{"id":392310,"date":"2019-01-10T10:03:40","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T09:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/beware-the-emergency-state-lewrockwell\/"},"modified":"2019-01-10T10:03:40","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T09:03:40","slug":"beware-the-emergency-state-lewrockwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/beware-the-emergency-state-lewrockwell\/","title":{"rendered":"Beware the Emergency State – LewRockwell"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cFor seven decades we have been yielding our most basic liberties to a secretive, unaccountable emergency state \u2013 a vast but increasingly misdirected complex of national security institutions, reflexes, and beliefs that so define our present world that we forget that there was ever a different America. \u2026 Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness have given way to permanent crisis management: to policing the planet and fighting preventative wars of ideological containment, usually on terrain chosen by, and favorable to, our enemies. Limited government and constitutional accountability have been shouldered aside by the kind of imperial presidency our constitutional system was explicitly designed to prevent.\u201d\u2014 David C. Unger,\u00a0The Emergency State: America\u2019s Pursuit of Absolute Security at All Costs<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It\u2019s all happening according to schedule.<\/p>\n

The civil unrest, the national emergencies, \u201cunforeseen economic collapse,\u00a0loss of functioning political and legal order<\/a>, purposeful domestic resistance or insurgency, pervasive public health emergencies, and catastrophic natural and human disasters,\u201d the government\u2019s reliance on the armed forces to solve domestic political and social problems, the implicit declaration of martial law packaged as a well-meaning and overriding concern for the nation\u2019s security\u2026<\/p>\n

The government has been\u00a0planning and preparing for such a crisis for years now<\/a>.<\/p>\n

No matter that this crisis is of the government\u2019s own making.
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\nThe Emergency State: A…<\/a><\/span><\/span>
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To those for whom power and profit are everything, the end always justifies the means.<\/p>\n

This latest brouhaha over President Trump\u2019s\u00a0threat to declare a national emergency…<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cFor seven decades we have been yielding our most basic liberties to a secretive, unaccountable emergency state \u2013 a vast but increasingly misdirected complex of national security institutions, reflexes, and beliefs that so define our present world that we forget that there was ever a different America. \u2026 Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-392310","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}