America Is Being Systematically Transformed Into A Totalitarian Society

By Michael Snyder, on January 7th, 2013

If someone were to ask you for an example of a “totalitarian society”, how
would you respond? 

Most Americans would probably think of horribly repressive
regimes such as the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, Communist China, East Germany or
North Korea, but the truth is that there is one society that has far more rules
and regulations than any of those societies ever dreamed of having. 

In the
United States today, our lives are governed by literally millions of laws, rules
and regulations that govern even the smallest details of our lives, and more
laws, rules and regulations are constantly being added. 

On January 1st,
thousands of restrictive new laws went into effect all over America, but most
Americans have become so accustomed to the matrix of control that has been
constructed all around them that it does not even bother them when even more
rules and regulations are put into place.  In fact, a growing number of
Americans have become totally convinced that “freedom” and “liberty” must be
tightly restricted for the good of society and that “the free market” is
inherently dangerous. 

On the national, state and local levels, Americans
continue to elect elitist control freaks that are very eager to tell all the
rest of us how to run virtually every aspect of our lives. According to
Merriam-Webster, the following is one
of the ways that the word “totalitarian” is defined: “of or relating to a
political regime based on subordination of the individual to the state and
strict control of all aspects of the life and productive capacity of the nation
especially by coercive measures”. 

And that is exactly what we are witnessing in
America today – nearly all aspects of our lives and of the economy are very
tightly controlled by a bunch of control freaks that just keep tightening that
control with each passing year.  We still like to call ourselves “the land of
the free”, but the truth is that we are being transformed into a totalitarian
society unlike anything the world has ever seen before.  Where will we end up
eventually if we keep going down this road?

If you still believe that America is “free”, just consider some of the things
that are illegal in America today…

-Starting on January 1st, it is now illegal to make or import 75
watt incandescent light bulbs anywhere in the United States.

-In Oregon, it is illegal
to collect rainwater that falls on your own property.

-In New Jersey, it is
illegal to have an “unrestrained” cat or dog in your vehicle while you are
driving.

-If you milk your cow and sell some of the milk to your neighbor, you could
end up having your home raided by federal
agents.

-In Miami Beach, Florida
you must recycle your trash properly or face huge fines.

-All over the United States, cops are shutting down
lemonade stands run by children
because they don’t have the proper “permits”.

-Down in Tulsa, Oklahoma
one unemployed woman had her survival garden brutally ripped out and carted away
by government thugs because it did not conform to regulations.

-Over in Massachusetts, all children in daycare centers
are mandated by state law to brush
their teeth after lunch.  In fact, the state even provides the fluoride
toothpaste for the children.

-At one public school down in Texas, a 12-year-old girl named Sarah
Bustamantes was arrested for spraying herself
with perfume.

-A 13-year-old student at a school in Albuquerque, New Mexico was arrested by
police for burping in class.

-All over the United States cities have passed laws that actually make it
illegal to feed the homeless.

With each passing year, the number of decisions that we are allowed to make
for ourselves gets smaller and smaller.

This includes some really fundamental things such as basic health decisions.

For example, the CDC will soon be recommending that nearly every single
American be vaccinated for the flu every single year.  The following is from a
recent

Natural News article…

An advisory panel to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC) has recommended that every person be vaccinated for the seasonal flu
yearly, except in a few cases where the vaccine is known to be unsafe.

“Now no one should say ‘Should I or shouldn’t I?’” said CDC flu specialist
Anthony Fiore.

The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted 11-0 with one
abstention to recommend yearly flu vaccination for everyone except for children
under the age of six months, whose immune systems have not yet developed enough
for vaccination to be safe, and people with egg allergies or other health
conditions that are known to make flu vaccines hazardous.

These “recommendations” are often made into mandatory requirements by school
districts and employers all over the country.  Will employers all over the
nation soon require all of their employees to take these vaccines each year
based on these CDC “recommendations”?  This is already happening in the
healthcare field.  Hundreds of healthcare professionals all over the nation
are being fired for
refusing to take certain vaccines.  It doesn’t matter that there is a
tremendous amount of evidence that
many of these vaccines are dangerous.  Many health professionals today are being
faced with the choice of either submitting to the “recommendations” of the
“experts” or losing their jobs.

We see this kind of “creeping totalitarianism” in the business world as
well.  As I have written about previously,
small businesses all over the country are being absolutely suffocated by
mountains of laws, rules and regulations.

One of the biggest changes that small businesses will be dealing with in the
next couple of years is Obamacare.
Many small businesses have been cutting back hours in an attempt to get around
the new requirements contained in Obamacare.  The following is one example from
a news story that was published earlier this
week…

Around 100 local Wendy’s workers have learned their hours are being cut. A
spokesperson says a new health care law is to blame.

“Thirty-six to 37 hours a week.” That’s how many hours T.J. Growbeck works at
the 84th and Giles Wendy’s restaurant. The money he earns helps him pay for the
basics, but that’s not the case for all his co-workers. “There are some people
doing it trying to get by.”

The company has announced that all non-management positions will have their
hours reduced to 28 a week. Gary Burdette, Vice President of Operations for the
local franchise, says the cuts are coming because the new Affordable Health Care
Act requires employers to offer health insurance to employees working 32-38
hours a week. Under the current law they are not considered full time and that
as a small business owner, he can’t afford to stay in operation and pay for
everyone’s health insurance.

But the IRS has announced that it is going to make it very hard for employers
to avoid these new Obamacare regulations.  According to new IRS rules, all firms
that “have at least 50 full-time employees or an equivalent combination
of full-time and part-time employees” will be required to provide healthcare for
their employees and their dependents.  The following is from a recent
New York Times article…

Under the rules, employers must offer coverage to employees in 2014 and must
offer coverage to dependents as well, starting in 2015.

The new rules apply to employers that have at least 50
full-time employees or an equivalent combination of full-time and part-time
employees. A full-time employee is a person employed on average at least 30
hours a week. And 100 half-time employees are considered equivalent to 50
full-time employees.

Thus, the government said, an employer will be subject
to the new requirement if it has 40 full-time employees working 30 hours a week
and 20 half-time employees working 15 hours a week.

So conceivably an employer could have only part-time employees and still be
required to provide healthcare coverage under Obamacare.

Of course many small businesses will not be able to afford to do this, so
expect to see a significant number of them shut down or to try to survive with
skeleton crews in 2014 and 2015.

As the number of laws, rules and regulations that govern our lives continues
to multiply, the control freaks that run things will continue to try to use
technology to watch us all and make sure that we are obeying their rules.

One way that they are doing this is with automated traffic cameras.  Of
course much of the time the performance of these cameras is terribly flawed.
Just consider the following example which recently appeared in the
Baltimore Sun…

The Baltimore City speed camera ticket alleged that the four-door Mazda wagon
was going 38 miles per hour in a 25-mph zone — and that owner Daniel Doty owed
$40 for the infraction.

But the Mazda wasn’t speeding.

It wasn’t even moving.

The two photos printed on the citation as evidence of speeding show the car
was idling at a red light with its brake lights illuminated. A three-second
video clip also offered as evidence shows the car motionless, as traffic flows
by on a cross street.

But even though technology sometimes fails, the control freaks that run
things seem absolutely obsessed with using it to monitor us.  After all, there
are so many of us and watching all of us is a very big job.

For example, did you know that listening devices are being installed on
public buses all over the United States?  The following is from a
recent Wired article…

Transit authorities in cities across the country are quietly installing
microphone-enabled surveillance systems on public buses that would give them the
ability to record and store private conversations, according to documents
obtained by a news outlet.

The systems are being installed in San Francisco, Baltimore, and other cities
with funding from the Department of Homeland Security in some cases,
according to the Daily, which obtained
copies of contracts, procurement requests, specs and other documents.

According to the article, some of these systems are incredibly advanced and
pair the audio that is being recorded with video that is being taken at the same
time…

In Eugene, Oregon, the Daily found, transit officials requested microphones
that would be capable of “distilling clear conversations from the background
noise of other voices, wind, traffic, windshields wipers and engines” and also
wanted at least five audio channels spread across each bus that would be “paired
with one or more camera images and recorded synchronously with the video for
simultaneous playback.”

But that is just one example of how the surveillance of the American people
is rapidly growing.  For many more examples, please see my previous article
entitled “29 Signs That The Elite Are
Transforming Society Into A Total Domination Control Grid“.

If America continues down the path that it is on right now, the United States
will eventually be transformed into a “Big Brother society” that is far more
restrictive than anything George Orwell ever dreamed of.

We need a fundamental cultural revolution in this nation.  We need a revival
of the principals of liberty and freedom that were so important during the
founding days of this country.  We need to teach people that even though liberty
and freedom may be unpredictable at times, such an environment is greatly
preferable to a society where all of our decisions are made for us by a tiny
elite.