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brakelite
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I would like to address the initial question without doing the repub. vs. dem thing and entering an area of politics that fomr here, I am only partially aware of, am not an eye witness to, and reliant on what could very well amount to fake news (from both sides) to base any judgement on.
So, to the question, what constitutes an enemy of the state? What I am familiar with are the basic tenets and concepts that laid the foundation for American society. Freedom of religion...freedom of conscience...freedom from despotism...freedom from either civil or religious tyranny. To that end the founding fathers of the USA wrote the constitution, and the bill of rights. So to my mind, any one, or any organisation, that sets itself in opposition to either of those most excellent documents, is an enemy to the state, for by doing so they are setting themselves as being a leadership alternative to what is established within those documents, and the ethical framework that undergirded the thinking and mindset that created them. Any enemy of the state is thus one who is declaring themselves as proposing a different mindset...one that must ultimately embrace and advocate some form of dictatorship which inevitably spirals downward into tyranny.
The most commonly recognisable enemy under such criteria is of course Islam. Recognisable because they openly declare this and are at least honest about their intentions. However there are others, both individuals and organisations, who are not so open...or at least not today. One in particular has declared their intentions in the past, but today hide their ambitious intentions to govern the US behind other concerns common to most citizens. I am a conspiracy theorist. Because I read history. I have seen conspirators attempt the same in history with other nations, with and without success, and I see the same signs taking place in the US as we converse today. Unfortunately, I see Islam as the lesser of two evils that threaten your state...the greater remains unrecognised and gaining far greater power today, even under Trump's administration, then ever before in American history. So sad that so few see it.
So, to the question, what constitutes an enemy of the state? What I am familiar with are the basic tenets and concepts that laid the foundation for American society. Freedom of religion...freedom of conscience...freedom from despotism...freedom from either civil or religious tyranny. To that end the founding fathers of the USA wrote the constitution, and the bill of rights. So to my mind, any one, or any organisation, that sets itself in opposition to either of those most excellent documents, is an enemy to the state, for by doing so they are setting themselves as being a leadership alternative to what is established within those documents, and the ethical framework that undergirded the thinking and mindset that created them. Any enemy of the state is thus one who is declaring themselves as proposing a different mindset...one that must ultimately embrace and advocate some form of dictatorship which inevitably spirals downward into tyranny.
The most commonly recognisable enemy under such criteria is of course Islam. Recognisable because they openly declare this and are at least honest about their intentions. However there are others, both individuals and organisations, who are not so open...or at least not today. One in particular has declared their intentions in the past, but today hide their ambitious intentions to govern the US behind other concerns common to most citizens. I am a conspiracy theorist. Because I read history. I have seen conspirators attempt the same in history with other nations, with and without success, and I see the same signs taking place in the US as we converse today. Unfortunately, I see Islam as the lesser of two evils that threaten your state...the greater remains unrecognised and gaining far greater power today, even under Trump's administration, then ever before in American history. So sad that so few see it.