5 Secrets About America That Will Make You Wonder Where All The Freedom Went: It’s Easy to Recognize That Our Freedom Is Being Stolen From Us

The definition of ‘freedom’ in America has changed a great deal in recent decades. Our most fundamental rights, to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, are under assault.

These changes didn’t just happen. Wealthy individuals and corporations made it happen – and they’re still at it. Meanwhile, Corporate America’s wholesale theft of your individual liberties has been rebranded as a fight for … the corporation’s individual liberty.

I sincerely believe that as we move into a mechanized, computerized and robotized future, never before has there been a greater need for us to steadfastly preserve and protect, and even expand, our freedom of expression and all the other rights guaranteed by the First Amendment.

Unfortunately, it seems, the numbers of those willing to give up their freedom for a promise of a little temporary security are increasing, but not nearly as fast as the development of the technological means to accommodate their willingness to surrender their freedom.

Below we have 5 secret truths about America that will make you wonder where all the freedom went:

1. The Federal Reserve is not Federal and there is no reserve. But abolishing the Fed only raises the bigger issue: What would—or should—be in its place?

The debate is hardly new. Efforts to set a cohesive national monetary policy through a central bank in the U.S. have been many and turbulent.

The first thing to do in getting rid of the Fed is for Congress to repeal the 1913 law—and the subsequent amendments—that set up the current Federal Reserve.

2. America has the highest rate of incarcerated people the world

Total U.S. incarceration (prisons and jails) peaked in 2008. Total correctional population peaked in 2007. If all prisoners are counted (including those juvenile, territorial, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) (immigration detention), Indian country, and military), then in 2008 the United States had around 24.7% of the world’s 9.8 million prisoners. Today it houses about 22 percent of the world’s prisoners.

3. Policing in the U.S. has become a for profit branch of the government, and police brutality and violence is reaching epidemic levels.

Law enforcement agencies around the U.S. have seized billions of dollars from law-abiding citizens in recent years. Widespread police brutality exists in many countries and territories, even those that prosecute it.[citation needed] Although illegal, it can be performed under the color of law.

Police brutality entails serious violations of the human rights to life and physical security. In accordance with human rights law, victims have a right to forcibly resist police brutality where absolutely necessary to prevent serious and irreparable harm.

4. American churches are required to register with the Federal government and are not allowed to engage in political speech

The ban on political campaign activity by charities and churches was created by Congress more than a half century ago.

Currently, the law prohibits political campaign activity by charities and churches by defining a 501(c)(3) organization as one “which does not participate in, or intervene in any political campaign on behalf of any candidate for public office.”

Churches today are sanitized profit centers of social complacency not social change.

5. Free speech permits and free speech zones severely restrict our First Amendment rights.

this policy of severely restricting freedom of speech and of assembly has been extended to college campuses around the nation and began in 1988