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Fear and loathing by the federal government: Free people are dangerous and undesirable….

The DHS says: If you're thinking about speaking out against government tyranny...think twice.

Do you advocate for individual liberty, publicly or privately? Do you revere the U.S. Constitution as a barricade against a federal government metastacized into an enemy of freedom instead of its protector? Do you store food for emergencies? Do you own a gun? Are you a military veteran returned from a war zone assignment? Do you drive a van? Do you pay cash for some purchases? Are you “suspicious of federal government authority”?

According to a new study paid for by the federal Dept. of Homeland Security (“DHS”)…

…many of these are marks of a potential American terrorist. The DHS spent $12 million to legitimize those opinions. Theyare typical of the political class: Remember Obama’s remark about people who “cling to their Bibles and guns”? Are the political classes now lining up to eliminate potential opposition to government control of everyone, everywhere, at all times? Not specifically, I think. After all, they are always pushing for more power to be commandeered by government, their favorite repository of  authority and dominance. So this is not really anything new. On the other hand….

The purpose of this type of government-sponsored propaganda is to help shape public opinion…and to warn us potential troublemakers. It’s like a “shot across our bow.” It is a warning to those of us who revere individual liberty and abhor statism: “You’d better watch your step. We’re watching you.” It is also an invitation to our more timid brethren and countrymen: “Help us keep an eye on these people.”

So it is fitting to be writing about this on the 4th of July. After all, as pointed out by my fellow Grokster Steve MacDonald, statists don’t care much for the trappings of patriotism, including reverence for the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence…not to mention the National Anthem and 4th of July parades. So let this be our message to the political class in response to their bought-and-paid-for university studies showing us to be potential “terrorists”: On this Fourth of July, 2012, we want you statists—all of you in your increasingly rich government redoubts—we want you to know this: You can just kiss our patriotic, gun-clinging, Bible-toting, rosy, red-white-and-blue asses!

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