC has been regulating interstate communications by radio, television, and cable in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and US territories.
In regards to the centralization of all means of transportation before this current American flag was adopted, the now defunct regulatory agency known as the Interstate Commerce Commission is worth a mention.
There are some other things worth a mention in passing to further assert my position.
First off, Social(ist) (in)Security. Social(ist) (in)Security was and is one of the most successful Ponzi Schemes. Most folks in their 30’s and younger should have realized by now, that they have been paying into a “retirement” program that they will not see a single penny of.
Next, the declared State of Emergency in 1933, which is discussed in Senate Report 93-549 in 1973:
“Since March 9, 1933, the United States has been in a state of declared national emergency. In fact, there are now in effect four presidentially-proclaimed states of national emergency: In addition to the national emergency declared by President Roosevelt in 1933, there are also the national emergency proclaimed by President Truman on December 16, 1950, during the Korean conflict, and the states of national emergency declared by President Nixon on March 23, 1970, and August 15, 1971.”
The even greater revelation is in the third paragraph of this Senate Report.
“Under the powers delegated by these statutes, the President may: seize property; organize and control the means of production; seize commodities; assign military forces abroad; institute martial law; seize and control all transportation and communication; regulate the operation of private enterprise; restrict travel; and, in a plethora of particular ways, control the lives of all American citizens.”
No currently living American has EVER been “free”. Those of you who claim that “I am free”, or “America is a free country”, are surely referring to the fallacious definition of freedom which is that as long as you can party and watch the Bears game, the government can tax, ban, or regulate every other aspect of your life and you could give a damn less.
The ideals and principles that this current American flag was adopted into are completely immoral, unethical, and anti-freedom. The American flag that so many blindly worship today is corrupted with the ideas of imperialism and communistic ideology. It does NOT represent “freedom” in any way, shape, or form.
I’m not personally offended when people stomp on the American flag, burn it, let it drag on the ground, etc. etc. Why? Because I don’t worship a flag. Blind patriotism (flag-waving) is now a tool of the tyrants and they will always seize the opportunity to gain more control, which always results in a greater reduction of freedom.
The fact that so many are deeply offended by someone stomping on a sewn piece of fabric should show you how dire of a situation we are in. I wouldn’t partake in those actions, but the flag I fly behind me in every broadcast of Liberty Under Attack radio is NOT the tainted American flag. It is the Gadsden flag.
We all need to look into the mirror and get our priorities straight. If you’re going to take “action” to condemn people for taking these “actions”, but you won’t take any further action for freedom, then you are a hypocrite and again, a victim of collective “patriotism”.
If you care about freedom, be about it.
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You are absolutely right Shane…Society, at large don’t have complete freedom as they think they do so, the government is in control of their so-called “freedom”…When the government decides what is good for you and what is bad for you that’s not freedom or liberty…You nailed their make believe freedom to the cross…they were taught (brainwash) that they have freedom in America…Even the pastors from various churches are being deceived by this freedom of religion…The nations idols are high and lifted up on a flag pole and those who are pledging allegiance to the flag of any nation are serving idols…God said “not to make or to serve any carved image”…The founding fathers made carved images of the stars, the moon, the sun, of birds and four footed beasts, in the likeness of heaven above and in the likeness of the earth below to serve them…Gods word is for the believer and for the unbeliever…The U.S. is serving the spangled star of heaven and the eagle of the earth…Canada is serving the leaf of the maple tree…Mexico is serving the eagle and serpent of the earth…Japan is serving the sun of heaven…And Israel is serving the star remphan of heaven…Freedom does not come from men but from God…Wars are not of flesh and blood but spiritual in high places…Neighbor killing neighbor, Brother killing brother, all because of the lack of knowledge in the word of God.
I have a comment you hypocrite. You piss and moan about your freedom, but yet you use the FCC and freedom to broadcast your anti government propaganda crap. You are not helping the problem, you are in my opinion part of the problem. The government is a mess and has been way before you and I were a twinkle in our daddy’s eyes. It’s the only government we have though and I’m sure you wouldn’t for trade it for Russian of North Korean control. I’d like to see you belittle Putin or Kim Jung-un’s government. You’re more free than what you think or want to believe.
I also take special interest in the Old Glory as you down play it as just a rag more or less. A lot of men and women served and died for our country and unlike you, the symbolic meaning of the flag means a lot to them and me. We don’t worship it we respect it. I know what your thinking “apples/oranges”.
I imagine if you are anti-government you are also lawless. You must be a treat for law enforcement which I’m sure you’ve had many adventures with.
So to conclude my rant… you are a waste of oxygen. Hope I didn’t hurt feelings. Have a great freedom day.
James
James,
Oh, boy. Nope, you didn’t offend me bud, but I can tell I’ve hurt yours.
First off, the FCC is a regulatory agency–I don’t use them to host my podcasts, articles, or anything else, I use AT&T U-Verse–the FCC is a regulatory agency that has contributed to the lack of competition (and suppressed free speech) in say, television and radio. Heh, “freedom.”
You make the mistake in thinking I care what slave master is in charge of the plantation–I could give a damn less. Choosing between slave masters (or plantations) is an activity of the slave–I rather seek to increase my own personal freedom outside of politics and without begging those who falsely imagine themselves to be my “rulers”.
I apologize that you feel I am part of the problem, yet I didn’t see any real critique of my article, other than that you and many others “respect” the government’s flag, not worship it. That’s not what it seems like to me–have you ever threatened to beat someone’s face in for disrespecting your cherished piece of cloth? Many others who allegedly ONLY “respect it” have and continue to.
I have sympathy for those who have been tricked into thinking that they were “fighting for our freedoms.” I really do; both of my grandparents “served” in World War 2. Yet, in reality, the imperialistic United States military has only made us less safe here and more susceptible to blowback (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowback_(intelligence)). The military is also a great way to fill the coffers of the military industrial complex and those cronyists at the Federal Reserve.
You seem to be making a lot of assumptions. You know what they say about assumptions right? You’re wrong. I’m a free market anarchist, who abides by the non-aggression principle and self-ownership–in other words, The Golden Rule, only applied to government, too.
My hope is that you give this article another read, without emotion, and really try to understand what I am putting forth–if freedom and open discourse really matter to you, I imagine you will.
Laissez-faire,
Shane